A daily journal from 76 years ago
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and cold, wind East. Worked this morning digging up some of the bushes around the camp. Thel and I took a ride down to Bourne and got a paper. After I got back I cut off a lot of scrub that had grown into the driveway. Too cold to …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and cool wind E. Start my vacation today. Eleanor took my income tax money over to mail, 45.00 After noon Thel and I and Jack came down to the camp. I went fishing for a while, caught nothing and it was very cold. Put the scow I made on …
(Yes, same picture as yesterday - these two entries share a page.) ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and cool, wind No. Thel woke up feeling sick with a bad stomach ache. Walder and I took a ride up to Plympton, we met Mr. Hoyte and went over his wood lot in back of Indian …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair, cool wind N.E. Took my income tax papers over to have Walder work it out for me. Stayed over a couple of hours. Thel and I took a ride up to see Frieda and Oscar after supper. They are both working in Armstrong Synthetic Rubber and Frieda is head …
ToDay is the Birthday of 1 year in State Guard Fair and warm today. The girls were up and dusted and put the slip covers on. Martin was up to work today. Mary came at noon today. Martha was over all day. Worked in the garden tonight, dusted the beans, planted some peppers and watermellons. …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and cool, wind SoW. After ate my supper, I took a ride over to Eel River bridge, saw Geo Moon and his wife. They let me take their boat and I rowed around for a whole trolling and didn't get a strike. So I tried drifting using worms for …
ToDay is the Birthday of Cool and foggy wind East. Italy has surrendered uncondis. Saw a flock of young quail as I was coming home from work. Went down to the Armory tonight to drill. The Co. is going to put out xmas cards again this year. Had quite a ride home with Mr. Sassi …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and cool, wind No. The girls were up on the hill cleaning up. Fred Moon was over painting on the barn. Martin was up from Sherman's to work laying the linoleum. Saw my first this year's robin that could fly. “Every brave man is a man of his word.” …
ToDay is the Birthday of Thel paid me $9.00 Cool and rain wind East. Mrs. Hornblower and Martha were the only ones up on the hill today. Fred Moon worked in the barn today. Chet mowed all day. […] Sherman Man was up and measured three of the rooms on the hill to have linoleum …
Note: The next several entries are corssed out and the month has been replaced with “March.” I can't figure out why – there's nothing in the March entries of 1943 or 1944 to indicate that he was writing then. Some of the September dates are caught up later in the week on one notebook spread. …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 