Journal of Miss Lottie M. Davis

Miss Lottie M. Davis

May 1933 – June 1933

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May 1933

  1 May 1933 - Limb open & drilled in bone and kidney treatment Dr. Deyerle & Dr. Miller.

  1 May 1933 – Miss Shacklett nursed me.

  3 May 1933 – Mrs. Liskey died lived at Moses Powell House.

  4 May 1933 – Came home from hospital.

11 May 1933 – Sold Jersey and calf.   [Please note that Miss Lottie would have spent many heart wrenching hours searching her soul while she was in the hospital and also during her recovery at home before reaching the conclusion that this step was absolutely necessary for the well-being of her animals as well as for her own well being.
  
In 1933, most women in the Shenandoah Valley treasured their milk cow as a beloved animal that was a valued part of their family.  A milk cow had to be hand milked twice each day regardless of the weather or whatever other calamities that may have occurred within a family. 

It was quite an accomplishment as well as a matter of pride to find and raise just the right sort of calf and train it to meet a family’s dairy needs: milk, butter, buttermilk, cottage cheese, and yogurt as well as various other sorts of cheese.  These diary products even affected the various types of breads produced in the home. Good biscuits require quality dairy products to make them "mouthwatering."

For any woman to recognize and come to terms with her own physical limitations is difficult during the best of times, but having to face this reality and having the courage to take the necessary steps to deal with reality so soon after serious surgery is to be admired.

In 1922, a milk co-operative was formed to collect raw milk from local farms as it had been discovered that many local families had an excess of milk from their family cow.  This raw milk also included cream.  A Jersey cow was a very special breed of diary cow that produced richer milk with a higher quality of butterfat. Milk was collected in both five and ten gallon tin cans and cream was separated from the milk into smaller two - three gallon cans. After the cans were collected and returned to the milk processing plant, the milk was then pasteurized and distributed to towns which had already imposed an early form of zoning laws restricting cows being maintained within emerging cities. This dairy co-operative eventually became known as Shenandoah’s Pride, but even in 1933, milk was not delivered to the Town of Elkton which had only been formed twenty-five years previously in 1908.]

10 May 1933 – Mrs. Lena Davis goes to Hospital.

11 May 1933 – Mrs. Daniel Powell died seventy-one years old.

  9 May 1933 – Mrs. George Breeden new baby.

14 May 1933 – Rev. Smith first sermon.

  9 May 1933 – Ray hair cut the first time.

     May 1933 – Elmer Leap get new car.

     May 1933 – Harold Morris moves.

     May 1933 – Ashby McVeigh moved.

     May 1933 – Lilly Whitfield mad spell.

23 May 1933 – Mrs. Ruth Plum Eppard new baby.

21 May 1933 – Mrs. Gilbert Plum operated on.

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May 1933

     May 1933 – Mrs. Ben Orey new baby.

     May 1933 – Mrs. Virgil Cook new baby.

24 May 1933 – Miss Dorothy Lam & Turpin Dean married.

20 May 1933 – Mr. Olin Knootz married to Miss Mauck.

26 May 1933 – New carpet on dining room $10.00.

25 May 1933 – Mrs. George Bruce fifty-six years and Lin Sandridge sixty years old married.

28 May 1933 – Mrs. Whitfield & Lilly stop church.

     May 1933 – Earl new car.

     May 1933 – Mr Tom Monger hurt at mill.
June 1933
  1 Jun 1933 - Miss Ruby Hammer married.
  2 Jun 1933 - School closed.
  2 Jun 1933 - Mr. Dave Shifflett died fifty-nine years old.
  4 Jun 1933 - Mrs. Shifflett F.
  6 Jun 1933 - Mrs. Baugher's brother's funeral age eighty years old.
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June 1933
 9 Jun 1933 - New floor in kitchen.
10 Jun 1933 - Mabel get P.
 9 Jun 1933 - Mr. Frank Kyger dies at dinner table seventy-four years old.
 9 Jun 1933 - Fire at Harrisonburg.
10 Jun 1933 - Police Logan died age sixty-two years.
11 Jun 1933 - Willie Cave baby died eighteen months old.
12 Jun 1933 - Robert Hammer new baby.
     Jun 1933 - Earl build to home.
17 Jun 1933 - Mr/ Parr married.
22 Jun 1933 - Play given by Ladies Auxiliary made $22.00.
21 Jun 1933 - Mrs. Green Armentrout died seventy-eight years old.
20 Jun 1933 - Miss Louise Macomb operated on.
 3 Jun 1933 - Robert Lough operated on.
 4 Jun 1933 - Hubert Lee Cover operated on.
24 Jun 1933 - Miss Lambert married.