This morning I went down and helped on the bridge on Skunk Creek until noon, in the afternoon attended a meeting in Churdan the purpose of which was to determine the amm’t each phone was to pay to Central. (Town Switchboard.) Nothing was accomplished.
Yesterday Humbert was out to look at the stock we sold him. Three heifers and old Brocky.
It is trying to rain tonight.
This forenoon we fenced the hay stacks and got the cattle into the meadows & in the P.M. went to Churdan by way of the south road.
Asked W.L. Bates to pay the tax that is the second installment of it now past due.
This has been a fair day tho a high wind has blown all day and tho even it looked as if preparing for rain this forenoon.
I helped Harve cover his shed & this P.M. brot in the fodder.
Brot a nice forenoon, but the afternoon has been a fright with a succession of heavy showers, which stopped all business for the time + made a poor outlook for tomorrow.
Today has been fair.
We finished the potatoes, the digging of them, this A.M.
I put pokes (devices to keep sheep from pushing through a fence) on 13 of the sheep which were intent on crawling through the fences.
The County Surveyor stopped here this morning on his way to survey for the road running North from the school. (Cedar #8.)
(Here is a plat from 1905, showing the road North from the Country School, Cedar #8. The road is slightly crooked today, but more of a gradual bend around the Martin Casey house, which still stands.)
A fine day after the most severe frost yet experienced this season.
It commenced to bite the ground shortly after sundown last night.
But for the breeze which sprung up from the South in the night, the ground must have been frozen badly.
We finished digging the big patch of potatoes today.
I see by today’s paper that the operators are willing to arbitrate on conditions which will bring this odious coal strike to a close
Today I hauled a load 2960 lbs. gravel to W.C. Perkins.
The evening has been raining, but this closes the finest week in several months.
This has been a fair day and calm tho a slight breeze has been blowing from the South all day and the bank now hovering around the North W. is a fair promise of a change of weather soon.
We finished our hay today: eleven loads of second growth timothy and clover from less than ten acres is not slow for a second class farm.
Today was the finest of the year; seemed more like a spring than a fall day.
This forenoon I hauled two loads of dirt to the tile down the road and in the P.M. took W.C. Perkins 2810 lbs. gravel.
Today fair with N.W. wind.
I mowed the remainder of the second growth (of hay) today.
Ma and Fannie went over to Ernest’s today in the P.M.
Harve and I were over there yesterday.
(Pictured is Ernest’s house as it looks in recent years.)
I heard over the phone today that soft coal had made a big advance (in price).
Steers quoted at 4¢.
