July 24 - 31, 1955

Sunday, July 24, 1955

Very nice cool day. Picked over and froze 15 boxes of Swiss chard green. Got dinner and did up regular work. In p.m. Dorothea, Billie and I went over to see Mr. Carlson. Mama and Billie took Dorothea back to Conants. Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis called in evening.

Monday, July 25, 1955

I washed. Canned 11 pints of corn. Did up the regular work. Betty down to Kail’s for the day. Flecks called in the evening.

Tuesday, July 26, 1955

Very hot today. K Fleck here for the day. I ironed, done up the work. The Jersey had a black bull calf this morning. Bill, Betty, Mama, Donnie and I rode down through So. B. last night and up over the ridge home.

Wednesday, July 27, 1955

Did regular work. Hot.

Thursday, July 28, 1955

Did regular work. Hot.

Friday, July 29, 1955

Washed and ironed.

Saturday, July 30, 1955

Nice day. Went to town shopping.

 Sunday, July 31, 1955

Milan’s folks came today. Raymond called in the evening.

July 18 - 23, 1955

Monday, July 18, 1955

I washed and ironed, made a blueberry pie. Very hot day. Kennard’s trial $100 fine $15 cost of court. Lost his license for year.

Tuesday, July 19, 1955

Another hot day. Made out an order for Mama. Terrie Moffitt here for day. Bill mowed grass up alongside of road tonight.

Wednesday, July 20, 1955

I churned. Cleaned up the house, cooked.

Thursday, July 21, 1955

Did some more cooking. Came off awful hot again today.

Friday, July 22, 1955

Dorothea here all day. She wrote letters. I did a big washing and ironing.

Nanny hanging out clothes to dry

Saturday, July 23, 1955

Hot. Done up some housework. Went to town in early p.m. Larry Potter brought over the raspberries we froze them. Over to Jim’s tonight, got corn, greens and other veg. Aunt Ava got another dog today.

July 12 - 17, 1955 Mama's Birthday

Tuesday, July 12, 1955

Nice day still cool. Ironed. They finished up the haying tonight. Dorothea came up tonight. Thena Allen called.

Wednesday, July 13, 1955

Dorothea here for supper. Dorothy Prescott called. Had an awful fight tonight the kids. I clean up the house.

Thursday, July 14, 1955

I did up the housework. Aunt Ava called in evening, also Fern and Lloyd.

Friday, July 15, 1955

Nice day. I churned, washed, cooked. Dorothea came up about noon, made a birthday cake for her grandmother. In evening Aunt Ava, Uncle Lewis, Fern, Lloyd and Uncle Os and Robert here for evening, birthday cake etc. Mama felt better today. She got nice gifts. Ironed in eve. Kids fight too much.

Saturday, July 16, 1955

Rain today. I did up the work. Kennard called. We went to town, also stopped to pay Gordon Sanborn for bailing hay $67.00. Kennard got caught by state cop driving his car tonight while drinking, took him to town in jail to get sobered off.

Sunday, July 17, 1955

Very hot. I didn’t do much. Billie mowed lawns. At supper time we had a steak cookout, Fern and family up. Milan, Norma and Ronald called, brought Blanche back from Connecticut. Bill, Betty, Kennard and I took Delores back to camp.

July 7- 11, 1955

Thursday, July 7, 1955

It was a good day. I cleaned up the house, Bill and I called up to Hayd and Helen’s in evening. Dorothea came home tonight to stay and for her day off tomorrow. Lawrence Flint Jr. brought her. Fern not very well, had a bad spell with her arm.

Friday, July 8, 1955

Very nice day, quite hot. Dorothea here all day, she did some mending and made another checkerboard cake. Mama not very good today. I churned. Mowed lawns, washed. Had Brud and family and Kennard up for afternoon and evening. Ironed. Raymond over in evening.

Saturday, July 9, 1955

Hot. All day very hot and humid during the night. Billie mowed today rest of the field and Dick Carsley’s field. Went to town in p.m. Dorothea up in p.m. for a little while. Bill, Raymond and Betty got scattering in. Betty raked them with Raymond’s tractor.

Sunday, July 10, 1955

Very hot and humid all day. Bill and Billie hayed all day. Raymond, Kennard and Hayd helped Gordon Sanborn bail it. Delores called in p.m. Dorothea up in p.m. from camp. I didn’t do hardly any work.

Monday, July 11, 1955

Very nice day, sunny, cooler and no humidity. I washed and cooked. Daisy and her lamb went tonight. Elmer Fogg bought them. Hated to see them go. Two nice pets,  the little one was so cute. We are going to miss them.

July 1- 6, 1955

Friday, July 1, 1955

Another hot day. I churned. Did up the housework.

Saturday, July 2, 1955

Very hot. Went to town in a.m. Washed kitchen and porch floors. Evelyn called and left four boxes strawberries. Brud and Verna came up to Kennard’s today. Got Betty’s new dungarees today.

Sunday, July 3, 1955

Lonnie came up today so to go with Johnnie 4^th of July. Very hot. Billie had Chet’s tractor and mowed half the field. Dorothea came up and stayed all night. Dorothea cut Betty’s hair. Fern, Lloyd and Uncle Os up in eve. We ate outside.

Monday, July 4, 1955 Independence Day

Very hot again. I washed. Cloudy and a shower in a.m. I went down to see the parade with Raymond and Aunt Linnie. In p.m. after sun came out and dried hay, Billie, Bill and Raymond raked and Gordon Sanborn bailed it. Then Bill, Raymond and Billie got it in. Kale up here tonight.

Tuesday, July 5, 1955

Another very hot day. I washed again today. Did a big ironing. Bill and Billie helped Raymond get in some hay after supper. Kale went home today. Betty called on Verna in p.m. Shower in night.

Wednesday, July 6, 1955

Rain today. I cooked. Dorothea, Barb and Nancy called. In evening Brud and family called also Edgar Hilton and two children.