Mmmoooving Around

p. 10 Cows.

Put 2 heifers in Livings pasture May 13, 1916

Took roan cow out Aug. 14

Put one bull in Livings pasture June 25, 1916

(took him out Aug. 24)

[A line is drawn here.]

Put four horses in Tom Eliotts pasture May 19th 1916

Put one horse in Eliotts pasture June 4, 1916

Took one horse out of pasture and paid $7.00 July 14

Put 2 horses in Good's pasture July 27, 1916

[A line is drawn here.]

Took one cow from Hez Eliotts pasture and paid $10 June 13, 1920

Boar out Nov. 25, 1922

[A circle is drawn around the boar entry above.]

Put cattle in Schmidtz pasture May 11, 1924

                                                               $25.50

[The word "Paid" is written on top of this last entry.]

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These look to be Pearl's bovine/equine/swine notes on whose pasture the Pointer's livestock were being kept in at the time. These types of entries are plentiful throughout the Day Books. Seems it was common to "rent" out your pasture land to those who needed it.


~Caroline

Loads of Work

p.9

Road Work          1924

Sept. 2     1/2 day                              $2.50
  "      8         1 day, 19 loads gravel
  "      9     1/2 day
  "    16        1 day  16 loads, Hands pit
  "    17        1 day  16     "          "       "
                                Jay's poll tax worked
  "    22        1 day
  "    25        1 day  18 loads
  "    29        1 day
Oct    1        1 day  14 loads Stevens
                                Stevens
   "      2        1 day  24 loads
                                Goodmans
   "      3        1 day  8 loads Jones pit
   "      7        1 day   "

13 da.
$65

[The word "Paid" is written over the above entries, and a line has been drawn beneath the above entries.]

June 13th, -1927-
3 horses in Dan's pasture
$15.00

[The word "Paid" is written over above the entry, and a line has been drawn underneath the entry.]

2 horses in Meyers pasture May 20, 1928
$12.00

[The word "Paid" is written above the entry.]

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A part of Interstate 45 here in Texas has been under some type of construction since the 1960's, or thereabouts.  It can be frustrating at times, and other times, annoying.  I think the only good thing about it is that I don't have to do the work.  I pay taxes for someone else to do all the work.

This was not so in Pearl's time.  It seems they worked on the roads just as much as they worked in the fields.  Though Pearl does not tell us the details of their road work, it still sounds like a lot of hard work.  Could you imagine after it rained? Yikes!

In these entries, she does indicate names.  I'm guessing here, but with a quick look at the 1919 Collins Township, Story County, IA map that I found on historicmapworks.com yesterday, these names are Harve's & Pearl's neighbors that share a road with the Pointer farm.  And the "loads" that she refers to are probably loads of dirt.  She also refers to loads of gravel and 2 pits that belonged to Hand and Jones (both nearby neighbors).

Below is a photo of the Pointer farm with the road in front of it.  It was probably taken in the 40s or 50s, and, of course, it's from Great-Uncle Donald.

The Pointer Farm showing the road in front.  Courtesy of Great-Uncle Donald.

 ~Caroline