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Jno Garey ) I got yesterday a patron for pants 2 3/4 yards of Jens 65
pants $2.50 )
Vest $1.50 ) pr yard for John Gary & Adaline made them they are worth $2.50

Garey has missed his Chills the 2nd time the last he had was

last Monday night, they were every 3 night chills. I think

they are broke. Wm let Gary have a vest $1.50
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Mon 30 The morning is clear & calm & the weather has much moderated

We have lost many of our tools they keep going every day or

Tools gone ) two I think there is some one particular person taking &

hiding them for themselves

Receipt for ) Take 1 pint of Meal 2 Table spoonfuls of black pepper 1 table
Chicken (
Chollery ) spoonful of Cole Oil and enough of Molasses to mix it well
Chicken (
Cholery ) & give it to the chickens It will cure the cholery. Our chickens

Caleb X ) are dying of cholery
Corn )
I got 2 loads (Jack's bed) of Corn of Caleb put it in old

Smoke house
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1868 ) The morning is quite cold frost & Ice The Wind is mostly
December (
Tus 1st ) from the W. & N. W.. Our set was halling wood & some picking

Cotton ) out Cotton Jim picked out 59 lbs Grissa 29 lbs Lorra &
Jim (
Grissa ) Clary 47 lbs & Felix 17 lbs Making all 152 lbs

Jack 1/2 Jack came & worked in the Shop from dinner until night We

weighed him off a week's rations
Thos & )
Wm ) Thomas & William busy making the wood work of Thomas new

wagon. All our set has gone to the Cotton patch. Jack is
Jack )
George H ) in the Shop & George H. striking for him.
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