September 4-7, 1889 and 1900 in Charleston, IL

September 1889

4.  Wednesday, 5 am  Ther  70.  80.  70 = 70

Cloudy misty - Start for timber at 6 AM  arrives 7.30.  E Johnson cuts his foot and quits.  Rogers and Riley made posts a while P.M.  Milt and self try  to fix  for sheep yard AM.  P.M. Milt went into hollow after pa(?) stuff   Rain P.M. after 2 P.M. and all night  go bed 9.30 P.M..  Strong wind in night.  Snider handed me two (?)  to pay for Milt helping him thrash.

5.  Thursday.  5.30 AM.  Ther 60.  70. 55.  =  68 1/3
Cloudy and misty till  nearly noon.  Boys fill up well up well dug the other day in morning and make some posts.  Rogers and Riley set fence posts P.M.  Milt hauls out strips.  I start home at 5 P.M.  getting there 7 P.M.  Roads muddy in places.  The rain last night was very heavy  River rising a little.  Go to bed 10.30 ~

6.  Friday.  6 AM.  Ther 50.   75.  57  =  61 2/3
Clean cool day.  Trade dull.  Uncle John passed through town on way to Sniders.  has colt show today.  Sell Sam Adams one thousand 30 in. (?) at 1.00 for hundred.  H.G. went hunting P.M.  Bill Kelly cleaned windows at Store P.M.  Drake hauled load of wood to Alex Fischer.  Remit D(?) and Pabst in full.  10.30 P.M.

7.  Saturday.  6.30 AM.  Ther.  58.  79.   58.  =  65
Clear and  Pleasant day.  Milt brought up 1570 boards.  Light  crowd in town for Saturday.  Deffenbach  (?) Circus in town.  The ice box which has been leaking badly stopped today.  Gobed 10.30 PM.

September 1900

4.  Tuesday 5.20 AM.  Ther.  62.  93.  75.  

Mostly clear.  Mrs. Owens washes.  John Driscoll tells me he wants lot of good fencing.  Sell W.L. Harding 278 ft. 2 in 8. @ 1.75 4.88.  Owe him on a/c 18.45 Bal. 13.87.  No Stir in B.C. as yet.  Tue wanted me to go to Berts for peaches P.M. but I thought I could find them north or east of town but didn't.  Much B.C. being cut N.E. many  seeding B.C.  The crop not down as bad up N.E. but move crooked.  Last road making me late getting in.  Home 9 P.M.   Go bed 9.30

5.  Wednesday,  5.20 AM.  Ther 72,  97,  75?  =  81 1/3

Mostly clear.  Clyde helps me oil buggy  Start for Renes for some peaches early stop at Gaines'  Nobody at home Drive down to Shirleys.  Saw Ora.  They begin baling after dinner and I stayed there most of P.M.  Start down to Renes from there 4 PM.  Getting about a bushel and back to John's at 7  staying all night.  Play 7 up till 9 oclock  Mostly clear day, southerly wind.  Gobed 9 P.M.  

6.  Thursday.  4.30 AM.  Ther.  70.  96.  76  =  80 2/3

Mostly clear.  Lightning NW before sunrise Shirley will deliver BC in Charleston tomorrow.  Tue determined to sent Phebe to Northwestern University and is  fingering pretty strong on it.  Maggie G. went to  Barbeque at Oakland at noon.  Maggie Devone ironing.   Self about  overcome by heat all P.M.  Tue ate dinner at Mrs. Knocks.  Self drove up north of town far as township line at night.  Rose too several pieces lumber from yard today to use on boxes for sewer.  Gobed 9 PM

7.  Friday 5.30 AM.  Ther  64.  85.  70  73

Mostly cloudy early but clears away.  Buy lot of envelopes &c at W.E. Hills.  Maggie Devone leaves A.M. to stay.  Shirley brought in four loads BC AM. and two PM. from indications will have nearly 15 ton.  Three loads left over for tomorrow.  Take Maggie Do things down to Mrs Sains P.M.  Drive down to see Mrs. Owen at night.  She was not at home.  Tue was down to Mrs. Blairs.  B.R. buyers claim  brush in lower.  Nearly had serious accident down near Molten warehouse with Roan horse this P.M>  Gobed 9 P.M.

November 3 - 8, 1912 in Charleston, Illinois

3,   Sunday.  5.45  Ther.  28.  52.  44.  =41 1/3
Clear S.2.  First real heavy frost:  ice 1/3 in.  tub.  Had thoughts of going to ranch.  Too cold.  Shave early,  Bert's Helen called and Tue goes home with her on 11:45 car.  I did not hitch up till 4 P.M. and then drove out to Huffman's.  Tue returns on 5.30 car.  Grace was here to dinner, which had 2 P.M.  Mostly clear day with fresh to strong southerly wind.  Some cloudy toward night with signs of rain at sunset.  The roads are good ~ Grove's were over about time I hitched up.  Tue has engaged Mort to repair lot of little things.  Go bed 9

4.  Monday.6 AM  ther.  42.  60.  52. = 51 1/3
Mostly cloudy.  S.3.  R.7. A.M., only trace.  Tue up town A.M.  I fill cracks in WC ciel.  Tue gets can paint at Briggs which exchange.  Mostly clear P.M. Very high southerly wind all day diminishing at night.  Mostly worked P.M. at odds and ends put broken glass in coal room &c.  I drove east of town to exercise mare.  Jim Turner drove piece with me going.  Merritt returning.  Having plenty feed keep mare in stable nowadays.  Tue over Groves at night.  Muggs has decided to accept MO posish at 85 and will leave about 15th.  Promise fair day for election tomorrow.  Gob 8.30

