Thursday, July 17, 1919

Beautiful bright day. Very clear. Mr. & Mrs. Baird here. Picked berries. Played tennis in A.M. & P.M. Out for ride in P.M. Had picnic at Ballston Lake. Stopped at Uncle John's house. Home 9 P.M. Played games etc. To bed 11 P.M. Thankful.

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Mr. & Mrs. Baird may be Archibald and Sarah Baird, who lived at 224 Third Street in Scotia in 1920. The Bairds were from Scotland; Archibald worked as a toolmaker for General Electric.  Another possibility is James and Elizabeth Baird who lived in Schenectady at 177 Furman Street. And then there is a different James and Elizabeth Baird who lived at 322 Avenue B in Schenectady.  The Bairds mentioned by Stanford are probably one of those three couples, but no way to know without first names.

Jason has suggested that one of the games the Clossons may have played was dominoes. Stanford's father Stillman loved dominoes; they often played the game during Jason's visits to his Closson grandparents when he was a child.

Here is a pipe tobacco ad from a 1919 Saturday Evening Post depicting gentlemen playing dominoes: