A daily journal from 76 years ago
380th day- 35 days follow Geese Arrowheads Fair + Cold Jubbie and I burned more brush. Saw 2 flocks of geese, one of 21 and one of 50. After dinner Thel gave me a ride up to the site and it was cold there. I didn’t get too much. One good white quartz scraper, …
329th day- 36 days follow Fain + Warm Jubbie and I burned piles of brush on the fire strip all day. He got a letter at noon from a lawyer stating that [he] is being sued for personal and property damages for the auto accident he was in. Thel’s car wouldn’t start at noon so …
328th day- 37 days follow (Pheasants) Fair + Warmer Walder came + got me and we went up on the hill for my crosscut saw. I saw Mrs. H. + Martha who is going to New York City for several weeks. Came back to Walder’s and he + I sawed up a telephone pole. Dave …
327th day- 38 days follow Cloudy + Warmer The wind went south and the weather warmed up. Jubbie and I raked up all day on the fire elts. I stopped in at Pick’s on the way to work this morning. Walder got in at 2 A.M. this morning. He flew in from Chicago. I saw …
326th day- 39 days follow Fair + Cold We put loam around the roses today. Bill Whiting and Marp [dropped] by. They said Dick Bent dug up a cache of spear blades in Carver. They said that he dug them up in back of a cranberry bog sand bank and that they are about 5 …
325th day- 40 days follow Fair + Cool Mrs. H. finally sold Bud’s dog. I think she got $35.00 for it. Cut brush on the fire strip. Jubbie caught a white setter pup this morning and let it go again. Victoria called up tonight and said her cat is very sick. Grandma Holman was here …
324th day- 41 days follow (Arrowheads) Light, Warm, Showers After breakfast I rode my wheel up to Griffin’s. Saw Mr. Griffin, then went over to the dig and dug for about four hours. It was hard digging today as I dug out two pits, one about four feet by four feet, the other three feet …
323rd day- 42 days follow Fair + Cool Jubbie chopped down some dead trees. Saw Mr. and Mrs. H. They went hunting. I packed a turkey to go to Bud. After dinner Bill Whiting came up and we watched the Harvard Yale football game on T.V. Yale won 29 to 6. George came down at …
322nd day- 42 days follow Cloudy + Cool Jubbie and I burned all day behind the barn. After dinner I went over to the site. Just as I got there Bobbie Doten had one of his fits. After he came out of it I took him up to the furnace room of the cow barn …
321st day- 44 days follow Rain and Cold Mrs. H. got a grouse and a rabbit yesterday. Fernstrum was washing up specimens in the barn this morning. Arthur got me a permit and Jubbie and I burned up brush in back of the barn. I saw a big grey squirrel on the front drive yesterday, …
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