| Tues. Oct. 1, 1901 | At home all day making apple butter. Elisha took 2 loads of what to Leesberg today. Widmyer got 6 bu & 4 lb of wheat. Paid me cash $1.50. Back on the wheat 78 cts. |
| Wed. Oct. 2, 1901 | Lib & I went to the Irvin farm after peaches. Sold Widmyer 1 bu of peaches 50 cts per bu. Elisha took 2 loads of wheat to Leesberg today. Henry Bowers took 55 bu of wheat up today. 51 1/2 for me. |
| Thurs. Oct. 3, 1901 | I took the last load of wheat today. Total halled 502 bu & 30 lb at 67cts. $339.18. $80 dollars is Libs. I went to warsaw in the afternoon & paid the not I gave for the binder $100.00. Paid Hafer & Richardson $3.90 for John & Paul shoes. James Irvin paid me $2.00 for the use of my drill. |
| Fri. Oct. 4, 1901 | Elisha & I went down to the Irvin farm & brought 8 stears & old Lil & her calf home. We fixed fence around the straw stack & put up a foder rack. Fred Rink was here this evening to borrow my hog rack & I was going to use it. I commenced feeding my stears today. Henry Bowers brought his cattle home from my pasture today. |
| Sat. Oct. 5, 1901 | Elisha & I made a lader & took R. Wallaces fence machine home. Worked Pedro. We took Bankses scales home. Gave Affa & Lib $1.10 |
| Sun. Oct. 6, 1901 | (no entry) |
| Mon. Oct. 7, 1901 | I took 17 lambs to Atwood. Sold to cook at 4 cts weighed 1230 lb $49.20. 34 cts for we9ighing, leaves $48.80. Etas lambs 80 lb at 4 cts $3.20 from $48.86 leaves mine $45.66. Dan Ringgenberg & Charles Ringgenberg paid me for their seed wheat 40 bu & 32 lb at 67 1/2 cts $27.84. Went to warsaw in the afternoon to see Millard & Ezra about sending wheat to Marrion. I paid J. Bailor 50 ctts ballance due on clock. |
| Tues. Oct. 8, 1901 | I went over to Millards & helped him clean wheat to send to Marrion to sow. About 26 bu. Took 11 of my sacks. Got home at noon. I went around by F. Clingers to see him & C. Roos. They was not at home. Went from there to Elishas & helped pick some apples Ryman. Got 5 bu. I went home by F. Clingers. Paid 3 notes of. One $20.00, one $30.00, one $50.00. Total with interest, 104.33. Paid C. Roos ballance I owed him. $3.50. |
| Wed. Oct. 9, 1901 | Rainy. We are making apple butter. F. Correll paid me $15.43 on seed wheat. Has paid for all but 15 bu & Prissilla Rarick is to pay for that. F. Correll & I went down to R. Wallaces woods & looked at some trees. Met. S. Ross. Wanted to buy some apples. J. Goshard was over to buy apples. Dident get any. I went down & killed Wash Bankses bird mair for them down to J. Bankses. |
| Thurs. Oct. 10, 1901 | I changed my fatning hogs from the North field to the East 22 acre field. Put up salt trough for my cattle & turned stear & calf out of the orchard into the lane & north field. Lib Wallace paid me $15.00 - $12.00 for the hog she got of Os Miner & $3.00 for mishanary money that I paid for her. Lib went down west. Elisha Miller missed 1/2 day. I went down & picked apples. Mrs. Clinger was over. She paid me back 40 cts that I over paid them on note. |
| Fri. Oct. 11, 1901 | Raining this evening. I fixed a pair of shaves. Picked some apples in the forenoon. Lib & Affa went to Warsaw. I went dow to Elishas & helped him pick apples in the afternoon. Cook was here to buy my hogs paying $5.90 per hundred. |
| Sat. Oct. 12, 1901 | Raining. Rained all last night. Chored. Raining hard all day. |
| Sun. Oct. 13, 1901 | Rainy in afternoon. At home till noon. Paul & I went to Bourbon in the afternoon. I gave Etta $20.00 to pay. Hon. $7.00, Alice Poland $10.00 & three for herself. |
