Feb. 25 - 27, 1916

 Fri. Feb. 25, 1916

Fine.

Worked around, round down to lumber yard and got some half round and put it on 2 screens. Tinted part of back , Rain in eve. Read in my book "The Reckoning" 7 eggs

Sat. Feb. 26, 1916

Sun and cloudy  - sprinkled 2 or 3 times

Sold a dozen eggs at butcher shop this A.M. for 18 cents and bought 1 pound butter at 37 cents. Monkeyed around. Pa finishing up tinting. Cleaned up the auto in aft. rode down and got some groceries. Read in eve. 9 eggs. I weigh 125 now.

Sun. Feb. 27, 1916

Truman "Tru" Griggs in 1937 as best man at my grandparents wedding

Hard rain last night. Cloudy and sunny all day. Fine afternoon.

Left here about 8 A.M. and drove to Sierra Madre and visited the folks there awhile [this is my Grandfather's Uncle Albert, his mother's brother, and his wife and kids]. I drove them (Al, Ana, Minnie) to the episcopal church, then Ma, Pa, Dot, Anabelle and I went into the congregational church next door to hear the preacher we heard in Santa Ana once and liked so well. Lewellyn, Anabelle, Dot, Pa and I drove around a little after church and stooped and brought Tru, Al, Ana, and Minnie home. True is half and inch shorter than I am, but weighs quite a bit more - has long pants and looks quite a man. He has an appointment to Annapolis and is going there soon. 

We did not stop there for dinner as we had to go to Ethel's - arrived there about two and had a lunch as they had eaten. Visited all aft and eve and left for Anaheim about 8:30. Home 10:30. Grand came back. 7 eggs.

The Congregational Church in 1906 still stand today.

Feb. 22 - 24, 1916

 Tues. Feb. 22, 1916

Fine and warm

Grand and I cut potatoes - Pa painting the walls. Then I plowed with the small plow and Grand plant about 3/4 sack of spuds. I rode down and got the mail (holiday and they didn't deliver) Ethel sent us the pictures that I left with her to have developed and they are good. Took a bath after dinner - then down and heard the Anaheim band play at the library. In eve Grand, Pa and I played 500.Played all eve but could not finish the game so we'll have to continue some other eve. 6 eggs

Wed. Feb. 23, 1916

Fine and moderate

Pa painting living and dining room walls all day. I worked around outside. To library in eve and I got "The Reckoning" by Robert Chambers also a magazine, read papers and magazine and home. 10 eggs

Thurs. Feb. 24, 1916

Fine and moderate

Grand and I drove down and got paint for the kitchen, stain for bedroom floors, and tint for bedrooms. I also got groceries and meat and sold 1 dozen eggs at market for 18 cents. Home and I worked around. Helped Pa tint in afternoon and we tinted one bedroom and the kitchen and stained floors of 2 bedrooms. Read in eve. Pa to a river protection meeting at the High School. Cool enough in eve and A.M. lately to have a little fire in the airtight. 11 eggs

Feb. 19 - 21, 1916

 Sat. Feb. 19, 1916

 Anaheim in 1914: Los Angeles Street
(now Anaheim Blvd.), looking north from Center Street (now Lincoln Ave.)

Fine and not so hot

Worked around a little. Rode down and got a sewing machine crate, brought it up, put machine in, and shipped it. They [May and cousins] up for lunch and Ma and I took them down to the train and they left to The Springs. In afternoon I bought some copper tubing and put a gas saver on the auto - not quite finished yet. I rode down in the eve and got groceries and meat. 

9 eggs today. We now have 17 hens. We planted a little patch of potatoes today also. Eggs are worth about 20 cents now and were 40 cents a week or two ago.

Sun. Feb. 20, 1916

LA Times from Feb. 20, 1916

Dull and cool

Finished my gas saver which is a copper tube from the carburetor around the exhaust pipe 3 times and then up by the steering column. Don't know how much gas it will save yet - I don't think the pipe is quite large enough to do much good. They are putting sewer in the street and we can't get out with the auto so only Pa went to church as mother did not have any good walking shoes. I rode down and bought a paper and we read all day. In afternoon I went down to the library for an hour or so and read papers. I slept with Grandpa last night. 10 eggs.

Mon. Feb. 21, 1916

Rain last night. Sunny and fairly cool today

Dug potatoes off and on all day. Pa and Grand walked down and bought some paint for the walls (like Kalsomine - Bradley's Wall Finish). They painted part of the front bedroom. Pa and I filled the sewer ditch and I drove down about 5:30 and got groceries and meat. We plowed ground where potatoes were this eve and we are going to put some more in. Read etc in eve. 10 eggs

Feb. 16 - 18, 1916

Wed. Feb. 16, 1916

Fine and fairly hot

Up at 6 A.M. and worked all day at Packing House (10 hours) sorting lemons. At noon May etc. were here at lunch. In eve we drove over to Root's and took them over to May's and we all played card etc. Grandpa and I vs. Mrs Root and May each got 1 game and then Pa and Root beat May and I 1 game, both whist. Home and to bed. 6 eggs

Thurs. Feb. 17, 1916

Fine and Mod. hot.

