Diary of Alfred E. Potter July, 1942

01.  Wednesday: [3M RHXMOK] Did some more Gras cutting at the cottage, also played ball with Donald & Laurence.  Bill and Emma Siewert are out for the evening and we had plenty of fun.  Party ends at 1³⁰ A.M.

02.  Thursday: [6M RHXMOK] George Mertz and Al Mugerauer put in our dock at the cottage.  Mary Ann and Dolores make dinner for them, while Thres is in town at the hairdressers.  The kids get a truck ride home and they get a big kick out of it.

03.  Friday: [6M RH/] Donald serves 5³⁰ Mass for Father Bastian, it rained quite a bit during the nite, and also while we were in church.            Com. Clemens Kandy

04.  Saturday: Witnessed the Fourth of July patriotic parade and then back to the cottage with Ed Fretchel and Dolores and Lawrence Kinateder.  Joe, Anna – Ed Weisheipl came up in the afternoon, bringing Thres Fretchel and Robert.  We tried fishing, but a shower of rain send us back to shore.  Matt –Manda - Joe –Cecelia – Marion – Joan – Corrinne Drexler came out at supper time.  Party broke up at 1³⁰ A.M.

05.  Sunday: [RHXMOK FOR-MON] I attend St. John s 730 Mass; the folks go to St. Marys Church at Omro for Mass.  I worked 6 ½ hours today.  Spent the evening at the cottage.  No company.  According to reports three Jap Destroyers are sunk off the Aleutian islands yesterday.  Thirteen people are killed in Wisconsin, 334 in the nation over the fourth.  In 1941 – 27 in Wis and 628 in the U.S.

06.  Monday: [8M N] Ed Weisheipl had two days of rest, but he did not rest all of the time.  Saturday night he worked at Club 41 tending bar.  Margaret Radomski comes in from Milwaukee this evening.  She is all set for good time.

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08.   Wednesday: [4M RHXMOK] Dolores Kinateder shoots a BB shot into her index finger on her left hand.  Thres has to bring her to town.

09.  Thursday: [6M N RHXMOK] Up baby girl is born to Ann (Baier) Ostertag this morning at 5 O clock.  The testimonial dinner is given by Eugene Vogel in honor of William Pflueger, veteran drug salesmen, at the Athearn Hotel.  Present were F.W. Mueller, Al Christl –Syl Stack, Dr. Harry Meusel Theo Lampel, Al Potter, Gene Vogel – Will Pflueger.  It was a pleasant surprise to Mr. Pflueger and will always be remembered.  Will and the boys did a lot of reminiscing.  He will be 83 years of age in Sept.  Dr. R.H. Bitter is in town, on his way west.

10.  Friday: [8M N RHXMOK T] We have a summer day today temperature about 90°.

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12.  To 730 Mass at St. Johns, and to work.  After dinner took Donald – Lawrence Kinateder –Norman Koelbl – Kenneth Frank and Dennis Schmid to Twin Lake Scout Camp.  Thres Fretchel stays overnight at the cottage.  Its a hot day, temperature up to 92° in the shade.  Annie Heip entertains The Crowells –The Killians – Mrs. Haverty – Marge and Joe, for the evening.  George Haverty Jr. and Mrs. were there also.

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15.  Wednesday: [2M RHXMOK T] Had company at the cottage.  Took Thres Fretchel and Annie Weisheipl along this noon.  Joe Weisheipl came up at 4 Oclock.  We fished caught only 3 perch.  Party broke up at 1¹⁵ A.M.  It was a lovely day to be on the lake.  A bad storm broke after the folks left and we were up until 3³⁰ A.M. Thursday.

16.  Thursday: [2M RNXMOK] Rose Weisheipl came to work with some leg make up on and it sure looks like a terrible job.  Mrs. Frank Keefe takes Mrs. Ed Sonnenberg and Annie Weisheipl along to visit her son and Corky Weisheipl, were stationed at Jefferson Barracks Mo.  They leave about 11 Oclock tonite.  Mrs. Keefe and Mrs. Sonnenberg to alternate at driving.

17.  Friday: [RHXMOK] Temperature rises to 95° today.  Dick Hackett is found dead at his home, a victim of asphyxiation by his mother Carrie Wakeman Hackett, yesterday afternoon shortly before 4 oclock.  Dick was born Sept. 1 – 1900.

