Gertrude Evadean Groff Handy

  Diary

  1925

January

Thursday, January 1, 1925

Yesterday afternoon I went over to Mildreds when Floyd went to the woods.  I helped quilt for Mrs. Handy.  In the evening Herbert and Will came over.  After playing three games of dominoes, we watched the old year out and the new year in by listening on the radio. This morning I went over to Herberts.  Floyd, mother, father and Margaret were there for dinner.  Clarence came after work.  Herbert and I took Clarence and Margaret home in the evening and then he brought us home.  We heard John McCormick and Gori sing on the radio.

Friday, January 2, 1925

I got up and helped milk early as the men planned to draw ice.  Then they couldn’t get any after all as Kenneth Dillenbeck didn’t have the license for his car.  When I got in the house, I went to bed and stayed there a good share of the day as I didn’t feel very well.  Alta had planned to walk over but as it stormed, Alta didn’t.  Mother finished making a pair of sheets for me.  I washed and ironed the buffet set for Mrs. Haig.  We listened to a play on the radio.

Today didn’t seem like Saturday, as I didn’t do any baking and very little cleaning.  I spent most of the time doing little odd jobs that had to be done before going back to school.  I made my blue, crocheted sofa pillow, which I had been wanting to make for so long.  Floyd fixed my alarm clock which hadn’t run for quite a while.  Floyd went down to uncle Henry’s in the afternoon.  Odessa and I planned the “eats” for the Grange installation.

We didn’t have any church or Sunday School on account of the bad roads.  I walked over to Mauds in the forenoon and rode back with Floyd when he came from St. Johnsville.  Herbert came over about noon.  We had such a good visit in the afternoon, which helped to cheer us both up.  We listened to the concert given by the W. G. Y. Symphony orchestra in the afternoon.  We came down to Fort Plain on the ten o’clock train and walked up the Haigs from the station.

I started in school today after Christmas vacation.  Everything went quite well for the first day.  It seemed so good to see the teachers again.  Mrs. Parr gave me a very pretty crepe de chine hankerchief for Christmas I received a nice, long letter from Grace.  I wrote letters to Nettie and Frieda.  Pearl went down to the box and mailed them for me.

I corrected Geometry notebooks before school in the morning.  In the evening I read the book “The Shield of Silence” by Comstock.  It was very interesting, but I couldn’t see as there was any benefit in reading it.  It snowed hard in the morning when I went to school, but it soon cleared up and was warm.  I sent a card to Eunice Kinney, who was ill with scarlet fever.

The high school pupils had a sleighride out to Pearls.  Misses Dorland and Dillenbeck were the chaperons.  I received a letter from Herbert and I answered it before supper.  After school I sorted out old Regents papers and cleaned out my desk.  Ethel and I worked on the cross-word puzzle in the evening.

 I went up to the schoolhouse and corrected papers before school.  It was quite a good day of school.  We had a faculty meeting at 4 o’clock to decide when to have quarterly examinations.  I had planned to go down to Ruth Sheffields for orchestra practise, but as I didn’t feel very well I went to bed instead.  Mr. And Mrs. Hartman went over to Mr. Moyers to a party.

Friday, January 9, 1925   Pleasant, cold, full moon.

We had chapel at school in the morning.  A man was there and gave a reel of motion pictures on the Near East Relief work.  I went home on the 5 o’clock bus.  Floyd met me at St. Johnsville.  We went up to the Grange installation.  Mr. Harry Morris installed the officers.  Mildred and I served the supper, which consisted of oyster stew, rolls, jello, cake, doughnuts, coffee, candy and oranges.  Will Flanders and Alta came over.

Saturday, January 10, 1925   Pleasant – cold

I helped do the work in the forenoon and made a pair of pillowcases.  Mother sewed the lace on them.  In the afternoon I studied.  Floyd went down to Binghamton to see Madaline.  Herbert came over in the evening and took me over to see Alta.  The boys and Will went over to Seward Smiths to help put out the fire which started from the chimney burning out.  We played Rook when they got back.  Herbert and I had unusally good luck. 

Sunday, January 11, 1925   Pleasant – cold

Herbert helped milk in the morning, so mother and I didn’t have to.  Herbert took mother and me to Sunday School.  Father didn’t go.  Herbert was superintendent for the first time and he did very well.  We went down to Fort Plain in the evening.  We saw Walter Dairs on the train.  He had gone up to Little Falls with Gertrude as their uncle Theron was ill with a stroke.  Herbert and I had a good visit after reaching Haigs.

Monday, January 12, 1925   Pleasant and warmer

It was a very busy day in school as we were trying to get ready for quarterly examinations.  I did some typewriting after school.  I received a letter from Alice Kilts and I answered it, acknowledging her Christmas present.  Bernice Haig was here for a visit.  I called up Alta on the phone but she had gone over to Stills.  I found out that I couldn’t go to Schenectady when we had planned to. 

Tuesday, January 13, 1925   Stormy.  Snowed and wind blew.

I went up to school and corrected notebooks in the morning.  I talked with Alta on the phone before I went to school.  Then I wrote to Freida and told her that we thought we could come down this week.  I made out the Virgil test on the typewriter after school and helped some of the pupils with their work.  I slept for a while after supper as I didn’t feel very well and then I wrote a letter to Herbert and one to Janet.

Wednesday, January 14, 1925   Stormy in forenoon.

I did quarterly tests in Geometry and Algebra.   I gave drill work in the Jan.  Algebra and Intermediate Algebra classes.  I received a letter from Herbert.  He and his father were busy drawing ice from Inghams Mills.  I talked with Mother in the phone.  She said Floyd went to Cousin Cinda’s on Saturday night.  He saw Madaline on Sunday.  In the evening I sewed insertion in a pair of pillowcases.  Fort Plain basketball team beat Canajoharie with score of 35 to 6.

Thursday, January 15, 1925   Cold, but pleasant.

I received a card from Edison, saying that we should not come down this week as Freida was ill.  I had tests in Algebra, Geometry and Virgil.  We had orchestra practise down at Mrs. Abel’s.  Just Mae, Miss Brady, Mrs. Abel and I played.  I crocheted on my tray set before supper and made one doily.

Friday, January 16, 1925   Very stormy in the forenoon & evening.

Only pupils came to school who had to try Regents.  We gave review work all day.  The pupils studied much harder than I thought they would.  I came home on the 5 o’clock bus.  The roads had been ploughed out and were real good.  I received letters from Mrs. Atchison and Eunice.  Eunice said that Emily had a little boy, named Alton Scott, who was born Oct. 17.  I went to Miss Schiffers and waited until Floyd and Alta came after me.

Saturday, January 17, 1925  Very nice.

Alta and I helped do the Saturday’s work and baking.  I made 2 cakes and cookies.  The men put in ice.  James Bellinger and Henry Shuster were here.  Bertha and Iva came up on snowshoes in the afternoon and stayed all night.  Herbert also came over in the evening.  We played seven games of Rook.  Floyd and Herbert talked half of the night about the girls.  We couldn’t hardly get them awake in the morning.   

Sunday, January 18, 1925   Snowed.

Iva and Bertha went home in the forenoon when Floyd went to the village with the milk.  We all went to Sunday School.  There were 20 present.  Alta taught our S. S. class.  Isabel came over after Alta about half past four.  Herbert helped me do the dishes.  Herbert and I went to Fort Plain on the 9:45 train.  We saw Alice Kilts and 2 other teachers at the station.  Harold and Vesta and 2 other people were at Haigs.

Monday, January 19, 1925   Pleasant.

My class tried Regents in Intermediate Algebra in the morning.  I corrected the papers in the afternoon.  I felt discouraged as the class didn’t do well at all.  I didn’t know what was the reason for it.  I went down to the sale at Saxton’s Store about 4 o’clock.  I bought a table cloth and bed-spread with the money father gave us for Christmas.  In the evening I put new lining in my coat sleeves.  Ethel came up in my room and visited while I sewed.

Tuesday, January 20, 1925   Snowed hard.

I went up to school and helped Miss Rubert in the room where Elementary Arithmetic was tried.  In the afternoon I crocheted and wrote letters to Grace and Alice Osterhout.  Marjorie Walts came to stay during Regents week.  I went up to see Alma Miller  in the evening.  Alma embroidered and I crocheted.  Inez Coats and another girl called on Ethels.

Wednesday, January 21, 1925   Pleasant.

My class tried Elementary Algebra Regents and they did as well as I had dared to hope.  Three girls also tried geometry.  In the afternoon I corrected papers down at the house.  I wrote a letter to Herbert and crocheted in the evening.  I called up mother on the phone after supper.  They were getting ready to go to St. Johnsville to see the movie “Abraham Lincoln.”  I drew threads in my tablecloth and got it ready for Mrs. Haig to hem.

Thursday, January 22, 1925   Stormy in afternoon.

I went up to school in the forenoon.  I made out my classbook and my report cards.  In the afternoon Ethel and I called on Mrs. Fake.  Dr. Fake had gone up to St. Johnsville.  I received a nice, long letter from Herbert.  I wrote one to Agnes Atchison.  The orchestra met here for practise.  Mae, Miss Brady, Mrs. Abel and Irene Dillenbeck came.

Friday, January 23, 1925   Very cold.

I went up to school in the forenoon and planned my work for the next week.  When I came back I finished putting insertion in my pillowcases.  I received a letter from Alice Osterhout.  Ethel and I went to the basket-ball game between Fort Plain and Scotia.  Fort Plain won with a score of 33 to 21.  Mother called up in the evening when I was gone.  She said that the roads were very bad and that I shouldn’t come home this week.  I made muffins for supper.

Saturday, January 24, 1925   Cold & pleasant.

After breakfast I made a cake for Haigs.  About 10 minutes of nine we started to watch the eclipse of the sun by the moon.  It was so dark outdoors as if it had been twilight.  At one time the sky was all different colors.  I went up to school and worked on the Regents reports until noon.  In the afternoon I crocheted, went down town and wrote letters to Alta and Emily.  Mr. and Mrs. Hartman entertained the card club.  Ethel and I went to the basket-ball games with Cobleskill Agricultural School.

Harold and Vesta stayed all night and took Bernice home with them in the morning.  Ethel and I went to the Universalist church in the forenoon.  Herbert came after dinner and brought me a nice box of candy.  He and I went to the Lutheran church in the evening.  Mr. Schaertal  had a good sermon on the text “Mercy and truth have met together, and righteousness and peace have kissed each other.”  We all sang a while before we went to church.  I had an announcement card from Helen and a letter from Mrs. Rutherford.

Monday, January 26, 1925   Warm.

I rather dreaded to start in school again after vacation or rather Regents.  It was rather confusing as the schedule was changed at various times.  Mrs. Hartman and I made cream puffs.  They were real good.  I also fixed baked eggs for supper.  We sang for a while again in the evening.  The weather changed in the evening and it grew cold again.

Tuesday, January 27, 1925   Colder.

As the schedule was changed around at school again, things were rather confused.  I had a different study hall from the day before.  I received a letter from Freida.  She or her father had neither been feeling very well.  Edison was not working for a couple of weeks.  I wrote a letter to Mrs. Rutherford after I came home from school.

Wednesday, January 28, 1925   Very cold.

It was 32 degrees below zero here at Haigs in the morning.  The hot water was frozen up.  I stayed after school and helped some of the pupils with Algebra.  Pearl and Carmeta went to the movies.  I crocheted and studied in the evening.  I had a fine letter from Herbert.  He said Mildred was nursing in Middleville.  I answered his letter before I went to bed.

Thursday, January 29, 1925  

It was quite a good day of school, with the exception of the fact that some of the pupils were sleepy who had gone on the fraternity sleighride.  We had planned to attend the faculty meeting with the grade teachers but it was postponed.  I went with Mae and “Kibby” down to Ruth Sheffields for orchestra practise.  We were surprised to find so much snow as it didn’t start snowing until late afternoon.

When we awoke in the morning we were practically snowed in.  There was no school all day.  Only one train came into Fort Plain and that got stalled between here and St. Johnsville.  We girls helped Haigs with the cleaning and baking.  In the evening we played Rook.  Ethel and I won every game we played with Carmeta and Pearl.  I started to crochet a yoke.

Saturday, January 31, 1925   Pleasant.

It was a nice, sunshiny day.  People began to get the sidewalks well cleaned off.  I made ice-cream, cake and cocoanut macaroons in the forenoon.  In the afternoon mother phoned down and wanted to know if I was coming home.  So I went up to the 6:25 train.  I didn’t reach St. Johnsville until 1:30.  Herbert had come over home in the afternoon, so he came down after me.  We played Rook in the evening.  Father had a lame back from shoveling snow.

February

Sunday, February 1, 1925   Pleasant, sunshiny.

Floyd took the milk to the factory.  Mother and I did up the work in the morning and then Herbert and I listened to a sermon on the radio.  We came down to Fort Plain on the six oclock train.  As it was right on time we reached Fort Plain in time to go to church.  We went to the Lutheran church again and enjoyed the service very much.  Herbert and I got teasing each other and went a little too far in what we said.  I was afraid he would miss his train, but he didn’t. 

Monday, February 2, 1925   Stormy – snow.

