August 24, 1872 ~ Saturday
Aug 24, 1872
I spent the day stacking wheat & in the Evening I attended a
Meeting of the Board of the I received 3 letters
[FIGURE] from , , & . A Meeting was held
25In Millers Grove Davis County at 10 oclok the
& Twelve were there
August 25, 1872 ~ Sunday
25. Sunday in company with the & Twelve I rode 18 M[iles]
in the cars to & attended the Meeting in the grove
Prayed spoke 32 M[inutes] 45.
At Noon we went to Judge Heights. The Presidency & Twelve sat near
2 Hours & herd Sister Secrist Enter her complaints against
Brother Thornton the case had been tried before the Bishop
& he had given his decision in the case & Sister Secrist
was Not satisfied & appealed to the Presidency after Hearing the
case President Young confirmed the decision of the Bishop
at 2 oclok we Met in the grove. W Woodruff spoke 36 M[inutes]
35, 10, & 15 Minutes
we had a vary hard rain in at 10 oclk & another
at 6 oclok we returned home & spent the night 18 M[iles]
August 26, 1872 ~ Monday to August 30, 1872 ~ Friday
26 to 30. I spent the week stacking wheat & oats some of My family
are sick youngest is vary sick I spent the night with
[FIGURE] it. I received 2 letters from & 6 M[iles]
August 31, 1872 ~ Saturday
31. I spent the day about home I administered to our sick
September 1, 1872 ~ Sunday
Sept 1. The First day of fall cool after rain our is better this
Morning I did not attend Meeting this forenoon I wrote a letter
[FIGURE] to Br Harmon and
spoke in the Morning Afternoon
spoke 65 Minutes
September 2, 1872 ~ Monday
2 I spent the day preparing for Threshing we threshed 31 Bushels
of wheat in the Evening
September 3, 1872 ~ Tuesday
3 We threshed 400 Bushels of wheat to day
September 4, 1872 ~ Wednesday
4. We threshed 66 Bushels of oats & 16 Barley this Morning
my wheat yields 42 Bushels to the Acre
September 5, 1872 ~ Thursday
5 I commenced cutting up corn to day
September 6, 1872 ~ Friday
6. I extracted honey from 2 Hives of Bees this morning &
went to the & attended a Dinner Party on the of He was 68 years old