Mar 27, 1917

Tuesday Night, Mar 27, 1917
Miss Root's and Miss Seymour's Birthday.

After school the entire 6th Grade entertained the above persons & myself at the Greek's. Ice cream & birthday cake.

It stormed tonight, rain wind & snow.

Haven't written in this in 3 days. Sunday went to church & S.S. Earl & Ethel were over. Grace Wood came, we walked & called on Miss Peek & Mrs. Rushton. I went to church at night. Wrote to P.L.

Monday. School was unusual. Quite a few were absent -- sick with colds.

In evening went to committee Meeting at Mrs. Miller's to decide about prizes for vegetable & flower contest as planned by Monday Club. Wrote to Grace Gurney and Calvin Derrick.

Today more are sick. Perry Pictures came & I gave those out. Hard day in school. Stopped at the Smith Store on my way home & bot a sweater.

Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Sun.

Just busy spring days. Wed. after school had grade faculty meeting with exceptions. Thurs. after school primed warm nests at Mrs. Broadfoot's. Fri. afternoon discussed petition & presented it to Mr. Wheeler. Sat. went to Industrial School in Afternoon. Mother & I called at Rushton's in evening. Today have been to church twice & S.S. Taught Frederick Kirby, Robert Sever & Harry. Miss Miller & Miss Alberty called. Finished "The House of Happiness" by Kate Langley Bosher. A very good story. Hope all are well & back at school tomorrow. Wrote to Rose Porter & Mae Sherwood.

A company of 80 soldiers are here to guard bridges. Congress is convened in special session tomorrow to take actions regarding Germany. It doesn't seem possible that we are being drawn into this terrible war!

Notes: Lots of names in this entry, but very few that turn up in simple census searches.

I am more convinced that P.L. is a person.

I am beginning to suspect that the name I have been transcribing as Peek is actually Peck. There are several Peck's in the county.

Mary A. Broadfoot lived in neighboring Otsego. I do not see a Broadfoot family listed for Unadilla.

Does anyone know what "priming" a warm nest means?

The United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917. A bit more than a week after this entry was made.