May 3-5, 1888 in Charleston, Illinois.

3.  Thursday.  5.15  AM  Ther.  54.  82.  70.
Mostly clear.  Wind SE. as it was yesterday.  Jar plum trees again this AM but have not found any Curculios yet.  Tue feeling badly this morning got ready to start for Timber but meet Handley by (?) walnut lumber sold him mine @ 4.00 for 1st or 2nd and $2.00 for culls.  Started to timber about 2 P.M.  Tue went with me.  Tell  Ruban  Rutherford to go to making rails @ 85c. per hundred.  we got home at 7.30 P.M.  Looked for mushrooms but found none.  They have been  finding.  Thunder shower after dark but not much rain.  go bed  10 PM  order 3 cans Beth from Chicago.

4.  Friday.  6.45 AM.  Ther.  55.  55.  47.
Cloudy W. wind.  Uncle John was in town but would not stay to dinner.  Comer was in  and I paid him  some lumber he had sent up to the city from his from his own timber 35.91 in full.  They are clearing off the Johnston lot getting ready to dig the cellar.  Drove down to the waterworks with Charley MCravey after mushrooms.  He went over the river after them and I remained at the waterworks.  He got some and gave me a mess of them.  Mostly cloudy day clear night.  The children have sore eyes.  Tue thinks they must be taking the measles but M & P have had them.  Phebe has not seemed well for a long time and has not gone to school for a week or two.  Go bed 9 PM.

5.  Saturday.  5 AM.  Ther.  40.  72.  58.
Clear wind-let-west.  Very heavy dew.  Was very light frost.  Tried  the curculio again this morning but  did not find any.  Kirk & Co. brought up lumber walnut and  fencing.    Say they are going to leave Monday settle up with them owe them bal.  $28.45.  Learn that R.R. inspected .  Clear day Phebe  seems to be breaking out with something like measles supposed she had the measles in Wisconsin four years ago.  Gobed  10 P.M.