Journal of Clayborne S. Hooper: #3
05/30/1845 - 12/29/1919
July 1905

Mon. 3- Lynn hear today
Tue. 4- Up to Ewings, I heard they found John Patrick. John Rusty told me that today.
Wed. 5- Mrs. Work and family hear today all so Mr. Miller. Tom Work hear today. I went to the store. Seen Bill Nat Jordan. Bought one sack meal 45 cts. Pack Sodey 5 cts one box snuff 5 cts. Loand Tom Work 6 dollars today. Let Ewing Hooper 13 ½  lbs meat at 11 cts. Went to Tom Works sit till bed time me and Julius.
Thur. 6- Dick Hooper and Julius gone to Nashville to day for Mitchell and the Crouch boys. Asa Dozier staid all night hear to night.
Fri 7- Went to Asland with Ewing. Eat dinner with the Sheriff. Dick and Julius come from town Nashville, Benton Hooper went to west tenn Saturday July first 1905. John Hoopers wife buried to day. Seen Dr. Allen today.
Sat. 8- Pick nick at Sams Creek today. Seen Sy Keel today. Henry Cox, John Cox, Will Cox, TexasWill, Jo Hooper and family. Gipson out of jail seen him today. Ed Fouler come back. All quiet at the Picnick.
Sun. 9- Ewing come down him and wife. I went home with him, staid all night. Guss Riggan sick. Mr. Miller hear today. Jo Hooper went home to day.
Mon. 10- Come home, Dick Hooper and Julius gon to Nashville. Raind all day.
Tue. 11- Lost out on today. Don’t remember any thing but think I was at home.
Wen. 12- At home all day. Pairlee Lovell hear today. Clear today. Julius plowed for Dick Hooper at Mrs. Riggans.
Thur. 13- Up the creek making boards on the Mary Hoopers tract of land. Julius plowing for Dick Hooper. Seen John Banister.
Fri. 14- Made boards. Went to Nashville, Keel paid me $200.00 dollars bey bank check. I paid him 100.00 dollars on Saturday the 12, 1905.
Sat. 15- Come home. All night at Keels Friday night. Got to his house at 11 oclock at night me and Sam Hargrove.
Sun. 16- At home all day. Dick went to the river.
Mon. 17- Paid Pad Jordan in full today. Let Dick hooper have 4.50 today. Went to Dodges store. Pad Jordan told me I had to get a permit from Bryant to cut my chesnut ties and that I had nuthing to do with the land or timber till 1907. The men that was present, Tom Work, Gibson, Drew Jordan, Charls Jordan, Old Man Jordan. Now he mous prove the same. Paid Dodge 35 cts.
Tues. 18- Cut board timber. Let Ewing have 3.00 dollars. Dr. Sneed come down. Allso his wife and daughter. Pad Jordan put men in my house today.
Wed. 19- Went to Nashville and Goodlitsville and Cotton Town all the same day and night. Went all night. Got my man made fiftey dollars. Mrs. Sneed and Nodileen hear to night.
Thur. 20- Eat breakfast with Vaughn and wife in Sumner County. Me and Vaughn traveled over hills for one half day. I staid all night with Vaughn. Seen John Rutledg, Sutton, Tom Smith, Cooley, Mitchell, Mrs. Sneed and daughter hear to night, Lish made boards him and Dick.
Fri. 21- Left Summer Countey and come to Nashville, eat supper in the Market House. All night with W.J. Sneed, Found a fine silver mind.
Sat. 22- Seen Will Cullum, Judge Taylor, come home. Me and Lish Mrs. Sneed and daughter hear tonight.Wash Blair come down from town.
Sun. 23- Mrs. Sneed and daughter gone home. Raind some today. Trudy Miller come down Saturday.
Mon. 24- Made boards today. Me and Lish at home. Mrs. Work and family hear to day.
Tue. 25- Mary gon up the creek. Made boards at home. Staid all night Mrs. Riggans me and Mary. Seen Jo Hales son today. Mrs. Work hear today.
Wen. 26- Come home got dinner. Made boards. Lish helping Allen. Seen Jack Jordan to day also Henry Ragan. Mary up the creek. Jo Hooper and family at Rusteys.
Thur. 27- Mary up the Creek. Raining this morning. Doing nothing. Miss Trudey Miller come to Tom Works on Saturday July 22 and 1905, Julius makeing ties. Sam Young kicked by a mule. Jaw broke so I hear. Jo Hooper and Millerd Mitchell hear today. Mary come home. She seen the lion.
Fri. 28- Raining this morning. Dun nothing today. Jo Hooper and family at Rusteys. Ewing come down. Tom Work come home.
Sat. 29- Makeing boards today. Mary up the creek. Base Ball at Pond Creek. Lish working road him and Dick. Mary went to her mothers to day. Mrs. Work and family hear to day. Fine time at Base Ball.
Sun. 30- Seen Fowler, Charley Ward and Osborn, Dick Lovell hear today. I went Rusteys. Well I am 60 years old and have battled with life in all its stages. I have tried to make home a happy plase. But I think I have made a failure. Well such is life. Hear after I will do the best I can say no more no harm.  Do all the good I can and looke on the bright side of life. Have a good word for all. If I see any bodey in trouble help him or her out so you are shure to make him or her after helping them a dead enemy. I have found this out. If you want to be respecttied in the Business Wourld be hard on all that owe you a penney. Grind down on the widow. Take the last thing from them. Take the last cow or hog or horse if they happen to owe you anything so you can lay down at night and sleep sound knowing for shure that fear not man or the devil. This is the business man of the day and of our present time. Don’t love nosence for that will cause you trouble. Ther I such thing as love. Be shure to get this one thing in your mind that you may live happy in your own conseit. Be shure when you do all this that you will die without a friend on earth. Your friends are where the the worm dieth not and fire is neaver quenched.
Mon. 31- Made boards me and Lish for Hagan. This ends the month of July 1905.