Wednesday, January 22, 1936
- Jan 22, 2020
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Updated: Oct 9, 2020
A SNOW STORM, A SOUTH AMERICAN MENUR, AND A SLEIGH RIDE
Storming. Blustering + Drifting.
Worse than ever. Zero and below.
Morse took Lucille, Mrs. [?] Fox,
Mrs. Kwazack [Kowalczyk] and me to
Missionary meeting at Alice
Gardner's. South American Menu
for dinner. Good time - but such
a time getting home. Roads
drifted so badly. Morse couldn't
get here with car. Rode with
Earl Nash on sleighs to Ella Nash's
from there with Clare Flynn in
car to oil station. Morse waited
there for us. Walter + Clair Wingeier
here all night on account of storm.
60 eggs to day. (Too cold for hens)
Pd for Missionary collections .25¢
I found this article in the Lowell Ledger archives for January 23, 1936. While it mainly comments on the storm impact on Lowell, conditions were likely similar near Bowne Center.
The journey that Edna, Lucille and the other ladies took home from the Missionary Meeting, which included sleighs, must have been very cold and frightening.
In 2020, we can track our loved ones as they travel and stay in constant communication with text and phone calls. The coordination of the journey via sleigh and cars to various locations would not have been easy or immediate in 1936.
Weather reports from January 1936 mention the arctic temperatures but they are secondary to reports of the heat wave that will take place in July of that year which were some of the hottest days on record for West Michigan. The heat wave began on July 8 and for the following seven days, the official high temperatures in Grand Rapids were 101, 101, 102, 99, 106, 103, and 102 degrees.
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