Wallace - 1923

1923

Addresses

D.P.Richards, Cedar Grove ME

Maple syrup wanted C.W. Shaw Auburn ME Box 36

Lancutia 135 Pleasant St. Auburn

January

Monday 1

Rained all day. Another new year has dawned upon us. May it prove to be the most prosperous and happiest year of all our lives thus far

Tuesday 2

Cool and cloudy. Went down and helped Sheridan this forenoon.

Wednesday 3

Cloudy and mild. Snowed all the forenoon

Thursday 4

Cloudy and windy. Fred is with us tonight

Friday 5

Cloudy and mild

Saturday 6

Cloudy and mild

Sunday 7

30 B The coldest morning for the winter so far. Clear and pleasant.

Monday 8

Tuesday 9

Taken with a bad cold. Had the Dr. Snowing again tonight.

Wednesday 10

Had the Dr. again to. He told me to stay in bed a few days.

Thursday 11

Quite a nice day

Friday 12

The Dr. let me get up this PM. Snowed all day.

Saturday 13

Blowed hard all day

Sunday 14

Nice day but no roads anywhere. They will probably break them out tomorrow.

Monday 15

Snowed all day again. We are certainly getting some snow this winter.

Tuesday 16

Cloudy and windy

Wednesday 17

Snowed all day again

Thursday 18

Clear and cold

Friday 19

Cloudy and warmer

Saturday 20

Clear cold morning 26 below zero. Snowed this afternoon.

Sunday 21

Cloudy and mild

Monday 22

Eight inches more snow fell. Cloudy and windy today

Tuesday 23

Clear and cold

Wednesday 24

30 below zero this morning. Snow tonight

Thursday 25

Eight inches of snow fell last night. A high wind today has had been with it.

Friday 26

Saturday 27

Cold and windy

Sunday 28

A nice day

Monday 29

Windy and cold.

Tuesday 30

Clear cold and windy

Wednesday 31

Partly cloudy and warmer

February

Thursday 1

A fine day. Fred came up tonight on the stage.

Friday 2

Clear and pleasant a beautiful day.

Saturday 3

Snowed all the forenoon and blowed all the afternoon. Fred went home today

Sunday 4

22 B A cold morning but a nice pleasant

Monday 5

20 B A cold pleasant day

Tuesday 6

16 B A nice day

Wednesday 7

14 B A fine day. Clear all day.

Thursday 8

20 B Cold and cloudy

Friday 9

28 A Another fine day

Saturday 10

0 Cloudy this AM. Cleared off this PM

Sunday 11

10 B Some cloudy. Snowed some and clear tonight.

Monday 12

8 A A fine day

Tuesday 13

Snowed all day

Wednesday 14

Snowed all day again today. About 20 inches of it both days

Thursday 15

Has been blowing today. Nothing doing. A rough spell of weather.

Friday 16

A cold rainy day.

Saturday 17

Clear and cold

Sunday 18

Clear and cold. Below zero nearly all day. We are having some winter weather all right.

Monday 19

Another cool pleasant windy day. Heard of Wm Poor’s death today.

Tuesday 20

A fine winter day. Aunt Persis Hutchins 80^th birthday

Wednesday 21

Cold and windy. Mrs. Arthur Long died today.

Thursday 22

A nice day. Some cloudy

Friday 23

A clear cold windy day. Mrs. Arthur Long was buried today.

Saturday 24

Another clear cold day. Signs of snow tonight.

Sunday 25

Snowed some this morning. Cleared off fine tonight.

Monday 26

Cloudy and warmer. Mr. French had a shock today.

Tuesday 27

Cloudy all day.

Wednesday 28

Another cloudy warm day with some snow.

March

Thursday 1

A fine day. The first day since Jan 1 that the snow has melted any in the road so sleds moved on easy. Some winter.

Friday 2

Warm nice weather

Saturday 3

A warm cloudy day. Have had a week of nice warm winter weather. Mr. French died last night.

Sunday 4

Still cloudy and warm. Fifty years ago today I came onto this farm to live with Father and Mother and I am still here.

