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Glimpses of Clifton Park-Circa 1900
Excerpts from the diaries of Carrie Birch and Emma DeLong Two young women on neighboring farms, along Route 146 near Rexford,-Clifton Park NY - 1902-1904
ON THE FARM
3/01/02 - Our hens lay very well now, get 21 eggs a day.
6/01/02 - We packed 43 lbs of butter from one churning
Quite an amount to work at once
12/9/02 Pa and Henry went at the butchering alone. Mr. Khingbeil bought one pig weighing 220 at 9 cents a pound
We butchered six pigs in all
1/9/03 - Finished drawing in ice, did lots of work around. Quite cold.
1/10/03 - Finished packing the ice house.
1/12/03 - Harry had a horse shod. First lamb of the season today.
1/14/04 - Pa hitched up the team on heavy bobs and broke out the roads.
3/03/04 -I put on Howard’s rubber boots to bring in wood, coal, get eggs. Pa reached home 5 o’clock. The wind blew out the lantern, and I could not get in the barn until Pa helped me.
7/19/04 -Awful hot! hot! hot! I drove on horse fork and raked, nearly baked. Jason and Levi worked here. Got in 7 loads of hay.
7/20/04 -Howard became sick in forenoon while mowing so did not go out in afternoon so I took out his team about 2 o’clock and mowed until 4. Pa came up and got the rake and then we changed and I raked until supper time but I was taken sick too so that I could hardly stand it or sit it either.
8/06/04 -Samuel Smith’s funeral was 11 o’clock this forenoon. We ought to have gone but Pa was harvesting and anxious to finish, which he did except for one-half load.
10/28/04 - Hattie and I picked up a lot of cider apples. The men are drawing in the turnips.
11/08/04 - George killed 13 chickens, did up the chores, got Harmon’s wagon and took his and our buckwheat to Usher’s mill to be ground.
HOME LIFE
3/01/02 - Ma had fine luck with her bread today. We have had poor luck all winter.
4/08/02 - Ma & I did our ironing, mending, & had salsify soup for dinner.
I crocheted some lace for pillow cases.
8/14/02 - Made some more crabapple jelly. It proves to be excellent so far.
Ma is cutting out blocks for a comforter.
8/28/02 - Went up to the woods, picked half bushel basket of pine needles for sofa cushion.
1/19/03- Crystallized popcorn and cracked nuts.
12/1/03- Went over to Mrs. Caidwell’s to learn the beaded work.
12/9/03- Set up late in evening working on Christmas presents.
1/13/04- Ma sewed on a pair of black pants for Raymond, made out of Pa’s wedding pants.
4/11/04 - I watered the plants & cleaned the deacon Jones’s house.
4/18/04 -We washed as we always do just as regular as the week comes around. Don’t any of us like the job, but washing is one of the many things we have to do whether we like to or not.
5/16/04 - I made 3 batches of soap, and made 3 before so have 6 batches of hard soap on hand at present time.
5/17/04 - I fried a milk pan full of Saratoga chips.
5/19/04 -Mended 8 more pairs of stockings so I have 12 pair of everyday stockings and 6 for extra occasions. Ma ripped up one old waist and took its lining and cut out a new waist.
We sewed all day long. I got quite interested in stockings.
5/25/04 - Ma commenced cutting out Pa’s new winter shirts.
I mended an old one for him.
8/04/04 - Ma cleaned the cellar got our canned fruit regulated.
Have 103 of this years and 50 cans of old fruit.
COMMERCE
5/07/02 - I bought 15 bananas for 14 c. The dressmaker is sewing some for Grandma, her work proves satisfactory so far.
6/14/02 - The electric men gave Pa $10 for trimming trees.
6/24/02 - Grandpa came up after an extra horse and heavy wagon to use on the roads, as he is a road commissioner.
8/14/02 -Harry went by with load of sand for Cornell Burt the mason. Is putting stone work under a building.
