Merrill & boys got hair cuts. Made button holes on my dress. Did cleaning. Sent Christmas cards.
Yearly Archives: 1949
Diary Entry for 12/18/1949
Boys & I went to Sunday School. We all went to church. Raining. Went to Xmas Cantata at church in evening.
Diary Entry for 12/19/1949
Washed & ironed. Merrill went to Lodge. Made Xmas sacks for Grange. Vernon made door Xmas wreath.
Diary Entry for 12/20/1949
School Xmas program. Merrill & I went to it. Extra good. Got my Xmas present today. A grand platform maple rocker from Kamargo’s. Got gift of Readers Digest from Uncle Berle.
Diary Entry for 12/21/1949
Grange. Juvenile’s put on program. We all went. All juvenile members were there. Very nice party. We all went to Watertown. Jim saw Santa.
Diary Entry for 12/22/1949
First day of winter but very warm. Just like spring. 64°. Snow all gone. Merrill played dart baseball in evening.
Diary Entry for 12/23/1949
Church Xmas program. We went. Was very good. Church was full. Miss Klock gave Jim book. Wayne Hardy gave Vernon nail file & candy cane.
Diary Entry for 12/24/1949
Had our Xmas tree in evening. We all got nice gifts. Vernon got leather jacket size 36. Jim, high top shoes. Got Merrill Ronson lighter. Snowed today. Will not have a green Xmas after all. Plow was over.
Diary Entry for 12/25/1949
Went to Orv & Angie’s for Xmas. Marg, Uncle Lloyd’s, Grandpa, Uncle Berle, & Beulah & Dad & Mom were there. A grand day. Had a nice time.
Diary Entry for 12/26/1949
Kiechle’s old house on the Warmer place burned tonight during a heavy rain storm. They saved most of the machinery all except threshing machine, potato sprayer & cultivator. Merrill went to Lodge. Washed clothes.
Diary Entry for 12/27/1949
Kiechle’s stored their machinery here yesterday. Rainy. Uncle Ray’s was over in evening. Did ironing. Vernon went to 4-H party at Thibault’s. Ben went with him.
Diary Entry for 12/28/1949
Vernon & I have intestinal grippe. Jim sick with it in evening. I went to Lodge. Was on supper committee with Edna & Zelda. 37 there.Took out tree.
Diary Entry for 12/29/1949
Merrill has intestinal grippe now. None of us feeling to perk. Colder. Wrote Mom. Juvenile Grange flag staffs & pins came today.
Diary Entry for 12/30/1949
Below zero last night. Merrill & I went to city in PM. Got cloth for dress. Went to Home Bureau in evening to Guen Pledgers. Citizenship Lesson #1. Very cold tonight.
Diary Entry for 12/31/1949
Merrill got lumber to make stand for Juvenile Grange. Got card from MOM asking us out Monday. Merrill rented another locker at Mills. #163.