March 14, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

March 14, 1963

Thurs. Cloudy in am clearing in pm 25. Sue and Wayne home with the flu. I had more cold, did very little,  wrote to Doug and Marilyn. Clifton cut wood. David received $215.00 compensation check in the mail.

Comment:  Adjusted for inflation, David got $2292 and I think it was an injury compensation check for when he got his fingers caught in a charcoal press at Timberland.  This is from a previous post..."Timberland was the charcoal plant in Stamford where LaVerne was the general manager.  David worked there for a while and got his hand caught in a briquet press and injured it pretty bad.  His hand was caught until LaVerne went into the control panel and re-wired it to reverse the press."

And.." the road goes on forever and the party never ends" when it comes to cutting wood...Dad's at it again....

February 21, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

February 21, 1963

Thurs. Fair and very cold windy 2 above hi. I washed in am. The girls and I went to Maude’s in the afternoon to Stanley party. Roberta called for David to come to work Fri am.

Comment:  A Stanley party is where pots, pans, and kitchenware are sold by the person holding the party.  Kinda like Tupperware parties but everything was made of metal.  Roberta must have called David to help draw the mail.  LaVerne had a contract mail route that involved trucking mail from post office to post office and also house to house delivery.  And they seemed to live by the statement:   "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"..., but there is no official creed or motto for the Post office:  See below from Wikipedia...

  The United States Postal Service has no official creed or motto.

Often falsely cited as such, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" is an inscription on the James Farley Post Office in New York City,^[1] derived from a quote from Herodotus' Histories (8.98), referring to the courier service of the ancient Persian Empire:

It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day’s journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed. (trans. A.D. Godley 1924)

In