The Eastwick Press Newspaper

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John F. Wins Prizes For His Fruit

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Tuesday, September 11, 1855: I got some worm wood  to the widow Eliza Wylie’s to bathe my wife’s stomach where she was bruised falling into the wagon to the chapel when the horses started.
Thursday: this morning I drove the cows to pasture on the Rodgers farm, some rainy. John F. went with my horse and wagon out to the Fairbanks lot. He looked for his sheep that had got out of the pasture but could not find them.
Friday: I picked half a bushel damson plums. John F. span of young horses got into James M. Glasses lot and he took them to pasture on the Rodgers farm.
Saturday: I picked up apples for the hogs. My two daughters went to Pittsfield with my horse and wagon. they carried plums and exchanged for sugar. They bought dresses and bonnets.
Sunday: Today Michael Manning had my horse and wagon to carry his infant girl, not a week old, to Lebanon to the Catholic Church to have the child sprinkled.
Monday: I am lame but I tended to some chores. I walked up to Geo P. and took dinner.
Tuesday: I walked down to the widow Morey’s and got a little hemlock essence for my wife to take for her hurt in the stomach falling into the wagon. Some rainy this afternoon. John Rafferty picked plums and Eliza Russel came and paid 25 cts for a peck plums.
Wednesday: I am lame. Today John F. went to Pittsfield with my horse and wagon and sold nearly four bushels plums at one dollar per bushel, and sold four bushel apples at thirty cts per.
Friday: I took my horse and wagon  up to Geo P. for his wife to go to Hancock village to buy groceries and to go to the carding machine. I carried her a peck of plums. John F. plowed and Edward Hatch and John Rafferty dug potatoes.
Saturday: Today Geo P. returned home from Vermont with 204 sheep, they were all wethers and Thomas Norton bought 80 ewes.
Wednesday: John F. went with his two horse team to Berlin to Culver’s to Cattle Show and Fair, and I went and my two daughters went, we all had dinner at 25 cts apiece. John took fruit, two dollars premiums on quinces and one dollar second premiums on grapes and third premium on plums one dollar, and Sarah A. took first premium on hair flowers two dollars. Geo P. and wife went to the fair and cattle show and he was committee on fruit.