AUGUST WEDNESDAY 9 1876

Get Horse & Buggy from Waters to go to StC. take wife. make Dft on T.P. & Co. for $1900. at 3 mos due Nov 1. I Express the procceeds {proceeds} all but 33 to TP&Co viz. $175700. -- I pay Fowler for Watches and Clock $20, & get Rx. Buy Jim Holohan 1 Doz lemons 50 cts, ½ dox Oranges 25 cts. Meet Miss Haddad ( & party) at StC. C Hughs goes to Buffalo with Temperance Excursion this A.M. he is pretty sober when he starts gets drunk up there & stays over

AUGUST THURSDAY 10 1876

Get Horse & Buggy from Waters at 11 A.M.

Go to Tannery at 8. C Hughs come back on Cars at 9½ from Buffalo, still drunk. He leaves Tannery at 1145 A.M. & dont return till after 6 P.M. , very drunk I put Jas Kerr Engineer on as Watchman tonight.

I go to Clifton about Lime. see Thos. Willson & engage Lime at 25 per Bush. see Berryman on my return home Martha Smith goes up with me. Mrs. Chittenden brings her in this A.M. I put up horse at Grahams. XX Get home at 7. Find things at Tannery all right except as above.

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