12/13/02-Pa went to town, took 9 balls of sausage and 1 piece of fresh meat, jug of buttermilk, and 100 lbs of buckwheat flour. Brought back my furs and my dresses.
Mrs. McIntosh charged 6.75 for the making.
3/05/04 -Mrs. DeLong got bottle of witch hazel 25 cents on my soap order.
4/12/04 -Brown’s furniture wagon with few pieces of furniture from Schenectady inquired the way to Elnora.
4/22/04 -Saw Arthur Phillips working on the locks at the Flats.
5/16/04 -Ma got a quince bush and a Delaware grape vine from Burpee’s.
8/08/04 -A French man from Cohoes came up to get a little work while the mills are closed.
10/2/04 -Aunt Dora’s girl Grace Ible has come back. She earned $12 in 3 weeks hop picking. She would have had more but she had to divide with her fellow.
11/04/04 - The tin peddler came so I traded and got a nice granite basin.
12/31/04 - I paid Mrs. Charles Tanner $1.13 for one and a half pounds of geese feathers for Harry’s pillow.
RECREATION
2/10/02 - Aunt Carrie & James went to Schenectady to attend the opera, given under the auspices of the young people,called “Rip Van Winkle”.
4/08/02 - Mrs. DeLong & Harry stopped to get a girl to go with him to the party for Friday night.The invitation was excepted [sic].
5/16/02 - The girls went up to Shirttail Hollow and had lots of fun so they said. Caught a turtle in Mr. Royal Dyer’s creek.
7/20/02 - After doing up our work Pa played his violin and I wrote a letter to Arthur Phillips containing some over 8 pages.
8/06/02 - It rained hard while we were eating our breakfast but we got ready just the same for the clambake.
Had a great time. There were quite a good many there. Went to the ballgame in afternoon. The Clifton Parks won.
8/22/02 - Went to Scotia Highlands, saw the balloon ascension. Very windy day, nearly froze.
10/2/02 - Went up in assembly hail to see the stereopticon views on Paris. They were magnificent.
12/30/02- Pa and Ma went to Jonesville to revival.
1/01/03 -Got home from dance [at Union Hall, Groom’s Corners] at 3.30, got up at 7.30, went to Aunt Emma’s. Waltz and two step in the P.M.
6/04/03 - In P.M. went up to Mrs. Silvemail’s & heard a graphophone.
7/14/03 -We all went fishing and ate our luncheon in the woods. I caught a fish.
We went to Schoharie Creek. Foster and I fished on a rock and later went for a row and also went in bathing.
8/27/03 - Got up at 5:00 A.M. took the trolley at Round Lake & went to Kaydeross Park. Had a fine time there & also going back with our conductor “Jim”.
2/11/04 - Harry came and asked me if I wouldn’t like to go down to the Flats to the Men’s supper... The tickets were 50 cents a head. Had everything for supper and a fine entertainment afterwards. Mr. Adams gave an address on Washington, Franklin and McKinley. Mrs. Adams sang and the 3 Mandolins and 2 Guitars Club did their best.
3/05/04 - Howard and I went out skating, but the ice was rough.
5/09/04 -Mae, Emma and I drove to Schenectady by way of Scotia. It rained awful hard while Selts and Forpaws circus was parading. We got our shoes and skirts quite damp. Saw the parade 3 times. We started 12.30 for Van Vranken Avenue where the grounds were. The showman tried to bunkho us. Asked 60 cents for tickets and we got them for 50. Also saw side show. Saw 40 different things. The wildman was a sham.
5/17/04 -Got ready and we 3 went to Grange. Oliver and Lee were taken in the 3 and 4 degrees and Mr. Cline all 4 degrees. After meeting cream and cake was served in apple pie order, then dancing was the chief amusement.
8/27/04 -Got up early and was on our way to the depot by 7 o’clock for the Berkshire hills. Took steam cars at Sch’dy and then took trolley for Berkshire Park which was a very nice place, fixed for our and others enjoyments. Had monkeys, guinea pigs, lake, theater, music, dancing, pictures, eatables, and a ride on the mules or burros for 5 cents around the park.
