Name/Title
J.K. Rudolph diary, 1885Entry/Object ID
TN.15.3fTags
1880sScope and Content
Diary of J.K. Rudolph. Not many daily entries.
" January 10 Saturday 1885
Erin G. Mits work for
about three weeks
January 12, Monday 1885
Frank Whuly Commissioned
worked for a month at $ 13.00
January 13, Tuesday 1885
Emie Bishop Starts
for new ( )
January 16, Friday 1885
Snows and turns
to sun in afternoon
and freezes - covers
trees and break down
telegraph wires
January 17, Saturday 1885
Turned cold in the
night - and grows cold all
day- wind blows - turns 8-
5 hours late. Train 12 no P.D.
Cars . Dead Head to B (13) and
take 8:05 cars .
January 18, Sunday 1885
Cold 7 Blustery - very bad
west. No trains east from
Cleveland till 5 P.M.
Train 7 __ Hour x 20 mi late
Miss train to get home
January 19 Monday 1885
Cold - Down to zero
got home
January 20, Tuesday 1885
Zero below
Help Frank cut wood
January 21, Wednesday 1885
Still cold
work at ward
Ed pierce + family
Visit afternoon time
January 22, Thursday 1885
Zero
Give to (sayur) makes
contributions in freezing
afternoon + eve visit
at sisters
January 23 Friday 1885
Frank whuly + I cut
old Appletrees
Getting warmer
January 24, Saturday 1885
Snow during the night
warmer ,
Haul a load Coal for
mother
Frank hauls wood in
afternnon
January 25 Sunday 1885
Colder Again
(Communnion)
January 26, Monday 1885
Still growing cold
Two hours late getting
back to Cleveland
January 27 Tuesday 1885
Leave Cleveland 4 hours
late and lose time
all the way - Cold blowing
and snowing
January 28 Wednesday 185
only get to batuvia
which makes it an easy
run for me
January 29 Thursday 1885
Cold dry yet
mercury at Garrettsville
Marked 27 below zero
(Sin C) 1.40 late
January 30, Friday 1885
Get to (Syins ) Just
in time for breakfast
got home 6 o'clock
January 31, Saturday 1885
Eimi gets back from
South Trip
warmer
February 6 Friday 1885
Go up to (whesm)
February 9 Monday 1885
Colder
February 10 Tuesday 1885
Blizzard- worse yet
No trains from Chicago
Make up trains in Toledo
( ) an old car and
freeze all night
February 11 Wednesday 1885
Only get to Rochester
snowing , Cold all the time
most - the worst R.R. drifting , I
can some Trains 2 hours
late and lose 4 more to Buffalo,
get into Cleveland
after 7. go home on late train
February 15 Sunday 1885
Funeral of T.B. Hopkins
conducted by the Youngs-
town (Commandery)
a pleasant day and a long
Funeral
February 16, Monday 1885
Take grist to Nelson
mill and leave it
February, 24 Tuesday 1885
Get Home found
Clara sick and
(Sorie) is taken in after -
noon. We found out after a
while this is Scarlet
Fever and that the family
have all had it
February 28, Saturday 1885
Make a extr run by
orders for McCraken
with (siouseyes?) crew
March 1, Sunday 1885
(Run) for McCrackin
and came home
(Sorie ) is very sick yet
March 2 Monday 1885
Run again
March 3 Tuesday 1885
and come home
on Six O'clk train
to see how ( Sorie) is
March 4 Wednesday 1885
Run again
March 5 Thursday 1885
and Came home
on six o'clock train
to see Sorie
we think she is better
March 6 Friday , 1885
Run again
My ( ) sister
and mother is sick
March 7, Saturday 1885
Get home on 4 oclk
train about (delayed )
out Sorie is better
but Mother is worse
March 8, Sunday 1885
Stay in house
Marcha, Monday 9 1885
Ditto?
March 12 Thursday 1885
Called out for McCraken
again
March 14, Saturday 1885
Heavy Rain east
bad mail-( )
4 Sacks
March 16, Monday 1885
Bad mail again
(Tabacco ) adertisements
March 18 Wednesday 1885
The same bad mail
today- hope it will
be through before I come
again
March 19 Thursday 1885
get- home very tired
March 20 Friday 1885
Very cold way
down below zero
22 in the mill
March 21, Saturday 1885
still very cold
Go over to Mrs Taylor's
and get- Jersy calf
to which pay $25
March 22 Sunday 1885
Boys Momma + I go to
Meting
March 23 Monday 1885
Go to Cleveland tonight
to run for Scotland
March 24 Tuesday 1885
Run for Scot
March 25 Wednesday 1885
Ditto
Go to the falls this afternoon by the ice grand gbrious
Sublime Ice Ice Ice
everywhere
March 26 Thursday 1885
My run commons
March 27 Friday 1885
Boys Have toped the bush
today
March 28, Saturday 1885
March 29, Sunday 1885
Go on to Katie's
March 30 Monday 1885
March 31 , Tuesday 1885
Home on 6 P.M. train
April 1 Wednesday 1885
quite warm - (chlison )
since Taylor dies apoplexy
April 2 Thursday 1885
Ditto
April 3 Friday 1885
Rainfinally- Snow
Taylor Funeral
April 4 Saturday 1885
April 5 Sunday 1885
Go to meeting (from0
Sep run well
April 6 Monday 1885- May 8 Friday 1885 No Entries
May 9 Saturday 1885
Snows & is cold so
I get - up sheep
May 10 Sunday 1885 to May 20 Wednesday 1885 - No Entries
May 21, Thursday 1885
Plant Corn
May 22 Friday 1885 - June 13 Saturday 1885 - No Entries
June 14 Sunday 1885
Come home ( Entry erased- can not read)
June 15, Monday 1885
June 16, Tuesday 1885
June 17, Wednesday 1885
Commenced cutting
orchard grass.