Monday 5

Another March meeting today. So cold and windy I did not go. Mr. French was buried today.

Tuesday 6

Some wind today but quite pleasant

Wednesday 7

Four inches of snow came this AM and has been squalling and blowing all the P.M. and windy all day.

Thursday 8

Cold and windy all day.

Friday 9

A fine day today. Down around zero tonight. Moon changed to last quarter today.

Saturday 10

A cold stormy day. Snow

Sunday 11

A nice pleasant day but cool in the shade.

Monday 12

Snowed all day again.

Tuesday 13

Cloudy and warm. Sheridan got his first load of wood home today.

Wednesday 14

Another snow storm today. Sheridan got two more loads of wood today.

Thursday 15

A beautiful day. Two more loads of wood today making five loads so far.

Friday 16

Snowed all the forenoon. We have had four snow storms the past week and two pleasant days on the last quarter of the moon.

Saturday 17

A beautiful day. Sheridan got 2 more loads of wood today making 7 loads

Sunday 18

A nice warm day. Did not go to church today on account of a cold which I have had nearly all winter.

Monday 19

A warm cloudy day. But windy and squally tonight and growing colder. Got two loads of wood today.

Tuesday 20

A clear cold & windy day. Got two more loads of wood today.

Wednesday 21

Cloudy and cool. Sheridan finished hauling our wood today. 13 loads.

Thursday 22

Sheridan went down on his pine job again today.

Friday 23

Warmer snow has settled a lot today. James Littlehale died today.

Saturday 24

Warm and soft. Bad going on the woods.

Sunday 25

Monday 26

Tuesday 27

5 below zero this morning and snowing some winter yet tonight

Wednesday 28

5 below zero tonight and squalling snow and blowing hard. A cold winter night.

Thursday 29

12 below aero this morning and a high wind some line winter for the time of year.

Friday 30

Another cold day

Saturday 31

Still cold and windy. March is going out like a lion this year all right.

April

Sunday 1

Cold and clear

Monday 2

Cold all day partly cloudy

Tuesday 3

Has begun to warm up a little. Commenced to sap our sap orchard today. Sap run some. Mr. C.A. Andrews died today.

Wednesday 4

No sap weather. Cloudy and warm.

Thursday 5

A rainy day. Mr. Andrews was buried today.

Friday 6

Bad weather for sap.

Saturday 7

Emptied the water from our sap buckets today. Have not get any sap yet.

Sunday 8

Warm and cloudy. No sap. Moon changed to last quarter today.

Monday 9

Clear cold and windy too cold for sap to run well.

Tuesday 10

Pleasant but cool. Sap run some this P.M.

Wednesday 11

Snowed a little last night. The best sap day we have had. Commenced to boil this P.M. Got in 82 pails of sap.

Thursday 12

Pleasant but cool. Boiled sap this afternoon. Got in 80 pails = 162 pails

Friday 13

Another cool pleasant day. Boiled in 56 pails of sap = 218.

Saturday 14

Still cold and clear. Boiled 58 pails today = 276. Took off 4 Gal

Sunday 15

A good sap day. Signs of a storm tonight.

Monday 16

Snowed some last night although cloudy. Sap has run well all dy. Boiled in 80 pails today = 356. Took of 10 Gal. honey = 14.

Tuesday 17

Cloudy. Boiled in 80 pails of sap today = 436. Took of 5 Ga. = 19 in all.

Wednesday 18

Cool and partly cloudy but sap has run quite good. Got 40 pails = 476. Took of 6 gal = 25. Stage came on wheels, three weeks later than last year.

Thursday 19

A good sap day. Got 50 pails = 526. Too of 2 gal = 27. Wheeling is 3 weeks later this spring than it was last.

Friday 20

Another fine sap day. Clear warmer tonight. Boiled in 98 pails = 624. Took of 4 = 31 gal. I have come to another milestone in my life journey making 71 I have passed.

Saturday 21

Warm the snow has gone fast since yesterday morning. Got 35 pail = 659. Took off 5 gal = 36.

