Solomon A. Stein (1863-1919)
1873-1924 Diary
Transcribed by Mary Nicklas for the Tavistock & District Historical Society

Diary of Solomon A. Stein started in Canada when he was 10 years old
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January 1873
It was raining all day that we could not do anything outside
It was poody cold and Father and my two uncles were chopping wood and I drawed with
my dog and fell on my knee and hurt myself.
It was snowing and Father and William were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
In the forenoon Father and William were chopping and Peter was drawing wood and in the
afternoon we had company
It was snowing and Father drawed 25 bushels of wheat to Tavistock and got $1.19
per bushel and in the after-noon they all three were chopping.
It was a nice day and they were chopping and drawing wood
It was stormy day and Father and William were chopping and Peter was drawing wood
In the afternoon Peter and William were chopping wood
It was a nice day and in the fore-noon they all three were chopping and in the after-noon
Wm. and Father were chopping and Peter was drawing wood
In the forenoon it was snowing and in the afternoon it was nice and we were in S. School
It was a nice day and William & Father were chopping and Peter was drawing wood
It was a nice day and Will & Father were chopping and Peter drawed wood
It was a cold day and Will & Father were chopping and Peter drawed wood
It was a cold day and Will & father were chopping & Peter drawed wood
It was a nice day and Will & Father were chopping and Peter was drawing wood
February 1873
Father and Werner Stein went for boards for grandmother and Will & Peter chopped wood
We were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and in the fore-noon they all three were chopping and in the afternoon
Peter & Will were chopping and father was going to get some chop stuff made
It was a nice day and in the forenoon Father was going to help Wildfongs' to make chop
stuff and in the afternoon Will was chopping and Peter was drawing wood and Father was in
Tavistock
It was a nice day and Father and William were chopping and Peter was drawing wood
Father fetched boards for grand mother and Peter and William were chopping wood
It was a nice day and they all did the same as the other day
It was a nice day and Father was going to make chop stuff by Wildfongs and William was
chopping wood
We were in Church and S. School
It was poody cold and Father and William were chopping and Peter was drawing wood
It was a nice day and Father and William were chopping and Peter was drawing wood
It was a nice day and Father and William were chopping and Peter was drawing wood
It was poody cold and Father and William were chopping and Peter was drawing wood
It was a nice day and William was chopping and Peter was drawing wood and Father was in
Tavistock to get money for the wood
It was a nice day and William was chopping and Father and Mother were in Woodstock and



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Peter was lying in bed
It was a nice day and were in Church and S. School
February 1873
It was a nice day and Father and William were chopping and Peter was drawing wood
It was a hot day and Father was drawing sawlogs and William was chopping wood and
Peter was lying in bed
It was a nice day and in the fore-noon Father was drawing sawlogs and William was
chopping wood and in the after-noon Father was going to get some oats and stones by
Werner Stein and William was chopping and Peter was sitting in the house
It was a nice day and in the fore-noon Father was drawing Sawlogs and William was
chopping and Peter was sitting in the house and in the afternoon I and Mother were drawing
chips and Peter was pokeing by the Barn
Peter was drawing wood and Father was chopping and William was in Tavistock
It was a stormy day and Peter was drawing wood and Father and William were chopping
It was a story day and they were in Church & S. School
It was a stormy day and Peter & William were sitting in the house & Father was in Tavistock
It was a very cold day and they all three were making Sawlogs
It was a nice day and Peter was drawing Sawlogs and Father and Wiliam were chopping
wood and Sawlogs
It was snowing and Father was sitting in the house and Peter & William were wrestling and
William got Peter down & Peter hurt his foot so that he could not do anything for a long time
It was a a nice day and I & Father were drawing Sawlogs and William was chopping and
Peter was sitting in the house
March 1873
It was a nice day and Father was in Hamburg with a load of lumber and William was in Berlin
and Peter was sitting in the house
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It as a stormy day and William was in Berlin and Father was drawing wood and Peter was
sitting in the house
It was a poody cold and Father was drawing wood and William and Peter were sitting in the
house
It was a nice day and in the fore-noon Father and William were chopping and in the afternoon Father was drawing and William was chopping wood and Peter was sitting in the house
It was a nice day and William was chopping and Father was on the sale and Peter was
sitting in the house
It was a nice day and William was chopping and Father was drawing wood and Peter was
sitting in the house
It was poody cold and in the fore-noon I and Father were drawing wood and William was
chopping and Peter was pokeing by the Barn and in the afternoon Father and Mother were
in Church and William was away and Peter made an axe handle
It was a nice day and they were in Church
It was a nice day and in the fore-noon Father & William were chopping and Peter was
drawing wood and in the after-noon I & Father were drawing sawlogs and Peter & William
were chopping
It was a nice day and Father drawed headings and Peter & William made Headings
It was a nice day and Peter & William made Headings and Father Drawed them
It was a nice day and they worked the same as the other day
It was a nice day and Peter & William Fetched Grand Father from John Amachers and
Father chopped a little bit of wood


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It was raining nearly all day and we put straw in the barn
In the fore-noon we were all sitting in the house and in the after-noon we were in S. School
They were chopping wood and drawing wood and chips
It was snowing and in the fore-noon Peter & William were chopping and Father was drawing
a little wood and rail timber and in the after noon Peter was chopping and Wm and Father
March 1873
were drawing rails.
It was nice in the forenoon and Peter was chopping and in the after-noon Father and Peter
were chopping and drawing rail timber
It was not a very nice day and they were cleaning wheat for a grist and William was sitting
in the house
It was a poody nice day and Father was by Werner Stein sawing wood and Peter was
chopping and William was sitting in the house
It was a nice day and Father made chop stuff by Wildfongs and Peter was chopping half of
the day and William was sitting in the house
It was a cold day and in the after-noon we were in S. School
It was poody cold and Father was drawing wood and Peter and Dietrich Wettlaufer were
chopping
It was a nice day and Father and Peter and Dietrich Wettlaufer were working at the wood,
and William was sitting in the house
It was a stormy day and in the fore-noon they all four were sitting in the house and in the
after-noon Father and Peter and Dietrich were chopping and Wm was sitting in the house
It was middlen nice and Father was drawing sawlogs and Peter and Dietrich were chopping
and Wm was sitting in the house
It was a nice day and Father was in Hamburg with a load of lumber and Peter and Dietrich
were chopping
It was raining and Father and Peter were in Tavistock and William was sitting in the house
We were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Peter and Mother were in Woodstock and I and Father were tapping
trees and William was sitting in the house
April 1873
It was middlen cold and in the forenoon I & Father and Mother were in Tavistock and Peter
went to Henry Shaver and in the afternoon Father and I tapped trees and Wm was sitting in
the house
It was middlen cold and Father and I were tapping trees and Wm was sitting in the house
It was a nice day and Father & I were drawing wood and Mother and Wm were cooking
molasses
It was a nice day and Father and Mother were in Woodstock and Wm was chopping wood
In the fore-noon it was nice and Father and Wm were chopping and I and Mother were cooking molasses and in the after-noon it was raining and Father and Wm were cooking
It was middlen nice and in the fore-noon Father was by Quehls and in the after-noon I and
Father and Wm were in S. School
It was raining and Father and Wm were chopping wood and dunging and fixing the stables
It was raining nearly all day and Father and William were chopping by the Barn
It was raining all day and William and Father were cleaning oats and cutting straw
It was a nice day and Wm was chopping wood and Father was at Caisters Sale
It was middlen nice and in the fore-noon we were in church and in the after-noon Father was
on the funeral
It was a nice day and Father was sawing wood by Werner Stein and I and Mother were cooking molasses and Wm and Dietrich were chopping wood
It was a nice day and were in Church and S. School


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It was a nice day and Father was planting trees and I was by Werner Steins
It was rainy and Father and Dietrich were chopping but in the after-noon Dietrich went home
and I and Father were splitting rails
It was a nice day and Father and Dietrich were chopping wood
It was a nice day and Father and Dietrich were chopping
It was poody cold and Father and Dietrich were splitting rails
April 1873
It was poody cold and Father and Dietrich were chopping and Mother was by Quehls
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It snowed one inch deep snow and Father and Dietrich were chopping wood
It was a nice day and Father and Dietrich were drawing wood with the sleigh
It was a nice day and Father and Dietrich were fixing fence and Mother was cooking
molasses and I was in School
It was a nice day and Dietrich was chopping and Father and Mother were in Woodstock and
I was in School
It was snowing and Father was by Wildfongs crushing grain and Dietrich was chopping
In the fore-noon Father and Dietrich were fixing fence and in the after-noon Father and
Dietrich were scraping out a cellar for Grandma
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Mother and I and Grandfather were by John Amacher and Father and
Dietrich were digging a cellar for Grandma
It was a nice day and Father and Mother were fixing fence and drawing stones
It was a nice day and Father was sowing wheat and Mother was dragging and Annie cooked
1 gallon of molasses.
May 1873
It was a nice day and Father was sowing oats and Mother was dragging and I was in School
It was pretty nice and sometimes raining too, and I and Father were splitting rails
It was middlen nice and Father and Dietrich were fixing fence, chopping wood, and plowing
It was a nice day and we were in S. School
It was a nice day and Father was sowing peas and Dietrich was chopping
It was a nice day and Father sowed nearly 7 bushels of wheat and I was harrowing and
Dietrich was chopping and in the after-noon I & Father and Dietrich laid the foundation for
Grandma's house
It was raining all day and Father was in Tavistock and Dietrich was by Neargarths
It was a nice day and Father was by John Amachers getting Grandfathers stove
It was a nice day and Father and Dietrich were chopping and I and Mother and Annie were
drawing chips
It was middlen nice and we were working different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church and Sunday School
It was a nice day and Father was plowing and I was in School
It was middlen cold and Father was plowing and sowing and I was in School
It was a nice day and Father was plowing and sowing and harrowing and I was in School
It was a nice day and we finished sowing oats we sowed in all 11 bushels
It was a nice day and Father was plowing and in the after-noon he was cultivating for Quehls
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood and chips
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father and Mother and Annie were cleaning up in the new shop
It was a nice day and Father and Mother and Annie were working in the new shop
It was a nice day and Father put in a drain for Grandmother and I and Mother and Annie were
drawing chips
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in the after-noon Father was in Shakespeare on



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John Amachers court
It was a nice day and we were logging and making fence
It was a nice day and we made fence and in the afternoon Father was on Hitzeroths raisen
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were plowing and planting potatoes
It was a nice day and Father was harrowing and drilling and in the after-noon Father and C.
Helmuth were logging
May 1873
It was a nice day and we were cleaning up in the follow
It was a nice day but in the afternoon we had a nice shower of rain and we were cleaning up
in the follow
It was a nice day and Father and Johnny Staebler were cleaning up in the follow
It was a nice day and we were working in the follow
June 1873
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were working in the follow and washing the sheep
It was a nice day and we were plowing and burning in the follow
It was a middlen nice day and Father was sowing oats
It was a nice day and Father was harrowing and shore the sheep
It was a nice day and Father was harrowing and I was in School
It was a nice day and Father was plowing and fixing fence
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father was plowing the turnip land
Father was working a little at the turnip land and in the afternoon it was raining
It was a nice day and Father sowed turnip seed
It was a nice day and Father finished sowing turnip seed
It was a nice day and Father fetched Katie from Shakespeare and drawed rails
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we made fence and in the afternoon we were in Church
we had quarter meeting
It was a nice day and we all were on the quarter meeting
It was a nice day and Father was working on the road
It was a nice day and Father and Mother were on John Lingelbach's wife's funeral
It was a nice day and Father was working on the road
It was a nice day and we were on the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were on the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were on the camp meeting
It was nice in the fore-noon but in the afternoon it was raining and we were on the camp
meeting
It was a nice day and Father fetched the things home from the camp meeting bush
It was a nice day and I and Father drawed chips to Tavistock
It was a nice day and I and Father hauled chips to Tavistock
It was a nice day and Father went to Innerkip for a load of lime for Grand Ma
It was a nice day and Father was on Werner Stein's raising he was raising a shed
It was a nice day and Father and Annie and Katie were in Woodstock
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were working by the barn and raising by Wildfongs
July 1873
It was a nice day and Father was in the Mill and in the store
It was a poody nice day and I was in Tavistock and Father had a sore leg
It was a nice day and Father mowed a little grass and then weavers came
It was a nice day and Father was working different things


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It was a nice day and Father was on Henry Smith's raising
It was a nice day and I and Father and Mother were in Lisbon by Wm. Baltzer's
It was a nice day and Father and John Pletsch were mowing grass
It was a nice day and Father and John Pletsch were mowing grass
It was a nice day and we drawed hay in the barn
It was a poody nice day and Father mowed grass and plowed potatoes
It was a nice day and Father drawed hay in for grandmother and for us
It was a nice day and father was mowing grass and I and Mother took Katie to Zurbriggs
July 1873
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father was working in grandmothers house
It was a nice day and Father was mowing grass and I and Mother and Annie were picking
raspberries by Majors
It was a nice day and Father was mowing grass
It was a nice day and Father was mowing grass and we picked raspberries
It was a poody nice day and we drawed hay in the barn
It was a nice day and we drawed in our last hay
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father drawed cheese to Stratford
It was a nice day and Father was working for grandmother and I and grandfather were by
John Amachers getting cherries
It was a nice day and Father was working for grandmother and Mother and Annie picked
raspberries
It was a nice day and I was working in grandmothers house and the others were working
different things
It was a nice day and Father drawed two loads of boards to Shakespeare
It was a nice day and Father was cradeling fall wheat
It was a nice day and in the afternoon we were in Sunday School
It was a nice day and Father was cradeling fall wheat
It was a nice day and Father was cradeling fall wheat
It was a nice day and Father was cradeling fall wheat
It was a middlen nice day and Father and Mother drawed in two loads of fall wheat
August 1873
It was a nice day and Father was cradeling fall wheat
It was a middlen nice day and we were working the same as the other day
I was a nice day and we were in Church and in the after-noon we were on Gischler's funeral
It was a nice day and Father was cradeling fall wheat
It was a nice day and Father cradled our last fall wheat
It was a nice day and we drawed in our last fall wheat
It was a nice day and Father raked our fall wheat stubbles and drawed in the rakins
It was a nice day and we got ready for threshing
It was a nice day and we threshed our fall wheat we got 128 bushels
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father was cradeling oats and Annie and Mother were pulling peas
It was a nice day and Father and Mother and Annie were pulling peas and in the afternoon it
was raining and I and Father were dunging the stables
It was a middlen nice day and Father and Mother and Annie were pulling peas
It was a nice day and we were away
It was a nice day and we were drawing in oats and peas
It was a middlen nice day and Father was cradeling wheat and drawing in peas
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School


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It was a nice day and we were drawing in peas
It was a nice day and we were binding wheat by Wildfongs
It was a nice day and Wildfong was reaping our wheat
It was a nice day and we were drawing in and shocking wheat and Annie was by Wildfongs
It was a nice day and we were cradeling and drawing in oats
It was a nice day and Father was cradeling oats and drawed in our last wheat
It was a nice day and in the afternoon we were in S. School
It was a middlen nice day and Father was away and bought a threshmachine for $200.00
It was a nice day and we drawed in our last oats
August 1873
It was a nice day and Father was making fence
It was a nice day and Father was cultivatoring
It was a nice day and Father was cultivatoring and burning stumps
It was a nice day and I was dragging and Father was burning stumps
It was a little rainy and they were in Church and S. School and I was sick
September 1873
It was poody windy and Father was plowing
It was poody nice and Father was plowing
It was a nice day and Father was plowing
It was a nice day and Father was sowing fall wheat and I was dragging
It was a nice day and Father was threshing on the 8 line with our machine
It was a nice day and Father was threshing on the 8 line with our machine
It was a rainy day and we all except I were on the quarter meeting in the old church
It was a nice day and Father was drawing sand
It was a nice day and Father was cradeling oats in the new chop
It was a nice day and Father was threshing on the 8th line
It was a nice day and Father was threshing on the 8th line
It was a nice day and Father was threshing on the 8th line in the fore-noon and in the afternoon he came home and drawed in a load of oats
It was a poody cold day and Father was cradeling oats
It was a poody cold day and we were in Church & S. School
It was a nice day and Father was by Werner Stein butchering a steer
It was a nice day and we were drawing in oats
It was a nice day and Father drawed a load of wheat to Tavistock
It was a nice day and Father went away threshing by Andrew Wilker with our machine
It was a nice day and Father was threshing by Andrew Wilker with our machine
It was a nice day and Werner Stein drawed in our last oats we had in the new chop which
we cleaned up in the Spring and Father was away threshing
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father was away threshing
It was a nice day and Father was away threshing
It was a nice day and we dug a few Potatoes
It was a nice day and we were threshing for G. Staebler
It was a nice day and we were threshing for Werner Stein
It was a nice day and I and Father were in Stratford and Mother and Annie were digging
potatoes
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father was on the Section of the railway meeting
It was a nice day and Father was away threshing
October 1873
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It was a nice day and Father was away threshing
It was a nice day and Father was away threshing
It was raining and Father came home with the machine
It was a nice day and we were on the quarter meeting by Lingelbachs
It was a nice day and we were away buying apples
It was a nice day and Father was threshing by Neargarth
It was a nice day and Father was threshing for Neargarth
It was a nice day and Father was threshing for Neargarth
It was a nice day and we were threshing for our self
It was a nice day and we were threshing for our self
October 1873
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father was threshing for Helmuths
It was a nice day and we made cider and boiled apple butter and drawed dung
It was a nice day and Father was working a lot of things
It was a nice day and Father was away threshing
It was a nice day and we were working a lot of things
It was a nice day and we were threshing peas with the colts
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was poody cold and we were drawing dung
It was a cold day and we butchered a steer
It was a nice day and Father was on Andrew Wilkers Sale
It was poody rainy and Father was working a lot of things
It was poody nice and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were drawing dung
It was a middlen nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a middlen nice day and we were plowing
It was a snowy day and we were plowing
It was a poody nice day and we were on Christian Jagie's funeral
It was a poody nice day and we were pulling turnips
It was a cold day and Father was plowing
November 1873
It was a poody nice day and Father was plowing
It was raining and we were in Church and S. School
It was a poody nice day and we were pulling turnips
It was a nice day and we were pulling turnips
It was a nice day and we were pulling turnips
It was a nice day and we were plowing and piling up wood
I was a nice day and we were scoring wood
It was pretty rainy and Father was working different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was pretty cold and I and Father were in Woodstock. We took Annie to the Station she
went to Chicago
It was a nice day and Father looked for a hired man but he got none
It was a pretty nice day and Father was working different things
It was a winter day and Father was working different things
It was pretty nice and Father was in Ingersoll got a wheel for the thresh machine
It was a nice day and Father was threshing for T. Harrington
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father was by Staeblers butchering a cow
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It was a nice day and Father was digging stones in Wettlaufers bush
It was a nice day and we were digging stones in Wettlaufers bush
It was snowing and we were digging stones in Wettlaufers bush
It was a nice day and we were drawing stones and in the afternoon we were in Church we
had quarter meeting
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and Father was away threshing
It was a nice day and Father was away threshing
It was a nice day and Father was away threshing
It was pretty cold and Father was away threshing
It was a nice day and Father was away threshing
November 1873
It was a nice day and Father came home from threshing
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
December 1873
It was a snowy day and we were drawing wood and stones
It was a rainy day and Father was threshing a little by Adam Mohrs
It was raining and we were working different things
It was a stormy day and it bowed so many trees down and took the roofs of barns etc. and
we were splitting rails
It was a pretty nice day and Father was threshing for Adam Mohr
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Makle's
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father was threshing for Makle and was on the funeral of Jacob
Wagner
It wa a nice day and we were scoring wood for the barn
It was a nice day and we were scoring wood for the barn
It was a nice day and we were threshing for Helmuth
It was a rainy day and Daniel was sawing for Solomon Weaver
It was a stormy day and we were chopping wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were scoring wood for the barn
It was a nice day and we were butchering for Werner Stein
It was a nice day and we were scoring wood
It was a nice day and we were threshing for Helmuth
It was a nice day and we were scoring wood
It was a pretty nice day and we were scoring wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were scoring wood
It was a nice day and Father was drawing timber for the barn
It was a nice day and Father was drawing timber
It was a nice day and we were fixing the Christmas tree in Church
It wa a nice day and Father was drawing timber
It was a nice day and Father was threshing by Werner Stein
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold day and we were butchering
It was a nice day and Father was drawing timber
It was a nice day and Father was drawing timber
January 1874
It was a nice day and they were in Church and I and Daniel Kreh were in Downie and we had
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It was a nice day and Father and Mother were by Staeblers
It was a nice day and Mother was by Staeblers and I and Father were pokeing at home
It was so warm that the snow went all away and we had to drive with the wagons and we
were on Staeblers funeral.
It was a nice day and we were chopping wood
It was snowing and Father and Mother were on John Lingelbach's funeral
It was a nice day and Father was working different things
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Werner Stein
It was a nice day and Father was in Shakespeare and by John Amachers
It was a pretty nice day and Father was in Woodstock
It was a nice day and Mother was in Church there was no S. School
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Helmuth
January 1874
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Wildfongs
It was a nice day and Father was in Woodstock with scandlings
It was a cold day and Father was in Woodstock with scandlings
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Werner Stein
It was a nice day and Father and Mother were in Woodstock with the cutter
It was a nice day and we were in Prayer meeting
It was a nice day and Father was drawing wood and Daniel was chopping
It was a nice day and Father was drawing wood and Daniel was chopping
It was a nice day and Father was drawing wood and Daniel was chopping
It was a nice day and Father was drawing wood and Daniel was chopping
It was raining and Daniel was threshing by Morlocks and Father was pokeing at home
It was a nice day and I and Father were digging stones on the 13th line
It was cold and Father was in Church there was no S. School
It was pretty cold and we were drawing stones
We were drawing stones
It was snowing and Father was drawing stones
It was a nice day and Father and Mother were on the funeral of Schroeder's Wife
It was a nice day and we were drawing stones
It was a nice day and we were drawing stones
February 1874
It was a nice day and we were in Church there was no S. School
It was a cold day and we were drawing stones
It was a nice day and we were drawing stones
It was a nice day and we were drawing stones
It was a nice day and we were drawing stones
It was a cold day and we were drawing stones
It was a nice day and we were drawing stones
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a rainy day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and Father was drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and we were chopping wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing sawlogs


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It was a nice day and Father was drawing sawlogs
It was a nice day and Father was drawing sawlogs
It was a snowy day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and we were drawing stones
It was a nice day and we were drawing stones
It was a nice day and we were drawing stones
It was a nice day and we were drawing stones
It was a nice day and we were drawing stones
It was a nice day and Father was away buying oats
March 1874
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and we were drawing timber for the Barn
March 1874
It was a nice day and we were drawing timber for the barn
It was a nice day and we were chopping wood
It was a nice day and we were chopping wood
It was a nice day and Father & Schultz were drawing rails & Sam Helmuth was splitting rails
It was a rainy day and in the after-noon Father and Schultz were drawing rails
It was a cold and stormy day and Father was in Church
It was a cold and stormy day and Father was by Wildfangs making chop stuff
It was a cold stormy day and Father was by Wildfangs making chop stuff
It was cold, stormy day and Sam Helmuth and Father were chopping wood
It was a cold and stormy day and Father was in the mill and Samuel Helmuth & Schultz
were chopping
It was a cold and stormy day and Sam and Schultz were chopping wood
It was a nice day and Sam was chopping wood and Father was drawing sawlogs
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and Sam & Schultz were chopping wood and I & Father were tapping trees
It was a nice day and I and Father were tapping trees and Schultz was chopping wood
It was a rainy day and we were skinning the cow that died
It was a nice day and we were cooking molasses
It was a nice day and we were cooking molasses
It was a nice day and we were cooking sugar
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a cold day and Father and Peter and Schultz were making fence and in the afternoon
Peter was cooking molasses
It was a nice day & Father and Sam were chopping and Peter was drawing logs for the barn
It was a nice day and Peter and Sam were sawing wood by Werner Stein and Father was
making fence
It was a rainy day and Father and Peter were chopping wood
It was a nice day and Father and Peter were sawing wood for grand mother
It was a cold day and Father was cooking molasses and Sam was chopping
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and Father and Sam were chopping
It was a nice day and Father and Sam were chopping and Peter was drawing wood
April 1874
It was a nice day and Father and Sam were chopping and Peter was drawing rails
It was a nice day and I and Father were in Stratford with Potatoes
It was a cold day and we were in Church (Good Friday)
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It was snowing and we were in Church (Easter)
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and Peter was drawing rails
It was a nice day and they were chopping wood
It was a nice day and Peter and Sam were chopping and I and Father were cooking sugar
It was a cold, stormy day and we were cooling molasses
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and we were chopping and drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were cooking molasses
It was a nice day and we were scoring wood
It was a nice day and we were scoring wood
It was a nice day and we were scoring wood
It was a nice day and we were on old Kleinknechts funeral
April 1874
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was thundering, lightning, and raining and Father was grafting trees
It was raining and we were working different things
It was a nice day and Father was plowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing and cooking molasses
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was raining and we were plowing and cooking molasses and making fence
It was a cold day and were in prayer meeting
It was a nice day and we were drawing stones
It was a nice day and we were plowing, drawing stones and cooking molasses
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing
May 1874
It was a nice day and we were sowing oats
It was a nice day and we were plowing and drawing rails with two teams
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and we were sowing wheat
It was a nice day and we were sowing oats
It was a nice day and we were harrowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing with two teams
It was a nice day and we were plowing, and sowing wheat
It was a nice day and we were plowing and harrowing
It was a nice day and we were in church in Zorra
It was a nice day and we were plowing with two teams
It was a nice day and we were sowing peas
It was a nice day and we were scrapering for the barn and plowing for potatoes
It was a nice day and we were in Church (Ascension day)
It was a nice day and we were scrapering and planting potatoes and washing the sheep
It was pretty cold and we were drawing wheat to Tavistock
It was raining and we were in Church
It was a nice day and we were scrapering and I was planting potatoes
It was a nice day and we were drawing sand and I was planting potatoes
It was a nice day and we were drawing sand and I was planting potatoes
It was a nice day and we were making fence
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and we were drawing sand


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It was raining and we were on the quarter meeting
It was a rainy day and we were scrapering
It was a nice day and Father was away for lime
It was a nice day and Father was away for lime
It was a nice day and the masons came and started the wall for our kitchen
It was a nice day and the masons finished the wall for our kitchen
It was a nice day and we were scoring wood for our kitchen
It was raining and we were in Church and S. School
June 1874
It was a nice day and the carpenters came and made our kitchen
It was a nice day and Father and the carpenters were working at our kitchen
It was a nice day and they were working at the kitchen
It was a nice day and they were working at the kitchen
It was a nice day and Father was away for boards and the carpenters were working at the
kitchen till noon
June 1874
It was a nice day and the masons came for making the barn wall
It was raining, thundering, lightning and hailing
It was a nice day and the masons were working at the barn wall
It was a nice day and the masons were working at the wall
It was a nice day and the masons were working at the wall
It was a nice day and the masons were working at the wall
It was a nice day and the masons were working at the wall
It was a nice day and the masons finished the barn wall
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we got ready for the raising
It was a nice day and we were raising up our barn
It was a nice day and we were working on the road
We were working on the road and in the after-noon it was raining
It was nice day and we were working on the road
It was a nice day and Father was away for boards
It was a nice day and we were in Church & S. School
It was a nice day and we began plowing the summer follow
It was a nice day and the carpenters came and were working at our barn & we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing
July 1874
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and I and Father and Katie and William Stein were in Woodstock
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and we drawed hay in our new barn and the carpenters went away