I called up home in the morning and talked with Floyd and Herbert.  It was a fine day of school.  I felt more like work than I had in a long time.  I received a letter from Agnes.  She had been sick with the grippe and had had to miss her exams.  I wrote to Eunice in the evening and sent a check to the Nat. Geographic Society for the magazine for 1925.  It snowed hard again and grew very cold towards night.

Tuesday, February 3, 1925   Sunshiny.        

I went down to the bank at noon and over to Cosmen’s store after some crochet thread.  After school I helped some of the pupils and then visited with Miss Brady and Miss Shufelt.  In the evening I had a lot of papers to correct for my algebra and geometry classes.

Wednesday, February 4, 1925   Pleasant.

I received my Pocket University and sent a check to pay for it.  I received a long letter from Grace.  She said the Isabells had been given a couple of farewell parties as they were going to Little York to live.  I wrote to Herbert in the evening.  There were a couple games of interclass basket ball after school.  I didn’t go but stayed at school and corrected geometry notebooks instead.

I received a long letter from Emily Rowe.  She said they were living in their new house out in Delmar.  Eunice and another girl had been out there to take care of a dance.  I had planned to go over to Mae’s for orchestra practise but as I was very tired I went to bed early instead.  I helped some of the pupils after school.

Friday, February 6, 1925   Pleasant and warm.

I received a letter from Herbert.  He had been packing ice away that day when he wrote.  Pearl Smith had planned to go home with me but had to play basket-ball instead.  I went up on the 5:20 bus.  I rode in the new bus for the first time and it certainly rode much easier than the others.  I went into Mr. Lull’s and saw my new book-case.  Floyd came down after me.  We listened on the radio to a travelogue “from Burma to Java” by Dr. Rousch.

Pearl Smith came up on the 9 o’clock bus.  I made ice-cream and mock angel food cake.  Floyd also wanted a butternut cake and candy which I also made.  Herbert came over in the evening and we all played Rook.  Pearl and father played checkers in the afternoon.  It was a beautiful, warm day, like spring.  John Klippel went away again, after being up home for 6 weeks.  I washed & ironed my clothes.

It was another beautiful day.  We took some pictures after lunch.  Then we went down to Aunt Etta’s.  Lena had gone to St. Johnsville.  Alta came from home after being there for a week’s vacation on account of bad roads.  Part of the roof on Harry’s barn had caved in because of the weight of snow.  Veba’s brother had died.  Pearl, Herbert & I went to Fort Plain on the 9 oclock train.

We omitted the eight period and then had a teachers’ meeting with the 11 grade teachers.  Alma gave a talk on “Adolescence and Sex Education in the High Schools.”  We also looked at some charts on this subject which had been put out by the government.  We had orchestra practise over at Maes’.

Tuesday, February 10, 1925   Rained a little.

I received two letters from Herbert, one of which he had written the week before and which I had never received.  There was great excitement up at school on account of scarlet fever.  Gordon Lighthall and Lee Van Avery both had it.  They sent Pearl home for a couple of days.  I had control period but I only stayed until five oclock as I didn’t feel very well.  I cut out 3 nightgowns in the evening.

I stayed until five oclock for control period at school.  In the evening I went down to the theater to meet Miss Gray.  We went to the “Ten Commandments” and we had to pay $1.80 for our seats.  We weren’t sorry we went, however, as it was the most spectacular picture we had ever seen.  The first part of it was about Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt.  My throat hurt so that I never slept any until after 4:30 in the morning.

I finally decided not to go to school as I didn’t feel well at all.  Ethel called Mr. Minnich on the phone and told him.  He taught my algebra classes for me, but not the others.  Dr.  Fox came in the late afternoon and gave me some medicine for my throat.  Mr. and Mrs. Hartman , Pearl and I played Rook in the evening.  Misses Gray, Brady and Harrington called on me in the evening also.  I wrote to Herbert after supper.

I went back to school again and stayed for control period at night.  Then I planned to take the 5 oclock bus home but as it didn’t run I went on the train instead.  Floyd met me at the station.  I saw Laurene & Myrtle and Mabel Davis Goodell on the train.  We went over to Mr. Barbers after Alta.  It stormed quite hard on the way home and we were very glad when we got there.  Alta brought a comfortable from home for my birthday.

I made one nightgown and mother and I started two others.  Alta helped with the baking and did some reading which Mrs. Miller wanted her to do.  In the evening Herbert, Carl and Ethel, Will & Elma and Vernon came over.  We played Rook.  Mother gave me a towel for my birthday, Herbert my fur piece and Alta and her folks a comfortable.  Herbert stayed for a while after the others went.

I didn’t feel well on account of a cold and didn’t get up until afternoon.  Herbert came down after Sunday School.  He, Alta and I listened on the radio to the Symphony orchestra.  Vernon came over after Alta after supper.  Herbert and I went to Fort Plain on the nine oclock train.  I had a valentine from Grace and also a valentine card from Lester.

It was a hard day of school as I was hoarse and didn’t feel much like teaching.  I went to the movie “The White Sister” with Alma Miller.  It wasn’t as good as I expected it to be.

I wrote letters to Mr. and Mrs. Palmer, Grace and Freida.  I had a letter from Freida inviting Alta and me down there for the week end.

I went up to school in the morning intending to teach but as my cold was no better, Mr. Minnich told me I had better come home for the rest of the week.  I went down to the doctor’s and got some medicine.  I received a letter from Herbert.  Will was over at Zimmerman’s sick with a cold.  Marjorie Walts and Evelyn Mowers came in to see me a few minutes after school.

I stayed in bed until half past eleven.  In the afternoon Herbert came down on the bus.  Alma Miller also came down in the evening to see me.  Ethel, Herbert, Alma and I played four games of Rook.  Herbert went down to Muelleck’s and stayed all night.  Mother called up in the morning to see how I was.

I stayed in bed until ten oclock or half past ten.  Herbert came about eleven o’clock and stayed until after supper.  He took the seven o’clock bus home.  Miss Brady and Mrs. Bailey called on me after school.  Mr. Minnich and Miss Gray called on the telephone to see how I was.  I received a birthday card from Mildred.  Mrs. Haig finished hemming my napkins for me.  I finished sewing the yoke on my nightgown.

In the forenoon I cleaned up my room, mended and read.  I wrote a letter to Alice Osterhout.  I received a card from Katherine Shults and a letter from Mr. Palmer.  I crocheted around a doily for my tray set.  Ethel and Pearl went to a basket-ball between Fort Plain and Cobleskill High schools.  Mr. and Mrs. Hartman went to the movies.  Carmeta went home in the morning.

It was a very beautiful sunshiny day.  Pearl and Ethel went to church.  I didn’t go out yet on account of my cold.  Miss Brady and Marie Austin stopped in on their way home from church.  Then Miss Brady and Ruth Sheffield called in the afternoon.  Herbert came down for the evening.  Lucinda, Veba and Marion had been up home.  They came on Saturday night as far as Newmans with the car and then Floyd went down after them.  I wrote to Agnes Atchison.

Monday, February 23, 1925   Rainy.

I started in school again and it went pretty well.  I had to cough some yet and my cold had gone up in my head.  We had pictures and a program for Washington’s birthday.  School closed about 3:30, after which I went right home.  I did my reading for 2 days and also wrote a letter to Herbert.  The girls had orchestra practise over at Mae’s but I decided not to go on account of my cold.

I received a long letter from Grace.  Her mother had been sick for a week but was then able to sit up two or three times a day.  I also received a card from Ruth Berry.  After doing my studying in the evening, I embroidered a couple of the small doilies which belong to my tray set.  The weather was warm and it almost seemed like spring for a couple of days.

Mrs.  Nectman and Mrs.  Peterson, friends of Mrs.  Hartman’s were here for dinner and supper.  I received a letter from Herbert.  He said Mrs. Zimmerman was sick and they were afraid she might get pneumonia.  I also answered his letter.  After school I watched some of the pupils practise their parts for the musical comedy, “All Aboard.”

The weather changed about noon and the rain turned into snow.  It blew so hard at times that we couldn’t see out of doors.  Mrs. Lineker gave a talk on and played a couple of selections on the piano in chapel.  I stayed after school and helped a couple of the pupils with their geometry notebooks.  Then I went home and washed out some hankerchiefs.

I went home on the six o’clock train.  I had a taxi take me over to the station.  Miss Andrus and I went together.  Floyd met me at St. Johnsville.  I stopped at Lull’s and paid for my book-case.  It was very windy and consequently very cold riding home.  My fingers were so cold that they were stiff.  My hat blew away but Floyd found it the next morning.  My folks were making sausage.

Mother and I had a lot of work to do, including the baking, cleaning and seeing to the meat.  I also did my washing and ironing.  Floyd brought my book-case home and I put some of my books in that.  Herbert came over and stayed all night.  We talked in the evening and didn’t play Rook as I had thought probably we would.  Alta went to St. Johnsville for over the week-end.  Mother gave me five towels.

March

Herbert helped milk.  Father had a lame back and mother didn’t feel very well either.  Floyd, Herbert, and I went to Sunday School.  There were 22 present.  We went down to Fort Plain on the six o’clock train as we thought it would snow.  Instead it rained and we got quite wet as we didn’t have any umbrella.  I saw Hazel Coleman on the train and talked with her.

I received a letter from Edison and Freida.  Mr. Minnich’s grandfather died and so he started for the funeral.  We had a short faculty meeting before school.  After school I went right home and then did my reading for the week-end.  I also wrote to Herbert.  Then I went over to Mae’s for orchestra practise.  Irene Dillenbeck, “Kibby” and I were the only ones there.

I went down to Hagar’s drug store after school to get my tickets for the musical comedy exchanged.  Mr. Minnich had given me tickets for Thursday instead of for Friday night.  In the evening I did my studying and then I started making a pair of sheets.  I partly sewed some insertion on one of them.

I received a letter from Herbert and answered it.  Ethel and I went down to the theater to the movies and to see the tumbling team from high school perform.  The boys did very well but we didn’t approve of the picture at all.  Carmeta and Pearl went up to school to practise for the musical comedy.  It was the first time all the pupils had been there to practise at one time.

It was not a good day of school as there was so much excitement on account of the musical comedy.  The matinee was in the afternoon, to which the grade children could go.  Then they gave it again at night.  I went with Ethel and Mrs.  Diefendorf to the 10^th anniversary supper at the Universalist church.  They had a good orchestra and many interesting speakers.  We especially enjoyed hearing Rev. Seth Brooks of Little Falls.

 I received a letter from Herbert.  Then he came down in the evening and went to the musical comedy, “All Aboard” with me which the pupils gave up at school.  The school cleared $115 on it, which was much more than I expected it would.  We went home on the twelve o’clock train.  It was a warm, moonlight night and therefore we enjoyed the ride home.  Alta was over home that night.  Father had a sore face from his teeth.

Frank brought Aunt Etta after breakfast and then Lena walked up across after she had her work done.  They cut out and partly made 2 dresses for mother.  Alta did the baking and I did most of the cleaning.  I washed my plaid shirt and pressed it.  It made it look good again.  Frank came after Lena and Aunt Etta in the evening.  I received a letter from Mrs. Rutherford.  She said that Nettie had had a facial stroke but was better now.

In the morning Mrs. Avery called up and wanted to know whom I thought was there.  It was Harry, Lucinda, Marion and Veba.  They came up home and stayed until the afternoon.  Harry, Floyd, Alta and I went to Sunday School.  Herbert came down to the house from church.  We went to Fort Plain on the nine o’clock train.  I gave Herbert his watch and Floyd gave him the chain to go with it.  Mrs. Haig didn’t come home as she had planned.

This was a beautiful day and very warm.  It seemed very much like spring.  I corrected notebooks and helped some of the pupils after school.  It was quite a good day of school, especially for Monday.  I studied in the evening and did my reading for over the week-end.  We all ordered some under-clothes from a women who was here selling them.

I wrote to Herbert during the noon hour and then after supper I wrote to Grace and Eunice.  Mr. Minnich asked me if I intended to come back to Fort Plain to teach another year and I told him I had decided not to.  He tried to persuade me to stay.  I helped some of the pupils with their work after school.

I received letters from Agnes and Herbert.  Agnes said her mother was still in Kinderhook.  Mrs. Hartman went to Canajoharie.  Mr. Hartman went to Mohawk to the basket-ball game between Richfield Springs and Fort Plain.  I read, studied and wrote a letter to Herbert in the evening.  I talked with mother on the phone.  It was a beautiful, sunshiny day.  It thundered and lightened in the night. 

We met over at Mae’s for orchestra practise.  They had planned to come here but as it would be the last time we could practise there, we had better come that time.  Mrs. Casler have her piano to the Pythian sisters as she didn’t care to move it.  I had to play the piano as neither Miss Dillenbeck nor Miss Sheffield was there.

I received a letter from Herbert.  We got out of school at 3:15.  After staying at school a while, I ate my supper and then went down-town early as I had some shopping to do.  It started to rain after I got down-town and rained nearly all night.  I took the bus to St. Johnsville and then Floyd met me there.  It was the first this year that he had driven our car.  Mr. Stikle came to our house to work.

I woke up in the morning with a severe sore throat.  We called up the doctor and he said I should come down in the afternoon.  I baked a cake and a loaf of graham bread in the forenoon.  Floyd, mother and I went to St. Johnsville about 2 o’clock.  We brought Katie Schram back with us to spend the week-end.  Alta came over about 5 o’clock when Vernon and Bob Allen came to set traps to catch muskrats.

