A daily journal from 76 years ago
115th day- 251 days follow (Arrowheads) Mrs. H. got 7 trout up at the Whipple’s yesterday. I stopped in to see Pick on my way to work this A.M. She is back from the hospital. She was sure it was going to happen, but apparently it was a false alarm. After dinner I rode my …
114th day- 252 days follow (Arrowheads) Fair + Cool Worked in and out of doors today. Jubbie finished up the gutters. The, Cozette, and Tillie took a car load of kids up to Benson’s Animal Farm in N.H. They were gone all day. Saw Mr. H. and Harry this morning before they went to work. …
113th day- 253 days follow (Arrowheads) Cloudy + Cool Worked all day mowing lawns. Thel and Eleanor and her girls came up on the hill for a few minutes this afternoon. Thel came up on the hill and got me after work and we went up to Eleanor’s to drop them off. Thel and I …
112th day- 254 days follow Cool + Rain This morning I got a ride over to town by Geo. Crowell. I bought a lot of 22 cartridges from Gus in Jordan Hardware. Went up to the town house and paid my poll tax. Got a ride home with Geo. Crowell. Eleanor and the kids were …
111th day- 255 days follow (Dog) Partly Cloudy + Warmer Thel’s dog came in heat Sunday for the first time. Worked all day transplanting and sowing annual flower seeds. Saw Mrs. H. this A.M. She has a lame back and is in bed. The cook and the second girl were on the hill today. Thel …
110th day- 256 days follow Partly Cloudy And Warmer This morning four of us went mayflowering and got quite a good large bunch. We tracked three deer. And there is a lot of wintergreen, partridge berry, Bears’ Grass, running pine, and Stag horn mass. Blackberries grow freely on cut over land. One thing that amazed …
109th day- 257 days follow Fair + Cold Thel and I left here at 6 A.M. and took Sawci up to Evelin Holman’s and left her there. Then we picked up Frieda + Oscar and we all went up to Martin Elberg’s in Freyburg, Maine. We got there at 12 Noon and we had dinner …
108th day- 258 days follow (Arrowheads) Fair + Cool Saw Mr. H. and Geo. Crowell on the hill this A.M. After I got home at noon I put up a new outside aerial. Thel and I went over to Primo’s and filled up the car with gas for the trip tomorrow. Bill came up on …
107th day- 259 days follow (Arrowhead) Partly Cloudy Cool Worked on the flower beds all day transplanting. Thel took me over to town at noon. We took Bill’s pot to him, and I went into Jordan Hardware to get Redo to make a hand rail for the house on the hill. Saw a rabbit on …
106th day- 260Â days follow No entry made.
