Showing posts with label Little France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Little France. Show all posts

Saturday August 26th 1916

 Quite warm. Sprinkled a little a.m. Sidney picked some berries for me to can. filled 2 2 qt cans. Sidney went to Little France, got flour $2.10 a sack, also got sugar and salt. Mr. Cary called p.m. Harvey Smith found dead ice bed yesterday a.m. 

Friday August 18th 1916

 Hot. Rec'd a card from Mina. Sidney went to Little France, rode with Edd Cotett at 6:30 a.m. got flour and sugar flour, $2.00 a sack. Went over on Joe Muckey's at 10 a.m., took 2 cans of huckleberries to Fred. He got home early with his pail nearly full. Will Peck's girl sick with infantile paralysis. 

Saturday, August 12th 1916

 Looks lousy and sprinkled some. Sidney picked 3 qts of blackberries for a shortcake and huckleberries for pies. Children picked a few. Mora and Maud rode with the Cotett girl, went to Little France. Got 10# sugar, a pkg of oats, 1# soda and lamp chimney. Sidney went to  Gayville to quarterly meeting this ee, got home at 11 p.m.

Wednesday July 12th 1916

 Hot, sultry with an occasional breeze. Mora rode past way over to Little France a.m., got some rolled oats and sugar. Maud, Memphis and Cassy went and picked a l0 qrt pail. Also a carrier of berries at Mr. Cary's for us to eat p.m. Sidney went to draw hay at Mr. Smith's but it rained before they got fairly started for the first load.

Monday May 29th 1916

Hot. Sidney went to N. Constantia and then to Constantia. Got oats, meal, 1# tea and a can of milk. He was awfully tired when he reached home. Maud, Memphis and Cassy went to school. Mora went to Elmer's about 4: 30 p.m.  James, Susie and the baby came at 5 p.m., had been to Mallory, Little France and then here. I dug 12 rows of holes to plant corn.

Tuesday May 23rd 1916

Rainy a.m., good p.m.  Sidney went to Little France a.m., built fence for H. Russel p.m.  Herbert Munger called to get Sidney to help him shingle tomorrow. Mora started acrost for Cottet's at 4:30 p.m.  I planted the yard. Sidney spaded up today, it is succotash in earnest.

Friday April 21, 1916

Cool, cloudy most of day, very high wind tonight. Mora and Maud went to Little France early a.m., got 1/2 # flour and .10c cookies. Got Russel's wagon. Mora went to school at 11 a.m., rode with Arthur Getman in auto. Maud was all in so stayed home. Memphis and Cassy went in morning. Mrs. Emily House called this eve. to see Sidney about digging a ditch for her.

Saturday April 15, 1916

Fair. Sidney split wood for E.B. Potter. Mora and Maud went to Little France. Paul is very much better altho far from alright. Mouth awfully cankered. Sidney sent .75c to Larkin Soap Co.

Saturday April 1, 1916

Nice a.m. Rainy p.m. Sidney went to Little France a.m., helped Russels p.m. on his porch. Sowed tomatoes and peppers.

Wednesday March 22, 1916

Stormy all day except a little while a.m. Sidney went to Potter's at 8 a.m. but it stormed so hard he came home at noon. A big hen hawk here twice today. Bound to get a meal but failed. Mora went to school, came home by way of Potters. Sidney went over to Jim's got 1/2 bu. turnips and some milk at Maud's. Carl got us some flour and some salt at Little France. Left it at Roy Johnson's. Sidney went and got it eve.

Wednesday March 15, 1916

Cold, stormy all day. Track full. Sidney went to E.B. Potter's early a.m. Maud gave him some sweetmilk and buttermilk too. He then went to Little France, got groceries, had to wade both ways. Very tired when he got back. Chas. Beasonson asked him to eat dinner with him but he did not. Chas. gave him some crackers and cookies.

Wednesday October 27, 1915

Cloudy most of today. Sidney went at about 9 a.m. Children went to school. Russel girls stopped. Bell came, has a very bad cold. I sent by Mr. and Mrs. House for a gal. oil and 1 red cross to Little France. p.m.

Saturday October 16, 1915

Fair. Mora and Maud went to Little France p.m. Took eggs, .32c/doz. Got a package of Banner oats, a sack of {unable to read, ripped}. Chas. gave them each a stick of candy.

Monday October 11, 1915

Hard white frost and a lovely day. Children all went school. Mora went to stay with Lettie tonight. Sidney went to Little France to trade, this morning got ride with Edd Cottett from his place over. Cut wood p.m. Arthur Getman was over the route today with Mr. Ferguson. He expects to commence carrying the mail next week. Our brown leghorn pullet layed her first egg today.

Monday September 20, 1915

Cool. Sidney wasn't quite as hoarse this morning, but is just as bad at night. He went to Little France a.m., got some groceries. Cut brush a little, p.m. Mrs. Emily House and Fred House came at noon. Ross Bisbo called in evening. Mora went to Bryant's 6 p.m. She went to Mrs. Johnson's, got me 4 peppers a.m. Maud and Memphis went to school came home to dinner. A man came here and eat breakfast, said he was from Utica. Going near Adams to go to work.

Saturday September 11, 1915

Cloudy nearly all day. Sidney cut a few brush, cut us some wood. He is pretty tired though from his lug. Mora and Maud rode over to Little France with Mrs. House and Hazel. Hazel staid, Mora went on to Mallory to stay over with Avis. Maud came back with Mrs. House. Took 1 doz. eggs (24c/doz). Got 2 qrts oil, 1 thread and bal. print. Mora came home from Bryant's a.m. with their dog following her, also an old cat and three kittens in a bag.

Sunday May 30, 1915

Warm. Sidney was tired, did not go to church. Maud and Memphis went. Sidney went to F. Cronan's and Little France, rode home with Frank Fisher. Frank gave him a bu. seed potatoes. F. House paid him for his day's work last week.

Friday May 21, 1915

I sent a card to Mina. Showery, an electric storm at 6 p.m., struck Frank Cronan's house, setting fire in two places. Maud and Memphis went to school. Cassie helped me, dropped 2 rows sweet corn. Sidney worked for F. House a.m. and Ross Bisbo p.m., eve. He and Mora went to Little France and got a lot of groceries. Mrs. Beasonson gave her 3 sticks of candy and Charlie gave her cookies. Took 1 doz. eggs 20c.

Friday April 23, 1915

Nice hot day. Sidney went to Little France in the evening. Alfred Russel wife and baby spent the eve. here. Mr. Sypher gave the children sourkraut.