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124
4mo. 21st 1877
The Enterprise Club met at Robt M.
Stablers, 12 members present. Wm S. Brooke
T. J Lea, B H Mills and Saml Hopkins were
absent. Jos. Stabler, W.M Stabler & W Lea
were our welcome guests. Before entering
into the business of the Club, Jos. T. Moore
circulated a paper, for the purpose of obtaining
names, of those present, that were willing
to become members of a society, for mutual
protection against theiving. At 4.45 we
were called to order by Authur Stabler as foreman.
After reading minutes of Club held at this
house in '75_ we took our usual walk over the farm
On leaving the porch, we were attracted by a novel
self = aching, self-supporting & self adjusting clothes
line _ being very simple in construction, and
consisting of a wire cable, passing over rollers, with
a heavy weight attached at one end. We were told
that it answered the purpose well_ The garden
made but little show, as there were not many
of the Summer vegatebles planted yet. The
pigs were not clean enough to thrive best, the
pen having too much manure in it. After
inspecting the cattle, we extended our walk
thro' the peach orchard & grass fields, to the wheat
which looked moderately well. Quite a marked
difference was noticed, in favor of the wheat
lying to the south, over that with a northern
exposure. The orchards of this farm, furnish
quite a large portion of the revenue. The fruit is
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On line 1, the # '124' is stamped in blue on the upper left corner of the page.
In line 2, there is the superscript 'st', which is underlined, and there is a double quotation mark
" under the underline.
In Line 4 there is an underlined superscript 'm' that has an " under the underline.
At the end of the line there is a small line, just above the print line after the last word, 'Brooke'.
In Line 5 there is the abbreviation for William, (I've been told), 'Wm' where the 'W' continues into
the small 'm', which is levitated at the half-line and underlined with a " under the underline.
In line 6, 'Wm' where the 'W' continues into
the small 'm', which is levitated at the half-line and underlined with a " under the underline.
This precedes the last name 'Lea'
In line 19, after the word 'line' the is a line approximately this long '__'. It's one solid line though.
This line after a word, sometimes at the end of an apparent sentence, happens multiple times on the page.