Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Diary of Alfred E. Potter November, 1940

01.  Friday: To 7 Oclock Mass and it’s raining.          Com.  Stanislaus Jarosch Ind.  Pancratius Drexler – Mary Drexler –Frank and John Drexler –Anton Holzbauer Sr. and Jr.
02.  Saturday: To 6.30 and7 Oclock Mass this morning.            Com.  Kath. Holzbauer Ind.  Jos Drexler – Father – Mother –Sylvester Bludau – Rev. Carl Strohberger O.M Cap.  – Sister Mary Davidica –Sister M. Syntiches
03.  Sunday: A lovely day.  Attended six oclock mass then to work.  In the afternoon we drove to the cottage.  Bill and Emma Siewert – Ed –Thres Fretchel –Joe – Anna Weisheipl all came out for a pre – birthday party.  Temperature is about 60°.  Ed built a nice fire in the fireplace, and we were comfortable.
04.  Monday: Today is my birthday and I am at the half century mark.  Father John Nuernberg is at Mercy Hospital.  He has a large carbuncle near his left eye.  Joe Hemmer is looking for radio for him.
05.  Tuesday: The country sets a precedent by electing Franklin Delano Roosevelt for President of the United States for a third term.  Julius Heil is re-elected Governor of Wisconsin.
06.  Wednesday: Visited Father Nuernberg at Mercy Hospital this afternoon.  He is doing fairly well.
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09.  Saturday: A rainy Saturday, but business is fair.
10.  Sunday: Rain most of the day.  Attended 730 Mass.
11.  Monday: It is still raining this morning at noon heavy black clouds come up, which bring on a very severe windstorm and lower temperatures, dropping from 53°to 12° above.  Much damage is done.
12.  Tuesday: Drove to Milwaukee to attend a meeting of the Druggist Service Bureau meeting.  After hearing a report of the financial condition of the Bureau, I made a motion to dissolve the Corporation and sell out to some jobber.  After some discussion motion was unanimously carried.  Drove to Karls 1717 Bar and had a stake there.  It was surprised to find Anna Drexler there.  She was back from Chicago since Sunday.  I brought her along home with me.  She had been gone 3 weeks and Leona staid at our house during this time.
13.  Wednesday: Mama Potter has a birthday, she is 54.  Well we had a prize party for her in the evening.  The Heips and the Fretchels –Anna and Leona Drexler are here.  The party broke up at 2 A.M.
14.  Thursday: Dropped in on the Baiers this morning.  Grandma Baier is pretty well.  Emma (Mrs. Joe Baier) is also pretty well, but anxiously waiting to see what the stork will bring.  He is due to arrive within a week.
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21.  Thursday: All but 16 States in the country celebrate Thanksgiving Day today. It is a day of rain.  We attended 9 Oclock Hi Mass.  A big 13 pound turkey with all the trimmings like only Mother can make them, is our dinner.  In the afternoon we attended the Oshkosh Theatre.  A Technicolor picture “North West Mounted Police” was the feature with Gary Cooper - Madeline Carroll - Preston Foster - Robert Preston and Paulette Goddard starring.
22.  Friday: Joe Baier becomes a papa this morning at 2.45.  It is an 8 pound baby boy.
23.  Saturday: Received 2 Bushels Oranges from Texas today, shipped by Bob Lutz.  He has quite a grove down there.  Naomi Mueller has a good sized cinder in her eye, and Dr. Potter? has to remove it.  Harry Pokrandt begins work at the South Side Store today.  He is to help out Saturdays and Sundays.
24.  Sunday: To 730 Hi Mass at St. Vincents, then to work.  Thres and the children take in a movie in the afternoon.  I work in the evening and Thres takes Anna Weisheipl –Thres Fretchel to Sacred Heart St. Huberts Court Foresters Bingo at VFW Hall on 17th & Oregon Sts.  Anna Weisheipl is very lucky, wins 4 times at least a dollar each time
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26.  Tuesday: Thres and I take a drive to Milwaukee this morning.  About 10 miles south of Fond du Lac we run into light snow which turns into a bad blizzard when we get further south.  When we got to Milwaukee stopped at Karl and Margaret Radomsky’s for dinner.  The storm is very bad.  The ladies go shopping at Boston Store – Gimbels and DE Luxe Novelty Co. while I attend the last meeting of the Stockholders of “Druggist Service Bureau,” and also had a visit with A.O. Haas at the “Howdin Distilled Products” 935 No. Water St.  Phoned the folks at home at night and find they are O.K.
27.  Wednesday: Spent the night at Margaret and Karl’s.  It is still snowing this morning.  Started for home at 10.15, the roads out of Milwaukee are still very bad.  Arrived home at 12.30.  Find the fire out at home, a fuse had blown, which means a job for me.
28.  Thursday: Temperatures are down to 5° above this morning.  Well, this is real winter, plenty of snow and almost zero weather, and more snow coming up during the day.  Thres did not venture out to play Bingo at the Eagle’s tonite.  The roads are too bad.  Anna Weisheipl however was not to be kept at home, and she was lucky, won 135 but had to take a buss home, which is not as convenient as having Ma Potter for chauffeur
29.  Friday: Forty Hours Devotion begins at St. Vincents, this morning.
30.  Saturday: Christmas Shopping is supposed to begin today, but we are having more snow and a lot of it, in fact so much that traffic in town is very bad.  The shoe stores are all running out of the galoshes.  The demand is so brisk.  Attended 530 mass this morning – Donald served.  Took on a special job this evening, after shoveling the walks, cleaned the attic and that really was a surprise for Thres and Mary.  It hadn’t been cleaned for about 5 or 6 years, in fact some of the things in it hadn’t been moved for 10 years, but we finished the job by 10.30 P.M.  Com.  Ted Drexler

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