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Wife in Va Col bad Exempt Firemen's Election
Monday Dec 28
Clear & very fine day -- Rose at 9 -- Was down at the train at 10 & met wife - Ate at room Had fried fresh canned Eastern oysters for breakfast and fricasseed chicken for dinner -- She left on evening train -- Evening I attended the annual election of the Va Exempt Firemen's Association and voted, being a memeber -- I had been put on the ticket as one of the board of 5 trustees, but got only 16 votes out of 35, and was beaten, by one vote -- Col Shaw did not put in his appearance at all this evening -- until about 2 o'clock when I was about quitting -- He had been out gambling & drinking all the time -- Bed at 4 -- Received 1 dos best English flexible catheters, No 4 from H P Wakelee & Co Druggists etc San Francisco $3 --
catheters -- Centennial meeting
Tuesday Dec 29
Clear & pleasant -- Bed at 4 --
Wednesday Dec 30
The same -- Rose at 11 -- Went down to lumber yard on north C st -- got a 14 ft board 14 inches wide & 1 inch thick, dressed on one side, same as the two I got the other day, also a piece of door stop -- board $1, door stop 25 cents -- $1.25, carried it home myself -- sawed it up as I wanted it for shelf, table, window cupboard etc -- at 1 PM attended meeting of Centennial stockholders -- I presided --
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talked over matters of the co but did nothing -- Adj at call of [Present] -- In
Gallatin -- Folsome note $346 Wife & Pass Col Shaw Gambling bad
compliance with letters from Gallatin & Folsom, Reno, I signed & marked a note to them for $345.93 for hardware merchandise furnished in building my house in Gold Hill, when they were there too, in business -- The note I gave them then would be outlawed on the 1st, the coming New Year's Day -- so they simply wanted a renewal which I granted, they throwing off all the interest to date -- And I am generous enough to respond by throwing off the principal, thus making the thing square -- Got letter from wife, eclosing pass, which I hope to get renewed -- I sent that Gallatin & Folsom note to them by evening train -- Office as usual -- Through at 2 -- Col Shaw gambling bad -- He didn't put in his appearance at all --
Alice Harrison Rent & dues squared up
Sent Jim Townsend to fix up telegraph for him about 1 oclock -- I got to bed at last at 5 oclock -- Alice Harrison and pretty good stock company from the East -- played "In Hot Water" at Pipers Opera House this evening -- Fair house -- I couldn't attend -- because Col was off and I had to be in office --
Thursday Dec 31
Clear & cold -- freezing all day -- coldest of the season -- Paid my rent, $8, Odd Fellows dues to Jan 1 $3.75 and Exempt Society dues to Jan 1, $5 -- Mining day today, as no paper tomorrow -- Very busy -- Col Shaw still on the gamble --
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Jim Townsend worked in his place tonight, and the Col staid with faro in the
Col Shaw still gambling Cold Snap 19 above zero New Year
International saloon game -- I got through in office at 1:30 home -- Bed at 3 -- Hung my thermometer outside, & it showed 19 deg above zero -- Last night was just about as cold -- At 12 oclock tonight there was much gun & pistol shooting, fire crackers and general hilarity in honor of the advent of the New Year
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And so ends this book, Continued in Journal book No 60
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