Memorandum and Day Book of David Bower
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Day |
Date |
Activity |
Weather |
Rec'ed |
Paid |
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Thur |
1 |
Spaded some in garden & to town |
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Fri |
2 |
Wrote Circle Letter & to towm |
Fearful-Windy |
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Sat |
3 |
To town, bread .15, gas 1.40, oyster shell 1.75 (Set a hen) |
Stormy |
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$3.30 |
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Sun |
4 |
SS & C & Home, Snow & Sleet - Easter SUN - |
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Mon |
5 |
Clean ST & choring in barn, sort papers |
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Tue |
6 |
Wheeled in corn & manure to Shanafelts & Lew Overholser funeral |
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Wed |
7 |
Eggs to town 8 dz 38c, rice .25, rec a letter from Wm sent Van Ck $30.00 |
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$2.63, $30 |
$0.25 |
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Thur |
8 |
Worked at digging out hot bed (Set 2 hens) |
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Fri |
9 |
Got Perry's team, hauled in manure |
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Sat |
10 |
Worked in garden |
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Sun |
11 |
SS & C & up to Joseph Flora s as he had died, C in eve |
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Mon |
12 |
Tinkering & choring, rain, sleet & snow - froze in morn |
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Tue |
13 |
To Joseph Flora funeral & put sweet potatoes in bed To Rileys, car stoped got fixed .50, |
20 / 0 |
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$0.50 |
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Wed |
14 |
Took car to shop .90, & Pd Jno Oaks for coal 32.58 |
20 / 0 |
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$33.48 |
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Thur |
15 |
birthday, tinkering & choring |
20 / 0 |
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Fri |
16 |
To town, Rec for victory bond int 2.60, war SS 1.06 |
warmer |
$3.66 |
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Sat |
17 |
To town, Pd for feed 3.25, rec for eggs $2.66, oata meal 3.50 |
rain |
$2.66 |
$3.50 |
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Sun |
18 |
SS C & Home, children here, birthday surprise on me Birthday offering .78 |
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$0.78 |
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Mon |
19 |
Tinkering & choring, machine oil .75, Hard rain |
rain |
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$0.75 |
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Tue |
20 |
Tinkering & cut wood & carry in wood House, bread .17 |
rain |
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$0.17 |
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Wed |
21 |
Fixed at dinning room roof & to town gas 1.40, oil .75 |
rain |
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$2.15 |
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Thur |
22 |
Dug out yucc & flags & wheeled in ground. Eggs 2.88, sugar 1.00, flake .30 |
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$2.88 |
$1.30 |
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Fri |
23 |
Saw wood & carry in, routed rats kill 10 in feed |
colder |
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Sat |
24 |
Cleaned out stable & tend chickens. Sold a hen 6lbs .31=1.86 Meat .45, bread .28, plants .15 |
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$0.88 |
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Sun |
25 |
SS C & home |
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Mon |
26 |
Help Perry a few hours at fence. Had to quit, to town for feed 4.75 Flour 1.80, sugar .50 |
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$2.80 |
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Tue |
27 |
Help Perry a few hours at fence. To town flour 1.80 & sugar .50c |
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$2.30 |
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Wed |
28 |
Help Perry a few hours at fence. |
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Thur |
29 |
Cleaned dinning room & choring, set 1 dz cabage plants .15 |
rained-nite |
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$0.15 |
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Fri |
30 |
To town for mail, bananas .15, Pd C Forward move 5.00 |
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$5.15 |
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