July 6 - 10, 1890 and 1901

July 1890

6.  Sunday.  7 AM   Ther  66.  92.  73.

Mostly clear wind southerly.  Start from home at 11 AM. went out to Vanmeter house with Geo Kellogg to look at hay find there is 6 ton poor hay there yet.  Get to Simons about 3.30 nobody home, ride around pastures till night,  Warm day dryer here shower uptown.  Gobed 9,30 PM.  Warren says he will begin hauling wood for me this week.

 with Zeke Eastin for hauling

7.  Monday.  4.30 AM.  70.  94.  77.

Clear, start home after breakfast getting there at 8.30  Mrs. Rogers  the washes.  Tue and Hat pick berries P.M.  Get buggy repaired at Pughs charges 1.00.  Settle with Zeke Easton for hauling lumber  also Sutton puts another bib on hydrant in barnyard.  Present bill for lumber to council at night 398.98.  Very warm and dry.  Clear all day with southerly wind go bed 10.30 PM.

8.Tuesday.  6 AM.  82.  99.  72
Clear.  .  Mrs. R. ironed P.M.  Bim was in to dinner  This has been the hottest day so far.  Thunder shower with sprinkle rain between 1 & 2 PM another with heavy wind from N. between 5 & 6 P.M.    Mostly clear day  heart very oppressive  Settle with M. Comer in full to date also with Jack Handly and Geo  Walter  Sold Will Myers two large hogs fo 18.00  F m B A. have county assembly in court house quite a large crowd.  Cooler night Go bed 10.30 P.M.  

9.  Wednesday.  6 AM.  Ther.  72  85  60  Clear Cooler.  Took wool down to Factory P.M.  292 lbs @ 24 c.  Not many in town everyone busy in country  Sampson and Reynolds each brought up load of walnut.  Hat and Tue pick berries.  Play croquet after supper.  Gobed  10.30 PM

10.  Thursday.  6.30 AM  Ther  55.  85.  62.Clear with fresh E. wind.  Draw rent money and deposit, pay bal  taxes for last year 111.02 .  Pay Skidmore 25.10   J.L. Green drummer in town  Buy from him 1 bag and most coffee for our own use.  WH White here wants me to try a lot of ties  Phebe has the  ? and suffers   seems to suffer good deal with it.  Sampson hauls up  load of walnut.  Clear day S wind  Gobed 10.30

July 1901

6.  Saturday.  6 AM.  Ther.  65.  89.  68.  =  74

Clear.  Northerly or NW afterward S.W.  Coolest for aome time,  Jake sawing on wood - finished it and settle in full.  Kate & Bacon called before noon.  They went to Franks to dinner leaving their team here.  They started home about 6 P.M.  Minnie and Maggie got rig at Berkleys and drive A.M.  Minnie did not start home as intended.Went up town after supper to buy some grub.  Engage veal roast at Huttons  Clear day S.W. to W or NW  and much cooler  Gobed 9 P.M.  ~  

7.  Sunday.  5.30  AM.  Ther  58.  70.  58.  =  62

Clear NW wind.  I went uptown for fish before breakfast.  Drove out to Gaines starting 9.30 AM.  went South road and  through Loxa going through place.    Corn looks well.  Not been so much rain out there as in town. Jo hoeing in garden.  I stay to dinner after which Jo and self take good look at clover meadow.  It is not so good as I thought and hardly worth cutting.  Get some potatoes in sack also some beets and leave  at 4 P.M.  Clear chilly day with N.W. wind. My oats have begun to turn.  Didnt decide what would do with meadow.  Gobed 9.30 P.M.

