W.E.Costley's Journal 1913

Index of 1913 - 1915 journal by W.E.Costley

Paid to John Nichols and companey and companey June the 22th 1913 on this (ink spot) account rent on oats august 30 the the rent on first bale of cotton by Mulican 16.90 E.E. Meulian Sold another bale of cotton raised on my farm September the 4th 1913 - waying 1576 pound and sold for my 12.50 per pound my part being fifteen dollars and seventy six cents This is the second bale cotton
Look on Page lettered Mc half way down the page for the day i surveyed my land being on Monday September 8th 1913 and rained that night Look on the opposite page for letters marked Mc for the day it rained
Look on page lettered N page 9 for the death of Waleer Baker of Waco Texas
The amount of tole coming to WECostley out of the the third bale of cotton raised by E E Mulican on my old farm sold on the 23rd day September 1913 pai(d) to Nichols same day Sold paid Nichols and companey 10-12-1913 - nine Dollars a(nd) forty cts rent cotton raised by E E Muliacn in the year 1913 Tole on the 5 bale paid to Nichols and co October 28th 1913 $14.77
Paid to Nichols and companey November the 20th AD 1913 on account 9.00
T____ to Nichols and companey March the 10-1914 _____ $30.00
C C Costley post office No 511711 South 9th Street Waco Texas
Look on page 293 for the letter received from ou(r) children and relative
Look on 293 for the letter i sent too Ed Costley by M Frownfelter to mail Look on page 309 for the morning that Edna
Costley(?) brought her grandmother and the writer a big glass of egnog to drink in there (their) old days
Resin oil ointment for Exzema Said to be very good
Look on page 338 for the letter Received from Mrs Betty Harvey
Look on page 388 for the day that M V Frownfelter come home from Brownwood Texas
Look on page 303 for the going out of February 1915
Look on page marked B for the time Ida & Ada went to Waco too there place of a bode
Look on page marked C for the day that Dean helped E E Mulican cover my old house on the north side of middle Bosque creek on my old place
Look on page marked D for the time my house caught on fire Ed Costleys address is no 219 North Street Waco Texas
Look on page marked E for the day i finished cuting out the fence roe and hall a load of corn and gee(?) come home form Corpus chisti Texas
W.E. Costley at home
Look on page lettered I for the day i finished gathering corn 1913
Look on page lettered K for the day i went to mill at McGregor
Look on page marked with a letter M for the day that the thermometer run so high
Look on page lettered N for the day i sowed turnip seed and it began to rain and continued to rain up to September 14th 1913
Look on page marked with a leter O for the day the Norther came up
Mrs Bettie Narveys postoffice is Chriesman Burleson co. Texas
Look on page marked with a letter q for the day that i mailed to J M. Costley and wife Mattie Costley a letter and Some winter turnup Seed
Look on page mark with a q for the day Frank Burow delivered the horse to me that he gave me
Look on age marked with a letter R for the day i turned Mr Johnsons horse over to him
Look on page for the alphabetical letter S for the day Tom Stirling eat diner with the old people also his wife and Baby
Look on page lettered V for the morning it began to rain and the ___ on the 28th day of Septem(ber) the 28 the morning opened up with abright Sun Shiney morning cleard off in the night will not remain So long
E D Costleys address No 219 N. 6 Street Waco Texas
Look on page lettered V for the time it began to rain and on page lettered Z for the continuation of rain all the Same Look on page No 14 for the day it come Such a rain
Look on page 25 and 26 for the night there come a front
Look on page 24 for the continued rain on the 2nd and 3 day of November 1913
Look on page 48 for the light rain that fell in the earley morning
Look on page 51 and 52 for the big rain November 23 & 24 - 1913
Look on page 59 and 75th pages for the bigest over flow that has been Since 1842 and 1852 when the Brazos and Colorado river down near the gulf was 30(?) miles wide
Look on page 85 for the day that i Sent Lum Costleys Deed to Pacos city Reeves county to be recorded also wrote a letter and Sent to J.M.Costley and familey at Energ(y) Texas
Look on page 117 for the time Ed Costley paid me $63-94cts
Look on page 99 for the day we visited Tom Stirling & wife
Look on page 125 for the time that i receive a letter from Edna Kelley and going to Edwards Drug Store for Some gad Salts
Look on page 126 for the day Lotty Meadows died Clarys Daughter
Look on page 130 for the day we planted corn for old Charley Cranfill of Old Crawford Texas and broke his garden
for the day it rained look on page161 at J M Costleys in Hamalton Co
Look on page one hundred & 4 for the day that Marcelus and sister Valeta Costley taken a trip too the indian Gap.
Look on page 181 and 182 for the day it rained in Hamelton co Texas
Look on page one hundred and Eighty three for the morning that J M Costley Macey mare brought a bay horse coalt about 7 - o clock in the morning
Look on page 188 and 189 for the big rain that fell at JM Costley in the west end of Hamalton County Texas
Look on page 199 for the heavey rains
Look on page 256 for the first norther that come acompanied with rain
Look on page 268 for J B Polson post office
Look on page the 286 when we had to have the Doctor for my wife Doctor Towns
Look on page 309 for the day Louese went to Cleburn to School teachers
Look on page at the bottom of 277 when M V Frownfelter returned from Brownwood
Look on 315 for the nigh that Lamon Mc Kee stayed all night with Willey Frownfelter
Look on page 320 for the Christmas spent in Joshua at in the year AD 1914 in the Town of Joshua Texas
Look on page 328 for the first day of January 1915
Look on page 364 for the day i mailed a letter to C Costley at Waco Texas Look on page 332 for the time i mailed a letter to Tom Stroling and G C Frownfelter
Look on page 377 for the day i Taken the long walk down the railroad and Mr Hunter payed the familey a viset
Look on Page 383 for the morning Mrs M V Frownfelter Started too Brownwood
Look on page 394 and 395 for the 48 hour rain
I put in too the bank at Joshua on October the 16 AD 1914 Twenty five Dollars
( Bank deposit and withdrawel notes)
Put cream in your nose and Stop catarrh
Elys cream Balm apply a little of this fragrant anticeptic cream in your nostrils let it penetrate through evry air passage of the head soothe and heal the swolen inflamed mucus membrane and relief come instantley
Hicks Capudine for any kink of a headach whatever
Look on page 399 for the cold day Mach 6th 1915
Look on page 401 for the weather that is on hand March 8-
Look on page 401 for the snow that fell on night of March the 8 and the morning of March the 9th covering the earth 2 to 3 inches deep
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Anderson WR 2____________________113
This is the 7th day of ______________
The Thermometer run _________tempature not much signe of rain __________ from the south

This is a diary of WE Costley and wife of the labor of each that is performed and a discription of the weather as it comes and goes beginning Monday August the 18th 1913

Monday August the 18th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a damp morning Some what cloudey wind from the south east quite damp Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning registered at 72 Degrees tempature with a good prospect of rain today the familey a rose some what late this morning and after getting prepared for work the writer prepared the fire in the cook stove then ground and put the coffee on the stove to make then Ida Ada Costley and my wife M.V. Costley went to work then prepared the morning meal whilst the writer fed and cared for the poney and fowls on the place then returned too the house and we eat our morning meals as the woman had it Served and placed on the table and announce readey to be eat after all the familey had eat there morning meal the woman folks went to work and put the breakfast table and contents all in good Shape again whilst the writer walked down to see Mr. Baker to See if he wanted the cow that Ada Costley proposed to sell him or not but did not get to See him So i returned home to find that C. C. Costley and Dean Costley had geered the poney then hitched him too the cart and drove over too Mr E E Millicans on my old place on the north Side of middle Bosque to See him and Still it is much in appearance of rain the writer then walked in too the garden and gathered a mess of turnup greens that i had growed this Summer for the woman to cook for there dinner and after gathering of them i brought them in doors then the woman went to work to get them shaped up to cook them and did cook them for the noon meal and after getting there meal Served and placed on the table we Seated our Selves too the dinner then portaken of our noon meal after all were through and the dinner table and contents cared far all the familey taken a long rest as it was so warm at or near 12- o clock noon today Mr E.E. Mulican come to Crawford to day for the Shingles to cover the house on my old place and taken five thousand five hundred Shingals home with him and 15 pounds of Shingle nails to cover the house with , now at or near half past 12- oclock today it began to get thick cloudey all over the elements as though it would come a rain in a Short while which (part of page torn out.) at one oclock this the cloud n become clear and bright wind changed too the my noon meal walked
_____as it has began to thunder in ___________ half? past one oclock P M of today and _________ dsey in that direction but still all past _______ay fell in the town of Crawford Texas at or near ______ Oclock P M the writer began to do up his night Schores and after getting through we then eat our evening meal and when through with that part of the work and the Supertable and contents cared far then Ida and Ada began to prepare to meet the pasenger train at the Depot to night as they are going to Waco to night after they left we then departed to our bed of repose hoping to get a good nights rest tonight W.E. Costley at home

Tuesday August the 19th AD 1913 Opened up quite a clear nice morning quite warm wind from the North East blowing Somewhat - - - ble Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning Registerd at 74 Degrees tempature. The family arose from there bed of repose Some what late this morning and after getting prepared for work the writer renewed the fire in the stove then ground and put the coffee on to make then fed the poney and fowls. After getting through i returned too the house as we went to work to prepare the morning meal for the family with the help of my wife and Dean Costley and after getting of it Served and placed on the table we then Seated our Selves to the table then eat our motning meal after the familey were through and the breakfast table cared for all the familey but Lum Costley went too there dailey work my wife too her house hold affares and the writer to prepareing him Self to go on ever (over) too his old place to take a ladder and a lot of old lumber that i had lying around the place to make a scaffel to cover the old mansion that i once lived in days past and gone what might be called my best days of my life or at least i thaught so and that was enough to passify my mind that it was so at least and after getting Shut of my load i then drove down in to the bosque bottom in my old pasture to Salt our cattle that we had in the pasture and found all the cattle but one and it was out of the way and i did not know where, So after Salting the Cattle we then drove for our place of a bode after arriving at home we dismounted from our cart taken the poney from the cart gave him water then taken the geer off of him and put him in the lot and then eat our noon meal as my wife had it Served and placed on the table after all were through with our noon meal we then taken a rest for Some bit than went to work again at diferent work to what we worked at in the fore noon it has been very warm to day and at one oclock this the clouds began to Scatter and Soon become clear and bright and Still wamer, and the wind changed too the South a gain. and after eating of my noon meal to day then taken a Short rest i then walked down in town to See one of my old time friends Walter Bewley of Waco and he come up on the morning pasenger train to attend to Some business to day he is a citizen of the vacinity of Waco Tex and has been for a great while in Waco and its surroundings after conversing with him for some bit i then returned home and assisted my wife in washing Some of our clothing, and after getting through i then done up my night Shores then eat our evening meal and when through and the Suppertable and contents cared far we then taken a short rest then departed too our bed of repose with hopes of a good nights rest to night is the desire of the familey.
W E Costley at home in the Town of Crawford Texas I forgot to mention a part of the work done on the premises this evening Deen Costley went to work and mended a cot for Lum Costley as it was Some what dilapidated and disabled

