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Comments: His Comments: Mine

Thursday, July 23, 1885

General Grant died at (8) o'clock am today. So one great

man after another passes away to make room for others.

Saturday, August 01, 1885

Aug 1 lost my watch in

I went out to St. Cloud on the hand car with George Bozie.

the woods herding

Stopped at Adorns coming back for a dance and traded my

cows ... went back and

gun for a watch.

found it. Then traded

for a little 44

Winchester about

August 15 1885

Friday, August 07, 1885

Charles Bartlett came home from Colorado... had his foot cut.

Wednesday, September 16, 1885

The water tank at the St. Francis River burned down.

Monday, September 28, 1885

the remaining part of

The Oak Park Mill burned down. It seems that these woods

this entry is also

missing due to the

portion of the

previous page that

was removed from

the diary. What

happened to him

and Belle remains a

mystery. She

becomes a thread

throughout the rest

of the diary. Even

after he marries

Amanda, his

thoughts often turn to

Belle and what

happened to her.

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