November 20 - 23, 1889 and 1900

November 1889

20.  Wednesday, 7.15 AM  Ther  43.  55.  47   = 

Cloudy but clears away.  Grand Jury adjourn AM.  They did nothing with self and others returned for working on Sunday.  There are indictments against several liquor men in town for selling to minors.  Went down to depot in morning, Sefton says road is not going to buy any ties this year.   Phebe came home PM   with head ache.  Start 6.30 for ranch about 3.45 P.M.  Got there 6.30  Took lantern which was much help  Gobed at Milts 10 PM  Comer presents bill to date $49~  Henry Meyer here.  buy Bby,

21.  Thursday 6 AM.  Ther at C.  42.  53.  45  = 46 2/3

Cloudy, Sprinkle rain light good part of day.  Milt and self work in barn building partition.  The roof I find finished in pretty good shape.  Sheep feeling better.  Start home about 4 P.M. raining most of way home, and very muddy.  Mrs. Rogers washing today leaving clothes out all night.  Strong NW wind at night  Gobed 10.30~~

22.  Friday 6.30 AM  Ther 35.  48.  35  =  39 1/3

Nearly clear and clearing.  Wind strong NW.  Tue got up early to take in clothes.  Mrs. Rogers ironed.  Get shave at night at May's.  Kelly washes and fills lot of bottles P.M.  Remit Bernbi(?)  B & U. 165.50 and Mullaney & H 7.00  Loan "Neighbor" a V.  Send receipt for 5.00 to Mattergly for 5 (ink spot)  Whisky  The  first really pleasant day for long time  Go bed 11.PM

23.  Saturday 7 AM.  Ther 29.  55.  58 = 45 2/3

Clear.  N. Wind.  Gets into south.  Decide on amt of John VanMeters hay 25 x20 x 20 ft  600 cubic feet to ton.  Uncle John in to dinner,  Has not decided to trade with Burgers for Gage place.  Drake comes in and starts out between 4 and 5 PM.   Frank came with him Abbott will saw some wood for us Mondays, Mostly clear day, trade rather dull.  Fresh south wind.  Stay at store till midnight figuring  Go bed at 1 AM.

November 1900

20.  Tuesday.  5.30 AM.  Ther.  60.  70.  62  = 64

Cloudy misty or fog.  southwind  Charlotte Sprorch  sewing for Tue.  Mrs. Owens washing.  Plumber takes pump to send away for repairs.  Went out to Gaines after fork after dinner.  Jo has only 30 shocks of corn to schuck.  Mrs. G complaining  I brought home two  gallon jar of pickles.  Mostly cloudy day.  Print lot of pictures for Lillie  She is going to stay and do ironing tomorrow.  No rain today.  Roads bad except where graveled.  Tue over at Groves' at night  Dun Wall for rent to date but they didn't buy.  Gobed 9 PM.

21.  Wednesday.  6 AM.  Ther.  42.  45.  45.  =  44

Mostly cloudy.  Storm of wind and rain in night with sudden change.  Stopped yesterday again to see Maggie  Dlisorn and think can get her to help us when Lillie leaves.  Lillie irons.  Tone and mount some pictures for her.  AM.  Ther was down to 37 about 9 AM.  Charlotte Sproule sewing all day.  Took Lillie home about 4 P.M.  Charley Black says is talking of buying out Wall.  Wall has not paid last months rent.  Mostly clear P.M. and growing warmer.  Weather report saus cold wave  Mort fixed shelf for Tue in pantry    Mort and Kate over at night after I go bed 8. P,M.

22.  Thursday.  5.45. AM.  Ther.  49.  74.  55  =  59 1/3

Pretty clear.  Southerly wind.  Charlotte sewing A Barner sends for spooler for Mr. Gaines machine.  Pay Bartors a/c in full 55 cts.  J.W. Evans pays me on lumber bill 85 c. leaving  40 c. due.  Wall pays rent to  20 inst cash. No chk.  Have talk with Tredene Arnold about saw mill.  Shave at Browns Paid.  Paid up last week.  Richard Walker wants to rent Perkins room.  I start for Gaine's after dinner thinking to get Drihre girl to work at house.  Didn't see her start home late and return staying all night.   Playing seven up till bed time  House cold as a barn and damp.  Jo finished shucking corn today making 1513 bu sold for 446.74*  Including fed and in cribs 1820 bu from 35 a.  Much lightning S & SW at night and change of wind to north and cooler in night  Gobed 9 P.M.

* With inflation, that amount would be about $12026 today.  However, today's farmer would get about $7350 for that amount of corn.  According USDA - The 2014 average U.S. corn yield is now estimated at the record level of 174.2 bushels per acre, 

23.  Friday 4.30  AM.  ther 37.  42.  39.  = 39 1/3

Mostly cloudy NE wind.  Jo hauls in fodder.  I put glass in door taking till 9 o'clock  Intended to take tickets to Loxa and make and make a draw but mailed on time there after I got home.  Find I  injured buggy shaft running into wagon on way home Tuesday night.    Lillie called PM she will start for Spokane Tuesday.  Tue writes to Phebe.  Miss Ford gone to Paris institute for day or two.  It began raining and sleeting 4 P.M. wind N.E.  Jo came in after stove and took out some planks for platform at well.  He brought in big jar of pickles, and some pop corn.  He took potatoes down cellar.  Gobed 8 P.M.  .