Wednesday August the 20th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a warm morning wind from the South Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning registered at 76 Degrees tempature the familey arose from there bed of repose Some what late this morning and after getting prepared for buisiness the writer fed and cared for the poney then returned too the kitchen and renewed the fire in the cook Stove then ground and put the coffee to make then my wife went to work and prepared the morning meal with the help of the writer after getting of it Served and placed on the table we Seated our Selves to the table then partaken of our morning meal after all were through with there morning meal and the Breakfast table and contents cared far we then went to work and Some to viseting a gain Lum and dean costley caught and geered the poney hitched him too the cart then drove up to Tom Sterlings to Spend the day, whilst W.E.Costley rode over too my old pasture to deliver to Charley Baker Some cattle that i had Sold too Baker one cow i Sold for 4 and three quarter cents per pound also too year old Bull for 4 twenty cnt per pound, and after getting them too the Scales in the town of Crawford Texas we wayed them on the Scales the cow wayed 950 pounds and the too year old wayed Seven hundred and thirty pounds at fore and a quarter cents come to 31 dollars and to cents and the cow come to forth five Dollars and twelve cents we then drove them too Bakes pen then put them in his pen i then returned home and eat my noon meal although being late after the familey was through with out meal we then put the table and contents all in good Shape again, we then taken a rest after resting the writer walked down too the farmers bank and drawed the monen (money?) from the bank and Sent Ada Costley draft for her to draw her pay from the bank in the city of Waco and the (44.80) forty fore Dollars and 80 cents that my wife drawed for cow i deposeted that amount in the bank farmers Bank, kept by Jourdan(?) and John B Nichols and others then i set returned home then i done up my night Schores i we then eat our Evening meal. After all were through and the evening table and contents cared for we then taken our usuall rest then departed too our bed of repose hoping asto get a good nights to night is the desire of the familey
W.E. Costley at home in the town of Crawford Texas

Thursday August the 21St AD 1913 - Opened up a right(?) warming(?) wind from the East and part of the day from the South Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning registered at 78 Degrees tempature The familey arose Some what late this morning and after getting prepared for work the writer first fed and cared for the poney and fowls then returned too the kitchen and renewed the cook Stove and as isted my wife in prepareing of my morning meal and after getting of it Served and place on the breakfast table and announced readey to be eat we Seated our Selves too the table then portaken of our morning meal and after all were through and the table and contents cared for we then Set out for our days work my wife went about her house work whilst my wife went about her domestick work the writer and Dean Costley caught then geered the poney and drove over too Mr Mulican on my old place to assist in recovering a house on my old place on the North side of Middle Bosque creek after ariving at the place we dismounted from our cart then went to work covering the house as Mr E E Mulican and his lathering saw was at work covering on the house whilst Dean costley hope to nail on Shingals alday the writer then went to Sortening out the Shingles. to get the best ones to cover a buggy shed to put my buggy under to keep it out of the weather and work up to late in the eavening then hitched up the poney and drove too my plafce in the town of Crawford Texas after arriving at home i assisted my wife in prepareing our evening meal after getting of it Served and placed on the table we then eat our evening meal and when through and the table and contents cared far the writer then fed and curried the poney then returned too the house then Seated my Self at my writing and recorded the work that has been done by the familey today and a discription of the weather as at or near half past five o clock there was a cloud arose in the East ansd north with heavey thunder in the East and North but no rain in this part of the country and past off northward. now as we are all through we will go to our bed of repose hoping to get a good nights rest to night WECostley at home in the Town of Crawford Texas

Friday August the 22th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a _____ morning wind from the Northwest Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning Registered at 78 Degrees tempature The familey arose Some what _______ this morning and when prepared for buisiness we Started the fire in the Stove then the writer did the feding and returned too the Kitchen and went to work to prepare the morning meal and when Served and placed on the table as usual as it has been a custom all of our life eat our morning meal after the familey were through and the breakfast table and contents cared for we then proceeded to the work that was planed out to do to day and that was to take a cow and yearling from my old place too the Bosque creek to water and bring a load of old Shingles from my old place that we taken off of the old dwelling to re cover it again with new Shingles. After geting loaded we then drove for Crawford where i now live after arriving at home i then taken the poney from the cart taken the geer off of him then turned him in the lot to cool and after the poney cooled off Dean Costley fed him we then eat our noon meal as my wife had it Served and placed on the table readey to be eat, after the familey was through with our noon meal and the table and content cared far we then taken a Short rest then my wife went to work to knitting of a mat to go in her chair in order to make it Set easy than what they do whilst the writer walked down in town to see what was going of on in the Town at any rate today, after arriving at the place i noticed that the town was quiet and Scarsley any one in Town and only three bales of cotton on the Street for Sale and the(y) Sold at 12 Dollars and ten cents per hundred and a couple more at the gin ungined at Mr M Marks gin was a bout all that i Seen going on whilst down in Crawford Texas i then returned home by Mr Abbys to See Mrs Dalton as i had Seen her Husban down in Town they had just come in to Crawford on yesterday evening from Caleen in Bell County Texas. he had here too for taught School in Crawford Texas for too or three years Strait along in Suckcession and a nice teacher he is, after arriving at home i tried to take a nap but being so warm i failed to complete the job i then arose from my bed and went to work to record what had been done by the familey to day up to Six oclock Pm This evening i then done up my nights Schores we then eat our evening meal then taken a Short rest before going to our nights rest to night It made another attempt to rain this evening from the North East but failed to rain at Crawford Texas, with Some distant thunder in the North East the direction of the clouds after the flowrry Dean Costley taken Mr E E Mulican Saddle home that he borrowed to day to ride over home today from Mr Mullican on my old place W. E. Costley at home in the Town of Crawford Texas

Saturday August the 23dh 1913 - Opened up quite a clear bright morning wind from the North East, Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning Registered at 78 Degrees tempature The familey arose Some what late this morning and after getting prepared for buisiness the writer then first fed the poney then returned too the house and renewed the fire in the Stove then went to work to prepare our morning meal after getting of it Served and placed on the table then annonced readey to be eat we Seated our Selves too the breakfast table then eat our morning meal and after getting through and the breakfast table cared far we then went too our dailey work again my wife too her house whole affares and the writer caught and geered the poney hitched him too the cart then drove over to my old place to cut out a road So that i could have a line Surveyed across the South East part of my land and to get Some corn to feed on after cutting out apart of the line being So warm i then gathered my corn and drove too my place in the town of Crawford Texas and the first news i learned as Soon as i come in too Crawford that in my absence my house had caught a fire but the quck action of the citizens of Crawford Soon checked the flames and Subdued the burning of the house for which i felt very greatful to the people of Crawford Texas for there liberality Shown the writer in his absence after then writer arrived at home i taken the poney from my cart taken the geer off of him gave him water then fed him we then eat our noon meal that my wife had just prepared for the familey then when the familey had quenched there thirst for food and the dinner table and contents cared foar we the(n) had nothing to do but watch the burn to See if it broke out again but So far being fore oclock P.M. we have not Seen any Sign of it braking out So evry thing is quiet in the burn So far, about half past three oclock Lum and Dean Costley walked down in to Crawford too See the Showmen play a band of music as they are going give Crawford a kind of a Surcous (Circus) tonight, at 8 - PM - this has been a very warm day and the wind has been in the North East the principal part of to day blowing cool but the rays of the Sun very penetrating too the flesh, now at or near five oclock PM i walked down too Nichols Store and purchased a lot of Bacon and Potatoes for the house then brought it home with the writer after arriving at home my wife had our evening meal Served and placed on the table and announced readey to be eat we then Seated our selves to the table then portaken of our evening meal after all were through with our evening meal and the Suppertable and contents all in good Shape we moved in too our bed room for a Short rest and after getting rested we then departed too our bed of repose hoping to be blessed with a good nights rest to night W.E. Costley at home in the town of Crawford

Sunday August the 24th AD 1913 - opened up quite a bright morning, wind wind form the north Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning registered at 76 Degrees tempature, with a prospect of a clear day ahead The familey arose Some what later this morning but after getting prepared for buisiness the wirter then fed and cared for the poney then returned too the Kitchen and Started a fire in the Stove to prepare our noon meal as it were too late to prepare our morning meal, after getting of it Served and placed on the table we then portaken of our morning meal when through and the table and contents cared far we then Sat in for a Sabbath days rest to day asit is a holey day with the Lord Savour Jesus Christ. and contented our up to about Eleven oclock we then went to work to prepare Something to Eat after getting of it Served and placed on the table we then Seated our Selves to the table then portaken of our noon meal, after all were through and the table and contents cared far by Dean Costley and the writer we then moved out in too our East galery and continued our Sabbath days rest untill a bout six oclock from which the writer and Dean costley and the wiriter went to work to do up the nights Schores and after we were through we the(n) eat our evening meal after satisfying of our apetite for food we then went to work and put the dining table and contents all in good Shape again we then moved out in too our South east galery for a Short rest as the church bells was toling for the congregation to met at the church house for worship to night as young Brother Loper is the man that is appointed to Speak peace too there soles as he claims that he is called of God to preach his word to those that will beleave in the living God, now as we are through with our labors for to day we will thank the lord for his infanite merce for the extension of our lives throught this Sabbath day and depart too our bed of repose hoping to enjoy a good nights Sleep to night is the desire of the familey W.E. Costley at home in the town of Crawford

Monday August the 25th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a cool morning being earley and as the Sun came up it became much warmer the familey a rose Some what late this morning wind being from the East causing people to Sleep well from which we over Slept our Selves but when prepared for work the writer fed and cared for the poney then fed the fowls and when through returned too the kitchen and renewed the fire in the Stove then Dean Costley and the writer went to work then prepared our morning meal and after getting of it prepared and placed on the table we then portaken of the Same after all were through and the table and contents cared far we then went to different work Dean Costley went to work on the yard fence to stratening up the post whilst the writer went in pursuit of a carpenter to remoddle the burnt place in my kitchen roof that caught fire on last Saturday at Eleven oclock AM August the 23 dh 1913 whilst cooking of our noon meal the writer obtained Mr William Shrader to do the work and he went to repareing the roof, and Soon had it in good repare again ready to burn again, but live in hope of it never catching a fire again. and at or near Eleven oclock AM the writer began to prepare our noon meal and after getting of it Served and placed on the table we Seated our Selves too the dinner table then portaken of our noon meal after the familey had Satisfied there thirst with food the writer went to work and put the dinner table and contense all in good Shape we then taken a good rest and after resting for bit we then went to work on the house as Mr Shrader was a recovering the gat that was burned out in the roof and finished recovering the Same at or near Seven oclock this evening he then departed to our bed of repose after getting our work done up and eat a cold snack for our evening meal hoping to get a good nights rest to night WE Costley at home in the town of Crawford Texas

Tuesday August the 26th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a cool morning wind from the Thermometer at or near Six oclock this morning Registered 74 Degrees. The familey arose from there bed of repose this morning and after getting prepared for work we then prepared our morning meal after gettin of it Served and placed on the table and announced readey to be eat we Seated our Selves too the table then portaken of our morning meal after all were through and the table cared far we then went to work alright my wife too her house whole affares whilst the writer and dean geered and hitched the poney too the cart then drove over too my old place for a load of corn being quite warm to gather corn but has to be done Dean Costley and the writer drove over too the old farm for a load of corn and whilst there i cut Some brush on the fence row in order that could get through to Survey a portion of it and as it was so warm i could not Stand to work in Such a warm clost place So i made the work Short and got away from the place then gathered a load of corn after gathering the corn we drove down too Mr E E Melicans and taken the poney from the cart then Dean Costley rode the poney too the Bosque to water as Mr Mulican was taken his Stock to water after they returned from watering of the Stock in then fed him Some corn we then eat our noon meal, and getting through we taken a Short rest we then went to work and cleaned out the well on my old place when through Mr E E Mulican hitched up his team of mules and him and dean Costley drove up to Billey Blacks for a barrel of water whilst the writer drove home with the corn that dean Costley and i had gathered after arriving at home i taken the poney from the wagon taken the geer off of him then fed the poney i then prepared wood to burn in the Stove and brought it in doors to be handy. we then eat a cold Snack for our evening meal when all the familey were through we then put the Supper table all in good Shape again then taken our usual rest then departed too our bed of repose hoping to get a good nights rest to night is the desire of the writer and familey W.E. Costley at home in the Town of Crawford Texas

