March 1885
1 March 1885 • Sunday
Attended Ward meeting and took Frank & Nerva home and Nona Smith to the depot. Spent the evening at home. Baby very sick indigestion
2 March 1885 • Monday
Repaired the pantry window Went to the depot and to Kaysville after Edna but did not meet here there. Baby no better,
3 March 1885 • Tuesday
Telephoned for D.r. Joe & met him at the morning’s train Baby better.
4 March 1885 • Wednesday
Borrowed plow & scraper and plowed Lucern patch, &c.
5 March 1885 • Thursday
Attended Fast Meeting and Scraped the fort wall down and tore down the fence.
6 March 1885 • Friday
Finished leveling down the wall and, hauled 2 loads of sand, put up the fence back of correll and branded cattle
7 March 1885 • Saturday
Dug out foundation to rock wall. tore down to correll fence on the east side, Made a lizzard to haul rock on. [p. 90]
8 March 1885 • Sunday
Attended Conference in Bountiful.
9 March 1885 • Monday
Hauled Sand and met the train at 7.20 P.M.
10 March 1885 • Tuesday
Took Alice and babies to Town and had babie’s picture taken.
11 March 1885 • Wednesday
Took Steves buggy home & went to the depot with wagon for his trunk, went up to D Oviatts. Greased & repared wagon for and loaded for Bearriver. Sold roan calf to Ezra Clark for $9.50 Ground grain to take to Bear River. repared work bench.
12 March 1885 • Thursday
Visited as a Ward Teacher in F’m’tn. [Farmington] with H. W. Miller.
13 March 1885 • Friday
Left Farmington for Plymouth, nooned at River Dale and camped at night with Calvin at the Cold Springs.
14 March 1885 • Saturday
Drove from Cold "1 to Plymouth. left Deed and patent at Brigham to be recorded P’d $3.00 for recording
15 March 1885 • Sunday
Attended Ward and Teachers Meetings at Squaretown, Ate dinner at Wolveston’s and supper at Myron’s.
16 March 1885 • Monday
Rained in the morning and afternoon, plowed about 1/2 day and took shoes off the horses
17 March 1885 • Tuesday
Hauled five loads of rock for a house
18 March 1885 • Wednesday
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19 March 1885 • Thursday
" 3 " " "3 and plowed [p. 91] four rounds sick mare.
20 March 1885 • Friday
Hauled six loads of rock
21 March 1885 • Saturday
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22 March 1885 • Sunday
Stormy and cold, read paper and sermon by Jno. Taylor of Feb 12/85 shaved and rode over to Collinston station spent part of the evening at the bridge.
23 March 1885 • Monday
Went down to Sander’s to try and trade plows. Garret Wolverton took dinner with me, traded plows with him went over and exchanged gave a sack of wheat boot and got a new steel plow. Hauled one load of rock, made bread and greased boots in evening.
24 March 1885 • Tuesday
Plowed sixteen rounds about 2¼ acres
25 March 1885 • Wednesday
Broke plow beam, bolted it together and plowed 14 rounds (2 acres) wrote a letter home and took it down to E. O. Wilcox’s.
26 March 1885 • Thursday
Plowed 14 rounds (2 acres)
27 March 1885 • Friday
" 4 "5 rode Brown mare up to the indian farms and got pr. of maccosins, sore feet so I could not wear my boots. Rec’d deed and patent from recorder. and card from Fred.
28 March 1885 • Saturday
Plowed 15 rounds, Clark’s herd came and br’t my cow.
29 March 1885 • Sunday
Took breakfast with Myron, [p. 92] rode after horses about half day; wrote home, made bread. &c.
30 March 1885 • Monday
Plowed 12 rounds,
31 March 1885 • Tuesday
" 10 "6 Went down to. Ebins and got things sent from Farmington, Went to Squaretown and got a letter from home and posted one. Called at Wolvertons with Wilford. Rained part of the night.