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It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and Father and Peter were mowing grass for grandmother
It was a nice day and we were in S. School
It was a nice day and we were working different things and Peter was sick
It was a nice day and we were drawing hay in by Grandmother
It was a nice day and we were drawing in hay
It was a nice day and we were mowing grass
It was a nice day and we were mowing grass
It was a hot day and we were drawing in hay
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were drawing sand and picked raspberries
It was a nice day and we were away for cherries
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and I and Father were in Woodstock with scandlings
It was a nice day and Father was away for boards and I and Mother and Mary and Susanna
Amacher were picking berries
July 1874
It was a nice day and we were on the quarter meeting in Hamburg
It was raining and we were on the quarter meeting in Hamburg
It was a nice day and we were drawing sand
It was a nice day and I and Father and Mother were in Ellice picking huckle berries
It was a nice day and we were drawing sand
It was a nice day and Peter was drawing sand and Father was working at the kitchen
It was a nice day and we were drawing sand and cut a little fall wheat after supper
August 1874
It was a nice day and we were cutting fall wheat
It was a nice day and we were at the quarter meeting in South Easthope
It was a nice day and Father was in Woodstock getting the machine fixed and we cut our
last fall wheat
It was a nice day & Peter was plowing at the summer follow & Father was pokeing at home
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Helmuth with our machine
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Henry Gehrhardt with our machine
It was a nice day and we were cradleing oats and plowing
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Adam Mohr with our machine
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were working in the harvest
It was a nice day and we were working in the harvest
It was a nice day and we were working in the harvest
It was a nice day and we were working in the harvest
It was a nice day and we were working in the harvest
It was a nice day and we were working in the harvest
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were threshing by John Wettlaufer with our machine
It was a nice day and we were working in the harvest
It was a nice day and Wildfang was reaping our spring wheat
It was a nice day and we were working in the harvest
It was raining and in the morning we helped Wildfangs in the harvest
It was a nice day and in the after noon we helped Wildfangs in the harvest
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we drawed in wheat
It was a nice day and we drawed in our last wheat


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It was a nice day and the masons came for pointing out the wall and Father was threshing
for Makle and for Quehl with our machine
It was a nice day and we were drawing dung and the masons were here
It was a nice day and we were drawing dung and the Masons went away
It was a nice day and Peter was plowing and Father was in Shakespeare with the pump
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were drawing stones and plowing
September 1874
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Majors
It was a nice day and we were plowing and drawing dung
It was a nice day and we were plowing and drawing dung
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Dunns
It was a nice day and we sowed 12 1/2 bushels of fall wheat and Father was in the camp
meeting bush fixing the tent
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Olloways
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Olloways
September 1874
It was a nice day and we were on the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were on the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were on the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were on the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were on the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a rainy day and in the morning Father and Peter started off with the machine for
threshing by Werner Stein but when they came to the bridge the tongue went out and the
machine tumbled into the ditch and broke the wagon and a little at the machine
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Werner Stein with our machine
It was raining and Father and Mother were on the convention in Sebringville
It was a nice day and Father and Mother were in Woodstock
It was a rainy day and we were threshing by Helmuths with our machine
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Helmuths with our machine
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Wildfangs
It was a nice day and we put a wall in the well and the carpenters came
It was a nice day and we put a wall in the well
It was a nice day and we were working at the well
It was a nice day and we finished the well
It was raining and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were working at home
It was a nice day and we were digging potatoes
It was a cold day and Peter was plowing and Father was working in the kitchen
October 1874
It was a nice day and we were digging potatoes
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and we got ready for threshing
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were threshing
It was a nice day and we were threshing
It was a nice day and Father was away for apples
It was a nice day and we were digging potatoes


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It was a nice day and Father was away for apples and we were cooking apple butter
It was raining and we were working different things
It was raining and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Staeblers
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Staeblers
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Staeblers with our machine
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and Peter was drawing ground and Father was working at the kitchen
It was a nice day and we dug our last potatoes
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Peter was drawing ground and Father was working at the kitchen
It was a nice day and Peter was drawing sand and Father was working at the kitchen
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Albert Gast with our machine
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Hitzeroth
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Millers
It was a nice day and we were in Woodstock and Peter was drawing ground
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Conrad Wettlaufer
October 1874
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was raining and Peter was away for lime
It was a nice day and we were butchering a heifer and the masons came
It was a windy day & we were working at the kitchen & the masons were paveing the stable
It was a nice day and the masons were plastering the kitchen
November 1874
It was a nice day and we were in Church & S. School and Father was in Lisbon by Baltzers
It was a nice day and the masons were paveing the stable
It was a nice day and the masons were making a cistern
It was a nice day and the masons finished the cistern and went away
It was a rainy day and we were pokeing at home
It was a nice day and we were butchering a heifer
It was a nice day and we were in Church we had quarter meeting
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and Father and Schultz were plowing with two teams
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a cold day and we were butchering a cow
It was a cold day and we were working different things
It was a cold day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and the carpenters started to make a woodshed
It was a cold snowy day and we were on Staeblers Sale
It was a cold day and Father was threshing by Wildfangs
It was snowing and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold snowy day and Father was by Grandmother to haul hay
It was a cold snowy day and we were pokeing at home
It was a nice day and we were threshing for Adam Mohr
It was a nice day and we were threshing for Adam Mohr


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It was a nice day and we were threshing for Adam Mohr
It was a nice day and we were threshing for John Wettlaufer
It was a cold snowy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold day and we were threshing for John Wettlaufer
December 1874
It was a nice day and we were working at home
It was a nice day and the snow went away and we butchered a cow
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Helmuths
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Helmuths
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Helmuths the half day
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we helped to move Staebler to Tavistock
It was a nice day and Father was by Grandmother
It was a nice day and Father was by Grandmother
It was a nice day and Father was on the sale on the seventh line
It was a nice day and we moved grandmother to our place
It was a cold day and we sold grandmother's hay
It was a cold snowy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold day and we were working different things
December 1874
It was a cold day and we were threshing by Henry Smith
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Henry Smith
It was a cold snowy day and we were threshing by Makels
It was a cold day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and I and Father were in Stratford
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we butchered our pigs
It was a nice day and I and Father were on the Examination
It was a nice day and Father and Mother were butchering by Dietrich Wettlaufer
It was a cold snowy day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church (Christmas)
It was a nice day and Father and Mother were in Woodstock
It was a nice day and we were on the quarter meeting by Lingelbachs
It was a nice day and Father and William were viewing Peter and Williams land
It was cold day and we were threshing by Conrad Wettlaufer
It was a cold snowy day and we were threshing by Conrad Wettlaufer
It was a nice day and we were working different things
January 1875
It was a nice day and we were in Church in South Easthope
It was a cold snowy day and we did the chores
It was a nice day and we were in Church an S. School
It was a cold snowy day and Father took grandmothers table and five chairs to the irish
It was a nice day and Osbere brought us the money for the land and we were on Herr
Spark's funeral
It was a cold day and Father chopped wood and went away threshing
It was a nice day and we were threshing by Henry Gerhardt
It was a nice day and we were making sausage for Fred Krug
It was a cold stormy day and Father was settling with Fred Krug
It was a cold day and we were at home
It was a cold day and we were shoveling snow on the road


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It was a nice day and we were butchering by Werner Stein
It was cold and Father was doctoring Dick
It was a cold day and Father was sawing wood by John Wettlaufer
It was a nice day and Father was threshing by Morlocks
It was a nice day and Father was drawing turnips
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were drawing logs for sawing
It was a nice day and we were sawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing turnips with two teams
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and Father was threshing by Morlocks
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a stormy day and we were drawing logs for sawing
It was a nice day and we brought Steinmann a cord of wood for $3.
It was a stormy day and in the afternoon we were drawing logs for sawing
It was a nice day and we were by Erbs with Dick
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were in Stratford with four bags of apples
It was a pretty nice day and we were in Church and S. School
February 1875
It was a nice day and we were moving in the kitchen
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a rainy day and Weaver & Wildfang were here and Father and Wildfang were settling
It was a cold stormy day and Father was working in the kitchen
It was a cold stormy day and Father was working in the kitchen
It was a cold stormy day and Father brought the carpet rags to Muencher and in the
afternoon we were in Church we had quarter meeting
It was a cold day and we were in Church
It was a cold stormy day and Father and Mother were in Tavistock with Dick in the cutter
It was a cold stormy day and Father was working in the kitchen
It was a cold stormy day and Father was pokeing at home
It was rough and cold and Father took a walk to Tavistock and sold his cord wood for $2.70
a cord
It was rough and cold and we were pokeing at home
It was a cold day and Father was shoveling snow on the road and was in the mill
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a cold stormy day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood and John Amacher was here
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a cold day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood and I was in school
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood and I was in school
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood an I was in school
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood


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It was a cold day and we were in Church and S. School
March 1875
It was a cold stormy day and we were poking at home
It was a cold stormy day and we were drawing wood
It was a cold stormy day and in the fore-noon Father was drawing wood and in the afternoon
he was sitting in the house
It was a nice day and Father was by Wildfangs crushing grain
I was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we went to Waterloo
It was a nice day and we were in Waterloo and at night it was thundering and lightning
It was a rainy day and we came home from Waterloo
It was a cold stormy day and Father was working by the barn and was in Tavistock
It was a cold stormy day and we were working at home
It was a cold day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
March 1875
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was as stormy as it ever was during this winter and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were in prayer meeting (Good Friday)
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood and sawlogs
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School (Easter)
It was a nice day and we were tapping trees
It was a nice day and we were tapping trees
It was a nice day and we were boiling molasses and drawing wood and rails
April 1875
It was a rainy day and we were in the mill and fixing fence
It was a nice day and we were fixing fence
It was a nice day and we were crushing grain
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were boiling molasses
It was a nice day and we were boiling molasses
It was a nice day and we were boiling molasses at home and Fritz Lindt and his wife and
boy came
It was a nice day and we were cooking molasses and Father was working different things
It was a rainy day and Father went with Fritz Lindt to see a farm
It was a nice day and we were sugaring off
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were cooking molasses and Father was in Hamburg
It was a nice day and we were by Morlocks and traded Dick for a reaper and got a load of
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It was a nice day and Father and Schultz were making fence
It was a rainy day and Father was working different things
It was very cold and snowing like in winter and in the after noon Father was drawing sawlogs
with the sleigh he had one log which contained 245 feet
It was a cold day and Father was drawing sawlogs
It was a cold day and we were in prayer meeting and Sunday School
It was a cold day and Father was making fence
It was a cold day and Father was working different things
It was a cold day and Father was working different things
It was a nice day and Father was by Werner Stein sawing wood
It was a nice day and at night it snowed very much and Father and the carpenters were
working at the woodshed
It was snowy and Father was crushing grain
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and the carpenters were here making a woodshed and the sap was running
very good and I and Mother were boiling molasses
It was a nice day and in the afternoon the carpenters went away and we commenced
ploughing and grandmother was boiling sap
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a rainy day and we were plowing and boiling molasses
It was a cold day and in the forenoon we were in Tavistock and in the afternoon we began
plowing in the old chop
May 1875
It was cold, raining, snowing, thundering and lightning and in the forenoon we were plowing
and in the afternoon we were cleaning wheat
It was a cold snowy day and it was quarter meeting in South Easthope and we were at home
It was a nice day and we were plowing in the old chop
It was a nice day and we were plowing in the old chop
It was nice in the forenoon and we sowed 8 bushels of wheat in the little corner field by the
road
It was a wet day and we were at home (Ascension Day)
It was a nice day and we were plowing and dragging
It was a hot day and we sowed oats in the field by the barn
In the afternoon we had a heavy rain and I was in S. School
It was a wet day and we put wood in the wood shed
It was a wet day and we were pokeing at home
It was a wet day and we were pokeing at home
It was a nice day and we were plowing and drawing rails in the old chop
It was a wet day and we were drawing rails and were in Tavistock
It was a nice day and we were plowing in the old chop
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we sowed peas in the old chop
It was a nice day and we sowed wheat in the front part of the chop and peas in the orchard
It was a nice day and we sowed peas in the field by the bush
It was a nice day and we sowed wheat and oats
It was a nice day and we finished sowing oats
It was a nice day and we worked the potatoe land
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we planted potatoes
It was a nice day and we planted potatoes and in the morning Sall got a colt


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It was a nice day and Father was rolling the land
It was a nice day and Father was rolling, and cleaning and drawing wheat
It was a nice day and Father was fixing fence and cleaning and drawing wheat
It was rainy, and in the forenoon we were drawing rails and in the afternoon I began plowing
at the summer follow
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father was digging post holes and I was plowing
June 1875
It was a nice day and Father was ditching and I was plowing
It was a nice day and Father was ditching and I was plowing
It was a nice day and we made fence
It was a nice day and we were drawing ground
It was a nice day and we were drawing ground
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we were pulling stumps and worked at the turnip land
It was a nice day and we were drawing sawlogs and dung
It was a nice day and we were working at the turnip land
It was a nice day and we were working at the turnip land
It was a nice day and we sowed turnip seed
It was a nice day and we were in Woodstock
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father fixed the camp
It was a nice day and we were on the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were on the camp meeting
June 1875
It was a nice day and we were on the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were on the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father worked on the road
It was a nice day and Father worked on the road
It was a nice day and Father worked on the road
It was rainy and we were working different things
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and Father hauled boards for Alles
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father and Dietrich were hewing timber for the river bridge
It was a nice day and Father was scrapering by the Church
It was a nice day and we were working different things
July 1875
It was a nice day and I and Father were in Hamburg on the convention
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was nice and in the forenoon we were working different things and in the afternoon we were
in Church we had quarter meeting
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and Father was in Hamburg with the reaper
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and we were working different things


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It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we plowed the potatoes
It was a nice day and we mowed grass
It was a nice day and we mowed grass
It was a nice day and we mowed grass and drawed hay in the barn
It was raining in the morning and Father was in Hamburg, and drawed hay in the barn
It was a nice day and we drawed hay in
It was rainy in the morning and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were cleaning turnips
It was a nice day and we were cleaning turnips
It was a nice day and I and grandmother were picking raspberries and Father and Schultz
were mowing grass
It was a nice day and we put a load of hay in the barn
It was a nice day and I and Father were by Osbens for cherries.
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father fetched the reaper from Hamburg
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and we were cleaning turnips
It was a nice day and we were cleaning turnips
It was a nice day and I and grandmother were picking raspberries and Father was cleaning
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It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were cutting fall wheat
It was a rainy day we cleaned wheat
It was a nice day and we were cutting fall wheat
It was a nice day and we were working at the wheat
It was a nice day and we were working at the wheat
It was a rainy day and we were working at home
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were cutting wheat
It was a nice day and we drawed wheat in the barn
It was a nice day and we were cutting oats
It was a nice day and we hauled stones to C. Hohner, Tavistock
It was a nice day and we hauled in our last fall wheat
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father was threshing by John Wettlaufer
It was a nice day and Father was threshing by Adam Mohr
It was a nice day and in the forenoon Father was threshing by Adam Mohr and in the afternoon we were cutting and drawing in oats
It was a rainy day and Father was threshing by Facey
It was a rainy day and Father was in Hamburg
It was a rainy day and Father was threshing by Millers
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were pulling peas
It was a nice day and we hauled in oats and peas


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It was a nice day and we were cutting wheat
It was a nice day and we were cutting oats
It was a nice day and we were cutting oats
It was a nice day and we hauled in wheat and peas
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were cutting wheat and drawed in peas
It was a nice day and we were cutting wheat and oats
September 1875
It was a nice day and we drawed in oats and peas
It was a nice day and we pulled peas, and drawed some in the barn
It was a nice day and in the fore-noon we threshed by Helmuths and in the afternoon we
hauled in peas
It was a nice day and we were pulling peas and drawed some in the barn
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we drawed in wheat and oats
It was a nice day and we finished harvesting
It was a nice day and we hauled dung and plowed
It was a nice day and we hauled dung and plowed
It was a nice day and we plowed and sowed fall wheat
It was a nice day and we plowed and sowed fall wheat
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we plowed and sowed fall wheat
It was a nice day and we finished sowing, harrowing and drawing stones
It was a nice day and we threshed for Hartmeet and Murray
It was a rainy day and we threshed for Murray
It was a nice day and we threshed for Murray
September 1875
It was a nice day and we threshed for Dunn
It as a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we threshed for Dunns and in the afternoon we worked
different things at home
It was a nice day and we were at the show at Tavistock
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we threshed for Behrenwald, and in the afternoon we
plowed
It was a nice day and Father was in Ingersoll, got a wheel for the separator
It was a nice day and we threshed for Quehl
It was a nice day and we threshed for Albert Gast
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we threshed for Hitzeroth
It was a nice day and we were digging potatoes
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
October 1875
It was a nice day and we were threshing
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we threshed for Abel
It was a nice day and we threshed for Abel
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It was a rainy day and we were digging potatoes
It was a nice day and Father was in Hamburg


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It was a rainy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father was fetching apples
It was a nice day and we were fetching apples
It was a nice day and we dug our last potatoes
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we were threshing by Helmuths and in the afternoon
we were by the cider press
It was a rainy day and we were cooking apple butter
It was a cold day and we were on Leonhardt Wilker's funeral
It was snowing and thundering and lightening and we were in S. School
It was a nice day and we killed a heifer
It was a nice day and we were plowing and pulling turnips
It was a nice day and we were pulling turnips
It was a nice day and we were pulling turnips
It was a nice day and we hauled turnips together
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were plowing and painting the kitchen
It was a nice day and I was plowing
It was raining and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we were plowing and in the afternoon we were in
Church we had quarter meeting
It was snowing and storming very much and we were in Church
November 1875
It was a nice day and we were working different things
It was a nice day and Father was threshing by Wildfangs
November 1875
It was snowing and we pulled our last turnips
It was a nice day and Father was working different things
It was a nice day and we threshed for Conrad Wettlaufer
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we plowed, and worked other things
It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a wet day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a nice day and Father was on Mrs. Wagler's sale
It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a stormy day and we were in Church and Sunday School
It was a wet, cold day and we worked different things
It was a snowy day and we worked different things
It was a stormy day, and we worked different things
It was a nice day and Father was drawing wood
It was a nice day and in the forenoon Father was drawing wood and in the afternoon Father
and Mother went down to John Amachers
It was a nice day and Father and Mother came home from the gravel road
It was a cold day and Father and Mother were at old Mr. Hamburgers funeral
It was a cold day and Father was working different things
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a cold day and we threshed for Adam Mohr


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It was a nice day and we threshed for Adam Mohr
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we threshed for Adam Mohr
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold stormy day and we helped Morlock butchering
It was a cold day and we butchered a steer
December 1875
It was a nice day and we were threshing
It was a nice day and we were threshing
It was a nice day and we helped Morlocks threshing
It was a nice day and we were butchering
It was a rainy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we threshed for Mr. Facey half a day
It was a nice day and we threshed for Mr. Facey half a day
It was a nice day and we threshed for Mr. Facey
It was a nice day and we threshed for Mr. Facey
It was a nice day and we threshed for Mr. .Facey half a day
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold stormy day and we were working at home
It was a nice day and Father was working at home
It was a nice day and we threshed for Millers
It was a nice day and we threshed for Millers
It was a cold day and Father was butchering for Staeblers
It was a stormy day and we were working at home
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was so nice that the snow melted all away and we threshed for Helmuths
December 1875
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we threshed for Helmuths and in the afternoon Father
and Mother came to the Examination
It was a nice day and Father and Mother were in Stratford
It was cold and rainy at night, and we worked at home
It was a nice day and we fixed the Christmas tree in Church (Christmas)
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and I was down by Amachers and Father was working at home
It was a nice day and Father and Mother helped W. & P. Amacher butchering
It was a nice day and we threshed for Conrad Wettlaufer
It was a nice day we threshed for Conrad Wettlaufer
It was a very warm day and we threshed for Conrad Wettlaufer 1/2 a day
January 1876
It was a rainy day and we were at home
It was a nice day but we had no sleighing and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father and Mother helped Wildfangs butchering
It was a nice day and we were working at home
It was a nice day and we chopped wood and took two loads of turnips home
It was a cold day we chopped wood
It was a nice day and Father was in Hamburg
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we chopped wood and in the afternoon we were in
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It was a very stormy day and we were working at home
It was a cold day and Father and Mother helped Dietrich Wettlaufers butchering
It was a nice day and Father and Mother made sausage for Fred Krug
It was a nice day and we drawed logs for sawing with the crosscut saw
It was a nice day and we drawed logs together
It was a nice day and we drawed logs together
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and William Neargarth and Schultz were chopping and Father was sick
It was a wet day and Schultz and William were chopping and Father was sick
It was a cold day and Schultz and William were chopping and Father was sick
It was a cold day and Schultz and William were chopping and we were working at home
It was a cold day and we were drawing logs
It was a cold day and we hauled logs
It was a nice day and we were at home
It was a cold day and we were hauling wood
It was a snowy day and we were threshing by Helmuths half a day
It was a nice day and Father was drawing sawlogs
It was a nice day and Father was drawing sawlogs for Werner Stein
It was a stormy day and were flailing peas
It was a stormy day and Father was settling with some people
It was a cold day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were hauling wood
February 1876
It was a snowy day and we were working at home
It was a cold day and we were drawing wood
It was a cold day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing wood
It was a nice day and we were drawing sawlogs
February 1876
It was a nice day and I was in Church and S. School and Father and Mother were down by
Grand Father
It was a nice day and we helped Makel drawing sand
It was a nice day and we drawed wood for sawing with the circle saw
It was a rainy day and we worked at home
It was a nice day and Father fetched the crosscut saw from Hamburg
It was a rainy day and we were working at home
It was a nice day and we were in Stratford with some apples and potatoes
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a stormy day and Father helped Morlocks threshing
It was a stormy day and we threshed by Helmuths
It was a nice day and Father helped Morlocks threshing
It was a nice day and we hauled logs for sawing
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we hauled logs for sawing
It was a cold stormy day and we worked different things
It was a stormy day and in the forenoon we worked at home and in the afternoon we sawed
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It was a nice day and we sawed wood
It was a nice day and we sawed wood
It was a cold day and Father and Mother were by John Amachers and I was at home
It was a nice day and we sawed wood
It was a nice day and we sawed wood
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It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we sawed wood for Werner Stein and in the morning at four o'clock
Grandfather died at John Amachers
It was a nice day and Father and Mother were by John Amachers and I drawed wood to
Shakespeare
It was a nice day and we drawed sawlogs
It was a nice day and we were at Grandfathers funeral
It was a nice day and we sawed wood for Werner Stein
It was a rainy day and we worked at home
It was a stormy day and we worked at home
It was a nice day and we sawed wood for Werner Stein
It was a nice day and we sawed wood for Helmuths
It was a nice day and in the afternoon we were in Church we had quarter meeting
It was a rainy day and we were in Church
It was a stormy day and we worked at home
It was a nice day and we drawed wood
It was a nice day and Father was crushing grain
It was a stormy day and Father was at the funeral of Mr. John Roth's wife
It was a snowy day and father was in Hamburg with a load of boards
It was a cold day and father went down to Lingelbachs
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold day and we sawed wood for Millers
It was a nice day and we were at William Amacher's wedding
It was stormy day and we sawed wood for Millers
March 1876
It was a nice day and we took wheat to Shakespeare and sold it at $1.00 per bushel
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a rainy day and we worked at home
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we sawed wood for Olloway
It was a stormy day and in the forenoon we sawed wood for Olloway and in the afternoon we
crushed grain
It was a stormy day and we crushed grain
It was a cold day and we brought Helmuths peas home and worked at home
It was a nice day and we sawed wood for Adam Mohr
April 1876
It was a nice day and we sawed wood for Adam Mohr half a day
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we sawed wood for Mr. Morlock
It was a nice day and we sawed wood for Mr. Morlock
It was a nice day and we tapped trees
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we were cutting peas and in the afternoon we were at
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It was a nice day and we were cutting peas and cooked molasses
It was a nice day and we were in prayer meeting and S. School
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was a nice day and we cooked molasses and cleaned peas
It was a rainy day and we cleaned peas
It was a rainy day and we were at Herman Smith's child's funeral
It was a rainy day and we were at Adam Mohr's child's funeral (Good Friday)
It was a nice day and we were cutting peas, cooking molasses and took 1 load of turnips
home
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold day and we took two loads of turnips home
It was a nice day and we were hewing timber
It was a nice day and we were hewing timber
It was a nice day and we were hewing timber
It was a nice day and we were hewing timber
It was a nice day and we plowed and drawed stones
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we sowed 7 bushels of wheat
It was cold and snowy in the morning and we were in Church and S. School
May 1876
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we harrowed and cultivated
It was a nice day and we sowed six bushels of wheat
It was a nice day and we sowed seven bushels of wheat
It was a rainy day and in the forenoon we were cultivating
It was a nice day and we made fence
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
May 1876
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we were plowing
It was a nice day and we drawed rails and made fence
It was a nice day and we sowed twelve bushels of oats
It was a nice day and father made fence
It was a nice day and we were in Hamburg
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a rainy day and we sowed 4 bushels of oats, and were in Tavistock
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a nice day but in the morning we had a fearful rain that everything overflowed; and we
staked fence.
It was a nice day and we finished seeding by sowing twelve bushels of peas
About this time we got our wagon from Hamburg
It was a nice day and we were plowing and harrowing
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we plowed and harrowed
It was a nice day and we were plowing and drawed rails


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It was a nice day and we harrowed, cultivated, and drawed dung
It was a nice day and we fetched our carriage from Hamburg
It was a nice day and we drawed dung and planted potatoes
It was a nice day and we were at Ramseyer's raising
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we planted Quehl's potatoes
It was a nice day and we shore our sheep and sowed one gallon of pealed oats
It was a nice day and we worked different things
June 1876
It was a nice day and father was in Hamburg with a load of boards
It was a nice day and I plowed at the turnip land, and father made fence
It was a rainy day and we were harrowing, cleaning wheat, and made fence
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we plowed in the orchard
It was a nice day and we plowed and made fence
It was a nice day and we drilled at our turnip land
It was a nice day and we drawed dung
It was a nice day and father was at Makel's raising and I plowed at the turnip land
It was a nice day and I plowed and father fixed the camp
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were drilling and drawing dung
It was a nice day and they went to the camp meeting and I plowed at the summer follow
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a rainy day and we brought our things home from the camp meeting and plowed at the
summer follow
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were plowing, and cutting thistles
It was a rainy day and we were plowing, and cutting thistles
It was a rainy day and father was working on the road and I plowed and harrowed at the
summer follow
It was a nice day and we worked on the road
June 1876
It was a nice day and in the forenoon father was working on the road and in the afternoon I
was harrowing
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we drawed stones and in the afternoon, they were at
the quarter meeting in South Easthope
It was a nice day and we were at the quarter meeting
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we dug a well and in the afternoon we scrapered at the
root house
It was a nice day and were scrapering
It was a nice day and father was in Stratford with wool
It was a nice day and we drawed sand
It was a nice day and we drawed sand
July 1876
It was raining and we drawed stones
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was raining and we drawed stones
It was raining and we took our lambs away
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It was a nice day and we plowed our potatoes and in the evening we were in church in
Hamburg. Mr. Halmhuber preached
It was a nice day and we drawed hay, chips, and wood
It was a nice day and father was in Hamburg with scandlings
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father was in St. Marys for lime
It was a nice day and the masons came for putting up the root house wall
It was a nice day and the masons were here
It was a nice day and the masons were here
It was a nice day and the masons were here
It was a nice day and we were cutting grass
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were cutting grass and drawed hay into the barn
It was a nice day and we were cutting grass and drawed hay in
It was a nice day and we were cutting grass
It was a nice day and we drawed hay in
It was a nice day and we finished haying
It was a rainy day and we worked at home
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were cutting fall wheat
It was a nice day and we were cutting fall wheat
It was a nice day and we were cutting fall wheat, and plowed
It was a nice day but in the afternoon we had a nice rain shower and we drawed fall wheat in
It was a nice day and father was in Woodstock and we picked raspberries
It was a nice day and we drawed fall wheat in
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we threshed for Hartmeet
August 1876
It was a nice day and we threshed for Adam Mohr
It was a nice day and we plowed, and mowed thistles
It was a nice day and we were harrowing
It was a nice day and we were harrowing
It was a nice day and we were cutting oats
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
August 1876
It was a nice day and we were cutting oats, and pulled peas
It was a nice day and we pulled peas
It was a nice day and we pulled peas
It was a nice day and we were cutting wheat
It was a nice day and we cut wheat and drawed peas into the barn
It was a nice day and we cut wheat
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we cut wheat
It was a nice day and we pulled peas and drawed oats in
It was a nice day and we pulled peas and drawed wheat and oats into the barn
It was a nice day and we hauled grain into the barn
It was a nice day and we hauled grain in
It was a nice day and we hauled grain in, and finished harvesting
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we drawed chips, and dung
It was a nice day and we hauled dung


