3 Ruth tells Corinna to save her letters
4 Gloria goes to Bluebirds camp
6 Baseball game in Minneapolis
7 Shopping at Dayton’s in Minneapolis
8 Marvin trades a truck tire for four cords of wood
14 Harriet’s bicycle arrives
16 Some motherly advice
18 Ruth explains proposed Constitutional Amendments at League of Women Voters me
Have been reading all your letters. You must be having a good time with all the
23 Ruth bakes pies, cake, and bread for the church Food Sale
24 Ruth sews “like blazes” to make pajamas and a petticoat
25 Relief workmen move Olga’s house
26 Harriet sells forget-me-nots downtown
27 Wash day
28 An old tam gets a makeover and Ruth sews an old skirt into a dress for Gloria
29 Harriet and Gloria get bracelets and books from Corinna
33 Ruth goes to the Legion play and Marvin goes pheasant hunting
34 Ruth prepares pheasants for dinner
35 Gloria and Harriet get a P and G circus coloring book
36 Nearly everyone in Atwater attends Hovey/Slinden wedding at the Norwegian chu
39 Hallowe’en can-tipping
40 Gloria and Harriet visit Bobby who is recovering from pneumonia
41 Back taxes on the house count up to $198
42 Games after supper: “Button Button,” “Bird, Beast or Fish,” and “Hooky, Hooky
43 Harriet practices the piano and Myron practices for the Athletics play
44 Myron becomes an Eagle Scout
46 Marvin buys 40 lbs of pork at six cents a pound; Ruth stores it outside under
49 Ruth spends the afternoon sewing with Winnie
50 Marvin buys 3 tons of coal to keep the house warmer than burning wood
53 Myron plays the organ in church
55 Myron plays Willie Waldo in “The Antics of Andrew” and Harriet sings in “Sunb
56 Harriet and Gloria deliver papers by sled and then go coasting
57 Myron “scared witless” by a pencil seller
58 Winnie takes a job at the Wartburg in Minneapolis
59 Myron works on a grease job at the garage; sells 60 gallons of gas in one aft
60 Snow fight at the Atwater School
64 Christmas dinner and opening presents
67 Fire truck goes to the wrong house
68 Listening to Hauptman’s trial on the radio
69 W.C.T.U. meeting
70 Ruth plays the prelude at church
74 Harriet plays Bunco at Camp Fire Girls meeting
78 200 voices at Chorus meet in Willmar
80 Ruth sews a blue dress and covers two old quilts
81 Doc Anderson binds Myron’s ankle
82 Shopping trip to Willmar
83 Ruth hosts W.C.T.U. lunch
84 Ruth helps out at Boy Scouts’ pancake fundraiser
86 Myron wins first in Oratory Contest
88 Harriet, Gloria, and Ruth go skating on Elvira’s pond
92 Ruth ties a quilt
95 Atwater gets serum for diphtheria inoculations
97 Snow is wet enough for coasting on the school hill
100 Harriet starts a Skippy club
102 Marvin gives Ruth an electric corn popper for her 45th birthday
103 Harriet attends Camp Fire Girls’ ceremonial meeting
107 Harriet buys “Little Women” for $1 at the Drug Store
108 Harriet sees “Treasure Island” and comes home singing pirate songs
109 Pancakes for breakfast
112 Boys orchestra practices new music; not much harmony
113 Trip to Sears in Minneapolis to look for linoleum
115 Ruth lugs the radio down to the garage for Marvin to listen to the ball game
118 Myron breaks his other ankle at the Olivia game
120 Marvin brings home the radio to listen to the ball game
121 Harriet and Ruth make May baskets for Miss Branae’s shower
122 Sleet storm takes down telephone poles and lines
124 Myron plays the organ at church; Harriet practices her song for the Senior C
130 Myron and Harriet go to the ball game; Gloria makes mud cakes
131 Apple trees are blossoming
132 Harriet and Gloria sell poppies
133 Harriet works the fishing pond at C.F.G. fundraiser
136 Marvin goes fishing and catches one little sunfish
137 Marvin sells the Whippet car
139 Myron drives the Model A Coupe to Willmar
141 Ruth transplants flower seedlings
142 Ruth prepares for the trip to New York
143 Final letter written to Corinna in New York
144 Neighborhood children in their bathing suits out in the rain
145 Ruth votes in the school board election
146 Ruth makes sandwiches for lunch at the lake after the ball game
147 Marvin shocks corn at Nordstrom’s farm
148 Marvin wants Corinna to handle the books for the garage; Ruth wants to sell
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143 Final letter written to Corinna in New York
143 Final letter written to Corinna in New York
Harriet (Stafford) Dukelow
June 18, 1935
Dear Kinney,
Mother says I should write the last letter to you as she has not any time to do so. She is awfully busy. I just got a letter from Arline Stafford, my cousin in North Dakota. She started her letter thus—How are you all all?—2 alls. We are all well. She said they had there school picnic on the buttes (low mountains). We are sending some of our clothes today. We are all excited about going to see you. Mother is going with Betty Lundgren to League of Women Voters this afternoon. Mother says for you to hang up our coats when they arrive on Sat. Mom thinks.
Sunday night around 6:30 G and Daddy and I went fishing. G caught 3 sunfish and I did, too. Daddy caught 5 croppies and a few sunfish and boy did they taste good.
Quite a while a go we went to Willmar and got a trench coat for Bud, and Gloria and I rode in the rumble seat of our ford. It’s (the car) a ’29 build. I don’t know anymore to write so
Tood-el-oo Harriet Pauline Stafford.