| Mon. Aug. 1, 1904 | Went to warsaw. Paid Wm Conrad & Son $2.10 for resetting 2 tires & shoeing ned. Paid Levy 40 cts for beef. I paid Grabner .50 cts for 5 lb of hard oil for the thrashing machine Co. |
| Tues. Aug. 2, 1904 | At home all day. John and the girls went to Warsaw to the show. I went hunting. Got 2 fox squirls & one piny. |
| Wed. Aug. 3, 1904 | I went to Warsaw took 13 chickens over. Sold them to Levy at 7 1/4 per lb. Brought $6.00. I bought a second hand buggy of W. Conrad to pay him 30 dollars for it & give him my old one. |
| Thurs. Aug. 4, 1904 | I went down to CoPeppers to see his Colt. |
| Fri. Aug. 5, 1904 | I went over to F. Smiths to see about the Brake the boys had. Phil Banks & I. Phill Banks & I went to warsaw & ordered repairs for the machine. |
| Sat. Aug. 6, 1904 | I helped fix up the thrashing machine today. We got it fixed & thrashed one load for J. T. Smith & moved down to Elah Smiths. |
| Sun. Aug. 7, 1904 | We went over to H. Bowers. |
| Mon. Aug. 8, 1904 | John & I helped Cal Smith thrash oats abut 9 hoours with the team. We helped C. Powell from 6 oclock till night with team. Etta & Affa went to warsaw. I gave them $4.00. I went dow & salted my cattle in the fore noon. |
| Tues. Aug. 9, 1904 | John & I helped C. Powell thrash from morning till 6 in the evening. John helped Meeks the rest of the day. |
| Wed. Aug. 10, 1904 | John helped Meeks finish thrash. I went to warsaw after belting for the thrashing machine. 12 ft 10 in by 4 = $2.80. |
| Thurs. Aug. 11, 1904 | Lib, Etta & Affa & I went to Blands to the Reunion. About 50 there. |
| Fri. Aug. 12, 1904 | We helped Fred Rink thrash after supper. |
| Sat. Aug. 13, 1904 | John & I helped Fred Rink Renkberger & Correll thrash. We thrashed 489 bu & it rained. We had 4 loads left. Got them all in the drye. |
| Sun. Aug. 14, 1904 | At home all day. Bill Gochenhours was up here. |
| Mon. Aug. 15, 1904 | They finished thrashing for me. Thrashed 132 bu for me today making 612 bu in all. Thrashed for B. Banks & J. Harman the rest of the day. |
| Tues. Aug. 16, 1904 | John & I helped J. Corkondall thrash till noon then went down & helped George Dawson about 1/4 day with team. |
| Wed. Aug. 17, 1904 | I went with F. Correll to Atwood. John helped Rob Irvin thrash oats 1/2 day with team. Him & I helped Zed Campbell thrash 1/2 day with team. Dr for the same. We fetched the machine up & put it in Bankses barn. |
| Thurs. Aug. 18, 1904 | It rained a little this morning. |
| Fri. Aug. 19, 1904 | Rained all day. Correll & I went down to Irvins & tried to buy corn of Mrs. Irvin. We dident get any. We went over to Cal Smiths & tried to buy his hogs. Dident get them. |
| Sat. Aug. 20, 1904 | I went up to Rev. Hilbs to see his horse it had the collick. Paid W. Conrad & Son $30.00 for buggy. I went to warsaw in the afternoon. Paid J. Watson for medicine 25 cts. Paid the Globe for 2 pair of over halls $.75. Paid Wimer 15 cts for Bananas. We had thrasher meeting this evening. |
| Sun. Aug. 21, 1904 | We went up to Sunday School. Went to Church at night. Revised the Class Book. |
| Mon. Aug. 22, 1904 | John & I went over to Fred Rinks after seed wheat. Dident get any. I went over to Millards in the afternoon & bought 30 bu of him at $1.10 per bu to get it Friday. |
| Tues. Aug. 23, 1904 | Lib, Paul, Mary & I went to the Irvin farm to pick pears. We picked about 1 bu. We stade their for dinner. Ant Sophia was their. We came home & got the ladder & went back & picked about 4 1/2 bu. |
| Wed. Aug. 24, 1904 | I helped get poles for the thrasher shed. We got it partly built today. We gave R. Irvin a job of building it to give him $10.00. Work on shed $1.00. Halling one load of lumber. $4.00 |
| Thurs. Aug. 25, 1904 | Rain. Paul & I took 3 8x20 & 1 10 x 20 plank down to the thrasher shed. 116 ft at 22 cts $1.39. Rob Wallace & Marshall came down to hunt. |
| Fri. Aug. 26, 1904 | Paul & I went over to M. F. Wallaces after seed wheat. Got 32 bu 15 lbs . To pay him $1.10 per bu for it. Gave John 75 cts to get plow point & groceries of Whetstone. |
| Sat. Aug. 27, 1904 | I went down to the Irvin farm & finished picking pears. Lib took Ant Sophia over to Hughs. I sent M. F. Wallace $35.25 for the wheat I bought of him. |
| Sun. Aug. 28, 1904 | At home all day. Ezras was out here today. |
| Mon. Aug. 29, 1904 | I went over to Corrells then down to P. Bankses to see him about the thrasher shed. Him & I went down to J. Harmans. I mowed weeds in the afternoon. |
| Tues. Aug. 30, 1904 | I got a load of corn of George Bittikoffer. 42 1/2 bu at 45 cts $19.12. Dr to Correll for the corn. I sold Gus Myers 10 head of hogs at 5.95 to take them to warsaw tomorrow. I fixed up the hog shoot & sorted them in the afternoon. |
| Wed. Aug. 31, 1904 | I took 10 head of hogs to warsaw to Gus Myers weighed 1890 at 5.95. $99.79. I paid Richardson & Co. $2.00 for me shoes. Paid J. Grabner 65 cts for plow points. 10 cts for Bananas. |