5.  Tuesday. 6 AM.  Ther. 50.  60.  56. = 55 1/3
Mostly cloudy, S.2 general election day.  Taft, Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson running for president.  I voted the republican ticket.  Pet Dickens held mare.  Met Abbot and Steve Decker.  Light rain 11 A.M.  It began to rain about 11 AM and continued the day.  Grace Sefton here to dinner. R to 6 P..50  I did not go up town again  Maggie and grace went to Lelas to spend the night.  Muggs came home to bring dog.  After we retired.  Cloudy day light southwind.  Alfred did not come.  Drizzle rain much of night.  Go bed 9.

6.  Wednesday, 6 AM.  Ther.  56.  62.  50. = 56
Cloudy. still raining S.1. R. to  7 a.30  Woodrow Wilson Dem was elected President.  Dunne for Governor   Nearly everything went democratic of course.  I did not hitch up till late P.M. and then drove up to Dicewoods looking for fungi.  Nothing appearing ~  came near getting caught in shower.  cloudy light rain at times Southwind becoming N. P.M. Gobed 9

7.  Thursday.  6 A.M.  ther 44.  56.  40. = 46 2/3
Cloudy N.3.  I drove over to see Jo Hatton.  He couldn't work.  Saw Mr. Fritz and Emmett will come tomorrow morn.  Cottingham and hand work at W.C. AM and again PM.  We have a slight  hitch when  go to move wash basin from Kitchen to W.C. but they  soon went to work again.  I drove E. up town late P.M.  they are scraping down the Westfield Road.  clear day ex. morn, light northwind  Gobed 9  Mrs. Gaines called 6 P.M. waiting for car.

8.  Friday.  6 A.M.  ther.  40.  60.  46.  =48 2/3
Clear. W.2. Emmett came and worked all day in cellar ~ Cottingham and Fleming work most getting the job about finished.  I don't like the way it is done in the basement.  Tue went to R.C. P.M. at W.E. Hill's.  Emmett quit at 5.30 and will return in morning.  High wind most of the day with high westerly wind.  Maggie gets letter from MO library and need not go until week after next.  Tue has recently had a letter from Mary Sayre  the first for several months.  reports Fahys folks going to Florida for winter.  Go bed 9. 

Charleston, Illinois on October 1, 1887

October, Hilt & Co brake window which I had to patch up at night.
1887   Saturday 6.15 AM.  Ther 57.  72.  53.
1 Cloudy.  Rec. letter from GC Glasarion Pekin.  I'll Buy 1/2 bu potatos & Vinegar WE Hill.  Uncle John in town P.M.  JS. Roberts thinks will make up cull timber with ties and will look at it tomorrow.  Tue's cold gets worse.  She finished ironing and was about sick at night.  Mrs. Comer was in town, does not think Mort any better than he was a week ago.  Give her ten dollars for Mort which is first since settlement last Tuesday.  Go bed.  9 P.M.

September 29, 1887 in Coles county, IL

29, Thursday, 6.30 AM  Ther.  57. 71.  58.
Partly clear.  Moon shone good deal in night.  Rheumatism worse.  Received $9.20 in full for empties from J. Walker Brewery Co.  Get pants at Felix owe him $2.10 on them.  Pay J. Rall and Mountjoy.  Tue  hangs out Mondays washing.  Buy grapes at W.E. Hills.  South East wind morning turns cooler afternoon sprinkle rain two or three times  P.M.  Tue and the girls have caught bad colds so has baby.  Get order for another 2000 ft lumber for Township from Noble which send down Claud Comer.  Snider brought in basket of melons for pickles.  Gobed 9 PM.

July 24, 1912 and 1887 in Charleston, Il

100 Years Ago . . .

Wednesday, July 24, 1912   5.30 AM.  76.  96.  82. = 84 2/3

Clear, SW.2.  was warm night.  O. Hudson takes job of mow yard but back outs after working an hour.  Pd. .15c all.  He helped hitch up .Mc N. did not appear A.M.  Oscar says Emmett has found last garden fork.  They work a little at furnace cleaning up fire pot nothing else.  Today proves to be the warmest of season up to date.  So I keep pretty quiet.The weeds and grass are getting the better of us.  It is hard to get any kind of help.  I drove out by fairground toward night met load of hay over turned near Decker Springs.  Tue got home 7 P.M. from Bert's where she has been since last Friday.  Phebe went P.M. to W.E. Hills to Recep. for Fern Rickett.  Mostly clear day, hazy wind S.W. to N.  Tue got a letter from Buddy P.M.  Gobed 9.30

125 Years Ago . . . 

Sunday, July 24, 1887    7 AM  Ther.  67.  90.  71.

Clear, wind N.E.  Go up and get mare to tke Tue out to Uncle John's.  While waiting for her there was alarm of fire proved to be Geo McNutt's house which burned also several stables and other houses took fire.  There was something wrong with the waterworks and it got pretty good start before pressure came.  Drove while with Tue before noon.  Geo Weber over P.M.  Drove with children round town toward night.  Tue learns that Fan sent for Dr. this morning.  Clear day N.E. wind go bed 9 PM.