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It was a nice day and we plowed
We had a nice rain shower in the afternoon and we plowed and fixed the granary
It was a nice day and we fixed the granary
It was a nice day and they were at the quarter meeting in Hamburg
It was a nice day and they were in Hamburg
It was a nice day and we set the thresh machine
It was a nice day and we were threshing
It was a nice day and we finished threshing and hauled in straw
It was a nice day and we sowed fall wheat, harrowed, drawed dung, and plowed
September 1876
It was a nice day and we hauled dung
It was a nice day and we plowed and hauled dung
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a nice day and we finished sowing fall wheat
It was a nice day and I was harrowing
It was a nice day and we hauled timber for the driving shed
It was a nice day and father was in Gadshill for shingles
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were in Tavistock, and in the afternoon we went away for threshing
It was a nice day and father threshed for Wm. & P. Amacher
It was a nice day and father threshed for Wm. & P. Amacher
Father came home from threshing and in the afternoon we hauled logs for the root house and
had a nice rain shower
It was a nice day and we hauled timber, and were at the Tavistock fall show
It was a nice day and we hauled timber
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and father went away to the convention in Stephen
It was a nice day and father was away
It was a nice day and father was away
It was a nice day and father came home in the evening
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we worked at home and in the afternoon we were in
Church we had quarter meeting
September 1876
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and we dug potatoes
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a cold day and we got cider made
It was a rainy day and father was in Gadshill
It was a nice day and we threshed for Behrenwald, and for Quehls
It was a nice day and we threshed for Albert Gast
October 1876
It was a rainy day and we were in Church there was quarter meeting at Lingelbachs
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we threshed for Hitzeroths and in the afternoon we dug
potatoes
It was nice in the forenoon and we dug potatoes and in the afternoon it was raining and we
were in Tavistock
It was a nice day and father threshed for John Wettlaufer
It was a nice day and father was in Stratford


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It was a rainy day and father worked different things and went to Tavistock
It snowed and rained and we hauled wood
It was snowing and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we dug our last potatoes
It was a nice day and in the forenoon I threshed by Helmuths and in the afternoon I hauled
wood
It was a nice day and the carpenters came and began framing the timber for the driving shed
and I plowed
It was a nice day and they were framing and I plowed
It was a nice day and they were framing and I plowed
It was a cold day and they were framing and I plowed
It was a cold day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and they were framing and I plowed
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we were framing and in the afternoon we were raising
It was a nice day and they worked at the shed and I plowed
It was a nice day and they worked at the shed and I plowed
It was a nice day and they worked at the shed and I plowed
It was a nice day and they worked at the shed and I plowed
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and father was shingling and I plowed
It was a snowy day and we were at John Pletsch's wedding
It was a nice day and father was shingling and I plowed
It was a rainy day and we were shingling
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father was shingling and I plowed and at night it thundered
It was a nice day and father was on John Woon's sale and we pulled turnips
November 1876
It was a nice day and we pulled turnips
It was a nice day and we pulled turnips
It was a nice day and father threshed by Wildfangs and I plowed
It was a nice day and father was scrapering and I plowed
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a rainy day and we poked at home
It was a nice day and father worked at home and I was in school
November 1876
It was a rainy day and father worked at home and I was in school
It was a nice day and they were cutting peas and I was in school
It was a nice day and father was plowing and I was in school
It was a nice day and father was scrapering and I was plowing
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father was plowing and I was in school
It was a nice day and father was plowing and I was in school
It was a nice day and father was plowing and I was in school
It was a nice day and father was working at home and I was in school
It was a nice day and father was plowing in the old chop and I was in school
It was a rainy day and we cut peas and plowed
It was a rainy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father was plowing
It was a nice day and father was drawing wood


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It was a nice day and father was plowing
It was a snowy day and father hauled wood and plowed
It was a nice day and father worked different things
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a snowy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a fair day and we were butchering
It was a snowy day and father worked different things
It was a nice day and father was working different things
It was a cold day and father worked different things
December 1876
It was a cold day and father worked different things and Lydia pinched her fingers in the
turnip cutter
It was a cold day and we hauled the machine to Conrad Wettlaufer
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we threshed for Conrad Wettlaufer
It was a nice day and we threshed for Conrad Wettlaufer
It was a nice day and father hauled the machine to Adam Mohr & a load of wood to Tavistock
It was a cold day and we helped Werner Stein threshing
It was a cold day and we helped Werner Stein threshing
It was a cold stormy day and were worked at home
It was a cold day and father and mother were in South Easthope at the quarter meeting
It was a nice day and we threshed for Adam Mohr
It was a nice day and we threshed for Adam Mohr
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we threshed for Adam Mohr and in the afternoon we
took the machine to Mr. Murray and sold fanny for $45.00 to Mr. Nic. Nau
It was a nice day and we butchered for D. Wettlaufer
It was cold and stormy and we worked at home
It was cold and stormy and we worked at home
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a stormy day and we made sausage for Mr. Krug
It was a stormy day and we hauled wood
It was a cold day and we were at the Examination
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
It was pretty cold and we hauled wood
It was a cold day and we were in Church and at night at Christmas feast
It was a nice day and we were in Church
December 1876
It was a nice day and father and mother were by John Amacher
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
It was a stormy day and father helped Wildfangs threshing
It was a cold day and father hauled wood
It was a cold day and we were in Church and S. School
January 1877
It was a nice day and we were in prayer meeting
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
It was a nice day and we threshed by Helmuths
It was a nice day and we were in Hamburg


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It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold day and father worked at home and I was in school
It was a cold day and father hauled wood and I was in school
It was a nice day and we hauled wood and threshed peas
It was a cold day and we worked different things and I was in school
It was a cold day and father hauled wood and I was in school
It was a cold day and father hauled wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a stormy day and father worked different things and I was in school
It was a nice day and father hauled wood and I was in school
It was a nice day and father hauled wood and I was in school
It was a nice day and father hauled wood and I was in school
It was a nice day and father hauled wood and I was in school
It was a cold, stormy day and we did the chores and threshed a few peas
It was a cold day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father and Mother were visiting Peter and William and I was in school
It was a cold day and father hauled wood and I was in school
It was a stormy day and father worked different things and I was in school
It was a nice day and father hauled wood and I was in school
It was a nice day and father and mother were by Lingelbach and I was in school
It was a nice day and Father and I hauled wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father and Mother and grandmother were visiting Alleses and I was in
school
It was a nice day and father hauled wood and I was in school
It was a nice day and father hauled wood and I was in school
February 1877
It was a nice day and father hauled wood and I was in school
It was a nice day father hauled wood and I was in school
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father fetched Lydia, and got ready for sawing wood and I was in
school
It was a nice day and we sawed wood
It was a nice day and they put wood in the wood shed and I was in school
It was a nice day and they put wood in the wood shed and took one load to Tavistock and I
was in school
It was a nice day and they cleaned wheat and hauled wood and I was in school
February 1877
It was a nice day and we hauled wood and wheat
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father worked different things and I was in school
It was a nice day and father worked different things and I was in school
It was a nice day and father worked different things and I was in school
It was a nice day and father got ready for sawing wood and I was in school
It was a nice day and father drawed logs and I was in school
It was a cold day and in the afternoon we were in Church we had quarter meeting
It was a snowy day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and we got ready for sawing wood
It was a nice day and we sawed wood
It was a nice day and father hauled wood


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It was a nice day and father hauled wood and crushed grain
It was a nice day and father drawed wood and crushed grain
It was a nice day and we fetched two heifers from John Amachers
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father chopped wood and I was in school
It was a nice day and father hauled logs and I was in school
It was a nice day and father hauled logs and I was in school
March 1877
It was a nice day and father hauled logs and I was in school
It was a rainy day and we hauled logs
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a stormy day and we hauled wood
It was a nice day and they worked different things and I was in school
It was a nice day and father hauled sawlogs and I was in school
It was a rainy day and father worked different things and I was in school
It was a stormy day and father fetched Savage from Zehr and I was in school
It was a stormy day and father worked different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we cleaned wheat and took it away
It was a nice day and father was on Mr. McKay's sale
It was a nice day and father sold red chaff wheat at $1.32 per bu.
It was a nice day and Father worked different things
It was a nice day and Father chopped logs
It was a nice day and they were on Old Donie Zurbrigg's funeral
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father hauled sawlogs
It was a nice day and father drawed sawlogs
It was a snowy day and we threshed peas
It was a nice day and we cleaned peas
It was a nice day and father drawed logs for John Pletsch
It was a nice day and we threshed peas
It was rainy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a cold day and we cleaned oats
It was a cold day and we crushed grain
It was a cold day and we threshed peas
It was a nice day and we were in Church (Good Friday)
It was a nice day and father drawed wood for Rev. H. Werner
April 1877
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we tapped trees
It was a cold day and we tapped trees
It was a nice day and we worked in the sugar bush
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we cooked molasses and made fence
It was a nice day and we cleaned peas and hauled logs
It was a nice day and we cooked molasses and made fence


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It was a nice day and we made fence
It was a nice day and we made fence
It was a nice day and we cooked molasses
It was a nice day and father and mother were in South Easthope at the quarter meeting
It was a nice day and we hauled rails and made fence
It was a hot day and we made fence and cultivated
It was a rainy day and we cooked molasses and cultivated
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and father cracked stones for Helmuth
It was a nice day and we were making fence and cultivated
It was a nice day and we were in prayer meeting and S. School
It was a nice day and we sowed eight bushels of wheat; and we let the cattle out in the field
the first time for this spring
It was a nice day and we sowed oats
It was a nice day and we sowed oats (16 bushels all together)
It was a nice day and we sowed 4 bushels of wheat
It was a nice day and we sowed peas
It was a rainy day and father plowed and I burnt stumps
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was cold and snowing and father was by Makels helping measuring land
May 1877
It was a nice day and we made fence
It was a nice day and we made fence
It was a nice day and father was in Stratford and sall got a colt (Lady)
It was a nice day and father plowed and sowed peas
It was a nice day and we plowed and finished seeding with sowing peas we sowed over 8 bu.
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father made fence
It was a nice day and father plowed at the potato land
It was a nice day and we hauled dung and planted potatoes
It was a nice day and we were in prayer meeting and in the afternoon we were by Dietrich
Wettlaufer
It was a nice day I was rolling the land and father made fence
It was a nice day and we hauled dung
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were planting potatoes
It was a rainy day and we were making fence and harrowed
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we hauled dung on the turnip land
May 1877
It was a nice day and we hauled dung on the turnip land
It was a rainy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Father and Mother were by Elisabeth Jaggie
It was a nice day and I plowed and father was not well during this week
It was a nice day and I plowed at the turnip land.
It was a nice day and I spread dung and plowed
It was a nice day and I finished plowing the turnip land
It was a nice day and I cultivated, harrowed and rolled
It was a nice day and we were on old Alles's funeral
It was a nice day and we plowed at the summer fallow and shore sheep


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It was a nice day and I plowed and father and mother shore sheep and were on Misses
Kleins funeral
It was a nice day and I plowed and the painters came
It was a nice day and I plowed and father painted
June 1877
It was a nice day and I was plowing and the others were painting
It was a nice day and I was plowing and the rest were painting
It was a rainy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and I was plowing and they finished painting
It was a nice day and father was plowing
It was a nice day and father was plowing and we were cutting thistles
It was a nice day and father plowed, and we were cutting thistles
It was a nice day and father plowed, and we were cutting thistles
It was a rainy day and we worked different things and took the wool away at $.26 per lb.
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father was drilling
It was a nice day and we were at Martin Bort's funeral
It was a nice day and we sowed turnip seed
It was a rainy day and father plowed and was at Behrenwalds raisen and Annie came from
Chicago.
It was a nice day and father fixed the camp and the camp meeting began
It was a nice day and father was plowing
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and father and mother were at home and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a cold day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a cold day and we were at the camp meeting and at night we had a very hard frost
It was a nice day and I was harrowing
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were working on the road
It was a rainy day and we worked in the barn
It was a nice day and we worked on the road
It was a nice day and we worked on the road
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a rainy day and father was at Schneiders barn raising
July 1877
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father took Anna Bachman to the Woodstock Station
It was a nice day and we scuffled the potatoes
It was a nice day and we were at the Convention in Tavistock
July 1877
It was a nice day and we were at the Convention
It was a nice day and we cleaned turnips
It was a nice day and we mowed grass
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we cut grass and drawed hay
It was a nice day and we cut grass
It was a nice day and we hauled hay in
It was a nice day and drawed in hay
It was a nice day and we drawed in hay


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It was a nice day and in the forenoon we plowed potatoes, and in the afternoon we were in
Church we had quarter meeting
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and mother and I were after cherries and father was scrapering
It was a nice day and we plowed and moved grass
It was a rainy day and we drawed in hay
It was a rainy day and we finished haying
It was a nice day and father was scrapering
It was a nice day and we cut fall wheat in the Orchard
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we cut fall wheat in the Orchard
It was a nice day and I plowed at the summer follow and cleaned turnips
It was a nice day and we cut fall wheat
It was a nice day and we finished cutting fall wheat
It was a rainy day and I plowed and they picked raspberries
It was a nice day and we drawed in fall wheat
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we finished drawing in fall wheat
It was a nice day and I plowed
August 1877
It was a nice day and we threshed for Wm Schaefer
It was a nice day and I plowed and father threshed by John Wettlaufer
It was a nice day and we pulled peas and plowed
It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we threshed for Adam Mohr
It was a nice day and we cut oats
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we cut oats and in the afternoon I threshed by
Wildfangs and father and mother drawed in peas
It was a nice day and father and mother pulled peas and Lydia and I helped Werner Steins
binding
It was a nice day and we cut oats and wheat
It was a nice day and we cut our last wheat
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was raining & thundering and the lightning struck in Mr. Kaufman's house in Tavistock and
the grain grew in the shocks and the pea straw was rotten and no sign for good weather yet
In the morning we set the wheat shocks apart and in the afternoon when the wheat was
nearly dry and awful rain came again
It was a nice day and we pulled peas and drawed them in
August 1877
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we hauled in wheat and oats
It was a nice day and we hauled in oats and finished harvesting
It was a nice day and father plowed at the pea land and I was by Wm Amachers
It was a nice day and father plowed and I came home
It was a nice day and we finished plowing the pea land
It was a nice day and we hauled stones and plowed at the summer follow
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School


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It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a rainy day and we plowed and set the machine for threshing
It was a nice day and we plowed and in the afternoon we threshed
It was a nice day and we plowed and cleaned wheat
It was a rainy day and we hitched up Charlie and went twice to Tavistock
September 1877
It was a nice day and father and mother were in Hamburg
It was a rainy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we sowed 9 1/2 bushels of fall wheat and hauled dung
It was a nice day and we hauled dung and plowed
It was a nice day and we hauled dung and plowed
It was a nice day and we hauled dung and plowed
It was a rainy day and we sowed wheat
It was a nice day and we scrapered and harrowed and in the afternoon they were in South
Easthope at the quarter meeting and the wheat which we sowed on Monday came up nicely
already
It was a nice day and they were at the quarter meeting
It was a nice day and we scrapered and took the lambs away
It was a nice day and we scrapered and harrowed
It was a nice day and we plowed and fetched wheat from L. Pletsch
It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a nice day and we finished sowing and harrowed
It was a nice day and we were after walnuts and dug potatoes
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father was in Hamburg
It was a nice day and we were at the show
It was a nice day an we dug potatoes
It was a nice day and we dug potatoes
It was a nice day and we hauled sand
It was a nice day and we were in Gadshill for boards
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and in the afternoon we threshed
It was a nice day and we threshed
It was a nice day and we threshed for Werner Stein
It was a nice day and we threshed for Werner Stein
It was a nice day and we threshed for Millers
It was a nice day and we were at the funeral of Nau
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
October 1877
It was a nice day and we were in St. Marys for lime
It was a nice day and we fixed the root house
It was a nice day and I threshed by John Wettlaufer and father worked at the root house
It was a nice day and I plowed and father pointed out the root house wall
October 1877
It was a nice day and I plowed and father pointed out the root house wall
It was a nice day and I hauled sawdust and father worked at home
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we slaughtered a steer and in the afternoon father was
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It was a rainy day and father was at Andrew Mogk's sale


