28th, raining. Went to S.S. & BYPU meeting. Ate dinner at Jesse Brown’s. Jno & I went up to Mary’s. Went to Baptist Church. Got home about midnight. Chillicothe-born Jesse Brown is a young day laborer renting a house in Green Township. In the 1900 census, it shows his wife Mary M. (Reynolds) and their baby daughter, Pearl E., living…
Saturday, October 27, 1900
27th, made 60 gal. cider. Mary came home & I went up to see her. Got home at 12:30.
Friday, October 26, 1900
Oct. 26th, hauled 6 cords of wood.
Thursday, October 25, 1900
25th, hauled 6 cords of wood. Verse one of JUST AS THE SUN WENT DOWN. After the din of the battles’ roar, just at the close of day, wounded & bleeding upon the field two dying soldiers lay. One held a ringlet of thin gray hair, one held a lock of brown. Bidding each other a last farewell,…
Wednesday, October 24, 1900
24th, hauled 6 cords of wood. Went to political speaking.
Tuesday, October 23, 1900
23rd, Geo. & I hauled wood to Chilli. Hauled 4 cords.
Monday, October 22, 1900
22nd, rained. Hauled some lumber in the morning & cleaned out stables in evening.
Sunday, October 21, 1900
21st, went to S.S. in morning. Came home, ate dinner & went to Chilli in evening. Mary & I went to the North M. E. [Methodist Episcopal] Church. Ate supper at Edd McCormicks. Got home about 11:30.
Saturday, October 20, 1900
20th, dug our potatoes. Had about 40 bu. Pa plowed them out with the flying Dutchman & Frank, Charley, & I picked them up. The Department of Agriculture defines a bushel of potatoes as 60 pounds, so the men harvest 2,400 pounds of potatoes that day. In 1900, retail potatoes sold for 1.4 cents a pound, so the Bench farm…
Friday, October 19, 1900
19th, took Bonderers wheat drill home. Drove old Nell & Pete (mule). Nell kicked over the tounge & broke it & jobed the yoke in her breast. With the exception of two infant graves at Utica Cemetery, all of the Bonderer family members are buried at Saint Columban Catholic Cemetery in Chillicothe, Missouri. Jesse borrowed a wheat drill from a…