Monthly Archives: September 1989

Diary Entry for 9/7/1989

UMW here, 14 present. Nice meeting. Leah on refreshments with me. Fruit salad, crackers., monkey bread, and cookies. Very hot. In the 80’s. Merrill scraped door at Mary K. Chris Lynch got hurt at football.

Diary Entry for 9/10/1989

Church back to 11:15. now. We went to Sunday School 44, and church. Still hot and muggy. Jim, Joel, and Scott Pastor 15 (Gary and Joanne’s youngest son) here for PM and supper. Rain shower in evening.

Diary Entry for 9/17/1989

150th anniversary of Philadelphia United Methodist Church. A great day. We went to Sunday School and church. Over a hundred attended. Had chicken Bar-B-Q. Vern and June, and Bea came to it. Merrill and I received awards. Also Marge and Joyce. Rev. Collin Kerr-Carpenter did a great job.

Diary Entry for 9/19/1989

Amway peas, $26.00. Merrill went to Mills twice for them. Only 11 packages in first box. Got new plugs and tune up, $50.85 at George’s. Chain saw not ready yet. Washed dresses. Merrill cut corn in garden.

Diary Entry for 9/23/1989

Hugo passed over here about 1 PM. Bad winds and rain. Not too bad here. Washed clothes. Dried them inside. Power off 1 1/2 hours in PM. Kathy and Rae here. Ordered 2 things from Rae. Baked cake and cupcakes.

Diary Entry for 9/24/1989

Joyce preaching today. Collin and Kathy in Texas to study. We went to Sunday School 46, and church 40. Jim, Joel, and Walt here in PM and for supper. Girls at band practice. Men cut wood. Down to 40° overnight.

Diary Entry for 9/26/1989

First people moved into Carpenter Meadows. We went out to Don’s. There most of the day. Don not feeling good at all. Debby and Mary had bad accident. Debbie’s car totaled. Sent taxes and AARP insurance and card to Leah. I called Roberta from Don’s.