Joseph Mahonri Tippets

Joseph Mahonri Tippets

Joseph Mahonri was born 25 September 1838 in Clinton County, Missouri. His father, Joseph Harrison Tippets, of Essex, New York, had joined the Mormon Church in the early 1830s and went to Kirtland, Ohio. He then went to Caldwell County, Missouri, where he purchased land in 1836. He then married his cousin's daughter Rosalia Perry. They soon moved to Clinton County where Joseph was born. The mobs caused so much trouble they were forced to move to Illinois. They lived in an area about 5 miles from Carthage, Illinois. Here his sister Caroline Cornelia was born 5 June 1840. It was a bad year in the Nauvoo area because so many were suffering from serious illness. His mother Rosalie died December 1841 and was buried in Nauvoo. His father married his wife's younger sister, Amanda Melvina Perry, in June of 1842. Two brothers, Hyrum Henry and Henry Chase, were born while living near Nauvoo.

As persecution got bad they moved to Pottawattame County, Iowa, near Council Bluff. Two more children were added to the family, Amanda Jane and Brigham Lewis.

His parents prepared to go to the Rocky Mountains. They joined the John Walker wagon train leaving from Kanesville Iowa 5 July 1852. Young Joseph Mahonri was 13 years of age. He probably was a great help to his parents as they came to the Salt Lake Valley. They arrived 3 October 1852 and settled in the Farmington area. A brother and sister Orson Harrison and Eunice Elvira were born while at Farmington Utah. Sometime and somewhere he was well educated. His journal lets us know, he knew about what was going on in the United States and the world.

William Plummer Tippets, a cousin to his father (Joseph Harrison) was living at Three Mile Creek in Box Elder County. The Joseph Harrison family moved there about 1856. The settlement was later called Perry. Another brother and two sisters were born, Jedediah Morgan, Lucy Melvina, and Mary Elizabeth. Mahonri grew up in Farmington and Perry. He learned the carpenter trade from his father, as well as farming. At that time almost everyone had to grow their own food. He also enjoyed fishing and hunting. He was good at repairing guns for himself and others.

Joseph Mahonri was married 1 January l860 at the age of 21. His wife, age 15, Alice Jennette, was the daughter of William Plummer Tippets. They had a farm in the Perry/Brigham City area.

His first child, Alice Rosalia, was born 16 June 1861 at Three Mile Creek. A son, Joseph William, was born 29 January 1863 at Perry, Box Elder County. A daughter Eliza Rebecca was born 13 January 1865, while at Blue Springs, Box Elder County, but lived only two months. Mary Ellen was born 5 May 1866 in Brigham City. Harrison Plummer was born 16 October 1868 in Brigham City.

Mahonri wrote faithfully in his journal starting as they crossed the plains. We have only one, the others destroyed in a fire. The fire also took the lives of Emma Koeven and her three little sons.

The journal we have starts, "I have not wrote any for a long time for want of paper. I will now begin again." The date was January 14, 1874 in Perry, Utah and ends July 28, 1899 in Georgetown, Idaho. We can wonder about the last ten years of his life. He had been having a lot of stomach problems through the 90's. Maybe he was not well enough to write much.

As we read his journal we find he was a religious man. He encouraged his family to not hunt on the Sabbath. He attended church regularly. He was in the superintendency of the Sunday School. There were times he was invited to give talks. He attended the Logan temple and had his family sealed. He tells of going to Salt Lake City to be baptized for dead relatives in November 1874. That was before the SL temple was finished. In 1880 he says, "Had a dance benefit of the Sunday School. Received $6." On February 1, 1882 he wrote, "Have paid donations for the Logan Temple during the year 1881: $13; to poor: fast donations, flour 60 lbs.; to Quorum for mission, etc.: $2." One time he writes, "We are all well, thanks to the Almighty." Several times he writes, ''We are all well, thank the Lord." His journal tells about his concerns of Lorenzo Snow and his arrest. Several times he tells of paying tithing, usually with crops. In 1890 he was sustained as Superintendent of Religion class of Georgetown. This class was held during the week, with 30 to 40 attending. He was there almost every week.

He tells about the organization of the Box Elder Stake at the Quarterly Conference February 1888. He lists the tithes each ward paid and concerns of Bishops such as division in families and those who went to the saloon. It's interesting to know what wards existed in the early years. He lists them as 1st Ward, 2nd Ward 3rd Ward, 4th Ward, Three Mile Creek Ward, Willard Ward, Bear River Ward, Mantua Ward, Warm Creek Ward, and North Ward. Apostle Lorenzo Snow proposed that Rudger Clawson

be Stake President. He was sustained. Things like this were important to him to be recorded in his journal.

He was called to be on jury duty in Salt Lake City. He was to attend the Third District Court as a petit juror. He left has home October 15, 1876. He was allowed to go home for short period of time. He was released to go home the 25 October. He was given a certificate for the time spent and for mileage which amounted to $2. When he took it to William Clayton to get his pay, he was told the certificate was good for nothing. So he says in the journal, "I would have to state that I was compelled to leave my home and go to Salt Lake City, to attend the Third District Court as a Petit Juror, pay my fare down and back and all expenses while there. With no hope of pay?" It makes us wonder if he received his pay. While in Salt Lake City he mentioned seeing the new Tabernacle.

Mahonri tells about the weather throughout his journal. The weather was very important to them. He tells of planting, harvesting and farming. They lived off the land. Winds and frost, snow, rain, and lack of rain destroyed crops. He tells of many big snow storms in April and May. On May 27, 1877 he says, "The grasshoppers have destroyed all of my garden." They depended on the rain for water. He bought 2 stands of bees for $12 in April of 1882. Some years he had good harvests, others not so good, but didn't complain. Squirrels were a problem on the farm. He writes, "Squirrels had eaten all of the cabbage plants that we put out before going to Soda." Pans of dough with strychnine was scattered around to kill them. They also hunted squirrels so that could sell their tails for a dollar each. Sometimes they got paid for the squirrel scalps.

A very sad day of his life was while at Perry on Sunday, September 30, 1883. His son Joey had gone hunting against Mahonri's wishes. Joey accidentally shot himself in the chest. For several days they thought he would not live. The doctor came from Ogden and gave them little hope. Joey was given several Priesthood blessings. Twenty days later he was able to go outside and walk 30 rods. Their prayers had been answered. At the time, his first child, Maurice was nine months old. Joey was able to live and raise 14 children but had trouble with the wound throughout his life.

November 1, 1883, his wife Jennette was called to go to Salt Lake City to study Midwifery. This left Mahonri home with 17-year-old Mary Ellen and Harrison, age 15. They must have been a great help to him while Jennette was gone. Jennette was able to come home at Christmas time for a few days. Mahonri was able to visit her in Salt Lake City. On a trip in February, he tells of arriving in Ogden at 3 PM, boarding a train for Salt Lake City at 5:30 PM and arriving there at 8:30 PM. A snow slide had blocked the tracks. Going home was much better. He left Salt Lake City at 7 AM and arrived in Brigham City at 2 PM. He does not say how long Jennette was in Salt Lake City for training. But her training was of great help to the family and neighbors.

In 1885 he went to Star Valley, Wyoming, and Montpelier, Idaho to find property to buy. He bought a place from Ed Merell for a horse and harness worth $150. More land was purchased in 1886. He bought 34 acres from L.C. Larson for $160. He was still farming in Brigham City. Mahonri took heifers, colts and lumber to Bear Lake for Chris. (Alice's husband?) In June of 1886 he planted 21 aces of oats, one acre of potatoes, and two of squash. He hauled logs, worked on roads, fixed fences, helped build a house for Hans (Mary's husband?), and helped build two stables. Several trips were made between Brigham City and Bear Lake that summer and fall. The families in Bear Lake liked getting fruit from Brigham City.

March 1887, Mahonri writes, "Our City election came off the first Monday in March, being the first to take place under the new law. (Edmunds Tucker Bill) One hundred twenty-one took oath and voted the People's Ticket. Was elected 109 to 12." His attendance to city council meetings is mentioned throughout the year. This was in Brigham City.

His 'Shop' must have been an interesting place. Many times in his journal he says 'worked in the shop.' Some of the things he mentioned doing were mending chairs, stocking and fixing guns for himself and for friends, making harrow teeth and tongs, and sharpening the plow. He told of taking furniture to Sister Rosenbaum, so he had probably made it.

He tells of making and putting down ten foot bridges for the city. He set 13 trees on the square west of the tabernacle. This was while he was serving on the City Council.

His son Joey was preparing to move to Bear Lake in the spring of 1887. Mahonri and Jennette helped with the move starting May 10th. It took them 5 days to take Joey's family to Preston and through Emigration canyon. He helped Hans, Chris, and Joey get logs and poles, build roads, and start Joey's house before returning to Brigham City.

While at Brigham City he was ordained a High Priest under the hands of Rudger Clawson, Samuel Smith and Adolph Madsen. At a Sunday School Quarterly Review, he was presented a photograph, of the officers and teachers of the Sabbath School. He wrote, "It was a complete surprise to me, as it had not enter my head that my associates of the Sunday School would confer such an honor upon me for the poor services I had rendered. And they kept it from me, so that I had not a hint of what they were going to do." In his thank you to them he said, “I assure you I dearly prize the tokens of love and respect shown me on this occasion. And you will long be remembered by me. May God Bless and preserve you in the Faith of the Everlasting Gospel, is the prayer of your humble servant.”

In 1888 he moved to Bear Lake County, Idaho, buying a house from his brother-in law, M. Smith, for $30. June 24, 1888 he writes, "Got to our new home at 1 PM. Found all well."

Now his time was spent planting more crops and building stables and cow yards, better houses for his children's families who were already living in the area. They all worked together hauling logs and poles. In August of 1888, they bought a new threshing machine for $865.

Even there and then, they had political problems. He wrote October 27, 1888, "We had our names taken off the Ward records, it being necessary to do this on account of unconstitutional laws, made expressly to prevent members of the Mormon Church from exercising the elective franchise." In November they went to Bennington to vote.

Most Sundays the family went to church. He was set apart as a teacher in the Bennington Ward. He felt the need to do temple work. In 1889 they, Mahonri and Jennette, went to the Logan temple with his sister Caroline. They did the work for their parents and had them sealed. They were also sealed to their parents.

Mahonri went to Paris, Idaho, where he homesteaded a quarter section of land. Joey also homesteaded a piece. They had a lot of farming to do. In the summer of 1889 much time was spent working on a sawmill. It had cost $200. In August that year they thrashed only 6,000 bushels of grain. The year before in Bennington Ward they had thrashed nearly 20,000 bushel.

Entries were not regular after 1889. He would summarize the year. January 1, 1894 he wrote, "The year 1893 is now counted among the past. It has been a remarkable year in many respects, fraught with important events… Looking backward we see numerous disasters on land and sea, and a remarkable long death roll. The territories of the Rocky Mountains have suffered comparatively little from the calamities that have swept other parts of the world. The year has also brought improvement and important events of a cheerful character than those alluded to. The world's Fair… The dedication of the Great Temple in Salt Lake City deserves mention. The acceptance of the House of the Lord is a pledge that His promises are ever faithful, ever true."

"1894 is now past and gone. It was a very bad year for frost in the Bear Lake Valley, but crops of small grain and hay have never been better since I have been a resident here, some six years or more."

In 1895 on September 24, he wrote, "I am 57 years old today. I feel younger and stronger than I did three years ago." He, with sons Joey and Harrison, do a lot of farming together. They thrash grain for neighbors. They went fishing and hunting together. Grandsons are old enough to join them. His wife Jennette was away from home a lot caring for the sick. They often wrote to each other. There were months at a time he would not see her.

A house and lot was purchased in Georgetown, August 1897. He wrote, “Paid $300 for it. Gave a note for $200. Paid down $100.” They moved to Georgetown 5 November 1897. He still went to the farm. They grew lots of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and dewberries. These they traded for cheese and money. They also grew grain, beets, onions, and potatoes. He writes, "Have got 45 Bus. of beets, and 4 of onions. Dug and sacked 30 sacks of potatoes, had 50 bushels of wheat, and 95 of oats. He tells of shearing 46 sheep in two days. He bought tobacco and lye to make dip to 'dip' the sheep. Dip cost 75 cents.

Mahonri and Jennette welcomed everyone to their home. They had Jennette's mother Sophia Mead in their home and cared for her until her death, 25 June 1898. He enjoyed reading and had more books than many had. There was a piano that several learned to play. They helped raise grandchildren. Nettie Sorensen and Fanny Prescott lived with them. They took in Frank Pecora, an Italian orphan and raised him until he married Nettie in June of 1899. Maurice Tippets lived with them and helped on the farm. Probably others, too.

In 1898 he was able to attend general conference in Salt Lake City, speakers included President Wilford Woodruff, George Q. Cannon, F. D. Richards, J. W. Taylor and Joseph F. Smith. He took notes on their talks. While in SLC they attended the temple 11 April to have their "Second Anointings, also received them for my Father and Mother and Father's second wife Amanda Melvina Perry." They went to the temple again on April 13th and 14th. He wrote, "Tuesday there were near 300 people went through. The next two days, Wednesday and Thursday, there were about 200 each day."

He was interested in politics. He tells about several elections. One time he wrote "Went and visited Sister Jane, and had a long talk with her on politics, she being determined to sustain the Democratic ticket, not withstanding their inability to help us as a people." Of the election of Nov. 1898 he wrote, "The Republicans of this precinct had a large majority for most of their nominees...The Democrats carried Bear Lake County... Utah is mostly Democratic."

Through the years of 1896 to 1899 he writes very often, "Not feeling well... Began using Viavi last night, my stomach feels very bad." A week later he writes, "Think the Viavi treatment is making me feel better, am quite stout again." His sickness didn't seem to keep him down. He was a very active busy man. He probably kept working even when he was sick. On August 21, 1898 he wrote "Sunday. Didn't go to meeting; have got the whooping cough." (At age 61) In June he bought a pair of distance glasses. Paid $2.50.

Mahonri writes on June 10th he “went to Montpelier, bought a new buggy, harness, whip, halter, and lap rope. Paid $95; $30 down, and $65 due Nov. 1, 1900, to draw 10 percent interest from Nov. 1st 1899." This is probably the buggy Jennette used to do her doctoring and service as Relief Society President.

We know nothing of the next ten years. We can assume he attended meetings as his health would permit. He probably continued farming and did a lot of reading. He was a man that kept busy. He showed a lot of love and concern for his family and did a lot to help them.

He died 1 October 1910 in Georgetown, Bear Lake, Idaho, at the age of 72. His wife Jennette, sons Joseph William and Harrison Plummer, and daughter Mary Ellen survived him. There were also many grandchildren and great grandchildren who are proud to call him Grandpa.

Taken from his journal by Colleen Tippets, wife of John

JOURNAL OF JOSEPH MAHONRI TIPPETS (Written 1874 to 1899)

(This digital version of the book, A Time To Remember 1873 , by Ruby Noyes Tippets, 1987, was typed by Vicki Harrison Cutler, a great great granddaughter of Joseph Mahonri and Alice Jennette Tippets in 2015. Spelling and typo’s have been corrected and punctuation has been changed in some instances. The format has been changed to eliminate confusing paragraphs. At the end are some life stories and other comments that are interesting. These appeared in the front of the book originally. The following is added for reference.)

LIFE HISTORY DETAILS OF JOSEPH MAHONRI TIPPETS:

He was born 25 Sept. 1838, died 2 Oct. 1910. Married his distant cousin, Alice Jeannette Tippets 1 Jan. 1860. She lived 1844 to 1914. Parents of 5 children:

Alice Rosalia born 1861, died 1908, married Christian Sorensen

Joseph William (Joey) born 1863, died 1911, married Ellen Rosenbaum

Eliza Rebecca born 1865, (lived 6 days)

Mary Ellen born 1866, died 1932, married Hans Sorensen

Harrison Plummer born 1868, died 1953, married Emma Van Orman

1874

January 14th, 1874 I have not wrote any for a long time for want of paper. I will now begin again. It has been a hot dry summer and fall and the winter has been dry and cold so far, but not much snow. We raised good crops of everything, but money is scarce and hard to get. But we get along first rate, for our co-op is doing well and supplies us with most everything we need. We are all well at present and everything is prospering. I am working in my shop at present, have worked considerable in the canyon.

Tues. Jan. 27th Nothing transpired of worthy note. I am still working in the shop. Weather has been good most of the time. They are not working on the U.N.R.R. building at Ogden. There has been very little snow on the ground. We are all in good health.

Mon. Feb. 28th There is not much going on at present. Times are dull and money is scarce. The U.N.R.R. is now finished to Ogden. It made its first trip today. The weather is very pleasant and scarcely any snow on the ground. We are all in good health

Mon. Feb. 29th We are having the hardest of our winter. It is snowing more or less every day. The snow is about 4 inches deep where it is drifted. We have had some heavy winds lately. There has been nothing of note happened of late. Everything is peace and quiet. We are all in good health.

March 2^nd Snowed very near all day. Has been very cold weather for some time. We are having the worst of our winter. Caroline Smith’s little girl was buried this afternoon. We are enjoying good health at present. It has been a very long winter, but good weather most of the time.

Friday March 3^rd It began snowing about 10 o’clock last night and snowed most of the day. The snow fell about 7 inches deep and it is freezing some tonight. We still have good health at present, but are getting very tired of winter. I have not got much hay left and it is very scarce and hard to get. I have been working for Brother Josephson on his house for about two weeks.

We have had two days of meetings, at which was represented the various branches, or settlements in the county. Also, our cooperative institutions which consist of a store, woolen factory, tannery, boot and shoe, hat and harness shop and lumber mills, which are all said to be in prosperous condition.

Some of the sheep are dying on account of cold weather. It snowed nearly all day Sunday the 25^th but the weather is not very cold. There is about 5 inches of snow on the ground.

Friday 20^th Snow 9 inches deep with south wind blowing. It has snowed for the last 5 days and still looks stormy. Feed getting scarce and no sign of spring yet. But we are all well and in good health. That is a great blessing for which we are very thankful.

March 24^th My sister, Mary Elizabeth, died at 4 o’clock a.m. She died very sudden of putrid sore throat. The weather is more pleasant now, warm days but freezing hard at night, some bare spots where it has been tramped. Snow 4 or 5 inches deep.

April 12 I plowed the ground and sowed a piece of lucern the first day of this month. I have planted my onions and a few parsnips. The spring is very backward and cold, not much plowing or sowing done yet. Two of my children have been very sick, but they are now well at present. (Typist’s note: Lucerne is either alfalfa or some grassy hay that was grown for animal feed.)

April 20^th Snowed all day today. I sowed one acre of wheat the 18, Sat. We are all well at present. Weather still cold.

May 8^th It is now snowing. We have had some very pleasant weather. The crops are beginning to grow, peaches in bloom and everything looks lovely and there is still a great deal of sickness in town. I finished sowing my small grain the first of the month and finished planting potatoes the 7^th.

Sunday 17^th It is raining. The weather is now very warm. I began planting corn the 16^th, Saturday. We all enjoy good health for which we are very thankful. There are a great many sick with the sore throat, mostly children.

June 7^th We are now having a long rainy spell. I have been hauling wood and lumber now for some time but the roads are very bad. Crops look good. Jones’ little Mary died the 3^rd, Wed.

Sunday 21^st Everything all well at present. Weather very warm and dry. Crops look well. Jennette went to Cache Valley Wednesday morning. I expect her back today. We are going to have a two day meeting when we will organize the United Order, Sunday the 28^th. We had good teaching at our meeting on the United Order. Officers were elected and preparations were made for entering into it. We are all well at present except for the whooping cough. It is good weather, but very dry.

September 13, 1874 Everything all well at present. We have had a very hot day and a dry summer. Hard frost on the 8^th killed all of the corn and potatoes in the field. I was working in the canyon getting out wood at the time. I have all my threshing done. I raised wheat 150 bus., barley 75 bus.

Sept. 27^th We are all well at present. Still very dry and hot for this time of year. I have got my corn all harvested. I think I will have about 100 bushels. Judge McKean and his associates are doing all they can to make trouble and hinder the work of the Lord on the Earth.

Oct. 27^th, 1874 It is now storming and has been for 4 or 5 days, with no sign of stopping. There has not been any frost here in town yet. We are all well. I have not got enough wood yet. I finished digging my potatoes on the 16^th. I sold 220 bus. Paid 25 bus. for tithing, and kept 70 bus. for my own use.

Nov. 28^th 1874 Started to Salt Lake City to be baptized for the dead relatives. We got there on Sunday, the 29^th. Monday 30^th my brother Brigham and his wife’s sister Eliza were married.

Tues. December 1^st Spent the day in the city.

Wed. 2^nd Was baptized for our dead

Thurs 3^rd Started home. Stormed most of the day. Stayed overnight between Ogden and the Hot Springs.

Friday 4^th Got home. There has been a great deal of rain this fall but not much snow. The ground is now bare. Freezing hard nights.

Dec. 10, 1874 We are still all well. Very good weather. Not any snow yet, the ground is still bare, but freezing hard nights. I have been working for Bro. Reader, building a stable. We are all well.

1875

Sunday Jan 10, 1875 I have been going to the canyon for 4 or 5 days hauling shingle timber. I have got most of it hauled. My brother Heber’s little child, Melvina Jane, died today at 10 o’clock of sore throat. She died very sudden.

Monday 11^th It snowed 3 or 4 inches last night and today. We are all well, for which we are very thankful.

Jan 18^th 1875 It has been snowing all week or more, a foot deep and still snowing very fast. I finished hauling my shingle timber last week and made a sled.

Jan. 19^th 1875 Wind from the south. Snow melting very fast.

January 20^th Ground bare, almost a flood. I don’t remember such a thaw since I have lived in Brigham City.

Sunday 31^st The ground is still bare, cold nights, but warm and pleasant days. We are all well at present and feel thankful for the same. Times are dull. No money stirring.

March 1^st 1875 Very nice and pleasant all through February. Today, March first, cold and blustering. Ground bare and has been since the 20^th of January. We are still all well. We can soon begin plowing if the weather is favorable.

March 16^th It has been cold and stormy every since March began. The snow is about 4 inches deep where it is drifted. I went on the mountain and got 50 poles during the month of February, and the rest of the time I have worked in the shop. We are all well.

Thurs. Apr. 8^th ’75 It is now most beautiful weather and has been for nearly a week. I sowed two acres of wheat the 16^th. We are all well. Times are dull, no money stirring. There is a prospect of good fruit crops this season.

Sunday April 25^th I finished sowing my small grain the 24^th. Apricots are now in full bloom, the weather is warm and dry. We still all have good health.

Sunday May 2^nd I sowed a piece of oats on the sod the 28^th. Began planting potatoes the 30^th. It is now cloudy but warm; peaches are in full bloom. Everything looks well except small garden seeds. It has been warm but there is signs of storm now. We are all well.

Monday May 10^th I finished planting potatoes the 4^th, began planting corn the 5^th, finished the 6^th. It began raining the afternoon of the 6^th and has rained every day until now. I plowed my lot today and sowed a few onions. We are still all well.

Wednesday, June 2^nd It is now rather cold. There was a frost on the field about a week ago and the night before last and last night. My uncle, Henry E. Perry, died May 19^th of consumption. There is still prospects of fruit and grain crops at present. I have run the cultivator through my corn and hoed part of it today. We are all well at present.

July 25^th, 1875 I have now got the most of my hay up. The weather is very hot and dry. Everything looks well. Oats and barley are almost ripe. We still all have good health.

September 20^th, 1875 It is now very windy and cold, rained some last night. There is a light frost on the field; was on the 18^th of August. There have been good crops this year. I had 295 bushels of wheat, 120 of barley, and 77 of oats. We are trying to dry peaches, but it is very bad weather for drying. I have not hauled any wood yet. It has been a very dry hot summer. We are all well at present and have been during the summer.

October 31^st, 1875 It is now rather stormy and has been for 4 or 5 days. I haven’t hauled much wood. It was very good weather from the 22^nd of Sept. to the 25^th of October. I had 40 bushels of corn and 320 of potatoes. I finished digging potatoes on the 16^th of this month. We sold 205 pounds of peaches at Willard at 9 ¢ lb. Here at home we sold at 8 ½ ¢ per pound.

Nov. 26^th It is now snowing a little. It has been storming for about four weeks. I have not got wood enough yet. I have not been doing much for 2 or 3 weeks. We sold 110 lb. of peaches at 9 ½ ¢ per lb. at home. We are not all well at present.

1876

Feb. 9 1876 Wind in the south, thawing very fast. Weather has been very mild for two weeks. The snow laid on the ground about 2 inches during the most of January until now. I have got 3 loads of wood off the mountain last week. We have all had good health and still enjoy the same blessings, for which we are very thankful. The missionaries that were called to Arizona started the 3^rd of this month. We sold peaches last year amounting to $45.55.

Feb. 27^th, 1876 We have had some good weather this month and some storm. Quite a snow storm last night. The ground is getting mostly bare. Times are dull but we all feel good.

March 9^th Thursday Snowed last night 8 inches. I have hauled about 2 loads of rock for myself and 1 ½ loads for the tabernacle. We are all well. The weather has been mostly stormy for about 3 weeks.

March 29^th 1876 Wednesday It is warm today, but has been very cold all this month until now. The ground has been mostly all bare this month. I had a piece of lucern sowed the 25^th. I got my leg hurt on the 15^th so that I have had to walk with crutches ever since, but it is now getting some better. I sowed some onion seed the 29^th and cabbage also. We are all well.

April 22^nd We had had some good weather but it has been mostly cold. I sowed three acres of wheat the 15^th, finished sowing wheat the 17^th, sowed barley and oats the 19^th. Began planting potatoes the 21^st. It is now storming. Apricots are now beginning to bloom. There is a great prospect of fruit this spring. I had to use crutches just 3 weeks. I can walk very well now but am quite lame yet.

April 30^th Very heavy rain last night. Looks stormy now. I finished planting potatoes the 25^th. The weather has been warm. Peaches are beginning to bloom. Strawberries and plums also. I am now about over my lameness. We are all well for which we are very thankful.

May 7^th 1876 The weather has been cold for 5 or 6 days. Peaches are now beginning to bloom. I have plowed my lot and planted it. Plowed and planted my corn ground. All’s well.

June 6^th. We have had very high water this year. The weather has been mostly cold with some storm. There is a good prospect of good crops of small grain and fruit. I planted my corn about the middle of May. It does not look very well on account of the cold weather. Strawberries are beginning to get ripe. We are all well, for which we are thankful.

July 2^nd 1876 The weather is now very hot and has been for three or four weeks. Everything looks well but times are dull. We are all well at present. P Burbank’s little girl died Thursday, the 29^th of June.

Sunday the 16^th Heavy storm of wind and rain the 7^th. Weather very warm. Times are still dull. I have hauled one load of bark this week. All well at present.

Sunday 23^rd Heavy rainstorm with wind last night. Began cutting hay the 21^st. Hauled one load the 22^nd. All well at present, except colds.

Sunday Aug. 20^th, 1876 There has been a great deal of bad weather during harvest. Looks like storm now. I have got my hay all up and harvesting done the 12^th. There was light frost on the 9^th on the field. We are all well at present and are thankful for the same.

Oct. 6, 1876 It is a nice and warm day yet. I have worked 10 days in the canyon hauling logs. I have got my corn all up, there was 23 loads, began digging potatoes the 5^th. We are all well yet, thanks to the Lord.

Oct. 15 I had to leave my potatoes unfinished, and start for the city to attend the Third District Court as a pettit juror. I had some over 400 bu. of potatoes and 100 of corn. I will now copy from my note book:

Oct. 15^th Left my home for Salt Lake City.

30^th, snow on the ground. In court.

Tues. 31^st, In court. Bought a ½ ton of coal, for which I paid $4.00.

Wed. 1^st of Nov. In court all day.

Thursday, Nov. 2^nd, in court until noon; got dinner at the hotel, afternoon in jury room, could not agree, was released from further consideration of the case.

Nov. 3^rd Met at court, was released; in court all day.

Sat. 4^th. In court. Got a letter from home.

Sun. 5^th. Finished writing a letter. Went to Sunday School in 8^th Ward, p.m. went to meeting at New Tabernacle

Mon. 6^th Went to court; drawn on jury, couldn’t agree, was left in all night

Tuesday 7^th Was released until Wed. morning at 10

Wed. 8^th There was a great deal of hurrahing on the streets for Tildon and Hendricks. Went to court.

Thursday 9^th In court all day.

Friday 10^th In court all day

Sat. 11^th In court. Did not get through with the case: E.P. Johnson et al vs. Waterman & Co. mining suit.

Sunday 12^th Went to meeting at tabernacle, evening at 8^th Ward

Monday 13^th In court about 1 ½ hours, spent rest of day and night in jury room. Could not agree. Had supper, dinner, breakfast at hotel. Got paid $10 pay.

Tuesday 14^th In court

Wed. In court

Thurs 16^th and Fri 17^th in court. Was released until 10 o’clock.

Saturday Started home. Got home at 10 o’clock. 50 miles. Found everything there all right at home.

Sunday At home.

Monday 20^th 1876 Turned and trimmed and covered my grapes and started back to the city p.m. 25 miles to Ogden, got there at 4 p.m. Started on to the city at 6 p.m. 20 miles, got to the city at 8 p.m. 20 miles.

Tuesday 21^st In court. Wed. In court. Thurs. in court. Seen Sim Gunard, George Doxey from the Cotton Farm p.m. P.m. in court. Released until Tues. 28^th.

Friday 24^th Studied arithmetic until noon. Afternoon went to graveyard and up through 20^th Ward. In court a few minutes.

Saturday 25^th Started to write a letter home, did not finish. Went to court and got released to return home. Got my time and juror’s certificate, which, with mileage, amounted to $2.00. Went to Wm. Claytons to see if I could get any pay, could not get any. Was told that my certificate was good for nothing. I would have to state that I was compelled to leave my home and go to Salt Lake City, to attend the Third District Court as a Petit Juror, pay my fare down and back and all expenses while there. With no hope of pay?

Sunday 26^th Started home. Got home at 4 p.m. 50 miles.

Monday 27^th At home

Tues. Shucked some corn

Wed. 29^th At home

December 10^th I have been to Corrinne. Sold some onions and potatoes. Got 90 ¢ per bushel onions and 35 ¢ for potatoes. Fixed up a bellows and got most of my corn husked and put away and hauled 3 loads of wood.

Wednesday Dec. 20^th 1876 It is now clear and pleasant, the first good day we have had for two or three weeks. It has been foggy all of that time. I have been working some in the shop stocking guns. Today I went to the canyon and got a load of poles. Killed hog the 15^th. It has now been storming for a week or more. Began snowing the 21^st or 22^nd. I killed my last hog and took it to Corrinne, and sold it for 10 ¢ lb. We have been and still are, blessed with good health, for which we are thankful to the Lord.

Dec. 29^th It is quite warm and thawing. I have been working in the shop stocking a gun.

1877

January 8^th 1877 We are all well, thank the Lord. It is still warm weather with a little snow on the ground. I am still working in the shop stocking guns and doing some other things now and then.

January 21^st 1877 There is now about 4 inches of snow on the ground and more coming. Looks like winter weather, mildly cold. We are fine for which we are very thankful. Times are dull. Every prospect of a Civil War in the United States: wars and rumors of wars all over the world. There were portions of the St. George Temple dedicated on Jan. 1^st, 1877.

January 28^th There is now 6 or 7 inches of snow on the ground. Weather very cold. I went to the canyon today and got a load of poles. We are still all well.

Feb. 8^th 1877. There is now 6 or 7 inches of snow on the ground. Hillsides mostly bare. Warm days and cold nights. We still have good health.

Sunday Feb. 11^th Warm days and cold nights. Weather pleasant. Snow going off slowly. I went to the canyon yesterday and got some wood. Hauled one load of rock, came loaded. I would not haul any more until the road is better. We still have good health.

March 2^nd It is now raining. The snow mostly off. On the 24^th of Feb. I plowed some. March 1^st, planted a few onions. Good weather most of the past month. Got manure hauled mostly.

March 7^th There has been very little snow on the mountain this year and enough to hinder going anywhere with a team. Has rained all the time this month.

March 11^th Has rained all the time this month with a little snow. Ground bare at present. Weather warm. Hayes was inaugurated the 5^th, it is said, by fraud. We are well at present, thanks to the Lord. I have been working in the shop for a week or more.

March 20^th It is now very warm and pleasant. I have planted peas and onions. Worked today on pasture fence. Shall begin plowing for wheat tomorrow. We are still all well.

March 26^th Still warm and pleasant. Sowed four acres of wheat the 24^th. Been plowing today. I planted lettuce and radishes last week. Gooseberries are starting and everything looks well. We are still all well, thank the Lord.

March 31^st It began raining night before last and has stormed all the time since. It has been snowing all day today. Apricots are in bloom. I finished sowing wheat the 29^th. My wife’s father, William Plummer Tippets, died on the 29^th of typhoid fever. He was born June 26^th 1812, in the town of Grotan, Hillsborough Co., New Hampshire. He died at his home at Three Mile Creek, surrounded by his children and friends.

April 15^th The weather has been rather cold so far this month. Peaches, plums and strawberries are now in bloom. I planted potatoes in the field on the 12^th. The grasshoppers are hatching very thick. We are all well at present, for which we are thankful.

April 25^th Still cold and windy, have not planted any more potatoes yet. Got my corn ground plowed, but not planted, and sowed corn and beans. Last week snow fell 3 inches deep on the 20^th. All’s well at present.

May 1^st 1877 I finished planting potatoes yesterday. Rained last night. Weather more warm. Apples in bloom. Grasshoppers doing some damage. Grain looks well in the field. Have not planted corn yet. All well.

May 27^th It has now been warm for three or four days. Had one big snowstorm the 17^th. The grasshoppers have destroyed all of my garden. I lent my team out to plow last week. Went to look at a saw mill at Three Mile Creek, Idaho. Done some work on the mill. All have good health.

May 31^st It has been storming for 3 or 4 days, and still looks stormy. Grain looks well in the field.

June 10^th It has now cleared off warm. Grain still looks well in the field. Started the saw mill on the 7^th. It works well. I have been and got my lumber. Plowed my corn and some of my potatoes. Replanted my lot. Still all well.

June 17^th Worked in the canyon 4 days last week, hauling wood Friday and Saturday. Worked on the farm plowing. Potatoes and corn. Weather very warm. Grasshoppers have eaten my squash and melons second time. Been flying all last week, going north, mostly.

June 24^th Watered wheat the 18^th Monday. Worked in the canyon rest of the week getting out wood. Weather more cool. Grasshoppers still flying north. All well, thank the Lord.

