Oct 27 1913

			"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. 

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