A daily journal from 76 years ago
267th day- 99 days follow Fair + Cool Worked all day raking up brush on the fire belt. Bill Whiting called me up at noon and he had a letter from Doug Byers stating that he had not received the articles and sketches he sent up to Andover to be published in the Bulletin. Bill …
266th day- 100 days follow (Grapes) Fair + Cool I got a postcard from Jubbie today. This morning I went down to the H.H. lot on the avenue and picked two bushels of wild red grapes. The State Highway Dept. are putting a new surface on the Avenue, some cars were running through ½ an …
265th day- 101 days follow (Arrowheads) Fair + Cool Saw Bud + Priscilla this A.M. Did chores in the house all this morning. Bud has bought a female English Setter puppy. He got it on the back road. It is four months old. Raked up brush on the fire strip after dinner. After work I …
264th day- 102 days follow Showers Well we got a little rain today, a good thunder shower [in the] afternoon. Bud and Priscilla are expected up on the hill tonight. Ski’s house hasn’t arrived yet. Found a dead robin in the barn. It flew into a window. Thel went over to visit Pick.
263rd day-103 days follow Fair + Warm This morning Thel and I went up and got George, Eleanor, and the two kids and took a ride up to Benson’s Animal Farm. We had a picnic lunch before we went in to see the animals. The kids had a wonderful time as they hadn’t before seen …
262nd day- 104 days follow (Arrowheads) Fair + Warmer Saw Harry and Dimp up on the hill this morning. I took a ride with Thel, Marie, + Suzanne up to Johnson’s Stand then over to the Browne site. I dug quite a bit this afternoon, found one good triangular white quartz arrowhead, good, and one …
261st day- 105 days follow Fair + Cool We had our first frost this morning. Bill Whiting came up on the hill this A.M. He came up from the trial of the fellow from Webster that the police caught stealing trout one night last week. Bill won his case. The fellow had three fish and …
260th day- 106 days follow Fair + Cool Thel took me up to work at noon. After supper Thel and I took a ride up [to] South Pond, to deliver some letters to Al. Holman. They had been left at his mother’s. Bill called me up tonight and said his case in Court is to …
259th day- 107 days follow Fair + Cool I missed Jubbie up on the hill today. I stopped in to see Pic and the boys on the way home from work. Pick had just finished painting a picture of some clouds she liked the looks of. While I was there I heard Thel call my …
258th day- 108 days follow Fair + Cool Thel and I rode up to Brockton and met Archie and Cozette at the parkway. Archie and I took a walk downtown and we ran into Jubbie. He stayed with us for about an hour, then he left us as he was leaving with a group of …