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It was a nice day and we hauled rails
It was a nice day and we threshed by Helmuths and plowed
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we threshed by Helmuths and plowed and in the
afternoon we hauled rails
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we made fence
It was a nice day and we cooked pumpkin sauce
It was a nice day and we pointed out the wall and fixed the smokehouse
It was a rainy day and we worked at the wall in the wagon shed
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a cold day and we plowed and were in Tavistock
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we pulled turnips and plowed
It was a nice day and we pulled turnips and plowed and sold Charlie for $75. to D. Helmuth
It was a nice day and we pulled and hauled turnips
It was a nice day and we pulled and hauled turnips
It was a cold day and father was at Miller' sale and I plowed
It was a nice day and we hauled in turnips
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and they pulled turnips and I plowed
It was a nice day and they hauled in turnips and I plowed
It was a rainy day and we took in our last turnips we got 39 loads & in the afternoon I plowed
November 1877
It was a nice day and father was at Henry Roth's sale
It was a wet day and we worked different things
It was a cold, wet day and we worked different things
It was a snowy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold, snowy day and we butchered a cow
It was a cold day and we took the beef away
It was a nice day and father finished the wall in the driving shed
It was a rainy day and father and mother cleaned wheat
It was a cold day and father worked different things
It was a nice day and we sawed wood for Morlocks
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father fetched apples
It was a nice day and in the afternoon father sawed wood for Morlocks
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and father hauled logs for sawing
It was a nice day and we sawed logs and in the evening it thundered, lightened and hailed
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and they worked different things
It was a nice day and they worked different things
It was a nice day and father was at Lingelbachs
November 1877
It was a rainy day and they were in Church (Thanksgiving Day)
It was a nice day and father threshed by Wildfangs
It was a rainy day and in the afternoon our quarter meeting began
It was a rainy day and we were in Church
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
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It was a cold day and they were ditching
It was a nice day and they ditched and butchered a steer
It was a cold day and we worked different things
December 1877
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father and mother butchered for Quehls
It was a rainy day and father took the machine to Adam Mohrs and worked different things
at home
It was a rainy day and father set the machine by Mohrs
It was a snowy day and we butchered
It was a nice day and we threshed for Adam Mohrs
It was a nice day and we threshed for Adam Mohr
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father threshed by Helmuths
It was a nice day and father threshed by Helmuths
It was a nice day and father threshed by Helmuths
It was a nice day and father threshed by Helmuths
It was a nice day and we threshed for Murrays
It was a nice day and we threshed for Murrays
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father plowed and took a load of wood to Tavistock
It was a cold day and father plowed
It was a nice day and we were at the Examination
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we had no sleighing yet and father hauled wood to Tavistock
It was a nice day and we were in prayer meeting and in the evening at the Christmas feast
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we hauled wood to the new Mill at Tavistock
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we worked different things and in the afternoon we were
at John Armstrong's sale
It was a nice day and I hauled wood and father and mother were in Zorra at the quarter
meeting
It was a cold day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold day and we hauled wood
January 1878
It was a nice day and we were at home we had visitors
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
It was a cold day and we hauled wood
It was a snowy day but we had no sleighing yet only about two inches snow
It was a snowy day and we worked different things
It was a cold day and we had sleighing and were in Church and S. School
January 1878
It was a cold day and father was by Wm & Peter Amachers
It was a snowy day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and father and mother went up to Lisbon
It was a rainy day and father and mother were at Henry Baltzer's funeral
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It was a nice day and they came home from butchering and in the afternoon we hauled wood
It was a cold day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we had fine sleighing again and father hauled wood
It was a nice day and father hauled wood
It was a nice day and father hauled stones for Schultz
It was a nice day and father hauled wood and in the afternoon he hauled stones for Schultz
It was a nice day and they were at Andrew Hahn's funeral
It was a nice day and the sleighing was away again and we were at Doctor Adam's funeral
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father was sickly
It was a snowy day and father was sickly
It was a cold day father worked different things
It was a cold day and we had no sleighing yet and father worked different things
It was a nice day and father and mother were by Lorenz Naus and Morlocks
It was a nice day and father took Lydia home
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father worked different things
It was a nice day and father and Schultz chopped and hauled wood
It was a cold day and they chopped and hauled wood
It was a cold stormy day and they chopped and hauled wood and at night we got about
12 inches snow
February 1878
It was a cold day and we worked at home
It was a nice day and in the afternoon father and mother were at the quarter meeting in
South Easthope
It was a nice day and they were in South Easthope
It was a nice day and father and Schultz were chopping
It was a nice day and they were chopping
It was a nice day and they were chopping
It was a nice day and father sawed wood for Conrad Wettlaufer
It was a nice day and the snow was mostly all gone again, the sleighing was spoilt three
days ago already and father sawed wood for Conrad Wettlaufer
It was a stormy day and father worked different things
It was a snowy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father and mother were by Nicklaus Schweitzers
It was a nice day and father worked different things
It was a nice day and father worked different things
It was a nice day and father worked different things
It was a nice day and father slaughtered a steer for D. Wettlaufer
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
It snowed in the morning and in the afternoon it thawed & we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father chopped wood
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
During the night we got snow enough to make fine sleighing but during the day it all thawed
away again and father made and hauled sawlogs
It was raining and father worked different things
February 1878
It was a rainy day and father and mother were by Amachers. Peter was sick
It was a snowy day and we were by Amachers
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
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It was a nice day and father worked different things
It was a nice day and we sawed wood for Wildfangs
It was a nice day and father and Schultz chopped wood
March 1878
It was a cold day and father hauled logs
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a wet day and we had no sleighing since the 20th of February and we were in Church
and S. School
It was a cold day and we hauled logs
It was a nice day and we sawed wood
It was a nice day and father was on the gravel road
It was thundering, lightening, raining, hailing and sun shining and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we tapped trees
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was a hot day so that father took his coat off on going to Church and we were in Church
and S. School
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was a cloudy day and we worked different things
It was a snowy day and we worked different things
It was raining and we worked different things
It was a nice day and father was on John Siebert's sale and bought a heifer for $17.50 and
we boiled sap
It was rainy day and we boiled sap and father bought a bull from L. Pletsch for $23.
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was snowing in the morning and in the afternoon it was nice and they were at
Mrs. Hohner's funeral
It was a nice day and we boiled sap and we hewed timber
It was a snowy day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was a very stormy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold day and we were by Wildfangs chopping oats
It was a nice day and they were at old Mr. Hohner's funeral
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we chopped oats and in the afternoon we hewed timber
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we finished hewing timber
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
April 1878
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we were in Tavistock at the show
It was a nice day and father was at Lingelbachs
It was a cold day and father and mother were by Pletsch's getting wheat
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
April 1878
It was a nice day and I plowed
It was a rainy day and I plowed
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It was a nice day and I plowed
It was a nice day and we sowed wheat
It was a nice day and we sowed wheat
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we sowed peas
It was a nice day and I harrowed and cultivated
It was a nice day and we cultivated, sowed oats and harrowed
It was a nice day and we cultivated, sowed oats, harrowed and rolled
It was a rainy day and we were at the conference at Lingelbachs
It was a nice day and we pulled willows
It was a nice day and they were at the conference
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a rainy day and we worked different things and Moses Werner came and started work
It was a nice day and we made fence
It was a rainy day and we chopped grain
It was a nice day and we plowed, sowed peas and hauled stones
It was a rainy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we hauled timber for the strawshed
It was a nice day and we hauled timber and cultivated
May 1878
It was a nice day and we sowed oats and harrowed
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we hauled stones and in the afternoon we were in Church we had
quarter meeting
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and the carpenters came to frame the timber for the strawshed
It was a nice day and we were framing
It was a cloudy day and we were framing
It was raining in the afternoon and we were framing
It was a nice day and we were raising the strawshed
It was a cold, snowing, raining and hailing and the trees were blossoming and we put the
rafters on the strawshed
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we fetched shingles
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
It was a nice day and we sawed wood with the circular saw
It was a nice day and we logged, cultivated and harrowed
It was a nice day and we hauled dung
It was a nice day and we planted potatoes
It was a rainy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a rainy day and we made and hauled stakes
It was a nice day and we made fence
It was a nice day and we made fence
It was a nice day and we made fence and plowed
It was a nice day and we sowed peas and plowed
It was a nice day and we made fence, plowed, and washed our sheep
May 1878
It was raining in the afternoon and we were in Church and S. School
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It was a nice day and we plowed and sowed oats and peas
It was a nice day and we plowed and sowed oats and peas
It was a nice day and we were in prayer meeting (Ascension Day)
It was a nice day and we sowed peas and oats and corn
June 1878
It was a nice day and we hauled dung
It was a nice day and we plowed the turnip land
It was a nice day and we plowed the turnip land
It was a nice day and we hauled wood and father paid Krug and Falk's account towards us
up to date
It was a cold day and we drawed sand
It was a nice day and we logged in the swamp
It was a cloudy day and we made fence
It was a nice day and we made fence
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we stuck thistles and father was in Woodstock, and bought a plow
It was a nice day and father plowed at the swamp and we stuck thistles
It was a nice day and we plowed at the summer follow and drilled the turnip land
It was a nice day and we sowed turnip seed and ???
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting & Moses plowed at the summer follow
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting and Moses plowed
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and they were at the camp meeting and I plowed
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting and father was at Henry Wilker's raising
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a rainy day and we ditched, made fence and plowed
It was a rainy day and we plowed and ditched
It was a rainy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we worked on the road
It was a nice day and we worked on the road
It was a nice day and we ditched on the road
It was a nice day and father was in Gadshill for boards
It was a nice day and we drawed sawlogs and stave bolts
It was a nice day and father drawed stones for Schenk
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
July 1878
It was a nice day and we worked at the strawshed and John Sieberts were here
It was a nice day and we worked at the strawshed
It was a rainy day and we worked at the strawshed
It was a nice day and we worked at the strawshed
It was a nice day and father was in Gadshill for boards
It was a nice day and we worked at the strawshed
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a rainy day and we worked at the strawshed
It was a nice day and we mowed grass
It was a nice day and we hauled in hay
It was a nice day and we hauled in hay and father pinched his finger
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It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we cut wheat
It was a nice day and we cut wheat
It was a nice day and we cut wheat
It was raining in the afternoon and we cut and drawed in wheat
It was raining and we worked different things
It was a nice day and father was in Hamburg
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we drawed in wheat
It was a rainy day and we plowed and shingled
It was a nice day and we threshed by Wettlaufer and cut and hauled in wheat
August 1878
It was a nice day and we hauled in our last fall wheat and some peas
It was a nice day and we pulled peas and cut all our spring wheat
It was a nice day and we pulled peas and in the afternoon they we on the quarter meeting in
South Easthope
It was a nice day and we were in Church in South Easthope
It the forenoon we cut oats and in the afternoon it was raining
It was a nice day and we shingled at the straw shed and cut oats
It was a nice day and we threshed by Helmuths and hauled in wheat
It was a nice day and we cut oats
It was a nice day and we finished cutting oats
It was a nice day and we threshed peas and hauled in oats
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were on the excursion
It was a nice day and we threshed peas
It was a nice day and we got ready for threshing
It was a nice day and we threshed
It was a nice day and we took in our last oats
It was a nice day and we began hauling dung
It was nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we hauled dung
It was a nice day and we hauled dung
It was a nice day and we plowed at the summer follow
It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we plowed and ditched
It was a nice day and we plowed and ditched
It was a nice day and we plowed and ditched
It was a nice day and we plowed and ditched
It was a nice day and we sowed fall wheat and ditched
It was a rainy day and we threshed by Morlocks and worked different things
September 1878
It was a rainy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a nice day and we sowed fall wheat in the orchard
It was a rainy day and we worked different things and Werner Stein got 16 bu and 10 lbs of
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It was a nice day and we hauled in clover and oats
It was a nice day and we dug for a well
It was a nice day and we worked at the well
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a rainy day and we worked at the well
It was a rainy day and we were at the show
It was a rainy day and we worked at the well
It was a rainy day and we cleaned peas
It was a nice day and we worked at the well and threshed by Helmuths in the afternoon
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and Father and Mother were at the convention and we logged
It was a nice day and we logged
It was a nice day and we logged
It was a nice day and we logged and they came home from the convention
It was a nice day and we set the machine for threshing
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were threshing
It was a nice day and we finished threshing
It was a nice day and we threshed for Werner Stein
It was a nice day and we finished threshing for Werner Stein
It was a nice day and we fetched apples
It was a nice day and we dug potatoes
It was a foggy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we finished digging potatoes
October 1878
It was a nice day and we plowed the potatoes land, and ditched
It was a nice day and we threshed for Adam Mohr
It was a nice day and we threshed for Adam Mohr
It was a nice day and we finished threshing for Adam Mohr
It was a rainy day and I plowed, Mose ditched and father was at Gischler's sale
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father plowed
It was a nice day and father got cider made
It was a nice day and we cooked apple butter
It was a nice day and Mose plowed
It was a rainy day and father and mother went away buying cattle
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Mose plowed
It was a nice day and they fetched the cattle
It was a nice day and Mose threshed at Wildfangs
It was a rainy day and Mose threshed at Wildfangs and we worked at home
It was a cloudy day and Mose threshed at Wildfangs and father worked different things
It was a cold day and we sawed wood for Kalbleisch and Schaefer
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and they killed Quehl's pigs and plowed and dug potatoes
It was a nice day and we dug our last potatoes and plowed
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
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It was a nice day and father butchered for Misses Sparges
It was a rainy day and in the afternoon we were in Church we had quarterly meeting
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a cold day and Mose plowed
It was a nice day and we pulled turnips
It was a rainy day and they pulled turnips
It was a cold, snowy day and they pulled and hauled in turnips
November 1878
It was a nice day and we took in our last turnips
It was a nice day and we plowed and piled wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold day and they plowed
It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a rough day and we plowed
It was a cold day and we were at the plowing match
It was a cold day and we hauled wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a rainy day and we plowed
It was a nice day and they worked different things
It was a rough day and father worked different things and Mose was by Morlocks
It was a nice day and father plowed and Mose threshed by Morlocks
It was a nice day and in the forenoon they chopped and a chip flew into Mose eye and in the
afternoon father plowed and Mose was at home
It was a rainy day and we hauled wood and Mose threshed by Morlocks
It was a rainy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
It was a nice day and father plowed
It was a nice day and we chopped and hauled wood
It was a nice day and we chopped and plowed
It was a rainy day and we chopped and plowed
It was a rainy day and we chopped
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a snowy day and we chopped
It was a nice day and we butchered a bull
It was a rainy day and they butchered by Quehls and Mose and I chopped
It was a snowy day and we got ready for butchering
It was a nice day and we butchered our pigs
It was a nice day and we hauled and chopped wood
December 1878
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we chopped
It was a nice day and we chopped
In the afternoon it snowed and we chopped
It was a snowy day and we chopped and hauled logs
It was a snowy day and we chopped and hauled logs
It was a fair day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a rainy day and father and mother went butchering and we threshed peas
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It was a stormy day and we were chopping
December 1878
It was a cold day and I hauled wood, Mose chopped and father had a bad cold
It was a cold day and father and mother went to Lingelbachs and we chopped
It snowed and we got our first sleighing and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we chopped and hauled wood
It was a nice day and we chopped and hauled wood
It was a snowy day and we chopped and hauled wood
It snowed a little and we chopped and hauled wood
It snowed and we hauled wood
It snowed during the whole day and we cleaned fall wheat and took a load to Tavistock at
$.85 per bushel
It was cold and we were in Church and S. School
It was cold and we threshed peas and hauled wood
It was a cold and stormy and we tend to the chores
It was stormy and we fixed the Christmas bow in Church
It was pretty cold and we threshed peas
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we sawed wood for Dietrich Wettlaufer
It was a nice day and we sawed wood for Diet. Wettlaufer
January 1879
It was a very nice day and we tended to the chores
It was very stormy so that hardly a team or train could go and we threshed peas
It was very stormy and we did the chores
It was very stormy and we did the chores
It was a stormy day and we were at home
It was a cold day and we chopped wood and shoveled snow
It was a cold day and we chopped wood
It was a nice day and Mose chopped and father was in Hamburg
It was a cold day and we hauled wood and Mose chopped and in the afternoon father was at
the annual cheese meeting and got $31.
It was a cold day and we hauled and chopped wood
It was a nice day and we hauled and chopped wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we chopped wood and Nicklaus Schwietzers were here
It was a nice day and we chopped and hauled wood
It was a cold day and we chopped
It was a nice day and they chopped
It was a nice day and they chopped
It was a nice day and we hauled and chopped wood
It was a stormy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and they were chopping
It was a stormy day and we chopped and hauled wood
It was a nice day and they chopped wood
It was a nice day and they were chopping
It was a stormy day and we hauled wood
It was a stormy day and we hauled wood
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It was thawing and they chopped
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It was thawing and they chopped
It was a nice day and they chopped and hauled wood
It was a cold day and we hauled wood
February 1879
It was cold and stormy and in the forenoon we sawed wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and they were chopping
It was a nice day and they chopped and were at Annie Harnick's funeral
It was a snowy day and we hauled logs and wood
It was a nice day and in the afternoon we sawed wood
It was a nice day and we chopped and hauled wood
It was a nice day and we chopped and hauled wood
It was stormy and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we chopped and hauled wood
It was a wet snowy day and we chopped
It was a stormy day and we were at home
It was a stormy day and we were at home
It was a stormy day and we were at home
It was a cold day and we worked at home
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we cleaned wheat
It was a nice day and father and mother were in Hamburg
It was a nice day and father and mother were in Tavistock by Quehls
It was a cold day and they chopped wood
It was a cold day and in the evening Moses Werner left us and we shopped wood
It was a nice day and we cleaned oats
It was a cold day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold day and we cleaned oats and chopped wood
It was a stormy day and we tended to the chores and took a load of wood to Tavistock
It was a stormy day and we tended to the chores
It was a cold day and we hauled wood
It was a cold day and we were at H. Kalbfleisch's sale and bought a colt for $40.50
March 1879
It was a nice day and father and mother were in New Hamburg
It was a cold day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we chopped and hauled wood
It was a rainy day and father hauled wood
It was a nice day and father hauled wood
It was warm and we hauled wood
It was warm and we hauled wood
It was warm and father hauled wood
It was warm and the sleighing was spoilt, and we were in Church and S. School
It was very warm and we tapped trees
It was middlen cold and we got ready for cutting straw and were in Tavistock
It was cold and we cut straw
It was a nice day and we boiled sap and got two gallons of molasses
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It was cold and we were in Church and S. School
It was cold and we hauled rails
It was a cold day and father hauled rails and I sat in the house. I had a bad cold
March 1879
It was a cold day and father and mother were at Wm. Amachers
It was a nice day and we hauled logs and P. Amacher came
It was a nice day and we set the sawing machine
It was cold and stormy and in the forenoon we sawed wood and in the afternoon we were in
Tavistock
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a rainy day and we worked at home
It was a nice day and father and Peter and Adam Reidt split wood and I hauled wood and
mother boiled sap and got one gallon of molasses
It was a nice day and father and Peter chopped and I hauled wood and one load tipped over
and hurt my foot so that I had to sit in the house
It was a nice day and father hauled wood and I sat in the house
It was a nice day and father hauled wood and mother boiled sap and got three gallons of
molasses and I sat in the house
It was cloudy and in the morning Mrs. Quehl died at an age of 39 years, 6 mo, and 24 dys.
and they were at Quehls
It was a stormy day and they were in Church we had quarterly meeting and I was at home
It was a nice day and we were at the funeral of Aunt,
April 1879
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was stormy and we boiled sap
It was stormy and we were at the show
It was cold and Adam Reidt was here and we hauled wood together in the bush
It was a nice day and we hauled wood and took photographs
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we chopped wood and boiled sap
It was a nice day and we chopped wood and gathered sap
It was a nice day and we chopped wood and boiled sap till 11 o'clock at night
It was raining and we cleaned wheat
It was a nice day and we were in Church (Good Friday)
It was a nice day and we boiled sap and took a load of spring wheat to Tavistock and sold it
at $.86 per bu.
It was rainy and snowy and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we boiled sap and took another load of wheat to Tavistock at the
same price
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was a nice day and we made post holes
It was a nice day and we made post holes and set eight posts
It was a nice day and we dug post holes and went to Tavistock
It was a nice day and we boiled our last sap and got 35 gallons of molasses in all
It was a nice day and we were in prayer meeting and S. School
It was a nice day and I plowed and father ditched
It was a nice day and I plowed and father and Pfrumpter ditched
It was a nice day and we sowed oats
It was a nice day and we sowed wheat
It was a cloudy day and we finished sowing wheat, we sowed 8 bu. and 9 lbs
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It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we finished sowing oats and barley
It was a nice day and I hauled stones
It was a cold day and I harrowed for Quehl
May 1879
It was cold and we cleaned and sold wheat
It was a nice day and I plowed the mangle land
It was a nice day and we plowed and sowed the swamp by the pig stable
It was a rainy day and they were at the funeral of John Pletsch's child
It was a nice day and I rolled the land
It was a cold day and we were in Stratford
It was a nice day and I was rolling
It was a nice day and we made fence
It was a nice day and we made fence
It was a nice day and we hauled rails and plowed
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we plowed and in the afternoon Herlans were here
It was a nice day and we sowed our peas
It was a nice day and we hauled stones and plowed the potatoes land
It was a rainy day and we made fence and worked the potatoes land
It was a nice day and we hauled dung on the potatoes land
It was a nice day and we planted potatoes & washed the sheep and went to the gravel road
It was a nice day and they were in Church and S. School and I and Lydia were at the
gravel road
It was a nice day and we finished planting potatoes
It was a nice day and I plowed at the turnip land
It was a nice day and I finished plowing the turnip land and harrowed it
It was a nice day and we were in Church and father and mother were at the gravel road
(Ascension Day)
It was a nice day and I cultivated the turnip land and hauled chips and wood to Tavistock
It was a nice day and we logged
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we made fence, hung a gate and hauled sod off the turnip land
It was a nice day and we hauled rails
It was a nice day and we ploughed at the corn land
It was a nice day and we finished plowing the corn land and sowed it
It was a nice day and I was sick and Herlans were here
It was a nice day but in the evening we had a very heavy rain and father made a gate and I
hauled sod off the turnip land
June 1879
It was a rainy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were in prayer meeting and church
It was a rainy day and I took a load of wood to Tavistock & afterwards we worked at the gate
It was a nice day and father worked different things and I was sick I had the measles
It was a nice day and father worked different things and I was sick
It was a nice day and father commenced plowing at the summer follow and I was sick
It was a nice day and father plowed and I was sick
It was a nice day and they were in Church and S. School and I got up again
It was a nice day and father plowed
It was a nice day and father plowed
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It was a nice day and father plowed
It was a nice day and father plowed
It was a cloudy day and we drilled the turnip land and sowed turnip seed
It was rainy and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we plowed
June 1879
It was a nice day and we finished plowing the summer follow and sowed some turnip seed
It was a nice day and we worked on the road and finished the turnip land
It was a nice day and we finished working on the road
It was a nice day and father fixed the tent and I harrowed at the summer follow
It was a nice day and I finished harrowing and father made fence
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we went into the camp meeting bush
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a cloudy day and we came home from the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we mowed grass
July 1879
It was a nice day and we mowed grass
It was a nice day and we hauled two loads of wood to Tavistock, mowed grass, and hauled
two loads of hay into the barn
It was raining and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we took in hay
It was a nice day and we took in hay
It was a nice day and we were at the quarter meeting in South Easthope
It was a rainy day and we worked at home
It was a nice day and we cut grass and took in hay
It was a nice day and we cut grass and took in hay
It was a rainy day and we worked different things and father cut his finger very bad
It was a rainy day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we took in hay
It was a nice day and they were in Church and S. School and we were in Zorra
It was a nice day and we mowed grass
It was a nice day and we finished haying and plowed
It was a nice day and I plowed and we bought a chilled plow
It was a nice day and we picked berries
It was a nice day and I plowed
It was a nice day and we cut wheat
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we cut wheat
It was nice in the forenoon and we cut wheat and in the afternoon it rained
It was a nice day and we finished cutting wheat and I plowed
It was a nice day and I plowed
It was a nice day and we hauled in our fall wheat
It was a nice day and I plowed and in the evening Jacob Schweitzer and Henry Lingelbach
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It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
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It was a nice day and we were at the funeral
It was a nice day and I plowed
It was a nice day and I finished plowing and began harrowing
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It was a nice day and I harrowed in the forenoon & in the afternoon we threshed at Helmuths
We had a nice rain shower and we finished harrowing and hauled wood
August 1879
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father and mother were by Williams and we cleaned turnips
It was a nice day and we cut oats
It was a nice day and we went to Williams to bind
It was a nice day and we were down by Williams
It was a windy day and we cut our spring wheat
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we cut oats and in the afternoon father went to
Williams to bind
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we cut oats
It was a nice day and we cut oats and hauled in our wheat
It was a nice day and we finished cutting oats and went down to William
It was a nice day and we were by William
It was a nice day and we were by William
It was a wet day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we hauled in oats
It was a nice day and we hauled in oats
It was a nice day and we raised by Wildfangs, & ditched, Schultz was here in the afternoon
It was a nice day and we ditched
It was a nice day and I and Schultz ditched, and pulled peas, and father was in Hamburg
It was a nice day and we pulled peas and fixed the well
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we hauled in peas and some dung out
It was a nice day and we hauled dung
It was a nice day and I plowed
It was a nice day and we hauled dung and father was in Hamburg
It was a nice day and we started to thresh but at 9 o'clock the gearing broke and the rest of
the day we hauled dung
It was a nice day and I plowed and they hauled dung
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
September 1879
It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a rainy day and we sowed golden medal wheat
It was a rainy and we sowed and plowed
It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a nice day and father was in Woodstock to get the gearing fixed and I plowed
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was rainy and we sowed fall wheat
It was a nice day and father was at Jacob Wagner's sale and I harrowed and hauled dung
It was a nice day and we got ready for threshing
It was a nice day and we threshed
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It was rainy and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and I mowed clover and father and mother were on the gravel road
It was a nice day and we threshed for Werner Stein
It was a nice day and we threshed for Werner Stein
It was rainy and I threshed at Behrenwald till noon and in the afternoon we worked at home
It was a nice day and we butchered a steer
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It was a nice day and in the afternoon we were in Church we had quarter meeting
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and we dug potatoes and took in clover
It was a nice day and we were at show
It was a cold day and we fetched apples
It was a nice day and we dug potatoes and hauled wood
It was a nice day and we dug potatoes and hauled wood
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
It was rainy and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we butchered a heifer
It was a nice day and I was at Jacob Shott's sale
October 1879
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
It was a nice day and we finished digging potatoes and hauling wood
It was a nice day and we plowed the potatoes land and burnt stumps
It was a nice day and we were in Woodstock
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and I plowed and father threshed by John Wettlaufer
It was a nice day and I plowed and they logged
It was rainy and I plowed and they logged
It was rainy and I plowed and they logged
It was a nice day and I plowed and father was at Albert Gast's sale
It was a nice day and I plowed and they logged
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and I plowed and father threshed by Helmuths
It was a nice day and I plowed and father threshed by Helmuths
It was a nice day and I plowed and father threshed by Helmuths
It was a nice day and I plowed and father threshed by Helmuth til 3 o'clock then we killed a
steer
It was a nice day and we peddled beef and hauled wood
It was a nice day and I plowed and hauled wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and I plowed and father set the horse power
It was a nice day and we sawed wood
It was cold and I plowed
It was cold and I plowed
It was cold and snowy and I plowed and took a load of wheat to Tavistock
It was a nice day and we hauled wood and pulled turnips
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we killed a steer and pulled turnips
It was a rainy day and we peddled beef
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November 1879
It was a nice day and we took up our last turnips we got 22 loads in all
It was snowy and we were in Church and S. School and in the afternoon father and mother
went to Christ Alles, his wife died and was buried on Monday
It was a cold day and I worked at home
It was a nice day and I worked at home
It was snowy and I hauled wood
November 1879
It was a nice day and I hauled wood
It was a nice day and I hauled wood
It was a nice day and I plowed
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and I plowed and father worked at the fire place
It was a nice day and I plowed and father went to John Amacher
It was rainy and father was at John Amacher's sherriff sale and I worked at home
It was a nice day and I plowed and in the evening father came home
It was rainy and father was in Hamburg and I worked at home
It was a nice day and father was in Stratford to pay the sherriff for what he bought at John
Amacher's sale and I plowed
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father & mother went to Amachers and fetched a load of oats
It was a cold day and father was in Stratford and paid the sherriff for the rest of his account
and I plowed
It was cold and we started to plow old sod by the bush
It was cold and snowy and we worked at home
It was cold and snowy and we hauled wood for cooking sugar
It was cold and snowy and we took a load of wood to Malcohn
It was snowy and stormy and we were in Church and S . School
It was a nice day and we butchered a bull and hauled wood
It was a nice day and we butchered our pigs
It was a nice day and we fetched a load of turnips from Amacher for Wm. Wagner
It was rainy and took all the snow again and we had our sale
It was rainy and we fetched a load of oats
It was cold and stormy and father and D. Wettlaufer fetched two loads of turnips
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
December 1879
It was a nice day and father worked at home
It was a nice day and they butchered for D. Wettlaufer
It was rainy and they came home from butchering and then we greased the harness
It was a nice day and father fetched a load of hay for Dr. Rankin
It was a nice day and father fetched a load of hay
It was rainy and I took a load of wood to Tavistock
It was middling nice and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father and Jacob Helmuth and Wm. Siebert fetched the rest of our hay
It was rainy and father tended to the cattle
It was rainy and father tended to the cattle
It was a cold day and father took a load of wood to Tavistock
It was a cold day and father took a load of wood to Tavistock
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It was snowy and father took Thaler's carriage home
It was snowy and father fetched oats home with the sleigh
It was a nice day and father threshed by Morlocks
It was cold and father and Dietrich Wettlaufer fetched oats home
It was a nice day and I & mother were at the examination
It was cold and we were in Woodstock
It was very cold and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we fetched some oats and the sowing machine
December 1879
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we fetched christmas trees and in the afternoon we
fetched our roller from Jacob Wagner's place
It was a nice day and we worked different things and in the evening I went down to the
gravel road
It was a nice day and we fixed the christmas trees
It was cold and we tended to the cattle and I went to Zorra
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and they were by Alleses and I was at home
It was a cold day and Phillip Neargarth's were here an I hauled wood
It was a nice day and I hauled wood
January 1880
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and they were by Christ Hohners
In the afternoon it rained and we tended to the cattle
It was nice but the sleighing was all gone and we were in Church and S. School
It was raining and we tended to the cattle
It was raining and we tended to the cattle
It was a nice day and father was in Hamburg
It was rainy and father tended to the chores and was by Pletsch
It was rainy and father was in Tavistock and tended to the chores
It was a nice day and I hauled wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold day and father tended to the chores
It was a nice day and father tended to the chores
It was cold and father tended to the chores
It was a nice day and father tended to the chores
It was a nice day and they were in Tavistock
It was a nice day and we cleaned wheat and took 82 bu. to Tavistock @$1.25
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we cleaned wheat and took 41 bu. 50 lbs to Tavistock $1.25
It was a nice day and we tended to the chores
It was a nice day and father worked different things
It was rainy and we worked different things
It was snowy and father tended to the chores
It was a nice day and father was in Tavistock
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father was in Blenheim
It was a nice day and we fetched a load of pea straw from John Amacher
It was a nice day and father fetched Katie from Williams
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It was cold and we scrubbed the Church and father was at the cheese factory
February 1880
It was cold and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father hauled one load of wood and Wm Sieberts were here
It was stormy and father worked at home
It was snowing and we had sleighing again and father was in Hamburg
It was snowing and father worked at home
It was a nice day and father fetched peas from Jancie
February 1880
It was stormy and in the forenoon I hauled wood and in the afternoon we were in Church we
had quarterly meeting
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and father hauled wood
It was a nice day and father and mother were by Steinackers
It was a nice day and the sleighing went away again and they made sawlogs and hauled
them to Tavistock
It was a nice day and father took cherry boards to John Pletsch with the wagon
It was a nice day and father tended to the chores
It was a nice day and I went to Zorra and father worked at home
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and father worked at home
It was a nice day and we were in Stratford
It was cloudy and we worked different things
It was stormy and we were at the funeral of Mr. Henry Hoffman's child
It was a nice day and father & Schultz chopped wood
It snowed and we chopped and hauled wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was stormy and father tended to the chores
It was rainy and father chopped wood and tended to the cattle
It was rainy and father tended to the cattle
It was a nice day and in the forenoon father chopped wood and in the afternoon he was in
Tavistock and paid Wm. Matthies for the mower tongue
It was a nice day and father tapped trees
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
March 1880
It was a cold day and we tended to the cattle
It was a nice day and father helped Hermann Schmidt move
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was a nice day and we boiled sap and cut wood
It was a nice day and we boiled sap and cut wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was a cold day and we boiled sap
It was a nice day and we set the sawing machine
It was cold and we sawed wood
It was cold and father tended to the cattle and I had a bad cold
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It was cold and we were in Church and S. School
It was cold and I hauled wood
It was snowing and I tended to the cattle
It was cold and I was at Schenk's moving
It was a nice day and I hauled wood
It was a nice day and I hauled wood
It snowed and stormed and we hauled wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we hauled wood
It was nice in the forenoon and stormy in the afternoon and we boiled sap
It was very cold and we hauled wood
March 1880
It was a nice day and we piled wood and were at Tavistock
It was a nice day and we were in Church and prayer meeting (Good Friday)
It was rainy and we boiled sap
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School (Easter Sunday)
It was a nice day and father & mother were by Henry Schmidts and I and Mary Steinacker
gathered sap
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
April 1880
It was a nice day and we boiled sap
It was rainy and father & mother were by Lingelbachs and I tended to the cattle
It was rainy and they came home from Linglbachs
It was a pretty nice day and we were in Church & S. School
It was pretty nice and we worked at home
It was a nice day and father and Menno Helmuth chopped and I tended to the cattle
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we chopped and boiled molasses and in the afternoon
we were at the show in Tavistock
In was a nice day and we made fence
It was a nice day and they split rails
In the forenoon it was nice and in the afternoon it snowed and stormed as hard as ever it did
during the winter and we boiled molasses
It was cold and I was at the gravel road and they were in Church and S. School
It was cold and father and Menno Helmuth chopped wood
It was a nice day and we logged and boiled sap
It was a nice day and father and mother were at Rev. Weaver's wife's funeral
It was a nice day and we cultivated, plowed, boiled sap and took the molasses boiling
apparatus home
In the morning I cultivated and sowed 1 bushel of oats and then it rained
In the morning it snowed and we worked by the barn and in the afternoon we plowed and
were in Tavistock
It was rainy and we were in prayer meeting and S. School
It was rainy and very windy and I hauled wood together in the old chop
It was a nice day and I plowed
It was a nice day and we sowed oats
It was a nice day and I cultivated
It was a nice day and I sowed oats and father harrowed
It was a nice day and I plowed
It was rainy and we were in Church and S. School
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It was a nice day and I sowed wheat and harrowed
It was a nice day and I finished sowing wheat and harrowed
It was rainy and we sowed 1 I/2 bushels of barley
It was cold and snowed and I plowed in the old chop
May 1880
It rained a little and father and grandma were in South Easthope at the quarterly meeting
It was a nice day and father and grandma were in South Easthope and we were at home
It was a nice day and we plowed in the old chop
It was a nice day and we plowed and rolled
It was a nice day and our horse (George) got bit in his tongue so that we could not work him
that day and we plowed a little by the pig pen, sowed some barley and planted a few
potatoes with the hoe
May 1880
Ascension Day, It was a nice day and in the forenoon we were in Church and in the
afternoon father and mother were by Wm. Amachers and I took photographs
It was a nice day I plowed, and father sowed some peas
It was a nice day and we harrowed the pea land worked the mangle land and sowed mangles
and carrot seed
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
We had a few rain showers and we plowed in the orchard and in the old chop
It was a nice day and we plowed in the old chop
It was a nice day and we plowed in the chop and sowed some peas
It was a nice day and we plowed in the chop and finished sowing peas
It was a nice day and we worked in the orchard
It was a nice day and we hauled dung and plowed in the orchard
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father and mother visited Dietrich Wettlaufers and we were at home
It was a nice day and we worked in the orchard
It was a nice day but at noon we had a very hard thunder storm and we worked in the
orchard, planted a few potatoes and washed our sheep
It was a nice day and I worked the potato land
In the forenoon we planted potatoes and in the afternoon it rained
It was a cool day and we made fence
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we finished planting potatoes
It was a hot day and we planted corn, sheared our sheep and cleaned oats
It was a nice day and we were in Stratford with a load of oats and sold it at $.34 per bushel
We had a very hard rain shower and we fetched a bull from Mr. Armstrong in Blandford
It was a nice day and we sowed corn in the orchard & hauled two loads of wood to Tavistock
It was cool and we plowed for corn beside the peas by the bush
It was rainy and we were in Church and S. School
It rained and we worked different things
June 1880
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we ditched and at night it rained
It rained and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we finished plowing for the corn
It rained and we sowed the corn
It was rainy and we were in Church and S. School
It was stormy and in the afternoon we hauled wood to Tavistock
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It was a nice day and we cut thistles and cultivated and harrowed the turnip land
In the morning it rained and then we cut thistles
It was a hot day and in the afternoon I & mother were in Tavistock
It was rainy and we were at home
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we cut thistles
It was a nice day and I plowed the turnip land
It was a nice day and father fixed the camp
It was a nice day and father took the wool to Woodstock and got $.29 per lb
It was a nice day and we sowed our turnip seed
It was a nice day and we mowed into the camp meeting bush
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
June 1880
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we came home from the camp meeting and in the afternoon we hauled
gravel
It was cloudy and rainy and we hauled gravel
It was a nice day and in the morning we hauled gravel and in the afternoon father was at
Henry Schmidt's raising and I worked different things
It was rainy and we were in Church and S. School
It was rainy and we replanted mangles and Rev. Umbach was here
It was a nice day and father mowed grass and we worked at the mangles
It was cloudy and we worked at the potatoes and mangles
July 1880
It was a nice day and we turned the hay and worked different things
It was a nice day and in the morning father and mother picked berries and in the afternoon
we put in hay
It was a nice day and we put in hay
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was showery in the afternoon and we hauled in some hay and commenced plowing
It was a nice day and we cut grass and plowed
It was a nice day and we cut grass and hauled in hay
It was a nice day and we put in our last hay we got 15 loads altogether
It was hot in the forenoon and in the afternoon we had a very strong storm and I plowed and
father scuffled the turnips
It was a nice day and I plowed and father picked cherries
We were in Church and in S. School and in the evening we had a very hard rain shower
We had a rain shower and I plowed
It was a nice day and I plowed and they cleaned turnips and cradled around the wheat
It was a nice day and we cut fall wheat
It was a nice day and we cut wheat
It was a nice day and we cut wheat
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we cleaned turnips, scuffled potatoes and cradled
barley and in the afternoon we were in Church we had quarterly meeting
It was a nice day and we were in Church
In the forenoon we hauled in wheat and in the afternoon it rained and in the evening we
picked berries
On the morning it rained and we cleaned turnips and in the afternoon we cut wheat
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It was a nice day and we finished cutting wheat
It was a nice day and we bound some barley, hauled in some and some wheat
It was a nice day, and we cleaned turnips and in the afternoon I plowed and helped to take in
a load of wheat
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was rainy and we got the horses shod and in the afternoon I plowed and helped to take in
a load of wheat
It was a nice day and we threshed by John Wettlaufer
It was a nice day and in the forenoon I plowed and in the afternoon we finished with the fall
wheat and with the barley
It was a nice day and father set the machine and I plowed and harrowed
It was a nice day and in the afternoon we threshed
It was a nice day and I mowed thistles and father cleaned wheat and in the afternoon he
threshed by Morlocks
August 1880
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
In the morning we had a hard rain shower and I threshed by Morlocks & they cleaned wheat
It was a nice day and in the forenoon I threshed by Morlocks and in the afternoon I mowed
thistles and they cleaned wheat
It was a nice day and we picked huckleberries
It was a nice day and I threshed by Helmuths and father fetched some tiles
It was a nice day and we cut straw and fetched some tiles
It was a nice day and we cut timothy and oats
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School and father and mother were in Zorra
It was a nice day and we cut oats
In the forenoon and in the evening it was rainy and in the afternoon we cut oats
We cut oats and in the evening it rained
It was a nice day and we cut oats
It was a nice day and we cut wheat
It was a nice day and we ditched, cut oats and hauled two loads of oats in
It was a nice day and we were at the quarter meeting in Zorra
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we threshed timothy and in the afternoon we cut oats
and broke the reaper nose
It was a nice day and we hauled in oats and in the evening it rained
It was a hot day and in the afternoon we cut oats
It was raining and we ditched
It was a nice day and we pulled peas, cut oats and hauled in one load of spring wheat
It was a nice day and we pulled peas, cut our last oats and took in 1 load of peas
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we hauled in spring wheat and oats
We hauled in peas and in the afternoon it started to rain
In the morning it rained & we started to make a dr? and in the evening I started to gang plow
It was a nice day and in the morning I gang plowed and in the afternoon we took in our last
oats and some peas
It was a hot day and I gang plowed and they took in the oat rakings
It was a nice day and I plowed and they pulled peas and hauled some in
It rained and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and I plowed and father and mother were in Stratford and in the afternoon
he threshed at Helmuths
It was a nice day and I plowed and they finished harvesting by taking in our last peas
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It was a nice day and I plowed and they raked the oats stubbles and took in the rakings
It was a nice day and we hauled dung and at night it rained very much
It was a cloudy day and we were in Tavistock and fetched a load of tile
It was rainy and we hauled dung
It was a nice day and Mary and I were at the gravel road and they were in Church and
S. School
It was a nice day and we hauled dung
It was a nice day and father and Peter sowed fall wheat and harrowed and plowed and I was
in the house I had tooth ache
It was a nice day and we plowed and hauled dung
It was a nice day and we plowed and hauled dung
It was a nice day and we sowed fall wheat on the oat stubbles and harrowed and made a
drain
It was a nice day and we finished sowing on the oat stubbles and commenced plowing at
the pea ground
September 1880
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we finished plowing and scrapering the pea ground
It was a nice day and we finished plowing and scrapering the pea ground
It was a nice day and we sowed on the pea ground and harrowed it
It was a nice day and we ditched
It was a nice day and we were at the show
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we shocked corn and in the afternoon we took the
thresh machine to Werner Stein
It was rainy and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we threshed for Werner Stein
It was a nice day and we finished threshing at Werner Stein and moved the machine to
Behrenwald
It was a cool day and we threshed for Behrenwald & then went in the village and then home
It was a nice day and we threshed for Hitzeroth
It was a nice dayand we cleaned wheat and took it to the mill and dug a few potatoes
It was a nice day and I harrowed and plowed the potato land
It was a nice day Grandma and I were at Lingelbach and they were in Church & S. School
It was a cool day and cloudy and in the forenoon I threshed at Wettlaufers and in the
afternoon I plowed
It was rainy and I threshed at Wettlaufers
It was rainy and I threshed at Wettlaufers and father fetched cider apples from William
Amacher
It was cloudy and in the norning I helped to finish Wettlaufer's threshing
October 1880
It was a nice day and we set the thresh machine
It was a nice day and in the afternoon we threshed and in the evening Mr. Baltzers came for
visiting
It was a rainy day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a rainy day and we worked in the barn
It was a nice day and father got cider made and I worked at home
It was a rainy day and we boiled apple butter and took a load of wood to Tavistock
It was a nice day and father fetched apples
It was a nice day and we cut and shocked corn
It was a nice day and we dug potatoes
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It was a nice day and father commenced ditching at the large ditch and we finished digging
potatoes
It was a cool day and father ditched and I hauled wood to Tavistock to Krug
It was a nice day and we killed a heifer and in the afternoon I ditched and father was by
Jecks and by Lark
In the afternoon we had a rain shower and father and Henry Jeck ditched
It was a nice day and they ditched, I plowed, and Mary pulled mangles and carrots
It was rainy and in the afternoon we ditched
It was cold and snowed a little too sometimes and we were in Church and S. School
It was cold and snowed a little and I plowed and father threshed by Schneiders
It was a nice day and in the afternoon father worked different things and I hauled wood
It was a cold day and I plowed and they pulled turnips
It was a nice day and we pulled turnips and worked at the tile drain
It was cold, rainy and snowy and we took in turnips and put tiles into the ditch and covered
them
It was a rough day and I plowed and took in a load of turnips
October 1880
It was a cold day and we were in Church and S. School
It was nice in the forenoon and rainy in the afternoon and Jecks finished ditching and we
killed a steer and finished with the turnips
It was rainy and we peddled beef
It was a nice day and in the afternoon I plowed and father and mother went to Hamburg and
Baden
It was a nice day and in the forenoon I plowed and in the afternoon I threshed at Schneiders
and in the evening father and mother came home
It was a nice day and I plowed and father threshed at Schneiders
It was a foggy day and in the forenoon father and I threshed at Schneiders and in the afternoon we covered drains
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
November 1880
It was a fair day and father dug out some six inch tile
It was a nice day and I plowed and father dug out tiles
Thanksgiving day. It was a nice day and I was at Diet. Wettlaufers and at Wm Amachers to
order for threshing and father was in Church
It was nice in the forenoon and I plowed and in the afternoon it rained
It was rainy and I plowed etc
It was rainy and we made things ready for threshing
It was rainy and we were at home there was quarter meeting in South Easthope
It was snowy and in the morning we threshed till 10 o'clock and then the bevel wheel broke
and in the afternoon I hauled wood to Tavistock
It was a nice day and father was in Woodstock and I hauled wood
It the forenoon father threshed at Adam Mohrs and in the afternoon it rained
It was a fair day and father threshed at Mohrs and I worked at home
It was a cold day and we threshed
It was a cold day and we threshed
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It snowed in the afternoon and I hauled wood
It was snowy and we threshed at Helmuths
It was snowy and we threshed at Helmuths
It was cold and snowy and we threshed at Helmuths
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It was cold and snowy and we had sleighing and I hauled wood
It was a very cold and very stormy and I was in Church and S. School
It was very cold and we worked at home and killed a sheep
It was a nice day and I hauled wood to Tavistock and father took Mary home etc.
It was a nice day and I hauled wood and father tended to the cattle
It was a nice day and I hauled wood and father tended to the cattle
It was a nice day and in the afternoon we were at Mrs. Staebler's funeral
It was a nice day and we cleaned wheat, took a half cord wood to the Church and tended to
the cattle
It wa a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold day and I hauled wood and father went to Diet. Wettlaufer for butchering
It was a nice day and father butchered for Dietrich and I tended to the cattle
December 1880
It was a nice day and we cleaned wheat and took a load to Tavistock and sold it @1.07 per
bushel
It was a nice day and we cleaned some wheat and took it to Tavistock and killed a steer
It was a nice dayand we killed our pigs
December 1880
It was a nice day and we got our horses shod and were at Solomon Makel's funeral
It wa rainy and the snow went nearly all away and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold dayand I threshed at William Amacher and father tended to the cattle
It was cold and stormy and I threshed half a day at William and father tended to the cattle
It was cold and stormy and I came home from William & tended to the cattle in the afternoon
It was a cold day and we cleaned peas
It was a nice day and we cleaned wheat
It was a nice day and father hauled stones for Schneider
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we hauled wood to hembly
It wa a wet snowy day and in the forenoon father was at John Wettlaufer's stone bee
It was a cold day and I hauled wood to Tavistock and corn home out of the field
It was a nice day and I helped to scrub the Church and father was at home
It was a nice day and I hauled wood to Tavistock
It was a nice day and in the forenoon I hauled wood and in the afternoon we were in Church
we had quarterly meeting
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a cold day and we were at the Examination
It was a cold day and we hauled wood home for sawing
It was a cold day and we hauled wood home for sawing
It was a nice day and father and mother were in Downie by Zimmermans and I was at home
It was a nice day and father had a sore back and I helped to fix the christmas tree in Church
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we were in Church and in the afternoon I went to
Hamburg to the christmas festival and father was sickly
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was stormy and I did the chores
It was stormy and I did the chores
It was very cold and stormy and we did the chores
It was very cold and stormy and we did the chores
It was cold and father was in Tavistock and at the cheese factory and I did the chores
January 1881
It was a nice day and I was by Wm Amachers and father was in Church in the afternoon
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It was a nice day and father worked different things and was at the nomination and I was in
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It was a nice day and father did the chores and I was in school
It was a cold day and father did the chores and took a load of gravel to the school house
It was a fair day and Henry Zimmermann and his brother were here and father did the chores
It was a nice day and Simeon Bueschlen was here to hire out
It was a nice day and we were in Tavistock and hauled wood out of the bush
It was a cold day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father did the chores and in the afternoon they went to Screders and
Simeon Bueschlen came to commence working
It was a nice day and they chopped wood
It was a nice dayand they chopped wood
It was a wet snowy day and father took a load of wood to Tavistock & Simeon chopped wood
It was pretty cold and they chopped wood
It was a cold day and father hauled wood and Simeon chopped
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold day and they chopped wood
January 1881
It was a nice day and they chopped wood and we sold our single sleigh to Mr. Steinacker
It was a nice day and father took a load of wood to Tavistock and Simeon chopped wood and
Mr. Herlaus were here
It was a nice day and Simeon chopped and father took a load of wood to Tavistock and
Christ Hohners were here
It was a wet snowy day and we took two loads of wood to Tavistock and cleaned oats
It was a sunny day and we cleaned peas and fed the cattle
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was snowy and we worked at home
It was a fair day and Simeon chopped and father had a bad cold
It was snowy and they worked at home
It was a rough day and they tended to the cattle
It was a fair day and they cut wood
It was a fair day and we hauled and cut wood
It was a fair day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a fair day and they worked at the wood in the bush
February 1881
It was a cold dayand they worked in the bush
It was a nice day and we were at Makel's sale
It was a fair day and in the forenoon we fetched our stuff which we bought at the sale and in
the afternoon we chopped and drawed wood
It was a nice day & father and mother were by Jacob Ankenmanns & Simeon chopped wood
It was a nice day and they chopped and I hauled wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father hauled wood and Simeon chopped
It was a rainy day and Simeon threshed peas with the flail
It was a rainy day and they worked at home
It was a fair day and father was in Hamburg and Simeon chopped
It was a nice day and they chopped wood
It rained, snowed and stormed and father was at the cheese meeting and Simeon worked in
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It was a nice day and in the afternoon the crusher agent was here and tried the crusher and
we bought it and I was sick
It was a fair day and they crushed oats and chopped wood and I was sick
It was a stormy day and they were at Mr. Logern's child's funeral and hauled wood and I
was sick
It was a fair day and they chopped wood and I was sick
It snowed and they were by Werner Stein and Simeon sawed wood in the woodshed and I
got better again
It was a nice day and father was in Stratford and Simeon chopped wood and Mary and I
went to Williams
It was a nice day and they were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and they worked at the wood
It was a nice day and they cut cherry sawlogs and took them to the sawmill
It was very cold and father was in Stratford with cherry boards
It snowed and father was at Herny Becker's sale
It was a fair day and father was at John Armsten's sale
It was a fair dayand we crushed oats
It rained and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and they worked at the wood
March 1881
It was very stormy and father was at Lingelbachs and Simeon sawed wood
It was a fair day and they worked at the wood
It was a stormy day and they worked at the wood
It snowed and they worked at the wood
It was a fair day and we were in Stratford
It was a fair day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and father hauled wood to Mr. Krug
It was a nice day and father helped Diet. Wettlaufer hewing timber
It was a nice day and they worked at the wood
It was a nice day and they worked at the wood
It was a nice day and father took a load of wood to Tavistock
It was nice but in the afternoon it commenced storming and we crushed oats for Werner
Stein and cut straw
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and they tapped trees and chopped wood
It was a fair day and they worked at the wood
It was a fair day and they boiled sap and worked at the wood
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we worked at the fireplace in the bush and in the afternoon we were at Rausch's sale and bought a reaper for $6.50
It was a rainy day and we boiled sap
It was a fair day and Mary, Simeon, and I were at the quarterly meeting in South Easthope
It was pretty nice and they boiled sap
It was a fair day and they worked at the wood
It was a nice day and they worked at the wood
It was a nice day and they worked at the wood
It was a cold day and they boiled sap
It was a cold day and they chopped and I hauled wood
It was a cold day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold day and they chopped wood and in the afternoon father had a sore back
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It was a cold day and Simeon boiled sap and chopped wood
It was a snowy day and they worked at the wood
April 1881
It was a cold day and Simeon worked at the wood
It was a cold day and we crushed oats
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold day and they worked at the wood
It was very severely cold and they worked at the wood
It was cold and they chopped and hauled wood
It was a fair day and father was at the show and Simeon chopped
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and I hauled wood out of the bush with the sleigh and they boiled sap and
chopped wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and they boiled sap and hauled wood
It was a nice day and they boiled sap and chopped wood
It was a nice day and they boiled sap and worked at the wood
It was a nice day and they boiled sap and worked at the wood
It was a nice day and we were in prayer meeting and Church (Good Friday)
It was a nice day and we boiled sap and worked at the wood
April 1881
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we boiled sap and sowed grass seed
It was a nice day and they chopped wood rails
It was a nice day and they made fence, took the molasses cooking apparatus home, and
commenced plowing
It was a nice day and they plowed etc
It was a nice day and we plowed and cleaned oats
It was a nice day and we were in Stratford with oats
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we plowed and sowed wheat and barley
It was a nice day and father was in Stratford with oats and sold our horse (Jimb) for $127.00
and we harrowed, ditched, and staked fence
It was a nice day and we sowed oats and harrowed
It was a nice day and father took Jimb to Stratford and we sowed oats and dug garden
It was a cold day and we plowed, logged, and ditched
It was a cold day and we plowed and worked the mangle land
May 1881
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cool day and we plowed, ditched, and sowed the mangle seed
It was a cool day and we plowed and in the morning Lady got a colt
It was a cool day and we plowed and worked in the chop
It was a nice day and we plowed and worked in the chop
It was a nice day and we plowed and worked in the chop
It was a nice day and we plowed and rolled
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we borrowed Pit Steinacker's horse for a week and we plowed & rolled
It was a nice day and we plowed and with the other team we worked different things
In the evening we had a nice rain shower and we plowed, hauled rails and rolled
It was a nice day and we finished plowing the chop and planted our potatoes
It was a nice day and we finished seeding by sowing our peas and harrowed