8/31/04 -Guy Peck took a load to the Ballston Fair today. I had an invitation but... did not have the money to spare.
10/12/04-About 7:30 Harry came and Emma and we spent the evening up to Mr. William Silvernail’s and Charlie played the phonograph about all the time we were there. It is a fine one and the records are very nice.
10/18/04 - H and I went to Grange to the candy pull.
10/31/04 - Harry, Emma and I went down to Vishers Ferry to a Halloween Sociable. We had a very nice time and lots of fun with their tricks. Chestnuts with a number in, popping chestnuts on the stove, milk, warm and empty saucers, blowing out the lighted candle, and chewing the string for the candy in the middle.
TRANSPORTATION
2/10/02 - Howard brought me up to the depot in Uncle
Howard’s cutter, it is a very easy sitting cutter.
3/03/02 -The roads are very bad, my satchel and dinner box were in a bad state, mud all over. Got a letter from Aunt Mate Vischer Ferry telling of the destruction of their bridge caused by the high water. The water was so destructive in Albany that the trains were unable to run this morning.
4/21/02 - Alta Waite stopped for some soap to grease the
chain of her bicycle.
5/31/02 - Coming home Mr. Kaiser’s horse fell down,
broke the shafts.
6/06/02 -I went up on the electric car to Jennie’s, then she got ready and went with me on the steam cars to Schenectady.
10/09/03- In RM. we all went over to Edna’s. In places the water was up to the hub.
10/10/03- Harry went to the city. The river & canal all run together. The river 22 inches higher than it was.
11/26/03-[Thanksgiving Day] We all went over to Edna’s. Coming home the spring on the wagon broke. It was on my side. The cause, my eating so much.
12/01/03- Mama and I stopped a team of horses from running away today.
1/17/04 -Coming home Pa let the cutter run to the right and over we went in the field in front of Carlton’s. DeLongs were back of us and how they laughed.
5/25/04 -Mrs. DeLong and Emma went over to Arnold’s. Drove in Massoth’s barn to escape one shower and in our barn to miss a dreadful rain and windstorm. It broke the tin pipe on our kitchen chimney.
5/28/04 -Harry came looking like the mayor. Had rubber tire buggy, Nancy and nice black harness, new whip, new patent leather ties, cap, and things on horse’s hip straps to keep the reins from slipping down.
11/9/04 -Waited in little store by Miller house until the horses had eaten then we started for home, crossed the river at Dunsback Ferry.
11/14/04 - Pa took Howard to the Flats and the telephone wire was broke in front of our house and the telegraph poles were blown over, broken off, wires tangled between Nott’s corner and McKains so that no one could get through.
11/19/04 - I had to walk [from depot] but it was moonlight, did not mind it, got home 7 o’clock.
HEALTH
3/17/02 - Howard has the Mumps quite hard. He was in bed, he looked very pale.
Raymond & Ma had sore eyes & Pa had the Rheumatism. Pa fetched me to the depot, then he had to go home & do all the chores alone.
5/29/02 -As Miss Massey’s niece died with diphtheria, she has not been our teacher. Mr. Blakeman took her place.
6/18/02 -Went to school with a sober heart for I was afraid I would not pass my exams
8/12/02 -Mr Charlie Nash has the typhoid fever is improving Dr MacElroy attends him
8/24/02 -Had a serious quarrel [with Hany] because he smoked.
8/26/02 -Took a pill for cold (chloride of potash) not very pleasant to the sense of taste.
11/25/02- Raymond and I gathered sweet flag root in Mr. Myron Ostrom’s field. It is a good remedy for deafness.
1/1 8/04-Raymond was not feeling well, had sore throat ... Ma swabbed it out with salt, alum and water, onion drafts on his feet, salt pork and pepper on outside of throat and a shawl around him... felt better during the night.
