September 8-9, 1889 and 1900 in Coles County Illinois

September 1889

8.  Sunday.  6 AM.  Ther  60.  80.  62  =  67 1/3

Clear or nearly so SE wind  Start for  woods 8 AM.  Investigate supply of posts on ridge W. of W. Decker.  Count up sheep, thought had lost some of them  get home at dark   gobed 9 PM.

9.  Monday.  6.30 AM.  64.  84.  68 =  72

Cloudy.  Mrs. Rogers washed and ironed.  Tue not very well.  Drake hauls up load of posts and moves 8 ft. posts.   Sam Adams takes boards and pays for them.  Crass helps all day.  Took Mare again to Montgomery's house.  Go bed  11 P.M.

September 1900

8.  Saturday, 5.30 AM.   Ther  65  93   72  =  76 2/3

Clear easterly wind  Drive to Mrs. Owens after breakfast but couldn't get her so Tue does the work herself.  Miss Ford expected Sunday.  Johnny Decker in town perhaps for last time as he has with his family started for the "Nation."  I drove out west of town to see them.  Shirley came in with balance of B.C. 3 loads.  98 bales weighed 29070 lbs. @ 82.50 per ton  My share  ( one third) came to 399.71 which deposit  at State Bank Corn not well baled.  Shirley had, he says 38 AM.  Armstrong not yet sold.  I drove out to Gaines about 3 PM.  Jo not at hand working and in Broom  Corn.  Get some corn, tomatoes and eggs getting home 8 P.M. by lower road.  Sick at night think form eating soup.  Ferd was at our house in afternoon  Has left his father and intends going east.  Helen and Louise left  but went back    Heard that Bert got home from Dakota  Mostly clear day with light northerly wind  Gobed 8.30  P.M.~

9.  Sunday.  6 AM  Ther  70.  97.  76  =  81

Partly cloudy, Old Mare loose last night and ate most of corn I got yesterday about  15 ears.  Drive her today.    Starting for Simons 9.30 AM.  Ate dinner there.  John and I went down to mill yard before dinner out afterward went over to corn field.  He will bring me load of corn Tuesday.  Very sultry day and I start home early because could not get cooled off.  Ode Eastin rode to town with me.  Queen about played out when I got home.  Hitch up Roan and drive with  Tue out to G. Linder place getting home 8 P.M.  Miss Ford* came today.  Normal begins Tuesday.  Gobed 8.30 PM.

*  Ellen Ford, (1865- 1948) came to Eastern in 1900 and was there until 1934.  .  Miss Ford had a Masters of Arts degree in Latin from Syracuse University,  1894.  In  1921, she was instrumental in the reorganization of the Normal School to a teachers college.  Ford Hall was named after Ellen Ford.