Wednesday August the 27th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a warm clost morning wind from the South East the thermometer at or near Seven oclock registered at 70 Degrees tempature. The familey arose Some what earley this morning and when prepared for buisiness the writer done the feed ing of the Stock then returned to the kitchen and Kindled the fire in the Stove then went to work and prepared our morning meal and after getting of it Served and placed on the table i then Seated my Self too the table then portaken of our morning meal as my wife and Lum Costley was not readey for there meals vitials not feeling very well this morning after i had eat my morning meal i caught then curried the poney geered and hitched him too my hack by that time Lum costley had eat his morning meal then him and i mounted in the hack then drove over to my old place for a load of corn and whilst C Costley gathered the corn the writer finished cutting out a road on the East part of my old farm in order for the Surveyor to run a line for the writer after getting through i returned back too my corn field and Lum Costley had the wagon loaded we then drove on home after arriving at home we taken the poney from the cart taken the geer off of him then gave him water and turned him in too the yard to cool as it was very warm and the writer went to work to assist my wife in prepareing our noon meal and after getting of it Served and placed on the table we then portaken of the Same when through and the dinner table and contence cared for by my wife the writer the(n) fed and cared for the poney after getting through we taken a short rest after resting for a bit i then walked down too the post office for my mail and after getting of it i then steped in to John B Nichols and companeys Store and purchased a gallon of blue ribon Syrup and a bottle of ink paying fifty - five cts for both articles i then walked down to Curbows Store and whilst there there was aman drove up too his store and as he was a cotton byer Curbow bid 12 Dollars and 35 cts per hundred and the gentleman past on the neat bidder to See if he could get the first bid raised whether did or not i am not able to say for i then returned home and recorded the above being very warm at the time and it being 40 minutes after too oclock P.M. and at that hour the thermometer Registered at 102 Degrees tempature very warm with a low tempature of wind Stiring, untill about fore oclock in the after noon of to day, then the wind from the South blew Strong and brasing too the Sistem and then it was that the writer unloaded his cart of corn with the help of dean Costley after getting through i then done up my nights Schores and fed the poney and fowls we then eat our evening meal being a cold Snack and after eating and the table cared far we then taken a Short rest and departed too our bed of repose with the hopes of receiving a good nights rest to night is the desire of the familey W.E. Costley at home in the town of Crawford.

Thursday august the 28th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a clear bright day wind from the South East Thermometer at or near Seven oclock, AM Registered at 69 Degrees Tempature The familey arose Some what earley this morning and when prepared for buisiness the writer then fed and cared for the poney then returned too the house and renewed the fire in the Stove then went to work and prepared the morning meal and after getting of it served and placed on the table then announced readey to be eat we Seated our Selves too the breakfast table then portaken of our morning meal then after the familey had satisfied there thirst for food and the breakfast table and content all put in good Shape we then proceeded too our occupation Such as gathering corn over on my place and halling it too where i live in Crawford as warm as it is we have to Stem the flood for it is the case with the writer root hog or Starve and my wife in her feeble Stage of life attended too her domestic work about the house, and done well to be able to do that much with a little assistance. the writer caught and geered the poney hitched him to my cart then drove for my old place on the north Side of Middle Bosque to gather a load of corn and after ariving at the place i then went to work and Soon loaded the hack and after getting of it loaded i then Started for Crawford the place where i now live and after arriving at home i taken the poney from the cart watered him then pull the geer off of the poney and fed him then returned too the house and eat our dinner as my wife had it Served and placed on the table then announced readey to be eat after all were through and the table and contents cared far we then taken a considerable rest for a bout three hours then went to work again i unloaded my corn out of my cart then taken a rest for a bit, then went to work a gain, the writer walked down to the post office to get my male (mail) but got nothing but a fort worth paper then walked to the cold drink Shop and purchased Some ice to go into this hot arteasan water to cool it So we could drink it as it was too hot to drink with out being cooled. then met up with dean Costley and he brough the ice too the house for the writer then it was he cold the water down So it cold (could) be drank and the familey Shurley drank it all along the line to cool there parching tongue after getting Some what cool i then went to work, to remove Some Sheaf oats and after getting too the place that i wanted them i then unloaded my corn that i halled today and when through with that job i then cleaned out my Stable and lot and after getting of it raked up i then Set the trash on fire to get Shut of it we then eat our evening meal, as my wife had it on the table and announced readey to be eat after the familey was through and the Suppertable cared far we then moved in too our galery to get air for it was very warm this evening to be shure and at or or near 8 - oclock to night Dean Costley left Crawford to go to Waco Texas, as he has been in Crawford for Some too weeks or mor near on a viset to See the old folk at home in the town of Crawford, Texas, now as we are through with our work we will take a nother Short rest then to too our bed of repose hoping to get a good nights rest to night W.E. Costley at home in the town of Crawford State of Texas

Friday August the 29th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a morning wind from the South East Thermometer at or near Seven oclock Am of to day Rigintered at 76 Degrees tempature The familey arose Some what late this morning and after getting prepared for work and then went to work and the writer first did the feeding of the Stock after getting through i then returned too the kitchen and renewed the fire in the cook Stove and went to work and prepared our morning meal with the help of my wife and after getting of it Served and placed on the table and announced readey to be eat we Seated our Selves too the breakfast table then portaken of a portion of the Same after the familey was through with there morning meal my wife attended too the breakfast table and contents there of Lum Costley and the writher caught and geered the poney then drove over too my old place for a load of corn and after getting of the cart loaded we then drove back to Crawford texas after arriving at home we dismounted from our cart taken the poney from the cart taken the geer off of him then gave him water and turned him loose in the yard we then taken a rest as it appeared to be the warmest day of the Season very clost and warm and when rested i assisted in preparing of our noon meal and after getting the dinner on the table we Swated our Selves too the dinner table then portaken of our noon meal and after all were through and the dinner table and contents cared far we then deliberately taken a good rest and Still very warn Sweltry to be hold and at or near one oclock this evening it began to thunder quite heavey in the north west and clouds heavey in that direction There has been gined in the town of Crawford up to august the 28th 1913 one hundred and forty bales of cotton and on the 29th day of August 1913 Cotton Sold at 12 1/2 cts per (100) pound in the town of Crawford Texas to day at or near three oclock this evening i rode over to Charley Bakers to go with him too my old pasture for a beef that i had Sold to him after arriving in the pasture, we Soon found the beef that we was after we then gave them Salt and the writer put the rope on the beef that i let him have we then led it to Crawford Texas. after arriving at Crawford we put her on the scales and the beef wayed 765 pounds i then returned home and put my poney in the lot then walked down too John Nichols Store and purchased a Sack of Salt also one gallon of carosene oil and a package of Arbuckle Coffee and sent them home by Nichols delivery wagon and i returned home and obtained a buckit then walked up to Jessey Ellis for Some milk after arriving at the place i found Jessey Ellises brother and young bride at her house they run away to day and was married i never learned where they were married at but between here and falls county Texas. and come up on the Santafe train this evening and the young man went to his Sisters Jessey Ellis to put up for a few days, i then returned home with the milk after arriving at home we eat our evening meal and after getting through i did my feeding of the poney when through with that part of the work i then brought in night wood to cook our meals vituals with I then taken a short rest as i was quite warm but we got the now we eat a cold Snack for our evening meal and when resting for Some bit we departed too our bed of repose hoping to get a good nights rest to night
W.E. Costley at home in the town of Crawford Texas

Saturday august the 30th AD 1913 opened up quite a warm morning wind from the South Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning Registered at 72 Degrees tempature The familey arose some what earley this morning and after getting prepared for work the writer then fed the poney whilst Lum Costley renewed the fire in the stove to cook our morning meal and after getting of it Served and placed on the table and announced readey to be eat we Seated our Selves too the table then portaken of our morning meal and after all were through with there morning meal my wife went to work and put her breakfast table and contents all in goo shope whilst the writer caught watered and geered the poney then hitched him too the cart then drove over to John Bas(?) garden place in my pasture north of middle Bosque creek to take him a Sack of flour after delivering the flower i then drove up too my old farm to gather a load of corn after gathering my load i then drove for my place in new Crawford after arriving at home i taken the poney from my wagon and taken the geer off of him then gave him water then put him in the stable and fed him i then returned too the house washed and dryed my hands and face then my wife announced the noon me(al) ready to be eat we Seated our Selves too the table then portaken of our noon meal after we were through with our meal my wife went to work and put the dinner table and contents all in good Shape again whilst the writer walked down too the post office to get my (mail) and to see one of Henry Blacks girls that was clerking for a Jew next door to John B Nichols and co Store. after getting through talking too the young lady i then returned home and taken a rest, for Some bit then went to work to record the days labors done by the family to day being four oclock P.M. of to day Thermometer at half past too oclock to day registered at 102 Degrees tempature, at four oclock this afternoon i began to unload my corn that i gathered in the fore noon of to day and finished at or near Sun Set to day after getting through i then pulled my wagon out of the lot around too my yard fence in order that it would be in the Shade in the warmest part of the day after getting the wagon out of the lot I then fed the poney and fowls when through with that part of the work we then eat our evening meal, as my wife had it Served and placed on the table readey to be eat. after we were through and the Suppertable and content cared far we then moved in too our bed room for a Short rest, then it was that the writer finished recording of the days work then taken a Short rest and departed too our bed of repore with the hopes of getting a pleasant nights rest is the desire of the whole familey W.E. Costley at home in the Town of Crawford.

Sunday the Lords (d)ay we are commanded to keep it holey August the 31st being the last of August 1913 - Opened up quite a nice morning wind from the South Thermometer at or near Seven Oclock this morning registered at 72 degrees tempature. The familey in general arose late this morning and after we were prepared for work the writer first fed the Stock and fowels then returned too the kitchen and prepared a fire in the cook Stove then went to work and assisted my wife in prepareing of our morning meal after getting of it Served and placed on the table we then Seated our Selves too the breakfast table then portaken of our morning meal after the familey had finished ther morning meal and the breakfast table and contents cared for my wife not being very well layed down (on) her bed to rest whilst the writer walked down to the east part of Crawford to see Dr. A.M. Armstrong to see how he is getting along as he has been down bed fast for some time with Rhumatoid pains and is just getting So he can be about the place but His daughter for ft. worth is down Sick at the Doctors house on a visit to see her parents. Dr A. M Armstrong after remaining for Some bit then returned home for a rest as it is a rest day being the Sabbath day of our Lord 1913. after resting i then went to work to record the labor that was done in the familey and weather up to about half past one oclock to day then taken a nother rest untill time to prepare out noon meal and the writer lay down on the bed to take a rest and during the time my wife Sliped out in too the kitchen and taken the advantage of the writer and prepared the noon meal all alone when She had Served it and placed on the table She then announced read(y) to be eat So the familey responded too the call Seated them Selves too the dinner table and portaken of there noon meal although being too oclock in the after noon of to day, after all had dined Sumtiously and the dinner table and contents cared far we then continued to rest and read and write to finish out the balance of the Evening being as it were the Sabbath day of our lord 1913 and after Six oclock P.M. in the evening i fed the poney and fowls we then eat our Evening meal after getting through with our Evening meal and the Supper table and contents we then moved in too our bed room for a Short rest, then went for our bed of repose hoping to get a good nights rest to night is the desire of the familey
W.E. Costley at home in the Town of Crawford Texas

