August 14, 1892 and 1903

August 1892

14.  Sunday, 6.30 AM.   Ther  59.  82.  65

Clear  N.E. wind.  Start for ranch 10.30 with old Kit.  Get there 2 P.M.  Nobody at home  Johnny and wife went up to John Simmons yesterday  I rode over to south side and to clover field  Clover not nearly ripe enough to cut for seed.  Fungi of all kinds very scarce.  Think it has been too warm The crops are looking as well as can be expected  Get home 8 oclock  The river is too high yet to ford.   Gobed  10 P.M.~~

August 1903

14.  Friday, 6 AM.   Ther,   58.79. 66.  = 67 2/3

Clear easterly wind 2.  Went up town before breakfast getting Pesto  Tue not feeling very well.  C. Talbott calls AM tying team in lot.  He got hurt a day or two ago.  Says D. Anderson has sold pony for 85.00  I decide to start to Loxa after dinner.  Get shoes at Gray's.  Start Gaines 2.00 P.M.  Jo out in cornfield cutting weeds.  Mrs. G still talking of their leaving in the fall.  She and Nell Owens went to Mattoon AM.  I took Mrs. G   out another setting of  Wyandotte eggs.   Drove down to Loxa Clarence and I investigate straw stack and I leave to him to half the good straw dividing it himself.  Tell him will charge 1.00 per mo for use of shed.  I took down two plow shares to get sharpened but McChevon closed.  the rain was general although heavy did not wash much.  Mostly clear day with easterly wind.  Roads somewhat muddy in spots.  Jack went but didnt return with me  Home 7 PM go bed 9 P,M__

  

July 21, 1892 and 1903 in Charleston, IL

July 1892

21.  Thursday, 5.30 AM.  Ther.  72.  90. 73.

Foggy early AM.  Leman Circus in town big crowd but said to be their show Maggie and Phebe with Rairden.  Hitch up horse and Tue drives P.M. after which she and Buddie [Marie] went up to Sniders.  He brought them back about dark and Phebe went home with him staying all night.  First lot (lot C) Cecropias began spinning today.  About 44 days old.  Partly cloudy day Gobed 1130 PM

July 1903

21.  Tuesday.  5.30 AM.  Ther 62.

Cloudy SW wind 3  Mrs. Cunningham washed.  I bought half a ham at Mitchells 1.20  It cleared off 9 AM.  I went out Gaines after dinner.  Went to Loxa before going house  Drove up on W. side  8V. as far as old orchard returning to Loxa where I saw young Gilbert  He decides not to take 5 a piece at my price but will look at N. piece tomorrow.  C.  Talbott cutting oats and thinks will finish before noon.  Mrs. Gaines gave me  1 1/2 gal blackberries.  Ruth Talbott there.  I did not see Joe.  He was working for Talbott.  I drove round oat field  they are not very heavy  Talbott thinks will make 40 bu per A   I got home 7 P.M.  Partly clear day with SW wind  Clouds up toward night  and short thunder shower after dark.  they are putting up big telegraph pole in front of house which we don't like  Gobed  8.30 P.M.

July 20, 1892 an d1903 in Charleston, IL

July 1892

20.  Wednesday, 530  AM ~ Ther.  76.  98,  69

Clear wind south.  Proves to be the warmest day in several years.  Uncle John was down to dinner.  Heavy wind storm came up 3.30 P.M. with a little rain.  1/4 in. in all wind was from N.W. and very strong but did no damage here  Freeberg drummer in town  Gobed  1130 PM

July 1903

20.  Monday.  5.30 AM.  Ther.  58.  82.  65.  =  68 1/3

Clear, Westerly wind 2.  Take pair of pants to Winter to have altered  Buy scythe and stove at Wilson & McC.  Get start for Loxa about 9 PM Jo trimming hedge.  He and self drove over E meadow before dinner   C.Talbott begins cutting oats in afternoon.  Jo Quit the  hedge and helps him.  Joe seems to be somewhat out of humor.  I drove down to Loxa P.M. getting getting pay of John Linder for two loads of corn hauled last week  C. Enloe went with me to examine Loxa  meadow, and rode up to oat field with me.  Mrs. G pulling up berries.  mostly clear day with N.W. wind I got home 6 30 P.M.  Gobed  9 P.M. --

January 3, 1892 and 1903 in Coles County Illinois

January 1892

3.  Sunday.  7 30 AM. Ther 1.  18.  21. = 13 1/3  

Clear NW wind coldest morning since Feb 23 89.  Girls went to SS.  Marnie here all P.M. is going back to St. Mary's tomorrow.  Phebe stayed all night with her.  Mostly clear day  Cloudy toward night wind W.  Sat night Tinker at Marie's chair  Gobed 10.30

Alarm of fire 9 AM was Skidmore house.

January 1903

3.  Saturday, 6.30 AM. Ther 31.  34.  27.  =  30 2/3

Cloudy  northerly wind. (NW) Dessa coughing all night.  I made fires.  Howard Mitchell calling on Phebe A.M.  Jo Gaines came about 10 AM.  reports about 3 or 4 acres corn in field.  Bring in tickets for last lots by him self.  Pay Ed Lumbhart for shuck 124 40/70 bu,@3 check 3.75   WW froze and burst at store.  Reasor will fix PM  Met C Talbott who seeks Jo at G.W. Grays.  Talk with Ed Decker Jim in town but did not talk with him,  The Roads reported passible.   Jo brought 6 tickets amounted to 224 = 48 bu corn.  Miss Ford expected back tomorrow. Self &c.  Henry calls and leaves 3 doz eggs for which I owe him 75c  Light sn. ocasional .  Cloudy day  gobed  9 PM.

August 18-19, 1991 and 1902 in Coles County, IL

August 1891

18.  Tuesday  6 AM.  Ther  72.  86.  77.  =  78

Part cloudy wind N.W.  Stay at store  Nick still sick very sultry and oppressive   Got some mushrooms of cross Half bushel  They are more plentiful than I ever saw everywhere.  Go bed 10 30

19  Wednesday 6 AM  72.  86.  77.  =  78

Cloudy W or  SW wind stay at the store most of the day, and gobed 10 30 PM~  Frank  McCraveys baby died yesterday

August 1902

18. Monday  7 AM.  Ther 62.  72.  62 = 65 5/3

Cloudy and raining.  Very heavy  rains before day beginning say 1 AM or 2 AM. with thunder very heavy at times.  I did not get up as usual this morning.  Tue feeling much better and made the fires.  Think tobacco and whisky are holding me down  Wrote to Aunt Maria in afternoon.  Tom Walters mends my spectacles.  Drive out to Dice's Woods.  Find hundreds of my favorite wood Psalliota gone to  waste only two or three small ones fit to use,  There must have fine lot of them about last Saturday. Many other kinds seem to be starting.  The rain stopped about 9 AM.  Cloudy day with  southerly wind.  Roads pretty muddy.  Gobed 1030 PM . . . .

19.  Tuesday.  7 AM.  Ther  65.  88.70.  =  74 1/3
Mostly cloudy but soon cleared off.  I drive up to Dice woods finding several spicies mushrooms but none of my favorite.  Get very large Polyporus gigantius  ?  Look at some fungi in Dr Pattons stable and pronounce there A. anvensis  Saw C. Talbott AM.  He will not start on western trip till next week.  I drove down near Mt. Zion finding several species which had not seen for years and two or three new ones.  The unknown Psalliota is appearing in many places where never saw it.  Mostly clear day roads mostly dry and rough.  Tue working hard most of day and seems nearly as well as she usually is  Gobed 8 30 P.M.