"was the first circus show with animals that has ever showed in
Crawford." Gather green tomatoes for Mrs King and black eyed peas
for Mrs Will Gee. "Stoping on the way at old Crawford to see old
Lady Cranfill as she was sick in bed having plurisey in her side
and did not appear to be doing very well at the time. mailed letters
to James D. Tubbs (his grandson) and to a doctor in Colorado "near
4- Oclock this evening the writer walked down to John B. Nichols
and company store and purchases 7 yards of cloth to line a quilt and
seventy cents worth of bacon and 20 cts worth of cloth to line my
coat one spool of thread and 25 cents worth of Arbuckle coffee then
returned home." "The family arose some what earley having Laura
Costley as a guest last night and E.D. Costley our son arrived after
8 O'clock this morning. After resting for a bit we taken a trip
over too the pasture and we found the road nearley impasible but
we come out all right although the roads were sever enough to
nearley pull a horse life out of him. Had E. D. Costley and E.E.
Mulican to dine with the old people. E.D. Costley and Mr Mulican
had a long conversation in reguard too the lands that E.D. Costley
had rented to E.E. Mulican in formulating a plan for farming another
year. Then they each departed for their own houses. Mary V. works
on putting in a new lining in W.E's coat. W.E. "walked up to Ales
Armstrongs to see Billey Crouch as he is not very well he has had
a stroke of Perralasis but is much better." He was able to travel
to his parents in Crawford. After returning home I wrote a letter
to C.C. Costley of Waco and Sent him a ten dollar check to help him
out in his affliction and mailed the same I then drawed out of the
Farmers Bank of Crawford one hundred and forty dollar and paid it
to John B. Nichols on a note he holds against me dated January the
first 1913. I then returned home and taken a rest again and after
resting for a bit i walked down too Bob Coffmans show to find out
how John Meadows daughter was as she was very low in sickness she
has the typhoid fever and Bob Coffman stated too the writer that
he did not think there was any chance for her to live over the spell
of sickness as she was very low. called his wifes chicken's to the
house and shelled corn for them "I then called them from the lot
and fed them in my yard as there was so maney of my neighbors
chickens around my lot that it was impossible to fed in the lot
without feeding evry bodys chickens a near me. " After arriving
at Mr John Bosticks garden in E.D.Costleys pasture we dismounted
from the buggy that is old man Peter Schoefman as he was with me.
I taken the geer off of the horse then turned him loose to graze.
Then saw him leaving the house at the lower side of Mr Bostliks
garden and we had not been at the house but a short bit before i
seen my horse start to run being scared by i know what not and run
in direction of the pasture, gate and it being shut he then turned
for my old place a long the pasture fence too the William Downs
fence then turned back to where he started from I then went out to
hunt him up and found him coming back to the starting point I put
the bridal on him then led him back too my buggy put the geer on
him then hitched him too my buggy and old man Schoffman and the
writer headed home. We stopped a few minutes at old man Charley
Cranfills to see how him and his wife was getting along. Then
picked some turnups for my house also some turnups that i had
got from Mr.Bostic for my self the others that i brought was to
deliver to Mr Fred Hick to sell at his store for Mr John Bostic.
He walked to the post office to obtain a new ST Louis Star a
newspaper giving a full account of the troubles in Mexico from
the reading of the paper does not seem that Huerta Backed by
cabinet prepares for war with United States Lin Wilsons Envoy
to Mexico returns home to give the final news of the wish of
the United States request of proclaiming peace in Mexico. After
12 PM the citizens started pouring into Crawford Texas. The
street were lined with the citizens of precint No 7 of Mclennan
County Texas and kept coming in all evening up untill the breaking
up of the croud to go home and during the evening there was splended
band of music played on the streets of crawford Texas and during
of the evening the Boys had great display of riding on horse back
and showing there fine stock that has been raised in the county and
other fruits and vegetables raised in the county and ended in fare
samples of produce and at the close the winners of the day drawed
there premimums then all departed too there place of a bode. The
trade in merchandise was fare enough for one days trade all sides
were satisfied with there trade and sight seeing through the day
and went home rejoicing well pleased with there days pleasures and
will a wait for another time of meeting which is the second monday
in evry month the writer taken no hand in it just a looker on all
through the day. Next morning he walked down to Bob Coffman store
to see if his shelves were ready, they weren't. walked up too Mr
Kerbrow store and purchased a pad lock to put on my crib dore (door)
as i have been missing corne and oats out of my farm so after
purchasing the lock and paying twenty five cents for the same i
then returned home and locked myh crib doors. I then walked back
to Bobb Coffmans shop and got my hack shelves. Drove to breaks of
the Bosque in companey with Peter Schoffner for a load of wood out
of the same old live oak trees that was choped down ten years ago.
