A daily journal from 76 years ago
67th day – 299 days follow 45          Rain John Morton Wind south for a change and rain. Thel called up Cozette a little after 10-PM last night. Tillie said she and Cozette and Phil Covell had just got in from John Morton’s. Mrs. Morton had run over after Archie as she was afraid John had …
64th day – 302 days follow 12 Fair Lost pocketbook When I went to bed last night I missed my change pocket book and I remembered leaving it on the counter in Jordan Hardware where I bought some fish hooks. Called up the hardware this morning, they hadn’t found my pocket book so I think …
64th day – 302 days follow 35 Fair Went up on the hill and did up the chores, then walked over to the Avenue and around by the sand bank. There I took a check up on just where the axe came out of the sand bank as I hope to keep tabs on that …
64th day – 302 days follow 22 Fair Cold Went up on the hill this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Hornblower are there. Thel is still feeling punk. Our M.A. Bulletin has been due for some time, hope it arrives soon. Picked 22 tent caterpillar nests off of my apple trees. Got a long distance phone …
63rd day – 303 days follow 32 Partly Cloudy Got the house in the weekend shape for the folks. Mrs. H called up at noon and said she and Mr. H will be down tonight and the rest of tomorrow. Stopped into see Pic. She has the intestinal grippe and so has Eric. Thelma has …
62nd day – 304 days follow 11 Fair Cold Axe Terrible cold and high wind. I took a walk up to the Golf course to see Carl about the lawn mowers, he wasn’t there so I came back over the hills where the surveyors have marked out for the new highway. Took a look at …
61st day – 305 days follow 34 Fair Fuller Hammond $14.00 Had a lucky break this morning. While I was raking rubbish a tree limb must have caught my glasses and slipped them off and I didn’t notice it at the time. Thought I was out of luck, but found them about six feet from …
60th day – 306 days follow 35 Cloudy Raked up rubbish, stopped in to see Eric on the way home at noon, didn’t see him as Pic had just put him to bed. Thel’s mother was in to see her this morning. This is the one day in four Leap year day. The kids went …
59th day – 307 days follow 34 Cloudy J.T. $21.77 This noon Mr. Clark called me up and said that they are cutting off the juice in the morning. Saw two blue jays, one flicker and one downy woodpecker. Went over to see Steve, he said George Crowell was going to try to have the …
57th day – 309 days follow 40 Rain Every thing O.K. up on the hill, stopped in to see Eric and Pic. Walder, Eric, and I went over to town and got a paper. When we came back we burned off a lot of dead grass around his place. Came home and ate dinner and …
