Got raise in wages. $1.00 an hour. Quite windy.
Monthly Archives: March 1956
Diary Entry for 3/2/1956
Frances Solouri’s 31st birthday. Raining. Got new tube & fuse for TV. $3.65. Merrill started fixing coat room.
Diary Entry for 3/3/1956
Went to city. Got new automatic washer. $249.95. Saw Marg’s & Uncle Lloyd’s.
Diary Entry for 3/4/1956
Washed clothes.Baked cake & doughnuts. They took Holly Austin to hospital with heart attack.
Diary Entry for 3/5/1956
Snowing in morning. Mean driving. Mary Newbery didn’t ride today.
Diary Entry for 3/6/1956
Very slippery. Raining & freezing
Diary Entry for 3/7/1956
Very stormy in evening. Very icy. Mary brought clothes for Jim. They fit him good.
Diary Entry for 3/8/1956
Got bathroom paper at noon. $5.00. Very mean driving in morning. They brought my new washer. Get club package from Ann’s order. Gertie Fleming started riding.
Diary Entry for 3/9/1956
Windy today. We finished getting bathroom ready to paper in evening.
Diary Entry for 3/10/1956
Aunt Maude papered my bathroom. Looks nice. We went to Theresa in evening. Swell day.
Diary Entry for 3/11/1956
Painted bathroom. Merrill waxed kitchen floor. Very windy.
Diary Entry for 3/12/1956
Warmer today. Got letter from Mother Tryon. Beulah is in hospital. Real sick.
Diary Entry for 3/13/1956
Sure tired tonight. Have sore mouth. Canker sores. Merrill put light in small bathroom.
Diary Entry for 3/14/1956
Rainy & snowy. Terrible driving home. Got letter from Vernon.
Diary Entry for 3/15/1956
Got valves for pump in mail. Roads bare again.
Diary Entry for 3/16/1956
Very stormy all day. Roads slippery & snowing all day. Howard was over in evening. Got letter from Mom. Wrote Mom. Sent card to Roberta.
Diary Entry for 3/17/1956
Nice day. We went to Gouverneur & had points & plugs put in car. Had to have Paul K. come down and start car.
Diary Entry for 3/18/1956
Merrill & I were both sick all day. Cold today.
Diary Entry for 3/19/1956
Very cold. sure tired tonight.
Diary Entry for 3/20/1956
Swell day. Debbie Hall had tonsils out today. Was 6° below zero when we went to work in morning.
Diary Entry for 3/21/1956
Got letter from Mom. Merrill got card from Mom & Marg. Quite cold. Nellie had cast put on her foot today. Washed in evening.
Diary Entry for 3/22/1956
Merrill’s 47th birthday. Got him pipe & candy. Jim got him lighter. Raining in evening. Got letter from Uncle Berle. Merrill got card.
Diary Entry for 3/23/1956
Past Grands at Lula R. I went. 14 present. Swell day.
Diary Entry for 3/24/1956
Cleaned floors & waxed them. Jim had 4-H here in evening. All here except Carl A. 14 of us.
Diary Entry for 3/25/1956
We went to church. Good turn out on Palm Sunday. We went over to Pauline’s in PM.
Diary Entry for 3/26/1956
Quite nice today but kind of cold. Juanita’s birthday.
Diary Entry for 3/27/1956
Vern get home today. I brought riders home & went back to city after him.
Diary Entry for 3/28/1956
Used my new washer for first. Merrill took tractor tire to Farrell’s to get it fixed. Got letter from Beulah C. & Juanita.
Diary Entry for 3/29/1956
Did about 80 dozen under arm darts today. Snowy & windy today.
Diary Entry for 3/30/1956
Club ends. Very icy in morning.
Diary Entry for 3/31/1956
Cleaned. Merrill got tractor tire from Farrell’s that he had repaired. $17.00.