September 17-29, 1889 in Charleston, IL

September 1889

17.  Tuesday. 6 AM.  Ther.  58.  66.  57.  =  72 1/3

Mostly clear.  Owens tuned piano $2.50.  W.S.G. picks hops.  Milt brings up load of wood on yard.  I went down to  Milts at night getting there at about  7 P.M.  Mostly clear day with NW wind  gobed at Milts  9.30 P.M.

18.    Wednesday  5.30 AM.  Ther.  44.  60.  48.  =  55.

Clear.  Said to have been light frost in places.  J Riley came to work at 6 A.M.  R. Decker  @ 11 A.M.  Put up posts for N and E line and began on west after changing two or three times.  I walked over to Fritz hollow P.M. and start home at 5.30  Chilly day got hme 7.15  Maggie was sick all day.   Gobed 9 P.M.  wind NW fresh

19.  Thursday, 6.30 AM.  Ther.  41.  66.  51.  =  52 2/3

Clear.  Maggie seems pretty smart.  Greer drummer in town.  Get harnessed repaired at Adaires.  Drove out to cemetery P.M. taking Maggie  baby and Tue.  Chilly day NW wind  Gobed 10.10

20.  Friday. 6.30  AM.  Ther.  50.  72.  53.+  58 1/3

Clear  fresh W Wind.  Maggie feeling badly this morning.  Mr. Green leaves at noon.  Did not leave anything of him.  Mrs. Rogers irons.  Milt Drake was with R. Decker, brought wood.   Drove out to Loxa P.M. to see about a fence machine.  Didn't find it.Clear or nearly so all day strong W. wind  Go bed 10.15 P.M.

21.  Saturday  7 AM.  Ther.  50.  68.  57.  =  59 1/3
Clear.  Most of gang up from timber and pay off   Milt  brings up load of slabs for me, and deliver some posts and poles to Mrs. Coon.  Pay Milt Drake 3.00.  Biz very dull AM. but very good at night.  Tue complains of headache and toothache.  Maggie feeling pretty well she is worse every other day.  Gobed 11PM

22.  Sunday  6 AM. Ther   56.71.  58. = 61 2/3
Pretty clear  Start for timber 8 AM.  Drive round  clearing with Milt and down in S. hollow went round to river bottom got about half bushel paw paws same of grapes got home 7 P.M.  Maggie not so well today.  Pleasant day and growing warmer.  Go bed 9 PM.  Wind SE

23.   Monday.  6 AM.  Ther 60.  81.  65.  =  68 2/3
Part clouds  Mrs. Rogers washed.  Uni drummer here didn't  buy anything.   Sent  box of pawpaws and wrote letter to Aunt Maria  Milt got up with load of wood took to Ben Anderson the first of five cords sold him   The wagon about gave out today.  Milt didn't start home until after  8 P.M.  Maggie better today she has not been able to go to school any yet.  11 P.M.

24.  Tuesday  6 AM.  Ther  66.  86.  70.  =  74
Mostly clear Maggie feeling badly this AM got Dr. who left some medicine says she must have a Truss.  Mrs. Rogers came to Iron  Maggie better P.M.  Milt brought second load of wood to Anderson  Hibbard wants two or three cords dry.  Some cloudy  Unpleasantly hot signs of rain, lightning at night  Tue having neuralgia  Trade rather dull.  H Meyun drummer here.  Gobed 10:15

25.  Wednesday.  6.30 AM.  Ther.  55.65.  44  = 53 2/3
Cloudy.  Heavy shower about 3 AM.  Maggie feels better and up to breakfast.  cleared off before noon.  Start for ranch 9 Am.  Roads some muddy  Try with Milt to settle on location for shed.  He hauled up two loads of strips today.  None of other boys have worked this week.   Rode over pasture toward night.  Find grass looking very well but pastured too close.  Cool day  wind N.W. and strong at night.  go bed 9:30 P.M.

26.  Thursday.  6 AM.  Ther  40.  60.  44..  = 48
Clear.  White frost light.  Wait to work at fences N. end of yard in morning.  Commissioners came about 9 AM to survey road which they finish before noon  It measures about 226 rods.  After dinner worked on fence till I left at 4.45 P.M.  Maggie missed her chill today for first time in two weeks and feels better.  Cool day and some cloudy W wind.  Got home about dark.  Bought canned oysters at Lees.  gobed 10.15 P.M

27.  Friday  7 AM.  Ther  40.  66.  46  =  50 2/3
clear.  Light whit frost.  Rene was here  to dinner.  Maggie  still feeling better.  Pay up Tom Hutton $6.00 AM.  Paid  John Parker & Co $5. for repair wagon in July. Pd. John Adams for repairing Harness in full.  10c.  Walk down to depot P.M. to look at light plant.  Y Bro give $5.00 for 8th reg reunion Oct 2-3  Milt did not come up today.  Trade pretty good  Mrs. Davis and Ruth over at night  gobed  midnight.
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28.  Saturday.  7 AM.  Ther  50.  78.  60  =  62 2/3
Mostly clear.  Milt came up with wood which takes to Hibbard, sells half cord to Sanders.  Buy Harmons butter at Bakers.   Engage 8 cord wood to Sam Cooper  Winters giving his security.  Pay up the gang.  HG and Nick prepare to go fishing tomorrow.   Trade pretty good.  gobed at 10.30 PM.

