Nice day after all the rain. Cool. Boys & I went huckleberrying. Vi, & Jessie K. & Martha went too.
Yearly Archives: 1951
Diary Entry for 7/21/1951
Nice day. Drawed quite a lot of hay. Worked until 10:00 PM drawing hay. Rained again in evening. Froze some peas.
Diary Entry for 7/22/1951
Boys, Merrill, & I went huckleberrying. Drawed some hay today. Didn’t go to church.
Diary Entry for 7/23/1951
Washed & ironed. Baked pies & cakes. Painted front porch 2nd coat. Bolts in baler broke so Merrill had to go to Mills for them. Quite warm.
Diary Entry for 7/24/1951
Another real warm day. Got 6 chickens ready for freezer. Waxed kitchen & bedroom floors. Merrill went to Mills again for links for baler. Killed 4 chickens in evening.
Diary Entry for 7/25/1951
Cut & wrapped 10 chickens for freezer. Waxed kitchen floor. I drawed hay.
Diary Entry for 7/26/1951
Stanley Party. Not many here but had $38.00 order. Made $6.00 for Home Bureau. Drawed hay. Awfully hot.
Diary Entry for 7/27/1951
Tired today. Merrill baled hay. Also drawed hay. Rained in evening.
Diary Entry for 7/28/1951
Baked. Raining. Merrill had work done on truck. We went up to hospital to see Ivan. Drawed hay in evening.
Diary Entry for 7/29/1951
We all went to church. Merrill baled hay in PM. Quite hot.
Diary Entry for 7/30/1951
Awfully hot. Drawed hay all day. Washed & ironed in PM. Heard on radio that Carl has landed in Seattle.
Diary Entry for 7/31/1951
White washed barn. Raining this morning. Merrill took fat calf to sale. We went out home for dinner. Stopped at Adams to see Merrill’s folks.
Diary Entry for 8/1/1951
Nice day but cool. We drawed hay all day. Archie Holmes died last night.
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.
Diary Entry for 9/1/1951
Very cold. Rainy. Couldn’t thresh. Dad [Bea’s dad] hurt his eye. Broke his glasses & got glass in his eye.
Diary Entry for 9/2/1951
Jimmy’s birthday. John & Charles were here for dinner. Uncle Len, Betty, & Abbey, were here in evening.
Diary Entry for 9/3/1951
Raining again. Baked, canned cherries, & froze corn.
Diary Entry for 9/4/1951
Washed. Wringer broke. Had 3 threshers for dinner. Finished threshing. 1753 bushel. Boys started in school. Jim, third grade. Vernon tenth grade.
Diary Entry for 9/5/1951
Washed windows & cleaned. Helen took me to Mills for meat for Home Bureau wiener roast. Merrill threshed at Hardy’s & Bacon’s. Called Mom.
Diary Entry for 9/6/1951
Rained so Merrill came home from threshing at Bacon’s. Home Bureau party here. 14 present. Grand time even if it did rain.
Diary Entry for 9/7/1951
Merrill & I went to city. Dad, Mom, Ken & Eleanor were out to doctors to see about Dad’s eye. Is OK. Still rainy. Got bushel of pears & tomatoes.