Painted dining room ceiling & woodwork. Got letter from Mom saying Don & Juanita were getting married this summer.
Monthly Archives: July 1950
Diary Entry for 7/2/1950
Awfully cold last night. Boys & I went to church. Windy, cold, & cloudy today. Mrs. Rice had bad shock. She was to church today.
Diary Entry for 7/3/1950
Washed clothes. Very cloudy. Talked with Helen & Aunt Maude.
Diary Entry for 7/4/1950
Had fresh peas for first. We stayed home. Ate lunch in back yard. Vern finished fence. Merrill & I painted it. Ironed.
Diary Entry for 7/5/1950
Got letter from Juanita saying that she & Don are getting married July 15th. Got card saying Arlene & Howard Decker have baby boy. Barrett Suley Decker, born June 25. Got invitation to baby shower for Zelda. Rained.
Diary Entry for 7/6/1950
Appointment Dr. Summa $10.00 9:45 AM. Merrill, Jim & I went to city. Got my eyes examined. We went out home in PM.
Diary Entry for 7/7/1950
Jim & I went to city & got my glasses. Canned peas. Cleaned. Glasses cost $22.00. Made jam.
Diary Entry for 7/8/1950
Baked & dusted. Canned peas. Men drawed hay all day.
Diary Entry for 7/9/1950
Awfully hot. Ken & Eleanor were here for dinner & supper. Jim went home with them.
Diary Entry for 7/10/1950
Washed clothes. Canned peas, drove truck on hay fork all day. Went over town in evening & saw fireman in water fight.
Diary Entry for 7/11/1950
Tired today. Rained hard during night & off & on all day. Men fixed pump. Went over to Madeline Honeywell’s in evening to Home Bureau.
Diary Entry for 7/12/1950
Shower for Zelda McKeever at Marg’s. I went. Merrill & I went to city. Stopped to see about my glasses. Can’t get used to them.
Diary Entry for 7/13/1950
Vi & I went down to see Leah. She has bad infection in her finger. Rained hard in PM & cold.
Diary Entry for 7/14/1950
Rained awfully hard last night. Turned very cold toward morning. cold all day. Got letter from Eleanor. Jim doesn’t want to come home.
Diary Entry for 7/15/1950
Don & Juanita married today at Potsdam. Married in First Methodist Church by Rev. Wendell Carter. Drawed hay all day. Did some baking.
Diary Entry for 7/16/1950
Went out home for dinner. Ken & Eleanor brought Jim up there. Eleanor, Jim, & I went up to see Arlene Barker’s baby. Don, Juanita & Donna was here when we got home. Stayed all night.
Diary Entry for 7/17/1950
Don, Juanita, & Donna left today. 3 people drowned at Theresa. A bad fire at the Bay & one at Antwerp. Rained.
Diary Entry for 7/18/1950
Fresh Air Kids arrive. Helen & Miriam Ramas got here on 7:00 train. Jim & I met them at the train.
Diary Entry for 7/19/1950
Grange. Vernon & I went. Rained in evening.
Diary Entry for 7/20/1950
Merrill, Kessel, & Vernon went out home to help with haying. Girls, Jim, & I walked back to woods.
Diary Entry for 7/21/1950
Kids & I went up to Pine Camp with Halls. Quite a lot going on. Merrill baled hay all day.
Diary Entry for 7/22/1950
They drawed hay all day. Did baking in evening. Kids went to show. Took Kessel over to bus.
Diary Entry for 7/23/1950
We all went to church. Went up to park for a picnic dinner. Drove out home in PM. Don & Juanita were there. I was sick in evening.
Diary Entry for 7/24/1950
Kessel didn’t come back to help today. Drawed hay. Washed clothes & did ironing. Rained hard in afternoon.
Diary Entry for 7/25/1950
We drawed in some hay in PM. Merrill & Vernon went huckleberrying & got enough for a pie.
Diary Entry for 7/26/1950
Don’s 27th birthday. Sent Don card. Kessel got back today. Carl has been injured in action in Korea. Was in 24th division.
Diary Entry for 7/27/1950
Carl, Kessel came over & raked for men. John & Charles were here.
Diary Entry for 7/28/1950
Thunder storm in evening. Struck our telephone. Blew box off house. I went over to Aunt Maude’s & called telephone company. Piece was in paper about Carl. Is all wrong. Finished baling hay for the year.
Diary Entry for 7/29/1950
Drawed in few loads of hay before it rained. We went to Drive In theater in evening. Roy Rogers & Weaver Brothers. They fixed telephone. Mrs. Ramas called girls from Brooklyn.
Diary Entry for 7/30/1950
Merrill, Kessel, Vern, & Jim, Beulah’s Fresh Air [kids], Helen, & Miriam took tour around 1000 Islands. Duff’s, Simond’s, & us had picnic dinner at Grasse Point.
Diary Entry for 7/31/1950
Washed & did some ironing. Don’t feel too good. Rained. Odd Fellows had special meeting. Merrill went to Lodge.