Worked from 7 - 10:30. then home and helped Pa and Grandpa start a shed on the back of the garage. In afternoon I went down and got a haircut and then up to May's and took Clinton bike down to [unclear word] to have it shipped - Gertie rode her's down too. Home and worked some more. Then we drove down town, May also - got groceries etc. Then Grandpa, Pa, and I out about 1 mile and bought a sack of potatoes for seed. May etc. here for Supper. In eve we went down to her place and I was going to take Gertie, Toots, and 2 other kids to the show (Mary Pickford), but crowded and could not get in so I took kids for a little ride - then sat and listened to phonograph at May's for a while and then us home. 7 eggs

Fri. Feb. 18, 1916

Fine and quite hot

Worked (Pa, Grand, and I) on the shed all day and finished it. Took the partition out of the garage so it is fine and large now and you can drive in at 30 and still not go thru the back wall. 

May to the city all day and the kids up here. I cleaned up and drove down and met here at 5 P.M. got some groceries and they here for supper after that I drove May around a little - then over and brought Root's over and we visited and Root and I lost 2 games of whist from Grand and Pa. Drove them back and then brought Ma and Pa and 5 hen's of May's up to our house at 10:30 P.M. Bed. 5 hen fruit. Garden up now.

Feb. 13 - 15, 1916

 Sun. Feb. 13, 1916

Foggy A.M. Ideal rest of day.

Up at 6:30 and left about 8 for Hollywood. Went a new way via Norwalk, but a bridge was out so we had to run up to Whittier and on the regular road. Arrived there about 10 read and talked in A.M. in afternoon we all (Ethel driving) went to Redondo and back. Went down on the beach at Clifton's-By-The-Sea and got 2 sacks of chicken grit and fine heavy surf. Then we went down to the bath house for awhile then we went home, cutting across the city thru a magnificent residential district. Talked etc all eve. and left for home 9 P.M. are here at 10:40. Fine warm moonlight night. Chickens laid 7 eggs - 2 small ones from our 2 pullets, so that makes 12 hens that should lay.

Mon. Feb. 14, 1916

Grandpa, Clinton Jr. and Gertie at "The Springs"

Fine regular California day. Pretty hot.

I worked all A.M. putting covers on my chicken feed boxes. In afternoon I pounded up the shells I got Sunday and made some grit for the chickens. Also trimmed up 2 palm trees. Then Pa and I pushed and pulled the one horse cultivator (with two teeth off) over the patch where we are going to plant potatoes. May, Gertie, and Toots [I think this is wife and children of Uncle Clint] dropped in tonight. They are down for 2 or 3 days. We visited here awhile and then at their house awhile. Then home - read a little and to bed. 4 eggs.

Tues. Feb. 15, 1916

Downtown Fullerton likely around the time my grandpa was there.

Fine and hot.

Worked around here a little in A.M. Got a letter from Lillian Crane. About 9:30 I went down to May's and worked around their yard, pruning trees etc. Grandpa came down at 10 A.M. and in afternoon we all ( May etc) drove out to their ranch and then to Fullerton to the nursery for her to order some fruit trees. While there a Dodge, driven by a high school student, ran into a kid on a bike who was ahead and didn't know which way to turn. Smashed the bike up a little and threw the kid along the pavement, but did not run over him. Pa, Ma, and I ran out to him, but in a few minutes he was alright and the other fellow took he and his bike into town. On way back I stopped at packing house and told them I would work tomorrow as they requested today over the phone via Harner's. I took May and kids over to Root's for supper and in the eve we drove down and Root and I beat Pa and Grand 2-1 at 500. Grandpa staying at May's tonight

Feb. 10 - 12, 1916

 Thurs. Feb. 10, 1916

Foggy A.M. Sun and warm afternoon Fog at nite.

Pa painting window screens. He also wrote to Ogden A.Confer to sell our property in Minneapolis. I wrote a letter to Walt. Rode down and got some bread and meat. Our grocery, meat and milk for the last month have cost us $23 (we have not bought any potatoes).

In afternoon I worked around - rode down and bought some stuff to fill tire cuts and filled one on the auto. 4 eggs. I rode to library and read papers till 7:30 then to Root's and he and I beat Pa and Mrs 2 games 500.

Fri. Feb. 11, 1916

Foggy A.M. sunny afternoon

Worked around - dug potatoes in afternoon. I rode over to packing house and got my pay. I get 20 cents per hour and got $8.40 for what work I did. Pa painting screens all day. Read in eve. 4 eggs.

Sat. Feb. 12, 1916

Fog A.M. fine and warm most of day.

Drove 4 miles out county road to buy some cheap potatoes, but they were no good. Back and bought 3 gas, groceries, and meat also 40# bean which is $1.30 per sack and 6# beef scrap for 25 cents and 2 # charcoal for 10 cents to mix with it to make for a dry mash. For a scratch feed we bought 50# coffir corn at $1.85 per 100# and 25# of wheat $2.20 per 100# which we will mix together and feed instead of ready mixed stuff at $1.35 per 100. I cleaned the chicken house some in the afternoon, fixed boxes for the feed and mixed it. Then made a trough and fed the chickens some of the bran. Then polished the auto all up. Read in evening and took a bath. 4 eggs. Gas is 17 1/2 cents now. We now have 10 hens. 2 pullets about 5 mos. old, and 4 roosters (3 young).