excerpt from 1963 diary

June 21, 1963

Rained some in night but mostly pleasant day.

A party of five was to pond fishing, a lady, boy and three men. Gave me forty-four cents. Frank and Danny came up fishing later and brought up loaf of bread, dozen doughnuts, three dozen cookies, a cake and three packages of candy. I put two dollars in empty cake box as reimbursement in part.

Wilber and wife and two of children came up in late p.m. and gave me a check for seven dollars as payment for a cord or more of pine cut but not taken to mill. Phone was not working but did not known it till Frank tried to call his mother when he got here. Later I called Ella and also Mildred.