1/20/04 -About 9 o’clock Raymond was worse ... might be diphtheria, sat up the rest of the night.
2/18/04 -After doing up my morning’s work I went to the Dentist’s. Mr. Waldo 2 doors below Sitterly... The work did not hurt any, but he let the instruments slip a few times into my gum, and then I felt like dancing... Had six teeth filled, 3 with gold & 3 with silver also my teeth cleaned for $7.
3/08/04- Had to fix chopped pork and onions and put on Raymond’s chest for he was very hoarse.
8/25/04- Mrs. Kniffen had an operation performed at her house on herself, will do nicely now.
10/7/04- Nelson told about Mr. Cox who went through Mr. Woodin’s thrashing machine.
11/9/04- Got to Aunt Mary’s 5 o’clock. I expected to have more cold, but had a hot supper, hot bricks in bed and hot lemonade so the cold was gone.
PROGRESS
5/07/02 -Mr. (blank space) came to make an estimate for wiring the house for electric lights.
6/15/02 -The electric men worked on the poles this morning.
6/19/02 -After doing up our work we went to see Flora. Stayed to dinner, helped cook on the gas stove. It is fine.
8/22/02 -Uncle Vean and I went up to Aunt Dora’s farm where the electric road is going through.
3/10/03 -Yesterday Mr. Van Hyning commenced setting poles for telephone line.
6/14/03 -We girls had a talk on the telephone.
1/13/04 -We are burning coal in our dining room Sterling Range and it works fine with less fuel, less work, less dirt, less time, and less expense so hurrah! for coal.
4/07/04 -Pa spoke to Guy Peck about the road here on our corner. Also about the Rural Free Delivery route which we hope will soon be taking action.
5/27/04 -Mr. Peck scraped or smoothed over the roads with road scraper and engine, but it did not do as good work as the horses did.
___________________________________________________
{a glimpse of the past Clifton Park, New York 1902-1904}
"You are what you eat, drink, think, say and do..."
Excerpts from the diaries of Carrie Birch and Emma DeLong Two young women on neighboring farms, along Route 146 near Rexford,-Clifton Park NY - 1902-1904
ON THE FARM
3/01/02 - Our hens lay very well now, get 21 eggs a day.
6/01/02 - We packed 43 lbs of butter from one churning
Quite an amount to work at once
12/9/02 Pa and Henry went at the butchering alone. Mr. Khingbeil bought one pig weighing 220 at 9 cents a pound
We butchered six pigs in all
1/9/03 - Finished drawing in ice, did lots of work around. Quite cold.
1/10/03 - Finished packing the ice house.
1/12/03 - Harry had a horse shod. First lamb of the season today.
1/14/04 - Pa hitched up the team on heavy bobs and broke out the roads.
3/03/04 -I put on Howard’s rubber boots to bring in wood, coal, get eggs. Pa reached home 5 o’clock. The wind blew out the lantern, and I could not get in the barn until Pa helped me.
7/19/04 -Awful hot! hot! hot! I drove on horse fork and raked, nearly baked. Jason and Levi worked here. Got in 7 loads of hay.
7/20/04 -Howard became sick in forenoon while mowing so did not go out in afternoon so I took out his team about 2 o’clock and mowed until 4. Pa came up and got the rake and then we changed and I raked until supper time but I was taken sick too so that I could hardly stand it or sit it either.
8/06/04 -Samuel Smith’s funeral was 11 o’clock this forenoon. We ought to have gone but Pa was harvesting and anxious to finish, which he did except for one-half load.
10/28/04 - Hattie and I picked up a lot of cider apples. The men are drawing in the turnips.
11/08/04 - George killed 13 chickens, did up the chores, got Harmon’s wagon and took his and our buckwheat to Usher’s mill to be ground.
HOME LIFE
3/01/02 - Ma had fine luck with her bread today. We have had poor luck all winter.
