A daily journal from 76 years ago
267th day- 98 days follow Cloudy + Cool After dinner Thel and I went up the other side of Quincy. I bought a suit of clothes there. We came back to Brockton and I bought a hat, socks, and shirts. On the way home we stopped at the Homestead at Kingston and had supper. When …
266th day- 99 days follow Fair + Real Cool I saw a flock of quail in the buckwheat patch this A.M. Mrs. H. went to Boston to have her wisdom teeth extracted. Drucilla Greenwood drove her up. The heater on the hill does come on when you push the thermostat. After supper Thel, I, Geo. …
265th day- 100 days follow (First day of Fall) Warm Rain + Cool. Rained most all day. Jubbie didn’t work today. After supper Thel and I took Grandma Holman for a ride out and around Duxbury and Kingston. The Johnson Stand closed today. Thel and Ski finished up for the summer.
264th day- 101 days follow Partly Cloudy. Geo. picked me up and I went up to his house. We took a ride up as far as Chris Swift’s old bog to look for deer tracks, we saw the tracks of perhaps four different deer. We took a hike up into the hills and I refound …
263rd day- 102 days follow (Arrowheads) Fair + Cool Harry and Dimp + Hank left the place at 7 A.M. for Martha’s Vineyard. Martha went too. This has been the coolest day we have had yet, but it seems good. Priscilla Rich came in and gave her $2.00 for the Salvation Army Drive. Bill came …
262nd day- 103 days follow Cloudy + Light Rain Mr. and Mrs. H. went down to the Vineyard this afternoon. Jubbie didn’t work today. Pic said she saw a cock pheasant in her yard, when I was there at noon for dinner. Looked over two of our wild grape places and there are none on …
261st day- 104 days follow (Arrowhead) Fair + Cool Geo. came down after work + took me up to his home to supper. The two ducks I gave them are doing fine. I found one nice white quartz arrowhead behind the hotel garage, and one felsite base. Ski went horse back riding tonight. Jubbie worked …
260th day- 105 days follow Cool + Fair Mowed brush all day on the fire strip. Jubbie worked this afternoon. After supper Thel and I took a ride up to Eleanor’s. When we came back we took Bud and Ski and took a ride down to the canal and thru Buzzards Bay up to Carver …
259th day- 106 days follow (New Car) Fair + Warm Put in a day cleaning up the cellar. Jubbie worked today. After work I took a bus over to town and Dr. Douglas did some more work on my tooth. When I got home Thel had the new car. It looks fine. Thel and I …
Foggy + Hot. Started in to mow brush but it was so hot I quit. The plumbers finished up on the furnace today. Saw the chicken hawk flying around today. The fellow that was pilot for the big plane at the Mayflower Hotel was killed in N.Y. in a plane accident. Thel had to have …
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