Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Risser
I’ve just been reading my
mother’s diary from the 19305.
During the month of January,
most every day mentioned that
one of her seven girls had a cold,
sore throat or quinsy. And, the
doctor came to our house rather
than we going to his office.
In January my parents butch-
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ered a small sheep and they
dressed 27 turkeys that they
raised. The old Tom turkey
weighted 28 pounds. A neighbor
brought us some soap that they
had made. My father went to a
horse sale as we did not have
tractors at that time. He and his
hired man stripped tobacco dur-
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ing the winter. The eggs that they
sold brought 19 cents per dozen.
My mother also noted that the
previous fall they had someone
paint the four houses that they
owned. The painters were paid
45 cents per hour. And, the five
year diary that she was writing in
cost her 14 cents it was genu
ine leather. Prices certainly were
different.
One of my sisters was 10 years
old. She used crutches and
walked to school using them. We
lived more than one-half a mile
from our two-room school. It had
a furnace in the basement and a
pump in an enclosed shed in the
back of the school. One of my sis
ters took violin lessons at school.
We had a stray dog come to
our house that we named Trixie.
My father tried to lose the dog by
having it follow our car. But,
when we got home, the dog was
sitting on the porch. So, they
bought a license for him, and we
enjoyed his company. On Sun-
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days we visited relatives after
going to Sunday School and
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pier time.
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