Thursday, July 20, 1922

Beautiful, bright & warm. Arose 8 A.M. Breakfast. Hoed etc. Dinner. Mowed lawn. Ruth & I to Little Troy with Ford to go in swimming. Picked berries. Mother, Ruth & I to meet H.H. Talked. To bed 11 P.M.

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Little Troy was also called Slab Troy (because of mills there, presumably). It was a part of Charlton and now has a park (Little Troy Park) with a pond and beach for swimming.

The pond, or something like it, must have existed in 1922, though I have found no evidence of that. Here is a marker that told about the area's history:

Wednesday, July 19, 1922

Fair, bright, clear & breezy. Arose 6:30 A.M. Breakfast. Father & I with Kissel after Aunt Gertie. To city. Out on business. Candled eggs etc. Took Aunt Gertie home. To Park Site. Supper. Talked. Played piano. To bed 10 P.M.

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Tuesday, July 18, 1922

Overcast with sunshine and showers. Arose 9 A.M. Breakfast. Hoed etc. Dinner. Picked berries. Supper. Read. Down after milk. Talked. Read etc. To bed 9:30 P.M.

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Busy days at the farm!

Monday, July 17, 1922

Overcast & warm with showers. Arose 6 A.M. To breakfast. Talked etc. To Sch'dy with Dellamaters. To Dentists. Shower at Y. Dinner. Candled eggs. Father to country with Kissel; I with ford. Supper. Talked. Played piano. To bed 10:15 P.M.

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I'm not sure who the Dellamaters are, but I did find a brother and sister, Flossie and Elvin, who lived in the Schenectady area in 1900. Elvin continued to live there, but Flossie does not appear on census records after 1900.

Sunday, July 16, 1922

Beautiful, bright & very hot. Arose 7 A.M. Breakfast. Read. To S.S. Taught class of boys. To Church. Dinner. H.H. and I to Burtonsville with horse and wagon and back again. To evening service. Talked. To bed 10 P.M.

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Stanford doesn't say why he and Hanford took a horse and wagon to Burtonsville, which is a small town west of Schenectady about 20 miles.

Saturday, July 15, 1922

Fair and warm. Arose 7:30 A.M. Breakfast. Hoed in garden. Dinner. Picked berries. Mother's Missionary Chain party in P.M. Ramsays, Benedicts, Hannas, Fricks, Whitney & Careys. To city with Ford. To Delanson by train to stay over Sunday with H.H. Played ball. Ice cream & cake. To bed 10 P.M.

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I tried to find out what a "missionary chain" was, but was unable to come up with a definition that fit the description of the event. Perhaps someone out there knows?

Friday, July 14, 1922

Marvelous, bright, hot & clear. Arose 6:30 A.M. Breakfast. Father, Ruth & I to city. Out on business. Dinner. Shipped egg cases, candled eggs etc. Home 6 P.M. Supper out doors. Talked. Played piano. To bed 10:45 P.M.

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Thursday, July 13, 1922

Beautiful, bright & warm. Arose 7 A.M. Breakfast. Worked about place. Hoed garden, picked berries, cherries & currants, cut wood etc. Odd jobs. Read. To bed 11 P.M.

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Wednesday, July 12, 1922

Bright, humid & very hot. Arose 7:30 A.M. Breakfast. Out on business. Down street. Dinner. Packed up. Moved out to country with two cars. Cleaned up yard etc. Supper. To bed 9:30 P.M.

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I wonder if it was cooler out in the country?

Tuesday, July 11, 1922

Wonderful, bright, warm & clear. Arose 6:30 A.M. Breakfast. Father, H.H. & I to Swaggertown. Picked crate of cherries, berries etc. Home to dinner. Mother & Ruth a la Kissel to Albany with Aunt Gertie. Took ford for repairs. Candled eggs. To call on J.G.S. Heard radio concert. To bed 12 P.M.

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Stillman and Fannie are taking good care of Aunt Gertie, who is probably still grieving over her husband's death less than two weeks ago.

Monday, July 10, 1922

Beautiful, bright, clear & warm. Arose 7 A.M.Breakfast. Out on business. Dinner. Out again. H.H. to Rexford. Candled eggs. Supper. Out for ride with family. To Gertrude Anthony's for making out E.L. topic cards. Took walk. To bed 12 P.M.

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A routine day for Stanford, but not for my grandmother, who gave birth to my father on this day. 

Sunday, July 9, 1922

Beautiful, bright, hot day. Arose 9:30 A.M. Breakfast etc. To S.S. Home. Sarah Vedder to dinner. Father & Ruth to Center to conduct service. Nap in P.M. Father, Mother, R.E.P. & I to Delanson to hear H.H. conduct service. Bro't him back. To Scotia. To bed 12:45 P.M.

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I'm not sure how the Clossons know Sarah Vedder, but she is the wife of William Vedder, a farmer in Glenville, NY. In 1922 they lived on Mohawk Turnpike. They had five daughters. Sarah died in 1946; her husband died in 1963.

Saturday, July 8, 1922

Fair, bright, cool & breezy. Arose 7:30 A.M. Breakfast. Repaired porch 108 P.P. Down town. Dinner. Nap in P.M. Worked on Kissell. Shower at Y. To country place. Mowed lawn. To ice cream social at Center. To bed 11:30 P.M.

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Friday, July 7, 1922

Beautiful, bright, hot day. Arose 7 A.M. Breakfast. Out on business in A.M. and P.M. with dinner between. Mowed lawn at corner etc. Figured up. Supper. Letter to H.H. Out for walk to P.O. etc. To bed 11 P.M.