July 15^th The weather is now very hot and has been for some time. There was a heavy frost in the field the night of the 24^th of June, which killed the potatoes and some of the corn. Watered wheat again on the 11^th of July. I have been running the saw mill for 11 ½ days. Sawed 4,972 ft., beside 2 pr. of sled runners and worked some on mill repairing. All well. My son Harrison was baptized on the 8^th of July by John Christiansen, and confirmed by Adolph Madsen.

August 26^th 1877 It is now getting pretty cold nights. Frost killed everything in the field about the middle of September. I had 40 bus. of corn. Potatoes are almost a failure. I think I will have about 150 bushels. I have most of my adobes made. We are all well at present.

Monday Oct. 28^th Began snowing last night, snowed all day. Held our Quarterly Conference yesterday and today. Had some good teaching from Brothers Woodruff and Richards. I have not got all my wood hauled yet. Sowed 3 ½ acres of wheat. All is well, for which we feel thankful.

November 25^th Have had some light snow storms. Ground bare at present. I have got my house up and the rafters on. I have sold 8 or 9 cords of wood and got 4 or 5 cords left. Got 760 adobes from the yard and 200 from C. Hansen.

December 16^th Had some rain last night. Weather milk and warm. I got the roof on my house and the floor laid and the windows in. Mary (daughter) has been sick since the 10^th but is some better. Joey has been hauling wood first week. Worked 9 ½ days on the road previous.

Day before Christmas. Is now very cold, snow 3 inches deep. I have got my house ready for plastering. Our woolen factory was burned down on the night of the 21^st.

1878

January 5^th 1878 There has been very nice weather until the 7^th of this month, when it snowed about a foot and is freezing some nights. I was out to Point Lookout and laid up a house for Orson. Been working in the shop since I came back. We are building our woolen factory again as fast as the weather will permit.

Feb. 24^th Ground now bare and looks like spring. I have been out to Point Lookout and stayed two weeks. Stormed most of the time. We are still all well for which we thank the Lord.

March 11^th We had a very cold storm last week, but not much snow. The ground is bare and drying up very fast. I have been at Point Lookout again and just returned. I have spent 4 weeks out there during February and this month. We are all well, for which we are thankful. Times are dull, money very scarce.

March 18^th 1878 I came home from Point Lookout on the 17^th. We have made nine miles of fence, built and finished a house for Orson, and built one for Sam during the winter. It is now very warm weather. Peach buds are swelling very fast. I started plowing for wheat this morning on the farm. We are still all well.

March 26^th 1878 Rained last night. Still very warm weather. Sowed 3 ½ acres of wheat the 25^th. My brother Hyrum’s little boy died the 21^st and his youngest girl on the 25^th. Both died of scarlet fever. Apricots are now in bloom. I have planted my onions, and plowed some ground to plant some other things. We are all well at present for which we thank the Lord.

April 1^st Warm and pleasant. Have planted peas, beets and parsnips.

April 7^th Still very warm. Peaches and plums are in bloom. Everything looks well. Finished sowing small grain the 2^nd, been making chairs for two or three days. We are all well and think to thank God for the same.

May 12^th 1878 Light shower of rain last night. Weather quite warm again now. Has been very cold most of April and this month so far. There was a great deal of frost the last month. Most of the fruit is killed. Some damage done to small grain. Plowed my lot the 25^th of April and planted sweet corn and beans. Finished planting potatoes 26^th. Planted corn 8^th of May. Heavy frost May 1^st. Joey has been very sick but is now quite well again, thank God.

May 19^th Been storming three or four days; snowed the 16^th. Frost at night looks like clearing off now. Most everything in the garden is covered with lice. Went to the canyon 15^th.

August 11^th The nights are now quite cold. Have been very hot up to the present. I finished harvesting the 5^th of this month. Will have good crops of small grain. Potatoes and corn look well. I got about 5 ton of hay from my land this year. Sawed about 5,000 of lumber at our saw mill this season. We are all well, and have been most of the time, thank the Lord.

October 15, 1878 It is now pretty cold and the mountains covered with snow. I have not got much wood yet. Have got my threshing done, corn hoed and hauled, and potatoes dug. Had wheat 307 bus., barley 110, corn 100, potatoes 500 bushels. Joey has had a lame arm for about a month but is now getting so he can work again. Alice was married the 13^th of September to Christian Sorensen. We are all well at present, thank the Lord.

December 15th 1878 It is now very cold. Has been for 5 or 6 days now. No snow yet in the valley and not much on the mountain. I have got up wood enough, I think. My children are all going to school now. Went to Ogden in November and bought a new wagon. Paid $73.00 for it. Built a house at Point Lookout week before last. We are all well, thank the Lord.

1879

January 6^th 1879 Have had our first snow storm today of any account. Fell about 6 inches deep. Started to make a bob sled today. Have been at home most of the time working in the shop. All well, thank God.

Jan. 24^th It is now thawing very fast, ground most bare. I have been working in the shop most of the time. All well at present. The Supreme Court of the United States confirmed the decision of the Lower Court in the Rhonalds Polygamy Case some time near the first of this month.

Jan. 26^th Thaw. Finished up with the snow storm. Is snowing now. Snow about 4 inches deep. Still all well, thank the Lord.

February 10^th 1879 Thawing again. Ground most bare. We are all well at present. The diphtheria is again in town. There are three or four children dead with it.

Feb. 28^th All well at present, thanks to the Lord. No sickness in town. I planted my onions on the 25^th. It is now good weather. I have got my manure all hauled out, made a bed for pie plant, and plowed a piece of land for peas.

March 27^th I finished sowing wheat the 25^th. Has not been much warm weather yet. Apricots are now in bloom. There have been no heavy storms this winter or spring; no snow in the mountains to speak of, but there was a good shower last night. We are all well at present, thank the Lord.

April 6^th, 1879 Rained last night. Peaches in bloom. Strawberries beginning to bloom. Weather warm. Everything looks well. There was a wind from the north mountain the first of this month, which injured the wheat some. Still all well.

April 20^th Another wind from the mountain. It destroyed 3 acres of wheat. Had to resow it, which I did, on the 18^th of this month. Have had some frost which has done some damage to fruit. Rained all day today. Snowed on the mountain. We are all well, thanks to the Lord.

Friday May 16^th There has been a great deal of cold weather. Frost about every week. No rain for three or four weeks, not very good prospects for small grain. Have been over to Point Lookout, dug a well, had to dig 22 feet, got good water. Went to canyon, got out 85 ties for U.N.R.R.

June 26^th Weather is warm daytimes, cold nights. Have had one or two little storms. Everything looks well at present. I have my potatoes and corn plowed and hoed. Got out 170 ties and 7 loads of wood. All well at present, thank the Lord.

August 10^th Finished harvesting on the 9^th, everything looks well. Has been very dry and hot all summer.

August 31^st There was a light frost on the fields on the 29^th and 30^th, heavy winds two or three days before. Still dry, and cooler nights. We got our threshing done, had 269 bus. of wheat, 74 ½ of barley. All well, thanks to the Lord.

September 9^th 1879 Still all well. Weather warm and dry. There was a SIGN in the SKY on the night of the fifth of Sept., about 7 o’clock, a little north of west. A star shot downward, leaving a bright streak, which gradually assumed the appearance of a snake and continued to change and curl, until it formed the following WAR and still continuing to change, it formed AR and this ^c. It was visible about half an hour altogether. (typist’s note: WAR, AR and ^c were written by hand and are not easily duplicated on a keyboard.)

I finished getting up my corn the 10^th. Will have a fair crop.

November 9^th 1879 Weather cold. Snow fell yesterday but the ground now bare. Have got my wood up, potatoes dug and corn shucked. I had 360 bushels of potatoes and 75 of corn. Done 19 days work on Sam’s house. We are still all well.

Nov. 16^th Snow about every other night but it goes off in the daytime. Still all well. Snowed two feet deep in the mountains.

Nov. 30^th Turned warm last night. Rained some. Frost mostly out of the ground. I hauled 6 loads of manure to farm. Done 5 days work at Three Mile Creek.

1880

Feb. 10, 1880 We are still enjoying good health, for which we feel very grateful. The weather has been mostly cold this winter, some snow laying in December, and frost in January. About 2 or 3 weeks of warm weather in January, which took off most of the snow. The ground is mostly bare but frost is not out. Snowing some now. We have begun to build a meeting house in the Third Ward, have got rock hauled for the foundation and some of the sand and gravel and clay hauled. Using the teams and wagons, J.M. worked and hauled load of rock and done 5 days work in stone quarry. Team has been hauling clay for 6 or 8 days. There has been a good deal of wet weather this winter. Ground is well soaked.

March 25^th Snowed this evening. Have not planted any yet. I have stocked a good many guns this winter. Has been warm days and cold nights for a week or two. Had a dance for benefit of the Sunday School week before last, got $6 in cash. Have had a good time this winter, although the weather has been very cold and the winter long. Hay has got scarce, selling as high as $20 per ton, and hard to get at that. A great many stock have died on the range. There is plenty of snow in the mountains at present. We are all well, thank the Lord.

April 17^th This month came in with rain and has been mild most of the time with a great deal of wind. I began plowing in the field the 10^th. Got 5 acres ready to sow on the 14^th but it began snowing and kept on till now. Stock still dying. Grass has not yet started. I went down to Conference on the 6^th and came back the 9^th. We are all well, thanks to the Lord.

April 19^th 1880 Monday the 26^th I sowed the first wheat. Wed. 28^th sowed barley, Thurs. 29^th finished sowing small grain. It has been cold and stormy all this month. Grass is starting a little. Buds are swelling. Apricots are in bloom. We are all well, thanks to the Lord.

May 5^th Planted some potatoes this forenoon. North wind and snow this afternoon. Was very warm three or four days previous. Box Elder Creek broke its banks on the night of the 3^rd and ran down through the field, doing some damage. Plums are beginning to bloom, lucern and grass now starting very fast. We are all well at present.

May 14^th It is now cold and stormy. I finished planting potatoes the 12^th. Have been hauling manure and hoeing in the garden last two days. Peaches are now in bloom, strawberries also. We are still well, thank the Lord.

July 2^nd It is now very hot weather and has been for some time. It had been dry and cold except 2 or 3 days at a time, until the last two weeks. Small grain does not look well, water is getting scarce. Grain does not look well where the land is low and cold. Corn did not come up good but looks well now where it is up. Garden stuff looks well. Water is getting scarce. I have got my corn and potatoes cultivated and hoed, have hauled 5 or 6 loads of wood. I went to Cache Valley on the 19^th of June to look at land. Was gone 8 days. Did not find anything that suited me. We are all well, thank the Lord. July was a very windy month. Hot and cold weather, light frost.

August 9^th Began harvest on the 9^th, finished on the 20^th. Frost the 30^th, rain the 29^th nine days. Both hot and cold weather during month.

December South wind three days. Warmer. Began raining 11^th, continued to 28^th and then began snowing again.

1881

January 1881 Snowing. Warm the 2^nd, cooler the 3^rd or 4^th. More snow. The snow is now about 6 inches deep and still snowing. We have had good health all the time and are very thankful for the same. Last year had been a worry, cold and frosty one. Still there were very fair crops raised.

February 1881 Rain most of the day. Cloudy the first day, rain at night. It has been warm and stormy most of the time during January. The ground is now bare and has been very warm and pleasant. We are still well, thanks to the Lord.

March - Stormed some during the day, wind north. Ground bare and most ready to plow. Plowed a few furrows by the peach trees today. Rained and snowed most of the time last month. We all have good health. Made half dozen chairs and done some other work.

April 1881 Weather has been warm for 10 or 12 days first of the month. Cold and stormy now. Began plowing on farm the 7^th. Sowed first wheat 21^st. Finished 29^th of April. Apricots are now in bloom. Wife’s grandmother died the 3^rd of April of old age. We are all well at present.

May - Weather has been mostly warm, with cool nights. Peaches in bloom 15^th and apples 20^th of April There is the best prospect of fruit I have ever seen before. Small grain looks first rate but is getting dry. Finished planting potatoes 22^nd of April, planted corn 28, 29, 30^th.

June – There was a good deal of cold weather from the first to 20^th of May then very warm the rest of the month. There was frost in the fields 3 or 4 times, injured grain some, yet everything looks well now. On May 9^th started to Bear Lake with Brig. Was gone 21 days. Still all well, thanks to the Lord.

July 1881 – All well at present, thanks to the Lord. There was some cold weather during June, light frost in the field, no damage. We have now got our corn and potatoes all plowed for the first time. Grain looks well, Barley beginning to ripen. Potatoes and corn look well. Began mowing the 28^th of June.

August – President Garfield was shot and badly wounded the 2^nd of July. It is very hot, but frost on the field the night of the 7^th of July. It rained. Corn injured some, potatoes some. Weather has been mostly hot. A good deal of rain and some wind. Began cutting barley 19^th, wheat 25^th, finished 30^th. President Garfield is improving. We are all well, thanks to the Lord.

September – Rained the 7^th of August. Finished mowing Aug. 2^nd. Have mowed 54 acres of grass and cut 40 acres of grain.

1882

January 1^st, 1882 Ground bare at present, had a very early fall and a good deal of stormy weather. Some snow but mostly rain. Had a good crop this year. Potatoes, 500 bus.; wheat 179, barley 108, oats 100, turnips 5, and hay 18 tons.

February 1882 Clear and pleasant. Has been cold through January. Not much snow. The roads bare most of the time. Have paid donations for the Logan Temple during the year 1881, $13.00, to poor, $3.00. Fast donations, flour 60 lbs. To Quorum for mission, etc., $2.00.

March 1882 Clear and warm. Turned warm and stormy the last of Feb. Has been very cold most of Feb. Snow fell about 21 inches on the 13^th and 14^th, laying on until toward the last of the month. It is now about 4 inches deep. No sign of spring yet. Feed is beginning to get scarce. We are all well thank the Lord. Joey was married March 2^nd, 1882, to Nellie Rosenbaum.

April 1882 It is now cold and stormy. March has been mostly cold, but pleasant. Very warm at the last and first of April. Warm and pleasant toward the 7^th. Rained on the 6^th. Began plowing in field on the 3^rd, sowed barley 5^th. Did not get all harrowed in. Sowed a piece of barley on T. Nielson’s lot 1^st. Made some garden 4^th. Bought two stands of bees of S. Smith, paid $12. Do not feel very well at present. Rest of the family all well, thank the Lord.

May 1882 Warm and pleasant. Has been warm for 4 or 5 days. Was cold and stormy most of the time during April. Have got 5 acres of barley, 3 of oats, and 17 of wheat sowed. Land in good condition to plow at present. Cut my leg last week, but have sowed some wheat today. Am still lame.

June 1882 Warm and fine. Was cold most of the time during May. Not much storm, very dry now. Had to water some of the corn to bring it up. Finished sowing May 5^th grain and corn the 19^th. Joey and Chris started to Bear Lake 22^nd to work. Went to Ogden and got a new wagon on May 27^th. Paid down $60. Still owe $50. Everything looks well where it has water.

July 1882 Very hot now. Was cool most of the time during June. Had some rain between the 10^th and 15^th, light frost in the field, did no damage. Have got corn and potatoes all cultivated and hoed once. They look well. Harrison has hauled 5 loads of wood. Are now plowing potatoes. All well, thanks to the Lord.

August 1882 It is hot now. Was cool with some cold weather in July. Heavy frost in field the 8^th, killed potatoes and corn pretty bad. Most of them look well now but will be very late. Have got all the hay up except Janes. Had 68 loads, 34 on the meadow. Smallpox in town, one case. All well at present thanks to the Lord.

September – Hot and dry during August. Still all well.

October 1882 All well, thank the Lord. Got threshing done, had fair crop of small grain.

November 1882 Rained most all the time during October, some snow. Had a hard time digging potatoes. No sale for them at all. Pitted most of them at farm. Corn not very good. What there was was damaged by rain. Brother Hyrum and family started for Arizona 10^th October. All well.

December 1882 Rained some in November, warm and pleasant rest of the time. Ground bare.

1883

January 1883 December was warm with some rain about half of month, last half snowing but didn’t lay on long. Had a letter from Hyrum, all well. Is at Smithville, Graham Co., Arizona, on the Gila River. This month has been very cold most of the time, warm and raining the last 4 or 5 days. Ground most bare now, except ice. Had another letter from Brother Hyrum. All well. We are all well, also, thanks to the Almighty.

Feb. 1883 Snowed hard all day. Wind north. Turned cold next day and remained so for 10 or 12 days then turned some warmer, variable with warm days, but cold at night.

March – Clear and warm days, nights cold. Rained some until 18^th. Windy and cloudy most of time, some rain until last day. We began plowing in field the 12^th, finished sowing small grain 28^th.

April 1883 Variable. April has been a cold and stormy month. On the 24^th there was a very hard wind from the east, which done a great deal of damage, blowing down shade trees, scattering hay, and also turning over and tearing down some barns. Blew down our stockyard at field. Damaged the grain considerable. We began planting potatoes on the 17^th, are not quite done yet. Most of the grain looks quite well again. The cold weather has killed all of the peaches and some of the trees. Apricots are now in bloom. Apples are beginning to bloom the 25^th. We are all well at present, for which we feel very thankful.

May – Sold our potatoes 20 ¢ bushel, finished planting corn the 12^th. Started to Bear Lake the 16^th, found everybody all well. Had a good visit, got back 28^th. Had to plant corn all over again, which makes it late. All well, Weather cold.

June 1883 Finished planting the corn and setting out cabbage plants 10 or 12^th. Weather cold with some showers, turned warm 18^th and was hot most of the time. Worked on farm – self, Harrison, Joey and Sammy being in Canyon most of time. All well thanks to the Lord.

July 1883 Weather hot all month, everything looks well. Corn is growing fast. Got up about half of the hay and began harvesting.

August – Still hot. Finished harvest and got up the rest of the hay. A light frost on the 8^th or 10. Didn’t damage corn but a little.

Sunday September 30^th I SHALL ALWAYS REMEMBER IT WAS SUNDAY AND QUARTERLY CONFERENCE. Joey and Sammy had come home from the canyon on Saturday about noon and went over to the river hunting. I had told them a great many times NOT to hunt on Sunday and yet I don’t feel free of blame.

They had come into the shop where I was at work and talked of going, no doubt for the purpose of getting my sanction. But I was worried over my work and didn’t take any notice of them, but went on down to the field and didn’t get back ‘till after dark. They had gone while I was away. When I got back and found they had gone I was vexed and I wished, in my heart, that something would happen to prevent them from being so ready to break the Sabbath Day and thinking so lightly of sacred things. But little did I realize the fearful ordeal through which we would have to pass.

The next day, about 3 o’clock p.m., I was called out of meeting and told that Joey had shot himself in the breast and was perhaps dead. I was not prepared for such fearful news and was nearly paralyzed, or stunned, at first. MY SON DEAD? He was just perhaps badly wounded. It had happened to teach him a lesson, was the whisperings of the Spirit and yet I started to meet him with fear and trembling.

I had not gone far when I saw them coming and he was setting up in the seat. My fears were settled: YES, he would live. He was covered by a blanket so I could not see his face. It was raining. When we got home and I saw his face, my heart almost ceased to beat. The deathly pallor of his face, his sunken eyes and haggard look brought cries from his wife and mother, “Oh, oh, Joey, Joey!” were the first words I heard uttered from the depths of a mother’s heart.

I said, “Bring him in the house,” and I took hold of and helped to carry him in, the blood running a stream all the way. The first words he said after we got him into the house were, “Administer to me, can’t you?” We did as requested and he felt easier.

The shot had entered about midway between the right nipple and breast bone, passing through the right lung and lodging under the shoulder blade close to the skin. He had bled until his clothes were soaked with blood, and was still bleeding very fast. He had been holding his hand over the wound to stop the blood, and keep the wind from drawing in and out as he breathed. The cavity would fill with blood, and when he would cough or move, it would gush out a pint at a time or more.

It was near 4 o’clock when he got home. We telegraphed to Ogden for a doctor, but he could not get there until ten. Joey was administered to a number of times and felt relief each time. The second or third time we could both see and feel its effects. The color came back to his face, the light to his eyes, and hope beamed from his countenance and the pain mostly ceased. He sat up in a chair until the doctor came, which was near 10 o’clock.

The doctor examined the wound and said there was nothing to be done for him. Nature would have to work a cure if he got well, but we thought the doctor acted as if he had not much hope that Joey would get well. Still, we had faith that the Lord would not forsake us, as He had already manifested His power to save. It was our only hope. And our hopes were not in vain. Joey laid down and passed a comparatively quiet night. The doctor went home the next morning having prescribed a prescription for cough and a few pills to ease pain, should he become restless. But he didn’t need the pills and didn’t suffer much pain.

The third or fourth day he had considerable pain and fever, and was so sore he could scarcely be turned in bed. We began to get uneasy about him. Brother A.A. Jensen called in and administered to Joey and the pain almost instantly ceased, and all that we had faith to ask was granted.

We prayed to God to give him strength to endure until the wound should be healed, with many other blessings which all have been granted so far. He recovered strength immediately, turned himself over in bed without the least pain, and called for his baby (who was Maurice) and talked and played with him for a long time. But our faith was weak. We said, “Be careful and not worry and move too much, or you will hurt yourself.”

He has continued to improve and is still doing well about 20 or 21 days from the time he was hurt. He went out of doors and walked to the next house, 30 rods.

October 1883 – Raining and dreary. Spent the first two weeks mostly watching beside Joey. Sammy and Harrison were digging potatoes when the weather would permit. Didn’t get the potatoes dug until the last of the month. Rained most of the time during October.

November – Still raining a great deal of the time. Jennette was called to Salt Lake City to begin to study for midwifery. She started the 17^th. Joey is so as to be out and around when the weather is good. Some good days, but most of the time stormy.

December 1883 – Weather good first part of month. Joey is improving. Jennette came home Sunday the 23^rd and stayed during the holidays. Monday the 24^th stormed most of the day. Jennette’s sister, Rebecca, was sick and Jennette went down to see her and stayed two nights. Christmas snowed and blowed all day. Jennette came home the 26^th. Rebecca was better. All well at home.

1884

January 1884 spent part of the day at home. Went down to Brother Sorensen’s and spent the evening with them. Weather clear and cold the third and 4^th. Turned warm and rained hard changing to snow. A good day in between. Cold and freezing on the 12^th. Jennette went back Thur. 3^rd. All well at home. Joey is gaining fast, thanks to the Lord. Continued cold, freezing hard nights until toward last of month. Warmer and snow went off. Rained some. Joey’s wound began discharging again. Some more of the clothing and some of the shot came out. Had no pain and seems to be gaining all of the time.

February 1884 First day clear and warm, second cloudy. Stormed some after noon, sun shone once or twice in forenoon. Has rained and snowed so far ever since the 5^th. Now on the 6^th wind blew from mountain. Snowed and blowed all day and part of the night, colder the 7^th. Pleasant and clear and cold until the 11^th. Cold and snowing and blowing some more snow, more than we have had all winter before, about 6 inches and still snowing. We are all reasonably well at present, thanks to the giver of all good.

Feb. 22^nd Warm. Thawing very fast. Ground nearly bare. Have had stormy weather nearly all month, except a day or two at a time. Have been to Salt Lake City, went down with Rosenbaum as a witness for land which he had homesteaded. Had to go with a team to Ogden, started the 18^th. Snowed and blowed very hard most of the way to Ogden. Got there about 3 o’clock, took dinner at a hotel, boarded train for Salt Lake City at 5:15. Was delayed two hours waiting for U.P blocked by a snowslide. Got in S.L. City about half past 8 o’clock. Stayed at Valley House overnight.

Tuesday 19^th, took breakfast with my wife at Miss C. Raleigh’s. Had not seen my wife for six or 7 weeks. Found her tolerably well and in good spirits. Finished our business as witness, visited with some of Rosenbaum’s wife’s sisters, went to the class where my wife is studying, found all well and in good spirits. Came back with my wife to Miss Raleigh’s, stayed overnight, started home next morning on the 7 o’clock train, got home alright about 2 o’clock p.m.

20^th. Found all well at home, weather stormy, but not so cold.

March 1884 March came in clear and pleasant, freezing some nights. Some good weather last of February, ground bare, and most of the frost out. Plowed a little in the garden on 27th, trimmed shade trees for city, 29^th and 1^st of March. Began raining yesterday 4^th, still raining 5^th. All well, thanks to the Lord.

March 10^th Snowed 4 or 5 inches deep and still snowing but looks a little like clearing off, has rained and snowed for 6 days very hard. Has been the most disagreeable weather that I can remember of this time of year. But the health of the people has been very good all winter and we should not complain, but thank the Lord we are not worse off.

March 31^st Has been storming most of the time, not very cold, but bad weather. Began plowing in field March 28^th, sowed first wheat April 2^nd.

April 1884 Warm and pleasant but not clear. Weather mostly good first 13 days, then rain and snow until the 17^th and still looks stormy. Sowed 3 ½ acres of oats the 9^th and 3 acres of barley 10^th. Sowed 4 acres of wheat 5^th. Have sowed 14 ½ acres. Will not be able to sow any more for some time if don’t have any more storm. But we all have good health for which we feel thankful.

May 1884 Was a reasonable fair day. Heavy rain on the third and quite cloudy for 2 or 3 days, turned warm the 7^th, is very warm now. Creek is high, likely to do damage. Have been planting some potatoes and plowing for corn, have not finished sowing wheat and oats yet. The lower end of farm is too wet to plow. It has been the worst spring that I can remember of. Rain and snow nearly all the time. Apricots began to bloom on 26^th of April. Peaches, strawberries and currants are in bloom now. Apples are beginning.

May 10^th Did not finish sowing grain until the 21^st. Finished planting corn 29^th. Some storm last of the month.

June 1884 all well at present thanks to the Lord. First day of June was cool and windy in the morning, hot middle of day and shower in evening. Looks like more storm now. Grain looks well in field. Will be very weedy on account of so much wet weather.

May 15^th Weather quite cool for this time of year. Storm threatening most of the time. Have mowed lucern, but hard work to get it dry. Grain looks well in the field, some of it is very late. Will start to cultivate tomorrow 16^th, both corn and potatoes will do. Worms are doing some damage. Have eaten most all of cabbage plants. Harrison and Sammy have made 4 trips to the canyon. Sammy’s wagon was broke last year hauling lumber, paid $10 to get it fixed. All well, for which we feel very thankful.

July – All well, thanks to the Lord.

August 1884 Still all well. Have had very good weather most of the time. There has been so much water in the field this season that we have had a hard time to get our hay from lower meadow. Moss deep and ground so soft. Very hard wind from south wasting some hay which had not been raked. Very heavy crop of hay this season.

Two of our missionaries were murdered by a mob of masked men while holding a meeting on Cane Creek, at the house of Brother Conder, in Lewis County, Tennessee. The names of those killed are as follows: Wm. J. Berry and John Gibbs, of Utah. Morton Conder and James Hudson, son and step-son of Brother Conder, at whose house the meeting was being held. One of the mob was killed, named David Winson. This sad event took place Sunday, the tenth of August, 1884.

September – We finished cutting grain 28^th of Aug. Had previously hauled 15 loads of wheat and barley. Began hauling oats on 4^th of Sept. Started to rain night of 4^th and has rained steady, with only an hour or two cessation at a time until the present.

September 9^th Began clearing off the 9^th. Good weather for some time. Had to open stacks and spread grain in the field. Land was very muddy. Had a hard time to get grain hauled. Got threshing done and hauled most of corn during September. Corn crop almost a failure on account of worms. Potatoes about half crop. Have had a great deal of rain and some snow. Considerable grain sprouted in stack.

1885

January 1885 Quite warm and pleasant. Ground bare. Have not had much cold weather yet. Spent evening with Bro. Sorensen’s. My daughter Mary was married at Logan Temple December 17^th, 1884, to Hans Sorensen.

January 10 – Raining again today, ground bare. Has been warm so far this month. All at present, for which we feel very thankful.

Jan 11^th – There fell during this month about 10 inches of snow. Turned quite cold towards last of month and remained so until 30^th. Began to turn warmer.

February 1885 Warm and pleasant, snow melting very fast, cloudy and warm, some sunshine.

Feb. 3^rd – Rain. Snow going very fast toward the last of Jan. Brother Taylor and some of the Twelve, paid a visit to Old Mexico and made arrangements to purchase some land on which to build a city of refuge for the Latter Day Saints, who are compelled to leave their homes or submit to severe persecution, on account of their religious beliefs and practices. The Trustee of the Church paid $5,000 dollars, the balance was paid by donation, making $20,000 in all. I paid $3.00.

March 1885 Came in warm and pleasant, cold nights. Ground bare. Began snowing about the 10^th of February, fell 8 or 10 inches deep, but was all gone before the first of the month of March. Plowed some at Rosenbaum’s on the 28^th of February.

There was a Primary Meeting towards last of February, for the purpose of choosing delegates to nominate city officers to be voted for Monday, March 2^nd. Some of the young men undertook to run things in their own way. Prominent among them was A.W. Snow, E.W. Pierce, and others, who made speeches claiming that things had to be done proper, so they had taken it upon themselves to set things right. E.W. Pierce objected to polygamists having any voice in the meeting, as they were disenfranchised. Gentiles and apostates joined with them. All were moved upon by the same spirit that has caused men to fight against the Church’s servants of God in all ages of the world. These men, it must be remembered, were Seventies and Elders in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, who had covenanted to serve God and sustain His authority upon the earth.

March 20^th Still raining. Rained all day.

Thursday, 21^st Went to my sister’s. Road very muddy.

March 22^nd – Started for Star Valley, went through Montpelier, up Bear Hollow. Had some trouble to find the road down into Montpelier Creek, which was high, and bad to cross.

March 23^rd – On up Montpelier Creek, turned to the right of Snow Slide Canyon. Shot two large fish, which made all that 4 of us could eat for dinner. Road very bad, crossed Thomas Fork and up Beaver Canyon and over, rolling to Salt Works. Snowed some at night. Froze hard Sunday.

March 24^th – Crow Creek 15 miles, coming in to south end of Star Valley. Stopped for dinner, creek was high. Bro. Heber rode across horseback, thought we could ford without danger, which we did, the water coming up to front end of wagon box. Traveled north down the valley, crossed Afton to large creek on east side of Valley. This is a beautiful place for a city. In fact, the whole Valley would be a perfect paradise if it were not for the cold weather in the winters, the snow falling down two or three feet deep and laying on from four to six months. Here we saw deer, shot at them, but didn’t get any.

March 25^th, Monday Drove over to the north end of the valley, which is about 25 miles long, laying nearly due north and south. Went up to canyon to look at timber, which was good, and easy of access. Heber shot a deer, which made us all the meat we needed. Drove back, and camped at Afton.

March 26, Tue. Drove back to Salt Works for dinner. Stayed at Snow Slide overnight, this being the only place that we could find any fish. Shot quite a number of large trout.

March 27^th Drove back to Bennington, got there about 4 o’clock.

March 28^th Looked at three or four different places that were offered for sale. I bought one of Ed. Merell’s, gave a horse and harness worth $150.00.

March 29^th Started home. Crossed the river on ferry boat below Bennington, traveled south through Bear River Valley, passed Ovid, Paris, Bloomington, St. Charles and Fish Haven, camped at Swan Creek on Blacksmith Fork.

Sunday the 31^st Got home between 5 and 6 o’clock p.m. Found all well, I had a chill first night on getting home, was quite sick for some time, recovered slowly.

December 1^st I have not written any since getting home. It is now quite cold, with 2 or 3 inches of snow on the ground. Has been a very fruitful season, good crops of all kinds. There has not been much sickness this summer and fall. The government officers have been doing all they could to have us persecuted. They have packed juries and convict all they can get hold of, except those that would agree to put away their wives, and obey the laws, as interpreted by the courts. Apostle Lorenzo Snow was arrested last month at his home in Brigham City, taken to Ogden, and placed under $1,800 bonds, to appear when wanted.

It has been a good summer and fall, pleasant and agreeable, rained most of the time during November.

1886

January 1886 Rained most of the time during December, turned cold towards last of month. January came in cold but pleasant, has been quite cold so far. It is now the 11^th. Apostle Lorenzo Snow has been convicted of unlawful cohabitation – three counts. Took an appeal to the Supreme Court of the Territory. Destination postponed until sometime in February.

Turned warmed toward the last of January, rained, and wind blew from the south until the snow was all gone. There has not been more than 4 or 5 inches of snow at one time so far this winter. We are all well and have been for some time.

February – February came in warm and some rain. Feb. 2^nd, day cloudy all day. Has been very warm and pleasant so far. It is now the 7^th. Looks and feels like spring.

There has been no attempts to arrest any of the Brethren since Brother Snow was arrested. Senator Edmunds has introduced a new bill, which has passed the Senate. If it becomes law it will give our enemies power to do about as they please. No doubt they are waiting, in hopes it will pass the House. Remained warm and pleasant all through February. There was some wheat sown on benchland. We done one day’s plowing on farm. Stormed some last day or two. All well, thanks to the Lord.

March 1886 March came in stormy and rough. Has been bad weather all month so far. Some rain, but mostly snow falling from 1 to 5 inches, but not laying on ground more than a day or two. It is now snowing very fast.

March 18^th Myself, wife, Joey, Alice, Mary and husband, his mother and brother went over to Logan the 9^th to work in the Temple. Received endowments for dead relatives the 10^th and 11^th and 12^th. Had our children sealed to us, came home 13^th.

Brother Snow voluntarily went to jail for the purpose of having his case advanced on the Supreme Court calendar. It is reported that Geo. Q. Cannon could not be found when wanted for trial, which was set for the 17^th.

It is stormy, has been until last day or two which were clear and fine until last night when it rained some. George Q. Cannon cannot be found. His bonds were declared forfeited. The bondsmen will contest the order on the grounds that bail was excessive.

April 1886 April came in mild and warm, but windy and cloudy. Stormed next day. We sowed 4 acres of wheat latter part of March, sowed 3 acres of barley and 3 of wheat beginning of this month. Has been quite cold and stormy most of the time so far.

April 11^th – Conference was held at Provo this month on Sunday the 4^th, continued 4 days, ending Wed. the 7^th. President of the Twelve, F.D. Richards, George A. Smith, H. J. Grant and John W. Taylor there. There was an epistle read on Tuesday from the First Presidency, sign by John Taylor and George Q. Cannon, giving good instruction and encouraging the saints to be patient and endure to the end. I have been very bad, with a lame back for 4 or 5 days. Am getting better slowly. Apricots are now in bloom, grass is starting, and it feels very much like spring.

May 5^th 1886 Daughter Mary’s birthday. Fruit and berries in bloom. Things look well.

May 10^th – Start for Bear Lake with floor for Chris’ house this morning. Also took 2 heifers, 3 calves, 2 colts. Was 9 days on the road.

