Wilford appointed General President of Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association.
3
I arose in the morning & found the water runing through the
old dirt Roof onto the grain floor trunks clothing Bedding & all
that was in the house as it had Been raining several days and
the roof was flat. The carpenters at Smithfield had been
at work at odd times for more than a year to build me a
frame one story house, and one carpenter had been four
months in trying to lath the two front rooms one 15 feet square
& the other 10 x 15 & ownly got them about half done
4 I went into the new house & looked over the situation and I
felt that the way things were Going on it would be another year
before it would be finished so my family could go into it, and
I took my son Newton & Son in Law Heber Thompson &
went to lathing and after working 2 Hours Brother Horton
came the Plasterer who had been 4 months Plastering Lathing
and went to work with us it rained nearly all day Before
sundown we had Both room lathed and part of the largest Room
plastered with one coat I was weary at night I slept in
the old catbin though wet and Damp with my family though
it was Dangerous to our health
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