Month: September 2018

6th, Frank, Charley & I made cider & picked the Wealthy & sweet apples.  

5th, sorted apples & built fence. Frank, Jno, Geo., & I went to Utica to prayer meeting.  

4th, Frank & I hauled 2 loads of hay & gathered a load of corn. Maggie DeLapp was here.

3rd, put up hay. Labor Day became an official federal holiday in 1894, but in rural, mid-Missouri on the Bench farm, it was a Monday just like any other.

2nd, went out to Cliff Bagleys in the morning & stayed until half past 3. Nellie & Rosa Wells were there. According to the 1900 federal census, Cliff Bagley lives with his parents and siblings in Green Township, Livingston County.  Jesse’s cousins Nellie and Rosa Wells live west of Dawn, in Monroe Township.  That’s a long carriage ride.  The question…

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Sept. 1st, made hay & picked up a load of corn. Jno, Frank, Geo., & I went to Chillicothe to the M.W.A. log rolling. On September 14, 1900, the Chariton Courier from the neighboring county wrote of the MWA event in Chillicothe:  Modern Woodmen day at Chillicothe, September 1, was attended by about 6,000 visiting brethren and several thousand citizens.…

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