Monday September the first 1913 - Opened up quite a at or near Seven oclock A.M of to day Registered at 76 Degrees tempature with some prospect of rain soon as it has been Showering around for Several days and by so doing there is a prospect of Crawford princt to get a Showery Show as it goes the rounds The familey arose Some what late this morning and after getting prepared for work the writer first and formost fed the poney and fowls then returned too the kitchen and Started a fire in the cook Stove and assisted in prepareing of our morning meal and after getting of the morning meal Served and placed on the table then announced ready to be eat we Seated our Selves too the table then portaking of our morning meal after the familey was through and the breakfast table and contents all in good Shape we then went too our dailey work as usual my wife too her house whole work and the writer to gathering corn over at my old place. as i Still had one more load to gather and then i am through for the present year. my corn has tyrned out quite well this Season to be as dry as it has been after geting the load of corne gathered i then drove for Crawford with my load of corn after arriving at home i taken the poney from the cart gave him water then led him i then returned too the house and eat my noon meal as my wife had it Served placed on the table and announced readey to be eat we Seated our Selves at the dinner table all a lone and eat our noon meal as Lum Costley went to Waco on the pasenger train to day, after finishing of our noon meal my wife then went to work and put her dinner table and contents all in good Shape again whilst the writer lay down on his bed for a rest and after resting for a bit i then a rose from my bed of rest and taken my pen in hand and recorded the labor done by the familey up to three oclock to day then taken a walk down too the post office for my mail but did not get aney (any) as it was what they call by law labor day. at any rate the post office was closed for the day onley (only) when the regular mail is brought in to be distrited (distributed ) too the people at the regular hour it is very warm this evening as it has been evry evening through July and August and up to the present time The Thermometer at half past three oclock this evening Registered at 98 Degrees tempature very warm but the South wind blows quite brisk and has alday long I gathered my last load of corn to day being September the 1st 1913 on my old place too miles North of the town of old or rather new Crawford Texas the Said farm located on the J.B. Robertson head Right of land on Middle Bosque in McLennan Coounty in the State of Texas. now at the late hour this evening i began to unload m(y) corn wagon and after getting of it unloaded i then returned too the house with a weak Spell on the writer and it taken Some little time to get Shut of it i had to take Something Sower ( slower ?) to get Shut of it as i am Subject to them, evry once and a while after it passed off of me we then eat our evening meal after we were through and the table and contents cared far we then moved in too our bed room for a Short rest then departed too our bed of repose hoping to get a good nights (rest) to night is the desire of the old people to night
W E. Costley at home in the town of Crawford Texas

Tuesday September the 2th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a morning wind from the South west Thermometer at or near Seven Oclock in the morning to day registered at 74 Degrees tempature the familey arose from there bed of repose Some what late this morning but after getting in rediness for labor the writer went to work and fed the poney then prepared the wood to burn in the Stove to prepare our morning meal by and brought it in doors and Started the fire in the cook stove we then went to work and prepared our morning meal after getting of it Served and placed on the table then announced readey to be eat we Seated our Selves to the table and portaken of our morning meal after we were through and the breakfast table cared for we was in a qundary what to do but at last i come to the conclusion that i would take (a) rest day as i had been gathering corn and have just got through and not feeling very well from the heet (heat) of the Sun my wife though not very well is trying to run her house work as usual although feeling poorley all the while the cotton wagons keeps the dust to flying all the time makes it unpleasant in a town of any sise (size) eating dirt all the time whilst So dry as it has been Such a while Since a rain has fell in Crawford one can Sit in his house in Crawford and See how building going up in the town of Crawford evry day which Shows that Crawford is still growing in evry respect - but it does Seem that the cotton crop of Mclennan County is quite light this year to what it has been here too fore in former years that has past and gone the Lord onley know what the out come will be and no one else i am Shure as it gradually grows more Severe on the account of the like of more rain it Seems to me that the Seasons grows Shorter and much dryer than it use to be now after recording of the above i taken a walk down at the Show tent put up no great ways from where i live to See was going on after arriving at the Spot i find the Show man training of his little too year old girl to jump from a distant hight and to be caught in his arms and after remaining for a by i returned by Mr Dave Hicks where Mr Pickle and his Sone (Son) was building a barn for my Hicks to See how he was progressing with his work after arriving at the place i Soon found out that Mr Pickle and Sone was progressing nice with there work on Mr Hicks barn would Soon have the barne completed readey for Service and then he will go to work on another as there are maney a won to be built in and a round Crawford and Still the good work goes on as though nothing at or near half past one oclock P.M. this Evening we eat or (our) noon meal for to day prepared by my wife alone with out the help of any one after getting through and my wife had attended too her dinner table and contents all the Same we then taken advantage of the day for a nother rest as it was very warm at or near too o-clock to day and we taken the advantage of the warm weather to day althrough too warm to be comfortable and taken a short rest with a nap of Sleepe and after waken up it appeared that i felt much worse that i did before lying down to sleep my wife has not arose from her bed of repose yet to State how She come out with her nap but i Suppose about equal to mine it was So very warme one could not rest to do any good what ever but however we both managed to get a Short nap i am not feeling So very well this evening i am weak & feble to what i have been feeling here too fore caused by the excessive heet i Suppose, although being very warm to day the Sough wind has been quite Strong this evening as it has been quite cloudey in the eastern portion of the Elements this evening now as it is growning late and i have fed the poney and done up the nights Schores and not wanting our evening meal we will take a Short rest and go to our bed of repose with the popes (hopes) of getting a pleasant nights rest to night is the familes desire and we fourth ask of the Lord when done with us geare on earth to hand us down too our graves in peace with the and all man kind and in heaven Save us in the prayer of the writer to night a men. W.E. Costley at home in Crawford State of Texas

Wednesday September the 3dh AD 1913 Open (up) quite a morning with a prospect of a day wind from the Thermometer at or near Seven oclock registered at 72 Degrees tempature The familey arise from there bed of repose Some what earley this morning and after getting prepared for work the writer renewed the fire in the cook Stove to prepare our morning meal by i ground and put the coffee on to boil then fed the poney and fowls and when through i returned too the kitchen and assisted my wife in prepareing our morning meal and after getting the morning meal Served and placed on the table we Seated our Selves too the breakfast table then portaken of our morning meal when through and the contents and table cared for we then went to work again at other work on the premises that had to be done the writer for his part had to go too the bosque Brakes for a load of Stove wood to burn in the cook Stove. After arriving at the woods the writer went to work and Soon choped and loaded his cart with wood then drove too Crawford Texas after arriving at home i then unloaded the wood then drove too my yard gate and taken the poney from my cart taken the geer off of him gave him water then tied him too a bunch of grass in my garden to eat it off as it Johnson grass not good to have a bout a field much as a garden then come in doors and taken a rest as it was quite warm and Still up too Eleven oclock to day from which arose brom the South and become much pleasanter then it were although quite warm with the wind blowing from the South and after my sife finished washing of her clothes She then went to work to prepare the noon meal for too old people as we are a lone as Lum Costley he being apart of the familey and he has gone too the city of Waco Started to Waco Tuesday September the 2th 1913 and is to return Thursday evening September the 4dh 1913 by railway on the Santafe R R. to Crawford at or near 12 - oclock noon to day my wife and the writer eat our noon meal and after getting through my wife went to work then put her dinner table and contents all in good Shape a gain then the writer walked too the post office for my mail after abtaining of my mail i then walked in too Nichols and companeys Store and purchased a lot of Vinegar then returned home to take a rest and did take my usual rest before going to work a gain i then began to Shuck and Shell a turn of corn to go to mill down too Mcgregor to morrow Should i be well enough to go and the poney keeps alright i worked up till past the Sun Sett this evening i the(n) left off work and we eat a cold Snack for our evening meal and after we were through my wife attended too the Supper table and contents whilst the writer fed and cared for the poney after getting through i returned too the house lit my lamp then went to work to finish recording of our days labor and the weather as it has been Some cooler than it has been by the thermometer for it has onley registered 92 Degrees tempature to day now cotton has gone up today from 12 & 1/2 yesterday to past 13 cents today. and what it will be tomorrow it is hard to tell, we are having a Show last past night and are bill for tomorrow night but i am of the opinion that it not much of a Show from the move that they are making now as i am through i will go too my bed of repose hopping that the familey will get a good nights rest to night is the desire of the familey to night.
W.E. Costley at home in the town of Crawford Texas

Thursday September 4th 1913 - opened up quite a cool morning as it turned much cooler in the latter part of the night but has made it up to dayfor it has been very warm there were no air Stiring untill about Eleven oclock in the fore noon of to day then is was the wind Spring up from the South Some what feble Thermometer at or near Seven oclock to day registered (top of pageTreecher Bowden is in bad health)
at 68 Degrees tempature The familey arose some what late this morning and after getting prepared for work the writer first fed his poney then returned too the kitchen and Started the fire in the cook Stove then assisted in prepareing of our morning meal and when Served and placed on the table and announced readey to be eat my wife and my Self as we constituted the familey as were all a lone we Seated our Selves too the table then portaken of our morning meal after we were through my wife then went to work and put the breakfast table and contents all in good Shape a gain whilst the writer caught and curried then geer the poney - hitched him too my buggy then drove too Mcgregor to mill as they can not grind corn at Crawford when the gins are running on the account of water after arriving at McGregor i could not get it ground to day as the mill was Standing Still but i Swaped it for other meal after obtaining of my meal i then drove up in too McGregor to See Mr Freeman about Surveying a piece of land for the writer to properly connect the lines to Said land in Shape to make a deed to the Same as it should be Mr Freeman promised to do the work a Monday September the 8th AD 1913 if nothing turned up to prevent him from coming to Crawford on day mentioned above. After getting through with Mr Freeman i drove down too the Depot to a wait the incoming pasenger train from Waco, as he (Lum) was talkin of coming out to Crawford to day So i Supose he remained in the City of Waco after finding out that Lum Costley did not come up to McGregor on the cotton belt pasenger i then drove down too hasises creek taken my horse out and fed him and eat my dinner as i had it with me and after getting through i taken a Short rest then hitched the poney too the buggy and drove for Crawford Texas, coming in at the Saddler place on Wasp creek and following on down Said Streem to the Jasper Brown place and did not find a drop of water in the creek and horses on Said Streem had not a drop of water in doors intirley with out water and the writer Starving for water also my poney to quench our thirst when i arrived at Neal McCollums just clost to Jasper Brown i Stoped at his place and was luckey enough to get a drink for my Self but not any for my poney and had to drive home at Crawford before i could get water for my poney and when i did get to water i had to give it to him by piece meals to keep him from drinking water too his heart gradually by degrees and after he had become cool and had drank water at intervals and his thirst i then fed him we then eat our evening meal and when through i then walked down to John B Nichols and co and purchased Some cooking oil also a lot of Irish Potatoes then returned home with my groceries and after doing up of my nights Schores we then taken a Short rest and afterwards departed too our bed of repose with the hopes of obtaining a quiet nights rest to night. is the desire of the old imates to night
W.E. Costley at home in the town of Crawford Texas

