IMH 74:4 344

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

Thursday November 11th.

The clouds had nearly all disappeared but it was some colder and the winds blew hard from different directions
in the course of the day. Until ten o clock we were all three occupied in putting the logs hauled yesterday in position.
At ten o'clock Father started to town with the wagon while Alvin put down the oak plank hauled Tuesday on the
logs we had just placed in the new cow-shed. I went over to where Bill Bunton was cutting wood and also
interviewed Fowler's who were gathering corn not far from him; and came home. Mr. Henry Crone71 made his usual
quarterly call to get money for Mr Moore. He got 75 cents, 50 from Alvin, 25 from me. Father got home between
three and four o'clock with some more oak planks, a after supper went to laying them down for the cow-shed floor.
Prof. W. D. Bain of the college on the hill72 came down af school to borrow the brass kettle. Our horses have a
touch the epizootic or something like it.

Teaching Notes: Today's entry is a bit puzzling with Mr Crone making his "usual quarterly call to get money
for Mr Moore." You might have the students speculate what this is all about. My guess is that Mr. Moore is
destitute and that Mr Crone, acting for either the church or just the neighbors in general, has been assigned
the job of taking care of Mr. Moore. There is and still remains in Indiana as a consequence of the
Constitution of 1851, a Township Trustee . One of the tasks of the era and today is to provide monetary assistance
for those in need. Mr. Crone may have been the Jefferson Township Trustee in 1880. That would be a subject
that might engage an eager learner.

Here is a link to epizootic

Another point you might mention that November 11th was Armistice Day for many years....now it is Veterans Day.
It was called Armistice Day because WWI ended with an Armistice at 11 o'clock on the eleventh day of the
eleventh month, 1918... a mere 38 years from 1880.