June 10-12, 1914 and 11-12, 1889 in Charleston, IL

June 19 

10. Wednesday.  4.45 AM.  Ther.  74.  98.  82. =  84 2/3

Part cloudy S.W.1.  Emma helps Tue AM. wash windows etc.  The smaller Warman children spend much of AM here much to Tue's disgust and mine.  Normal out today and Helen Hildreth leaves some things here till next term.  We get letter from Phebe P.M. with  note.   She is in Jeff City with Muggs for a visit.  This proved to be one of our hottest days.  I  keep  pretty quiet and then very uncomfortable.  I drove out as Cemetery late P.M.  I met Harman up town.  I got  home 7 P.M.  The Mortys came over, also Julia.  Harman up about 8 P and stays till nearly 10 Oc. "Settles" in full last years rent  check $72.00  Mostly  clear quite cloudy about 1 PM. with thunder five miles south.  Gobed 10 P.M.

11.  Thursday. 5 AM.  Ther.  74.  98.  80.  =  84.

Mostly clear. S.2.  Tue  irons all AM.  Deposit Harman ck  72.00 at 2d.  Get shave at Browns pd.  The Normal School closes today and the people are going home.  Drive E and SE late PM. call in for ice cream and bread.  About our warmest day part cloudy wind becoming N.  Tue  over at Groves night, gobed 9.30  Order "frame" through Nick.  Carrier took letter  (?)

12.  Friday. 6 AM.  Ther.  74.  84.  74.  = 77 1/3

Cloudy light rain which began 2 AM, wind N.1.  Craigs BC warehouse burned early morn (2AM).  Pay O.T. Ryan feed bill 4.40 I start out to find junk Cooper but did not .  Met Rog Bennett and take him.  Says  Ray is in Courier office.  I saw Laura and her children.  On way home came near running over a baby 12th and Madison Sts.  Tue ironing AM.  P.M. drive up by John Hills and Stodderts.  Ss new alfalfa 40 has about 20 acres of my old friend the bull nettle.    Much cloudy today sprinkle several times, but didn't lay dust.  Roads very dusty.  Corn not growing much.  Much of  crop is less than a foot high.  Some oats are heading out.  Some pieces of wheat are being cut.  Wheat is  good.  Wind N. to easterly  Gobed 9.30

June 1889

11.  Tuesday.  7 AM.  Ther.  60.  76.  58.   64 2/3

Clear.  Wind NW Wrote White telling him (?) take 38 cents for my ties but would not sell any culls.  Sold Adam 20 posts @6c.  Collect rent from Gr bro for month 40.00, draw 10.00 from firm.  Try to clear out sewer W.C. at home but fail.  Pay  up MCennell ind. and  Co a/es.  Pay Heilbing for repair log chain.  Hazy day.  11.30 PM.

12.   Wednesday. 7 AM.  Ther. 65.  76.  60.  =  64.

Clear.   Pay Frommell 1.05  Popham 1.45  Ed Doughty at 1.35.  Jo Clark 25 all in full.  Paid  Uncle  John 100.00 borrowed from him last month.  Trade fair.  Several drummers in town.  Pleasant day and warmer wind SW.   Learn that men in timber expect to  finish fence Friday.  Gobed 11 PM.

January 29-31, 1913 in Charleston, Illinois

29.  Wednesday,  6 AM.  Ther  24.  46.  42. = 37 1/3
Mostly cloudy. S.3.  The house was colder this morn than have noted this winter.  Ther in setting R. 57.   Something wrong with  furnace or the coal.  Rhoda came about 11 AM and washed done before night.  Phebe cutting  out new brown dress.  Harman phoned AM that would be in with some meat P.M. brought 19 3/4 lb lard 8 1/2 sausage, tender loin, spare rib and beef in all 40 lbs. Pay him check 4.80.  He took out old harness he had left in barn.  Fern was here at night.  The snow went off except north hills.  Mostly clear day with strong southerly.

30.  Thursday 6.15 A.M.  Ther.  40.  60. 52. = 50 2/3
Clear. haze, S.3. Phone J.E. M.  Learn that Jessie Dunn's baby died last night after long illness.  Tue got a letter from Marie AM.  Hitch up mare 11 AM., first since Sunday.  The scaves (sic)of funeral procesh (sic) on E side.  Tue went down to Jessies A.M.  I got same P.M. after make two trips.  Look for JEMc 5 PM  didn't see him.  Meet Rogers Bennett with Zoll.  Ora was here at night.  She is thinking of going with Phebe next week to Chicago.  Clear AM but clouds up PM. with dashes of rain 5 P.M. and later strong southwind(sic) becoming N.W. before morning.  Gobed 9 P.M.

