He was soon tired out and the men scatred and soon came back to talk on other subjects.

Mr. O. Cardock common of Sealy received 14 dollars in premiums at the fair.   The Cats Springs agriculture fair a good display of vegetables, corn and cotton and livestock, some fine horses,  female loveness, plenty of white dresses, gay ribbons in the children dance all smiling and trying to dance to the music.   1000 to 1500 hundred there.  Good many Bellville out.   Judge Blake, Wm. Lewis, Henry Mathews, Cherkomer Fritys ranch and many others.   Egg throwing at a Nigro, doll baby, walking cane, ice cream and beer sloon were in full blast.   All on Sunday.   Then I came home giting in time to hear Schoak preach, he will have service Monday night. 

June 8, 1891 - Monday.  Clear, hot.  Broke the middles out of my cotton.  Did not do much read and wrote some.

June 9 - Tuesday.  Warm, not well, some fog.  Therometer to 100 deg. in shade.  Copyed my diary off of 1876.   Went to church at night to hear Rev. Schoak and Captain Foster, the Salvation lady, she preached good sermon to us all.  Admonished the ladys to save the poor girls.

June 10 - Wed.  Rode out to Raph Spence to plow my garden.  Crops need rain bad.  The rabits, mule ear’d, are still cutting down corn.  They’re chinch bugs are over the country and they will hurt corn and cotton on Raph Place, At Bell and Louie Wetskracts place, ground was speckled with them.

June 11 - Thursday.  A hot day, very hot.  Went a bathing come back.   Read supplement to the Dallis News June 1891, the Bottle Imp, and The Phathom Rickshaw.   Thunder in distance, thunder heads or whit caps soon turn to dark black clouds and rain with thunder, none here yet.  The wind blew up brisk and we will get rain.  I hope.   A heavy rain, hail, and wind past by Kinneyville, Mr Brewer said he had a good rain.

June 12 - Friday.  A hot day.  Went to town.  Received a letter.  The Dallas News, Lady Home Journal and Yanke Blade.  Peoples magazine and Library, a Nigro man come on the up train.   Wash Jones leader, Petter Hering is still in Chicago negating with porter about his cotton picking machine he may stay all sumer.  a good many business houses are braking in the state 6 this week.   Corn crop are nearly lost.  Rain in south and west this evening, rain around but we did not git any.

June 14 - Students girls and boys received there parchment last night from Trenkman and Helmuth   Hot, a shower around.  A dance out at Fiffers to night.  Center hill, piney creek rose 1 ½ ft last Thursday from the good rain that fell up at Kennyville.  The ending or commencement of the school and dance was to late to go in the times, Mrs Englking died this morning.  H. Torch Photographer of Cat Springs will be at New Ulm.

June 15, 1891 - Rev. L. S. Kellis the Bappist divine of Houston preaches to night and Sunday.  Mrs. R. B. Price and Miss J. Bronssard representing the Houston Texas world were in town to day giting the history of Bellville and ad and biographers of the citizens.  The best black berries now ripe can be found on the water courses and wet places.   The common red ant sting___ ___large kind they have there nest in yards, field and on the sand.

June 15, 1891 - Monday. Went to fork of creek.  Need rain up as far as Mr. Wm. Lees.  Mr. Sayner needs rain, corn is cut off.    Round by Mr. Lyons and Mr. Creekmoars, the old man and his wife and daughters has a good crop.  Fine rains fell.  Those along over to Remits and Mr. Bosman’s cotton and corn looks fine.  Mr. Creekmores are not well the little girl has been very sick.  At Mr. Bosman is fine and Miss Tennie had a sick spell.   From Nelsonville to Kenneyville crops are fine.   Crops not so well from Kenneyville to Bellville.  Mr Raskie had a fine mule killed by the train in Kenneyville.   Money scarce and times are dull.  A very few in town now. 

June 16 - Tuesday.   The hotest day this year registered 108 deg in tight house.  North wind with rain around, a heavy rain.

June 17 - North wind, the farmers are nearly up with there plowing. 

June 18 - A hot day.  Went to town.  No rain.  Robert come home from Corps Christi.  John Bethner  is riding (writing) to sumons witness jurors for July court. 

June 19 - South wind, light clouds.   Register 80 deg a.m.  today.   The Nigro’s emancipation day.  They will have a barbcue out at the Methodist Church west of town.  Gypsy pedder past by. The nirgos had a big barbcue and emancipation dinner.  Judge Orsterbout and Judge Blake spoke to them.  Dancing at night and the Nigros made merry all night.

June 20 - Saturday.  Hot day.

June 21 - Sunday. R. T. Sanders preached at Bellville at 11 and night.  Judge Osterbout of Belton, who formerly publish the Bellville Countrymen at this place he first made his advent here in 1851 now 40 years ago.    In 1870 having been appointed district Judge he moved to Belton before the war he was a strong democrat.   Since 1868 he has been a dicied Republican and maby he will run for governor.   Mrs Louise Engelking died at her home in Bellville at 6 o’clock in morning June 13 born in Milheim this county (Austin) 5 day of June A.D. 1855.  She was a daughter of Mr. Jas Longhammer and Mrs. Veleska Longhammer.  Her mother after her father’s death, being married to Mr. F. Drost who’s death only preceded her daughter a few months, beside her husband she leaves ten children.   Bellville grade schools new, Elected teachers & principles: R. B. Login, Miss E. Holyapfel 3rd & 4th grade, Miss Sue Thomas 1st & 2nd grade.  Jordan the fisherman put in his presence with fish from the Brazos River.  From the Austin County Times, June 20, 1891.

June 22 - Monday.  A hot cloudy morning, some rain, still dry.  Need rain nearly all over the county.

June 23 - Tuesday.  Went to Sealy from Mr. John Basmons.  He has a nice place on the prairie below Millheim.  Mr. Basman says over 500 bales of cotton is being helt by the farmers around Millheim and cotton is only 8 ½ cts a pound in New York.  Mr. & Mrs. Allen of Sealy was crazy and sent to he asylum to day at Austin. 

June 24 - Wednesday.  At home again.  Did not do any business, so hot.

June 25 - Thursday.  A hot day 120 degrees.  Rain, a good rain fell, reach down to Sealy along the river.  Heavy thunder storms and lightning.  I received a canvas picture out of the Express Office from N. M. Priedman and Company.   Marti_____- no a nice picture cost Express $1.00. in all $1.30 cts.  Robert went to Wallis.  The rain continued till night.

June 26 Friday. - Set out potatoes still warm day rain and thunder south of us.   Cloudy this evening.The drought is broken to late to save corn.  We set out potatoes.  Mr Bracy and family come home from a visit down in Montgomery Co. to there daughters.  At night we went out to see and hear Mr. C. T. Sanders preach at town.  Many were out to here him.    John P. Bell , John Lewis, James McLorne of Sealy, Mr. Wm. Frances.

June 27, 1891 - Saturday.  Went to town Judge Blake were at Mr P. Herings giting places for the teachers to board during the normal school at Bellville comence July 6, 1891.   Court will be in session then.  Mr. Bracy paid me $7.00 all on the timber for wood for 3 years.  

Mr. W. Brooks had a fine lot of melons at the Alience Store.  Tomalsom has a good price in the times to the farmers about trading other places in town.  When they have money in the Aliance store.    Mr. C. J. Sanders paid us a visit.  He is in the prime of life and is in earnest in preaching to the people.   Ma and Ellen and I went out to here him last night.   Act chapter 20, faith and repentance.  A few out to here the gospel.  Miss Capt. Foster the pretty Salvationist.  Will leave next week for someplace north.

June 28, 1891 - Sunday, Head ache. Did not get out.  C. T. Sanders preached at 11 a.m..  Went home on the down train.  Capt. Foster preached at night. 

June 29 - Monday. Miss Corey and Anne Fisher was over to see Ellen.    A heavy black cloud in the north in the evening with thunder.  Soon we had a good rain which lasted till night.  The drought is broken

June 30 - Tuesday.  I set out potatoes and a fine rain will make corn.  Rode out to Raph Spence to look at my corn.  The wind had blown it down some, but it had come out and will make something.   Mrs. Notles house the old carpenter house blown down off its blocks and she says that the mule eared rabits haven’t been so bad 20 years and now more of them.  Raph were seting out potatoes vines.

July 1 - Wednesday.  A hot day set out slips and Robert commence to cut grass.   Miss Capt. Foster of the Salvation Army preach to a full house, had experience meeting.  And 6 little girls to sing and recite verses of scripture.  This is her farewell sermon as she leaves for Kansas tomorow  2nd July.

July 2 - I finish seting out potatoes.  A hot morning.  I have been reading and writing, Someone received letter from Charley  Millard, Cedar Rapids Iowa.  June 2, 1891.  On Chicago Milwakee Co,. St. Paul RR.  A good rain fell before night with wind.  Our potatoes will grow.

July 3 - Friday.  The court takes a recess tell after the 4th of July.  Lovely and still.

July 4, 1891 - Saturday.  Cloudy with rain.  Robert left for Lexington, Lee county.  Peter Hering sent me the Chicago Times June 28, 1891.  Showers all day.  I put up flags.  The Up Passenger engine was decorated with flags.  As there were no celebration near.  Only a feast below Bellville.  A few people in town.  Stores closed and a shooting by Jo Rothemells.  Segrafrets proprites nigros in town thick   Pres Spence come down from Falls Co.   Bill Fisher is still here he came from Austin City.

July 5 - Sunday.  A north east wind, cool wether with rain last night.  Galveston had quite a storm.   Flooded the city and delayed the Up passenger.  The track over flow.

July 6 - Monday.    Judge Techmuller Court sent a white man and nigro to the pin for stealing and in the evening a nigro was up for stealing cattle and selling them to Grat Fisher.  The Summer Normal, comence in the evening at 2:30 tell 5:40 p.m.   Morning 8:30 a.m. to 13:30 p.m.  15 or 17.  Teachers present.  Prof. Sannon was at the head today layed off the program.

A good many people in town and more expected .  Both attendance at court and teachers.

July 7 - Tuesday.  Prof. Putman come town last night and some more teachers came in to attend the Sumer Normal School, 25 or 30 teachers come and visitors.  

July 8, 1891 Wednesday.  At the Summer Normal, Bellville the regular weeks program went through .   A few more teachers come in.  At court the murder case - Albright has the murder of Palm Hering, witnesses.

July 9, 1891 - Thursday, At the Normal going on nicely.  Mr. Rammon, Putman and Watson teachers, about 30 teachers atending now.  Dr. Broden lectured this evening on teaching.  Visitors, Mr Charley Glenn, Miss Josey Chesely, Mrs Sam Hill and a lady.

The lecture by Mr. Broden to the Normal.

   “The First Procedure of the mind in the elaboration of its knowledge is always analytical to proceeds from the indefinite to the definite.”

More on different governments of the world at different times.

July 10, 1891 - On the Albright case the jury has not decided yet.  The Stafford case came up but was postponed till the other jury decided the Albright case.  Town is crowed with the colored people, some camping out, some boarding.   Every boarding house is full.  The Sumer Normal, the same rate in.  Closed for the week.  A dirgram by Prof. Watson.   More schooling on a great many subjects.   Prof. Rammon closed early so the teachers could go home.  About the same as there were at the middle of the week.   Louis Hering is sick with fever.  A hot day.

July 11 - Saturday.  A cool morning.   At 12 o’clock the court had 11 jurors in the Hope and Stafford case and there was 200 people from Colorado Co. attending the court.  I received the Chicago Tribune July 5th from Petter Hering.

July 12 - Sunday.  Rev Kellis preached to a crowded house at 11 and that night to s crowed house.

July 14 - The sumer normal is well atended.  More young ladyes than men atending.   At night the school had a lecture and musical entertainment at the school buildend lecture by Judge H. Teichmueller on education.  The house soon was a crowded and music by the third regiment Band.  Then Judge Teichmeuller spoke after a lengthy speech while he spoke many good words for the school.  Music by Miss Josey Chesely.  Then more music by the band.  All went home well pleased with the lecture and music.

July 15 - Wednesday.  I did not atend the normal.  Stayed at court.  Judge Teichmuller set on bench.  The Hope an Stafford case.  The lawyers examing the witness all day.  Money and sharp lawyers are working the case for a miss trial or a not guilty.  The case State verus Larkin and Marion Hope charge with the murder of R. E. and John Stafford at Columbus last July was called to trial July 10th 1891 on extraordinary array of legal talent as well as an unusably number of witnesses appeared.  The state is represented by Cap. J. C. Hutchinson of Houston.

July 16, 1891 - Thursday.  A hot day.  Rode out to Raph Spence to look at corn and melons.  Ralph has a fine lot of melons.  Also, his corn and cotton is looking well.  The wolves have been eating his water melons.  He will put out poison to kill them.  The campers comenced to move in and camp up at the Methodist camp ground near Alexander Spring some where there.   The 5,  Mr Hoods & Waltons, Mr. Ben King, and John Elek.  Presely Spence started out west on a trip today far out as San Antonio.   The Twelfth District Summer Normal School Bellville.

July 17, 1891 - Friday.  The Hope Case, the attorney pleading this morning were Mr. Fennon.  Evening pleding by John P. Bell and another Lawyer.   Some rain a norther blew it off.  Most of the witness has gone home.  Plenty of water melons in town 5, 10, 15 cts apiece.

July 18 - Saturday.  The Hope case opened with Jonathan Lons pleading for Hope 8 hours.  By State Cap J. C. Hitchiner till then Judge Techmeuller read the law to the jury.   This evening the jury give in verdict of not guilty.  Hope is free in that case.   Thare was about 20 ladyes up to hear the case.  A hot day.  Several campers out at the Childress camp ground

July 19 - Sunday.  I went up to the camp meeting at Childress camp ground.  A large crowd out, 5 or 6 Methodist teachers.  Good service.  Rain in the morning caused the atendance to be slim

July 20 - Monday.  Plowed cotton

July 21 - Tuesday. Sick did not do anything.  Court adjourned Saturday.

July 22 - Wednesday.  Rain around.  Did not do any thing. Could not go to the lecture.

July 23 - Thursday.  A hot day. Rain around.  A good shower fell just before night.

July 24, 1891 - Friday.  Ma and  my self went up to the camp meeting.  A good crowd out and  campers.  We heard a good sermon.  A down pour of rain at 12.  No service in the evening.  Mrs Kenney was taken sick and Cap Kenney and the doctor was out for the evening.  Was cloudy and we came home.    Two men had ther hack up set in with 2  lodes of cole in the branch below our house.  So we had to go another rode to town.     Some men talking about the problem of renting and credit system.  Will be something when the farmer quit standing good for the renter and hires day and monthly labor and let them furnish themselves.

July 25 - Saturday.  At the camp meeting crowed same as yesterday.  Rain at 11.  Rev Godwin preached a good sermon, experance meeting.   Two were taken in the church.

July 26, 1891 - Sunday.  We arrived late at meeting.  The out side ground were crowed with buggies, horses wagons.  So I could hardly find a hitch in place.   People thare from all over the country.  The society people met in there best, young and old.  Many young ladies and young men and the elevated society were thare.  Rev Brooks baptized 9 children and 5 grown people in the church, sprinkled them and Mr. Wm. Francis joined.    The following Normal minsters in attendance.

Dr. Goodwin, Messers, Brooks, Shoak, Littlepage, and Tarrant.   Mr. W. H. Billingslea of Chappel Hill led in some of the group prayer meetings in the evening.  The order was the camp ground association meeting about 145 members and more names was put down.  Cost 1.00 to join the association is for to keep up the camp ground.   Mr Billingslea is sectary and Brooks president.   The old bard was elected and more officers elected.  The by laws was lost so they will form new ones in May 1892.   First Thursday will be a picknic on the camp grounds.   The meeting closed to night.    As, I come home, I did not hear the night sermon.

July 27, 1891 - Monday.  The campers are moving home.  The marriage of the old people W.W. Jennings of Bellville to marry Josey of Sealy was a surprise to all.  They have been attending the camp meeting.  The Sealy Advance give there ages 75, bride 65, he has passed his 68 year.  

July 28 - Tuesday.  Cotton opening some.  Farmers are picking and cuting tops for fodder.   I went around with my picture.   Cotton has shed off so that the crop is short.   Major Metye give the Normal School a talk and a large audience was out to here him.  The young folks furnished the music.   Many good things were said and the Major give a short history of the State and country free school and encourage the teachers of there good work.

July 29, 1891 - Wednesday.  

Aug  6 - Thursday.  Returned from Nap’s, Lee Co., Lexington.  A good rain fell from Gidding to Breham.  Left Nap and Robert at work on the Arkansas Rail rode.  A bad crop year all a round, a short crops.  Cotton opening and new cotton sold in the marker at 7 ½ cts a pound and the continued dry weather has caused the cotton to shed so that 8 or 20 acres to make one bale of cotton.  The Bole worm and cotton worm are in some fields above Kenney.  As corn crop is short the farmers sees nothing but hard times for mortgage and credit and no way to pay out.  As the farmers are picking new cotton is coming in wages paid is 25 to 50 cts a hundred pounds.  A good crop of melons this year.

Aug 8 - Saturday.   A fish fry at the Iron bridge.  Harley Spence and the neighbors, as Bill Spence has   come on a visit from Wilson County, Texas.  Cotton selling at 7 ½ cts at town.  A rain east of us today.  Some new cotton coming in.  Sent 3 letters off.

Aug 9 - Sunday.  Bro. Kellis preached at 11.  Rain in the evening.  At night service Kellis sermon was on God is love.  To a good crowd.  He Bro Kellis call the Baptist church and Dr. Gardner and wife were taken there, names taken off of the Baptist Church book.  And at night we receive ours back and the clerk was ordered to write here a letter.  To here at Fort Worth.  Mr Harri Bracy joined the Baptist church after service last night.

Aug 10 - Monday.  Bro. Kellis visited us and we had a nice time and we enjoyed his religious conversation.   He left on the down train for Sealy and home.  We wrote to the church letter and a letter for Mrs. Brack.   Mr Jesse O. Bryant and his bride was expected down to hom and a supper at Mr. Wilsons.

Aug 11 - Tuesday, Went out to Ralph Spence and got a lode of melons.  Shower around.  A nigro beral at the grave yard at 12 o’clock.    There melodions note flated on the air.  Rose and fell a long train of float and wagons following after the carps.

Aug 12 - Wednesday.   A hot dry day.  Planted Irish Potatoes.  Young Will Springfield come over with Louis Hering to hire the mare for his father to drive on his druming trip.  So hot I can’t do much.  I have so many paper to read that I can’t git to write as much as I would like.

Sept 13 - Sunday 1891.  The Bellville Wachenblatt an eight page German journal will appear next Thursday.  Mr. W. et Trenchmann Editor, he has a new Cranton power press, has arrived.

Nov 1, 1891.  We have had a pleasant dry fall the farmers have gathered nearly all there crops.   Some late cotton and corn in the field.  Crops short, cotton low 7 cts a pound, good and provisions high.  Petter Hering returned home from Chicago where he has been for 5 months at work on his cotton machine.   He had one made and tried it.  Picked some cotton and he showed me a model and apiece that picked cotton.  Two deaths last week in town, children to.   Apose Catholicism is every where now.  There geting to strong in America, the preast craft is deplarable at Council Bluff, Indiana a political organization was aganist the Roman Catholic Church.  It is so un-American to be a Catholic.  To sell ones belief to the preast, pope and the devil.  Why not be a free man, be a American free liberty loving American.  Why let a preast rule over you and know all your secrets to take advantage and let the devil of a pope in Rome Cardinels know all about yourself.  Be a free man, be a American. 

Nov 14, 1891- Saturday.  Mr Clarence Cole and family moved from Mill Creek section to Breham section this week and Mr. H. Milton and family moved Thursday 12 down to section18 on Mill Creek.  Three wrecks on the Santa Fe rode this week one at Bellville, one at Sealy and one above Kenneyville.  No rain this week.  A norther and East wind.  Made fince.  Our well has gone dry nearly.  I take the following papers now, Dallis Weekly News.  Will be out next week.  The Austin County Times for 1891-92.  Houston Post 1891-92, Farm and Ranch 1891-92, Ladies Home Journal out next November.  The Christian Hearld 1891-92, Agents Hearld 1891-92, Foreign Mission Journal 1891-92, Singer Brothers magazine out for 1891.

Nov 20 - Friday.  Rain all night East wind, a cold norther and frost that killed vegetation.  The wind hanged around to south.    The pecans have nearly all been gethered.

Nov 24 - Tuesday.  Mr Sam Hill and Miss Eller Prouty married at the Episcopalen Church at 10 o’clock and left on the up train on a bridle trip.   The young people threw old shoes after them.   The Texas School Journal speaking of English as she taught it ought to be American as she is taught and teach the young people American and let English alone.

Nov 25 - I and Louie Mertian hauled cotton.   Mr McCleond is over from Montgomery county, Mr. Leads and Mrs Kitty Moris started for Montgomery Co. to, with a wagon and hack, where Mrs will live near Mr Leads.   I here that she will or is writing a book, a novel or history.  I don’t know.  She is a teacher and a singular women.  She has chacters right at home to write and put in a novel or history.  I have the Century Illustrated monthly magazine a American Historical Magazine.   A good book, the highest magazine in Literature.   The Republic of St. Louis Mo. Nov 20 1891 at hand a Democrat paper.  

Dec 1 to 4 and 5th - Saturday 1891.  Tramped over the Forkes of Mill Creek around Oke Hill and Nelson mill.   Mr Frank Willis died Sunday night and was buried Monday.  A few out at his burying.  Cold East wind.  The country is settled up with Bohomeons so most all the Americans have moved out to the uper counties.  The Sayners, Barns, Lees, Monley, Creekman, Thompsons, Doughters, Shelbern, and a few other families live there.  Now of  Americans most all Germans and Bohemians.  The Elbat Grove has been cut down since 1878 and ruined for a pear orchard.  The house changed.    A few old people left Brat burays.  Old man Lee. two daughters are all that is left.    Come home Thursday.  A dry north west wind.  Some fire out from the pasing train.  One in our field.  Mr Henry Milton is very sick.  The new Methodist preacher J. C. Moar arrived and I met him at Mr Petter Herings.   He is from Arkinsaw.  He is a very nice man, silent, medium hight, brown hair bright red mustache.  I have Lobar by Count Lyof Tolstar a Russian labor book and a novel Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard a English author.

Dec 6, 1891 Sunday. -  A good norther blowing.  Rev. J.C. Moar the Methodist minster helt services in Bellville M.E. (Methodist Episcopal) church and a good crowd were out to here him.  Robert come down Saturday.

Dec. 11 - I finished my house.  Robert and Louie Mertin started to dig a well at Mrs. Mertins.  We received a letter from Charley W. Millard from Galveston, Texas.  They all will be home at Christmas.  Today has been cloudy and heavy rain comence to pour down.  East wind.  Mr Elex Glinn had a golden weden , he has been married for 50 years.  They had a fine time. 

Received many presents and $180 dollars in money.  He was sorrow that we were not ask.

Dec 12, 1891 - Saturday.   East wind rain all day.

Dec 16, 1891 - Wednesday.  A norther, cloudy, cool, the rain left plenty stock water.  Robert and I have been spliting and sawing.  Monday , I heard that the down passenger train on the Santa Fe  rode off and smashed up above Brenham.  Did not learn whether anyone was killed.  The trains are behind, the down train.

Dec 17 - Thursday.  A cloudy cold day.  Walked up the Santa Fe rode near Kenneyville some of the farmers had killed hogs and were making sausage, and some poor nigro did not have money to buy things for Christmas.  Money scarce did not do any business.  Received a paper, The Empire State Exchange.  Pruine Bros. Pub Eden Valley Erie County, N.Y. Sciences Mineralogy Geology.   Also received odds & Ends, Mount Vema, New York  Dec 1891.

Dec 18 - Friday.  We worked the rode our Boss Harman Weohest.  Hands on the rode were Lun and Ralph Spence, Harman Ukert. Dear Back.  Henry Wrincke, Don Wheat a nigro, and myself.  A clear day.  There are more black birds than usual.  They pass both ways to and from Flag Lake.  I received the Arrow, Cross Plains, Wisconsin.  Robert B. Fredrick Edt., also received tow packs of envelopes, card from the International Portrait Co., Tex. Dallis.

Dec 20 - Sunday.  A cloudy day.  Went out to here Rev. Moar preach services, slim.  He preached a good sermon.  A birthday dinner up at Kennyville our Sam Brewer and others from town went up to have a good time.  A Jew fiddler was knocked down last night at town by tramp and sheriff Glenn captured four and jailed them.   Mr. Guss Falk run them in a bar room at the station where Mr Glenn caught them.  The Jew was not much hurt.  The poor tramps were making fans and ointments out of white pine and selling them to night.  A good attendance out at church, Bro Moar did well.  A cool East wind, cloudy.

Dec 23, 1891.  A norther, a good rain fell Monday and Tuesday.  The clouds have cleared off and let the sun shine out.  The people are giting there Christmas goods and turkeys and Christmas trees.  The pine trees is worth cut down by the greedy people for Christmas trees and they don’t care who’s land they git them off of and destroy the trees the nice grove of pines are ruined.   I received Texas Historical and Biographical Magazine from Rev T. B. Link & Austin Texas Vol 7 no’s 1,2,3,4,5,6, from Jan to Dec 1891 a valuable Baptist History of Texas.  Well written and collected articles of history and Biography of early men and women of Texas.   Also a small paper Nation Al Reformer, St Louis Mo. 15 cts a year.  Mr. W.S. Morgan, Editor, E. L Green Manger.  An Alliance paper nice reading and a fine toned farmer Educator.  A paper that the trust don’t like.

Dec 24, 1891 - A very pleasant day.  Looking for the boys home.  People busy gitting Christmas trees and buying Christmas goodies.  Napoleon and Henry come at night.

Dec 25 - Christmas Day.  Cold and rainey day, soon cleared off with rain.  And we had a good dinner.  Turkey and other good things.  Charley did not git home for Christmas.

Dec 26 - Saturday.  Henry left for Novsota, all the Hering boys down home.  A good many town boys home for the holly days.  We had a very nice day.

Dec 27 - Sunday. A nice day.

Dec 28, 1891 - Justice of the piece court day L. L. Prouvity.  The poor nigros come up like slaves for to be tried and Lawyer Glenn walked around John P. Bell and Hon. Chesley come in ocasinly to see about a case.

Dec 29 - Tuesday. 1891.  Napoleon left for home.  A clear day.

Dec 30, 1891 - Wednesday.  A cloudy day.       At home working and studying.

Jan 1, 1892 Friday.  A norther and rain last night.  Clear today.  A bright new year, cool.   As Rev C. J. Sanders preached at the Methodist Church Tuesday night Dec last, he said that the Baptist would have meeting at Sealy the fifth Sunday in January.

Jan 2 - 1892 Saturday.  A cool day received some papers through the male.  Town was crowded Mr Jordan the fish man had fish to sell in town, fine Buffalo and Cat.

Jan 3 - Sunday. 1892.  A white frost, south wind, and clear day.  Pastor Moar, M. E. (Methodist Episcopal) Church hold meeting to day.

Jan 4 - Monday.  We comenced to fix fence.  I and Robert were across the rail rode by Tom Jeferson, a old nigro.

Jan 5 - Tuesday.  Nearly finish fince, old Tom Jeff come out and stretch a wire around what he wanted and cleaned.  He showed me a rock he said was his old corner of his first five acres he bough after his freedom.   The corner was out side near his crib. 

Jan 6 - Wednesday.  Robert Louis Mertin help and me finish the fince.  A nigro child was buried Tuesday it was 10 years old.  The nigros prayed, sing, shouted.  A light norther blew up clear and cool.  District Court commenced Monday 4th.

Jan 7 - Thursday.  Court still in session.  Tried to buy cotton seed.  The cattle are poor.  Feed scarce.   A big frost last night.

Jan 8, 1892 Friday. Very warm at night.  A fine moon light night.  The young people had a party at Miss Louie Adkinson to night.  Mr. Guss Fisher is going to git married and Miss Gertis and her mother are making Miss Anna Barty a white wedding dress, entended thay will marie soon

Jan 9 - Saturday.  An norther come last night a blue smokey one.  Cool and cloudy.

Jan 11, 1892 - Monday.  A sun day.  We heard Charley Haman had shot himself on Saturday night at home with a pistol.  He was a black smith and he drink too much logear beer and his wife left himself.  She had come back to git a divorce but she did not need any.  He was buried to day.   I received my enlarged pictures.  Three pictures from the International Portrait Company, Dallis.  Mrs Noman was in Indian inke.  I received the minutes of the Fifty-first union Association at Navsota, August 14th, 15 th and 16th 1892 with the Navsota Baptist Church and I visited Mr Elex Glenn and family, both were well.  Mr Glenn said, that if the people had been so close and particular that they, the early setters, could never have got along and made such a grate state.

Jan 12, 1892 - Sleet, rain with thunder set in last night.  This morning ever thing is covered with ice.

Jan 13, 1892 - Wednesday.  A cold rain, sleet commenced on the 12th  and the thermonter fell 10 degrees below freezing.   Bad on stock.  Went to town to day.  Ice very where.  District Court still in secession.  The robner case for pregurotory if he gits convicted, 5 years in the pen is the lowest.  Bell and Shelbern was for the defendent. The case was still on at sun down.  About 10 o’clock this morning at the station a brakeman (Santa Fe Railway) by the name off John Decomer fell and the locking train ran over him and his leg was cut off and his foot crushed.  A coupling failed to catch and he sliped and fell on the ice.  This evening Dr. Stone and Thompson cut off his leg.  He was sent to the hospital at Galveston at night on the 12.   The passenger and freight engine partly jumped the track near the south switch at town a broken rail.  Mr Cohan, Sterno Clerk left on the up passenger for Houston, his mind was afected, his girl went back on him.  I expect so, it is said the Lodyes had a aid scoite dinner at Wilsons and Tart old store a few people in town.

Jan 15 - Friday 1892.  A white frost, the bigest frost we have had.  Ice on the ground and havs tops yet.  Mr Cohn had some trouble with his sweetheart, J. A. and he was so broke up about it that he left.  A clear day, still cold.

Jan 16 -Saturday 1892.  A cold cloudy day with East wind.  District Court closed.   Five prisoners will go to the penn. And 3 left in jail.

Jan 17 - Sunday.  East wind, cold rainy, stayed at home.  Several sick with the grip in the county.  Winter wether now.  We are in the midst of winter.  

Jan 18 - Monday.  Rain and a norther, light rain giting colder.  Went to town, very few people from the county in.   Received the Cosmopolitan and Illustrated monthly magazine Dec 1891 and Christian Hearld, Houston Post, so after coming home it was so cold that it began to freeze and sleet and continued all night. 

Jan 19 - Tuesday 1892.  Every thing covered in hominy sleet a blizzard very cold, the clouds drifted south, clear.  A still clear cold night.  Mr Thomas Alexander lost one of his oxen, it died.  Mrs Mertin is sick.  This is the hardist cold spell for several years.  We have had mild winters till this.  I received catalog of publication by the American Baptist Publication Society, St Louis, Mo.

Jan 20 - Wednesday.  The heavy sleet is on thawing.   A buring this morning over at the graveyard.  A nigro.   I suppose a very few people stir out. Over among the neighbors found a family of Catholics, the woman is Irish decent and she think the church is broad and free enough.  Anton Fisher, a German, said a old Catholic preast had been around baptizing babies for his members.   They love liberty enough but it is so un-American to be a Catholic and to be bound to a preast and pope.  The rebellion on the border and in Mexico will be a Catholic Church war.

Jan 21, 1892 - Thursday.  Milder.  Stayed all night at Mr Ralph Spences, Miss Louie Adkinson is geting along in years.  She has the parized of one arm.  Mrs Lyons is sick.  The sleet nearly all melted off, rain, East wind.   The Singer Sewing Machine man, Mr Flish from New Orleans come out to see alon__.   The machine he had 50 cts pieces silver for vest buttons.  He is taking back 57 dollars sewing machine that Mr Davis sold and received $5, 10, 25 dollars on them and takes them back and sells new ones to keep up trade of high priced sewing machines.   What are the farmers to raise cotton is no good.

Jan 22, 1892 - Heavy clouds, drizzly rain.  The sewing Machine agent for the Singer sewing machine Co. come and Ma paid him $22.50 to and got all the notes.  A young man in Texas has no chance to do business at all if he is single.  The law civil docket is so if he sign his name to a note he can be closed out if he can’t pay cash.  All but a horse and saddle and a few books.  It is a mean law  single man ought to be on equal with a married man.  It gives mean Lawyers a chance to blackmale and felch money and property out of there hands for a small note and ruin them.  They come up to the Justice Office like slaves and pay up, if not there property is taken and they are left to pay a big bill.   And cause hard feeling and the Justice is heard to say that he needed money or a new pair of shoes or that he would have enough money to rattle.  Married at the residents of the Brides Mother.  Wednesday evening Mr. Guss Fisher and Miss Anna Bartsy were bound by the holy tie of matrimony.  Justice L. L. Prouty officiating, The relatives and a few near friends were in attendance.   The Times Jan 17, 1892.

Jan 23, 1892 - Saturday.  A nice day, clear, cool.  Guss Metye could not git up steam to grind corn as he had let out all his water out of the Boiler.   A good many in town.  Mr Heron Cohen the Jew is still in Houston at the infirmary.   His insanity is light and he is improving. His true love did not run smooth

Jan 25, 1892 - Monday.  A clear warm day.  Plowed some went to mill with corn and got my meal.  Mr G. Metye was grinding yellow corn for grits, a bushel.   Court to day.  Mr and Mrs Alexander come over to see there son Thomas Alexander, the old folks are giting old now.  Petter Hering and Louis Hering was out and Petter bored 6 mo of the People Library and Henty Georges book.  And we looked over my books to see what he could find that he liked and could read.

Jan 26 - Tuesday.  A clear day and a warm day.  The Trisman that died at the Station in the seed house Monday was buried to day at Bellville old grave yard.   Mr Hallhould has come back.  He is cripple with rheumatism and is stoping with Mr Horez Bracy.   Bro C. J. Sanders preach to night to a good crowd, gods word.  I got several Centuars and Harpers Library back, no. of Petter Hering to day.  When Bro Green Baptized our Pastor Bro. C. J. Sanders he said he felt like he had Baptized a minster.

Jan 27 - Wednesday.    A clear bright day.  Hauled manure and plowed the garden.

Jan 28 - Thursday.  Sister Ellen and I taken the train at Bellville for Sealy.  I soon Mr Fred Burrs he going to Edney Jackson Co., Texas to go in the drug business.   Then I met Bro Weaver from Independence and we soon got off at Sealy and met Bro Henry Menke and others.  We went over to the Baptist Church to prayer meeting.  Where had prayer and good singing led by Mr Henry Menke.  Who we were a signed homes with Bro R. T. Sanders.

Jan 29 - Friday.   A heavy cold fog lasted tell nearly 11 o’clock.  I met Charley Millard, he come up from Galveston. We were a signed a home with Bro C. F. Sanders and family.  Charley got work at night by A. Weaver.  Introductory sermon.

Jan 30, 1892 - Saturday.  How can our church best develop our young women.  A. Weaver and W. H. Kirkpatrick.  Why do Baptist restrict their communion to there own members.  W. E. Clarke, A.S. Pomdeater, Wm Chalhon, he was absent, had bought out the Sealy Advance.  The relation of the Sunday to the Church.  Wm. Thompson, absent J Sanders, J. V. Nyberg.  How are those who died in infancy saved?  A  Weaver, A. S. Poinderta.   The last were discusted Sunday.  A Friday night by Bro A. Weaver, 2 chapters in Acts.  Bro Alex Glenn.  Sister Leary and Mrs Stone come down from Bellville and S. S. Poindexter and family come up from Wallis and we had a refreshing meeting Sunday at 11 A Weaver preach at night.  A. S. Poindexter preach and we come home Monday morning Jan 7, 1892.   The Stockman meet at Austin.  Delegates were going up to attend.

Feb 2. 1892 - Tuesday.   Plowed and planted potatoes, Irish.  A hot day.  The jay birds and Red birds are singing arrival of spring.   Black birds have come back as thick as ever.  They changed there feeding ground up the Brazos River and more East.  The scissortail stayed here till near December before they left.  The Larks bunch during winter.

Feb 3 - Wednesday.  Plowed all day.  A warm day, cloudy some during the day.  Petter Hering brought most of my papers back.  Where he had been hunting up about the cotton picking.  Reckon he has invented one and other partes are trying to invent.

Feb 4, 1892 - Thursday.  A heavy fog during the fifth Sunday meeting at Sealy Bro A. Weaver preached Sunday at 11 and when he finish he layed before the people old Baylor University at Independence which is in the hands of the Catholic preast teaching nigro children orphans. 

Bro Weaver raised 40 dollars in money given by the Sealy people to git back Baylor University from the Catholics making infidle nigros 

Feb 5 - Saturday.  A strong wind from the South, cloudy, the wind blew strong all day.   At night lighting in the North.  I bought Vol 12, No. 5 January 1892 of the Forum and Harpers new monthly magazine Feb 1892, no. 507.  The Farmers are speaking of planting corn soon and are giting suplies,  credit again.  Raise more cotton.   Mr Light is going to plant a few acres in castor beans.  Mr C. F. Helm has bought out the Luhn goods.

Feb 7 - Sunday.  A light norther.  Miss Lou Adkinson and Willie Plumer and Miss Nora Morris stayed all night with us.  A good rain fell last night.  Sunday School and services at the Methodist Church to day by Rev J. R. More.  Some men win land when they own it Tom Hutchins has bought the Stabers track north of us.  He has split rails and post.  Stoped up rode, Mr Lish Adkison the male rider’s wife presented him with twins some time back.

Feb 8 - Monday.  A pleasant bright day, norther, partly cloudy.  I and Louie Mertin went to town and bought groceries, flour, oil, potatoes.  We met many people.   R. F. Helmuth was having his goods hauled out to Cat Springs.  I hauled manure and bed out sweet potatoes.

Feb 9 - Tuesday.  A cool day, east wind, plowed broke up ground.

Feb 10, 1892 - Wednesday.  Cool, cleared off, nice day.  Robert come back.  The rode has cut down hands so he had to go.  Mrs G. Kisser come and stayed all day.  I plowed.  Mrs Guss Fisher is puting up house, a new house for his wife.  Mr Williams are doing the carpenter work.  The Black birds are as plentiful as ever.  While over head during the evening, just before sun down.  They pass in large dove’s, an string out miles long and while one part is overhead a black cloud can be seen 6 or 8 miles East going to rest in the big lake.

I received the Texas Historical and Biographical Magazine vol 2 No. 7 , Jan 1892, Pal monthly by Rev G. B. Link, Austin, Texas.   A valuable Historical Magazine of the Early Baptist in Texas, and the Churches.   And associations and Early days of Young Texas History a valuable collection of facts that would have been lost.   I could hardly do with out it now.   Bro Link has his up on a good thing.

Feb 11, 1892 - Thursday.  Plowed at home in the morning and in the evening plowed Mr Mett Kenny garden.  He has a nice lot of grape arbors.   Mr Ed Holkamp is having the chimey choped down in front of his house and trees set out.   Louis Hering brough go the book a telegraph tale.

Feb 13 - Saturday.  Heavy clouds, a strong south wind.  Did not plow much.  Went to town and traded with Mr, Jenninys silver ware for 2 books, one set knives and forks and one set of forks for Heros of the Dark Continent and Jayes Illustrated Circle of Knowledge and got 2 no. of Harper weekly Feb 1892.   A box car truks jumped the track at the depot. 

A good many people and wagons in town.  The Methodist is holding quarterly conference at Bellville.   The President Elder Brooks is down, attending meeting.  The Boys were out and caught tow opossums each had young early for breeding.  The grass is green, trees buding and peach trees blooming, warm days, cold nights, winds.