8. Monday.  5 AM.  Ther  50.  78.  61  =  63.

Clear N.E. wind.  Mrs Smith and mother came to wash finishing about noon. Received notice of filing of my claim against Wall  Bill Campbell has sold out and quit the restaurant business.  Geo Stegman advises me to cut my patch of weedy meadow.  Minnie  Scott started home home 11.38  Take her baggage to  to depot.  Jubal mows yard P.M. using Groves mower.  I went out to Gaines.  He was cutting thistles and weeds in pasture.  Quit and took mower to Loxa for repair McPheron did not fix it.I brough scikle to town to sharpen and repair.  Tue had Reading Circle women here at night.  I got home about 7.30 PM.  clear day with NE to E wind.  Gobed 9 PM.

9. Tuesday.  5 AM.  ther  55.  88.  68.=  70 1/3

Clear  SE.2  Maggie went early with girls to Decker Spring.  Nell Bishop stayed all night with Phebe last night.  Take sickle to Merriths before breakfast and start for Gaines 8. oc.  But machine would not wouldn't work worth a cent  Get another sickle at Merritts and get to Gaines about 5 P.M. staying all night.  Mrs. G. cut her foot very bad on glass in yard.  Clear day, southerly wind.  Thought would have to take machine before anything.  Corn looks pretty well but needs rain around Loxa  Gobed 9 PM

10.  Wednesday.  4 AM.  Ther  65.  95.  80  =  80.
Clear.  SW wind.  Investigating machine after breakfast find all it needs is oiling, after which it cuts very well.  Had to go to Loxa for bolt.  Leave for home 10 AM.  Took Helen out to Hens P.M.  Hen and Ora  gone.  Jo got meadow nearly done the machine working very well.  Very warm day clear with SW wind.  Roads getting dusty W.  I got too warm A.M. and about sick  Gobed 9 P.M.

June 21-25, 1890 and 1901

June 1890

21.Saturday 6.30   Ther  77,  92,  77.

Clean  S. wind Warren and Simons came while we were eating breakfast with 16 shoats which we turn in the barn yard.  They take a load of corn back starting about noon.  Pay Heddin for  48 bu corn bought yesterday.  Pay off all the gang I could today.  Pay Dave Masters for 4 loads of corn bought last winter 100 bu 23.60.  Have decided to get out of the hog business (?)  and will sell all I have except  a sow or two and some pigs.  One of the hottest days we have had not much of a crowd in town but trade fair.  Jack Handly took down a load of tile for me for well.  Cal Noble says he will have it in a week or ten days.  Pentacost band are still  in town and were around this AM soliciting donations for building a church  Mostly clear day.  go bed  11.30 PM  

22.  Sunday.  6 AM.  Ther.  79.  94.  70.

Clear with S.W. wind.  Have written nothing in this book for over a week and there is some guess work about this record since last Sunday.  I write it up today.  Heavy thunder shower between 4 and 5 P.M.  Hogs brought up yesterday tearing the barnyard all to pieces.  Tue went to church AM. -- go bed 10 P.M.

23.  Monday.  5.30 AM.  Ther  70.  94.  77.  

Mostly cloudy.  Dickenson made hog pen and patched up fence in bottom working all day.  Yesterday and today are the two hottest days so far this season.  Farmers not in town  much.  Fair corn weather and prospects good  Wheat will not amount to much here.  Intended to go to ranch yesterday nut had to fix hog pen.  Mrs. R. washed and ironed  Gobed 10 30 PM

24.  Tuesday, 4 AM.  Ther   70.  98.  79.  =  82 1/3

Start for ranch 5 AM. getting there before 7.  Boys cutting logs on ridges next to river.  Went to house for dinner  Cut up on levels P.M.  Heat very oppressive.  Milt not running and no one at work there  Mostly clear day with W wind  Go bed 9.30

25.  Wednesday  430  AM.  79.  98.  79.  =  85 1/3

Mostly clear boys begin cutting Sprouts in east pasture  Start for home at 9 AM.  Stop at mill and decide  to go back to dinner  Send Rile and John down to mill P.M. to saw off and pile some cull lumber.  Start home agin at 1 P.M.  getting there about 4.   Mrs Perrill and Kate there   We have cut to date 547 logs measuring 58647 ft.  Comer has sawed to date 10 AM 429 logs measuring 48070 ft. leaving still in woods 118 logs containing  10,607 ft. some few of them are useless when crooked or rotten.  Pay Deckmen 1.00 of 1.45 owing him for work  Very hot and oppressive  Gobed  10.30 P.M.  Rile Easton broke down with load of lumber today.  

