Got home at 2:00 AM. Washed clothes.
Monthly Archives: January 1956
Diary Entry for 1/2/1956
Took Vernon to city at 6:00 PM. We all went. Jim & I did ironing.
Diary Entry for 1/3/1956
Back to work. Had all my riders today. Mrs. Hagan went to hospital with pneumonia
Diary Entry for 1/4/1956
Roads very slippery. Very tired tonight. Merrill went to meeting at Philadelphia on Income tax.
Diary Entry for 1/5/1956
I went to Home Bureau at Mary Beebe’s in evening. Meat lesson
Diary Entry for 1/6/1956
Got 2 new hats at $1.00 each. Roads bare. Jim & I went to basketball game in evening. Bennett’s were here in PM.
Diary Entry for 1/7/1956
Merrill & I went to Gouverneur. Got green Orlon sweater. Had work done on car. Gas pedal. Cold today.
Diary Entry for 1/8/1956
We went to church. went up to Aunt Cora’s in PM. Aunt Lyla & Uncle Sam Tift were there. Sleeting in evening.
Diary Entry for 1/9/1956
IOOF installation. We went. Jim stayed at Martha’s. About 50 present.
Diary Entry for 1/10/1956
Tired today.Very warm.
Diary Entry for 1/11/1956
Carl Brown came home with Jim to spend the night. Rainy. I was sick in evening. Got letter from Mom. They have TV now.
Diary Entry for 1/12/1956
Don’t feel too perky today. Raining & freezing in evening. Roads slippery.
Diary Entry for 1/13/1956
Friday the 13th. School nurse brought Jim home sick. He cut his finger on blade in PM at home. Wrote Mom & Vernon
Diary Entry for 1/14/1956
Merrill didn’t feel good today. Intestinal grippe. He & Jim got hair cuts at Theresa. Cleaned.
Diary Entry for 1/15/1956
Washed clothes. Grand day. Clothes all dried swell. Margaret & George were here in PM. Jim went to Schell’s.
Diary Entry for 1/16/1956
Merrill went to lodge. Kind of cold
Diary Entry for 1/17/1956
Swell day. Roads like summer again. Took Jim to Theresa to get to game at Antwerp.
Diary Entry for 1/18/1956
Swell day. Mrs. Eggleston called to invite us to card party for March of Dimes.
Diary Entry for 1/19/1956
We went to card party at Eggleston’s. Nice time. Kind of cold.
Diary Entry for 1/20/1956
Jim & I went to game. Theresa & Lyme Central. Grand day. & evening. Walter VanTassel came home with Jim. Got letter from Vernon.
Diary Entry for 1/21/1956
Walter went home about 5:00. Cleaned & baked. Made out income tax.
Diary Entry for 1/22/1956
Snowing some. Didn’t go to church. Finished ironing. Ethel Wagner died today. 71 years.
Diary Entry for 1/23/1956
Merrill went to lodge.
Diary Entry for 1/24/1956
Merrill went to lodge at LaFargeville with Martin R. Swell day. Aunt Keitha called me at shop to say Ethel Wagner was dead.
Diary Entry for 1/25/1956
Swell day. Initiation at lodge. About 80 present. Got two new dresses at Denny’s. Light blue & navy. Ethel’s funeral.
Diary Entry for 1/26/1956
Light snow. Merrill paid car insurance. Jim didn’t have to go to school. He spent the day at Donnie Brown’s.
Diary Entry for 1/27/1956
Joined Ida M. Robinson’s club. Swell day. Took Mary Newbery home to Antwerp. Got groceries & took my coat to cleaners.
Diary Entry for 1/28/1956
Grand day. Went to Theresa in PM. I went to Past Grands at Vi’s in evening. My first meeting as President.
Diary Entry for 1/29/1956
Washed clothes in morning. We went to church. Jim went up to Schell’s in PM.
Diary Entry for 1/30/1956
Very stormy. Started snowing about 10:00 AM. Jim got home early from school. Sybil Felt fell & broke her wrist.
Diary Entry for 1/31/1956
Jim has first polio shot. Got letter from Vernon. Fritz, his parakeet, died Sunday. Roads not too bad today.