I didn’t feel any better than the day before, worse if anything.  So I didn’t go to church.  Father, Floyd and Alta went.  Herbert didn’t come over to stay after church as he had to help milk.  He came over in the evening with his car and left it.  Floyd took him as far as the church when he went home.  He also took Alta as far as the school-house.  I read “The City of Fire” by Lutz.

Floyd brought me down to Fort Plain in time for school.  Katie Schram rode down to the village with us.  It was a beautiful, sunshiny day and we greatly enjoyed the ride.  It seemed good to ride in an automobile again.  School was dismissed at 3:30 so that all the teachers could attend faculty meetings.  Five of the teachers read papers, which they had written.  I received a letter from Eunice Dyer and I wrote to H.  H.

I think my cold was a trifle better today.  Mother called up in the morning to see how I was getting along.  In the forenoon it started to snow and snowed hard until in the afternoon.  As it was quite warm, we had expected rain instead of snow.  After school I helped one of the pupils with algebra.  Then I found out that I had to take charge of control period for the week.

I went to school and also had control period.  I felt pretty good until about five o’clock when I got a very severe head-ache.  I had planned to go down town to but a hat and a pair of shoes but as I didn’t feel well I went home and went to bed.  Floyd and Herbert came down for a while in the evening.  Ethel was up stairs a while with them.  Mrs. Hartman came home in the evening.  Pearl went to the movies.

When I got up in the morning, I didn’t feel well at all, but I managed to get up to school.  Miss Gray told Mr. Minnich that I was ill so he said I should go home.  Ethel phoned for Floyd to come after me.  We stopped to see the doctor but he wasn’t there.  Mrs. Feldstein gave me some medicine.  I went to bed as soon as I reached home.

As I didn’t feel any better, mother phoned the doctor.  He came up to see me in the afternoon.  He said I had a temperature of 102 degrees and that I should stay right in bed.  He also said I couldn’t go school for a week.  Floyd phoned Mr. Minnich and he said he would try to get a substitute in my place.  Floyd went after Alta with the automobile.  She baked two cakes after she got here.  Then she & Floyd went to the high school entertainment.

Herbert drove over in the afternoon and then he went to St. Johnsville with his car.  He stayed here to supper and then he had to go home to milk.  The doctor came too while he was here.  Alta went down to the village with Floyd in the morning and went to Little Falls.  She stayed at Kezzie Perkins all night.  My temperature was down to 100 degrees when the doctor was here and he said that I was better than the day before.

Alta came up with Dr. Fake in the afternoon.  Herbert came over about half past ten and stayed until church time.  He, Floyd and the dog were all on my bed eating pop-corn when the doctor came.  The doctor and his wife stayed and ate some ice-cream.  Herbert came back in the evening.  He took Alta over to Flanders.  Mother and Floyd went down to Klocks as Zebina had died about 3 o’clock.  Katie Schram also had a stroke after she got home from church.

Herbert walked over in the morning and got here about six o’clock.  He phoned for Dr. Wagner right away but he never got him to come until it was going for nine o’clock.  Then Herbert took Dr. and Mrs. Wagner over to his house from here in his Ford.  Ethel had a little girl, born 6:30, which weighed nine pounds.  When Herbert brought the doctor back, he stayed here until after dinner.  Then Floyd took him as far as the church.

As the doctor had said I could sit up today, I sat up for a while.  I felt rather cold, however, so I soon went back to bed.  I received a card from Luke Hagadorn.  The time seemed real long in the evening, so Floyd came in my room and set in there.  Floyd called up Ethel and talked with Mrs.  Haig as Ethel wasn’t able.

This forenoon I got up and dressed and stayed up most of the day.  I started crocheting on a cover for one of my asbestos mats.  Herbert came over before supper and went to the village after some things.  Then he came back here for supper and stayed during the evening.  Floyd went up to Winchill to find out about some school money.  I received a letter from Mrs.  Bailey and a card from Harriet Dygert.

I received a card from Etta Allen.  I also wrote letters to Mrs. Rutherford and to the Board of Education.  I walked out to the mail-box but I was surely glad to get back in the house.  My knees didn’t feel as if they worked right.  I listened on the radio a while in the evening.  Mother and I thought we would hear Rev. Traver preach but there was so much static we couldn’t hear very well what he said.

I received cards from Ethel and Jeanette Smith and a letter from Mr. Minnich.  Mr.  innich also called up to see if I was coming back on Monday or not.  Alta came over after school.  Herbert was also here to spend the evening.  He came over for Grange meeting but we couldn’t get enough together to have it.  I finished my asbestos mat and started making a dresser scarf.   

Alta and Floyd started for Vernon right after dinner.  Miss Schiffer went with them.  They had car trouble, but finally managed to get to Lucinda’s.  Floyd took the car to Oneida to have it fixed.  Ivan and Bertha came after Miss Schiffer the next day.  Floyd didn’t go out to New Woodstock until Monday night.  I received letters from Miss Rubert and Miss Harrington.

Herbert came over in the forenoon and took us to church in his car.  He didn’t have to go home to milk.  Alta called up from St. Johnsville, so Herbert went down after her in the evening.  He brought home some ice-cream for us all.  It was rather cold and snowed a little.  It seemed more like winter again than spring.

Mother washed by hand as we couldn’t run the engine.  I helped get dinner and then sewed in the afternoon.  I made two towels which Floyd had given me and then I made one of my red and white aprons.  Mother also made herself an apron.  I read in a book “Truxton King” and finished it during the day.  I received a letter from Pearl Smith.  Father took Alta over to school.

In the forenoon I ironed for mother.  She washed the curtains in her bedroom and ironed them.  After dinner we walked over to Smiths.  Mary and Frank had gone to the village.  Harlan had grown so much since I had last seen him.  He was creeping and walking by holding onto the chairs.  We heard that Wilson Failing had had a stroke, but not a very severe one.

April

Mother and I hurried around with the work in the forenoon.  Then after dinner father took us over to Mrs.  Zimmermans to the missionary meeting.  The roads were quite muddy.  I went over to Herberts with Mr. Handy when he came over to Zimmermans with the milk cans.  Herbert went to St. Johnsville and then he and Herman went to Margarets for supper.  They brought Margaret and Clarence over home for the evening.  I received letter from Grace and Helen Failing and Miss Brady.

In the forenoon I washed dishes, peeled apples and potatoes for Mrs. Handy and read a while.  Herbert went with the milk.  He called mother on the phone and said I wouldn’t be back until night.  In the afternoon I went to sleep as I hadn’t been able to sleep very well the night before.  Herbert and I went to St. Johnsville to see the movie “America.”  We went with the car by the way of Inghams Mills.

Mildred called up in the morning and said she was going to walk over to our house.  She caught a ride with Charles Allen and Lloyd Handy, however.  She stayed until after supper and then I went home with her.  We walked up to Alfred Reeses and then Will met us there.  I received a letter from Alice Osterhout.  Mother and I did most of the cleaning in the forenoon.

Mildred and I went to the factory with Mr. Handy, took the bus to Little Falls and then the trolley to Utica.  I bought a coat, hat, shoes, gloves, and also my vest, bloomers and brassier for my wedding.  Mildred bought underclothes and also a pair of beautiful stockings for her wedding.  We took the six o’clock train home and Floyd met us at St. Johnsville.  He had just come home from Truxton.  Alta came over home in the morning.

Alta and I slept until about nine o’clock.  After eating my breakfast I studied my S. S. lesson.  Herbert came over about half past ten.  He went to church with us.  After supper mother, Alta and I went home with Herbert.  We went after may flowers but only found five or six.  When we reached home,  Miss Moulton, Mrs.  Reese and Lovetta were there.  Emmett came after Alta and took her home.  Herbert took me to Fort Plain.

I went back to school again.  It was a good day of school.  The pupils were very considerate and seemed glad to have me back again.  After school I walked over to Cousin Maggie’s but she wasn’t at home.  I wrote a letter to Principal Sayles about a position for which he wished me to apply at Granville.  I also had to write a letter & send back the broadcloth dress I had bought.

I got up earlier in the morning so that I could make out some of the averages in my class book.  School went quite well.  I corrected some papers after school.  Then I went down-town and sent my dress back to N. York.  I walked part way home with Alma.  Cousin Maggie Zoller called up on the phone to tell me she was sorry she wasn’t at home when I called the day before.  I made out averages in my classbook nearly all evening.

I ordered a dress from the Modern Priscilla Company to embroider.  I went down to the bank during the noon hour.  I was very much surprised to receive a check for the two weeks I had been absent from school.  Herbert and Floyd came down in the evening and we went to the movies.  The comedy was especially good.

It was a good day of school, much better than usual for the last day before vacation.  I went up to St. Johnsville on the 5:20 bus.  I then went up to Eleanor’s.  Mother and Floyd came down after milking and we spent the evening there.  I received an Easter card from Chester and he wanted me to write to him.  I was quite surprised to hear from him.

I received an Easter card from Mrs. Curtis.  I baked a cake and got dinner.  Mother finished cleaning the East room up stairs.  In the afternoon I cleaned my chiffoner and packed my cards and old clothes away in my trunk.  In the evening we all went to Grange meeting.  Herbert came home with me after the meeting.

Mother and I did the Saturday’s work and I cleaned my bedroom.  Father painted the room where the two beds are.  It was a very busy day and I was so tired at night that I went to bed about eight o’clock.  I received Easter cards from Nellie Cummings and Mrs. Abel.  Mr. Vosler phoned and said Katie Schram had died the night before.  I baked four pies and a cake.

Mother and I listened on the radio to a church service from the First Lutheran Church, Albany.  Herbert came over and went to church with us.  We had communion and there was a lot of people at church.  Alta came home with us.  She came from the village with Dr. Fake.  Alta, Emmett, Herbert and I went down to the Grace church to an Easter pageant in the evening.  It started to rain before we reached home.

Mother did the washing in the forenoon.  I did the work up stairs and baked filled cookies.  In the afternoon we all went down to the village to Katherine Schram’s funeral.  We went also to the cemetery.  Mrs. Henry Peck and Mrs.  Reuben Beekman rode with us.  It was a very beautiful, sunshiny day.

Mother and I did the ironing in the forenoon.  After dinner we all went to Fort Plain.  Mother bought linoleum and paper for the room upstairs on the northwest side.  Ethel Haig came home with us.  Alta came over in the evening to get an income tax blank.  Floyd took her to the village to get it signed.  He and I went up to the Grange hall to practise for the play.

Ethel and I went up to school with Floyd.  We started with the truck but it broke down and we had to take the other car.  Ethel and I stayed until recess time.  Then we walked down to Davis’s and called there.  Rose had gone to the village but Mrs. Davis was there.  We also stopped at Casler’s on the way home.  In the evening Ethel, Floyd, Herbert and I went to St. Johnsville to the movies.

Ethel and I cleaned the parlor all alone by ourselves in the forenoon.  In the afternoon we slept quite a while.  The rest of the folks were up stairs papering.  I did most of the cooking and baking during the week.  Frank Burkdorf was up for a little while.  Floyd and I went up to the Grange Hall to practise for our play in the evening.

Mother, father and Floyd finished papering the bedroom where the two bed-sinks are.  They also put down part of the linoleum.  I put the covers back on the sofa-pillows which belong in the parlor.  In the evening we all went up to Dolgeville and called on Aunt Lela.  Beulah was home but Nina had gone back to college.  I received a letter from Jennie Prister, from Northport where she was teaching.  Herbert bought me a lovely box of candy.

We cleaned the living room and also did the usual weekly cleaning.  Then we all went down to East Creek to see the dam.  Mother, Ethel and I called on Ethel Handy.  Marion and Veba stopped at our house for dinner on their way back from Albany where they had been spending their Easter vacation.  I baked brown bread, 2 pies and a cake.  I shortened my new blue and red dress and started to embroider my peach-colored one.

It was a stormy day.  Part of the time it rained, then snowed and also hailed.  We all went to church except mother.  Ross Smith preached as Dr. and Mrs. Fake were in Washington.  Alta and Emmett were at our house for a while in the evening.  Emmett had gone up to Mr. Davis’s after Alta where she had spent the week-end.  Floyd and Herbert took Ethel and me down to Fort Plain about half past ten.  I wrote to Grace Drake.

I went down to Canajoharie on the eight o’clock bus to attend a teacher’s meeting.  We had a fine program as follows: a talk by Dr. Richards of the English department at the school.  Then we went to the Reformed church where Dr. Wiley gave an address, where we had dinner, and where Dean Telroe of Syracuse University gave an address.  Then we went to the Capitol Theatre where we heard an address and saw films on conservation.  Alma and I came home with Miss Kelsey in her car.

I read a good while before I went to school.  It wasn’t a very good day of school but just as usual after a vacation.  Regents report came back and I was very glad that I didn’t have any papers returned.  I stayed after school for control period and then helped sew snaps on the curtains for the play.  I walked down town with Miss Kelsey and I bought some linoleum.  I finished the embroidery on my peach-colored dress.

I told Herbert not to come down that night but to wait until the next night on account of the Senior play.  I studied and read in the evening.  We had talked some of having orchestra practise but gave it up as enough couldn’t come.