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We harrowed, washed the sheep, and crushed oats and peas and in the evening we had a
very heavy rain
It was rainy and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and they plowed in the orchard and hauled stones from the grass field
It was a nice day and they worked in the orchard and at the turnip land
It was a nice day and they fixed the roller and rolled the orchard
It was a nice day and they made fence and worked at the turnip land
It was a nice day and they planted corn in the orchard
It was a nice day and we logged, hauled rails and made fence
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and they dragged, rolled and staked fence
It was a nice day and we worked at the corn land etc.
It was very hot and we plowed, made a drain, etc
(Ascension day) It was a nice day and Mary and I were by Wm Amachers and the rest were
in Church
It was a nice day and we ditched
It was a nice day and we ditched, went for tile, etc. and in the afternoon we had quarterly
meeting
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and we plowed at the corn land etc
It was a nice day and they plowed for corn and sowed the corn
June 1881
It was a fair day and they scraped ground back from the ditch and worked different things
It way a nice day and we scraped, logged, struck thistles etc
In the afternoon we had a heavy rain shower and we scraped, made fence, struck thistles,etc
It was a nice day and we plowed in the swamp north of the orchard for corn & struck thistles
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
(Pfingftan) It was a nice day and we hauled chunks and plowed at the turnip land and father
and mother were by Steinackers
It was rainy and they worked different things
It was a nice day and Simeon was at Facey's raising and father worked at home
It was a nice day and Simeon scraped on the road and father worked different things
It was a hot day and we scraped on the road and father was at Jungblut's raising
it was a nice day and we fetched tiles, struck thistles and sowed turnip seed
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and they commenced plowing at the summer follow and struck thistles
It was a nice day and they plowed and struck thistles
It was a nice day and they plowed struck thistles and made fence
It rained in the afternoon and we plowed
It was a nice day and Simeon plowed a little and father fixed the tent
It was a nice day and they plowed and scuffled potatoes and I helped to make fence at the
Church
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and Simeon was at John Roth's raising and we made fence, scuffled corn,
and went to the camp meeting bush
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and in the evening we came home from the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we mowed grass in the swamp
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It was rainy and we worked different things
It was a fair day and we mowed grass etc
It was a nice day and we took the thresh machine to Woodstock
It was a nice day and we took some hay in and Simeon was at Nicklaus Roth's raising
July 1881
It was a nice day and we took hay in and father was at John Wettlaufer's raising
It was a nice day and we mowed grass
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we mowed grass and took hay in
It was a nice day and we took a little hay in and ditched
It was a nice day and they were at the funeral of Mrs. Schmidt, Will & George's mother and
we took a little hay in and ditched
It was rainy and we worked different things
It was a fair day and we ditched and picked berries
It was very hot and we worked at the six inch tile drain
It was hot and in the afternoon we had a rain shower and we were in Church and S. School
It was a warm day and we finished mowing grass and put paris green on the potatoes and in
the afternoon father went to Hamburg
We worked at the hay and in the afternoon we had a rain shower
It was a nice day and we cut hay with the straw-cutter and finished haying
It was a nice day and father was in Woodstock and Ingersoll with the thresh machine and
we hauled dung
July 1881
It was a nice day and we hauled dung and father was in Stratford
In the morning it was rainy and we finished hauling dung on the summer follow and
commenced plowing and father was in New Hamburg
It was a fair day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we plowed with two teams and the women picked raspberries
It was a nice day and we plowed and Simeon was by Werner Stein binding
It was a nice day and we finished plowing, crushed a little oats and commenced cutting fall
wheat
It was a nice day and we cut fall wheat and barley
It was a nice day and we finished cutting barley and cut some fall wheat
It was a nice day and we cut fall wheat and crushed grain
It was a hot day and we were in Church and S. School
It rained a little and we cut fall wheat
It was a wet day and we worked different things
It was a fair day and we cut wheat and ditched
It was a nice day and we finished cutting fall wheat and hauled some in
It was a nice day and we ditched and hauled in fall wheat
We worked at the ditch, scuffled turnips, took in barley and a load of wheat and in the
evening it rained
It was rainy and we were in Church and S. School
August 1881
We worked at the ditch and raked wheat stubbles and took in a load of wheat and in the
afternoon it rained
It was a nice day and we worked at the ditch and took in our last fall wheat
It was a nice day and we raked stubbles, cleaned turnips, and tried the machine and helped
H. Dunn threshing in the afternoon
It was a nice day and we finished cleaning turnips and worked at the ditch and at the
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It was a nice day and we ditched, ordered hand for threshing, etc
It rained a little and we threshed
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we cleaned wheat and sold it to Malcolm @ $1.18 per bu
It was a nice day and we cut spring wheat and oats and took some more wheat away
It was a nice day and we worked at the ditch and father fetched tile and was at Jung's raising
It was a nice day and we worked at the ditch and took the lambs away @$3. a head
It rained a little and we ditched and cut oats and father was in Stratford
It was a nice day and I threshed at Schneiders, Simeon at Mohrs and they cut oats
It was a nice day and they were in Church and S. School and Simeon and I were at the
gravel road
It was a nice day and we cut oats and pulled peas
It was a nice day and they pulled peas and I plowed at the summer follow
It was a nice day and they pulled peas and I plowed
It was a nice day and we pulled peas, hauled in peas and oats and plowed
It was a nice day and we hauled in peas and plowed
It was a nice day and we hauled in peas and oats and plowed and father and mother were at
the quarter meeting in South Easthope in the afternoon
It was a nice day and we were in S. Easthope
It was a nice day and we pulled peas and plowed
It was a nice day and we finished pulling peas, raked the oat stubbles, hauled in rakings and
peas, and plowed
August 1881
It was a nice day and we bound oats, took in our last oats and some peas and plowed a
little and Simeon threshed at Wildfangs
It was a nice day and we finished harvesting by taking in our last peas, and finished plowing
and threshed by Wettlaufers in the afternoon
It was a nice day and we fenced the corn off, plowed at the pea ground, and cleaned wheat
It was a nice day and we hauled dung and father was at John Wettlaufer's barn moving
It was a hot day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we took wheat away at $1.20 per bu. and plowed
It was a hot day and in the morning father and mother went to Chicago and we plowed and
hauled dung
It was a nice day and we hauled dung and in the evening we had a very hard thunder storm
and a little rain shower
September 1881
It was a fair day but very smokey and we finished hauling dung and plowed and harrowed
and picked elderberries
It was a nice day and I sowed fall wheat on the summer follow and Simeon spread dung
It was a nice day and we plowed and harrowed
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we plowed and harrowed at the pea ground
It was a nice day and we worked at the pea ground
It was a nice day and in the morning parents came home again, and we worked at the pea
ground
It was a nice day and we worked at the pea ground in the forenoon and in the afternoon we
crushed grain
It was a nice day and I was by William Amacher for seed wheat and Simeon worked at the
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It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we worked at the pea ground and at the well by the barn
It was a nice day and they worked at the well and I ganged at the pea ground
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we sowed wheat and in the afternoon they worked at
the well and I ganged at the pea ground
It was windy and we finished sowing
It was rainy and they worked at the well and I harrowed, and hauled wood to Herlan
It was rainy and they finished the well and worked different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church an S. School
It was a warm day and I greased harness and they cut corn and shocked a little yet in the
evening
It was a nice day and we shocked corn
It was a nice day and we finished shocking corn and commenced digging potatoes
It was a nice day and father was in Stratford with the cylinder and I hauled rails and Simeon
was at the Hamburg show
It was a nice day and they dug potatoes and I hauled wood to Malcolm
It was a nice day and they hauled rails and made fence and I hauled wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and in the forenoon they made fence and I hauled wood and in the
afternoon we helped threshing at Werner Stein
It was a nice day and we threshed at Werner Stein
It was rainy in the morning and in the afternoon we threshed for Hitzeroth
It was a nice day and we finished threshing for Hitzeroth and then threshed for Behrenwald
It was a nice day and we threshed in the afternoon
October 1881
It was rainy and in the forenoon we started fall plowing and worked different things and in the
afternoon we were at Mrs. Mohr's funeral
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we finished threshing
It was a nice day and we dug potatoes
It was a cold day and in the forenoon I hauled wood and Simeon ditched and in the afternoon
we were at the show
It was a nice day and they dug our last potatoes and I started to go to School again
It rained in the morning and father worked at home and Simeon threshed at Morlocks
It was rainy and we crushed peas for Wm Siebert and Simeon threshed at Morlocks
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold day and father threshed by Schneider and Simeon threshed by Morlocks in the
forenoon and in the afternoon he plowed
It was a cold day and father fetched apples and Simeon threshed by Schneiders in the forenoon and in the afternoon he plowed
It was rainy and in the afternoon father got cider made for Mrs. Jaggie and Simeon plowed
It was cool and they threshed at Wettlaufers
It was cool and they threshed at Wettlaufers
It was warm and showery and they threshed at Wettlaufers and I plowed
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a fair day and Simeon plowed and father threshed at John Wettlaufer
It was a fair day and Katie's wedding was and Simeon plowed
It was a nice day and father was with Katie at Williams & at John's and Simeon threshed at
Wildfangs
It was a nice day and father took Langkam+C3211 and Katie to Henkels and Simeon plowed and
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It was a nice day and father got cider made and Simeon plowed
It was a nice day and Simeon threshed at Mohrs I hauled wood and they cooked sauce
It was a fair day and we were in Church and S. School
It was rainy in the morning and in the forenoon Simeon threshed at Mohrs and in the afternoon he worked at a ditch and father was at Bigem's sale
It was a nice day and Simeon scraped muck into the field from the road
It was a nice day and father plowed and pulled turnips and Simeon threshed at Helmuths
It was a nice day and they pulled turnips and scraped
It was a cloudy day and they worked at the ditch, etc
In the morning it rained and we plowed with two teams, etc
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and they pulled our last turnips and Simeon scraped
November 1881
It was a fair day and Simeon scraped and father fetched a load of posts from D. Wettlaufer
It was a fair day and Simeon scraped and father hauled wood into the woodshed and was in
Tavistock
It was a cold day and they plowed, etc
It was cold and snowed and they plowed ,etc
It was snowy and rainy and Simeon plowed and we worked in the cow stable
It was a fair day and we were in Church and S. School
It was wet and they plowed and crushed oats
It was a nice day and they tore up the old lane
It was a cloudy day and they worked about the same as the other day
It was a fair day and Simeon plowed and father was at Simmons' sale in the afternoon
November 1881
It was cold in the afternoon and in the evening it snowed and we plowed with two teams in
the forenoon and plowed and logged in the afternoon
It rained in the forenoon and we worked in the cow stable and in the afternoon we were in
Church we had quarterly meeting
It was a fair day and we were in Church
It was a fair day and Simeon plowed
It was a cold day and they hauled rails and finished fall plowing
It was a fair day and Simeon made fence and hauled ground to the cellar wall and father was
in the South Easthope Church residing as committee man for H. Sims and Heir
It was rainy and they worked different things and plowed at the swamp in the forenoon
It was a nice day and they plowed at the swamp
It was cold and stormy and we worked at the stable
it was a cold day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a fair day and they made fence and chopped wood
It was a fair day and they butchered our bull and worked different things
It was a fair day and they hauled wood for boiling sap and chopped rails etc
It was a cold and snowy and they worked in the bush
It was a cold, snowy day and they got ready for butchering
It was a fair day and we butchered
It snowed very much and we took the first cutter ride and were in Church and in S. School
It was a fair day and in the forenoon they worked different things and in the afternoon they
cut straw
It was a nice day and the snow all went away again and they crushed oats & chopped wood
It was a nice day and they plowed at the swamp
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It was a nice day and they finished plowing and chopped wood
It was a nice day and they chopped wood
It was a fair day and I hauled rails and they chopped and made fence
It was pretty cold and we were in Church and S. School
It was a fair day and father tended the cattle and Simeon threshed at Conrad Wettlaufers
It was a foggy day and they worked the same as the other day
It was very stormy and snowy and they worked at home
It was a fair day and they chopped wood
It was cold and they chopped wood and I hauled rails
It was cold and they chopped wood and I hauled rails
It was cold and we were in Church and S. School
It was rainy and in the forenoon they chopped and in the afternoon they worked at home
It was rainy and they worked at home
It was a fair day and they chopped
It was a rough day and they butchered at Hy. Schmidt and Simeon chopped
It was a nice day and they chopped
It was a nice day and they chopped
It was a fair day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a fair day and they chopped
It was a fair day and they chopped and in the afternoon father was in Tavistock
It was rainy in the afternoon and they chopped and I went to Woodstock to the Examination
It was a rainy day and Simeon worked at home and father was in Tavistock at Wagners
helping to make christmas packages and I was in Woodstock
It was a fair day and we chopped wood
It was a fair day and we were in Church fixing the Christmas tree and Simeon chopped
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
December 1881
It was a cloudy day and we were at home we had some visitors
It was a fair day and father and mother were but butchering by Dietrich Wettlaufer and we
chopped wood
It was a fair day and we chopped and father was in Tavistock
It was a fair day and in the forenoon we chopped and in the afternoon Siemon chopped and
father and I were at H. Ziemaaim's insolvent sale
It was a cold day and Simeon chopped and I hauled wood and father worked different things
It was cold and snowy and father and mother and Mary were at Mrs. Ingold's funeral and
Simeon threshed at Helmuths and I tended to the cattle
January 1882
It was a cold day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a cold day and father was at the election, etc and we tended to the cattle
It snowed and stormed and Simeon threshed at Helmuth's and father was at home and I
commenced going to school again
It was a fair day and they chopped wood & in the evening Peter & Wagners went to Michigan
It was a cold day and they worked at the wood
It was a fair day and they worked at the wood
It was a fair day and in the forenoon I hauled wood out of the bush with the sleigh and in the
afternoon I hauled wood to Tavistock with the wagon
It was a rainy day and the snow all went away again and we were in Church and S. School
It was a cold day and they worked in the bush
It was a fair day and in the evening it snowed and Simeon worked in the bush and Werner
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It was a fair day and we had a little bit of sleighing and Simeon chopped wood and father
hauled sawlogs
It was rainy and snowy and Simeon chopped wood and father hauled sawlogs
In the forenoon it stormed and snowed so that the snow was about eight inches deep at
noon and father and I were in Stratford and Simeon chopped wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was pretty cold and father took Simeon home and went to Baden for linseed meal
It was pretty cold and father tended to the cattle
It was pretty cold and father and mother and grandma were at Henry Alles visiting
It was a nice day and father worked different things
It was a nice day and father worked different things
It was a soft snowy day and we were in Chesterfield and bought our thorough bred bull for
forty-five dollars
It was very stormy and we were at home
It was cold and we tended to the cattle
It was cold and we tended to the cattle
It was snowy and rainy and we tended to the cattle
It was warm and in the forenoon we hauled gravel and in the afternoon the sleighing was all
gone again
It was a nice day and in the afternoon we fetched a log out of the bush for a sill to lower the
slippers in the wagon shed
It was a nice day and in the forenoon I hauled wood and in the afternoon we worked at the
wagon shed
It was cold and snowed and we were in Church and in S. School
It was cold and father fetched our lumber from the saw mill, etc.
It was cloudy and father tended to the cattle and worked at a milkstand
February 1882
It was cloudy and father tended to the cattle and Margret Schenk and her man were here
and father took them to Werner Stein
It was a fair day and father tended to the cattle and finished the milkstand
It snowed in the morning and father tended to the cattle and they also were at Schwemling's
funeral
It was a fair day and in the forenoon father hauled ice for Krug & Falk and in the afternoon we
worked in the barn
It was a nice day and they were in Church and S. School and I was sickly
It was a nice day and father hauled rails out of the bush
It was rainy in the afternoon and father hauled rails
It was a nice day and father hauled rails
It was a nice day and we were at old Mrs. Schneider's funeral
It was a cold day and father was at home
It was a fair day and father and mother went to the quarterly meeting in South Easthope
It was cloudy and father and mother were in South Easthope and we were at home
It was rainy and father tended to the cattle
It was a nice day and father tended to the cattle
It was a nice day and father worked different things
It was rainy and father tended to the cattle, etc and Peter came from Michigan
It was a cold day and father took Peter down to Louis Pletsch and tended to the cattle
It was cold and snowed and we crushed oats and peas
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
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It rained, snowed, etc and we hauled two sawlogs with the sleigh, and tended to the cattle
It snowed, and we had sleighing again and we hauled sawlogs and headings
It was a fair day and father hauled wood and Sam Quehl came and commenced working
It was a nice day and the sleighing departed again and in the forenoon father hauled wood
and in the afternoon he went to Plattsville for bran
It was a nice day and Sam and I hauled wood out of the bush and in the evening father came
home again
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and father and mother were by Dietrich Wettlaufers
It was a nice day and father was in Stratford
March 1882
It rained in the morning and we worked different things
It was a warm day and father and mother were at the gravel road
It was a fair day and father brought Wm Krantz a cow and tended to the cattle
It was a nice day and we tended to the cattle and cut straw
It was cloudy and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a fair day and we killed two pigs and sieved timothy seed
It was a cold day and we took the timothy and pigs to Stratford and got $2.80 per bushel for
the timothy and for one pig $8. per cwt and for the other $7.45 per cwt
It was a fair day and they tended to the cattle, etc
It was rainy and they were at Adam Reidt's wife's funeral
It was a fair day and they hauled wood together in the bush etc
It snowed in the afternoon and in the forenoon we crushed peas and in the afternoon I went
to the gravel road
It was a fair day and they were in Church and in S. School
It was a cold day and father hauled wood out of the bush with the sleigh
It snowed and they tapped trees
It snowed and stormed and they worked at home
March 1882
It was a fair day and they hauled wood and rails out of the bush
It was a fair day and we were at the examination
It was a wet day and we fed the cattle, split wood, etc
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a fair day and we boiled sap
It was very stormy and we boiled sap
It snowed and stormed, and we got the ring put into the bulls noses, tended to the cattle, etc.
It was very windy and we were at Capling's sale
It was stormy and we cut straw
It was a fair day and we crushed grain
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It rained, snowed, and stormed and we boiled sap
It was a fair day and we boiled sap, & Elizabeth Quehl came to our placed to stop four years
It was windy and we boiled sap
It was windy and we boiled sap and chopped wood
It was cool and we boiled sap, sewed grass seed, and chopped wood
April 1882
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we crushed grain and in the afternoon we boiled sap
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a fair day and we boiled sap
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It was a fair day and we were in prayer meeting and in Church (Good Friday)
It was a fair day and father boiled sap and I rolled another grass field
It was a cold day and we were in Church and in S. School (Easter)
It was very cold and snowed and we worked different things
It was cold and snowed and we took a load of wood to Tavistock and hauled dung into the
orchard
It was cold and stormy and father was with Niebergall and Wildfang in Woodstock and I split
wood, etc.
It was a fair day and we hauled dung into the orchard, etc
It was a fair day and I was at Quehl's mowing and they split stakes, etc.
It was a nice day an we hauled two loads of wood to Tavistock and boiled sap, etc
It was a fair day and Mary and I were at the quarterly meeting in on the gravel road, and they
were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we boiled sap and hauled rails and bought a horse from Rev. Herlan for
$90.00
It was a nice day and we rolled fall wheat and commenced gang plowing
It rained and we worked different things
It rained in the forenoon and snowed in the afternoon and we worked different things in the
barn, etc.
It was pretty cool and father fetched cherry trees from Osben and I dug post holes ,etc
It was a fair day and we took the sugar cooking apparatus home, made fence, gang plowed
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we gang plowed and made fence, etc
It was a nice day and in the forenoon they cleaned oats and I gang plowed and in the
afternoon I sowed oats
It was a fair day and in the forenoon I sowed oats and in the afternoon I gang plowed
It was a fair day and in the forenoon we sowed and harrowed and in the afternoon I ganged
It was a cold day and I ganged and father worked at a drain
April 1882
It was a nice day and I ganged and plowed and father helped to move Herlan's furniture to the
station
It was a fair day and we were in Church and S. School
May 1882
We hauled dung into the orchard and in the afternoon it rained and I fetched the horse doctor
for Fanny, she had inflamation of the lungs
It was cold and we had a snow storm and we hauled dung into the orchard and spread dung
and plowed, etc
It was a fair day and we worked in the orchard
It was a fair day and we finished sowing in the orchard and sowed wheat
It was a fair day and we sowed wheat and barley
It was a nice day and in the forenoon, I gang plowed and in the afternoon we had quarterly
meeting
It was a fair day and we were in Church
It was a fair day but it rained in the afternoon and I sowed barley and harrowed
It was very warm and we finished sowing barley and commenced working the mangle land
We drilled and sowed a few drills and then it commenced raining
It was cold and rained and we logged a little
It rained all day and we worked different things
It was a fair day and I plowed a little piece of sod, and planted potatoes on it
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It was a nice day and I rolled and father was in Hamburg in the afternoon for corn
It was a warm day and we worked at the turnip land and staked fence
(Ascension Day) It was a nice day and father and mother were by Louis Pletsch's and we
were in Church in the afternoon
It was a nice day and we plowed and planted corn on it
It was very hot and in the forenoon I hauled rails and in the afternoon I plowed for corn by the
pig pen and staked fence
It was cloudy and Mary and I were in Zorra and father and mother were at the Jonmnmation?
in the union evangelical church-Reform Church
It was rainy and I plowed a little, washed harness, etc
It was cool and in the forenoon I had the sow by C. Roth and in the afternoon we sowed corn
and stuck cockle
It was a nice day and I plowed the potato land and greased harness and father and mother
were by Trachels at Shakespeare
It was a nice day and in the forenoon I plowed at the turnip land and in the afternoon I
greased harness and Rev. Brann and his Misses were here
It was a nice day and we planted potatoes, plowed at the turnip land and stuck cockle
It was rainy and we worked different things
(Pfingft)It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a fair day and we finished planting potatoes, made fence and father bought a cow from
Traschel at Shakespeare
It was a nice day and we made fence
It was rainy and we fetched cedar trees and worked different things
June 1882
It was a cool day and we planted cedar trees and fetched some more
It was rainy and we planted cedar trees, took a load of wood to Tavistock, etc.
It was a wet day and we worked in the barn
It was rainy and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a fair day and we fixed fence about the barn yard
June 1882
It was a fair day and we hung a gate and staked fence
It was a fair day and we staked fence and washed sheep
It was rainy and we staked fence, etc.
It was a fair day and we worked at the turnip land, made a gravelbox, etc.
It was a nice day and we sheared our sheep, were in Tavistock, etc
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we drawed gravel on the road
It was a nice day and we hauled gravel
It was a rainy day and we hauled gravel and sold Tom
It was rainy and we stuck thistles and were in Tavistock, etc
It was a hot day and I worked at the turnip land and father was at Dietrich Hansuld's raising
It was hot and we ridged and sowed the turnip land
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was very cold that we put overcoats and mittens on and we stuck thistles
It was a hot day and we stuck thistles
It was a nice day and we stuck thistles
It was a nice day and we stuck thistles
In the morning we had a nice rain shower and father went to Nick Schweitzers and we
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It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we moved to the camp meeting bush, and stuck thistles
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was rainy and we came home from the camp meeting
July 1882
It was cloudy and foggy and we worked different things
It was a fair day and we were in Church and S. School
In the morning it rained and we cleaned mangles and were in Chesterfield
It was a nice day and father was at Joe Gingerichs' raising and we cleaned mangles
It was rainy and we cleaned mangles and stuck thistles and scuffled potatoes
It was a fair day and we stuck thistles
It was a nice day and we scuffled potatoes, finished sticking thistles and cleaned mangles
It was rainy and we cleaned mangles, etc
It was rainy and very hot and we were in Church, and in S. School
It was hot and showery and we were at old Mrs. Helmuth's funeral and cleaned mangles
It was a warm day and we mowed grass and cleaned turnips
It was rainy and we took a load of hay home and worked different things
It was a nice day and we took in hay
It was a nice day and we cleaned turnips and took in hay
It was a nice day and we mowed grass and took hay in
It was very warm and they were in South Easthope at the quarterly meeting
It was a nice day and we mowed grass and took in hay
We had a very heavy rain and we worked different things
It was showery and we took two loads of hay in, cleaned turnips and worked different things
It was a fair day and we worked at the hay
It was a fair day and we took one load of hay in and cleaned turnips and mowed grass
It was a nice day and we worked at the hay
It was a nice day and mother and I were at the quarterly meeting in Zorra
It was warm and we worked at the hay
July 1882
It was very warm and we mowed grass in the fence corners and finished haying
It was warm and I scuffled turnips and they picked cherries
It was rainy and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we picked berries, etc
It was a nice day and father and I bound wheat for Werner Stein
It was a hot day and we were in church and in S. School
It was a fair day and we hung a gate and commenced cutting wheat
August 1882
It was rainy all day and we were at home
It was cloudy and father was in Chesterfield and in the evening we cut wheat
In the forenoon we cut barley in the orchard and in the afternoon it rained
It was rainy and we cut wheat
It was very hot and we cut wheat
It was very hot and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a fair day and we cut wheat
It was rainy and we mowed thistles and cut wheat in the afternoon
It was rainy and we worked at the wheat
It was showery and we finished cutting wheat
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In the forenoon we hauled wheat in and in the afternoon it was rainy and we hauled dung
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we hauled wheat in
It was a nice day and we hauled wheat in
In the morning it rained and then we put in our last wheat and in the afternoon father helped
Wildfangs thresh
It was a fair day and we cut our last barley and hauled some in
It was a fair day and I threshed by Helmuths and they hauled in barley and rakings
It was a fair day and we cut peas and hauled in our last barley
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was cloudy and we hauled in barley rakings and peas
It was rainy in the morning and we threshed by Werner Stein and in the afternoon I helped
Schneider
It was rainy in the morning and we hauled dung
It was a nice day and father threshed by Morlocks and I hauled dung
It was a nice day and I hauled dung
It was hot and we hauled dung and cut a little oats
It was a fair day and we were at Mrs. Kaufman's funeral in Sebastopol and were in S. School
It was a fair day and we cut our spring wheat
It was a fair day and we hauled dung and bound wheat
It was a fair day and I threshed at Helmuth's and father threshed at Wildfangs in the
afternoon
It was a nice day and we set the machine and I threshed at Wettlaufers in the afternoon
September 1882
It was a nice day and we threshed
It was hot and we hauled in spring wheat
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a fair day and we cut and bound oats
It was a fair day and we cut and bound oats
It was a nice day and they bound oats and I plowed
It was a nice day and they bound oats and I plowed
It was a nice day and they bound oats and I plowed
September 1882
It was a nice day and we finished binding oats, plowed, and cut our last peas
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was cloudy and we hauled in oats
It was a nice day and we finished hauling in oats and plowed
It was a nice day and we finished harvesting by taking in our last peas and some oat rakings
It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a nice day and we plowed, sowed, and harrowed
It was a nice day and in the evening it rained a little and we were in Church and in S. School
It was sultry and we finished plowing, sowing and harrowing
In the afternoon it was rainy and we rolled the fall wheat and hauled stones off
It was a nice day and we cleaned barley and took it to Tavistock and dug a few potatoes
It was cloudy and dripped a few times and we cleaned wheat and dug potatoes
It was rainy in the morning and we cleaned wheat took a load to Tavistock @$1.00 per bu.
It was a nice day and we finished digging potatoes and took a load of wheat away
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we worked at the corn and took our clover in
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It was a nice day and father and I were at the fair in London
It was rainy in the morning and we worked at the corn
It was a nice day and we finished the corn
It was a fair day and I threshed by John Wettlaufer
October 1882
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we set the machine and threshed a little in the afternoon
It was a nice day and we were at the show
It was a nice day and we worked at the potato land
It was a nice day and I hauled sand for Lorenz Nau and father went to Seaforth
It was a nice day and in the forenoon I was in Zorra by John Quehl and in the afternoon I
hauled dung
It was a nice day and I hauled dung and cut corn
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and I cut and shocked corn
It was a nice day and I hauled wood to the woolen mill and father worked different things
It was a nice day and I hauled wood and father worked different things
It was a nice day and I hauled wood and father worked different things
Father was in Stratford and I worked different things and in the afternoon it rained
It was a nice day and in the afternoon we were in Church we had quarterly meeting
It was a nice day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and we plowed, hauled wood, and pulled mangles
It was a nice day and I plowed and father was at Jacob Ankermann's sale
It was a nice day and father and I fetched the things which he bought at the sale
It was a cold day and father went for the horse doctor for Fan & we pulled mangles & turnips
It was a nice day and I took Mr. Murray's bull to Chesterfield and they worked at the mangles
It was a nice day and we worked at the mangles and at the turnips
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we worked at the turnips and plowed
It was a nice day and we worked at the turnips
It was a nice day and we plowed and worked at the turnips
It was a nice day and we worked at the turnips and plowed
It was a nice day and we worked at the turnips and plowed
October 1882
It was windy and we finished the turnips (we got 33 loads & 7 loads of mangles) and I plowed
It was cloudy and cool and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and I went to Mr. Steele, and plowed. And John Sieberts from Kansas were
here visiting
It was a fair day and father was in Plattsville for bran and I worked different things
November 1882
It was a fair day and I threshed at John Wettlaufers, and parents were at Nicklaus
Schweitzers visiting
It was a cold day and father threshed at Wettlaufers and I plowed
It was cold and father threshed at Wettlaufers and I plowed
It was very cold and in the morning I was by Mr. Steele and in the afternoon I plowed and
father worked different things
It was a cold day and we were in Church and S. School
It was pretty cool and I threshed at Schneiders and father worked at home
It was a misty day and I threshed at Schneiders and father at Werner Steins
It was misty and I threshed at Schneiders and father at Werner Steins till noon
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It was very warm and misty and I plowed and father worked different things
It was rainy in the forenoon and I worked different things and father threshed at Wildfangs
It was rainy in the morning and we were in Church and in S. School
It was snowy in the morning and father threshed at Morlocks and I plowed
It was a cold day and father threshed at Morlocks and I worked different things
It was a fair day and in the forenoon I threshed at Wildfangs and in the afternoon I ordered
hands for threshing and father fixed for threshing
It was a fair day and we threshed
It was snowy in the morning and we threshed
It was a fair day and we finished threshing
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a fair day and we worked different things
It was a fair day an we worked different things
It was a fair day and we took in corn and plowed
In the forenoon we killed a cow and plowed and in the afternoon it rained
It snowed and stormed with all its might and we worked different things
It was a fair day and I finished plowing in a field and were in Tavistock etc.
It snowed very much and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a fair day and we cleaned wheat etc
It was a fair day and we took a load of wheat to Plattsville and got $.92 per bu
It was a fair day and we worked different things
It was a fair day and we hauled in corn, etc
December 1882
It was a cold day and we were at Gaebels sale
It was a cold snowy day and I worked different things
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It snowed and we chopped grain
It was a fair day and we killed a cow
It was a fair day and father and mother butchered at Schultz's and I hauled rails
It was a very stormy day and we were at home
It was very stormy and we were at home
It was a cold day and father was at the cheese factory in the afternoon
It snowed very much and we were in Church and in S. School
It snowed and we chopped grain
December 1882
It snowed and father threshed by Ramseyer and I was at home
It rained a little, snowed and stormed and father & mother took carpet rags to Conrad Quehls
It was snowy and father and mother went to Dietrich Wettlaufer for butchering
It was stormy and they butchered at Dietrichs
It was a fair day and they came home from Dietrichs
It was a sharp day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we butchered our pigs
It was a fair day and father threshed by Conrad Wettlaufers and I was at home
It was a fair day and we threshed at Conrad Wettlaufers
It was rainy and in the morning we threshed at Helmuths and in the afternoon we chopped
oats for Werner Stein
It thawed and we threshed at Helmuths
It was a nice day and we crushed grain for Helmuths and tended to the cattle, etc
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
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It was a fair day and I hauled a load of wood for Braun, etc.
It was a fair day and we were at Woodstock
It was a fair day and we hauled corn into the barn and wood out of the bush
It was a fair day and I hauled wood to Tavistock
It was cold and snowed and we were in Church and in S. School
January 1883
It was a fair day and Mary and I were at Williams and the rest were at home
It was cold and we made a wood rack and took a load of wood to Tavistock
It was cold and we hauled wood to Tavistock
It was cold and we hauled wood
It was cold and we hauled wood
It was a pretty nice day and in the afternoon we crushed for Helmuths
It was stormy and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a fair day and I tended to the cattle
It was a fair day and father and mother went visiting to the gravel road and I was at home
It was very cold and they came home
It was a fair day and in the afternoon we chopped wood
It was a cold day and we chopped wood
It was stormy, and they were at the quarterly meeting in South Easthope
It was stormy and they were in South Easthope
It was cold and C. Hohners were here visiting
It was a fair day and I threshed at Helmuths
It snowed with all it's might and in the forenoon I threshed at Helmuths
It was a fair day and we worked different things
It was a fair day and we worked different things
It was a misty and wet day and we were in Stratford
It was very cold and stormy and we were in Church and in S. School
It was severely cold and we tended to the cattle, etc
It was severely cold and we tended to the cattle, etc
It was cold and we tended to the cattle, etc
It was a little milder and we tended to the cattle, etc
It was very cold in the morning and father was in Hamburg with a grist
It thawed and we chopped wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we chopped wood
January 1883
It was a thawy day and we chopped wood
It was stormy and we hauled wood out of the bush in the forenoon
February 1883
It was very stormy and we tended to the cattle, etc
It snowed very much and we chopped wood
In the forenoon we cut straw and in the afternoon it rained
It was stormy and we were in S. School
It was cold and we tended to the cattle etc
It was a fair day and we were at Christ Gingerich's sale
It was a fair day and father fetched bran from Plattsville
It was cold and we tended to the cattle and I took a steer coming 3 years, which we sold to
Helmuth's for $40. down to them
It was cold and father sieved timothy seed and I tended to the cattle, etc
It was a fair day and we tended to the cattle, cleaned wheat, etc
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It was a fair day and we hauled wood to old Mohr
It was a nice day and in the afternoon we chopped oats
In the forenoon it snowed and in the afternoon it rained and we hauled wood to Appels
It was a fair day and we hauled wood to Wm. Schmidt and old Mohr
It rained and in the afternoon we were at H. Brodrecht's sale
It stormed and we took in some corn and tended to the cattle
It was cold and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a fair day and we worked in the bush
It snowed and in the forenoon we worked in the bush and a few bags of wheat to Tavistock
It was a fair day and I took a load of wood to Tavistock and tended to the cattle
In the morning it snowed and we chopped wood and father was by Quehl and hired Sammy
It was a fair day and I hauled wood and father cleaned wheat and was at John Gruber's sale
It was cold and in the evening it rained and father was in Stratford
It snowed and stormed and we were in Church and in S. School
It snowed and stormed and we were in the bush & in the afternoon we fixed the pig stable
In the afternoon it was very stormy and we were at Nick Schweitzers and bought a horse
(Maggie) for $125.
It was a fair day and father & Braun went round in interest of the Minister's residence which
was to be built and I tended the cattle, etc
March 1883
It was a fair day and we cleaned and took away wheat @$1.00
It was a nice day and we cleaned and took away wheat and hauled wood
It was a fair day and in the forenoon we worked in the bush and in the afternoon father was at
the Annual cheese meeting and I hauled a load of wood to Staeblers
It was cold and we were in Church and in S. School
It was cold and we chopped wood
It snowed and I hauled wood and father was at Dietrich Wettlaufers and at Nick Schweitzers
It stormed very much and we worked different things
It was a fair day and we hauled wood and wheat
It was a fair day & father was by Dietrich Wettlaufer hewing timber for a shed by the Church
It was a snowy day and in the forenoon father fetched timber from Dietrich and in the afternoon I hauled a load of wood
It was cold and stormy and we were in Church and in S. School
It was very stormy and snowy and we chopped wood
It was a fair day and we chopped wood and crushed grain
It was a nice day and we chopped and hauled wood
March 1883
It was cold and we worked at the wood
It was cold and we worked at the wood
It was a fair day and we worked at the wood
It rained and snowed and we were in Church and in S. School
It snowed very much and we took two sawlogs to Tavistock
It was cold and we hewed timber for the shed
It was a fair day and we worked at the wood
It was a fair day and we hauled and chopped wood
It snowed very much and in the forenoon I was in Church (Good Friday)
It was a nice day and in the afternoon we crushed a little oats
It was a nice day and we were at Conrad Wettlaufer's father's funeral and in S. School
It was a nice day and father took a load of Krantz's moving to Stratford
It was a fair day and we worked different things
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It was a nice day and we chopped wood, hauled rails, and tapped trees
It was a fair day and we chopped and hauled wood
April 1883
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we chopped grain
It was a nice day and we worked at the wood
It was a nice day and father was at John Schweitzer's sale and we hauled wood and
gathered sap
It was rainy and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we oiled sap
It was cloudy and we boiled sap and in the afternoon we were in Church we had quarterly
meeting
It was a fair day and we were in Church
It was a nice day and we boiled sap and chopped wood
It was a nice day and we boiled sap and chopped wood
It was a windy and we chopped wood
it was a fair day and we framed wood for the shed by the Church and chopped wood
It was a fair day and in the forenoon we framed wood and in the afternoon we were at the
show
It was a warm day and we finished framing and boiled sap
It was warm and rained in the afternoon and we were in the Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we chopped wood and hauled rails
It was a nice day and we hauled rails and finished boiling sap
It was a nice day and I commenced plowing and they made fence
It was rainy and in the afternoon I plowed
It was a nice day and I plowed and they made fence
It was a nice day and we plowed, hauled rails, etc
It was cold and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a cold day and I plowed
It snowed and stormed and I hauled rails, etc
It was a cold day and I plowed and hauled rails
In the forenoon I sowed oats and harrowed and in the afternoon it rained
I sowed oats and harrowed and in the afternoon it rained and father ditched
It was cold and I ganged and father ditched
It was cold and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a fair day and I ganged and they staked fence
May 1883
It was a nice day and I ganged and harrowed and in the afternoon they were at Conrad
Wettlaufer's mother's funeral
It was rainy in the afternoon and we sowed oats and barley and rolled and harrowed
It was rainy and in the forenoon father was in Church (Ascension day)
It rained in the morning and I hauled rails, harrowed and ganged
It was a fair day and we ganged, sowed, and set a few fence posts
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we sowed spring wheat, barley, and logged
It was a fair day and we rolled and ditched
It was cold and we ditched and they were at the funeral of Mrs. Simon Umbach
It was rainy in the afternoon and in the forenoon we hauled stones to the Church
It was a fair day and in the forenoon I hauled stones to the Church and father ditched
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It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
We scraped by the Church and in the afternoon it rained
It was a nice day and we ditched and made fence
It was cold and father ditched and was at old Mrs. Wilker, and I hauled stones to the Church
It was a nice day and father ditched by the Church, and I commenced plowing at a rough
piece of sod
It was a nice day and father ditched by the Church and I plowed
It was a nice day and father ditched at home and I plowed
It was showery and we were in Church and in S. School
It was rainy and we worked different things
It was rainy and we worked different things
In the forenoon it was rainy and in the afternoon we sowed peas
It was a nice day and I plowed and hauled dung on the potato land
It was a nice day and we hauled dung, sowed oats and worked the potato land
It was rainy and we worked not much of anything
It was showery and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we logged and plowed sod
It was a nice day and I plowed sod and they planted a few potatoes and hauled chunks
We finished planting potatoes and plowing sod and sowing peas & in the afternoon it rained
It was a nice day and Mary and I were in Woodstock and got teeth filled and they worked
different things
June 1883
It was a nice day and we made fence and picked stones from the meadow
It was a nice day and we staked fence and picked stones
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School and Wm Amachers were here
It was a nice day and we sowed mangle and carrot seed, planted corn and drove stakes
It was a nice day and we made fence
It was warm and towards evening it rained and we made fence and washed the sheep
It was a nice day and we set gate posts and made fence
It was a nice day and we hauled wood to Zimmerman and chopped
It was rainy and father fetched tile and we dug garden, etc
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was rainy and in the afternoon father was at John Pletsch's raising
It was rainy in the afternoon and we shore some sheep and plowed the turnip land
It was a nice day and we finished shearing sheep, ditched, harrowed potato land and
greased harness
It was a nice day and we fetched cedar trees and made fence
It was a nice day and we planted cedar trees and plowed corn land
June 1883
It was rainy and we worked different things
It was showery and we were in Church and in S. School
It was rainy and we worked different things
It was showery and we moved to the camp meeting
It was a fair day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a nice day and we were at the camp meeting
It was a hot day and they were at the camp meeting and I stuck thistles
It was warm and in the afternoon we had a rain shower and we raised the shed by the
Church and boarded the greater part of it
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was rainy and we raised and underlayed the wood shed and struck thistles
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It was rainy in the afternoon & in the night and father worked at the shed & we stuck thistles
It was a fair day and father worked at the shed and we stuck thistles
It was a nice day and father worked at the shed and we stuck thistles
It was a nice day and father worked at the shed and we stuck thistles
July 1883
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we stuck thistles and father went to Holstein to Schenk's funeral
It was showery and we finished sticking thistles
We worked different things and in the afternoon it rained
We worked on the road and in the afternoon it was rainy and father came home again
It was hot and showery and in the forenoon I greased harness and in the afternoon I worked
on the road and father fetched bran from Stratford at $9. a ton
In the forenoon I scuffled mangles and potatoes and father worked in the barn and in the
afternoon it rained
It was a nice day and they were at the quarterly meeting in South Easthope
It was a nice day and father fetched bran from Stratford and I was at the Circus in Stratford
We worked on the road and in the afternoon we had a thunder shower
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we were in Tavistock and in the afternoon we got our
hay fork put up
It rained in the afternoon, and we cut grass and scuffled potatoes
It was a nice day and father and mother were in Stratford and I worked different things
It was hot and father mowed grass and in the afternoon they took in two loads of hay and I
hauled timber for John Pletsch
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we worked at the hay
It was a nice day and we worked at the hay
It was a nice day and we worked at the hay
It was a nice day and we worked at the hay
It was a nice day and we worked at the hay
It was a nice day and we worked at the hay
It was cloudy and we were in Church and in S. School
It was rainy and we picked berries
It was cloudy and we cut some grass, etc
It was a nice day and we cut grass and picked berries, etc.
It was a nice day and we took in hay
It was showery and stormy and we took a little hay in
It was a fair day and we worked at the hay
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was fair day and we worked at the hay
July 1883
It was a fair day and we finished haying we got 50 loads
August 1883
It was a fair day and we cradled and mowed barley, the ground was too wet to take the
reaper in and our horses all had distemper
It was a fair day and we cut barley and took a small load in
It was a fair day and we cut barley and ditched
It was a fair day and we ditched and tended to the horses
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and father ditched and we hauled in barley
It was a nice day & father ditched and we buried Norman and white washed the horse stable
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It was a nice day and we cut wheat and barley
It was a nice day & we finished cutting wheat and barley took a load of barley in and ditched
It was a nice day and we ditched and took in a little barley
It was a hot day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and father ditched and I plowed at the turnip land which was too wet to sow
in spring with turnip seed
It was a hot day and I was by Steele and they took in wheat and barley
It was a nice day and we finished hauling wheat and barley in
It was a nice day and we ditched, raked the wheat stubbles, and took the rakings home
It was a nice day and we plowed, fetched a load of sand, etc
It was rainy and I sowed grass seed on the turnip land and worked other different things
It was a fair day and we were in Church and S. School
It was rainy and I took father and mother to Hamburg they went to Michigan
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we plowed at the fall wheat stubbles and in the afternoon I was a Eydt's raising
It was a nice day and in the evening we had a thunder shower and we plowed
It was a nice day and we plowed
It was a nice day and we plowed, harrowed, rolled and gang plowed
It was a nice day and we gang plowed, pulled a few peas, etc.
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and I covered tiles, cradled oats, etc.
It was cloudy and in the morning father and mother came home and we cut oats and sold our
lambs @$3. a head
It was a nice day and we cut wheat and oats
It was a nice day and we cut oats
It was a nice day and we cut oats and wheat
September 1883
It was a cloudy day and we bound oats and hauled wheat and oats in
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a fair day and we cut clover in the orchard, raked oat stubbles, bound oats, drawed
dung and pulled peas
We hauled in oats and wheat and drawed dung and in the afternoon it rained
It was cloudy with a few light showers and I threshed by Helmuths and the bound oats and
pulled peas
It was a nice day and they hauled in oats and I hauled dung
We bound and hauled in oats and drawed dung and in the afternoon it was showery
It was a little showery in the afternoon and we hauled dung and in the afternoon we were in
Church we had quarterly meeting
It was a fair and we were in Church
September 1883
It was a nice day but during the two foregoing nights it froze very severely, the corn and
many other things were spoilt, and I hauled dung and they hauled in oats
It was a nice day and we hauled dung, took in clover, raked oat stubbles and pulled peas
It was a nice day and we plowed, hauled dung, pulled peas, took in rakings & a load of peas
It was showery and we hauled dung, plowed & in the afternoon father threshed by Wildfangs
It was a nice day and I plowed and in the afternoon father threshed at John Wettlaufers
It was a nice day and we threshed at Schneiders and at noon father went home and took a
load of peas in
It was a fair day and in the evening it was rainy and we were in Church and in S. School
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It was a nice day and we harrowed, rolled, finished pulling peas and took in our last peas and
cut our last oats which was in the small field by the pig stable
It was a nice day and we fetched elderberries and dug our potatoes
It was rainy and we worked different things, and Minister Werner's were here and aunt Mary
Amacher
It was rainy in the forenoon and in the evening we went away to Michigan, Father, I and
Uncle Wm.
It was a fair day and we were on the way to Michigan
It was a fair day and we were at the quarterly meeting in Hersey
It was a fair day and we walked about in Michigan
It was a fair day and we walked about in Michigan near Evart
It was a fair day and we walked about in Michigan near Evart
It was a fair day and we bought James Lunney's farm in Michigan three miles from Evart
and paid $5,500.00
It was a fair day and in the morning we started from Evart, Michigan to Canada
It was a fair day and in the forenoon about 10:30 we came home from our Excursion and
business trip in Michigan
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
October 1883
It was a nice day and father and Sam threshed at Werner Steins and I was sickly
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a windy day and we got ready for threshing
It was a nice day and we threshed
It was a nice day and we finished threshing
It was a fair day and we took our mangles and carrots home
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a fair day and we hauled wood out of the bush
It was a nice day and we were at the Tavistock fair
It was a nice day and I hauled wood and they cleaned barley
It was cloudy and I hauled wood and they cleaned barley
It was cloudy and we boiled sauce from mangle sap and apples
It was cloudy and in the evening it rained and I hauled wood and they worked different things
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was cool and we took two loads of hay to Tavistock
It was cold and I threshed at Helmuths and father was at Rheinhardt Krug's sale
It was a fair day and father threshed at Helmuths and I hauled wood
It was a fair day and in the morning they threshed at Helmuths and I hauled wood and in the
afternoon I helped Jury's move and they were at Mrs. Grenzebach's funeral
It was rainy and we were in North Easthope looking after thorough bred cattle
It was cool and we were in Woodstock
It was cool and we were in Church and in S. School
October 1883
It was cool and we were in Tavistock and took a heifer to Shakespeare, etc
It was a nice day and we plowed with two teams
It was a nice day and we took a load of hay to Tavistock and cleaned oats
It was cloudy and father was in Stratford and we cleaned oats
It was cold and we took two loads of hay to Tavistock and loaded one for Woodstock
It was a fair day and father was in Woodstock with hay and we cleaned oats
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was rainy and we butchered a pig
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It was cold and father was at Ide's sale and we cleaned oats and wheat
November 1883
It snowed and father and mother were in Hamburg and we cleaned wheat
It was a fair day and we brought Siegner a load of hay, etc.
It was a fair day and at noon Mother and Mary and I went to the inauguration at Lingelbach's,
and father and Sam cleaned wheat
It was a nice day and we were in Church at Lingelbach's at inauguration
It was a fair day and I threshed at Conrad Wettlaufer and father was sickly
It was a nice day and we threshed at Conrad Wettlaufer
It was a nice day and in the forenoon I threshed at Conrad Wettlaufer and in the afternoon we
brought Adam Reidt a load of hay and Mr. and Mrs. Umbach were here visiting a short time.
Thanksgiving Day It was a nice day and in the forenoon they were in Church and in the
afternoon we crushed
It was a nice day and we got things ready for the sale
It was nice in the forenoon and we crushed and in the afternoon it rained and father and
mother were at the quarterly meeting in South Easthope
It was a nice day and they were in South Easthope
It stormed and snowed with all its might and we worked different things
It was a fair day and we got things ready for the sale
It was very stormy and we had our sale
It was a fair day and we worked different things
It was a fair day and we had snow enough to drive around a little with the sleigh and we
worked different things
It was a fair day and in the afternoon we were in North Easthope by Mr. Cook
It was a nice day and the snow all went away again and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and father was in Stratford and I went to School
We threshed by Noah Wildfangs and in the afternoon it was rainy
It was rainy and father worked different things and I was in School
It was a fair day and father was at John Weber's funeral and I was sick
It was a nice day and father went away to North Easthope after money
It was a nice day and father was away yet and I was at home
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was rainy and I was in School and father was at home
It was cold and in the forenoon I took father and mother to Dietrich Wettlaufer for butchering
and in the afternoon I was in School
It was stormy and they butchered for Dietrich Wettlaufer
It was a fair day and father got ready for butchering and took a load of hay to F. Schular
It was cold and we butchered
December 1883
It was a fair day and we threshed at Schneiders
It was cold and stormy and we were in Church and in S. School
It was cold and in the forenoon we threshed at Schneiders & in the afternoon we had visitors
December 1883
It was a fair day and father was away
It was a fair day and father worked different things
It was a nice day and grandmother moved away from us to John Pletsch
It was rainy and father took a load of hay to Tavistock and Martin Hohners were here
It was a fair day and father was in Stratford
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It got colder and froze again and father was at the cheese factory in the afternoon
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It was a nice day and father was at Adam Weitzels sale
It was a fair day and father worked different things
It was a cold day and father was in Tavistock, etc. and I was sick
It was cold and father and Zimmermann were in Shakespeare by John Pletsch
It was cold and we were in Church and in S. School
It was cold and father was by Bergs in the afternoon
It was cold and snowed and father worked different things
It was cold and Rev. Werner's were here visiting
It was a fair day and we took two loads of hay to Tavistock
It snowed and stormed and father took a load of hay to Zimmermann and I was at the
examination at the Eleventh line
It was a fair day and William Stein and I fetched the Christmas tree and father worked
different things
It was very cold and in the evening it snowed and I was in Sunday School
It was a fair day and we had snow enough for sleighing and I worked different things and
father was sick
Christmas. It was a nice day and in the forenoon we were in Church
It was a nice day and we helped to fix the Christmas tree in the Church and in the evening
we had our festival
It snowed and in the afternoon it stormed and Nichlaus Schweitzer's were here visiting
It was a fair day and we were by Herman, by Berg and by California Schaefer on account of
some business
It was a fair day and we were by Christ Zehr, to take a look at his buildings, and in Tavistock
It snowed and we were in Church and in S. School
It snowed and I was by Wm. Amachers
January 1884
It was a nice day and father was at the annual meeting in Church
It snowed and stormed and we were at home
It stormed fearful and we were at home
It stormed yet but in the afternoon it quieted down and we were at home
It was pretty fair and in the afternoon we were in Church we had quarterly meeting
It was very cold and stormy and in the forenoon they were in Church
It was pretty cold and father and Martin Hohner and Berg were in Stratford to get
some writings made
It was snowy and father and mother and Hohners were at Shakespeare to get the
remaining writings made
It was snowing and storming and blocked up the roads fresh
We killed a pig and took her to John Lemp @$7. per cw. and fetched a small one from John
Weitzel in Tavistock, home with us & in the afternoon it commenced snowing and storming
It was cold and snowed and father and Sammy tended to the chores I took sick with a sore
throat
It was cold and father fetched wood home out of the bush and was in Tavistock
It was changing weather and they were in Church and in S. School
January 1884
It was a fair day and Cooper Falk fetched a load of hay
It was a fair day and Falk and Klein each fetched a load of hay
It was a cold day and father was in Tavistock and I tended to the chores
It was windy and in the afternoon we took a load of hay to Tavistock
It was a nice day and we took a load of hay to Zimmerman
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It was a fair day and father and I were at Mansz's and Dan Smith
It snowed and father and I were at Louis Pletsch's
It was very cold and in the afternoon father was in Tavistock
It was cold and we hauled wheat to Tavistock at $1.09 per bushel
It was a fair day and I was at Stratford and father and mother went to Lisbon
It was pretty cold and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a fair day and I was at home
It was a fair day and in the evening father and mother came home again
It was rainy and father was in Tavistock
It was a fair day and father and I were at Wm Donaldsons and bought a bull for $130.00
February 1884
It was a fair day and father was in Zorra with Zimmermann at Wagesters & at Grenzebachs
It was a fair day and tended to the chores
It was cold and we were in Church and in S. School
It was changing with cold and storm and we fetched the bull we bought and on the way
home the sleigh tipped and the bull fell on father's leg and hurt it severely
It was rainy in the forenoon and father lay in bed
It was a fair day and father lay in bed
It was a fair day and I hung the meat in the smoke house, made a fork to a handle, etc
It was a fair day and we were at home
It snowed and rained and I was in Tavistock in the afternoon
It was a fair day and Mary and I were at Williams
It was cold and in the afternoon I helped Mr. James to move
It was raining ice and in the forenoon I took Mary to the Shakespeare Station to go to
St. Jacobs, and in the afternoon Morlocks were here
It was rainy and Henry Smiths, Wildfang and Wm. Simmons were here visiting
It was cold and stormy and I took some tile to Louie Pletsch
It was pretty fair and in the afternoon I was looking on, at the sawing match at Tavistock
It was a nice day and at noon Dan and Louis Pletsch were here
It was nice and in the evening it rained, and we were in Church and in S. School and father
was out the first time after he hurt his leg
It was a nice day and at noon we started for Lisbon to fetch our heifer from Zinkan
It was a very fine day and we came home with the heifer
It was very cold and stormy and in the afternoon I was at Tavistock
It was stormy and we were at home
It was a fair day and we got the bull ringed and took some old iron to Tavistock
It was very cold and in the afternoon we were at Tavistock
It was a cold south east wind and we were in Church and at S. School
In the afternoon it snowed and we took a load of hay to Steinmanns
It snowed and at noon father and mother went to the gravel road
It was a fair day and in the evening they came home
It was very cold and stormy and we were at home
It was severely cold and we were at home
March 1884
It was a fair day and we were at Tavistock
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in the afternoon father and mother were at
Goemmers
It was cold and we had visitors and were at Tavistock, etc
It was cold and we were at home
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and they were at Tavistock
It was a fair day and we killed two pigs and Ingolds were here visiting and brought Mary
It was cold and we were at Stratford with oats and pigs, got $.35 for oats and $8.00 for pigs
per cwt.
It snowed, and we were in Church and S. School
It was a fair day and Will Lippert, Wm. Amachers and Louis Pletsch were here
It was rainy and William Schweitzer and his sister, Rosina and Matilda and Mary Ann Quehl
were here
It was fair and we had a quilting
It was a fair day and we took a load of moving to the station, etc
It was a nice day and we had a quilting
It was a fair day and we were at old Gerhard's funeral and in the afternoon they went to
Williams
It was a fair day and they were in Zorra
It rained in the morning and in the afternoon they came home
It was a fair day and we were at Tavistock, etc
It was rainy and we commenced packing things
It was a fair day and we took a load of things to the station and packed.
It was a fair day and we packed things
It was a nice day and we packed things
It was rainy and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we loaded things on the car
It was a nice day and we finished loading and started off in the evening
It was rainy and we were on the train and arrived at Evart in the evening
It was very warm and at noon father arrived with the stock
It was a fair day and we unloaded the car
It was a cold day and we bought a cow
It was a fair day & they were in S. School & prayer meeting & I was at home I had a bad cold
It was cold and we fetched hay from Jewett and picked a few stones
April 1884
It snowed in the afternoon and father fetched some chop from Evart
It was cold and they cut wood and I was sick with a bad cold
It was petty fair and they cut wood
It was pretty fair and we cut wood
It was pretty fair and we tapped a few trees and chopped wood
It was a nice day and we were in School and in prayer meeting
It snowed and father and mother were at Evart in the forenoon and in the afternoon I
commenced plowing but quit soon because it snowed and they boiled sap and cut wood
It snowed in the forenoon and I drawed stones and plowed and Sam boiled sap
It was a fair day and I plowed and was at Evart
It was a fair day and we worked different things
(Good Friday) It was a nice day and Father and Mary went to Hersey and in the forenoon
mother was in prayer meeting
April 1884
It was a nice day and in the forenoon I plowed and father bought a cow $45. and two yearling
steers $19. and in the afternoon we took up sap
(Easter) It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we hung a gate and took up stones
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It was cold and snowed and we made troughs for the spring
It was a fair day and I drawed rails and father finished the troughs
It was hot in the forenoon and I plowed and we bought a heifer from John Meyer for $45. and
boiled sap
It was very hot in the forenoon and I plowed and Sam boiled sap
It was cold and they were in School and prayer meeting
It was cool and I plowed and they worked at the spring
It was a fair day and we picked stones, etc
It was a nice day and father piled lumber where the Church is to be built and I plowed in the
orchard for carrots
It was a nice day and we plowed, harrowed and sowed four bushels of peas and a little oats
It was a nice day and we ridged, sowed carrot seed and drawed stones
It was a fair day and I plowed
It was very windy and smoky and we were in S. School
It was a fair day and I plowed
It was a warm day and we were at Evart and in the afternoon I plowed
It was a fair day and we plowed, sowed oats and 71 lbs of black barley
May 1884
It was showery and we sowed oats and harrowed
The last night and this morning it snowed and I harrowed and drawed stones
It was a nice day and we plowed, drawed stones, harrowed and sowed oats
It was a showery day and we were in Church and in prayer meeting
It was a nice day and we picked stones and commenced plowing for corn, and the sow
pigged
It was a nice day and in the morning I broke the plow then we picked stones
It was a nice day and we picked stones and went to Evart, and in the evening Mag got a colt
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a fair day and we planted a few potatoes by the bush
It was a nice day and father cut stakes and we worked different things in the orchard
It as a fair day and we were at Church and in S. School
It was a fair day and I plowed in the orchard and father cut stakes
It was raining in the forenoon and in the afternoon we plowed and commenced drawing dung
into the orchard
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we were in Evart and in the afternoon we hauled dung
into the orchard
It was a nice day and we plowed and hauled dung into the orchard
It was a fair day and we hauled dung and fetched a load of boards from Lunney's sawmill
It was a nice day and we plowed, made a gate and hung it
It was a nice day and we were in S. School and prayer meeting
It was rainy in the forenoon and in the afternoon we were at Evart
It was a nice day and father worked at the church yard and I plowed
It was hot and we planted and sowed corn
(Ascension day) It was showery and we were at home and in the afternoon I was at Evart
and got Mag shod
It was a fair day and I harrowed, picked stones and drawed dung into the orchard, everything
with Mag and Beauty
May 1884
It was a little wet in the afternoon and we planted a few potatoes in the orchard
It was a fair day and we were at Church and S. School
It was a fair day and in the afternoon we commenced at a job to cover a crossway
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It was cool and in the forenoon we finished the job and in the afternoon we picked stones
It was a fair day and we worked at the road
It was a fair day and father helped at the church and I harrowed
It was a nice day and we worked on the road and father helped by the Church
June 1884
It was warm and we were at S. School and prayer meeting
Whitsuntide It rained in the forenoon and in the afternoon I was at Evart
It was warm and father helped by the Church and we hauled dung into the orchard for
potatoes and at noon Mr. Blackwell begun digging our well
It was warm and we planted potatoes and worked at the well
It was a warm day and we worked at the well
It was warm and we worked at the well and scuffled carrots
It was a nice day and we worked at the well etc
It was very hot and we were in Church and S. School
It was rainy and we put up scantlings for the hay fork
It was a fair day and in the forenoon we were at Evart and in the afternoon we drawed stones,
It was very warm and we worked at the well
It was very warm and we finished the well
It was a fair day and we put the pump in and worked at the turnip land and sowed some
turnip seed
It was a nice day and we drilled and sowed turnip seed and scuffled carrots
It was a nice day and we were in prayer meeting and in Sunday School
It was a warm day and we finished sowing turnips and scuffled corn
It was a warm day and we hoed corn
It was a warm day and we hoed potatoes
It was a warm showery day and we hoed potatoes
In the forenoon we worked on the road and in the afternoon it rained
It was warm and we worked on the road
We were in Church and in S. School and in the afternoon it rained
It was very warm and showery and we finished our road work by putting in a small bridge
It was a warm day and we weeded carrots, etc
It was a warm day and we worked at a hay rack
It was a nice day and we worked at the hay rack
It was a nice day and we hoed corn
It was a nice day Mother and I went to Reed City for the quarterly meeting and they worked
at home, mowed some grass etc.
It was a nice day and we were at Reed and they were at home
It was a nice day and we cut grass and took in a load of hay
July 1884
It was a nice day and we cut grass and took in a load of hay
It was a nice day and we cut grass and took in two loads of hay
It was a nice day and we worked at the hay
It was rainy and they picked berries and I scuffled potatoes and turnips
It was windy and we picked berries and took in two loads of hay
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we worked at the hay
It was a nice day and we worked at the hay
July 1884
It was cloudy and we had a few rain showers and we picked berries
It was a nice day and we cut grass and took in a load
It was a nice day and we worked at the hay