29.  Sunday.  6.30 AM.  Ther  56.  65.  58  =  57 2/3
Cloudy sprinkle of rain in night and early AM.  Tue and self start for timber 9 AM.  Find that one of the red pigs got killed in post hole.  Johnny  McKee there sent out sheep into two lgts and turn rams with them.  Sprinkle times during the day, and rain all the way home  Got home 7 P.M.  Heavy rain after dark  Gobed 10.15 PM

January 4 - 5, 1914 and 1889 in Coles county Illinois

Note to my readers:  If you are wondering about the punctuation and spelling, I am trying to transcribe it as he wrote it.  He often uses his own abbreviations and does not always use punctuation.  I do this because in some cases the rules changed  and he is writing for himself and I wish to preserve the man, Charles Gramesly, through his writings.  His word choices and spelling are from the time he lived in.  Catherine

January 1914

4.  Sunday.  6.30  AM.  ther.  34.  36.  34. = 34 2/3

Cloudy. N.W.4.  We had breakfast very late.  Tue attends church A.M.  I shave self am getting quite expert: think only need good tools.  Gus and John call while waiting for a car P.M.  George Boulware was buried today at Mattoon.  Dark gloomy day.  Cloudy with brisk NW wind light snow at times after 9 AM  The ground has thin covering of snow.  some which fell Christmas  It is  several weeks since we saw the sun or stars.  Go bed 10 P

5.  Monday.  6.30 AM.  Ther 30.  34.  32.  = 32

cloudy N.3.   Tue  irons good deal.  She spent evening at Grove's  Harman phones will be in soon to settle.  Will bring us piece of good beef.  Alfred chored.  All cloudy day with brisk north wind.  I had one of my spells of "congestion" after I retired and it kept me awake till after midnight.  I didn't go up town today.  Ground is covered  lightly with late snow.  Gobed 9

January 1889

4.  Friday 6 AM.  Ther 31.  49.  38.

Mostly cloudy and looks like rain.  collect months rent of Miss Kumayer and deposit 72.50  Bill Kelly cleans out stable and stops holes in fence.  Let pigs out in barn lot.  Pay Wright $4.95  Dick Bails $1.50 I.B. Mitchell 4.40 Geo McNutt .75 all in full.  cloudy day with southerly wind  Gobed 9 P.M.  (?) ins. on ST. 800.00

5.  Saturday. 615 AM.  Ther 35.  39.  36.

Cloudy and damp wind N. cloudy all day.  Tom Burk paid me 5.00 on a/c  Called on Sam Cooper but got no money.  Tue  r(?) Nicholson house to old Man  Sanders for 6.00 till Mar. 1, he paid up.  H.G. and Hat were down here at night till 8 PM.  Maggie spent the night with Marnie Lang.  sold Mrs.  Turnam 50 c  worth of wood,  Interest on  (?) note paid up to Dec 31   Gobed 9 PM ~  Jim Chapman died tonight

August 16-18, 1913 and 1888 in Charleston, Illinois

1913

16.  Saturday.  5.40 AM  74.  96.  82. = 84.

Clear S.1.  Drive 9 AM with Tue and Charles out to Huffmans.  Stop at Jessie Dunns.  John Simon passed through, said was going to Mattoon.  Harman phones that got home Wednesday.  Wants to cut clover for seed.  Another very sultry day.  thunder showers 3 P.M. .15 in. here, much heavier E.  I drove after 4 P.M. to Westfield bridge getting home 6.30.  One of the Wrights has started small store at top of the hill.  Part cloudy day; light variable winds.  Jessie and Mary Ann called at night and they went up to show.  Go bed 9

17.  Sunday.  6 AM.  ther.  74.  98.  84. = 85 1/3

Clear. S.1.  After getting paper drive west and S.W.  An aviator makes two flights today at Urban Park.  At Clover Leaf high bridge I heard their machine and could see part of the flight from the bridge at distance of about a mile N.W.  My first sight of a flying machine.  I return by Bunk hill getting home about noon.  Mrs. Brooks over P.M. and I drove with Buddy and Chas. on Ashmore road to Huckaba road returning S. road.  One of hottest days.  Light variable winds Thunder shs (sic) around, no rain here.  Go bed 9

18.  Monday.  6.30 A.M.  Ther.   76.  94.  80.  =83 1/3

Most cloudy.  S.1.  There is quite a stir in town today.  The county fair begins tomorrow.  Drive up to  Grims for cabbage get can buttermilk at Creamery.  Too warm for me to do much.  Harman called P.M. but didn't seem to have any biz. and just called.  Heavy thunder E. and S. much of P.M.  What looked like heavy showers S. say 5 P.M.  Drive with Buddy over S. part town late P.M.  Mrs. Grove spends much of P.M. here.  Mr. Bell very feeble.  Learn that Ike Finch is dead.  Much cloudy.  P.M. go bed 9

1888

16.  Thursday  5.20 AM  Ther.  75.  85.  72.

Got to woods at 8.30  Clouds over and rains before 11 oc.  Men got in 3/4 day.  Bob Brown brings w/ load of lumber.  Men made some  posts today have about decided to build a large sheep farm.  Men quit at 3.30 P.M.  I drove home in the rain slow rain most of P.M.  Gobed 9 PM.

17.  Friday 5.30  AM.  Ther.  72.  90.  70.

Cloud and damp got to woods at 10 AM,  Three of men at work on hillside near spring.  Jo Handley's child died last night and was buried today.  Republican meeting down in Hutton Township.  Heat very oppressive today.  Damp and hot cloudy forenoon clear P.M.  Got home at 7 P.M.  Tue not very  well, baby better than she has been for long time.  Am very well.  Satified with clearing job so far.  Gobed  9.30  PM

18.  Saturday 5.30 AM.  64.  82.  60.

Cloudy early but soon clears off wind. - N. on N.W.   All hands up but John.  Decker to pay them all up.  Pay note July 14 at bank and make new one for 60 days.  Pay Mike Miller 10.00 and owe him yet some  6.00 dollars.  Tue not feeling  very well.  Got shoes at Messecks for the girls.  Sam Cooper wants 8 cords wood.   quit tob.  Gobed 9 P.M.