A daily journal from 76 years ago
103rd day- 262 days follow Partly Cloudy + Warmer Wheeled wood out of the grove. Planted violets and Lilies of the Valley up in the clothes yard. Worked on the rose beds. Roy Holman’s wife is getting better. Transplanted a lot of stuff in the flower beds. Stopped in to see Pic and the kids …
102nd day- 263 days follow Fair + Warmer Bill came up on the hill this morning to see if I knew where the fire was last night. I didn’t, so he took me over to see it. The fire was an incendiary fire in the Plymouth Plantation house down by the Rock. It had been …
101st day- 264 days follow Put in all the morning fixing up the cold frames and planting my annual flower seed. Cleaned off some flower beds, and sowed in some grass seed under the cherry trees. Thel’s day off today and she spent it getting food ready for a club supper over at Cozette’s tonight. …
100th day- 265 days follow Fair + Cooler Adrian Whiting, a man named Fisher, and another named Garside came and got me and we went up on the hill to see if we could see the (? own). It wasn’t there. I stopped in to see Walder and the boys on my way home. Thel …
99th day- 266 days follow Showers + Cool Eleanor, Bill, Lottie, Andrew and I took a ride up to Andover to the M.A.S. semi-annual meeting. We had some swell dinner at Sailor Tom’s and thanks to Bill Tom made it on the house. In the afternoon we had some fine speakers. We went to the …
98th day- 267 days follow Rain till noon. Then Fair Cleaned up my tool house. Bud came up just before noon and gave me a ride home. He said there was quite an article in the Old Colony Memorial about the skeleton we dug up last Sunday. I haven’t seen it yet.
97th day- 268 days follow (Betty Covell had a son) Fair + Cool Raked up the lawns up around the house and planted some bulbs and wheeled some wood out of the grove. Betty Covell (Sander) had her second child at 8 A.M., a boy this time. Now she has one of each. Thel, Helen …
96th day- 269 day follow Arrowheads Rain + Clearing P.M. I don’t think I ever saw it rain harder than it did today. Rode my wheel up to the hill this afternoon. I found a dead partridge close to the buckwheat patch up on the hill. It had been killed right on the edge of …
95th day- 270 days follow Fair + Warm Rolled all the good lawns both ways and in the afternoon I cleaned up the flower beds up by the house. Geo. Crowell came up on the hill this afternoon for a few minutes. He said that the Boss had bought a house in Florida. Stopped in …
94th day- 271 days follow Rain + Cool. This was a miserable day. This morning I rode over to town with Eleanor. I got a haircut + some shaving soap and razor blades. After dinner I stopped in to see Pic as I went to work. Finished painting the window screens. I saw a cock …
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