In a warm and rainy June, Mayme is out of school, working hard around the house, and hanging out with her friends around town.

Ice cream suppers seem to be a favorite activity, followed closely by the lost art of hemstitching, ironing, and stealing roses. Fannie Teets got married. Mayme did not yet know that Fannie would become her sister-in-law in 17 years.

Editor’s note: Installment seven, July 1901, will be posted in July.

June 1901

1. I cleaned my room up, baked a chocklate cake, went to a church entertainment. Came home with P. B.
2. Went to Sunday School preaching at Disciple. Went to Sunday School in afternoon. Went out to cemetery. Bertha, Anna and Fred went to East Liberty. Tell came home with me for supper. French and May Stillings were up, went to Endeavor. Port, got Nell and I mixed.
3. Washed, made salad, Anna was up, went to town at night, took laundry.
4. Ironed, mamma washed my windows, got mail, started handkerchief. Anna and Bertha came after me to go to practice. Jess wanted me to play croquet.
5. Got mail, rainy outside. Saw Pauline, went uptown and bought a tablet and saw Burke’s.
6. Washed the windows downstairs. Mailed letter to Jim, saw the Burke’s again in the same place.
7. Pa went to East Liberty. I painted my room and the hall, cleared the front room, and went uptown. Stella, Anna, and I took a walk and went to Loveland’s.
8. Went to Bellefontaine with Oll Marquis’s folks. Ethal, Stella H, Gail and myself were together. Got pin fixed.
9. Went to Sunday School, Loveland’s and Anna came home with me for supper. Went to the Old Folks Endeavor. Came home with Port.
10. Washed dishes, cleaned up my room. Mamma washed and Jess came up for a little while in the evening. Started handkerchief. Warm.
11. Ironed in the morning. Went to practice in afternoon, then went up into town at night. Ice cream supper. Got letter. Warm.
12. Went out to Georgia Stokes, she came in after us. Went fishing and Georgia and the Weller girls went swimming. Went to practice. Stole some roses. Had a fine time.
13. Pa took old Major to Mud Sock. Warm today. Georgia and Anna came after me to go to practice. Got supper and washed dishes.
14. Went up to get my hat and went out to Hazel Painter’s – Anna and I. Good time. Went down into town to get Anna to come over here on Saturday.
15. Folks went to Marysville, Anna came up here, got me a yellow dress, shoes, and ribbon. It rained. Anna and I went down to the church at night and got to laughing at Desta.
16. Went to Sunday School, then to Deciple to Sunday School and practiced. Saw “Children’s Day” at night – three songs, some dialog and poke piece. Ma and Pa took me home.
17. Pa went to East Liberty, Ma washed, painted bedroom and sitting room. Hemstitched. Stella and Bernice were up in the evening.
18. Went uptown and saw Ethel and Nett. Ironed. Went uptown in the evening, Rebekah’s had ice cream supper, Ethel and Nett stayed all night.
19. Girls went home, I painted, got mail, rainy outside, finished the handkerchief and went to bed before dark.
20. Mr. Bowers is here to paper the bedroom. Got the mail and went over to Oll Marquis, Arthur and I brought the school picture up. Rainy outside. Saw Anna and Stella.
21. Went after soap and washed the curtains clean. Got letter from Jim. Rainy again.
22. Dusted. Mamma baked a cake. Rainy and it got so dark. It is Cecil’s birthday. I baked another cake. Hazel Painter and Fern were up. Mamma got flowers and we went to the ice cream supper. Had to eat by ourselves and remember the night we got left “Where’s your fellows?”
23. Went to Sunday School. Anna came with me for dinner, talked a long while with Austin Heath and Fred. Went after Anna at night (happy once more). Came home with Ethel.
24. Washed, got mail, Went to Anna’s, got books, talked with Stella, wrote letter.
25. Ironed. Mamma has commenced my dress. Got cherries – awful warm day. Mrs. Joe Poole came over in the evening and brought flowers. Anna came for me to stay with her on Wednesday.
26. Stayed all day with Anna and made soda water. Fannie Teets was married. Went to prayer meeting. Arthur I. gave me a letter to give to Georgia.
27. Mamma sewed and Anna came up in the afternoon, an awful pretty book agent is here.
28. Pauline was up after chicken before I was up. It rained. I went to Endeavor convention in the morning, noon, night. Mamma and Papa went to Lewisburg.
29. Got up, washed dishes, Pa went to East Liberty. I went to town at night. Lena throwed water on Ethel and me.
30. Went to Sunday School in morning and to Disciple at night. Georgia was here for dinner and supper. Chance to go to Goshen with Port; came home with Port.
    

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About the author: Mary “Mayme” Wilbur was born in 1885, in Union County, Ohio. Her father, Zachary T. Wilber, was 37 and her mother, Adelaide Allen, was 38. Mayme was their second child; their firstborn, a son, passed in infancy. Mayme married Chester O. Teets on February 24, 1918 and the two lived their days in Middleburg and Zane Township, Ohio. She died in 1954, in Middleburg at the age of 69. Chester passed the following year, at the age of 67.