Sunday 22

Cloudy and warm. Raining tonight

Monday 23

Windy cloudy and some snow and rain together. Sawing wood today.

Tuesday 24

Sawed some more wood today. Wet and cold. Autos are just beginning to run around here.

Wednesday 25

Cloudy and windy. Have been splitting wood today.

Thursday 26

A fine day. Fred came up today.

Friday 27

Another nice day. Frost last night so sap has run some today. Commenced to gather in buckets.

Saturday 28

Rained all the P.M. Alma Grover and Ralph Hewey married today.

Sunday 29

A big rain causing quite a freshet.

Monday 30

Rained hard all night. The river is very high flowing all over the fields. This makes 3 floods in April.

May

Tuesday 1

Have had no mail yesterday or today. The stage could not go through to Rumford.

Wednesday 2

Fair. Finished off sapping today. Took of 7 Gal. making 43 gal in all. Got our mail again today.

Thursday 3

Fair. Fred came up again tonight. Seems warmer tonight. Grass is starting fine.

Friday 4

Sheridan has been plowing with his tractor down on the Hall farm today.

Saturday 5

Warm with slower tonight.

Sunday 6

Fine and cooler

Monday 7

A fine day. Have been around the house fixing up things. And fixing fence.

Tuesday 8

A nice day. The ice went out of Richardson Lake today I hear. Fixing fence.

Wednesday 9

Cloudy and showering. The folks went to Rumford today.

Thursday 10

Commence to haul out manure today. Cool and some cloudy.

Friday 11

A cool day. Signs of rain tonight. Mattie and Beatrice went to Lewiston today.

Saturday 12

Rained last night and again this P.M.

Sunday 13

Cloudy and coo. But clear tonight.

Monday 14

Tuesday 15

Wednesday 16

Thursday 17

Fair. Sheridan has been hauling manure for over a week. Cooler tonight

Friday 18

A find day. Commenced to treat our seed potatoes today.

Saturday 19

Sunday 20

A fine day. Have been at home all day.

Monday 21

A rainy dy. Have been working on see potatoes all day.

Tuesday 22

Have been soaking potatoes today. Have got 43 Bu treated. Sheridan has been hauling his fertilizer.

Wednesday 23

Have been working on the potatoes again today – 17 Bu today = 60 in all

Thursday 24

A find day. Chores & potatoes as usual. 15 Bu + 60 = 76

Friday 25

Another fine day. Same job on the potatoes. Soaked 10 Bu = 85

Saturday 26

Sowed two akers of oats today and harrowed five akers. Soaked 5 Bu potatoes = 90 in all

Sunday 27

A beautiful day. Fred Swan and wife took dinner with us today.

Monday 28

Finished sowing my oats today. A fine day.

Tuesday 29

Have been sowing grass seed today.

Wednesday 30

Finished planting our potatoes today. Planted 127 Bu down on the Hall farm.

Thursday 31

June

Friday 1

Plowed and planted part of our garden today.

Saturday 2

A clear windy day. Worked in the garden today. Has been a pleasant week.

Sunday 3

Went to church today to hear Mr. Miller.

Monday 4

Had a fine shower tonight.

Tuesday 5

Showery

Wednesday 6

Rained nearly all day.

Thursday 7

Friday 8

Saturday 9

Sunday 10

Monday 11

A fine day. Planted our fodder corn today. Beatrice went to Lewiston the class today to have their pictures taken.

Tuesday 12

Another fine day.

Wednesday 13

Thursday 14

Commenced to shingle the north side or our barn today. Fred is with us again tonight.

Friday 15

A fine day. Have been working on the barn roof today. Slow work all alone.

Saturday 16

Sunday 17

A fine day. Did not get to church today.

Monday 18

hot

Tuesday 19

Hotter

Wednesday 20

Hottest. Took a ride around the North Rumford square to cool off tonight.

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Saturday 30

July

Sunday 1

Monday 2

Tuesday 3

Wednesday 4

Another fourth. Stayed at home all day.

Thursday 5

Another fine day. George and Laura are with us tonight.

Friday 6

Saturday 7

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Monday 9

Tuesday 10

A nice day. Finished our hoeing today.

