Below are excerpts from young Charlie Bullis's diary, which he wrote on lined paper, when he was 13 years old. His entries paint a picture of a busy household. We hope you enjoy reading them.
"Thursday JUNE 16,
1904
Clarance cultivated corn and papa
surveyed the mill pond.
we had
letuce and we hoed in the
garden.
"Friday JUNE 17
Clarance cultivated corn.
papa surveyed the mill pond
and went to Palmyra.
we hoed in the garden
we had Littuce
"Saturday June 18
Clarance cultivated potatoes and
Papa went to a law suit and papa and I
went to the other place and got a role of wire
The weather was fine
we had
some lettuce radish & onions and
we hoed in the garden.
"Sunday June 19
1904
The weather was nice and papa put up
some boxes for books and we watched cows
"Monday June
20 1904
In the forenoon papa clarance
nettie and I put up the wire fence
and took down the wire fence
between the cow pasture and the
oats in the afternoon
the
men fixed fence at the other
place and we had a hard thunger
storm. we had Lettuce
for dinner.
there was a rainbow
"Tuesday JUNE 21,
1904
Papa went to the kent gravel pit. The
early potatoes blossomed and among them
was wonder queen. we
had the first
mills Earliest Lettuce along with other.
Grandma came up in the afternoon and
Brought 3 qts of straw berries and toward
Night we had the thunder storms.
"Wednesday July 20
1904
Clarance and I finished drawing hay on this
place and cultivated potatoes in the fore noon
we had a nice mess of peas for dinner and
2 cucumbers. The lima
beans that I got Christmas
began blossoming.
papa and clarance
unloaded the hay and clarance brought
the binder from the other place and
we fixed it some.
Nettie was sick."