June – Frost. June 28^th we started home, arrived July 2^nd. Stayed overnight with Sister Caroline, at Mink Creek. While at Bear Lake planted 21 acres oats, 1 acre potatoes, 2 squash and garden. Worked 12 days on the canyon road, built house for Hans. Hauled 1 load poles, 10 of logs, 10 of clay and sand. Fixed fence, laid up 2 stables.

August 1^st – Paid $160 for 34 acres meadow from L. C. Larsen. All well at present, feel thankful for blessings. Very bad weather, with some hard winds.

September – Still very hot. All well. Crops are very light everywhere this season.

October – Still quite hot. All well. Have got our crop all secured except potatoes. Potatoes are bringing a good price at present.

October 12th – Have sold 265 bushels of potatoes at 40 ¢ per bushel.

October 29^th - Have potatoes all dug, had near 500 bushels. Joey has made three trips to Bear Lake with fruit, and I made one. We sold near $100 worth of fruit at Bear Lake, and sold $25.00 worth of dried fruit. Harrison has worked about two months on the gravel train, at $1.50 per day. Joey has earned upwards of $40.00 working out west. He is now quite well and weighs as heavy as ever did before he was hurt.

November 1886 Some stormy weather but mostly fine. Snow fell about 4 or 5 inches deep near the middle, but turned warmer and snow went off again. Quite warm days, freezing nights, some nights. All have been well this month. Harrison came home near the middle and has been getting out some wood. Have not got near enough yet. The Marshals have made several raids, but got no one yet, so far, for which we are very thankful.

December 10^th – Has been very warm and pleasant, although ground bare. Some plowing done.

December 16^th – Edward M. Dowlton, of Parawan, was shot and killed by Deputy U.S. Marshal William Thomson, because, as claimed by Thomson, Dowlton would not stop when called upon to halt. Dowlton was under indictment for unlawful cohabitation, but the evidence at trial showed that he did not try to get away, and was shot without the least provocation. Thomson was indicted for manslaughter by the grand jury of his own selection and was tried by a jury procured by open venture, and pronounced not guilty.

1887

January 1887 Came in warm and pleasant. Was warm for 3 or 4 days, then turned cooler, freezing quite hard a few days, then turned warmer again. Snowing and blowing some last night. Ground bare in spots.

January 12^th – The House passed the Edmunds Tucker Bill today. It was passed with a “whoop & a Holler” without discussion, members being so blinded by prejudice against the Mormons that they were willing to destroy every vestige of human rights in order to injure the Mormons. It has not yet become law. It will have to go to the Senate and then be signed by the President, which may take some time yet.

January 20^th – It has been very changeable so far this month. Snowing and raining, freezing two or three days, then thawing. Ground is bare at present. All are well. General good health throughout the city. Continued windy and stormy most of the time until last day, which was clear and warm.

Feb. – This month came in cloudy and warm. Feb. 2^nd snowed most of the day, has been windy and stormy all through, but warm most of the time. Snow fell about 10 inches on the 17^th, turned cold. Snow freezing quite hard but warm in the middle of the day when sun shines.

The Supreme Court of the United States rendered a decision in the case of Lorenzo Snow on appeal from the First District Court of Utah. Segregation was declared unlawful, and L. Snow and others who were serving double terms, and terrible terms, were set at liberty. On the seventeenth, the Edmunds Tucker Bill passed the house, Yays 20, Nays 39. It soon passed the senate and has gone to the President for his signature.

March 1887 The President didn’t sign the Edmunds Tucker Bill, but it became law through not being returned or noticed by President Cleveland. Our city election came off the first Monday in March, being the first to take place under the new law. One hundred and twenty-one took oath and voted the People’s Ticket, was elected 109 to 12. The vote stood as follows: For Mayor, A. Madson – 109; Counselors, W. Horsley – 118, J.F. Merrill – 119, J.M. Tippets – 119; Brigham Wright – 119, J. J. Jensen – 109. Recorder: G.L. Grachl – 190, Treasurer O.M. Stohl – 115, Assessor & Collector: C. Wixom – 109. Justice of the Peace: M.L. Ensign – 118, A.H. Snow – 118, Marshall: David Rees – 115.

April 1887 – Continued quite cold and dry through this month, yet there is a fair prospect of good crops. Most of the small grain was put in during March.

May 1887 – May came in warm, remained so for 8 or 9 days, then turned cooler. My son, Joseph, and family, has been preparing to move to Bear Lake this spring. Started on the 10^th day of May. Myself and wife accompanied him. Had two wagons and teams, driving 5 colts, 1 cow, and 1 yearling calf. Had a cold and windy time but got along first rate. Ground was very dry and feed poor on account of so much cold weather. We got to our destination on the 15^th at about 7:30 p.m. Found all well. The boys had got the small grain in. Most of it looks well. Some of the oats had not come up very good, the ground being too dry. We helped to plant some potatoes and made a garden on the 19^th. We went over to Georgetown to look at a place to take the water out. There is a company from Bloomington who have been locating a ditch to bring water from Georgetown around our place about two miles south. They would like to have us join them in this.

On Friday the 20^th, we planted some carrots and put water onto the oats to bring them up as there was no sign of storm yet. Went to the canyon in afternoon with the boys to get some poles and look for a place to get house logs.

Saturday 21^st – Chris and Hans went to Montpelier to Elder’s Meeting, and made 6 rods of fence for our meadow at Bennington. Joey and I plowed some ditches in the grain and tended the water.

On the 24^th we went to the canyon and worked on the road. Got a load of house logs. The 25^th we all went to the canyon. Chris and Joey went up and got a load of poles for H. Smith, and a load of house logs. Hans and I worked on the road.

Sunday the 29^th – Went over to Brig’s and down to Bennington to meeting. The weather is getting quite warm. On Monday the 30^th, we all went to the canyon. I fell a tree on one of Hans’ horses. It broke across the stump, a thing scarcely ever known to happen when a tree stands straight like this one did. But the only damage done was a broken hame (curved part of horse collar) and a few scratches on the horse. It was a wonder that it didn’t kill the horse, as it struck him with full force breaking the tree in three pieces.

On Wednesday, June 1^st, we finished hauling logs and started foundation of Joey’s house. Joey moved camp up to where his house is started.

Thursday 2^nd – Started home. Wind blew hard all day. Very cold riding. Came to Soda Springs Friday 3^rd. Quite warm this morning, wind south. Drove on down to Sister Rosenbaum’s. She had just received word that Martha, her son’s wife, was dead. We went on down and stayed at my sister’s at mouth of Mink Creek.

Saturday 4^th – Rained all day so we couldn’t travel. Caught about 8 lbs of fish between showers.

Sunday 5^th – Started on for home. Wind blew hard from the north all day. Cold for this time of year. Stopped at Bullen’s for dinner and on Logan Bottom at night. Very cold but no frost. Got home Monday 6^th, found all well; garden dry and weedy. Harrison is working with John Forsgren, learning the carpenter trade.

Tuesday, 7^{th, -} attended meeting of City Council, held two sessions. R.R. Wilson applied for a reduction of his license fee to sell liquors and run pool tables; petition not granted. He left the room in a very ungentlemanly manner, remarking, as he left, “I hope the next City Council will be composed of Gentlemen.”

Wednesday 8^th – Hoed garden and fixed wagon. Thursday, hitched up and went to the store, bought lock. Friday 10^th, hoed some in garden and mowed lucern by hand. Harrison went to canyon for wood.

Sat. 11^th, worked in the garden. Harrison raked up and hauled lucern. After noon we went down and plowed some ditches in oats and turned water on.

Sunday 12^th – Went to meeting and Sunday School, after which we rode down horseback to change water on the oats. When going to get off, I dropped the spade, which frightened the horse, causing her to jump to one side, throwing me off, but I was not hurt much. Harrison went down to Plain City to visit.

Monday the 13^th – Loaded up to start to Bear Lake. Went to the store and bought the following: 25 lbs. sugar, $2, 1 doz. milk pans, $1.20, 5 gal. syrup, $2.75, nails 45 ¢, stove boiler, $2.50..

Tuesday 14^th – Started for Bear Lake, in company with O.P. Olsen. Was on the road Wed. & Thursday 16^th. Got to our place at 8:30 p.m.

Friday 17^th – Went to canyon with Brother Olsen to look at timber, found all satisfactory. Went over the ridge to Georgetown to look at mill, got home late. Saturday 18^th, went to Montpelier, bought lumber for Joey’s house, paid $5.65, nails, 25 ¢, bought a grindstone in connection with Chris and Hans, cost $2.50, Joey’s share 75 ¢.

Sunday 19^th – Went fishing. Brig and family was over when we got back. Monday 20^th – all went down to run the lines on a piece of meadow Joey had rented while I was gone; found he had made a mistake and took the wrong piece. Came home at noon. Joey and Hans went to watering. Chris and I fixed the grindstone and ground our tools. Brother Olsen went to work on mill at Georgetown.

Tuesday 21^st, Wed. 22^nd, Thurs. 23^rd, and Friday 24^th – worked on Joey’s house, finished carpenter work. Weather very hot. Saturday 26^th, stayed home most of the day, weather cool since rain.

Monday 27^th – Made a bedstead for the children. Joey hauled clay on his house. Chris and Hans finished watering. Brother Olsen is getting some better, having been sick for a time.

Tuesday 28^th – Chris and I plastered Joey’s house, Joey tending us, got done and moved some of the things in. Wed. 29^th, all worked in garden plowing, hoeing, and watering. Got done in good time. Things are going well. Brother Olsen was worse today.

Thursday 30^th – Joey started over after his mother. Hans and I went to canyon. Weather hot days and cool nights. Friday July 1^st, rain and cloud most of day. Saturday 2^nd, clear this morning, quite cool. Went to canyon and got some poles. Joey got back with mother. Weather warm.

Sunday 3^rd – Went to meeting at Bennington, had some good instructions from Bishop Wright: partaking of the Sacrament, and mixing up with Gentiles in our celebrations. Was called upon to speak. Felt to endorse the remarks of the bishop.

Monday July 4^th – Fixed up to start home. Went to the river fishing, took the women and children.

July 5^th – Started home, leaving my wife there. Wind blew very hard all day, which made it very disagreeable traveling on account of dust. Camped at Garden City. Grain here is about one week ahead of Bennington. People are just cutting their first crop of lucern, which is good and heavy.

Wednesday, 6^th – Floating clouds and high showers. Thursday 7^th, got home about half past 12 p.m., found all well. Went down to the field in the evening to look at the grain, found it looking well. Saw Neils, whom I had made a bargain with to cut hay. He had hired a machine in. Is going to cut it himself. This puts me to inconvenience as I was depending on it for my hay.

Friday 8^th and Saturday 9^th – Worked in the garden.

Sunday the 10^th – Attended two meetings at Seventies Conference. Jacob Gates and R.L. Campbell are up from Salt Lake City. The 59^th, 58^th, 52^nd, and 5^th Quorums were represented. Several names were to fill vacancies.

Monday 11^th, worked in garden, quite heavy showers Sunday and Monday nights.

Tuesday 12^th, worked in shop. Fixed a mower. Harrison went and cut some barley for Wm. Evans. Harrison has been out of work since Saturday 9^th.

Wednesday 13^th – At home working in garden. Harrison cutting lucern for Wm. Evans. Light showers every day.

Thursday 14^th – Cut our lucern and went to Three Mile Creek. Promised to cut 10 acres of meadow and 4 acres of lucern for G. Gridley at $1.25 acre. Also 5 acres of meadow for J. Sheffield.

Friday 15^th – Harrison to circus in Ogden. I fixed a knife for mower, got $90.00 of S. Smith on some land he had sold, $67.50 in cash and $22.00 on store. Paid $42.55 to L.C. Larsen. Borrowed money, making us square.

Saturday, 16^th, at home. Worked in the garden.

Sunday 17^th – Went to Sunday School, Meeting, and Seventies Meeting.

Monday 18^th, went down and started to mow for J. Sheffield, got throwed from the machine and hurt some but not serious. Harrison came down and mowed. I came home and made a bargain with Bro. Smith for three tons of hay at $5.00. Tuesday, picked apples, finished picking apples Wednesday. Harrison mowing and raking.

Thursday 21^st – Picked 3 bushels of apricots, sold 2 to L. Grieghl, and 5 of apples. Harrison mowed for G. Gadney. Friday, set up Reaper, and cut ¾ of an acre of wheat for W. Evans. Wrote a letter to Bear Lake. Harrison raked hay and cut a piece of lucern for Burbank.

Saturday 23^rd – Celebration of 24^th of July. Harrison got up at 5 a.m. and cut a piece of wheat for Rasmus Jensen, then went to the celebration. I remained at home and watered, got done at 1:30. Went to B.M. Young’s Grove at 4 p.m. to Old Folks Party. Seemed to be having a good time. Heard that President John Taylor was very sick.

Monday 25^th – Began cutting grain for Sammy. Harrison binding.

Tue. 26^th, cut grain. Finished. Wheat is ready.

Wednesday 27^th – Harrison mowed for O.G. Snow. I stayed at home and picked apples, picked 9 bushels. Heard that President Taylor was dead.

Thursday 28^th, finished picking apples, sold them to Horsley. Harrison started to mow lucern for G. Gidney, broke down. Took most of the day to fix the machine.

Friday 29^th – Brother Taylor was buried today in Salt Lake City. I went to farm and cut grain, Harrison binding.

Saturday, 30^th, stayed at home to water. Went to meeting. Harrison run reaper. Went down to look at oats to see if they would be ready to cut. Found them nearly ripe.

Sunday, 31^st, went to meeting at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Harrison started to work for Bufort Crocker and Co. at Promontory.

August – Cut oats for Sammy, Aug. 2^nd, began cutting oats for self. Attended meeting of City Council. Went back to field in the afternoon. Wednesday reaping for self, broke down at 3 p.m., got a bolt of L.L. Christiansen, got ready to work next morning. My wife’s niece came down from Snake River. Was sick. She got Dr. Carrington to attend her.

August 4^th – finished cutting my grain and went back to farm and finished Sammy’s oats, broke down just at quitting time, had to bring the reaper home.

Friday 5^th, got reaper fixed ready to go back to work at 10 a.m. Went down and cut oats for Nils.

Saturday 6^th, watered lot and reaped afternoon. My wife’s niece, Sophia, went down to Three Mile Creek to stay with her mother-in-law awhile. She is getting very fat, but her baby is quite sick now.

Sunday Aug. 7^th – Went to Sunday School and Meeting.

Monday 8^th, cut wheat for Sammy. Tuesday, 9^th, finished reaping and brought reaper home.

Wednesday 10^th, picked fruit all day, loaded up with fruit and started for Bear Lake, after my wife took a load of fruit along to sell. Camped at Alvin Crocket’s, above Logan Canyon.

Friday 12^th, drove on up canyon. Had rained night before making it hard and quite muddy. Camped overnight near head of canyon where U.O. Saw Mill was burned. Cold and windy.

Saturday 13^th – Looks like storm this morning. Got to Garden City at 10 a.m., didn’t sell much, as there had been two teams ahead of me. Stayed at Bloomington overnight, having sold about $8.00 worth. Rained some in afternoon and Sunday, 14^th. Started on at 7 a.m., cloudy and cool this morning. Drove to Ovid, selling some along the way. Stopped for dinner on bottom, rained some while I was stopping. Got to Joey’s before dark, having 5 boxes of plums left. Got $19.50 for the load.

Monday 15^th – Went to Maple and down to Bennington. Tuesday 16, started home. My wife and Nettie with me. Camped overnight at Swan Creek, was sick most of the night.

Wednesday, 17^th, feel quite weak this morning, drove on all day. Camped in canyon about 15 miles above Logan. We gathered some hops while in camp and more next morning on the way down the canyon. Thursday 18^th, felt better this morning. Got home about 8 p.m. feeling very tired.

Friday, 19^th, picked and sold 108 lbs of peaches, $2.15. Hauled a load of oats.

Saturday 20^th, watered lot. Brig. Dunn and A. Evans hauled 3 loads of oats.

Sunday 21^st – Went to Sunday School and Meeting.

Monday, 22^nd and Tue. 23^rd, hauled oats. Sold 5 ½ bus. of plums, 3 of apples, 1 of tomatoes and 22 lbs of grapes. Harrison came home this afternoon, helped us unload our last load of oats.

Saturday 27^th – Moved our wheat in granary and sifted lime on it, the weevil being bad. The threshers came at 4 p.m. and threshed a little over 100 bushels.

Sunday 28^th – Went to Sunday School and Meeting. Apostle Lorenzo Snow gave some good and timely instructions on the way the Saints should live to secure the blessings promised.

Monday, 29^th, finished threshing about 10 a.m., wind blowing hard from the south. Went down to field to help Sammy thresh, got started after dinner. Wind still blowing very hard, looks like a storm.

Tuesday 30^th – Continued threshing, wind very bad.

Wed. 31^st, rained some last night, snowed on the mountains.

September 1^st, Thursday – Went to Fast Meeting. Cut lucern afternoon.

Friday, 2^nd, went out to Bear River with Henry Jensen, got back at noon. Cut lucern on Sister Sorensen’s lot. White frost last night, but not enough to do any hurt. Saturday, watered and raked lucern.

Sunday, went to Sunday School and Meeting.

Monday 5^th – Picked some fruit and raked Sister Sorensen’s lot.

Tuesday, 6^th, met with City Council in forenoon. Gave Bro. Heiser an order for trees and shrubbery, amounting to $10.00. Hauled lucern Wednesday,

Sept. 7^th and Thursday 8^th, was home choring.

Friday 9^th picked fruit for Sister Hurd, received $1.85. Saturday, watered lot.

Sunday Sept. 10^th – Went to Sunday School and Meeting. Nettie was baptized today by J.P. Johnson and confirmed by A.A. Jensen and A. Madsen. Took my wife over to Corrinne to take the train for Erncliff. The train was 4 hours late, had to wait until half past 11 p.m. Wind blew very hard and some rain. Very cold after 1 a.m.

September 12 – Picked fruit.

Tuesday 13, picked fruit. Got a letter from Aunt Percy.

Wednesday 14, picked a load of peaches to take to Cache Valley. Rebecca came with Mother and Walter, and got her things and took them home. She has been staying with us about a year and a half, and just taken a notion to return home.

September 15 – Loaded up and started for Cache Valley. Roads very dusty. Stayed overnight at George Woods, on Logan Bottom. Friday 16^th, went to Providence, sold out my load and got back home at about 11 p.m. Found that Joey and Chris had come soon after I left. Got a card from wife stating that she had got to Kelton safe and was met by Mr. Platts, the husband of the woman she was going to wait upon. Saturday, 17^th, watered lot and fixed a gun. Joey was most of the day getting his horses shod. Harrison and Chris went down to Salt Works and got their bed cloths and four sacks of salt to take to Bear Lake with them.

Sunday the 18^th, went to Sunday School and Meeting.

Monday the 19^th, spent the day picking and loading fruit, got all ready to start.

Tuesday the 20^th, the boys started home, Harrison going with them. I spent the day picking peaches.

Wednesday 21^st, worked on bridge across Box Elder Creek. The rest of the day it rained. Rained some at night. Very hot all day.

September 22^nd, Worked half a day on bridge. Picked peaches rest of day. Rained some at night, very hot all day.

Friday 23^rd, cloudy and warm, worked in the garden.

Saturday 24^th, had quite a hard shower last night. Andy Rosenbaum came this afternoon. Have not heard a word from my wife since she left Kelton, feel as if I could not endure the suspense any longer. Wrote a letter to Earncliff, the place where she went to.

Sunday 25^th - Went to Sunday School and Meeting.

Monday 26^th, worked on the bridge for D Burt. Tuesday worked some in the shop. Wrote a letter to Chris at Bear Lake.

Wed. 28^th, worked in the shop most of the day. Jennette came home about noon today, got a lady to bring her from Corrinne in a wagon. Had got along alright while away, but was very careless about writing home. Hope I shall get over worrying about her afterwhile.

September 29^th – Worked in the shop. Wrote a letter to Bear Lake to tell them that Ma had got home.

Friday 30^th, worked in shop stocking guns.

October 1^st – Went to Priesthood Meeting. The time was mostly spent in talking about the canyon roads being fenced up by orders of . P. Tarpy, a lawyer employed by the railroad co.

Sunday, October 2^nd – Went to Sunday School and Meeting. Ward meeting at night, being the first one of the season.

Monday 3^rd, worked in the shop most of the day. My sister, Caroline, and brother-in-law came from Mink Creek on a visit.

Tuesday 4^th and Wed. 5^th – worked in shop.

Oct.. 6^th, went to Fast Meeting. Related a dream which I had over 2 years ago, which was the following (Note from Ruby: The pages in which he relates his dream are missing.) Had a good meeting, but the people seemed backward to get up and talk.

Friday the 7^th – Started to Salt Lake to attend Conference, got there at 12 noon, attended Meeting at 2 p.m. Erastus Snow preached the subject Marriage, treating the subject in a powerful manner.

Saturday 8^th, attended two meetings in daytime and one at night. Found that my notes are imperfect, so cannot depend on them.

Sunday 9^th – Attended two meetings and came home at night.

Monday 10, most of the day nothing of note occurring. Tuesday, fixed a gun for Andrew Bert.

Wed. 12^th, spent most of the day getting ready to go to Bear Lake on a hunt.

October 12^th, started to Bear Lake, weather being warm. Went in company with Nils Sorensen, Sammy and Marritta Smith, stayed at Mariah Smith’s in Smithfield that first night.

Friday, 14^th, drove on to Hyrum Smith’s at Riverdale, stayed overnight. Rained some toward morning.

Saturday 15 – Cloudy. Looks like storm. Started at 7 a.m., got over to the boys’ at half-past 7 p.m. Ground white with snow, quite cold. Found all well.

Sunday 16^th - Snow went all off before noon. Went down to the river afternoon.

17^th, some of the boys went on the mountain hunting. I went over to Maple and spent the day with Brig. Tuesday 18^th, the threshers came and started, but broke down and didn’t get to do anymore today.

Wed., finished threshing. Had 91 bus. of oats and 306 of wheat. Wind blew all day from north.

Thursday 20^th – Started out hunting. Went up through Georgetown Canyon and over on the head of Blackfoot.

Friday, 21^st, started out two and two, all in different directions. We killed two elk and brought the hindquarters to camp.

Sat. 22^nd, hunted all day but didn’t kill any more.

Sunday, 23^rd, snowed about 4 inches last night. We hitched and came home as all our provisions were gone. Monday 24^th, froze very hard last night. Wrote a few words home to Jennette. Went to Maple. Heber was off hunting again, have not had a chance to see him yet.

Tuesday, 25^th, Heber came home this morning, stayed until afternoon. Helped Joey part, got ready to start home.

Wed. 26^th, started home. Weather cold. Got to H. Smith’s about dark. Turned warmer at night.

Oct. 27^th – Warm today. Spent most of time fishing.

Wed. 28^th, took dinner at Eli Forsgren’s, drove on to Smithfield, stayed at Ann Smith’s overnight.

Saturday 29^th, drove on home, found all well.

Sunday 30^th – Went to Sunday School. Had Quarterly Review, went to Meeting at 2 p.m.

Monday, 31^st, weather still fine. Covered some trees that had just arrived from the Sioux City Nurseries.

November 1^st, Tuesday – Began stocking gun for Wm Gilbert.

Thursday 3^rd, went to Fast Meeting, was called upon to open meeting. Settled up with Wm. Horsley. Weather, snow.

Friday 4^th, Baker was buried today, having died of typhoid fever.

Saturday 5^th, Quarterly Conference. Attended Meeting. O. F. Whitney occupied most of the time. He is a grand speaker.

Monday 7^th, cloudy this morning. Began stocking a gun for Andrew Bart.

Tuesday 8^th, worked in the shop fixing guns. Harrison went to the canyon.

Wed. worked in the shop fixing guns, Harrison went and got another load of wood. Weather still fine.

Friday 11^th – Worked in the shop. The four condemned anarchists were executed at Chicago, spies Engel Fisher and Parsons, Ling having previously killed himself in prison by holding a percussion cap in his mouth and lighting it by a fuse. The sentence of Fielden and Swab was continued to imprisonment for life. There was some great excitement and great efforts made to have them pardoned by the Governor, but he could not be moved to take any action in the matter.

Sunday Nov. 13 – The executed anarchists were buried today, having a grand funeral.

Monday 16^th, spent the day shipping furniture to Sister Rosenbaum at Franklin. Worked in the shop. Harrison got another load of wood.

Nov. 17^th and Friday 18^th and 19^th, worked in the shop. Don’t make much some days, not more than 25 ¢. Weather still warm and dry.

Sunday the 20^th, went to Sunday School and Meeting.

November 21^st – Began stocking gun for James Tingey.

Tuesday, finished stocking gun.

Wed. made and put down 10 foot bridges for City. Went to Seventies Meeting. Weather still fine. Spoke on apostasy of Primitive Church.

Nov. 24^th – Worked in the shop and watered the lot.

Friday 25^th, it snowed all day but went off nearly as fast as it fell. Worked in the shop. Saturday attended Young Men’s Conference. Sunday also attended Young Men’s Conference. Had some good instructions from J.F. Wells. Has been very cold since the storm Friday.

Monday the 28^th – turning warmer.

Tue. 29^th, warm and pleasant. Killed hog Wed.

Thursday 30^th, worked in shop, went to YMMIA, spoke 15 min. on Dealings of God with His Children.

December 1^st – Fast Day. Went to Meeting, day very warm and pleasant.

December 2^nd – Snowed all day, south wind. Worked in the shop. My sister Eunice has been quite sick for the last 4 or 5 days, is getting better now. On Thursday, December 1^st, Louisa Neilson, a daughter who was beloved to our son Harrison, and who had noble qualities, and we were fondly looking forth the time when we could claim her as a daughter whom we had learned to dearly love, was taken sick, but didn’t seem to be dangerous for a few days, but at the end of the fourth or fifth day, the disease became complicated. We began to be somewhat alarmed for her safety. But she soon appeared to be getting better, and we felt quite easy and thought that the danger had passed, until Sunday the 11^th, when hemorrhage of the bowels set in and she became very low and weak. But the bleeding stopped and on the morning of the 12^th, she rallied and our hopes again revived. But at night she again passed blood and soon breathed her last, perfectly conscious and begging for us to not let her go. She died at a quarter past six.

I had just left to come home to attend to my chores, little realizing how close the end was, for I could not believe, even to the last, that she was going to die. And when the news was brought to me I could hardly believe that is was true. But God is just and we feel to acknowledge His hand in all things, and say, “Thy will be done.” But it is a severe trial to Harrison, who has been at her side almost continually night and day, from the time she was taken sick, until her remains were laid to rest. She was his first and only love and he feels there is nothing more left for him in this world of sorrow.

Friday the 13^th – We stayed at Sister Neilson’s last night as the family was very sad and lonely, on account of the cruel persecution now being carried on in the name of the Law. Brother Neilson, the husband and father of the afflicted family, was compelled to be absent from home, and could not come to attend the funeral or speak words of comfort to his beloved family. It was pitiful to hear the wife and mother crying, “Oh, if only I could have my husband here for just one hour, but no, it cannot be. We must bear our trouble alone.”

Wednesday 14^th – Clear and cold. Harrison came home and slept some last night and ate a little breakfast, then went back and sat in a semi-conscious condition all day and most of the night. We could not prevail upon him to come home.

Thursday 15^th, was the funeral services, held in our meeting house, beginning at 12 noon. Consoling remarks were made by D. M. Burbank, Bishop, and A. Madison and Ephraim Ralphs. The remains were accompanied to the grave by 27 vehicles, led by the YLMIA, of whom Louisa was First Counselor.

Dec. 16^th – Still clear and cold. We received letters today from our children in Bear Lake, saying that all was well. Joey’s wife had gave birth to a baby girl on the night of the 12^th. All doing well. Our sorrow was mingled with joy at this good news. (Baby was named Louisa R.)

Saturday 17^th, cold and pleasant. Harrison began to take some interest in things again.

Sunday the 18^th – Roger Clawson was up from Salt Lake City. Occupied the time relating incident of the death of Elder Joseph Standing, who was killed by a mob in Georgia, while on a mission to preach the Gospel.

Monday 19^th, Tue. 20^th through Friday 23^rd – At home, not doing anything particular. Very cold, but no snow and wind. The following brethren were went to the Pen the last few days, Ferdinand Hansen, Lars Mortinsen, and Brother Bishop James Hansen, John L. Andersen, and Lars C. Larsen.

Saturday 24^th – Still cold. Looks like storm.

25^th, snowed last night, still snowing this morning, turning warmer. Went to Sunday School and Meeting. Dina Burgen fell on the ice and broke her collar bone. Wind south, thawing fast.

Monday 26^th – Ground bare in spots,

Wed. 27^th, warm and thawing. Spent time at home reading. Thursday, settled up tithing of what I have paid this year. Amounts to: Cash, $16.20, various other ways, $12. Total, $28.20. Harrison paid cash, $5.00, wood $4.00, total $9.00. Grand total for both of us, $37.20 for 1887.

Friday 30^th – Cold and stormy. The Primary held an entertainment and dance, at which the children enjoyed themselves very much.

Saturday, 31^st, we all attended a picnic party at Meeting House, except Harrison, who could not be prevailed upon to go. Had a very good time.

1888

Sunday, January 1^st, 1888 (The following is a letter to Harrison from his sister, Mary)

Bennington

December 25, 1887

My Darling Brother,

It is with pleasure that I take my pen in hand to write you a few lines, to let you know how we are getting along, and also in answer to your very welcome letter.

We received your letter and Pa’s the same day, but they didn’t come until after the 20^th. The P.O. had been discontinued at Bennington so we have to go to Montpelier or to Georgetown. There is a store at Georgetown now, so letters had better be sent there, after this, as it will save a long journey to Montpelier.

Harrison, dear, I didn’t get your letter informing me that Louisa was sick until I got Pa’s letter saying that she was dead. And you can never know how grieved I was to hear that you are the one to bear such a heavy load. It is hard, I know, to have your first trouble such a pitiful one. It seems as though either of us was better prepared to bear such a blow, than you are. The rest know a little about trouble, but ours nothing to compare with yours.

Brother, dear, you think you have lost the only one that you ever had a thought for, but you must not think that. She has only passed on a little before you, and when you meet again, happiness will be made more complete. She is yours, and no one can deny your right to her. You can go and have her sealed to you, and can live for her. If you cannot have her in this world, you can have her for a Guiding Star, and instead of building and making a house for her here, you can prepare yourself for complete happiness in the world to come. And it will keep you from doing wrong. And when you are tempted to do a wrong of any sort, just think that there is one that is watching you and is anxious to meet you as you are to meet her.

Brother, dear, don’t grieve any more than you can help. If I could bear your heartache for you, how willingly I would do it. Or if I could lessen it in any way it would be a pleasure. But it is our trials that are going to prove us, and it is them that hurt the worst that is the most for our salvation. But we cannot always see it in that light, but we only know that it is bitter to bear.

Brother, Dear, forgive me if it pains you to read what I have wrote but I have to write just what I think. How well I would like to see you and to have a good talk with you. But I will wait until I can talk and not wring your heart to pieces.

Darling, I will close for this time. Write as soon as you can, and anything you like, for if anyone can sympathize with you, your sister can.

From your sincere and loving sister,

Mary T. Sorensen (This is Harrison’s older sister)

January 3^rd, 1888 – Rained most of the night, snow all gone this morning. Snowed some this morning, wind still coming south, Continued snowing all day and most of the night. Wed. 4^th, still snowing 5 to 6 in. deep, no wind. Still snowing.

Jan. 5^th – Snowed about 12 inches deep. Fast Day. Went to Meeting, so spent p.m. at home reading. Has not snowed much today, looks like more tonight.

Friday 6^th, show 15 inches deep this morning, clearing off.

Saturday 7^th, clear and cold, bright sun dogs all day. Went to Priesthood Meeting.

Sunday 8^th, clear. Very cold Thursday, 2 degrees above zero. Went to Sunday School and meeting.

Monday 9^th, clear and cold. Last Thursday was 6 degrees below zero.

January 10^th – Moderated a little. The U & P R.R. is blocked. Still clear.

Wednesday, 11^th – Cloudy, still quite cold. Bro. Ingstrom was taken very sick last Sunday night, is still very bad. Went with Bro. Andersen to administer to Sister Willard Hansen, who is sick.

Tues. 12^th, snowed a little last night, getting a little warmer.

Friday 13^th, it snowed today. Light wind from north, turning colder at night. Wind from the mountain. Saturday, 14^th, very cold Thursday, 16 degrees below zero.

Sunday the 15^th, extremely cold, 25 below zero. Went to Sunday School, had no meeting in Tabernacle on account of the cold. Ward meeting at night.

Monday 16^th – Clear and cold. School was dismissed because of extreme cold.

Tuesday, 17^th, have not done anything for several days, can hardly keep warm in the house by the stove. Wed. 18^th, clear and sun shines warm in middle of the day, but very cold at night. Got two papers today, have not had but two mails for two weeks. The bees came out yesterday, dropped on the snow and died. A great many folks closed the bees up for fear of losing too many. Bro. Ingstrom is still very sick. Brother S. Smith was arrested at his home in Brigham City, by Depts. Steel and Cory.

Jan. 19^th, cloudy, looks like storm, weather more moderate, 10 below zero.

Friday 20^th, been snowing slowly all day. Began falling fast at night. Thursday was 30 degrees above. Harrison and I cut straw today.

Saturday 22^nd – Snow and rain. Thawing fast. Cut straw. Sunday, went to Sunday School and Meeting, very warm. Bees came out and had a good flight. Bro. S. Smith was at Ward Meeting.

Monday 23^rd – Froze a little last night, thundered hard all night. We cut straw. Rained all day and most of the night.

Tue. 24^th, clear and warmer. Fixed a gate to yard, Thursday the 26^th.

Friday the 27 was clear and warm. We had a Social Party today The following persons attended: A.A. Jensen, James Bywater, C.S. Andersen, Hannah Andersen, Christina Andersen, Sena Jensen, Hannah Bywater, and two children, Maretta Sorensen, Mary Ann Andersen, Priscella Tingey, Sophia Thomson, and Jane Smith.

Saturday 28^th – Weather still fine. We had a letter from Mary stating that Joey had taken cold, and his lungs gathered, and he was coughing and spitting as at first. All the rest are well.

Sunday 29^th, held our Quarterly Review. The following were rendered: Piece in Concert, J. Forsgren & class, Mary Sorensen & class. Music by Christian Fredrick and Moses Larsen, questions and answers on the Book of Mormon, H.C. Jenson and class, recitation, Anna Gregersen, Lecture on the Book of Mormon, E. Ralphs, song by the choir. Dialogue by D.P. Burt and class, selected reading by Rachel Evans; chapter on prayer, Sophia Larsen and class, song, Louisa Madsen.

