17 – 23rd – Several fires this week. Worked on R.R.. Flunkied for the Chinese cook 2 hours each day. One day last week after we had eaten breakfast & sitting around the fire waiting for it to come time to go to work an old man came along and wanted to buy a piece of soap. Well, we didn’t…
Month: June 2019
Sunday, June 16, 1901
16th – Wrote a couple of letters. Went to S.S. at 3:00. John & I went to Castella in the morning. In the evening after supper Pearl, Roy, Ray, Olga, Ella, Bill & I went down to the Sulphur Sprung. Who are Ella and Bill, and where is the Sulphur Spring? Send us an email and let us know.
Saturday, June 15, 1901
15th – Worked on R.R.
Friday, June 14, 1901
14th – Tamped & placed ties. Put on joist plates & etc in the morning. At 12:15 the boss came out & told Tom, Mahoney, Giro & me to go up the R.R. towards Castella & put out a fire that had broken out in Sweet Briar camp. Well, we reached the fire a half hour later & a half…
Thursday, June 13, 1901
10th – 11th – 12th – 13th – worked on R.R.
Sunday, June 9, 1901
Sun. 9th – Callie, her children, John & I went to S.S.
Saturday, June 8, 1901
Sat. 8th – Worked on R.R.
Friday, June 7, 1901
Fri. 7th – They cut the hrs. to 10 each day & wages to $1.80 a day. Today is Jesse’s parents’ anniversary. Sarah Elizabeth Reynolds and James J. Bench got married on Thursday, June 7, 1866, in Dawn, Livingston County, Missouri. Sarah was 17 years old, and James was 22. John M. Jarvis conducted the ceremony. In 1901, it would…
Thursday, June 6, 1901
Thurs, June 6th – All 3 of us went to work on S.P.R.R. [Southern Pacific Railroad]
Saturday, June 1, 1901
The next Day Tom went hunting & killed a deer. The deer dressed out about 75#. Then we had a fine feast indeed. Well, Tom killed the deer about 2 mi. up Sweet Briar Creek a way back in the mts. & brush & packed it pretty near home to Callies – packed it within about a quarter of a…