August 4-5, 1889 and 1900 in Charleston, IL

August 1889

4.  Sunday.  7.15 AM.  Ther.  70.  88.  70.  =  76.

Part  cloudy.  thunder S.W. 8 AM to 10 AM. and sp. rain here.  Smokey, Bud some peach trees, 3 with luck.  No. Send, 4 white ray No.2.  Bark does not peel well.  4 black rug No. 3.  Manie here all day.  Heavy rain about 4 P.M.  Rained here all night  Gobed 9 PM~

5.  Monday.  6.30 AM.  Ther.  62.  80.  60.  =  67 1/3

Mostly clear.  Pay Dunnery and Pabst.  Mrs. R. washes and irons  Drake brings up load of wood which he wells for 3.30  John Van Meter putting iron on Mrs.  Monroes Building  Took mare to Montgomery's  house  again.  think she is with foal.  The electric light people are putting up their poles.  Gobed 10.30  Cloudy NE

August 1900

4.  Saturday ,  4 AM.  Ther.  70.  99.  78.  =  82 1/3

Clear.  Alarm fire woke me up at 4 o'clock.  Kate Bucher's house near Clover leaf R.R.  Start out to Gaines at 4.30.  Jo working road.  Yellow cow's calf does not seem to be doing  first rate.   Think partly the heat.  B.C. will be cut in a week.  Get another sample  Mrs. Gaines picks a lot of cucumbers.  I get too hot and about sick all day.  Simons and Warren in with rye.  Brown has been threshing and no lumber sawed.  Learn that (?) intends  leaving ranch to work in BC harvest with engine.  Veach boy puts up hay P.M.  Les Neeses folks have just got back from the Nation this week and some of party are already in jail.  Gobed  9.30 PM.

5.  Sunday.  6.30 AM.  Ther.  82.  100.  78.  = 86 2/3

Clear.?hontess folks got up very early and went to country over slept my self and did not have breakfast till 8 AM.  I had  thought of going to Ranch but too hot.  Drive S. & SW of town till after 12 oc.  Few fungi this year.  Think has been too wet.  Fried several Russula vineseias some  boleli and two or three small agarics.    This about warmest day we have had.  Clear, or nearly so.  southwind.  thought to go out to Gaines and stay all night but fear (?).  Tue and I drive with Marie till 10 P.M.  Mostly  round town.  Maggie Devone went up to her uncles and did not get in till after Midnight.  Gobed 10.30

August 28 - September 2, 1888 in Charleston, Illinois

August 1888

28.  Tuesday.  5.30  AM.  Ther.  66.  83.  64.

Cloudy.  Start for timber with Tue at 7.30 AM.  Men clearing all day west of house.  We have been married eleven years today.  Walked around a good deal.  Tue seems to like it pretty well.  Very warm down there.  Clear off early and mostly clear day.  left baby with father and girls.  Gobed 10 P.M.

29.  Wednesday, 5.30 AM  58,  81,  60.

Mostly  clear warm day.  Start for timber with M & P at 8 AM.  Six men clear today  Johnson having quit.  Clear N.W. of house cross spring hollow.  Have cleared as far west as think will do at present.  about a greater west of cast lives.  Maggie and Phebe enjoyed themselves and got very tired found some very fine fungi.  Got home at 6.15.  Tried an operation on calf this AM but no good.  Mrs Dickinson ironed.  go bed 10 PM

30.  Thursday.  5.30 AM.  Ther.  51.  81.  66.

Mostly clear start for timber at 7.15 AM.  Six men at work clearing on ridge N. of spring.  fire old hickory stub.  Brown hauling old lumber and boards.  Brought him $2.05 in groceries today.  g of 9 oc.

31.  Friday.  5 AM  Ther.  66.  78.  60.

Start at about 7 AM.  Cloudy mostly turns cooler P.M.  Near clearing on second ridge N. of spring push fence row through to N. road in P.M. I went over on Hall and Darkes eighty.  Oscar Decker  cut his hand pretty badly P.M.  Gobed 9 P.M.

September 1888

1. Saturday. 6.30 AM.  Ther.  53.  74.  56.

Clear morning and day.  Most of hands were up today.  Uncle John was down to dinner.  Sherm Popham pays me for boards, $10.75.  Mrs. Perrill called at night.    Grate some corn for breakfast.  Bud some peach trees today 5 on N. (?) of row early peach from Brandenburgs.  Gobed 9.30

2.  Sunday.  6.30  Ther.  54.  75.  55.

Clear.  worked of forenoon on plan for a sheep barn.  After dinner, Tue, self and baby drove out to Uncle John's staying an hour or two.  He gave me some advice about sheep farm and we got some corn to grate.  Gobed 9.15

August 24-27, 1888 in Charleston, Illinois

1888

24.  Friday, 5.30  Ther.  53.  85.  60.

Clear  Mostly clear day and warmer.  Work all day clearing live for road and got nearly through.  Went over on south side of big hollow after dryncher(?).  Bob begins hauling lumber out of bottom P.M.  I started home at 5 P.M. coming home by Edmans and M. Anderson.  Phebe better today and think will get along.  9 P.M.

25.  Saturday 4.50 AM  Ther.  56.  85.  70.  

Clear or nearly so.  Start for woods at 6.30 A.M.  Finish clearing road before noon took down beef and flour for Jno Jr. and Riley then worked only till noon.  Clouds over about noon and rain about  2 p.m.  Cut an old tree out wood aged tried to make a few posts with poor success.  Left boys piling up their wood about 5 P.M.  There was a Demo. meeting in town came home by Walkers.  9 P.M.  Tue got Muggs pictures taken.

26.  Sunday.  7 A.M.  Ther.  70.  84.  70.

Partly clear, mostly cloudy day. Light rain about dark for hour or so.  Tue and self went out to Uncle Johns.  Drove up N. of town a couple of miles first.  Brought home lot of apples getting home in the rain.  We left the baby with M & P.  Budded most of my young peach trees today from seedling trees of our own four kinds.  Gobed 9.30

27.  Monday 5.30 AM  Ther.  67.  81.  72.

Cloudy looks like rain.  Got to woods at 9 AM.  7 men at work today.  Two new men E. Johnson and Os Decker clearing round house and near spring.  Brown hauling out lumber.  Have spent on cleaning up to  this morning $37.50 for  50 days work.  Very satisfied with most of the work done.  Got home 6 P.M. Sprinkles rain toward night.  Gobed 9 P.M.