Father, mother, Floyd and Herbert came down in the evening to attend the Senior play, “Miss Somebody Else.”  Jeanette Smith took the leading part and was splendid.  Everyone of them in fact did well.  Marjorie and Harry Walts stayed here for supper so that they could go to the play.  Mr. and Mrs. Hartman had callers in the evening.  Ethel and Pearl went to the play.

I went home on the 5 oclock bus and Floyd met me.  We had planned to have Grange meeting but couldn’t get enough as Mrs. Handy was sick.  I sewed on my peach colored dress.  Herbert came over.  The and Floyd, Alta and I went to St. Johnsville to see the movie “The Riders of the Purple Sage.”  The Seniors repeated their play and had a full house.  They made about $276.

In the morning I baked molasses cookies and a cake.  Then I washed out some stockings and two blouses.  Floyd took me down to the bank so that I could give him the money for the bonds I bought.  We went home by the way of Aunt Etta’s so that I could ask Lena to take Mildred’s part in the play.  In the afternoon I did some sewing.  Floyd and I went up to the Grange Hall to practise for the play.

It was a beautiful, warm spring day.  Alta and I went over to the woods after flowers.  We found adder-tongues, Spring Beauties, may-flowers and Blood-root.  After church Herbert, Alta and I went over to Maud’s to try over a piece of music for the play.  Herbert came home with us for supper.  Emmett and Alta went for a ride in the evening.  Herbert and I didn’t start for Fort Plain until quite late.

Monday, April 27, 1925

I received the geometry review books which I had ordered.  I had quite a number of pupils after school to do algebra.  In the evening Marie, Mae and I went down to Mrs.  bel’s to practise.  It was along time since we had practised.  We tried a new piece, entitled “Birds of Spring.”  I studied after I reached home.

I wrote a letter to Edison and Freida.  I went down town after school after some bias tape.  I also bought a buffet set to embroider.  In the evening I sewed until about ten-thirty.  I got a nice lot done on my peach-colored dress.  Harold and Vesta brought Bernice up to stay for a while.  Mother said Herbert stopped in on his way home from the village and had a piece of pie.  He had brought us the apples for it.

Mr. Minnich called a brief faculty meeting at noon.  After school I went up to St. Johnsville on the bus.  I went to Miss Schiffer’s and found mother there too.  She had come down in the afternoon.  As Floyd had so many callers, he didn’t get down after us until 8:30.  When we reached the Grange Hall, they were practising the first act.  Herbert brought me home.  We stopped and had some sandwiches at St. Johnsville.

Thursday, April 30, 1925

It was a rainy day.  Rev. Lloyd gave an address on “Manhood” in chapel.  He said we should have a purpose in our lives and should do our duty.  I introduced myself to him and inquired about the Franklin folks.  I stayed after school and helped some of the pupils with algebra.  We practised down at Mrs. Abel on our music for the play.

May

Friday, May 1, 1925

I went home on the 5:20 bus.  As Floyd wasn’t there yet, I went up to Eleanor’s for a little while.  Mr. Smith was sick with a cold.  Eleanor also was just getting over one.  I laid down and rested for a little while after I reached home.  Then we went up to the Grange Hall to practise.  The play went much better than it had been going.

I went down to St. Johnsville when father & Floyd went with the milk.  I stopped at Brown’s, Frye’s, McCrone’s, and Eleanor’s to try to sell tickets for the play.  I also went to the bank.  Then I went over to Gladys’s for the week-end.  Alta was already there.  In the afternoon we girls went down-town.  Alta bought a blue hat to match her new, blue dress.  In the evening we went over to Mable McCrone’s.  She served ice cream, cake and cocoa.  Mable and Gladys darned socks.

Alta, Gladys and I went to the Grace church in the morning.  It was a beautiful day.  Gladys had callers, Youkers from Dolgeville, in the afternoon.  Emmett came after Alta and Herbert took me down to Fort Plain.  Floyd drew milk for the first time with his new Chevrolet truck.  He didn’t have his box all made for it yet, however.

It was quite a good day of school.  I did the most of my studying at the school-house after school.  In the evening I sewed on my peach-colored dress.  I fixed the sides, one sleeve and sewed on the pockets.  I was glad to get it all finished.  Mrs. Fake stopped in here for a few minutes to buy her tickets for the play.  Mattie Allen was with her.  I sent for a pattern for my voile dress.

I heard some pupils recite some algebra after school.  Then Ethel and I took the 5:20 bus for St. Johnsville.  Floyd was there to meet us.  When we reached home, I pressed my dress and made a cake for mother.  Ethel washed the dishes.  We started to walk to the Grange hall but Herbert met us the other side of Casler’s.  We cleaned the Grange hall and went thru the play twice.  Floyd, Mae and Miss Moulton were at school meeting for a while.  Ed Christman was elected trustee.

We had school in the forenoon and then in the afternoon we had “field day.”  It was a very queer day, as the sun would shine very nicely for a while and then suddenly it would rain.  I went down to Mrs. Abel’s for orchestra practise.  Marie and Mae weren’t there.  In the afternoon we had field day, including races, ball games, etc.  Fort Plain defeated Richfield Springs by a score of 8-7.

Thursday after school Pearl and I took the bus for St.  Johnsville.  Evelyn Howe rode up with us.  Miss Schiffer and Mrs. Brown also went up to the play.  When we reached home I got supper and baked a cake.  We hurried around to get up to the hall in time for the play.  We had a fair-sized crowd.  After the play Mrs. Abel, Kibby, Mae, Marie, Herbert and Emmett came down to the house and we had ice-cream.  Herbert took Pearl and me to Fort Plain.  Floyd went along too.

After school Mrs. Hartman and I went down to the Russell shop to look at dresses.  Then I took the bus.  Alma Miller had planned to go home with me but she didn’t feel well enough.  Our play went off better than the night before.  Marion and Lucinda came down for it.  Marion drove the car.  We took in $91, including all the times we gave the play.  Frank Smith got kicked with a horse.  Floyd took him down to St. Johnsville to have an X-ray taken.

Alta went home with Lucinda and Marion.  I rode up to the church with them.  Then Herbert and I went down to Johnstown to the Fulton County S.  S.  association.  It was a very good convention.  Late in the afternoon we went up to Mr. Cane’s and took supper there.  They were surprised to see us.  Mable was sick and was in the hospital.  I bought a dress while I was in Johnstown.  I lost the bar-pin Freida gave me at her wedding.

In the forenoon I wrote my notes over, which I had taken at the convention.  I read them at Sunday School.  Just as were ready to start for church, there was an auto accident between our house and Vernon’s.   A car turned over on the side just this side of the culvert.  Herbert took me down to Fort Plain.  Floyd went over to John Davis’s for the evening.

It was quite a good day of school.  I did a lot of school work after school at night.  I went down to the Russel shop to see if I had left my pen there when I was trying on dresses.  I didn’t find it, however.  In the evening I did some mending and straightened up my dresser.  I received the pattern from McCall’s to make my voile dress.

Mrs. Abel, Kibby and Mae were here for orchestra practise in the evening.  Mother, father and Floyd were down.  Father and Floyd went to the hotel to see some men from N.  Y.  and mother came here.  She had planned to visit cousin Maggie but hadn’t found her at home.

Miss Brady and I went to the movies.  It was a Theta Phi benefit.  The tumbling team did some of their stunts again.  The Theta Phi orchestra played, or at least tried to.  I studied for a while after I reached home. 

Harold and Vesta were here for a little while in the evening.  Herbert came about a quarter after nine.  He was late as he had been helping Alfred Reese raise his barn.  William Handy had had his finger smashed that day.  Emmett took Alta over home so that she and Miss Moulton could start early in the morning for teachers’ meeting near Gloversville.

I went down to the bank at noon.  After school Miss Shufelt came down to the house and we changed our dresses.  Then we walked over to the station and took the 3:05 train for Amsterdam.  We looked around the stores and I ordered a set of dishes.  Then we went to the hotel to the opening dinner of the dormitory campaign.  I saw Marjorie Finn and Miss Springstead.  Miss Morris, a teacher from college, spoke.  We went home on the 9.

Alta baked two cakes and two kinds of cookies.  I washed my dresses and ironed them.  Mother and I cleaned the lounging room.  We took the carpet up and got it put back down that night.  Alta and I mowed part of the lawns and then the lawn mower broke.  Alta and I went to bed rather early.  I did part of my Virgil after I was in bed.

We all went up to Oppenheim to the S.  S.  Convention.  Prof.  Elmore and Rev.  Seeley gave addresses.  Mrs. Griffiths led the devotional service as her husband was ill.  Herbert had an accident as he was coming to the convention.  No-one was hurt and he and Arthur were able to fix the car that day.  I received a nice long letter from Grace Drake.  Emmett was over to our house for supper.

It was a nice spring day.  I had planned to help a lot of pupils after school but found out that it was my week for control period.  After I got home, I wrote a letter to Jennie Piester, send cards to Frank Smith and Mabel Cane and sent money for the dormitory fund and my dues for high school alumni association.

It was a beautiful, warm day.  I went down to the bank at noon to see about a mistake in my bank book and also went to the store after some ribbon.  I had control period until 5 o’clock.  Then I went home and sewed buttons on my voile dress which took me until supper time.  In the evening I corrected a whole lot of papers and sewed a little more.  Pearl went with the Girl Scouts on a frankfurt roast.

Herbert came down in the evening.  He was rather late as he had been working on his car and it had taken longer than he planned.  Eleanor had a little girl, named Ruth Lucille, born this morning.  Ella Scheiner took care of them.  Aunt Eliza Curtis was a trifle better.  Audrey was sick with scarlet fever.

I stayed at school quite late for control period.  After supper I did my studying.  We had planned to have orchestra practise up at school, but as we had no one to play the piano, we went down to Mrs. Abel’s instead.  We tried over some new pieces and had lots of fun.  It was a very beautiful, sunshiny day.

I went home on the 5:20 bus.  Then I went up to see Eleanor and the baby.  I stayed there until about 9 o’clock.  Then Clyde came down after me.  Floyd was very busy as the men were installing milking machines.  As Clyde and Katie happened to come up, Floyd asked Clyde to come down after me.  Mr.  Lippincott was around to get permission to put up electric light poles.  Floyd went with him over to Johnson’s.

Emmett came over for a while to help the men.  They put the dry cows outdoors to stay for the first.  Mr. White came over again to help with the milking machines.  He and Emmett were there for supper.  Herbert came over in the evening and we went down to the movies.  Then he helped me with my school work after I reached home.  I sewed some more on my voile dress.  Mother and I cleaned cupboards in the dining room and sorted out dishes.

It was cold and rainy.  We all went to church.  Eugene rode up with us.  Dr. Fake preached a memorial sermon.  Herbert and I went over to call on Frank Smith.  It was the first I had been over since he was kicked by a horse.  Emmett went up to Mr.  Davis’s after Alta.  They stopped at our house for quite a while.  Herbert took me down to Fort Plain.  Mrs. Haig went home with Harold and Vesta to stay a while.

It was a cold and rainy day.  School seemed to go very well for Monday.  I stayed a long while after school and helped some of the pupils with their algebra.  After I came home, I played on the piano and read until supper time.  Mrs. Hartman helped down at the Masonic Temple.  I copied a recipe for a wedding cake from the Woman’s Home Companion.

I went downtown before supper to but some ribbon.  In the evening we had orchestra practise at Miss Brady’s.  I didn’t stay late as I had all of my studying to do after I reached home.

Herbert came down in the evening.  We stayed here at Haig’s and visited.  After school was dismissed early, I went down town with the teachers to see the “trackless train” which was going thru here on its way from New York to San Francisco.  While Mrs.  Ashton, Alma and I were waiting for it, we went over nearly to Nelliston.

Alma came in the evening and wanted me to walk over to Greenbush with her.  We went to deliver some cards which she wanted to give out for the Pythian sisters.  I had a lot of work to do and accomplished a lot after I reached home.  I helped Pearl with her geometry and Latin.

One of the periods was omitted and we got out of school at 3:15.  I stayed at the school house for a while.  Then I went down to the house and ate supper before taking the bus home.  Floyd met me at St. J.  We had planned to have Grange meeting but as we had a cow sick with milk fever, we didn’t go after all.  We had Dr. Brockett come down from Little Falls.  I received a card from Grace saying her mother had died on Wednesday.

In the forenoon I made my wedding cake.  Floyd helped stir it and ground the raisins.  I put the hem in my red dress in the afternoon, mowed part of the lawn, and made some prune cookies.  Herbert and I had planned to go to Fort Plain to the movies but as we were going to Franklin the next day we gave it up.  Emmett and Alta stopped at the house for a while.  They were on their way to Vernon.

Herbert and I started for Franklin about a quarter of nine.  We went to Nettie’s a few minutes and then went to Mrs. Drake’s funeral.  Janet was there too.  We went up to the cemetery and I saw a lot of people I know who had been at the funeral.  We went back to Grace’s and stayed until about half past seven.  We stopped at Osterhout’s on the way home from school.  Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford had gone to Madrid to his brother’s funeral. 

June

It was a very warm day.  We really were quite uncomfortable in school.  I helped some of the pupils with algebra after school.  Then I stayed and corrected papers until six o’clock.  In the evening I bound some more buttonholes on my voile dress.  I went down to the bank at noon.  I also went to the book store and ordered cake boxes for our wedding.  Pearl went out to Starkville to stay all night.  Received a letter from Freida.

