A daily journal from 76 years ago
353rd day- 13 days follow Fair + Colder Dave called up at noon and said Jesse Brewer III is to be christened tomorrow morning at Winthrop. Geo. Dunlap gave me a ride over to town tonight and I went up to the Massasoit Arch. Meeting. We had a fine turkey supper and a good meeting. …
352nd day- 14 days follow Partly Cloudy Clearing Fair I finished putting salt hay on the flower beds. I called up the telephone business department and was told it will cost $24.72 to put the telephone in my workshop. Geo. Weatherby is still doing the carpentering on Ski’s. They have it shaping up now. Victoria …
351st day- 15 days follow Cloudy + Cool Wheeled out loam and buried all my rose beds. Covered up most of the flower beds with salt hay. Carl Bold came up on the hill this afternoon, and he said he was at home Sunday evening when I called up three times. Ski’s puppy went up …
350th day- 16 days follow Cloudy + Cool Chopped down trees in the grove. Some of them were whoppers. After supper I took a walk over to Pick’s and stayed there all the evening. Walder came in about 9:30 from a bank meeting in Boston. He was late getting home because he stopped in Boston …
349th day- 117 days follow Fair + Mild I sent the furniture to Boston and skinned the deer. She had been killed by one 00 buckshot that had entered the left side, passed through the body, and was just under the skin of the right side. After dinner I took the bus over to the …
348th day- 18 days follow Fair + Warm This has been a glorious day like May weather. This morning I was busy hunting up furniture to go to Boston. I found a list on a note from Mrs. H. This afternoon I gathered greens and made up Xmas wreaths to go to Boston. I stopped …
347th day- 19 days follow Cloudy + Rain Charlie Sherman called me at 8:45 and he and I rode up to Attleboro to a meeting at one of the Committee meetings at the M.A.S. Ben Smith, Maurice Robbins, Lee Hallet, Bill Fowler, Charlie Sherman, Mr. Borden, and one other and myself. We had an all …
346th day- 20 days follow Fair + Partly Cloudy Finished up digging the trench for the wire. Geo. Crowell was up on the hill this morning and we wrapped up the turkeys. Arthur Sirrico was up on the hill, the first time I have seen him to talk to since his operation. After dinner [he] …
345th day- 21 days follow Fair + Cold North wind today and cold. Cleaned seven turkeys, and worked the rest of the [day] digging a trench to run an underground telephone wire from the house to my tool shop. Arthur Nickerson was doing the wiring on Ski’s house today. I saw a march quail in …
344th day- 22 days follow Cloudy + Colder This morning George and I headed up as far as the Lookout, and down over the east side of the Pine HIlls. From the Lookout, we found some wonderful deer trails, pawings and scraped trees. We came out by Snell’s bog and came back to the State …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 