Sunday, August 10, 2014

Diary of Alfred E. Potter July, 1939

01.  Saturday: Mrs. Micko from St. Paul is a visitor at Lena Baiers.
02.  Sunday: To six oclock Mass as usual, met Mrs. Micko at church.  Then to work.  In the afternoon took the Fretchel Family to the cottage.  The Weisheipls are also with us in the evening.
03.  Monday: Ed Fretchel does some weeding at the cottage.  Joe Baier and Joe Hemmer drove out to the cottage to show Ed Fretchel out to fish.  Baier gets 12 good sized perch – Hemmer 6 Fretchel zero.
04.  Tuesday: An ideal day.  We have much company, Harry Agnes Mary and Jackie Kujawa, Leona Drexler, Joe and Anna Weisheipl – Ed – Thres and Robert Fretchel –Edward –Teddy – Mark and Mrs. Ed Steckbauer, Joe – Celia – Marion – Joan and Corrine Drexler Alois – Esther Mugerauer and their two children, Rose and Teddy Gittings and Aunt Mary.  We topped the evening off with a two hour celebration of Fireworks.
05.  Wednesday: Took the Fretchel SP home, Robert is allowed to stay as Donald’s guest.  Rose and Teddy Gittings are also with us.  Did some fishing with the boys after 5 O’clock, had good luck 26 perch bullhead and sunfish.  I caught two sheephead.  The temperature is up to about 88°.  Maggie Reetz leaves for home in Santa Anna California, this afternoon.
06. Thursday: This is a sizzler for heat, temperature's officially 98°. In the evening we are treated to a severe electrical storm and a heavy downpour of rain.  Rose gets 3 letters from Bob today. I call that a record.
07.  Friday: Bob Gittings blew in last night altho his letter saying he is coming tonight.  Well he got plenty of razzing about his letters.
08.  Saturday: Took Bob out fishing this afternoon but no luck whatever. I threw my entire casting outfit into the lake but managed to retrieve it after a half an hour. I told Bob he's a hoodoo. Took my first swim in Lake Butte des Morts for this year. The water was swell and we all hated to get out.
09.  Sunday: Joe Baier takes his mother Grandma and Mrs. Micko to Holy Hill.  They get back about 4 P.M.  The Weisheipl’s spend the evening and I should say part of the night with us.  They left for home at 1.45 in the morning.
10.  Monday: The weather is much cooler today.
11.  Tuesday: Took Lena Baier – Mrs. Micko and Anna Weisheipl to the cottage this morning for a days outing.
12.  Wednesday: This is a rather hot day; temperature is 94 at the cottage. We have plenty of company: Bill and Emma Siewert, Raymond - Maxine - Billy and Bobbie Siewert. In the evening Carl and Margaret Radomsky of Milwaukee accompanied by Lena and Anna Drexler - George Meisinger, Teddy and Rose Gittings.
13.  Thursday: Had my teeth cleaned and examined this morning by Dr. Norman Kleinschmidt.  Took Rose Weisheipl to Lorraine Jungwirth Wright’s on Wright Street.  She is invited there for supper.
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15.  Saturday: Bob Gittings is back from Chicago, and but he decides not to go fishing with us and that’s just too bad because Donald and myself get a nice mess of perch.  Dropped in at John Drexlers 1210 – 9th St. tonight.  It looks like a party out there Joe and Celia and children, Aloys Mugerauer family, Wm and Rose Mauritz Family, Anna Baier Ostertag Family, Harry Kujawa Family.  The children practice their parts for the First Mass Celebration of Mike Drexler which is to take place August 13th.  Walter Spiering, City Motorcycle officer is severely injured this morning between 9 and 10th St. on Oregon.
16.  Sunday: A cool day, temperature is 58° this morning.  Six Oclock Mass as usual then to work.  Back to the cottage this afternoon.  Donald and Mary Ann have as their guests Laurence and Dolores Kinateder.  Anna and Joe Heip come out in the evening and stay until 12.45 A.M.
17.  Monday: This is a day of rain, temperature is 60°.  The Rain does much good.
