edwin-diary

When papa & Granpa would go down to work she would let there chickens out into our garden. Some of them were prize chickens because they had taken prizes in Rochester & Severel fairs. Well one day papa went over there & told her that he had stood enough & tole her for about the 6th time not to let them in our yard. She wouldnt do it & let them in 3 or 4 times & then papa went over & told her if they came over in our garden he would kill them. So he borrowed Ed reeds rifle & got some cartrages & then he went down-town & then mrs sweet let the chickens out in our garden & Mamma phoned up papa & he came up & took the rifle & went in the sewing room & put a cartrage & aimed at a chickens & hit it in the gizzard & killed it then he went out & threw it over the fence & shot another & threw it over the fence & he kept that up till he had killed 7 & It dawned upon Mrs. sweet that if she didn't want any more chickens shot she would come out & get the remains of the brood. Some of them might have been prize chickens but they looked just alike to pop.

It is colder today.

Mar. 12, 1917 Seventh slingshot handle broke today. I think I will make 1 tomorrow. My first one broke & I have made 7 others but they all broke before I got them finished. The ground was frozen today so punkin & I played catch. I would throw them to punkin awful hard & he can pick them off just as nice as if he had been playing all year. I couldent throw any paperwads becaus my [nubber?] broke.

Mar. 121, 1917. I got licked tonight It hurt for about 2 minets & then I was all right I had to change the dates around cause I dident write last night

Mar. 13, 1917 Well today I made an oak slingshot down in the shop up to school I made put some more yarn on my ball today

Mar. 14, 1917 Today I finished my ball & sewed the last of the string around it today.

Mar. 15, 1917 I forgot to say that Yesterday I tested out my slingshot with 8 rubbers at a cost of 2 + 5¢ It wouldent go far enough cause there was so much rubber that I couldent pull it back far enough but now I took 2 off & it shoots awful good

I got a book on Strong arms today & I am going to do the exercises tonight. I also sent for a book on wrestling which I expect tomorrow.

Mar. 16, 1917. Nothing particular today

Mar. 17, 1917. this Aft I got my wizard squirt gun & the rubber cracked & I will have to get some rubber cement. I got my wrestling book too. It was just a book with pictures of their students who wrote letters of their sucess It just showed a few holds & the coat trick which you make anybody helpless with. Snow & cold & windy

Mar. 18, 1917 My Water pistol bulb broke today & I will have Joe Sodaro the shoemaker mend it if he can. Cold.

Mar. 19, 1917 I had my squirt gun fixed today & it is all right except that a little piece is off the end & it wont shoot quite so far. Gee. What do you think? Somebody put about 2 handfuls of marbles in the paino up to school. You know that it is a baby grand.

Well this morning George Bolten played the march when classes were passing. The piano would go

Boom ya Boom Ya Boom ya ya ya Boom ya Boom ya Boom ya ya ya & the marbles would bounce around because the wires of the Piano & they would go jingle jingle jingle tinkle tinkle tinkle. Even the teachers laughed there are 12 teachers in the highschool where it was. 1st period Miss plough prounouced plu took out 21 & The less marbles there were the more room their was to bounce around. it made about 5 times as much noise but prof finally got them all out.

Mr. Shaw president of [Plamira?] collage spoke this morning

He said that he knew a young man who was to write a story on "The Automobile" It was to have over 1000 words in it. He told about his fathers getting an automobile & learning how to run it etc. & that one day they went out for a ride.

They went all right for a while but when they were about 4 miles from home the engine got out of his fathers controal and ran into a telephone pole. He said that he had written 750 words & he would not write the other 250 words because

they were what his father said coming home.

Mar. 20, 1917 I felt kind of sick today, I will have had to gargle some carbolic acid with something in it. I dont feel good all over either. Cold

Mar. 21, 1917 First day of spring today. I bought a 25¢ golf ball & 12¢ worth of jackstones which was 48 I gave away 4 sets or 5¢ worth or 20. I [illegible] the Rover boys in the jungle today.

Mar. 22, 1917 Everybody is playen Baseball Bud & punkin & yatskey & I played catch. It was lots of fun I had to wade in mud about 1 'deep cause it went way over the tops of the bottom opens of my felt boots.

Mar. 23. 1917 I went to the show tonight. Nothing particular today. You know Bryan was lecturing on peace out west in california or someplace & the dove of peace lit on his head & that was not all it did. Read & Leona stayed up to supper tonight

Mar. 24, 1917 You know Mrs Wygant, well she thinks that it is a great honor to be attached to the Clarke family & she comes over a lot. & well the other night she came over & said