Wednesday 11

Have been down on the Hall farm haying thru P.M.

Thursday 12

Have been running the mowing machine all day today on the Hall farm.

Friday 13

A good hay day. Four of us worked haying today down on the Hall farm.

Saturday 14

Cleaned up to the scythe today down to the Hall farm. Very dry. Hope it will rain soon.

Sunday 15

A few needed showers came today to refresh vegetation. A young man was drowned while bathing in the river.

Monday 16

No hay day but not much rain. Did not rain any today.

Tuesday 17

Commenced haying at home today. Mowed with the machine all dy. Hope to see a good day tomorrow.

Wednesday 18

Got in 3 loads of hay today. Craig & Harold worked this P.M.

Thursday 19

An extra good hay day. Hot and a good wind. Got 5 loads today = 8 in all. Craig and Harold worked all day.

Friday 20

Another hot day. Got 2 loads = 10. C & H worked this P.M.

Saturday 21

Another hay day. Got 3 loads = 13 in all. C & H worked all day

Sunday 22

Another beautiful day. Cool and nice. Uncle Charles Chase called on us today.

Monday 23

No hay day. Showers. Glad to see them. The crops needed them.

Tuesday 24

Sheridan and I have hayed alone to. Mowed and raked some and got in 1 load = 14.

Wednesday 25

Have not hayed any today. ??? showers about all day.

Thursday 26

Mowed and raked today. Have got 10 or more loads of hay but hope for good weather tomorrow and Sat.

Friday 27

No hay day has not rained much. C & Harold worked in the AM. On the wood pile. Y.A. Thurston died last night.

Saturday 28

A very rainy day. The ground needed it.

Sunday 29

Monday 30

A poor hay day. C. & H. worked this P.M.

Tuesday 31

No hay weather. Have been working on the barn today.

August

Wednesday 1

A fine hay day. Got 6 big loads = 19. C&H worked all day.

Thursday 2

A good hay day. Got 3 loads = 22. Craig worked in the P.M. Harold worked all day.

Friday 3

No hay day. Craig worked one hour. President Harding died last night.

Saturday 4

A fine hay day. Got 4 loads = 26. C&H worked all day.

Sunday 5

Pleasant

Monday 6

A fine day. Got 2 loads = 28. C&H worked all day.

Tuesday 7

No hay day. Worked in the barn about all day.

Wednesday 8

A good pleasant day. Got 3 loads = 31. C&H worked all day. Mrs. Emma Adams died last night.

Thursday 9

Another good hay day. Got 4 loads = 35. C&H worked all day.

Friday 10

Hayed today. Got 2 loads = 37. The men worked all day.

Saturday 11

Finished haying at home today. Got 4 loads = 41 in all. C&H worked all day.

Sunday 12

Cloudy all day. Went to church today to hear Mr. Suter preach on ?promise?

Monday 13

Have been mowing all day down on the Hall farm. 3 of us worked. Craig did not work.

Tuesday 14

Sheridan and I worked all day on the Hall farm. C&H in the P.M. Got 2 loads = 7

Wednesday 15

Went to Pomono Grange today. Have not hayed any.

Thursday 16

A fine day. We all (4) worked on the Hall farm. Got 3 loads =10

Friday 17

Finished haying Got 12 loads on the Hall farm. . Sheridan Craig and I worked today.

Saturday 18

Another fine day for thrashing. Have been fixing up today putting the wood in.

Sunday 19

Monday 20

Have been working on the barn roof today.

Tuesday 21

Showery

Wednesday 22

A very windy day. Thrashed the first load of oats today.

Thursday 23

Have laid a few shingles on the barn today.

Friday 24

We got our first frost to kill some of our crops last night. Thrashing and shingling today.

Saturday 25

Rained last night. Cloudy and lowering all day.

Sunday 26

Monday 27

Tuesday 28

A rain day and night

Wednesday 29

Thursday 30

A fine day. Have been shingling on the barn today.

Friday 31

September

Saturday 1

Sunday 2

Monday 3

Thrashing and shingling as usual

Tuesday 4

A fine day. Have been thrashing about all day.