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It was a nice day and we worked at the hay and cleaned turnips
It was a nice day and we were in prayer meeting and in S. School
It was a nice day and father went to Hersey to act as witness at the court for Hill and
Langkam and we mowed grass and cleaned turnips and picked berries
It was a nice day and we mowed grass and cleaned turnips
It was a nice day and we finished cleaning turnips and picked berries, and in the evening
father came home
It was a nice day and we took in some hay and picked berries
It was a nice day and we finished haying and picked berries
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we cut wheat for Mr. .Meyer and in the afternoon we
worked different things
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we cut wheat for John Meyer
It was a nice day and in the morning we cut wheat for Meyer then the machine broke and
father went to Evart to get it fixed and in the afternoon we cut some for Meyer and then
started at ours and in the evening it broke again and then it rained all night
It was a fair day and in the afternoon we cut wheat
It was rainy and we cut a little wheat
It was a fair day and we drawed in and cut wheat
It rained a little and we worked at the wheat
It was a nice day and we were in prayer meeting and in S. School
It was a nice day and we finished cutting wheat
It was a hot day and we cut the barley and drawed in wheat
We had a shower in the afternoon and we drawed in wheat and cleaned turnips
It was a nice day and I went with Niergarth after Huckle berries and father helped sawing
timber for the church tower
August 1884
It was a nice day and we took in our last wheat and the barley and raked fall wheat stubbles
and took in raking
It was a fair day and we cut timber for the shed and harrowed barley stubbles and father
helped to raise the Church tower
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was rainy and we hauled timber out of the bush, etc
It was a fair day and I hauled lumber one load for the church and scuffled carrots
It was showery and in the forenoon I threshed at John Arndt's and in P.M. I was at Evart
It was a fair day and we pulled peas and weeded carrots
It was a nice day and we finished pulling peas and cradled some oats
It was a warm day and we worked at the timber
It was a nice day and we were on prayer meeting and S. School
It was a nice day and we took in our peas
It was a nice day and they worked different things and took Wm. Stein to the station he went
to Canada and I was sick
It was a nice day and they cut oats and I was sick
It was a nice day and they cut oats and in the afternoon father helped Niergarth's threshing
It was hot and they cut oats etc
It was a nice day and they finished cutting oats and helped to raise the church tower and in
the evening I was for the first time able to sit up a while on the chair
It was a nice day and they were in Church and in S. School
August 1884
It was a nice day and they worked at the oats
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It was a nice day and we started to plow for fall wheat
It was a nice day and they we with Meyer after Black berries
It was a nice day and I plowed and we finished harvesting by taking in our last oats except
a few sheaves in the orchard
It was a nice day and I plowed
It was a nice day and we were at the Free Methodist camp meeting
It was rainy in the forenoon, and in the afternoon I plowed
It was a nice day and we made fence, etc
It was a nice day and we drawed dung, plowed, made fence and in the afternoon threshed at
Niergarths
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and we plowed, hewed timber, etc
It was a nice day and the foregoing night we had a nice rain shower and we plowed, took
sawlogs to Evart, etc
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
September 1884
It was a nice day and I plowed and father threshed at Lipperts
It was a nice day and father threshed at Lunney's and I plowed
It was a nice day and we plowed and took timber home
It as a nice day and we hewed timber, harrowed and sowed some wheat
It was a nice day and we finished sowing wheat and harrowed
It was a nice day and we harrowed, drawed timber and father went to Evart in the afternoon
It was a nice day and we were in prayer meeting and in S. School
It was very warm and I and Sam threshed at John Meyers and the carpenters commenced
framing the shed timber
It was a nice day and we framed timber
It was a nice day and we had a shower and we framed timber
It was a nice day and in the afternoon we raised our shed
It was a nice day and we worked at the shed
It was a nice day and we worked at the shed
It was a nice day and we were in Church and S. School
It was a nice day and we worked at the shed, we had a little rain shower
It was a nice day and we finished the shed and cut some corn
It was a windy day and we worked different things
It was a fair day and we picked stones from the fall wheat, etc
It was a little rainy and we got ready for threshing
It was a nice day and in the forenoon we threshed at Niergarths
It was a nice day and we were in S. School and in prayer meeting
It was a nice day and we threshed
It was foggy and we drawed rails and made fence
It was rainy in the forenoon and in the afternoon and I scraped ground from the barn
It was a fair day and I scraped, etc
It was a fair day and I scraped and father helped to clean up by the church
It was a fair day and they went to the quarterly meeting at Hersey
It rained nearly all day and they were at Hersey and Sam and I were at home
It was a fair day and we worked different things
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It was a rainy day and we were at the fair
It was a nice day and we were at the fair
It was showery and we worked different things
It was a fair day and we were at S. School and at prayer meeting
It was a nice day and father fetched two sheep from Hersey
It was showering and we dug potatoes
It rained in the forenoon and in the afternoon father picked off the apples and worked other
different things
It was a cold day and we dug potatoes
It was a fair day and we dug potatoes
It was a fair day and we finished digging potatoes and killed a pig
It was a fair day and we were in S. School and in Church
It was a fair day and we hauled stones and commenced fall plowing
It was a nice day and I plowed and they boiled pumpkin sauce
It was a nice day and I plowed and they pulled carrots
It was a nice day and I plowed and they pulled carrots
It was a nice day and I plowed and they pulled carrots and some turnips
It was a nice day and I plowed and helped to take in some turnips
It was a nice day and we were in prayer meeting and in S. School
It was a nice day and I plowed and harrowed
It rained and we worked different things about the barn and father was at Evart in the forenoon
It was cold and I plowed and they worked different things
It was cold and snowed and we took wood and rails home from the bush
It snowed and we worked different things and father plastered the cracks of the house
It was a nice day and I plowed in the orchard and they pulled turnips
It was a nice day and we were in Sunday School and in Church
It was a nice day and we plowed and pulled turnips
It was a nice day and we pulled turnips, etc
It was a cool day and we were at Conrad Becker's funeral
It was a nice day and we plowed and pulled turnips
It was a fair day and we plowed, etc
November 1884
It snowed and in the afternoon we were at Evart
It was a fair day and we were in S. School and in prayer meeting
It was a nice day and I plowed and father worked at the Church
It snowed and we worked in the stable and father at the Church
It was cold and we took in our last turnips, etc and father worked at the Church
It was a cold day and we worked different things and father worked at the Church
It was a nice day and Father worked in the Church and I worked different things
It was a nice day and in the afternoon I fetched passengers from Evart
It was a nice day and our Church was inaugurated, Bishop Esher was present
It was a nice day and we were at Evart, etc
It was a nice day and I plowed, etc
It was a nice day and I plowed
It was a nice day and we butchered our pigs
It was a nice day and we cleaned wheat and were at Evart
It was a nice day and we picked stones and father was by the Church
It was a nice day and we were in S. School and prayer meeting
It was a cold day and I plowed
It was cold and we threshed at John Meyer
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It was a fair day and we finished threshing at Meyers & took some wood home from the bush
It was cold and we threshed at Niergarths
It was a fair day and we threshed at Niergarths three quarter day
We worked different things and in the afternoon it rained and father was at Evart
It rained in the forenoon and stormed and snowed in the afternoon and we were in S. School
and Church.
It was cold and we worked at the stable
It was cold and we commenced sawing wood
It was cold and we cut wood
It was a fair day and we cut wood
It was cold and I took a load of wood to Evart and fetched the sleigh home and father went
to Reed City
It was a nice day and we worked in the bush
It was a nice day and we were in S. School and prayer meeting
December 1884
It was cold and we cut wood and drawed two loads to the School house
It was a fair day and father and Mother butchered at Meyers, and I hauled wood
It was a nice day and we cut wood
It was a nice day and we cut wood
It was a foggy day and I hauled a load of wood to the School house
It rained and we worked different things
It rained and we were in S. School and Church and in the morning the thorough bred heifer
calved
It snowed and we worked different things
It was cold and we chopped wood in the afternoon
It was a fair day and we were in Evart in the afternoon
It was cold and we ditched
It was cold and we cut wood and under brush
It was a fair day and we cut under brush
It snowed and we were in S. School and prayer meeting
It snowed and father worked in the bush and I hauled a load of wood to the School house and
was at Evart
It was cold and we cut wood
It was very cold and we hauled and chopped wood
It was cold and in the morning Bernard Gaiser started to work here. I hauled wood and they
chopped
It was a cold day and I hauled wood to town and they chopped, and David Amacher came
visiting.
It was very cold and in the afternoon we chopped wood
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was very stormy and we chopped wood and took a load to Evart
It was cold and I and David went to Hersey and the others chopped
It was snowing and we were at Hersey and at Reed and the others chopped
Christmas. It was cold and we came home from Hersey and then fixed our Christmas tree
It was cold and we hauled and chopped wood
In the afternoon it commenced raining and was at Bittners mill with a load of wheat for John
Meyer and took a load of oats down from Baltzers
It was rainy and father and mother were at the quarterly meeting at Reed City
It was rainy and we worked different things
It was rainy and we worked different things and the sleighing was all gone
It was cold and we cut wood