The Colored Baptist Missionary and Educational paper for the Texas Baptist Rangers to be held in Houston June 8 to 15th, 1892  Historical and to raise $25,000 dollars for missions.   A nice little paper.  North wind, cloudy. Methodist Sunday School in town.  The Nigros are digin a grave over at the old grave yard.   The Tramps that camp in the pine grove last week left a board with the tribes traveling names on it and I got the board here is the cipher Com. Brock, Cincinnati, Mike Rapsy, Pa Slym and Lark kid, Chicago, Red bound for South Texas.  The tramps singn, Transient Man, All ways on the bum, Never Work and never will, American Man of Leisure.

Feb 22 - 1892.  Washington Birth Day and Texas Arbor day.  A Partrait day of our Hero.  President first of United States.   A pick nick at the Camp ground about 50 people and a nice dinner.  The citizens of Bellville, Buckhorn and Sympranous met and planted out 50 or 60 trees.    I Planted out Irish potatoes.  Mr Petter Hering and Rev J. R. Moar.  A good dinner as could be set anywhere.  They enjoyed themselves.   To night 22 in memory of our first president George Washington.  At town Public  house, Prof. Loggins and his ladies teachers had a school enheartment all about Washington.  A crowded house.  Music, speechs, dialogs, marching, doll drill and father time and his daughters.  A patriot day in a splendid entertainment.  Prof and his school has the praise of the nice a fares.  Washington Portrate hung back of the stage, honor was paid to the Father of his Country and Liberty Hero of America.

Feb 23 - Tuesday.  Cloudy and clear, East wind.  Plowed today.  A way warm traveler came by going south to Sealy with a pack and gun.  He was brown as parchment.  A tramp and hardly to say a regular one ploding on his way.  He may not pass this way but once.

Feb 24, 1892 - Wednesday.  A warm day, a norther blew up in the evening.  Corn and cotton planted.   I got some sugar cane from Harmon Wehsest.  He had planted some corn August, W. was planting corn.  I worked on a harrow and maled a letter to Sealy Advance.  Mr Ben Granvill and Eb Saft had a fight at town.  I stoped in at Mr Harris Brace all were well.   Mr Hall Gould is still thare, he is very parley (paralyzed) it looks like he will never git well.   He told of his and Kit Wilsons early travels in West Texas, when he first started out.  And of a long travel he had with a lot of wild cow boys from Wyoming to New Mexico with a lot of pack horses and the talk changed to ware (war).   Mr Bracy told some tales of Mr T. W. Mathews keeping a diary all through the ware and that Mrs Pilley had a book of Mexico Times.  When Mr Piley was captured and he drew a white bean and tow (two) brothers , one drew a white one the other a black one. And the sickly one wanted to put him self for his brother but they would not exchange, so his brother we shot and he died soon after.

Feb 25 - Thursday.  Cool, partly clear.  Plowed.   Rob made cross fence.   Yesterday tow men were in town selling Pan American coffee of tea pot made of copper galvanised in front of Lohn & Granville, free coffee.   Petter Hering come over for awhile this evening and had a chat.  Holkcamp and Barder has sold out to Hargle and Miller Judges.   A quit a change.  Holkamp sold his house and he will move to Houston.  A Ren has made her nest in a gourd and 2 eggs layed the first of the week.   I received the Fireside Visitor from I. M. Johnson, Smithfield, Va.  Feb 1892, 20cts a year Vol no. 2.  Cotton is low, dry goods and grasses are higher than when cotton is a good price.

Feb 27, 1892 - Saturday.  Cloudy, East wind.  Hauled manure .  Went to mill.  Some men had a self packing cotton press atachment.  At town Wm. Sanders, patentee, Paris, Tex., agent selling the attachment come along and said it would mat up the cotton so bad that spiners could not uset.    A Methodist deciple said, I would go to the maskrade ball if I was a Baptist, some of members of both churches will be thare.   I am sorry to say, a hard thrust to come where it did. 

Some one has been throwing shafts at the Methodist lady.   A mask ball last night at town.  A German traveler was washing his clothes at pine grove at the knight of the rodes camp.  I don’t know any more news.   Mr Bigs is shiping ash wagon timber sawed to Brenham, And Mr. P. Hering is puting in a Culvert by Judges.  The fall campaign will be a busy one in Texas and the United States as the Governed and President election comes off this year., And third party is in the field.

 Feb 28 - Sunday 1892.   Bright and clear, a norther, cool.  No service only the pisco polen goen preachers went a visiting to M. C. Spences.  Nancy and Me and had a pleasant time.  Found all well.  John Spence had arisen on his finger.

Feb 29, 1892 A cool & cloudy day, norther.  Planted cane seed at the house, planted corn down in black land.  To wet to plant much.  Robert choped wood and droped corn.  Then went down on the rail rode and got on hand car and went to town with section hands. Looks like it would freeze again.  Mr Motty left for Camron Sunday to work. 

March 1 - Tuesday. 1892.  Clear, cool like a spring morning.  Three Chicago tramps pas going south well built young men.  Feb 27 Austin county teacher meet at the school house March 7 th.  Pastor C. T. Sanders preach at the Methodist Church to a good crowed subject Moses Choice, Hebrew.   Mrs Lee is up from Sealy with Bro C. T. Sanders.  She is stoping with Mrs F. L. Leary.    A good congregation out to hear a good sermon.  Uncle Tomes Log Cabin dramatic company played to night at the Opera House to night.  As we come from Church some of the Episcopalian said it couldn’t be said that they were not out to here preaching if thare was a play in town.  Planted corn.  Cool to night.  Mr Petter Hering left for Houston Sunday on business.

March 2 - Wednesday. 1892.  Pastor C. T. Sanders and Mr Lee left on the down train for Sealy.  And I got him to take the Sealy Advance a letter.  Uncle Tomes Log cabin company was not allowed to play at Hempstead the boys shot out the lights and they were run off from Brenham and Bryant would not let them play.  The people was afraid that they would steer up the nigos with the war time problem.  Mr Lum Spence says he worked on the Brazos River 3 years.   TH is place cleared 20 acres of land and let them have 7 bales of cotton all of his work 700 dollars and now Lawyers charge and Hy has 500 hundred dollars against him for neceris (necessaries) that he got while down there and he lived poor.  He will tell them to get if they ask him for it, he can’t hardly make a living.  And have charges aganist Raph 400 dollars on book for suplies got during bad years.  A perfect steal that is what credit is and swindle the poor farmers out of what they make.  A flat car loaded with rock broke down in the middle and was switched off at town.  The Farmers Aliance Store will change so Mr Takla can pay in April and outsiders of the Aliance can take stock.  Nigro, Garge Massingill tore down his house all but side room and is building to new part, it was old house.   Mr John Betheny and John Foster arested a Nigro boy at the old Nigros on the Bifer place, today.  I rocked off my corn.

March 4, 1892 - Friday.  Not well. East wind, cool cloudy.  Rob plowed and quit and left for Sealy to see if he could git work.  Little Mame Alexander birthday today and Ma and Nancy will go over when Nancy comes from school.  Mamie is 6 years old a nigro.  Bering at grave yard this evening.

March 6, 1892 - Sunday.  I sadled up the filey and rode through Bellville.  A light norther.  The farmers has most of there land broke up now.   And corn planted.  I pass the Nigro school house and church near Brandses.  And come to see Mr Wm Greens place, a large store house, Mr Green was at home.  He is a republican and says that if Hogg is elected or nominated the republicans will elect a governor.  On the end of the store was carved C.W.G. Hoetell go to Bellville.  Mr Green was not right well.  The Nigros were going to church so I left on the lane to Piney bridge.  I pass a lot of cordwood and a lake full of tile eye and come to Piney Bridge.  Piney is deep and low.  Cross over and went to the river up to Tom Pope old place and the old Pope house has fell down and the gin house is standing good, Yet pass on to Mr. Wm. Reeds house a high house off the ground.   John Jr Bell a malate nigro lives thare.  He has some bees and nice hogs.  Then after stoping thare a while I come up to the Back Field, where Exhran Allen use to run the farm his son runs it now, Pays $600 dollars a year & since Allen death two men were in a boat in the river a gravel shole where the river makes a bend, water worn rocks the Indians use to live up on the bank.  I found a arrow head and got some nice rocks to bring home.  Nearly all the land is broke up in the black field out on Flag Lake.  Mr Jackson lives.   John Abbnery two brothers both have corn up looking well.  Saturday a Primary Republican Nomination was left in town.  Cloudy to night, North wind.   Barbed wire every where with a plank new fence all over the state.  Mr Alex Myer showed me a green goods man confederate letter from a rage in New York.  A swindle and a thief to send out such letters for people to bit at and he sends them all over the Country.   Many different kind of early flowers in bloom on the river and low lands.

March 5 - Saturday 1892.  Henry Millard come home from Farmersville on the top last night.  Left for Brenham today.   Rain last night.  This morning two fisherman was in town selling fish, perch and Buffalo.  Had 2 or 3 hundred pound selling 8 or 10 cts pound.  Hewett Musettes were being advertized today.  Good many farmers in town, not buying much.  The roses comence blooming the last of February and March 1st .  A large Tuesday 7, Wednesday 2.  Man saw crains flying high.  One hawk, black tip wings going north.

March 7, 1892 - Cold, Cloudy, rain.  No work. and Robert covered up the Irish potatoes as it is gitting cold enough to freeze.  Samson covered up the plants in the garden, now.   I aranged my house and papers.  Henry laugh some prevision and worked on some poems.   The rain Saturday but a light shower fell east of Piney Creek.   A good rain west of Piney.

March 8 - Tuesday 1892.   Cool, clear day.  Have the head ache and did not do much, racked of cane, plowed some.  Petter Hering come and brought some books and papers, Sintifest American 1877 Polikouchka by Lyof Jolstor. Marcus Cheretius by Matthew Amath, Education J. A. Frand, American Jew.  Petter will leave for Houston tomorrow to take a position as a drug clerk.   I have written a letter to the Sealy Advance.  Will not git to send it to night, Cool north wind. Likely to frost to night

March 9 - Wednesday.  Clear a south wind, pleasant.  A long walk across from Bellville to Millkime.  Stop at Prof. C. J. Rinoke and had dinner.  Had a pleasant talk on law and politics.  The Hamstead and Mr Rinoke is teaching school at old Milheim where Mayor Metzes old school house in early days.  Where many of the boys received a education in Austin Co. then I come on to Sealy a 8 mile piece.   Met, Mr. Somerpein and found Mr J. W. Walker lawyer and went up town by Mr Larnes, drug store where I found Mr Calhon, Editor of Sealy Advance, he was busy giting out his paper and went home and was entertained by his nice wife.    He has the International Encylopida cost 60 dollars.

March 10 - Thursday. 1892.  A dry norther blew up last night.   The Post say in the North a raging blizzard and snow storm.  Mrs Calhon had a nice breakfast and we were off to business and no day for it at Sealy.  The men that has been cleaning fethers is leaving.  Thay cared away with them a 100 pounds of fethers, wether they bough them of got them by fraud, I don’t know.  Mr Garve Silliman hauled there plunder over to Hempstead.  The up passenger is late.  Sealy Advance comence out on Saturday, correspondence  must reach thare on Friday evening or Thursday from Bellville.  George W. Curtist director College Station Brazos Co. Tex.,

Mr Calhan give them to me No 19 and 18 bulletin from Texas Agriculture Experiment Station.   After visiting the Section house below Sealy.  Ellen and Charley were well and well pleased with the Mrs and Mr of the Section.  I come back to Sealy.  Bro C. T. Sanders would have me to go home and attend prayer meeting with him.   After supper we went out, the air was cool.  The meeting was led by C. T. Sanders and he made a nice talk.   Dr. Ed Magrader and Mr Runner made a talk and we had a prayerful meeting, a blessing.  Mr Runner is working for S.C. Taleman Co., Esier, N.Y. 

          I got one subscriber, Mr John Hill, San Felipe, Austin Co. Texas (20 cts). for one year, the National Reformer.  In 1838 Mrs Vergand Kembal and D____ Leporta Kemball com to Texas.  Mrs Kembal is living yet at Mr. John Hill’s

March 11, 1892 - Friday.  Old some frost in the northern part of the County, Also Ice.  After Staying with Bro C. T. Sanders all night I left for San Felipe pass through the old historical town, Meeting a gentleman, Mr Charley L. Williams and had a chat about the old town of San Felipe.   I learnt a good deal of interest and the mouth of the Brazos, that Galveston was giting beat for deep water.  Com on up to Mr. Hills and after talking on Texas History he give me a old Texas Almanac for the year 1859.  Most of it tore off but quit some history is left yet of interest.  The Mexican War was in ‘46 and in 1842  Mr. Cumings was not runing the water mill on Mill Creek when Mr. Hill John com to Texas and Cumings did not full fill his contract to clean out Mill Creek so boats could run from the Brazos River to the mill, But he kept his land maby war coming one changed the affares.  Stayed all night with Mr. John Bozman at Milheim.

March 12, 1892 - Saturday.  Cross Mill Creek on the lower bridge and come up to Bellville.  The Irish Potatoes and corn gardens was nip by the frost.  I stayed at Mr. Frety Veck and come to Bellville.  Nearly all the farmers have all there land broke for planting.  Bro. Napoleon named his boy Robert Napoleon , so he writes on the 10th  of Feb 1892.

March 13 - Sunday.  A nice warm day.  Mother, Nancy and I. went out to here Moar preach.  A good congregation out.  He preach a good sermon.  We went home with Mr. Jack Meyers and taken dinner and in the evening 2 or 3 o’clock.  We all went out on Buggy to here and see the Methodist Nigro preacher baptize 9 or 12 candidates.  Pastor D. E. Norwood, Methodist Church had a long black gown on and the water was damed to make it deep enough.  A large crowed both white and black had gathered to see the baptizing.  After a hymn was sung Rev Norwood ask good order of the crowd.   Hillard Meree waded in and sounded the depth.  Then the pastor walked in after performing part of the ordnance before he went in the water.  Then 6 men with white head dresses one at a time was led in and Baptized, put under.  All were called by name when dip under.  The women were dressing out under a tent and 6 dress in white come out and were led in and Baptized.  Lucy Standard, Anne Green, Hattie Dudly, Harrett Green, Emma Johnson, Anna Johnson, & very good order.  A few laugh as the women were Baptized and went out shouting.  Elder D. E. Norwood dismissed the crowd and we came home and Henry left for Galveston.

March 14, 1892 - Monday.  Planted corn.  Sent 3 letters off one to Napoleon, one National Reformer, one to Current Literature, Pul Co., New York.  A warm day.  Many geese going North and some brent, the mocking birds singing at night.  Late house martins flying about.

The End of 1891 and 1892   March 18, 1892   Friday

                             L. S. Millard    

 Bellville, Austin Co., Texas.     

August 9, 1898 - I atended the Methodist camp meeting.  Rain in the morning on the 8th.  The meeting closed on Home Creek in Mr Newman’s pasture.  Rev. McCorkel commenced a Baptist meeting at Copville on Saturday.

August 8, 1898 - Rain this morning.  The Methodist Camp Meeting closed this week on Home Creek in Mr. Newman’s pasture.  Bro. Mc Corkel comeced a protracted meeting at Copeville or Cleveland school house on Saturday. 

Dec 19, 1898 - Snow on the ground to day.  From the 9 of Dec. A good rain Saturday..

Dec 20 - I bored  J. W. Bouchnan’s surveying chain and went out 3 or 4 miles near Hearndon’s to measure off some land 100 acres of land with Mr J. D. Smith in the North part of his 6 acre pasture.  I will pay 100 dollars down and have the deed drawn so I git 50 acres if I don’t the other one hundred 4 years to pay it in, in all $200 dollars, varies wide and 19.00 long less.

January 2, 1899 - A cold day payed Mr J. D. Smith $100 dollars down for 50 acres of land and gave 2 notes 50 dollars each for the other 50 acres of land $200 for the one hundred acres of land Mr and Mrs J. D. Smith signed the deed and we went to Coleman.  The banks were all closed and as couldn’t git (stamp) check did not close the trade or finish the deed.  Bank and Post Office were closed.  Court was going on, on Sunday 1 was New Years day as our notes and deeds need Rev Stamps on them to make them legal.  I couldn’t leave my deed with the County Clk.

January 2, 1899 - A cold day payed Mr. J. D. Smith $100 dollars down for 5 acres of land, the north part of the Holden Rhodes track 640 acres. I git 100 leaves 540 acres.   And give 2  notes of $50 dollars each of the other 50 acres of land $100 dollars which makes $200 in all for 100 acres of land.  Went to Coleman with Mr. T. D. Smith Monday was a holley day with banks and Post Office.   Court House was going on.  On Sunday Jan 1 was a New Years was Holley day as our notes and deeds needed revenue stamps on them to make them legel.  So I could leave it in the County Clerks office.  Could not git them. *Back Note.

January 2, 1899 - In the Coleman Democrat office at Coleman, Mr. Warsaw Hunter let me look at som Menales papers from the Philipine Islands, 3 of them, The American Soldier, Isacc Russels Editor, The American Manila 1898, Fredom 1899. * Back Note.

 Jan 3, 1899 - At the Democrat office Coleman Mr Warson Hunter and Harry Hulort let me look over some Manila papers.  Philopon clords from young Woodard, the Coleman boy.  3 papers The American Soldier editor Issick Russels, The American D. J. Freeman.

January 7 - Moved down on Mr. J. D. Smith new pasture 4 miles east of Santa Anna, near Mr Herndons.  To comence braking land , puting in a field.

January 24, 1899 - Have been here 2 weeks braking land.

January 27 - Friday.  A cold norther East wind.  This morning North to a snow storm in the evening stop plowing and made a fire and looked over some Stamps from Mr A. R. Mercer of East Liverpool, Ohio 237 5th St.  5 aprove sheets of stamps Numbers # 2, 3, 5,4, 1, 6.  Value $1.05, .86, .86, .64, . 1.30.   I did not buy any of Mr Mercers stamps and sent them to Mr Weber Chicago, Ill Jan 28, 1899 Saturday.

February 27, 1899 - Monday. Went to Santa Anna as Nancy is going too return to Temple Feb 28.  I wanted to see her before she left as a Sand storm raged all day Saturday 25.  Went up to Santa Anna, Nancy was going back to Temple.

Feb. 28, 1899 - I wanted to see her before she left.  A sand storm was ragin on Saturday.  Stayed late at night and com hom a foot.

March 1, 1899 - Wednesday Clear day have been braking land all during Jan - Feb when not too cold.  Nearly all broke

March 1, 1899 - Wednesday.  Clear day have been braking land.  January and February when not too cold have nearly all land broke now very dry.

.March 19, 1899 - Sunday.  Went up to the Mountain city.  A letter and lots of paper.  I will have to move my book out of  Mr Waffords house will owe him rent $1.50.  Henry received a Picture from Napoleon as a Arkansas hunter a good subject.

March 20, 1899 - Henry and Samson come down with some lumber, enough to build a small house 8 by 10 which I need bad as I have to move my books.  I put it on my new place and will move as soon as I can out of my tent.  We nearly finished to day.  High wind, very dry.  We need rain.  The lumber cost 8 dollars and a few cents, paid $7.25.

March 24, 1899 - Friday.  Finish braking my 5 acres of land on my hundred acres

March 27, 1899 - Monday.  The high norther that come up, cool Sunday 26. Clouded up last night . Cold some fine mist, cold all day to day.  No work done...

March 28 - Monday.  A cold norther blew up Sunday with clouds.  Come over last night .  Cold to day.  Did not work.

March 30, 1899 - Commenced to plant corn.  Very dry and bad planting. , Henry hauled wood.

March 31 - Friday.  A cold norther, cloudy and disagreeable day, thunder with sleet, snow and rain.  Cleared off in the evening.  Did not do much of anything today.  Mr J. D. Smith come down.  A very good season in the ground.   I received 2 circulars No’s 17 and 27.   United States Department of Agriculture office of Rode Inquiry.  It is dificult to git anything of book from Washington now with out paying for it.  Here is a best of my Stamp papers and others that I take. 

 Papers:

    Baptist Standard                                  Houston Post Weekly                           Santa Anna News

    Coleman Democrat                        Magazine Texas Farm & Ranch                 McClares Magazine

Stamp Papers:

Mekeely Weekly Stamp News           The Lone Star Philatelist

The Texas Philatelist                            The Virginia Philatelist

The Evergreen State Philatelist             The Montropoletan Philatelist

The Lens                                             The Tri-Monthly Philatelist

The International Philatelist                   The Herald Exchange

Canada Stamp Papers                         The Stamp Reporter

The Montreal Philatelist                        The Philatelist Advocate

April 1 - Saturday. Dry and windy.

April 4 - Tuesday.  Finish planting corn and come cold and ??

April 5 - Wednesday. Cool, Cloudy, East Wind, some rain.

April 6 - Thursday. A north wind with cold rain come in the night and continued up in the day..

April 7 - Friday.  Wet, dug post holes after the rain.

April 8 - Saturday.  Draged off land.

April 9, 1899 - Sunday.  Went up to the Mountain City.  Bro Lee preach the dedicating Sermon.  A crowed house at the Baptist Church.  The Baptist Church is out of debt.

April 10 - Monday.  The 14 Friday fix fince , built string clear around new land.  Corn coming up.

April 14, 1899 - Friday.  Warm Cloudy some rain around

April 15, 1899 - Saturday.  Rain, wind from the East.

April 16 - Sunday.  A good rain this morning stoped at 10 or 11 in the morning.  Went to town and had lot of male.   Some small pox scare, Mr Ben Rothemel had been exposed while at Brownwood, but hope him and Family will escape.

April 17 - Monday.  Changeable all the week.  Harrowed off my land and Planted some corn, beans, melons, and Kaffer corn.

April 18 to 21st - Friday.  Rain, changeable, cold.  Mr J.D. Smith planted cotton Thursday.

April 22 - Saturday.  Very wet after the rain.  Have the fence up around our new land farm but not much planted owing to the new plowed land, being cloudy and dry and rough.

April 23 - Sunday.  A nice day did not git up in time to go to preaching.   We planted cotton from the 24th Monday to the 26th Wednesday.   We need more rain.  The trees and grass are giting and flowers are begaining to bloom, the woods are full of birds a signing and build nest.  The clouds cleared off to day with a north west wind.

April 27, 1899 to 30th - Sunday.  Cloudy wether no rain.

May 7 to 6, 1899 - Changeable winds, cloudy nearly all the week.  Nearly finish planting cotton during the last two weeks in April and May plowed out my corn.  We need rain on our new land to bring up our cotton.   To Day 7, 1899 early morning the best rain fell that has fell here this year com from South west, the creeks run a good rain the creek had fell one foot when I reach it and it was runing half banks.  The sun com out and every thing seems to be rejoicing now, the birds ia a singan and distant thunder brakes in from the departing rain.  I have more papers than I can read and work tow gethering stamps and litrature, relicks.  Mr W.P. Mitchell has a fine collection of relicks put up in nice stile in the depot of Santa Anna.   I wish I could sell the old place and I could remove my things from Austin County to here.  Hoping that I can make something this year so I can move them here and take care of them.

May 9, 1899 - Planted cotton, som cane.  The ground is good fix, A good season.   10th Wednesday a good rain fell 11th Thursday.  A good rain fell in the evening.  Mr J. D. Smith and Stablefield strengthen the tank dam in the pasture to keep it from braking over.  A season in the ground that will last and bring up every thing planted.

May 12 - Clear and warm but every thing is wet from the rain.

May 13 to 19 - Friday.  After the rain finish planting my cotton and corn, also Kaffer corn, also plowed out corn and som cotton and hoed the corn.   Moved on Friday to my new house and was sick.

May 20 and 21st - Sunday.  A good rain past west of Santa Anna down the Colorado, on Monday night.

I received the Percorator for May, Canadian Philatelic Review April 25., Mekeel Weekly stamp new April 25.   All good stamp papers with lots of good news and notes of men and stamps ads where one can buy all kinds of stamps, of new isses from all Countries and about our own stamps, and stamp papers.  How I would like to git money enough to buy som good stamps and subscribe for 25 or 30 good stamp papers and other magazines and papers, but the whites mans Bardent has cut all off tell we can’t hardly live.

May 25, 1899 - Thursday to May 27 - Saturday. Cloudy nearly all the week.   Tow good rains this week.  Plowed over all the my corn and choped som cotton.  Went to town and as I received som papers and plows sharpened at Mr Dunwoly shop. 

 Mr Henry Holensworth and Curtis are giting there telephone, up in worken order, poles and wires all over town.   My male, The Baptist Standard May 25, Vol XI, No 21, Houston Dem-Weekly Post May 25 Vol 10 no 16.  The Metropolitan Philatelist Vol XI No 8, The Montreal Philatelist, The Montreal Philatelist Vol 1 May 1899 No 12., Pleasure and Profit for every body Vol 1 No 24.., The Coleman Democrat Vol 11, No 32., The Santa Anna News 13 year No 21., and 16,  Stamped envelopes canceled.  Crops are growen fine som grass. 

A very few people in town.  Nearly every body worken ther crops.

May 27. 1899 Saturday.  Cloudy, no rain.  A black mesurings worm infest the Musquet trees in grate numbers but do no damage.  And a small Louces has com by the thousands all among the trees.  I haven’t saw any damage as I think thay are harmless.   I have a old church history by Goodrich of how the Christians was perscuted over one hundred years ago in England.  How cruel people were and the money powers have comenced slavery, robery and wars.  And Percution again by oppressing the people, THE POOR.

May 28 - Sunday.  A nice day.  No preaching in Santa Anna.  Sunday school and prayer meetings.

May 29 - Monday.  Cloudy, rain at night with som hale and wind, Broke land, crops are growen fine now plenty of rain.

May 30  - Tuesday.  Cloudy and wet, cool.

May 31 - Wednesday.  Broke land and went up too Santa Anna with the horse and received my male.  Cotton choppin the order of the day only a few in town.

June 1, 1899 - Thursday.  Heavy clouds rain around last night.  Pleasant growen wether for crops.  Can not work fast enough, haven’t much time to read and do anything but chop cotton.

June 2 - Friday.  A high blustring south wind has cleared of clouds, warm day.

June 3 - Saturday.  Choped cotton went to town, very dull a few people in town not much trading.  Very quit most of farms a working in there crops.  Crops very good, but late.  Every thing at a low eb and people don’t greet you like they used to.

June 4 - Sunday.  Not feeling well stayed at home and read my papers and books and worked with my stamps.  A dull hard task if I could go like I once did but things is not like they once were.  Rode down to the Cedar Broke and found a few arrow points and som crinods grass, fine plenty of  timber.  The Cedar broke is very rough and the Chesley pasture is rough and rocky croping out with limestone all over.  Heavy cloud in north and west like we would have more rain to night.

June 5, 1899 - Monday.  Rain from the north, north west.  It must to have rain all night as this morning at day brake we has a good rain.  And has set in with heavy clouds and coming from the east.  No work in the field today.  Rain nearly all day, some showers poured down, the creeks are up. Found som pamphlets and read on different subjects,  the Mound Builder in 1874 report of Smith Senior Instule report and Studied and work with my stamps.

June 7, 1899 - Wednesday.  Field to wet to work went up to town.  Received my male and “g”.  Went out to Mrs Thornton’s and got a bushel of June corn.  Tryed to pay the Taxes on the old place.   Som were choping and plowing cotton.  The Telephone system from Brown, Coleman to Brownwood has reached Santa Anna and pass on.  Crops looks well but corn is Tasling low.  The worms have damaged cotton agradle (great deal) here.

June 8, 1899 - Thursday.  A cloudy morning, a little cool.  Choped cotton.  Mr Smith com down with his boys George and Searcy, he plowed up som grass land and the boys choped cotton.  The ground is wet in the field crop growen fine.  Set up the tent again.

June 9, 1899 - Friday.   Choped cotton.  Searcy and George Smith helped chop and Mr Smith choped around.  Cotton is a doing well now.  If I can git it choped and plowed out.  It is growing fast.  Som showers around, to day warm.

June 10 - Saturday 1899   A nice warm day .  Choped cotton.  Sercy Smith com down and I went a fishing.  He brough my male, the folowing Stamp papers.  The Virginia Philatelist June 3 numbers.  Stamp Talk for May No 1., Lone Star Philatelist Apr.   We went a fishing on the creek and caught a mess of fish.

June 11, 1899 - Sunday.   Stayed at home and read my papers.   As I went up to the Mountain City before night, saw and found Samson sick and , Henry crowed with work on the farm,   And couldn’t rose the money to pay the Taxes on the old place.  Oh. I don’t know what to do of what too become of us.  The State furnish no way to make money but Taxes are high and laws more direct and convescate all land that the taxes are not payed up.  It is enough to make one sick and tired.

June 12 - A fine warm day, choped cotton.  Searcy and George help , all day.

June 13 - Tuesday 1899.  Cloudy and looks like rain.  Choped cotton all day, no help nearly through choping now.   The black worms, I believe have all gone but the loucas are here yet, plenty of them.  The birds are nesting and smoks wolves and other varments rob them and catch the old birds.  Crops are growen nice, now.  And need plowing, if we don’t have rain to hender us.

June 14 - Wednesday 1899 - A rainey day.  Too much rain to work in the field.  Mr Smith and the boys com down and we read papers and history.  Still cloudy to night and looks like more rain, a sprinkle all day.

June 15 - Thursday.  Planted sorgum in the morning and choped cotton in the evening.  Heavy clouds, a good shower of rain fell in the evening.

June 16 - Friday.  Clouds hung over all night and showers have continued all day, set in to raining good at 12.  Heavy clouds tell night.

June 17, 1899 - Saturday.  The clouds cleared off and ground very wet.  Went up to Santa Anna and a few were in town from the Country, the farmers were glad to see the rain and we were having thare sweeps sharpened, so they could kill grass & weeds.  The Santa Anna News had been sold to Ab McElath of Coleman and he had moved down and brought out

Friday June 16.  now with a new head.   Crops are doing well and it hoped we will make a nice crop this year.

June 18, 1899 - Sunday.  Not well stayed at home.  A bright June day. Heavy dew, this morning.

June 20 - Tuesday.  Clear days and bright moon.  Not well.  Mr J. D. Smith help plant som Junen corn.  Our crop is looking fine, corn tasling and silking, a good season in the ground.  We will be bless with a good crop this year.

June 21, 1899 - Wednesday.  Plowed corn and cotton went to Santa Anna got my male.  Ray Bouchman paid me 81.50.  All plowed for me.  And sent through 4.80 cts to Guss Rofish, Bellville to pay Taxes on our old place.  Such times, so trying on us.  I also got a lot of cancel stamps and envelopes at Mr Tyson’s as he let me have the waste paper.  I git some good stamps.

June 22 - Thursday.  Plowed cotton all day.  Warm clear pleasant day, the corless worm is still eating. The cotton crops are doing well now.

June 23, 1899 - Friday.  The hotest day this year.  Plowed cotton.  Mr Smith com down and planted cane and choped cane and cotton.

June 24, 1899 - Saturday.  Planted som June corn and plowed cotton.  A warm day, not much indication of rain.   Som clouds and cloudy a while during the day.

June 25 - Sunday.  A clear hot June day visited the Mountain City, no preaching.  Sunday School and Legue and Endevor.  A good many people stering around and crops are more forward than last year.  Roasten ears and vegetables.   Mr W. B. Mitchell had received a fine lot of sea schells from new state and was mounting them.  Mr Mitchell has a fine collection o relicks of all kinds as well as stamps.

June 26 - Monday.  Cloudy very broken.  Plowen cotton and at dinner looked over my collection of rock, Indian relicks.

June 27 - Tuesday.  Warm day. Plowed cotton.  Broken clouds, no rain.  Every thing a growing fine.  Crops looks promising.  Saw the first cotton bloom today.   The change in the wind to the East we may have rain.

June 28, 1899 - Wednesday.  A brisk east wind freighted with heavy clouds, som rain.  Went to the Mountain City got my male.  Born to Henry and Lilly Millard a girl.  A grate stir about as usual to wait on mother and babe.   Arler, the first girl did not know what to do about it. 

June 29 - Thursday.  As I com home in a sprinkle of rain last night.  I think it keep up all night, the wind shifted from North East to North, heavy clouds drifting, fine rain all day, today.   Plowed cotton.  Dr Mathews said word were set upon the wire that Temple and Lampassas had rain Tuesday. To day very cool.  This rain is good on corn.

June 30th Friday 1899 - Heavy clouds a fine rain all night last night and continues to day, North East wind.  My Library of Universal Historys in 8 volumes.  I have reach the 3 volume in reading.  Thay are fine history.  I have market them with 1,2,3 cent stamps acording to no. volume.

The rain stoped at 2 or 3 o’clock and the clouds broke and I went a relick hunting found several arrow points, crude hatchet and a round bolder that had been used in making weapons flints, arrow points.

July 1, 1899 Saturday.  Cloudy, Distant thunder.  The rain is not over yet.   A good shower fell at qq this morning.  Put a end to chopin cotton for a while.  A shower of rain from the South drove me in from the field, and it seems as if the rain is not over yet.  The corn or carless worm a black and brown worm is eating the cotton and I also saw potato bugs in the cotton on the leaves.   It looks like that I wouldent git don plowing and hoeing soon.  The showers com up so suddenly with som hale.  I have been writing letters and fixing up a package of arrow points to send to Mr J. C. Sawin Worcester Mass, May Street and a box of Fresh water shells to Canoday, and three good showers fell to day and I did not do much.

July 3, 1899 - As I had to go up to the Mountain City to git potato vines to set out sweet potatoes and as I com back at 12 a heavy down pour of rain drifted North and after geting drenni, set out my potato vines and then it was night, the field was mudy.

July 4th, 1899 - Tuesday.  A nice day, no rain and as Coleman was going to have a Barbicue I went up and thare was as large a crowd as I ever saw.  Som estimated them at 3 or 4 thousand people, at the lot of young people that were thare and a good dinner of 12 or 14 beves and sheep and loaf bread, coffe and pickles.  The Gun Club had a shoot I never heard the speaking or saw any thing only the people and dinner and the fine grove and heards creek, as it did not rain the people enjoyed themselves the best thay could.  Som had money and som didn’t.   Mr Alison of Cups neighborhood had the only lode of melons on the ground and they sold well.

July 5, 1899 - Wednesday.   Cloudy, some during the day, no rain.  Hoed cotton.  Crop growen nice and looks like corn will make a good crop.

July 6 - Thursday.  Choped cotton all day, Mr J. D. Smith com down and plowed som.

July 7 - Friday.  A nice day plowed cotton.  Crop is growing nice.  Corn will soon be in rosin year and if the season continues will have rosin years tell late fall.

July 8 - Saturday.  Planted cam seed and plowed cotton all day. No rain since Monday.  Corn and cotton growin fine.  The worms are disapearing, the Brazos river down at culvert and run down over plowed fields, from heavy rains last week or before the 4, June 30 and overflowed and ruined the crops and drowned many people nearly high as in 1885.

July 9, 1899 Sunday.  Clear fine morning a fine dew on grass, the birds are singing and nesting.  Crops a growing.  We will not raise 15 cents corn, it will be 40 or 50 cts a bushel.  I had no idea thare was such a flood south of here and so many death.  Crops ruined every thing sweep away by the high waters.  Town was dull the Baptist had meeting to cinti... all the week.  Lilly Brother had com to see here, from Sermsvill, he says the flood was awful.

July 10, 1899 - Monday.  The over flow in Southern Texas was on all the streams, Colorado and Brazos.  Crops, houses and stock went, people were drowned and bridges, rail rode tracks, swept away and 4 or 5 million dollars worth of damage.  and I can’t go down to see about any thing.  Plowed cotton to day.   The old wolves comenced to eat my first melon before thay git ripe.  Thay went in to one last night and bit another one and I poisoned one and streded it out so I would poison som of them.  Mr. J. D. Smith com down and plowed.  Showers around this evening.  Corn coming in rosin year now, if the wolves don’t take to it.   The White mans Burdent has begain to be felt by the Democrat Party over the United States and other mens sins has caused the Tax Law to be pass in Texas Land hunting and confiscate all lands that Taxes is not payed as the rich has been escaping from paying Taxes for 30 years, as the masses git poorer, the rich classes will have to pay more Taxes and bear the burdent of the government in reveneres

July 11, 1899 - Tuesday.  Finish plowing over my corn and cotton for the first time.  My melons vines and cotton spreading over the ground.  As it was hot and no rain the horse flys were bad and I did not plow much.  Mr. J. D. Smith com down and plowed.

July 12 - Wednesday.  A hot day.  Finish plowing over my crop today.  Mr J. D. Smith com down and plowed.  Read July 8 of Farm and Ranch.   It has lots of good reading and sound advice in it.

July 13th, 1899 - Thursday.  Chopped cotton all day.  A warm day.   Corn, cotton, cane and melons are growing fine, do is the grass.

July 16 - Sunday, 1899.   Of the World since Christ Birth, Bro. Boten Baptist preach Sunday at Santa Anna and a good audience greeted him to here., and several young people joined at the morning service.   Boten has had a good meeting.    A lode of melons in town.  Casper Landolf, Lillys brother leave Monday for home and we did not git rain but it looks like rain wood come.

July 17 - Monday.   Som showers of rain very light and hot days.

July 18 - Tuesday.  Choped cotton.  Hot wether, indiction of rain.  Clouds in the North and lightning.

July 19, 1899 - Wednesday.  Not well so did not work.  Mr Ray Bouchman told me that Brownwood had sent tow (two) car lodes of groceries and means to Bellville to help the flood sufers.

July 20, 1899 - Thursday.  A hot day, no rain.  Not being well went up to the Mountain City.  Bro Boten had closed his meeting som 40 joined and he Baptized 38 Tuesday over on Home Creek.I received my and as thare were som sickness in town. After staying a while at Henry’s and Mr Smith, I com home.  Corn is burning or drying out fast and cotton needs rain.

July 21st  - Friday.  Choped cotton and my melons are giting ripe the musk melons.   The Mislto was nearly all killed by the cold winter and the shoprell bushes, thay leave a black berry.

July 22, 1899 - Saturday.  Hot som clouds, thunder heads have hand north and west all the week out on the panhandle and Abilene County thay look like showers.  Very hot, choped cotton.

July 23, 1899 - Sunday.  A hot clear day. Registered 101 in shade.  At the close of the evening a shower of rain north east.  The Methodist are holding meetings at Cleveland and Salam.  Hot days.

July 23, 24 - Monday.  Rain from the north this morning tow showers did not do much.

July 25 - Tuesday.  Choped cotton, very hot.

July 26, 1899 - Wednesday.  Went to town and to the Post Office for my male.  A hot day.  Realy had been sick and Henry was up to Chins at work on Mr Chins new place.

July 27 - Thursday.  A hot day Samson and Bob and Will Mitchel com down a fishing.  Mr J. D. Smith com down and hauled post and braces.  Corn drying out fast.  Cotton suffering from hot dry wether., And the wolves have comenced to destroy all the melons. 

July 27, 1899 Thursday.  Hot scorcher, north east wind.  Mr J. D. Smith com down and we dug post holes.  Mr Crosly were down and was digin Mr Herndon’s cistern.  Mr Smith, Stublefield were down a looking after his cattle.

July 28, 1899 - Friday.  Not so hot as the wind com from the South and brought clouds.  We dug post holes and put up post.  Mr J. D. Smith and his tow boys.  The corn is giting dry fast and every thing needs rain.

July 29, 1899 - Saturday. 1899.  Helped Mr J. D. Smith move gate and fix fince on new lane.  The farmers are complaining of the dry wether.  Cotton is needing rain and cane are burning up and falling down.  Prospectors and movers every day passing.  Corn crop is good.

July 30, 1899 - Sunday.  A clear nice morning.  Visited the Mountain City went to the Baptist Church.  A good Sunday School.   After School was over Church Conference was called and after long talk of giting a pastor and having him live here, voting was taken and carried.  Then voting for Pastor the following names were voted on: Rev West 11, Rev Lee 11, Rev Barckly 24, Careoll 2, Burket 1, and  Rev Barckly carried and names was put down for Salary $2.27.50 cts. And the minster was to be notedfied of his call.