4/08/02 - Ma & I did our ironing, mending, & had salsify soup for dinner.
I crocheted some lace for pillow cases.
8/14/02 - Made some more crabapple jelly. It proves to be excellent so far.
Ma is cutting out blocks for a comforter.
8/28/02 - Went up to the woods, picked half bushel basket of pine needles for sofa cushion.
1/19/03- Crystallized popcorn and cracked nuts.
12/1/03- Went over to Mrs. Caidwell’s to learn the beaded work.
12/9/03- Set up late in evening working on Christmas presents.
1/13/04- Ma sewed on a pair of black pants for Raymond, made out of Pa’s wedding pants.
4/11/04 - I watered the plants & cleaned the deacon Jones’s house.
4/18/04 -We washed as we always do just as regular as the week comes around. Don’t any of us like the job, but washing is one of the many things we have to do whether we like to or not.
5/16/04 - I made 3 batches of soap, and made 3 before so have 6 batches of hard soap on hand at present time.
5/17/04 - I fried a milk pan full of Saratoga chips.
5/19/04 -Mended 8 more pairs of stockings so I have 12 pair of everyday stockings and 6 for extra occasions. Ma ripped up one old waist and took its lining and cut out a new waist.
We sewed all day long. I got quite interested in stockings.
5/25/04 - Ma commenced cutting out Pa’s new winter shirts.
I mended an old one for him.
8/04/04 - Ma cleaned the cellar got our canned fruit regulated.
Have 103 of this years and 50 cans of old fruit.
COMMERCE
5/07/02 - I bought 15 bananas for 14 c. The dressmaker is sewing some for Grandma, her work proves satisfactory so far.
6/14/02 - The electric men gave Pa $10 for trimming trees.
6/24/02 - Grandpa came up after an extra horse and heavy wagon to use on the roads, as he is a road commissioner.
8/14/02 -Harry went by with load of sand for Cornell Burt the mason. Is putting stone work under a building.
12/13/02-Pa went to town, took 9 balls of sausage and 1 piece of fresh meat, jug of buttermilk, and 100 lbs of buckwheat flour. Brought back my furs and my dresses.
Mrs. McIntosh charged 6.75 for the making.
3/05/04 -Mrs. DeLong got bottle of witch hazel 25 cents on my soap order.
4/12/04 -Brown’s furniture wagon with few pieces of furniture from Schenectady inquired the way to Elnora.
4/22/04 -Saw Arthur Phillips working on the locks at the Flats.
5/16/04 -Ma got a quince bush and a Delaware grape vine from Burpee’s.
8/08/04 -A French man from Cohoes came up to get a little work while the mills are closed.
10/2/04 -Aunt Dora’s girl Grace Ible has come back. She earned $12 in 3 weeks hop picking. She would have had more but she had to divide with her fellow.
11/04/04 - The tin peddler came so I traded and got a nice granite basin.
12/31/04 - I paid Mrs. Charles Tanner $1.13 for one and a half pounds of geese feathers for Harry’s pillow.
RECREATION
2/10/02 - Aunt Carrie & James went to Schenectady to attend the opera, given under the auspices of the young people,called “Rip Van Winkle”.
4/08/02 - Mrs. DeLong & Harry stopped to get a girl to go with him to the party for Friday night.The invitation was excepted [sic].
5/16/02 - The girls went up to Shirttail Hollow and had lots of fun so they said. Caught a turtle in Mr. Royal Dyer’s creek.
7/20/02 - After doing up our work Pa played his violin and I wrote a letter to Arthur Phillips containing some over 8 pages.
8/06/02 - It rained hard while we were eating our breakfast but we got ready just the same for the clambake.
Had a great time. There were quite a good many there. Went to the ballgame in afternoon. The Clifton Parks won.
8/22/02 - Went to Scotia Highlands, saw the balloon ascension. Very windy day, nearly froze.
10/2/02 - Went up in assembly hail to see the stereopticon views on Paris. They were magnificent.
