Star (Toby’s colt) is one year old today. I took Sharon Lovarnet and Cathy out to fair for awards in AM. Jim and Jim Decker here in PM to help draw hay. Our nice Blackie kitten got killed by car in evening. Washed my hair. We got wedding invitation from Beverly Mapslens [?]

We didn’t go to church. Merrill mowed hay for tomorrow. Fed the cows some green hay. We went out to moms in PM. She isn’t too good. Hall kids came over with kittens to give me. Bad fire at city on Newell Street at noon today.

Got card from Steve from Niagara Falls. Send Cindy birthday card. Very hot and humid all day. Drawed 3 load of hay. I went to Philadelphia bank for Jim and Mills for fly spray. Toby and Karen here in evening. They have to move as Hoover has sold building. Merrill called Doug Gleason and Art about painting church.

Cindy’s 7th birthday. Raining in AM. Cloudy all day. We went to Gouverneur fair. We stopped to see Martha Meeks and Jeff. John was at school. They have nice home. Got letter and copy of Vern’s proposal from kids.

Rainy. Last day of 4 day Republican convention at Miami, Florida. Richard Nixon nominated by wide margin. I sat up until 2 AM. Merrill put baler in barn. Washed clothes. We quit haying. Barn full. Sent for 1 year of True Story, $2.00. Merrill cut brush.

Merrill helped Uncle Ray put on new garage door. It fell on Aunt Maude. Cut her head. She had 8 stitches taken at hospital. Dr. Hall. I made blue dress. Washed clothes.

Hot and humid. Merrill started combining oats. Very heavy this year. I went to city for groceries. I called Uncle Ray. Aunt Maude feeling better. Put cows in after feed for first across road. Thunder storm during night.

Sent Holly card and letter. Rained during night. Merrill finished combining 3 acre field of oats. 53 large bags. Toby here in PM. He helped unload oats and helped me mow lawns. Wind and rain in evening. I scrubbed porch floor. Washed my hair in evening.

We had steak cook out at noon. Cool wind. Much colder in evening. Had furnace on. We drove over to Arts in PM but they weren’t home. We also went up to Uncle Rays. Aunt Maude still very lame and sore.

Holly’s 8th birthday. Vern starts teaching. I went up to post office and bank. Merrill started combining second field of oats. Very heavy crop. Howard and boys helped bag and dump oats. Sent car insurance $98. for full coverage. Got 97 bags [of oats] out.

Wrote kids. Merrill combined. Howard started to bale straw but baler wouldn’t tie. Jeff and Hall helped over here also. Jim here for supper. He has new Suzuki cycle.

We finished combining oats. Huge crop this year. Most we have ever had. Howard and boys helped bale straw., Debbie brought us sweet corn from their garden. Bar-B-Q chicken for supper. Terry got other cast off arm.

Nice day. Hall and Zellers went on trip to Corning glass Works and Canandaigua Park. Merrill started combining oats for Ivan Hale. 36 bags out this PM. Toby here in evening. They are going to move into Mrs. Dickers house. Cooke started cellar for Bob and Marilyn’s new house.

Ex President Eisenhower had 7th heart attack. I went to city for groceries. Merrill had to stop combining at Hale’s because of rain. He took car to Jack Hills for oil change. Jim here for supper. Did his wash in evening. Marguerite B, called to tell me to send $2. to District Dept. for Pres. gift. County meeting September 13 at Bay.

Sent Lodge check to PDP Ansted. Also check to Marguerite B for PNG jewel. Washed clothes. Merrill washed car. Rained in PM and evening. Jim and Gary Pastor were here on cycles at supper time for Jim’s laundry. Merrill started fence back across road. Hal Hall bumped his head fooling, and got a concussion. Evelyn called in evening.

WSCS have church service, Rev H on vacation. We didn’t go to church. Halls, Jim, and Jim Decker, Merrill and I went to Vern and June’s for picnic dinner. Boys and Howard rode on cycles. Had a very nice day. Halls went with us. Uncle Ray put cows across for us. Timmy Hall had accident on our road.