August 1st, 1899 - Tuesday.  Help J. D. Smith dig post holes and we have the post nearly all up.

August 2 - Wednesday.  A hot day.  Finish the post and let off 4 spools of barbed wire.  Mr. Smith brough my male here.  It is the first of August 1899 and nothing but work, no money in sight and can’t do anything, it looks like we will fall through during this dry wether.

August 3 - Thursday.  Build fence all day with Mr. J. D. Smith, streach wire.

August 4 - Friday.  A hot August day very dry and not being well did not do anything.  Tried to write som letters and read but slep most of the time.

August 5 - Saturday.  Still hot and dry.  The crops are burning up all over Texas.  Nearly all cotton has been cut short by hot dry winds and no sign of rain.  Farmers discuraged, no money and no work.

August 6 - Sunday. 1899.  A fine clear cool morning, a cool south wind.   As I had no where to go.  I went to the Mountain Sunday School and Service with Exdever and League among the Young people.   Mr. W. B. Mitchell had received a nice lot of stamps on aprovel one letter from Porta Rico sur charged.   Albert Wilson found a old beaten copper kittle at the head of a canion on the Colorado River and presented it to Mr Mitchel.    The kettle is very old and a relick of Spanish a few hundred years back.

August 7 - Monday.   Mr J. D. Smith com down after a lode of cane to make syrip.  Hot with scattering clouds.

August 8 - Tuesday.   Mr J. D. Smith and boys com down and got a lode of cane.   Dry and Hot.   Cotton has sheded the squares, the worst I have saw it and is ruining for the want of rain.   Cotton is opening now.   And peas, beans, punkins, cashows are runied and dying.  June corn is still standing green but need rain, melons vines are dying and the and boys are about to all the best ones.  Lightening in the north west.  Cotton is opening but is not grown full ripe boles.

August 9, 1899 - Wednesday.   Mr J. D. Smith com down and help dig on well.  We worked all day.

August 10 - Thursday.  The sun rose clear and cool.

August 11 - Friday.  Tried to build pig pen.  Mr J. D. Smith com down and cared a lode of cane up for molasses.   I went up to the Burg in the evening and got a lot of wire and some more stamps and envelopes.  Everybody says it is hot, a scorchin.

August 12, 1899 - Saturday.  A hot day, the wind is hot.  Mr J. D. Smith com down and we dug half day on well.   The Methodist Camp Meeting comenced this week in Mr Newman’s pasture and Henry Holensworth furnished the barded wire fince to the camp ground so he could phone to town.   Rev. S. Mody will hold the meeting.  I received, John A. Sealeer Deed Co. Catalogue and the Juniors Collector Vol 1, no. 5 August 5, 1899.   Jreymond Babrakek, Dayton, Texas Editor a letter from Babrack, receive 3 copies of the Virginia Philalelist for August.   Meakles Weekly stamp news, Houston Post and the Baptist Standard.  The hot wether reaches all over the state and is damaging cotton and late crops.

August 13 - Sunday 1899.  A cool morning, up too a hot day.   Stayed at home wrote and studied, too hot to ster around much.

August 14th , 1899 - Monday.  Another hot day Mr J. D. Smith com down and got a lode of cane.   Deed and I went up to the Mountain and went down and got 2 sow pigs of Samson.  It was late before I got home.   Mr Ben Rothemel and Wilson was talking about the dry hot wether and how short the cotton crop was, we ought to git 10 or 15 cts a pound.  Also about trouble and hard life under the present system of farming.

August 15 - Tuesday.   Mr J. D. Smith com down, we strip cane and the thermometer stood 105 in the shade.  A gradle (great deal) hotter than for the last 3 years.   Pigs are all right in a good pin and feed them melons and corn.

August 17, 1899 - Thursday.  Today was awful hot day.  Cut cane.  My pigs got out and it was so hot one of them died when I got it back in the pin.  Mr. Smith and boys were sown and cared back a lode of cane.

August 18 - Friday.  Searcy and George Smith help haul a lode of cane to Mr Hall’s Mill at the public tank.

August 19 - Saturday.   A hot day.  Hauled a lode of cane and cut cane.  The meeting continues, a good many com and camped and a large crowd out.

August 20, 1899 - Sunday.  Town nearly deserted, people atending both Baptist and Methodist meeting at Cleveland.  The Prysbtrans commenced meetings in the Baptist Church at Santa Anna, Tex.   The telephone works all right on the barbed wire out to the camp meeting.

August 21 - Monday.  Hauled a of cane and Mr. J. D. Smith hauled a lode of wood to the sorgum mill.  The Methodist Camp Meeting broke last night and the campers com home.   The Prysbtrons will hold a meeting this week in Santa Anna Baptist Church house.    On Sunday, Me W. B. Mitchell showed me his stamps and books and he had good dinner.

August 22 - Tuesday.  Helped Mr Hall and Fletcher and Bury at sorgum mill.   Cut and hauled cane.

August 23 - Wednesday.  In the evening ground my cane with som of Mr Smiths.

August 24 - Thursday.  Hot and dry.  Cotton opening fast.  So all will be open and where picked thare won’t be much left to open.  Cotton is coming in.   Brought my molasses home and finish together, kaffer corn seed and made cotton sack.   Clouds around but no rain.

August 25, 1899 - Friday. Cut kaffer corn and tops.  Henry com down and got a lode of wood.  Gethered pop corn, both the kaffer corn and pop corn made a very good corn.

August 26, 1899 - Saturday.  Cut kaffer corn went to town in the evening and got my male.  Cotton is low and a few bales were coming in.   Hot and dry.  Mr Hollensworth were in town talking on Single Tax and the increase of crime, than men did not do any better but got worse.

August 27, 1899 - Sunday.   A nice cool, clear August morning, Went up to the Mountain City.  Rev Lewis, the Prysbtran preach to a full house.  His sermon was the Palm Tree and I stayed at Henry’s.  The dog was hot.  Out Baptist preacher com to preach at night.

August 28 - Monday.  Hot and changeable.  A few clouds.  Cut cane Kaffer corn and gethered pop corn.  A real small cyclone com along going west wherling so fast that it rored like thunder.  Wherliwind.   Sister Nancy has com back to Coleman.

August 29, 1899 - Tuesday.   To stay with Elen.

August 29, 1899 - went up to Santa Anna and drove down with the wagon hauled in cane tops, seed.  And  a lode of wood.  Received my male.   The cotton crop reported cut short by the dry wether and beyond all hope of fall crop.

August 30 - Wednesday.  A hot day.  Picked cotton with Searcy and George Smith.

August 31, 1899 -  Thursday.  A hot day and I picked cotton with George and Searcy Smith in Mr Smith’s cotton.   A blow from the south east com up at night.

September 1, 1899 - Friday.   We picked cotton and the day was hot and cloudy with east wind and the Bull bats went south in droves this morning.  A change in the wether to fall.  The year pass away fast when it gits hot wether and we drag along picken cotton.

September 3 - Sunday.   At home and reading and resting.  Did not go any where.

September 4 - Monday.  George and Searcy Smith help pick cotton.  Cotton pickes bad and we are giting the most of it as we go over.  Now all blooms sheded long ago.  No top crop one bale off of the whole pice is all it looks like we would git.

Sept. 5 - Tuesday.  We three picked cotton.  The bed of the wagon is nearly full and not half  bale on. Cotton short and bad to pick.

Sept. 6 - Wednesday.  Searcy and George help pick cotton.   A few scattered clouds pasing by. 

 Mr Cumings that lived in the Crump house North of the mountain has sold out and left.  I believe to Stockard.

Sept. 7, 1899 - Thursday.  Cotton still low and we have nerly a bale out of Mr J. D. Smiths cotton.  The cotton was better to pick than in the first picken.   J. and S. Smith help to day.  We want to fill our bale our on Friday.  Mr Stublefeld left on a Western trip to day.  To hunt school land to git a ranch for his cattle, as he has a nice bunch in Mr J. D. Smiths pasture, And the increase will bring more than farming.  It looks like we would come to mob law to prevent Morgages and gessin at the cotton crop that hanging is the only remedy is the way the Houston Post of Sept 4 has a letter in it to that affect and will it stop short of the Presedent if they com lay hands on such as our present man in office is nothing but a low down politican and a imperialist.  A tool in the hands of the moneyed men of the North and Europe.  He is nothing and cares nothing for the worken man of the United States.

Sept 8, 1899 - Friday.   S. and J. Smith and myself picked cotton.  Have 13 hundred out, nearly a bale.   Cotton is better and better picking.   On the charge of the moon or new moon the wether has changed to rain clouds in the West and North, lightening Southwest and North.  Some cooler wether today.   Hot at noon thermometer 100 in the house.

Sept 9 - Saturday.  A warm day. Picked cotton tell noon.   In the evening went up to Santa Anna, a good many people in town.  Cotton selling 5 and over.   Got a lot of male and com home.

Sept 10, 1899 - Sunday.  A warm morning.  Some rain around, don’t look much like rain now.   Stayed at home all day.  The heaven clouded up and shut out the sky and som rain fell but none to do more than cool the air.   Reading and looking at my stamps. 

Sept 11, 1899 - Monday.  No rain, only a shower and a norther to day.  Mr J. D. Smith hauled his bale of cotton off and we commenced picking in mine.  The wether is cooler now.  I wish, I could com out straight and pay up and git my things from Austin, County.

Sept 12 - Tuesday.  A norther, cooler.  Mr J. D. Smith and boys picked cotton to day, clear day

Sept 13 - Wednesday.   A hot day picked cotton.  Mr Smith and the boys hauled water and did not git to pick much cotton this morning.   Cotton boles com off so that it is slow picking

Sept 15 - Friday, the wether , som cooler and we picked cotton.  Got out nearly a bale.

Sept 16, 1899 - Saturday.  The gulf clouds drifted up this morning.  A pleasant morning.   Mr J. D. Smith and boys com down and we finish the bale of cotton.  Not much wind but enough so that if is not so hot.  Finish the bale of cotton and Mr Smith hauled it up to the gin.  Well som rain com up last night, with heavy thunder and lightening, a very good rain.

As cotton is so low we don’t git anything for working, nothing to go on another year.

Sept 19 - Tuesday. Cool 60 degrees, picked cotton, a clear day and bright moon light nights.

Sept 20 - Wednesday.  A calm day. Picked cotton.  Gethered som corn.

Sept 21 - Thursday.  A pleasant day. Picked cotton. Clear day, cool most of the day.

Sept 22 - Friday.  A clear day, cool most of the day, fine wether to pick cotton.  Warm,  middle of the day.

Sept 23, 1899 - Saturday.  Clear, warm at 12.  Santa Anna has a Show and Lecture and cotton comes in all day, 6 ½ cts and selling fast.  Moley Baley show com in at 10 o’clock morning and put up tent.  Henry sick and as I had to com away the Santa Anna  com out blank on one side.  No news much, no explanation.

Sept 24, 1899 - Sunday.  Up at the Mountain.  Henry still sick.  Rev Barkley the Baptist preach for the Church to day.  A good crowd out.  The Moley Baley Show was atended enough to pay them well and the Mexicans had a big time and som shooting during the night.

Sept 25 - Monday.  North wind, clear, pleasant day. Picked cotton.

Sept 26. 1899 - Tuesday. Night , clear warm day, very calm in the morning.  Picked cotton and in the evening went to Santa Anna.  Henry still sick.  Went to the Post Office for my male.

Sept 27, 1899 - Wednesday.  Picked cotton, all day., A clear cool day.

Sept 28 - Thursday.  A clear day and warmer another.  Picked cotton.  No one com around.  Liked 14 rows finishing this side of patch.

Sept 29 - Friday.  A cool day, changeable, clear, change of the moon to dark nights.

Sept 30, 1899 - Saturday.   Warm South wind, clear finish on my cotton, the East wide of the patch.  Town crowded with Mexicans and they have picked out several fields of cotton north of the mountain.  Henry still sick.

October 1 - Sunday.  A cool morning som clouds Southeast wind.  Read and worked with my stamps.  Went to the Mountain City.  Henry still in bed.  A grate fraud was comitted over the wires on Dewes day and cotton sold at 9 cts and many buyers may loose.

October 2, 1899 - Monday.  Cool, close wether, picked cotton.  I git along so slow.

Oct 3, 1899 - Tuesday.  Picked cotton. A smokey to a cloudy day.  Went to Santa Anna and Henry is still sick and Samson left for Dallas Monday.  Sent off a letter and 2 postal cards.  Cotton a better price.

Oct 4, 1899 - Wednesday.   Picked cotton, a cool smokey day, cloudy at times, a norther blowing.

Mr J. D. Smith was down picken cotton.

Oct 5 - Thursday.   A cool norther cleared off the smoke.  I picked cotton.  Mr J. D. Smith com down and brought the wagon and picked and the cows got in.  Nearly frost.

Oct 6, 1899 - Friday.   A cool morning, warm noon, Picked cotton.

Oct 7, 1899 - Saturday.  Picked cotton. A clear day, warm.

Oct 8, 1899 - Sunday.  A cool hazy, clouds, a October morning or fall still.   The Sisertail birds are chirping around and going South.   Nancy is down and Henry is better.  Preaching in town and folks visiting and going on as usual.

Oct 9 - Monday.  Hauled off bale of cotton, weight 490 brought back seed.   Not much cotton in town.  Windy and dusty.  At night a shower com up as the clouds looked like rein all evening.   Receive som stamps from Collectors Supply Co.. Charlotte, Mich.

Oct 10 - Tuesday.  A pleasant day, fast passing clouds.  Picked cotton.  Mr J. D. Smith com down and hauled back a lode of wood.  No rain.

Oct 11 - Wednesday.  Picked Cotton.  Mr J. D. Smith com down and hauled a lode of green corn home, June corn. and Mr Stublefield were down;   No. A clear warm day.

October, 1899 12 – Thursday.  A clear, warm day.  Picked cotton.  No one com around.   To night clear, wind from South.

Oct 15 - Sunday.  Stayed at home and read papers and books.  High wind at sunset red banks of clouds with thunder heads stood in the north.

Oct 16 - Monday.  Rain , a wet cool day and was too wet to work.  Bright moon light nights.

Oct 17, 1899 - Tuesday.  The clouds cleared off and I grubed up som trees and picked som cotton.  Mr J. D. Smith com down and picked cotton.  The Clouds cleared off and we had a very good rain.  Ground and cotton was wet up till 12 o’clock.

Oct 18, 1899 - Wednesday.   Monday rain con as Mr Pink Barton Said we would have rain in 15 days.  This morning was cloudy South west wind and rain mist but 9 or 10 cleared off.  To night in South, cloudy, heavy banks with lightening.  Will be unfavorable for cotton picking.  Mr Smith had to go home.  He received a telegram that his Father-law was very sick, and he brought my male down, letter and papers.

Oct 19 - Thursday.  Cloudy and fair. Picked cotton.  Rain clouds South and East this evening and night.

Oct 20, 1899 - Friday.  A clear warm day.  Drifting clouds.  Picked cotton.

Oct 21 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Sunshine.  Picked cotton till noon.  Went to town and received my answers to my letters off from different houses.  And it is all money out and none coming in and how are we to make anything staying on the farm and rasing cotton and working all the year and have nothing when we com out to the end of the year, only a little corn and foder left.  Nothing to go on next year with out going in on credit and mortgage and com out next year with out anything.

Oct 22, 1899 - Sunday.  A nice Fall day with a good breeze. Strong Southeaster.  Went up to Santa Anna service at he Methodist by the presiding Elder, at the M.E. Church, the Baptist Church called a Pastor, Bro West was called and will be notified.    It is Strange People opose and so much against the young man or single man.  He is not alowed to own anything.  He is treated as a out cast by the law of the land and finger of scorn is pointed at him because  he don’t marry. 

The cry is all over the country to Tax Bachelors ruin him if he doesn’t git married.   At the same time Mothers, Fathers are crying out the Bachelor the young man. 

Thay don’t see that the young men and older ones that are single haven’t equal rights with the married men and thay are both Tax and robed through the Law of the State of Texas.   Have you considerd the young man today of our land and country about our Jails and Pententrys are filling up from crime of all shads.  Do you consider the Town and City Goverment that take up Young men when thay git without work and money and commit crime or don’t, thare are arested as vagrants cast in to prison and driven out on the rodes, farm and streets to work out fines fore no crime other than being poor and the general cry gas up, Tax the Young man.  The bachelor don’t you know he is over tax by our Laws now.   How about your Daughters of the land.  You are depriving them of friendship and husbands through out the land. 

Why do so many join the Army and go to die in foreign land.  It is because of oppression.  Thay can make a living for themselves let alone git a wife.   How can the present day labor buy a Farm and Support a wife.  Pay 10 percent Tax mortgage build a house with 2 rooms, a crib and fince, new land out in West Texas with 4 months growen wether.  The wolves eat up fowls and short crops land to clear and with out stock or tools, farm implements to make a crop with but a very few will git a wife and settle down and as the young ladies can’t all marrie doctors, lawyers, merchants, stockman, bankers where are your daughters to git husbands and escape being left or marrie som old widower with a house full of children that has a home.  

Oct 23, 1899 - Monday.  Strong South wind, flying clouds. Picked cotton.  Have 3 bales nearly out.

Oct 24 - Tuesday.  Heavy clouds most all day, high blusty winds.  Picked cotton would be glad if I were through with my cotton. 

Oct 25 - Wednesday.  Strong South wind, cloudy, showery around.  Hauled off my 3 bales of cotton.  The gin is not runing much now as the cotton is nearly all gethered.  As I received my male and com home.  

Oct 26 - Thursday.  Cloudy fine rain in the morning.  Change to North east.  Rain all day and night.

Oct 27 - Friday.   A cloudy raine morning with norther.  Not much cold but a good rain.  Too wet to pick cotton.

Oct 28, 1899 - Saturday.  Cool morning, clear.  Plenty water in the creeks now.   After working around went to Santa Anna.  A good many farmers in town and the stores were crowded and a good sale going on.   Lin Philips com back and brought several curiosites.  Fine som arrow points and his grand fathers old arithmetic an writing and lent it to Mr Mitchell and Mr Mitchell was preparing to mount a Hawk that Mr Spencer had killed and give him. 

Oct 29, 1899 - Sunday.  Preaching in town.  Didn’t go up ti;; late.  The rain was general and over the county.  A pleasant clear day.   Heard that Samson was in Galveston.

Oct 30 - Monday.  A heavy dew in the morning.  Picked cotton.  A change in the wether clouds in strings like cold wether would come.  As heavy snow has fallen in the North and West and we haven’t all of our cotton out.

Oct 31 - Tuesday.  Went to town and got the wagon and brought som old tin a old tank cistirn of Mr. Tyson.  A change in the wether in the evening and som drops of rain.

Nov 1 - Wednesday.  South East wind and rain last night and this morning.  Change to a norther and rain in the evening.  Cold, fast traveling clouds.

Nov 2. 1899 - Thursday. Cloudy all night, cold, cleared off this morning.  Enough for the sun to shine, thin ice.

Nov 3, 1899 - Friday.  A white frost that kills cotton and cane very cold and clear.

Nov 4, 1899 - Saturday.  Cold, A white frost.   Went to town and got my male and met a few farmers a trading.  Cotton was up.  The was in South Africa and Philippines Islands still going on.  The Bares have got the best of the Britches and I hope thay will gain there Independence.

Nov 5 - Sunday.  Warmer, South wind, cloudy.  Went to see Major Lewis he has been sick som time but is better to day.  A Mrs Ford died in Santa Anna today. (Note from Carl Langford:  Edna Ford   Apr 19, 1892 - Nov. 5, 1899 wife of R. A. Ford buried Jordan Cemetery).  

Tom (husband) and Ellen were down with Mrs Pinrod and Miss Lee Thompson.

Nov 6 - Monday.  A cool cloudy day, South wind.  Picked cotton.

Nov 7, 1899 - Tuesday. South wind cloudy and cotton.  Misty in the morning.  Mr J. D Smith picked cotton.

Nov 8, 1899 - Wednesday.  Mr Smith and my self picked cotton.  Foggy morning and warm day.  Cloudy part of day.

Nov 9 - Thursday.  A fog in the morning, Cloudy up tell noon.  Mr J. D. Smith help me pick cotton nearly through with the patch of cotton.

Nov 10 - Friday.  A dew . Som clouds.  Mr J.D. Smith help me finish my cotton on his land and picked 8 rows on my patch.  A warm day.

Nov 11, 1899 - Saturday.  A bright clear day.  Mr J. D. Smith hauled off our bale of cotton, And this evening didn’t do much.

Nov 13, 1899 - Monday.  A cloudy morning, cleared off at 12 o’clock.  Picked cotton and gethered corn.  Mr J. D. Smith hauled two lodes of corn home today.  I got the St Louis Republic Sunday paper, full of pictures.

Nov 14, 1899 - Tuesday.  Warm and cloudy up till 1 o’clock.  Mr J. D. Smith hauled 2 lodes of corn.  I picked cotton.   Clear, bright moon to night.  Mr Baker boy run off and was lost and thay were out hunting him from Santa Anna.  I haven’t heard wether he was found or not to night

Nov 15, 1899 - Wednesday.  Warm morning. A thick cloud and fog com up after sun up.  Didn’t see any shooting stars.  To night is a clear bright night.  Picked cotton.

Nov 16, 1899 - Thursday.  Cloudy, cool part of the day.  Picked cotton.  Mr J. D. Smith com down and gethered som corn and hauled wood.  Mr Bakers boy was found and taken home.

Nov 17, 1899 - Friday.  Cloudy all day.  Look as if it would rain.  Picked cotton.  To night full moon.  Warm day.

Nov 18, 1899 - South wind. Cloudy looks like would rain.  Thunder and lighting North.  Heavy clouds all day.   Som rain, South wind.  As I up to Santa Anna after my male and got up early.  I didn’t do much.  I received 3 copies of the Virginia Philatelist.  The Baptist Standard, Coleman Democrat, Houston Post, Public Opnion, the collector, the Allgheny Philotelist, Meekeels Weekly Stamp News.  And a lot of Postage stamps.  Cotton was going up 8 cents in Liverpool, also a letter from N. B. M from Hot Springs that he had moved and had traded for a place in Hot Springs.

Nov 19, 1899 - Sunday.  Cloudy, Rain comenced last night and likes like to day would be a wet day.  The Baptist Standard Dallas, Texas Thursday 16 has the Baptist Convention report headed a worlds Beater.  The gratest Baptist Convention that ever met.  And two _____-store for the leadership, Dr Hoden leading the Church party, Dr. R. C. Buckner the Convention party and the Buckner side won.  The rain continued all day.  Before sunset it stop.  Changeable wind.  Reading and working with my stamps.   Put som on aprovel sheet.

Nov 20, 1899 - Monday.  Clouds cleared off and change to a warm day.   A good rain and I worked making my crib.  Mr J. D. Smith com down to work.  I nearly finish my crib.  To night boun Virgnia Philatelist 3 books.

Nov 21, 1899 - Tuesday.  A clear day.  Picked cotton.  Mr J. D. Smith com down to clear som land and brought my male.

Nov 22, 1899 - Wednesday.  Clear, warm.  Picking cotton.  The day was still and changeable.

Nov 23, 1899 - Thursday.  A changeable day from West to a light norther to East wind and rain.  Set in to rain all night.  Picked som cotton, the rain stoped me.

Nov 24, 1899 - Friday.  Rain all night.  East wind, heavy clouds, not much cold.  The rain stoped this evening but is turning cold.

Nov 25, 1899 - Saturday.  Clearing off but turning colder.  As it was a nice day.   Went up to Santa Anna.  A brisk norther got cool in the evening.  A good crowd was in town and of farmers.  Thay were not buying much.   Cotton was up and som selling.  To show how the farmers are pinch for money but few were buying apples and candy.   A Mr Favor an ex-convict were trying to sell his book of Texas Pententry and all seemed to poor to pay 50 cents for a copy and I couldn’t git a copy my self.

Nov 26, 1899 - Sunday.  Cloudy, cold, som rain.  Stoped at home and read my books and papers.

Dec 1, 1899 - Friday.  A cool norther last night.  Calmed down som.  Frost this morning.  Clear till night.  A few streeks of clouds, not much cool to night.  Picked cotton nearly through now.

Dec 2, 1899 - Saturday.  A clear nice day.  Hauled cane fodder and finish my cotton and hauled to town.  Mr Stublefield helping me got 18 dollars paided $4.45 for wire 1 spool of Mr. Gay.  And sold cotton to Mr. H. H. Brown.  Mr J. D. Smith brought down my male.  The Metropolitan Philatelist Nov 25, The Perforator, Nov., The Collector, Nov 20., The Houston Semi Weekly Post Nov 30., Coleman Democrat Dec 1., The Baptist Standard Nov 30., Santa Anna News Dec 1.    Success Sample copy Oct 14.    A norther blew up to night, rode Worken Day around town.

Dec 3, 1899 - Sunday.  A clear Day.  HIGH WIND.  At home tell late reading and writing.  Went over to the Cox place found new comers from Bell Co.   The wind blew quite a gale last night, but calmed down to day.

Dec 4, 1899 - Monday.  Frost, ice.  Mr Stublefield and R. D. com down and help put up the wire fince around my house and got two lodes cane and one of corn.  I sold R. D. Mc  the cane and traded Stublefield the corn and pasture for a yellow cow at 16 dollars, 35 cts a bushel for corn and rent for pastrage.

Dec 5, 1899 - Tuesday.   Frost and ice, cloud from the South, cool morning.  Went to Santa Anna.  Call at the P.O. for my male and went over to Mr Tyson, Citzen Bank and give him my note for

$10.35 due October 1900.  Henry had killed a hog and went to Mr Chambers to do som work.  Town dull.

Dec 6, 1899 - Wednesday.   A cool cloudy morning.  Rode up to Coleman and payed my Taxes $1.75.  50 cents for a Revenue Stamp an my Deed left it with R. V. Wood County Clerk.  Went to Mr Whites and found all well.  Ellen and Nancy were sewing and serving dinner.  Went over to the Coleman Democrat office and talked with the Editor, Mr Wm. Hubert.  All were bussiy seting type, for the weeks paper.  And found a photograph and a nice young lady assistance Miss Kate Wood of Brownwood.  The Court House vault is nearly finish.   Colman has a reading club and second hand magazines are cheap and snapshot cameras are sold at the Drug store on the corner.   I met 13 mover wagons goin  west 6 and one buggy where coming from Coleman.

Dec 7, 1899 - Thursday.  Rain all day from East.  Couldn’t leave home.  Stayed at hone and read.

Dec 8, 1899 - Friday.  South wind, rain all night and all day.  I bought 4 magazines while at Coleman,

The Centray, Frank Leshe, Popular Monthly, The Cosmopolitan, Harpers new monthly magazine, November members.

Dec 9, 1899 - Saturday.  Clear.  The two days rain has wet the field so Mr Stublefield put out his cattle and I am fixing to go down to Bellville hauling my hog and trunk up to Henrys.  Warm day.

     NO ENTRIES went to Bellville, Texas.

Jan 28, 1900 - Sunday.  A cold freeze with fine rain and have to stay at home and read and write.

Jan 29, 1900 - Monday.  Some snow fell Sunday, very cold weather, ice today.  Went to town and got my male.  The Knights of Phyths were having a grand time to night about 30 were going to join.

Jan 30, 1900 - Tuesday.  Mode single trees.  Mr J. D. Smith has nearly all of his old land broke. 

Mr Stublefield cattle tramps the ground while wet and it is giting hard.

Jan 31, 1900 - Wednesday.  Comenced  plowing.  Frosty morning.

Feb 1, 1900 - Thursday.  Plowed, warm and cloudy.  The Mexicans finished gruben for Mr Smith.  The clouds cleared off.  I finish reading Notra De Dame Paris and The Toilers of the Sea by Rictor Hugo, and lent the Notra De Dame De Paris to Mrs. J. D. Smith and commenced on 5 vol of Liberty of Universal History by Smith Clara.

Feb 2, 1900 - Friday.  Plowed.  Mr J. D. Smith broke land to day.  A moderate day.  Clear at night, a warm winter.

Feb 3, 1900 - Saturday.  A cool cloudy day.  I beded land.  Mr J. D. Smith and boys come down, he plowed and the boys burnt brush.

Feb 4, 1900 - Sunday.  Cloudy, cold day.  Rev White Cumblern Prysbtran preach at the Baptist Church.  News com that Goble were dead he was assanated in Kentucky.   Som sickness around Santa Anna.

Feb 5, 1900 - Monday.  As I have been beding land for corn and cotton for a crop this year.  The ground is moist and I hope we can make a good crop.

Feb 6, 1900 - Tuesday.  A fogg cloudy day  to rain.  In the evening beded land till the rain drove me in.  A good season in the ground.  I heard the red bird and chickadee singing to day, Warm.  The trees will soon bud out if som change don’t com soon.

Feb 7, 1900 - Wednesday.  On the evening of the 6th the rain com down and continued till today, still cloudy and wet.

Some Back Notes 1898

August 8, 1898 - Rain this morning.  The Methodist Camp Meeting closed this week on Home Creek in Mr. Newman’s pasture.  Bro. Mc Corkel comeced a protracted meeting at Copeville or Cleveland school house on Saturday.

October 23, 1898 - Went to Santa Anna got my male and went over to the News Office, Mr    Campbell was writing up the Fair nots and hapinings.  A dull day.  Som were loding cotton seed and both gins were gining.  I have been binding my stamp papers.  I have about 15 or 20 different papers and lots of good stamps.  Many varites of stamps.  And stamp hunting.  Stamps from all over the world.

December 19, 1898 - Snow on the ground to day.  From the 9 of Dec. A good rain Saturday .

            Saturday 16. Plenty of water. Plowed half day.  Monday 19, for Rev Corle.

January 2, 1899 - A cold day payed Mr. J. D. Smith $100 dollars down for 5 acres of land, the north part of the Holden Rhods track 640 acres. I git 100 leaves 540 acres.   And give 2  notes of $50 dollars each for the other 50 acres of land $100 dollars which makes $200 in all for 100 acres of land.  Went to Coleman with Mr. T. D. Smith Monday was a holley day with banks and Post Office.   Court House was going on.  On Sunday Jan 1 was a New Years was Holley day as our nots and deeds needed revenue stamps on them to make them legel.  So I could leave it in the County Clerks office.  Could not git them.

March 19, 1899 - Sunday. Went up to the Mountain City.  A letter and lots of papers.  I will have to move my books out of Mr. Wafords house, will owe him $1.50 rent.  Received a picture of Naps (Napoleon) Arkansas hunter a good picture.

March 20, 1899 - Monday.  Henry and Samson com down and put up, with som lumber and put up for me a room 8 by 10 feet house which I needed bad, on my new place an it will be a great help to me here.   A living in a tent.  Nearly finish the house today.  High winds dry.  We need rain.  The lumber cost $8.00 and a few cents, paid 7.25 on it.

February 7, 1900 - I believe we will have clear wether now.  As the wind has shifted to the West and clearing off.

Feb 8, 1900 - Thursday.  Burnt brush, a cold day.  Mr J. D. Smith com down and plowed.

Feb 9, 1900 - Friday.  Frost, ice, a cold East wind, cloudy and I went up to help Mr. J. D. Smith kill his hog.   Mrs J. D. Smith was very sick.  And we cleared and cut up the hog.  Henry had killed his to, hog.  Received my male And com home, just before night, The Literary Club met at Mrs Cardins all were ladies.

Feb 10, 1900 - Saturday.  A white frost.  A clear day.  Grub up Musquet trees.

Feb 11, 1900 - Sunday.  South wind, cleared off to a bright day.  Bro West preach for us a good sermon and Henry and Lilly joined the Baptist Church.  In the evening Conference met and granted letter to members that had moved off and atended to building a baptsy and fixing a flue to the Baptist Church.  A good many out from sickness in Santa Anna.

Feb 12, 1900 - Monday.  A clear cool day.  I plowed, beded land.

Feb 13, 1900 - Tuesday.  Clear cool frosty morning, Went up to Coleman.  Found all well and court in Session.  Payed my Taxes on my one hundred acre land.  Valentines, soon will be Valentines and no girl, no Valentine.  I brought several magazines.  A gentleman were in town reprinting Book Sindicate he will put a Library in Coleman of 5000 volumes and one can subscribe for 5 dollars for 5 years.  I bought 11 magazines from the News Stand at Coleman for 75 cents., The Reading Club has finished reading them, Thay are sold for 5 and 10 cts.  McClures Magazine Dec 99, Jan 1900., the Munsey Jan 1900., The Century Jan 1900. Scribers Magazine Dec 99., Jan 1900., Metropolitan Jan 1900, Dec 1899, Harpers Monthly  Jan 1900, The Cosmopolitan Jan 1900, Dec 1899.  A fine lot of reading and something to keep.

Feb 14, 1900 - Wednesday. Plowed to day. A fine clear day, warm and a norther blew up to day.  At night a small fly or white bug comes out of the ground and just above the ground, millions fly out during a warm evening.  Valentin’s Day and will I get a Valentine?

Feb 15, 1900 - Thursday - Cold and cloudy, north wind, didn’t do much.

Feb 16, 1900 - Friday. Cold, north wind som snow both days, cleared off and bright sun shine, Veary cold and freezing.  Too cold to work.

Feb 17, 1900 - Saturday.  Cold freezing wind all day.  Went to Santa Anna and got my male.  Still lots of sickness around, a few people in town.

Feb 18, 1900 - Sunday.  A clear day warmer west wind.  Stayed at home all day and read my history and papers.

Feb 19, 1900 - Monday.  Cold windy morning.  A very good day. Plowed.

Feb 20, 1900 - Tuesday.  Well the sun rose up behind a hazy cloud, the wind were in the West, sharp and brisk, As the day advanced the wind rose and fell and whiped in to a gale and sand storm, and blew down the tent and tore one end off. At noon the wind shift around to north, north west, still raging all day till sunset the sky is milky with the dust and I plowed all day. 

It was very disagreeable.  Mr. J. D. Smith com down and plowed .   Mrs Smith is som better.  

Feb 21, 1900 - Wednesday.  A clear nice day, a light norther blowing.  Nearly finish plowing my five acres of land.  Mr J. D. Smith com down and plowed, he brought my papers.

Feb 22, 1900 - Thursday.  A cool bright morning.  A pleasant day clear wether.  Grubed up musquet trees.  Mr J. D. Smith co down and plowed all day.  Mrs Smith wasn’t so well to day.

Feb 23, 1900 - Friday.  A light norther blew up this morning with clouds and continued all day, giting cold in the middle of the evening.  Plowed and grubed up trees.  Mr Smith com down and plowed. He hauled a lode of wood home.  Mrs Smith som better.

Feb 24, 1900 - Saturday.  A nice clear day.  Went up to the Mountain City.  The Sunday School Institute and Mission rally Feb 24 and 25, had comenced a good many Preacher Baptist had arrived.  Bro D. M. Pastor, A. E. Baten, H. Q. Rendall, C.V. Casioll, Missionaries and several others pastors com and had a good meeting.

Feb 25, 1900 - Sunday.  A large crowd and good sermons and talk made.  Buissy all day and thare was good crowds out to here Rev J. M. Goddy and A. E. Baten.  They did not organize the Young Peoples Union.

Feb 26, 1900 - Monday.  A clear bright warm day.  Cleared land.  Mr. J. D. Smith com down and plowed.

Feb 27, 1900 - Tuesday.  A strong west wind changed to the North in the evening.  Cleared land.  Mr Stublefield taken all his cattle out of the field.

Feb 28, 1900 - Wednesday.  Cold and clear, a strong north wind and the wind continued high all night.  Grubed out musket trees to day.   And to night the North wind have calmed down and everything is still.  Mr. J.D. Smith com down and burnt brush and cleared land.  Here that Bro West and Baten both have the measels and are sick at Santa Anna.

March 1, 1900 - Thursday.  Cold frosty morning turned off to a warm day.  Went over in Cox and Chesley and Burks pasture up to the rock house too hunt for plow bay horse he had goten out.   Mr. J.D. Smith com down and plowed.  I cleared my land.

Mar 2, 1900 - Friday.  A warm day. Planted onions and plowed in new cleared land.   Mr. J. D. Smith com down and plowed.

Mar 3, 1900 - Saturday.  Cool and cloudy.  Plowed tell noon and went up to town.  After receiving my male and around town as a good many were in town.   Som corn planted.  The measles in town and no work for the poor and needy, and the laborer.

Mar 4, 1900 - Sunday.  A cloudy morning, cool South wind.  Reading my papers.  Stayed at home tell 12 and went to Santa Anna in the evening.  Didn’t reach thare in time to see the unvaling of Martins, Monument at Santa Anna Cemetery.   A large crow out and the band were along and Woodman of the World march up to ther lodge after the Services were over.   Thare was lots of wealth as well as poverty thare.   A cloudy, cool south wind during the day.

Mar 5, 1900 - Monday.  Still cloudy and cool. Plowed in the morning braking land in th evening.  I and Mr Smith planted som of his corn, the first we have planted.  The grass has began to shoot up the first of March.   Plenty of water this winter.  I received a letter and Madgrau book from New Orleans, La.

Mar 6, 1900 - Tuesday.  A cloudy and norther cool with som rain.  Did not plow or plant corn. Mr. Smith com down, but went back.   I schelled seed corn and worked with stamps and read book and magazines.

Mar 7, 1900 - Wednesday.  Planted corn.  Mr J.D. Smith com down in the evening.  Cleared land off.  The norther died out, south wind, clouds, cleared off.

Mar 8, 1900 - Thursday.   South wind, cloudy morning, cleared off at noon.  Planted corn for Mr. J.D. Smith along in the evening I cleared land.  Warm and the grass and weeds have comenced to com up.  The flyer buggs and buterflys have com out.

Mar 9, 1900 - Friday.  A clear warm day, a light clear norther blew about noon.  A few clouds.  Planted corn in the morning and went up to town for my papers.  Received som papers and letter from The Toledo Stamp Company and 12 Duchtory stamps Revneue, 98 mane...

Mr. J. D. Smith com down and planted and hauled a lode of wood home.

Mar 10, 1900 - Saturday.   A clear warm day. Plowed and planted som blackeyed peas and okery.

Mar 11, 1900 - Sunday.  a Clear bright spring day.  The mockinbird and other birds are singing.  Also the Whiperwill at night.  A I went up to here Bro West he had recovered from the measles and preach a good sermon.   In the evening the Baptist helt Conference and organized a Baptist Young People Union.   The algrett bushes comence blooming on the 1st of March and grass is giting green, now.

Mar 12, 1900 - Monday.  A clear warm still day.  Plowed and planted corn.  Mr J. D. Smith com down and plowed.

Mar 13, 1900 - Tuesday.  A clear bright day, very warm and growing wetter.  Planted corn all day on Mr. Smith land that I have rented.

Mar 14, 1900 - Wednesday.  A north wind blew up early this morning, cloudy turn cool and rainey. 

Mr. J. D. Smith com down and plowed in the morning.  I worked around the house dug a water hole.   I received a nice lot of Stamp hinges from the Nunundah Stamp & Pub. Co., Smethport, Penn.   A nice lot of Stamps.  As the rain set in and continued all evening. I worked with my Stamps, a finishing sticking stamps in a book for Wm. Robert Millard, Temple.   I have put over 500 stamps in the book from over the world, United States and foreign stamps.

Mar 15, 1900 - Thursday.  The rain continued late in the night and on top of it a 2 or 3 inch snow fell not very cold, which melted by 12 noon.  Still cloudy and north wind.  A good season in the ground now.   Working with my stamps and stamp book

Mar 16, 1900 - Friday.  A cold cloudy wet day.  Went up to Coleman.  I found a mudy town and a few farmers in and I went over to Barclay Martin, Newsdealers and bought 10 magazines.   St Nicholas Feb 1900, Dec 1899, The Argosy Feb 1900.  Were out of line of magazines.  Subscribed for. .....  