Monday 30^th – Still fine. On Tuesday, 31^st, got a letter from Nellie saying that Joey was improving.

Wed. February 1^st, quite cold this morning. Clear and warm all day, some clouds.

Thursday 2^nd – Went to Meeting. The sun shone part of the day.

Friday, 3^rd, sent a box to Joey. Bear Lake weather still fine.

Saturday 4^th, Quarterly Conference. The following Bishops reporting:

H. Tingey, First Ward, Meetings pretty well attended, some division in families, had just paid tithing $2,260.00

David Rees, 4^th Ward: had 59 tithe payers and had paid tithing $1,265.00, had but a few who went to the saloon.

A. Nichols, 2^nd Ward, something we would like to have different, but the majority was trying to do right, tithing could compare favorable with the other seasons.

A. Madsen, 3^rd Ward: organization of ward complete. Donation to Manti Temple $10.75. Had 26 tithe payers, paid tithing $2,800.00,

O.A. Perry, Three Mile Creek Ward, said that in visiting ward, found a great many things that are not right, were not behind in any donations, except to the clerk at Logan Temple.

John Edwards, Willard Ward, had a great deal of sickness among children. Some had died. The Lord blessed the Elders in their administrations among the sick and many had been healed. Was well organized, and in good order, had appointed some High Priests to visit among the people, thought it resulted in good.

Bishop Jensen, Bear River Ward, had his own faults to contend with more than any other man’s in the ward, was organized, and in good order tithes and offerings.

T. Harper, North Ward, had no Primary. All other organizations complete.

Bishop Jensen, Mantua Ward, We are not as good we would like to be, thought there was a good many that went to the saloon, no Seventies that he knew of, High Priests and Elders, 4 or 5 in all. Donations as good as required.

W. Neeley of Warm Creek Ward, bore a strong testimony to truth of the Gospel. Had a few good Latter Day Saints in Ward.

Sunday 5^th – Apostle Lorenzo Snow occupied most of time speaking on Stake Organization, recommended Rodger Clawsen as President of the Box Elder Stake, the motion was sustained. Bro. E. Box, who has been acting President, spoke about 20 minutes, said he didn’t desire to be released. P.M. Brother Dunford, of Salt Lake City, spoke principally on smoking and drinking. Apostle Snow instructed officers in regard to their duties, said the President should be found in the Primaries, YM and YLMIA associations, Relief Societies, and Ward Meetings. Said it is necessary for Church officers to work for the interest of the people. Private interests should be secondary all of the time.

Monday 6^th – Snowing some this morning. Received a letter from Nellie saying that Joey’s old wound had broke open and was discharging matter, he was feeling better, and this was February 2^nd.

Tuesday 7^th – Worked in shop most of the day. Made a pair of tongs and fixed a gun. Wed. quite warm today, snow going off very fast. Some of the ground bare.

Wednesday the 8^th, quite warm today.

Thursday 9^th, still warm but cloudy. Worked in shop. Rain at night. Jennette has been nursing a sick child of H. Barnard’s, about 6 miles north of Brigham. She has been gone all week.

Friday 10^th – Cloudy and warm. Jennette came home today.

Saturday, 11, sent to the Fourth Ward Sunday School Review. Did not get to go to meeting.

Monday 13^th – Warm. Snow about all gone. Helped manure a piece of land that the ward had purchased to build a school house upon. Cleaned up our dooryard.

Tuesday 14^th, turned colder last night. Wind from the canyon all day. Ground getting dry fast.

Wed. 15^th, warmer again. We hauled some manure on garden.

Thursday 16^th, still warm day. Freezes hard nights. The Mayor of Salt Lake ejected parties that were attempting to grab some of the squares and other lands belonging to the City Corporation.

Friday 17^th, very warm. Scattered manure on garden. Went to Theological Class at the 4^th Ward.

Saturday 19^th, two meetings at Tabernacle in interest of Sunday School. Had a good speaker, Bro. Wm Wells, up from Salt Lake. He said the Ten Virgins are all sleeping at present. Let us be sure we have oil in our lamps or, in other words, the Spirit of God, so that we may know the voice of the Bridegroom. Apostle Lorenzo Snow said that Jesus has already appeared and will appear from time to time in our tabernacles and temples.

February 20 – Snowed again last night. Harrison came home this morning.

Tuesday 21^st, snow about all gone off today. Was cloudy most of day and stormed some. Salt Lake held their first election for City Officers on Monday the 13^th. Made a Citizen, or Fusion Ticket, was elected almost entirely by the People’s Party. Not more than 25% of the Liberals voting with the People. I have been sick for a few days, having a sore throat with considerable fever. Harrison went to Ogden to see about getting his pay.

Wednesday 22^nd, was clear and nice this morning. Froze hard last night. Don’t feel much better yet.

Thursday 23^rd – Still warm. Am getting better slowly. Harrison got home, didn’t get his pay.

Friday 24^th, Harrison hauled some manure and cut some wood. I am feeling about the same.

Saturday 25^th, Harrison went back to Ogden. Cloudy, looks like storm.

Sunday 26^th – Weather warm and cloudy, am beginning to feel some better. Harrison came home again without his pay. Charles Ingstrom died this afternoon.

Monday, Harrison went back to Ogden again. I worked a little in the shop but am very weak.

Tuesday, worked again in the shop. It rained all day. Charles Ingstrom was buried this afternoon. I am still gaining slowly, got a letter from Joey stating that he was still gaining.

Wednesday 29^th, snowed all day. Fell 4 inches deep.

March 1^st Thursday – Snow melted some leaving some bare spots. Went to Fast Meeting.

Friday 2^nd, snowing again. Our cow had a calf last night. Harrison came home, two days. Sun shone a little. Saturday 3^rd, Priesthood Meeting. Subject: Have Bishops a right to cut members off from the Church? Instructed not to cut anyone off who holds the Melchizedek Priesthood.

Sunday 4^th – Went to Sunday School and Meeting. It snowed 6 inches last night.

Monday 5^th, worked in the shop making bee hives, snowing and thawing.

Tuesday 6^th, City Council. Met at 10 a.m. Got through with business at 1:30 p.m. Treasurer report accepted and warrants destroyed. Several petitions were presented and referred to committee, etc. Snowed all day. Wed. 7^th, cloudy. South wind all day. Harrison sawed wood.

Thur. 8^th, rained most of the night and all day. We worked in the shop. Snowed at night 2 inches. Friday I went to look for a place for the waste water from the city without doing damage to the fields. Clear and colder.

Saturday 11^th, was clear Freezing hard at night. Warm days. Worked in shop.

Sunday – Went to Sunday School and Meeting. Wrote a letter to Joey.

Monday wrote a letter to Hyrum Smith, offering to buy part of his place. Worked in shop. Harrison hauled gravel to the school house. Jennette went to Honeyville.

Tuesday, Harrison and I made and put in place 8 footbridges. Jennette got home this morning. Clouding up this afternoon. Snow most all gone.

Wednesday 14^th – Harrison went to work on the school house. I finished and hung two gates for Sammy. Cloudy.

Thursday 15^th, clear again. Harrison working on the school house. Jennette came home from north where she had been all night with a sick baby.

Friday, 16^th, sent a letter to my sister at Mink Creek. Clear and warm, plowed a piece in the garden and set out some trees. Made a bargain to sell our place to Nathan Yearsley for $750.00 Saturday 17^th.

Sunday 18^th – Rain this morning. Went to S.S. and Meeting. Squally.

Monday 19^th, partially clear. North wind cold.

Tue. 20^th, clear, freezes at night. Some wind.

Wed. 21^st, warm days and cold nights. Worked in the shop. Yarsley moved into the log house.

Thursday 22^nd, mended harness and Harrison greased it. Friday, Harrison dug up some dead trees on City Square.

Saturday 24^th, rain last night, cold today, wind north. Cut some straw at Jensen’s.

Sunday 25^th – Went to S.S. and Meeting. Cold. Some snow on the ground. Monday, received a letter from Chris. Still cold, wind northeast. Therm. Stands 26 to 30 degrees, having been from 40 to 50 deg. Most of the month. City Council meeting 9 p.m. in session until 12 o’clock at night.

Tuesday 27^th, clear and cold, wind southwest. Had three teeth pulled. Went down to see a plowing match. Sent $2.60 to Browning Bros. in payment for gun repairs.

Wed. worked in shop, the weather dull and fuggy. Wrote letter to Chris.

Thurs. still dull. I worked in shop.

Friday 30^th, looks more like storm, warmer. Worked in shop.

Saturday 31^st, sent for a sulky plow, worked some in shop. It rained at night, quite warm.

April 1^st – looks like clearing off. Sun shining by spells. Went to S. S. and Meeting. Ward meeting at night. Spoke a few minutes. Got the sulky plow this afternoon and helped Harrison load up and start for Bear Lake. Monday, Harrison started out to Blue Creek to work for P. Neilson. I worked in shop.

Tue. 3^rd, worked in shop and Wed. Rain most of the day.

Thursday 5^th, Fast Day. Clear this morning. Went to Fast Meeting p.m. Went with Geo. Parsons to see a stove. Friday 6^th, heavy white frost. Went down to Willard to see L. Jacobsen about a debt he was owing us, got his note payable Sept. 1, 1888. Saturday went to Priesthood Meeting, didn’t have one, not enough present.

Sunday 8^th April – Went to S.S. and Meeting. Harrison came home for hay.

Monday 9^th, Harrison started at 12 noon. Still warm and pleasant. Got a letter from Joey and Nellie saying all was well.

Tue. 10^th, went with S. Carter to get 45 trees of A. Jensen. Set out 8.

Wed. 11^th, went with S. Carter and finished setting out trees, got done at 1 p.m. Got James Bywater to make our deed for N. Yearsley. Brother Andersen came home sick.

Thurs. 12^th, clear and fine. Worked in shop.

Friday 13^th, still clear and fine. Worked in the shop. Saturday 14^th, very warm. Currants are beginning to bloom. There is not going to be any peaches, apricots or plums to speak of, all having been killed by the extreme ordinary cold weather. Painted some bee hives.

Sunday, went to S.S. and Meeting. Clouding up and looks like a storm. Bro. A.A. Jensen is gaining.

Monday 16^th, looks very much like storm. Renewed subscription to Deseret News. Tue. Sold oats to Horsley 3,867 lbs., at $1.55: $57.59.

Wednesday 18^th – Still very warm. Worked in the shop making harrow teeth.

Thursday 19^th, settled up with C. Wright, was owing him $1.75 which I paid.

Friday 20^th, very warm. Worked in the shop, don’t feel very well today. Bought a crosscut saw, pd. $3.00 and a pr. of nippers to cut wire.

Saturday 21^st, put a bottom on wash tub for Sis. Yearsley. Still very warm, don’t remember of seeing such warm weather this time of year. Apples and strawberries, gooseberries, plums and all kinds of fruit that was not killed by cold weather are in bloom. Everything looks well, but the ground is very dry.

Sunday 22nd – Had our Quarterly Review. I was presented with a beautiful photograph of the officers and teachers of the Sabbath School. There was 12 ladies and 12 gentlemen in the two groups, both in one frame. James Bywater delivered the following address:

Presentation Address:

The Teachers of the Third Ward Sabbath School. Brigham City, to Joseph M. Tippets, Assistant Superintendent, April 22^nd, 1888.

Greetings. We, your brethren and sisters, having learned that you are about moving to a new home, which you have chosen in the distant stake of Zion, that while regretting to lose your esteemed society and your useful labors desire to express in our humble manner our appreciation of your valuable services, and our love for your personal worth. We therefore present you with our pictures as a small memento thereof.

Perhaps in after years, the finger of time may partially erase them, but we trust while memory lasts, and being endured, our mutual love will ever remain bright and fresh, you will occasionally cast a passing glance at these our Sun Shadows, from which may bring memory to your minds view, happy reminiscence, joyous scenes and passing pleasures of your old but distant Brigham City home, and with the poet say

In absence, we must with reason

Reason’s virtues friends admire

Time matures a just affection

And absence makes it truly known.

Dear brother, now our love and blessing, and may a kind Providence strew your future path with peace and plenty and the wintertime of life touch you gently and kindly. And when the Church, as a bride, is adored ready for the wedding, may each of us be also ready and with our fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Israel, set down at the marriage of the Lamb. AMEN.

April 22^nd, 1888 At the Sunday School Quarterly Review the foregoing presentation was made and the entire Sunday School approved and endorsed the same with its sentiments, by rising to their feet. It was a complete surprise to me, as it had not entered my head that my associates of the Sunday School would confer such an honor upon me for the poor services I had rendered. And they kept it from me so that I had not a hint of what they were going to do.

Dear Brothers and Sisters and Associates of Sabbath School,

I assure you I dearly prize the tokens of love and respect shown me on this occasion. And you will long be remembered by me. May God bless and preserve you in the Faith of the Everlasting Gospel, is the prayer of your humble servant. J.M.T.

Monday 23^rd - Set 13 trees on the square west of Tabernacle. Still very warm, some clouds.

Tues. 24^th, worked some in the shop. Hard wind from south. Clouding up fast, wind turned. Wed. 25^th, rained all of the night and still raining. Apples, pears, strawberries, etc., are now in full bloom. Weather has been warmer than I have ever known this time of year. Harrison came home today, having made clear of expenses, $48.50.

Thursday 26^th, still all cloudy, but looks like clearing off. Mended some chairs and sharpened plow. Went to graveyard and put a footstone at Father’s grave. Bought a stove, pd. $39.00 for it.

Fri. 27^th, clear this morning, frost last night. Beginning to clear up. We loaded up and got ready to start for Bear Lake.

Saturday 28^th, got started at 10 a.m. Clear, but quite cold, wind from mountain, drove to Hot Springs for dinner, got there at 2 p.m., camped at Hanson’s Dairy overnight. We had a cow leading. She got very tired, had to pay 20 ¢ for turning our horses through a gate into the range.

Sunday 29^th – Some clouds, cool. Camped at Smithfield for dinner, got there at half past 11. Stayed until 2 p.m. Camped for the night on High Creek, north of Richmond. Had to let cow rest several times. She would lie down while traveling. Feed very short.

Mon. 30^th, up early this morning, built a fire for the first time since leaving home. Went to Warm Creek for dinner. Floating clouds, wind from the south blowing hard. Stopped at Sister Caroline’s below Mink Creek. Had a shower of rain, lasted 10 or 15 minutes.

May 1^st, 1888 – Drove up to Rosenbaum’s before breakfast. Cloudy and cold. Camped at first house north of the bridge in Gentile Valley overnight, bought hay for the horses. Cloudy. A windy day.

Wednesday 2^nd, drove to Old Mine for breakfast. Clear and cold, camped at Soda Point for breakfast. Clouds all day, some rain and sleet.

Thursday 3^rd, drove on to Soda Springs for breakfast, from there to a creek below the divide. Cloudy and cold. Not far from home. Found all well. Feed rather short yet.

Friday 4^th, paid my brother-in-law, M. Smith, $30.00 for his old house. Sowed a piece of lucern for Chris. Rained in the afternoon and evening, not very cold. Started to plant potatoes.

Saturday 5^th, Mary’s birthday. Cloudy this morning. Harrison started on Dunn’s land. Joey and I set out some strawberries, There was 15 or 20 of the neighbors gathered to Mary’s in the evening, it being her 23^rd birthday. Had an enjoyable time. It rained hard about 10 o’clock.

Sunday 6^th – Rained most of the day. Stayed home all day.

Monday 7^th, got Chris and Hans to help plow, sowed some oats and Joey went to Georgetown. Harrison got kicked by his colt this evening. Struck him on his right arm and side just above the hip. He fell as dead and turned black in the face, but soon recovered. It was a terrible shock to me, long to be remembered.

Tuesday 8^th – Joey went to Montpelier and got 200 ft. of lumber to finish house on river. I went to Georgetown and bought some grain. Chris plowed and Harrison harrowed. We finished oats. Wed. Joey plowed on sod. Harrison harrowed. Rained.

Thursday 10^th, cold and cloudy. Planted peas. Froze hard last night.

Friday 11^th, clearing off. Cold. Finished sowing grain. Frost last night. Finished planting peas and planted some beets.

Saturday 12^th, finished planting potatoes and planted some more garden. Quite warm today.

Sunday 13^th – Spent the day at home, there being no meeting on account of Stake Conference. Brig and family came over and spent the day with us.

Monday, 14^th, clear and warm. This morning I went to Georgetown to look at some calves, didn’t get to see them. Made posts rest of day.

Tuesday 15^th, bought 4 calves, pd. $40.00. Hard frost last night.

May 16^th, 1888 – Snowed some today, very cold. Hard frost last night.

Thursday 17^th, clear and cold. Finished rolling grain and went to Meeting. Boys took loads of timber to Bennington to fence meadow.

Friday 18^th, all went to Bennington to make fence for Joey. He stayed at home, Nellie being sick.

Saturday 19^th, finished fence at Bennington. Bought a roan heifer 3 yr old, pd. $15.00. Cloudy and cold.

Sunday 20^th – Warm rain. At home all day.

Monday 21^st, made posts. Mary and Nellie have been sick for 4 or 5 days. Cloudy with showers.

Tuesday 22^nd, cloudy. Went to Bennington, bought a sow and 8 pigs, pd. $16.00. Rained while gone.

Wed. 23^rd, Sun shone this morning, quite a treat. Service berries are just beginning to bloom. Working on the river. Got a letter from my wife today, the first word since leaving home 4 weeks ago next Saturday. Letter was mailed the 11^th. Planted beans, corn, squash, and melons, etc.

Thursday 24^th, went to Georgetown, got a keg of spikes and 63 lbs. of wire. Heavy shower of hail and rain. Saturday 26^th, wet and muddy. Light rain all afternoon.

Sunday 27^th – Got a letter from Jennette saying all was well. Jennette was nearly worn out tending sick, not her own, but the neighbors. Showers all day. Brother Brig and family came over to spend the day.

Monday the 28^th – We went to Georgetown Canyon, got two loads of poles.

Tues. 29^th, worked on fence. Some rain.

Wed. 30^th, worked on fence. Harrison and Hans went for poles. Warm today.

Thursday 31^st, went to Georgetown Canyon again. Warm showers.

June 1^st – Worked on the fence. Warm.

Saturday 2^nd, run furrows in grain. Rain and hail.

Sunday 3^rd, cool this morning. All went to Meeting at Bennington. Rain and hail. Went to Brother Heber’s after Meeting.

Monday 4^th, storm. Got a load of poles.

Tues 5 and Wed. 6^th, all worked on fence.

Thursday 7^th, got fence done. Turned water on meadow.

Friday 8^th, put a sand board in Hans’s wagon. Showers.

Saturday 9^th, worked in garden. Harrison and Joey went to the canyon. Light frost last night. No damage. Will go home next Monday if all goes well, to move over.

Sunday 10^th – Weather pleasant, all went to meeting.

June 11^th, Monday – Started home. Warm and cloudy. While passing a house, a man came out and wished to ride with me over to Brigham. He proved to be Solomon Wixom, who had lately been confined in the Penitentiary, and served a term of six months for unlawful cohabitation. He was in poor health, had been for some time, and is somewhat damaged in his mind. Stopped at my sister’s overnight.

Tuesday 12, started on home. Stayed at Sister Woodruff’s in Smithfield overnight. Warm and cloudy.

Wed., drove to Logan for breakfast. Clearing up. Warm. Got home at 6 p.m., found all well.

Thursday 14^th, sent an order to Brownings for a gun. Went to mill, bought a sack of sugar, $7.50, stoveblack, can of oil, doubletree and singletrees, paid $3.45.

Friday the 15^th, went up to the graveyard and helped J. Bott put up some stones on Louisa’s grave. Bought a gun, pd. $15.00.

Saturday 16^th, worked on shop fixing a wagon. Harrison got home at 1 o’clock p.m. A company of ladies came and spent the afternoon presenting Jennette with a large autograph album and a photograph of 13 ladies in a group on one card. Had a good time.

Sunday 17^th – Went to Sunday School and Meeting. Was set apart as a High Priest, under the hands of Rudger Clawson, Samuel Smith and Adolph Madsen

Monday 18^th – Spent the day loading up. Tuesday, finished loading up, got ready to start at noon. It began raining. Had to lay over.

Wednesday 20^th – Started at 8 a.m. Had a shower on the divide. Stayed at James Olsen’s place in Logan Bottom overnight. Pd. $1.00 for hay. Cold.

Thursday 21^st – Drove on to Logan, bought bellows, $14.00 Camped on High Creek, beyond Richmond. Friday 22^nd, bought a churn at Franklin, pd. $4.75. Hot day. Camped at Strawberry overnight. Rosenbaum’s had found our horse that was lost last spring. Got him as we came along.

Saturday 23^rd – Doubled up Big Dugway. Was until noon getting up. Camped at mouth of canyon.

Sunday 24^th of June – Got to our NEW HOME at 1 p.m. Found all well.

July 11^th – Have been very busy and neglected to keep a daily record. There is not much water this season. We have not been able to water much of our grain. Joey, Harrison, and Chester went to Soda Springs the fourth. We have hauled logs and built two stables. Sold a horse for poles, got 100 of them. Built a cow yard and part of a stack yard. The weather is hot, the therm. ranging at 90 deg. during the day, but the nights are quite cool. Harrison began mowing yesterday. Joey has been to Paris for 3 or 4 days on trial as a witness between two men that got into difficulty over pulling horses. We watered potatoes.

July 12^th – Joey came home. Harrison mowing and bringing a load home at night. Have finished stackyard and am working on Joey’s house on the river. Later, Uncle Chris and Aunt Alice arrived on Friday 13^th.

Saturday 14^th – Finished Joey’s house. Weather has been quite cool since the storm on the 12^th.

Sunday 15^th July – All went to Meeting.

Tuesday 17^th, still quite cool. Joey moved to the river.

Thurs. 19^th, had a light shower this afternoon. Sunday the 22^nd went to Meeting, gave our recommends.

Monday 23^rd – At home watering.

Tue. 24^th, went to Bennington to celebration. Wed., got ready to start plowing on river, started the 26^th. The ground is dry, but works quite well. Joey went hunting with John Dunn. Got a deer.

Friday 27^th – went to the canyon, broke a wheel, had to leave the load.

Saturday 28^th, fixed up mower and rake. Sunday, stayed home and watered. Folks went to Meeting. Cloudy and warm

Tuesday 31^st – Rained hard all day and most of night.

August 1^st – Began plowing on the north 40.

Saturday 4^th, cloudy this morning. Harrison is still plowing. The rain had soaked the ground. If frost holds off will have a good crop yet.

Sunday 5^th – All went to Meeting.

Monday 6^th, started to cut hay at Bennington, Sister Rosenbaum came for a visit.

Wed. 8^th, south wind this morning.

Sunday 12^th – Started to cut grain. Boys went to Montpelier and got a new threshing machine that we had sent for last week. It cost $865.00.

Wed. 15^th, rained hard this morning. Boys had to come home from haying. Brig came over and started to put machine together.

Saturday 18^th – Done some blacksmithing. Hyrum Smith, his wife, his father and mother, spent the day with us.

Sunday 19^th – Went to Meeting.

Tuesday the 23^rd, took a load of potatoes to Montpelier and sold them. They came to $23.60.

Wed. 24^th, boys plowed potato patch, got 15 bushels.

Friday 26^th, snowed abt. 2 inches. All went to Bennington to a political meeting at night.

Saturday 27^th, went to Montpelier and bought some lumber. We had our names taken off the Ward records, it being necessary to do this on account of unconstitutional laws, made expressly to prevent members of the Mormon Church from exercising the elective franchise.

Sunday 28^th – All went to Meeting, but found when we got there that there would be no Meeting, the Bishop having gone to Paris. Went up to Maple, promised to go hunting with Heber.

Monday 29^th, fixed to go hunting. Weather still warm.

Tue. 30^th, started hunting. Went north to old Tie Camp.

Wed. 31^st, it began snowing about 9 p.m. Snowed all day. To keep from getting wet, we sat under a pine tree all day. Snow fell 3 or 4 inches deep.

November 1^st, Thursday I went up on one canyon and Heber up on the other. He killed three elk and wounded another. I killed one deer and brought it to camp.

Monday 5^th – Loaded up and went and got the other elk. Heber got a nice fat buck while coming down the canyon.

Tuesday, went to Bennington and voted. Still snowing.

Friday 9^th, clear and cold nights, warm days. Snow going off.

Saturday 10^th, have got Hans’s house all done but the doors.

Sunday – quite warm. No Meeting.

Thursday 22^nd, ground bare, quite warm. Have a shed for our threshing machine and have felled lumber two days. Sent $28.00 back to Chicago for goods. Worked some on shed and stable. Am making a harrow now.

Friday, 23^rd, sowed a piece of wheat in field. It freezes nights so that we cannot harrow until after noon. Saturday, finished harrowing wheat.

Sunday – went over and spent the day with Heber, got six bushels of wheat for seed.

Monday 26^th, Hans’ birthday. Snowing and raining.

Tuesday, went to Bennington to meeting. Still storming, melting as fast as it falls.

November 28^th – We are still in an unorganized condition, waiting to see what our enemies are going to do. Thursday, Brig was over, all had supper at Chris’s, it being his birthday.

Friday 30^th, weather quite cold but ground bare in spots.

December 1^st Saturday – Cold. Snowing some.

Monday 10^th, turned warmer again the 2^nd or 3^rd, ground bare and stock doing well on the range. I received 150 lbs of lucern seed from J.F. Morrell of Brigham City. The freight cost $1.08. This came on the 8^th of this month. I also received a bench drill and sledge hammer from Chicago same day, on 6^th. Bro. Ole Paulson and wife paid us a visit Sunday the 9^th.

Tuesday 11^th- Worked on canyon road.

Saturday 15^th, snowed quite hard all day. Jennette and Harrison went to Montpelier with Chris and got grist mill.

Sunday 16^th – All went to Meeting. I was set apart to act as a teacher in Bennington Ward.

Monday 17^th, sun shone bright and warm all day. I don’t feel very well.

Friday 21^st, boys have been going to canyon hauling wood, have got most of it hauled. Growing warmer.

Saturday 22^nd – Began snowing this morning, south wind. Chris is sick. Received a letter and picture from A.A. Jensen, of Brigham City, stating all was well. Was thankful to hear such good news.

Sunday 23^rd, went to Meeting. Still snowing some, but not very cold.

Monday 24^th, went to a dance at Bennington.

Tue., the folks all went to Bennington, they having a Christmas tree for the children. I stayed home, not feeling well.

Wednesday 26^th, clear and cold. Thursday Harrison got a load of hay from Bennington.

Friday, spent the day in visiting, found all well. No complaints.

Saturday, still clear and cold. Sunday 30^th, all went to Meeting.

1889

January 1^st, 1889 – All went to Brig’s and spent the day, had a good time. Total eclipse of the sun at 3 p.m. Very cold nights, warm days.

Saturday 5^th, boys finished hauling hay. Cloudy tonight.

Sunday 6^th, all went to Meeting. Bishop Wright spoke on several subjects, said the instructions from headquarters are to ordain no one to the Holy Priesthood that uses tobacco. If it is wrong to ordain those using it, is it not wrong for those making use of it to hold the Priesthood?

Monday 7^th – Drifting snow. Storm last night, clearing off about noon. Cold wind from the north.

Sunday 13^th – Was all last week finishing sled. Boys hauled some wood from canyon. Got a couple of our colts down that had been running out on the mountain. Found one of them very poor, it having been sick. All went to Meeting. Snow about 6 inches deep.

Monday 14^th – Snowing, but a little warmer most every day.

Tue. 15^th, all went to canyon for mill timber. Wed. 16^th, north wind, snow. Snow about a foot deep. Clear. Got a letter from A.A. Jensen of Brigham City. There had been three deaths lately, Abraham Hunsaker, Old Lady Anderson, and Joseph Bergen.

Thursday 17^th, very cold. Boys went to the canyon.

Sunday 20^th – All went to Meeting.

Thursday and Friday went out teaching.

Saturday 27^th, at home. Boys got last load of wood that they had piled.

Monday 28^th, one of the cows had her calf last night. It froze to death, although she was in a stable where it was warm.

February 1^st Friday – Cloudy, snowing some. Went to Georgetown and traded for a bull. Was up to Montpelier last Thursday to O. Poulson’s trial. It was postponed on another day. Cold nights and warm days.

Wednesday 13^th, snowed all day, wind north. Has been thawing considerable last few days, roads getting bare. Went to Paris on Monday the 11^th and homesteaded a quarter section of land.

Tue. 19^th, we are having quite cold weather again. Has snowed so that the ground is covered. We are talking of buying an old saw mill over in Georgetown Canyon.

February 28^th – Has been very warm for some days, snow melting very fast. Roads getting bare again so that it is hard traveling with sleds. Have held two District Meetings, having been set apart as a Priest, meetings well attended, the people turning out immense. We made a bargain for saw mill at Georgetown, but the parties came and backed out next day. O. Poulson has been here the last two days. He is afraid of being arrested again, for unlawful cohabitation.

Sunday March 10 - At home all day. Harrison went to Bennington but there was no Meeting. Chris and I looked at a piece of land that George Perkins is offering for sale. We could not make a bargain with him. We went with a sled, but had bare ground about half way. The ground is bare nearly all over now. Frost out. Could plow if it didn’t freeze so hard at nights. We have got 25 pairs of posts bored and about half of our wood sawed up.

Thursday 14^th Has been raining several days now. Does not do much good. Started to plow on river today. Ground is only wet 3 or 4 inches deep.

Thursday 21^st – Sowed and harrowed some grass seed on river today. Warm this morning. Prepared some seed wheat.

April 19^th Friday – It has been cold and stormy for about two weeks. Looks like clearing off now. Most of the grain is up but does not grow much. It is too cold. We have sowed about 5 acres of lucern on river. Harrison has been breaking 2 or 3 days. Moved our fence out yesterday. Chopped grain and sawed wood today.

Sunday 28^th – South wind. The weather has been warm for the last 4 or 5 days. It is cooler now. Looks like storm. Grass is getting good now and grain looks well. Jennette started to Brigham on Wed. the 24^th, having heard that Sister Rebecca was very sick. O. Poulson worked on saw mill Wed. 24^th. I commenced Thursday 25^th. I worked 9 days on P. Jensen’s house. Harrison has worked 4 days this week.

May 2^nd – South wind blowing hard, cold and squally. All went to Bennington yesterday to see First of May Celebration, had a good time but was rather cold. Joey bought 3 heifers, pd. $26.00 for them.

May 9^th, still very cold. Froze hard the night of 7^th, snow 3 in. deep, all gone next day. Joey and I went to Paris with Chris to get his citizen papers. Joey homesteaded his land on the river. Grain and grass looks well.

May 16^th – Has snowed all the time for the last two days, is now very cold. I went to Mink Creek on the 10^th to meet Jennette, she having wrote she would be there on that day. I stayed until the 13^th. At 4 o’clock the mail came but not a word from her so I started home and drove to Nownon that night and home next morning by 8 o’clock. Found all well at home. Got home the 24^th.

May 15^th – Began storming. Had the hardest storm since last Aug. Our house and stables all leaked. Worked on saw mill. Have not heard from Jennette yet, but it has stormed so she could not travel.

May 18 – looks like clearing off now.

Sunday 19^th, went to Meeting. Got recommends for Temple.

May 20^th, worked on mill. Clear and warm. No word from Jennette yet.

June 1^st 1889 – Hot days but cold nights. Getting quite dry again. Jennette came home Thursday, 23^rd June. Sammy, Neils, and Retta coming with her. They had been prevented from starting when ready by storm. I had went to Montpelier the day before and sent a telegram to ascertain, if possible, what was happening to her so long, as the last we heard from her was her request to be met at Mink Creek 20 days ago. Joey and Mary were getting very uneasy. Could not get any answer that day so Joey went up to meet her next morning. Met her coming. She had been well and visiting and having a good time, not thinking how anxious we were at home fearing some accident had happened to her while on the way home. We have got most of the timber ready for mill. Took two loads last Thursday 29^th.

Sunday June 2^nd – Went to Meeting. Monday 3^rd, sent the following order to Browning Bros., Ogden, for shot gun, 38 cal: $7.00, one hundred cartridges for same: $2.00, one reloading tool, $1.75.

Sunday 9^th – Quite a hard frost last night. Worked on saw mill last week at Georgetown.

December 21^st, 1889 – I have spent most of my time working on saw mill this summer. Got it finished about first of October. It had taken a great deal more time and means to complete it than we had any idea it would when we started it. It cost near $200.00. Sammy and Jane bought a claim and presented two quarters. The weather continued very dry until too late to help the crops any. Had a heavy hail and rain storm sometime in August that done a great deal of damage to both hay and grain. The hay crop was very light and grain almost a failure. Bennington Ward, last season, raised near 20,000 bushels of grain and this season only about 1,500. Times are very dull, no sale for stock, and no grain to spare. We only threshed a little over 6,000 bushels and went nearly all over the Valley to find that.

Winter setting in very early this fall. It began snowing first of November and has continued snowing and raining nearly all the time until the present. We started down to Brigham City the 23^rd of Sept. Went to Mink Creek first day. I stopped at Mink Creek and got my sister Caroline to go with me to the Temple. Went to Smithfield and stayed overnight at Mariah Smith’s.

Harrison went on to Logan, got there the 24^th. He went through the Temple and was married to Emma Van Orman. We got there about noon and went through the Temple the 26^th. Caroline was endowed for her mother and we were sealed to our parents and had Father and Mother sealed. I went through for Seth Rochm the same day. We got to Brigham City the 27^th, found all well. Got loads of dried fruit and salt. Was gone about two weeks. Found all well at home when we got back.

Harrison and Chris started down below to work on the Bothwell Canal on the third of December. They got there the 7^th and before they got ready to go to work, the Co. gave orders to quit for the winter. So they wrote they would start to work the 14^th, for the contractors. I am trying to build another room, but am getting along very slow, as it is storming nearly all the time, and I got good many chores to do.

Saturday December 28^th, 1889 – It has been very warm all this month. Storming nearly all the time. Sunday 22^nd, the snow began to pour down as fast as I ever saw it come in my life. It continued to come with scarce a break between until Wednesday morning when it looked as if it was going to clear up. The snow was then about two feet deep and solid. We could not get away from home, so we spent most of the day breaking roads. At night it began pouring down again as if it meant to bury us all up, it was so damp that it settled down hard and the snow was full of water at the bottom of our house. Our house leaked all over and ran down the walls until the plaster fell off in many places. It is still snowing tonight, but has turned some colder.

