Thursday March 13th

We spent the morning cleaning up fifty bushels of oats for Will Wright. He came down and helpe dus. He paid dad 60 cts a bushel for them. We didn't do much this after noon. I wet over to Jack martin's for sawhile to ask Chris about my brooder but didn;tet much satisfaction. I am afraid I will have a hard time getting it hot enough to be much use. Dad. and rank fixed up some nests over on the shed for the geese to lay in as they have paying under the hog-pen. To-night rank and I went down to the club as I wanted rto have a committee meeting to make plans for the coming year foolishly thinking that when we got just the committee there alone we could come to some definite arrangements to make a real life club which would make its activities aiming towards improvement felt in the community. They were all there except Tige. the best of the bunch, but we might have we;l as sy=tayed home for all the good we did. They would neither make suggestions themselves bnor evengive their opinion on any I made. What in tinder they want to have the club for is more than I can see. Darn them for a. binch of rubes. When we got home Frank