Nov 29 – Finished bobs. Worked round shop some. Gefired cold day.
Nov 30 – Worked on Coburns box. Carried Hannah down to Katharines. Alfleda came back with me.
Dec 1 – Very pleasant morning, mercury 28 Abz in morning.
Dec 2 – Worked on box. Riley and Horace Hobbs came and got Bobs. He paid me Seventeen Dollars and 17.50 fifty cents.
Dec 3 – Worked on box not much cut and sawed wood. Very pleasant day.
Dec 4 – Worked on box. Fine warm day, some misty. Went over to burg. Paid George Brown for timber 20 cts. Mercury about 50, rained all night.
Dec 5 – Cloudy and warm, mercury 43 Abz. At home all day.
Dec 6 – Finished and painted over Coburns box. Rained in night, very foggy.
Dec 7 – Foggy morning, not very cold. Worked in shop some. Carried Sarah over to Janes.[89] Went over in Evening to see R. G. S.
Dec 8 – Dressed out boards for Ernests Whiting. Went over to burg after Sarah. Browns folks came up in Evening.
Dec 9 – Pleasant morning, not very cold. Worked in shop.
Dec 10 – Worked on Whitings box some. Went over to burg with Engine. Ethan drawed load wood. Broke whiffletree.
Dec 11 – Snowey day. Went down to Kates, stayed all day. Stoped to Browns when we came home. Wopeo[?] came the first time.
Dec 12 – At home all day. Edwin Flanders and wife and Henry went up to Skinners. Rather cool day. Herb Clark[90] came here in morning.
Dec 13 – Worked in shop some. Went over to burg in afternoon. Paid my Tax $9.50 nine Dollars and fifty cents.
Dec 14 – Worked in shop on box for Ernest. Not very cold.
Dec 15 – Worked in shop some. Not very well. Hannah went down to Browns.
Dec 16 – Snowey day. Worked on Ernests box. Put one partition in and base and pilaster. Stellie Milham here to night.
Dec 17 – Carried machine down to Browns. Snows and blows. Went over to burg got oil. Brown butchered his hogs. Went down to E. Whitings Slaughter house. Got two lbs Tallow 16¢/4 8 pr pound so said Whitland. Del and Coburn got Box.
Dec 18 – Worked in shop some. Cold day.
Dec 19 – At home. Will brot Hannah up in sleigh. Lois came down.
Dec 20 – Went down to Browns. Got pig weighed 70[91] lbs. Mr Flanders got wagon. Went over to burg in afternoon. Ethan got 14 Dollars at Bank for making Box. Not very cold.
Dec 21 – Not very cold, no snow.
Dec 22 – Made cross head for Theodore. Went over to burg. Bot diary 25¢, one violin string 25. Drawed two loads cornfodder. Very pleasant day.
Dec 23 – Went up to mill. Put in crosshead. Warm day, mercury 54 Abz at noon. Drawed in cornfodder in afternoon.
Dec 24 – Rainy. Carried peter down to Browns. Went up to mill got 58 feet 3×3 scantling of Theodore Earl.
Dec 25 – Very pleasant day. Browns folks here. Charles and Julia came up. Julia stayed all night. Browns folks stayed in Evening.
Dec 26 – Rainy day, not very cold, very little snow. At home all day. Ida came up after Julia.
Dec 27 – Went up in woods cut some wood. Went over to burg in afternoon. Received of Town ship Treasurer seventy five Dollars. Very pleasant day.
Dec 28 – Went to mill in afternoon. Carried 4 bushels wheat 4 of Buckwheat. Pleasant day. Cut some wood. Katharine came home with me.
Dec 29 – Fine pleasant morning. Filed one saw for Whitting. Worked in shop some.
Dec 30 – Drawed two loads wood. Worked on box some. Went over to burg just at night. Kate and Sarah went. Browns folks here in Evening. Warm day.
Dec 31 – Fine morning, 61 Abz in morning at sunrise. Went over to burg after Nancy. Jo Lee and Mr Elwood called here. Filed saw for Jo. Warm day.
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[89] Neighbor, Sarah Jane (Mason) Hoag
[90] Herbert Clark was the nephew of Lois’ first husband, Byron Clark
[91] Hard to tell if this was 70 or 90 pounds
Letters & Diary Entries From the 1860s through the 1890s 