May 18,1912 & 1887

100 Years Ago

Saturday, May 18, 1912  5.30 AM.  Ther. 48, 76, 62 = 62

Clear S.W.2  Get sickle sharpened and would have gone to cemetery could I have found Emmett.  Met John Simons on S side with two loads wood.  I tool Ellen to 1.20 PM Cloverleaf train.  She is going  to Bushton* for the coming week.  Tue up town and at Groves most of PM.  Mrs. G is quite poorly and is trying an osteopath Dr. Barnes.  Shave self P.M.  The Walker trial jury disagree at nine for conviction,  putting the case off til Oct. court.  The rats have again got good start at barn.  I have trapped five of them this week.  Clear day with brisk S.W. wind.  There was a runaway on front street P.M. - little girl in buggy.  No one hurt.  Tue was over at Groves till after 9. Gobed 9.30

*Bushton is located NE of Charleston.

125 Years Ago

Wednesday, May 18, 1887   6.30 SM  Ther 59, 75,61

Foggy .  Went up to Anderson's for Osage.  Young has not got his well dug yet.  Tried to get Crass to help about carpets but he is helping Alex Richter move building.  Tue making herself a sunbonnet.  JOW. asks for accomodations (sic), which he gets.  They have an election PM to decide whether to build a new school House in place of Eastern S.H. condemned the S.H. carried by a large majority.  The street gang moved the pile of rocks in front of my store.  They have been there since last fall.  Go bed 10 PM

  

May 15,1912 & 1887 in Charleston, Illinois

100 Years Ago

Wednesday, April 15, 1912  5.20 AM, Ther. 48, 60, 52, = 53 1/3

Most clear. SW.3.  I got start for Loxa 9.  Drove in Cemetery as pass many farmers at work along road.  I drove down by Loxa.  Stop a bit to talk with Mrs. Gaines.  My pincers are there, also chair, saw Retha.  Drove pretty well over the place.  Met Cliff and hands at house as they came for dinner.  They are harrowing north of A. Moores, and discing W. side of 29 1/2 piece.  Cliff has about 50 a broke and say 20 planted.  They intend to plant this P.M.  I ate lunch  on road and start home soon after noon owing to weather.   Mostly cloudy and threatening rain.  Light sprinkles much of P.M., heavier toward night.  Come home S. road getting there 4 P.M.  dirt roads dry and rough.  Varible winds.  Gob 9P  Tue and E cleanup attic today.  Clean out tank.  The Dr. Walker trial has got started.

125 Years Ago

Sunday, May 15,1887   6 A.M.  Ther 64, 88? 64.

Pleasant day warm and dry.  Start for timber with Seph McClosky about 8 A.M. intending to fish but not much encouragement when we got there.  Went east road came back over road, home at 6, too tired to go after Tue and girls.  Delia got home.  Effie Eastin  stays all night  with her.  Most of Ag. Dep. silkworms hatch today.  Gobed 10 P.M.

May 14, 1912 &1887 in Charleston, Illinois

100 Years Ago

Tuesday, May 14, 1912   5.30 A.M.  Ther. 5o, 64, 54. = 56

Mostly cloudy, N.1.  Tue  and Ellen wash.  The Record Herald not yet regular.  We get yesterdays paper about 11 AM today.  I drove SW 4 or 5 miles P.M.  Saw several small fields of corn planted.  Get home about 6.  Met Joe Reat with disabled Auto.  Mostly cloudy A.M.  Sprinkle rain about 8 oc.  Light variable winds.  Tue over to Groves at night.  They are selecting jury for trial of Dr. Walker  Have been two days getting  nine men.  The roads generally dry, rough in places.  Go bed 9.30

125 Years Ago

Saturday, May 14, 1887  6.40 AM.  Ther. 68,87,68  Clear pleasant day.  Uncle John down to dinner.  Last night I gave Davis my old lot of silkworms, about four-thousand.  Talk with  Briggs and Comer about city lumber and will go to timber with Comer next Tuesday.  Take  Tue and children down to Snider's toward night.  Delia  goes home.  Go bed 10 P.M.