Friday September the 5th AD 1913 - Opened up clear and bright wind from the north bids fare for a nother warm day at six oclock this morning the Themometer registered at 70 (?) Degrees tempature Some lower than it has been in Some time past The familey arose from our bed of rest this morning tolerably earley this morning then after getting prepared for buisiness the writer fed and cared for the poney and after getting through i returned too our kitchen then renewed the fire in the cook Stove then went to work and assisted my wife in prepareing of our morning meal when Served and on the breakfast table readey to be eat we Seated our Selves too the breakfast table then portaken of our morning meal and when through and the breakfast table and contents cared for my wife went at her dailey advocation of life that is her house work and attending too her fowls whilst the writer walked down to meet the Gulf Colorado and Santafe morning train that was then due to meet C.C. Costley ( Christopher Columbus, Lum) as i were expecting him up from Waco Texas also Mr. Gee and Mrs Thtix (?) K Robertson our near neighbors in town came up on the Same train from Waco at least Mr William Gee was from Hill County where he had been to See his Sick Brother dying with Typhoas fever and is very low. hardley epected to live but reported him Some better this morning when he left his bed Side in hill County Texas and Still the good works goes on as though nothing had happened a cross the borders of the State at or near Eleven oclock in the fore noon of to day the writer and his wife went to work and prepared our noon meal and after getting of it Served and placed on the table and announced readey to be eat we Seated our Selves too the table then portaken of our noon meal having Lum costley to dine with the old folks to day as he had come home from waco after all were through and the dinner table and contents were cared far my wife taken a rest whilst the writer walked down too the post office for my mail and whilst there i come across Capton Jack Hill and he would have me to read the news for him and we occupied a bout too hours in reading the that has befelled in the unted States of a merica of the great ciclone that Swept over North Carolina and other States on the Second day of September AD1913 distroying thousands of Dollars worth of property by wind and water Some inlands on the ocean left bare and destitute of lives and property of all discription and after getting papers to read one from R V. Kind a wack paper and one by Sam Clary a Houstin paper both full of news of distruction from tornadoes and other ways of trouble and distress, and after returning home i Seated my Self down at my writing table and recorded the above then went to work and done up my nights Schores then weat (we eat) a cold Snack for our evening meal and after putting the supper table and contents all in good Shape we moved in too our front galery for a Short rest then departed too our bed of repose hooping to receve a good nights rest to night
W.E. Costley at home in the town of Crawford Texas

Saturday September the 6th AD 1913 - Opened up with a dark cloud in the South west resembling a change in the weather wind in the South west earley in the morning Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning registered at 78 Degrees tempature. The familey arose Some what late this morning , and when prepared for work the writer fed and cared for the poney and fowls then prepared Stove wood to cook with brought it in doors and Started the fire in the Stove then went to work and assisted my wife in prepareing of our morning meal and after getting of it Served and placed on the table then announced readey to be eat we Seated our Selves too the table and then portaken of our morning meal and after the familey were through, my wife then went to work and put her breakfast table and contents all in good Shape then went to work at her domestic afares in her house and other work to be done a round the house and the writer caught curried and geered the poney then hitched him too my cart then drove too my pasture to establish a corner to my land joining Ed Costleys land on the north side of the Bosque creek and to Salt and look after the cattle that was in my pasture in examening around i found that part of the cattle were missing and the writer lit out a foot in pursuit of them and found them west of my pasture over on the Bosque on the Felix Robinson Side of the creek i drove them too my pasture and turned them in too the Same then got them to gether and gave them Salt and a Sack of Shucks i then loaded on a load of wood that i had cut in the morning and then drove for my place in Crawford Texas after arriving at home i taken the poney from the cart taken the geer off of him then gave him water put him in his Stable then fed him corn i then returned too the house washed my hands and face as it was very warm as the thermometer at that hour was up to a hundred and Six i then eat my dinner being too oclock in the evening of to day. after getting through my wife then put the dinner table and contents all in good Shape again we then taken a rest for Some bit as the evening was extreemely warm after resting for a while i then walked down too the post office for my mail and received a letter or rather posted card from Ada Costley of Waco Texas, i then taken a Stroll down in to town to See was going on in the buisness part of the town, after arriving at the place i found buisiness being carried on in a buisiness like manner Streets full of cotton with a downward grade on the farmer at $12.50 and $12.65 per hundered and murehandise going at 52 per cent on the Dollar up on good wears and Merchandise evry thing on the traid line on a boom and the Town full of people after watching the movement of the people and the trade that was going on for ever So long i returned home with a Waco paper that R.q. King gave me of the damage of the Town at the hot Spings of Arkansas on the 5th day of September AD 1913 burning down one mile and a half of Soled blocks of houses and the damage is estimated at ten million dolars worth of property lost fifty blocks laid waist and too thousand homeless people is the Story of the most distructive conflafration which ever viseted the city or State during the Settling of the State of Arcansas. now i returned home and as it was growing late i went to work and done up my nights Schores afterwards we eat our evening meal that my wife had Served for the familey, and after the familey had eat there evening meal, my wife went to work and put her Supertable and contents all in good Shape again we then moved in too our East galery and taken a rest as it was very warm and after a long rest we departed too our bed of repose hoping to get a good nights rest to night is the desire of the familey to night W.E. Costley at home in the Town of Crawford State of Texas

Sunday September the 7th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a dark gloomey wintery morning wind from the South East blowing brisk this morning Thermometer at an earley hour this morning Registered at 78 Degrees tempature although the wind blowing so cool and damp. The familey arose quite late this morning but after getting in Shape for work the writer first fed the poney and fowels then returned too the kitchen and renewed the fire in the cook Stove then went to work and assisted my wife in prepareing of our morning meal and after getting of it Served then placed on the table we then Seated our Selves too the table then eat of the Same when all were through and the table and contents cared far my wife as usual and as a rule went to work then put her breakfast table and content all in good Shape again then it was we taken a Sabbath days rest as it is the Lords day and a day of rest and we are commanded to keep it holey but who is it that does it not one in my knowing that i can call to mind and a hard Saying it is, now at or near Eleven oclock a m today my wife began her noon meal and at or near 12-oclock noon today She announced the Same readey to be eat we then Seated our Selves too the dinner table then portaken of our noon meal after all were through and the dinner table and contents were cared for we then continued our Sabbaths days rest now the beginning of to day resembled a winter day in feeling and in looks but the heet Sprand up about too oclock this evening and become quite warm as the Thermometer went up to 90 Degrees tempature a long in the Evening and become very warm but the South East wind Kept up all the while all through the day, which made it Some better on the inhabitance of the town and country both combined to gether. now as it is growing late i will go to work and do up my nights Schores and after getting through we eat a cold Snack for our evening meal then taken a Short rest then departed too our bed of repose with the hopes of having a good nights rest to night is the desire of the old folks at home W.E. Costley at home in the Town of Crawford Texas

Monday September the 8th AD 1913 - Opened up a cloudey morning wind from the South East Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning Registered at 74 Degrees tempature The familey arose Some what earley and after getting prepared for work the writer then fed his poney then the fowls and when through i then returned too the kitchen and renewed the fire in the Stove then went to work and assisted my wife in prepareing of the morning meal for the familey after getting of it Served and placed on the table then announced readey to be eat we Seated our Selves too the table then portaken of our morning meal and after eating of our morning meal and my wife had cared for the breakfast table and the content of the Same all went to work for the day. my wife too her house work and C.C.Costley went to work at his old occupation doing nothing on accout of not being able to get about, and the writer caught and geered the poney hitched him too my buggy then drove down in too Crawford and Spent a bout too hours wating for General Robinson to come from his farm as he was wanting to be with Mr Freeman who was going to run Several lines of my land to day and at a bout ten oclock to day he returned from his farm then it was he mounted in too Mr Freeman buggy in Companey then rode over on the north Side of Midle Bosque he run three lines of the land we then left off work and drove to Crawford for our dinner and after eating of our noon meal we drove back too the land that we were Surveying and run three more lines then returned and the writer paid him for his work that he done for the writer to day and the Surveyor John Freeman returned to McGregor late in the evening the place where he now lives and the writer put his poney in the lot gave him water and feed, then went indoors and we eat our evening meal as my wife had it on the table readey to be eat after the familey was through with there evening meal and the Supper table was cared far by my wife, we then moved in too our bed room for a Short rest about that time it began to rain from the South west it did not, rain at Crawford but little but on the Bosque and on my old place i(t) rained a very goot rained a very good rain So much So it Stoped all hands from work i am of the opinion that it rained a fine rain up around Osage in Coryell County Texas as the heavey lightng and thunder lay in that direction, now as we are through with our days labors we will go too our bed of repose with the hopes of getting a quiet nights rest to night W.E.Costley at home in the Town of Crawford Texas

Tuesday September the 9th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a gloomey damp morning wind from the South west Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this evening registered Seventy fore Degrees tempature The familey this morning arose Some what late in the day and when prepared for work the writer fed and cared for the poney and when through i returned to the kitchen and prepared a fire in the cook (stove) then wen tot work and assisted my wife in prepareing our morning meal and after getting of it Served and placed on the table, we then Seated our Selves too the table then portaken of our morning meal and after we were through with our morning meal my wife went to work and her breakfast table and contents all in good Shape again whilst C.C. Costl4ey geered and hitched the poney to the cart whilst the writer walked down too Nichols and companeys Store and paid Win Nichools and companey fifteen Dollars and Seventy Six cents then returned home then mounted in too the cart and drove over too my old place but after arriving at my old home i found out that it had rained too much to gather corn So i drove back to Ed. Costleys farm and cut a lot of Johnson grass for my poney then loaded it on too my cart then drove too Crawford Texas where i now live after arriving at home i taken the poney from my cart taken the geer off of him then gave him water then put him in my lot and first fed him some of the grass that i had brought home with me i then walked too my house abtained my walking Stick then walked down to Nichols and company Store and purchased three cans of Sausage and returned home and my wife prepared a couple of the ingrediance that was inside of too of the Boxes for our noon meal So She Soon had our noon meal and after eating our noon meal and the dinner table and contents cared far we then taken a rest as it Seemed in apearance as though it might rain and did rain beginning at or near three oclock this evening a Slower Shower began to fall with heavey lightning and thunder in the South west and North, and Still concontinue to thunder in various directions and kept it up untill a bout half past three oclock PM of today. then ceased again the Shower was lite in Crawford this Evening , but Seemed to be raining quite hard South South west and north west, but the balance of the evening remained damp with a cool South wind blowing with Thermometer Standing at 84 Degrees tempature at or near fore oclock P.M. of to day at or near Six oclock this evening the writer began to feed his Stock and prepare wood for the Stove to cook with then brought the Same in doors to cook with by that time my wife had her evening meal Served and placed on the table and announced readey to be eat we Seated our Selves to the table then portaken of the Same and after getting through and the table and contents cared far we then moved in too our bed room for a Short rest then departed too our bed of repose hoping to get a quiet nights rest to night is the desire of the familey to night
W.E. Costley at home in the Town of Crawford Texas.

Wednesday September the 10th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a cloudey day wind from the south west Thermometer at or near Seven oclock A. M. Registers at 74 Degrees tempature The familey arose Some what late this morning and when prepared for buisiness the writer attended too feeding of the poney and fowls then returned too my kitchen and renewed the fire in the cook Stove then went to work and assisted my wife in prepareing of our morning meal and after getting of it Served and placed on the table we Seated our Self too the Same then eat our morning meal and after all were through my wife went to work and put the breakfast table and content all in good Shape again we all taken a rest as we could do but little in the way of buisiness and it was very cloudey and a misting rain occasionley. just enough to keep any one working out doors and we have nothing to do indoors onley cook and Eat, the news come to Crawford to day of the death of Waller S. Baker he Died Sudently in San Fransisco California on September the 8th 1913 and will be brought to Waco for Burrial another great and good man departed this life leaving Several Bothers and Sisters and a lonley wife and a host of friend to morne his death he dies in the bloom of life like maney others, at or near Eleven oclock A M my wife began to prepare our noon meal and after getting of it Served and placed on the table and announced readey to be eat we Seated our Selves too the dinner table then portaken of our noon meal and when through with our noon meal and the dinner table and contents cared far we then continued to take a rest as the day apeared unfavorable not a day fit for out door work. So we will have to content our Selve by Staying in doors and confine our Selves to reading and writing to keep our Selves employed in Some Kind of buisiness or other as it is the most of the time a dark gloomey day at times the Sun comes out and becomes very warm in deed It began to thunder in the South East as though it mite rain Soon again as there is a dark cloud in that direction in fact the hole Elements is decked with clouds but much more So in the South East as that is where the thunder is located at this writing it began at 20 minutes past one oclock PM of today to thunder, and the Thermometer at that time Registered at 88 Degrees tempature, not So high as it has been a few days back at or near three oclock PM of to day the writer walked down in too the buisiness part of Crawford to See what was going on in city of after arriving in the most business part of the town i Seen but little doing as the mist of rain has checked the cotton pickers and that checked the buisiness of all kind in trade and but few people in town, and but little doing any way and after gassing around a mong the boys for Some little fit i then returned home to enjoy the lovly breese that was blo(wing) from the South east at or near fore oclock in the afternoon of today and as the time grew later in the evening i walked in too my garden and did Some work in clearing off some corn Silk to Soe Some turnup Seed on by the time the next Shower comes on us. as it has not rained enough as yet for the buisiness of planting Seed of any kind but i have been prepareing the ground this evening by cutting down cornstalk and putting them in a pile in order to burn them to get them out of the way and worked up to near night fall then left off work and fed and watered the poney then brought in the Stove wood that C.C.Costley cut for the writer, we then Eat our our evening meal as my wife had it Served and placed on the table and announced readey to be eat, after all were through, my wife taken care of the dining table and contents of the Same, then it was that we moved in too our bed room for a Short rest then departed too our bed of repose hoping to get agood nights rest to night in the desire of the familey
W.E. Costley at home in the Town of Crawford in the State of Texas