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It was cold and they cut wood and in the afternoon I was in Evart
It was cold and we chopped and hauled wood
It was cold and we chopped and hauled wood
It was fair and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a fair day and we cut and drawed wood
It was rainy and we worked different things
It was a fair day and we cut and drawed wood
It was a fair day and we cut and drawed wood
It stormed and we worked at the wood
It was a fair day and we worked at the wood
We were in prayer meeting and in S. School and in the afternoon it snowed
It was cold and we cut wood
It was a fair day and we worked at the wood
It was cold and we hauled rail timber out of the swamp
We had snow enough for sleighing and I hauled wood with the sleigh
It snowed and I hauled wood
It snowed and stormed and I took a load of wheat to town for John Meyer and in the afternoon
father took a grist down for us
It was very cold and stormy and we were in S. School and preaching
It was very cold and in the forenoon we made a log rack and in the afternoon we commenced
hauling sawlogs to Evart
It was very cold and we cut and hauled logs
It was very cold and we cut and hauled logs
It was very cold and we cut and hauled logs
It was moderate and at noon father went to Hersey with a load of potatoes for Langkam
It was mild and father came home from Hersey with a load of brick and we cut wood
It was cold and we were at prayer meeting and S. School
It was very cold and stormy and they cut wood and I took a load to town
It was cold and we cut and drawed wood
It was cold and I drawed wood and logs and they cut logs
It was cold and they cut logs and I drawed
It was a little milder and they cut logs and I drawed
It was fair and we cut and drawed logs
February 1885
It was very cold and we were in Church and in S. School
It was snowing all day and we cut and drawed wood
It was a fair day and we cut wood and drawed a load of logs
It was a fair day and they cut wood and I drawed wood
It was cold and they worked in the bush and I drawed a load of wood and a load of logs
It was cold and we made and drawed sawlogs
It was a fair day and we drawed and cut sawlogs
It was a nice day and we were in S. School and prayer meeting
It was snowing and storming and I hauled sawlogs and wood and they cut wood
It was cold and in the forenoon we worked in the stable and in the afternoon we cut wood
It was cold and we cut wood
It was cold and we cut and hauled wood
It was cold and we hauled wood
It was milder and we hauled sawlogs
It was snowing and storming and we were in Church and in S. School
It was very cold and we killed a pig and hauled wood


