Jesse has not been writing since he is so busy farming and figuring out the first year of marriage, so it’s been slim pickins for his blog readers 118 years later. His wife Mary is about six months pregnant. The Chillicothe Tribune printed on Wednesday, August 6, 1902 that “James Bench is delivering some fine wheat for shipment this week.”
Have you signed up for a free account for the newspaper archives of The Chillicothe Constitution Tribune yet? You can search for your grandmas and aunts to see what they were getting up to with their fancy lunches, family visits, trips into town for shopping, and cut-throat 4H competitions.
