Name/Title
Daily Journal 1924-1927Entry/Object ID
2010.027.0002Scope and Content
This diary is Nora Pendleton, or "Aunt Nora's", daily recollections and weather reports. The first date in the book is January 1, 1924, and the last is December 31, 1927. Apart from Aunt Nora's entries, the books is also filled with calendars, weather signals, tide charts, antidotes for poisons, spaces for bill keeping and making notes, as well as other useful "tid-bits." Inside the front cover Ms. Pendleton filled in some personal information such as her telephone number, number on the watch case, weight, height, hat size, glove size, hosiery size, and shoe size.
A variety of topics were included in the diary. Some of which were: A social at Community Hall (1/1/26), Marge leaving for the Orient (1/1/25), a school play (1/2/25), Madeline Thomas' death (1/2/27), the burning of Hobart Dodge's house (1/3/25), the evening services' topic of "Chicago Tongue" (1/4/25), giving a talk at Sunday School titled "Never too old to go to Sunday School," John Fields' death (1/10/26), installations at the Order of Eastern Star (1/12/25 and 27, 1/13/25), Hauling ice from Meadow Pond to Dark Harbor (1/16/25), Frank Berry's death (1/16/27), Miss Lewallen sick after her baby boy was still-born (1/18/24), the "Golden Rod" breaking rudder in the ice (1/19/25), Richard Daniel's death (1/21/27), Birna Pendleton's death (1/22/26), Eclipse of the sun (1/24/25), the birth of Cora Leach (1/24/25), "Aunt Theresa's" death (1/27/27), John Farrow's death (1/29/27), improvements to Union Hall (1/31/25), Ice on the bay (1/31/25), Death of Ex-president Wilson (2/3/24), Basketball games, Sewing Circle meetings, prayer meetings, Williams Bros. moving ice (4/7/27), ordering of electric lights (4/7/27), Osmond Elwell's death (4/15/26), High school play in the town hall (4/19/27), Mother's Club entertainment at Community Hall (4/22/27), Clement R. Richardson born (4/26/26), Ida Nash's death of Pneumonia (4/26/27), Earthquake at 9:20pm (4/28/25), President Coolidge's speech on radio (3/4/25), Robert Carey's death on Feb. 22 (3/4/26), Waldo Trust Co.'s going out of business (3/6/27), D.E.A. Daniel's death (3/7/27), Emily Pendleton gets Phi Kappa Phi honor (3/11/26), Play at New Community Hall (3/13/25), Grace Hayes marriage on March 10th (3/19/24), Visit of Evangelist Evens (3/19/25), The highschool's "Alabama Minstrel" (3/21/24), Alfred P. Hatch's hand operation (3/24/24), S.A. Even's death (3/26/27), High School Prize speaking (3/27/25), Loranus P. Hatch's birthday (3/31/24), Death of Charles A. Pendleton's baby (4/12/27), death of Capt. Guilford Pendleton (4/13/27), death of Meda Freeman (4/15/27), Mrs. MacCormack's death in Bangor (4/17/26), Scarlet Fever at Leslie Smith's house (4/17/27), Kate Scoville's marriage (4/20/27), "Grandma" Dyer's death (4/24/25), Belfast Baseball playing Islesboro on the "old golf links" (4/27/27), May basket sale at Community Hall (4/29/27), Last lot in "the Colony" sold to Foster A. Ober (5/5/26), 38 year anniversary of Aunt Nora's move to Dark Harbor (5/6/27), The wedding of Theodore and Olive Pendleton (5/12/26), Prize Speaking Contest at Town Hall (5/13/27), Mr. Hooper's purchase of Eben Randlett's business (5/15/26), the death of Capt. Nathan Pendleton (5/19/24), First Trans-Atlantic Flight by Charles Lindburgh (5/21/27), baptism at Boardman's Cove (5/24/25), Baccalaureate service (6/5/27), Capt. Walter Small's house struck by lightning (6/625), High School Graduation (6/11/25), Voting for Primaries (6/16/24), Trip to Wiscasset to see off the MacMillan expedition to the North Pole on Saturday (6/19/25), the death of Mr. D.H. Hall (6/25/24), Admiral MacMillan's visit to Charles Dana Gibson (6/28/27), burning of Lena Pendleton's house at Hughes Point (6/30/27), sighting the "Leviathan of the Air-'Shenandoah'" (7/3 and 7/4 1925), Conference of Governor's entertained at the Yacht Club (7/4/25), Rudolph Hatch's house and a house at Ryder's Cove burned (7/9/25), The birth of Katherine Ward's son (7/12/25), The death of Frank Hatch (7/20/25), the death of "Aunt Amelia" (7/29/27), Sea planes flying over Gilkey's Harbor (7/30/24), the burning of Luida Merrill's house (7/31/25), Rev. Lewallen resigns (7/31/26), O.E.S. fair at Town Hall (8/1/27), the death of Francis Decker Batis (8/4/27), Musical Concert held at Community Hall (8/12/26), Amasa Pendleton's hand cut very badly (8/12/26), Lady Aster speaks at Town Hall (8/14/26), Free Will Baptist Church Fair (8/18/27 and 8/20/25), Dance held at Town Hall for Alice Smith (8/18/27), death of Shirley Leach (8/19/25), Fred Bliss' 55 birthday (8/20/25), Marriage of Mary C. Tiffany and Harold Platt Jr. (8/26/25), Marriage of Wellington and Georgie Coombs (8/29/26), Concert at Community Hall by Paul Shirley and Reginald Boardman (8/31/25), News of the wreck of the Shenandoah on the Ohio River (9/3/25), Maine's Election Day: Nora Pendleton "went on Buckboard." The town went Democratic, and the state voted strongly Republican for Gov. Brewster (9/13/26), Marriage of Murial Hatch and Chester Chambers (9/15/25), a fire at Mildred Hale's house (9/28/26), Sewing Circle held at Community Hall (9/29/25), Campfire girls went camping in South Paris, ME (10/1/26), the funeral of Everard Smith (10/1/27), Listened to Baseball game between New York and the Cardinals (10/2/26), The burning of the Robert Boit Cottage (10/7/27), Viewing of new Atterbury and Dillon Cottages (10/10/26), the death of Emery Hatch's wife of pneumonia (10/16/27), visit to see L.E. Smith's tractor (10/20/26), death of Mr. Lewallen (4/19/40), Mrs. Carey's death of acute idigestion (10/25/24), the death of Capt. Isaac Burgess (10/25/26), the proposition to connect the church lights to the electric plant (10/27/26), the marriage of Jennie and Emerson Thurber (10/31/26), the death of Mrs. Lena Pendleton (10/31/27), the death of Capt. George A. Warren (11/11/24), Attending a school play at the new Rockland High School building (11/13/25), Shopping at W.O. Hall's and "Earle's" in Dark Harbor (11/19/27), Community Fair day (11/24/25), Election day for State Senator, Arthur R. Gould declared winner by 50,000 vote majority (11/29/26), the birth of a son to Dorothy Parker Richardson (12/3/27), the death of Emery B. Williams (12/6/24), Knitting of nets and Christmas mittens (12/12/27), the beginnig of Col. Lindburg's trip to Mexico (12/13/27), "Lindy" arrives in Mexico at 3:29 PM (12/14/27), High school play (12/15/27), singing of carols by Campfire Girls (12/23/25), the death of Margarete Freeman (12/27/25),