| Mon. Oct. 14, 1901 | Very Foggy. I went ovut to Frank Pinkertons. Bough his lambs at 4 cts per lb. To fetch them Thursday if weather is nice. I bought 25 bu of potatoes of Hershberger. Paid 60 cts per bu. $15,00 Will Widmyer & ___ husked corn in the afternoon. |
| Tues. Oct. 15, 1901 | The boys & I went down to the Irvin farm & fixed the gates & let my cattle in the North pasture. Will Widmyer & ___ husked corn all day. I unloaded potatoes & husked corn in the afternoon. |
| Wed. Oct. 16, 1901 | Rainy. The boys & I got in one load of corn in the forenoon. Husked 2 shocks of corn in the afternoon. Frank Pinkerton brought his lambs this afternoon. Weighed out there 1340 at 4 cts $53.60. 17 lambs. Weighed over on Crabs scales 1270 lbs. |
| Thurs. Oct. 17, 1901 | Cloudy. Husking corn & picking apples. |
| Fri. Oct. 18, 1901 | Husking corn in the fore noon. Halled in 2 loads with the low wagon & one with the hog rack. I gave G. Bitticoffer $2.00 for Section. |
| Sat. Oct. 19, 1901 | H. Bowers & H. Zimmerman borrowed my carriage. The boys & I brought 2 loads of corn from the Powell place. Elisha & I finished picking up a load of sider apples & went down to the Irvin farm & picked about 7 bu for him for vinigar. Paid him one dollar $1.00 |
| Sun. Oct. 20, 1901 | Nice. We went to Sunday School. |
| Mon. Oct. 21, 1901 | Ezra came out to hall his oats. Got Maud & Bankses wagon. Elisha & I went to the sider mill down to E. Clingers. Got 140 gal. Pd $1.40 |
| Tues. Oct. 22, 1901 | We boilt sider all day. John Rusher got 3 bu of apples .75cts. |
| Wed. Oct. 23, 1901 | We picked the wine sap apples today. |
| Thurs. Oct. 24, 1901 | Fine. We were making apple butter. John Stokey got 14 bu apples at 25 cts. $3.50. |
| Fri. Oct. 25, 1901 | Fine. Making Apple butter. Elisha made him a barrel of vinigar. Elisha made 50 gallons of sider today for himself. Ezra brought Maud & the wagon home today. I sold hime 3 bu of apples for $1.00 cash. Paid the male man for the Record Herald. |
| Sat. Oct. 26, 1901 | Fine. Elisha missed this forenoon sick. Husked corn in the aftenoon. I bought Mrs. Raricks oats today to pay her what they are worth in the market the middle of February. Port Harley & wife got 5 bu of apples $2.50. I went over to Corrells to see Mrs. Raricks corn. I caught a rabbit his dog had holed. |
| Sun. Oct. 27, 1901 | Fine. The boys & I gathered the Russet apples & hulled a bushel of wallnuts in the forenoon. Husked corn in the afternoon. Etta came home today. Drove Hons horse, his boy & Alice Polands girl came with her. |
| Mon. Oct. 28, 1901 | John & the girls went to Sunday School. |
| Tues. Oct. 29, 1901 | Chored in the fore noon. Went down to Elishas at noon. Helped him take the old stove out of the wagon. Came home & I went to Warsaw. Took J. Widamon 8 bu of apples 75 cts per bu. $2.25. Paid Hass & Co. for beef 34 cts. Paid the Globe $1.00 for John a coat. Elisha went down to the Irvin farm & dug potatoes. Paid my taxes. $26.55. Libs was $6.60. |
| Wed. Oct. 30, 1901 | Husked corn in the fore noon. Elisha & I. We halled wood in the afternoon. Lib & Affa went to warsaw. |
| Thurs. Oct. 31, 1901 | Elisha & I finished husking corn down to the Powell place in the fore noon. I went to J. Koontz barn raising in the afternoon. I collected moving expenses for the preacher. Gus Myers was out to buy my hogs offered me $5.25 per hund. I dident sell. |