Monthly Archives: December 1949

Diary Entry for 12/9/1949

Vernon stayed out this forenoon & helped with chores. Merrill went down to Doctor Draper’s. Gave him medicine & penicillin shot. Got first Xmas card. Uncle Earle & Aunt Kietha’s anniversary.

Diary Entry for 12/11/1949

Boys & I went to Sunday School & church. Had chicken dinner. Merrill slept all PM. Rainy & warm. Our 14th anniversary party at Uncle Earle’s today. [Did that turn out to be a surprise party for Bea & Merrill?]

Diary Entry for 12/24/1949

Had our Xmas tree in evening. We all got nice gifts. Vernon got leather jacket size 36. Jim, high top shoes. Got Merrill Ronson lighter. Snowed today. Will not have a green Xmas after all. Plow was over.

Diary Entry for 12/26/1949

Kiechle’s old house on the Warmer place burned tonight during a heavy rain storm. They saved most of the machinery all except threshing machine, potato sprayer & cultivator. Merrill went to Lodge. Washed clothes.