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Show ,."" 'I " 18GO 115- .. for Thomas Willis at the milt and worked at the steam mill. Cam ho rn e Friday. Made some headgates and watered some ground for w h e a t It r a ined a little du r ing the day. Satur-day went to V!oodruff, lea v .._ . on , /alk!.,.?-t ',' ;:.:" 4: 00 P, M. Sunday, May He1d arriving at Woodruff 2 .', by 9: 00 p .. My inrr Found a \X;I! 11. it . I went back to Walker o n Monday. During the w c e k, wat e r+ ed and did chores. On Sunday the 9th, went to Brother Freeman's and back to R e idh e ad! s for meeting at 2: 00 p. M •. Du r ing the we ek, p l a nt e d some 'cane, corn and sowed some wheat. Cot some beef that Brother Reidhead had sent down. Wrote some in my journal. Prepared piece for watering and sowed some wheat. Y1atered on Friday and w e nt to VI 00 d:ruff on Saturday. '" rr.eet ing Sunday; May , , , 16 Held meeting and showed the operation of the spirits. Corrected rna ny mi stakes in the minds of the people. On Monday we held meeting arid settled some accounts and corrected the matter of land claims, etc. 'Vlent to J. VI. Young's store /some ten or twelve miles distant7. Cath 'erine went with me. Next day! received a letter from St. Joseph about the water affa i r s V!e were damming the water at Woodruff so t h at it did not flow on to St. Joseph. Our dam had been closed up for cight days 'and the people at St, Joseph were all out of sorts waiting for the w a t e r to flow over ou r headga.tes. It would have to fill up two and a half more feet 'befo r e it would pass over and that was too long to wait. /Too long for the' 9'ops"at'St ·J,oseph.7 ,Vi e cut our dam and Let the water tb r cu g h, It 'was' a sorry time for those who had worked so hard to put in this i!":1mcn)c dam. But all is well and our Father controls his affairs for his p c o p l c l s welfare. Left Woodruff for the farm and arrived on Thursday. Found a ll as we could 'not fee ed them, and tu r n c d t h e rn well. I brought up th r ee pigs out at Brother Millett's. Thursday, p r ep a r e d some ditches and F:-ichy Continued trrr oug h the night till 2: 00 A. M. ( V.3.tcr commenced wa.t e r i.ng ing by mmonlight ) Next day, planted some beets and watered. Brother R eidhead carne and stayed all night. , I ... , : .. Sunday, May 23 . left Walker for Woodruff and arrived at half past 2:00 p. M, and went to meeting and hea:rd Brothers Br irn l: a l l arid Reidhead preach. Lg av e some counsel and s ought to p r e p a r e for t h e drawing of land on Monday, P'r e s id e nt Smith a r ir iv e d at V/oodru[f on Sun We !Brother f7 Reidhead and .. day arr in : . at i vi ng s orn e l.ifter looking over the , , Reidhead took two of our pigs on shares. Started. for conference a n d at Woodruff I put bells on the horses and turned them out. Found t h e m at Adeline ar.d 5OO next morning and got started for St. J'os e ph .H!lU Deans and Owens went with me Spent two days .at conference, t>L nt d s i c r time and we got started back Sunday evening at' 5: 00 Po M. l babies ar.d 'Nent Smith came with rn e lt Yioodruff said good-bye to my On to Vlalker or the farm. During the w e ek, put in potatoes"me at a lke r Jume 6, found corn and Watered and B:.O,t:l .s , e ; m,J.C(, r.,rclcn, , planted ) '. ,I land, I went home to V, a l k e r c an c put on Tuesday. Fixed my plows, put in s orrn e amber Brother conference. for Jos o at s and p r epar e d to to St. eph go 5: 00 Pc. M !... ,'.' cane. '. '0 : • :. • • " Sunday, " II • , • Sunday, June 6 t, i z a bet R ead letters from an d d aug ht e r E l i my brother A b r arn them and went to rn e ct inz Heard the missionaries and spoke I;;) . ., J\ ". :J 'J..' 50:-1 , . .....,. ..... - ._..,. .... ; .... "_,, ........ .", " .. r r- d rn:{!Jcif. ·..., ..... r .... '1;'_. .... . .. _,...___ |
