7th-Cut wood & then John, Frank & Leona, Della, Mary & I went to a party at the Johnson’s. Had a dance.
Jesse might be referring to the elusive Johnson tenants on the Bench Farm, the family that is not listed in the 1900 Federal Census because they might have arrived after the census was taken in June. If there was a dance there might have been a live band, or a fiddler or piano player.
