Friday June 2
Very warm in the sun. Leon running the car all around in the fore noon to the farm, & Blett's folks came in the morning train & was at Leon's to dinner. Then after dinner they went to do the farm & at two oclock Leon & I started after the Girls to DeKalb Junction. I stopped at Herman & got out a Summonds for Kelsey & one for Mindon Woodard & sent it to York to be served to day. When the four oclock train came, Flo was not on it so they came back but I would not come without her. So we went back to the xxx.
Saturday June 3
Frank paid two dollars. Cloudy & rainy some terrible hard showers. Lots of water fell. I gave the summonds for Kelsey to Leon Clark to serve. Grace, Florence, Gertie, & Leon went to the farm in p.m. He, Leon running around with the car in fore noon. There has been a camp meeting in a tent up on the Jimmie Nobles Corner. After they went to the farm, it rained in torrents so they got sopping wet. Got back about dark. Cleaned the house some, but so wet they could not plant anything last night. The cows was not milked. Could not get back in time & rained fierce.
Sunday June 4
Cold & rainy. I not as well on account of asthma. Rather dumpish but not sick. Leon around occasionally. Leon went to the farm. I think Blett came here & got a mattress but I let him have nothing else. Let him have two small mattresses & four pillows & other bedding last year but got nothing back. Leon has gone to DeKalb to take the Girls back. Started at about a quarter of five. I left alone again. Hermie, Gertie & John went to DeKalb. Gone about three hours. They here a while after they got back. Another man came for board.
Monday June 5
Cool & cloudy & raining some. I running around & getting stuff to cook. Mrs. Lee doing better to day. I got meal & flour at the mill & settled with Clark & xxx & paid them with a check. Leon running the car around to day to the farm worth two dollars. Mrs. Lee wants to hire the Leser building. Heard Mrs. Woods going to move to Potsdam. Settled with Mrs. Grant. Paid them three fifty. Gertie down a few minutes with the mail. Mrs. Guiles up an hour or so to tell us the turkey up there. A man by the name of Bohall here & hired the rooms back of Burt Guiles for two dollars per week & me to furnish some things.
Tuesday June 6
Cool & wet but clearing up. I have the asthma so bad I am not doing anything, pratically lifeless. Leon running the car then to farm & don't know where else this p.m. I worked on my black dress trying to fix it over. Maude's parents came & helped me one & three quarter hours on it. Gertie came & brought the mail & then left. Did not hear from the Girls. Pooler paid me three dollars for room rent to June 8. Lots of men working in the mines. Paying men in the mines $2.40 per day.
Wednesday June 7
Pleasant & warm. Not much doing. I working a little & rest. Leon driving the car all over twice to the farm & took Mrs. Wise & I over to the mines to see about board bill. Mrs. Lee doing a little better. Hope the boarders will pay up to night. Heard Sherdie Lamphere got quite badly hurt last night fooling. Leon carrying the McFarren tribe all over town all the evening. Gertie up with the mail but that is all. Ask her to help fix my dress but would not. Every body most got cars. The streets alive with them.
Thursday June 8
Cool & cloudy with a big rain at night. I working a little, got seven boarders & another spoke up for board. I deposited twenty four dollars in the bank to day & gave Mrs. Lee a check for four dollars last night. Sold my Electric flat iron to day for $2.50 cts to Burt Guiles. Maude Spearance paid two weeks rent four $s to day. One of the boarders Victor Perry ran away owing me about seven dollars. Leon has not run the car to day I guess.
Friday June 9
Still raining & cloudy. Dismal & cool. I doing nothing as usual, seeing to things. Mrs. Lee still doing the work. One boarder went away this morning. Leon running the car all day to day, worth three dollars. Heard to day from John Beech & other boys arrested for mischief. Done up to the revival meeting. Sent six of them. Gertie up this morning when she went to school. Potter & others here on the mine business I guess. Gertie got the mail but did not stay any. She & John went to the Minstrel show. I went to bed. Leon to carry Woods to a dance. Arthur Layton came on the train.
Saturday June 10
Cloudy & rainy. Not much doing in the fore noon. Mrs. Lee's finished her Saturday work. I hired Layton to work last night & he commence this morning. I had him clear away the lumber from the back door of the new building & fix a railing around the back's stairs & fix a platform at the back door of the hall. In the after noon, Leon & I & Gertie & Mrs. Beech & Leah went to Gouverneur. I bought two pairs of pillows & four bedsteads, springs & mattresses & commode to be shipped Monday. We came back by DeKalb. Terrible rain here while we gone.