Thursday September the 11th 1913 - Opened up quite a cloudey damp morning wind from the South Thermometer Registered at 74 Degrees tempature, The familey arose Some what late this morning and after being prepared for work the writer did the feeding of the poney then returned too the house then renewed the fire in the Stove then assited my wife in prepareing of our morning meal after getting of the morning meal Served and placed on the table we Seated our Selves too the table then portaken of our morning meal after the familey was throught and the breakfast table and contents cared for we then went too other work but my wife Stuck too the house work for it was about all the work that She can do She being Some what weakley and disabled to do much work of any kind what ever but the old bose at this time is able to do the hardest of work and does do it. now as the atmosphere is So heavey and being So cloudey and damp the writer will endeaver to Sctatch in Some turnup Seed with the poney and & double Shovel for that is a bout all i can do as the ground is So hard as it is getting Some what late for the buisiness, So if the people wants turnups this fall and winter they have to be up and doing and that write a way for a Stich in time Saves nine Well i began to pick up my corn stalk and piled them out of the way at Eight oclock this morning and at nine AM of to day i finish cleaning off my turnup patch then Sowed the ground down in winter turnup Seed, and plowed up too Eleven oclock and had to hold up on account of a Shower of rain and after it was over with i then went to plowing in the turnup Seed and finished at or near one PM Oclock then turned out and watered and fed the poney. we then eat our noon meal as my wife had prepared and placed on the table readey to be eat we then eat our noon meal my wife went to work and prepared and put the dinner table and contents all in good Shape again we then taken a long rest as it began to rain from the west a hard Shower at or near 40 minutes past Eleven oclock in the morning and rained for 20 minutes then droped down to a Slow dripping rain and continued to rain Slow for a bout 40 minutes then Stacked up and past over Eastward making a very good rain at last and at or near half past three oclock this evening there was a heavey cloud formed east and South with a heavey cloud and also very heavey thunder with heavey rain in site and after remaining in that direction it moved out westward and began to Shower a gain at 15 minutes a past fore oclock P.M. this evening with a good prospect of a good rain at the town of Crawford in the State of Texas at this hour being 40 minutes past 4 - oclock this Evening it is raining down just write to wet the ground Slow and a regular which is a great blessing Sent too the people that receives it over the land and country, as the water is getting So Scarse and the Earth So parched up an broke open but the blessing that is Sent will be a releaf both to man and beast and enriching of land a gain now it is neering night fall and at intervals it keep Spitting rain drops from the clouds and the clouds looks heavey and Storm ey as though there a gale of wind passing a round north ward as that is the direction of the thunder north east ward as the heaviest of the clouds are traveling in that direction of the North East as Spoken of by the astronimers in the fore cast of the weather prophet Mr Foster. now as the day is far Spent and the night Schores are all done up and we have eat our evening meal and taken our usual rest we will go too our bed of repose hoping to get a good nights rest to night is the desire of the familey to night. now it Seems as the rain has come and gone we feel very thankful too the Lord for the blessing that have been bestowed on the people bestowed on our land and country for the rain that has fell on our land country. W.E.Costley at home in town of Crawford Texas

Friday September the 12th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a damp from the rain that fell at Crawford on the 10th day of September AD 1913 - wind this morning is from the north Thermometer at or near Seven o clock A M Registered at 74 Degrees tempature The familey arose from there bed of repose Some what late this morning and when propared for work the writer then fed and cared for the poney and fowls then as usual returned too the house and renewed the fire in the cook Stove then went to work and prepared the morning meal and when Served and placed on the breakfast table and announced readey to be eat we Seated our Selves too the table then portaken of our morning meal after the familey was through and the breakfast table cared far we then went too our dailey work my wife too her needle work in doors whilst the writer walked in too his garden and picked a lot of peas for my wife and by the time that i had picked one gallon it began to rain from the east and drove the writer out of the field or garden rather as it began a Sturday Slow rain, Enough So as to Keep one drenching wet So that Stoped the writer for a while at least now it is a bout ten oclock and Still raining Slowley, just enough for the Eart(h) to take it up as it falls as the Earth is So extreemley dry and cracked open but the last few rains will Soon fill them up then the grass and other vegetables will Start to growing all right as they have not been able to grow but little this Summer on the account of the drouth during the year 1913 - Now to day being Friday September the 12 1913 I deaded my old place on the North Side of Middle Bosque being a part of the J.B.Robertson head right and a part of the Charles More Survey Joined on the North Side of the J.B. Robertson leage of land 4840 acres what is termed a Leage and Labor of Land was deeded to him in the first Settling of the State of Texas. as a permanant Settler of Texas in an early day of the Settling of texas, after finishing up writing a deed to my old place Lum Costley popped Some pop corn and we Shurley had a bate out right and it was Shurley fine pop corn and it all poped nicely to be Sure Snow flake was its color now it has put in the greater part of to day raining and constant just fast enough for the ground to take it up and it did do So as the Earth was so dry to begin on as the earth in agreat maney places had busted open and was in bad Shape at the best but Since the good rains evry thing is alright and prosperous, the greatest part of the rain to day was from the north and the north wind blew quite cool and damp alday long and Still blowing to night with a mist of rain accompaning the Same now as we are through with the Schores a round the place and we have eat our Evening and the Supper table and contents cared far we then moved in too our bedroom for a Short rest then departed too our bed of repose hoping to get aquiet nights rest to night is the desire of the whole familey to night W.E.Costley at home in the Town of Crawford Texas

Saturday September the 13th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a damp cool morning as it has been raining for the last few days wind from the North with a Slow continuous Slow rain falling and have been for the last too days and nights past from the north and other direction Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning registered at 60 Degrees tempature The familey arose quite late this morning on the account of the rain that was falling from the north and being So damp and cool Something Similar to a winter morning in its nature but after being prepared for work the writer first prepared a fire in the cook Stove then put the coffee on the Stove to make i then fed the poney and fowls then returned too the kitchen and assisted my wife in prepareing our morning meal and after getting of it served and placed on the table we Seated our Selves too the table then portaken of our morning meal and after the fam(ily) was through with there morning meal and my wife had cared for her breakfast table and the contents of the Same we could onley content our Selves in doors for there was nothing that we could do out doors for the continuous rain that was falling at this writing being at or near nine oclock this morning but whilst the writer was idol i recorded the above of the condition of the weather also the labors done by the familey this morning then we all taken a rest as the weather Still remained fowl untill time to prove our noon meal and when the time come we went to work and Soon fixed it up and eat the Same and when through is Setting the dinner table and contents in order we could do nothing else but remain in doors Still as it kept on Showering again up to about one oclock PM. from which it ceased to Shower onley at intervals Still wind blowing from the north and when it come time to Eat our evening meal i eat a cold Snack for our Supper and Still the inclement continued we then taken a nother rest for Some bit and departed too our bed of repose hoping fo(r) a peasful (peaceful) Slumber to night is the desire of the familey to night at a bout one oclock this evening it ceased to rain which the whold time it rain at this spell was from Thursday at 12 - oclock up to Saturday following at 12 - oclock making 48 hours aften and on Slowley wetting of the ground about 4 inches in debth, and yet the norther keeps up and very wet and damp and thick cloudey.
W.E. Costley at home in the Town of Crawford Texas

Sunday a rest day September the 14th AD 1913 - opened up quite a damp wet cool morning wind Still from the North blowing damp and cool Thermometer at or near Seven oclock registers at 57 Degrees tempature. The familey arose from our bed of repose Some what late this morning but after getting prepared for buisiness the writer Started the fire in the fire place for the Second time Since last Spring and that was last past night i Started the fire in the in the fire place being quite cool damp and wet it Shurley was a wintery looking spell, to be so early in the fall, as the Thermometer went down to 60 Degrees tempature the lowes(t) that it has been Since last Spring 1913 and after getting prepare(d) for buisiness the writer first and formast i then fed the poney then returned too our kitchen and renewed the fire in the cook Stove then assisted my wife in prepareing of our morning meal and after getting of it prepared we Seated our Selves too the table then portaken of our morning meal and after the familey were through my wife and the writer taken care of the breakfast table and contents there of then moved in too our Sittin room for a Short Rest as it wer(e) Set a part by the higher power for to rest in for Six days thou Shalt work and the Seventh day thou Shalt rest and a good law Set a pat(h) for man and beast to rest, in for it takes that much rest to be able to stand the Six days labor, But it Seems that the present generation cares not to heed the law, of God what ever. Now ther is but little change in the weather from yestarday as it is very dark and cloudey and the mist of rain fell all through the night and the north wind and the mist Still continues to go on at its regular rate as it has been for the last few days about fore days in number and Still continues to drive a head as though nothing had hapened making a Splended Season in the ground just what is neaded at present as all the moisture is a bout drawed out of the ground by the rays of the Sun and the like of water on the ground to inrich the Earth as it Should be now as it has been a very unfavorable day we have been clost in doors all day untill late this evening as we eat our evening meal quite late to day mixing our diner and evening together and making one out of it when through i done up my evening chores and after getting through we taken a good long rest, then we departed. too our bed of repose hopeing to get a good nights to night is the desire of the inhabitance of the familey to night W.E.Costley at home in the town of Crawford Texas.

