December 2, 1912 & 1887

1912

2.  Monday.  6.30 AM.  Ther.  44.  42.  30. = 38. 2/3

Mostly  cloudy W. 6.  Cottingham's man came to put in new grate and finds it a misfit and one piece lacking.  It didnot work well and they will return in morn to remedy it if possible.  Mostly cloudy with high  wind W to NW diminishing late P.M.  Clear at night ~~  Tue got  tickets to show at Opera House at night and took Mrs. Brooks.  Alfred came late P.M. and tinkered round a while.  I did not hitch up.  I read at night with good fire  in grate went to bed before Tue got home.  Gobed. 10.  I did not hitch up nor visit town.

This is a link to a furnace of the time.  I suppose theirs was similar.

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1887

2. Friday.  6 A.M.  Ther.  37.  40.  42.

Cloudy and raining lightly.  Fresh S.E. wind.  Was up with Phebe good deal in night.  Baby not well this morning.  C.G.(him) still has slight cold in throat.  Went over to (Dr.) Patton's forenoon says Fan* very bad.  Nobody there.  Tue went down to see Mrs. Nott.  Couldn't go Mrs. Dowling said she would go. I took her down after dinner.  Found Fan very low.  Saw Dr. at night after he had been there.  Didn't  give any encouragement.  Mrs. Davis and Kate Myers were over at night.  Doctor Phebe with fatbacon &c  at night and she was not so bad as usual.  Misty damp.  P.M. roads pretty bad.  gobed 10 P.M.

*Fan is Tue's younger sister.  Fan has three children and had a stillbirth in November 22.  She is 27 years old.

December 1, 1912 and 1887 in Charleston, Illinois

1912

The Weather etc. for November , 1912

Daily mean 44.73+  Max.  72 on 11th.  Min. 22 on 28th.  Rain 1.11. on the 5th .50-  6th  .36 and 12th .25.  Snow flew on 1st. and 24.  Ice on 12 mornings from 1/2 an inch down in all  about 3 inches.  Direction and duration of winds - from N.3:h E.0; SE 1/3;  S 7; SW 7 2/3; W. 6 1/3 and N.W. 5 2/3 days.  Thunder on 12th.  Corn is about all shucked:  has ranged from 42cts to 36 cts.  Butter 50.  Eggs 25.  This has been the best season for  shucking for years.  The crop is  is generally big and good quality.  Lighter crop around Loxa.  Roads are excellent  quite dusty.    There have been substantially no easterly winds.  Streams are running higher than usual.  Clover and grass have made great growth.

1, Sunday.  7AM  Ther.  48.  60.  56.  = 54.2/3
Part cloudy S.3.  There was light sprinkle rain 1 AM.  Tue went to morning church.  She baked the rest of her chicken for dinner.  I fixup(sic) weather for Nov. and hitched up but did not drive till after 3 P.M. when start to woods but too dark and threatening  and I get home at 4 P.M.  Got far as branch on Ashmore Road.  Mort and Kate were over till after dark.  It began to rain 4.30 P.M. and continued  light showers till say midnight.   Violent wind all night South to westerly.  Rain .45 in.  Gobed9.

1887

1.  Thursday.  6 A.M.  Ther.  28.  40.  39.

Clear fresh S.E. wind.  self slight sore throat this morning.  Mrs. Rogers irons.  The doctor thinks Fan  some better this morning but very bad yet.  Mrs. Wentz is down there she came here tonight.  Thinks Fan better.  Ferd went over to Wentz at night with his grandma.  Phebe stops  up again but later, and worse than heretofore.  Mrs. Feagan was over before supper.  Didn't send in city bill tonight.  Mr. Cummings gave bill today which sent Comer.  Gobed 10.30  Strong S.E. wind all day also at night.

November 30, 1912 & 1887 in Charleston, IL

1912

30.  Saturday,  5.45 A.M.  Ther.  26.  54.  48. = 42 2/3 E. Meter 591.000
Clear.  S.E. 1. white frost.  ice 5/16.  Get letter from Muggs is much better and has got to work and likes the place pretty well.  I drove down to Harryman B.C. warehouse A.M. looking for Harman B.C.  I did not get in till after noon and I didn't see it.  He reported about 4 P.M.  Straight 21355 lbs. @ 90.00 Cr 300 lbs. at 1 ct my  eked was 321.32 = our third.  He is very anxious to get Sexton fence up.  Tue sweeps, vacuates mops &c all day and is pretty tired at night.  Jessie Popham here at night till 11oc.  I study catalog of books.  Got through Muggs at night.  Part cloudy, brisk southerly winds much like rain much of P.M.  Alfred chores nt.  Go bed.  12.30 am

1887

Wednesday, 7.45 AM  Ther.  30.  39.  28.

Some cloudy.  Phebe does not feel very well this morning.  Buy yeast and bread at Lee's.  About 2 1/2 P.M.  Tue and self started down to Fan's.  Found her to be very bad.  We brought Ferd home with us.  Went over to Patton's office after coming home.  Said he was going right  down there.  Phebe choked  up again with croup and Maggie and baby very nearly had it.  Strong S.E. wind all night, very chilly.  The roads are not very bad considering the amount of rain.  J. Calhoun says last weeks rain amounted to nearly seven inches.