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Thursday, July 6, 1922

Beautiful, bright, clear & hot. Arose 7:30 A.M. Breakfast. Home alone. Father & I to Country 11 A.M. to 6 P.M. Hoed. Picked berries, cherries etc. To Uncle John's place. Worked out his garden. Home. Talked. Read. To bed 10 P.M.

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Wednesday, July 5, 1922

Overcast, mild & humid. Arose 8 A.M. Breakfast & twalay. Cleaned cellar, cut up wood etc. Dinner. Down town. Shower at Y. Supper. H.H. and I to Delanson a la Ford with his goods. Took walk. Got him settled etc. Stayed over night. To bed 10:30 P.M.

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I guess Hanford went to Delanson, NY for some reason. Perhaps for preaching internship? He may have worked at the Delanson Methodist Church, pictured below, built in 1878. The parsonage, on the right, is almost as old, having been built in 1886. That may be where Stanford stayed that night.

from Google Maps

Tuesday, July 4, 1922

Overcast, cool & breezy. Arose 7:15 A.M. Breakfast etc. Father, mother, R.E.P. & I out for ride to Middleburg, Coxsackie via Westerlo, Greenville, to Albany and home 140 miles. H.H. out with Benedicts to Saratoga Lake. Ruth out with Zerbys etc to Lake Pleasant. Talked. To bed 12 P.M.

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It sounds like they had a good trip driving around the area south of Schenectady, and with Ruth Pettit along for the ride! Here's a map of their trip with approximate routing:

from Google Maps

Monday, July 3, 1922

Overcast, warm. Some rain. Arose 7:30 A.M. Breakfast. Out on business in A.M. & P.M. Supper. To Barcli with Merlin & Russell. Home. Talked. To bed 11:45 P.M.

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The Barcli was showing the silent film, The World's Champion, starring Wallace Reid.

from IMDB

Synopsis:

from IMDB

Sunday, July 2, 1922

Fair, warm and breezy. Arose 8:30 A.M. H.H. home from Monpelier. Breakfast. To Church. Dinner at Sirkers. To Uncle John's funeral. Large attendance. Home. H.H. & I to Rexford. To Scotia. Pleasant visit with R.E.P. To bed 2 A.M.

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Not sure why Stanford went to Rexford, but it's a little town close to Schenectady.

Saturday, July 1, 1922

Overcast, mild, with rain. Arose 8 A.M. Breakfast. Hair cut. Business, Dinner. Took nap. Cleaned up room etc. Supper. Mother up to stay with Aunt Gertie. To Proctors with Merlin and Russell. Talked with Cliff & Leland. To bed 1:30 A.M.

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John Henry's obituary appeared in the newspaper on this day.

Also in the newspaper was the bill of fare for Proctors' that evening:

They always have quite a few attractions to fill up the evening. The movie, "The Amazing Lovers," was a rather complex silent film about espionage and thievery. Here is the synopsis, according to the American Film Institute:

A band of New York counterfeiters, led by Professor John Breede and backed by banker Martin Cardine, has agreed to print a number of fake French notes for an overseas gang. Yvonne La Rue, an emissary sent by the French gang to pick up the notes, meets Captain Marlowe, an ex-soldier who returned from France to find that Cardine had ruined his father and married his sweetheart Vera. One of the New York gang, in love with Yvonne, kills Cardine and makes Marlowe believe that he himself committed the murder while drunk. Marlowe is then blackmailed into an in-name-only marriage with Yvonne to prevent her from being deported as an undesirable alien. Yvonne turns out to be a Secret Service agent who unmasks the counterfeit ring, and she and Marlowe fall in love.

Friday, June 30, 1922

Beautiful, bright & warm. Arose 7 A.M. Breakfast. Uncle John died 8:30 A.M. after a life of usefulness and cheerfulness. Out on business A.M. & P.M. Supper. Played tennis with Merlin at Y 3-6; 6-4. Called on Mary Clute. To bed 1 A.M.

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So John Henry Closson died. I wonder what was ailing him?

Thursday, June 29, 1922

Beautiful, bright and warm. Arose 9 A.M. Breakfast. Father to Uncle John's with Dr. Kathan. Uncle John very bad. Dinner. Wrote letters etc. Repaired cement porches. Supper. Out for walk in evening. Called on Finch's. Merlin home. To bed 12 P.M.

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So Stanford is still friends with Merlin Finch! And Uncle John is dying, apparently. It's interesting to me that a doctor would go to see someone who was dying. I think maybe we don't do that anymore, especially if someone is dying at home.

Wednesday, June 28, 1922

Beautiful, very warm and rather humid. Arose 8 A.M. Breakfast. Out on business. Called at Church office on N.L.G. Dinner. Father, Ruth & I to Park Site. Mowed lawn, planted, hoed etc. Supper. Uncle John Quite bad. Called 7:30-10:30. Home. To bed 11:41 P.M.

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Tuesday, June 27, 1922

Overcast, mild with very little rain. Arose 7 A.M. Breakfast. Father & I to Uncle John's to help with front porch 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. To Country place. Picked about 12 qts of strawberries. To city. Talked etc. To bed 11 P.M.

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Monday, June 26, 1922

Fair bright and warm. Arose 5:15 A.M. Breakfast. H.H. left for Montpelier at 6 A.M. To Church to help put up platform. Pointed up cellar wall at 144. Dinner. Helped take down platform at Church. Repaired cement porches. Supper. Wrote letter to H.H. Out for ride. Home. Wrote in diary. Talked. Rebecca H. here. To bed 11 P.M.

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I wonder what the platform was for?