Went over to Mr Tom Whites, Hotel and found all well, Ellen and Nancy were sewing.  Mr. White had presented Ellen with a $10.00 picture too fine Nancy were fixing to go to Temple this month.   Here is the Magazines subscribed for: February

Harper’s, The Century, frank Leslie’s, The Cosmopolitan, McClure’s, Metropolitan. 

And as the Democrat office had attraction, Mr Wm. Hubert an Sons Editor.  I went up and met all four, the Father and three sons, Harrie, Rowan and Omer.  And Mr Cobb com in and talked awhile and I got the following papers:   Prospectus Redpalhs History of the World, Congressional Record Feb 13 and 22, Farm and Ranch Dec 2, Texas Trade review Dec 99, Texas Stock- Farmer Feb 1, 1900, Scientific American March 3, 1900, Spear time Study Feb 1900, Roby Banner No.3 “98, Texas Sandwitch April 1898, A fine lot of reading maters.

Mar 17, 1900 - Saturday.  A cold cloudy damp day, South East wind, rain misting at time.  Mr J. D. Smith and the boys com down and burnt brush.

Mar 18, 1900 - Sunday.  Cool cloudy morning.. South wind, no rain since the snow to amount to any thing.  Som young men were out with there dogs, hounds, and caught a wild cat and the dogs chased another one by on the hill and lost it.   In the evening a storm cloud was in the West and cloudy at sun down lighting southeast and north.  I received in my male. Public Opinion March 1, 1900, The Santa Anna News March 16, 1900, The Coleman Democrat Mar 15, 1900, Houston Semi-weekly Post Mar 15, 1900., Papers & Magazines, The Philatelic Chronicle Vol 1 no 5, Mar 5, 1900, The Allgheny Philatelist March 1900, vol6 no 4 up to 31, The Montreal Philatelist March 1900, The Metropolitan Philatelist Mar 10, 1900 vol 12, no 23.

Mar 19, 1900 - Monday.  Broke sod land.  A nice clear day west to north wind, calm down.  Grass is green and corn will be coming up now.  Mr. J. D. Smith com down and plowed.

Mar 20, 1900 - Tuesday.  A clear day broke sod and planted som Irish potatoes and beans.

Mar 21, 1900 - Wednesday.  A cold morning.  Cloudy and east wind. Plowed sod land.  Mr J. D. Smith com down and plowed.  Look like rain.

Mar 22, 1900 - Thursday.  A cloudy east wind changeable wether not cool as Wednesday.  Went to Santa Anna.  And got my male at the Post Office.  Very cool morning.  Not many in town and did not stay long. As thunder around and thretning rain. 

So I com home and the rain set in and north east wind and stoped work and Mr J. D. Smith went home.   I received the Simi Weekly Post, The Virginia Philotelist Vol 3 Mar 1900 no.7, Mekeel Weekly Stamps News March 22 whole no 481, vol 14.  and 150 foreign Stamps.  Constitution and Laws Sovereign Camp Woodsman of the World.   

Also, a letter from Samson, from New Orleans

Mar 23, 1900 - Friday.  A cloudy rainey day east wind, warm, At home in the morning, went out on the Cedar breaks in the evening.  Killed a pole cat and among the Cedars found several Indian arrow flints.  And saw panther tracks.  He and she panther and wolf tracks.  A misty evening and very damp.  The trees are puting out leaves and pasture is green and flowers a blooming. 

The birds are hunting nesting places.  And spring will be on us with warm wether and growing crops.   Corn is coming up now and we will early crop if no cold wether comes on to kill off early crops of fruit and field corn.   Missionaries are needed now in all lands.  And what do we do to send out and help the mission and missionaries.  I have been reading the Crisis of Missions or the voice out of the Cloud by Rev Arthur T. Person.  The world needs Missions and reform more Christians and more kindness of man to man.....

Mar 24, 1900 - Saturday.   The day open wet with fog and clouds which soon cleared off.  Hauled two lodes of wood and the people from Liberty were out on a wolf hunt with a pack of hounds and the wolves had to move out and the dogs would run out of Hering and come back.  Thay had a good hunt.  Received March 1900, The Philatelist Post vol 1, no 2, The Metropolitan Philatelist March 17 vol12, no 24.   Town was wet and good money in town.

Mar 25, 1900 - Sunday.   A clear day, west wind.  The birds are nesting and going north.  The Paridias an Scissortail com with many other small birds, last night.   The grass has grown up green and the oaks have put out buds.   Spring is here.  A new year is on its way and we are left behind.

In the evening thare were rain clouds in South, cool at night, rain and lightning , cloudy but did not reach here.   A young man Mr. Harris was ordained at the Baptist Church at Sunday evening by Bro West and others of Santa Anna Church.   Measles and colds around and a good many have them.

Mar 26, 1900 - Monday.   A mix day, cloudy, rain south, changeable winds.  Plowed and Mr J.D. Smith com down.

Mar 27, 1900 - Tuesday.    Warmer, fog and dew this morning.  Broke land and grubed up some trees.  Mr. J. D. Smith com down and plowed.  The wild onions and mustard is in bloom and with white and yelow blosoms. 

Mar 28, 1900 - Wednesday.   Change in the wether, a norther and cloudy.  Broke sod.  Mr J. D. Smith help me finish the land.  Cool at night.   Corn is coming up and looks well.

Mar 29, 1900 - Thursday.  Cool norther, cleared off the clouds.  Mr. J. D. Smith com down with cotton seed and we planted Kaffer corn, cane sorghm seed and cotton , all day.  A fine spring day.  Mr Smith brought down my male, stamp papers.  Nebraska Philatelist march, The Houston semi- weekly Post March 29, 1900.

Mar 30, 1900 - Friday.  A cool north east wind with clouds, sprinkle of rain at night and som colder.

Help Mr. J. D. Smith plant cotton all day. 

Mar 31, 1900 - Saturday.  A cloudy morning cold east wind.  Helped Mr Smith plant cotton half day.  Killed hog in the evening.

April 1, 1900 - Sunday.  A clear cool morning, west wind, A east wind to South blew all day, Saturday.  To day is a nice April day.   Tom B. White has anounced as Canadate for Public weigher of Coleman County to weigh cotton at Coleman town and he is convassing the county.   Nancy left this week for Temple, to stay a while.  I talked with several about the canadates that have com out for fall election.  Awaiting the canadates that have the primaries.  As I was up at the Mountain Town, I went over to the Post Office and got my male, som stamp papers and Houston Post, and Mr Allen Poe give me The Year Book of the Department of Agriculture 1898 a fine book and well filled with good articles on farming for the United States.   And som able writers have wrote the best of articles for the paper.

Among other papers.  The Ginner and Miller, Dallas, Texas march 1900, the Kansas City Weekly Journal march 29, 1900, and a lot of the St Louis Republic of 1900.

Apr 2, 1900 - Monday.  Plowed and planted Kaffer corn, pop corn, cotton seed, Blackeyed peas, black and white wax beans, English peas, water and musk melons.   Mr J. D. Smith com down and plowed.  A clear warm day, south wind.  Clouds settled in the north west.  Thare will soon be a change.  The gentleman has comenced to haul lumber to build his house in the pasture North of me, near Herndons.  Where Mr. Andy Kirkpatrick lives, Mr Wimberly   if his farm was good property but may not be able to hold the pasture land and loos all.

Apr 3, 1900 - Tuesday.  A warm day, south wind, hazy, clouds in the west.   The oaks are puting out leaves and many wild flowers are in bloom.  The earth is green again.   Planted cotton and sorghum. Corn and peas are coming up.  Broke land.  Mr J.D. Smith com down and hauled a lode of wood home.   Mr Wimberly with the help of Henry and another man got up the frame of his box house.   About a quarter of a mile north west of my house.

Apr 4, 1900 - Wednesday.  A strong south wind with clouds.  Plowed in the morning.  Went to Santa Anna in the evening, got my male The Houston Po, The Texas Baptist Standard, Mekeels Weekly Stamp News.   My picture of Mr Briggs and a lot of stamps and envelopes at Mr Tysons and Mr Tyson, give me The Purpose of Baptism by John Logan, Gatesville, Tex. a Christian Tract June 1899 address by Hon. Lamon J. Gage Secretary of the Treasure on the

out look.    The outlook is very glomey with the scarcity of money, wars, famines and bad laws with twist and combines and robers and thieves a halt of the government.  Jo Bear the white mans burdent.    The newest way to attain perfect health by a Lois P. Swaboda.  I bough a sweep 70cts, salt 10 cts, potatoes, beet seed 5 cts, 2 bolts.   A few in town and did not stay long enough to here news.   The wind still blowing from South, strong, it will com back from the north with rain.  The oaks and musquett trees have began to put out leaves.   The live oaks are sheding there leaves as new leaves put out.

April 5, 1900 - Thursday.  A strong blustry wind all night and today heavy clouds with rain showers.  Rain, misty with puffs of strong wind all day.   At night rain set in from south to east a good steady rain with thunder and lightning, brisk wind, a huricane like.

Apr 6, 1900 - Friday.  The storm and rain put a good season in the ground and di no damage here, left stock water.  Clearing off from the west.  Wet under foot and grass is green, the birds are singing happy.  I got the following Magazines and papers:

Congressional Record, Washington April 4, 1900, The Mexico Pioneer March 1900, the American Monthly Review of Reviews Feb 1900, Current Literature march 1900, Scriber Magazine March 1900, the Century March 1900, Harper’s March 1900, The Cosmopolitan March 1900, Metropolitan march 1900,   And Judge Rose give reports of Commission of Education ‘97-‘98,   U. S. Government report.  A nice lot of reading maters.   Wheat looking fine, cotton is coming up, som corn has been plowed out.  Wheat is up high dark and green.

Apr 11, 1900 - Wednesday.  As a norther blew up last night and being cold and not feeling well haven’t worked this morning.  While going to Coleman City on the 10th.  I stop at the little mountain where a branch crosses the Public rode.  Thare is a mound of rocks called Indian mound in Banters Pasture.  I found 5 pieces of flint ax and arrow head and scraper, also a grinder of the mound builders work for crushing or smashing ther food.   After I reach Coleman and had bought my magazines and went over to the hardware store.  A poor cripple com along a beggin, he was walking on crutches and he handed me a card on it was “ A Single Request” and Give him a Nickel here is the tramps Storey according to the Tramp man.

And Man, The hard man said after asking him a few questions the he the Tramp was only puting on as the tramp limped on his crutches over to the Court house.  I never saw anything more of him till I was on the rode home 2 miles or more from Coleman and I regonized the tramp on ahead walking on the rail rode with out his crutches and making good head way for Santa Anna when he saw me he limped again and I com up with him he wanted to barrow a match when I acosted with of his making quick time he hobled on with his crutches, was very lame then.   I received a card from Charlotte, North Carolina  April 4, 1900 from Samson he was going to Washington.

Apr 12, 1900 - Thursday.  Frost and ice bit down the corn and vegetables.   A clear warm day.  Helped Mr. J.D. Smith plant corn.  Our cotton planted before the rain may not com up.  The land is wet and opening with the middle broken leaves the land in bad shape, Our C....

Apr 13, 1900 - Friday.  A clear som what cool dew maybe som frost this morning.  Helped Mr. J.D. Smith plant cotton all day and   Mr Stublefield com also Mr. Wm. Day was down to Mr Wimberly to see about digin a tank.  My old cow has a calf and it is a yelow and a heffer.

Apr 14, 1900 - Saturday.  A cloudy day with South winds.  Mr J. D. Smith helped me plant cotton till noon.  In the evening I planted sweet potatoes, onions, and beets, and plowed.  Received the following papers, The Houston Post Apr 8 - 12, Santa Anna News Apr 13, The Philatelic Chronicle Apr 1900, The Montreal Philatelic Apr 1900, and  a letter from Sister,  Mary Millard, Temple.

Apr 15, 1900 - Sunday.  South wind, cloudy.  The clouds cleared off, a fine day, warm, the wind calm down at night, a bright night.  Stayed at home read papers and history and worked with my stamps.  The flowers are every where and the spring has made the world beautiful with flowers and birds.

Apr 16, 1900 - Monday.  A clear nice still day.  Planted cotton most of the day on my patch.   In the middle of the evening planted on Mr J. D. Smith patch.  Wind from west to north.  Mr Searcy Williams was visiting his sister Mrs Smith.  Mr Smith will have to plant his cotton over.

Apr 17, 1900 - Tuesday.  A clear warm day. Planted cotton for Mr. J. D. Smith in the morning and in the evening Mr J. D. Smith plowed out middles for me all evening.   And I drug out brush, planted cotton over and with melons and beans and plowed out corn.  A light norther all day, which calmed down at night.  The musquett trees are giting green and post oaks and live oak are in bloom.  The Prysbtarians people will hold meeting in the Methodist Church since several wanted to denie them the privilege of holding service in the Baptist Church House.  Mr Cobb and Brown with others wanted to close the doors to all.   Misses Stella Lewis, Buloh Sheilds, Gretude Austin went to San Antonia, Tex. from Santa Anna.  As most of our cotton is planted maybe will git a good stand now.  Our corn is coming out since the frost.

Apr 18, 1900 - Wednesday.  A cloudy cool day, South wind.  Plowed out my corn.  Mr Smith helped in the evening.  Help Mr Smith plant cotton, replant.  Not a pleasant day.

Apr 19, 1900 - Thursday.  A warm clear day, north wind.  Planted cane and plowed out pop corn.  In the evening went to town for my male.  The Bufflow Clover and other flowers with the green and yelow grass and flowers are a beautiful landscape.  Wheat are looking fine.  Cotton and corn is not doing so well, too cold.    Received a letter from Edward W. Heusinger, Secretary Treasurer, Texas Philatelic Association, Secretary of Treasure Texas Philatelic Assocation and  One from Editor Oppressive Rock Hill Co., Received 4 copys of the Oppressive, The Virginia Philatelist April.  The Philatelist West April, The Metropolitan Philatelist April 7, Mekeel weekly Stamp News April 19, The Perforator April 1900, Fredom Sea Breeze Flaroda March, April 28,11,1900.

Apr 20, 1900 - Friday.  Rain this morning north and east wind.  Swarm of Bees thay went off.  Went a relick hunting.  The world is beautiful with so many flowers and so green in many colors.  Reading and writing.  Went to see Mr Wimberlys new field and Mr Andy Kirkpatrick he was planting cotton.  Som rain tonight but cleared off.

Apr 21, 1900 - Saturday.  As we had rain on Friday.  To day was clear and bright.  I went up to town and got my male.  The mills did not run and I did not git any meal.  A good many in town and a few canidates

Apr 22, 1900 - Sunday.  Rain this morning.  Young Mr Auther Barker com over and we went a relick hunting down on Mud creek in the Cedar Breaks.  And found a few relicks.   A warm day cool at night.  Too cold for cotton.  I hope to see a change so our crops will grow.

Apr 23, 1900 - Monday. Showers of rain in the morning.  Mr J. D.. Smith com down and hauled wood.  I planted peas and corn and plowed out my garden.   Also went to Santa Anna to hear Prof. Cummings Lecture on Geology from Geneses the Creating if Man a good audence and Professor delivered a sound discourse on the making of the World.

I received a letter from Mr E. E. Reynolds Buchanna, Winschester Co., N. J.  And The Philatelic Post vol 1 , no 4, The Philatelic Advocate vol 8, no 4 Canada, Meekls Weekly Stamps new vol 4, no17.  Freedom, A journal of Realistic Gealisin vol 7, no4, Sea Breeze, Fla.   A Christian since journal free thinkers.  Devine healer and skeptick foxes more of infidelity or ones who reject God.    And such a light and live always by the mind, Mr C.C. Post the great writer seems to have been cared away with the doctrine.

Apr 24, 1900 - Tuesday.  West and South wind, the clouds com up and when Mr Smith com we wen to planting cotton.  The rain in the South soon com up and we had to stop.   Hale and rain changeable, rain till in the evening.  Mr Stublefield com down, a cold rain with hail.

We haven’t no cotton up yet,  And the rain continues the creeks were runing .  Mr. Wimberly and Arthur Barker com by thay saw a panther and the hounds run it off.  Mr. Wimberly, Arthur and myself went over to the Prairie Dog Town and the hounds slut caught two prairie dogs before thay could git in there holes.  We com back before night and I skined the dog and my cats eat the meat. 

This evening is clear, clouds have shifted South and the frogs are blating and happy.   Not much planting that we will do this week.  The young Lady’s looked so awful sweet at the Lecture last night.  State geoglist Dumble and his assistant, Cumings have been in Santa Anna for som time.   Stamp Collectors git a grat deal of pleasure out of studing stamps and reading stamp papers.  And giting a custom with stamp men and atending there meets and also exchanging stamps and papers all Literature pertaining to stamps.

Apr 25, 1900 - Wednesday.   A cloudy misty morning cleared off about 10 or 11 and in the evening a hale and thunder cloud in the north west.  As the field was too wet to work in, I have been replacing my books and papers.  Thay are heavy and bulkey and I haven’t room for all Have to fix them so thay will not git wet and to keep mice out of them.   Crops will be late with the cold rain.  It would be awful if we should not make any crops off cotton or corn this year.

            North wind the storm and rain passed over without hail, very cool and the sun com out before night.  Thunder in the distance, south, too cold for crops.

Apr 26, 1900 - Thursday.  A cloud com up from the south and soon cleared off and the bright sunshine and south wind will warm the air and make things grow.  The birds sing so sweet and happy.  Mr J.D.Smith com down and planed his cotton in front of his house.  I went up to town and received my male sent off 2 letters and went over to Henry’s.   The drilling out fit have loded 6 tanks, 1 engine and other tools to be shiped north.  Mr Mitchel has several pieces of core and other rock from the drill work taken out down on the river and other parts of the County.  Mr Mitchels collection is growing.  He has a ring made of a human bone.  I met Mr Wood of Coleman City.  He was out lecturing for office.

Apr 27, 1900 - Friday.  A cloudy morning South east winds, warm.  Plowed in my patch this morning.  Mr J. D. Smith com down and harrowed his land.  In the plowed tell the rain com up.  Planted 4 rows of pop corn.  A heavy rain from the East still continues and is the longest continued rain we have had this year.  No more work in the field this week.  Too much rain for farm work or any out door work.  An looks like the rain would continue all night.  Will ruin all cotton planted and all other plants, corn and crops. 

Apr 28, 1900 - Saturday.  A cloudy wet morning. North wind.  Read life of Napoleon Bonaparte of France.

Apr 29, 1900 - Sunday.  Cloudy, wet morning looks like more rain and to cool wether.  While up at town I talked with Mr Briggs and James Stephenson.  A Saturday on fredom an thr New Science of never die and other Spiritual Laws of the Universe that is agitating the minds of people.   Received in my male a letter from Mr L. T. Brodstone, Superior Neb.  Business manger of the Philatelic west and camera news, also 14 different Stamp papers.  Borrowed of Mr. Tyson, Natural Laws in the Spirtual World, by Henry Drummand a religious and Science work.  Sent a letter to Nancy 2 cts.  Henry’s little girl Arlera has got the measles.

Farmers and town people in town talking farming and politics.  Candidates in town.

Part of the day shunshine and part cloudy.  The trains were late and heavy rains all over the state has caused wash out and stoped all farming and put farming behind.  A good many out at the Exworth league and thay had a very good exercise.  A whole lot of young folks out.  And the young Ladies were out in full force.

Movers with 4 wagons were camp near the Publick tank.  Thay had com from the Cost Country.  Were a runing from the bole weavle.  With the circulating Library in Santa Anna and the School has a small Library and more books are bought.  Also a Library Club or 2 in town.  More interest are taken than has been in reading and study of good books.

Apr 30, 1900 - Monday.  Rain commenced last night and continued this morning and today looks like a cloudy rainy day for the rest of the day.   Mr J.D Smith com down and we put up wire and made a pasture for the horses and set som post, too wet to work or in the field.  Cloudy rain to night in the South, very still.

May 1, 1900 - Tuesday.  A norther and Cloudy cool morning.  The weeds have grown up and taken the pastures.  Went up to town and the farmers were plowing and planting cotton and cane.  Where the land was dry enough.  Wheat and oats are fine and weeds have taken the fields.  But we have som hope yet if the ceases now.   When all South Texas is under water and over flowed and all the crops ruined by heavy rains and over flowing of the streams.   A early spring and late crops.  No crops in many places.  Thare is many wild flowers here in bloom now.  The Bufflow clover, Texas Star, fox glove and many others and the world are beautiful now. The musquett has leaves nearly out in full, The algreata and other fruit have a good crop.  The clouds off and in the evening was bright and clear.  Mr J. D. Smith planted cotton at home and will be 2 days.  May is here and not all the crops planted yet, no garden.

May 2, 1900 - Wednesday.  In my male the Houston Post Apr 30, Fredom and 3 catalogues from Mr. P. K. Forey 26 Brownfield Street, Boston.  A still morning.   Scatering clouds, heavy dew.  Planted corn, cotton, melons and squash seed.  A warm day.   Mr Day and Mr Wimberly comence diging a tank near Mr. Wimberlys house.   Mr. J. D. Smith never com down.  The clouds gethered and at night lightning and thunder with wind and som rain pass by.  Rain to the West and North.

May 3, 1900 - Thursday. A cool cloudy morning with norther, cloudy cleared off, east wind, calmed down to a nice day, not too warm.  Plowed corn and planted June corn.  Mr J. D. Smith com down and planted cotton, all day.   Corn is growing fine and cotton is coming up, but not good.  The field is a mass of green weeds all over.   And if dry wether comes many may have hard work saving a crop or making one.   Henry Drummond Natural Law in the Spiritual World are fine and clear cut.  The threats on life and death the takes firm ground and handles his subject well from the Bible and religious.  Also timparal life of this world.

May 4, 1900 - Friday.  A cool morning.  Planted cotton all day.  A clear day.  Mr J. D. Smith com down and plowed corn.  Mr Day finished the tank for Mr. Wimberly.  Slow breeze and pleasant.

May 5, 1900 - Saturday.   A cool day, clouds cleared off and planted cotton.  Mr. J.D. Smith com down and plowed and his boys burnt brush.  Thay brought my male.  A letter, 8 stamp paper or 9.  The letter is from Mr. Henry A. Chapman, Rocky Hill Conn., He sent me 7 papers and his picture.  The adhesive and pictures are good and also stamps.

May 6, 1900 - Sunday.  A warm cloudy morning soon cleared off and was a hot day.  I and young Mr. Auther Barker went up and went to Church.  We taken dinner with Henry and in the evening went to the mountain.  Rain in the south, in the evening.  Wheat and oats are fine a have the rust some.  The Post Office was open in the evening and I got my male one letter and copy of the Humbodt Library of Science 64 Pift Ave., New York City.

May 7, 1900 - Monday.  A cloudy morning.  Have to plant som cotton seed.  This is my Birthday.

Planted cotton on my patch on Mr J. D. Smith land and in the morning.     In the evening   Mr  Smith planted in his patch and finish.  Then we planted a few rounds in our corn patches.   A still hot day.  A long line of thunder heads south and east lightning to night, we may have som rain any day now.

May 8, 1900 - Tuesday.   A clear warm day, plowed corn.  Mr  J. D. Smith finished plowing his corn this morning.  I finish plowing my corn this morning and plowed in my garden and planted cotton seed.   It is a bad out look for a stand in cotton and garden on account of the worms, as they have come.  A light north wind, Still to night.

May 9, 1900 - Wednesday.   A light  norther all day, a few clouds.  Plowed my garden, planted oker, beans, peas, Kaffer corn and cotton.   In the New land, had to plant over my garden and kaffer corn.  As I had no stand.  Mr J. D. Smith plowed his cotton .  To night som cooler in the wether.

May 10, 1900 - Thursday.  A clear day, cool morning.  Heavy dew on the weeds and grass.  Hope that I will finish planting cotton, Did not finish planting and Mr Smith did not git through.   Alight norther came down and still to night.  It is here the 10th of May and grass and weeds all over the field and not done planting.  A button thistle or dock weed with a thistle button flower is waist high all over, THE FIELD, now.  Thare is no locus or grass hoppers this year.  The land has comenced to git hard in places.

May 11, 1900 - Friday.   A clear morning, hoed corn and chopped weeds in the morning, Mr J.D. Smith and boys com down and plowed and burnt brush and hauled wood of new cleared land.   I went up to Santa Anna and stoped with Major Lewis, he has been busy with his Bees and crop.  New swarms and extracting honey.   Received my male.  The Houston post may 10, Santa Anna News may 11, 4 stamp papers, Mekeel Weekly stamp news May10, The Philatelic Chronicle May 1900, The Philatelic Post May, the Adhesne May 1900, Wheat has headed out cotton is up to a bad stand.  Storms and hale, rain and over flowers over Texas.  Last Sunday and Monday, doing grate damage to crops and houses.

May 12, 1900 - Saturday.  A cloudy, shifting day.  Choped out corn and kaffer corn.  Also Popcorn.  Mr J. D. Smith and boys com down and planted cotton.  To Night a cloud in the west is indications of rain.  The algeretter berries are a giting ripe, And several weeds and grass seed is ripeing.  Seems hard matter to git up a stand of cotton.

May 13, 1900 - Sunday.  A cloudy day.  Went up to Santa Anna and atended the Baptist Sunday School and preaching by Bro West, a good sermon on Daniel.   And the times of Political trouble with the coming State and Presidential elections.  Baptist Conference at night preaching.  Com home at night.

May14, 1900 - Monday.  Heavy clouds, som rain.  Choped corn, all fare noon, Mr J. D. Smith com down and went to work.   And Mr.  R. and S. com down and abused Mr Smith and beat him up with a wrench.  Then Mr Smith com up where I were all bloody and beat up and we went back to town and Mr J. D. Smith had his wounds dressed and made up papers.  Then went Mr Bouchman and Mr Brown the Justice as he was at Coleman I didn’t find him.  This has been a awful day many troubles Mountain High.  Ohs sorrow and woe is poor man.  All is vanity, Jo Bear the white mans Burdent.  Oh Man, What art tho only a weak sinful creature, full of trouble.  For a few days.

May 15, 1900 - Tuesday. Rain, the restart of the night to day.  Wet and cloudy.  The ground is very wet.  Choped weeds and planted som Kershous seed, not much wind.  The members of Santa Anna have held three conferences since Sunday evening to try Mr J. W. S. for slander and it has broken up the Church and caused hard feeling.  And I don’t know when if is going to end.  I am afraid it will cause a Law Suit or something worse.

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January 12, 1914 - Monday.  Cloudy and cool raining in the evening, Plowed in the morning.

January 13, 1914 - Tuesday.  Wet and cold in the morning. Plowed in the evening.  The farmers are a plowing an puting there land in shape for another crop.  The clouds cleared off and fine wether.  Finish braking land up above the garden and come down by the orchard to plow.

January 14, - Wednesday.  A clear warm day. Plowed all day.  I received 10 papers.

January 15, - Thursday.  Clear and warm.  Hauled rock all day.  Cleared the field of rock and Mr Felix Smith said that Mr Wallis (M. M. Wallace - born Apr 22, 1883 - Platt I, block 25 Santa Anna) died and was buried on Wednesday, he was 80 years old.  I received the St Louis Republic Jan 12 106th year.  The Appeal to Reason Jan 10, no 945., La Follettes Weekly Woodson, Wis. Jan 3, 10th , The Semi Weekly Farm News Dallas, Tex no 25, vol 29,

The Literary Digest vol 48 no2 whole no 1238 Jan 3 & 10,  Missouri Valley Farmer Jan 15, 1914 24 years, no12, Topeka, Kansas.

The Woman’s World Feb 1914 vol 30202 Chicago.  Successful farming 1914 vol 13, DeMoines, Iowa, Philatelic Stamp News vol 4, no 4, Dec 1913.

Week of January 13 was a hot week up to Sunday 18, clear, cooler.  Mr Dick Todd put 6 cows on my oats, I have been plowing

January 19, 1914 - Monday a thin cloud cool west wind up to Tuesday 20.  A norther sprung up and cool nights.  I receive a lot of male.  Papers and magazines and som letters.

January 21, 1914 - Wednesday Clear and cool.  Plowed to day the ground is a giting hard.  Mr Ben Rothemel told me that Mr Wyatt Brooks had died and Mr Harrie Bracy, the early Settlers and Soldiers are a passing away.    Times are a changing and after passing and the fathers and mothers a going to the grate beyond and the younger generation a coming and a taken ther places.  Bellville don’t seem like the old place home any more, all has changed new faces in the places.

January 22, - Thursday.  Clear and warm.  Went up to Santa Anna, the town was dull, a few farmers in town, And town was very quite.  The farmers were a plowing and drilling in oats.  I bought 4 packs of garden seed 50 cts, turnips and beans of Andy Kirkpatrick.  The people are all at work, a giting there land in shape for another crop.

January 23 - Friday.  Clear most of the day, som clouds west and south.  North west wind.  Plowed all day.  At night lightning, could be seen flashing up South east of here.  The land are a geting dry.  Mr Dick Todd put 6 cows in on my oats.                

January 24 - Saturday.  Clear and warm.   Plowed in the morning.   Cool nights.  In the evening. Wrote letters on Jan 23, Friday 1914.  The cows and horses wondered about over the pasture and some broke out and went several miles from where they were pastured.  And no one knows why they do that.  Why on certain day want to wonder around.  What causes it som change in the worlds make up.

January 25, 1914 - Clear, warm and pleasant.  Went up to Santa Anna, people were a driving around and a visiting.  Sent off som letters and got my male.  And at night went over to the Baptist Church to her Bro Light and the members had Judson service as it was one hundred and two years since Judson went out to India as a Missionary.  The Methodist have move there old Church and will build a new one. 

January 26, 1914 - Monday.  Stayed at town and come home with Mr Campbell, his old mare had died and he had to haul her off.  Warm, cloudy in the evening.

February 1, 1914 -  Sunday.  A clear pleasant warm day.   Went over in the Advent neighborhood and the Advents were a digin a grave at there Church House as it was Monday with them, but no one was a workin.   All nearly com to the Burein funeral of Mr Qunn’s 9 year old daughter.  They live 6 miles this side of Coleman and thay had the hearse from Coleman, which cost him 15 dollars.  There was a good crowd out.  Services were helt in the Church.  The house was so full that I didn’t go in.  Poor little girl she has Past to her long home.  

Feb 2 - Monday.  Clear warm.  Built rock fince.  

Feb 3 - Tuesday. Worked on the rock fince and went over to Mr. Campbells. He and Smith are dun broken.

Feb 4 - Wednesday.  A norther and worked around, choped wood.  Som cooler, cloudy.  Snow in the North Friday, Saturday the last of January

Feb 5, 1914 - Thursday.  A heavy fog, thunder, cloudy warm.  The tig, El and algerett are in bloom.   The butterflys and mosqueter hows.  Dragon fly are out and som flowers are a blooming and the buds a busting on the peach trees.   Hauled rock to build wall.

Feb 6 - Friday.  A cold norther  cloudy. Frost cold all day.

Feb 7 - Saturday.  Clear cool norther all day.   Went up to Santa Anna, a crowd was thare of the Jaspers and a spruced up Yanke come in town in a automobile and comenced to talk to hold crowd and he soon showed Jewelry and razors and comence a given away and a selling till he got the crowd.  He then left with the money.

Feb 8 - Sunday.  A cold cloudy day. Stayed at home all day.  Was to cold to be out.

Feb 9 - Monday.  Cool Heavy clouds, South wind, with mosture like rain, No rain at night, cleared off.  Choped wood.   Mr Campbell come over and up the notes and morgaged on the Jack mule and a 50 dollar note.

Feb 10, 1914 - Tuesday.  A heavy fog, a norther, cleared it away.  Hauled wood and rock.  Clear and warmer.  Changeable wind.

Feb 11, 1914 Wednesday to 14 - Saturday.- Clear, cloudy sometimes cool.  Hauled rock, build wall.  To cool to do anything.

Feb 15 - Sunday.  Clear and warmer, a fine day.   Went up to Santa Anna Mountain to Mr. Robert Henderson.

Feb 19 - Thursday.  The Berwick shire News Dec 23 1913, a Scoh paper on the Tweeds River of Scotland a home paper 44 years old Established 1868 - no 2243, one penny, giving the news of the Scoh People and there way of seeing things with there queer ads and talk.

Feb 19 Thursday - a Tuesday 17 - A rain come up.  We hauled mood and rock and let Mr Campbell have paulera mule and I went up to town a Monday 15 and bought 25 planks at $5.45 cts to make a hog pen and we built a hog pen and put the sow in.  A Wednesday the wind changed to the North after the rain and clouded up last night, Som caller Mr Darnell sent me Signs of the Time Feb 10, 1914, vol 41, no5, Mountain View, Calif.   The first page are the Glode Fredom of the Year of Jubilee by Stephen Hashell.

Today cloudy and cool

Feb 20 - Friday - A cloudy cool day, didn’t do much. Heavy clouds and a norther.

Feb 21 - Saturday. Cloudy and fog, South wind, no rain.  The day cleared off, warmer.  Went to town.  A large crowd of farmers.  Went down in town in the evening.  Mr Ticer sold off some restrow things, Cheap dishes, boxes lamps, counter show case.   A colt was sold for 40 dollars.

Feb 22 Sunday.  A cloudy morning like it would rain.  A changeable blustery west wind, the clouds  partly cleared off.

March 4, 1914 - Wednesday.   A Monday was clear , warm and ah high west wind, Sunday clear warm  on Tuesday 3 was cloudy, a norther , cold some rain and a bad day last week in Feb was partly clear, cold cloudy, som rain, A Saturday, we planted onions sets, Irish potatoes, bean , peas.  The ground is dry and hard, to cold to plant anything yet.

Som one atacted Mr Campbell last week and he saved himself by the gate.  The heathean Beast, prowl at night seeking whom thay may devour. 

I received my blue finch 4 volumes.

March 6 - Wednesday Mr. Campbell help haul rock all day, today and he hauled in the evening the 5th  Tuesday.

March 7 - A norther cool didn’t work, clear.

March 8 - Sunday.  A fine day west wind, warm dry.  Went up to Mr Smiths and he drove up to Mr Orman and I went to Mr Bob Henderson and stayed a while, He showed me some pictures and money of England and give me a lot of Scots papers, The Berwichshire New Dec 2, 1914

March 9, 1914 - Monday.   The Berwickshire News the county news paper Duns Tuesday Jan 20, 1914 no 2.248 Established 1869, Scottish News for the Interest the Border land, A newsy paper in there strong way.

I have a copy of the Visitor vol XLVIII, March 1, 1914.  

 A Methodist Sunday School paper.   The Missouri Valley Farmer, March 1915,

The House Beautiful March 1914 vol 35 no 4, The American Homstead Lincoln, Neb March 1914, vol 31, no9,   La Falsettos weekly   Madison, Wis. March 1914, the Weekly Inter Ocean and Farmer, Chicago, Ill.  March 6, 1914 vol XLI., Farm and News Paper, The Literary Digest vol 48, March 7. 

I received a letter and acount of Prof Moorehead in preparation, The Indian a History, the Professor a banded his other book and will take up Indian History.

March 9, 1914- Monday. Clear and warmer, west wind.  The pipen com for the gas works and a lot of men and teams were at the cars and they comence unloading the car of pipe on the wagons.

Last night thare was two run away horses with buggies and a Miss Sherfield was hurt, north of the Mountain, very bad and thay brought her in to Dr. Sealy in a automoble.  Som sickness around, colds and fever.

March 10, 1914 - Tuesday.  Clear, warm , South to west wind around to North, Cloudy with a bristry norther, rain and thunder, to cooler dry, shell maybe.   And received my papers and books 10 volume.  Seeing Europe with Famous Authors elected by Francis W. Halsy.  From Funk & Wagner Company, New York and London, Blue back Fine set of 10 vol., nice pictures and print the latest of book art.  With the Literary Digest $3.50 cts, no more cost and I receive my Literary Digest every week. 

March 11 - Wednesday.  Clear , cool, a Norther all day.

March 18, 1914 - Wednesday.   Clear warm a south wind.  Drove up to Santa Anna.  Som farmers were a planting cotton and cane.  Others there land was two dry and cloudy to plant.  The gas pipe company had distributed there pipe over town, but haden’t comence a laying pipe yet.  Egg and chickens went down.    A good many in town and the lumber yards men were selling som high price lumber.  I bought $1.70 cts worth 60 feet and 50 cts of Mr Kirkpatrick store.

March 19 - Wednesday.  Clouds, cold, Som didn’t go to School.  Not enough rain to wet the ground much.  Cold at night, maybe the fruit will escape.

March 20, 1914 - Friday.  Cloudy, warmer, som frost.  Cleared up part of my house.  Books and papers and fix bed.  Have so many haven’t a place for them.   No school at Arbar School to day as the teacher M Baker went up to Coleman to a spell and debating match.

March 25, 1914 - Wednesday.  Clear and warm help Mr Campbell git out rock and help him in the evening on Tuesday 24th

March 26, 1914 - Thursday.  Cloudy, warm south wind.  Mr Campbell and Mr Felix Smith come over to help me work my fileys and the clouds comence to rain and a heavy rain fell with som hale the rain went east and rained at night and cleared off and before morning clouded up agan.

March 27 - Friday.  Fogg, misty rain.  A good season in the ground.  The creeks run and fill the tanks.  We can plant a crop now when the ground gets dry.  Most of the oats are killed.

March 29 - Sunday.  Partly cloudy, windy, som sunshine.  Stayed home nearly all day on

 Saturday 28.  Went up to Santa Anna to the show and gamblin out fit.  Thare were dozen or more hethens for the dollars.   Jeweler glass. Ware knives, ball cats and baby horses, fortune tellers, animal show, hobby horses, Old plantation nigros minstrel, all for the money.

March 30 - Monday.  A foggy heavy clouds and rain in the morning, some hail.  Filled up the creeks and stoped work.  J. put the Dun filey to Mr Felix Smiths horse and at night the Black filey to the horse, both taken him.

March 31 - Tuesday.  A heavy fog with rain and som hale, the creeks run and the fields are so wet we can’t plant this week.   Thare is something the matter with my cats, thay are sick.   A mockingbird come in the house during the rain.  The hale must have knocked it out of the tree.  The rain has pass and light has began to show in the West.  The are a singing and hen a cacklin and the thunder is rolen in the distance.  I have been a reading the International Socialist for April it fine, so many writers.  Short letters to the Papers with views full of Instruction the Prince of Merchants have to have ther day if it was not for our free press we would not have any freedom of speech.

April 1, Wednesday.

April 2, Thursday. - Rain and wher the creeks run and didn’t do any work.

April 3, Friday. - Wet cold.

April 4, Saturday. - Clear warmer, wet.  Found som arrow points and scrapers, the creek.

April 5, 1914 - Sunday.  A bright clear warm spring day.  Went over to Mr Priest him and wife were a lone, he said that thare was gas, oil and minerals on his and my place.  And that some day thay would be worked.  The oil men had been a trying to lease his land and that he wouldn’t seel till he got $50 dollars a acre.  That what he received for his land in Falls County.   The grass and Iatsm weeds and flowers are a coming.  I haven’t planted any crop yet.  As it has been too wet and cold.

April 6, 1914 - Monday.  Clear warm and sowed some oats, cane, pop corn in the orchard and broke land where my oats had frozen out.  The scissortail  bird come and the larks has gone North after staying here all winter and the king fishers pass going North at night.

April 7 - Tuesday.  A cool cloudy day a norther is a blowing.  Plowing disagreeable.  Not many work today.   Mr Smith had Dr Tyson put to see Jesse she is sick.

April 8 - Wednesday.  Cloudy, cold than Tuesday.  The norther as brisk as ever, colder.

I received vol 5, no 1 Jan-Feb Archaeologal Bulletin.   Mr L R. Stewards Dana Indians has resign as Sec - Treasurer and Mr A. J. Reynolds box 97 Ottawa, Kansas has taken charge again.   The Society needs money to run and good writers.  I received the Philatelic Journal of America March 1914 vol 24 no 9, Which is full of stamps, lore and ads of stamp dome.

