Month: October 2018

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.  

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…

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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…

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18th, I hauled wood to town & worked the road on Chilli side.

17th, ditched on “70”. Went to Prayer meeting in evening.

16th, finished the apples & rye on the “70”. Harrowed this evening.  

15th, picked apples. Apples thin this year. Jesse does not explain why the apples were thin in 1900.  There was a problem with bitter rot throughout Missouri and it caused steep losses as noted by the August, 1902 edition of Fruit Trade Journal and Produce Record, but that might not be the cause.  Aside from this, as one reads the…

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14th, Pa, Ma, John, Charley & I ate dinner at Sophia’s. Geo. & Hazel went up to Mrs. DeLapps Sat. evening and stayed till Sun. evening. I went to S.S. & Church. Bro. Robinson’s last day here at Utica. Went to Chilli with Mary & Leona Frazier to First Baptist Church at night. Mary staying at her Uncle’s, Edd McCormick.…

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13th, Frank & Charley helped up pick apples.

12th, got my BIBLE! Picked apples & went to Prayer Meeting at Sister Stones.