Cloudy day. Merrill made fence in AM. He finished combining at Hales in PM. Fred Cook, Dick Plenty, and New Jersey man here to inspect. Jim got package from Al Jennings from overseas, his stuff. Cooke started digging Hall’s farm pond.

Thunder storms in morning. Sent Jim note. Merrill put cows back on 17 acres. Very hot and muggy. 84°. Toby here in evening. They are moving into Decker house Saturday.

Merrill started combining at Howard’s. I washed kitchen curtains and windows. Mowed lawns by house. Jim, Gary Pastor, & Al Hurst, here in PM on cycles. I gave Debbie 2 pair pants and cosmetic case for her trip to Utica.

Debbie went to Utica on busy for 5 days. Her first bus ride. Send $15 for National Geographic for Ken’s and Don’s for Christmas. Rained hard about all day. Howard gave Merrill 2 milk cans. The plant threw out 2 of ours. Sent Karen birthday card. Jim and friends planned cycle trip to mountains.

Karen’s 4th birthday. Beverly Jane Macklin married in Rochester at 7 PM. Too wet to combine. I went to city for groceries. Got 3/4 bu peaches, $2.99 at Johnnie’s. Hot and humid. Beverly fainted at her wedding.

Cloudy and humid. Toby and Karen move to Decker house today. Merrill combined for Howard in PM . Very hot and humid. Jim and Gary Pastor here on cycles in PM. Cleaned.

We went out to Mom’s for dinner. David, Doreen, Debbie, Cindy and Karen came home with us for visit. Kids and I went to Payne’s Lake and Pulpit Rock in evening. Jim and 4 other cops came out to Mom’s on cycles. Cloudy and windy.

Too wet to combine. Some showers I took kids and Terry, Jeff, and Hal out to city to show “Yours, Mine, and Ours” at Olympic. Very good. Wrote Vern’s and sent them card. Merrill and Dave, Cindy, and Karen went to Mills and Philadelphia. Merrill went to milk meeting.

June and Vern’s 8th anniversary. I sent Ann Pacifis [?] a sympathy letter. Her mother died last week. Mrs. Murphy. Merrill combined for Howard in PM. Very chilly most of day. Murphy brought fuel oil. We had one of June and Vern’s ducks for supper.

Kids ate lunch out doors. Car quit with me at J. Hales when I went after Merrill. Merrill combined oats at Halls. Vi called and invited us to visit them Sunday at the river. Donna Hall and Judy Hale here in evening for machine needle.

Merrill and Dave went to Gouverneur to garage. They couldn’t find anything wrong with car. I took Dave, Doreen, Debby, Cindy and Karen home. We stopped at Weston’s and went up to city park. Ate lunch there. Brenda came back to Arlene’s at city with me. Got groceries. Merrill combined for Hall’s. Wrote Beula Hall

Beautiful day. I washed clothes. Used new clothes line. Cleaned and mowed lawns. Merrill combined at Hall’s. Debbie Hale had birthday party. 3 years old today. Debby got home from vacation. Toby here in evening. Told us he is going to be a father March 15th. Bill M called.

Beautiful day. I washed dining room cupboards and windows. Merrill finished combining at Dennis farm. Jim here for supper. He goes on permanent night duty. We went to city in evening. Got Jim pajamas for his birthday. Jim got card from Vern’s.

New WSCS year begins. Beautiful day. We went to Bill and Vi’s trailer at Jaques Carter State Park for picnic dinner. Lovely there. John, Martha, and Jeff there also. Martha and two girls came in PM to Vi’s. Jim here in PM while we were gone.

Jim’s 25th birthday. Larry Hutchinson’s birthday also. Labor day also. Lazy day. I dyed our bedspread and rugs blue. Rained about 3 PM. Jim was here for supper. Gave him birthday gift of robe and pj’s. Cleaned. Jim’s roommates moved today.

Cactus blossomed in evening. WSCS here. 29 present. Larry H showed slides of Viet Nam. Merrill and I went to Syracuse for machine parts. Got chain for Merrill’s spreader. Jean and Gary Pastor here in evening on cycles. Rained in AM. Marge Shepherd called to say Gladys and Ted are moving to Dexter from Syracuse. Wrote Vern’s.