Monday September the 15th AD 1913 - Opened up Some what a cool cloudey morning dreary morning wind from the North Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning registered at 74 Degrees tempature now the weather was So damp the familey arose Some what late but after prepareing our Selves for our days labors the writer then fed the poney with corn and oats in the Sheaf i then returned too the house and we taken a Short rest then taken a Spell of prepareing of our morning meal and when Served and placed on the table we Seated our Selves to the table and portaken of our morning meal and when through the writer then went to work and put the breakfast table and its contents all in good Shape again then put the and dining room in good Shape as my wife was Some what poorley this morning and able to do much of any thing what ever after getting through i then Seated my Self down at my writing table and recorded what had been done on the premises up to nine oclock A M of to day i then taken a walk down too the post office for my mail and to mail Some letters that we had wrote too our children although very disagreeable muddy times it is just now from the raines that has fell here lately and the norther that has been blowing for the last three days past and Still remaines with the people of McLennan County Texas a swell as other places in other countries too numerous to make mention of and Still the good words goes on but the cotton picking Stands Stead fast all a lone. my wife appears to be Some better as She was alding all through the last past night. The Sun come out and Showed its self Eleven oclock AM of to day for the first time Since last thursday at a Eleven oclock when the heavey clouds Shut her in making for days that its light on the Earth from the Eyes of man or beast but this being Monday September the 15th 1913 - the first Spell of the Season of such a period now at about 12-oclock noon today the writer then began to prepare our noon meal and after getting of it Served and placed on the table we then portaken of the Same all too my wife She drank Some gruel Sitting in front of the fire in our bed room, and after Lum Costley and the writer had eat our noon meal the writer then went to work and put the contents and dining table all ingood Shape again then taken a Short rest i then cought curried and Saddled the poney then mounted on the poney and rode over too my old pasture on the North side of the Middle Bosque to See about my cattle and after arriving at my pasture i so(o)n Seen that my Stock was out again I then went over across the Bosque to See if i could See anything of the Stock but i Seen nothing of them i then rode back home at Crawford and after arriving at home i taken the Saddle off of my poney put him in the lot then fed him i then prepared wood for the fire place and cook Stove then brought it in doors So that ended my days work we then eat a cold Snack for our evening meal Lum Costley and the writer as too my wife She did not eat at the table but drank Some gruel in front of the fire place as she did not want to go too the dinner table to Eat having dinner and Supper together now as i am through we taken a rest then departed too our bed of repose hoping to get a good night rest to night is the desire of the writer and familey to night
W.E.Costley at home in the town of Crawford Texas

Tuesday September the 16th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a cloudey damp Morning wind from the South Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning Registered at 72 Degrees tempature. The familey a rose, from there bed of repose Some what late this morning and after getting prepared for work the writer then fed the poney and the fowls then returned too the kitchen then renewed the fire in the Stove, and began to prepare our morning meal and after getting of it Served and placed on the table we that is the familey Seated our Selves too the breakfast table then portaken of our morning meal and after getting through the writer then went to work and put the breakfast table and contents all ingood Shape a gain and as it was So disagreeable withe travel on account of being So muddy one could do no better than to remain in doors and whilst in doors i did the house work for my wife as she was quite poorley not able to do much of anything around the place just now and after getting through i then went to work and finished my letter to J.M. Costley and wife Mrs Mattie Costley at Energy Texas in the west end of hamilton county Texas and when through i then walked down too the post office and mailed my letter to them also a Small package of winter turnup Seed, in order that they can raise Some turnups to eat and by that time it was growing late and when i returned home i then watered and fed the poney then returned in doors and recorded the labors that has ben done by the familey to day up too half past Eleven oclock today i then went to work and prepared our noon meal Frank Borough to day presented me a gray horse Said to be 18 years old about 16 hands high as a present to keep as long as i live and Should i dy first he is to have the horse back again but Should the horse dy first he is considered to dy as my property and i agree to care and treat the above describe animal with all porticillar care as a dumb beast and use him gentney and favor him in evry respect as a live piece of property as long as Said horse lives signed Frank Burow and W.E.Costley after getting of it Served and placed on the table we then portaken of the Same when through the writer went to work and put the dinnere table and contents all in good Shape again about that time Mrs Bob Coffman came in to See my wife and remained a good portion of the Evening with my wife whilst the writer caught Saddled the poney and rode over too my old place to take Mr Mulicans Some turnup Seed to Soe to Sow broadcast after delivering the Seed i remained with the croud for Some time as Mr Kimbal and too other young men were at Mr Mulicans to See him on a horse trade after Staying Some little bit i then returned home by Mr Frank Billman to See where old man Johnson was as i were evanling(?) to give him lease (?) and as he was not at home i then come on home and after arriving at home i then taken the Saddle off of the poney in the lot then walked down too Nichols and companey Store and purchased a lot of irish potatoes Some Soap and a gallon of carosene oil and Some candey i then returned (to the) house and went to work to prepareing our evening meal and after Serving of the Same i then fed the Stock and prepared Stove wood to cook our morning meal with and brought it indoors we then we Seated our Selves down to the Supper table then portaken of our evening meal and when through the writer taken care of the Supper table and contents of the Same we then moved in too our bed room for a Short rest then departed too our bed of repose hoping to get a good nights rest to night is the desire of the familey - W.E. Cosltley at home in the Town of Crawford Texas

Wednesday September the 17th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a cloudey morning wind from the South East Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning Registered at 69 Degrees tempature The familey arose Some what late this morning as the Familey was not very well this morning but after arising from our bed of repose and getting prepared for work the writer as he was chief cook and bottle washer first fed the Stock then returned too our kitchen and renewed the fire in the Stove then went to work and prepared the morning meal after getting of it Served and placed on the table we seated our Selves too the breakfast table then por taken of our morning meal and when the familey was through with there morning meal and the breakfast table and contents cared far we then went too our dailey occupation what we have been following for the last few days doing nothing what ever as the weather has been too Severe to be out of doors and Still this morning not much prospect of being any better Soon very wet and cool for the time of the year but however we have it to Stand let it be good or bad we are compelled to take it as it comes let it be good or indifferent it is all the Same at any rate at Seven oclock this morning it had great appearance of more rain to fall Soon The writer after the morning meal was over with caught watered then Saddled Mr Johnsons poney then put a rope on the horse frank Bur gave too the writer then mounted my Self on the poney and rode over to Mrs Sams farm leading my horse to take the poney to Mr Johnson over on Midle Bosque after arriving at the place i delivered the poney up to Mr Johnson then rested for a bit i then put my Saddle on my new horse mounted my Self on him and rode back home after arriving at home i then taken the Saddle off of my horse gave him water and fed him then returned in doors with a Squirrel that Perry Sterling gave me for my wife then Lum Costley and i taken the hide off of it and Lum cut it up and put it on the cook in order to have Squirrel for dinner and the writer cooked the potatoes and made coffee as we had bread alreadey cooked readey for eating my wife is boss in the cooking today as She has been Some what puney fo(r) a few days past and during of the time the writer was boss of evry thing for i had to do the cooking all the same now when the dinner was Served and placed on the table we Seated our Selves too the table then portaken of our noon meal and after all were through and the dinner table cared far we then taken a rest as the weather was So unfavorable that there was not no great deal to be done a round the place and can not venture out to work as it looks in appearance as thought it might rain evry minute but has not yet, after eating of our noon meal i then walked down too the postoffice to get my mail and after receiving of it i then returned home and recorded our days labors that has been performed by the familey to day up to three oclock to day then Lum Costley taken a ride over too the Bosque Creek as he has not been on a horse in a couple of years or more and made the trip alright for the first time, whilst the writer was engaged at writing out Some land notes and prepareing wood for the cook Stove and bringing of it in doors i then fed the horse as Lum had returned home with the horse we then eat a cold Snack for our evening meal then taken a Short rest then departed too our bed of repose with the hopes of a good nights rest tonight
W.E. Costley at home in the town of Crawford Texas

Thursday September 18 AD 1913 - Opened up quite a clear bright cool morning for the first in a bout ten day wind this morning from the North with a heavey dew Thermometer at or near Seven oclock registered at 60 Degrees tempature The familey arose Some what late this morning and when prepared for work the writer then fed and cared for the horse and fowls, then returned to the kitchen and prepared the fire in the Stove and went to work and prepared the morning meal with the assistance of my _ after preparing of the Same and placing of it on the breakfast table we Seated our Selves down at the table then portaken of our morning meal and when the familey were through we went to work then put the breakfast table and contents all in good Shape again then returned too our dailey advocation of life The writer then caught watered and geered his poney or horse rather as the poney that i had in charge i have returned him too his owner and i have now a horse of my own and drove over too the Middle Bosque for a load of wood for my Self and to take C.C.Costley (Lum) over too Ed Costleys farm an the Bosque to chop Some Johnson grass after arriving at his farm i then left him and drove back and the South Side of the Bosque for my load of wood after getting of it choped and loaded on i then drove for my place in the Town of Crawford Texas and after arriving at home i taken the horse from the hack gave him water then taken the geer off of him and fed him then returned too the house washed my hands and face and dried them about that time Thomas Stirling and his wife and kid drove up to take dinner with the old people and when the noons meal was Served and placed on the table we Seated our Selves too the dinner table then we portaken of our noon meal after we were through with our noon meal and the Dinner table and contents all cared far we then taken a Short rest then Town (Tom) Stirling drove down in too the Old Crawford lane and hitched and drawed out a old broke down wagon of A O Jourdans of Crawford a banker whilst the writer caught curried then put the geer on my horse hitched him to my hack then drove over too Ed Costleys farm after Lum Costley as he went over too Ed Costley farm to top Some Johnson grass after getting of him we drove back on the South Side of Middle Bosque for the wood after getting wood choped and loaded on too my cart then drove for my place in Crawford Texas after arriving at home we dismounted from the cart i then taken my horse from the cart then taken the geer off of him gave him water then fed him i then prepared wood for the cook and brought it in doors to be handey we then Eat our evening meal and after getting through my wife attended too her Supper table and contents of the Same we then moved in too our bed room for a Short rest then departed too or bed of repose hoping to get a good nights rest to night W.E. Costley at home in the Town of Crawford, McLennan Texas

Friday September the 19th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a clear morning day wind from the South Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning Registered at 60 Degrees tempature The family arose Some what late this morning and after getting prepared for work the writer then fed and cared for his horse and fowls then returned too kitchen and renewed the fire in the cook Stove and went to work and assisted in Serving of our morning meal and after prepareing of the Same and plasing of it on the table and announced readey to eat we Seated our Selves too our breakfast table then eat our morning meal, when through and the breakfast table cared far we then prepared our Selves for our days work. The writer caught then geered and Saddled his horse then mounted on him then rode over too my old place to gather Some corn for my E E Mulican i i were owing his Some work and i Set in to pay him the work that i ow him and g?d worked near my turning out time five oclock in the evening then Saddled my horse and rode home after arriving at home i then taken the Saddle off of my horse and fed him and returned too the house and we that is the familey eat a watermelon that i raised in my garden and was about the Sweetest watermelon that i ever eat that is it apeared to me to be that away. and in a Short time after wards we eat our evening meal as my wife in her feblemess prepared our Evening meal and after announcing the meal readey we Seated our Selves too the Suppertable then portaken of our evening meal and the Suppertable and content of the Same we then moved in too our bed room then taken a Short rest and during of the time the writer recorded our days labors to day and the weather as it has been a noble day for work bright and clear all the way through now as i am through with my work for to day we will go too our bed of repose hoping to rest well to night is the desire of the familey to night
W.E. Costley at home in the Town of Crawford Texas

Saturday September the 20th AD 1913 - Opened up a morning wind from the North Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning Registered at 66 Degrees tempature. The familey arose from there bed of repose Some what late this morning as the old folks are getting too old for that kind of Buisiness but after arising from our bed of repose and prepareing our Selves for buisiness the writer first and formost fed his horse and fowls then returned too the house and assisted my wife in prepareing of our morning meal and after gettin the meal Served and placed on the table we Seated our Selves too the table then portaken of our morning meal after the familey was through with our morning meal my wife went to work and put her breakfast table and content all in good Shape again whilst Lum Costley went with James Taber to pick cotton and the writer then caught and geered his horse put the geer on him hitched him too my double Shovel then drove over too Mr Lee Hickersons and plowed in a lot of turnup Seed and after getting through i then drove back too my house then went to work and cut down five rows of corn Stalks and piled them out of the way and Sowed Some turnup See(d) on the Space that i cleaned up and plowed them in with my gray horse that Frank Burow gave me after getting through i then drove too the house and taken my horse loose from the plow gave him water then taken the gee(r) off of him and fed him we then Eat our dinner as my wife had it Served and place on the table and announced readey to be eat and when through my wife went to work and put the diner table and contents all in good Shape again. the writer then caught and Saddled his horse then mounted my Self on him and rode over too my old pasture too look for Some Stock that we had in the pasture but did not find a hoof in the pasture all out i would Supose i then returned home in the town of Crawford after arriving at home i taken the Saddle off of my horse the truned him in my lot come in doors and obtained a Shupon to draw Some money out of the bank after obtaining of the paper i returned to the farmers Bank and drew forty Dollars then returned to my place and loned the money to Tom Sterling for 12 months from date at ten percent interest frome date being September the 20th AD 1913 then he departed too his place of abode and the writer Spent the balance of the Evening in reading the news in the waco paper, about the deeds that are being commited all over the State and other States in the union and when through i then went to work and done up my night chores and when through we then Eat our evening meal after getting through my wife went to work then put her Suppertable and contents all in good Shape again we then moved in too our bedroom by a good fire as it was quite cool as the north wind has been Strong alday, and plenty cool enough for a fire to night and after resting for Some bit we then departed too our bed of repose hoping to get a good nights to night is the desire of the familey

