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30^o Clear. Windy NW
OCTOBER, MONDAY 31^st 1887.

Quite cold: ice about
the pump, or well. Willie
took "Fritz" & the "Banks mare"
& Frank Snowdens wagon &
harness & went to Elton
for some corn. Dan Budd
came to plow the lot & take
up our potatoes etc.
J Link (who lives at Robert
Harding's was here for advice
& med: for "chills". Andrew
Johnson was also here.
Willie got home about dusk
with only a barrel of corn
being all that was husked.
I was much disappointed
Dan Budd finished sowing
the rye in our own lot.
I wrote to Charley & enclosed
in same envelope with
one from his mother.

30. Clear. Windy. N.W.
NOVEMBER, TUESDAY 1^st 1887.

Willie went to Bentleys
& husked corn. Ellie Banks
came & took their mare home.
Andrew Johnson was here
again to see me. Branson
Cook brought his little girl
to consult me about she
having "swallowed a pin".
Jno C Bentley brought us
a small load of hay
on the "ox cart" in the
afternoon. Willie took
up the carrots etc.
It rained hard last
night but cleared off
this morning. the wind
blowing from N.W. until
after sundown when it
subsided.