Wednesday 5

Mowed our first oats for this fall. Sheridan Mattie and the girls went to the State Fair today.

Thursday 6

Friday 7

Thrashed four loads today and got in one of our own. The first load this fall. Fred helped us.

Saturday 8

Cloudy all day. Thrashed our load of oats. Got 25 bu. Oats are good this season.

Sunday 9

Monday 10

Tuesday 11

Have been thrashing and getting up oats today.

Wednesday 12

The same performance today. Cloudy all day.

Thursday 13

A fine day. Thrashed out 6 loads and got up one.

Friday 14

Saturday 15

A beautiful day. Got in four loads of oats from the Rand farm today and thrashed 4 loads. 24 above zero this morning. A killing frost.

Sunday 16

Trying to rain a little tonight. Very dry and ???. The springs in town are nearly all dried up.

Monday 17

Have been working on the oats today and thrashing.

Tuesday 18

The same today. Nice weather.

Wednesday 19

Another fine day for the first day of the Andover Fair. Did not go today.

Thursday 20

A beautiful day. Attended the Andover Fair today. A good ???? and all seemed to be happy.

Friday 21

Rained last night and this A.M. thrashed out 60 Bu. oats this P.M.

Saturday 22

Sunday 23

A nice warm day. Went to ?Oscar Damon’s? funeral today.

Monday 24

Tuesday 25

A beautiful day. Sheridan commenced drying his potatoes today down in the Hall farm got 100 Bu. Out and in cellar at home.

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Saturday 29

Beatrice went away today to attend Business college in Lewiston. Hope she has good success.

Sunday 30

October

Monday 1

A very windy day. The cows broke out of the pasture and took to the field. Shall have to let them have it.

Tuesday 2

Have been gathering he garden and pulling beans today.

Wednesday 3

A beautiful day. Have been fixing fence today to hold the cattle in the field.

Thursday 4

Friday 5

Saturday 6

A cool pleasant day. Finished picking apples today a small crop. Soon harvested.

Sunday 7

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Thursday 11

Warm and nice weather. Sheridan finished digging his potatoes today had 1400 Bu.

Friday 12

Another fine day. Auction over to Ella Damon’s. Pratt commenced to give milk today.

Saturday 13

Sunday 14

A fine day. Sheridan took us to a ride. We went to ?Hiram?, East Rumford and ?Vorm?. The airplane take two flights. We all enjoyed it very much.

Monday 15

A nice day. Commenced to shingle on the barn again today. Sheridan sent 375 Bu. Of potatoes to Rumford today.

Tuesday 16

Another fine day.

Wednesday 17

Warm and fine no rain very dry. Shingling and hauling out manure today.

Thursday 18

Commenced to rain this noon. Has not rained for a long time very dry.

Friday 19

A rainy day.

Saturday 20

Cleared again today. Have been working on the barn roof today.

Sunday 21

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Tuesday 23

Wednesday 24

Rained all night and all day today. The first time the water has run in the meadow brook this summer.

Thursday 25

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Monday 29

Finished shingling the barn today between the showers.

Tuesday 30

Wednesday 31

Cool and windy. Frank Newton came very near to losing his store in a fire last night.

November

Thursday 1

18 A Cool and clear. Fifty one years ago today father bought this farm.

Friday 2

5 A A fine day. Ed Hodsdon’s are burning up at this present time. 8:30 PM

Saturday 3

5 A A fine day.

Sunday 4

Monday 5

Tuesday 6

A fine Nov. day but raining tonight. Commenced to shingle the house down on the Hall farm today. Merton Fox and Hazel Mills married tonight.

Wednesday 7

Rained all night and the most of the time today. Glad to see it just what we need for water this winter.

Thursday 8

Cool and windy for shingling. Chimney burned out today. Did no harm. Fred is with us tonight.

Friday 9

Saturday 10

Sunday 11

A cool cloudy day.

Monday 12

Armistice Day. A beautiful day. Finished Sheridan’s shingling job today.

Tuesday 13

A fine day. Finished work down on Sheridan’s house today.