 I received the Prospectus of the New Encyclopedia Britannica up to date full of Illustrations and reading on people that have Perches the Enc Brits a fine thing.  I have 4 encyclopedia   

universal knowledge 4 vol 1880 American Education and several Single volumes.  The lot of books cost about $160 dollars a set of 28 vol. Or more.    

April 11 - Saturday.  A norther com with clouds.  Turned colder.  Plowed and in the evening went over to John Campbell’s, he was a harrowing and stayed all night.  The clouds cleared off and come again and all Easter Sunday 12 was a rainey day.  And at night Sunday and it cleared off.

April 13, 1914 - Monday.  Clear and warmer and two wet to plow and plant.

April 14, 1914 - Tuesday, Cleared off, to wet to plow.  A good season in the ground, Done other work, as soon as the ground gits dry the farmers will comence a planting feed and cotton.

April 15 - Wednesday.  Comence planting corn both pop corn and Hickery King and more.

April 16 - Thursday to Saturday 18 - Planted maze, garden melons and cotton.  The ground are a geting warm and the grass and weeds are up.  Flowers in bloom and trees have put out.  While I were a braken land I had a visit of 50 or 100 ravens black they fed on grubs and stayed most all day and went on West.  The birds are a going North.  The Scissortail has come and the frogs and turtles have com back in the tanks.   Rain around Friday night 17th, and a norther.  A Saturday a cloud pass east.  A Sunday morning clear warm with a norther.  My old sow has 7 pigs, 4 black, 3 red ones, thare are a week old.  The farmers has been buissey planting crop here.

April 19, 1914 - I received Collectors Blue Book vol 1, no 4, 25 cts a year monthly 625 Pearl Street Camden N. J., Editor Business manger Thomas Burnet.   A well got nice newsy and all around Collectors Journal for March 1914.  I will have to subscribe.

April 19 - Sunday a fine clear warm day.  Stayed at home nearly all day.  In the evening went up to Mr Smiths, his daughter Lilly is very sick and Mrs and Mr Priest com in the evening.

April 20 - Monday.  Som rain plowed cloudy.

April 21 - Tuesday. Cloudy rain. Plowed.  Mr Smith had Dr. Tyson to see Lilley and she has been bad off.  Comenced Planting cotton.

April 22 - Wednesday. Planted cotton.  Crop is a coming up slow.  The nights to cold.  A Sunday night was cold.

April 23, 1914 - Thursday.  Planted som of my mortgage lifter, cotton.  Lilley Smith has been so sick that thay have had to set up with her and the neighbors have been a seten up.  The pick nick at town was not much the fire boys won the home cup at Santa Anna.

President Wilson has declared war on Herta Mexico and have went to fighten at Mexico at Vercruse and has ordered the ships thare all for greed and the money power.  4 has been kill and many wounded and April 23 the Americans have taken Vercruse after a good deal of fighting.  The Mexican Army left Vercruse.

April 24, 1914 - Cloudy day, rain north of here at night.  Lilley Smith very sick.  Planted cotton.

April 25 - Saturday.  Warm searing cloudy.  Broke land.  The farmers have been a rushing in there cotton and feed crop.  The ground is a giting dry and hard to brake.

April 26, 1914 - Sunday.  Clear and warm and pleasant.  Lilley Smith still very sick and the neighbors have been a seting up with her.  The mares are a having colts now.  And we cared our fileys  to Mr Smiths horses.

April 27 - Monday.  Heavy clouds a coming from the south and gethered black in the north and a good rain fell, so the farmers can finish-lowing.  Warmer wether everything is a growen now.

April 28 - Tuesday - 29 Wednesday - Cloudy and clear.

April 30 - Thursday.  Cloudy south wind a sprinkle of rain, Lilly Smith is worse Dr Holland, Sealy and Tyson all has been to see her.  The wether took more like rain.

May 1 - Friday.  I plowed.  Looks like rain.

May 2 - Saturday.  I worked som.  Need rain.  Wether moderate, sometimes cloudy,

May 3, 1914 - Sunday.  A fine warm day, flowers and birds and every enjoying spring wether.   The farmers a wishing for rain as crops are coming slow.   A good rain fell last Monday and come today a Sunday.  And last night Lilly Smith died at 10 o’clock and they went up to bury her at Santa Anna Cemetery.  Lillie Vickie Smith born 19 Feb 1906, died May 2, 1914, buried Platt II, block 102.   And we didn’t get to go as I was not well enough to go.  Samson started.              A good rain fell.  If we had warm wether to bring up our crop. 

Oats are a heading out but are thin.  The rains over Texas are heavy and over flows wash out a grate many drowning and crops ruined.  Heavy damage from heavy rains.

May 4, 1914 - Monday to Saturday. 9 May.  Plowed and plant maze.  The week, has been warm and a growen week, the oats and crop has com up and put out heads.  The farmers ate planting cotton and feed crop.  A Saturday, when I went up to Santa Anna was windy, som clouds and sunshine, a good sprinkle of farmers were at town buying and the pipe men were a laying gas pipe.  Thay had a big force at work, 8 hours a day.

May 10, 1914 - Sunday.  A pleasant morning, warm a south wind a blowing, some clouds.  A growing morning.  The War is still a going on in Mexico, 3 gangs a fighting with the Americans.  Thare the Mexicans are afraid the Americans will take Mexico and are a murddring robing and a driveing out all foreigners except the Japness.

May 11 - Monday.  A cloudy cool norther.  Harrowed cotton, maze.  We need rain.  My gray mare  found a horse colt on Sunday.

May 12 - Tuesday.  A norther, heavy clouds, cold for May.  So Cold heavy wether haven’t done much this week.

May 13 - Wednesday.  Cold cloudy.  We have a new rural male man, Since Williams left.

May 14 - Thursday.  Planted maze, choped corn and the wind a coming from the East, the worms and chic bugs are a eating up our cotton and oats is smutty and rust are taken the oats.  The farmers are not through a planting cotton.

May 15 - Friday. Cloudy, cool.  Fix lot fince.  Need wether on crops.  We need rain.

May 16 - Saturday.  A good ran came up in the morning and as we were a seting out potatoes and we didn’t git to world any the rest of the day.

May 17 - Sunday.  A cool day, cloudy, rain in the evening.  Went up to Mr.Rob Henderson and stayed

awhile and went on to town and stayed all night at Mr J. Campbell’s.  Rain during the night.

May18, 1914 - Monday.  Rain all the morning and good rains fell.  Mr Casey say so much rain has fell that little river is higher than last year and the farmers are behind, have no crops hardly.  Haven’t planted and have lost what thay have planted.

May 19, 1914 - Tuesday.  Cloudy and showers, warmer.  The papers say thare was a drop of 40 degrees last week.  No chance to work in the field.

May 20, 1914 - Wednesday.  Heavy clouds, rain, Southeast wind.   Taken my dun ware to Mr Smith horse she didn’t take him.  Then taken gray.  She taken him twice.  Rain set in at night and continued all night. 

May 21, 1914 - Thursday.  Thursday.  Heavy clouds, rain all morning and part of the evening, the clouds broke and the rain has stoped.  No work in the field this week.   Som cooler.  The rain is not over according to the forecast.

May 22 - Friday.  Cloudy, sun shone out.  Sold al of our pigs, except one a 3 dollars a pice.

May 23 - Saturday. Sunshine and clouds, warmer, no rain today.  Went to town the canadates were out and lots of people in town, I paid Mr W. J. Vencent $2.50 for the use of the Bare, the mares has lots of colts over the country.

May 24 - Sunday.  A sunshine, warm day.  Clouds, no rain.  Stayed at home all day, the Elles Campbell Evens boys come.

May 25 _ Monday.  Heavy clouds, South wind like it would rain. Field wet.  The farmers were a going to chop cotton.  Looks like rain.  The oats are fine and are a giting ripe, if the wether are fine, the binders will start this week.

May 26 -Tuesday.  Heavy clouds, west wind and thunder. Soon brought rain, rain nearly all day and all night and put up the creeks and made the field so wet we can’t do much in the field.

May 27 - Wednesday.  Cloudy warmer, rain this morning.  Went over to Mr Priest and fix my pitch fork and sye blade handle.  And home and tried my dun mare.  She wouldn’t take the horse.

May 28, 1914 - Thursday.  Warm, cloudy, no rain, sunshine, heavy cloudy.  The field are to wet to work.  Som farmers are a chopin cotton.  Som haven’t planted.  Went over to Mr Priest and help him and com back by Mr Ellis, he was a werring about the wet wether as he couldn’t work his crop

May 29, 1914 - Friday.  Heavy clouds.  Set out som potato slips. Choped som cotton.  Rain showers a  round.  Received big batch of mole wormer.  The field is to wet to work.  Oats will need cutting soon.

May 30 - Sunday.  Stayed home all day.  Ellis boys were here.  Field wet and Earl rode my black filey.

June 1, 1914 - Monday.  Heavy clouds, choped cotton and went over to Mr Campbell’s he had moved his folks out and was a choping cotton.

June 2, Tuesday.  Cloudy sunshine. Plowed cotton and garden and cut some oats.  My oats are ripe and need cuting.  We hoed and plowed all the week.

June 7 - Sunday.  Cloudy with blustry south winds, heavy clouds, rain north of here.  Looked like we would git more rain.  Flys are bad.  Crops are a growen now as the farmers plows and chops out.   Received a letter from Nap he says that the rains out in Gregg County has caused the creek bottoms to over flow till thay can’t be planted till late if at all.  Crops are very good out there.  I received a lot of male, this week, more than I can read.

June 8 - Monday.  Choped and mowed oats.

June 11 - Thursday.  A clear pleasant day.  Went up to Santa Anna.  Mr Will Swamn was a cuting my Oats.  And I and Mr John Campbell went up and bought of Mr Adams & Childers a baler mower, buck rack, bull rake at $2.96, $1.50 with 8 percent interest and brought them home, at night..

June 11 - Friday.  Plowed and worked at home.

June 12 - Saturday.  Mr Campbell comence a cuting on Friday and Mrs Campball niece died at Liberty  and thay went down there.  A Saturday we cut Mr Smith oats and mine.

June 13, 1914 - Sunday.  Finish my oats and went down and cut Mr Smith’s.  Sunshine and warm.

June 14 - Monday.  Cloudy, threating warm wether.  Finish cuting rancy oats, Johnson grass, millet.  And taken the mower over to Mr Campbells and I come home.  A shower of rain come up and Richard Smith didn’t git done and I had to wate for the rake.   When he brought the rake.  I finish the upper pice at night a heavy rain come up from the West and rained all night.

June 30 - Thursday. To July. - a baleing Alfalfa.

July 3 - Choped cotton and finish up my cotton.  We need rain bad, now.  A rain Friday north of Coleman.  The thrasher has com and gone.

July 4, 1914 - Sun shine and cloudy.  No rain   We baled hay after the Alfalfa for Barnet on the Jim Ned and come back and last week haled in my oats and Mr Ellises and went up to Santa Anna on Friday. .

July 18 - Sunday.  Clear hot dry day and we need rain bad.  Crop is a suffering, maze, cane a fallen down.   The farmers have comenced a cuting Maze.

July 19, 1914 - Monday.  Comence to cut my sun flowers and gethr the beans and peas, maze and fodder.  Hot dry wether.

July 20, 1914 - Tuesday.  Cut fodder, fix my wagon, oil wheels and cut sun flowers and fodder, gathered beans.   Mr. John Campbells son’s haywood horse was snake bit and is bad off.  Thay had Dr John Campbell of Santa Anna a doctoring the horse and Mr Campbell wanted to go down to Nicholsons to cut and bale hay, Johnson grass.

July 22 - Wednesday. Cut maze, hot and dry.

July 23 - Thursday.  Hot and dry, rain last night south of here.  And rain north of here this morning, cloudy and sunshine.  I have so many magazines and papers, books and other things.  I haven’t time to write all down.  Look like we would have some rain, so hot.

July 26, 1914 - Sunday.  Clear dry all the rain gone.  I stayed home all day.  Socialist speaking at the  house last night and the man was a preacher.   And a cripple, he went down on the Jim Ned to preach a Sunday.   Mr Bob Henderson come to see me, him and his wife.

July 27 - Monday.  Cooler wether.  Cut maze didn’t do much. 

As Samson (Millard) stayed up to town.

Barnett will soon comence to fill his Silo and will finish cuting this week on his cane.  Thay are going to have goats put in to tramp the cut cane.  Thay will be driven around, looks like the place would be to hot for them.

July 28 - Tuesday.  Clear dry, not so hot as have been.

July 29 - Wednesday.  Hot and dry, cut maze.  So hot didn’t do much.

July 30 - Thursday.  Hot som clouds, rains around.  Nor well and didn’t git to go to Glen Co. to the Socialist meeting.  A good many went from here.

July 31 - Friday.  Still hot and dry rains around, Not well enough to go or work.  July is out and I didn’t git my work all done.  Cotton are a throwen off.

August 1 - Saturday.  Hot.  At home all day.

Aug 2, 1914 - Sunday.  Hot, some clouds looks like rain.  At home all day, not well.  We need rain bad, the papers say that all Europe are about to go to War.  Don’t know wether to believe them, as thare is so much untruth in the newspapers.

Aug 3, 1914 - Monday.  Not so hot.  Hauled in all of my maze I had cut down.  And in the evening a good rain com and rain nearly all evening, which will do som good.  

Aug 4, 1914 - Tuesday.  Heavy clouds with rain, a good rain at night and during the day.  A good season in the ground.  The Burket had a good socilist meeting and a big crowd.  Apples and melons the farmers brought in and Mr Felix Smith brought a lode of apples back with him.

August 6, 1914 - Thursday.  Carried my sow to Mr Smith tomorrow.

Aug 7 - Friday Plowed land.  Planted beans, peas and corn.  Cloudy  

Aug 9 - Sunday.  Heavy clouds, some rain , cool nights.  Crops has comence to gowen.  All papers are full of Europe War news.  And thare are perilous times.  The Catholic and big business are a pushing and crying for more war.  

Aug 10 - Monday.  Plowed in corn and peas.  Rain come before 12 o’clock and I didn’t plow any more till Tuesday.

Aug 11, 1914 - Tuesday.   Broke land and planted corn and maze.  Rain around.  Mr Smith comenced a puting up his crib.

I received no. 1, Philotelic West July 1914 63 vol full of collectors news about the Hobby of collection curos.  Mr Brodstone is a going to take a rest and let others run the West.

Aug 13 - Thursday.  Rain and heavy clouds.  To wet to work.

Aug 14 - Friday. More rain, heavy clouds, can’t plow crop.  A running and still down pour of rain.  Can’t tell how many inches has fell.  The pick nic at town was put off on account of so much rain.  The War still goes on in Europe and cotton down to nothing.  No business news. Cotton a coming in.  The newspapers are full of War News.  And the War corespondents are not alowed to send out news.  The ships are tied up and no one are alowed to go out from one county to another.

Aug 15, 1914 - Saturday.  Heavy clouds, rain today.  Has been a wet week.  The war and Eqnox change of the moon has brought on a wet spell.  My papers all are full, why the war was brought on and what for.   I have written a letter to the menace, Publishing Co., Aurora, Missouri for books.

Aug 16 - Sunday.  Cloudy sunshine, no rain, the ground wet and maze and oats a sprouting.  Oats a coming up in the field and on the stock.  No rain today.  Visit the Neighbors, talk crop and war

Aug 17 - Monday.  Cloudy, a heavy dew, Plowed wet.  Turned under the grass and cane seed.  The clouds, Showers comence at 12 o’clock.  When I come to the house.  I dream, a dream before I had heard that the war had started in all Europe.   I saw a flying in the air many eagles a seting up a looking West as floated East and a large fish then com a large lion a looking West, South and East very uneasy and after thay had pass, fire rain down from the heaven.  Clouds like swords.  Thare were other things pass in my dream that I can’t remember.  Them who can enterturpt this dream

Aug 18 - Tuesday.  Sunshine and clouds, no rain, heavy dew.  Plowed broke land and Samson and Will Ellis, Jack Glass Cork cut more maze tops today.  Mr Orman cut half day.  Thay cut two wagon lods, off more tops.

Aug 19, 1914 - Wednesday. Clear scatring cloud.. Plowed, Broke land.  All last week I plowed and gethered maze, no rain, turned under the grass.  The farmer are a loosing there fodder and grain, enough has been lost to pay rent.  Every thing are a growen and cotton is down to 5 cts.  While the war is going on in Europe.

Aug 21, 1914 - Friday.  Plowed and sowed millet.

Aug 22 - Saturday. Plowed and sowed turnips and Rutaboga and gethered maze.

Aug 23 - Sunday. A warm clear day.  The flys are bad on stock and I fix up to go down on Jim Ned and a heavy cloud com up from the north and west with rain at night.

Aug 24 - Monday.  Heavy showers all morning.  To wet to work and a heavy rain com up from the north about 10 o’clock.

Aug 25 - Tuesday.  Rain during the night and good showers early in the morning which made it to wet to plow or gether any crop out of the field.

Aug 26 - Wednesday.  Went up to Santa Anna to the picknic and carnival.  Thare was Animal shows, fairess wheel, hobby horses, and gambling dens, dolls, knives and glass ware, a knocking block and other things too git your money.  Lots of people in town , strangers and melons and peaches.  Aug 27 - Thursday.  Still wet to plow.  And Samson gethered corn.  Cloudy clear and hot rains around.

Aug 28 - Friday.  Plowed under the grass and Samson gethered pop corn, hot no rain.

Aug 29, 1914 - Saturday.  Clear bright day.  Went up to Santa Anna the rodes were dry and we got to town near 12 o’clock.   Went out to the Cemetery to Mothers grave and tried to fix it up.

Aug 30, 1914 - Sunday.   Cloudy and clear not so hot.  No rain here today.  And Saturday rain last night, north of here lightning.  I received 10 books from the Menace Publishing Co. Aurora, Miss. on Romanism,  Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day,

Bales Campaign Speech on Political Romanism, Diaz the Dictator A story,  The Secret Instructions of the Jesuits,  The Church of Rome in American Politics, Senate Documents no 190,  Is the Pope to rule America,  American government the Priest in Absolution.

Sept. 4 Friday.  The wether been cloudy, sunshine, no rain.  The ground is a giting hard and the farmers have comence picken cotton and gethering maze.   Cotton 6 or 7 cts and only 27 a bale on account of the war.  To day is clear.

Sept 7 - Monday.  Clear.  Hauled maze. The ground is a geting dry and the worms are a eating the grass.  We hauled in the maze and comenced picking cotton.

Sept 8 - Tuesday.   Let Mr Campbell have my wagon to haul his cotton, as he has a bale out.

Sept 14 - Tuesday.  Clear, pleasant, dry and cotton picking is the order of the day.  Lots of cotton are a being gin.   Cotton 8 cts and Wall Street are a trying to force the merchants to close down on the farmers and make them sell at 5 cts.  While they can send the cotton over to Liverpool and git 121/2 cts and ruin the farmers.   Mr John Campbell paid me $50 dollars down on Jack and cotton is so low that I don’t know wether he can pay the balance this year and I have waited two years to get the money and build and we have to pay on the hay press 85 and 8 precent interest which will be here soon.

Sept 20 - Sunday.  A heavy rain com from the north.  Friday we baled 49 bales of Alfalfa for

Mr Barnet and the rain stoped us.  And this week has been cloudy and rain around.

Sept 22 - Tuesday.   Rain Around. A good rain fell north and south and a norther com with the heavy clouds.

Sept 23, 1914 - Wednesday.  A norther, the clouds cleared off without any more rain.  Maybe we will have a good week to pick cotton. 

October 18, 1914 - Sunday.  Cloudy some rain, warmer, a norther and frost and ice last week.  A black butter fly went forth on the Jim Ned.  Black butterflys by the hundreds and cranes were flying south.

Oct 19, 1914 - Monday.  Cloudy and sunshine.  Hauled fodder and picked cotton.

Oct 20 - Tuesday. A fog. Warmer.  Picked cotton.  Cotton down 6 to 7 cts on acount of the war in Europe and not much a selling.  New papers are full of war and cotton news.  The commercial world are a shiping food stuff and cotton to England.  And the farmers here can’t hardly live .  Money is hard to get.

Oct 23, 1914 - Friday.  Heavy clouds and a norther wind all day, rain, rain.  Cloudy  a Thursday and a heavy rain a Wednesday.  When I were a going to dig my potatoes, This will put back cotton picking and gethering feed crops.  Cotton is a selling at 5,6,7 cts below the cost of farming and gethering it.   I received the American Magazine Nov, McClure and Preview of reviews.  And Mr Bob Henderson give me copy of the Berwick shire News August 11, 1914.  

Lloyd’s Weekly News London Sunday Aug 9, 1914.  English Views and News about the great land of Belgium and France and the war goes on as brisk as ever.

Oct 30, 1914 - Friday. Cloudy, no rain, heavy dew and the ground are wet.  Pick cotton. To wet to dig potatoes.  Mr  J. Campbell has had my wagon this week a haling his hay and cotton and cotton had went down to 4 cts up to 7 cts.

Oct 31 - Saturday.  A lot of cotton in town.   Santa Anna has two big cotton yards.  Hay wood Campbell come back Mr Campbell is a going to take up the night watchman for Santa Anna.

And a Socialist speaker are in  town a speaking on Tuesday.

Nov 3 - Will be election Day.

Nov 7 - Saturday.   Rain and Sunday morning, Was cool. Cleared off.

Nov 8 - Sunday to 10, 11 - Clear cloudy rain on Wednesday night. 

Nov 12 - Thursday Cloudy wet and haven’t picked much cotton.  Dug som of my potatoes as the rain com once a week and sometimes twice.  We don’t git much done.

Nov 22, 1914 - Sunday Clear, partly cloudy, no rain.

Nov 23 - Monday.  Cloudy, pick cotton all day. Heavy clouds, changeable winds, rain at night and rain all day and night up to Wednesday 25th . Not doing anything or a going any where.  A wet thanks given and won’t have all our cotton out and not all of our oats plowed in.   The oats we have is up and a growing.  The election is over and the Democrats elected Furguson Governor, in other States the Socialist elected officers a good many offices.

Nov 29 - Sunday.  A pleasant warm day and Mr Ellis boys com and stayed in the evening.  Just a geting dry enough to git in the fields.  Can’t do much.  Continue rain nearly all last week.  The rode most impassable.

Nov 27 - Thursday. The block sow had 10 pigs and killed 4 by a laying on them.   So much rain couldn’t tend to them.

Nov 30 - Monday.  Clear morning, cloudy most of the warming clouds showed rain.  And I choped wood and picked cotton.

December 1, 1914 - A heavy rain com up from the North and 2 or 3 inches of rain fell.   A norther, wet week.  Can’t do much this week.  Now December and winter is here and no oats and wheat.   None to amount to much.  And the land to wet to plow.

Dec 2 - Wednesday.  Heavy clouds the wind in the north has comenced a raining, colder.   Writing to the Chronicles and World Works.

Dec 6, 1914 - Sunday.  Cold, cloudy, wet, som rain during the week.  Plowed in oats in the pasture and choped wood.

Dec 12, 1914 - Sunday.  A cold norther cleared off.  freezing.    The field has been to wet to go to plowing or sow any oats.   And we won’t git to sow any wheat.   My papers and magazines has run out.  And as cotton is no sale.  I can’t git money to renew.   Everything is at a stand blocked.  The banks has become raged-ass and commerce has stoped.  We have to give away our cotton. 

The war, Wall Street and the cotton spectators, manufactures quit buying and what is a runing wants to git cotton for nothing to make gun cotton and war material for the waring nations in Europe.  Things are dull, idle and gloomy.  Christmas a head.   As it is I will have to drop my Papers Magazines and Stamp Magazines, My West End Philatelic, Philadelphia Stamp News, Philatelist West and Stamp Journal and the Philatelist Journal of America. 

All will stop and I won’t git any stamp news.

Dec 18, 1914 - Friday.  Cloudy, heavy fog.  The week has been cold, cloudy, frosty.  Have picked som cotton, choped wood, fed stock, made fires and set by them.   Nearly all of my male has stoped.  Papers Magazines - git lots of letters about sets, papers, magazines.  Have no money this Christmas for anything.   Mr Ellis has been a selling his corn at 65 cts and cotton at 5 or 6 cts, 6 bales and cared off his 7.   Last he will have picked.  He will move back on the Menard as soon as he can give away what he has made.  A letter from Ellen, Temple.  Says times are tight thare.  People are a starving.  No work.  And winter are cold, wet, terable times.   The Europe wars are a making the whole world improvish for man to warm those awful times.  We read about are a coming to full fill prophesy.

Dec 20, 1914 - Sunday. The week has been frosty, cloudy, wet, cold, fog.  And a Norther not much,  Sunshine.  People have been a going plowing, haulen and a worken as Christmas and New Years is near to hand.  Renters a hunting a home and the merchants a hunting trade and the ones that owe them a groben.   Cotton stock.   Cotton a selling from 2 cents to 71/2 cents.  We pick cotton, choped wood, feed stock and keep warm and rad papers, magazines, books and write letters and here the people talk of the hard times and the War.  Som sickness, School closed for Holeyday and the teachers met at Coleman this week.  

Miss Jesse Kirkpatrick the teacher here has gone to Coleman.  Mrs Tray Evens has a girl baby, some wedens, and sickness and lots of cotton in the field.  And not much plowen done yet, may have to plant Oats over as the, bugs, rats, rabbits are a eating up oat and wheat.

Dec 24 - Thursday.  A cool rainey day.  Went up to Santa Anna Wednesday a cloudy fog and cool.  The farmers were our in force a buying groceries and Christmas.   The Post Office was chuch full of people a sending Christmas packages by Parsel Post and a big lot were a coming in.  A good deal of trade.   I didn’t buy any thing or git any money.  A so don’t buy any Christmas.  The rain cold and low price of cotton caused us an a many a one to go without any Christmas.   Some farmers has quit picken cotton and left it in the field.  I see that the nigros are here yet.  The San Angelo nigros has left and gone home for Christmas.  A bad time. A wet Christmas.

Dec 25 - Friday.  A cloudy cold day, wet and a bad day, at home most of the day.  Went up to Mr Smiths and thay had me to eat Turkey dinner.  And then went over to Mr Ellis’s they had been over to Mrs Priest to dinner.

Dec 26 - Saturday.  The clouds cleared off, a big frost and a big bright day.  We received some cake and a clock and cards from Ellen and the clock wouldn’t run.

Dec 27, 1914 - Sunday.  A cold cloudy day, southwest wind in spite of the wet.  And cotton panic, low price, people had Christmas, something to eat and war and received presents and give presents and went a visiting.

Petter Haring sent me 2 copys of Dec 9, Oct 29, Christian Herald an I receive the Literary Digest Dec 26, 1914, The Temple Tx Daily Telegram Dec 24 with the War news, Thew Appeal to Reason mo. 995, Dec 26, 1914, The Menace Aurors Dec 26, no 192.

Dec 31, 1914 - Thursday.  Clear, a white frost, ice.  The girls come to see us Smiths and Singletary and Archer little girls and taken Christmas.   Today is the last day in the old year.  And Friday will be January 1 , 1915. 

January 1, 1915 Friday.  A clear frosty day, New Years come clear and mild.  The farmers a pickin cotton. Another year grind set in.   The sick are some better and Christmas is over and cold wether still holds in the East.  A slaying the millions and wasting the Country.

Jan 3, 1915 - Sunday.   A rainy day at home.  Mr Campbell and Jesse Swan and Hubert was here. And talked of the War and crops.  Not so cold.  My gray mare died and I have no shelter, as lumber is so high and cotton is low.  The appeal is a hiting the big thieves and a showing up how the cotton raisers are hit hard in Oklahoma and all south.  A cotton panic and the merchants and land holders are a closing out mortgages and taken all stock.  I received a letter from Johnson Matthali & Thompson. Bellville, Texas Austin Co. about our old place, to late now.

Jan 4, 1915 - Monday.   Rainy, Cloudy, cleared off, wet.   Won’t git to do much.  War talk this week.

Have the Scientific American 1914, American Magazine Dec 1914, Christian Herald Dec 2, 1914, The Library Digest Jan 1, 1915, Worlds Works Jan 1915, Review of Reviews Jan 1915, Sunset Magazine Jan 1915, The West End Philatelist Dec 1914.

And I will have to dry my papers Magazines and book buying.  On account of the War.

Jan 6 - Wednesday.  A clear frosty morning.  Drove up to Santa Anna the rodes were ruff and muddy in places, a good crowd of farmers in town and some a looking for homes, some a moving to town and thare is lots of cotton to pick yet. In the fields the land is to wet to plow and pick.

Jan 7, 1915 - Thursday.  A white frost, clear, warmer.  Received War Number Stamp20, William S. Lincoln 2  Halles St.  Asyard St. London W., the oldest established Stamp Dealer in the world, The War Stamps of Europe for sale by the Ferme. The Philadelphia Stamp News Dec 2, 1914.

Mekeels Weekly Stamp News, Boston, Mass Jan 2. 1915, The house Hold 1915 Jan ., vol15, no 1.  The South Western Quartly - Historical vol vol 18, no3, Texas Christian Advocate, Dallas, Texas Dec 17, 1914 vol LX, no 19.

Well, I will have to go to gethering cotton and git dinner and do other work.

January 9 - Saturday.  A clear white frost.  Loded up my cotton and hauled of my first bale.  My cotton wagon weigh at Turner Gin 2520 lbs, tare 1230 - net 1230, No. 3011.  wt Bale 425.

Cotton weighter Certificate Wt at yard 424.  Cotton yard #18864.  Thare 13 or 14 bales a head of us.  Mr Smith went along and sold his bale for 7 cts.  A big crowd of farmers in town.  Some a selling cotton, the buyers of cotton and cotton seed were a going on.  And renters a hunting homes.  The farmers are a gething there cotton.  And Turner has a Cotton Bale thrasher and gins stand for gining the dirty cotton.  They charge 5 dollars a bale.

January 10, 1915 - Sunday.   A Saturday evening clouds com up and it grew colder and at night rain come, soon cleared off.   This morning , clear with a norther.   Mr Ellis are a fixing to move.  And the man will move on the place.  I hope he will be a good neighbor.   Thare are so many mean men in the World.  Thare was fires around last night.   So many new people has com in Coleman County and the people has change so one doesn’t git to talk much to them.  The grate Europe War has brought on such a down fall of price in what farmers raise.  And high we he has to buy that a panic has come on the people and the laboring man can’t buy the papers hold up the trust.  And merchants town people thinking thay are a holding up the Democrat and Republican Party.  They are a holden up the gold standard.  Rum, Rowe and Pum.   

January 13, 1915 - Wednesday.  A clear and warm day.  A buissy day.  Up to Santa Anna, lots of cotton and farmers a rushing in with thare cotton and cotton are up from 21/2 to 73/8.  And thay, the farmers are a given it away and a trying to sell dirty wet cotton the worst ever saw on the market, with cotton still in the field to pick and gether.  Not much business and the tax gether was in town.  And the farmer couldn’t even git enough to pay his taxes. 

January 16, 1915 - Saturday.  A cold norther, thunder lightning and rain around on Friday night.  Clear.  Went up to town and sold my bale of cotton only got 19 dollars and paid my taxes 14 dollars, high school tax.  The farmers were pushing there cotton on the market and giving it a way at 2,3,41/2 cts.  And trying to pay there acounts.  Som a buying some things were auction off, some farmers stock and plunder.  The bun man and peanut stand was not doing much, the stores were selling.  And farmers were a selling there cotton and paying high taxes.

January 17 - Sunday.  Cold and cloudy, a norther.  A Mr Flymings and another man moved in after Mr Ellis left.

January 18 - Monday.  A light snow.  Cleared off last night.  Cold, to cold to work out.

Jan 20 - Wednesday.  Clear frosty, warm up in the day.   Went up to Santa Anna and had som corn ground at Turners.  Bought som groceries.   Mr Dic paid me for wood and cotton picken 3.9 cts.  Mr Moorehead did not come.  Sanger Bro. were moving peraths goods since he was closed out.  The moving picture show were a fixing up where Hosh burnt out and had put in a military band a new organ.

Jan 21 - Thursday.  Clear frosty.  Plowing and sowen oats are the go now.

Jan 22, 1915- Friday.  A cold norther, cloudy, snow at night.

Jan 23 - Saturday.  Cold, cloudy, snow and frost, ice.  No work.  Have to feed.

Jan 24- Sunday.  Cold frosty, cleared off, ice and snow all day.   A big frost at night.

Wiley Smith and his cousin come and Haywood Campbell and John Evens and Tom Todd, Jesse Swann all stayed a while and in the evening. I went up to Santa Anna.  A few clerks were around on the streets and som girls a going to the Mountain.  A few automobiles a runing.  Town was quit.  Went out to Mr Craft and talked with him awhile, he’s blind.  I com home at night while the church bells were a ringing and a few a going to church.

January 25, 1915 - Monday.  A cloudy frosty morning, the sun shone out.  Fix the rode for the male rider.  I received Regestred letter from Mr John Burns, Bellville, Texas.  Regestred no 260, 10 cts.   I received United States Postal money order Jan 23. 1915 from Mr Barns on old place for $4.70. No 52371. Sn 679779.  Set, Hill, Tax receipt for 1914, 5-32 on old Place. value$ 510, tax collector W. M. Scheider Austin, County.   And a letter from Peter Haring Dallas, Tex., Haring Cotton Machine.

And no 999 of the Appeal to Reason, the Post Office Department strikes back at the appeal

for the money power and the Catholic.   

The Menace No. 196, Jan 23, 1915.   To hand the Catholic, so call church strickes back at the free press and Liberty and the free school.

The Catholics are a delugen Congress to put the Appeal and mace out of Business so they can rule persecute.  Slay kill and and imprison and rule America with there humbug of a Church so call, thay know that thay are no Church and don’t expect to be saved, Rule, Ruin, Rum, destroy all that is good in the world for the devel.    Taken my sow to Vencent Bare.

January 26, 1915 - Tuesday.  Clear, a west to north wind.  Plowed in oats, ground wet.

January 27 - Wednesday.   Cloudy, cold, and heavy wether.  To cold to plow, A writing letters.

January 28 - Thursday.  Cloudy, cold and disagreable. Grub.

January 29 - Friday.  Cloudy, cold picked cotton for Mr Dic Todd.  Mr Grady, Philips, Keith, Lankford.  Were out in automobile a hunting partridges, thay found som just at night.

January 30 Saturday.  Heavy cloudy, all during the morning, cleared off in the evening, bright and clouds com up with rain at night with thunder. Plowed in some oats.  Cotton picken and gethering and sowen oats and braken land.

Feb. 1, 1915 - Monday.  Cool day .  Plowed in Oats, clear off.

Feb 2, 1915 - Tuesday.   Went over to Mr Campbell’s for two lodes of John grass plowed , Clear and warmer.  Mr Campbell was out a hunting oats.  And oats at 55 cts a bushel.

Mr Singltary and Mrs Singltary hauled a lode of oats to Santa Anna and som chickens.

I came home and plowed.  Received The Review of Reviews for February 1915.

Feb 3, 1915 - Wednesday.  Clear Warm and a pleasant day.  Went up to Santa Anna, the farmers a plowing, picken cotton, sowen oats and burning grass.  The gins in town were a runing.  And cotton seed buyers were a having cars loaded with seed.  The New papers agent were in town and I subscribed for the Fort Worth Record 3 times a week for 25 cts, 3 months. Agent J. C. Findley, and for 4 papers, agent J. M. Hubert receipt no.192975,  99 cts a pair spectles and four papers 2 years.   I brought at Andy Store, flour 2 sacks $3.85, Salt .70, matches .10, Lard .05, cheese Crackers .15, Syrup at Rileys .55cts, 1 gallon.

The farmers have brought nigros here to pick thir cotton and do other work and now thay are a going to keep them here and more a coming on every train, the officers arest them when found gambling.   Mr Marberger com to see me.  He wanted to buy som cattle and git me to sigen a paper so he could cash a note and he had books to sell and Lectured against Catholic.  And git sub for the mana.... he went off at night for town.  Clouds come up with rain, lightning, thunder all pass without rain or cold.

Feb 4 - Thursday.  Clear, warmer, Plowed.   Received the Cotton and Cotton oil News, Jan 4, 1915.

Scientific American Aug 22, 1914- Jan 23, 1915.

While up at town I got Corn Culture for Texas Bulletin no 23, Feb 1912.  The Journal of Agriculture and Star Farmer, Dec 25, 1914, Dixillant June 1905, vol 4, no 5, October 1906 nol5, no 2, Nov 1903, Sept 1905, vol3, no 3, Pub at Dallas, Texas, in the interest of the South-Cause- Literature, the late War History a fine Magazine.   I wish that I could have been a taken it all this time.

February 5, 1915 - Friday.  Partly Clear, som clouds, a dry norther.  Braken land, warmer.

Feb 6, 1915 - Saturday. Clear, a cold norther, Broke land, planted som peach seed and onion sets.  Plowed nearly all day.

Feb 7 - Sunday.  Clear dry norther still continues, warmer.  At home all day.

Feb 9. 1915 - Tuesday.   Clear, warmer.  Plowed.  The Peach trees will soon be in bloom and weeds and grass coming if this wether stays warm a week or two.

Feb 10 - Wednesday.  A clear bright day.  Plowed in Oats and Samson picked cotton for Dick Todd.

Went up to Mr Smiths at night.  Thay had been up to Santa Anna to buy groceries and had heard that Mr Schoolcraft had died, that the mattress man would stay a while longer.   Richard, said that Mr Campbell were a going to move up to Coleman. 

The warm wether are a making the grass and weeds grow and the peach trees will be a blooming if the wether continues warm.  I received a letter from Department of Archaeology, Andover, Mass. And lots of magazines from Peter Haring.  I paid Mr Smith $2.00 dollars on Colt owe 2 the 10.

Feb 11, 1915 - Thursday. Windy, Cloudy, Broke land and gaeden, high wind, warmer.

Feb 12, 1915 - Friday.  Cloudy, warmer, broke land.

Feb 13, 1915 - Saturday.  Went up to Santa Anna.  Lots of people in town.  Some cotton a selling.  Give out the No. 1000 peace Copy of the Appeal to Reason.  So many don’t want to read the Appeal.  Grate crowds and thay don’t want to know anything about Socialism.

I to the more.  Universal.  Lewis Joseph Vance, Author of the Brass Bowl, Lone Wolf, etc.  Received $ 15,000.00 to write. The three Ohearty the grate Modern Problem Story.  It will apear Seralyirs the Universal.   The wolves and dog show was good.

I sold som eggs and bought som groceries and D. Jayson Tyson give 4 stacks of medical books, magazines, 10 years.

Feb 20 - Saturday.  Plowed all the week and a Saturday evening a good rain fell.

Feb 21 - Sunday.  Clear in the morning, clouded up in the evening.  I went over to Mr Will Swan’s.  We  went over on Mudd Creek to look at the wheat and oats.  Thare are good, have a fine stand.

Feb 22 - Monday.  Washington’s birthday.  No male.  Rain and harrowed in my oats and land broke well.

Feb 23 - Tuesday.  Clear, cool, grass a coming.  Peach trees in bloom.  Plowed land, fine, warmer.

Feb 24 - Wednesday.  Went to town.  Dick Todd paid one dollar on cotton picken, paid $2.00 for bed tick.  Bought Chicago Ledge 5 cts Feb 20 New York Times. Mid week picture Feb 11, Moving Picture Stories.

Feb 24, 1915 - Wednesday.   The Hornet, Eden, Tex Jan 22, 1915 - Earnest Savage editor.

Propriartor $1.00 a year, Socialist paper, Small but good.

Feb 25 - Thursday.  Cloudy, cool all day, Plowed.