Monday the 23^rd was observed as a day of fasting and prayer by all Latter Day Saints, as the enemies of truth are doing their best to destroy us as a people and rob us of every right, which our fair men and women hold so dear. We could protect ourselves for a time at least, by resorting to violence, but this is not our mission. Our mission is peace on earth and good will to all. We must sustain the law and good order, let what will take place. And hence we appeal to Him, who holds the destiny of all in His hands, hoping He will be merciful and soften the hearts of the wicked that they may not be allowed to destroy that glorious instrument, the Constitution of the United States, and cause anarchy and confusion to spread broadcast in the land.

So, the snow was so deep we could not get to Meeting. We observed the fast at home and went to each other’s houses and offered our prayers in behalf of freedom and human rights, this day being the 84^th birthday of the Prophet Joseph Smith.

The snow is about 2 ½ feet as near as I can tell. It began drifting considerable.

The 29^th, went to Meeting. Quite cold.

1890

January 1^st, 1890 – Hauled hay the first, second, and third. The wind blew hard from north, drifting very bad.

Fourth, still drifting. Could not haul hay, roads full.

Fifth, was Sunday, stayed home, the roads being bad. First clear day for a long time. No word from the boys.

The 6^th, hauled hay. Clear and cold.

Thursday 14 deg. below zero.

Seventh, finished our hay. 8^th, Joey hauled a load of hay for Hans.

9^th, got ready to go to the mill.

10^th, Joey went to the mill. Turned warmer and snowed some last night. Cold again this afternoon.

11^th, wind still north. Snow drifting very bad. Joey got home at night. Team nearly tired out.

January 19^th, Sunday – Got word that Van Ormand’s child, a little girl, died last night. There is a great deal of sickness this winter, an epidemic called influenza. Not very many dying with it yet. I will here state that we have heard from the boys twice, the last being wrote 28^th of December. They started the 3^rd, being gone 25 days from home, had worked 2 days. Harrison was $4.28 behind and Chris 75 ¢, besides their expenses at Brigham City, which they didn’t state. Was no snow there at the time, had turned their horses out and didn’t know what to do. Perhaps it would not be out of place to give a brief summary of what has transpired during the year 1889.

The Year 1889

The Developments Upon Continental Europe

Consider them all, and the conviction is unavoidable, that they will lead to mighty upheavals in the near future. The repeated attempts on the Czar’s life indicate the internal condition of Russia.

The successful overtures the latter has made to America, from which it is a foregone conclusion that the great Triple Alliance between Italy, Germany and Austria, cannot long continue, mean the removal of the conditions that have preserved the semblance of peace among the Great Powers, for the last ten years.

In England, the Times Parnell case gave the cause of Home Rule a tremendous impetus, and now Scotland, Wales, and India, as well as Ireland, are demanding local government. The recent London scandals have shaken, for generations, and the prediction is freely and soberly made, that their result will be the establishment of a Republic at the end of Victoria’s reign.

It is notable circumstance that the latter end of the year has witnessed the sufferings, from an epidemic, of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of human beings, on the European Continent.

The Western World has not the facilities for learning, in detail, what is taking place in Asia, but we know that phenomenal events, rarely equaled in the history of the past, have transpired there within the year.

Japan suddenly transformed itself, by adopting a constitution, and thus, in its form of government, became more AngloSaxon than Oriental. In China, one river destroyed within the space of a few days, five million human lives, and floods, destroying many thousands, have occurred repeatedly in that country.

The abolition of the Empire of Brazil, removes from the Western World the institution of Monarchy. And the unsettled question whether Brazil will have a Republic or anarchy, may remain undetermined for some time.

The action of the Spanish-American Republic, in sending representatives on tour through the United States, is significant, as it is the attempt to form a confederation of the States of Central America.

In our country, there have occurred this year, developments worthy of deep consideration. Among these may be mentioned the Cronon Case, from which alone is apparent that the spirit of secret combination and murder, is widespread in this land. The return of the Republican Party to power early in the year has turned popular thought in the direction of financial science to a remarkable degree. And the consequence, as already indicated, will be great changes in the Nation’s fiscal policy.

The concentration of wealth, and the spirit of combination among workers, are significant features of the year. The race question in the South had grown very much in gravity this year, while the Johnstown Calamity and the Seattle, Linn, and Boston Fires, are among the historic disasters our Country has suffered. The creation of four new states in one year, signalizes the year in a special manner.

By the people of Utah the last year will ever be held memorable. In the early part of it, was laid before the Supreme Court Tribunal of our country, the question whether or not they could be robbed of the property, in a Church conspiracy. And near its end was placed before the same judgment seat, the question whether or not they could be robbed of civil and political rights in an individual capacity, because of their religious beliefs. With these two questions will be determined the future status of the Latter Day Saints, in respect to their country and the rest of the world and mankind.

If they shall be decided in favor of the Saints, the latter will be recognized as having rights which others respect. But if adversely, the effect will be to cast out the Saints civilly and politically, as socially and religiously and to place them in an extraordinary position of being the only citizens of this republic who are denied the privilege of being a part of it, of having the protection of its Constitution and laws and participating in its governmental affairs.

The notable events that have transpired during the year in which the Saints are especially interested, are too numerous to be named within this short sketch. The progress of the work in Asia and the Holy Land, the translation of the Book of Mormon into the Jewish and Maori languages, the conversion of large numbers of Lamanites in New Zealand and elsewhere, the political development in Utah, which alone will require a long chapter to describe, and last, but not least, the day of fasting and prayer, by which the birth of Joseph The Seer was commemorated may be cited as subjects for retrospective consideration.

The contemplative mind may well tremble as, from the verge of a new year, it seeks to read and forecast the events of the near future. But there is always this assurance that all things will work together for good, to them who love the Lord.

Individually, this year has been one of mixed successes and reverses. I spent the most part of my time building saw mill, which is only partially a success, so far, but hope that it will do better when I can attend to it myself.

Our crops were almost a failure for want of water. We had 33 bushels of grain off about 9 acres. Our hay crop was very light for the same reason, drought. This made me short of feed for our stock, and also short of means to clothe ourselves. And having a note of $75.00 coming due the first of March, 1890, Harrison thought he would go down and work on the Bothwell Canal, he having heard that he could earn $2.00 per day with a team. So he took two teams and went. But the work stopped as soon as he got there, which left him without resources 150 miles from home, a high range of mountains to cross and snow so deep that it was impossible to get back with his teams. He had no money to buy food for them over there.

The mail is so unregular that we could not hear from Harrison very often, so we felt uneasy about him. Our cattle and horses have increased and done well, and we have been blessed with fair health during this year.

January 20, 1890 Went to the funeral of VanOrman’s little girl by his second wife, it having died the 18^th. They have another child very sick. Jennette and Emma are there helping to nurse the sick. There are a great number of children sick with a very curious disease. Some think it is Whooping Cough.

February 1^st, 1890 It has snowed most of the day. South wind blew hard. Not very cold. Emma is still at her father’s. We have not heard from over there for over a week. The last we heard, they were all getting better. January has been stormy all through, snowing a little every day or at least two days over every week for a long time, filling the roads so that we were not able to get out to Meeting for the last two or three weeks. And it now looks as if we would not be able to go tomorrow.

Emma had a letter from Harrison written on the 19^th of January, stating that they had made arrangements to have their horses fed at $2 per head and would start home in a week of two. We have not heard anything from them since. Our stock is all doing well so far. Our feed will last two months more. We have all been sick within the past two weeks, but are not serious. Joey feels quite bad now. I expect it is the same disease that so many are having all over the world, but in a milder form. We feel to thank the Lord for His blessings we enjoy from His bounteous hand.

January 1^st, 1894 – The year 1893 is now counted among the past. It has been a remarkable year in many respects, fraught with important events, some of which will never fade from the annals of mankind. Looking backward, we see numerous disasters on land and sea, and a remarkably long death roll. Several of the notables of the earth having passed away. Millions worth of property has been destroyed by fire, thousands of lives lost in earthquakes and cyclones, and hundreds more by railroad accidents. Revolution had kindled its hot flames in several places, while at home and abroad, have caused much anxiety and untold distress in many places.

But the year has also been marked by improvement and important events of a more cheerful character than those alluded to. The World’s Fair with the numerous congresses has already sent petitions to our Gvmt. In the interest of the inauguration of peace among the nations of the world. The Religious Parliament, not withstanding its shortcomings, will tend to prove the equality of the great religions of the world, thereby preparing the way for the religion of Christ. Among the prominent events of the year, the dedication of the Great Temple in Salt Lake City, deserves great mention. The acceptance of the House of the Lord is a pledge that His promises are ever faithful, ever true.

The Territories of the Rocky Mountains have suffered comparatively little from the calamities that have swept other parts of the world. The New Year breaks in with prospects of peace in the midst of the people. Utah’s friends are constantly finding their ranks increased at home and abroad. The Heavens pour down their blessings over hill and dale, inspiring the hope of another abundant harvest, in due time. And the day seems near when fair Territory of Utah shall be blessed with the full privileges accorded to her citizens by the divinely inspired Constitution.

Hard times, like storms, come and go. The sun is ever spreading its glorious light above the clouds. So Providence overrules all things and turns even the trials to good for His Children. To those who can hold to this sure anchor of hope, the New Year will bring nothing but feelings of happiness and joy.

Eighteen Ninety-four is now past and gone. It was a very bad year for frost in Bear Lake Valley, but crops of small grain and hay have never been better since I have been a resident here, some six years or more. There has been more sickness than usual, but not many deaths.

September 13, 1895 – My wife, granddaughter, and niece started to Logan, Utah, to attend school at the Agriculture College for a term of nine months. Joey went to take them down with a team. He went to Brigham City and got a load of fruit. We have had the worst season so far that I have experienced, sudden extremes of heat and cold, frost and wind, very dry and squally doing great damage to crops of all kinds. I have thought many times, if I had full control of the elements, and wanted to vex and worry mankind, I could not manage any better to accomplish my desires.

September 19^th – The threshing machine sat at my place today, before getting started. There was a light shower of rain, soon clearing off. Wind going down, which had been howling very hard for several weeks past. Had a good time threshing, doing a good job. We had 260 bus. of wheat, 77 of oats, and 60 of barley, which is a fair crop for the season.

Sept. 20^th – Threshing for Hans. It began snowing about 11 o’clock and snowed all the rest of the day and part of the night, bringing 3 or 4 inches of snow in the morning.

Saturday 21^st – Snowed hard all day, being quite cold. We have not cut second crop of lucern yet. It is mashed in the ground.

Sunday 22^nd, Froze hard last night, killing everything.

Monday 23^rd – Growing warmer. Snow all gone. We heard from wife today, had got to Logan alright, liked the location first rate, talked of going on to Brigham to visit relatives and friends.

Tuesday 24^th – Had first fall wheat sowed. It is now growing warmer. Wed. finished sowing oats, having 8 acres. I am 57 yrs. old today. Feel younger and stronger than I did three years ago.

Thursday 26^th – Cleaned out cellars for getting ready for digging potatoes. Warm and fine today. Dug onions yesterday, good crop. Harrison’s wife and her father started to Salt Lake going to Conference.

Saturday 29^th – I wrote and mailed a letter to A.A. Jensen at Brigham City. Went to Meeting, there were Home Missionaries. We had good instruction. Still very warm Sunday.

Monday 30^th – It is very hot today for this time of year. Sign of storm. Sacked up our onions, had 3 bushels. Raked up hay. Monday the thirtieth, my daughter Mary’s little girl Alice was baptized today by Alvaro Dunn and confirmed by H.A. Lewis, Bishop of Georgetown.

October 1^st Tuesday – Rained some today but we got our hay in without being injured too much.

October 13 – We have been loading up all morning to start for Logan with provisions for the folks who are down there attending school. Started at 4 o’clock and went to Ovid, stopped at M. Rosenbaum’s overnight. His wife just returned from Logan and had left the folks all well. We are through threshing and have most of our potatoes dug. There is no sale for potatoes yet. The weather is warm and beautiful but somewhat cold at night.

Oct. 14^th – Started on at 7 a.m., drove to mouth of canyon and stopped about two hours for breakfast, drove over to Mink Creek and stayed overnight at my sister Caroline’s. Found all well. William Walker, my brother-in-law, had gone up the river fishing, to be gone all night. Would like to have seen him, but could not wait for his return.

October 15^th – Drove on to Richmond, camped for dinner. While we were waiting, my nephew Samuel Smith, who was on his way home from Brigham City, came and stopped a short time for noon. Left all well at Brigham City. Drove on to Logan, got there about 4 p.m., found wife and girls well. They were surprised to see me, as they could be, but was glad I had come. We had brought them 550 lbs. of flour, 5 sacks of potatoes, a table, wash boiler, etc., being loaded quite heavy to cross the mountain.

Oct. 16^th – Harrison went to Brigham City this morning. Jennette also started for Mink Creek at 10 a.m., having promised to go and wait on my nephew’s wife, Rebecca Walker. The weather still continues very warm. I am left alone with the girls. They start to school at 8:30 a.m. and return between 3 and 4 p.m. I took a walk through town today, got newspaper with the latest news. Began clouding up some this afternoon. Logan is a beautiful town. Broad streets lined with shade trees in each side of the street. This, together with numerous apple orchards loaded down with lovely fruit, and scenting the air with its perfume, makes it a desirable place to live in.

Oct. 17^th – Looks like storm this morning. The girls are off to the school and I am alone again. Fixed Mrs. Izett’s water pump and went for a walk down by the river, came back through town. The streets are thronged with people. Logan is a busy place and building up fast.

Oct. 18^th – Has cleared off again and turned quite cold. East wind is blowing hard, very dusty. Went up to college to see fine stock. They have a fine Jersey bull and two Jersey cows, some fine Oxford sheep, and two or three different breed of hogs, the Berkshire being the largest and finest. Wind continued hard all day and night.

Oct. 19^th – Clear and pleasant this morning. Hans Hansen and one of G. Birche’s boys called in this morning, having come down from Bear Lake. I stayed at home and read history most of the day, went to a concert at the college at night.

Oct. 20^th Sunday – There was Sunday School Conference today. We attended three meetings. There were excellent instructions given. Geo. Godard, an old man between 80 and 90 years old, spoke at each meeting, closing with a song each time. In the forenoon, he closed with “A Good Girl’s Resolve”, chorus: “Good girls, rally ‘round the cause of truth, Remember your Creator in the days of early youth.” In the afternoon, “Hold the Fort…”, evening, “In Deseret we are free,” etc. The following brethren also spoke at the evening service: Dr. J.M. Tanner, on Religion and Science, C.J. Maeser answered questions in regard to authority of Superintendants, President Orson Smith made a few remarks.

When we got home, Harrison and Emma had come and were just preparing for bed. They had left Brigham at 1:30 p.m.

We plowed out some potatoes for Mrs. Izatt, got some straw for the girls to put under the carpet, and got started home at 12:30 p.m. Nooned at creek N. of Richmond, got to Mink Creek at 8 p.m., found all well. Jennette was still there, not having got through yet.

Oct. 22^nd – Spent the day visiting relatives. The weather is getting some colder, pleasant days and cold nights.

Oct. 23^rd, we expected to have started this morning, but didn’t find our horses in time. Stayed and went fishing.

Oct. 24^th – Started home leaving all well. It was hard to part with my wife and leave her, not expecting to see her again until sometime next spring. “Oh, Father, may thy protecting care be over her and the Spirit rest upon her, that she may have joy and comfort in her labors this winter, and be a shield and protector to the innocent.” Amen.

Got to Ovid and stayed at M. Rosenbaum’s again overnight.

Oct. 25^th – Got home and found all well. It is freezing quite hard nights, but warm days. Our Tithing Potatoes are not dug. Dug some of the beets and some carrots, also Tithing Potatoes. Pd. 35 bus. for tithing. The Bishop said they were the best that had been brought in this fall.

Oct. 27^th, Sunday – Went to Bennington with Harrison and Emma, got back after dark and wrote a letter to Nettie and one to Browning Bros., Ogden, containing 50 ¢ in stamps. Went to Montpelier with Hans, gave two notes to Ed. Burgoyne on my wife’s account, one for $50.00 at 10% interest due on June 1^st, 1897, and one for $78.71, due Dec. 15, 1897. Joey and boys finished digging carrots, etc., and I went to Teacher’s Meeting at Georgetown at night. There were some new Teachers appointed and changes made in districts. Got back home about 10:30.

October 29^th – Sawed some wood and put a wall under house. Harrison took a load of grain to Montpelier.

October 31^st – Joey and Harrison went to Montpelier with two loads of grain, paid to Burgoyne on account.

November 1^st – Joey went hunting. Harrison and I stacked up two loads of grain from our granary.

Nov. 2^nd, Joey and Harrison went to town with the two loads of grain, one to Burgoyne, on my note, and one to Coop on per cent. Morris and I went hunting down to Bear River, got one duck and two chickens.

Sunday, 3^rd – Went and took dinner with Mirtle, it being her 10^th(?) birthday. It began raining slowly about 12 o’clock, turning to snow at 1:15. Snowed so hard we didn’t go to Meeting.

Monday 4^th, snowed and blowed all day. The snow is now about 5 inches deep, not very cold. Have not heard from folks in Logan since we left there two weeks ago.

Nov. 7^th, C. Goff came out this morning with a surveyor, to lay off a 4 rod street, running east and west 80 rods south of section line, running through northwest quarter section 21 township 11 S. range 44 east and two rod street running north and S. on half quarter line of northwest quarter section 21, 160 rods between me and John Dunn, then making a jog of about 36 rods east along first mentioned street, thence a 3 rod street running in a northeasterly direction to mouth of canyon. Weather cloudy and snowing some. Not very cold.

November 8^th, I didn’t feel well. Sat in house and read most of day. Cloudy and snowing some.

Nov. 9^th, Harrison went to Conference at Paris. I plastered some on chicken coop and done some chores around the barn. Had a letter from Nettie. Jennette is still at Mink Creek but the girls are getting along first rate. Still cloudy and warm, snowing and blowing some. We cannot do much but our chores. We are feeding our cows and teams and also the sheep most of the time.

November 12^th – Brig sent word that he would start to Logan next Wednesday, the 13^th. We killed a sheep to send with him. Joey went and took the things down to Brig that we wished to send. The weather is still bad. Cloudy. Snowing some. But the snow does not get much deeper. Ground bare in spots.

November 13^th – At home doing chores. Looks like we are going to have winter.

November 14^th – Joey went down to Clark’s and got a bull calf that he had traded for. He went with a sled, but there was considerable bare ground. Nor. 15^th, warmer this morning. Looks like rain. Joey went to Ovid with butter and eggs. Harrison went to canyon to pile wood. Cleared off some. I was at home all day.

November 16^th – Clear and warm this morning, snow all gone except a few spots. Frost is out of the ground. Traded for a hog of Dan Rowley, pd. Him $5.00 for it.

Nov. 17^th, white frost last night. Clear and warmer this morning. Went to Meeting. Brother Andrew Galaway was there. He spoke on the Priesthood being taken away from the earth and again restored in the Last Days.

November 18^th – Cloudy this morning, didn’t freeze much last night. We began plowing again today. Harrison went to canyon. Joey and I went to river, caught about 50 lbs. of fish, mostly suckers. It cleared off again.

Nov. 19^th – Clear and pleasant. The snow is now all gone except a few spots where the sun does not strike it. It thaws now and then. Joey started to plow on lower field today. The ground is only wet down about three or four inches.

November 20^th – Joey and Harrison both went down to plow this morning. I stayed at home and sawed wood and fixed a cart, etc. Warm and pleasant days and cool nights. We are not feeding anything now, except teams that work and milk cows a little.

Nov. 21^st – Joey and Harrison both plowed again today. I made stairs to house, let Dan Rowley have 750 lbs. of potatoes on a pig we had bought of him. It is clearing up and looks like snow.

Nov. 22^nd – Snowed most of the night. The snow is now about 6 inches deep and quite cold. It snowed most of the day, looks like winter has set in.

Nov. 23^rd – Cloudy and cold. Snow drifted quite bad last night. The ground is not froze any, to speak of. Young stock are living out yet. Chopped first grain today. Have not fed any grain to hogs yet, am feeding small potatoes. All well. Have not heard from Logan for a long time.

Nov. 24^th – Clear and pleasant. Went to Meeting with Harrison, Emma, Joey and Emily. Nov. 25^th, clear warm days and cold nights. Joey went to mill this morning and Harrison to canyon after saw logs. I put door frames on the stairs, paid cash tithing $2.50, Deseret News $1.00. Still all well.

Nov. 26^th, worked some on the house. It is quite cold today. Went up and took dinner with Hans and Mary, it being Hans’ birthday. He is 38 years old. Chris was there. Harrison brought home a letter from Nettie. They are all well. Jennette got back from Mink Creek on the 15^th. Ed Walker’s wife had a pair of twins, a boy and a girl.

November 27^th – Cloudy this morning turning warmer. Made a door for upstairs. Joey got back from mill tonight. Began snowing at 4 p.m. Snow most of the night.

Nov. 28^th – Was cloudy and looked like storm fore part of day, cleared off about noon. Harrison went to canyon and Joey hunted stock. Didn’t find any. We have got three calves gone that are worth at least $30.00. I worked in shop blacksmithing for Neils Sorensen and Arthur Smith.

Nov. 29^th – Snowing again today very slowly, doesn’t get any deeper. Joey and Harrison went to Montpelier, took 3 doz. chickens and 3 ducks. They sold the 3 ducks for $1.00 and the chickens at 20 ¢ each. Harrison bought a feed cutter, pd. $19.50 for it, also 500 lbs. of coal for $1.75.

November 30^th. Snowed most of the day, there keeps about 6 inches deep. It looks like clearing off tonight. We tried the feed cutter this forenoon. It works very well. I worked in shop this afternoon. Alva is sick. Sent for Alvaro Dunn to administer to him.

December 1^st – Alva is better this morning. It is snowing by spells and shining between. Went to Meeting. Dec. 2^nd, was sick all day. Harrison and Joey went to Jewits and got two loads of hay. Looks like it is clearing off. Dec. 3^rd, clear and cold. Joey and Harrison went to Montpelier with their hay. It brought $12.65. I do not feel very well, got done with chores.

Dec. 4^th – Cold and foggy. I went to Montpelier with Hans, paid taxes, $22.45.

Dec. 5^th, fixed a sled for Joey and done some blacksmithing for A. Smith. Still foggy and cold.

Dec. 6^th, turned warmer in the night, snowing some today, almost rain. Worked in shop.

Dec. 7^th, cloudy and warm today. Joey and Harrison are still going to the canyon piling wood and bringing loads home at night. I put in window and hung door upstairs. Worked half a day for Neils S. blacksmithing.

Sunday the 8^th – Clear and warm. Stayed home and wrote a letter to Jennette. Harrison and Emma went to Meeting, brought a letter from Jennette. They are all well, but anxious to come home for the Holidays, but have not got money to come with. It is taking considerable money to pay their expenses and it is hard to get.

December 9^th – Worked in shop, made sled tong for Joey and helped Neils S. finish his sled. Colder today. Dec. 10^th, killed two hogs today. Joey took one of them to town. Went to Ovid to stay overnight to hunt calves. Weather mild again but cloudy. We have been feeding everything since the 2^nd of the month.

December 11^th – Cold and cloudy, thawing quite a bit. Side hills facing sun are bare. Joey got back tonight, found one of the calves, two more gone yet. The hog that he took to town brought $8.50, weighed 170 lbs. He got a coat for Nellie with it. I worked in shop fixing sled. Harrison got two loads from canyon today.

Dec. 12^th – There is a mist over the Valley this morning, quite damp and penetrating, brought from the lake by the south wind, making it quite disagreeable to be out. I feel better than I have for some time. My stomach having pained me a little all the time, making me feel weak and unable to do much work. Made two chain hooks for D. Smith. Fog is lifting a little this afternoon.

December 13^th – Still foggy. Wind in north turning colder and clearing off. Worked in shop most of day. Made clevis doe habs and fixed sled for Joey.

Dec. 14, clear and cold. Joey and Nellie went to Ovid to stay all night. I sawed some wood and done chores around home. Harrison went to Elders Meeting at Montpelier.

December 15^th – I was sick all night, feel some better this morning, not well enough to go to Meeting. Snowed and blowed all day, wind south until about 5 o’clock p.m. when it turned north and blew a hurricane for two or three hours. Harrison went to Meeting. Joey got back about dark, facing the blizzard. I sent a letter to Jennette containing a P.O. Order for $15.00.

December 16^th – Cold and cloudy. Sat in the house most of the day not feeling well.

Dec. 17^th, snowed some last night and is snowing this morning. Snow is again about 6 inches deep. I feel some better today, done some tinkering mending milk pans, etc. Looks like it is now clearing off this afternoon.

Dec. 18^th, clear and cold. Snow is about 8 inches deep. Was at home all day. Harrison went to canyon and Joey to saw mill, got 600 ft. of lumber on old (?). the mill is still owing me 4 or 5 years.

Dec. 19 – Cold. Snowing a little. It is too cold for me to work out of doors. Joey and Harrison both went to sawmill with logs. Snowed all day turning warmer. I sawed wood and done chores. Dec. 20^th, weather is quite warm. Wind in south. Snowing slowly. Joey and Harrison both made two trips to canyon for logs. I worked in the shop. Wind turned to the north at night. Snowing and blowing very hard. We have been sending for mail every day expecting a letter letting us know when the folks will be home from Logan, but have got none yet.

Dec. 21^st – Clear and cold. Snow about 12 or 13 inches deep. The boys went to Elders Meeting at Georgetown today.

Dec. 22^nd, Sunday, clear and cold this morning. As we were about ready to start to Meeting, the folks came home from Logan. Lewis brought them from Bennington and traveled all night, and were very tired and sleepy. We didn’t go to Meeting.

Dec. 23^rd – Cloudy and cold. The boys went to Montpelier and Harrison went on to Paris Bottom to see about a calf that we heard was over there. Began snowing and blowing towards night. The boys got back after dark, found calf and brought it home.

December 24^th – Cold and cloudy. Started to snow and blow from the north about 10 a.m., continued all day very cold. C. Polmunteer and J. Allen came tonight to visit with the young folks during the Holidays.

December 25^th, Christmas – Cold and stormy. The folks all went down to Georgetown to spend Christmas. The Sunday School giving an entertainment in the Ward Meeting House. I concluded not to go, it is so very cold. Has stormed slowly all day, wind in the north. I spent the time at home looking over my Temple records. Am getting very anxious to have all the Temple work as soon as possible. I am getting old, and have poor health most of the time, would like to see all my dear relatives officiated for before I am called away from this sphere of action.

Dec. 26^th – Still cloudy, but not so cold. Stormed some.

Dec. 27^th, cloudy and storming some. Mr. Neilson and wife came from Ovid to see Jennette. Eva Rosenbaum came with them. They went home at night. Mrs. Rosenbaum stayed and went with our folks to the Squirel dance. I stayed at home and took care of the children. It was a very bad night, the worst I have seen since I have lived in the Valley some over eight yr. I was afraid that the folks would get lost coming home, but the wind lulled before they came.

Dec. 28^th, storm and blustering turning colder. At home all day.

Dec. 29^th, clear and very cold. C. Polinan and Ellen went home today. Most of us went to Meeting. Jennette was called down to Chris’s last night, Alice being very sick.

Dec. 30^th, quite windy, snow drifting. I was sick all day, could not do my chores. All at home except Jennette. Dec. 31^st, some warmer today. Harrison and Eva Rosenbaum home this morning. I feel better, done my chores and oiled the clock. No word from Chris yet. Chris has just come up. Says they got a baby girl, was born Sunday 29^th. All doing well.

1896

January 1^st 1896 Snowing some this morning. All went to Georgetown to an entertainment gotten up by Young Ladies MIA, also stayed to the Children’s Dance. The storm increased in violence all day and continued to snow and to blow most of the night.

Once more, the Roundup of Time has brought us face to face with a New Year, fresh from its days of pleasure and pain, of trouble and of triumph. For mortal beings, it is a regular recurring point of vintage, that affords relief as a breath-spell in which to contemplate the past and awaken new hopes and resolves for the future. For those who have striven to do well there will be few regrets for the year now closed, but rather a sense of relief, and thankfulness that all is as well as it is. And for the future, a renewed determination and effort to improve each day that hastens man toward the Gates that stand ajar at the entrance of another sphere.

That great changes have been wrought in 1895, none will deny, or that its closing days auger still greater changes in the near future. There have been the usual successes and failures, calamities and prosperities that have furnished the varied experiences of earth the past few years. And on the important problems which trouble the Nations, there has been more than the customary amount of agitation. The financial puzzle is as perplexing as ever. The world’s social and industrial condition presents no better encouragement, as time passes.

The religious world appears no nearer unification, or a common platform and political problems seem to become more intricate. Altogether, the world confesses a feeling of vague uncertainty as to the future, yet expresses a conviction of approaching solution of vexed questions, which is dreaded, because of the fear that it will be calamitous to existing conditions. While these developments have been going on increase, Utah too, has been the field of marked changes, in her case they are full of promise for a glorious career. Her people have pursued a steady, straightforward course and have passed another stage in the National advancement.

With the New Year, Utah puts on the habitments of Statehood, full of life and vigor to meet the responsibilities of the future, ripe with an experience which teaches that having the hand on the plow there will be no turning back. There has been no faltering in the past, there will be no failure in the future, whatever of trial it may bring, it will lead in triumph.

As the Commonwealth of Utah has had many difficulties to cope with, her people in an individual capacity have been required to experience hardships and sorrows. And as the State now enters a more glorious field, so do the promises of a great and better daydawn upon her citizens.

January 2^nd – Fast Day. Stormed so hard we concluded not to go down to Meeting. Jennette came home from Chris’s, left all as well as could be expected. The baby and Alice to be doing well.

January 3^rd, still cloudy and cold. Alma Hays and Albert Rolph and wives came over and visited.

Jan. 4^th, went down and settled tithing. Deeded a piece of land to Lewis P. Monk, of Bennington. Got a bull of W. Clark to winter, having traded ours off.

January 5^th – Clear and cold. Took wife and Nettie to Bennington. They have to start back to Logan tonight. Brig will take them to Montpelier there they will take the train for Logan. Emily went down to wait on Alice for a week or two, leaving me here alone. It will be quite a change, no doubt. I shall feel lonely.

January 6^th – Clear and pleasant, cold nights. Was at home all day. Utah inaugurated her state officers today. Jan. 7^th, sun breaking through at times. Was sick all night and today. Done my chores but do not feel hardly able. Had dinner at Mary’s. Harrison and Joey have been hauling logs over to the saw mill the last two days. Jan. 9^th, clear and warm, feels almost like spring. Joey and Harrison went to canyon today.

January 10^th – Clear and pleasant. Thawing some middle of the day. At home doing chores. Joey chopped some grain and Harrison visited the Elders, as a Teacher.

January 11^th – Still quite warm, some clouds. Boys went to Elders Meeting at Montpelier. I worked a little in the shop.

Jan. 12^th, Sunday, went to Meeting. Clear but some cooler.

Monday clear and cold. We worked in the shop fixing a horsepower out of an old mower.

Jan. 14^th – Snowed some today. Very cold. One of our ewes had a lamb last night. Worked on the horsepower again today. Wrote a letter to Sister Wideborg, of Brigham City.

Jan. 15, warmer. Wind south. Snowing slowly. Finished the horsepower. Harrison went to mill with logs.

Jan. 16^th – Still snowing slowly, almost rain. Staked down the horsepower and tried to cut straw, broke the power so that we had to throw it away, took the Machine Power and cut straw with it. It works good. Had a letter from Jennette. Wrote one back to her and sent her some names of dead to be endowed for, she having requested them.

Jan. 17^th – Stormy and thawing very fast, some rain. Joey and Harrison went to the saw mill with logs, got two loads of lumber. I was at home all day.

Jan. 18^th, boys went to Montpelier with lumber, gone 5 days. I done a little in the shop for Sammy Smith, Emily came home today. Left all tolerable well at Chris’s. Boys got back at dark.

Jan. 19^th, Sunday, cloudy and mild. Went to Meeting with Hans. Harrison went to Bloomington.

Jan. 20^th – Weather still mild. Looks like storm. Joey and Harrison went to the saw mill. I worked in the shop. Wind south. Began snowing about 10 a.m., continued getting worse all day. Mostly rain, thawing quite a bit.

Jan. 21^st, snowing and blowing from the south. Joey and Harrison went to Montpelier with two loads of lumber, got back at dark. Sold one load to Jews for clothing, paid other to Co-op on account (or %).

Jan 22^nd, colder wind north, snowing some. Cut some hay. Harrison is getting ready to go over to Nounin to haul saw logs. They have sold timber this winter amounting to $45.74, pd. to Burgoyne’s $20.00 and to Jew for readymade clothing $25.74. They have got another load or two at the mill.

Jan. 23 – Joey and Harry went to the saw mill for lumber. I worked in the shop making a log clevis. The weather is quite cold again.

24^th, clear and cold. Harrison went to Nounon to look for a place to get logs. I finished log clevis and helped cut feed.

Jan. 25^th, cloudy and cold. Sawed some wood. Joey went to saw mill for lumber. Harrison got back from Nounon tonight. It is snowing slowly.

January 26^th Sunday – Went to Meeting, cloudy, the sun shining by spells. The Bishop read a discourse, delivered on January 20^th, 1895, by Joseph F. Smith, on the resurrection of those who suffer the second death, not annihilated, but must suffer throughout the endless ages of eternity. I had read it before, but still it had passed from my mind.

Jan. 27^th – Clear and warm in the daytime. I went to Meeting with Hans, had missionaries from Montpelier. They spoke well in the duties of the Saints at the present time. Joey and Harrison went to Montpelier with lumber, paid one load to Co-op W & M Co., $14.30, one load for Jews $8.00.

Jan. 28^th, Harrison started to Nounon to haul logs. We helped him get started and then cut feed. Clear and mild in morning, clouded up and snowed toward night.

Jan. 29^th, cloudy and snowing a little, weather mild. The snow is only about 16 inches deep. Doesn’t appear like we are going to have much snow this winter.

Jan. 30^th, turning cold, wind from the north blowing hard. I laid floors in cow stable, got cold, didn’t feel well.

Jan. 31^st, clear but cold. Was sick all night with pains in stomach, feel bad today. Joey went to saw mill, got lumber and slabs. Had a letter from Sister Wideborg, of Brigham City.

February 1^st – Cloudy, some fog, cold. Didn’t feel well yet. Stomach pain a little all the time.

Sunday the 2^nd, didn’t go to meeting. Snowing by spells. The boys and Emily went to Meeting. Snowing by spells between sunshine and warmer.

Feb. 3^rd, cloudy, snowing a little, cold. I am getting better slowly. Joey and boys cut some hay this aft. Harrison went to Nounon last night.

Feb. 4^th, cloudy and cold, wind north. I feel lots better today, the boys are sawing wood. Turning colder all day, very cold at night.

