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Aug 24 1/2 day
" 25 1 " 11 loads Tiffany
" 26 1/2 " 4 " "
" 27 1 " 18 " "
" 30 1/2 " 6 " "
" 31 1 " 12 " "
Sept 2 1 " 21 " Goodmans
" 10 1 " 26 " "
" 13 1 " 17 " Hands
" 17 1 " 12 " "
" 18 1 " 8 " "
" 20 1 "
" 21 1 " 15 " "
" 25 1/2 "
" 27 1 "
" 28 1 " 24 " Tiffany
[A line is drawn here.]
Oct 1 1/2 day
" 2 1 "
" 6 1 "
" 7 1 "
" 8 1/2 " $91.50
[A line is drawn here.]
Oct 9 1/2 day
" 11 1 "
" 12 1 "
It's kind of a pain in the rear to do these road work entries. And I'm sure Pearl is in heaven shaking her head at me. I bet at the end of a long day on the farm in 1926, the last thing Pearl wanted to do is make these entries. Just as I'm sure, Harve was not real excited to have to do road work on top of all his other responsibilities on his farm. So I should really stop my belly aching, right?
I've not figured out why there's an amount of $91.50 listed. And I'm not sure the significance of the Aug and Sept entries having more detail as far as the loads of dirt are concerned. Looks like in these months they rotated between the Tiffany, Goodman, Hand, and Pointer farms. Perhaps October is the month where the Pointer farm received the loads of dirt. And maybe when you were on the receiving end of the loads of dirt, you got paid. I dunno. *shrugs*
What I do know is that I'm tired just thinking about all those loads. What a workout, no?
~Caroline
[Update: 3 May 2012, Many thanks to a Pointer cousin who pointed out [no pun intended] that Great Uncle Donald talks about dragging roads on the farm in his recordings, I found out that while the county at the time did not drag the roads, they did pay you for it. Therefore, the $91.50 probably came from the county for dragging the roads.]