31st – Went to S.S. & Church. Sermon by Rev. Anderson & By Rev. Spain. Reverend Spain might be 59 year-old William M. Spain. In the 1900 federal census, he is listed as a minister and a boarder. In 1910 is a laborer in a saw mill. At 68 years-old, that could not have been an easy job. He died…
Month: March 2019
Saturday, March 30, 1901
29th & 30th – Worked at the mill. Got in 5 days this week. at $1.75 per day. $3.75-$4.00 board, $4.75 clear. Went to a social given by the S.S. Had a good time. Ate supper with Francis Smith. Cliff Couch’s sister, Kittie, was there. According to the CPI Inflation Calculator, per day Jesse was earning the equivalent of $52.04…
Thursday, March 28, 1901
28th – Worked at the mill.
Wednesday, March 27, 1901
27th – Laying off on account of being so rainy. it has rained everyday this week.
Tuesday, March 26, 1901
26th – Worked at the mill all day. Ate breakfast, dinner & supper at boarding house, cost 50¢ a day. According to the CPI Inflation Calculator, fifty cents in 1901 has the same spending power as $14.87 in 2019. Fifteen dollars maybe buys a tall mocha at Starbucks ($5) for breakfast and a fast food value meal for lunch ($9),…
Monday, March 25, 1901
25th – Went to work for the G.B.L.C. at mill. Worked all day. Began boarding at the mill boardinghouse. Ate dinner & supper there. There was a Gate City Lumber Company at the time. That could be where Jesse was working. There was a Georgian Bay Lumber Company at the time, and it was a large company that had stores…
Sunday, March 24, 1901
24th – John & I went to S.S. at 11:00 & to church. Mr. Couch & I went over to Francis Smith’s in the evening. Had a good time. Francis Smith might be Francis Matilda Smith, the 17 year-old daughter of farmer Edward Warren and Sarah Evelyn Brown Smith. In 1903 she marries Will M. Brock.
Saturday, March 23, 1901
23rd – Went to moving picture & a gramaphone show at night. After show there was a dance. Jesse does not say if this is the first time he ever saw a movie. Maybe Mr. Lee in Utica was playing them this early, but Jesse never mentioned seeing one before in Utica or Chillicothe, so maybe not. Some films produced…
Friday, March 22, 1901
22nd – Still doing nothing. Maybe they were still waiting to get some clean clothes!
Thursday, March 21, 1901
21st – We are staying with our friend Fred now at the Mascot Hotel. He has got 2 mighty fine looking girls. We are going to work for the Gate City Sawmill soon. Maybe those two girls did Jesse’s and John’s laundry as part of the hotel amenities? After ten days of travel and two days working in a logging…