12/30/02- Pa and Ma went to Jonesville to revival.
1/01/03 -Got home from dance [at Union Hall, Groom’s Corners] at 3.30, got up at 7.30, went to Aunt Emma’s. Waltz and two step in the P.M.
6/04/03 - In P.M. went up to Mrs. Silvemail’s & heard a graphophone.
7/14/03 -We all went fishing and ate our luncheon in the woods. I caught a fish.
We went to Schoharie Creek. Foster and I fished on a rock and later went for a row and also went in bathing.
8/27/03 - Got up at 5:00 A.M. took the trolley at Round Lake & went to Kaydeross Park. Had a fine time there & also going back with our conductor “Jim”.
2/11/04 - Harry came and asked me if I wouldn’t like to go down to the Flats to the Men’s supper... The tickets were 50 cents a head. Had everything for supper and a fine entertainment afterwards. Mr. Adams gave an address on Washington, Franklin and McKinley. Mrs. Adams sang and the 3 Mandolins and 2 Guitars Club did their best.
3/05/04 - Howard and I went out skating, but the ice was rough.
5/09/04 -Mae, Emma and I drove to Schenectady by way of Scotia. It rained awful hard while Selts and Forpaws circus was parading. We got our shoes and skirts quite damp. Saw the parade 3 times. We started 12.30 for Van Vranken Avenue where the grounds were. The showman tried to bunkho us. Asked 60 cents for tickets and we got them for 50. Also saw side show. Saw 40 different things. The wildman was a sham.
5/17/04 -Got ready and we 3 went to Grange. Oliver and Lee were taken in the 3 and 4 degrees and Mr. Cline all 4 degrees. After meeting cream and cake was served in apple pie order, then dancing was the chief amusement.
8/27/04 -Got up early and was on our way to the depot by 7 o’clock for the Berkshire hills. Took steam cars at Sch’dy and then took trolley for Berkshire Park which was a very nice place, fixed for our and others enjoyments. Had monkeys, guinea pigs, lake, theater, music, dancing, pictures, eatables, and a ride on the mules or burros for 5 cents around the park.
8/31/04 -Guy Peck took a load to the Ballston Fair today. I had an invitation but... did not have the money to spare.
10/12/04-About 7:30 Harry came and Emma and we spent the evening up to Mr. William Silvernail’s and Charlie played the phonograph about all the time we were there. It is a fine one and the records are very nice.
10/18/04 - H and I went to Grange to the candy pull.
10/31/04 - Harry, Emma and I went down to Vishers Ferry to a Halloween Sociable. We had a very nice time and lots of fun with their tricks. Chestnuts with a number in, popping chestnuts on the stove, milk, warm and empty saucers, blowing out the lighted candle, and chewing the string for the candy in the middle.
TRANSPORTATION
2/10/02 - Howard brought me up to the depot in Uncle
Howard’s cutter, it is a very easy sitting cutter.
3/03/02 -The roads are very bad, my satchel and dinner box were in a bad state, mud all over. Got a letter from Aunt Mate Vischer Ferry telling of the destruction of their bridge caused by the high water. The water was so destructive in Albany that the trains were unable to run this morning.
4/21/02 - Alta Waite stopped for some soap to grease the
chain of her bicycle.
5/31/02 - Coming home Mr. Kaiser’s horse fell down,
broke the shafts.
6/06/02 -I went up on the electric car to Jennie’s, then she got ready and went with me on the steam cars to Schenectady.
10/09/03- In RM. we all went over to Edna’s. In places the water was up to the hub.
10/10/03- Harry went to the city. The river & canal all run together. The river 22 inches higher than it was.
11/26/03-[Thanksgiving Day] We all went over to Edna’s. Coming home the spring on the wagon broke. It was on my side. The cause, my eating so much.
12/01/03- Mama and I stopped a team of horses from running away today.
1/17/04 -Coming home Pa let the cutter run to the right and over we went in the field in front of Carlton’s. DeLongs were back of us and how they laughed.