Wednesday 14

Another fine day. Have been working around home today. Banking the house, &tc.

Thursday 15

Friday 16

A nice day. Killed our bull today.

Saturday 17

Has been fine weather all the week. Finished banking the house today. No snow yet.

Sunday 18

Monday 19

Our first snow flakes fell last night for this fall. All good tonight.

Tuesday 20

A fine day. Cattle getting their living in the field.

Wednesday 21

Another fine day.

Thursday 22

A beautiful day. Have been working around home today.

Friday 23

A fine day. Went up with Sheridan and worked on his landing culling bushes and getting it ready for his pulp.

Saturday 24

A rainy day. No storm for 17 day.

Sunday 25

Rained gently all day. Snowed some last night but all gone tonight.

Monday 26

A fine day. Have been up in the woods today. Use an ax all day from 8 in the morning until dark. Pretty good for a man almost 72.

Tuesday 27

Rained again today.

Wednesday 28

A fine day some windy but not cold. Beatrice came home from school to Thanksgiving with us.

Thursday 29

6 A A clear day. Cattle still in the field. No snow yet.

Friday 30

A rainy day and still at it tonight.

December

Saturday 1

40 A A mild wind. Could plow all night in the field. The cattle have been in the field all day. I have been up in the woods all day. Harry and Lizzie came today.

Sunday 2

30 A Cloudy and warm.

Monday 3

33 A Cloudy and mild. One inch of snow fell last night. All gone tonight.

Tuesday 4

38 A cloudy and warm. Cattle in the field today. No wind.

Wednesday 5

28 A snowed all day. About 5 inches on ground tonight. No wind.

Thursday 6

34 A Rained all the AM and taken the snow nearly all off. Fred is with us tonight.

Friday 7

40 A cloudy and warm with a little wind. Snow all gone.

Saturday 8

28 A cloudy and mild. No wind. Cattle have be out all day in the field. Have been up in the woods today for Sheridan.

Sunday 9

36 A A fine day. Clouds and sunshine. Mild No wind.

Monday 10

30 A cloudy and mild. No wind. Very mild weather for Dec. Could plow every day when it did not storm this month so far.

Tuesday 11

28 A Clouds and sunshine. No wind. A nice day in the woods. About 3 inches of snow came last night but the weather is so mild I guess it will not last long.

Wednesday 12

26 A A fine day. Have been up in the woods helping Sheridan 3 days so far this week. Harry was not able to work so I helped him.

Thursday 13

30 A Cloudy. No wind. John E. Akers was buried today.

Friday 14

32 A Cloudy and some colder & windy

Saturday 15

2 A Cloudy. The coldest morning we have had this winter. Good wheeling.

Sunday 16

15 A. Cloudy. The coldest day for the season thus far.

Monday 17

26 A Cloudy and windy with a few snow flakes.

Tuesday 18

6 A Fair windy and cold. Cattle have been in barn one week. They went last Tuesday for good.

Wednesday 19

3 A partly cloudy. Cool. No wind.

Thursday 20

4 A Cloudy. No wind. Fred came tonight. Raining again tonight.

Friday 21

33 A Cloudy & warm

Saturday 22

44 A Cloudy with a warm wind tonight with some rain last night has taken the snow all off again.

Sunday 23

36 Above Cloudy & cool. No wind. All thawed out, some windy and slippery for autos. Snow all gone. Millie Newton Mar. today.

Monday 24

26 A Fair and cooler about two inches of snow came last night right on the soft ground.

Tuesday 25

5 A Clear in the AM but cloudy tonight with signs of a storm. Had an auto ride today.

Wednesday 26

22 A Cloudy with a few snow squalls.

Thursday 27

20 A Fair and some windy & cool. Still good wheeling. Signs of snow.

Friday 28

16 A snowed all day 10 inches has fell and still storming.

Saturday 29

15 A Fair with some wind. They got out the snow roller and rolled down the snow in the village and some on the outside roads.

Sunday 30

10 A Clear and cold

Monday 31

14 A Snowed all day gently signs of more tonight.