350th day- 15 days follow Roof Somehow I managed to lose a day last week so this has to be a page with nothing on it, just to make the month come out even. Paid the roofer in full $33.85 $25.00 —------ $58.85 total bill
Tuesday, Dec. 16, 1947
Tuesday, December 16, 1947
350th day- 15 days follow Fair + Warm Rained hard just before daylight so I looked over Jennie Chandler’s land and all I found was a base and a point, both broken and quartz. The roofer came right after dinner and finished up. It is guaranteed for ten years, so I may have fixed it …
Monday, Dec. 15, 1947
349th day- 16 days follow Partly Cloudy and Warmer Burned brush all day at the dump and behind the barn. The fire drove a couple of rats out of the dump. One of them I got. Mrs. H. came up on the hill about 5:15 and reloaded a lot of stuff into the station wagon …
Sunday, Dec. 14, 1947
348th day- 18 days follow Fair + Cold Thel and I went to church this A.M. Geo. stopped in with Marie + Suzanne. We took them home. After church Thel and I went over to town, got some gas, went in to see Ski at the drug store, and took her out to Pioppi’s to …
Saturday, December 13, 1947
347th day- 18 days follow Apparently Jesse missed writing on this day, as the entry has been labeled as Sunday.
Friday, Dec. 12, 1947
346th day- 19 days follow Fair + Cold Jubbie and I burned on the dump. It didn’t [do] too good as it was quite wet. I shot another rabbit on the way home from work at noon. After dinner I went to town and got a haircut. When I came home Thel and I went …
Thursday, Dec. 11, 1947
345th day- 20 days follow Fair + Warmer Snowed about three [ Inches] last night so I burned brush today. Wrote a letter to Harry Hornblower last night. Jubbie didn’t work today. After supper Archie and [I] went to town to see the Polo game. It was pretty good, but rather one sided. Salem won …
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 1947
344th day- 21 days follow Fair + Cool May called up Thel and she said that Gertie’s friend has asked her to marry him. He looks like a decent kind of fellow. Worked in the cellar this A.M. Jubbie and I worked in the grove in back of the barn. I jumped a partridge in …
Tuesday, Dec. 9, 1947
343rd day- 22 days follow Fair + Cold Worked in the cellar whitewashed in the cellar. In the afternoon Jubbie and I worked on the trees. Stopped in at Pick’s on the way home from work. I heard that Mrs. Fraser has opened a baby shoe store on the corner of Summer St. Helen Finney …
Monday, Dec. 8, 1947
342nd day- 23 days follow Warm + Showers Jennie Chandler plowed up land is all tracked up by people hunting for relics. Showers this A.M. so I did some white washing in the big house cellar. Geo., Ski, and Bud did some digging in the garden for the house foundation. The whole Hathaway family were …