June 18, Thursday 1885
Mrs Bishop
Shears ship
June 19 Friday 1885
Mrs Bishop
shear ship
June 20, Saturday 1885
June 21 , Sunday 1885
Came home on 4 o'clokc
train . The worst & Heaviest
storms so far is this P.M
and eve. A ( )
tears Ravenna all up.
June 22 Monday 1885 - June 26 Friday 1885 No Entry
June 27 Saturday 1885
Udall & I Commence
to drill a well in
basement
get casing stuck
June 28 Sunday 1885
Showers & Turned Cold
June 29, Monday 1885 to July 1885 Saturday - No Entry
July 5 Sunday 1885
Get home from run
John Halloway Comes
with me
July 6 Monday 1885
Udoll & Co get - down
5 ft and get what we
think plenty of water
The whole business costs
me $81.10 . beside boarding
July 7 Tuesday 1885 - July 21 Tuesday - No Entry
July 22 Wednesday 1885
Mark Manly cuts wheat
Very ripe
July 23 Thursday 1885 - Aug 27 Thursday 1885 - No Entry
August 28 Friday 1885
Udall & Co Thrash es
187 bu. oats 284 wheat
August 29 Saturday 1885 - December 31 Thursday No Entry
Expense Account
Date
Aug 26 give note to Mrs.
Mr. M.s. Hutchins Six
Months $2.00
Cash Account
Date Paid
9 Settle with Fullers 47.00
___ Hatch for F. Stonge 21.58
___ Pancake flour .25
Tea .50
I (____) 17.87
___ F. Strong 14.27
10 pay E. Bishop 100.00
___ Buckwheat flour 1.00
____ _____ .13
___ Mending Bridle .30
___ Grinding axes .30
__ Horse shoeing 1.05
__ Diary .40
__ Pay E. Smith 16.00
___ ( ) milk 36
13 Washings 5.00
Date Received Paid
15 Cut Hair .25
17 Toledo Blade 2.00
20 F. Whulis 1.50
__ Coffee .25
__ Broom .35
__ 3 ( ? ) .50
22 Suzar Covention .25
__ Mending Coat .25
24 F. Wheeler .50
__ Dried Beef .90
30 knife .25
__ Candy .25
31 Coal for mother ( ) 6. 08
__ Coffee .18
__ Frank Wheeler 2.00
Date Cash Account Received Paid
Medicine 1.00
Cheese .30
Butters 5.00
Ice for Butter 6.12
(Feeling) (Sogs) .25
7 Frank Wheeler 5.00
? ? 1.00
? (Sandwhiches ) 1.38
14 Patty & Hammer .25
oryster Crackers 1.00
16 National Tribune 1.00
Date Received Paid
2 Coal 5.30
Feb. Pay 89.44
3 Insurance ( ) 5.00
? ? Accident 3.75
? Clothes 19.50
? Tea 5LBS 2.25
? Oranges 2.25
? cub ( ) .50
? ( ) 1.25
10 Hatch for fuel 20.00
mother 50.00
21 Jersey calf of Taylor 25.00
fresh meat 2.80
Roller Skates 1.25
25 pay duct john 4.00
30 washing 3.00
century mag .30
? 3.00
Date March Received Paid
1 March Pay 99.03
1 Masonic Fund 5.40
4 Dryed Beef 1.71
? Fresh ? 1.39
? ( Hatet) Fund 5.25
(Bish) 1.10
Cash Account April
Date Received Paid
Petition to join odd fellows 5.00
(Erni) 10.00
Cotton cloth & Towels 4.89
Try (weekly) Sundries 2.00
( ) shipping syrup 50 gal 1.54
Tin Cans 5.00
Food for stock 10.00
Mr . New comb on- col-
of Bill 3.00
extra runs 10.00
22 Hat 1.50
Blouse 1.00
Bal on clothes 12.00
Jersey calf 25.00
(Express on some ) 4.00
52 gal. syrup 51.50
Mack Cuns 4.20
2 (shotes) Calf 19.30
pr shoes 1.75
Brooms 2.25
Taylors for kap J calf 22.00
washing 2.00
? 5.00
shot x (weeds ) 2.25
Boy Shoes 5.25
Date Cash Account April Received Paid
(Marring) 4.00
30 Hatch 10.00
? Meat .41
? Cough Medicine .40
Cash Account May
Grand Army 1.00
odd Fellows 15.00
Two Roosters 1.00
Hatch & Fullers 5.00
Seed Corn 1.50
1000 Mile ticket 15.00
19 Corn Plants 1.50
22 Hatch & Fullers 5.00
__ Expense to c .50
___ Football for Boys 1.20
Cash Account - June