5/25/04 -Mrs. DeLong and Emma went over to Arnold’s. Drove in Massoth’s barn to escape one shower and in our barn to miss a dreadful rain and windstorm. It broke the tin pipe on our kitchen chimney.
5/28/04 -Harry came looking like the mayor. Had rubber tire buggy, Nancy and nice black harness, new whip, new patent leather ties, cap, and things on horse’s hip straps to keep the reins from slipping down.
11/9/04 -Waited in little store by Miller house until the horses had eaten then we started for home, crossed the river at Dunsback Ferry.
11/14/04 - Pa took Howard to the Flats and the telephone wire was broke in front of our house and the telegraph poles were blown over, broken off, wires tangled between Nott’s corner and McKains so that no one could get through.
11/19/04 - I had to walk [from depot] but it was moonlight, did not mind it, got home 7 o’clock.
HEALTH
3/17/02 - Howard has the Mumps quite hard. He was in bed, he looked very pale.
Raymond & Ma had sore eyes & Pa had the Rheumatism. Pa fetched me to the depot, then he had to go home & do all the chores alone.
5/29/02 -As Miss Massey’s niece died with diphtheria, she has not been our teacher. Mr. Blakeman took her place.
6/18/02 -Went to school with a sober heart for I was afraid I would not pass my exams
8/12/02 -Mr Charlie Nash has the typhoid fever is improving Dr MacElroy attends him
8/24/02 -Had a serious quarrel [with Hany] because he smoked.
8/26/02 -Took a pill for cold (chloride of potash) not very pleasant to the sense of taste.
11/25/02- Raymond and I gathered sweet flag root in Mr. Myron Ostrom’s field. It is a good remedy for deafness.
1/1 8/04-Raymond was not feeling well, had sore throat ... Ma swabbed it out with salt, alum and water, onion drafts on his feet, salt pork and pepper on outside of throat and a shawl around him... felt better during the night.
1/20/04 -About 9 o’clock Raymond was worse ... might be diphtheria, sat up the rest of the night.
2/18/04 -After doing up my morning’s work I went to the Dentist’s. Mr. Waldo 2 doors below Sitterly... The work did not hurt any, but he let the instruments slip a few times into my gum, and then I felt like dancing... Had six teeth filled, 3 with gold & 3 with silver also my teeth cleaned for $7.
3/08/04- Had to fix chopped pork and onions and put on Raymond’s chest for he was very hoarse.
8/25/04- Mrs. Kniffen had an operation performed at her house on herself, will do nicely now.
10/7/04- Nelson told about Mr. Cox who went through Mr. Woodin’s thrashing machine.
11/9/04- Got to Aunt Mary’s 5 o’clock. I expected to have more cold, but had a hot supper, hot bricks in bed and hot lemonade so the cold was gone.
PROGRESS
5/07/02 -Mr. (blank space) came to make an estimate for wiring the house for electric lights.
6/15/02 -The electric men worked on the poles this morning.
6/19/02 -After doing up our work we went to see Flora. Stayed to dinner, helped cook on the gas stove. It is fine.
8/22/02 -Uncle Vean and I went up to Aunt Dora’s farm where the electric road is going through.
3/10/03 -Yesterday Mr. Van Hyning commenced setting poles for telephone line.
6/14/03 -We girls had a talk on the telephone.
1/13/04 -We are burning coal in our dining room Sterling Range and it works fine with less fuel, less work, less dirt, less time, and less expense so hurrah! for coal.
4/07/04 -Pa spoke to Guy Peck about the road here on our corner. Also about the Rural Free Delivery route which we hope will soon be taking action.
5/27/04 -Mr. Peck scraped or smoothed over the roads with road scraper and engine, but it did not do as good work as the horses did.
___________________________________________________
{a glimpse of the past Clifton Park, New York 1902-1904}
"You are what you eat, drink, think, say and do..."
