A daily journal from 76 years ago
350th day- 15 days follow Fair + Warm Rained hard just before daylight so I looked over Jennie Chandler’s land and all I found was a base and a point, both broken and quartz. The roofer came right after dinner and finished up. It is guaranteed for ten years, so I may have fixed it …
349th day- 16 days follow Partly Cloudy and Warmer Burned brush all day at the dump and behind the barn. The fire drove a couple of rats out of the dump. One of them I got. Mrs. H. came up on the hill about 5:15 and reloaded a lot of stuff into the station wagon …
348th day- 18 days follow Fair + Cold Thel and I went to church this A.M. Geo. stopped in with Marie + Suzanne. We took them home. After church Thel and I went over to town, got some gas, went in to see Ski at the drug store, and took her out to Pioppi’s to …
347th day- 18 days follow Apparently Jesse missed writing on this day, as the entry has been labeled as Sunday.
346th day- 19 days follow Fair + Cold Jubbie and I burned on the dump. It didn’t [do] too good as it was quite wet. I shot another rabbit on the way home from work at noon. After dinner I went to town and got a haircut. When I came home Thel and I went …
345th day- 20 days follow Fair + Warmer Snowed about three [ Inches] last night so I burned brush today. Wrote a letter to Harry Hornblower last night. Jubbie didn’t work today. After supper Archie and [I] went to town to see the Polo game. It was pretty good, but rather one sided. Salem won …
344th day- 21 days follow Fair + Cool May called up Thel and she said that Gertie’s friend has asked her to marry him. He looks like a decent kind of fellow. Worked in the cellar this A.M. Jubbie and I worked in the grove in back of the barn. I jumped a partridge in …
343rd day- 22 days follow Fair + Cold Worked in the cellar whitewashed in the cellar. In the afternoon Jubbie and I worked on the trees. Stopped in at Pick’s on the way home from work. I heard that Mrs. Fraser has opened a baby shoe store on the corner of Summer St. Helen Finney …
342nd day- 23 days follow Warm + Showers Jennie Chandler plowed up land is all tracked up by people hunting for relics. Showers this A.M. so I did some white washing in the big house cellar. Geo., Ski, and Bud did some digging in the garden for the house foundation. The whole Hathaway family were …
341st day- 24 days follow Fair + Mild Thel took me over to Chas. Sherman’s at 8:30 A.M. He and I went up to Boston to the University Club to a meeting of the executive members of the M.A.S. We were there from 10:00 A.M. to 6 P.M. in the afternoon. We ate dinner at …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 