Journal of Clayborne S. Hooper: #35
05/30/1845 - 12/29/1919
June 1910

Wen. 1 - Boys Plowing. Brakeing up corn ground. Raind some this morning. They worked all day.
Thur. 2 - Boys plowing. Clabe doing nothing but feed tramps.
Fri. 3 - Plantted corn all day or 1/2 day. I have forggoton.
Sat. 4 - Went to Kingston. Give Will Greer 10 cts, candey 15 cts. Got dun planting corn. Raind hard to day.
Sun. 5 - Raind hard hear to day. Went Clarks. Eat dinner ther.
Mon. 6 - Julius gone to Sams creek. Dufrey come home with him. Had the horse shod. Paid cash 80 cts. Mary 2 dresses 2.20. Paid cash. 2 wet to plow. Worked on fence.
Tue. 7 - Worked on fence all day me and Benton.
Wen. 8 - Still on fence. Benton and Julius plowing. Raind some.
Thur. 9 - Raind. To wet to plow. River riseing. Dick Lovell and John Crouch Staid all night, Julius went to Pet Hays and to Kingston Springs. Had Toney shod 40 cts. Paid cash. Meal sack 20 cts. Paid cash. 2 joints stove pipe 25 cts. Paid cash. Total 80 cts. Bought form Ed Page coffee 1.00 dollar, stove pipe 65 cts, flour 80 cts, oil 15 cts, matches 10 cts, sodey 5 cts, box carteridges 15 cts. Total 2.90 cts. owe for same.
Fri. 10 - Raind to day. Dick gone home. All so John.
Sat. 11 - Jim Colvin and Sam Colvin hear to day. Raind.
Sun. 12 - Clear hear to day. Sam Gordon fixed the stove pipe yesterday 25 cts, candey 5 cts, tacks 5 cts, snuff 10 cts. Total 45 cts.
Mon. 13 - Dick Hooper hear Sunday. Benton thind corn.
Tue. 14 - Plowed all day. All of us. Warm to day.
Wen. 15 - Plowed all day Fowler staid all night.
Thur. 16 - Plowed half day. Went to Kingston. Bought of Ed Page meal 50 cts, tobaco 25 cts, total 75 cts. Owe for same. 
Fri. 17 - Plowed all day. Warme to day. Mary put carpet down. Basil Hooper hear to day. Clark and John Greer sick.
Sat. 18 - Plowed half day. Julius gone to Sams Creek.
Sun. 19 - At home. Went to see John Greer. He is sick.
Mon. 20 - Plowed all day. Lish hear to day. Boys plowed.
Thur. 23 - Went to Nashville with Lish. Potatoes 1.30, tickett 98 cts, 2 dresses 1.20, dinner 30 cts, shoes 49 cts, street car fair 10 cts, bear 10 cts, stover 1.oo dollar, release 45 cts. Stover come home with me. Lish gone home. Sallie Hudgins Jeff Hudgins, Miss Walker hear yesterday.
Fri. 24 - Thind corn all day me, Stover and julius. Hot
Sat. 25 - Thind corn 1\2 day. Went to Kingston. Bought form Ed Page meal, one bushel meal 1.00 dollar, oil 15 cts, freight bill 25 cts. Paid cash. Coffee pot 50 cts, pepper 5 cts, snuff 10 cts. Hot 94 to day. Box cartridges 40 cts, 22 cartridges 15 cts.
Sun. 26 - At home. Nothing to it. Happey woman. Julius gone to Sams creek. Let him have 50 cts. He came home sick. Sick all night. John no better.
Mon. 27 - Plowed all day. Raind to day. Hot to day. Jube sick. Stover hung a 40 lbs catfish. Broke his line and got a way. Well such is life. John Greer still sick.
Tue. 28 - Raind this morning. Julius sick. Benton gone to Kingston with Ed Clark. Give him one dollar. Stover digging bait. Will wait till night and fix out the day. Fulton all night. Bill Fulgham had horse and a mule Killed bey lightning. Damage 400 dollars. T went fishing with Stover. Hurt my leg.
Wen. 29 - Raind to day. Thind corn me, Julius and Stover. Ed Clark come sit till bed time. Plowed one day this week.
Thur. 30 - Raind to day. Got done thining corn today. Stover all day. This is the last day of June 1910.

 

 

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