Wednesday, April 9, 2014

old grade cards....

Certificate of Award, Potter County, S.D.: Alfred Axsom , (can't read writing of school district) has made 45 perfect recitations in spelling and is therefore awarded this certificate. Sept. 6, 1921
The Report Book for Pauline Shafer, a pupil in Harrison County Public Schools, 1928-1929; subjects Reading, Spelling, Writing, Arithmetic, Story Class, present 33 days, absent 7 first quarter, 82% attendance, 83% recitation, 93% deportment. @nd quarter present 35 days, absent 5, 87% attendance, 83% recitation, 92% deportment. signed by my great grandma Amanda Shafer!
Alfred Axsom monthly report Potter County, SD signed by my great grandma Daisy Axsom! Month 1: days in session 23, missed 7 days, tardy once, deportment 80, ranked 3rd in class. Month 2: days in session 12.5, 3 tardies, deportment 85, 3rd in class; Month 3: in session 19 days, 1 tardy, 85 deportment, ranked 3rd. Month 4: in session 18 days, missed 1, tardy 4 times, 80 deportment, ranked 3rd in class. Month Five: in session 20 days, missed 8, tardy 4, 87 deportment, ranked 2nd. Month 6: in session 14 days, tardy 9, deportment 77, ranked 2nd. Month 7: in session 20 days, missed 8, 2 tardy, deportment 78, ranked 2nd. Month 8: in session 18 dyas, deportment 86, 2nd in class. Month 9: in session 10 days, missed 2, deportment 85, ranked 2nd. his subjects were Reading: 83% avg., Writing: 80% avg., Spelling: 89% avg., Arithmetic: 76% avg., Lang. or Gram.: 81% avg., Drawing: 80%.
Potter County, South Dakota, promoted Alfred Axsom from Seventh Grade June 10 1927.

this autograph book was in the box of Axsom things from California.....

not sure just why it is included..... it belonged to Paul L Bain, freshman at Mercer Public School, May 1944-45
our class activities: Literary Club, class and school plays: Starlight, Starbright
class officers: President Marilyn Cox; Vice President Gene Shaffer; Secretary Bobby J. Moore; Treasurer Wendell Stark
autographs I could read: Mrs. Pauline Thompson, Mrs. Joan Whitehill, Bob, Duane Flood, Denzil McIntosh, Jean Puffer, Lawrence Dykes, Doris L. Davis, Marietta Snodgrass, Corinne Hashman, Ocie O. Stark, Donald Lee Ragan, Aaron Dee McIntosh, Susan Warden, Willis Cox, Paul Clark, ? Wendell Stark, Edna Mae Cox, Gene Shaffer, Betty Jane, Marilyn Cox, Bryan Emm Wilbur Mulvania, Garry Loomis, Pauline Baud
When you get married and your wife gets cross, pick up a broom and show her who's "Boss"!
When you get married and have a dozen kids, don't come to my house for bobby pins.
When you get married and live with the pigs, don't treat your wife like Maggie did Jigs.
Roses are red, violets are blue, Roosevelt's dead, I'm glad ain't you.
Roses are red, violets are blue, polecats stink, and so do you.
Mary had a little lamb, she gave it caster oil, every time it took a step, it fertilized the soil.
Roses are red, violets are blue, Roosevelt's dead, and so are you.
If I were a hammer, and you were a tack, I would hammer you with gentle little whacks.
Pins and needles, needles and pins, when you get married, I wish you twins.
Down by the river, carved on a rock, three little words, forget me not.
Yours till the Mississippi wears bobby pins to keep it's wave.
When you get married and buy your new Ford, save me a seat on the running board.
Remember me early, remember me late, remember me at the Golden Gate.
Yours till butter flies.
Down in the valley, carved in a tree, are two little words, remember me.
When the golden sun is setting, and the path no more you trod, may your name be plainly written in the autograph of God.
Always remember and keep in mind, a true friend is hard to find, so when you find one that is true, change not the old one for the new.
Ducks on the pond, geese on the ocean, Paul can't marry until Betty takes a notion.
When you get married and your kids won't be still, think of the times on the Mercer hill.
Roses are red, violets are blue, this is enough, to write for you.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.
I like you little, I like you big, I like you like a little pig.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

cousin Nancy is a grandma!

My baby boy holding his own baby boy..Born April 8, 2014, weighing 8.1 lbs & 20 3/4 in. long

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Aunt Mary just called to tell me that Fred meant for me to keep the dvds...not to mail them back....

which is kinda cool, because they are fun to watch!

once upon a first Sunday in June picnic at Aunt Minerva's.....

guessing by the size of the wee ones, I'd guess about 1994...
Kenton, John, K.J., Koren, & Ashley
I took this picture, then made the frame & gave it to Grandma Grace. I got it back when they cleaned out her house, and it had remained in a drawer until last night, when I remembered it and put it up on the "FAMILY WALL" I'm working on.....old antique family pictures and then newer ones....
The family wall I'm working on....Frank & May Brown, Ralph Osborn, Lewis, Maggie & Edith Brown & a couple of my kids....

The Black Sheep

this one always makes me giggle....

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Lisa's "The Age I Got" on facebook.....

The age I got was 19.
Where I lived - Trenton, Missouri
What I drove - Varied. I had a poor farm family so didn't have my own car. I lived close to my college and work so I primarily walked. When I needed to drive I would borrow one of roommates' cars or my grandparent's car, or bum a ride.
What I did - Full-time student at Trenton Junior College and worked at the local Dairy Queen
Who had my heart - My boyfriend, Alan, from Bethany. Until he wrecked his car driving me to work and we broke up. He blamed me, even though HE refused to scrape more than a little circle of ice off the windshield then pulled out in front of a taxi, which hit my door square on. The cops couldn't believe I only had scrapes and bruises. He was mad as it happened right as we were turning into the DQ parking lot and I went to work versus "supporting" him.
Now...
Age - 47
Where I live - rural Vichy, MO
What I do - Substitute teacher; soon to return to accounting
Who has my heart - My hubby of 19 years, Tom Like my status and I'll give you an age so you can repost if you want. I don't usually do these but this one is kind of fun.