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February 1885
It was cold and we butchered a heifer
It was cold and they cut wood and logs and I hauled
It was cold and we drawed and cut sawlogs
It was a fair day and we cut and hauled sawlogs
It was a nice day and they were in S. School and prayer meeting
It was a fair day and we cut and hauled logs
It was a fair day and we cut and hauled wood
It was a fair day and in the forenoon I fetched a load of pine logs from Adams and took them
to Evart and in the afternoon I hauled wood
It was a nice day and we cut and hauled logs
It was a very nice day and the snow settled considerably and we cut and hauled logs
It was a fair day and Mary and I went to Hersey and father hauled logs
March 1885
It was cold and we were at Hersey, and they were at home
It was a fair day and we came home from Hersey and then I hauled logs
It was a fair day and we cut and hauled sawlogs
It was a fair day and we cut and hauled sawlogs
It was a fair day and we cut and hauled sawlogs
It was a snowy and stormy day and we cut and hauled sawlogs
It was a fair day and we cut and hauled sawlogs
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
In the forenoon it snowed and we worked at the wood
It was a fair day and we cut and drawed wood
It was a fair day and we cut and drawed wood
It was cold and in the forenoon we took a sawlog to Evart and put sawlogs on the skids and
in the afternoon we cut and drawed wood
It snowed and we cut and drawed wood
It snowed very much and father fetched a load of brick from Reed City
It was cold and stormy and in the evening we were at Church
It was cold and we cut wood
It was cold and we cut and drawed wood
It was cold and we cut and drawed wood
It was severely cold and stormy and we cut and drawed wood
It was a fair day and we worked at the wood
It was a fair day and we worked at the wood
It was a fair day and we were in S. School and prayer meeting
It was a fair day and I fetched a load of shingles and drawed wood and they cut wood
In the morning it stormed and snowed, and after that we cut and drawed wood
We cut and hauled wood and in the evening it snowed and stormed
It was a nice day and we worked at the wood
It was a nice day and we worked at the wood
It was a nice day and we worked at the wood
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School. Mr. Weis preached his last
Sermon
It was wet, snowy and I fetched a load of shingles and drawed wood
It was a nice day and I hauled wood and they chopped
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The foregoing night it snowed and it was a damp day and we cut and hauled wood
Good Friday It was a nice day and in the forenoon we were in prayer meeting
April 1885
It was a nice day and Blackwell commenced digging a well by the barn and we hauled cedar
rails and stones and took a load of wood to Church and fetched Blackwell's tools
It was a nice day and we were in S. School and prayer meeting
It was a nice day and they dug at the well and we hauled stones for stoneing the well
It was foggy and damp and the snow was mostly gone and we worked at the well and sawed
wood
It was a fair day and we worked at the well and cut wood
It was a nice day and we worked at the well and cut wood and drawed stones
It was a fair day and we finished digging well and commenced stoneing it and drawed stones
It was snowy and sloppy and we stoned at the well
The ground was covered with snow and it was a fair day and we were in S. School and prayer
meeting and Mag got a colt, Daisy
The ground was froze hard and it was cold and we finished the well, and boiled sap
It snowed and in the afternoon father went to Evart and fetched a pump and we sawed wood
It was a fair day and we hauled stones for the cellar wall in the forenoon with the sleigh and
in the afternoon with the stone boat
It was a nice day and father and I were in Evart in the afternoon and they cut and split wood
It was a nice day and we put a floor on the wall and cut wood
It was a warm day and we cut wood and boiled sap
It was a nice day and we were in prayer meeting and preaching
It was a warm day and we hewed sills for the house and hauled sand
It was warm and we started digging the cellar and hewed sills
It was a warm day and we dug at the cellar
It was a cloudy day and we dug at the cellar
It was cool and in the forenoon we dug at the cellar and in the afternoon we picked stones
and father and mother were at Evart
It was a fair day and we worked at the cellar
It was cool and we were in Church and in S. School. Rev. Meck preached his entrance
sermon
It was a cool day and we dug at the cellar and hauled stones and sowed grass seed
It snowed and was sloppy and we hauled stones and rails and made fence
It was a nice day and I plowed and they hewed timber
It was a nice day and I plowed and harrowed and father sowed 44 lbs green peas and some
white peas and dug at the cellar
May 1885
It was a nice day we hauled manure and plowed for carrots and dug at the cellar
It was a fair day and we plowed, harrowed, etc
It was cold and we had a regular snow storm and we were in S. School and prayer meeting
It was a fair day and we ridged for carrots, sowed carrot seed, plowed, etc
It was a rainy day and we killed three little pigs and took them to town, etc.
It was cool and we plowed, made fence, etc
It snowed several times and was bitter cold and we plowed, made fence and chopped
It snowed all day and we cleaned wheat, etc
It was cold and snowed and we hauled stones with the stone boat
It snowed several times and we were in S. School and Church
It was a nice day and we picked stones from the meadow and hauled them into the cellar
It was a nice day and we plowed, sowed oats, harrowed, made fence and picked stones
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It was a nice day and we sowed 2 bushels of wheat and some oats and plowed and harrowed
and set posts
It was a nice day and we plowed, harrowed, picked stones, sowed oats, etc
May 1885
It was windy and smokey and we finished sowing by sowing barley, peas and oats, and
picked stones, etc
It was windy and we were in S. School and prayer meeting
It was windy and we picked stones, worked mangle land, etc and the masons came
It was a nice day and we worked the mangle land and sowed mangle seed
It was a nice day and I plowed the potato ground and in the afternoon father was at Ab.
Adam's raising
It was a nice day and we worked different things, fetched lime and helped the masons, etc
It was a nice day and we hauled sand and stones, dug for a foundation wall, etc
It was a nice day and I plowed for corn and took the Masons to Evart in the evening and
fetched some lime home
It was a nice day and we were in S. School and Church
It was a nice day and we planted potatoes and sowed corn and planted the corn I got from
Dave
It was a nice day and the Masons came again and we dug a cistern, etc.
It was a nice day and I hauled manure and they tended to the masons and in the evening I
fetched lime
It was a nice day and I hauled manure, and in the afternoon the masons finished the wall
It was cloudy and rained a little and we picked stones, hauled manure and plowed, etc
It was rainy and we made board fence, etc
It was a fair day and we were in S. School and prayer meeting
June 1885
It was a nice day and father and Barney helped logging at Meyers and Sam and I plowed and
harrowed the turnip land, picked stones, drawed wood, etc
It was hot and Mr. Meyer and father started working at the house and we made fence, etc.
In the forenoon it rained and in the afternoon we worked at the house
We worked at the house and in the afternoon it rained
It was a nice day and we worked at the house
It was a nice day and I took a load of lumber to town and picked stones, etc
It was hot and we were in Church and in S. School and in the evening we had a rain shower
It was a cool day and I helped working at the church in the forenoon and in the afternoon
I took a load of lumber to town
It was a nice day and father worked at the house, and I took a load of lumber to town,
harrowed potatoes and scuffled carrots
It was a nice day and I took lumber to Evart and father worked at the house
It was a fair day and we worked at the house, etc
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a nice day and I worked the turnip land and they worked different things
It was hot and we were in S. School and prayer meeting
It was a nice day and I drilled and sowed some turnip seed and they worked at the house
It was a nice day and I was in Evart, finished turnip sowing and fetched a load of shingles
It was a nice day and we worked at the house ,etc
It was a nice day and we hauled wood together in the fallow and burnt brush
It was a nice day and we burnt in the fallow and went to Evart
It rained in the forenoon and after supper we hauled rails
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
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It was a nice day and we weeded carrots, took lumber to town, worked at the house, etc
It was a nice day and we worked on the road
It was a nice day and Barney and I worked on the road and father worked at the house
June 1885
It was a hot day and we worked on the road and father at the house,at noon we had a shower
It was hot and in the afternoon they were in Church , we had quarterly meeting, and I was in
Evart
It was cool and we were in Church
It was cool and I was in Evart, drawed sand, and put paris green on the potatoes, father
worked at the house
It was a nice day and I took lumber to town and weeded carrots
July 1885
It was a nice day and we weeded carrots and logged
It was a hot day and we logged and worked at the house
It was hot and we worked at the house and logged, etc
It was hot and the masons were here and plastered the cistern and put a chimney on the
kitchen, and mother and Mary and Sam and Barney went to Reed City to church dedication
It was hot and father and Eliza and I were in S. School and prayer meeting
It was rainy and we worked different things
It was a fair day and we thinned out turnips and worked at the house
It was windy and we cut grass, etc and in the evening we had a fearful thunder storm and
we moved the stove into the new kitchen in the morning
The weather cleared up again and we mowed fence corner grass & worked at the house, etc
It was nice and we mowed grass and took in a load of hay
It was a nice day and we scuffled potatoes and turnips and took in four loads of hay
It was a nice day and we were in preaching and S. School
it was a nice day and we scuffled turnips and carrots, took in a little hay, etc and the
carpenters came and started at the house
It was a nice day and we cut grass and fetched a load of lumber from town and worked at the
house
It was hot and we cut grass and took in hay, etc
It was hot and we worked at the hay and at the house, and Mary and Eliza finished weeding
turnips
It was hot and we worked at the hay and at the house
It was hot and we cut grass and took in hay
It was hot and I was to Hersey at Children's festival
It was hot and we cut grass and took in a load of hay
It was hot and we finished cutting grass and put paris green on the potatoes and weeded
carrots
It was lowering and we finished haying, etc
It was a fair day & we worked at the house, weeded carrots & I took a load of lumber to Evart
We had a heavy thunder storm and we worked at the house, etc
It was warm and we weeded our turnips
It was hot and we were in Church and S. School
It was hot and we cut fall wheat
It was hot and we finished cutting fallow wheat and commenced at the barley
It was hot and I cultivated carrots and bound barley, etc
It was hot and we worked at the house, bound barley and fetched a load of lumber
It was cloudy and rained a little and we took in our fall wheat
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It was a fair day and we took in some barley
It was lowering and in the afternoon it started to rain and we were in prayer meeting and S.
S. School
It rained and we worked at the house
We had several showers and we worked at the house and fetched lumber from town, etc
August 1885
It was warm and I threshed at J. J. Arndts and they worked at the house
It the afternoon it rained and we worked at the house
It was rainy and we worked at the house
We helped Lunneys threshing and in the afternoon it was showery
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in Sunday School
It was hot and we cut Barley and in the evening Mary and I started off with Arndts after
huckle berries
It was hot and they pulled peas, took in the remainder of the barley and we picked berries
It was a fair day and they worked at the house and in the evening I raked barley stubbles
It was a fair day and we worked at the house and took in peas
It was cold in the forenoon and we worked at the house, hauled sand, etc
It was a fair day and they worked at the house and I hauled sand
It was a fair day and we were in prayer meeting and S. School
It was a fair day and they worked at the house and I commenced plowing in the orchard and
fetched a load of lime
It was a nice day and we commenced cutting oats and worked at the house
It was a nice day and I plowed and they worked at the house
It was a nice day and I plowed and they worked at the house
It was a nice day and in the forenoon I plowed and in the afternoon I drawed water for plaster
mortar, and fetched a load of lime
It was a fair day and in the forenoon I hauled water and in the afternoon we cut oats
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It rained and we worked at the house, etc
It was a nice day and we cut oats, etc
It was a fair day and we worked at the house, pulled peas ,etc
It was a fair day and we worked at the house and took in some oats
In the morning it rained and in the afternoon we plowed and took in oats, etc
It rained and we worked at the house
We had a shower in the afternoon, and in the forenoon we were in S. School and prayer
meeting
It was a fair day and we plowed, unbound some oats and took a little in, in the evening
September 1885
It was cool and showery and we plowed, worked at the house,etc
It was a fair day, and we grubbed stumps, and hauled in our last oats and peas, worked at
the house,etc
It was windy and we grubbed stumps, worked at the house, etc
It was a fair day and we drawed a few stones, cut our last bit of spring wheat, etc
It was a fair day and father was at Evart twice and I was sick
It was a fair day and they were in S. School and Church and I was at home
It was a fair day and we sowed some fall wheat and finished harvesting by taking in our last
spring wheat
It rained all day and we worked at the house, etc
It was pretty fair, and we drawed rails, made fence, etc
It was a fair day and we worked at the house, etc and in the afternoon I was in Evart
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It was rainy and we worked at the house and harrowed, etc the following night it rained fearful
It rained very hard and we had no Church nor prayer meeting nor S. School
It was a fair day and we worked at the house, fetched some pigs from Henry Arndt, etc
It was a nice day and the masons came and started plastering and we worked at the house
and hauled sand, etc
September 1885
It was a fair day and we worked at the house, took a load of wood to town, fetched lime, etc
It was a nice day and we worked at the house picked stones, etc
It was a fair day and we worked at the house, hauled sand, etc
It was a nice day and Barney and I helped hauling in oats at John Arndts and in the evening
the masons got through plastering with the first coat
It was a fair day and we were in S. School and Meeting -Mr. Soldan preached
It was a nice day and we worked different things, such as picking stones, etc
It was a fair day and we picked stones, etc
It was a cool day and I attended district meeting at Hersey and father worked at the house
It was a nice day and I was at Hersey and father worked at the house
It was a hot day and father went to Evart, etc
It was hot and father went to quarterly meeting at Hersey and the rest had gone before to
that Sammy and I were alone and we dug a few potatoes
It was hot and they were at Hersey and Sam and I were home
It was hot and they came home from Hersey and in the afternoon we threshed
It was warm and we threshed, we got 114 bu wheat, 255 bu oats, 27 bu peas, 86 bu barley
and lots of small grain seeds, etc
It was a nice day and we went to the Fair with the stock, etc
October 1885
It was a fair day and we were at the Fair
It was a nice day and we were at the Fair
In the morning we started threshing at John Meyers then it commenced to rain and we went
and worked different things
It was cold and snowed and we were in Church
It was cold and we threshed at John Meyers
It was cold and in the forenoon we threshed at John Meyers, and in the afternoon we pulled
mangles
It was a fair day and we dug potatoes
It was a cool day& in the forenoon I plowed and in the afternoon I threshed at Conrad Arndts
In the forenoon I threshed at C. L. Arndts and then dug potatoes, etc
It was a nice day and we dug potatoes
It was very nice and we were in S. School and in Church
It was a fair day and Barney threshed at Lunneys and we dug potatoes, etc.
It was rainy and I plowed a little and worked in the house, etc
It was a fair day and I plowed, etc
It was a fair day and I plowed, etc
It was a nice day and father was in Evart and we finished digging potatoes
It was a nice day and we plowed, pulled carrots, etc
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was raining all day and we worked at the house painting, etc.
It was showery yet and we worked in the house, painting, etc
It was a nice day and we worked different things
It was a fair day and we took up carrots
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It was a nice day and we worked on the road
It was a nice day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was a nice day and we worked on the road
It was light rainy and father was in Evart and I painted and in the afternoon we were at Mr.
Niergarth's house dedication
It was pretty cold and I plowed and they worked different things
It was a fair day and I plowed and they moved into the new house, and pulled some turnips
November 1885
It was a fair day and we took up turnips
It was cold and we took up turnips and our corn home and in the evening it commenced
snowing and kept on all night
It snowed and we were in Church and in S. School
Changeable weather, and I fetched wood home and worked at a pig stable, etc
It was a fair day and I threshed at J. J. Arndts
It was rainy and we worked at the pig stable and Barney threshed at Arndts and we had our
house dedicated in the evening
It was damp weather, and we took some turnips home
It was rainy and we worked different things about the house and the barn
It was a fair day and in the forenoon we were at Evart and in the afternoon we took our last
turnips home we got 650 bushels
It was damp and we were in S. School and in prayer meeting
It snowed some times and I plowed and took a load of wood to town, etc
It was a nice day and they cooked pumpkin butter and I plowed
It was a fine day and they finished the pumpkin butter and Barney and I threshed at John S.
Arndts
Cloudy and lowering and in the afternoon towards evening it commenced raining and we got
some posts out for a shed over the pump by the barn, and plowed
It was cold and snowed and they worked at the shed and I plowed
It snowed and was cold and Barney and Sam sawed wood and father cut timber for the shed
and I plowed
It snowed and thawed and we were in S. School an Church
It was a fair day and I hauled timber out of the bush and plowed and they worked at the shed
Favorable weather and I plowed and they worked at the shed
It rained a little at noon and in the evening and I plowed and they worked at the shed
Very beautiful weather and I was at Evart in the forenoon and plowed in the afternoon and they
worked at the shed
Foggy weather and I plowed and they worked at the shed
It was cold and in the afternoon we had a fearful snow storm and I plowed and they worked at
the shed
It was a fair day and we were in prayer meeting and S. School
It was a fair day and we put the roof from the old house on the shed
It was cold and we worked at the roof
It was cold and we worked at the shed, etc
Thanksgiving It was cold and we tore down some of the old house, etc, worked at the shed,
etc, fetched posts off the swamp
It was cold and we layed floor in the kitchen and Barney threshed at Niergarths, etc
It was a fair day and Barney and I threshed at Niergarths and father hung doors
It was a fair day and we were in Church and in S. School
It was very nice and in the forenoon we threshed at Niergarths and in the afternoon we were
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It was pretty fair and I took a load of wood to town and hauled some at home and father
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It was pretty cold and I took a load of wood to town and father worked at the house
It snowed a little and I painted and father was carpentering
It snowed and stormed and we worked at the house
It was cold and we worked at the house
It was fearful cold, snowed and stormed and we were at Sunday School and prayer meeting
It was cold and we killed a steer
December 1885
It was cold and snowed and we butchered our pigs
It rained and we worked different things
It was a fair day and snowed in the afternoon and sleighing was good and in the forenoon
Barney and I helped Meyer butchering a pig and in the afternoon we worked at home
It was pretty cold and snowed and we worked in the bush
It was cold and snowed and in the forenoon I was in Evart and in the afternoon we were in
Church we had quarterly meeting
It snowed and we were in Church
It snowed and we cut and drawed wood
It was stormy and we greased harness and cut wood
It was a fair day and we cut and drawed wood
It thawed and I took a grist and a load of stone to town and they cut wood
It thawed and I hauled stones to town and they cut wood
It was cold and they cut wood and I hauled stone to town
It was a nice day and we were in prayer meeting and S. School
It thawed and I hauled stone to town and father and the other committee men were down
town buying candies, etc for Christmas tree
It rained and sleighing went away again and we worked different things
It was rainy and I helped to fetch Christmas trees and they worked in the bush, and in the
evening it froze hard again
It was cold and we fixed the Christmas tree at Church, and Bernhard left our place and went
to Conrad Arndt and in the evening we had a Christmas festival at Church
Christmas It was cold. In the morning we were in Church
It was cold. Father was sick, and I tended to the cattle and took a load of wood to town
It commenced raining in the afternoon, and we were in S. School and prayer meeting in the
forenoon
The weather was mild and we fixed the turnip cutter, etc
It was foggy and we made pine sawlogs
It was foggy and rainy and we were in town
It was cold and Mary and I butchered at Meyers and father was at Evart, etc


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