Wednesday, April 10, 2013

April 10, 1913 and 1888 in Charleston, Illinois

1913

10.  Thursday.  6.30 AM.  Ther.  58.  66.  50.  = 58
Cloudy and raining.  S.2.  It drizzled all night.  Am entirely out of hay or any substitute for it.  Have been feeding rotten straw for several days. Pay telephone 3.13 AM ch 1.70.  20 cts. toll for law.  I hitch up after dinner and drove up town.  Pay Hutton tax to Freeman.  34.94.  This is highest lately.  The dirt streets are very muddy.  Tue and Helen to Hats &c P.M.  I got home 6 P.M.   and leave Nickles.  Oscar Lawyer brought me home.  R. today .10 after 7 AM.  Mort and Kate over while at night at supper stay till after 9.  Clears off noon and late.  Cloudy night.  Goo bed 9:30.
Wm. Rosebrough died today.

1888

10.  Tuesday. 6.15 A.M.  Ther.  52.  57.  48.
Cloudy, wind W. or S.W. having changed in night blowing very hard and raining some.  Sun came out before noon and pleasant day.  Myers worked in P.M.  says  he owes me $4.85 on which is about correct.  He  put in afternoon piling  walnut lumber and sowed fertilizer on the garden.  Think my cold a little better.  Kate Davis was down a while after school.  Snider called  write(sic) we were eating supper, has been out to Uncle John's a day or two.  Fresh west wind all day.  Go bed 8.30 P.M.

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