January & February 1939 from The Calls 1935-1943
Jan 1. We had a pleasant New Year's Day with Evelyn and Family.
Jan 2. Monday - we started toward home with Frank for driver as far as Williamsport, where he had business. All acted sorry to see us go, especially Evelyn. Frank is a very good driver. There are signs on the road "Speed limit 50 miles per hour. Penalty. License suspended for 90 days." Charles took the whell and we drove to Painted Post, where we ate, and found lodging at the home of a Trooper. Charles listed to a football game over the radio, I worked on a braided rug for Evelyn.
Tues 3. Started at 7:30. No snow or ice until we reached Geneseo. home before noon. Marie Bennett here visiting.
Friday 6. It was in yesterday's paper we were home. Carrie and Frank called. In the evening four men from Akron came, about the Cucumber and Tomato business, Ward Hunt, Roscoe Hunt, Ross Blackmore and Wm. Byers.
Jan 30. "We have had a good deal of cold, rough weather." "Charles has kept very quiet, part of the time having breakfast in bed, but packing eggs, writing and figuring a good deal. He reads a lot, listens to the radio, and plays Chinese checkers with Edith and Alden. Alden has been home since Christmas. Believe he would have stayed on at the T.V.A., but there was a lack of money. He has tended the chickens and the furnace, shoveled snow when necessary, driven the car to school for Edith in bad weather, - and to places where Edith has wanted to go. Edith has seemed to greatly enjoy having him go around with her." I have worked on braided rugs, one for Clara Mae C?????, a small one for Evelyn to got at the foot of the stairs next to the big register in the hall floor. Have embroidered pillow cases and other work, and have started the second rug for the bathroom. Charles takes much interest in my rug making. He particularly like the new rug for the bathroom and wanted it for his. "Charles and I went to the Dairymen's League meeting at Fort Hill Jan. 21, dinner and afternoon meeting."
Fri Feb. 4 - We went to Batavia with Alden for driver. There has been lots of snow, but it has been kept cleared away. Alden has done lots of shoveling at home. "We went to see Dr. Davis. He says Charles is just the same as he was the last time he was there, in Nov. That it is "up to him" to take care of himself, not overdo." Richard has been very sick with pneumonia. Doctor says he his better.
"As we came from our parking place, we came to a single file walk. Some ladies had the right of way but smilingly and graciously stepped into the track to give the old people the walk."
Charles has written a check for the doctor for $ 16.00 "on account." The doctor said "But that is just what my bill is!" He rechecked it again, and including that day's call it came to just $ 16.00. The doctor said "You are a good guesser."
Thurs 9. Alden returned to Cornell to work for his Master's degree. Irving has been doing electrical work for Gilbert Prole.
Fri 10. We went to Grange. Had junior with us all the afternoon. He was good as gold.
Wed 15. The Akins had very kindly asked us to go to Farmers' Week with them. It was very icy. The car skidded and went into the ditch. I on the lower side, two ladies above me. They had lumps on their foreheads, but I had bruises, one in my left side, the other in my left hip. We went to Mrs. Howland's where we stayed more than 20 years ago, when we went to Farmers' Week. She is 86, "the Doll Lady." She has a wonderful collection. She has a retired nurse, Mrs. Bell, living with her. They both did everything possible for me. A doctor came, but found only bruises. Came home the next day. I suffered more in the next 4 to 6 weeks than ever in the same length of time before. I could not turn over nights - had to lie on my back. Much against my will I would usually ask Charles to put another pillow behind my back, when the position became unendurable. He was as good and thoughtfully kind as could be. He wrote Clara that he was happy to do things for me, that I had been so good to wait on him since his illness. Had Mrs Berger help about house work. She is good.
Sun Feb 19. Edith invited Carrie and Frank to dinner. Carrie said when she told Jim I had been hurt, he said "I always thought they ought to have gone to California."
