01. Friday: We all get
up late today. Thres and I attend 11.45
Mass at St. Johns. Mrs. FW (Minnie)
Mueller got an attack last night about 9 Oclock when was it first thought to be
gallbladder trouble, but turned out to be appendicitis.
02. Saturday: Busy
getting the books of M.P.D. Co. in order.
Worked until 11.20 P.M. Donald
and Mary Ann attend All Star – Sheboygan game.
All Stars win.
03. Sunday: Attend 730
Mass at St. Johns, then to work until 115 PM. After dinner took Donald, Melvin Karst, Stadtmueller
and Drexler to St. Nazianz back to school, also took Ten Stadtmueller along for
company. It was snowing when I left. The roads were very icy, especially on the
east side of Lake Winnebago. Arrived
there about 415. On
the way back run into a bad blizzard vision was very poor, arrived home safely
at 630 and happy to be back.
Worked until 930, 6 ½ hours today.
04. Monday: [2M N]
Much snow fell overnight, in the fact 5 inches since Friday evening. Today is a beautiful clear day the
temperature is going down. Thres plays
cards of a Sim Menzels this afternoon Ladies Auxiliary So. Side Business Mens
Club. Mrs. Mueller is taken to Mercy
Hospital this afternoon. Annual Meeting
of the Mueller Potter at our South Side Store.
Same officers as before.
05. Tuesday: [N]
Official temperature to 9° below this morning altho some thermometers register
14 below. The 78th Congress
convenes at Washington today. Kiwanis
Club today, we have meeting of our entertainment committee, Glenn Fadner – Gene
Voge –Geo. Harrington
06. Wednesday: To
Chamber of Commerce Directors meeting at the Athearn this noon. We made our Christmas visit at Ed Fretchels
tonite. Annie Weisheipl is with us. Get home at 2 A.M. Thursday. After tests and X Rays doctors find Mrs.
Muellers gall bladder is not functioning.
07. Thursday: [N] Karl
Kiekhafer almost gives me a check for 2500 dollars on an endowment policy.
08. [N]
09. Saturday: Took
Thres and Mary Ann to the Oshkosh. “The
Forest Rangers” in Technicolor with Fred Mac Murray – Paulette Goddard and
Susan Hayward – Eugene Pallette and “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.”
10. Sunday: Holy Name
of the city receive Communion in a body at St. Vincents at 730
Mass. Com. Peace for the World
11. Monday: Joe Weisheipl Sr. has a night out
and Ed and Thres Fretchel, Ma Potter and myself make our holiday visit
there. We get home at 230 A.M. Tuesday. I tuned
in the radio and it is surprizing the number of stations on at this time of the
morning. One station was announcing and explaining pages from “You Cant
do business with Hitler and Europe in Revolt another station “Frank the Diamond
Man” was selling diamond rings.
12. [N]
13. Wednesday: Matt
and Geo. Mertz are in about barricading our drive back of the store. Dr. Wm Wagner gives me a
thorough medical exam. Well Im still in
pretty good shape. Dropped in the
Peacock with Karl Kichafer and met Joe Weisheipl Jr. and that was a surprize. Temperature is at 6° below this morning.
14. Thursday: [N] A pleasant
surprise in the form of a letter from Ven Sister Virginia St. Johns Hospital,
Tulsa Oklahoma.
15. Friday: [N] Thres –Mary
Ann – Anna Weisheipl visit at Joe and Emma Baiers tonite. I come there after work, we play sheephead
and stay until 1 A.M. Saturday. Had my coupe
so I took Annie Heip home before Thres and Mary Ann. It was snowing and blowing out. Carlson J. Kusche passed away this morning at
10.15. He was a brother to Albert Kusche
and Helen Broche. Born Aug 15 – 1873.
16. Saturday: The
Oshkosh “All Stars” to eat the Sheboygan Red Skins tonite 49-46. I would like to have seen this thriller.
17. Sunday: Carl
Fretchel phones his folks at 2 Oclock this morning from San Diego California
that he is leaving the door and unknown destination. 2730 Mass at St. Johns. Eddie McCullough, Lilly representative, is a
proud papa today. It’s a boy 8 pounds 5
ounces
18. Monday: [N] This
is a day of much snow and does in blizzard out.