Feb. 5^th, warmer this morning, snowing quite fast and colder again at night, north wind a blizzard.

Feb. 6^th – Snow drifted bad last night, clearing off cold this morning.

Feb. 7^th, clear and cold north breeze. I have done nothing but chores. Joey took a fast offering to Georgetown of 100 lbs of flour and got the mail.

Feb. 8^th, warmer today. Thawing some. Joey went to Montpelier. Harrison sent his cant hook home this morning to be mended. I mended it and made one for David Smith.

Feb. 9^th – South wind getting harder, cloudy and cold. There has been very poor sale for butter the last two months, and now there is none at all. Times are very dull, no sale for anything that we produce except grain and that is very low. Didn’t get to Meeting.

Feb. 10^th, clear and warm, thawing fast. Cut some hay and moved the cutter to the straw stack.

Feb. 11^th, snowing today and very cold.

Feb. 12^th – Cloudy and quite moderate. We cut straw most of the day. There is not much snow yet, only about 12 or 15 inches.

Feb. 13, thawing some. South wind.

Feb. 14^th, sent letter to folks at Logan. All well and quite warm.

Feb. 15^th, at home all day, some cooler.

Feb. 16^th Sunday, went to Meeting. Bro. Lee spoke on laboring for the dead in Temples. Had a good meeting, all felt well.

Feb. 17^th, wind north and very cold. 18^th, warmer. Killed two hogs.

Feb. 19^th, colder again, clear with some fog at night. Joey went to mill at Montpelier, got back at night. I cut up the hogs and salted meat. Jennette got home from Logan, left all well.

Feb. 20^th, still clear and cold. Visited with Mary all day.

Feb. 21^st, clear and cold. Sawed wood most of the day. Mr. Brown and wife, from Liberty, came and stayed overnight with us.

Feb. 22^nd – Clear and growing warmer. Joey went to Bennington with his mother and Emma. I made out an order for garden seeds to plant this spring.

The 23^rd, Sunday, went to Meeting. Home missionaries from Montpelier gave good instruction concerning everyday duties.

Feb. 24^th, clouding up. Still cold. We cleaned out ice house.

25^th, got a load of ice. Traded for a black ewe and lamb. Weather is warm.

Feb. 26^th, looks like rain. Got another load of ice. Hans got a load also. Wind turned in north and snowed some. Neils S. and Betta, and Jane and Eunice and Arthur paid us a visit. Was glad to see them.

Feb. 27^th, cloudy, moderate, snowed in the afternoon. Sharpened a few harrow teeth for Chris.

Feb. 28^th, rain and sleet all night, wind blew very hard. Cloudy and cold this morning, wind north. Snowing and some drifting. Finished sharpening harrow teeth.

Feb. 29^th, clear. Froze quite hard last night. Our little Tice died last night or yesterday, apparently from strychnine. I don’t feel well, having taken a severe cold, the only one I have had this winter.

Harrison came home from Nounon with a load of lumber.

March 1^st – Cold and snowing quite fast. Jennette was called to Georgetown last night to wait on Lizzie Rolph. Snowed some today, the sun shining for a few minutes, once or twice.

Mar. 2^nd, froze hard last night. Joey and Harrison went to Montpelier with lumber. Harrison and Emma went to Meeting yesterday. I didn’t feel well enough to go. Had dinner with Hans and Mary. The boys paid their lumber to the Co-op on %. It came to $22.50.

March 3^rd – Very cold wind. Harrison went back to Nounon. He got a new pair of bobsleds yesterday, costing $55.00 to be paid in lumber. He desires to get out and ought to pay for them.

March 4^th, snowing and turning warmer. Made rave for sled. Brig and wife came over on a visit. Snowed all day, wind blowing from the north at night. Looks like clearing off.

March 5^th, Fast Sunday – Didn’t go to Meeting. Clear and cold, visited all day with Mary and Hans.

6^th, snowing and blowing very hard. Went to Joey’s for dinner.

March 7^th, milder, some sunshine. Joey took his mother to Georgetown. Seen first robin this morning.

March 8^th, snowing. Went to visit Neils and Retta and went to Meeting. There was home missionaries, had a good Meeting. Met with Bishop and Council a short time after Meeting to talk over the School Bonds question.

March 9^th – Clearing off quite cold. Went and visited my sister Jane Smith.

March 10^th, clear. More moderate. Visited with Sister Eunice Smith. The snow is deeper now than it has been before this winter. It is near two feet deep where it is not drifted.

March 11^th – Partially clear, thawing fast. North breeze. Jennette was prepared to start back to Logan this morning, but was to Nounon to wait on Roda Crowsley. Joey went to Nounon for lumber. Warmest day since last fall.

March 12^th, clear and warm. Jennette got back from Nounon last night, was anxious to start to Logan today, but had to wait for Joey to get back at night.

March 13^th – Snowing slowly this morning. Joey took his mother to Ovid. She expects to take the train for Logan tonight. Wind turned and blew hard, snowing fast.

March 14^th, very cold with south, clearing off. Joey stayed all night at Ovid, got back today. Jennette stayed there also, on account of storm. Will go tonight if nothing happens to prevent it.

March 15^th, Sunday, clear and cold. Went to Meeting and drove Hans’s team. Bro. A. Galaway spoke on Foreordination.

March 16^th, cloudy and cold. Joey and Harrison went to Montpelier with lumber, took some over 2900 ft to Co-op. It came to $26.30. It turned warmer during day and snowed very hard.

March 17^th – Clear and cold. Worked in shop. Sammy Smith and A. Van Orman came to visit Harrison. C. Polmanteer has been two or three days.

March 18^th, clear and warm, thawing fast. One of our last spring’s lambs had a lamb today. Joey went to Nounon.

March 19^th, clear and warm, thawed quite fast today. There was two shocks of earthquakes at 9:25 p.m.

March 20^th – Cloudy and warm, looks stormy. I was sick most of the night, feel quite yet. Thawed very fast today.

Mar. 21^st, went to town with Hans and Mary. Had a hard time to get back the snow was so soft.

Mar. 23^rd, very warm. Got a letter from Jennette saying she had got to Logan, found all well. It was wrote the 18^th. I dreamed this morning of picking out one of my teeth, thought it hurt so bad, but could not have it replaced. Worked some in the shop. Joey went to Montpelier with lumber, got back after dark. Very warm. Mar. 24^th, partially clear. Very warm. Took some covering off potato pit. They was sprouting very bad. I moved some of straw in barn. Joey went to Nounon. Rained all night.

Mar. 25^th, rained all last night, snow going very fast. Finished getting straw in barn, made a gate for upper field. Sharpened harrow teeth for Sammy. Joey got home. Cloudy and warm.

March 26^th – Rain. Joey went back to Nounon. I mailed a letter to Jennette and one to M.W. & Co., ordering goods.

Mar. 27^th snowed all day. Harrison came home from Nounon. 28^th, snow squalls all day, clear and cold tonight. Went to Georgetown and voted Bonds. “Yes.”

Mar. 29^th Sunday – Cloudy and cold. Was sick last night. Could not do chores this morning. Snowed most of the day. Thirtieth, still snow and cold. Very cold north wind.

Mar. 31^st, very cold, looks like clearing off. I feel much better this morning. Has been clear and very cold most of the day, clear at night & freezing hard.

April 1^st, 1896 – The first clear and cold, froze very hard last night, thawed a little during the day. Worked some in the shop. Was sick again during the day and night, am subject to bilious attacks.

Apr. 2^nd, clear and cold, froze hard again last night. I feel better this morning. The weather growing warmer. Thawed considerable today. Went up and cut a few quaking asps for wood, worked some in shop.

Apr. 3^rd, partially clear, warmer. Thawed very fast. Went down to river. It is just beginning to break up. Joey got back from mill with a load of lumber. Harrison fell and hurt himself rolling logs out of pit. Joey went back to mill.

Apr. 5^th, partially clear, warm. The roads are so bad we don’t try to go to Meeting. Had dinner at Mary’s.

April 6^th – Very warm. Sun shone most of the day, ground getting dry in spots where snow was not drifted. Sheep and cattle are out on the hills every day, don’t need much feed. We got out balance of potatoes from pit. They are over half spoilt for sale. Joey and Harrison came home from mill. Sowed some cabbage seed, etc., in cold frame on the 4^th.

April 7^th – Spent the day in dehorning cattle. Dehorned 33 head and sharpened a plow for Dave Smith.

April 8^th, cloudy. Quite cool. Went down and helped Chris dehorn his cattle, 7 head. Harrison went to Montpelier.

April 9^th, cold and stormy. Worked in the sheep yard.

Apr. 10^th, all worked in the sheep yard. Cold. Began snowing hard at about 4 p.m. Ground was most all bare, grass starting very fast. Two of our lambs got lost today.

Apr. 11^th, snow about 4 inches deep. Worked in shop. Most of snow went off.

Sunday, April 12^th – Didn’t freeze much last night. Got a letter from Jennette today, all was well. Scattered some strychnine for squirrels this morning. Partially clear.

April 13^th – Rained some last night, snowed in the mountains, has rained and still raining, snow most gone. Apr. 14^th, snow and rain all day, our house and stables all leaking. Have not had such a soaking rain for years. Had dinner with Hans and Mary.

Apr. 15^th, froze some last night, looks like clearing off. The last one of our ewes had twins last night. Cloudy and cold. We laid water ditches on side hill.

Apr. 16^th, snowing slowly this morning, growing warmer, continuing all day melting fast, as fast as it fell. Turned cold at night. I worked in the shop sharpening harrow teeth. We are all well for which we feel very thankful.

April 17^th – Very cold wind from north, snowing some. Eighteenth, snow most of the day and night. Boys went to Montpelier, sent a box to Logan containing 10 lbs. meat and 8 of butter. Worked in shop.

Apr. 19, still snowing. Froze some last night. Went to Meeting. The Bishop read a circular sent by the First Presidency of the Church, to all its officers and members, setting forth the Order of the Priesthood. It was put before the Meeting, and unanimously sustained by vote.

April 20^th – Began snowing hard about daylight this morning, fell 5 in. Growing warmer. Cleared off at 12 p.m. Snow all gone at night. Harrison began plowing for lucern this afternoon.

Apr. 21^st, clear and pleasant. Finished the harrow, and scattered strychnine for squirrels.

April 22^nd, cloudy. Looks like storm. Sawed some posts for fence in front of house on street. Stormed some. Cool. Mary got a letter from Logan. They was all well but needed money very bad, am sorry we can’t send them some.

April 23^rd – Partially clear. Hard south wind. Scattered manure on garden, harrowed lucern and some on sod. Harrison broke his plow. Froze quite hard last night.

Apr. 24^th, partially clear. South wind drying the ground very fast. Hans began drilling today, then harrowed, getting land ready to seed lucern. Quite stormy, but warm.

Apr. 25, clear and warm, south wind. Roads dry, snow most gone out of the land. Grass and lucern starting slowly. Boys started to plow on job field.

April 26^th – Got word to bring Sister Black home with us, Joey’s wife being sick. She was delivered of a girl baby at 11:30 p.m.

April 27^th – Cloudy. Looks like rain. All well this morning. Sent a card to Logan. Boys went to harrow in job field, south wind cold.

April 28^th, partially clear, north wind cold. Boys harrowed for Pat’s. The squirrels are very thick, looks somewhat doubtful about raising crops this season, as squirrels are so numerous about grain.

April 29^th, hard south wind. Planted artichokes and early potatoes, got ground ready to plant onions.

Apr. 30, snowed 3 inches last night, cold this morning. North wind. Feed all gone and stock hardly live out. Have sowed 8 ½ acres of lucern, 1 ¾ of barley, and 27 ½ of oats. I worked in shop. Harrison got a load of hay from Chris.

1896, May 1^st – Froze quite hard last night, more pleasant this morning, south wind raised about 9 a.m., blew hard all day. We killed two hogs and planted onions, radishes, turnips, and a few beets and lettuce. Harrison done some plowing.

May 2^nd, snowed 4 inches deep this morning, continued squally all day. Snow mostly off before night. I fixed keg and salted meat.

May 3^rd, cloudy, cool. Went to Meeting. The question has been agitated for some time to kill off the squirrels, have not fully decided what to do yet.

May 4^th, rained some last night and this morning, sunshine this afternoon. Worked on fence most of day. Joey went to Montpelier to sell hog. It brought $6.10 at 4 ¢ per lb.

May 5^th – Cloudy and cold. Worked some on strawberries, plowing up old bed. Began raining about 4 p.m. Joey went to Georgetown to trade for a hog and get some lime for spraying purposes.

May 6^th, worked on fence, the ground being too wet to do any seeding, had rain last night.

May 7^th, I was quite sick last night. Began snowing this morning and poured down until about 2 p.m. Harrison dug a few post holes.

May 8^th, clear this morning. We all went to job field. I went on the river. Clouded up and began raining about 12 noon, stormed rest of the day.

May 9^th, snowed most of the day. Ground now bare at night. I worked in shop. Made a gate for front of the house. Harrison bought some hay at Georgetown.

Sunday, May 10^th – Snow storm. Didn’t go to Meeting. We are having the longest stormy spell we have ever had in Bear Lake. The ground is thoroughly soaked and so cold that nothing can grow. No grain up yet, and not much sowed.

May 11^th, snowed most of the day, sun shone some in the afternoon.

May 12^th, snowed all day but went off as fast as it fell. Everybody almost discouraged about trying to get their crops in. Snow 3 inches deep at night.

May 13^th, snowing some again today. Ground bare. Boys went to plow on Schofield’s place. Snowed about 2 inches at night and froze hard.

May 14^th – Clear this morning and cold, turned warmer about 10 a.m. and began snowing all day. Met with Schoolboard at Georgetown to canvas bids on Bonds, accepted bid Mister Redman of Montpelier. Bonds at per 7% interest per annum. Killed two sheep to send up to W. Hoff.

May 16^th – Froze very hard last night. Sun shone bright and clear but soon clouded up, wind raised and blew very hard from south. Boys went to Montpelier with sheep, got $4.50 for them. I sawed wood.

Sunday 17^th, ground again covered with snow, stormed most of the day, did not go to Meeting.

May 18^th, no storm today, partially clear, south wind. Joey and I worked on fence. Harrison finished sowing oats.

May 19, ground covered with snow again this morning and still snowing very fast, wind north. There have been 17 stormy days this month. I worked in shop. Seed sowed the 1^st are just beginning to come up.

May 20^th – NO STORM. First good day this month. Planted parsnips and carrots, sold old iron, 1,250 lbs for $2.50.

May 21^st – Clear and warm. Didn’t freeze any last night. South wind raised at 9 a.m., blew hard, rained at night. Planted peas, barley and rye.

May 22^nd, raining. Worked in the shop, warmer and cloudy. Set out some shade trees. Boys worked on fence.

May 23^rd, went down to the river. Caught 11 fish. Cloudy and warm.

May 24^th, clear and warm this morning, clouding up and storming at 1 p.m. Went to Meeting. Rained all the way home.

May 25^th – Cloudy. Killed a sheep for W. Hoff. Harrison went down to fix up fence on job field. Joey and I worked at setting out shade trees. No storm. We held a Reservoir Meeting at night, did not accomplish anything, authorized the President to wait on Mister Wix (or Hix) and notify him that his work had been rejected.

May 26^th, partially clear and warm. Went and castrated 4 colts. Joey went to mill. I set out some shrubbery and trees. Harrison and Rance Van Orman worked on water ditch.

May 27^th, clear and warm. Went to scatter grain for squirrels.

May 28^th – Clear. Scattered grain for squirrels again. Thunder shower p.m. with hard wind. Joey hunted for a mare that has been missing some days.

May 29^th, partly clear. Scattered grain today. I sprayed gooseberries. Rain at night.

May 30^th, rain all day. We cut potatoes and Harrison sheared sheep.

May 31^st, Sunday, partly clear. Went to Meeting, roads very muddy.

June 1^st – Clear and very warm. Went to Montpelier, took a sheep. This makes 4 head we have sold this spring. The four head brought $10.00. Didn’t get back in time to vote. Wm. Stoddard was elected Trustee. June 2^nd, worked on fence. Very warm. Joey went to Thomas’s Fork and got mare that had run away.

June 3^rd, north wind growing colder. Planted potatoes.

Fourth, clear. Castrated 6 lambs and 5 calves and marked 14 lambs.

June 5^th, loaded up and got ready to start for the Logan Temple.

June 6^th – Cloudy. Wind north. Cool. Started to Logan in company with Joey and Brig and wife. Nooned at spring below Swan Lake, hitched up and drove to Soda, filled bottles with soda water and drove about 2 miles below Ten Mile Ford. Stayed there all night, being very good feed.

Sunday 7^th – Hitched up at 5:30 and drove down to Whisky Creek 9 miles. Got breakfast and drove on to Strawberry Creek for dinner. Got there at 12 noon. Roads are very rough, no grass here for horses. Hitched up and drove on down to D. Evans place on Bear River. One of Brig’s horses gave out, got one of D. Evans to go on with. Had to stay all night, as his horses were out on range.

June 8^th, started on at 7 a.m., took dinner with Mariah Smith at Smithfield. Got there at 11:45 a.m. got to Logan at 3 p.m. Found all well and just sitting down to dinner. Happy and contented.

June 9^th – Clear and warm. Vegetation is a great deal ahead of Bear Lake Valley We go to the Temple this morning. Went in and see them baptize, got back home at 11 a.m. Walter Tippets was baptized for 13 dead men and Eliza, Brig’s wife, was baptized for 12 women. A great many was baptized for their health. It is a great pleasure to work in the Temple.

June 11^th, canyon wind this morning, some clouds. The folks went to a concert at the A.C. last night. We are now in the Temple. Services just began. Prayer. The Spirit of God rested mightily upon the spokesman. Great blessing asked for in behalf of the Kingdom of God.

I was endowed for Joseph Mead, ordained for him by Thomas Morgan. Joey was endowed for Ezra Mead, ordained by Bro., Edilfsen. Brig for Hezekiah Mead, ordained by Thomas Moore. Quite warm today, cooler at night.

June 11^th – Quite cool this morning. Went to the Temple, received endowments for James Parish Mead, ordained by Thomas Moore, Brig for Miner Mead, ordained by Samuel Raskelly, Joey for Nathan Wilcox, ordained by Bro. Leishman. Joey was sealed to Fanny Rosenbaum. Cool all day. We got home at 11:30.

June 12^th – Weather clear and warm. In Temple, I went through for Mr. Wilder first, ordained by Bro. Edilfsen, Joey for Mr. Wilder 2^nd, ordained by Thomas Moore. Brig for Mr. Crosby, ordained by Bro. Leishman. Got through at 12:40 p.m. South wind blowing hard, clouding up.

Sister Rosenbaum went through for Lois Lewis, Mariah Ann for Polly Lewis, and Sister Izatt for Salomia Lewis.

I went down to the store and bought a small wrench and some rope, got back and packed up some things to send home on the cars.

June 13^th, shipped 480 lbs. home on cars at 70 ¢ per 100 lbs. Loaded up and got started home at 10:45 a.m. Stopped about one mile south of Richmond for dinner. South wind. Have spent, since leaving home, hay at Georgetown, 25 ¢, salmon, etc. 30 ¢, gave to Joey, $1.00, donated to Temple $1.00. Clothes to work in, $2.50, Deseret News, $1.00. Stayed at D. Evans overnight.

Sunday 14^th June – Very warm last night. Got started at 7:25 a.m. Took dinner on Bear River just over the divide, very hot this afternoon. Looks like we might have a thunder storm. Rained a little but not enough to wet us. Rained not enough to prevent us from traveling. Stayed overnight at Bridge on Ten Mile.

June 15^th, cooler. Hitched up and drove on to lower Soda, got there at 9 a.m., stopped and fed horses. Filled a box of bottles with soda water, took dinner on springs below Swan Lake. Had a light thunder shower p.m. Got home at 9 p.m., found folks all well.

Everything getting dry. Squirrels beginning to damage grain considerable. Went and turned water. Harrison was watering lucern and meadow in job field.

June 16^th, cloudy and warm, continued watering. Joey got land ready to plant corn, beans, etc., garden needs hoeing very bad. June 17^th, clear and warm. Continued hoeing and watering the garden.

Eighteenth, still very warm. Planted squashes, some corn and beans and continued watering hay.

June 19^th – Cooler last night, very hot today. Planted more corn and beans. Harrison is watering on Schofield’s place. Joey is now tending it here at home. I have got most of onions hoed, all had dinner at Mary’s.

June 20^th, finished planting corn, put water onto strawberries, am still watering hay.

Sunday 21^st – Ward Conference, went to one Meeting, didn’t get horses in time to attend forenoon Meeting. James W. Wort was there and occupied most of time, gave good instructions, and exhorted all to live exemplary lives.

June 22^nd, clear cool nights and hot days. Finished watering strawberries, got 2 oz. of strychnine, cost $1.35 per oz. Squirrels are doing great damage to crop.

June 23^rd, Joey got through watering lucern today. Harrison is still watering Schofields. Nights cool.

June 24^th – Cool and clear. Started to water grain today. The water is beginning to fail some, having started to use it on time this morning. The hay bids fair to be extra heavy, grain is backward.

June 25^th, it is warm today, south wind. Has been no frost this spring to do any damage to speak of.

26^th, clear and warm.

27^th, finished watering grain. Harrison hauled a load of lumber from Nounon. Joey went to Ovid and got Sister Rosenbaum. Everything looks well where the squirrels have not destroyed it. I went to river, caught some fish and scattered strychnine for squirrels.

June 28^th, Sunday, clear and warm. Went to Meeting.

June 29^th, cloudy, south wind. Harrison took lumber to Montpelier. We fought squirrels and Joey plowed. June 30^th, clear and warm. The squirrels are more numerous this season than they have been before in Bear Lake.

July 1^st – Harrison took another load of lumber to town. We went to job field and scattered strychnine. Second, fought squirrels all day. Harrison got a load of lumber for Bishop Lewis. Finished plowing in lower field. July 3^rd, clear and warm. Sick. Had cramps in stomach all night.

July 4^th, feel much better today. The weather is very hot. Have been hoeing in the garden some today.

July 5^th, Sunday – Went over to visit with Brig and family. July 6^th, cloudy, light shower, warm. Tended water and fought squirrels. The squirrels are eating grain all up, looks as if we would not raise our bread.

July 7^th – Clear but still watering. Sent order to Browning Bros. for two guns. Watered the strawberries, cloudy afternoon, light shower.

July 8^th, clear and warm, still watering. Harrison is sick. Joey finished plowing.

Ninth, weather hot. Started to Soda Springs, camped on river, went on to Soda Springs.

10^th, filled bottles and back home at night. Weather very hot. My brother-in-law, Hyrum Dudley, came from Snake River on a visit.

July 11^th – Went down to job field and got ready to take water.

Sunday, July 12, went to Meeting. Harrison took water, Joey helping to tend it. We picked first strawberries today, sold 14 pounds for cheese.

July 13^th, Brother Van Orman is very sick.

July 14^th – Cloudy and warm. Cultivated potatoes and carrots, was sick at night.

July 15^th, sent first strawberries to town, got $5.00 for them being $1.00 a box. Harrison cut lucern. Shower. July 16th, still is cloudy. Cultivated corn and beans, Harrison mowing.

July 17^th, sent 10 boxes of berries to Montpelier. Shot squirrels and hoed some in garden. Very hot.

July 18^th, worked in shop setting wagon tire, raked first hay.

Sunday 19^th, picked 46 quarts of strawberries, sold them all for cheese except 3 lbs. Joey and Harrison went to Meeting. I stayed home being sick.

July 20^th, still hot. Shipped 10 cases of strawberries to Salt Lake City. Hoed some in the garden. Joey sold $4.00 worth of berries at Montpelier.

July 21^st, cloudy, light shower. Harrison hauled 2 loads of hay. We picked strawberries.

July 22^nd – Still cloudy, picked strawberries and sent them to town. Harrison hauled hay.

July 23^rd, cloudy. South wind. Watered potatoes, picked and sold some berries.

August 9^th – Have been out to Blackfoot with brother-in-law, W. Walker and sister Caroline. Started out the 28^th of July and got back the 3^rd of August. Was sick all the time while gone but not bedfast. Got some nice trout and quite a number of wild chickens, found all well at home. There was a heavy hail storm the 7^th, damaged our grain about one fourth, injured some fruits and strawberries. Strawberries are all gone, our hay is all cut and hauled up here at home. Have just started to cut hay on job field. There has been a good thunder storm today doing considerable damage to hay.

August 10^th – Clear and warm. Harrison has been making a swingpole to stack hay at job field, got it done. Harrison and Adam Van Orman went to Montpelier and got a new binder. They bought it partnership. Harrison worked all day setting up binder. Joey mowed some.

August 12^th, still very warm, some clouds. I have not been well enough to do any work since returning from Blackfoot. Boys started binder today. Cut 1 ¾ acres of barley and about the same of wheat. Our crop is very light on home place this season, the squirrels took about 9 acres of wheat and the hail ¼ of what was left.

August 13^th – Light shower today. Harrison started to cut rye for D. Smith.

Aug. 14^th, partly clear, hot and sultry. I am not able to work yet, being so weak.

Aug. 15^th, warm. Partly clear.

Aug. 23^rd – Has been raining every day for 8 days. Have not been able to do anything for a week. We have had considerable hay damage by wet. Our wheat was cut the day it rained. Cut yesterday all except what the squirrels have damaged.

Aug. 24^th, clear but very smoky. 25^th, still smoky. Folks went to pick berries today, all kinds of wild fruits are very plentiful this season.

Aug. 26^th, still smoky. Went down to meadow and went over and settled up with W. Hess, had 132 lbs of cheese coming. Brought home 12 ½ pounds.

August 27^th, 1896, more clouds but smoke lifting some.

Aug. 28^th, Emma’s second girl was born this morning. Boys worked some on hay. Weather warm.

Aug. 29^th, Brother Van Orman sent this morning for his son, Adam, and also for Harrison. They were hauling hay and cutting grain, but got to him a short time before he breathed his last, which happened at 3 o’clock p.m. I was down to the river and didn’t hear of it until nearly night.

Sunday Aug. 30^th – All went down to Brother VanOrman’s.

Brother VanOrman was buried today, Aug. 31^st. Weather still cloudy with showers. Bro. Van Orman’s family is left in very destitute circumstances.

September 1^st, 1896 – Partially clear and warm, worked in strawberries. Boys reaping and hauling hay. Turning cool

Sept. 2^nd, clear and cool today, worked in strawberries.

Sept. 3^rd, cool showers. Went down to the meadow and down to the river. Will be about 19 tons of hay on job field.

Sept. 4^th – Weather warm. Home all day. Fifth, clear and warm. Boys hauled hay.

Sunday 6^th, didn’t go to Meeting. Rance VanOrman and mother came out to see the baby.

Seventh, tended water on lucern.

Sept. 8^th, rain. Quite cool. Boys went to the mill. Killing frost at night.

Sept. 9^th, cold all day, heavy frost last night killed the potato vines, squash and beans, corn, etc., damaged grain quite a bit.

Sept. 10^th, began cutting last crop of lucern. Clear and cold, cloudy on the 11^th, didn’t freeze last night.

Sept. 12, clear most of the day with south wind. Began mowing some of our oats for hay.

Sept. 13^th Sunday – Partially clear. Went to Meeting. Harrison continued reaping, got a colt hurt very bad on picket fence.

Sept. 14, went down to job field, mowed some and shocked up grain. Clear and warm.

Sept. 15^th, Harrison finished cutting our oats.

16^th, clouding up, very warm. Boys hauled hay.

Aug. 17^th, cloudy and south wind.

18^th, wind, looks like storm. Very cold.

Sept. 19^th, south wind very hard. Finished the shocking of grain.

Sunday 20^th – Went to Meeting. Had quite a shower while there. Joey went to Ovid.

Mon. 21^st, south wind. Clear. Began fixing up the threshing machine, worked on it all day.

Sept. 22, got machine ready to start rain at night. Heavy showers 3^rd, sun shone most of the day. Boys went to Bennington with machine. Clouding up.

Sept. 24^th, rain. Hay and grain is soaked so there can be no hauling for some days. I worked in the shop.

Sept. 25^th – Cloudy. Some rain. Worked in shop. Snowed some on the mountain.

Sept. 26^th, heavy frost last night, clearing off today, cold wind north. Went down to the river. Worked on Dave’s wagon. Sunday 27^th, turning warmer. Went to Meeting.

Monday 28^th, went to Paris to a Republican Convention, in company with W.A. Dunn, Sen.

Tue. 29^th, quite warm. Joey and boys hauled grain. I was sick at night.

Sept. 30, warm, finished hauling grain. I managed to do my chores but was quite sick all day.

October 1^st – Warm and pleasant. Boys hauled hay. I went to the river and caught some fish. It always makes me feel better when poorly, to take an out of some kind.

Oct. 2^nd, clear and warm. Boys hauled hay here at home I sent 15 fruit boxes to Sister Rosenbaum.

Oct. 3^rd, at home all day. Joey hauled hay in barn, got all up but one load.

Sunday Oct. 4^th – Went to Meeting. Clear and cold.

Fifth, clear, cool. Boys hauled hay on job field. Oct. 6^th, cool. Worked on t. machine repairing. Boys still hauling hay.

Sept. 7^th, finished hauling hay and started to haul oats on Schofield’s. Have found all the calves but one.

The 8^th, looks like storm. I had a chimney built on house. Boys helped Sammy thresh.

Oct. 9^th, wind north, turning cold. Was sick all day.

Oct. 10^th, clear and cold. Feel better today, finished cleaning the cellar and killed a sheep.

Sunday Oct. 11 – Went to Meeting. Quite warm.

Oct. 12^th, cloudy and cold. The boys finished hauling oats on the 10^th. Joey worked on the stackyard today. Oct. 13^th, clear and cold, finished the stackyard and shipped 3 sacks of turnips and 3 of carrots, one of parsnips and one of cabbage.

Oct. 14^th – Clear and warm.

Began digging potatoes, 15^th, dug potatoes again the 16^th. Oct. 17^th, clear and warm, took 68 sacks to fill with potatoes @ 20 ¢ per hundred lb.

Sunday 18^th, clear and warm. Went to Meeting.

Oct. 19, loaded the potatoes on cars, 68 sacks weighed 8,600 lbs. Clouding up, warm, finished digging potatoes.

October 20^th – Clear and some cooler. Went to Montpelier to get bill for threshing, made bargain to sell hay and oats. Oats @ 55 ¢ per hundred lbs. and hay at $6.50 per ton.

Oct. 21^st – Worked in the shop. Partly clear.

Oct. 22^nd, moved things to job field to get ready for the threshers. Cloudy day.

Oct. 23^rd, clear again. Warm. Threshed. Had oats on our own, 232 bushels, on Schofield’s 512 bushels. Our share 341 bus. Total: 573 Bus.

Oct. 24^th – Clear and warm. Moved things back home again. Joey moved down to job field, is going to make his home there for a time.

Oct. 25^th, Sunday. Went to Meeting. Looks like storm. Oct. 26^th, loaded some oats on cars. Harrison took a load to Montpelier. Began raining about 9 a.m., turned to snow and snowed most of the day. Had our sheep dipped.

Oct. 27^th – Cloudy, cold. Loaded more oats on cars.

Oct. 28^th, cloudy, clearing off cold. Went to a political meeting. The speakers advocated McKinley for President of the United States.

Oct. 29^th, had our grain threshed that we raised here at home. Had 45 bushels of wheat where we should have had 400 bushels. We had 38 of rye, should have had 175 bus. Barley, 18 bus, should have had 70 bus. Total, 121 bushels on 21 acres. Cause of failure, squirrels and hail. Clear and cold, freezing hard.

Oct. 30^th – Joey went to Ovid with a load of oats, got back at night. Brought some fruit home that had come from Brigham City. I went and got some for Hans.

Oct. 31^st, rain and snow most of the day. Worked some in the shop.

November 1^st, Sunday – Cold, ground covered with snow.

2^nd, snowed most of the day, fell 2 in. Third, Election Day. Cold wind from the N. Thawed a little, ground bare in spots. Went to Polls and voted the Republican Ticket.

Nov. 4, Harrison went to mill. I worked in the shop.

Nov. 5^th, snowed two inches.

Nov. 6^th, cloudy and cold. Harrison got 3,898 lbs. of potatoes on cars for Co-op V & M Co. Election returns came in slowly. It thought McKinley is elected.

Nov. 7^th, very cold. Ground covered with snow. Have to feel sheep and cows and teams. Freezing very hard.

Sunday Nov. 8^th – Snowed all day, fell 4 inches. Is warmer, rained last night, snowing some today, almost rain. Children started to school.

Nov. 10^th, still snowing. Froze some last night.

Nov. 11^th, looks like clearing off. All well. There is 6 inches of snow on the ground.

Nov. 12, clear and warm, snow melting some. Worked on shop.

Thirteenth, clear and warm. Snow melting some. Worked in the shop awhile this morning. Killed two hogs. Children have started to school twice, but had to return as there was no school for some cause.

Nov. 14^th, warm and clear. Worked in the shop. Went down to river. Boys finished laying up Joey’s stable.

Sunday Nov. 15^th – Partially clear and warm. Went to Meeting.

16^th, cloudy and warm. Boys made first trip to canyon.

Nov. 17^th, rain and snow. Snow almost gone. Dug last of the carrots.

Nov. 18^th, still warm and almost clear. Worked in the shop.

Nov. 19^th, snow fell 2 inch. Fixed a flour box for Emma. Twentieth, rain and snow, ground bare here at home.

Nov. 21^st, snowed most of the day, froze quite hard at night. Boys have made 5 trips to the canyon this week.

Sunday Nov. 22^nd – Stormed all day. Didn’t go to Meeting. Snowed two inches during the night.

Nov. 24^th, rained all night, ground bare, very muddy. Rained all day.

Nov. 25^th, snow this morning turning to rain most of the day, snowing and blowing at night with north wind. Worked on Hans’s house.

Nov. 27^th, clear and cold, freezing hard. I worked on Hans’s house.

Nov. 28^th, still very cold. Worked again on Hans’s house. Boys sawed wood.

Sunday Nov. 29^th – cold and clear. Went to Meeting.

Nov. 30^th, cloudy turning a little warmer. Worked on Hans’s house. One of our horses took very sick. Hauled him home on sled.

December 1^st – Snowing slowly all day. Worked on H. house. Boys began bailing hay.

Dec. 2^nd, snow most of the day. Worked house.

Dec. 3^rd, cloudy and thawing quite fast. Lot, one of our horses, died last night, pneumonia. I worked half a day on Hans’s house and hung the new grind stone.

Dec. 4^th, warm, some snow. We all went down to a lecture on Phrenology at Georgetown.