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Patty's notes on this entry
Jan 1 1939 - I found a video on YouTube showing how the New Year was celebrated in New York City
Evelyn and family - Evelyn Clara Call (1895-1962) daughter of Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe. She married Francis William Hankins. They had three children - Ralph William (1927-1997), Elizabeth Ann Hankins (1929-2020) and Philip Charles (1931-2006)
We - Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939) son of Robert Call (1831-1913) and Charlotte Joslin (1833-1907) and Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1056) daughter of Albert Coe (1829-1907) and Deborah Prentice (1833-1910)
Frank - Francis William Hankins (1897-1983) son of William Lucas Hankins (1872-1930) and Mary Jane Kellam (1874-1944). He married Evelyn Clara Call in 1920
Marie Bennett - Marie Elizabeth Bennett (1917-2001) daughter of Fred Bennett (1884-1969) and Eva Nettie Walker (1877-1956). She will marry Alden Jones in 1940
Carrie and Frank - Carrie Evelyn Coe (1864-1948) daughter of Albert Coe and Deborah Prentice. She married Frank Lincoln Walkley (1867-1961) son of Rosman L Walkley (1838-1930) and Maryetta Peck (1843-1922) in 1894.
Ward Hunt - Ward Charles Hunt (1895-1943) son of Charles Hunt (1852-1897) and Mary Sparling (1848-1949). He married Ruby Danser (1893-1951)
Roscoe Hunt - Roscoe W Hunt (1887-1978) son of Charles Hunt and Mary Sparling. He married Maude Danser (1888-1869)
Ross Blackmore - Ross Orlo Blackmore (1891-1944) son of Charles Norris Blackmore (1860-1952) and Effie Luella Swift (1864-1928). He married Marjorie Celia Hunt (1893-1973)
Edith - Edith Alberta Call (1889-1989) daughter of Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe. She was the widow of Malvern Smith Jones (1884-1937)
Alden - Alden Malvern Jones (1915-2010) son of Malvern Smith Jones and Edith Alberta Call
Dr Davis - Charles Louis Davis (1883-1943) son of James Davis and Anna Hull. He married Susan Irene Fleming (1887-1973). Charles was a physician in Batavia.
Richard - Richard Coe Call (1930-2014) son of Robert Vincent Call (1892-1961) and Lucille Alice Hale (1893-1996)
Irving - Irving Joslyn Call (1900-1995) son of Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe. He married Thelma Louise Keitel (1905-1996) in 1927
Gilbert Prole - Gilbert Arthur Prole (1873-1949) son of Arthur Prole (1847-1916) and Percis Taylor (1851-1934). He married Alice Wolcott (1884-1979). The Prole's lived in Stafford. He was one of the first farmers in New York to be designated a Master Farmer.
junior - Irving Fancher Call son of Irving Joslyn Call and Thelma Louisa Keitel
Akins - Possibly Lawrence Akins (1899-1980) son of Aro Akin (1848-1913) and Sarah Jefferson (1859-1907). According to the 1940 City Directory, Lawrence was a chauffer living in Batavia. He may have married a woman named Clara M in about 1939. In 1930, a married housekeeper Clara M Brown lived in the same household as Lawrence Akins.
Mrs Howland - Henrietta Robinson (abt 1852-1946) widow of Albert Ward (d 1884) and Andrew Howland (1839-1926). She lived in Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York.
Mrs Bell - Clementia Adelle Belcher (1874-1944) widow of Walter J Bells (1858-1931) She was living with Henrietta Robinson Howland as a housekeeper in 1940
Mrs Berger - Louise Ann Bridges (1892-1959) wife of George Henry Burger (1890-1968). According to the 1940 census, the couple lived in Stafford, where Louise did nursing and housework for private families.
Jim - James Harry Walkley (1903-1985) son of Frank Lincoln Walkley and Evelyn Clara Coe. He married Katherine Louise Persell (1905-1957) in 1929.
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