Monday, March 4, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

March 4, 1963

Mon mostly cloudy in the ’40s all day. The snow settled a lot.  Clifton drew three logs up here and had spring put in the car at Raymond's in the afternoon. Maude called and brought my Stanley things. Mother called and said she was working.

Comment:  Rather then cutting up the logs in the woods, we sometimes skidded them out and brought them to just outside the wood house to be cut up as needed or when the weather broke.  The broken spring in Dad's car got fixed at Raymond Brown's, which was almost directly over the top of Hubbard Hill in Broom Center.  When Mother or Grandma Bessie worked, she worked in a glove shop in Richmondville that was owned by Charlie Papa, a near and dear first cousin of Mary Ann.  Charlie and Bea are now both deceased and we have very fond memories of them. The Papa glove shops did a lot of military glove contracts and he also hit the "toe sock" craze and had a major knitting operation for those.  Both of Mary Ann's parent's worked in the Gloversville shops.  Her dad George was a "cutter" and he developed massive shoulders and arms from stretching the skins to make sure they got as many gloves as possible out of the hide.  Her mother Mary, was a "finisher" who hand sewed the very fine stitches around the seams of the fingers of the gloves. 

Stretching Leather For Cutting

February 10, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

February 10, 1963

Sunday, Twenties,  Mostly cloudy.  Girls and I went to church and Sunday School.  Mary Ann came with Gerald for dinner.  Laverne and Roberta came in the afternoon and we went to Middleburg and Cobleskill and went with them to look at cars.  Gerald and Mary Ann and us were down there for supper.  Wayne and Linda were here.  David at Sandy’s.

Comment:  Dinner was the noon meal and supper was the evening meal.  Not sure who Lilliane is and why they were looking at cars.  The Flat Creek Baptist Church was a major part of Mom and the girl's lives.  They usually went to church on Sundays, stayed for Sunday school, then went to a prayer meeting sometime during the week.  The oldest three, LaVerne, Marilyn, and I, were "saved" at a young age, Marilyn at 11, me at about the same age, and I don't remember about LaVerne.  These were full immersion baptisms held at a pool at the end of a culvert by Halleck's.  We used to go swimming there quite often in the summer.