Got raise in wages. $1.00 an hour. Quite windy.

Month: March 1956
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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.
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Diary Entry for 3/3/1956
Went to city. Got new automatic washer. $249.95. Saw Marg’s & Uncle Lloyd’s.
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Diary Entry for 3/4/1956
Washed clothes.Baked cake & doughnuts. They took Holly Austin to hospital with heart attack.
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Diary Entry for 3/7/1956
Very stormy in evening. Very icy. Mary brought clothes for Jim. They fit him good.
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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.
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Diary Entry for 3/10/1956
Aunt Maude papered my bathroom. Looks nice. We went to Theresa in evening. Swell day.
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Diary Entry for 3/12/1956
Warmer today. Got letter from Mother Tryon. Beulah is in hospital. Real sick.
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Diary Entry for 3/13/1956
Sure tired tonight. Have sore mouth. Canker sores. Merrill put light in small bathroom.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Diary Entry for 3/25/1956
We went to church. Good turn out on Palm Sunday. We went over to Pauline’s in PM.
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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.
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Diary Entry for 3/31/1956
Cleaned. Merrill got tractor tire from Farrell’s that he had repaired. $17.00.