Dec. 5^th, stormy, snow. Boys finished bailing hay, bailed some 13 tons.

Sunday, Fast Day, went to Meeting. North wind quite cold, snow fell about 2 inches and drifted quite bad. Dec. 6^th, stormy snow.

Dec. 7^th, cloudy. I was sick last night having pain in stomach, feel better today. It snowed most of the day. Dec. 8^th, cloudy and thawing quite fast. Killed two hares.

Dec. 9^th, some colder. Harrison took grist to the mill.

Dec. 10^th, heavy fog this morning. Was quite sick again last night, don’t feel well today.

Dec. 11^th, sunshine most of the day. Worked some in the shop. Boys got ready to start to Nounon to log.

Dec. 12^th – Cloudy, moderate. Harrison and Frank went to Nounon.

Sunday 13^th – North wind very cold. Didn’t go to Meeting.

December 14^th – Clear and cold. Chopped grain for Hans and Dunn.

Dec. 15^th – Clear. Quite cold. It takes me most of time to do chores.

Dec. 16 – Cloudy. Some warmer. Brother L.P. Monk, of Bennington, paid $30.00 to me today, $25.00 on note and interest $5.00. The balance, $25.00 will be paid due June 1^st, 1897, with 10% interest.

Dec. 17^th – Snowing slowly. Quite warm. Don’t feel well today.

Dec. 18^th – Cloudy, Moderate. Boys came home from Nounon all well. I still feel very poorly, think it is La Gripe that ails me. Dec. 19, Cloudy. Boys went to Montpelier. Harrison paid our taxes. We sold 5 calves @ $9.00 and one @ $7.00, making $52.00.

Sunday, Dec. 20^th – Foggy. Harrison and folks went to Meeting. I stayed at home not feeling well. Dec. 21^st, folks went to Meeting again. Brother Budge and others of Stake Presidency being there. Came home and killed two hogs, each weighing about 250 lbs. It’s colder, still foggy.

Dec. 22 – Quite cold, some foggy. At home all day.

Dec. 23^rd, foggy. Cold. Boys went to Elders Meeting. Boys sawed wood.

Dec. 24^th – Some warmer, cloudy. At home. All well.

Dec. 25^th – Christmas. Clear and cold. Went to hear the program rendered by the Sunday School of Georgetown, came back and had dinner with Hans and Mary. The roads are very good, snow 6 inches deep.

December 26^th – Clear and cold. At home all day. Worked on Joey’s sled.

Sunday, Dec. 27^th – Cloudy and warmer. Harrison went to Bennington last night to a dance, didn’t get home with the team so we could go to Meeting today.

Dec. 28^th, cold nights, moderate days. At home all day.

Dec. 29^th, partly cloudy weather, moderate. Settled tithing and paid $2.50 on the past.

Dec. 30^th, went to Montpelier and paid $25.00 on note to Burgoyne, and $5.00 interest. Got grist from the mill. Foggy during the day.

Dec. 31^st, snowed 2 inches last night, cloudy today, quite cold.

1897

January 1^st, 1897 – Cold and stormy, north wind. Frost falling all day. Worked in the shop for Chris.

Jan. 2^nd, still very cold, frost falling, some sunshine. Harrison’s baby has been quite sick for a day or two. Emma took sick today. All the folks have got bad colds. My sister, Lucy Smith, gave birth to a little girl at 9 p.m.

Sunday Jan. 3^rd - Fast Day. Didn’t go to Meeting, all being sick. I was sick last night, am not well. Sunshine most of the day. Cold.

Jan. 4^th, sunshine part of the day, clouding up, and snowing some p.m. Still sick, could not do our chores, if it wasn’t for Frank Picora.

Jan. 5^th, cloudy and snowing slowly, some warmer. One of our ewes had twin lambs last night. All sick yet. The snow is only about 6 inches deep on level.

January 6^th, 1897 – Cloudy, quite moderate. All are feeling better this morning. Mary, our youngest daughter, was delivered of a boy baby at 1:25 p.m.

Jan. 7^th – Foggy all day. All getting better except Emily. Growing colder. Boys chopped some grain.

Jan. 8^th, foggy, some sunshine. I don’t feel quite so well today, rest are all about the same.

Jan. 9, still foggy with some sunshine. Done some work in the shop for Arthur Smith. Harrison is some better today, all seem to be improving.

Sunday, Jan. 10^th – None of us able to go to Meeting. Harrison is considerably worse. Oh, how lonesome it is to have so many sick so long and no relief. Frank has to do most of the chores.

Jan. 11^th, still cold with fog. Folks about the same.

January 12^th – Snowed slowly most of the day, fell about 3 inches. Joey and Frank went to Montpelier today. Folks all getting some better.

Jan. 13^th, at home all day. Weather moderate, still all improving.

Jan. 14^th – Foggy. Colder. All feeling better at home. At home all day.

Jan. 15^th, more moderate. Frank went to Nounon for wood. Began snowing about 4 p.m.

Jan. 16^th, still snowing, fell 6 inches. Harrison and Frank sawed some wood. All getting better.

Sunday, January 17^th – Clear, not very cold. Snow drifted considerable last night. It is about a foot deep on level now. Harrison and folks went to Meeting, first time for three weeks. I stayed home, not feeling well enough to go.

Jan. 18^th, clear and cold. Harrison and Frank went to Nounon today.

Jan. 19^th, very cold last night, clouding up and turning warm today.

Jan. 20^th, warm. Snowing slowly all day. The snow is now about 12 in. deep. At home all day, improving slowly.

Jan. 21^st, cloudy, warm. At home all day. Folks all better now.

Jan. 22^nd – Warm, thawing fast. Roads beginning to get bare. I don’t feel quite so well today, fixed a coupling for Joey on sled.

Jan. 23^rd, still warm. Some clouds. Snow melting fast.

Jan. 24^th, Sunday, Harrison was over to Nounon with team, so we all had to stay home. Snowed slowly most of the day. Warmer.

Jan. 25^th, colder and cloudy. Do not feel well today, snow last night.

Jan. 26^th, clear, very cold, snowed 3 inches last night. We have got 6 lambs. All well.

Jan. 27^th – Very cold and cloudy, frost falling all day. Children didn’t go to school.

Jan. 28^th, warmer. Snow most of the day.

Jan. 29^th, snowing a little. Harrison and Joey took two loads of lumber to Montpelier.

Jan. 30^th, cloudy, moderate. Had 6 lambs come last night and today. Folks went to Bennington.

Sunday, Jan. 31^st – Cloudy, snowing slowly most of day. Moderate. Didn’t go to Meeting. Having company.

February 1^st, 1897 – Snowing slowly most of the day. Worked in the shop. Windy all day and next night,

2^nd, partly clear and warm. Brig and wife spent the day with us.

Feb. 3^rd, snowing slowly all day, thawing some. Snow is now about 12 inches deep. We have now 19 lambs.

Feb. 4^th – Cloudy and warm. Some snow.

Feb. 5^th – Snow most of the day

Feb. 6^th – Cloudy and warm. A lamb died last night.

Seventh, Sunday – Went to Meeting with Hans. Some cooler.

Feb. 8^th – Snowed some today, weather moderate. Harrison and folks went to Montpelier.

Feb. 9^th – Somewhat cloudy. Brother Smythe and family spent the day with us.

February 9^th, 1897

Mary’s baby boy was blessed today. The following was given by the Spirit of God, and pronounced upon him by myself, being mouth.

Oh, God the Eternal Father, we, Thy servants, take this little infant in our arms, according to the pattern which Thou hast revealed. We bless it, and give it the name of Frank Adelbert Sorensen, the name by which he shall be known throughout all future generations.

And we bless him with a good and strong constitution, that he may have power to withstand all sickness and disease to which flesh is heir. And we bless him with a sound mind which shall be capable of great development.

He shall be a leader of men, and shall have the gift of language and become a great and powerful speaker, even to the confounding of all those who shall oppose the truth. And he shall have power to bring many souls unto Christ. He shall be a wise counselor and have great knowledge and understanding in his day and generation.

He shall receive the Holy Priesthood, and enter into the House of God, and perform the ordinances for the living and the dead and thus become a Savior on Mount Zion.

We pronounce, and seal these blessings upon him, with all blessing appertaining to the New and Everlasting Covenant, by the authority and power of the Holy Priesthood, and in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we pray God, the Eternal Father, to seal and ratify the same in Heaven. And we give unto Thee, oh Father, all the honor, the power and the glory, through Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. Amen

February 10^th – Clear. Sun shone all day. Got a telegram today telling us that my brother-in-law William Wray Walker, of Mink Creek, Idaho, died yesterday, the 9^th. Not being well, none of us went to his funeral

Feb. 11 – Cloudy, warmer. Some snow. Was sick all day. L.P. Monk pd. balance on his note, $25.25.

Feb. 12^th, wind blew quite hard last night, drifting the snow considerable. Snowing slowly most of day.

Feb. 14^th Sunday – Went to Meeting with Hans. South wind quite cold and some snow.

Feb. 15^th, snowed hard most of the day. Harrison’s children have all been sick again, not very bad as yet. Boys started to load a car of hay.

Feb. 16^th – Cloudy and some snow. Jennette went with Frank to see his sister-in-law.

Feb. 17^th, clear. Sun shone all day, quite cold at night. Home all day.

Feb. 18^th, cloudy and very cold. Froze hard last night, some snow toward morning. Jennette and Frank got back home.

Sunday Feb. 21^st – All went to Meeting. Cold and some snow. Monday, very cold all day, blustering. I sawed some wood.

Feb. 23^rd, more moderate. Snowed some. Harrison went to Nounon. Got a letter from Heber Walker stating that all was well. His mother was down at his place. My brother-in-law W.W. Walker was buried at Riverdale, Oneida Co., Idaho.

Feb. 24^th, clear and cold. At home all day.

Feb. 25^th – Still clear. Moderating a little. Harrison came home last night. I worked some in the shop. Went down to Meeting with Hans. President Budge and others were here from Paris. Gave the people very good instructions. The Spirit of God resting mightily upon the speakers.

Feb. 26^th, partially clear. 27^th, still clear and thawing some. All went to the theatre at night.

Feb. 28^th, Sunday, clear and moderate. All went to Meeting. Home missionaries spoke on obedience.

March 1^st, 1897 – Snowing most of the day. Went to Meeting at Georgetown to commemorate Pres. W. Woodruff’s 90^th birthday. Had a full house and a good time.

March 2^nd, Clear and warm. Alma Hays, Abel Smart and their wives paid us a visit. Was very glad to see them.

March 3^rd, warm, some clouds. At home all day.

March 4^th, colder, snow. Snow is now about 20 in. deep.

March 5^th, colder and blizzard blowing, snowing all day. South wind.

March 6^th, still snowing and blowing from the south. Boys came home from Nounon last night.

March 7^th Sunday – Snowed and blowed from south until about 4 p.m. then came from the north awhile. Wind went down and continued snowing all night. Didn’t go to Meeting.

March 8^th, clear. Snow is now about three feet deep on the level.

March 9^th, snowing all day. Wind south quite cool.

March 10^th, snowing. Cold south wind.

March 11^th – Very cold and cloudy. South wind drifting snow. All have good health.

March 12^th, very cold south wind. Harrison went to Bennington, will stay all night and go to Conference at Paris.

March 13^th, very cold. We are having the worst of our winter now. It freezes very hard nights.

Sunday, March 14^th – Not quite so cold, some snow. I didn’t go to Meeting, Harrison being gone with the team.

March 15^th, clear and cold. Hyrum Larsen and family paid us a visit.

March 16^th, Joey and Harrison each took a load of lumber to Montpelier.

March 17^th – Snowing by spells. Folks went to Bennington, it being the Anniversary of Relief Society Organization.

March 18^th, partially clear, snow squalls. Was sick last night.

March 19^th, thawing some. Dug out mill and done some chopping.

Twentieth, north wind cold, it is snowing. Snow is now 3 foot deep.

Sunday, March 21^st – North wind very cold. Drifting. Did not go to Meeting. Chris and Alice visited us with their family.

March 22^nd, cold sawed some wood.

23^rd, snowing again. Warmer.

March 24^th, cloudy and some warmer. Went to Meeting at Georgetown. Harrison went to Nounon.

March 25^th, rained last night, warm today, thawing very fast. Sawed some wood.

March 26^th, still warm and thawing. Snowed about one ft. in two days. Has settled.

March 27^th, cooler. Still thawing. Snow now two feet deep. Sawed wood most of the day.

Sunday – Froze hard last night. South wind, began raining about 4 p.m. Wind turned to north at 5 p.m. Snowed and blowed very hard for about 2 hours.

March 29^th, partly clear. Albert Rolph and family and Eva Rosenbaum and folks visited us.

March 30^th, northern blizzard, worst of season. Snow drifts 6 feet deep in front of the house.

Mar. 31^st, clear and very cold, north wind. Snow crusted hard. Jennette went home with Eva Rosenbaum.

April 1^st – Partially clear and cold. No storm. All at home.

April 2^nd, snowing slowly. Warmer. Harrison went to Nounon.

April 3^rd, snowing all day. Warmer.

Sunday, April 4^th – Fast Day. Went to Meeting with Chris. He brought Alice and children up and we went to Meeting.

April 5^th, foggy, some snow p.m. Thawing.

April 6^th, snowed and blew from the south most of the day. Warm.

April 7^th, northern blizzard, not very cold, snowing and drifting. Received garden seeds from Burpees. Snow drifting about 2 ½ feet.

April 8^th – Clear. North wind thawing. Very bad weather.

April 9^th, some sunshine, thawing quite a bit. Cleaned snow off the chicken coop and granary.

April 10^th, sun shone most of the day. Was sick last night. Sister VanOrman was out to Emma’s to see the baby. Emma’s baby is sick. She has scarlet fever.

Sunday 11^th – Blowing hard from the north, not very cold. Snowing some. Caught first squirrels today. Snow 2 feet deep. Didn’t go to Meeting, weather too bad.

April 12^th, cloudy, warm. Harrison went to mill, got grist.

April 13^th, clear and warm, thawing very fast. All well.

April 14^th, still very warm, clouding up some. Harrison went to Nounon. I was sick again. Jennette went to Hy Skinners Monday the 12^th, has not got back yet.

April 15^th, clear and warm. Began scattering strychnine for squirrels this morning. They began coming out about the 10^th. First bare ground visible on ridges today.

April 16^th – Clear warm days, cold nights. Snow going slowly. Harrison and Joey came home today. Am sick again.

Apr. 17^th, clear and warm. Snow going very fast, some bare spots in garden where I have sowed dirt. Am still sick. Boys went to Meeting at Montpelier. S

Sunday, April 18^th, partially clear, warm. Roads to Meeting were very bad.

April 19^th, clear and warm. Cattle went out on hills this morning. We began hauling manure. Snow is 12 inches deep.

Apr. 20, rain, snow, some of the garden is bare. Cramps in my stomach. Had some. Snow most of the day. Still not able to do chores. Feel some better but still a cramp in my stomach again last night. Am sick nearly all of the time lately.

April 21^st, snow almost all of the day. Cooler. Still unable to do the chores, but feel some better. Boys hauling manure.

April 22^nd – Froze quite hard last night. Cloudy. Am getting better slowly. Boys still hauling manure. Twenty-third, clear warm days, cold nights, beginning to dry up around the house and barn.

April 24^th, Clear warm days, I planted seed in frames.

Sunday April 25^th – Went down to the river. It is very high and muddy. I feel quite well again now.

April 26^th – Clear and very warm, snow going very fast. Sheep went out on the hills this morning. Worked in the shop fixing plows.

April 27^th – Partly clear. Didn’t freeze much last night Chopped some grain.

April 28^th, cloudy, heavy thunder, some rain. Plowed some in garden. Ground is mostly bare except drifts. April 29^th, north wind. Went down to Chris’s and dehorned cattle. Came back and dehorned & branded part of our own.

April 30^th, warmer. Planted onions, radishes, lettuce, turnips, etc.

May 1^st – Cleaned and vitereld seed wheat seed. Hans drilled 5 acres in upper field. Ground is bare, grass and lucern now starting fast. Not fed sheep for 2 days.

May 2^nd Sunday – Clear and warm. Brig and folks paid us a visit, did not go to Meeting. Was sick all afternoon.

May 3^rd, warm, light showers. Finished sowing wheat on upper farm. Planted some grain and potatoes.

May 4^th, clear. Very warm. Sowed a small piece of lucern & planted potatoes.

May 5^th – Started to plow in job field. A wolf killed 3 of our lambs. Clouding up, very warm.

May 6^th, south wind, partly clear, very warm. Grass is now getting quite good. Cows will not eat much hay. Turnips and radishes coming up.

May 7^th, south wind. Went down to river, caught some nice trout. Wind turned north and blew very hard. Turning very cold.

May 8^th, froze some last night, killing some of the radishes. I planted peas today.

May 9^th Sunday – Went to Meeting. Cool. Frost at night.

May 10^th – Showers. Cool. Worked in the shop.

May 11^th, clear, some warmer. Finished planting peas. Set out raspberries at Harrison’s. Went to the river. Hard north wind.

May 12^th, warmer. Put water in the garden to bring up seed.

May 13^th, went down to the river. Harrison sheared sheep. Light showers.

May 14^th, cleaned some timothy seed. Warmer.

May 15^th, clear, roads getting dry and dusty. Went to Montpelier, got 3 oz of strychnine, pd. $1.25 per oz. Joey sold a span of colts for $100.00 cash. Sunday, went to Meeting. S. wind.

Monday, May 17^th – Cloudy. Looks like rain. Began setting out strawberries.

May 18^th, south wind very hard. Ground getting very dry now. I worked all day in the strawberries.

May 19^th, cloudy and hot. Worked in s. berries. Light showers.

May 20^th, rained slowly most of the day. Marked 18 lambs. Harrison sheared sheep. We cut some potatoes. May 21^st, rain part of the day. Cultivated strawberries & planted potatoes.

May 22^nd – Rain part of the day, set more strawberries. Warm.

May 23^rd, Sunday – Went to Meeting. Cloudy and warm.

Twenty-fourth, worked in the strawberries. Boys plowed the ditch.

May 26^th, cloudy. High south wind. Cool. Worked in the s. berries.

May 27^th, light showers, cool. Set cabbage. Went to the river. Joey went to the mill. Harrison went to view the roads in the canyon.

May 28^th, clear. Boys worked on the ditch at Georgetown.

29^th, clear, warmer. Boys still on the ditch. Turned water on lucern, made a dugway in mouth of the canyon.

Sunday May 30^th – Conference at Montpelier. Went to the river.

May 31^st, cool. Watered the lucern.

June 1^st, 1897 – Cool, cloudy, north wind. It looks like rain.

June 2^nd, partly clear and cool. Still watering the lucern, watered the strawberries for first time.

June 3^rd, snowing hard this morning.

June 4^th, partly clear. Am sick again. Boys still watering. Maurice began plowing on summer fallow. Brig and Lide was over to see when we were going to Soda. I am not able to go yet. The weather quite cool. No frost. June 5^th, partly clear & cool. I am still sick. Boys still watering. I think if I could get to Soda it would help me and do me some good. Went to meeting at Georgetown called in the interest of Religion Class work.

Sunday, June 6^th – Clear. Didn’t go to Church, not feeling good.

June 7^th, I started to Soda with Jennette and Maurice, shower the day of the 8^th, cloudy all day. Had an early breakfast and drove on to Blackfoot. Had a pain in my stomach, couldn’t fish any to speak of. Heber caught several nice trout.

June 9, fished awhile this morning, caught two nice trout. Rain. Came back to Soda, stayed all night.

June 10^th – Started back home. Clear and cool. Stopped at river below the divide. Fish didn’t bite very good. June 11^th, clear, warmer. Fished until noon and then drove on home.

Twelfth, warm. Tended to water on strawberries, will have a good crop this spring if nothing happens to prevent. Has been very dry this spring, hard to get seed to come up. Feel some better now. Boys went to Stake Conference at Paris.

Sunday June 13^th – Clear and warm. Feel some better this morning.

June 14^th, very warm. Harrison run ditches in the grain. Joey fenced pasture on river. Hard south wind. Am feeling better.

June 15^th, clear, south wind warm. Worked in the garden. Everything is getting dry. Went to hunt for a heifer. Began raining about 4 p.m. Turned cold.

June 16^th, rain, cold. At home all day.

June 17^th, light frost last night. Cloudy and cold today. Scattered strychnine for squirrels. Went to the river.

June 18^th – Hard frost last night, clear this morning, killed beans & squashes, etc. and damaged small fruits to some extent. Cold and windy p.m. Boys scattered 3 pans of dough (strychnine was mixed into the dough to kill the squirrels) on river today.

June 19^th, some warmer today. Boys went to Montpelier.

June 20^th Sunday – Ward Conference. Went to Meeting, was sustained, unanimous vote, to be Superintendent of Religion Class of Georgetown. Weather clear and warm. Had dinner at Sister Eunice Smith’s.

June 21^st, partially clear and warm. Mixed 3 more pans of dough. Scattered it for squirrels at the river. Was sick again today. Harrison began watering the grain.

June 23^rd, still clear and warm. I watered the s. berries second time. Went to Religion Class, 7 boys attended and quite a houseful of girls. Had a good orderly meeting.

June 24^th – Windy, some clouds. Fixed up the mower and worked on Dave’s wagon. Didn’t feel well.

June 25^th, cooler. At home. Hoed some in the garden.

June 26^th, clear this morning. Harrison went to Soda. Cultivated the young berries, corn, etc. Went to the river. Light showers.

June 27^th, Sunday, Cloudy, cool. Picked first ripe strawberries the 20^th. Have had none on the table yet. Didn’t go to Meeting, no team.

June 28^th – Cloudy, cool. Hoed s. berries, light showers.

June 29^th, partially clear, hoed in the garden. Joey began mowing lucern. Went to river fishing, got a few. Harrison got home.

June 30^th, partially clear and warm. Had the water on wheat, fixed the mower and went to Religion Class, had attendance of 30.

July 1^st – Cloudy, looks like rain, warm. Got grain all watered at home. Squirrels doing considerable damage to grain & lucern. I went to the river and scattered 2 more pans of dough.

July 2^nd, heavy rain last night and still raining. Have got about 6 acres of hay down, will be badly damaged. July 3^rd, partly clear. Harrison went to Priesthood Meeting at Paris. All well, for which we feel very thankful.

July 4^th, Sunday – Fast Day. Went to Meeting. Cool. Some frost on the river.

July 5^th, south wind, clouding up. Hoed the garden and cultivated berries. Maurice raked the hay and plowed some. Rained a little.

July 6^th, clear, south wind. Finished cultivating berries. Scattered strychnine and shot squirrels.

July 7^th, warm, began hauling hay. So. Wind All are well. Went to Religion Class. 38 present.

July 8^th – Clear and warm. Picked 40 cups of s. berries and sent them to town. Still hauling hay.

July 9^th, warm days, cool nights. Went down to the river, scattered dough for the squirrels, and went fishing. Harrison and Joey both still watering.

July 10^th, clear and warm. I picked 34 quarts of berries and sent to town. Joey watering and Harrison mowing and hauling hay.

Sunday July 11^th – Went to Meeting. Harrison and Albert Rolph made their first Home Missionary speeches. July 12^th, very warm. Joey took squirrel tails to Paris, had $9.50 worth @ $1.00 each.

July 13, warm again. Picked 143 qts. Of strawberries. Light showers p.m. Boys still hauling hay.

July 14^th, clear and hot, has been quite hot for some few days. Went to Religion Class, 46 present.

July 15^th, we picked berries all day. Clear and very hot.

July 16^th, cloudy this morning. Cooler.

July 17^th, north wind growing cold. Picked berries most of the day. Boys went to Meeting.

July 18^th, Sunday, cold and clear. Heavy frost last night killed our potatoes closest to the ground. Picked berries. Didn’t go to Meeting.

July 19^th – Partly clear. No frost last night. Picked berries and went to the river.

July 20^th, picked berries afternoon. Warmer.

July 21^st, cloudy with south wind, warm. Went to Religion Class, number present 36. Picked some berries. July 22^nd, partly clear & warm. Worked some in the shop. Cultivated potatoes.

July 23^rd, Hot. Picked berries all day. Light shower p.m.

July 24^th – Cloudy most of the day. Went to the celebration & went up and had dinner with Brother and Sister Hayes.

July 25^th – Clear and hot. Harrison went to Montpelier with Albert Rolph as Home Missionaries.

July 26^th, very warm. Picked berries.

July 27^th, picked berries again. Some cooler today.

July 28^th – Went to Montpelier with berries. Very warm.

July 29^th, hot. Picked berries again.

July 30^th, very hot. Went down to Harding’s. Very heavy thunder shower, cloud burst in canyon. Was sick all day.

July 31^st, clear this morning. Am very weak, but free from pain. Went to Georgetown with children, Joey’s little boy, Aaron, cut one of his toes off.

August 1^st, 1897 – Fast Day. Cloudy with showers. Cooler. Went to Meeting and down to Joey’s. Aaron rested good last night, was out playing today.

Aug. 2^nd, clear and hot. Cultivated strawberries & garden. Picked berries and got ground ready to plant turnips.

Aug. 3^rd, planted turnips, picked berries to preserve, will have no more to sell.

Aug. 4^th, light shower. Was sick all night. Am very weak today. Went to Religion Class, numbers present 54. Aug. 5^th, cloudy. Went to the river, caught a nice string of fish and shot 2 sage hens.

Aug. 6^th – At home all day. Heavy rain storm.

Seventh, clear. Welder brought 27 head of sheep for us to herd, @ 5 ¢ per head per month. Shower last night.

Sunday, Aug. 8^th – Cloudy and warm. Went to Meeting. Am talking of buying a house and lot in Georgetown of Mrs. Barkdull.

Aug. 9^th, clear and warm. Worked some in the garden. Settled up the strawberry acct. Had received cash, $40.00, merchandise, $7.50, cheese, $1.32 Total $48.82.

Aug. 10^th – Clear and hot. Boys hauling hay, worked in the garden. Went to the river and caught 3 large trout.

Aug. 11^th, hot. Worked in garden, went to Religion Class afternoon. Didn’t have as good attendance as usual, on account of an entertainment gotten up for Primary.

Aug. 12^th, cloudy. Light showers. Worked in garden and fixed a gun.

Aug. 13^th – Clear and hot. Went to river. Gone all day.

Aug. 14^th, tended water and chopped some grain.

Aug. 15^th, Sunday, went to Meeting. Clear and warm.

Sixteenth, plowed ditches in grain. Barley is ready to cut. Harrison cut the barley and we shocked it up. Sold some turnips and potatoes to Hess. Bought house and lot in Georgetown, pd. $300.00 for it, gave a note for $200, pd. down $100.00.

Aug. 17^th – Very hot. Went to Meeting tonight.

Aug. 18^th, clear and warm. Went to Religion Class, had a good meeting. Subjects treated, Lord’s Prayer and the Blessing on the Bread. Questions.

Aug. 19^th – Cultivated garden, strawberries, etc.

Twentieth, very hot days, cool nights. At home all day, not well.

Aug. 21^st, hot day. I fixed mower for Joey. Started for Soda at 8 p.m., drove to Blind Springs, stayed overnight, went on to Soda. Filled bottles on 22^nd. Harrison attended Meeting. We came home at night.

Aug. 23^rd, tended water on garden. Harrison and Adam VanOrman started to cut grain. Still clear and hot days.

Aug. 24 – Hoed strawberries. Went to the river.

Aug. 25^th, cloudy & high wind & showers. Joey cut 2^nd crop of lucern. I went to Georgetown to Religion Class, 33 present.

Aug. 26^th, clear. At home all day, not feeling well.

Twenty-seventh, cooler and clear. Put water on lucern.

Aug. 28^th, cloudy and hot. Harrison cut our wheat in south field. Boys hauled 2 loads of hay to Georgetown home.

Sunday the 29^th – Cloudy. Didn’t go to Meeting, being sick. Folks went to Meeting. I paid $3.00 to Hans for harvesting berries.

Aug. 30^th, south wind. Was sick abed all day. Boys took two more load of hay to Georgetown home.

Aug. 31^st, clear and hot. Am not well today. Began harvesting fall grain.

September 1^st – Went to Religion Class, had a good attendance. South wind.

Sept. 2^nd, cloudy, looks like rain.

Sept. 3^rd, rained most of the day.

Sept. 4^th, partly clear. Went to the river fishing.

Sunday – Went to Meeting. Clear and warm. Had a good meeting. Richard Bee read Brother Woodruff’s last discourse. Several bore testimonies.

Sept. 6^th, went to Georgetown & paid balance due on the house & lot. Received deed to same. South wind.

Sept. 7^th, clear and warm, hard south wind. Shocked up wheat & turned water on lucern. Harrison cut the last of our wheat yesterday, the sixth.

Sept. 8^th, went to Religion Class, had a good attendance. The north wind cold, feels like frost.

Sept. 9^th – Clear. Frost last night. South wind, growing warmer. The frost killed potatoes.

Sept. 10^th, warmer, no frost last night.

Sept. 11^th, cloudy, no frost, light showers.

Twelfth, cloudy this morning. Went to Paris. George Q. Cannon occupied the time speaking on the authority of the Priesthood.

Sept. 13^th – Clear and warm. Worked in the shop. Boys cut the last of the oats on river.

Sept. 14^th, some frost last night, warm today, put water on the berries.

Sept. 15^th, clear & cool. Went to Religion Class, good meeting, 44 present.

Sept. 16^th, Joey started to haul wheat. We had a visit from Wm Wight.

Sept. 17^th – Warmer & clear. Stacked wheat all day. Boys came home from cutting grain. Brother Quinto held Meeting at our place, had a good meeting, all felt well.

Sept. 18^th, clear & warm. Cut the last of hay. Went to the river fishing. Jennette went to Nounon, sold corn for cheese.

Sunday the 19^th, clear and warm. Went to Meeting.

20^th, worked on threshing machine, fixing it up to start threshing. Harrison had a tooth pulled. We are still hauling hay.

Sept. 21^st, clear and hot. I worked on the threshing machine.

Sept. 22, clouding up. Warm, worked on the t. machine. Boys hauled hay, finished. Didn’t go to Religion Class, there was no meeting.

Sept. 23^rd, rain. Worked on machine.

Twenty-fourth, worked in the shop a.m., on machine p.m.

Sept. 25^th – Threshed our wheat & barley, had 339 bus. of wheat, and 48 of barley, also a load of oats, 37 ½ bushels.

Sunday Sept. 26^th, warm showers. Went to Meeting.

Sept. 27^th, partially clear. Was sick all night. Hans moved his granary. Boys went to Bennington to start to thresh.

Sept. 28^th, cloudy & cooler. Joey got ready to start below for fruit.

Sept. 29^th, clear & warm. Joey and Hans started to Brigham City to get fruit. Harrison brought a load of grain home.

Sept. 30^th, cloudy, very hard south wind. Hauled last of hay. Jennette started to Brigham with Sammy Smith.

October 1^st, 1897 – Rain all day. Ground soaked. Heavy wind. Second, partially clear. Cut some corn.

Sunday – Fast Day. Went to Meeting. Cool.

Oct. 4^th, clear & moderate. At home all day.

Oct. 5^th, clear. Sick last night with bowel complaint. Very warm. Boys put new pinion on horse power. Harrison drilled 7 ½ acres of wheat.

Oct. 6^th, clouding up again. One of Joey’s cows got killed on lucern. I went to Religion Class. No teachers present. Had a good Meeting.

Oct. 7^th – Stormy. Warm. I feel some better, but am not well yet. The rest all well.

Oct. 8^th, cloudy & cool. Began digging potatoes. Poor crop. Had first mess of ripe tomatoes raised at home. No frost.

Oct. 9^th, cloudy and cool. Looks like rain. I went to river fishing. Had cramps in my stomach.

Sunday Oct. 10^th – Clear and cool. Went to Meeting.

Oct. 11, cool. Went to river, straitened up oats, they will do to haul.

Oct. 12^th, cloudy. Some rain & warmer. Threshed a few peas. Harrison brought a load of toal grain home. Thirteenth, rained most of the day and all night. Cooler, the ground is soaked thoroughly.

Oct. 14^th, rained most of the night, south wind today. Warm. No frost to kill garden yet.

Oct. 15^th, snow about 4 inches deep. Folks got home from Brigham last night. Cold all day, froze hard last night.

Oct. 16^th – Harrison went to mill and to Elder’s Meeting at Montpelier.

Sunday, Oct. 17^th – Snowing slowly most of the day. Didn’t go to Meeting. Having company.

Oct. 18^th, clear. Froze some last night. Went to the river fishing.

Oct. 19^th, clear. Froze a little. Got in a load of cabbage. Cleaned yard.

Oct. 20^th, Morris cleaned the sheep yard. We got in balance of cabbage. Went to Religion Class. 27 present.

Oct. 21^st – Some clouds, a little warmer. Boys finished digging potatoes. Had about 60 bushels. Put skein on wagon.

Oct. 22^nd, cloudy & looks like rain. Began hauling oats. They are quite wet and no hopes of getting any drier. Oct. 23^rd, cloudy but no rain. Takes me most of time to do chores. Went down & fixed a bin for wheat in town.

Oct. 24^th Sunday – Cloudy & cold. Went to Meeting, got home late.

Oct. 25^th, light snow last night, wind blowing hard from north today. Cold. Mary’s house took fire from a light left burning upstairs. They were threshing & all turned in, and soon put it out. If there had been no men nearby, it would very likely have burned down.

Oct. 26^th – Clear and cold. Went to town and fixed granary. Wind still north, freezing hard nights.

Oct. 27^th, clear and cold. Walter started home this morning. All well at present. Went to Religion Class.

Oct. 28^th, clear, some warmer. Joey went to mill. Sold some turnips, carrots, etc. for butter.

Oct. 29^th, finished getting up turnips and went to river fishing.

Oct. 30^th, made steps for granary in town. Sick afternoon. Joey plowed potato ground over. Got 13 bushels.

Sunday, Oct. 31^st – Still clear and pleasant. Went to Meeting.

November 1^st, Monday – Threshed our oats on lower farm, had 717 bushels, about half of them was mixed with wild oats.

Nov. 2^nd, some clouds and the same on the 3^rd. Nov. 4^th, rained a little. Shucked corn most of the day. Jennette went to Georgetown, fixed the house ready for moving.

Nov. 5^th, moved to town. Snow squalls all day. Cold. Harrison got done threshing yesterday. Total of grain threshed this season, 16,798 bushels (? Typing light, may not be correct)

Nov. 6^th – Still cloudy and cold. Emma’s baby has been quite sick, but is better now. We brought two cows with us tonight.

Sunday, Fast Day, we went to Meeting, snowed 4 inches last night, still snowing. Very cold.