School starts. Merrill finished Howard’s oats. Merrill put machinery away. Beautiful day, 75°. Jim here in PM to get my vacuum cleaner. Aunt Maude and Helen Keichels called. Sent for radio to Spiegel.

Allan Lanto [?] 40, was killed in accident at Massena milk plant. Merrill built fence back on meadow. Helen Keichel and I went to 4-H meeting at city on records. Leaders to see to them now. Got card from kids from Canada. They spent the weekend at Thurstonia Lodge.

Raining. Merrill finished meadow fence. Ironed. Jim here for supper. Got letter from June. Jim got letter from Al Jennings.

I went shopping with Vi to city all day. Got kitchen curtains @1.97 =$8.00. Toby and Jim Decker here in PM. Merrill worked on spreader.

Beautiful day. We went to church. It is back to regular time, 11:15 now. Trustees had meeting. We are going to paint church and parsonage. $900 for job. Jim here for supper.

Jim’s day off. Washed. Merrill went to Ennis for blower belt. $48. Baked cookies and cake. Defrosted freezer in evening. Door got left open. Hot and muggy. Talked with Aunt Maude.

Jim’s day off. Raining about all PM and evening. Jim and Kenny Rudes here. Had been playing golf. Called Mary H about Lodge dues.

Sent $12 to Time. Pays to October 21, 1969. Merrill got chopper out and ready to use. Rainy all day. Washed Merrill’s clothes. I went to lodge. First fall meeting. Donna here in evening. She will be my assistant 4-H Leader.

Sunny day. We went to city and Fays. Saw Orin and Mildred Walts. Mildred has hurt her neck again. Mrs. Eva Kelsey from Redwood here with Amway products. Called Mom. Merrill got new work shoes at Theresa, $8. Jim got service discharge certificate in mail. Thunder storm in evening.

Friday the 13th. Rebekahs State Pres. made official visit at Alex Bay. 10 from Philadelphia went. Leah, Martha, went to dinner also. Francis Ansted and staff looked nice. Alice LaClair went with me. Elizabeth Dunlop, Buffalo, is Pres. We mowed lawns. Jim here for supper. Wrote to Uncle Berl about Mrs. Claude Mount, 80. Funeral was yesterday.

Cactus plant blossomed in evening for second time in 11 days. Canned peaches. Jim and Patty Puffer here on cycle. Here for supper. Toby, Karen and one of her pupils here in PM. Men put up silo pipe. Boys took Star out doors. Jim Matteson here in evening. He and Toby are going to milk for us. Called Wolcott. Less called to ask us to go to Elmer’s.

We went to Wolcott for day. Had dinner at Elmer’s. Stopped at Mother’s. Didn’t see Leslie or Beula as she was working. Les at clambake. Stopped at Vernon’s. Vern finished paining house and June was canning tomatoes. Jim Matteson and Toby M did milking. We got home about 11:45 PM

We started using flag Ken’s gave us. Took our old one to Vern’s. Started chopping corn. Toby here all day long to help. A day of his vacation. I went to Past Grands at Vivian’s Myers. Very foggy coming home. 80° during day.

I got new radio from Spiegel, $35. Enjoyed evening listening to Short Wave. Merrill chopped two loads of corn. Foggy in evening again. Washed clothes, cleaned. Mr. & Mrs. Gary Pastor had baby girl, Laura Lynn, today. Hot, 83°

4-H leaders meeting at city. Donna and I went to it. Saw Jim and Al Hurst on duty. Jim worked his days off. Very warm. 88°. Lila went to hospital. Started cleaning bathroom. Hot again today. Merrill finished corn across road.

WSCS officers meet at Black River. Norma Perkins WSCS President. I went. Took Marguerite, Lula, and Addie. Another hot day. Merrill chopped corn.

Changed 4-H name to Ore Bed 4-H Club. Sent Reader’s Digest Christmas gifts, Hall’s, Vern’s, Jim, and us. Sent Vern card and letter for his birthday. I went to city for groceries. Merrill chopped corn. Jim and Mike here in PM. 4-H here in evening. Dennis and Kevin Demo joined

Vern’s 32nd birthday. Very hot. 85°. Toby here all day helping with corn Jim and Patty here at lunch time. Washed my hair.