Bethel.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, June 13, 1918 Wea [Weather]
50 [degrees] min. [minimum] Fair
Partly cloudy, partly sunny. Very
cool with high N.W. [Northwest] winds. An
autumnal-like day more like
one of early November than of June.
  Spent most of forenoon in Bethel
village looking up old acquaintances 
there. Called at Ceylon Rowe's store &
bought 2 prs. wool socks @ $1.75 (they
once cost only 50 [cents]). Waited at post
office until Chas. Davis came for the
mail with his lake stage, now a Ford car
which he runs daily to Upton in two
hours or less. He tells me that Luman
Sargent is still living & that he fishes
a little for pickerel. Lakeside Hotel is
closed & for sale; the Lake House has
been given up of late by Harry Crocker.
Dutton will occupy his camp this summer.
  In afternoon walked through fields &
woods to Fuller's camp, with Dr. G. [John George Gehring],
Mr. Sharp (Dexter's cousin), Mr. Bates
& Mr. Bingham. Fuller absent but we
found his key & sat inside for half an hour.
Evening spent in parlor at Dr. G's talking
& telling stories. Very pleasant

Saw fresh-looking peck holes of Log cock along Fuller trail

Bethel
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, June 14, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Partly sunny, mostly cloudy with
strong N.W. [northwest] wind & occasional brief showers.
Very cool through last night & thro much of day.
  Forenoon spent mostly indoors
writing up diary & bird notes.
In afternoon the Doctor & I roamed
about his grounds & neighboring woods,
finally coming to the Shack where we
built a fire & sat for an hour talking.
Only birds singing within hearing there
a Hermit [Hermit Thrush], Redstart, Magnolia W. [Magnolia Warbler], Ovenbird.
Solitary [Solitary Vireo] & Red-eyed Vireos. All the dead
Moles & Shrews gone except one little one.
Another dead Star-nose in path 100 yds.
from Shack. The Doctor tells me he traps
Moles not Star-nosed but quite as large,
in his lawn which they damage. Two
years ago he saw a Pileated Woodpecker enter
a hole where it must had been nesting. This
I saw today. It is about 18 ft. above ground
in trunk of medium-sized yellow birch
& altogether similar in size etc. to nest holes
at Lake Um. [Lake Umbagog] The Doctor was standing beneath
tree (or next one) when bird alighted at hole,
bobbed its head a few times & then went in to stay
Hole a rather ragged one like old hole of Flicker but
larger. Another like it at 10 ft. higher up in tree.

Called at the Herricks' after supper seeing the Judge [Addison E. Herrick] Mrs H. & Miriam.