31.  Friday.  6.30 AM.  Ther.26  34.  10. = 23 1/3
Clear snowfl. (sic) N.W. 3. some light showers early in night.  Harman phones that thinks will finish NW tile today.  They plowed yesterday.  Tue goes to funeral P.M.  Jessie Moffets baby.  Helen Ferrish went with her.  Phebe has friends for supper.  Frances, Ora and Fern and Tue made quit a function of it.  Had a roast of Harman's beef which was fine.  Lear of death of Ike Cassell an old settler from way back.  Mostly clear day with high N.W. wind.  It began to grow colder about noon and we are worried at night for fear W W will freeze.  New WC frozen twice this winter.  Go bed 9 P.M.  I spend much of time sorting over old papers and mags.

The Weather

The weather &c for Jan. 1913.  Average daily mean. 37.1;  Max 60 on 17 and 30.  Min 10 on 12 and 31. Precip. mostly Rain, 5. 91 in .90 on 5th .65 on 6th .60 on 10th 1.00 inch on 16th; 1.41 on 20th and, 83 on 22d an inch or two light snow fell but went off at once.  The Prevailing winds N.5 1/3; N.E. 2/3; E. 1 1/3; S.E. 2; S. 10; S.W. 4; W. 1 2/3, and N.W. 6 days.  The ground has hardly been frozen and they have been plowing this week Cloudiness for Mo, 60%.   Corn say 40.  oats 30.  Hogs 7.00  Eggs 25 butter 30 to 40.  The roads have been very bad and are so still  I have not used roads much.  There has been lots of rain and streams are high.

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. 

October 26, 1912 in Charleston, IL

Saturday.  6 A.M.  Ther.  34.  64.  44.  = 47 1/3
Most clear. E.1.  Alfred came working an hour or so.  He and Tue sort over picked pears.  He takes ashes out.  Warren Decker calls and reports everything all right at the ranch.  Ike Rogers has sold his B. Corn.  Delivery  today and Monday.  Warren helping W. says will clear off and plow  ranch ground.  Saw F. Cattingham.  Still think had better run the WC sewer outside house.  Buy pint Acme enamel for WC at Thos. Briggs., Cr. as the others were.  Talk with Johnny Handley he goes with bales.  Order bale hay of I.B.M.  Tue and Muggs up town till late.  Clear day with light easterly winds.  Self poorly.  Go bed 9.30

Charleston, Illinois, October 11 & 12, 1912

11,  Friday.  5.30 AM.  Ther.  62.  82.  74.   = 72 2/3
Part cloudy S.2.  I find two spokes broken R rear wheel of old buggy.  Tue and Maggie iron A.M.  I drove to Dicewood and beyond: no fungi excepting Clitocybe illudeno which meet in Stoddert's  pasture.  I got home say 11 AM.  There is a teacher's meeting at E.I.S.N. and great crowds are coming in especially on interurban.  Tue takes four of them to lodge just for tonight - all young ladies.  Tue attends RC* at Ed Millars P.M.  Grey Anderson and help put coat plaster on new W.C. and will come in morn and finish.  J.B. Hill filling New Silo as I pass AM.  The  mud is light and will soon be gone..  Mostly clear day with light to high S. to SW winds.  Lightning around at night.  Tues lodgers attended theatre (sic) til late and keep us awake &c.  Gobed 9 lightning nt.

* Reading Circle

12,  Saturday, 6 A.M.  ther.  52.  64.  48.  = 54 2/3
Part cloudy N.W. 5 .  Violent wind all night.  Lightning but no thunder nor rain.  Jack smuggled himself into house last night.  Think sprinkle rain in  night.  The  change occurred after midnight.  I pick up pears early before breakfast.  Think five or six bu. still in trees.  The teachers meeting closes today.  Said to be 1500 in town.  Anderson and hands finish plaster W.C. P.M. and pd 7.50 ch.  I drove to Dicewoods AM failing to find any fungi excepting  Chilocybi illudeno ~   Mostly clear day with  N.W. wind.  Self not feeling as well as last week.  Got load Pana lump coal today it is poor stuff for our furnace.  Get letter fr Cass Shaver wants to rent.  Gobed 9