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19.  Wednesday: Ma Potter goes to town, so I take care of the kids. It is a lovely day. Took them swimming and about 530 out fishing, had good luck about 15 nice perch. Brought them in for Joe Heip so they might enjoy a nice meal of fresh fish. Brought Dolores Kinateder home as she was getting homesick for her mother. Anna Weisheipl comes back with Thres at night to stay a few days. Dr. C. J. Combs passed away this morning.
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21.  Friday: Folks come back in from the country.  Did a little celebrating at John Marx’s tonite.  Clara Doman is there and feeling pretty good.  Joe Tauber – Leo Shubert also feel very good.  About 11.30 Thres – Anna Drexler – Leona and George Meisinger stop in and the party lasts until 1A.M.
22.  Saturday: Viewed the remains of Dr. C. J. Combs at Fiss & Bill's. He is laid to rest this afternoon. Delivered many items for tomorrow's picnic to St. Vincents School this afternoon. Took a drive to Riverside Cemetery then Calvary Cemetery, located Mrs. Carl Mueller's grave. Thres and myself took a drive to Menasha in the evening, viewed the remains of Father Wm. Mortell at St. Patrick's Church, visited for a short time with his sister Zetta Mortell. Matt Ball is in town and Michael Dexler picks his chalice for his first mass Aug 13 - 1939.
23.  Sunday: Attended six oclock mass as usual, then to work. St. Vincents Church picnic at South Park today. Mama Potter is kept pretty busy. Had a meeting at our house of Mr. Mrs. Sutter, Joe Jungen, Charles Nolan, and myself. Trying to get the tangle in Mrs. Jungen's estate cleared up.
24.  Monday: The Family move back out to the cottage.  It is hot temperatures are at 90°.
25.  Tuesday: Another hot day, temperature again over 90°.  Joe and Cork Weisheipl and Frank Kimball spend the day at the cottage.  As fisherman they are n.g. but is cribbage players, they are very good.
26.  Wednesday: Bill and Emma Siewert are our guests today, at the cottage.  I took a drive around town this morning and paid the bills for St. Vincent’s Picnic.  Washed our boat this afternoon and then took a swim at the Sand Beach, hated to come out of the late, the water is swell.  Saw some good sizeD specimens of Muskrats in the lake near our dock this evening.  The Siewert stayed over night.  The temperature was 98° today, and thats plenty hot.
27.  Thursday: More Company today, Marge Weisheipl – her mother Mrs. Haverty – George Haverty – Mrs. Geo Haverty –Little Michael Haverty – Joe Weisheipl Jr. and his Mother Anna.  In the evening Joe Sr. came also.  The Heips stayed until 1 A.M just as it begins to rain.
28.  Friday: The rain lasted all night and part of this morning and has done much good. It also breaks up the hot spell; we have had 5 days straight with temperatures above 90°. Our new South Side Theatre “The Mode” opens tonite. Dr. William J. Mayo, the elder of the two famous physicians and surgeons at Rochester Minn. died this morning just two months after the death of his brother Charles Mayo who passed away May 27th. Dr. Wm. was 78 years old June 29.
29.  Saturday: Bob Gittings is in town, he is trying to break up a cold via the Peppermint Schnapps route.
30.  Sunday: Ohio Street Merchants Picnic today.  We view the parade, it is a good sized one, the clown band is very good.  Took Bill Mauritz’s family to Anna Drexler’s for short visit.  Ray Ostertag looks very sick today for some beer reason.  Thres moves the family back to the cottage after supper.  Took Anna Weisheipl –Ed and Thres Fretchel along.  Joe Heip is that Kitz’s cottage, where the Eagle’s Concert Band have their outing.  Aunt Mary has company this evening, Michael Drexler –Rose and Teddy Gittings – Anna and Leona Drexler.
31.  Monday: Marion – Joan –and Corrinne Drexler our guests at the cottage.  Today is a hot day, temperatures well above 90°, 94° at the cottage.

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