At the top of the page:  Fir. Noble Cafee & others fined of stick of Dynamite 3 P.M. One of the three sent him by Express Monday

November 15 - 19, 1889 and 1900 in Charleston, IL

November 1889

15.  Friday  6.30 AM.  Ther 24,  41,  30  =  31 2/3
At Ranch  Clear, heavy frost.  Boys finish S. side and begin on N.   Milt puts rough floor in  in east loft in barn.  I  left at  11 AM.  Jim Cassody will take me two loads hay next Monday.  Learn on getting home that Uncle Henry is dead.  Uncle John was in today.  He has been trading for the Gage house near R.R.  Mostly clear day.  Gobed 10.30

16.  Saturday 7 AM Ther  26.  45.  35.  =  35 1/3
Part cloudy.  Uncle John down to dinner.  He has not yet tracted for Gages property.  Trade dull.  Bought shed of hay of John Van Meter @3.75  Guage machine by Grifferd   Milt in and started about small load of hay about dark   Gang were mostly all up and paid off.  after Kicking from two others.  gobed 11 P.M.

17.   Sunday 7.30 AM.  ther  35.  33.  33  = 332/3
Select.  Cloudy N E wind.  Began to snow about 10 AM. and Kept it up all day, Phebe went to S.S. Maunie Lang here all P.M.  Mary a& Paul Davis at night.  M & P agree to  Keep record of weather  Will pay them each 25c per month for same.  It quit snowing abt dark about 1 in. left on ground bal. melted.  Wind NE all day.  Gobed 10 PM.

18.  Monday  7 AM.  Ther  33.  41.  41.  =  38 1/3
Cloudy foggy snow still on ground but melts off.  heavy mist all day.  Out of wood at house  Try to get dray to haul some from pile in front, didn't find one.  Warren Decker up pay him $13.50 for lab at shed.  Trade fair.  Very dark damp and discouragable weather  Gobed Midnight ~~

19.  Tuesday   7 AM.  Ther.  41.  49.  45.  =  45.
Cloudy, damp, foggy.  John Simons says he will go down on my place in Spring  if Milt Drake leaves.  Grand Jury still working   Learn that they have thrown out the sunday(sic) case against self  Kellogg and others, also learn that no one in Charleston has been indicted as yet.  Full  (?) got home from Ark this AM.  Hat was down at our house, she had letter from H.G. order 1/2 Bbl Blackberry from H. Myer  Damp day foggy 11 P.M.  J. Mountjoy hauls 2 loads wood from pile in front.

November 1900

15.  Thursday.  6 AM.  Ther 30.31.  21 = 27 1/3

Mostly cloudy N.W. wind.  Lillie ironing.  She decides to start for Spokane, Wash. on 27 inst.  Thrilkeld and agent call to see her.  Telephone, didn't get him, Gaines have bought stove for him of of Mrs. Knock for 3.00  Pay Mrs. Dorsch a/c in full to date 18.00  ch  Deposits J.O. Linder check at 2nd Natl  121.92  My a/c about 30.00  behind.  Pinold puts new pipe to furnace.  Has been at it a month or two.  Berthold plumber tries to fix motor pump but fails.  Clear day NW wind.  Roads dry and dusty  Corn thinly cuts. in Loxa. (C.H, Jones)  Peel quinces at night  Dick Wright called today and said he would work for me some next week.  Gobed 9 P.M.   

16.  Friday.  6. AM.  ther.  19.  34.  34.  = 29.

Easterly wind.  Write P card to Gaines telling him have bought a stove for him.  Jim Decker up with wood.  Says Smions and Warren shucking corn.  Tue went up town P.M.  Marie has friends here after school.  Take Lilly over to her aunts in west part of town.  A.J. Weil drummer in town. P.M.  Cloudy day with E to S.E. wind sleet and rain occasionally till toward night.  some heavy showers in night.  Self not feeling well today.  Get shave Brown and settle up with him  Gobed 8.30 P.M.

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17.  Saturday.  5.30 AM.  46.  52.  50.  =  49 1/3

Cloudy and raining.  Southwind.  Some thunder this  morning.  Showers most of forenoon.  Sort over papers AM.  Tue working on dress for Maggie.  Nobody  up from my part of Hutton Tp  Not large crowd in town for Sat.  Drive over to Mrs. Walter  Loggins P.M. to tell her could find no abstract.  Buy feed P.M. of W.D. Smith first for many months.  Went up at  night to see that I got it.  Marie and self buy thermometers with "Wheallet."   Tue and Maggie and Lilly working sewing at night.  Mostly cloudy day with southerly wind.  Gobed 10.30 P.M.

18.  Sunday.  6.30 AM.  ther.  53.  60.  59  = 51 1/3

Cloudy. southwind  Showers occasionally PM and at night heavy at times.  Drive up for Oysters & C noon. Drove down to Lloyds but they couldn't wash for Turrie tomorrow.  Buy some tablets at Shannon's.  Lulu Dorsch here a while at night.  Cloudy day Southwind.  Drive Queen.  Streets sloppy.   Intended to visit ranch today but weather too bad.    Gobed 9.30 PM~

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19.  Monday.  6 AM.  Ther  58.  63  60  =  60 1/3

Cloudy.  Rain last night Wind south.  Take Tue to Shalgburger AM.  Leave Lillie shoes at Gray's.  Went out to Gaine's after dinner  Met funeral procession  Maurice Burgness child.  Mrs. Gaines has been away several days - just got home Wal her brother there on visit Jo shucking shock corn. hauling fodder.  Is nearly done with standing corn.  Part cloudy afternoon.  Roads muddy except gravel.  Start home 5 P.M.  Drive to down to Dishon's to see about girl didn't get one.  Gobed 9.30 P.M.