Feb 26 - Friday.  Cloudy and a raining all morning.  Received from Petter Hearing, The Saturday Evening Post July 19, 1913, Scientific American April 3, 1915 - Feb 20 1915.m Bellville Times Feb 18, 1915, Austin County Texas Vol 37, no 7.  Richard E. Zeiske Editor Propritor, a good county paper and it has been a long time since Bill Hill was editor.  A grate change in Bellville, New people com on the since.

Feb 27 - Saturday.  Clear, cool, a rainey day all day and at night.  A good season in the ground.  To wet to plow and plant corn.

March 1, 1915 - Monday.  Cloudy, cold east wind, fix fince.

March 2 - Tuesday.  Heavy clouds, rain all day.  Got a bushel of cane seed ($1.00) and some corn from Dan Evens.  To wet to work.  Received a lot of male.   Mrs Will Swan went out to Canion City to Mrs Winns to be with her while she had a operation. Performed here.

March 3, 1915 - Wednesday.  A good rain last night, the rain has stoped, still cloudy.

March 4 - Thursday. Heavy clouds, wet. A norther.  Dug for money and in a mound down on Mud Creek, found a skeleton of a man.  Cold and we quit.

March 5 - Friday.  Cool norther, cloudy, wet.

March 6, 1915 - Saturday.  North wind, cool .  Had went down on Jim Ned to Mr Stacys to see the Mexican money marks on some rocks in Mr Will Stacy’s field and they were thare diferent from any I had ever saw on rocks, he had cut out the cross and hot-mark.   Found some Indian axes and arrow points, The people had planted corn and I went and saw Bee Branch School House.

March 7 - Sunday.  Cloudy a cool norther.

March 8 - Monday.  Very cold cloudy and at noon, snow comence falling, continued all night till

March 9 -Tuesday noon.  Cloudy, cool all day.  Snow melted, not all.

March 10 - Wednesday.  Snow on ground, trees, and house.  I afraid the fruit trees all kill.  No plowing, now or planting this week.  Still cloudy, cold.  Samson sold his white face cow and heffer to Dick Todd, and he come and got them.   Wether to bad for out door work.

March 24, 1915 - Wednesday.   Clear, cold, warmer.  Plowed and harrowed in some oats.  The grass and weeds are a coming.  We had frost and ice ever since the snow and the peaches are not all kill, yet.  Have planted som corn.  Has been t cold for corn and maze to com up.

March 25 - Thursday.  Clear warmer and growen wether.  The snakes and ants are a coming out.

March 26 - Friday.  Cloudy, cold norther like it would snow again.  Disagreeable to plow, cold cloudy all day.  No rain, Some plowed.

March 27, 1915 - Saturday.  Cloudy still warmer, the bees are out and red birds a singing and it looks like we would have som fruit and make a crop.   Plowed didn’t plant, to cold.  The Europen War goes on and Germany is nearly whiped, Turkey and Italy and Greece all seem to go in War made.  When the Pope Prays for Peace look up for the World to be involved in a general War.   The so call Catholic Church, old Humbug know no pice.  Thay can’t live where thare is peace and enlighment of free schools, free press, free speech and Liberty.  She wants to rule or ruin, lat waste to all land to the saints - old serpent, old dragon a beast, a lover of tremoile, the beast that John speaks of in Revelations.    A big portion of the Papers Magazines books of the World are controled by the so called old Humbug of Catholic Church. Thay have  7 representives in the legislature at Austin and kill the Nunery Inspection bill and the Womans Sufrogest Bill and wanted to pass a Censer Bible Bill, to prevent the free press from publishing the truth.

A colt show will be helt at Santa Anna this evening and Mr Smith and Samson are a going and thare are a going to be a Bible Picture Show day and next week at Santa Anna.   The Melinilon Dawn is a having the show move showen over the U. States, its free.

March 28 - Sunday.  Cloudy fog fine rain, colder.   I received the Menace no 295, mar 27 total no of Subs. up to date.   The Menace Editor wants 200, 000 subs aganst April 1.  Money will go to Rome to take Pope’s Deposition on Menace, the free press defense League, propose to meet the Roman Hierarchy upon its own ground.  The Menace Editor has started a new Paper, the Liberty Bell for freedom. The Appeal to Reason No.1005, March 24.  Has hands off Mexico, Plea.  Arouse the People.  Circulate this issue.   Both papers are battling for Liberty, Freedom and Education of the masses of America and the grate world of igronce and hold on to false teaching has gone on with all our schools and colleges.   The bought press run by money power don’t tell the truth with all the News.

March 30 - Tuesday.   Cold.  Plowed and planted cane, maze.  Heavy clouds, cold wether.

March 31 - Wednesday.  My black filey brought a more cold color, bright bay, a fine colt from Felix Smith horse, the 3rd  colt I have from him. 

April 1, 1915 - Thursday.  Cold cloudy some rain , Plowed.

April 2 - Friday.  Cold, cleared of frost, to cold far corn, cane and garden to come up.  Snow north and East of here.

April 3, 1915 - Saturday.   Nearly clear, frost and ice, cold.  Carried my bale up to Frank Turners gin and it weigh 347 pounds, sold for 8.61 cts to Leon Shields and paid, Texas Mercantile Company $10.00 no. 175, owe on account $12.22.  Emsy Pieratt Book keeper.  Mr Ford Barnes said, I could git credit here April and I haven’t got any yet.  Honest Bill Show was in town and the movies.   And the men with there stub horses.  Mr Frank Turner had more pull cotton than he could gether, gin and more grain than he could grind and he was runing both.  He will gin on Monday.  The movie and some wimen were a selling white slave books on the streets.  The show had two big elephants, a drome dry Shetland poneys, dogs and some big tents and showed in the evening.  Thay showed an educated horse how he could talk and count and tell the time by a watch and pick out figures.  A wonderful little horses.  A good crowd of farmers in town.   Some selling, not a big trade.  Mr Sam Philips has a good line of reading maters, Papers, Magazines.  A man from Coleman had a new steel ford on the streets to sell for $450 dollars and he said that most of that would go out of Houston to the Panama Expsection at San Francisco would go in a Ford car - over land.  Cut off rail rode fair and stay as long as one want to stay and won’t have a ticket a playing out on and have to come back before you want too.  Will play wholy with the rail rode just what it ought to do.  The robbers have robed the people long enough.

April 6, 1915 - Tuesday.  Planted white maze.  Heavy clouds.  Some mist rain.  Didn’t plant in the evening.  Dan Evens com over and Bud and I paid Dan $1.00 on som seed.  Didn’t work.

April 7 - Wednesday.  Heavy clouds.  Broke land and a down pour of rain come from the west and I turned out the mules.  To wet to plow.   A clearing off.  A good rain fell. 

 I received the Houston Chronicle April 7, with State and War News and the Stamp Journal Feb. 1915 vol 8 no.2, whole no. 86., Paper Magazine has been sold and has bought 6 other Stamp magazines that have went under.   And Mekeels Weekly Stamp News Apr 3.

The trees and grass are a coming.  Some peaches went through the snow, frost and freeze.

April 8 - Thursday.   Plowed, rain and warmer.

April 9, 1915 - Friday.  Cloudy day, rain in the morning and drove up to town.  Sold a chickens and eggs light .50 cts, sugar, maple syrup .75 on time and paid gining, Frank Turner $ 2.55.

A few people in town and the farmers were a selling oats and loding cars with them.  Some farmers were a planting in the evening.   Spring is here, the trees are a puting out, beans and a blooming and grass a growen and the Scissortail birds has come.  The farmers has not broke all his land yet nor planted much.   Very little cotton planted.  Wheat and oats are fine and all the papers say a good prospect for a grain crop.

April 10, 1915 - Saturday.  The oil men have struck a new oil near Coleman 2000 ft down.  The Farmers are in a bad shape, no money and can’t sell any thing.  Still can’t git credit.  Lots of young colts and lots of studs over the country.  Good rains today and didn’t git to plow much to day.  And haven’t go to plant.  The Farmers sell lots of eggs now to the merchants.  If the rats can be killed out we will raise chickens.   Mr Robert Henderson showed me som of his news stamps.  He has a full set of them United States stamps, early to the present day and I have all kinds and no complete of any set of stamps.

April 11, 1915 - Sunday.  Clear warm day after the rain.  Corn is a coming up.   And okra a puting out leaves and blooms and the wild plums is in full bloom and the woods or puting on a coat of green.    The Farmers are behind with there plowing and planting.   Preaching at Longview, by the Christian preacher of Coleman.  3 joined today.  Some 15 during the meeting and Baptizing on the Jim Ned (Blackwell Crossing)  near Grosvenor, this evening.

April 15 - Thursday.  Taken my black filey to Felix Smiths horse.  Plowed broke land.  The grass is a coming.  Corn and cane, maze coming slow and land are clody and bad plowing.   Oats are a growing slow.  The wether has been cloudy and light rain, clear sometimes.   I have a open letter to the Cotton Producers of the United States by W. T. Flowers Wellington, Texas Jan 20, 1915

Box 56, shows how that the foolish cotton farmers of the cotton raising states go on a voten the money power Wall Street there labor going it blind and margaing there families and all thay have cotton crop year after year and things under Wilson are worse than Wroder.  So call President Rosvelt and Taft - Wilson and his cabinet have give Wall Street Bankers more and the Dovies Comentte are out spending the people’s money, in Silly Cross question.

April 16 - Friday.  Finished braken land and two boys com from Brown County to sell us a recipe to kill lice and a 3 guineas, 4 chickens $1.00, 40 cts in money for there recipes, all insets.

April 17 - Saturday.  Cloudy cool rainy, showers wind south, not much a doing to day.  High wind, rain around all day.  At night a heavy rain west of here and a good rain here.  Reading the life of Howitson by Baillie, a English Presbyterian 1848 time of trouble with the Roman Catholic were thare never a time since the Catholic were here that thay didn’t prosecute.  Hethen, Humbug the beast.   The Houston Chronicle, Fort Worth Record, Missouri, Kansas Farmer up to date farming stockman and Farmer.

April 1915 - For April.  Says better times are a coming that crops will be good and thare will be lots of work and money for the people.    Of Course we ain’t as bad as Europe in there grate War of Destruction of life, property and Country and filling the sea with sunken ships.  The Hethen Catholic money power with Kings and Lords and Counts, diplomatic brought on War for gain and the slaying and destruction are awful, over 5 million people and 10 billions of dollars debts ware destroyed property and ships, They never will pay out as long as the world stands.

April 21, 1915 - Wednesday.  Mostly clear.  Choped weeds, fix fince.  A picknic up at Town.  Texas

San Jacinto today.   Rains around , crop a coming up bad, slow planting.

April 22, 1915 - Thursday.   Rain and thunder heavy clouds a rainy day on 21.  56 hawks pass a going North, warmer.  Today cooler.  Crops are late and it seems as if May would be a cold month.  Now a heavy rain, cloud comes from the west.  The rain continued all day, heavy rain and lightning and thunder a good season in the ground.  Rain at night south of here.  No work in the fields this week.  The weeds are a taken the oats over the country.

April 23 - Friday.  Cloudy all over like we would have more rain.

April 24 - Saturday.  Cleared off nice day.  Harrowed of land and the rain poured down up till late a Sunday morning.   We went over to Campbell’s, he was a going off and he didn’t come out and as we come back several in the rode commence a shooting and we come away across the creek.

 April 25 - Sunday, The clouds cleared off and a nice day.  The creeks run and a good season.  Crops will grow if the wether gits dry so we can plant.

April 26 - Monday. A fog, sunshine, partly clear. With the cats, I kill 9 rats. No work in the field now.

April 28 - Wednesday.  Clear and cloudy.  Harrowed in Millet cane and choped weeds.  The fields to wet to plow.  Some are plowing.

April 29 - Thursday.   Cloudy warmer, heavy dew.  Things are a growen.  Corn a coming up.

April 30 - Friday.   Went sown on Home Creek.  Rain and stayed till Saturday.  Home Creek was up.  The Farmers hadn’t plowed all there fields nor finish planting.

May 1, 1915 - Saturday.   Samson started for California.  The show was in town, hobby horses and Faris wheel and catch games, all doing no business.  The Baseball drew a crowd.  Dull times on acount of the European War.   Lots of people in town, no money, awful times and the rain keeps up till we can’t plant.  Grass and weeds a taken the fields.

May 2 - Sunday.  A warm day, sunshine, some clouds.

May 4, 1915 - Tuesday.   More rain from the West, it looks like we wouldn’t git to plant.  Cotton planting behind by the wether and with rains and over flows all crops in Texas will be late.

May 5, 1915 - Wednesday.  Rain all Tuesday evening with storm clouds, heavy clouds with rain, today.  No work in the field this week.  The weeds and grass will git a start.  Can’t finish planting.

May 19, 1915 - Wednesday.  Plowed corn.  It is giting dry.  My black sow had 3 pigs, 2 red, one black.

May 21 - Thursday.  Planted.  May dry and warm, Rain south of here.  Cloudy showers around, hot  day. Need rain.

May 22 - Saturday.  Cloudy and sunshine, warm.   A good breeze a blowing.  Plowing corn and choped in the garden.  Crops a growen.  Som cotton and maze just planted.   Mr Will Casey come and told me that Mr Thronhill had come back and was ready to hunt for the buried Mexican treasure or mine.

May 23 - Sunday.  Sunshine, clouds, a pleasant breeze.  To day is a big day up at Santa Anna, as school closed and I won’t get to go.   Didn’t hear from Samson this Week.  May write him a letter while at the fair. 

June 8, 1915 - Tuesday.  Cloudy, cool and warm.  Plowed cane, corn, dry and oats needs cuting bad.

Samson come home from his trip to the fair and around to Houston, Cleburne, Gladewater, Houston, Temple and brought home cards, relics, medals of the Fair.  Dry we need rain and the oats cut.

June 25, 1915 - Friday.  A bright warm day.  Cloudy broken heavy clouds with rain.  Had been raining North of us at night and a going East.  We were a sufering for rain.   And corn, cane, feed crop and cotton needed rain bad.  Would be ruined if we don’t git rain.  

June 26, 1915 - Saturday.  Rain from the West; a good rain fell and I hope corn is saved and feed crop.   The thrasher has been a runing and oats are being hauled in.  Sold 32 - 34 cts a bushel.  I reckon they will stop a while.  Maybe more rain tonight.  We had the notes charge and I lent 50 dollars on my mule by leting big business know what was going on the hay press don’t pay any thing.  I lose out $50 dollars interest and bad dets.  Campbell give orders and 2 notes on mule and one on cotton crop.  I give note for det on Boler, 2 rack mower and which amounted $153 dollars.  Have to pay 23 dollars interest.  That eats up all profit big business has all the money and sell and take big interest lends money at big interest or won’t lone at all in a drought is on or a panic on and opress the farmer every way.  Farmers are so foolish as to buy automobiles and lose there farm out all around. 

July 1, 1915 - Thursday.  Clear, hot. The corn a burning up and won’t male much.  The thrasher has come and thrashed Vincents, Priest, Fleming, Smiths, Hickmans, Todds and gone on.   Hot, I have plowed my cane.

August 15 - Sunday.  Hot cloudy a good rain come and broke the drought and put water in the tanks.

Aug 16 - Monday.  No rain. Plowed and planted maze, corn, peas, the wind freshen from the east.

Aug 17, 1915 - Tuesday. Heavy clouds.  We got word that a storm was a coming from the Gulf and Galveston and Houston was in the track of it and people were a fleeing from it at the coast.   Some rain.  Plowed and planted maze, corn, peas.  At night rain and the wind was stormy.

Aug 18 - Wednesday.  Heavy clouds, north wind a ragen all day.  Didn’t git any paper. Didn’t hear how the storm did.

Aug 22 - Sunday.  Hot cloudy, sunshine, showers around.

Aug 23 - Monday.  Gethered the last lode of my corn and a lode of Fretta and rain come last night.

Aug 24 - Tuesday.  Cloudy, rain last night and this morning, to wet to work in the field.  Warm, cloudy, distant thunder, more rain.  The storm last Monday drowned many people and stock.  Destroyed millions dollars worth of all kind of property all over South Texas and the storm went north up the Mississippi valley and flooded and recked as it went in violence.  No wonder we have such storms the way the people treat one another in this world.

Aug 26, 1915 - Thursday.  A sunshine day.  Clouds, showers, hot and the Farmers were a plowing and a picken cotton and a moving som of them.   A few Farmers a selling cotton 8 - 9 cts not much in town.  A coming in slow.  Town dull.  No melons or peaches in town. 

Went around to F. Turners gin only one bale of cotton, none a waten.  Com home with Mr Felix Smith and pick cotton in the evening, a shower come up.  A killer down at Shields and Mr Banster shot a man over at Burket.

Aug 27 - Friday.  A heavy rain com up last night or this morning and filled the tanks and soked the fields.  No more work this week.   Heavy clouds maybe more rain.  The fall crop that we have planted will com up.

Sept 29 - Thursday.  A cloudy and a norther and some rain.  Plowed all day, cooler.

October 1, 1915 - Friday.  Clear, warmer and sunshine.  Cotton is up to 11, 12 cents.

Nov 7, 1915 - Santa Anna, Texas  Have been plowing, picken cotton and hauling in cane.  Mr Will Swan cut and worked one day at the silo for Mr Quinn, Pearce Cater done the cutting.  The cane was fine and filled the Silo up fast.  Mr Quinn will live on the Alexander Place next year.  Mr White is going to live where Mr. Fleming is a living on the Jim Brown place, he has sold or swapted places with Harvey.   Mr Felix Smith’s children are a going to school at town an staying with Mr and Mrs Orman.  Felix his cotton a Saturday.  It has been a month or more since we had any rain.  Cloudy and warm to day.  Fine wether for November.   Git a grate deal more than I can read.

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MILLARD BOOK  #4

October 23, 1918 - October 7, 1923

October 23, 1918 - Wednesday.  An things have been hit hard by the grip at Houston.  Not much business.  Many deaths.   I didn’t know wether this rain and cold will make worse or not.  The World War, the Huns are a being driven out of Belgium and France.  An many taken prisoner and a grate lot of war booty com in, machine guns, an other armaments, every thing.  Huns has destated , ruined Belgium and France where they occupied for 4 years, laid waste by caried off plunder an the peoples.  Now, thay are a crying for peace as they are being beaten and driven out of Belgium and France.

Oct 24 - Thursday.   Heavy clouds, som warmer.  Fix ditch where wash in creek was ruining the field.   An plowed som oats upon the hill side.

Oct 25 - Friday.  Heavy clouds.  Sowed oats an the wether changed as a lite rain.  An at night lightning north of here rain.  The night was damp.   An cloudy most of the night.  A good season in the ground.  An wheat and oats sown now will make a good winter pasture.

Oct 26 - Saturday.  Heavy clouds, the wind changed to the north an turned cold with a good rain and still cloudy.  No Plowing or a turning the stock in the field , now.

Oct 27, 1918 - Sunday.  The Clouds cleared off and its colder.  The ban has been raised an meeting & cargo on the grip is not so bad as was.  The field is wet an the wheat is a coming up fine.  Too wet to plow.  From the Saturdays rain a good season in the ground, now.  And we have winter pasture and maybe save the stock, so many had to sell and ruined them. 

And we have to feed as pastures have no grass.  An frost and winter will be here.  We may have some more warm wether.

Oct 27, 1918 - Sunday, clear cool, Wet and no one comes now as nearly all of the folks are gone, an Smith hasn’t come back yet.            This Universe of Worlds Planets stars suns, moons, that revolve around in space for thare in no end to space and no place to rest, all.   Every thing has to keep a moving thare is no rest or up or down as we turn on the axes as it a were a turning around the sun.  The grate light star of the universe.   Thare could be more Gods than one an more systems of worlds than this as thare no end to space and all work like clock work an move on space gone forever and ever thare no end.  What’s out beyond in boundless space.  We never know as how things all started as we or but a speck in space of all these worlds.  Time is an as one day a thousand years with God an we toil and are trouble of many little things and men a hethens all around up for gain and for meanness, to hate, an ruin, an despoil what we have for the dollar gone.  Greed is the cry money gold high price.   Git as much as you can for nothing, spoil the worker.  And git what he has bring on dry wether, no crops, diseases, pestilent, wars and desters and mankind, gold and gain, hate and greed, git rich has brought on the grate European War is just what the Bankers, Manufactures and Wall Street wants.  They tried Japan, Mexico and South American countrys before this grate War in Europe.

Oct 27, 1918 - Sunday.  An now thay have sold this War to the American People an thay are buying stamps, bonds.  Every thing high an a dollar os worth 50 cents.  An we haven’t nothing to sell an when we did it was down.  I never have got 9 cts for cotton nor but once have I got a high price for wheat.  And its so seldom we make a good crop when we do the agriculture Department put down with the cotton report with Wall St.  And lies about what a big crop we make and stick to it wether we make it or not and throw down price till we git nothing not even rasing or gethering it.   Mr  M. Hickman went up home, he says in all these rains 6 inches of rain fell.

The Kiser will git no peace.  The War fighting goes worse and as bad as ever and things are as bad are worse.  And the U.S. is still sending men and ammunition.  Ship food an every thing they need.  And the bonds, revenue stamps and Red Cross are a calling for spending millions and up in the billions.  And a calling for more men an women on every thing that they need for to carry on the awful War against Kiser Bill huns and hethens thay don’t want peace.  The Huns want to win the War and lay waste, kill, burn and rule the world by German gun, sword, and baynet and torch, destroy on land an sow down the Sea with sunken ships that what the Hun call culture the devils work of destruction and looty.  Well haven’t got my male yet and don’t know wether it, Friday or Thursday.

Oct 28, 1918 - Monday.  To wet to plow or turn the stock in on the wheat.  Clear cool, a norther.

Oct 29 - Tuesday.  Clear. Sowed an harrowed in wheat and oats.  No rain .  Turned the stock in on the wheat and grass.  No male to day.  Wheat growing fast.  Smiths has com in yet.  Someone or another 3 persons broke in Mr Hickman’s house and stole all his meat, sugar, molasas, matches all his cartridges on Saturday, and other things.   A man and two boys.

Oct 30 - Wednesday.  Plowed in oats.  Clear cool.  Mr Smith hasn’t come home yet.  Mr Hickman is a sowing oats and a plowing them in with a cultivator.

Nov 2, 1918 - Saturday.  Clouds com up and windy.  Maybe we git rain.  Sowed oats this morning, Turned out for the evening.  Mr Hickman quit.   Has been a cloudy day, no rain.  Mr Hickman finish sowing his oats North of my house.   An I sowed som in the wash in the middle of the field.  I received Vol 1, no. 7 October 1918, Hobbies Magazine, has 13 pictures on the front cover and is a fine newsy magazine of hobbies.  The man - Woman with a hobby.  Percy McGraw Managing Editor.  The Waring nation wants piece and the War goes on the Germans are a being whiped, drive back.

Nov 3, 1918 - Sunday.   Warm, cloudy and South wind.  The day has been quit no one but Evans, little boys come and so it that Jack Todd had died out at Jacks, the grip.   Many death at home and with the Armey both here and in France, with a thousand death by the awful forest fire in Wisconsin. And the loss of the ship at Alaska, Sophia 343 lives were lost when the ship were on Vanderbilt Reef Friday night Oct 30, 1918.  

On the government will need more wheat, more food and clothing, more to feed and more prisoners taken.  And still calling on a losing men and provisions all the time.

Nov 4 - Monday.  Finish sowing oats in low place and plow on a land in field from the garden to the cross fence and George Cherry come to see if he could git the mower to cut his Johnson grass as soon as the wether settled.  He had the grip an was hard of hearing an the folks that has had the grip are a giting well.  A good many died from the influenza.

Nov 5, 1918 - Tuesday.   A bright prety day, cloudy.  Went up to the election and voted the Democrat ticket, not many were a voting 40 some odd.  I believe the wemen didn’t vote as some wise Judge had decrees that it wasn’t lawful.  All a wise guy to work for the Politician money bags, Wall St. and the Kiser bill and make a mess of things.

Nov 6 - Wednesday.  Rain com today an I haven’t worked out.  As of the rain in the morning and evening.  Has made it to wet to work out. Glad that the rain has come.  Our wheat and ots nee rain and we can plant more grain.

 Nov 7, 1918 - Thursday.  Cloudy all night, drizly, sprinkle an it comence a raining before sn up, keep a giting harder till a down pour.  All day only a few creeks up.  More water fell than has fell in years.  And the fields, hills, creeks was flooded, more water run off than had fell in 4 years.  Enough to make two crops if it had came at regular time.  No male today.  The Creeks were out of banks and heavy showers.

Water every where, heavy clouds.   To night and no let up yet, The fields wash som and we have more than enough rain now.  The fields are boggy.  Still a raining.  I had to throw out maybe a hundred buckets of water to keep the house from being flooded.

Well Smiths I believe com back.  Someone up thare.  I saw a light.  Too wet and raining to go see.  Thare will be no work in the field for a week or more as the fields will be so wet.   If this rain keeps up, the rivers will rise out of bank and Brownwood will be in danger of over flow.  And will wash the grain bad.  One extreme follows another, so dry we make no crop, now we are flooded with rain an the War in Europe about to end.   The Alies with the American are a driving back the Huns.

Nov 5, 1918 - Friday.  After the rain cleared off.  The field washed bad.  Wash away some of the oats and wheat.  The branches and creeks are chocked up and the bottom land with dirt, trash and sediments as that was no grass and weeds to hold the dirt from washing of the hills and fields. About 9 inch rain fell in all and Coleman had another wash out.

Nov 9, 1918 - Saturday.   Nor to cool or hot, cleared off, a east wind and the fields are wet and the wheat and oats are a growing.   The rain must to have been 9 inches and enough to have made 2 years crops, if it come as we need it.  Now as soon as we can sow oats and wheat we will have a good grain crop next year.  And grazing for the stock.  Mr Felix Smith and family com back.  They were in all of that rain and come by Brownwood and all had the Grip.  And as soon as it gits dry enough we sow wheat and oats and finish sowing.  We received our male.   We had abundence of rain now ought to make a good crop next year, wheat and oats.

Nov 10 - Sunday.  Have been a writing letters since breakfast.  A bright cool day.  Haven’t got to read any.  Mr Smith come by a going down to his brothers after Mrs Orman, she come back and have been sick.  The cat found a big fish that com out of some tank and got left out of the water.

Nov 11, 1918 - Monday.  Wet and the rain ruined the rodes, wash out with driftwood, sediments some places the rode in not fiten to travel and we didn’t get out male and didn’t get my letters off.  

As peace has been declared when the Allies got on German soil of the Kiser Bill give up the crown.  An the War is over for awhile.  All of the Kings quit give back the peoples there country and fled out, Thay tried to kill the rings.  There was peace, calibration with meeting and big guns.

Nov 12, 1918 - Tuesday.   Clear, warm.  Went up to Colman.  The rodes was wash bad where they had work them.  There must have been 9 inches of rain.  Swept the fields and rodes, wash the oats and wheat bad on the rodes on the creek are nearly impassable of washes and sediments, big rain for years.  A man said 29 years ago to day Coleman County had a big snow storm 2 feet of snow.  A baby was born at his house that day.  I put in application for some of that money.   And got som papers and apples and bread and some barley.  That was a car of barley.  A car of wheat and car of oats.    An War posters were hung in every window about Coleman and peace bulletin, another War news about peace.  

Nov 13, 1918 - Wednesday.  Clear a few clouds.  Smith has gone to drilling oats.  And Richard his cousin Ely is back.  Don’t know how long he will stay before he will have to go back.  Our Tax collector is a sowing every lot in wheat that he can get.  The people have there gardens sowed down in wheat and oats.  And still a sowing.  I saw several lodes of oats and wheat a going out and drills, to drill in wheat and barley.  Every body are glade peace has com to the waring nations,  4 years is a good many of the boys are disapointed as they didn’t git to go to France to them the War Zone as it will take 2 years to clean up and come back.  And watch the Huns, it will be who the watch on the Rhine der watch on the Rhine will be the American Eagle.  The American Eagle won and beat the Kisers trained soldiers and drove them back to the Rhine hack der Kiser no more.  The Kiser Bill started out to conquer the whole world and met his down fall and fled to Holland.

Nov 14, 1918 - Cloudy fine rain.  Fix plow and dug holes to plant peach seeds.  An in evening it rain and didn’t work out and Mr Todd com up and sold him and of my domanecker roster 20 cts.

Mr Smith drill in Oats.  The wind were a rising.

Nov 15, 1918 - Friday.  A good rain . And I dug and set post to make shelter for my horses and mules.  And sowed som barley and wheat.   I sowed som turnips, radishes, lettuce and onion sets.

The ground was wet and the sand was a rising and blowing.

Nov 16, 1918 - Saturday.  Cool and windy all night.  An when morning com thare was a bank of clouds in the South.  I fix up and Mr Felix Smith went up to Coleman, the West wind was a blinding sand storm on and we went on and when we got up to Coleman it was 12 o’clock and the sand storm was a raging so we couldn’t see for the sand.    Coleman and the Mountain was hid.  We found a crowd thare, an Mr Kingsbery said about 75 applicants for the money and the needy ones would git the money.  First we waited till 3, 4 the 5 o’clock all of the thousand dollars had been given out and nearly all had gone.  Some got 15, some 20 -25 and I got nothing and come home.  Thare was many destute ones and they was looked after first.  The drought and hi price, no work has left a many a family destute with sickness and death and hard troubles that we know little of.  Now we have peace the war is over and with good rains I hope to see better times so we are a planting grain oats and wheat and barley all over the county.   All the way from town lots gardens, to 5, 20, 30, 50, 100, 300, 400, 500, to 1000 acres in wheat and oats and on up.  Thay can’t be too much grain sowen if it can be gethered.  Cotton can’t git chopers nor pickers if a big price is placed for it or low as when a big crop is made.  We git nothing for it.  Everything thay throw down price for the cotton raiser.

Nov 17, 1918 - Sunday. A clear cool day, a north wind, the dust is a blowing as it was a Saturday.  Lota of people at Coleman and thay were buying groceries, potatoes at 22 cents a bushel .  An the Cross Plains man sold out.  Etc unreadable.

Nov 18, 1918 - Monday.  Clear, warm.  Sowed wheat.  Mr Smith drill in oats, My .....corn a grate batch of it.  I don’t know how the mail carrier got through of the rode is wash and sediment drifted and covered the rode.

Nov 19, 1918 - Tuesday.  Sowed som wheat.  Clear and pleasant.  No male today.  So the Mail carrier couldn’t git thru rode to bad.  Eli and Richard Smith say that a skeleton comes down at mid night from above and goes in the ground.  That many had saw it.   Some forerunner of some grate event warning the people.

Nov 20 - Wednesday.  Some fog and rain, changed to a cool norther, cloudy.  Hauled dirt and rock.

No male today.

Nov 21 Thursday.   Cold, cloudy. A sprinkle of rain.  To cold to plow.  Hauled dirt and rock.   Mr Smith drill in oats.

Nov 22 - Friday.  Cloudy. Cold north wind, som snow, so cold didn’t plow or sow wheat.  Mr Smith drill in oats.  My male com and I got lots of male. 

Nov 23 - Saturday.  Cold, cloudy north wind, som snow and freezing.  Haven’t done much, so cold.  I believe I let the male man pass without geting my letter off.  Haven’t the time and so cold let him pass.  We have winter now and we will need a warm spell to bring things up or some rain.

Nov 24 - Sunday.   A cold, cloudy day.  Rain and snow.  Stayed home most of the day and read War News and books.  Went down on the creek.  To Mudd Creek to hunt arrow points and drill and lots of pieces.  The water had wash them off and the drift sediment had covered them.  Oats are a coming up where thay drifted out of the fields over the banks and down in the creek.  So cold didn’t hunt long.  Found lots of pieces and chips and 3 scrapers.

Nov 25. 1918 - Monday.  Rain and snow last night.  And this morning cold, heavy clouds, northeast wind.  Wet and cold thare is plenty water now far a grain crop.  More rain than has been for years in the fall and winter.   Haven’t finish sowing wheat and oats yet.  Snow com and rain all day and at night a heavy wet snow com and continued all night till the 26 Tuesday.

Nov 26, 1918 - Tuesday.  A good snow all last night. A wet snow and continues a snowing.  Richard Smith has a hurting in his breast.  He couldn’t go back to the Camp if they need him.  He goes up to town today to see the doctor.  He taken Ellen’s letter.

Nov 27, 1918 - Wednesday.  Rain ,snow all day.  Cold slow rain with snow ever since Sunday.  A good season in the ground and cold, ice.  The male couldn’t come.

Nov 28 - Thursday.  A clear off in the evening on Wednesday.  The rain and snow  stoped.  Cold, froze up at night.  The musquet trees had there leaves on when this freeze come.  It will   up warmer now.  And we can do some work out.  Al we could do was to fed and make fires and read.  We’ve had plenty of rain now and we need warm wether to make wheat and oats to grow.   As the war has ended peace has cone and the European Nations has exhausted themselves.  Thay are a starving and want food.  We can’t rase to much wheat, oats, or barley and feed stuff.  As the world wants food and we need half that we will rase here, housed and kept here for our own use, When a big crop is rased here its shiped off at a low price and brought back at a high price.  Wheat $2.90, oats 79. 1.00. 1.10 a bushel.  Sold when trashed for 30, 45, 60 cts here.  No granaries to store wheat and oats and som people has to buy back years like the 4 years just pass.

Nov 29 - Friday. Cloudy , rain, snow, cold and wet.  Cleared off and a big frost and cold disagreeable.  Planted musquet seed, walnuts, apricots and some peach seed out in the grove where the trees died from the long dry wether And cut wood.  Received a letter from Ellen and she didn’t know who Grand Father Jediah Millard was and where he lived and where the 600 acres of land were near Beaumont, in the oil fields.   And wrote me to find out.   I received a lot of papers and my Farm and Ranch will be out.  The Souther land Farmer, Cincinnati Enquire Republic and no money to renew.  I sent 25 for the Kansas City Journal for 1918, and Hobbys Magazine for 1919 75 cents and last 60 cts for my Stamp Magazine.

Nov 30, 1918 - Saturday.  Clear a few clouds and cold.  Cut sprouts and wood so wet and cold, didn’t plow or sow and grain.  Frost

December 1, 1918 - Sunday. Clear a big frost, ice and a cold west wind.  Winter night and Ellen wants me to write, So wet I didn’t go to any work.  Stayed at home.   Have been a reading the War Peace News in the papers.  And vol.39 Harvard Classic famous Preface.  Sir Walter Raleigh to the history of the World.  How the Kings of Europe and England murdered and wage war for kingdom and fame and lost all.  And to day the now Ex Kiser has set the world aflame, how men think and wrote, composed books ages ago and how fast time years has flown, wings of time, as fast as wheels can turn.  What this age and tie has brought forth grate wars, grate ships, flying machine, guns , tanks and cars, autos with thousands of other machines.  Big business grate Fortunes of wealth or made.

Dec 2, 1918 - Monday.  Cold a norther, cleared off but a cloud south at sunrise.  No frost. Received a letter from Samson an $10 dollars.  He may go at Christmas to see Ellen and Henry.  Grub, got wood and let Smith have my nigro mule to work.  This evening a drilling in oats.  And sent a letter to Ellen.  Warmer , the mail man com.  And the rodes are better.  Haven’t got to work the rode yet.  Will write a letter to Southerland Farmer for 3 years and War pictures and maps, Atlas book.  And to Dupont for his explosive books.  Texas boys to the number of 138.754.  Enroll as club member in the food production for 1918 this no exceed by more the 125, 000 all previous records of the state acording to the Dept of Agriculture showing fighting sprit of young Americans backing the armies abroad, if food will win the war the boys are a doing there part.  The School of Agriculture Education of the University of Texas has been discontinued for 1918-1919.  Will be taken up again after the war, when peace comes.  The Southerland Farmer Houston Texas 1215 Preston Avenue.  Send $1.00 for 3 years and 4 pictures War Altas, finish the letter to Mr Canada, Southerland Farmer Dec 2, 1918 Monday.

Dec 3, 1918 - Tuesday.  Felix Smith finish drilling in his wheat and oats and drill 3 acres of oats in for me, Warmer, clear.

Dec 4 - Wednesday.  As I was a going up to Coleman, Richard Smith went with me.

Dec 6, 1918 - Friday.  A clear, warm day.  Went up to town with Mr Smith and went around by Herndon Place to Vanderfords on Mr Austin’s Place he got a mare to work.  Mrs Herndon was a going to Fort Worth where Mr Herndon and her daughters is to spend most of Xmas.  I brough7 ½ bushels oats 1 ½ bushel corn cost 10 dollars and a sack of flour $1.60.   35 ct for bottle of pickles that the way money goes.  Corn is $2.00 a bushel.  A man was a moving in 2 cars loded with household goods, farm implements.  The farmers were a buying hi price feed and still a sowing oats and wheat and buying groceries.  I got a big bundle of Dailey papers at Mr S. H. Philips.  Mr Philips was making up a prescription and som medicine he an C. Hunter didn’t have.  The boys are a coming back from the Army with som money.  Some were kill and died and lost and the same old war bulley    Kulture is showen here in the Republicans that has been elected to congress.  They showed it before Wilson left for Europe.  When he address Congress and Texas has them that work for the Ex Kiseer Bill, big Business, gold standard, hi tariffs and money rule or ruin.

Dec 7, 1918 - Saturday.  Warmer, cloudy morning.  Sowed som barley, oats and wheat an put the stock in the upper field and sent off my Sutherland letter.  The Farmers are a still sowing oats and wheat and renting land.  Thare will be more grain drill in than ever has been put in Coleman County which will cut down cotton crop.  How will thay git there grain cut, the thrashing is all right.

Dec 9, 1918 - Monday.  Clear and warm.  Plow in oats and wheat.  An plowed in som and land the wheat and oats, and barley are a coming up fine.  Som one shot Mr Bud Branon dog.  There is so much war news as the boys are a coming home and the World are preparing for a big business, big crops and hi prices.  And Expect to git what the farmers raise cheap and sell it hi.  An reap a rich profit.   Europe is starved out and wild mob broken up, down fall of Empires and Independent states a being borne.   Deonger a heard the people want peace, cloths and food and to be learned how to live without a King, big Army and being boss by princes.  

A Lords war generals keep under not alowed free speech, freedom held under by the gun, baynet, fear and prison.  Things is in a awful shape now every where.   How’s people to live and buy feed for stock, provisions, and farming implements to make a crop another year.   Cotton seed are scarce and a world of grain has been sowen. The news papers says magazines are a advancing in price.  Tell what will become of us.

Dec 10, Tuesday.  Received my Semi weekly Dallas News.  A letter from Farm and Ranch offering Farm and Ranch magazine 2 years for $1.00 and 2 subscribers.  A letter from Grumsrin News and sub Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York City.  Magazines bargains can’t reach any and one letter from Bank First National Bank that $50 dollars oil lease money.  And Received my Atlas from the Southerland Farmer, Houston.   Sowed wheat and oats at the house.

Dec 11, 1918 - Wednesday.  Sowed wheat in upper field.  Fix wash and my dog run off.  An Ellen sent a copy of the Temple Telegram.

Dec 12, 1918 - Thursday.  Cloudy Warm and cold both days.   Rain last night, heavy clouds with rain today and night with thunder and lightning.   Sowed wheat up in the stock lot and harrowed all the grain.  I had sowen.   My old sow broke out and run off to Mr Todds.  An can’t here of my dog.  A big task before the government at Washington.  Since peace has com and the world is as ther all a trying to git back home.  An buckle up and start a new. 

Dec 13, 1918 - Friday.  Cloudy, rain , cold, wet, cleared off.  Sowed wheat in hog pen and got my male.

Dec 14 - Saturday.  Sowed wheat up in the upper field.  Some of the Henderson’s wheat up.   An received a package from Ellen.  Clear. Cool and ground wet.

Dec 15 - Sunday.  Clear, a big frost this morning.  Open my vealese.  Ellen had sent me 2 pair of pants and 2 shirts, a razor, pocket book, 2 watches and a hat and other things.  I won’t have to buy any clothing now.  Nor hat, may git through all right.