Sunday June 11
Cool cloudy & rainy, a very dull day. The band & oddfellows out & decorated the graves of Odd fellows & Rebeccas. Leon around once & a while when he wanted something. Mrs. Lee getting quite smart. Guess she is short-lived here.
Monday June 12
Pleasant but muddy & roads bad & rough. Leon took me to Herman to a xxx. Sued Kelsey & Woodard. Got a judgment against Kelsey & Woodard's case adjourned to the twenty-seventh of June. Got back about noon or a little before. In the p.m. did not accomplish much. Worked on my silk dress. Leon caught the hens or xxx & the turkey to take away to the farm. He did not do anything this p.m. Got a letter from Florence for eight dollars at least. Got the xxx note renewed for three months from to day.
Tuesday June 13
Warm & pleasant. Wrote to Florence this morning & sent her a ten dollar check. Gertie up, said she got a phone that she could have the Talcville school at thirty dollars per week. She feeling pretty good. She took my check, dress to fix over for me.
Wednesday June 14
Pleasant but not much doing here. Blett & Leon came here & worked a little while then went to the station & got my stuff that I bought at Gouverneur for the boarding house. Leon swept out the back room upstairs & he & Blett carried up the beds. Then Blett went to the farm at Shawville after a load of hay & Leon drove to the upper place to help milk.
Thursday June 15
Cloudy & warm. Mrs. Lee having a tare & I not doing much. She mad at every body. Leon helped clean out the back room & carry up some of the bedding then went to the farm with the car to milk. Had a letter from Florence. She feeling pretty anxious about graduating. Mrs. Lee says she is going to go after pay day. The sewer men got their pay yesterday. They paid me to day about twelve dollars was all.
Friday June 16
Rainy but quite warm. Lee's people still on the war path. She doing the work but just. What she applies to do. She got dinner then done up the dinnerwork & hired a horse & said she was going to Russell to her mother's. Leon went in the basement after helping me a little while & got one of my clocks, a new pail, & got cup & I don't know how much more & went home. We set up three more beds. A man & a woman came for supper & are in rooms across the hall.
Saturday June 17
Pleasant & nice. Everybody working in the block, some washing, some one thing, & some another. I not amount to much. I took in one dollar & 80 cts aside from regular boarders for meals. Reardon paid me five dollars at night for his week's board. Mrs. Lee out every night till near eleven at night. Leon took Hab McIntosh to Ogdensburg, his father dead. He paid him xxx for going. Hermie & Gertie & John went with him. Gertie stopped to McKinneys. They went on, she staid. I went to bed about eleven. Roberts moved in to back room.
Sunday June 18
Cooler & rainy but warm in the morning. Leon & Hermie went to Canton about ten. Took the gramaphone & a little bed to Minnie. Leon did not get back till four oclock. I should think, then went to bed here. When he got up, went to the McFarren's to breakfast. Frank Hall so drunk he can hardly walk & some of the boarders drinking too. Leon did not get back till twelve oclock. Went to Potsdam with Florence. Did not see Grace.
Monday June 19
Cool & cloudy but guess the rain is over for to day. Am feeling pretty old. The boarders on a spree. Burt Willson fell down the stepps & hurt his head pretty bad. He so full could not but just navigate. Not much doing, I got.
Tuesday June 20
Cold & rained a little. I not doing much. Made a new deal with Mrs. Lee. I to furnish the room & furniture, she to furnish the rest. Leon not doing much. Took the car & took the shoe men to Talcville. Got two dollars for it. A big crowd went to the show last night. I went to bed. Leon & Gertie did not go. Had a card from Grace. Said she had lost two pound since she home before recess. Florence graduating invitation.
Wednesday June 21
Cold wind but did not rain much. Sam Roberts worked & Everett Morrow & Gerald Roberts worked in p.m. Put wood in the shed & helped pick up the yard. The men worked on platform, & stepps & started to put a cement top over Arbas back room. Had a number of spatts about whiskey. The men all drunk around Roberts. So drunk he could not do good work. Gerald worked well. I had quite a bit of money handed in between 25 & 30 dollars. I locked the barn, got to do something to stop this expense. Leon takes the car & drives the heart out of it & stills owes me for the tires on it.