It was another very warm day.  I went with Miss Brady, Mae and Marie Austin to a musical comedy given by the Delta Gamma girls at the theatre.  They only had a fair-sized crowd.  Frank Keller and his mother and cousin Maggie were up home for about an hour.

It was an extremely hot day.  It seemed as if we could hardly stand it up at school.  Floyd called up and wanted me to meet him and Herbert over at Nelliston to go to Stone Arabia to a play.  As it was so late by the time they got there, we didn’t go after all.  Ethel and Mary Dietzel went to the movies.

It was very warm again, but not as bad as the day before at there was a slight breeze.  I finished my voile dress in the evening, wrote a letter to Grace and did some geometry originals.  Ethel and Mr. and Mrs. Hartman went with Waner’s for an auto ride.  Mattie Allen was here to see Grandma Parr.  I helped some of the pupils with algebra after school.

The hot weather still continued.  In the evening I went down to Miss Brady’s for orchestra practise.  We played until ten oclock.  When I got back, I sat out on the porch and visited with Ethel.  Mr. and Mrs. Hartman went out to Caroga Lake with Charles Snell.

I made a cake and brown bread for Mrs. Hartman in the morning.  Then I went to school all day for trial tests.  A little while before bus time, Bertha and Iva came and asked me to ride up to St. Johnsville with them.  I went home with them for supper and then they took me home.  Alta and Will Flanders came over in the evening.  Mother and Floyd had made ice-cream, which tasted real good to us all.

In the forenoon we played the piano, read, talked and looked at pictures.  We all went to Sunday School and church and there was a large attendance.  Alta came for a while in the evening.  Then Emmett and she went over to call on Rockefellers.  Herbert and I stayed home and visited for a while; then we went over nearly to Inghams and stopped and talked.  It was such a beautiful moonlight night that we hated to go in the house.

Monday, June 8, 1925

Although it had been cool through the night, it was another hot day.  I helped some of the pupils with algebra after school.  Five o’clock I went downstreet.  I tried to buy some cloth for a dress but I couldn’t find anything I wanted.  Ethel, Pearl and I went after some ice cream.  I wrote to Agnes and also wrote for my driver’s application.

I helped the pupils with algebra after school.  In the evening I went down to Miss Brady’s for orchestra practise.  It rained very hard just before I was ready to start for home.

Ethel and I went over to Mrs. Fakes about a quarter of five.  She had phoned the morning before and had invited us to supper.  We couldn’t stay very long however as we had promised Floyd and Herbert to go to St. Johnsville on the seven o’clock bus.  Dr. Fake took us down in his car.  While waiting for the bus we went to the Russell shop and I bought my old rose sport dress.  Then we went to St. J.  We called on Eleanor and Miss Schiffer.  Then we went to the movie “The Rainbow Trail.”

It was a very hard day of school.  It seemed as though the pupils thought they didn’t have to do any studying or stay in order.  I stayed at school until after six o’clock.  In the evening I finished making out school averages, helped Pearl with her geometry and started to crochet a yoke.  It was real cold again and we had to wear sweaters in the house to be comfortable.

We began school at nine o’clock and had only 30 minute classes.  In the afternoon at 2:15 we went down to the auditorium for student assembly.  Mr.  Kiff presented the athletic awards and William Krum gave him a present from the student council.  After having a couple of school yells, we practised marching for graduation.  I went home on the bus.  Floyd met me and Evelyn Howe rode up with us.  We went to Grange meeting.  Mother and I called on Mrs. Reese Herbert took me home.

I went out to the barn and milked 3 cows.  We started for Vernon about 8:30.  I helped Marion a little while with her geometry review.  Then she had to go up to school.  We went over to Vernon Center to see Marion and Veba’s new house.  Then we went right home from there.  I was so tired that I laid down as soon as I reached home.  Herbert stopped on his way to St. Johnsville to the fire-works.

It rained some in the forenoon and while we were at S.  S.  There were a lot, especially children at S. S. and church.  I went home with Herbert and his mother from church.  Mrs.  Shulenberg also went along.  In the evening Herbert and I went over after mother and then we called on Mr. and Mrs. Alling.  Herbert then brought me down to Fort Plain.  Mr. and Mrs. Hartman had started on a trio to Michigan that morning.

I went up to school about half past eight.  Intermediate Algebra Regents came in the morning.  I thought the examination was hard but all the pupils passed.  In the afternoon I corrected papers and then I took them up to school.  I crocheted nearly all night.  It rained hard in the evening and thundered and lightened.

In the forenoon I stayed in the 7^th grade room with Miss Hodge.  In the afternoon I was up stairs as my Latin IV class was trying Virgil exam.  After the girls had handed in their papers, I corrected them and then helped William Krum a little while with his geometry.

My pupils tried algebra and geometry in the forenoon.  In the afternoon I corrected geometry papers and I was quite pleased with the result.  In the evening I went down to Miss Brady’s for orchestra practise.  They served ice-cream and cake and then the orchestra gave me six cut-glass sherbert glasses.  I was certainly greated surprised.

In the forenoon I went up to school to proctor exams.  While I was there I arranged the alphabetical list for the Regents report.  In the afternoon I corrected algebra papers.  The Regents paper seemed too hard for the pupils.  I had so many callers, mostly pupils after their marks, that I didn’t get much done in the afternoon.  Herbert came down in the evening and I drove part way to Starkville. 

I took my algebra papers up to school in the morning.  Then I went back down to the house and crocheted some.  In the afternoon I washed out my slip and ironed it.  In the evening I went with Miss Grady, Mr. & Mrs. Minnich and Mr. Minnichs father to the Senior dinner at Garden Inn, Richfield Springs.  First we drove to Cooperstown.  The pupils presented me with a beautiful silver flower basket.  I stayed all night with Miss Gray. 

About half past eight Miss Gray and I drove up to school.  Miss Dillenbeck, Miss Dorland and I worked on the Regents report until about 11:30 and then some of the others took it and finished it.  In the afternoon Floyd brought some wagon wheels down to Fort Plain with the truck.  Then I went home with him.  Mother and I worked in the flower bed. 

We all went to church and Sunday School and there was a large congregation.  I rode down to Fort Plain with Dr. Fake.  He stopped at St. Johnsville and made a few short calls first.  In the evening I went to the Baccalaureate Sermon, preached by Rev.  Moulton at the Universalist church.  Herbert came there after me and brought me home.

Monday, June 22, 1925   Dorr Crounse came here to work.

Mother washed and I did the work upstairs.  Then in the afternoon I did the ironing and mother worked in the flower bed.  It was a very beautiful day until late in the afternoon when it rained.  I drove our car down to Fort Plain for Class Night.  As Herbert was late, we didn’t wait for him.  He caught us, however and left his car at Delos Frye’s.  Herbert and I stayed at school and danced a few times.

Tuesday, June 23, 1925   Mother, father and Floyd came down after me.

Ethel told me I should sleep in the morning, so Pearl and I didn’t get up until nine o’clock.  After a while we went down town to exchange a pillow which I had bought.  We also went to the new bank and John Fox had a man show us around.  I then went up to school to see Mr. Minnich about the algebra papers as the State Department had made a special ruling.  In the evening I went to graduation.  27 pupils graduated.

In the forenoon I baked a cake and got things ready for dinner and supper.  I received a letter from Agnes Atchison.  She was home for a few days before starting to summer school.  Mrs. Osterhout was in the hospital where she had had an operation for appendicitis.  We went down to aunt Etta’s in the evening.  Herbert came too and then came home with us for a while.  I put my clothes away and fixed my room in the afternoon.

It was a dark, gloomy day and rained part of the time.  Mother made the curtains for the parlor and put them up.  I packed my books in a large box and stored them upstairs.  In the evening Floyd made out his school report and the rest us played Rook.

Friday, June 26, 1925

In the evening mother and I called on Mrs. Reese for a while.  Then we went to Grange meeting.  The Grange decided that we should buy a book for Frank Smith.  Herbert came home with us.  Lana and James were here to spend the day.  Floyd and Herbert went to Fort Plain to buy things for the bathroom.

Mother and I did the cleaning and baking in the forenoon.  After dinner I went with father and Floyd over to Herbert’s.  I helped Mrs. Handy wash dishes.  Then after looking around upstairs where they had been putting partitions in we made the curtains for the bathroom and for our room upstairs.  We stayed until after supper.  In the evening I practised on the piano and on my mandolin.

Herbert and I went down to St. Johnsville to church.  Dr.  Leitzell was there and preached a very good sermon.  Then we went after Bertha Robinson.  Pearl and Lewis and Iva’s friend, Mr. Wendell, were there.  We went down to Alma Miller’s for dinner.  In the afternoon we walked over to the school-house and went all thru it.  We also stayed to supper and then Alma went home with us. 

Mother did the washing.  In the afternoon I washed one of my luncheon sets and some doilies.  In the evening we all went down to Robinson’s.  Iva and Mrs. Robinson had gone to bed but they got up again.  Bertha and I played duets for a long time.  They had been selling a lot of antiques and showed us some that they had left.

It was a stormy, rainy, windy day.  Mother had a hard time to get the clothes dry.  She finally succeeded, however, and late in the afternoon I did the ironing.  I received a letter from Alta.  She was going up to Pearl’s the next day to stay over night.  Alma embroidered a buffet set for me and I crocheted on a yoke.  In the evening Herbert took us for a ride to Dolgeville.

July 

Wednesday, July 1, 1925   Dr. and Mrs.  Fake took mother to the missionary meeting at Allen’s.

After Alma and I finished the work in the forenoon, we went in the three-cornered lot across the road to pick strawberries.  We picked until eleven oclock and then mother canned five pint cans.  In the afternoon Floyd took us up in the upper fields and we got stuck in the mud.  It took us an hour before we got out.  Then Floyd went to Oppenheim for the school report and we picked berries.  Floyd and I took Alma home.  We stopped at Haig’s.

It looked rainy most of the day, but it didn’t rain after all.  Father and Floyd went over to Herbert’s again to work on the bath-room.  They got the cold water so that it ran in the lavatory and bathtub.  Dorr went down to the village to get the horses shod but he couldn’t get it done as Mr. Collins had to go away.  Mother and served for awhile in the afternoon.  I made a pair of step-ins and did some mending.

Mother and I worked very hard to get the house all cleaned up.  In the afternoon I made sandwiches.  The Community Club met here in the evening.  It was the first meeting we had had in a long time.  About 20 members were present.  I was chosen musical director.

Mother went up to Mr. Dair’s with Emmett and then went home with Lucinda’s.  They didn’t start until about eleven o’clock.  I mended in the afternoon and did up the usual work.  Herbert came over in the evening.  First we went down to the movies and then we went to Snell’s dance hell.  Dorr and his girl were there also.  We had a very nice time.

In the forenoon Mr. and Mrs. Fred Burt and some friends of theirs stopped in to see us.  After we got back from church, all of Uncle Earl’s, except Cora, and Lester Handy and his family came for a while.  Herbert was here for supper.  Cornelius Hoffman and family drove in for a few minutes.  Herbert, Dorr, Floyd and I went out to Scotch Bush to a Free Methodist camp meeting.

In the forenoon I made a pie, ice-cream and macaroons.  Father and I put brush by the sweet peas.  When Floyd came back from the factory, he said he had seen Prof. Palmer and that he and Grace would come up for supper.  They stayed until 8:30 and we had a good visit.  After they went I crocheted and then Floyd, Dorr and I sang for a while.  I had a card from Kibby.

I received a card from Kibby.  She was in Albany correcting Regents papers.  In the evening father, Floyd and I went over to Frank Smith’s.  I took a book over to Frank, which the Grange had bought for him.

I washed in the forenoon and ironed in the afternoon.  It was a beautiful day to dry clothes.  Mr. Newman and Myron were here to work on the barn.  They had to patch the roof and put a new sill under the barn.  Herbert came over in the evening and we drove up to Dolgeville and back by the way of Snells Bush.

Mr.  Lippincott came in the afternoon to help draw hay.  He, Dorr and I sang in the evening.  He and Floyd went over to Youkers Bush to an ice cream social to get some ice cream for us.  Mrs. Crounse and Marion Crounse and her fiance were here nearly all afternoon.  They came over to paint Dorr’s automobile.

I cleaned some cupboards in the dining room and did part of the weekly cleaning.  Herbert and his mother stopped in here on the way to the village, so I rode along with them.  Mrs. Handy went to the doctor’s and Herbert and I went down to Herman Leavitt’s.  In the evening we went to Grange meeting and then Herbert came home with us.  We picked out our invitations and our announcements.

In the forenoon I made ice cream and two cakes.  In the afternoon I finished the weekly cleaning.  Mr. Lippincott was here and helped the men draw hay.  I cut out an apron and partly made it.  I sent my order for our bedroom suite from Sears and Roebuck.

Sunday, July 12, 1925   We went over to Will Flanders for a call.

We had a very sick cow.  She had the milk fever.  Dr. Brockett came down and stayed a long time.  He was here for breakfast.  Lucinda, mother, Alta, Marion and Veba came about half past ten.  We all went to church except mother.  Herbert was here for supper and then Veba went home with him.  They went swimming in the East Creek dam.  Lana, James and Elden Van Deusen stopped here for a few minutes.

