Mon. Aug. 1, 1904 |
Went to warsaw. Paid Wm Conrad & Son $2.10 for resetting
2 tires & shoeing ned. Paid Levy 40 cts for beef. I paid
Grabner .50 cts for 5 lb of hard oil for the thrashing machine
Co. |
Tues. Aug. 2, 1904 |
At home all day. John and the girls went to Warsaw to the show.
I went hunting. Got 2 fox squirls & one piny. |
Wed. Aug. 3, 1904 |
I went to Warsaw took 13 chickens over. Sold them to Levy at
7 1/4 per lb. Brought $6.00. I bought a second hand buggy of
W. Conrad to pay him 30 dollars for it & give him my old
one. |
Thurs. Aug. 4, 1904 |
I went down to CoPeppers to see his Colt. |
Fri. Aug. 5, 1904 |
I went over to F. Smiths to see about the Brake the boys had.
Phil Banks & I. Phill Banks & I went to warsaw &
ordered repairs for the machine. |
Sat. Aug. 6, 1904 |
I helped fix up the thrashing machine today. We got it fixed
& thrashed one load for J. T. Smith & moved down to Elah
Smiths. |
Sun. Aug. 7, 1904 |
We went over to H. Bowers. |
Mon. Aug. 8, 1904 |
John & I helped Cal Smith thrash oats abut 9 hoours with
the team. We helped C. Powell from 6 oclock till night with team.
Etta & Affa went to warsaw. I gave them $4.00. I went dow
& salted my cattle in the fore noon. |
Tues. Aug. 9, 1904 |
John & I helped C. Powell thrash from morning till 6 in the
evening. John helped Meeks the rest of the day. |
Wed. Aug. 10, 1904 |
John helped Meeks finish thrash. I went to warsaw after belting
for the thrashing machine. 12 ft 10 in by 4 = $2.80. |
Thurs. Aug. 11, 1904 |
Lib, Etta & Affa & I went to Blands to the Reunion. About
50 there. |
Fri. Aug. 12, 1904 |
We helped Fred Rink thrash after supper. |
Sat. Aug. 13, 1904 |
John & I helped Fred Rink Renkberger & Correll thrash.
We thrashed 489 bu & it rained. We had 4 loads left. Got
them all in the drye. |
Sun. Aug. 14, 1904 |
At home all day. Bill Gochenhours was up here. |
Mon. Aug. 15, 1904 |
They finished thrashing for me. Thrashed 132 bu for me today
making 612 bu in all. Thrashed for B. Banks & J. Harman the
rest of the day. |
Tues. Aug. 16, 1904 |
John & I helped J. Corkondall thrash till noon then went
down & helped George Dawson about 1/4 day with team. |
Wed. Aug. 17, 1904 |
I went with F. Correll to Atwood. John helped Rob Irvin thrash
oats 1/2 day with team. Him & I helped Zed Campbell thrash
1/2 day with team. Dr for the same. We fetched the machine up
& put it in Bankses barn. |
Thurs. Aug. 18, 1904 |
It rained a little this morning. |
Fri. Aug. 19, 1904 |
Rained all day. Correll & I went down to Irvins & tried
to buy corn of Mrs. Irvin. We dident get any. We went over to
Cal Smiths & tried to buy his hogs. Dident get them. |
Sat. Aug. 20, 1904 |
I went up to Rev. Hilbs to see his horse it had the collick.
Paid W. Conrad & Son $30.00 for buggy. I went to warsaw in
the afternoon. Paid J. Watson for medicine 25 cts. Paid the Globe
for 2 pair of over halls $.75. Paid Wimer 15 cts for Bananas.
We had thrasher meeting this evening. |
Sun. Aug. 21, 1904 |
We went up to Sunday School. Went to Church at night. Revised
the Class Book. |
Mon. Aug. 22, 1904 |
John & I went over to Fred Rinks after seed wheat. Dident
get any. I went over to Millards in the afternoon & bought
30 bu of him at $1.10 per bu to get it Friday. |
Tues. Aug. 23, 1904 |
Lib, Paul, Mary & I went to the Irvin farm to pick pears.
We picked about 1 bu. We stade their for dinner. Ant Sophia was
their. We came home & got the ladder & went back &
picked about 4 1/2 bu. |
Wed. Aug. 24, 1904 |
I helped get poles for the thrasher shed. We got it partly built
today. We gave R. Irvin a job of building it to give him $10.00.
Work on shed $1.00. Halling one load of lumber. $4.00 |
Thurs. Aug. 25, 1904 |
Rain. Paul & I took 3 8x20 & 1 10 x 20 plank down to
the thrasher shed. 116 ft at 22 cts $1.39. Rob Wallace &
Marshall came down to hunt. |
Fri. Aug. 26, 1904 |
Paul & I went over to M. F. Wallaces after seed wheat. Got
32 bu 15 lbs . To pay him $1.10 per bu for it. Gave John 75 cts
to get plow point & groceries of Whetstone. |
Sat. Aug. 27, 1904 |
I went down to the Irvin farm & finished picking pears. Lib
took Ant Sophia over to Hughs. I sent M. F. Wallace $35.25 for
the wheat I bought of him. |
Sun. Aug. 28, 1904 |
At home all day. Ezras was out here today. |
Mon. Aug. 29, 1904 |
I went over to Corrells then down to P. Bankses to see him about
the thrasher shed. Him & I went down to J. Harmans. I mowed
weeds in the afternoon. |
Tues. Aug. 30, 1904 |
I got a load of corn of George Bittikoffer. 42 1/2 bu at 45 cts
$19.12. Dr to Correll for the corn. I sold Gus Myers 10 head
of hogs at 5.95 to take them to warsaw tomorrow. I fixed up the
hog shoot & sorted them in the afternoon. |
Wed. Aug. 31, 1904 |
I took 10 head of hogs to warsaw to Gus Myers weighed 1890 at
5.95. $99.79. I paid Richardson & Co. $2.00 for me shoes.
Paid J. Grabner 65 cts for plow points. 10 cts for Bananas. |