75 Years Ago Today - Eileen's Diary - Mar 31, 1939

75 Years Ago Today

Eileen's Diary

Mar 31, 1939

This entry is a post from the diary of my mother, twenty year old Eileen KINNICK, 75 Years Ago this date. She kept a diary from 1932 as a freshman in high school until she left us, too early, in 1999.


Here is the daily entry for Friday, Mar 31:

Did usual work. Up home. I fried all the canned sausage. Canned 37 quarts of meat.
Curled LVene's & Betty's hair. Rained in pm.
Home at 5:30. Chored & then ate.
To bed at 10:00.

My comment:

Lots of pork meat preserved...

Families are Forever!  ;-)

75 Years Ago Today - Eileen's Diary - Mar 30, 1939

75 Years Ago Today

Eileen's Diary

Mar 30, 1939 

 

This entry is a post from the diary of my mother, twenty year old Eileen KINNICK, 75 Years Ago this date. She kept a diary from 1932 as a freshman in high school until she left us, too early, in 1999.


Here is the daily entry for Thursday, Mar 30:

 Did up the work & then went up home. Ate dinner & then Polly, Pete, Betty, LVene & I cut up meat & made 20 gal lard.
Home at 7:00. Real late with the chores. To bed at 10:00. To town in the morning before we went up home.

My comment: Quite a day. Cutting up the meat from the 2 hogs. 20 gal LARD… wow! ;-)

Families are Forever!  ;-)

75 Years Ago Today - Eileen's Diary - Mar 29, 1939

75 Years Ago Today

Eileen's Diary

Mar 29, 1939 

 

This entry is a post from the diary of my mother, twenty year old Eileen KINNICK, 75 Years Ago this date. She kept a diary from 1932 as a freshman in high school until she left us, too early, in 1999.


Here is the daily entry for Wednesday, Mar 29:

Up at 7:30. Snowed all day.
Did up work & both went up home. Remele butchered 2 hogs. Fresh liver.
Betty made p. corn ball in p.m.
Home before 6:00.

My comment:

Fresh pork liver - and a whole lot of other pork available to the family.

Families are Forever!  ;-)

75 Years Ago Today - Eileen's Diary - Mar 28, 1939

75 Years Ago Today

Eileen's Diary

Mar 28, 1939 

 

This entry is a post from the diary of my mother, twenty year old Eileen KINNICK, 75 Years Ago this date. She kept a diary from 1932 as a freshman in high school until she left us, too early, in 1999.


Here is the daily entry for Tuesday, Mar 28:

Up before 7:00. Norma, V. Rippey & I left for F. B. Meeting at Carroll at 10:00.
Ate lunch in hall. Rehearsed awhile. Sang in pm. Made 20 points. Union got superior.
Down town awhile. Home at 6:00. Chored, ate, took folks car in. Home at 11:00. to bed
Reva George
E. Williams
G. Ford
Norma Williams
Ruth Bolger
Dora McLaughlin

My comment: They represented Union township in the competition, apparently. Superior rating sounds pretty good to me. She listed the others involved. Interesting activity. Too bad she didn't mention what song(s) they sang.

Found the neat old early Farm Bureau sign...

Families are Forever!  ;-)

75 Years Ago Today - Eileen's Diary - Mar 27, 1939

75 Years Ago Today

Eileen's Diary

Mar 27, 1939

This entry is a post from the diary of my mother, twenty year old Eileen KINNICK, 75 Years Ago this date. She kept a diary from 1932 as a freshman in high school until she left us, too early, in 1999.


Here is the daily entry for Monday, Mar 27:

Mom did the washing. Cool. Made a batch of bread. Scrubbed kitchen floor.
Cleaned the dining room. Read till Pete came home. Ate supper, did dishes. Pete slept while I took my bath. To bed early

My comment:

How about a cartoon children's book of hanging the wash out to dry…  ;-)

Families are Forever!  ;-)

75 Years Ago Today - Eileen's Diary - Mar 26, 1939

75 Years Ago Today

Eileen's Diary

Mar 26, 1939 

 

This entry is a post from the diary of my mother, twenty year old Eileen KINNICK, 75 Years Ago this date. She kept a diary from 1932 as a freshman in high school until she left us, too early, in 1999.


Here is the daily entry for Sunday, Mar 26:

Up in good time. To church at 9:30. Wayne Cooley preached. 31 there. 15 in our S.S. class.
Home to dinner. Folks here. They went down to Rasmuses in p.m. Pete and I read several magazine stories. Chored, late, made a cream pie, to bed early.

My comment: Good day. Interesting information.

This is Star Church, a few miles north of where they lived. They continued going there for many years. I was just a mile north of Pete's family's farm, of course.

An addition was added, later, but this is how it would have looked, at this time.

Families are Forever!  ;-)

75 Years Ago Today - Eileen's Diary - Mar 25, 1939

75 Years Ago Today

Eileen's Diary

Mar 25, 1939


This entry is a post from the diary of my mother, twenty year old Eileen KINNICK, 75 Years Ago this date. She kept a diary from 1932 as a freshman in high school until she left us, too early, in 1999.


Here is the daily entry for Saturday, Mar 25:

Really a keen day. Cleaned the house. Pete up home.
Bussy rode his bike out after dinner. Raked awhile. Bussy took a nap.
Made peach upside down cake. LVene had her hair set. Folks came out to supper.
Pete shaved and we bathed and went to bed.

My comment: Long bike ride for Buzzy. He obviously was worn out.

Peach upside down cake… made one lately? Yum!

Families are Forever!  ;-)