Date Received Paid
1 May Salery 97.94
__ Insurance 3.75
__ Pay Ermi 25.00
3 (Sat) with Hatch 25.79
Washings 2.00
bt/2 3.00
Mrs Bishop-2 pigs 6.00
" " ( elc) 4.00
for potato's .50
Scyths & ( ) 1.40
(Nicktu?) .45
Strawberries .40
Garden Seed .45
(Hop) Iron .15
Cabbage Plants .45
25 ____________________ .40
" _________________ 10.00
' Mothers 10.00
" Calf 4.00
' _____ ____ & cheese .58
" ( Suynst) 5.00
Kenny Davidson 1.00
pins + Blocking .18
27 Fresh Meat .73
( ) - Ellerwood 1.00
Date Cash Account - June Received Paid
23 Frank wagon 1.50
" (chisgn) 5.35
27 Johnson Soph Ets 1.00
28 Machine Oil .20
" Corn Meal 1.25
" Butter ( ? ) 3.25
Date Cash Account Received Paid
6 Odd F. Dues 1.90
2 bu. potatoes .80
___ for well( Abull + king ) .45
Fresh Meat .38
_______ .30
Hay Rack 1.00
Rings in pullies ( ) etc .40
Masonic Insurance 5.?
Groceries at Bates 3.08
Trad at (Craines) .90
Harness Rep. .85
Paint .88
Hatch + salt . 6.93
1/2 bu. strawberries 1.25
Butter Crocks .60
century for July .30
udall & Gibson 50.00
240 lbs wood .25 60.00
18" " ___ 3.17
14 E. Bishop 8.00
karl to ( ) 1.00
Mowing Machine 60.00
Taxes 13.50
F. Strangs used
Date Cash Account- July Received Paid
15 Book for karl 1.25
_________ .35
coat for F. Strang 1.50
scales 2.50
Gasoline .50
Tea .50
20 Pay August Received pay
sawing (Fictin) Etc. .60
3 bu. oats 1.35
23 set shoes on Jim .35
23 Reaping wheat 17.00
Int on ( ) 12.00
28 Ron Davidson .35
? .70
Home ( ) 2.00
Bal. on well 30.90
Rock chairs 8.00
Sit- Jons Shoes .35
Gasoline .60
Meat .25
31 Food 3.18
Clem Kingsley Drill .75
Sundall 4 cans 6.00
July Pay 96.88
Date Cash Account- August Received Pay
4 D.S Hewit bal. on Roe 4.00
7 1000 Mile ticket 15.00
13 Grand Army Dues .50
? Rock Chairs .25
? Dry Goods etc 2.00
15 Groceries 1.00
? 1 bu. beans 1.50
26 Chapter Dues 2.00
? C.P Hawley 1.00
? Fresh Meat .45
? (Auzingt) 5.00
? E.Bishop 15.00
27 sarel 1.00
? whip .40
? mending shoe .35
? Eloros .23
28 perrey for thrashing 2.00
Bracelets 3.20
Cash Account - September
Date Received Pay
6 Two big crocks .20
? cheese .27
7 Insurance ( ) 5 . 40
Ticket to fair 1.00
Pay (Anzurd) 10.00
Thrashing 15.00
A. Udall for (shaving ) wood 10.00
14 B. Killams Clothes 2.75
Tea .50
Plums 1.65
Karl 1.00
washings .75
Set horses shoe .70
Condition Powders .35
21 Top Shoes 1.00
21 soft (cintury) .30
E Bishop 5.00
15 ? 2.00
? 5.00
Cash Account - October
Date Received Pay
E.M Bishop 5.00
15 ? 2.00
? 5.00
Collars etc. .45
shoes 3.00
Hatsh 28.04
Raisins 2.80
9 Pay Anz. 20.50
Scolding tub 2.00
EM Bishop 5.00
" " 25.00
Pot and pailes to
set and cool milk 42.90
Books for children 3.00
Cash Accounts - December
Collars, cuffs etc .45
Shoes 3.00
Hatch 23.04
Raisins 2.80
9 Pay (Shaz ) 20.50
S. Colding (Tuf) 2.00
EM Bishop 5.00
" " 25.00Acquisition
Accession
TN.15Source or Donor
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GiftLocation
Location
Container
Journals & Albums Box 1Room
ArchivesBuilding
Morgan History CenterDate
December 20, 2021Relationships
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Person or Organization
Rudolph, James K.Related Places
Place
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Garrettsville, Ohio