A daily journal from 76 years ago
62nd day – 304 days follow 11 Fair Cold Axe Terrible cold and high wind. I took a walk up to the Golf course to see Carl about the lawn mowers, he wasn’t there so I came back over the hills where the surveyors have marked out for the new highway. Took a look at …
61st day – 305 days follow 34 Fair Fuller Hammond $14.00 Had a lucky break this morning. While I was raking rubbish a tree limb must have caught my glasses and slipped them off and I didn’t notice it at the time. Thought I was out of luck, but found them about six feet from …
60th day – 306 days follow 35 Cloudy Raked up rubbish, stopped in to see Eric on the way home at noon, didn’t see him as Pic had just put him to bed. Thel’s mother was in to see her this morning. This is the one day in four Leap year day. The kids went …
59th day – 307 days follow 34 Cloudy J.T. $21.77 This noon Mr. Clark called me up and said that they are cutting off the juice in the morning. Saw two blue jays, one flicker and one downy woodpecker. Went over to see Steve, he said George Crowell was going to try to have the …
57th day – 309 days follow 40 Rain Every thing O.K. up on the hill, stopped in to see Eric and Pic. Walder, Eric, and I went over to town and got a paper. When we came back we burned off a lot of dead grass around his place. Came home and ate dinner and …
56th day – 310 days follow 35 Fair & Cloudy Eleanor got a letter from Frank Holman, he has bought a gas station in Miama, Fla. I got a post card from John B. Finney, he is in St. Petersburg, Fla. We are having some high tides now. The kids are giving a supper up …
56th day – 310 days follow 38 Fair Froze up hard during the night but warmed up during the day. Rakes up some rubbish and got the house ready for the folks. Stopped in to see Eric, he is fine and Pic was feeling fair. Percy came in at noon, he was on a hunt …
55th day – 311 days follow 56 Fair The electric light man Mr. Clark was up on the hill this morning to see if Mr. H had called me about getting some cable. Just like spring today. Charlie Sanderson called me up at noon and wanted to know if I would like to go arrowhead …
54th day – 312 days follow 50 Cloudy Took the chubs out of the laundry sink and took them over to the river. Saw Steve, he didn’t seem to know much about the electricity, didn’t know if it was to be shut off or not. Ski got a letter from Alex, he is still in …
53rd day – 314 days follow Cloudy 1 hoe 2 arrowheads, Whitehorse & Manomet Walder called me up while I was getting my breakfast. Went up on the hill and things are OK. Bill came up about 9-30AM and we went up to Beaver Dam Road and hunted both sides of the road and found …
