A daily journal from 76 years ago
305th day- 60 days follow Fair and a lot cooler. Fine day to work. Cut down a lot more brush. Thel went up to Eleanor’s and they went for a ride up to Roddie Sherman’s. There is to be a shower for one of the Sanderson girls. Mary Foley was up on the hill cleaning …
304th day- 61 days follow Fair and real warm. 78 in the shade at noon Tom Doten brought the mail over to the hill this morning. Took a walk over to H. H. garden to see Tom Doten and pay him for keeping my cemetery lot mowed. There was a large flock of geese flew …
303rd day- 62 days follow Fair and warm and partly cloudy. After dinner Thel and I took a ride down to the camp. We went out on the pond and tried some fishing. I caught one small red perch and threw it back. Cozette and Jubbie came down to their camp. Jubbie had a shotgun. …
302nd day- 63 days follow Warm and mild, showers. Trimmed out some more brush. I stopped to see Pic and the boys as I came home from work. The boys were glad to see me and had to show off their new ski suits. I had Myles up on the hill with me this afternoon …
301st day- 64 days follow Warm and cloudy. Mrs. Rich called me up on the hill to ask if I would come down and lock up a drunk [actually, this should be "trunk"!] and put it in their car so Priscilla could take it down to the station to ship it to Florida. Thel went …
300th day- 65 days follow Real warm, summertime day. Went up to the store and got the paper, then over on to the hill. After dinner Thel and I went down to the high school playground to the archery shoot. We put up two targets and Thel did first rate, far better than she has …
299th day- 66 day follow -Arrowheads- Warm and cloudy. Geo. Stefani and I went up around Braley town pheasant hunting and saw nothing. Then we came back to Obery and we hunted up around Kate White’s. All I saw was one of her cats someone had shot. Over by the County Farm I saw a …
298th day- 67 days follow Fair and warm, fine day. Did chores around the house all the forenoon. Thel took Myles out to Dr. Bradley’s and had him take his last shot for distemper. Mrs. H and Harry are going down to Martha’s Vineyard over the weekend. Mary Fole was up on the hill. After …
297th day- 68 days follow Fair and warmer, fine day. Mary Foley was on the hill today. Mrs. H. had good luck yesterday. She shot 3 woodcocks, one grouse, and one cock pheasant. There was a lot of flickers up on the hill and a red squirrel. Mrs. H. didn’t go hunting today. Saw a …
296th day- 69 days follow Fair and warmer today. Mrs. H. got a partridge yesterday and has gone hunting again today. Trimmed up more trees in the grove. Mrs. Morse called up Thel at noon and said that the house they live in has been.sold. Eleanor and her babies were here this afternoon. Sugar is …
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