AN UNREMARKABLE DAY?
Sold to VL Watts
4 7/12 doz eggs
Rec'd for last week's eggs
2 10/12 doz eggs @ 34¢ — .96
Edna is fastidious about recording her egg sales. On this day in 1936, it is the only thing she writes in her journal. Perhaps it was a fairly unremarkable day (we all have those). Or, maybe it was a busy day and she was simply too tired to record anything more than what she felt was required.
VISITORS
Snow flurries, not so cold.
Boys went hunting. Marvin shot
a rabbit. Kate + Bill, Jack + Lucille
here this P.M.
Jen here this morning
brought her old radio to Morse.
I went to Lyle's with Kate + Bill
this eve.
There are a lot of visitors to the farm on this day in 1936 including two of Henry's sisters, Jen and Kate.
Henry was the youngest of five children (and the only boy) born to James Chandler Johnson and Eleanor Louise Nash. Gladys, Lydia, Jennie (Jen) and Catherine (Kate) were born before Henry and in that order.
Kate and William (Bill) Cosgriff were married around 1900. In 1900, Kate would have been 28. Kate and Bill are buried in Bowne Center. They died in 1953 (Bill) and 1954 (Kate).
My father was given the middle name of William after his Uncle Bill Cosgriff. Richard William Johnson was born on July 7, 1930. Fifty-three years earlier, in 1877, William Cosgriff was born on July 7.
EDNA EXCHANGES HER GREEN STAMPS
Cloudy not so cold.
Morse + I went to to G.R. this
P.M. — Had my hair shampooed
cut + waved at Costine. $1.75
Bought paint for kitchen.
Selected an occasional table
as premium in exchange for
two green stamps books.
Marvin came home with
Hank to stay all night.
Before there were loyalty cards there were S&H Green Stamps.
Green Stamps were popular in the 1930s - 1980s, although they had been around long before 1930. Certain stores issued them as rewards for making purchases.
It took 50 stamps to fill a single page in a book. To fill an entire book, it took 1200 stamps.
Edna exchanged two filled books for an occasional table.
I remember my mom having a desk drawer filled with Green Stamps and books she was filling to redeem for merchandise. I am not sure what she exchanged her stamps for but I do remember going to a redemption center a couple of times with my parents so she must have gotten something good.
I found a few pages from a Green Stamps "Idea Book" from the 1970s to give you an idea of what you might get in exchange for filled books.
