Monday, June 29, and Tuesday, June 30, 1868

Monday, June 29, 1868

This has been a very warm day. We did not wash to day, for we did not have any hot water.

Add moped the floors and I done the sweeping upstairs. Henry went down town to see Mr. Moore to get some money, but he was gone to big City.

We all went up to Annah’s this evening to a meeting to see about a festival. Concluded to have one Wednesday night at the brick house.

Tuesday, June 30, 1868

A very warm day, and we have been baking cake for the festival. We made 6 loaves: 4 of sponge and 2 gold. We frosted the gold but did not the sponge. We had real good luck!

Henry went to town to day to get some groceries. Cad had another hen hatch out & little ducks, so now she has 20.

We have not washed yet.

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Neice Notes: Cad is the nickname for Add and Henry's oldest daughter, who was about ten or eleven at this time.

Sunday, June 28, 1868

A very warm day. We went up to Sabbath school at one o’clock. My class did not have a teacher to day! Mrs. Palmer was stung by a bee on Friday and not able to come, so I was teacher. Then we stopped to meeting, which was at 2 o’clock, and we heard Mr. Burnham preach. It was a very good sermon text: the 28 chapters of Acts and part of the second verse. The first hymn we sang to the tune of “Boylston 2 Hebron.”

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Neice Notes: Acts 28 covers Paul's adventures in Malta and his stay in Rome. I have been unable to find any reference elsewhere to the song "Boylston to Hebron."

Saturday, June 27, 1868

This has been a very warm day. I made some cake and done up some of the house work.

Henry sold his wool to day, or traded it, rather. It was a man from Pontiac. He gave 38¢ a pound in trade. They got several pieces of cloth.

Henry and Add went down town this afternoon. I have not been to Ruth’s since I came.

Thursday, June 25, and Friday, June 26, 1868

Thursday, June 25, 1868

Another very pleasant day. We have had company again to day. It was Miss Mary Smith and her cousin Alice, and then Miss Terry came down to tea. We had a very pleasant time.

Henry has been ploughing again to day. We are having such splendid weather that I can but enjoy it! We are not troubled with mosquitoes yet.

How I wish I could get a letter from home this week, but I guess I can not.

Friday, June 26, 1868

This has been another very pleasant day. We have had several calls to day. Mr. Moore was here, and Mrs. McCall was here a little while this afternoon. Miss Terry went home to night on the cars.

I have been helping Add make a waist this afternoon.

I feel quite well now, for me. I am not taking any medicine now. I have taken all my iorn.

Wednesday, June 24, 1868

This has been a beautiful day—not very warm, nor very cold. I iorned this forenoon.

We had a home full of company to day, and we had a nice time.

Henry has been ploughing to day.

Everything looks splendid now. The roses are beginning to bloom, and they are very nice this year. There was another swarm of bees out again to day.

I taken all my iorn.

Tuesday, June 23, 1868

Another shower to day, but it has cleared of nice again. Add moped to day. Henry is ploughing his fallow. There was another swarm of bees out to day. I finished my first stocking this evening.

We are having a nice time with straw berries now. Add has got a large bag of them. We had a short cake Saturday for the first.