Monthly Archives: June 1976

Diary Entry for 6/1/1976

UMW at CEC. I didn’t go. Patty and Joel left for home today with Jim. Jill and Jolie will stay here awhile longer. I have cold. Wrote Vern’s. Sent Life Insurance. Merrill mowed lawns.

Diary Entry for 6/7/1976

Jim, Patty and Joel came after Jolie and Jill. They have been here since May 4th. Jim and Patty planted cabbage and pepper plants. Washed girls clothes. I made girls black and white checked shirts alike. Merrill and Carl H got stove at Denny Allen’s for parsonage, $150.

Diary Entry for 6/8/1976

Merrill finished planting garden. I started house cleaning. Living room. Got it all done. Dyed curtains. Hot but nice breeze today. Merrill put new float and cover in toilet upstairs.

Diary Entry for 6/9/1976

Hot, 80°. No breeze. Merrill fixed plug in bedroom. Doris and Dougie here. She and Art plan to join church. I started cleaning bedroom. Got it all finished. Painted woodwork.

Diary Entry for 6/10/1976

We went to city for stuff for milker. I got bags, 2 pair shoes, table cloth and bedspread. Got stuff for Cameron anniversary cake for Marilyn. Cost $12.65. Saw Jim on square. I had battery put in my watch. Cost $2.50. Old one lasted one and a half years.

Diary Entry for 6/11/1976

I cleaned dining room walls and windows. Washed curtains. Boots and I went for groceries. Merrill helped Lynn on hay bind and wiring. Bad thunder and lightning storm in early evening.

Diary Entry for 6/12/1976

Howard, Evelyn and Dawn here in evening. Cold all day. I called Mom. Aunt Maude called to say Loren called her last night to say Dash Strader, 91 died. Merrill mowed all three lawns. I cleaned rugs and varnished floor. Cleaned upstairs bathroom. Dyed rugs. Merrill put glass in bathroom window.

Diary Entry for 6/14/1976

Hot and muggy with rain off and on all PM and evening. Thunder storm. Washed kitchen curtains and clothes. Merrill went to IOOF in evening. Merrill and Boots went to Lanphere for two planks to fix barn floor. Odd Fellows are going to give up Hall.

Diary Entry for 6/17/1976

Mom’s 84th birthday. Boots and I went to Philadelphia for groceries. Got B-12 shot at Marilyn’s in evening. I served as juror, and foreman, at Antwerp, 7 PM. Jim Sands and George Carroll found not guilty. Got home at 12:30.

Diary Entry for 6/19/1976

Hot and muggy, 85° Rained in evening. I made cookies and donuts. Dyed bedspreads and rugs. Washed. Merrill worked in garden and cut weeds. He went to Rudes for hay rope in morning. Lois and Joe Lowry here in evening.

Diary Entry for 6/21/1976

PNG’s outing. 16 PNG’s and Kay T. Went to Villa at Natural Bridge. Mary drove. Also Martha and Lois. Pouring rain all evening. Merrill picked 18 quarts of berries at Mary’s. Gave her $5.

Diary Entry for 6/23/1976

Rebekah’s. Last meeting in IOOF Hall. 14 out. Merrill got withdrawal card from Rebekah’s. We voted to rent Mason’s Hall for $175. Oil spill in St. Lawrence River early this morning. Cleaned laundry room. Washed.

Diary Entry for 6/24/1976

Hot and humid. Rained in evening and all night. I painted down stairs bathroom. Merrill put wall switch, like kitchen wall, on it. Merrill got hair cut. Twister winds at Lowville in PM.

Diary Entry for 6/26/1976

June’s 38th birthday. Howard helped Merrill bring home our heifer from Hales. I made 4 1/2 dozen small cup cakes for Cameron’s open house. Betty G decorated cake, 6 layer tier. I helped Marilyn at CEC in PM. Merrill tarred roof. Worked on garden some. Doris called to find out church time. Washed my hair.

Diary Entry for 6/27/1976

Open House for Rev. and Mrs. Cameron at CEC, 2-4 PM, put on by both churches. Very good turnout and very nice. We went to church. Ate at Igloo then drove over to see Clara Wallace. She walks with walker but is good. I went to see Mrs. Beardsley in evening. Vern’s called. Are raising the boys rooms.

Diary Entry for 6/28/1976

Thunder storm at 6:30 AM. Merrill mowed all three lawns. I washed and ironed white linen table cloth. Cleaned floors. Telephone man installed a new telephone downstairs. Bell went up on old one. It was 23 years old. Merrill went to IOOF meeting.

Diary Entry for 6/29/1976

Glaucoma 6 years. Thunder storms in early morning. I took church money to Margaret. Got groceries. I asked Vera Rosbrook to help Margaret with treas. work. I called Rev. Cameron about it first. Merrill chopped grass in pasture for calves. Jim’s here for supper.

Diary Entry for 6/30/1976

Vern’s. Had a nice visit. They got sub-floor down in boys rooms. Quite a job ahead. Rained off and on all day. Beulah Hall called from Lois and Joe’s. Geneva and Bob are at Clayton. Mrs. Cameron called in evening.