whatever they call it and is to start work to-morrow morning. We saw Huby later down town. I put Joe in at Hallam's and had her shod and went down town and got hair cut and a new felt hat. We also heard that the mill was going to open up again to-morrow and the full staff is going to work full-time on Monday, the paper also had very cheerful reports from the Dardenelles which they hope to have forced in a few weeks, to cap all this good news, we heard to-night that Quint was going to be home on Friday having recoverd enough since he left the hospital to travel. It has been cloudy but a cold north wind all day and doesn't feel rainy

Thursday August 26th

This morning we all went down town, Enah & the baby went up and spent the day at the James' and Dad. Frank & I started to cut down the old bad locust tree in front of Hubys. We were afraid to cut it at the roots as it was so tall we were afraid it would fall on the telegraph wires so we sawed it through about half way up and Frank climbed up as high as he could and tied a rope to it so we had a good purchase. We didn't get it sawed enough before dinner so stayed at Hubys for dinner. After dinner we went up two or three times and sawed it through as far as we thought we