Dec 16 - Monday.  Went up to Santa Anna.  Cool, cloudy.  Give receipt for my 50 dollars oil lease and paid Weaver 5 dollars note, an paid Enquirer Ed. 7 Dec.   Blacksmith bill that taken $15 dollars off of my $50.

December 24, 1918 - Tuesday.  I was up to town, on Monday, and people were a buying Christmas presents.  The wether was bitter cold, after the we went out the sale of John S. Murrys household afects by Walter Hosch.  He had a house fix up fine, nice furniture, books, pictures, curios, magazines, papers and lots of nick nacks.  His library was mostly of novels, boy scouts and good books.  Not many were out, a bad day and Christmas and many short on acount of drought, hi prices on so many a having to sell and move.    Frosty, ice biter cold didn’t go up to Santa Anna.  The Sunday night rain made the rodes bad, so cold.  Tom Todd said 2 flying mechines flew over last Saturday.

Dec 25, 1918 Wednesday.   Christmas.  Colder frost, partly clear, not much Christmas.  Guns shots or fire works.  A good many presents given.  To day is bitter cold.  Still people will have to go to have Christmas.    I pay for $1.50, The National Geographic magazines 1917, 1918, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1910 not all the copies thare of every year and some underware, clothes 50 cts, and a cap opener  5 cts, at the Murry sale.  A letter from my Nephew, Jack McCloud, Fort Worth, Texas.

Dec 26, 1918 - Thursday. Clear cold a big frost, ice, North wind, not so cold as it was.  People a traveling around.   Hunting up the Seth Thomas clock and gun.  To go up to town to have the clock fix and send Jack Millard the gun. 

Dec 27, 1918 - Friday.  A clear day, a big frost, cold.   Went up to Santa Anna paid the watch and clock mender25 cents to have my rasior fix, 25 cts handle, 5 cts bread, 20 cts on coke and oats.  I had come to the Bank thay give me the War and Red Cross posters in the Bank.

Dec 28, 1918 - Saturday.  Mr Felix Smith brought Vencent’s bore hog to my sow and I went to Santa Anna.  Cold a big frost, ice.  The rodes pull hard, wet.  A good many people com to town.  No oats shiping.  Thay told me that Albert Wilson had died from a cancer, no cure for it. (Buried Santa Anna cemetery Platt II, block 145 - Born 1872.)   The Fair had a sale.  Saw several of the Soldier boys back with there Discharge for Christmas.  Received a letter from Samson.   Bought a sack of chops $3.50, and 25 of sugar, and 10 of onions and com home.

Dec 29, 1918 - Sunday.  A blusty day, not so cold had to stay home, bad cold, and had to fix the crib roof leak, so to day is the 5th Sunday, the year will soon be out and a New Year here.

Dec 30, 1918 - Monday.  Some warmer, all the ice melted and I went to town and brought $9.97 worth of oats and the Farmers were out of feed maybe 50 wagons after feed oats, hay , corn, and provisions.   Cloudy like we would git more rain.  Every body you meet and speak to though that we would git more rain.  The Farmers had hogs.  The Grip flue as it call all of the familys except one.  Lots of people in town and as the old year was a coming to a close and new year a coming in.  Thare was a sight of moving to new places, down South of here in the black land.  Thay charge 10 dollars rent an a borrow of 3 or 4 dollars.  A good many that had went down there had to come back.  Land rent was to hi. And no pasture for stock   I got my clock fix at $2.50, an the clock timker had several clocks on hand, a puting in repair.  My dog has gone to town again.  And some one is a stealing my chickens.   The business men are a making money and at the hi prices.  The people are a loosing only those that git good wages, oil lease money and money from the oil wells, which are all over the Country.  Som can’t pay ther places out and the oil men wate and grab on and ofer a payin oil flowing well.

December 31, 1918 - Tuesday.   Old year out and New Year 1919 comes in.   Rain last night and this morning.  A mild norther, cloudy.  And we may have more rain and snow.   O hope it won’t be so cold.  And Sunday was a cold raw day and didn’t read much.  To day is dark and wet.  It is a geting colder and looks like snow.   Tom Todd com and I cook bread and had dinner.  Fed the hogs.  Got my male.   Are a trying to write letter to Ellen.  The clouds are a gethering like snow.  Feed had to out the stock out of the field of the wheat to wet.

January 1, 1919 - Wednesday.   Cold freezing, Ice, Cloudy, rain.  A Tuesday, Coleman let off the Exgen and light a siren in the New Year, had a big time.  The New Year is as cold.  We need warmer wether for grain.  I went up in time and got my feed.   Writen a letter to Ellen Booth, Temple.  As to day is a Holiday no R.R. male, so I won’t git to send it off.   At times, looks like snow and rain and clear off.

Jan 2, 1919 - Thursday.  Partly clear, cold north wind.  The sun are a shining out.  Not a thawing the ground much.  Winter holds on hurt the wheat. 

Jan 3 - Friday.  Cold, frosty, ice.  The oats are froze and kill young oats.

Jan 4 - Saturday.  Didn’t do much.  Heavy frost, and ice.  The Farmers have been a hauling oats out at 80 cts a bushel.  And Simpson has ordered 3 more cars.  Some Warmer.

Jan 5 - Sunday.  Clear, Warmer, nearly off of the ice melted.  Som warmer moderate.   Nights are frosty.

Jan 6 - Monday.  Clear, warmer, some clouds a coming as soon as the land gets dry and warmer there will be more oats and wheat sowen. And the War is not over with in Europe.  And Russia cold and starving, freezing don’t stop them, thay keep on fighting.

Jan 7, 1919 - Tuesday. A cloud up from the North with a norther.  Black and cold soon blowed off and some warmer.   Not well enough to go out in the cold.

Jan 9, 1919 - Thursday.   Clear, cool, frost, no ice, a norther.  Some warmer the Farmers has comence to drill in oats and still a buying oats for feed and seed.   Went up to Santa Anna and bought a wagon lode of oats $25.47 over 20 bushels or 30.   Farmers were a loding and buying to feed on, to make a crop this year.  I bough 2 sacks of flour at $2.70 damage some by water.   As the day grew warmer and lots of people off.  People com to town.  It taken me all day, night aganst got home and unloaded my oats and got things, the work finish up.

Jan 10, 1919 - Friday.  Clear, warmer an still day.   Worked at the house on my shoes and was doing other work.   Received Fort Worth Star Telegram, The Germans and Hungrans,   Russians, Poles are fighting among themselves.  Thay area fighting in Berlin and Poland.  The Russians are a moving down on Poland and Germans, They all will go to fighting agan with England and France.   And the United States will be in the War.  I received the new Appeal and Democrat Voice.  I git the War News and all other News of the World.

Jan 13, 1919 - Monday.  L.S.M.   Mudd Creek,  R.R.F.   R #2  Box 15.  Has comenced to rain som.  I won’t git to go to town.

Jan 14, 1919 -  Tuesday.  Cloudy a raining all night and this morning.  Finish my letter to Ellen and have lost my sisors and can’t find them.  Didn’t git to Santa Anna nor do any work out.  I hauled the wood in good time.  As I will not have the chance the rest of this week, is to wet and may be cold.  It’s a going to stop all work. 

Jan 15, 1919 - Wednesday.   Heavy clouds all night and this morning, the clouds thicken and grew heaver and comence to snow and thicken to a warm snow heavy a melting.  Still no rain or wind cold.  To thick to go up to town an work.  All off this week.  Will be the heavest snow of this winter.

January 16, 1919 - Thursday.  A big snow storm and snowed all night and nearly all day.  A heavy wet  snow warm.  Piled up 2 feet on top of the houses.   A fine scene of the trees and houses, finces covered in snow must have been 4 feet of snow, were up to the wagon hubs, every thing covered in snow had to throw snow off the house top to keep from braking in.   No male or travel.  I recond the trains are snowed under as we haven’t heard any a runing all work has stoped.   The stock didn’t com home from the timber on the hills till after the snow stoped and the clouds comenced to clear off.  I supose it has been a general snow over the State.

January 17 - Friday.  A big thaw of the snow set in and nearly all the snow fell out of the trees and froze last night.  Today the sun rose bright and clear, the snow has comenced to melt.  Don’t here any trains a runing.  The snow is from 11/2 to 3 feet or more in places.  Don’t know wether we can git any male today or not.  Maybe I can walk up to town.  Write card to the Vanture & Co. Inc, 5 Ave, 39th St New York, and the National Geographic Society $2.50 for this years sub.

January 18, 1919 - Saturday.  The heavy snow is on the ground and we haven’t got any male.  The snow is to deep for travel.  The bigest, heavest snow that I ever saw and I stated to town it was warm and the snow comenced to melt.  The horse couldn’t hardly pull the buggy through the snow and mudd.    Clear a few clouds com up.  A good many people a going to town through the snow an slush and mudd.  The ground was covered with snow some places 2 feet an deeper.  When I got to town lots of people were thare a buying oats and cotton seed.  The streets were a runing and muddy and some oil men were unloading oil drilling machinery.  The Farmers had com in to buy suplies and I sent off $2.50 cts for the National Geographic Magazine for 1919 and got my male 8 or 9 papers and one letter and the Official Bulletin of War from Washington a great bundle and other papers and catalogues.  Spent $1.00 for vingner, syrup, and onion.  Things were so hi, I didn’t buy much, 10 cts worth of stamps.  As I come home I met a funeral a going in, a Mrs Long had died and they were a going to bury her under the snow in the cold ground. (Note from Carl Langford:  Mrs Ola (Howard) Long born 1877, died 1919 - buried Santa Anna Cemetery Platt II, block 123).  Mostly wet pulling, till I got home.

January 19, 1919 - Sunday.  Was clear.  Not a heavy freeze, still when the sun come up, A fog rose and the snow has comenced to melt.  We have a weeks snow on the ground,.  The way the snow melts every body says this is the heavest snow thay ever saw, and that we ought to make s good crop this year.  If we have to much rain, may loos a crop.  From fogg to clouds, a thaw, the snow are a melting and a making it stay under foot.

January 20, 1918 - Monday.   A fog night and during the day cloudy.  Cleared off at night, warmer.  The snow melted all day and a wet slopy time.  Only patches of snow left.  Work at the house.   Put up my clock and patch som and done other work.   Not much travel to day.  So warm that the bees come out the ground show since the snow melted.  The water run in the branches.   Glad it so warm and no cold north wind.  I sent Mr. John Burns a letter an 3 postal cards Santa Anna pictures.  Didn’t git any male, the snow melted fast and the wether turned warmer.

January 21, 1918 - Tuesday.   Nearly all of the snow is gone.  A cloudy day, change to rain, clouds.

Richard Smith com down while I were a fixing my wagon jack and I let him have the Soldiers logins he may sell them.  I hauled wood and the western clouds were heavy and black.  Comenced thundering and raining.  At Night the rain reach here with a wind storm and a down pour, which caused every thing to over flow and the field wash.  The rodes are nearly impassable and the mail man didn’t come.  I got back with my lode of wood in time.  I pit up my clock on Monday.

January 22, 1919 - Wednesday.  Wednesday.  A cool norther, cloudy, everything wet out.  To wet to do much now out.  The norther is a coming stronger with heavy clouds.   Surely we won’t git snow on top of this.  We had rain and snow till we can’t work now and the rodes are so bad the male can’t come and to bad to go after our male and looks like we would have more bad wet wether and top of the snow a big snow and a heavy rain in the evening, heavy clouds.  The male carier come and brought my male, a book and a lot of papers. The Book of Texas by

 H. Y. Benedict.  A fine large hansom book on Texas.

January 23, 1919 - Thursday.   Has been a snow wet, rainey week.  Haven’t done any thing hardly.  So wet and rainey.  Rain all of Wednesday evening.  Cleared off at night, cool.

January 24, 1919 - Friday.  A clear, warm day.  Drove up to Santa Anna.  The rode were muddy and nearly impassable.  The farmers were a buying and a hauling out feed and provisions.  And had to double team.  The oil rigs were being hauled out and put up one that is to be put up down at Trickham cost 85 thousand dollars.  And they, the oil men, are a puting up other dericks.  Oil rigs every day some where.    I got my ax and grub hoe at Ed Falkners had to pay him a dollar for the work and I got the dollar news at Mr Philips. 

January 25 - Saturday. Warmer clear most of the day.  Worked at home a puting up fince and my male come.  A batch of papers. 

January 26,1919 - Sunday.   Cloudy not so warm, some rain colder with the west under snow.  We can’t have warm wether long at a time, so much rain and snow that we can’t do any work.  Ed Falkner said that he couldn’t hardly money to run his shop.  And every thing is so hi that it takes all we can git to buy a few things to eat and feed on.   The Farm and Ranch has letters on gamblin in cotton and on hi prices.   Hoover is holding up the Packers when thay make millions of the farmers and price still goes up.  Well it a raining again today.

January 27, 1919 Monday. A cloudy day, cleared off at night.  After a hard rain on Sunday night.  The creeks run and flooded the field.  Water standing in low places, the creeks and low places are standing in water, the creek has un since the snow.  The creeks and low land is fill up with sediments and trash and ever rain washes more down one can’t hardly go anywhere,

January 28, 1919 Tuesday.   I went on the rode and we fix bad places on the male Rual Rout man come before we got home.  And I got the Semi-Weekly Farm News and Home.  And Cincinnati Enquire and The Bellville Times, January 23, 1919 vol 41 no4 are about the people of Bellville and Austin County.  Richard Cark had died in Houston and was buried at Bellville and Mrs Sally Spence (ne: Alexander) had died at Rockdale, Milam County.  

 And Mrs __Toruck had died.  George Zander Jr age 33 years also Weldo Schenk Louvers, Colo. And Mrs Partia McGreger, Industry 89 years, a daughter of Charles Fordtrain who died in 1900.  And Capt. H. H. Mardhemehl, San Antonio

Jan 23 at the age 25, The Bellville Times Establish 1879, the present Editor R. E. Llish.   Adolph Jollmer age 37 years, 5 months, 24 days died at Welcome, Tx. at the home of his Uncle Robert Barmam on Sunday.

January 29 - Wednesday.  Clear, warmer and the Bees are out.  Cut fince post, fix buggy.  Today has been a warm day.  Frost this morning.  The weeds and grass are a coming.  I received a lot of male today.   An I hauled a lode of wood.  The clouds hangs in the West like we would have more rain.

January 30, 1919 - Thursday.  Went up to town, the rodes was so bad, cut up and muddy and so many a traveling, a hauling out feed oats, hay and groceries.  Mr J. D. Simson has saved the farmers over 80 thousand dollars in buying feed, cotton seed.  The rodes are bad all cut up and rough.  I received letter from the National Historical Society 37 West 39 Street New York.  Thay are late with there 3 last copies of there Historical Magazine 16 M Street Washington D.C.  Jan 22, 1919.  $2.50 for the year 1919.  I can subscribe for both and have 2 fine magazines.   I got a lot of papers  and com home.  Got some alfalfa hay and red and white onions sets $9.40 at Roundtrees.

January 31 - Friday.  A cold dark cloud come up from the West and looked like rain and snow stayed on nearly all day.   Planted my onion sets, the white ones.  Dug post holes and cut post.  Cleared off, some warmer.  Richard Smith went up above Coleman to look for more Indian relicks.  Elder has found where a Indian Chief was buried and has wash out, he found beads, bracelets, arrow points and a old flint lock pistol and other things.  Must have been a big chief and a one that was a fighting the Texas rangers.  

Early Settlers and he was kill and buried in the cliff.  The rains has wash the fields bad.  And we find arrow points and relics.  Today is the last day in January.

February 1, 1919 - Saturday.  Cloudy.  Come up with South wind and comence to rain and in the evening we had a sown pour of a rain flooded the fields and put up the branches and creeks over flowed.  The rain stoped before night.  A fog come up and nearly cleared off.  No male nor didn’t git to go to Santa Anna.  Them that went had to come back threw the rain.

Feb 2 - Sunday.  Heavy clouds.  Had a west wind, nearly still, wet and looks like more rain.  I ought to have went to Santa Anna on Friday.  Now the rodes will be so bad, don’t know when I can go up and no male and didn’t git my letters off.   I’ve got to write and subscribe to the National Historical Society and renew for the magazine as my time os out.   I subscribe $2.50 for one year 1919 the National Geographic Society magazine and 3 I haven’t received yet.

Feb 3, 1919 - Monday.  Clear, some warmer after the rain on Saturday.  Wet and cool norther.  Bound my magazines and worked around.  Neel come with the male an said that he couldn’t go all the route that the rodes was so muddy.  I got the Review and Star Telegram.

Feb 4 - Tuesday.   Cloudy, colder a norther.  Calm and look like snow or rain.  We won’t git much work done while the wether lasts, so much rain.  Cloudy, no rain or snow.

Feb 5 - Wednesday.  Went up to Santa Anna the rode s were bad and cut up muddy and was a hard pull.  I got 10 bushels of oats $10 dollars, 25 cts worth of cake pies, grapes .15, mustard .15 and got the papers at the Post Office.  Got several trade magazines, 3 Congressnial Records and several U. S. News letters and stamps and pamphlets and business letters.

The farmers were buying oats an hay.  Several cars on side track.  Every thing so hi, didn’t buy any much sent off 2 letters.

Feb 6, 1919 - Thursday. Clear, west wind,  a blowing.  Mr Smith and Richard help me ditch up on the hill.  The day was clear, no male today.  Have been a looking over and a reading my papers that I got at town.  Give the pigs a bed of paper waste.  As had no straw or beding.   The fields are som dryer, turned in the stock in the upper field. 

Feb 7 - Friday.  Mr Smith help me finish the ditch and I planted some peach seed, walnut, plum seed and went down on the creek to hunt Indian relics.  Found a few broken arrows and flint flakes.   Richard and I went to town.  The norther and clouds cleared off, got warmer, clouds come up agan.  Cool at night.

Feb 8, 1919  - Saturday.  A fresh cold cloudy norther dusty.  Didn’t go to town, so cool.  Bound magazines and in the evening ground some wheat and corn.   Mr Hickman says thay are a going to have a oil boom here.  The oil men are a coming here and a renting houses an paying 20 dollars a room a month and 15 rigs were have led out from Santa Anna maybe we have some dry wether now, so we can plow.  I got several magazines and stamps, with the papers I got at town.

Feb 9, 1919 - Sunday.   A cold day cloudy and cold norther all day.  A Saturday went up to town a Sunday.  The clouds cleared off.  The rodes were bad and it was late when I got up there and I didn’t git my male.   Went to Bob Henderson and they were well and Mr Hill come and told of horse stealers down in Bell county at Belton a robering.  How they traded out low horses , mules broken down.  Down and out stock his up and down with the outlaw horse traders that was on the beat.  The Texas Legislators has pass a law against all such out law robery and put a stop to it such highway robery.

Feb 10, 1919 - Monday.  Clear warmer an a windy.  Sand driving before the wind.  Help Mr. Smith ditch all day.  The male carier com an brought a big bundle of male as I hadn’t got any for several days.

Feb 11 - Tuesday.  Clear warmer.   Help Mr. Smith dig his ditch on his place on the side of hill.

Mr Bud Brannan came over a while and talk.  He don’t think Wilson is much and that he had no use to go to Europe to settle the pice parley that England and France big men will have the say about what is to be done.   That Elmer Branon was a going to ditch, to turn the water the field.  It near full moon and is time to plant onion sets and Irish potatoes.  The fields are to wet to do much plowing.

February 12, 1919 - Wednesday.  Partly clear in the morning, warmer.  Went up to Santa Anna in the morning, the rodes were smother and some better where thay had used rode drager.  Some farmers a plowing and had there stock on the oats.  A good many people were a going to town and when I drove in, an hitched the clouds that had been a coming up from the west come up like rain and a storm and the men were a talking about it and we soon saw that thare was a West Texas sand storm a coming which soon hid the Santa Anna Mountain in a blinding cloud of dust from the Pacos it comence a sifting in every thing an a giting in peoples eyes.    A pacos rain as it was call the sand com on while I was in Mr Stockard’s office a fixing up a oil lease.  My oil lease recorded in Vol 102, page 218 at Coleman.  The people were a talking about Texas western sand storms and some oil men that were unloading oil machinery was wanting to know if any had been worse than this one.  I told them one lasted 8 days and blew down and move houses and thay were a joking about it.  The men were from the north.  After giting gun from Faugner paid 2 dollars and 50 cents and giting him to make me a couple of large press screws at cost 3 dollars.  And some seed Irish potatoes $1.00 worth, the red and white 5 cts worth of each, and got the papers at S. H. Philips.  I come home in the blinding , flying, whiping, driving west wind, a storm of sand had fill the wagon tracks and was burning the oats.   And continued all night a roaring, banging, flutering and a drifting in sand all night.   A blowing things around a taring the sun and moon was hid behind clouds and dust.   Will Vincient joked about Prairie dogs.  A boiling over real estate were a moving all night.

Feb 13, 1919 - Thursday.  The wind still change ware to the North, dust sand still in the air, some cooler.  The wind roared and raged all night.  Fill the house over every thing with a coat of dust and a still a coming in.  My bed was shaken and look at times like the roof would go and tar down the house.  I reckon the oil men got a good dose of Texas western winter wether now.  If a rain follow this we have another washer and down pour to hurt and wash our land. 

I  received a letter from Henry, he was better and cold rain at Houston and he had heard from Charley, he had moved.   The farmers were a buying feed hay and oats.  And the sand storm on, no plowing today.  Cur up my Irish potatoes and fix to plant, if the wether don’t git to bad.

Feb 14, 1919 - Friday.  Well the sand storm raged all night and all day like a hurricane.   A pile up of sand and swept the fields.  Hurt the wheat.  The sand drifted in the house over ever thing and fill low places where timber and rocks or anything that would stop the drift before the hurricane and the low lands branches, creeks caught the drift and the woods, hills and rocks, some places a foot or two deep drifted up.   Valentines Day and had no Valentines to send.  So planted onions and Irish Potato spuds and plowed some.  The storm was general over the South and done much damage.

Feb 15, 1919 - Saturday.    Clear only the dust hadn’t settled.  Some clouds come up and clouded over. Sowed some wheat.  The rains wash and cold has about kill out the oats, the last planting.  The farmers has comence to plow and plant gardens and potatoes and onions.   Some people are sick around over the country.   The people are a urging a rode bond election this month and a sending out the Santa Anna News with a write up in favor of building rodes with the bond money.   Thare is so much graft, rake off and we wouldn’t git any rode built our way down here on Mudd creek.  And not much anywhere else and the money would be gone and no rodes.  The oil men are a unloding and a shiping out rigs to bore for oil.  Only 3 new out fits are a being put up instead of 15 teen rigs from Santa Anna.  More oil men are a coming to Santa Anna.

Feb 16, 1919 - Sunday.  Cool, Cloudy, South wind.  Didn’t go any where.  Mr Smith come reading and worked with my magazines.  The rode bond election comes up22 Feb and we need good rodes.  And concrete culverts for the rodes git bad, impassable and the money that has been spent on the rodes has been thrown a way and lost with no rodes, only mud holes.

Feb 17, 1919 Monday.  Cloudy all night, comence to rain, no work today out.  A steady rain set in for all day.   Went after Samson bees in the evening over at Mr Evens as Arthur Yates had moved and got a lode of wood.  Mr Evens were a plowing and a heard of Mr Henderson cattle was in the pasture a eating limbsticks and cedar tops.  Thay are a starving and he will lose most of them, if he goes on a feeding like he has, no grass in the pasture, broken down trees and limbs, plenty of dead timber from the drought. 

Feb 18 - Tuesday.  Cloudy cool a fog.  Plowed sowed wheat and got a lot of male.  The male man was late.  We don’t have many days that we can plow, raining or cold. I got to sow some wheat and will have to sow my oats again, where the freeze, wind and water run over them. 

Feb 19, 1919 - Wednesday.  A fog, heavy clouds, to a fine rain.  So I can’t plow.   Planted som beans and peach seed.  To much rain for plowing or out work    A Saturday Feb 22 will be Rode Bond Election for this precinct to get money to build good rodes and thay say that thay will rock the rodes and build good concret culverts and have no graft in spending.  The money like Bell County.  The men that has to handle the money and have the work done know that profit won’t go and more after the worlds Europen War by the Huns that thay be brought to acount like the horse traders, robers.   The war board put a quiets the lid on and a law was pass for there benefit a roben people with out laws dead on there feet stack of warn out bonds.  A set of men and boys rode the country and done nothing else but rob the people.  Now there trade gone with the war, an the lofers has to go to work.  That and there kind were a set of black legs of robers. 

Things won’t be like thay were before the war.   An the sharpers and Huns, Boliviski will meet ther reward.  A writing a letters to Henry and Samson.  The time has past.  I hope we will have fair wether now.  No more plowing this week.

Feb 20 - Thursday. The rain stop and cleared off, a good rain today.  Clear and warm.  Work at the house and went down to Jack Evens, his sons Jim and wife, and Troy had come to see them.  Wheat and oats has come out, fine grazing since the snow.  And the Bees were out.  The Quarantine of the stock that has ticks, so one can’t move his stock if thay have ticks. 

Feb 21, 1919 - Friday.  A clear morning.  Went to sowing wheat.  Plowed in one land (terrace) against 12.  And went to dinner.   The wind began to git hi from the South, the clouds com up and thickened dark clouds.   As I was sowing a land of wheat the wind rose and the sand and dirt was a coming before the dark cloud.   I made a round and unhitch and started for the house and the wind, rain , caught me before I reach the house.  A good rain fell and a fog of dust with thunder and lightning, turned colder.

February 22, 1919 Saturday.  Cold, a north west wind, hazy or dust.  The storm come up red and yellow.  And quite a lot of hale fell.  To wet to plow and cold.  Today is Washington’s Birthday.  Bond election and tree planting day.  It is two rains this week.   Went up to Santa Anna bought lord 15 cts, onions 10 cts, and beans 25 cts, red beans 20 cts at Roundtrees.   And had a plow point sharpen and got my press rods from Ed Foguner $3.00 and 75 cts, The Election Rode Bonds and Washington’s Birthday.

Feb 23 - Sunday.  Clear, Went down to Wiley Smith, the rodes were muddy and rough.   In places not many people traveling.  Saw some good grain fields, others not so good.  Found Wiley Smith all well and we walk around some.  He has a good place and all the land has oil lease now.  As thay have oil wells, west on the rockey shelf or se beach, black oil.  3 rigs and or 2 other wells.  Thare oil had spourted over the derick and had got on every thing there drilling tools, casing, piping and cables and run down the hill to the drain and caught in pools and people had been thare a giting oil.  We got 3 gallons and we went to all of them and I came home in the evening.  I sowed some wheat.  A cloud come up from the west and north and a norther come up.  The morning was cloudy

Feb 24, 1919 - Monday.  I sowed wheat.  Cloudy and didn’t plow, cleared off in the evening.  Sewed received my male.  Got Hobys and my papers.  Will be cool to night.  To cold to work out.  Sent off 3 letters and received one.  Mr Wiley Smith showed me the Indian relics that Lee and Elder had found on Rough Creek and the Indian Chief head, steel arrow point, silver ____, and Peace pipe, piece of Sword.  Indian Head skull.  He wanted to sell them to me.

Feb 26 -Wednesday.  Norther cold didn’t plow.

Feb 27 - Thursday.  Plowed after the blow, cold and windy, clear cool.

Feb 28, 1919 - Friday.  Went up to town, the rode was smother.  And the Farmers were a plowing and a planting gardens.  A few went to town.  I paid Ed Fanqner $3.00 dollars and on him $1.25 and brought lamp chimney, baking powers 25 cts, at Roundtree’s.   Bought 45 cts worth writing tablets at S. H. Philips.  And got a lot of the Daily Papers 4 magazines. 

The man at Faritts Second Store hadn’t finish my Clock and so had to wate.  The blacksmith came told me that Ellen Booth, Jewler Store got burnt and thay were selling out burnt jewelry.   A restraunt caught fire and burnt up.

 March. 1, 1919 - Saturday, Cold, cloudy, South Wind, disagreeable.  The Daley papers say that the Germans, Australians, Russians and Poles are a still fighting and the peace meeting hasn’t finish yet.  And nothing is settled.  That President Wilson will go back the first of March and congress will adjourn the first of March and the Texas Legislator.

Corn panting time.  Mr Jack Evens planted corn.  A cold day dry, no clouds. 

March 2 - Sunday.  A clear dry day.  Warmer in the evening.  The trees haven’t put out leaves yet.  Grass is a coming up.  Stayed at home, today.   And Vincent boys came for ther bore hog.  Worked with my books and some spectile glasses I got from Mr Jack Evens.   Got 4 glasses, I will try to use.  The wind has calmed down to night.

March 3  - Monday.  Clear a strong South wind dusty, plowed some, clouds pass during the night. 

March 4, 1919 - Tuesday.  A strong South wind all the morning. Plowed and at noon the wind change to the north, cold and a sand storm clouds in the South.   Plowed till night, cold, and windy dry. Received a letter from Samson and he sent $5 dollars and said he would come home 1st of April

March 5, 1919 - Wednesday.  Cold, clear haven’t went to plowing, this will dry out the ground.   Wrote 3 letters  And sent them off, one to Samson, one to Ellen and one to the National Geographic Magazine.  Plowed in the evening, The land has a good season in the ground.  Yet dry march winds, sand storms.

March 6, 1919 - Thursday.  Some warmer, the morning clear.  Plowed.  West wind rose and picked up sand.  And by 12 was a sand storm on till the country is hid and dimed the sunshine.  A dry west wind.  The Brown boys come to ditch.  A heavy smoke was seen in the Ranger or Comanche distant, North of here on the 5.    Like a oil well was on fire.   The wind and sand will drive all evening and will to plow in it.

March 7, 1919 - Friday.  A clear ,cool morning, a blustry South wind.  Went to Santa Anna mountain.  The farmers, a good many, went to town and were a buying groceries and feed.  A car of oats and alfalfa hay had been unloaded.  I got som oats.  Bought flour, meal $2.45 and 3 papers of garden seed 15 cts. Roundtrees.  And 4 spools 5 cts each 40 cts, at the Fair.  At second hand store 2 papers of tacks 10 cts, shou sale 35 cts, and drowed 5 at the bank.  Leaves me 1.95 or something like.  The oil men were a giting a cable, the drag men loded on a wagon.  I was given a copy of the Houston Post March 7, realy 6 March with the World News of Europe and doings.  Got a lot of paper magazines.   The Clouds come up from the South and was dusty and looked like we have some rain as I come home, cool.   The school children pass me a going home.  Thay we hotile was frindly a bit.  After I got home and fed and had supper and set down to read the wether changed, rain and thunder pass south then changed to a norther.  Wind and a black cloud with more rain, heavy clouds, stormey and continued all night.

March 8, 1919 - Saturday.  Cold, Cloudy, North wind, looks like we have snow, no plowing or planting today. Bergues Weaver give me a bundle of Congressional Records of the present Congress just adjourned.  The war tax on tobacco comes hi one dollar a plug, 12 kits 45 dollars.  War tax chewers have to help pay Kiser Ex’s war tax.  They be a hollering.  Hope law Kiser bill down and out.  The oil is a coming in and the farmers and all businesses want hands.  The norther calm down without snow or cold.  The clouds got thin and sun came out.

March 9, 1919 - Sunday.  A cloudy cold morning.  So cold didn’t go out.  A frost.  Stayed home and reading my books.  It got where no one comes.  Times and people has changed. Never be like times were before the world war.  Were up against a time when we will have to face a hard ship of want, till we make a crop.   I don’t know how we will get throu, every thing so Hi and no credit.  Money a given out.  Now a coming in the wind.  The other night set a oil well on fire.  Mr Hill found two skeletons, was out in his field of early days of Texas

The wether is cold to plow now.  The farmers are a planting and its cold and windy.   A change every day.  Winter yet.        

March 10 - Monday.  Cool Plowed and planted garden.  The oil tank at a well burnt up a oil well on Sunday below Santa Anna.

March 11 - Tuesday.  An I went up to Santa Anna and got 50 cts worth maze seed and my clock. Warmer, cleared off.  A good many people a trading.  The farmers have comence to plant, The wheat and oats are a coming out and is good grazing.  I got a lot of the daily papers and Mr Hernon and Wilson give us some books.

March 12, 1919 - Wednesday.  South wind, some warmer and I plowed.   Cloudy.  Mr Felix Smith got the garden seeds.  I got 60 cts worth of papers, 10 cts a paper.  Want to plant as soon as I can.

March 13 - Thursday.  South wind, Cloudy and windy.  Plowed and planted corn and beans.  The wheat and oats has comence a growing and the weeds and grass are a coming.

March 14 - Friday.  Plowed and planted corn and beans.  Cloudy, a bustrey south wind.  Som sigen of rain.  The farmers are a plowing and planted.

March 15, 1919 - Saturday.  Cloudy, a strong south wind with clouds all night.  Hi winds with rain clouds all day and going north.  Planted garden, tomatoes. Pepper, beets. Celery, beans peas, cumbers. Squash, and paid Mr Smith $1.50 on seed at 10 cts paper, one papers had 2dz butter beans, one squash and pop corn, and one red beans.

March 15, 1919 - Saturday. (From loose notes) Towardge night the clouds cleared off and soon a bank com up from the west north with thunder and lightning, dark cloud and we had a good rain, some hale, soon pass and hid the full moon.   A good rain fell.  We need it on grain and for crops we will plant.  Some colder and still.  The good rain has pass on South, without a storm.  Warm wether will make things growing the trees are a puting out and grass and weeds are a growing.  Had to put stock off the grain, wheat and oats as some are a loosing there stock from eating the wheat and oats so much to read and don’t have much time now. 

(Other Page) The rain has pass an all is still.  A good season of rain fell, warm wether now, And we can plant and crops will com up.  E. M. Hickman has rented his land to Freeman and Archer and thay have commenced a plowing.  He only keeps his grain.   Mr Brannan, Bud said that he saw where my place was in the D.W. Cition.  I couldn’t find it.  Hope thare is nothing of it as I had the land nearly 20 years and no one has bothered about the land.

March 16, 1919 - Sunday.  Some Cloudy, a windy day, a north west wind. I went up to the singing at Santa Ann Baptist Church.  Seral Bertrand had a few songs in the evening and a sand storm come up and was dusty, hid the mountain.  A Saturday night it rained.

March 17 - Monday.  Clear, cool, planted cane and pop corn and maze.

March 18 - Tuesday.  Plowed and worked in the field.

March 19, 1919 - Wednesday.  Planted Freta and Maze.  Clear and warmer.  The oaks and peach trees are a buding out.  The Algerette are in bloom.  Some, me were a surveying the Rethford place.

March 20, 1919 - Thursday.  Clear, warmer.  Bees out.  Plowed and planted garden.  Melons, cucumbers, tomatoes, sun flowers, squash, peas, okery, and morning glore and some corn.  Two men come and steped off part of the Rethford land.  The grass ands weeds are a growing.  Wheat and oats a coming along.  Soon spring will be here.  Now planting time.  All ought to be put in except cotton, while ground is wet.

March 21 - Friday.  Cloudy warm and windy.  Plowed and planted melons, beans, peas.

March 22 - Saturday.  A good rain this morning. A slow rain about 2 inches fell.  I planted Okery, corn wheat, morning glory and melons, pie melons.  And Mr Neal come along with the male.  And I went to the hill on the creek and fix the rode.  I com back got dinner and red the papers and planted some melons, peas at the hog pen, more rain tonight.  A good rain.  Crops will grow more as soon as it gits warm and we git it planted.

March 23 - Sunday. Cloudy, Rain most of the day.  Went down to Mr E. Todd and Guy Grady said thay were a building the diping vat over on Mr Gibsons Ranch and wanted us to help on Monday.

Everybody has to dip ther stock as soon as thay can.  The new oil well South of Santa Anna has been a blowing off an roaring all day.

March 24 - Monday.  The day come in with heavy clouds and comence to rain and didn’t git to go to work. on the vat.   Still a raining in for all day as spring opens. An Equinox and we may have a wet year.  As it set in it will be some days before we can work now.  When the rain slacks up.   A good season in the ground.   I got to go to Court the first Monday in April to see about a citation about my land.   And it will be buissey times now.  As planting will come on when it gets dry enough.  Well the rain has slacked up, a good show rain all morning, a east rain and wind.   Equinox, Summer is here.  Planting time growing time, a wet season again after all the drought.

March 25, 1919 - Tuesday.  The rodes were heavy in going to town in the evening.  Guy Grady worked on the diping pit at Mr Gibsons.   Rain on Monday.

March 26, 1919 - Wednesday.  Cloudy a norther with rain.  Thay all worked on the dipping vat down at Mr. Gibsons. I didn’t go.  Planting melons, punkins and fix fince.

March 27 - Thursday.  Fix fince and planted seed melons, cashews, pumkins.  A clear day

March 28 - Friday.  Cloudy.  Went down to Wiley Smiths.  To wet to plow.   Some farmers were a plowing.  Rodes were rough.  Wiley was not home.  The wheat and oats are a growing and looking well.  I went to the oil wells thay were a drilling at some.  And had oil machinery metal a laying around. Cost eminence amount of money and 5 or 6 oil wells with tools and a big amount of metal a laying around and fixing water, oil and gas pipes.

March 29 - Saturday.  South wind, heavy clouds.  Comenced to rain.  Planted melons, pumkins, cushows, wheat, mush melons, pi melons.  At night, a down pour of rain.  Received a bundle of books, and a bundle of Saturday evening Post from Petter Hering.

March 30 - Sunday.   Heavy clouds.  Planted melons, pumkins and some wheat in field and up on the branch and up on the hill in the pasture.  Went over to Richard Smith, he come home with a new gramphone and had songs and music. 

March 31 - Monday.  Cloudy.  Worked at the house.  Plowed and planted garden, peach seed and pumkins.   Samson come home and I didn’t go to town.               

April 1 - Tuesday.  Hauled manure from the creek and wood, and plowed and planted.  Cloudy south wind.  To wet to work in field.

April 2 - Wednesday.  Cloudy, rain.  Ground wheat on my mill.  Tied up my mago vines and papers.  A wet day.  Mr Todd com and Richard Smith and Bidesrche boy.  Rain to night, hard of heare thunder like that.  We would git rain.

April 3, 1919 - Thursday.   I and worked on the pit, and fince at the diping vat.   Guy Grady was boss.  Mr Todd, Jack Evens and son, and Bud Archer, and Archer on Walls Place, Mr Sharp, Davies, Franklins son in law, Currier.  And Bird Wallis and they got Mr Currie to fill the vat and a Wednesday the dipping will com off.  A norther was blowing cool, cloudy.

April 4 - Friday.  Clear, warmer.  Went to Santa Anna with the Dun and Black mare to Joe Greens.  The Black taken him, the Dun wouldn’t.  I come back to town.  Mr Norell and Len Philips had left the Post Office for other positions.  New men were in.  Mobly and Turner, I believe thay hadn’t caught on to run the Post Office like the old ones.   I saw Ed Faulkner about fixing the moare and he said that he had a binder he would fix up to run an sell for $75.

April 5, 1919 - Saturday.   A clear warm day.  Worked on the rode and fix cloths.  Felix and Wiley Smith come and we done no work in the evening.  Talk about crops and war and the returning soldiers.  So wet and the grass and weeds were a growing, flowers a blooming, trees a giting green, And geese and crows a going north, And crops a coming up, where thay have planted.  The weeds are a taking the whole country and a growing and spreading. 

The early wheat and oats are a growing and a making stalks.   Word comes that down in Bell county and others.  Thay are a cuting there grain grown to rank.

April 6, 1919 - Sunday.  Cloudy, Warm dew, a clear night.  Wet so if it was a day we could work, we couldn’t do much.  A giting warmer.

