IMH 74:4 p335

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

Saturday, October 23rd.

It was a cold raw day, cloudy, with occasional small sprinkkles. Father and Alvin put in the day at the building.
I went to town in the hack taking a sackful of wheat belonging to Bill Hand. I made several purchases for the
family and got a pair of heavy boots for myself. I got back home about two o clock and hauled two loads of
wood, one being chunks picked up in the pasture and one wood cut last spring across the creek. Bill Hand
came and got his flour about four o'clock. Sam Howoll41 rode home with me