A daily journal from 76 years ago
161st day- 265 days follow Thunder Showers and Cold Trimmed around the lawn and some of the hedges. Fred Moon was up on the hill. When I came home Thel sent for me to come up to Eleanor’s for supper as the Pope house caught on fire during the thunder storm. Mrs. Melville put some …
160th day- 206 days follow Cloudy + Warm Thunder storm last night and it rained like time. I mowed the rough all day, all the way around the house. Jubbie chopped down the white pine tree in front of the house. Fred Moon was up on the hill patching up. The women were up on …
159th day- 207 days follow Cloudy + Showers Transplanted flower beds today. Jubbie chopped down some trees. After supper Thel, Cozette, Archie, and I took a ride up to Powder Horn Pond to Eddie Hathaway’s camp. The men and kids went fishing and caught slews of hornpout, only four big enough to keep. We stayed …
158th day- 208 days follow (Arrowheads) Harry has a new daughter Fair + Warm This is the first real summer day we have had this season. I started out at 8 A.M. and rode my bike up to Bubbins’. Saw Mrs. Bubbins. Hunted their land for a couple of hours and found one very large …
157th day- 209 days follow (Arrowheads) Cloudy + Rain Trimmed around the bowling green. Saw Mr. H. and Geo. Crowell. After dinner Bill Whiting and Rolland Engstrum from Bridgewater went up to the Browne Site and dug for about an hour. I got two good white quartz triangular points and about ½ of a soapstone …
156th day- 210 days follow (Victoria has a Daughter) Partly Cloudy + Warmer Mr. Delano was up on the hill this morning. He took the weather vane off the barn. Mowed with the scythe and weeded flower beds today. Jubbie worked this afternoon. Thel picked me up at the foot of the drive tonight. Eleanor …
155th day- 212 days follow Partly Cloudy + Fair Worked all day in the cutting garden. Fred Moon came over in the afternoon. Saw a rabbit on the front drive. Ate my dinner in the barn. Got a ride home with Richard Greenwood. Thel went out tonight to a party with the help up at …
154th day- 212 days follow (Arrowheads) Partly Cloudy + Warm Worked all the morning digging up a place in the fire striip to plant some buckwheat and millet. Thel came after me at noon. Beauregard was to finish up the wiring. After I got through work I took a ride on my wheel over to …
153rd day- 213 days follow (Arrowheads) Cloudy + Mild Transplanted some of the cutting beds. John O’Brien and his two men were up on the hill putting in a lot of new switches and plugs. When I came home from work Thel and I took a ride up to the Browne dig. We both hunted …
152nd day- 214 days follow Rain Rained hard all day. Geo. S. came here this morning + took me up to his house for dinner. After dinner Geo and I, Eleanor, and the two girls took a ride down to May’s for a couple of hours. There was quite a gang there. Tout showed Geo. …
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