A daily journal from 76 years ago
247th day- 119 days follow Fair + Warmer Watered all day today and got the gardens ready for the long week end. I dug some worms for Archie. Saw Josie Wood tonight and had a talk about birds. Edward Benes died today. There is an awful lot of robins around this fall. Eleanor and the …
246th day- 120 days follow Fair + Cool Jubbie didn’t work today. He stayed down at the pond part of the day. He went to the P.O. to enlist but found out that he will have to go to Boston. Martha has gone to Bennington to enter a girls’ school, her mother drove her up. …
245th day- 121 days follow Fair + Cooler This has been a regular fall day fine to work. Fertilized the bowling green. Before supper I mowed down the grass and weeds in the yard. We have had several auto accidents some of them serious during the past week. Bud and Ski are painting the novelty …
244th day- 122 days follow Cloudy + Cooler Worked all day cleaning up the flower beds. Thel went out tonight to a Club supper. I saw the sparrow hawk by the pool garden. The Flycatchers have young in their nest, probably their second litter. After supper I called on Mr. Thatcher and spent a pleasant …
243rd day- 123 days follow Fair + Cooler Watered all day. After supper Thel and I took a ride down to the camp. Dave and all his family are there to stay till next Monday. I waded out on the point and cast a plug for an hour but didn’t get a bite. Dave got …
242nd day- 124 days follow Hot but some Breeze George got me this A.M. and I went up to his house for dinner. After dinner we washed the car and took a ride down as far as Mashpee and back. This evening Thel, Ski, Bud, and I took a ride down to Valler’s and had …
241st day- 125 days follow (Cliff Swallow’s nest) Hot + Hotter This has been the third [day] that the glass has been close to 100. After dinner I [?] Chief Justice Hughes died on the Cape last night. Saw a sparrow hawk up on the hill today. After dinner I took a walk down to …
Hot + Hotter This evening we all worked putting up novelty siding on Ski’s house. Just after dark Dave, Dot, and Davene, and Jesse III came in for a short while on their way to the camp. This has been a son-of-a-gun of a day to sweat doing nothing. Someone called me up fro the …
239th day- 127 days follow Hot + Hotter Watered all day. Jubbie took the afternoon off and went down to the pond. After supper Thel and I took a ride down to the camp and idt sure was hot. I went fishing, casting a plug off the point just before dark. I got a strike …
238th day- 128 days follow Hot + Hotter This had been a scorcher. I put Sanesen [?] on the bowling green. Some of the lumber came for Ski’s house. I expect that the carpenter will start on it tomorrow. Bobbie, Gretchen, and their baby came up this evening before dark. The baby stroke the horse. …
