Show A DIARY TEXAS WOMAN WO S I. HASN'T MIS ms- MISSED SED A DAY Y IN 41 YEARS R a y 4 I Y Ye I e w v M ll Mrs l Johnson holding a few of the ledgers in which her h r diary of 41 years 3 ears is inscribed i iBy By NEA 1 Sen ice WILLIS Texas Oct 11 Every cry Every Everyday day for lor 41 years Mrs J. J J T T. John John- Johnson Johnson Johnson son ol of Willis Villis has written In her diary r In good times and bad In sick sick- sickness sickness ness and health in happiness and sorrow Mrs Johnson has always alwa's found time to Jot lot down some sonic de detail de- de detail detail tail or other of oC the days day's events As a result Mrs Johnson is the th oracle of oC Willis She is the towns town's unofficial historian hl the keeper of ute events that found no other scribe Is there an argument anywhere in Willis about whether such and such a day dar two decades ago was clear or rainy The disputants make haste at once to Mrs Johnson who looks in her ledgers and gives the thc answer Does the local editor want to know just when hen the creek over over- overflowed overflowed overflowed flowed Into Bill Jones' Jones pasture and destroyed ed the rickety culvert on the pike lie He calls up Mrs John John- Johnson Johnson son and she tells him bins It is in connection with the weather that Mrs Johnson is called oil on Ol most often The weather Is an unfailing topic of conversation among the loungers around the town square When ope one man Inan remarks This Is the day I ever saw for Cor June another will wll hasten to ask Mrs Johnson Johnson and and she inspecting her diary will wll prove prose that back in 93 99 there was a II June day that was a full three degrees warmer |