Very hot day. I went to city in am for groceries. I planted garden. Paynes and Halls here in evening to get wagon box on new wagon. Sent for dresses to Spiegel.
Monthly Archives: June 1967
Diary Entry for 6/2/1967
Star dinner. Fed 135. I helped Sina, Pat & Vi in kitchen. Wesley and Norma took tractor and wagon to city. Hot.
Diary Entry for 6/3/1967
Dairyland parade. Our 4-H had float in it. Went to city at 7 AM. Went to City Park and stopped at Young’s Museum. I took all the kids with me. Leslie and Mother Tryon here while I was at city. Also Toby.
Diary Entry for 6/4/1967
We went to church. Gave $10.00 toward insurance. We ate lunch out doors. Went to Marathon races at Alex Bay. Beautiful day. Esther said at church that our dresses are starting to come into the Globe store.
Diary Entry for 6/5/1967
Sent in three films. Merrill started planting corn. I rode planter. 4 acres. Toby here in evening. His horse follows him to the barn. Donna here to sew. Got 10 foot cow water tank at Agway. $55.00
Diary Entry for 6/6/1967
We finished planting corn. 9 1/2 acres. Roger hall here. Got off the school bus at 11 am. Mary went to Pulaski to see her mother. Bought new wagon from Tenny’s, $285. Wrote Jim and Dot.
Diary Entry for 6/7/1967
Rained hard all day. Roger Hall here again today from school. Rebekahs went to funeral home for Ivan Cross’ mother. Wrote Vern. Merrill got float for water tank. Got letter from Uncle Berl. Cousin Will Clarke is dead.
Diary Entry for 6/8/1967
Mary Hall got home from her mother’s tonight. Bertha is not good. They plan to move back to Philadelphia from Pulaski. Went to P&C for groceries. Called Mrs. Brown to judge 4-H.
Diary Entry for 6/9/1967
Hot and muggy. Vern, June, and boys, Penny, and 5 kittens here all day. We kept the kittens. June, boys and I went to Evelyn’s. Men changed wagon boxes. We mowed lawns.
Diary Entry for 6/10/1967
Martha Meeks 23 birthday. Heard today she is in State Mental Hospital for shock treatments. Martha Brown is in Mercy Hospital. Got slides back. Ordered flowers for her. Painted back window. In paper today that Philip LeClaire’s have boy, Rusty.
Diary Entry for 6/11/1967
Hot. We went to church. Ate lunch out doors and spent pm in front yard. Debbie here to sew in evening.
Diary Entry for 6/12/1967
Wrote Jim. Merrill land I went to city. Got my green staff dress at the Globe, $23.00. Had my watch band fixed, $3.12. Stopped at Vi’s to see Jeffry. Donna and Debby here to sew. Merrill went to lodge.
Diary Entry for 6/13/1967
4-H dress judging here by Dawn Keichel and Leona Brown at 7:30. Kids all here. 4 got blue, 2 boys, Donald and Dawn. Cathy, Sharon, and Debbie got red. Toby called. He has been sick with flu.
Diary Entry for 6/14/1967
Exchange of collars and also neighbors night. Bea Tryon DDP now. Very hot in hall. 60 present. Bethany Nuroth PDDP gave me scrap book. Gave myself Toni gentle perm. Got card from Flossie White, a congratulation card.
Diary Entry for 6/15/1967
Beef supper at church. 6:30 pm. Small crowd but Fikes donated meat and Matt donated ice cream, so we made $150.00 for church fund. I worked in kitchen. NY man told Merrill not to draw milk until resolved.
Diary Entry for 6/16/1967
Thunder storm in early morn. Merrill finished painting milk house. Cook here to rescore barn. Can draw milk in morn. Dumped days milk. Mowed lawns.
Diary Entry for 6/17/1967
Mom’s 75th birthday. Sent milk back to plant this morning. Larry Nevilles white washed barn. $17.00 His first job with new outfit. Toby here for lunch. I went to city for groceries. Rainy in pm. Got letter from Blanch O’Brien, DDP #2.
Diary Entry for 6/18/1967
Father’s day. Gave him work pants. Went to church. Had coffee hour for graduates. 8 present. Martha called Vi from Buffalo State Hospital. Cool.
Diary Entry for 6/19/1967
Made white dress. I went to initiation at Antwerp Lodge. They took in Nancy Brown. Vi, Beulah, and Lula went with us. Clara Wallace said they had taken Bruce Hanson to Marcy State Hospital. Merrill cultivated corn for first this year.
Diary Entry for 6/20/1967
Sharon here to make dress. Here for supper. Merrill cultivated corn. Washed and ironed. Cooler.
Diary Entry for 6/21/1967
Made over dress. Worked in garden in evening. Merrill finished cultivating corn. Toby here in evening to ride “Wendy”. Toby has been offered school clerk job at Houndsfield school.
Diary Entry for 6/22/1967
Rained all day. Merrill started to put up post lamp that Jim made in high school. 4-H kids here in evening to see parade slides etc.
Diary Entry for 6/23/1967
Merrill mowed lawns. I went to city for groceries. I went to Dr. Somivers (?) to have tooth filled at 3:00 pm. $7.00. Toby here in evening. Called Vern’s in evening.
Diary Entry for 6/24/1967
Merrill, Toby, and I went to Vern’s for picnic dinner. Real nice day. Got graduation invitation from Freddie Tryon. I painted post lamp. Worked in garden. Sent Merrill’s accident insurance and my life insurance.
Diary Entry for 6/25/1967
Rainy, cloudy and cooler in late pm. We went out to Moms for dinner. Lorraine Hall’s birthday. Church picnic was changed from City Park to Child’s Falls.
Diary Entry for 6/26/1967
Cooler. Merrill went to city for battery for tractor. $10.00. He got post lamp wired up. Washed clothes. Made 2 pounds of butter.
Diary Entry for 6/27/1967
Wrote Martha Meeks. I went to Alex Bay hospital with Vi to see Myrtle Duff. Toby here in evening. Merrill mowed first hay rows. Hall girls and Cathy Aynes here in evening for hair thinning shears.
Diary Entry for 6/28/1967
Lodge. Last meeting be for summer. We drawed first hay, two loads. Wrote Jim. Sent card to Bertha Gleason.
Diary Entry for 6/29/1967
We finished drawing the mowed hay. 257 bales in barn. Cloudy. 4-H dress review at IRCS. I was commentator as Norma didn’t go.
Diary Entry for 6/30/1967
We went to Dick E for baler plugs. We went to Lorraine for Karen and Cindy. Karen’s first visit here. 2 years 10 months old. Stopped for groceries on way home.