Thres entertains some ladies of the South Side Business Mens Auxiliary. Some of those present, Mrs. Harvey Zentner –
Mrs. Kurt Zentner, Emma Siewert, Mame Siewert, Mrs. Walter Dodd, Mrs. Reed
Haveman, Mrs. Const Lehnigk, Mrs. Mary Fenzl – Mrs. _____ Kalbus, Mrs. Ed Wurtz
– Mrs. Herbert Nolte, Mrs. Oscar Schneider Mrs. Ed Binder, Mrs. Herman Jansen,
Mrs. Ed Baranowski who subd. for Mrs. Sam Menzel
19. Tuesday: [N] Well
I walk to work this morning, it is only 13° below zero, and the walks are
drifted over badly, and it gets colder during the day. Mayor George Oaks is a 51 years old today. Henry Botz, one of our fourteenth street
neighbors now living at 324 – 11th St. passed away (today) yesterday
Jan 18th at Mercy hospital after a short illness ending in
meningitis. Born in Cashton Wis. Dec 23 –
1890. Survived by (Theresa Reichard)
wife of and sons Gilbert – Donald and Stanley who is in New Guinea.
20. Wednesday: [4M] It
is 24° below zero this morning but warms up gradually during the day. Anna and Leona Drexler are back from
Milwaukee. They came in yesterday
afternoon. They were gone about 3 weeks.
21. Thursday: [7M N]
Kate Smith is back on the radio today, and she is very happy. A letter from Donald today. He tells us the store is out of candy and so
is his locker. Homer Pipkorn, Pres of
Pipkorn Fuel Company passed away at 12.15 noon today at Mercy Hospital. He suffered from anemia on entering hospital
and complications sent in. Born in
Granville July 9 – 1884. Married to
Lillian Heideman of Milwaukee Jan 25 – 1911.
22. Friday: [2M N] I
feel rather distressed today. The
weather has moderated considerably it is close to 40° this afternoon. Joe Baier and myself took inventory in the
basement today, and it is a pretty cold job, but it must be done. Cook and Brown put in 2 ton of coal today. We have used 5 tons to date.
23. Saturday: My
stomach is still on the bum, altho I feel somewhat better. Punky Nigl is married one year ago today. He celebrates at Club 41 tonite, with his
chum Eddie Weisheipl. Discovered error
in our P O Insurance Book today. Rose
Weisheipl transversed figures from 4467 to 2267 on January 13th. Error had not been noticed until I ran across
it today, 142 packages were insured with duplicate numbers.
24. Sunday: To St.
Johns at 730 Mass.
Viewed the remains of Homer Pipkorn at Spikes and MacDonald. Met Raymond Mottl there, who is home on a
furlough from Mitchell Field New York.
Funeral services for Homer this afternoon from Masonic Temple. Eddie Weisheipl is 25 years of age today. He looks a little tough this morning, he and
some of his friends start celebrating at midnight.
25. Monday:[4M N] 4°
below zero this morning.
26. Tuesday: Received
the sad news this morning that Father Alexis Gore, Director of St. Lawrence
College for the last 10 years passed away at St. Agnes Hospital Fond du Lac
Sunday January 24th. Born at
Yonkers N.Y. Nov. 13 – 1894 ended Capuchin
order April 22 – 1919 ordained a priest April 22 – 1919 R.I.P. To Kiwanis luncheon, Glen Fadner, Charles
Roeder, Sam Luchsinger at our table.
Temperature is 13° below this morning.
John Quade is very much put out about the gate back of our store. A letter from Donald today.
27. Wednesday: [2M]
Father Victor Kandy is in today for short visit. Karl Kiekhafer and Reiss from Milwaukee are
here to deliver to me two life insurance policies 10000 and 3000.
28. Thursday: [N T]
Aunt Lena (Caroline) Baier is 66 years old today. Thres –Mary –Annie, her sisters and daughters
and grand children are there to help her celebrate. I visited her in the evening, she tells me,
she made 106 (gropfens) and she doubts if there are six left. Delivered 27 Harmonikas to Grade 2 St. Marys
School. No harmonikas available at
present. Sister M. DE Pazzi is very much
pleased gives me an identification folder with Sacred Heart Badge.
29. Friday: [4M N]
More snow today. After some soft weather
we need a little clean snow. Steude’s fur house has a fire tonite, with several
thousand dollars of damage, caused mostly by heavy smoke.
30. Saturday: Well I
get a surprize this morning. Hardly had
my coat off when Rose Weisheipl asks me for raise, and then she cried. I do not know what the crying was intended
for but she’ll have her raise next Saturday as she had it coming the first pay day
in February. Thres and I attend Strand
Theatre tonite. “Keeper of the Flame”
starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, and “Eyes of the Underworld”
starring Richard Dix, Lon Chaney Jr., Wendy Barrie and Billy Lee.
31. Sunday: To St.
Johns 730 Mass. Annual
report for 1942 given out. Worked 8 ½
hours today. We have much snow during
the day, clearing toward evening.
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