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19.  Sunday: To 730 Mass at St. Johns.  Father Courtney dispensed with the sermon account of the heat.  Worked 8 ½ hours today.  After work took a drive out to Farney’s estate to visit Will and Minnie Mueller, John Hackbarth, - Ed Voelz –Herby and Mrs. Strycher are there.  St. Vincents Choir have annual outing at Siebold’s Cottage – Plummer’s Point.  I was invited but could not attend.

20. Monday: [8M RHXMOK] Thres and family back to the cottage this evening.  The children take Rosemary and Norman Koelbl along as houseguests for the week.  Bill and Emma Siewert are also with us.  They stay over night.

21.  Tuesday: [6M N RHXMOK T] Thres and Emma Siewert attend S. S. Business M. club Ladies Auxiliary at Rose Binder’s Cottage of at Reighmon.  Thres bakes “German Rye Bread” and it makes a hat.  Dropped in to see Annie Heip, she came back last night from Jefferson Barracks, Mo.  George is fine and no doubt will be transferred to some army band before long.

22.  Wednesday: [4M RHXMOK] Took Rose Gittings and Teddy to the cottage.  Did some fishing this afternoon, we caught six nice perch.  Harry Kujawa and family come over toward evening.  We did more fishing, but no results.  According to this mornings paper U.S. casualties number 44,143 and known dead 4801 thus far in the war, wounded 3218 – missing 36 124.

23.  Thursday: [RNXMOK] This morning I find our six cleaned a perch are gone.  We had left them in fresh water near the cottage door.  Art Mueller and Fred Baumgartner take in “Globe Veterinary Course ” at Wisconsin Hotel.  Had company at the cottage tonite, Mrs. Frank Troxell – her son _____and daughter Jane, also Anna “Sick Aunty” Drexler and Leona.

24.  Friday: Took Donald Bludau with me to Milwaukee to attend the “Globe Veterinary Clinic” at the Wisconsin Hotel.  Dr. Father –Mr. Mahaffey – Glenn Stitzel made things interesting for us.  Bought a few items at Yahr-Lange’s, met Dr. Eagen –Tommy Atkins – Walter Lange – and Ludwig Meyer.  Don outdoes himself with a fine dinner at “Ernst’s Café” on Ogden Ave.  Back home again at 10 P.M.  Naomi Mueller has a birthday, she is 27.

25.  Saturday: [4M RDXMOK] Otto Lang is laid to rest.

26.  Sunday: [4M T] To 730 Mass at St. Johns, then to work.  Brought in Donald and Norman Koelbl from the cottage and picked up their Sunday Journals for them about 110.  Ohio Street Vicinity Civic Association sponsor their annual picnic at South Park.  Thres – Mary Ann –and Aunt Annie Weisheipl to the Strand Theatre this afternoon.  They see Shirley Temple in “Miss Annie Rooney” and “Our Russian Front” Annie is here for supper, and then to South Park Bingo.  Donald to the Ballgame.

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28.  Tuesday: [6M N RNXMOK] Donald to Sunnyview early this morning.  This is his last time to go there with Father Bastian for monthly service for the patients.  At 8³⁰ he goes fishing with Father Ott out to or cottage.  They get back to town about 4 Oclock.  Oshkosh is visited by a heavy cloudburst about 4³⁰ this afternoon.  Many Sellers and basements are flooded.  George Weisheipl telephones to the folks, that he is placed in the band section of the army, but can not tell just where.

29.  Wednesday: [4M RNXMOK] Donald and myself take a drive this afternoon.  We landed in Kaukauna and spend the time of Father Michael Drexler who is stationed at St. Mary’s.  They had bad luck on Mother’s Day when the children made their first communion.  While Father Michael and Fr. Roden were getting Communion, one side of their heavy of marble Communion rail collapsed toward the sanctuary.  An altar boy was hurt and Father Michael nearly escaped injury.  It cost $850 to repair the rail.  Thres and me I attend Strand of this evening.  Norma Shearer and Robert Taylor star in “Her Cardboard Lover.” “Atlantic Convoy” is very good also

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31.  Friday: [8M RNXMOK] Drove to the Orphanage near Green Bay to bring home Sisters Alverna – Ermanhilda-_____. From the Orphanage we drove to St. Nazianz Seminary. Met Father Bede who showed us thru the place. It is new and strictly modern in every detail. He also showed us thru the Museum - the Chapel - the Office and the Print Shop. Donald was along and I had him enrolled for the fall semester. Back home at 7¹⁵ P.M.