Wednesday, April 9, 2014

more family momentoes.....

Uncle Roger's beginner swimming card...a picture from Summer '85 of the helicopter mailbox that Harold Mathes made...grandpa Alfred grade card from South Dakota in 4th grade....1923-4....signed by great grandpa Johnnie! he missed 23.5 days out of 151 days school was in session. he was tardy 20 times, his deportment was from 85-90 each month, his classes were reading, writing, orthography, arithmetic, geography, Lang. & Gramm., Phys. and Hyg., art & drawing. grades from 70%-97%, highest grades in orthography, arithmetic, & phy. and Hyg. His teacher was Evelyn Foncannon. he was promoted to grade 5. ....grandma Pauline rec'd a One Hundred Perfect Spelling Lessons award on March 16 1931.......a valentine card from grandpa Alfred "To the most ardent & devoted wife & angel mother. Daddy & Babies" to grandma Pauline. "Darling I know that all of your valentines in the future will demand the same tokens of love which you so dearly deserve, your lover, xoxoxoxo 1948.......a wedding card to grandma & grandpa from his sister Vi and brother in law Bill...

card Aunt Freeda sent to Koren & Cody when Ian was born.

"When our 18 year old city cousin from California came to the farm one summer, Bernard was probably 10. They had so much fun together. They made a tunnel through the baled hay in the barn shaped like an L by removing bales about half way up. I went through the dark, scratchy tunnel once! They were quite proud of themselves. When Dad realized what they had done and that they had been going through many times, he of course gave a stern lecture about the dangers-suffocation, getting trapped if the top bales collapsed-how would he be able to get through to save them? These were regular sized rectangle bales. Bernard loved to ride our palamino horse Princess. As he was growing up every boy wanted to be a cowboy. He even had boots and a hat. In the movies the good guys wore white hats.

Warranty Deed

Warranty Deed from Ida M. Dittman single to Alfred E. Axsom and wife filed 19th day of February 1946 at 2:30p.m. recorder's fees $1.25 Jan. 18 1946 Alfred E. Axsom and Mary P. Axsom, husband and wife of the county of Mercer, state of Missouri.....the sum of $562.50.....county of Mercer, state of Missouri.....the SE quarter of the NW quarter of Section 30 Twp. 66 Range 25 except a strip of land 5 rods wide off the north side thereof, and except the Right of Way of the C.B. & Q. Railway. Containing 37.5 acres more or less.

birthday card signed by all 4 of grandpa Alfred's kids....

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