June 1901

21.  Friday 5.50 AM.  Ther.  71.  92.  72.  = 78 1/3

Mostly cloudy SE wind.  Thunder and lightning all night with light showers, apparently heavy rains north last night.   Tue was up several times in night.  Self didn't sleep much.  Get  Jo Crail to lay tile for cross on Fifth St. which he does before noon Pd 50c  Mrs.  Smith works all day wash iron &c.  Colby sends more  Pleurotus mushrooms.  Thunder showers with little rain till nearly noon and also toward night.  I drove out to Gaines P.M.  Jo plowing SW field.  Corn looks fine and growing very fast.  They had very heavy rains a few miles north last night.  River water thick with mud.  Council have resolved to move all buildings back from St line.  Sultry day.  S.W. wind  Gobed 9.30 P.M._ _ _

22.  Saturday. 5.30 AM.  Ther  65.  93.  79. =79.
Mostly cloudy southerly wind. Sprinkle rain in night Thunder north this morning  Mike Handley calls to work with team but cant use him today.  Had some P.ostreatus [ http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/oct98.html ]   from Colby for breakfast which were very good.  John Simons in town but did not bring wood.  Set trap in barn and caught big rat.  Get bridle repaired at Shoemakers  P.M.  Garrison pays rent to July 14 50.00 and gives indemnifying bond June 6th  Pay W.F. Jenkins (K.G. check) 150.00 still owe her forty or fifty dollars.  Thunder showers around with light sprinkles here several times during the day.  the warmest day this season so far,  variable wind strong from S.W. and W. AM.  Mrs. Bell milked tonight first time.  Sharp and continued lightning at night north.  Gobed 9 P.M.

23. Sunday.  5.30 AM.  Ther  65.  93.  79.  =  79.
Mostly clear northerly wind.  Heavy rain with much thunder in night, bginning about 10 P.M. continuing most of night from north.  Buy meat Pinnells.  Drive to river on Westfield road.  River pretty high and very muddy Roads somewhat muddy but not deep.  Ferd here to dinner and supper.  I sort out lot of Records &c in old house after dinner. Did intend going out to Gaines but too hot.   Got straw hat at Winter AM. Cr. 25.  Mostly clear day and sultry  Variable wind  No rain here today but thunder and lightning in night.  Gobed 10 P.M.

Top of page - Rose Fuller told me Sat. Jo wanted to go to Mississippi to work for them. (shorthand)

24.  Monday 5.30 AM.  Ther.  77.  93.  80.  =  83 1/3
Partly cloudy much thunder and lightning N and NW toward morning.  Mrs. Smith and Mother came to wash P.M.  Deposit Garrison check for 50.00 at 2d.  Start out to Gaines 2 P.M.  Joe plowing S.E. piece.  Leave word at home that will stay all night and did so.  Corn along road looking well and mine as good as any.  Band of movers (gypsies)? camped along road west of gate.  Very sultry today and I suffer much from heat.  went to bed 9 P.M.

25.  Tuesday 4 AM.  Ther  775.  99.  77=  83 2/3
Mostly clear The storm last night did not extend east of Loxa.  Lask at Meadow and think much of it good, will cut it  Hannah Talbot over to borrow tub &C.  Mr & Mrs. G drove Queen to Mattoon Sunday.  Jo got out to work at 5 AM this morn.  Shirley somewhat later.  I intended to drive through to Loxa but didnt.  Wind last night blew big tree down in pasture.  Drive down to it.  Drove down road to NW corner and look at Shirleys corn.  Gypsie camp opposite place.  Got home 9 A.M.  This has warmest day to date.  99 2.30 P.M.  Courtney boy rode to town with me.
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