Thursday June 22
Still cold but did not rain. Another boarder went away. He out of mark (eg Hall). The xxx both laying off. Leon went to the farm after dinner with the car to plant potatoes. He pretended. Can't tell. Gertie took my black skirt & fixed it a little. Morrow worked good & so did Roberts & the boy in the fore noon did not work p.m. I got a letter from Florence. She passed in every thing but teaching & had not heard from that. Wanted a lot more money. Said Grace coming over Sat. night. I sent a lot of potatoes to the farm for seed.
Friday June 23
Clear but cloudy. I working all around keeping stuff for to keep the men to work. Roberts worked all the time, he thought, but began late & stopped early. The boy worked. I paid him 50 cts. Everett worked at the platform & Roberts worked there & on the roof of the shed. So did Everett. Mrs. Lee left her work all day then got ready & went off to the dance over to Averell at night. A terrible gang, they say.
Saturday June 24
Cloudy & showery every little while. I worked what time I had trying to get the work done. Everett put a railing around the stairs on the third floor of the new block. Mrs. Lee drove Willson out this morning. He just spoiled the bed. I got me a new hat & a pair of shoes. $5.25 for the lot. Gertie fixed my black dress some. I up to Gertie's for dinner, had wild meat. Had a letter from Minnie at night. Leon went to Shawville & took Days folks up & got two dollars. Gladles up at Morrow's. Had words with Roberts over his work. Wanted $3.50.
Sunday June 25
Cool & wind blew quite a bit. I did not do much, only talk & fuss with everything. Leon Freeman & Mrs. Hall & the children & I went to the upper place & staid a while. Picked strawberries a while. Then we came home, had supper. Gertie & Hermie down & staid a while. Hermie, Gertie & John drove to the farm the other way. We went to Shawville up by the Scott place. Hay pretty good on the farm for that place.
Monday June 26
Pleasant & nice. Leon & I got up & had breakfast & got ready & went to Canton. Went by Minnie's to Potsdam, to Florence's class day exercises. Ferdie went with us, got there just at ten when the graduates were having the ivy march. Had dinner at xxx & went to the play, Midsummer Night's Dream. Did not like it. I so tired I went right to bed for a while in evening. We all went to the reception, came back to Lalonges at eleven. Ferdie & Leon drove home to Harrison's to stay there over night.
Tuesday June 27
Pleasant again & at nine oclock got ready & went to the graduating exercises first thing. Listened to the speech to the graduates by Professor XX Bryan, president of Colgate University. After that, the awarding of the Clarkson Prize of One Hundred dollars in gold go to the first Margarett Claire Lee, the second win by Mary Alys Finnemore of forty dollars, next to the Presenting of the Diplomas, one of which Florence received out of a class 160. After that we all went to the Restaurant & had dinner then picked up the things & came home. Stopped to Harrington's & had supper. Minnie & Ray went over with Leon & then we stopped to see Nett a minute the next day.
Wednesday June 28
Another pleasant day. We did not do a great deal. The girls cleaned up some & straightened up some. I did some business then we went to the farm after dinner. Expected to go to Herman but did not go. We went to the lot & picked strawberries they very thick, got a couple of qts, then we had supper & came home. Found that the Dist. Atty. had made Shampine & the woman get married & was looking up the whiskey business in the evening. Gertie, Hermie, Leon, & Harrison here. Harrison staid till midnight anyway. Brought Florence a green silk parasol.
Thursday June 29
Pleasant. I not doing much. Went to see about having the water settled up & have the water turned on but did not get a settlement yet. Went to Gertie's to dinner, all of us, Grace all tired out. They both had a nap. Leon not doing much of anything. Blett drew gravel for my roof 2 loads. Leon went to Towns Mill after Gladells' people. Morrows went with them. Florence & Irene went to the picture show. She came on the night train. Grace went to bed early, feeling all tired & lifeless. I put kerosene cloths & warmed her up, rested well after.
Friday June 30
A beautifull morning, I did not do much. Irene here all day most. She & Florence went calling part of the time. Grace not feeling very well, abed part of the time. At night the show from the Junction here, a minstrel show. Mrs. Havens here to supper. Grace & I went to the show, a regular hoax. Harrison here & Irene & her fellow here till after the show. Leon went to, I went again to see about the water. Leon went to the Benson mines to take Shampine folks. Got three dollars besides Gasoline.