Mother did the washing in the forenoon and I baked.  I made 3 pies, a cake and cookies.  In the afternoon mother picked berries and I ironed.  Lucinda’s started for home very early in the morning – between three and four o’clock.  It was a nice sunshiny, cool day.  It was a very good hay day except the wind made it hard to load.

Tuesday, July 14, 1925

I helped mother mow the lawns in the forenoon.  Herbert and I drove up to Gilbert Crosses in the evening to try to get some butter.  Then we came home and after I had changed my clothes, we went down to Snell’s and danced.  I was very surprised to see Chester Johnson.  It was the first I had seen him to talk with in over five years.  Dorr and Floyd went away in the evening. 

Mr. Lippincott was here in the evening.  The men helped him partly install the new “hay hoist.”  I finished ironing in the morning.  In the afternoon I made a gingham apron.  Floyd racked rackings nearly all day down in the field below the garden.  Mr. Lippincott mowed while the others milked.  Dorr went away in the evening.

The men drew in 3 loads of hay, which were all they had cut down.  In the afternoon we had a very severe electric storm.  One storm would just be over a little while when another one would come.  We didn’t do much work all afternoon.  In the evening mother and I went over to Maud’s.  Floyd came after us with the car.

Floyd and I went to Fort Plain so that I could go to the bank.  I drove the car alone down to St. Johnsville and back.  That was the first I ever went all alone with it.  Herbert went to the village and then I went home with him.  Margaret, Clarence and Herbert’s grandmother were there.  In the evening the Community Club met there.  A lot were present and we had a good time.  Dorr brought mother and Floyd over.

We heard that Lester Mosher was doing as well as could be expected, after he had been operated on the night before for appendicitis at the Little Falls Hospital.  Mother and I did the weekly cleaning in the forenoon.  In the afternoon I finished my camisole and then washed pillow-cases and other things out of my chest.  Myron and Mr. Newman were here to work on the barn.

Floyd and I went down to the village after Miss Schiffer and Mrs. Curtis.  We took them to church and then they were here for supper.  We took them home in the evening and then went down to Fort Plain.  Floyd went to Haigs and Herbert and I went to Dr. and Mrs. Fake’s.  Eleanor and Leonard and the children were here for a little while in the evening.

Mother did most of the washing.  I helped a little but I didn’t feel well in the forenoon.  In the afternoon I ironed the colored clothes.  I sent after our invitations and to Sears, Roebuck & Co for a mattress and springs.  I raked a little while in the afternoon with the side delivery rake.

As it was a rainy day, Herbert came over in the morning to take mother and me to Utica.  We ate our dinner at Ferguson’s.  We went to a lot of stores to look for dresses.  We finally went back to Price’s and bought my wedding dress.  We went to Sessions and bought my bridal wreath.  We went home with Herbert for supper.  Then he brought mother home and then we went down to Ethel & Herman’s.  Mr. Frederick was dead.  Harry, Lucinda & Alta were here.

Mother and Floyd picked 11 quarts of red raspberries, which we sold on Thursday.  I made cases to hold silver knives and forks.  In the afternoon mother and I made pillows and filled them with feathers out of one of mother’s feather-beds.  I also finished up my forgetmenot sofa pillow.  I received a letter from Alma Miller.  She was in Rochester with her sister.

I went down to St. Johnsville in the morning to get my application for an operator’s license filled out.  Lawyer Butler did it for me.  When I got back, then I cleaned the china closet.  After dinner we all went down to Fort Plain to the cemetery.  Mrs. Walter Keller was buried.  When we got back home I made 3 batches of gooseberry jam.  Herbert came over in the evening.  We went down to the village after ice cream.

I received a card from Marjorie Clemens from Clifton Springs.  She was there to have her tonsils removed.  I baked a cake, 2 pies and brown bread in the forenoon.  Mother and I put curtains on the frames.  Mr. Lippincott was here to help with the haying in the evening.  They put in seven loads of hay.  Robinsons were here in the evening.  We played a sang for a long time.  Bertha played the piano, Mr. Lippincott the mouth organ, and I the mandolin.

It was rainy in the forenoon.  We took Eugenes up to church as Emmett had gone to Little Falls after Lester.  I went home with Herbert from church.  When he brought me home, Delos came along and stayed all night.

Monday, July 27, 1925

Mother washed in the forenoon and I did the other work.  Father and I put up the curtains in the room over the porch.  We made a table to put the presents on.  In the afternoon I went to St. Johnsville with Herbert and his mother.  Herbert and I went up to Herman’s and Ethel’s to see if they would stand up with us.  Lucinda and Alta came in the evening.

Lucinda, Alta and I took books over to Alta’s school.  Then we went down to Fort Plain.  Alta bought her dress for the wedding.  She bought it at the Smart Shop.  In the afternoon Gladys and her grandmother came up for a while.  I made my veil.  We had a hard wind and rain storm late in the afternoon.

I picked currants and mother picked the raspberries.  Then in the afternoon I made jell.  Herbert came over in the evening.  We went down to Herman and Ethel’s.  Father and mother went along down to Aunt Etta’s.  We stopped there quite a while on the way back.

I washed my sheets and night-dresses.  It took a long time in the afternoon to iron them.  My mattress and springs came.  Floyd and Dorr went to Fort Plain in the evening.

Our wedding invitations came in the morning.  As the outside envelopes weren’t large enough, Floyd and I went to St. Johnsville after some others.  We went up for Grange meeting, but there weren’t enough there for a meeting.  Herbert came home with us and we addressed the envelopes for the invitations.  We got them all ready to mail the next morning.

August

Herbert and Floyd went to Fort Plain in the forenoon.  They got back here in time for dinner.  As it was rainy in the afternoon, Herbert and I went to Little Falls.  He bought his knicker suit.  I looked for a hat but I couldn’t find any I liked.  I went to Herbert’s for supper.  When we reached home, Bertha Robinson was there.  She and I played some duets.

Bertha Robinson went home in the morning.  Herbert and I went with Dorr after Miss Tucker, & then his mother.  We went to Minden to church.  Rev. Flanders preached there during his vacation.  After church we went to Hartwick Seminary.  Mrs.  Crounse stayed there.  We came back by the way of Cherry Valley.  Lucinda and Alta came in the evening.  Floyd and the bunch of us took Miss Tucker home.  Emmett was here too.

Lucinda and Alta started home early.  Floyd and I started for Fonda about seven o’clock.  We had to wait quite awhile before I could test my test to secure an operator’s license.  We stopped at Harold Haig’s to see Ethel Haig a few minutes.  We reached home about eleven o’clock.  In the afternoon mother and I ironed and I raked for a good while.  We picked beans and cucumbers in the evening.  We drew in 6 loads of hay.

Mother and I made “golden glow” pickles and canned some beans.  I made brown bread and cake; also pudding for dinner.  In the afternoon I raked while the men loaded hay.  In the evening I cut out my slip and partly made it.  Mother marked around the bottom of my suit skirt so that I could shorten it. 

I had letters from Eleanor and Freida and a card from Grace saying that she was coming on Friday.  I went over to the corner to mail a card in reply to her.  In the afternoon I took Maud and mother up to Will Handy’s to the missionary meeting.  In the evening Herbert and I went to Fort Plain to the movies.  I bought a felt hat in Fort Plain that night.

Mr. Simons came just as we had finished supper and stayed all night.  I tried on my wedding clothes.  Herbert told me afterwards that he did too.  His coat didn’t fit and he had to go to Little Falls the next day to buy another suit.

Herbert and his mother stopped here in the afternoon.  Grace came on the afternoon train.  Floyd went down after her.  We all went over to Davis’ to the Community Club meeting.  They had a kitchen shower for me.  The Club gave me 6 knives and forks, besides many useful things for the kitchen.  Herbert and I had to guess what was in the packages.  I received an olive spoon from Janet Kilpatrick.

Grace fixed the slip for under my wedding dress.  We finished the announcements in the afternoon.  The men finished making the arch for in the parlor.  I received a letter from Lana Cress.  She said it would be all right for us to come over on Sunday.  It was a very nice sunshiny day; rather hot however.

Herbert, Dorr and Grace went with us all over to Lana and James’.  We went by the way of Van Hornsville.  There was a very hard rain storm while we were on the way home.  Wilson Failings had planned to come over in the evening, but as it rained so, they didn’t come.  Herbert came back over in the evening.

Mother started the washing and then Grace and I helped her with it.  I ironed some in the afternoon.  Lana and James were here for dinner.  They came over after the Van Deusen twins.  Charles Allen brought Mrs. Curtis over in the afternoon.  Herbert was here in the evening for a few minutes.  He took Grace and me up to George Reese’s to see about flowers.  The men raised up the stones in front of the house.

I received a letter from Janet, saying she planned to come to the wedding.  Mrs. Curtis went back over to Allens with Emmett.  The men drew in 2 loads of hay after milking.  Arthur Handy was here to fix Dorr’s car.  Tar was put on one half of the road.

We all went to the S. S. picnic at Hildebrandts grove.  Herbert took Grace, Emmett and me up to the East Creek power house.  After we got home, Grace and I went to St. Johnsville with Herbert and his mother.  In the evening  Herbert, Grace and I went to St.  Johnsville.  Herbert and I went after our marriage license, but the town clerk wasn’t as home.

Herbert came over in the forenoon.  Then I took our car and he, Grace and I went to St. Johnsville after our marriage license.  After that we went to Fort Plain to get some parts for Dorr’s car.  In the evening Floyd, Grace and I went over to Herbert’s to a shower, given me by Mrs. Handy, Ethel and Margaret.

I washed my hair in the afternoon and ironed.  Grace embroidered on her apron and nearly finished it.  We went up to Snell’s after Myrtle in the evening.  Then we went on over to Herbert’s.  Herbert and Floyd went after ground cedar.  Our bedroom suite came.  Floyd took it over to Herbert’s and they set it up.

Herbert worked on his car all day.  We did the Saturday’s work and what we could for the wedding.  Bertha Robinson came up in the afternoon.  She, Grace and I trimmed the ground cedar and Myrtle in the afternoon after supper we cut the wedding cake and put it in the boxes.

Sunday, August 16, 1925  Lucinda & Alta came in the evening.

Herbert and his folks came over in the morning.  Grace and I was over to Maud’s.  They asked us to go to the Lakes with them.  We went to Pine Lake to eat our dinner.  We reached home around three o’clock, Grace and I went to bed then and slept for a while.  In the evening Herbert, Floyd, Grace & I went down to Fort Plain.  We took our clothes down to Haigs so that we would have the ones we wanted for our trip.

Lucinda and Alta started to trim in the afternoon.  In the forenoon Grace, Mildred and I made 2 kinds of cakes for the wedding.  We got all of the chocolate cakes frosted and two of the others before dinner.  In the afternoon Herbert took me to Fort Plain to get some “favors” for the wedding table.  In the evening he went up to Arthur’s to work on his car.

Alta and Lucinda finished the trimming.  Marjorie came before breakfast and stayed all day.  She and I made 6 gallons of ice cream before dinner.  In the afternoon she took me to Groffs, Will Handys, Lena’s and Casler’s after vases and trays.  Herbert went to St. J. to get his hair cut and get the rolls, meat, etc. for the wedding.  In the evening about six thirty the people came to practise.  We had ice cream after we were thru.  Herbert stayed all night.

I got up between 4 and 5 o’clock to help make the fruit cocktail and salad for the wedding.  Lucinda helped me with it.  Lana and mother went out and helped milk.  We all ate a buffet breakfast.  About ten o’clock the people started to come already. There were about 100 people present at the wedding and everything went off fine.  When Floyd started to take us to Fort Plain, the car wouldn’t go.  Then Rev. Sargeant took us as far as Klock’s, where Veba overtook us.

We stayed all night at a farmhouse this side of Cooperstown.  We left on our journey about half past eight.  After we reached Oneonta, I drove for a while.  We ate our lunch in Afton.  Then we went to Binghamton, Endicott, etc. until we were within about 15 miles of Ithaca.  There we asked permission, which was granted us, to camp in a field not far from the road.  It started to rain soon after we went to bed and rained all night.  Our tent didn’t leak at all.

As it was a rainy morning, we didn’t start early.  First we went to Ithaca, where we drove around Cornell Campus.  From the campus was a wonderful view.  As we were going down one of the several hills in Ithaca, we had a fine view of Cayuga Lake.  From there we went to Enfield Glen.  It looked as if there would be a hard storm as we started through the Glen, but it cleared up.  Next we went to Watkins where we ate a good dinner.  After going thru the Glen we went to Hall to stay all night.

In the morning we started out rather early for Niagara Falls.  We reached there about two o’clock.  We hired a taxi which took us to Goat Island and the Three Sisters’ Island, then across the bridge to Canada to see the Falls.  After that we went down the Gorge in an elevator.  When we returned from this trip, we went over into Canada with our own car and went to Falls View Camp.  From there we had a fine view of the Horseshow Falls. 

In the morning we planned to go to church.  After we had come to the church, however, we found it was Catholic.  As it was then rather late, we didn’t go anywhere else to church.  After resting a while we ate a lunch and then packed the car.  We went to Buffalo and tried to look up Alma Miller but didn’t find her at home.  After that we went on to Batavia where we secured a room at a private house for the night.