They went too work sawing the log up in to too foot blocks. After
breakfast Mary V. "layed down on her bed as she was not a feeling
very well as she had something simular too the colache but writer
gets to work. With Mr Peter Schoffner to saw up some old dead live
oak logs that been dead or cut down for the last ten years and so
hard that it takes number one saw to dent the wood as they are so
Thursday Nov the 13th
A.D. Is German day at the Cotton Palace in the city of Waco and
is expected to be a grand old day. a letter for my wife too her
sister Mr Bettie Harvey of Burleson County Texas. Mary V. has a
cold and fever. With the help of old man Goddridge i put my buggy
in my barn. As my wife was sick last night past and is still in
puney condition to day on account of her bowels wont move
constipated and stubborn the writer as he had evry thing on his
shoulders to pack. W.E. cooked breakfast and Mary ate a few bites
and drank some coffee. too oclock PM from which i left off work
and prepared my noon meal although kate in the day as my wife was
sick i could not do much out door work to day as i had to tend
indoors often on account of my wife being so poorley but to night
i am inclined to be leave that she is much better than she has been
in the last 24 hours past. As she appears to be resting well and
is a sleep. I made several trips down in town to Dr Edwards Drug
Store for medison for my wife before she become easey So she
could sleep and rest to do any good what ever.
Sunday Nov 16 1913
Went to the lot to feed his horse but he wouldn't eat as the cut
he somehow got a few days ago on his leg was giving him great pain.
After returning home he cooked breakfast for himself as Mary V.
was still sick in bed. After eating he cleaned the kitchen and
"went to work doctoring his horse by washing of the same and getting
it dry i then shaved the hare where was cut then applyed this
linement too the wound" He then had to make several trips to the
drugstore after medicine for Mary V. as she was sick in bed. It
took several trips to get it all. "i then quited down for a rest
as i were beginning to get leg wearry in so doing and at or near
three oclock in the after noon i prepared my dinner as i onley eat
twice aday.
Monday nov 17 wife is still sick in bed. He is
doing all the cooking, feeding and doctoring of the animals,
chopping and hauling the wood. Went to the post office for his mail
and medicine for his wife. After delivering everything he sat
down to read the Waco morning news in regard the Mexico trouble
as they have been in war for the last three years and the mexicians
are my nearer too a compromise than when they first began onley
making matters worse as they go on with there troubles and read
on the subject up to late in the day then prepared the noon meal
being three oclock in the afternoon" after getting it served and
placed on the (table) my wife joined the writer and we eat our
noon meal" after cleaning the kitchen W.E. takes a rest. Mary V.
is still sick and not able to do any work. After W.E. feed all
the animals and fowls he started cooking again. "as I had some
turnups on hand i whirled in and washed and pealed the turnups
cut then up and put them on to boil or cook i then walked down
too the post office and mailed a letter too Louese Leng of Joshua
Johnson County Texas. after mailing of the letter i steped in
too John B. Nichols and companey store and purchased a gallon of
carosene oil at 10 cents per gallon and from his store i steped
a cross the street too Charley Bakers beef market and purchased
a beef bone costing ten cents after getting of it i then returned
back to John B. Nichols and company store and obtained my oil
returned home with the same and after arriving at home i went
to work and put the soup bone on the stove to cook " Mary V.
still unable to work. W.E. is not feeling well today. After
feeding outside and cooking for he and Mary he finished a letter
to his granddaughter in Waco and mailed it. Then "passed off the
rest of the day reading and writing and doing work around the
premises with the exception of about one hour of working on the
crib and stalls." Renewed fire in cook stove and put on the coffee,
bread and potatoes to cook. While cooking he fed the horse and fowl
came back in and put breakfast on the table. Went to Nichols and
Co and paid the $9 he owed. Came home and "went to the wash tub
and washed out some clothing for my wife and my self and when
through and the clothing hung out to dry then taken a spell reading
of the news paper up to about too oclock then prepared our noon meal."
"as I am chief cook and bottle washer as my Wife has been sick for
the last week but is much better at this writing. and it is hoped
that she soon will be alright again.
Friday Nov 21 1913 started his fire for breakfast to
cook coffee and bake sweet potatoes in the stove. Fed the animals
then came back to put the breakfast on the table. He and Mary ate
and she is still too sick to do her work. He walked down too the
post office for the mail "then steped into McColleims Drug Store
and purchased a bottle of Groves Chile Tonic then passed on too
Nichols Store and purchased some tobaco then from that place i
walked down too Edwards Drug Store and bought a vial of Castory
then returned to my wife and she began to take the medison" After
dinner he walked "down the streets of Crawford to see what was
going on i found buisiness quite dull both in the trading houses
and cotton bying as there were no cotton on the streets for sale
this evening nor nothing else for sale in sight, after bumming
a round for some time in companey with man Stricklan talking
over the Sutherning country near the coast of Corpus Christi Texas
Saturday Nov 22 1913
walked in to Mr John Nichols store and purchased some bacon 75
cts worth and a ten cent can of lie homiley. After arriving at
home gathered some tomatoes for Mrs. Alex Armstrong from his
garden to make some chow chow. bought crackers for dinner as
it was too late to cook bread. Mary still in bed sick.
"the members of the missionary Babtist church are marching
there place of worship as they are holding there regular
servises to day." Since my wife has been sick we have been
having 2 meals a day.
