Dora:
Went to Farmers Institute for the first time in my life
Got Dinner for 20 cents in hall below.
Note: $0.20 then would equal about $4.64. Wonder what she had to eat!
Ray:
19 degrees in am. 28 degrees in pm Weather: Fair
Dora & I went to Institute all day.
Went [illegible, looks like either "& hatring" or "Shmatring"] at night.
Note: I suppose Ray could have gone skating. It was certainly cold enough. But I wonder if he'd skate at night? Rig up lanterns around the pond? Hm?
Cayla:
Finished up laundry. Got hopelessly addicted to Ancestry.com. Found out what Maurice Pearl looked like according to his WWI draft registration card. Black hair, blue eyes, medium height and slender build. Oh, and he had no missing limbs or eyes. He was listed as being a 'Mechanist'. That's the most information I think I've ever heard about him...
To those of you non-family members, or to those family members who don't know, Maurice Pearl was the father of Alice Pearl, future wife of Ray, future mother of Phyllis and thus, future grandmother to me. Maurice disappeared quite suddenly around 1921 (that is when he drops off the radar on Ancestry.com anyway) and no one knows what became of him. Some have speculated that he went out west seeking fortune, perhaps and ended up John Doe somewhere in some cemetery. Or somewhere I may have heard he may have been an alcoholic and fell of the radar due to shame or some such fact, although, I can't tell you where I heard that or even if that is a figment of my over-active imagination as a child. Anyway, we don't know what happened to him. My mother obviously never met him as she was born in 1936. And from what I recall, her mother didn't talk about him either, although she would have been around 16 when he "disappeared".
So, if anyone wonders where Brian got his blue eyes? Maurice. And I think Alice had blue eyes too, right?
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