A daily journal from 76 years ago
320th day - 46 days follow Worked all day at the bottom of the drive thinning out brush. Stopped to see Pic and Eric on my way home at noon. Add and May were down to visit Thel this afternoon. I have a slight cold and a stomach ache. When I was coming home tonight …
319th day - 47 days follow Split kindling all day. Took a walk by the Beach Club on the way home from work, took a few shots at a white wing coot with the 22. Thel, Victoria, Eleanor, and Ski went over to the Hathaways to a surprise party or a pre-baby shower for Eleanor …
318th day - 48 days follow This morning Mrs. H and I went down to the Beach Club and took out a pair of Andiorns, a metal wood basket and four vases. From there we went down to the mouth of the river and I got her boat and rowed it up the river to …
317th day - 49 days follow Got up this morning and went up on the hill and did the chores. Mr. H gave me a ride as far as PIck’s. He went down to the beach club. Pick, Walder, Eric and David are fine. I took the 12-30 P.M. bus over to the Armory and …
316th day - 50 days follow Arrowheads Went up on the hill and did the chores, came and stopped in at Picks on the way back, when I got to the corner of Cliff Street a fellow came along and offered me a ride towards town, so I rode over as far as Bill’s trout …
315th day - 51 days follow Mrs. H called me up this morning and said that they would all be down today. Rained hard all day in heavy showers. Dave called up tonight he is going up to live in his new home next week. I went over to the dairy and got some milk …
314th day - 52 days follow Arrowhead Carl Bolt came up on the hill this morning and he gave me a ride up to the Golf course to see the hurricane damage to trees up there. There was a bunch of eight birds on the fairway, looked like peeps but almost as large as a …
313th day - 53 days follow The telephone men were up on the hill to see about cutting some limbs off the trees that interfered with the wires. Worked all day cleaning up rubbish. Saw a large flock of quail up on the hill, shot at one and missed. Tried a few practice shots with …
312th day - 54 days follow This is election day. Thel, Eleanor and I went over this morning and cast our ballot, my vote was no. 957. Thel said her ballot was over 800. Caught another mouse in Mrs. H upstairs closet, that makes all of them deerfoot. I got a letter from Dave today, …
311th day - 55 days follow Cold rain. I went over to the store to get some dog food. Eleanor and Ski went over to town this afternoon Thel, Eleanor, and Ski went over and spent the evening with Pic. This morning I took my gun and went down around Manter’s Point and up the …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 