Nov. 8^th, weather unsettled, snowing some. Went to farm. Cold.

Ninth, cloudy & cold. Looks like snow. Went to farm, got chickens.

Tenth, warmer, raining slowly. At home all day. Harrison cleaning house in town.

Nov. 11^th, looks like clearing off. Snow most gone. Frost out of the ground. Harrison moved down today. I was sick again last night.

Nov. 12^th, went up and helped Harrison get another load. Do not feel well yet. Partly clear & warm.

Nov. 13^th – Rained hard last night. Showers this morning. Joey plowed in lower field. I went up and got balance of chickens, have got 40 here now.

Sunday, Nov. 14^th, Snowed again last night. Harrison went to Soda to assist in organizing the Elders. I was very sick again last night. Dull and stormy all day.

Nov. 15^th, cloudy and cold. Still sick, all the rest are well.

Nov. 16^th, froze hard last night. Frosted up %. Felt very bad in stomach all day.

Nov. 17^th, some warmer and clear. Feel better today. There will be a dance tonight for two of the boys of Georgetown who are going on missions.

Nov. 18^th, went to a wedding reception of Albert Bacon, had a good and pleasant time. 40 persons partook of the bountiful repast. Presents were numerous, good and well chosen.

Nov. 19^th – At home all day. Weather warm and milk.

Twentieth, went up to farm, found hogs out and doing considerable damage. Rained most of day. Went to Sunday School Conference p.m. One of the visitors stayed with us, John Madsen. His home is at St. Charles.

Nov. 22^nd – Stormy but warm. Went to Teachers meeting, was appointed to labor as a High Priest.

Nov. 23^rd, clearing off. Roads very bad. Went up to farm, found all all right.

Nov. 24^th - Stormed again last night. Some snow. Cooler. Frank Pecora was baptized by Harrison and confirmed by myself at our home in Georgetown.

Nov. 25^th, killed a small hog. Chopped some grain.

Nov. 26, clear and cold. Boys killed hogs. I was sick again last night.

Nov. 27^th, still clear. Joey took hog to Montpelier. Harrison went to find a place to pile wood, didn’t find any to please him. The hog weighed 370 lbs. @ 5 ¢, $18.50.

Sunday, Nov. 28^th – Went to Meeting. Two of our boys spoke from the stand that were going on missions. Nov. 29^th, cloudy. Harrison went after wood. I killed a sheep and sold to F. Brown @ 5 ¢, weighed 83 lbs., $4.15.

December 1^st, 1897 – Snowing slowly all day. Went to the farm.

Second, clear and very cold.

Third, clear and cold. Went down creek fishing. Came back and went to Religion Class.

Dec. 4^th, cloudy & cold. Went up the farm and helped Joey chop some barley.

Sunday, Dec. 5^th, Fast Day. All fasted and went to Meeting except myself being sick. I could not go. Storming. Dec. 6^th, clearing some. It snowed on the seventh. I worked in stable fixing place for cows. Harrison went back to Nounon.

Dec. 8^th, snowed most of the day. Finished stable for cows, found our lost calf that was gone.

Dec. 9^th – Went down creek hunting and fishing, caught a trout and killed one hare & one duck. Warm today. All well.

Dec. 10^th, went to Religion Class, had good attendance. Looks stormy.

Dec. 11^th, snowing fast all dat. Expected Harrison home last night to go to Conference. He didn’t come.

Dec. 12^th, clear and cold. Snowed 6 inches deep, went to Meeting.

Dec. 13^th, cold and cloudy. S.B. Young & C.J Fieldstead held a meeting & organized the 114 Quorum of Seventy in Georgetown Ward.

Dec. 14^th, cloudy and warm. I caught 18 trout. Harrison went back to Nounon. Jennette was called to wait on Mrs. Crosley.

Dec. 15^th, cloudy & snowing slowly. Went up to the farm, got some vegetables and tithing grain.

Dec. 16^th, clear, very cold. Thursday it was 6 degrees above zero.

Dec. 17^th, snowing slowly all day and very cold. Went to Religion Class. Attendance, males, 14, females, 25.

Dec. 18^th – Clear & very cold.

Sunday, Dec. 19^th – Went to Meeting. Clear and cold. 10 degrees below at 8 a.m. Snow 6 inches deep.

Dec. 20^th, still very cold. Visited as a High Priest in connection with Rolph, attended lesser Priesthood Meeting at night.

Dec. 31^st – Went down creek fishing, got 6 trout. Foggy. Colder.

1898

January 1^st, 1898 – Spent the day at home with Brig and wife. This is our thirty-eighth wedding anniversary day. Thermom. stands at 10 above at 8 a.m. We went to a wedding dance.

Jan. 2^nd – Sunday and Fast Day, clear and cold. Therm. at zero at 8 a.m.

Jan 3^rd, cold and clear. Harrison went back to Nounon.

Jan 4^th, cold. Was sick again last night. Joey is working on the house.

Jan 5^th, cloudy and warmer the 5^th and 6^th. Sixth quite warm.

Seventh, went to Religion Class. Good attendance.

Jan. 8^th – Cooler. Settled tithing. My brother Brigham and wife came and stayed overnight with us.

Sunday, Jan. 9^th, went to Meeting. Brig and wife went home at night.

Jan. 10^th – snowed about 8 inches deep at present. Has been about 2 ft. of snow fall so far this season.

Jan. 11, clear and very cold. 12 degrees below zero.

Jan. 12^th, clear. Therm. 2 below.

13^th, clear and very cold on 14^th also. Boys began bailing hay on the 10^th, still bailing. I walked out to Joey’s and back. Was called to administer to Mrs. Johnsen’s little girl, Mattie. Went to Young Men’s Meeting.

Jan. 14^th, clear. Not so cold. Therm at zero at 8 a.m. Went to Religion Class, had a full house.

Jan. 15^th – Cloudy and some snow. Therm. at zero at 8 a.m. Twenty-four above most of day. Worked some on stable.

Jan 16^th, Sunday, cloudy & warmer. Went to Meeting. Jan. 17^th, more snow & cold. The frost falling all day. Jan. 18^th, clear this morning. Boys finished bailing hay about noon.

Jan. 19^th, snowing all day, snow about 8 in. on level.

Jan. 20^th – Cloudy & cold. Some snow. Went to Joey’s & killed hogs.

Jan. 21^st, cut up pork. Went to Religion Class, had a good attendance.

Jan. 22^nd – Still cold. Made brine for park. Eva Rosenbaum returned home, having spent two nights with us.

Sunday, Jan 23^rd – Very cold. Therm. at 10 deg. Below zero. Visited some as a H. Priest at night the 22^nd.

Jan. 24^th – Clear. 10 deg. Below. Was sick last night. Rest all well.

Jan 25^th – Clear and extremely cold, 24 deg. Below zero at 8 a.m.

Jan 26^th, still very cold. 28 deg. Below at 8 a.m.

Jan 27^th, clear and cold. 10 deg. Below. Standing near zero all day.

Jan 28^th, still very cold, near zero at 8 a.m. Went to Religion Class, had good attendance. Held a District Meeting in the evening at C. Larsen’s, had a real good time.

Jan 29^th, clear, warmer, 10 deg. Above 8 a.m., rose to 50 above p.m. Visited at H. Priest.

Jan. 30^th, Sunday, moderate. Bishop Lewis and wife spent the evening with us. Had Home Missionaries today.

Jan. 31^st, clear, colder. 4 below at 8 a.m. Visited as H. Priest, went to Priesthood Meeting at night.

February 1^st, 1898 – Cloudy & some snow. Warmer. Sunshine in places.

Second, cloudy, warm 20 deg. Above at 8 a.m. F

eb. 3^rd, colder mist & frost falling. Jersey calved last night. Had a District Meeting at A. Dunn’s last night.

Feb. 4^th, partially clear, warmer. At home all day.

Fifth, clear, am not very well today. W. Lewis began bailing hay for R. Barkdull this morning.

Feb. 6^th, Sunday – Fast Day. Went to church. Good attendance.

Feb. 7^th, clear, went to farm, got a sack of beets for W. Lewis, came back and killed a sheep for F. Bacon. Very warm, snow at night. We now have 5 lambs. Sent an order to Brownings Bros. for a gun. Snow fell 4 inches last night. Clear & colder.

Feb. 9^th – Clear and cold. Therm at zero a.m. At home, cannot do much but chores.

Feb. 10^th, cold and clear, same as yesterday. At home.

Feb. 11^th, cloudy still cold 2 deg. Above. My oldest daughter, Alice T. Sorensen, gave birth to a girl baby at 12:15 on the seventh.

Feb. 12^th – Cloudy. Some warmer. Joey took two sows home to breed. One of them died going home. He came back and got another one. We have 9 lambs now.

Feb. 13^th, Sunday, very cloudy & warm. Some snow. Went to Meeting. One lamb died last night.

Feb. 14^th, still warm, thawing fast. Went down to the river fishing, didn’t get a bite.

Feb. 15^th, warm. Went up to farm. All well for which we feel very thankful.

Feb. 16^th – Cold blizzard from the north. At home all day. Snowed some.

Feb. 17^th – Colder. Therm at zero at 8 a.m., cold all day, snow gone in spots. Side hills and roads getting bare. Feb. 18^th, some warmer. Went to Religion Class, had good attendance. Brother Keech was with us, gave us many good instructions.

Feb. 19^th, partially clear. Quite warm. Went to meeting held by missionaries in interest of Young Men’s Spirit of the Lord was enjoyed by all the speakers & much good instruction given.

Sunday Feb. 20^th – Went to Meeting. Quite warm. Elders and Seventies meeting at night. Harrison went to Geneva with President Jensen to organize the Elders Quorum. He was appointed First councilor in the Young Men’s Association of Georgetown, Saturday evening, Feb. 19^th 1898.

Monday, Feb. 21^st – Snow blizzard from the north. Took 3100 lbs. of oats to D. W. Hess @ 65 ¢, $20.15. Tuesday, Feb. 22^nd, Washington’s Birthday, clear and colder. Hans and Mary brought their children down to dance. Spent the day with us.

Feb. 23^rd. Cold and clear. Therm. at zero 8 a.m., cold all day. Held a District Meeting at Samuel Smith home, had a good time. 27 present.

Feb. 24^th – Cloudy & some warmer.

Twenty-fifth, clear, warm & thawing fast, snow about 7 inches deep. Went to Religion Class, 37 present, had a good meeting. All well. Had a District Meeting at F. Bacon’s in the evening.

Feb. 26^th – Still warm and cloudy. Froze a little last night.

Feb. 28^th, still warm. Looks like a storm. Began selling milk to W. Hess.

March 1^st, 1898 – Snowed about 3 inches last night, looks like clearing off. Wind north, not very cold.

Mar. 2^nd, foggy and cooler, thawed considerable during the day.

March 3^rd, foggy & cooler. Was not well last night.

Mar. 4^th, snowed a little this morning. Do not feel very well. Jennette was called to Joey’s last night. Quite warm.

Mar. 5^th – Warm. Snowed 3 inches last night. Joey’s wife gave birth to a fine boy today, born at 11:40 a.m.

Sunday, Mar. 6^th – Fast Day. Clear & cool. The ward all fasted and prayed for Sister Smythe, that she might have her sight restored. I was also anointed and administered to for my health, feel much better. Perry Harding and wife were confirmed members of the Church, having previously been baptized.

Mar. 7^th, partially clear, warm. At home all day.

Mar. 8^th – Snowed last night 3 inches. Cooler.

Ninth, cloudy & snowing a little. Cold.

Mar. 10^th, clearing off. Cold. Snowed 3 inches last night. Mailed an order to Colorado Seed House for garden seeds, 90 ¢.

Mar. 11^th, partially cold and clear. Therm. 8 deg. Above at 8 a.m.

Mar. 12^th, cloudy. Snowed 2 inches. Warmer. Sawed some wood.

Sunday Mar. 13^th – Snowed 6 inches last night, snowing and blowing all day, wind north. Went to Meeting. Had to take charge, Bishop and Council being sick. Had a good meeting.

Mar. 14^th, still snowing some. Froze hard last night, snow 10 inches deep.

Mar. 15^th, Snowed all day, fell 6 inches. Was sick all night.

Mar. 16^th, clearing off. Therm. at zero this morning 7 a.m. Sent a watch to M. Ward & Co., to be repaired. Mar. 17^th, partially clear. Warmer. The Relief Society held an entertainment today. Dance at night.

Mar. 18^th – Cloudy & not very cold. Some snow. Harrison went to Conference.

Mar. 19^th, cloudy, snowing by spells.

Twentieth, snow fell 5 in. last night. Snowing, not very cold, south wind, drifting. Went to Meeting, not very good attendance.

Mar. 21^st, showed most of the day. Fell 5 inches, turning colder.

Mar. 22^nd – Very cold. Therm at 10 below at 7 a.m., north wind. Sold 3 head of calves at $15.00: $45.00 & two yearlings @ $18.00: $36.00. Joey sold two cows for $50.00.

Mar. 23^rd, cold and clear. Therm. staying at 20 above all day. Was sick last night. Harrison not very well.

Mar. 24^th – Still clear and cold.

Mar. 25^th, turning warmer. Looks like storm. Brother King’s funeral was held at 1 p.m., large attendance. Mar. 26^th, snowing from the north. Blizzard. Snowed 12 inches.

Mar. 27^th, Sunday – Attended Meeting. Clear and cold. Harding’s folks stayed overnight with us. Nettie went to Ovid.

Mar. 28^th, snowing some. I hired $45.00 cash of Hans @ 10 per cent.

Mar. 29^th, clear and cold.

Mar. 30^th, cloudy and cold, went to Montpelier, snowed some during day.

Mar. 31^st, cloudy, moderate. At home all day preparing to go to Conference.

April 1^st, 1898 – Clear and cool. S

econd, clear & very warm, thawing fast.

Sunday, Apr. 3^rd, cloudy & cool. Will start to Conference between one and two p.m. Harrison took us to Montpelier. Roads very muddy from Bennington up. Got on cars at 12:15 a.m. Waited at McCammon (4^th) 1 ½ hours, got to Salt Lake City at 8:55 a.m. Was met at depot by Mr. Thomson, went to his place to stay while in the city. Had dinner and then took a walk down on Main Street, very muddy. Some snow on the ground. Will be mostly off by night. Quite warm.

Apr. 5^th – Clear. Froze some last night. We rested all afternoon, being up all the night before. Went to the depot to meet Lide, but she did not come, went back to Mr. Thomson’s & had dinner, then all took walk through town. Visited City and County Bldg, bought tickets for Theatre and went back to Thomson’s. Got back at 6 p.m.

April 6^th – Attended Meeting at the Tabernacle. President W. Woodruff said a few words, blessed the people with the Spirit of God. George Q. Cannon & Joseph F. Smith spoke at some length. p.m., Lorenzo Snow was the first speaker. Truth is a knowledge of things past and present and future. We should live so that we know that our work is acceptable to God from day to day. Let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, finding Himself in the image of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. When we get to the other life, we should be able to look back on our acts here in this life with pleasure. Always do better today than done yesterday.

The United Order: There will be a time when you nor I nor any other Latter Day Saint, will be satisfied with any other arrangement. God bless you, my brothers and sisters. Amen.

J. G. Grant said, “I desire only to be tried so far as is necessary to prepare me for eternal life. In regard to tithing, many will compromise with the Lord for 25 or 50 ¢ on the dollar.

F.D. Richards: In early days when we embraced the gospel, we gave ourselves up to the Lord with all we possessed to forward His work. We have lived to see the work of the Lord grow from a few hundred to a few hundred thousand. The world today is as far apostatized from true business principles as we were in spiritual things. Let us train our generations today after us to do better than we are doing. Today there is too much sleepiness in the quorums. We should all wake up in regard to building up the Kingdom of God.

Came back to Thomson’s & had supper. Took a walk around a few blocks in northeast part of town. Counted 15 places with notices of sale posted up: mortgages the cause. The weather is cold and windy, looks some like storm. The people are just beginning to clear up their lots and make gardens.

April 7^th, partially clear and cool, didn’t attend forenoon meeting. Went to ticket office to get lay off at Brigham City. Did not succeed. Went with Morris Rosenbaum thru and viewed a candy factory and through McCormic Bldg, seven stories high. Had a good view of Salt Lake City. Attended afternoon Meeting. Was sick, with cramps in my stomach.

April 8^th, warmer. Some clouds. Feel better this morning. Went to Meeting 10 a.m. M.W. Merrels was the first speaker: A brother came to me for council. He was in debt. I said to him, do you pay your tithing? Well, no. Not strictly as I should. I said to him, pay your tithing strictly and honestly by being economical, cease to give mortgages on your homes, and turn to the Lord with full purpose of heart. And I promise the Latter Day Saints that they will be able to free themselves from debt.

J. W. Taylor: Sure the Lord will give no commandments except He prepares the way for its accomplishment. Nephi 28: 3^rd verse.

J. W. Kimball: The time is not far distant when the people of these United States will worship work more than money. We have hundreds of young men who are hanging around these cities and starving to death. I want to tell you, my brethren and sisters, that all is not well in Zion. For if you labor for money, we shall perish.

Joseph F. Smith, chapter 4 of Mosiah. (I did not take any notes, not having a seat that was suitable. I bought a “Pearl of Great Price”, 50 ¢ and a “Witness For God”, $1.50.) Don’t feel well today.

April 9^th, went to Priesthood Meeting, didn’t get a seat where I could hear very well, had good intentions. Walked around the streets awhile, went down and had a nice visit with Adolph Madsen.

Sunday April 10^th – Clear and very warm. Got to Meeting late. Rode down with the folks in buggy, they were going out over Jordan. Joseph F. Smith was speaking. Said his desk was filled with anonymous letters threatening vengeance and accusing him and Brother George Q. Cannon of things of which they were entirely innocent.

Walked around town visiting many places of interest. Back at 7 p.m.

April 11^th – Clear & quite warm. We went to the Temple and had our Second Anointings, also received them for my father and mother, and Father’s second wife, Amanda Melvina Perry. Went and visited an old friend and former neighbor, Angus McDonald. Found him in rather poor health, but full of ambition to perform the great mission he believes himself called to accomplish before his death.

April 12^th – cool and clear. Will go to the Temple again today. There was a very full house. We did not get through until about 5 o’clock p.m. and we were near the first that came out. Was not well, had a pain in my bowels all day. Trees are beginning to look green. Most of the people have got their gardens in. Flowers are blooming in profusion. Went through the Temple for Jefferson Lewis, was ordained by Apostle George Teasdale. Jennette went through for Sophronia Lewis.

April 13^th – Clear and warm. We are now in the Temple going through for Thomas Lewis, ordained by Apostle Teasdale. Jennette went through for Pamelia Tippets. Got through at 4 p.m., went down and had supper with Carry G. Williams, Mr. Thomson’s daughter. Has been very warm today.

April 14^th – Still clear and warm. Went to the Temple. Went through for Seth Lewis, was ordained by Bro. W.A. Burton. Jennette went for Hannah Brown Lewis. Had father, his brother Alva & his sisters, Caroline and Pamelia, sealed to their parents. Got through at 4 p.m. Went up to Thomson’s and had dinner. The first day, Tuesday, there was near 300 people went through. The next two days, Wednesday and Thursday there was about 200 each day.

April 15^th – Very warm and clear. Started for Brigham City at 8 a.m. Got there about 10:20. Stopped at Sister Rosenbaum’s. Gave an order to W.W. Craighead for shrubbery, $15.15. It is very warm today. Gardens are just beginning to come up. Apricots are in bloom. Peaches are mostly killed in lower part of town. Gooseberries, strawberries, currants, etc. are just ready to bloom. Lucern is nice and green, small grain is mostly in & looks well. Went up to P. Sorensen’s & stayed all night. Looks like it will rain. Wind from east.

April 16^th – Partially clear & very warm. Walter came up and we all went home with him. Had dinner & then took a walk over the farm. His grain is all in and looks nice. Lucern is near 6 inches high. He will have a good crop of peaches unless something happens to prevent.

Sunday April 17^th – Cooler. Stayed overnight at Walter’s. The old place looks dismal. Everything is going to ruin. Started back to Brigham City. Called at Uncle Alonzo Perry’s. Him and Aunt Betsy are living together. They are getting old but are quite well and hearty. Had dinner at P. Sorensen’s then went to Meeting in the new Tabernacle. After Meeting went through and viewed the building from top to bottom. It is a grand building, having all modern conveniences of lighting & heating.

Brigham City is very beautiful. It may well be termed, The City Of Beautiful Homes. I had great joy in meeting many old friends with which I had been associated for years. Went down & had supper with Sister Rosenbaum. Boarded the cars for home at 11:15 p.m., traveled all night.

April 18^th – Got home at 8:30 a.m. Found all well. The ground is ready to begin seeding. Plenty of squirrels in sight. The schoolhouse lot was fenced today. Am sick again.

April 19^th – Clear and warm. Went up to the farm, found everything all right.

April 20^th, began raining in the night, rained most of the day.

April 21^st, looks like clearing off. Went fishing, caught 2 large suckers. Harrison went to Montpelier, got Frank and the shrubbery from Brigham City. Paid freight, 75 ¢ & storage on trunk, 65 ¢.

April 22^nd – Rain last night. Cooler. Had some manure hauled on lot. Worked some on fence.

April 23^rd, went up to farm and dug parsnips.

April 24^th – Sunday – Clear. Quite warm. Went to Meeting.

April 25^th – Clear and warm. Went up to the farm. Fixed a gun for Smart and one for Jed. Are now ready to begin seeding. Squirrels quite thick.

April 26^th – Hard south wind. Joey’s stackyard burned up today, lost hay and straw, $30.00, stables & other stuff burnt, $25.00.

April 27^th – North wind. Cooler. Set raspberries, gooseberries, blackberries, and a few dewberries, and planted some lettuce.

April 28^th, Cold. It froze some last night. Lucern and fall grain is growing nicely. Set strawberries, planted radishes, etc.

Apr. 29^th, cloudy & showers. Planted cabbage in the frame.

Apr. 30^th, cool. Planted onions. Dan Mills took dinner at the farm.

May 1^st – Snowed some last night. Fast Day. Went to Meeting. Tried to settle a difficulty between Dan Rowley and A. Rolph. Thought we had succeeded, but they got into a quarrel going home and made the breach wider.

May 2^nd – Snowing by spells. Folks all went to a May Day Celebration. I don’t feel well today. There is a dance tonight.

May 3^rd, ground is covered with snow this morning & still snowing. Cool.

May 4^th, still snowing, melts as fast as it falls.

May 5^th, froze quite hard last night. Partly clear.

May 6^th, clear this morning, still light frost. Planted peas.

May 7^th – Rain last night. Cloudy. Got a calf out of the well that had fallen in & drowned a few days ago. Wrote notices of sale for stray horses.

May 8^th Sunday – Partially clear. Went to Meeting.

May 9^th, clear & warm. Sent an order to Browning Bros. for 2 guns.

May 10^th, sent an order to Brownings for two more guns.

May 11^th – Partly clear. Finished planting garden. Radishes, lettuce, onions are up. Planted potatoes. Warm. May 12^th, sharpened 2 plows. Windy & warm. Went to the river.

May 13^th, went to the farm. Let Bacon have 360# of wheat @ $1.50. Light showers.

May 14^th, cloudy. Harrison sowed some oats on Scofield’s land.

Sunday, May 15^th – Warm. Went to Meeting down at McCammon with A Rolph, H.A. Dunn, Jennette going with us. Had a good meeting. No men at home.

May 16^th, partly clear. Worked on lot.

May 17^th, ground is covered with snow.

May 18^th, cloudy & some rain.

19^th, rain & snow, ground thoroughly soaked. Harrison raised the large part of his house.

May 20^th, froze quite hard last night, looks like clearing off.

May 21^st – Heavy frost last night. South wind.

May 22^nd, Sunday, warmed, some rain. Went to Meeting. May 23^rd, light rain from the north. Cold the 24^th. Stormy.

May 25^th, rained slowly all day. Found the calves that had been gone several days. Boys sold Bill and Pett for 1200 ft. of lumber.

May 26^th, partly clear. Started to plant potatoes.

May 27^th – Marked and docked lambs, 12 in number. Planted potatoes.

May 28^th – Rain all night and most of the day.

29^th, light frost. Went to Meeting.

May 30^th, cloudy, showers, cool, frost at night.

May 31^st, partially clear & cool. Sent another order to Browning Bro. for 500 cartridges and 50 shells.

June 1^st, 1898 – Partially clear & warmer. Heavy south wind, turned to the north at night, very cold.

June 2^nd, cold north wind all day, a storm at night.

June 3^rd, ground white with snow this morning. Cold north wind. Had a calf die last night, bloated on grass in lot.

June 4^th – Clear & warmer. Sharpened plow, planted potatoes in upper end of field. Showers.

Fifth, went to Meeting.

Sixth, cloudy & showers. Finished planting potatoes, started for corn, etc.

Seventh, castrated lambs.

The 8^th – Still clear. Warmer. Got ready to plant corn. Planted beans, cultivated strawberries.

June 9^th, planted sweet corn, squashes, beans, peas & coffee peas.

June 10^th, harrowed potatoes. Cultivated peas and s. berries. Finished planting corn, squashes, etc.

June 11^th, showers. Hunted squirrels.

Jun. 12^th, clear. No meeting. Conference at Paris. The boys went.

June 13^th, went to the farm, started to break, cleaned ditches, etc., showers, everything is growing nicely.

June 14^th – Clear and warm. Strawberries beginning to bloom quite freely.

June 15^th, clear and warm. All vegetation making rapid growth. Began watering the lucern. Set cabbage in lot.

June 16^th, very hot. Went to farm and hoed the garden.

June 17^th, watered the s. berries. They are now in full bloom. They have not been damaged but very little by the frost this season.

une 18^th, hoed part of the day. The chokecherries are now in bloom. Everything looks well.

Sunday, Jun. 19^th – Went to Meeting. Harrison watering the lucern. Sent an order to Browning Bros. for $20.00.

June 20^th, Harrison still is watering in the lower end of the field.

June 21^st, hot and dry.

22^nd, cloudy & warm. Worked on the strawberries.

June 23^rd, shower. Went to farm. Squirrels are doing considerable damage. My mother is quite sick.

June 24^th, heavy rain last night. Held Religion Class.

June 25^th – Clearing off. Mother was very sick last night, had to be up most of the night with her. Went to the farm. Harrison brang the word that Mother was worse. She was dead when I got home. She died at 6:40 p.m., June 25^th, 1898.

June 27^th – Had three pans of dough scattered for squirrels. It looks now as if the squirrels were going to take all our wheat. Cultivated some early potatoes.

June 28^th – Mother was buried today. The funeral held at Meeting House at 2 p.m. W. Clark, F.M. Winters, & H.A. Lewis being speakers. Was a full house. Twenty-five wagons and carriages accompanied the remains to the graveyard. Walter and Deilie got here in time for the funeral.

June 29^th – Cool. Went up to the farm.

June 30^th, quite hard frost last night. Did no damage to the farm.

July 1^st – Cool all day, frost at night. Was sick. Stayed at Mary’s

July 2^nd – Picked first ripe strawberries. Started to Soda. Warmer.

July 3^rd – Got back home at 8 p.m., heavy south wind all day.

July 4^th – Cool. Some clouds. Went to the farm. Squirrels doing a great deal of damage.

July 5^th, got ready to cut hay. Had first mess of strawberries on the fourth.

July 6^th, warm. Started to cut day.

7^th, was sick, had to stay at Mary’s.

July 8^th, worked some in garden, cultivated corn, picked 9 quarts of s. berries. Harrison hauled first load of hay.

Sunday, July 9^th – Finished watering the berries. Harrison hauled hay.

July 10^th – Went to farm and changed water on the raspberries, picked strawberries. Harrison and Emma went to Ovid.

July 17^th – Have been up to the farm all week, tending and shipping berries. Didn’t write any being so busy early and late. Berry crop is good this year but prices are lower than ever before. All is well at present. We are getting along pretty well with our hay, have been bothered some by showers.

July 18^th – Sold 132# of berries for $8.50, picked 7 cases more (all double).

July 19^th, sent 7 ½ cases to Montpelier this morning, are picking between 200 and 300 quarts a day. Light showers.

July 20^th – Some warmer. Floating clouds. Sent 8 cases of berries to Montpelier, picked 5 more, sent 2 down home to sell for cheese.

July 21^st – Sent 7 cases to Montpelier, sold 25# to T. Williams for cheese.

July 22^nd, south wind, warmer. Cloudy. Looks like rain. Sent 11 ½ cases of berries to Montpelier. Heavy shower & some hail p.m. Done no damage.

July 23^rd – Clear and hot. Sent 9 cases to Montpelier, sold 59# for cheese, & beets & onions, 70 ¢.

July 24^th, put water on berries.

July 25^th – Sent 10 cases to Montpelier & took 4 cases to Hans. Went down home and rested.

The 24^th was celebrated today. I didn’t attend.

July 26^th, clear and hot. Sent 5 cases to Montpelier & one down home. Went down and met with Brothers Bee and Hess to settle a difficulty between two brothers. Stayed in town overnight.

July 27^th – Clear and hot. Sent 7 cases to Montpelier, 8 ½ cases to W. Skinner for cheese.

July 28^th, sold 77- ½# for $5.00, sent 4 ½ cases to Montpelier.

July 29^th, sent 5 cases to Montpelier & took one down home. Let Hans have 3 & sent 1 ½ to Joey’s. Weather very hot.

July 30^th, sent 5 cases to Montpelier and sent one down home. Will not have any more berries to sell.

July 31^st, Sunday, went to Meeting, small attendance. Joey and Harrison got a new mower yesterday.

August 1^st, 1898 – Picked 6 cases of berries, 2 for Burgoyne & 2 for Haddock, sold one and one left to send off.

Aug. 2^nd – Sent 2 ½ cases to town. Put water on the berries. Raspberries are ripening fast. Began hauling hay on job field.

Aug. 3^rd – Raspberries are ripening fast. Clear. Windy.

Aug. 4^th, light shower. Sent 5 ½ cases of berries to town, had to bring back 1 ½.

Aug. 5^th, sent 7 cases to town, sold 5 to one man @ $1.65 per case, sent two home.

Aug. 6^th, sent 5 ½ cases home, pd one for picking.

Sunday Aug. 7^th – Went to Meeting. Good meeting, had good instructions.

Aug. 8^th, was sick abed all day. Received orders for 4 cases of berries & 2 of currants. Could not fill them. Weather very hot.

Aug. 9^th, am still feeling quite poorly. Harrison cut Hans’s barley, cut a small piece for Dave on the sixth.

Aug. 10^th – Picked a case of raspberries. Feel better tonight.

Aug. 11^th – Picked a case of s. berries and sent home. Very hot.

Aug. 12^th, cloudy and windy. Still feeling better. Went to the river fishing. Caught a nice mess, gave some to Mary.

Aug. 13^th, fixed a gun for Ors. Went home at night.

Sunday, Aug. 14^th – Clear, windy and hot. Showers.

Monday 15^th – Showers.

Sixteenth, cloudy & cooler. Cut fall grain, what the squirrels had left, about 1 ½ acres. Picked raspberries.

Aug. 17^th – Finished picking raspberries, gave a basket full to Mary, about 6 quarts, and took 12 quarts to Mrs. Rolph.

Aug. 18^th – Came up and changed water on the potatoes.

Aug. 19^th – Harrison cut spring wheat. Nettie picked the first beans, have had 2 or 3 messes of squashes. Aug. 20^th, put water on the s. berries. South wind & showers.

Aug. 21^st, Sunday, didn’t go to Meeting, have got the whooping cough.

Aug. 22^nd, clear and hot.

Was sick the 23^rd, felt bad all day. Clear and hot.

Aug. 24^th, felt some better. Stock was in field, done some damage to lucern.

Aug. 25^th – Still very hot, no wind. Went hunting a heifer, found her, & fished some.

Aug. 26^th, don’t feel well today, am so very weak.

Aug. 27^th – Partially clear. Got first mess of corn, have had cucumbers

Aug. 28^th, Sunday – Went to Meeting. Warm.

Aug. 29^th, boys went to Bennington to start threshing. Showers. Frank got home yesterday.

Aug. 30^th – Rain most of the night, still cloudy. Showers most of the day.

Aug. 31^st, south wind, cooler. Showers. Weeded strawberries.

September 1^st, 1898 – Began harrowing ground for fall grain. Put up a grist mill.

Sept 2^nd – Heavy shower with hail. Joey went to the mill.

Sept 3^rd – Clear. Frost on low lands. None on farm to speak of. Started to plow on summer fallow, weeds too large to sow grain on. Quite cool today.

Sunday, Sept. 4 – Fast Day. Pd. 25# flour for offering, didn’t go to meeting. Quite cool. Frost every night in town.

Monday 5^th, fixed a gun and wheel on grain drill. Joey and boys hauled wheat.

Sept. 6^th – Clear. Frost. Joey cut lucern.

Seventh, clear, warm. Was sick.

Sept. 8^th – Harrison went on machine last night.

Sept. 9^th, clear, cool. Sent Maurice to haul grain for Sister Robertson.

Sept. 10^th, heavy frost last night, everything killed on the farm, finished hauling hay on farm.

Sept. 11^th, was sick all night. Heavy frost. Harrison finished cutting grain and went back to Bennington to thresh.

Sunday 12^th – Have been sick all day. No Meeting, so many at Conference.

Monday, 13^th Sept., clear, some warmer. Spent the day with Bro. Welch. Feel some better. Began using Viavi at night, my stomach feels very bad. At home all day. Jennette gone to Nounon. (*Note: Viavi is a patent medicine that has been found to contain golden seal extract and cocoa butter.)

Sept. 14^th – Fixed a bin for wheat, got Roxey home with her calf.

Sept. 15^th – Partially clear. Put water on the berries. Joey finished mowing second crop of lucern yesterday. Sept. 17^th, warm, went to the farm, took Jennette to Mary’s. Turned water off, and spent the day with Mary and Hans.

Sept. 19^th, very warm. Went to Montpelier with Mary, sent 10 fruit boxes to P. Sorensen, 6 large & 4 small ones. I pd. 40 ¢ for freight. Sent $10.00 to buy fruit from P. Sorensen.

Sept. 20^th – Went to the farm. Joey finished hauling hay.

Sept. 21^st, still very warm, began hauling grain. South wind.

Sept. 22^nd, cloudy. Hard south wind. Finished hauling grain. Joey went to Montpelier for fruit. Paid F. Hanson for berry cases, $18.85, for sugar, $2.50, freight on fruit, $4.75, and extra $1.25 on bike.

Sept. 23^rd – Went to farm. Maurice helped Dave haul his hay.

Sept. 24^th, gathered onions and plowed some.