Sunday September the 21st AD 1913 - Opened up quite a morning wind from the North Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning registered at 52 Degrees tempature The familey arose Some what late this morning but after getting prepared for labor the writer first fed his horse and fawls then returned in doors and assisted my wife in propareing of our morning meal and when Served and placed on the table we Seated our Selves too the table the eat our morning meal and after all the familey were through my wife went to work then put her morning table and contents all in good Shape g g we then taken up our old custom resting on the Sabbath day as it is the Lords day and a day of rest given for man and beat (beast) which is a great blessing for both Sides of the question for it is reasonabley Suppose after each working have all week that they would one day to rest in all any rate we do provide our three meals vituals on the Sabath day then feed our Stock and give then water but refrain from hard labor as much as posible only when nesearty Calls us to do the work of Necesity and compell to do. now at or near 12 - Oclock noon today my wife had her noon meal Served and placed on the dinner table and announced readey to be eat we then Seated our Selves to the table then portaken of our noon meal after the familey had Satisfied there thirst for food my wife then went to work and put her dinner table and contents all in good Shape again we then move in too our sitting room to contunue our rest for to day but as the writer had his horse tied in the garden to eat on a large cluster of Johnson grass on the dividing line between Mr E.D. Costley and Mr Alex Armstrong i brought him out of the garden gave him water then fed him corn i then returned too the house and Set in to finish my part of the days rest this has been a beautiful day all the way through as it has been bright and clear all the way through and the Sky has been bright and clear not a cloud to be Seen in the elements and the wind as Still as death hardley a leaf moving this afternoon of to day. untill late in the evening from which it Sprang up from the The writer at a late hour this evening walked up to old man Stirlings a while to See how he was getting a long. After arriving at his place i found them all well and looking well Tom Stirling and wife was paying his parents a viset to day after remaining for Some bit i then returned home the walked down to the post office for my mail after getting of it i returned home and as it was growing late in the evening i went to work and done up my night chores we then Eat a cold Snack for our evening meal and when through and the Suppertable and contents cared far we then taken a Short rest then departed too our bed of repose hoping to get a good nights rest to night is the well wishes of the familey
W.E.Costley at home in the town of Crawford Texas Sept 21

Monday September the 22th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a morning wind from the South Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning Registered at 52 Degrees tempature the familey arose Some what late this morning but after getting prepared for work the writer then fed his horse and fowls when through and the table cared far we went to work then prepared our morning meal after Serving of the Same and placing of it on the table then announcing the Same readey to be eat we Seated our Selves too the Breakfast table then portaken of our morning meal after all were through we then prepared our Selves for diferent work too be shure the writer then walked down in the East part of Crawford to See Parson Henariseson ? to See if he Still wanted his lot Sowed down in wheat after arriving at his place i Soon found out that his wheat was not Sowed i then returned back home caught then geered my horse hitched him too my double Shover or rather my one horse plow then drove down to Parson Handrorson ? of Crawford and plowed in his lot a wheat then broke his garden as he was anxious for both to be done after getting through i then drove for my place after arriving at home i then taken my horse from my plow and taken the geer off of him then gave him water i then fed my horse and when through i returned too the house washed and dried my hands and face then we eat our noon meal as my wife had it Served and placed on the table and announced readey to be eat, after our familey was through eating of the noon meal my wife went to work and put her dinner table and contents all in good Shape again we then taken a Short rest then the writer caught and geered his horse then hitched him too my cart then Lum Costley and the writer mounted our Selves in too the cart i then drove for my old place on the north Side of middle Bosque creek and when we arrived at the Bosque Lum Costley dismounted from the cart and went in to ED Costleys farm to cut the heds of Some Johnson grass that had Seeded out and the writer drove on over too my old farm to pull down Some corn and after arriving at the place i dismounted from my cart then tied my horse and went to pulling corn and pull down corn untill near Sun down i then left off work and drove for my place in the town of Crawford Texas Stopping at the Bosque for to get C C Costley ( Lum) then we then drove on home after arriving at home we then dismounted from the cart taken the horse from the cart taken the geer off of him gave him water then fed him i then returned too the house and we then eat our Evening meal as my wife had it Served and placed on the table and announced readey to be eat after the familey were through with there evening meal my wife then attended too the evening table and put evry thing in good Shape again we then moved in too our bed room for a Short rest and during of the time the writer recorded the labor done by the familey to day this has been a beautiful clear day but the wind has been very Strong all day through and is Still high from the South at ten oclock to night but clear and bright not a cloud to be Seen in the Elements all through the day now as i am through i will go too my bed of repose hoping to get a quiett night rest to night is the desire of the familey
W.E.Costley at home in the Town of Crawford Texas

Tuesday September 23dh AD 1913 Opened up Sum what a cloudey morning wind from the South Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning registered at 64 Degrees tempature The familey was quite late this morning in a rising from our bed of repose and after getting prepared for work the writer fed and cared for the horse and fowls when through i then prepared wood for the Stove to cook our morning meal then Started the fire then went to work to assist my wife in preparing of our morning meal after getting of it Served and placed on the table we then portaken of our morning meal when through and the breakfast table and contents was cared far my wife went to ironing Some Clothing C.C. Costley as he was going to waco on the noon train, and the writer caught and geered his horse and hitched him too his turning plow then drove in too Mrs Armstrongs garden near by and broke garden She planted Some onions Sets during of the time after getting through i then left my plow as Alex Armstrong wanted the writer to Sow and plow in Some wheat for him i then led my horse home and hitched him up to a post then taken Lum Costley valease too the Depot for him then returned home and put the horse in the lot then fed and watered him i then returned home or rather house and taken a rest for a bit to a wait my noon meal and did not have to wait no great while untill my wife had the noon meal Served and placed on the table readey to be eat we then Seated our Selves too the table then portaken of our noon meal when through and the dinner table and contents cared far we then taken a Short rest and then lit out to work again all but my wife as She is not able to do but little work at this present time The writer caught and geered the poney hitched him to my plow the plowed in Alex g (garden) yard Sowed down in wheat after getting through i then drove home pull the geer off of my horse and turned him loose in my lot i then taken a walk down in too Crawford to get a bucket of Sweet potatoes at J.B.Nichols costing 35 cts also a bucket of Iris potatoes 45 cts and a pound of butter costing 20 cents i returned home and young woolf delivered the goods that i bought to day after the potatoes come we went to work and put Some of each Kind and prepared also our Evening meal after Serving of it i then fed my horse and fowls then returned too my house and we then Seated our Selves to the table then portaken of our Evening meal after getting through we then taken of the Suppertable and contents all in good Shape again we then moved in too our bed room for a short rest and in a Short while Mrs Gee and her Baby come to Stay with the old folks untill her children could go too the Show, and during the time the writer recorded the labors done by the familey to day and when through i then taken a Short rest then departed too our bed of repose hoping to get a good nights rest to night is the desire of the familey to night
W.E.Costley at home in the Town of Crawford Texas

Wednesday September the AD 1913 - Opened up quite a morning wind from the South Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning at 66 Degrees tempature with a good prospect of falling weather as it is very dark and cloudey much in appearance of rain at an earley hour this morning now when the familey was prepared for work this morning the writer first and formost fed the horse and fowls then returned too the kitchen and prepared a fire in the cook Stove then assited my wife in preparing of our morning meal and after getting of it Served and placed on the table then announced readey to be eat we Seated our Selves too the breakfast table then portaken of our morning meal and when through my (wife) went to work and prop ? the morning table and contents all in good Shape again the writer then walked down too merchant Bennet and Taulbees Store to See Mr Bennet a bout Sowing wheat and after getting through i returned home caught and geered of my horse i hitched him too my cart then led him across the Srteets to James Graham and loaded on a lot of tin cans and halled them over too the Middle Bosque and dumped them off in too the creek then went to work and fixed the west corner of my old pasture as the Stock had found a getting out place after getting of it fixed i went to work and choped up a load of wood and loaded it on too my cart then drove for my place in the Town of Crawford being about one oclock in the evening and after arriving at home i then taken the horse from the cart gave him water then taken the geer off of him and fed him and then returned too the house and eat my dinner as my wife had it Served and placed on the table readey to be eat after we were through with our noon meal and my wife had taken care of the dinner table and contents we then taken a Short rest the writer then taken a Short rest and went to work again, i plowed in a lot of wheat for Bob Bennits wife on the Johney Renfrow place in Crawford now Johney Bonard but they Sold the place to Old Man Inglebace (Engelbrecht) and he rented the place to Bob Benet a merchant of Crawford, after getting the wheat plowed in i then drove home with my plow after arriving at home i then taken the geer off of my horse gave him water i then turned him loose in the lot untill feeding time i then taken a walk out through the town to See what was going on i found the town a live with the merchants and farmers the merchants bying cotton and the farmer Settling up this years account and bying more good and Supplyes for his familey and by the by evry thing was flush with the people i then returned home and fed my horse and my wifes fowls the prepared wood for the cook Stove and brought it in doors by that time my wife had the evening meal Served and placed on the table and announced readey to be eat we Seated our Selves too the table then portaken of our evening after we were through and the table and contents cared far we then moved in too our bed room for a Short rest then departed too our bed of repose and Sleep hoping to get a good nights rest to night is the desire of the familey to night it has been Some what cloudey all day long
W.E. Costley at homr in the Town of Crawford Texas

Thursday September the 25th AD 1913 - Opened up quite a cloudey rainey morning as it rained through the last past night and this morning at five oclock Sharp it began to rain very hard from the South and then changed too the North East and rained for about one and a half hours very rapedley and Slacked up then rained Slow a long for Some Length of time wind and rain this morning from the North East, principally, Thermometer at or near Seven oclock this morning registered at Degrees tempature The familey a rose Some what late this morning but when in readiness for work the writer first fed his horse and after getting of him fed i then returned too my kitchen and renewed the fire in the cook Stove then went to work and assisted my wife in prepareing of our morning meal and after getting of the morning meal Served and placed on the table we then Seated our Selves too the table then portaken of the Same, when through and the breakfast table and contents cared far we then moved in too our Sitting room and contented our Selve by taking a rest as it Still continued to rain but Slowley and during the time that i could not get out doors I recorded the labor that has been done this morning by my wife and the writer and Still the rainey weather continues to be in action and no Signe in the weather of it checking Soon now it half past ten oclock and Still raining Slowly beginning at five oclock this morning and for one hour and a half it rained very hard flooding the Streets and gardens and Still the good works goes on it ceased to rain any more after too-Oclock this Evening makeing about ? hours rain that fell to day making about 5/12 inch rain good for Texas and Texas grass, and Seed that has been Sown for winter vegetables also wheat that was Sown at or near one oclock to day we eat our noon meal and after getting through and the dinner table cared far we then taken a Short rest then the writer walked down too post office for my mail, after getting of it i returned home i went to work and finished writing the deed that my wife and i made to Ed Costley and heirs and assignes and when completing the work Mr Parkhill come to tell me that the officer had Some of my Stock in the pen down in Crawford Texas. I then layed my pen to one Side and went to look after them and when i come to find out the officers had too of my cows and a couple of Mr Gees cows that i had been pasturing. i then returned home and g