We went thru the museum at Batavia, where we saw many interesting antiques and a fine collection of butterflies and moths.  Then we went just outside the town where we had some sandwichs for breakfast.  From here we went on to Rochester.  We had to ride around quite a lot before we could find Josiah’s.  A Mrs. Thompson was there calling for the afternoon.  Grace went out for supper and the evening.  Josiah and Charles had to work in the evening.

Tuesday, August 25, 1925

We arose early in the morning so that we could see Charles before he went to work.  After breakfast Josiah rode down to work with us and showed us the way out of Rochester for Watertown.  I drove for a ways in the forenoon until we came to a detour.  We ate our dinner at a restaurant in the back of a grocery store at Fly Creek.  We reached Aunt Cinda’s about four o’clock in the afternoon.  She was surprised but glad to see us.

We left aunt Cinda’s about nine o’clock in the morning.  We had waited until it nearly stopped raining.  It cleared off soon after we started.  We went to Thousand Islands, where we took a two hour motor boat trip on the “Sis IV” around the islands.  We returned from this trip at 12:30 after which we started back to Watertown.  We rested along the road awhile and then we went to Carthage where we ate supper.  We then went to a little town beyond Lowville where we stayed at Graystone Inn.

Herbert fixed a tire in the morning and as it took so long for us to get served our breakfast, we didn’t get started very early.  I tried to drive several times but finally gave it up as there were so many detours.  We stopped at a fox farm where we saw silver black foxes and other animals.  Then we went to Holland Patent and stopped to see Harry Pugh and his people.  From here we went to Lucinda’s.  Mr. and Mrs. Dygert were there in the evening.

In the morning Marion went up to Sherrill when Veba went to work.  We started home about ten o’clock.  Alta came along back with us.  We stopped at Frankfort to see Mr. Kents but they were not at home.  We reached home a little after one.  We went over to Mother Handys for a little while and then back again.  I washed out our clothes.  In the evening we went up to Will Handys to a variety shower for Mildred.

Mother wanted to go to St. Johnsville, so Herbert took her down there and took me over home.  I ironed our clothes and then mother washed and I ironed again in the afternoon.  Mrs.  Curtis was there and stayed until the next morning.  Alta drove the truck over to school and got things ready to start school the next Monday.  Herbert came after me and took me home in the evening.

Sunday, August 30, 1925

In the forenoon we all went to the old General Herkimer Homestead and grave-yard.  We went by the way of Little Falls and came back by the way of St. Johnsville.  In the afternoon Uncle Herman’s came up.  In the evening Herman and Ethel and Eleanor, Uncle Olin’s and Fred Timmerman came.  We had 13 callers in all.  Grandma went home with Uncle Olin’s.

Mother and I washed in the forenoon and ironed in the afternoon.  It turned out to be a nice day although it looked very much like rain in the forenoon.

September

Tuesday, September 1, 1925

Herbert took me over home early in the morning.  Mother Groff went to St. Johnsville to buy a present for Mildred.  I did up the work in the forenoon.  In the afternoon Herbert came over and we wrote notes of acknowledgement for our presents and packed them away.  I went back home with him before supper.

Herbert and I went to St. Johnsville and Fort Plain.  I went to the banks and had my checking accounts balanced up.  We took the proofs for our pictures back to the studio and chose the folders.  We took some of our presents back and had them exchanged.  We got an ivory comb, mirror, tray and hair receiver besides a dozen bread and butter plates.  We stayed at Mother Groff’s until after supper so that Herbert could help with threshing. 

Dad took me over to Zimmerman’s in the forenoon.  Margaret Handy, Mildred and I baked the cakes.  We made 20 in all.  Herbert came after me in the afternoon and then they invited us both to stay for supper.  I wrote Altas and notes of acknowledgement for our gifts in the evening.  We received a letter and pictures from Grace.  Arthur Evans and his wife and Floyd called in the afternoon.  We went over to Mildred’s to practise in the evening and then went down to Robinson’s.

Mother went over to help at Zimmerman’s.  I did up the work and baked 2 berry pies in the forenoon.  Herbert went to Dolgeville to get Mr. Wood to sing at the anniversary.  In the afternoon Herbert and I moved the medicine bottles and cleaned out a cupboard for some of our dishes.

I baked oatmeal cookies in the morning and made a roll jell cake.  We started early to get ready for Mildred’s wedding.  It wasn’t very nice in the morning, but cleared up and was a nice day after all.  The wedding went off very well.  I was one of the six ribbon bearers.  Margaret and Clarence stopped in on the way home and stayed a while.  I mended some in the evening.

Mother and I did up the work in the morning and then I studied my Sunday School lesson.  Herbert and I slept then until it was time to get ready for church.  We got there early, before anyone else.  I went home with my folks.  Alta and Emmett went for a little ride.  In the evening Alta and I played duets.  Then I wrote letters to Alice Kilts and Helene Ogden.

Alta and I started early in the morning to back chocolate cake.  Then Mother Handy and Herbert came over.  We made ice-cream & jello and sliced potatoes ready for escalloped potatoes.  Alta trimmed up the living room with “golden rods.”  Then after supper Alta and I peeled pears and mother canned them as they were getting too ripe to leave until Wednesday.

Tuesday, September 8, 1925   Wilfred Veba Black was born at 12:30 AM.

In the morning we made the escalloped potatoes and got the peaches ready for on top of the ice cream.  Marjorie brought aunt Lela down in the forenoon.  About eleven o’clock the people began to come for father’s and mother’s 50^th wedding anniversary.  There were 80 people present.  Alta, Emmett, Bertha Robinson, Lester, mother, Floyd, Herbert and I served the dinner.  Dr.  Fake talked, Mr.  Wood from Dolgeville sang and Mrs.  Fake played a solo.

Mother and I did the washing in the forenoon.  Mother and Herbert went down to St. Johnsville after dinner.  I canned seven cans of pears while they were gone.  Father went over to the other place and mowed down weeds and grass.  My people sent me over a nice new ironing board.

Mother and I ironed all forenoon.  I used my new ironing board and it worked fine.  In the after we picked cucumbers.  Floyd and Herbert went to Fort Plain in the morning after bricks.  In the afternoon they brought the bookcase, chiffoner and one chair over, also my cedar chest.  Mother and Aunt Lela went to the Missionary meeting at Mrs.  Hoffman’s.

I made 2 cakes and a double batch of honey cookies.  Mother made bread and biscuits.  Then we started on the pears.  We canned 26 cans of pears, 3 of tomatoes and 2 of pickled pears.  It kept us very busy, but we finished before supper.  In the evening Herbert and I went over home.  There wasn’t any Grange meeting.  It was a very hot day, about the hottest we had had all summer.

Saturday, September 12, 1925   I started milking at night.

Herbert worked on the car while mother and I did up the Saturday’s work.  Then we went to the club picnic at Moreland Park, Little Falls.  Margaret went with us.  We were the first ones there.  It rained very hard just as we were ready to eat.  As the pavillion leaked badly, we had to stand around wherever we could to keep dry.  In the evening Margaret, Clarence, Herbert and I went to St. Johnsville to the play “Bringing Up Father in Gay Old New York.”  The car bothered on the way home.

Uncle Lynn, Aunt Grace, Jennie and grandmother came down in the forenoon.  Grandmother stayed and the rest went home about four o’clock.  Herbert and I went to the Sunday School convention at our church.  I went down home to practise over some songs with Robert Rowland.  I played for two of them.  Ralph Groff took me home.  Herbert went up to Arthur Handy’s to have him fix the car.  We went down home for supper.  I wrote a letter to Emily Rowe.

We did the washing in the forenoon.  After dinner Herbert and I went over to the old place with the team and milk wagon.  We took the glove machine and a rocking chair over there.  We went after crab-apples.  After we came back I helped iron and then we started with the crab apples.  We canned 16 qt. cans of them.  It was after nine o’clock when we finished.  I didn’t help milk either.

I helped some with the work and then I got ready to go to Schenectady.  Herbert took me down to Freida and Edison’s so that I would be there the next day to attend the Lutheran Synod held at Rev.  Skeimer’s church.  Emmett was delegate but as couldn’t go I went as alternate.  We stopped at Krom’s but found no one home.  Mrs. Krom was staying with Freida and Ethel and Mr. Krom had gone to Johnstown.

I rather dreaded going to the Synod as I didn’t know the way.  I took the Carmen bus, however, and the driver let me off near the Lutheran church at the corner of Summit Ave.  I met Eliza Loman when I reached the church and we went around together all day.  We ate at Creegans’ tea room.  I saw Robert Van Deusen, Elmer Flanders, Mr. and Mrs. Leitzell and Madalon and Dr. Fake.  I walked home that night except for a little ways I rode with Edison. 

I went down to the church on the bus and just got over to the corner in time so that I didn’t miss it.  I talked with Rev.  Empie and Rev.  Jones.  Mr. Jones said he had a 6 months old son.  Miss Loman and I ate our dinner at the “New Electric” cafeteria.  Then she went to the department store and I to the 5 and 10 cent store.  Dr. Fake and I came to Fort Plain on the 6 o’clock train.  I went up to see Kibby and Mrs. Abel.  Herbert met me at St. Johnsville at nine o’clock.

Herbert picked 5 large bags full of sweet corn.  We canned 14 qts. of it and dried some.  Then he went after elderberries and we canned seven cans of them.  We went over to Arthur Hyde’s to the club meeting.  There were about 20 present.  My folks had been to the fair at Gloversville that day.  Frank and Mary Smith went with them.  Alta and Floyd came over to the club meeting.

Grandmother, mother, Herbert and Harold went to Little Falls so that Harold could get his teeth fixed.  He had two filled.  They took dinner at Truman Cole’s.  Uncle Delos came back in the forenoon.  He had been away for over a week.  I baked 2 pies and a cake.  Then I washed our good clothes which we had worn to Mildred’s wedding.  We received a card from Will and Mildred thanking us for our present.

Herbert took mother, grandmother and Harold up to Aunt Grace’s.  I studied my S. S. lesson and prepared a short report of synod to give in church after Dr.  Fake gave his.  Herbert and I went to S.  S.  and church and then we came home after father and went to Dolgeville.  We stayed at aunt Grace’s for supper.  In the evening Herbert and I went over home and stayed all night.  Alta called up after she returned from Vernon.

Herbert and I got up a little after five to get over home in time to milk.  Mother and I did the washing.  In the afternoon and evening we spent nearly all the time fixing over the couch in the living room.  We got it finished except the side strips and putting the braid around.  Dad got a lame back, Herbert dug potatoes.

Mother and Dad went with the team to St. Johnsville.  They didn’t get back until nearly five o’clock.  I made a pie and cake, steamed apples and did the ironing.  At a quarter of four I went out in the field to help Herbert pick potatoes.  We picked over 12 bushels in an hour.  It was a beautiful autumn day.  It was cold, but just right to work out-of-doors.

Mother and I got our plants ready for winter in the afternoon.  Then we went out in the field and helped pick potatoes again.  Margaret came over after her plants too.  Harold came with her and stayed for the rest of the week.  There was no school on account of a teachers’ meeting at Johnstown.  Alta and Miss Moulton stayed at Mr. Cane’s.

Herbert went up to John Groff’s to help fill silo.  Mother and Dad went to the village and I went along over home.  In the afternoon Alta and I shortened her new blue dress and I did some work on the sleeves.  Herbert came down from John’s after me.  Alta went along home with us.  We took some dishes and other things along.

I studied my S. S. lesson.  Then Herbert, Alta, Harold and I went up to the upper end of the farm with the car.  We walked over by the woods, sat down by a tree and read magazines.  We went to church and S.  S.  Alta went home with my people.  After supper we had callers.  Margaret came over first.  Then George Stiltzner and his wife and niece came.  I wrote letters to Marion and Aunt Lucinda.

As it was a rainy day we didn’t do the washing.  Mother and I hung up my pictures and fixed the plant in the hanging basket.  After dinner Herbert took me over home.  Then he went back to Allen’s to help fill silo.  Uncle, mother and father Groff and I went to St. J. with father’s car.  I had two teeth filled.  Herbert came back after me after he had finished work.  He and I went to Johnstown to the movie, “The Ten Commandments.”

We did the washing.  It wasn’t very nice in the forenoon, but cleared up in the afternoon.  Dad dug potatoes and mother and I picked them up.  In the afternoon Herbert went to St. J. with Floyd’s truck and got our china cabinet.  After supper we took mother over to Margaret’s.  Then we took the truck back over home.  We packed up our nice dishes and brought them home with us.  I received a letter from Nina.

I baked bread and did some of the ironing.  Mother and father drover over with the team.  They came over the new road by the dam.  Mother and I walked up to the cemetery in the afternoon.  Father went down to the dam.  After I washed the supper dishes, I washed the dishes to put in our china cabinet.  Then after milking Herbert helped me put them in. 

October

Herbert helped fill silo over at Zimmerman’s.  Dad finished digging the potatoes.  We had about 75 bushels.  I baked pies and cake and steamed apples.  In the afternoon I finished the ironing.

We took our time and did the weekly cleaning well.  In the evening Herbert and I went over to Frank Smith’s to the Community Club meeting.  Grace Smith and her children were there.  Alta went over to my folks with us.  I stayed there all night so that I would be there early in the morning.