April 7, 1919 - Monday.  In Coleman the people began to stir early.  And people begain to com in town as it was Court week.   Saw Ely Thompson.  A Hubert went to Judge Wethers.  There was som oil men thare a inquiring about cases and phone calls of women.  If land cases would come up and Judge Wethers would tell not to worry and see the Lawyer.  I didn’t git to see Crits as he was out of town.  Lots of people were thare the horse traders, not much trade day. 

The farmers was a planting as I come home.   A broken axle auto was on the rode.  The rode was very good but down cut up by autos.

April 8 - Tuesday.  A strong South wind.  Plowed and planted maze.  The clouds gethered and at night a rain cloud com from the North at night, a good rain, cooler norther,

April 9, 1919 - Wednesday.  A norther, a good rain.  The creeks run and cool wet clear today.  No more plowing this week.  The sand a flying some rains went north.  The people dip there stock to day.  Cool for them.  I didn’t take mine as it was so cool.  To cool for crops seeds is not a coming up good.  To cold for cotton.

April 10, 1919 - Thursday.  Cold norther, a big snow and storm North of here and East.  Plowed. 

Ellen writes that thay at Bellville want us to pay school tax and back tax.  I protest aganist having to pay too.  School tax and all the rent on the old place in taxes.

April 11, 1919 - Friday.  Clear, cool may git warmer.

Bellville, Tex   4/8/1919

Dear Sir.  You are hereby advised that you are delinq. in payment of your tax due the Bellville Independent School District of Bellville Texas L. S. Millard Estate 1918.  Your taxes amount to $3.60.  You are further advised that Said Taxes must be paid on or before April 19, 1919.  Yours Truly

E. H. Womal      Collector Bellville   School District of Belleville.

Didn’t know anything about owing the taxes and won’t be thare to go to school to git the money back, as I have no one to send.

April 12, 1919 - Saturday. Clear, Warmer and Felix Smith’s folks all went up to town as the Baptist are a carrying on a meeting.  I planted some maze and cane.  Sent a letter to Ellen and tax receipts.    Warmer and clear.  The members of Santa Anna Baptist Church has presented there Pastor with a new car.   Miss Elmer Smith joined the Baptist Church a Friday night and Wiley said that he would join soon.

April 13, 1919 - Sunday.  Clear, Warm.  After feeding and milking have been a reading.

April 14 - Monday.  Planted corn, beans, melons, pop corn.  Clear and warmer.

April 15 - Tuesday.  A norther blew up, cool, clouds.  During the morning choped in the garden and planted melons, cushaws and cut weeds.  Felix Smith has started to plant cotton.  Choped weeds this evening.  Planted melons and cushaws.  Tom Todd and Guy Grady have bought a binder, a new one and Archer and Freeman has bought them a new binder.   And grain is fine, oats has comence to head and wheat is a growing as well as the weeds.  The norther has calmed down and still a full moon.  Warmer.  The seeds are a coming up.  Some has to be planted over.  Writen letter to John Burns about the School Tax at Bellville Independent School.

April 17, 1919 - Thursday.  Cold, Clear frosty.  The meeting has been going all the week    And Almer Richard, Wiley had joined and will be Baptized.  A Sunday, Mr and Mrs Smith joined.

April 18, 1919 - Friday.  Frosty nights, clear and cold to cold for crops.  We need rain on the farmers has to plant maze, cane and there cotton over.  Still a planting and its giting dry.  The weeds and grass and flowers are a growing a flower garden on side of hills and in the pastures.  The lover and wild peas, mustard yellow flowering.  Night blooming sereses and the fox glove and wild onion, chicken pepper and pink weed, cockle burr and many others are a growing and some a blooming, some has to bloom later on.  We plow up millions of the wild oats and reserve grass are good.  All in the ditches, fince and rodes on the creek.  (From loose notes) Had founder to sharpen 4 sweeps 60 cts and spent 1.00 dollar for cane seed Mc Cloud.  50 cts cane seed at Roundtree’s, 10 dollars for groceries, flour meal, lard, catsup and some other things.

April 20, 1919 - Sunday.  Easter.  Some warmer, clear the morning. Clouds blew off. Left us dry, this full moon.  The Baptist meeting closes to night at the Baptizing.  Maybe now we have warmer wether and rain soon to save the grain.

April 21, 1919 - Monday.  Cool, clear and dry.  Finish harrowing and plowing.  Plant cane in the evening.  Land is giting dry and seed are not a coming up good.  We need rain and warm wether.  A big debate at Liberty to night.  I didn’t go.    Wiley Smith sent word that he would go up to Rough Creek on Tuesday to see Elder and I could go and see the Indian grave and camp.

April 22 - Tuesday.  After hoeing in the garden.  Walked up to town and met Wiley Smith and went with him up to Coleman and to Novice and Silver valley.   Dry need rain the farmers were a plowing, some a planting cotton and plant cane.  Some had som of there crops up, cane, maze, corn and cotton.  Wheat we saw a patch headed out.  All grain needed rain.  We went to Mr Smith’s son-in -law, Leroy and stayed all night on a ranch, the land is a sand and ashey colored lome. Wheat was good, the Leroys showed me the Indian Chiefs arrow steel points, bullets, brass, braclets, bridle spur, bullets and flint lock gun hamer and some other relicks found in the cliff on Rough creek.  Next morning we went over to Elders Smith in 8 miles of Rough Creek and went over to Rough Creek east a rockey pasture.  A few horses.

 April 23 - Wednesday.  We visited the ancient mound and Indian grave on Rough Creek dug and fish but didn’t find any thing.  A old Indian camping place and Burial Place in the rocks in the cliffs.  A strange county not fit for farming, only in places , so rockey.

April 26 - Saturday.  Cloudy and diping at the vat.  Nearly everybody carried thare stock and diped and Mr. Gibson keep Books.  I diped the two mules and colt.  (On next page)

The stock had to be forced in the vat and plunged under and come out at the other end.  Some was brused and had to be forced in.   Cherry said, he was not a going to dip any more.   All had been dip by 10 o’clock and we com home, let them graze along the road and it comenced to rain and in the evening we got a good rain, which will make the growen crops.  A slow rain.

April 27, 1919 - Sunday.   Rain today, a slow fine rain.  The sun is shinning.  I recon the rain over and clouds a clearing off.  We can plant and plow now, every thing wet and will grow.

May 1,2,and 3 - Saturday.   Dry and cool.  The farmers have been a plowing cotton and feed crops.  Some is up and good stand both cane and cotton.  The weeds are bad.  More different kind of weeds than ever and a flower garden.  All wet the hills and pasture, the resque grass is every where.  All kinds of beautiful wild flowers.     Planted cane and plowed up weeds and went to town on Saturday evening.  Bought a pair of shoes at $6.50 and com home.  

May 6, 1919 - Tuesday.   Cloudy.  Choped weeds.  To wet to plow.   Worms bad in wheat and weeds.  A eating up crop and stand bad cotton a coming slow, a bad stand.   Wheat and oats doing well and making a big crop.   Rust and smut is bad in wheat and oats.

May 7, 1919 - Wednesday.   Cloudy cool and wet.   We choped weeds.  More rain.  I cared the black mare to the jack at Mr. Jo Green’s she taken him

May 8, 1919 - Thursday; Cloudy, choped weeds out of oats.  To wet to plow.

And Henry Parker was a loding 3 cars of sand, The people were a diping there stock in the diping vat near the school house.  The Merchants had the binders on hand for to sell to cut the big wheat crop when ripe.   Some farmers a plowing.

May 10, 1919 - Saturday.  Heavy clouds all day, some warmer, choped weeds, to wet to plow.  In the evening Richard Smith and Samson went down to Buflow (Buffalo) School to a Entainment at night.   I heard that Robert Mitchel and Zeph Harvey was dead a had died lately.

May 11 - Sunday.  Heavy clouds from the South some comenced to thunder and a heavy rain nearkly all morning, sun showen out, not clear, another week without plowing field, to wet and the  grass and weeds a growing and will take the field, To wet to plow.  The weeds are a taking the fields, pastures and hill sides, all kinds of weeds, grass a covering all wast places.  The fescue, wild rye, barley is ever where and large enough to cut.  Mr Storey says that the seed will lay thare 40 years and come up in a good season maybe longer.  Some seed thare is no spoil to them, while corn, cotton, cane, maze will ruin or be eaten up by the bugs and worms or rot in the ground and we have to plant over.  Sunday evening a heavy cloud come down the Jim Ned with wind, rain and hail which destroyed the wheat and oats as it went towardge Brownwood and Bangs and knocked out all the north side car windows and lights in the passenger train.  The fields have been wet for a month.  So we can think about plowing.

May 12 - Monday. Fix fince, wet.

May 13 - Tuesday. Cut weeds. To wet to plow field an a giting weeds and grass a hiding in crop. Plowed corn.

May 14 - Wednesday.  Diping day.  The farmers carried there stock and dip them.  Finish plowing my corn and a heavy rain all evening from the West.  A heavy rain put the creeks to runing.  No more plowing to this week or field work.  So wet nothing but weeds, grass and grain will grow.  Hail and rains in different places.

May 18, 1919 - Sunday.  Heavy clouds and rain South wind.  Rain come from the north.  Fields wet and not all the planting done and crop not a coming up good, worms and rabits bad and eating it up. We went down on Mudd Creek to Singletarys, Buffow (Buffalo) School and the rain come and all evening.  And had to come home in the rain.  The crops up, some hale, We didn’t git to see the hale district where the crops were destroyed and wiped out.  As soon as we have a dry norther cuting will comence.  Some has comenced last week runing there binders.

May 21 - Wednesday.  Rainey and Woodward come to sign oil lease.  Change plowing corn, cane ground wet from Sundays rain.

May 22 - Thursday.  Plowed corn, the grounds wet and crops are growing with grass and weeds.  The binders are a runing an cuting oats.  Will be a week before we will have grain rip enough to cut.  Grain is fine and the hail ruin many crops in Texas.

May 23, 1919 - Friday.  Plowed the garden and cane.  A cloud come up from the West and a rain nearly all night.  To wet to plow.

May 24, 1919 - Saturday.  Went to town.  The farmers were a buying twin and binders and tractors to cut there grain.  The Amendment Election was on hand.  I was 100 voted.  The rodes was muddy, the oil men has put up a rig a high derrick on Mr Cris Burks they keep a coming near.

May 25, 1919 - Sunday.  Sun shining, and clouds, some rain, warmer 80 deg in shade.  Crops growing and we had beans and corn will soon be a tasling.  Had none last year, the rain crop died for want of rain.  And we had to buy everything.  Some hens has hatched off.  And the wolves catches the chickens.  The wheat and oats will be ready to harvest now & hot wether come on.

May 26 - Monday.   Rain soon dried up and plowing and cuting of grain went on.  I went down to Poverty Flat to Bale Straw for John Stephens June 4 to 6.    After Mondays rain June second, the binders were a runing, a cuting wheat and oats.  More binders and thrashers in town and county than has ever been in Coleman County and a cuting grain all the week, only stop when it rains.

June 7 - Saturday.  We had rain on 6th and went to town and paid Welsh $3.05 cts with the $12.50 on a sack of twine and bundle of baling wire.  And we bought flour meal, lard, an sacks to put grain in $12.60 and 25 cts worth of matches.  Thare was 3 new thrashers in town and 2 was on the car yet.  And the farmers didn’t stay in twine long, went back to cut and sack grain, and plow.

June 8 - Sunday. Clear, warm with a few clouds, a heavy rain pass north going east last night.  We didn’t git any.  Crops are a growing corn a tasling and silking.  And we will soon have corn and cane.   Grain is a giting ripe and a being cut as fast as the binders can git thare.  The lightning the night of the rain struck a shock of wheat for Bud Brannon and burnt it up.  Mr Archer wants to sell me his binder that him and Roy Feeman has.  More twine and sacks and grain working implements are a being hauled out now to save the grain crop here in West Texas than has ever been known and the biggest grain crop that West Texas has ever had after 4 years of drought.  They want all hands thay can git.

June 15 - Sunday.  Cut and stacked wheat.  Mr Roy Freeman and Archer cut our wheat and finish all wheat and went on the oats.  Didn’t finish cuting and heavy clouds.

June 16 - Monday.  Heavy Clouds

June 17 - Tuesday.  Rain.

June 18 - Wednesday.  Dry enough that Freeman finished my oats and we shocked wheat and oats.  Rain around everyday.  He charged $2 dollars a acre and Samson worked the binder.   I was up to town the 17th Tuesday.  The people are a fixing for thrashing. A buying thrashers, wagons and Ford Tractors at $900 dollars.  It cost 12 dollars for the twine and 50 dollars for the cuting, 75 dollars or more before the thrashing, How much will the wheat and oats cost with the cuting and the thrashing, over a hundred dollars with our work will cost over a hundred dollars.  And they don’t want to allow us $2.50 a bushel, when we ought to have $3.50 the way that we have had to pay for flour and wheat, corn meal.  Cotton ought to be 75 cts a pound.

June 19, 1919 - Thursday.  Started to plant cane and corn.  And the clouds com up and in the evening heavy rains around.  Stop all work this evening.  The weeds and grass are a growing.  And we can’t plow.  To wet with this rain.  We won’t git to work out the crop.   I never saw such grass and weeds as are a growing ever where.  And land that never has grown weeds in the last 20 years.  All ready to go to thrashing wheat and oats.  As soon as we git dry wether.  Rain ever day this week.

June 20, 1919 - Friday.  All evening rain, wet today, pull weeds, writen letters to Henry, Robert, Charley.  The heavy rains are a coming nearly ever day will ruin the grain crop.  As lots of grain is not cut yet, in the fields that is in shocks will ruin.  The clouds has come up.  Hot and hear distant thunder.  The grass and weeds are a taken our crops and at Bangs the weeds have taken the cotton crop as high as ones head.   Field to wet to work.   Richard Smith says he was in a water spout while plowing and planting on 19th.  No thrashing this week as they were to comence.  Now will have to wate for dry wether for thrashing.

June 22, 1919 - Sunday.  Heavy clouds.  Rain nearly ever day during the week   Heavy rain nearly all day.  Weeds and grass a taken the crops. Some crops have been taken by the weeds and grass.   To wet to git to plow and with rain ever day.  Wheat and oats have began to sprout in th shocks and to wet for thrash the grain.

June 23, 1919 - Monday.  Heavy rains around.  We got a shower.  Patch and cut wheat and pull weeds, the weeds are a growing ever where.  All kinds of weeds and we have crops that will be lost in the weeds and grass.  A working on Sunday.  Won’t save the crops.  Wheat is a sprouting in the shocks.  Men that have lived here for 40 years say that thay never saw so much rain and such a year with grain uncut in the fields and no chance to cut it, as field to wet.  And ever day rain, heavy dew at night keeps the ground to wet to cut and work in the field.  Some can plow upon the land.

June 24 - Tuesday.  A wet year and more clouds than during all the 4 years of the war.  Dry wether with no crops and having to buy feed and all we had.  Now we got good crops and can’t clean them and save what we have.  No plowing or thrashing or planting or working of our crops, and two more weeks of wet wether and some cotton crops can’t be seen.  Will be gone out of sight in weeds and grass.  Cut wheat and pull weeds and a rain, heavy one come from Brownwood up Mudd Creek to Coleman, heavy thunder, we only got a sprinkle.

June 25 - Wednesday.  Went up to Santa Anna, the rodes were bad and a few people were a going to town.  Some of the farmers were a choping cotton.  Fields weedy and grass a taking the crops.  Rain around none at town.  I brought $1.00 worth of cane seed at the Fair.  And 30 cts worth of sweet corn seed and 10 cts crackers and 10 cts cheese.   The new store Mr Marchel is from Arkensaw and he has been West in Colorado and other Western States, he says he wouldn’t have the West and the Pan Handle of Texas, to dry and not what the papers advertise it up too.  To hard to make a living out thare. The irrigation and farms out West, it cost $700 to $800 dollars a year to pay the government for water and taxes and other expenses, eat up with hi price of land.

An he says it rains so much the farmers loose by wet wether and over flows when thay make good crops.  Can’t gether and price of gas, down to half crop is better than a big crop, git more for it.   Land is all the way from $12.15 to $100, $300 a acre and the grass is so bad that 25 acres is all a man can work with a family.

June 26 - Thursday.  Cut wheat and planed corn, cane.  Rain around.

June 27 - Friday.  Cloudy, Showery.  Planted cane rains every day ground wet and farmers a plowing.  Cotton a puting on and some a blooming.  Everthing is a growing, corn a making roast ears and this week with not much rain has help crops.   Jim Brown is back from France.  He was well pleased with Smiths crop and he has a good oats and corn crop and as clean a cotton crop as anybody.

June 28, 1919 - Saturday.  Cloudy rains around.  Planted cane and we had peas and roasten ears. , taken some honey from his bee’s and let Mr C. H. Brannon and Archer have some and got some peaches.  The male man didn’t come.  Hot.  We only got a sprinkle, around heavy showers.

June 29, 1919 - Sunday.  Cloudy, Warm, not so hot, rains around, thunder.  We haven’t had only a sprinkle.  Cut some weeds and wheat.  Clouds heavy showers around and thunder was in hopes that we would have some dry wether.  A let up on the rains.  Mr Cobb said that we had 4 more days yet before we have dry wether in August.  Then before change.

July 14, 1919 - Monday.  Hot, dry, some clouds, no rain.  Trashing has been going on since the 4th.  And wheat and oats are a making a good turn out 20 to 30 bushels for wheat and oats 90 or more an acre.  Thay can’t git hands enough for thrashing nor enough cotton chopers at $2.00 a day and the farmers are a loosing half of there cotton crop in the grass.  Cotton is in a bad way, not a puting on and has not the right color as so much rain. 

Now the rain has stoped and is to dry.  Cane and maze are a sufering for want of rain.  We won’t have melons and cucumbers long if we don’t git July rain.  Corn has made good and maze, cane has a good stalk, not heading good yet, maybe will later on.  Wheat was $2 dollars a bushel,  now $1.90.   The farmers never sets the price and comes out broke a paying hi prices for everything.  And low price when he sells his crop.

July 15, 1919 - Tuesday.  Hot, a few clouds.   Have been gethering beans, peas, and choping grass.   This evening hot and still.  Samson are a choping cotton for Tom Todd at $2 dollars a day.  An Felix Smith wants cotton chopers and will pay $2 dollars a day and can;t git them.  I received a letter from Ellen and my papers.  Dallas Weekly Farm News and Successful Farmer.   Gibson has trashed his wheat and Franklins and has went down Mudd Creek to Poverty Flat, A Thros. King the people grain and other thrashers all over the country are a thrashing.

July 16 - Wednesday.  Hot days, clouds come up, clouds and sunshine, rain north and east of here last night.  It dry and hot.  And plants are dying and sufering for water.  We need our grain trashed before we need rain.  Gibson has went and to the Jim Ned down at Madge, be next week before he gits back here , so much grain to thrash.

July 19 - Saturday.  Had been a picking beans, peas and comenced to cut fodder and rain come a Friday night and stoped work, the thrashing is stoped and will be a week ir two before can comence again.   Went to town, lots of farmers in town.  Several lodes of wheat com in.

July 20 - Sunday.   A heavy rain all night.  A good season and rain most of the day, don’t know when we can in the fields or thrashing to comence.

July 21 - Monday.  A morning rain about 4 inches of rain fell and wheat and oats will be damage if it keep on.  So much rain that the farmers has lost part of there crop.  The wind a blowing Sunday night.  Blew down maze, cane and oats.  I gethered some nice pop corn that was ripe and covered the crib.  I received my Hobbies magazine for April, May full of hobby collector news.

 July 22 - Tuesday. Clear still sunshine, a big dew.  Will write Ellen a letter and do work around the house.  To wet to do field work, this morning.

July 23, 1919 - Wednesday.  Clear, warm.  Cut fodder, pick beans and have cucumbers, tomatoes, beets, bean and peas.  Sold my red sow to Mr Archer for $20 on the cutting.  And Samson paid some by choping cotton, a shocking grain and maze.   He will git $8 dollars for a picking up down maze.  We will owe $12 dollars on the cutting.  Have been a cuting my sun flowers thay are fine.  A flying machine went to Brownwood from Coleman.

July 24 - Thursday.  Cut corn fodder, gethered corn have been gethering both popcorn and big corn both are fine.  A flying machine went and stop at Santa Anna.  The farmers have comence to cut there maze as it blew down in Sundays rain.

July 25 - Friday. Clear, warm, some clouds.  Cut corn foder and tied up some fodder.  An gethered beans.  A flying machine went West over Santa Anna hi up.   A long in the evening gethered a big lot of sun flower seed.

July 26, 1919 - Saturday.  Was when the flying machine went, west hi up among the clouds.  Cut sun flowers and fodder.

July 27, 1919 - Sunday.  Cloudy, not so hot.  Tied fodder and worked around the house.  Smith folks all gone down to Wiley’s will be some time before the thrasher gits here.  Our maze and cane may be ripe enough to cut then.  And I have all of sun flowers and fodder cut.

July 28, 1919 - Monday.  Warm, cut fodder and tied up.  Showers of rain.  Samson is picking up maze for Mr. Freeman it will be 2 weeks before the thrasher gets here.  As Gibson is a going out by Longview and Watts Creek trashing.

July 29 - Tuesday.  Clear, warm.  Are a fixing to go up town to send off 2 letters.  And get some things.  Ought to be cutting fodder.

July 30, 1919 - Wednesday.    Blank

July 31, 1919 - Thursday.       Blank

August 1, 1919 Friday.   Some clouds, dryer, pull, cut fodder.  No thrasher come yet.  Some a cleaning there cotton and others abandoned there cotton to the grass and weeds.  Cotton is a makeing a good crop, if no worms come or weevils.   The thrashers are a runing and the farmers are a hauling there grain and a selling it, right along at $2 dollars and oats at 40 to 60 cts a bushel.   An a buying land a building graniers.  A cuting there maze and cane.  A offering half to git it gethered. 

Aug 2 - Saturday.  Cloudy, some warm, no rain.  Went up to Santa Anna, Texas lots of people a loding sand and grain.  A buissy day.  Brought enough lumber to build a 9 foot grainery.  Off gay at 48 dollars and come home.  It shifted but we got home.  

Aug 3 - Sunday.  Cloudy, warm, no rain yet.  Treating maybe the day will pass with out rain. The thrasher is a coming back.

Aug 8, 1919 - Friday.  Hot, clouds.  Went to town an brought a case of fruit jars from Marshel $1.00, flour of Roundtree $1.50.  Paid Ed Falkner $1.50 on $3.00 or more on fixing more sickle and piston rod for mower.  An got some boxes.  Sanderson was a thrashing for Henry Parker.  And the farmers were a hauling in grain and losing cars.  And a crew was a loding sand for Henry Parker.  Lots of people in town and the big Company s have ship in tractors and will have a show on 15 or 16th.

Aug 9 - Saturday.  Working on grainery.  Have nearly up.  Rain at night.  Shower.  I went to Hesth and got a lode of Alberta peaches from his orchard to dry on halves.  The farmers are a heading and a cuting there, maze and fritta.  Received a bundle of papers from Charley, from Col Redlando.

Aug 10 - Sunday. Hot, cloudy like we would have rain.

Aug 16 - Saturday.  Dry and hot, rains around at night, no come here.   Some clouds.  We been a gethering our maze and fodder.  The thrasher won’t git here.  Soon Sanderson may git here next week    Hipsher is broken down.   The maze and cane is to thick and so much of it.  We git along slow.   Some clouds, this morning and at night so hot. 

We can’t do much , the tractor men had there plowing out west of town on Jo Green Place, not many went out as it is a buissey time thrashing   and gethering maze.  We have the bigest crop of wheat, oats, cane, frettie, coffer corn, big corn and pop corn that Coleman county has ever had.  And every body is hard a saving the grain mine.    Cane and maze aren’t a making yet.

August 29, 1919 - Friday.  Clear warm, some clouds, a shower of rain on Thursday while we were a gethering maze and cane tops and a cuting and tying foder.   We may git Sanderson in here with the thrasher this or next week.  I went up to town with Felix Smith.  He was a taking his nieces and nephew to go back to home to Robinson (McLennan County) 3 of them.  We saw a tractor a runing in Henry Parkers field and one standing idle in Stockard’s field.  Lot of folks, thay wasn’t a selling so much wheat nor was the people a buying so much.  Every thing hi in the stores.  Heavy rains around, and we only got 2 good rains in August.

September 1 to 13, 1919 - Dry and hot, cooler.  And Ed Sanderson thrash Herndon, Evens and Smiths grain and went on and thrash his and Boldens and pull his outfit in home and Gibson com in and trash Cherry’s, Brandon’s, Hickman, Archers, and Todd’s wheat and oats and Sunday come 14 and a Sunday north east wind with a sprinkle of rain.  Drove to Coleman and on to Hords Creek, down east where big wheat fields with Johnson grass all over them.  Some thrash with straw stacks, some the wheat shocked in the field not thrashed and a thrasher a runing, big cane, maze and cotton fields.  Cotton open and ready to be picked..

Santa Anna thay are buying wheat, oats, maze and cotton.  The farmers are not giting a fair price for grain, and cotton.  Thay are a buying cotton at 30 cts or 28 cts and corn $1.35 cts a bushel

Sept 15 - Monday.  Cloudy a rain nearly all night.  And today no thrashing.  South east wind to wet for field work.  Don D. Millard come to see us and has been a working at the thrasher and picking cotton.

Sept 16 - Tuesday.  Cloudy, Showers.  Galveston and Corps Christi had a blow and hi sea a Sunday with wind and rain.  We had a all night rain, a Sunday night an rain on Monday.  I received a letter from    Petter Haring, Dallas, Texas C.O.   Waldar Hotel about the cotton, he wants to sell his cotton pickers out here.  And have trile of picking cotton so that he can sell them.  The cotton is later out West of here.  Rain today and it may be next week before thrashing will began on acount of the rain.

October 1919 - September past with rain and some dry wether.  The farmer gethered ther cotton, corn, cane and maze.  The maze corn and cane is so good a crop that we haven’t gethered corn, cane maze and haven’t the wheat trashed and here now October 5, a norther and rain.   Have been a doing all we can to gether our crop.  We have so mich rain before it is dry another rain comes.   Cotton is a good price $2.00 dollars a bale, corn $1.35 a bushel, Cotton picking $2.00 dollars a hundred pounds.

Oct 5, 1919 - Sunday.   A norther an a rainey day which will put end to thrashing for sometime, it been a rush to git crops gethered and help is out of all reason.  We received the Standard Bearer for October 1919 pub. by John J. Dayton Ohio 50 cts a year.  A Religous and Study of the Bible Phrosys and the sign of the times.  Great Labor, unrest with hi price with what we have to buy and low when we have to sell.  With 2000 strikes in the United States this year and the denying free speech and throwing the labor in prison and Wilson won’t give Debs (Eugene Victor Debs).  Kate O’hare ther freedom nor the Soldier Boys that is in the hell holes of the United States.   I  received the Journal of American History July, August, Sept 1918. 

Some of the farmers have moved to Santa Anna to there children.  Mr Twining has rented his place to his son-in-law Blake and will move to town.   Felix Smith has rented the Crump Place and will move and live near town, Parker Place.   Petty has rented the Ransburger Place and Jim Evens the Hickman Place.   Felix’s, nephew has rented part of Henderson’s Place in Cedar Breaks, Garett has move to town and I don’t know who will live on his place.

 Gibson has moved, but will come back when school is out.  The rain is over, I hope we won’t have anymore rain today.  And have a dry month so we can gether the crops.

October 7, 1919 - Tuesday.  The rain nearly all day on Monday and a Sunday night.  A raining all day to day.  We had a down pour which put up the creeks and stoped all work 10 or 15 inches or more rain has fell and thunder today.  And rain till we have to stay indoors.  Have wrote to the Appeal to Reason.  Send 2 dollars for 2 years, the Appeal and 4 books on a list of names for the Kate O’Hare edition of the Appeal to Reason.  No let up with the rain.  I don’t know if the male man will come.  We were a hurting to git all of our crops gethered before the rains,   But the rain came before we could git all in.  A wet spell with thunder when will we have dry wether.

Oct 9 - 10 - Heavy clouds and wet..  So that we haven’t put in but one day work this week.  Rain on Friday and Thursday.  Cut and tied up some cane and pull some corn, some cotton was picked and other work done.  A good many has lost there oats that was thrashed.  A norther and colder, not freezing yet.  But can, maze, corn in the field.  The wet wether has caused a loss of crops and stop work.  Cotton pickers are a coming in.   Tom Todd and Grady got a lot of hands and 100 Mexicans coming in to pick cotton.   Cotton is up now.  Some wheat and corn is down. 

A show in town today.  11 Saturday.   Heavy clouds and cool.  Petter Haring sent me a bundle of magazines, Saturday Evening Post.  Cotton oil news.  Allen L. Benson’s Reconstruction News magazine on the new order a giving the news truth.

Oct 11, 1919 - Saturday.  A cloudy cool day.  To wet to do much work.  The farmers will loos most of there feed crop in the field if the rainey season keeps on all fall.   A good many has lost there maze, and koffer corn and cut feed.  The rain last Sunday night and Monday, Tuesday was 15 to 20 inches of water fell, the creeks over flowed, the low land, and wash off oats and was down the male boxes.  And rose a Sunday and Tuesday hi water, has been cloudy nearly all the year.

Oct 13, 1919 - Monday.  Rain to wet to pick cotton or work in field

Oct 14 - Tuesday worked some and rain Thursday.  Worked Friday and Saturday, Wet and cool.

Mr Will Archer sold his Place to Horce Turner and bought a place up at town and will move up thare.  And Felix Smith will move up to Parker Place north of mountain gap.  And his Nephew Crisp will live on the Brown Place next year.  Bud Brannan is talking of renting his land and building a rent house, renting 80 acres.  And Lawrence Low has rented part of the Henderson Ranch.  Mules and horses are hi.   Crisp could have goten 4 hundred dollars for his pair of young mules.    I received the Appeal people pocket series No 11 Debatean Religion on man Sin Against God.  Jesus the Supreme Leader.  (And various other reading material.)

Oct 19, 1919 - Sunday.  Heavy clouds, no fog or dew.  Look like rain Didn’t sell my sorel horse colt.  As Crisp didn’t sell his mules.  The Fair went right on an it a raining and the farmers are a gethering there.  Crops and corn, maze, cane, they have not all lost yet.  If the rain would hold up.  I gethered corn on Saturday, wet and muddy. 

Oct 26 - Sunday.  A pleasant day, no rain, field wet.  Cut cane.

Oct 27 - Monday.    Cloudy, Cleared off, Gethered corn and hauled cane.  Cleared off like we would have a dry wether.

Oct 28 - Tuesday.  Rain and a cold norther, so that we couldn’t do any field work.  The crios a roten in the field.  Corn is all sprouted, maze molded and a roten cane is good yet.  Thare are a young second crop of cane and more.  The farmers are a loosing thare corn, maze as the fields are son boggy wet.  Thay can’t git in to gether corn and haul it out, Feed Crop, since the drought was broken last Sept 1918..  We have 100 inches of rain and snow and still a raining.  The weeds, grass and crickets, flies more than I ever saw, nothing like it.   I hope that the crickets will eat up all the grass seed.  That eat all cane, maze seed that down.

Oct 29 - Wednesday.  Cloudy, Cold, Maybe we can work in the field to day.  Summers bored my Sears Roebuck catalog.                                   

Oct 31, 1919 - Friday.  Cloudy.  Gethered corn and finish gethering corn.  Heavy rains north of Coleman , Sliver Valley and to Ranger.  At night lightning and rain north and east of her.

November 1, 1919 - Saturday.  Clear with a cool norther some rain last night, all gone today.  Writing letters to P.P. Haring, Dallas, fields wet and boggy.  Part of crops lost.

Nov 7, 1919 - Friday.  A norther come up on Thursday.  Heavy clouds.  Pick cotton with Mr. Hickman for Wallas at $2.50 a hundred.   At sunset the clouds were heaver and indication of rain.   Cotton was a selling at 38 to 42 cts an the farmers were rushing in the cotton as fast as it could be picked.  And a geting all hands that can, to pick. 

Summers and Elmer Smith was married at Coleman on Saturday and went up to Elders at Silver valley. 

Nov 8 - Saturday.  Rain all day on Friday an all night, heavy fog today, heavy fog and clouds, no cotton picking any more this week.  South wind disagreeable wether.

Nov 9 - Sunday.  Rain fog last night and today.  A fog and all day with rain on Saturday.  To day rain thunder, fields wet and a norther , clouds, partly cleared off.  A giting colder.  Cotton picking bad and all other work in the field as the ground is wet and cold.  We loos part of our crop.  The Cotton, Oil and Gin News.  Cotton men think we will make 10 or 12 million bales and 3 million for Texas.  May be way below that as cotton is a roten in the field and the continued rains keep people out from picking cotton.  Some didn’t plant cotton some last........     There cotton in the grass and with storms, worms, weevils all help cut down cotton and low price up till this year.   Cotton is a good price and labor gits good wages. 

Nov 10 - Monday.  To wet to do much work.  Tied cane.  Wallace has a family in the Hickman’s house.  Thare 3 well rigs south of us by Liberty and thay have a chance of puting a refinery up off   L. L. Shields land, near Liberty.  I sold my colt for $100 dollars.

Nov 11 - Tuesday.  Wet but as good as we git to gether crops.  Tied up fodder and picked cotton in the evening for Wallas with his family that a helping pick out his crop on the Hickman Place.  Wallace got out  a bale and hauled out to the rode and Wallace wishes that he had a thousand acres to pick.  He has 2 crops of cotton and paid 300 dollars for one and said that Stockard paid 11 hundred for the other crop.  I don’t know how much he paid.

Nov 12 - Wednesday.  A heavy frost on Friday, cold.  As soon as the frost was off the farmers went to picking cotton.  Cloudy.  Tuesday was clear.  Today cold, a freezing, no cotton picking.  I received the Christian Observer Sept 10, 1919, Louisville, Ky.   The Christian Science Sentinel Oct 11, 1919, Vol 22, no.6.    Mrs Baker, Eddy’s Magazine, people don’t like, the Christian Science say that its no religion only a mock of religion that thay worship. 

Mrs Eddy and money, some good religious literature and books.  I can’t say I like them and see any use of such a sects only leads people off from God to a cult as thay call it now days.  No good to the people like the political party formed by Furgson and Jo Baley last year in Texas to lead the people a stray so that the money power that rules can win the farmer will be short of feed and loosing so much of good feed.   And the Northwest dry and want all the feed that can git while we have had to much rain.  The mountains and Dakotas has been dry.  And now it to wet and cod to go and cut cane and maze to save it.  And we have melons, cushaws that needs saving so that the freeze may catch.

Nov 17, 1919 - Monday.  Clear, warmer.  Picked cotton, a big dew.  And Richard Smith comence to cut the frost biten Fretta fodder.  The farmers are a gethering there crops as fast as thay can.  A geting every body thay can to pick cotton.  Rained on Sunday north of here.  We had a nice day.  And Richard said, we had a slight earth quake and sound.  People picked cotton a Sunday every body was out of town that could git out a picking cotton.

Nov 18, 1919 - Tuesday.  Pick cotton in the morning, cut cane in the evening.  A oil fire north of here a heavy block smoke for several days.  I went over to pick for Mr. Bud Brannan and pick 100 pounds Wednesday.  Thay said that Dick Todd family picked 30 or 35 dollars worth of cotton on Tuesday.  It looks like in would rain to night.  We have a sprinkle.   Hope we have a warm dry week.   Will, send Ellen some corn and cane seed and meal as soon as we can.  As thay haven’t any and everything is so hi.

November 19, 1919 - Wednesday.  It has been clear and cloudy.  Picked cotton for Mr. Bud Branan.  Got a 100 pounds.  He hasn’t gethered his corn, maze.  And Koffer corn and has 10 acres of cotton to pick.  Has nine bales out when we finish the patch he will have 2 in the field.

Nov 20 - Thursday.  The cotton wagons run all night.  The farmers a going to the gin.  The cotton is a being picked out fast, lots to be picked yet.  Nearly 40cts pound, $2.50 an hundred.

Nov 21 - Friday.  Heavy clouds all day, some sunshine.  A sprinkle of rain and a norther to a heavy night, cooler, no male.  Some of the farmers has picked over there cotton and the hands are a leaving.  I pick 100 pounds to day for Mr. Brannan.

Nov 27 - Thursday.  Heavy clouds all day.  Went to town on Wednesday and Margrett and Winney hadn’t come and come home.   And on Thursday and  Friday rain, sleet, hail, thunder, the sleet frozen rain broke down trees and telephone wires and poles.  And covered ever thing , the wires were like cables and a millions of tons of ice on the trees, weeds, cane and cotton.  The rodes are nearly impossible, no male for three days.

Nov 28 - Friday.  Freezing cold. Ice on ever thing.   The trees a braking down under the ice.  Cleared off at night with thunder and lightning and hale.  The creeks a runing.

Nov 29 - Saturday.  Clear, Ice ever where.  Stayed at home, the trees broken down bad.

Nov 30 - Sunday.  Clear, warmer, the ice nearly all gone.  Heard that Marqrett had come and went upp to town and pass them.  The rodes are awful, got to town.  Alson Weaver were a fixing phone poles and wire that the ice had broken off.  The phone were cripled with bad rodes and no phone.  I saw the train com in and a lot of male sacks and people.  And express was put off chickens, rabits, pigs and all kinds of things.  Lots of people in town.  Come home and the girls had come out with young Mr Ro and I had to come back with out them, a clear day.   I met a Kansas man that had 3 binders and thrashers cut and thrash as thay went.  And he wanted 400 acres to plant in grain and bring on, off his thrashers here.

Nov 30, 1919 (continued)  After the big sleet went to town after Marqreet and Winnie Millard and met them on the rode and didn’t know them and went on to town.  The rodes were bad and the phone wires were broke down and I come back and Mr Ro had brought them out.

After a week stay Marqrett and Winnie left for Port Auther after going on the Mountain and having there pictures taken with Richard Smith and Wiley, Blanton and Samson and my self.

Dec 7 - Sunday.  Clear, a light norther and warmer.  I got a lot of papers at Santa Anna, Texas.  The Fort Worth Record, Houston Chronicle, Houston Post, Temple Daily Telegram and other papers.

The ice, rain has done a grate deal of destruction to cotton, feed, trees and phone wories and post.  And made it so wet can’t git in field.   Mr Bud Brannan come over to git us to pick next week and help him finish his crop.  Corn, oats, feed, cotton in the field not gethered

Dec 8 - Monday.  Clear, cool.  Pick cotton for Mr Brannan.  He and Elmer were not well, Elmer father- law had come to see them.   He was going with his daughter to take the train to Tyler to take a business con’s, he was a socialist and wanted to take the appeal.  He hadn’t gethered his corn.

Dec 9 - Tuesday.  A cold freezing norther   Stayed a t home.

Dec 10 - Wednesday.  Cold didn’t do much.

Dec 11 - Thursday.  Warmer, pick cotton.  Mr Brannan not well enough to pick.  Elmer and the man help hauled off cotton and loded a bale on for Friday.

Dec 12 - Friday.  Cloudy, cool got some warmer.  Pick cotton for Brannon he didn’t pick.  Elmer went to the gin with a bale of cotton.  I picked 90 pounds and lots of cotton was hauled to the gin.  Wallas has a thrasher and are a thrashing out his maze, if he can git help.  His son John was caught a stealing peanuts and cooking oil and other things from Walter Smith at Brownwood and may have to go over the rode to the pen.  The fields are a drying off, so we can work again.   And the farmers are a gethering there crops.  Cotton sold at 38 cts.  Food and clothing, still going higher,

Dec 13, 1919 - Saturday.   Cloudy, cold, snow and no field work.  Richard Smith brought our male out and cards from Marqrett and Winnie.  They had reach Port Auther and went to work in restrant.  Didn’t git to town.

                (Week days not tracking - off a day somewhere)

Dec 14 - Monday.   Went to Santa Anna.  Paid Ed Fauquner $5 and with $1 on corn.  He said I had paid him all I owed him.  I bought flour, salmons sa