August 1883
1 August 1883 • Wednesday
hauled 3 loads of hay and bound & shocked oats. 1/2 day.
2 August 1883 • Thursday
Hauled hay all day.
3 August 1883 • Friday
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4 August 1883 • Saturday
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5 August 1883 • Sunday
Went to E. Bountiful to preach
6 August 1883 • Monday
Hauled hay all day from B F K’s field.
7 August 1883 • Tuesday
repaired hayrack went up to F Kings and hauled 2 loads of hay off mothers meadow. [p. 37]
8 August 1883 • Wednesday
Hauled 5 loads of hay off Mother’s meadow & took Alice & Mamie up to Kaysville in the evening with. Bell. mare & buggy.
9 August 1883 • Thursday
Took Mamie up home to get some things for aunt alice and watered over to Franks in the after-noon.
10 August 1883 • Friday
Hauled 5 loads of hay off Mother’s meadow finishing the job
11 August 1883 • Saturday
Topped out Mothers stack of hay and stacked 3 loads of Oats & 3½ loads of Wheat
12 August 1883 • Sunday
Attended Teachers Quorum & Ward meeting and went round town with a subscription list for J. D. Wood whose house was lately burned. Joel was here in the evening.
13 August 1883 • Monday
Hauled seven loads of wheat & loaded a load of hay for S. L. City.
14 August 1883 • Tuesday
Hauld a load of hay to S.L.C. and sold to Wickle for $8.15.
15 August 1883 • Wednesday
Hauled a load of hay to Town & sold to Thompson & Shurtliff
16 August 1883 • Thursday
Sold load of hay to Price G.S.C. for $9.25
17 August 1883 • Friday
Hauled in Frank’s lucern and that off Steve’s lot, Took Alice, Hattie & Idah up to pick currants.
18 August 1883 • Saturday
Hauled a load of hay to Town [p. 38] and sold it to Felt 1/2 block north of City Creek on East Temple Street.
19 August 1883 • Sunday
Went to South Bountiful to preach.
20 August 1883 • Monday
Threshed in Knowlton’s field Had 100 125 bu. wheat & 50 bu oats.
21 August 1883 • Tuesday
Turned Nannie & Lady in the field, repaired harness &c. wrote to Steve.
22 August 18833 • Wednesday
Got the horses up out of the field and turned them back in, repaired harness, cleaned Stable &c. Hired of B. F. K. $60.00/100 for six months at ten per cent. Paid E. T. Clark & redeemed note of $60.00/100 with $1.50/100 interest.
23 August 1883 • Thursday
Cleaned pigpen & tended pig. picked plums & pulled weeds. Took the folks up to pick currants, went up to Frank Kings, had a shoe put on Nannie &c.
24 August 1883 • Friday
Hauled two loads of coal from Depot, one for mother & one for Frank; Sacked up all my wheat Let 16 bu. go to Frank on David Thomas’ wages of $56 00/100, at 90¢ per bu. leaving $41.40 remaining. Hauled 4 sacks up home and put in the bin making 31 bu. of wheat in the bin. 3 bu. taken to the mill for flour. Paid horse feed back to B. F. K. 3 sacks or 6 bu. 56.00
14.40
$41.604
25 August 1883 • Saturday
Went round Town getting up a subscription for J. D. Wood, Cut weeds. pulled [p. 39] onion sets, went on several errands.
26 August 1883 • Sunday
Went to West Bountiful to preach. wrote cards to E. Ogden of Kaysville & Fred in Mendon.
27 August 1883 • Monday
picked fruit on Steve’s lot, got lumber from Whipples and made scaffolding to dry fruit, went over to B. F. K’s, & then to the mill, got the water on the lot &c.
28 August 1883 • Tuesday
Loaded hay for Town, got the ringer repaired doctored horse &c.
29 August 1883 • Wednesday
Hauld a load of hay to S.L.C. & sold to O. P. Arnold for Street car Cos. 1910 lbs <11.45>
30 August 1883 • Thursday
mowed weeds in our lot and pulled weeds in squash patch. Turned horses in the field.
31 August 1883 • Friday
Went to Kaysville, and to Priesthood meeting &c. Rec’d letter from Joel.