Nice day but cool. We drawed hay all day. Archie Holmes died last night.
Monthly Archives: August 1951
Diary Entry for 8/2/1951
Merrill & I went with Grangers & IOOF to call at Holmes. Drawed hay all day. Helen gave me peas to freeze. Also froze Swiss chard & beans.
Diary Entry for 8/3/1951
Baked pies, cakes, cookies, & doughnuts for freezer. Cleaned. Stanley stuff came. I got new bath brush. Carl arrived home from Korea. Gloria Congdon has baby boy. Robin Patrick Verbridge.
Diary Entry for 8/4/1951
Aunt Cora Keller married to Charles A. Cross of Felts Mills. Worked in garden.
Diary Entry for 8/5/1951
Grange picnic in park. We didn’t go. Vernon finished coffee table for Eleanor. Ate chicken dinner out doors.
Diary Entry for 8/6/1951
Washed & ironed. Washed kitchen curtains. Finished haying.
Diary Entry for 8/7/1951
W.S.C.S. but I didn’t go. Aunt Maude & Vickie were over. Went to Adams to see Carl. He got home from Korea August 3rd. He gave me linen table cloth. Merrill smoking jacket.
Diary Entry for 8/8/1951
Kind of tired today. Delivered Stanley products. Washed rest of kitchen woodwork. Got puppy from Kiechle’s. $12.00. Named him “Teddy”. [He’s a] Rat Terrier.
Diary Entry for 8/9/1951
Martha was over in PM & for supper. Made salad for Grange supper. Started reaping grain.
Diary Entry for 8/10/1951
Set up grain. Awful warm.
Diary Entry for 8/11/1951
Awful hot. Merrill & boys got hair cuts. Vernon mowed lawns. Baked cakes. Killed 2 roosters. Merrill started combining at Cass’.
Diary Entry for 8/12/1951
Carl, Melba, Mother & Dad Tryon, & Kessel were here for dinner & supper. Orv, Angie, & kids, were here in PM.
Diary Entry for 8/13/1951
Washed & ironed. Tired today. Set up grain.
Diary Entry for 8/14/1951
Rained hard in morning. We went to city after boy’s pictures. Got bushel of peaches. $3.25. Rosie Halbert & kids were here in PM. We went to North Side Drive In [theater] in evening for first time. Saw.Yank in Korea.
Diary Entry for 8/15/1951
Grange. Wayne Sharkey was over & helped set up grain. Canned peaches. Got 30 pounds cherries.
Diary Entry for 8/16/1951
Raining again. Jim & I went over to Vi’s & planned church Chamber of Commerce Supper. Merrill set up grain. Vernon finished stands for bread man. Canned peaches & pickles.
Diary Entry for 8/17/1951
Cloudy & cold. We all set up grain all day. About 28 acres of grain set up so far. Canned pickles.
Diary Entry for 8/18/1951
Set up grain. Wayne was over & helped in PM. Was here for supper. Baked cakes. Finished reaping oats.
Diary Entry for 8/19/1951
We went out home for dinner. Ken & Eleanor were there too. Helped Dad draw hay. Don & Juanita were here while we were gone.
Diary Entry for 8/20/1951
Finished reaping grain. Reaped barley today. Washed clothes. Not feeling so good today.
Diary Entry for 8/21/1951
G.L.F. Party. Merrill & Jim went. Merrill & Vernon went to city & got Vernon band saw. $76.50. Vernon made book rack. Canned peaches.
Diary Entry for 8/22/1951
Juvenile Grange meeting. Boys & I went. Conferred degree on Caroline Bacon & Minnie Pike. Canned rest of peaches.
Diary Entry for 8/23/1951
Men threshed at Webb’s in PM. Cloudy & cold.
Diary Entry for 8/24/1951
Rained in AM. Men threshed at Webb’s in PM. Marguerite Beach in the hospital.
Diary Entry for 8/25/1951
Men helped thresh at Webb’s all day. Nice day. I don’t feel too good. Changed living room furniture around.
Diary Entry for 8/26/1951
Juvenile Grange picnic at Crystal Lake. 27 present. We all went. Grand day.
Diary Entry for 8/27/1951
Washed & did part of ironing. Men threshed at Webb’s. Cleaned kitchen floor.
Diary Entry for 8/28/1951
Took calves to sale. Vernon is sick. Merrill threshed at Bechard’s. Got ready for threshers tomorrow. Mr. & Mrs. Kiechle were here in evening.
Diary Entry for 8/29/1951
Had threshers. Beulah Hall helped me. Had 14. Quite hot.
Diary Entry for 8/30/1951
Church Chamber of Commerce supper. I didn’t help. Had threshers again today. Awful hot.
Diary Entry for 8/31/1951
Had threshers again today. Would have finished if it hadn’t rained. Rained hard.