I got up early and helped my people milk.  Emmett drew the milk.  We started for Vernon about 8:30.  We took Mr. and Mrs. Davis with us.  Mr. and Mrs. Black, Jennie and Mr. and Mrs. Abdicate were at Lucinda’s also for dinner.  They went up to Oneida in the afternoon and had Wilfred’s picture taken with his parent’s and ten grandparents.  We reached home at 25 minutes of seven.  Herbert came over after me in the evening.

In the forenoon I studied my S. S. lesson and found the answers to the questions in the magazine quiz for the missionary meeting.  We went to S. S. and church.  It was communion.  There were 41 present, the most we had had in a long time.  Herman and Ethel and the baby came up before supper and spent the evening here.  We drove down home after church so that Herbert could give Floyd the church money.

Mother and I started the washing but couldn’t hang up the clothes as it rained.  When we had finished with that we started peeling pears.  We made chipped pears, canned pears and canned tomatoes.  We canned 38 cans in all that day.  Herbert didn’t have to help at Zimmerman’s on account of the rain.  He and Dad sprayed the hen-house in the afternoon.

In the morning Mother and I rinsed the clothes and hung them up.  Then I made a cake and cookies.  After dinner I made some soap: this was my first attempt at it but I had good success.  Then mother and I set out tulip and hyacinth bulbs.  After we had finished with this, I did the ironing.  I wrote a letter to Pearl Smith.  Herbert helped with the corn at Zimmerman’s.

Herbert and I went over home right after breakfast.  Herbert went to Fort Plain with Floyd after some more bricks for the chimney.  He also got our wedding pictures.  He went to the dentist in Fort Plain and had the skin cut off of his wisdom tooth.  I made cookies, finished fixing Alta’s new dress, and cut out a dress for mother.  Emmett took Maud, mother and me up to John Groff’s to the Missionary meeting.  I started my new duties as secretary.  Herbert waited down home for me.

Dad and mother went down to the village with the team and were gone all day.  Herbert drew corn from the field below the barn.  He didn’t feel much like it as his wisdom tooth hurt so badly.

Herbert and I went to Grange meeting.  Mr. Zimmerman went with us.  Mrs. Lambert was over at Zimmerman’s.

It was a very, very cold day.  There was such a hard, cold wind.  The men finished putting the cement floor in the cellar.  Then as the water started to freeze in the bath-room, dad put the cement wall under the bath-room.  Herbert, uncle, mother and I went to St. Johnsville.  I stayed with Eleanor while the others went to the doctor’s.

We had a housefull of company.  Margaret, Clarence, Herman, Ethel and the baby were here.  We expected them but were surprised when Arthur Steltzner and his wife and children and cousin Libbie came.  Herbert and I went to Sunday School and then came home.  It was still very cold and we couldn’t be in the living room until evening when we succeeded in getting it heated with the gas lamp.

Mother and I did the washing.  It didn’t look as if the clothes would get dry but they did in the afternoon.  In the afternoon we canned ten quart cans of peaches.  Then I made chocolate cookies.  Alta had been home for the week-end and came back to Flanders that night.

Mother went over to Margaret’s on the milk wagon and went to Dolgeville with her.  They took dinner with Aunt Minnie and Uncle Olin.  I did the work in the forenoon and left the ironing until the afternoon.  Herbert went to the village after things for the chimney.  I went over home with him in the evening when he took the truck home.  I marked mother’s dress for the hem.  Floyd went to Fort Plain to a meeting about the milk situation.

I cleaned up our room in the forenoon.  Then I washed my 2 embroidered dresses and ironed them.  Harold and Margaret came over in the afternoon and were here for supper.  Herman and Ethel and the baby were here in the evening.  Dad’s cold wasn’t much better.  He stayed in bed most of the time.  Elma Burkdorf and Rev. Seely were married at 4 o’clock.  Herbert took mother down to see the doctor.  He said that mother shouldn’t go to the hospital until Tuesday as he wasn’t feeling well himself.

Herbert and Floyd went out north hunting dear.  Mr. Shulenberg was here to help us milk in the morning.  Margaret brought Harold home in the forenoon.  He was sick with the grippe and couldn’t go to school.  We received an embroidered towel from Madeline. 

Herbert went down after Uncle Herman early in the morning.  He came up to lay the chimney.  They got it done nearly as far as the second floor.  I received a letter from Madaline Moody and the receipt for my insurance.  Herbert and I had planned to go to the club meeting over at Maud and Eugene’s but as I was coming down with a cold, we decided not to go.  I finished the buffet set for the bazaar.

Herbert and I went to church and S.  S.  Margaret and Clarence, Herman, Ethel and the baby were here for dinner.  We had the doctor for Harold.  He had the grippe very severely and the doctor said he might get pneumonia.

Uncle Herman was here and finished laying the chimney.  Harold was pretty sick all day and his temperature stayed up high.

Margaret came over in the morning.  Right after dinner the folks went to St. Johnsville and then took mother to Little Falls to the hospital.  Uncle and I stayed home with Harold.  Margaret and Clarence were here for supper.  Herman and Ethel spent the evening with mother.

Mother was operated upon at 7:30 in the morning.  She was very bad on the operating table but seemed to rally very soon when she got to her room.  We went up about noon to see her.  I was surprised to see how good she seemed so soon after the operation.  Margaret came over in the afternoon and took Harold home with her.

Herbert went hunting for pheasants but didn’t see any at all.  He got back about ten o’clock and then he helped me wash.  It was such a rainy day that the clothes didn’t get dry.  We went up to see mother in the evening.

Uncle Herman came in the morning to help put up the furnace.  They got it nearly all set up.  When Herbert took him home he went after Alta.  It was a very rainy night.  I ironed in the afternoon and evening.  Alta embroidered on a pair of pillow-cases which she was making for Marion for Christmas.

Alta washed the dishes, peeled potatoes and made a cake for me.  I mopped the living room, bathroom, dining room and kitchen and did the rest of the Saturday’s work.  In the afternoon I mended until nearly supper time.  We went up to see mother.  Margaret, Clarence, Harold, Herman, Ethel and Eleanor were there when we got there.  We danced when we got home and played the victrola.

There was no Sunday School nor church as it was a very rainy day and there wasn’t much coal to start fire with.  Herbert, Alta and I went over home.  We stayed there a while and Alta and I practised a duet.  Then Herbert took Alta home.  Ed Cromer called over home.  Herbert and I went home to get supper for Dad.

As I had so many things to do for the bazaar I decided to let the washing go until another day.  I finished an apron, made a memorandum for the kitchen, and finished one laundry bag.  Then I washed and pressed the articles which mother and I had made.  In the evening I started another laundry bag.  We went up to see mother in the evening.  Uncle Delos went with us. 

Herbert and I went to St. Johnsville.  We had the check cashed.  I saw Stanley Bauder in the bank and talked with him.  We stayed over home for dinner.  Then we went down to Arthur Hyde’s to pay the school tax.  From there father and I went up to the grange hall and Herbert went on home.  Mrs. Zimmerman and I put the prices on the things for the bazaar.  I went home with father and Floyd and then Herbert came after me.

In the forenoon I made four pumpkin pies and peeled potatoes for the supper besides doing the usual work.  After dinner I made escalloped corn.  About three o’clock Herbert took me up to the grange hall to the harvest supper.  Maud, Mrs. Zimmerman and I had charge of the bazaar.  We made $44.85 from the bazaar and around $55 from the supper.  Herbert came up after me after milking.  It snowed real hard. 

Herbert took the milk.  Dad started the engine so that I could do the washing.  I got it finished by noon.  The men went after the heifers which had been to pasture over at Mary Schell’s place.  It was a cold day and snow stayed on the ground all day.  Herbert, Dad and I went up to see mother.  Uncle Lynn, Aunt Grace and grandmother were there too.  The car froze a little.

In the forenoon Herbert took his pheasant down to Johnstown.  He got back in time for dinner.  Uncle came home from John Groff’s.  In the afternoon I did the ironing and darned socks.  Herbert plowed up on the hill.  We had meant to go over to Alta’s school to a box social but the car wouldn’t work well enough to go.  Miss Moulton had a “spook” party for the children after school.

I had an ambitious streak and I said it seemed as if I did as much that day as in two others.  I thought perhaps Will and Mildred would be over to supper the next night but they couldn’t come.  I did the baking and cleaning and in the evening I had to mend.

November

Herbert, Harold and I went to church and S.  S.  Alta, Herbert and I sang in the choir.  We invited Alta and Emmett home to supper with us and they came.  In the evening we planned to go to see mother.  We got only part way over to Inghams, however, and the car wouldn’t go.  Finally Dad and Harold walked back home.  After Herbert worked a while longer he got the car to go and we went over to Inghams after gas.

I waited to do the washing until Herbert got back from the factory.  Then he helped me.  It was a beautiful day to dry clothes.  Herbert and Dad went up to Little Falls to see mother.  I went to bed early.

Herman went up after mother in the afternoon and brought her down to Margaret’s.  I ironed in the afternoon.  In the evening Herbert took me down to see the doctor as my cold was no better.  We stopped over home a while on the way back.  I hunted out my winter clothes and brought them home.  Herbert and Dad went to Dolgeville to vote.  Mr. Zimmerman was elected supervisor.

Uncle got breakfast for me as my cold was worse.  I took my medicine all day and it loosened up my cold a lot.  I got up after breakfast as I had to see to the bread.  Clarence came over after some things for mother.  She wasn’t feeling well at all.  I baked some molasses cookies while I was getting supper.

I made chocolate cookies, 2 loaves of brown bread and two crab apple pies.  In the afternoon I had just nicely gotten to sleep when I heard some-one downstairs calling me.  I came down and found father and mother.  They had driven the team over.  Herbert went out to Eli Christman’s hunting.  He went with Frank B., Arthur and Will Handy and Lee King.  He brought a big rabbit home.

I made a whole lot of apple sauce and I told Herbert that it seemed I spent most of the forenoon peeling apples and potatoes.  In the afternoon I cleaned the lamps, washed the kitchen windows and other odd jobs to help out the next day on the weekly cleaning.  In the evening Herbert, Dad and I went over to Margaret’s to see mother.  Eleanor was staying there while Herman and Ethel went to Little Falls to the movies.

This was a beautiful day until rather late in the afternoon it started to rain.  I cleaned my room.  This was the first house cleaning I had done.  I also did the Saturday’s cleaning, so I was very busy.  In the evening Herbert and I went over home and then up to John Groff’s.  As there weren’t many present we didn’t have any club meeting.  Kenneth was home for the week end.

Herbert took Dad over to Margaret’s in the forenoon.  He spent the day with mother.  Herbert went to S.  S.  and church.  There were 25 present.  I didn’t go as I didn’t feel well.  I slept or laid down on the couch and rested a good show of the time.  It rained very hard.  Herbert and I popped corn in the evening.

In the morning Herbert helped me peel potatoes and then he went up to Judd Youker’s after the threshing machine.  I didn’t wash as I wanted to do some baking for the threshers and also because I didn’t feel well enough to go out in the cold.  I baked bread, chocolate cake and from pumpkin pies.  I wrote letters to Alma, Nina and Eliza Loman.  It snowed quite hard most of the day.  Herbert put wood in the wood-house in the afternoon.

Fay and John Youker were here for dinner.  They got a nice lot threshed in the afternoon.

The threshers were here for dinner.  There were 12 of us in all.  Mother and Floyd came over to help us.  We had 195 bushels of oats.  Mr. Zimmerman, Emmett, Charles, Simon, Mr. Shulenberg, and Fay and John Youker were here.  Floyd went hunting up in the woods after dinner. 

Herbert and Arthur went out north deer hunting.  I went over home and mother and I did my washing over there.  In the afternoon I helped her clean the living room.  Herbert and I stayed there for supper!  Dad and Mr. Shulenberg put a lot more wood in the wood-house.

I did what I could of the ironing.  I didn’t get the curtains all finished.

I ironed some in the forenoon.  When Herbert came back from the milk factory he said that he and Will Thresher were going out north deer hunting and that Mildred was coming over here in the afternoon.  So I let the ironing go then and started the Saturday cleaning.  Mildred came about 3 o’clock.  Herbert and Will came for supper.  We went to Little Falls to the movies in the evening.

Herbert and I went to S. S. and church.  Dad went over to see mother in the afternoon.

I cleaned the dining room.  As it wasn’t a good day to dry clothes I decided not to wash.

Tuesday, November 17, 1925

After dinner Dad said he was going over to help Mr. Shulenberg with the wood.  I thought it was a good chance to go over to Zimmerman’s so I let the work go and went along.  Mildred and Will were over there yet.  They were helping the folks make sauerkraut.  Mrs. Zimmerman was not feeling well enough to do any work.

I did the washing by hand.  It was a beautiful day to dry the clothes.  I embroidered on some pillow-cases for Lucinda’s Christmas present in the evening.

We took the presents off the tree and opened them in the morning.  Then we went up to Aunt Minnie’s.  There were 22 of us there for Christmas dinner.  We played the piano and banjo-ukelele and sang after dinner.  We also had a Christmas tree up there.  When we got home and had the milking done, we went over to father Groff’s.  We played Rook in the evening.

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