Dutch elm disease

(1963 July 2)

Miss Barnes [next door] is having an old elm tree cut down. This is a beautiful big elm in her back yard with about 4 huge trunks fused into one. It has some disease and she fears it will fall on her house. So for two days a man is there with ladder and tackle, and a tractor is down below to pull on an attached rope to guide it, and the old saw is a-humming and a-buzzing and causing poor Dee to bark.