Temperature below zero nearly all week.
Amycal
Slick, Wes drove us to church. Jack Bell’s family came & pulled pump, no fix.
Wes did not attend church, so it was nice of him to drive them.
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Ruth Morgan
Too much snow, no school. It snowed again.
President Nixon 57 yrs old.
Electricity went off all around Jay & Colcord etc. Aileen, Delbert & us played Pitch by gas lantern.
We got new chickens. The sun shone. Bus run 1st time since Dec 19th.
Sun shone. We went church. Wes stayed Orval’s.
Sun shone.
Tom bought color TV, 3 tables, divan & big chair. Wrote Cora Lue.
Our snow melted today, all gone. 1st time since Dec 28th nite.
Finished my yellow quilt top. Mable paid her 1st telephone bill $20. Wes took TV to shop, cost $5.
I washed on wringer machine. Dried in dryer.
Keith went university to Magician ball game.
Put the squirrels in their house outside
Kyle & I went church, had flat Keith came over & changed it. It rained was cold
Naomi got girls a rabbit. Wes, Kyle & I went to Junior play.
A beautiful day. Wes plowed garden. We visited at Roxie’s. I fixed Mable's hair after ladies Bible class.
Wes & I fought fire on us & Ralph. I took bad headache went Siloam hospital & took knock out shot.
I helped once when fire was racing across the pastures. The smoke is very black, thick, & very hard to beat out. It flares up behind you again.
Got bonus chicken check $457.
Delbert & Aileen got new automatic washer.
Tom & family came out & ate dinner & we hunted mushrooms.
Morel mushrooms, very few and hard to find; highly prized by the Morgan's.
Delbert & Wes cut & hauled logs to Ed January saw mill.
Borrowed Tom’s suitcase had to go Siloam early buy K white shirt.
We set some posts for garden fence
Rev 22:3
"And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him."
Me & boys dumped up chicken feed in evening
Keith drove kids to Bible School.
Keith lost his billfold w/$15.
Larry Duncan baptized
Opened new family size tide. Keith got his tape player back.
Wes signed Thomas’ $5,194 note
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