A daily journal from 76 years ago
160th day- 205 days follow Fair + Cool Mickey and I cleaned up at the foot of the drive. Thel, Cozette, and Grandma Holman spent the day down at the camp and enjoyed it. I rode my wheel over to the barber shop after work and got a haircut. Saw Joe Enos, George’s step-brother-in-law. There …
159th day- 206 days follow (Anniversary) Beauregard and Al were up today to do some work in the house on switches and rewire the bowling green lights. Stopped in to see Pic and the kids on my way home from work. After supper Thel and I took a ride up to see Geo., Eleanor, and …
158th day- 207 days follow Fair + Warm The women were on the hill. Thel and Eleanor were up there a few minutes this afternoon. Used oil and lamp black on the steps, put sulphate on the green up by the house. Paid my Federal Income Tax today. Eleanor took it over. $38.75 Geo. Stef …
157th day- 208 days follow Fair + Hot Trimmed all day on hedges. Mr. H. was there this A.M. Arthur took up a lot of flowers. One of the really great men of the M.A.S. and our president for the last two years died Sunday at his home in Worcester. Dr. W. Elmer Ekblow, one …
156th day- 209 days follow Light Fog + Fair This was a fine day to work. I started to mow brush at 8 A.M. and I mowed my whole lot and got a good part of it raked up. Then I dug a hole in the hill down by the point and got some fine …
155th day- 210 days follow Fair + Warm Saw Mr. H. this morning. Bill W. was up on the hill this A.M. He said he had been under the weather all week, digging last Mon. was too much for him. After dinner I rode down to the camp with Archie and Cozette, had supper, then …
154th day- 211 days follow Fair + Warm Watered and transplanted today. Arthur brought my pails back from Boston. I ate supper. I took a ride up to Ward’s pasture and hoed a few holes, and found some flakes but nothing else. On the way back I stopped in to see Toot and May for …
153rd day- 212 days follow Fair + Warm Chopped down some trees in front of the house and the big poplar by the barn. I rode over to town with Arthur to [deliver] a load of fireplace wood down to the Plymouth Plantation House. Went up to the Town House and paid my water tax. …
152nd day- 213 days follow Foggy + Cool Did some transplanting today. This morning I saw Mr. and Mrs. H. + Harry. Mr. H. gave me a sweater he brought from Bermuda. It is kind of gaudy but a swell sweater. The price tag I saw on it before the boss gave it to me …
151st day- 214 days follow Fair + Cool Mowed grass around the house. Mary, the cook, was on the hill all day. Mr. and Mrs. H. went to the Vineyard. Eleanor and the kids were down here today. I stopped in to see Pic and the kids on the way home from work. They all …
