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23 July want rain - showers around Gen.(?) Grant(?) 24 very hot went to Morton - let Lester have $25.00 very hot 25 a little rain last night 96º 26 rain last night - foggy 27 clear + cooler 28 very clear + hot. Funk cutting oats 100 29 clear + hot at 12-1/2 oclock 104º 30 Electric storm vivid lightning last night - went to Morton Mid Land R. broke 4 locomotive and our passengers + 34___ (yrs?) went by - Lulls sick - sick 347.75 31 fine rain last night 1st August clear + hot 2d rain storm last night + to day cool NE wind 3 quite coll(cool?) roads muddy - Ella Clark here 4 cool + pleasant Rec'd from Lester $30.00 5 clear + pleasant - paid Erastus $200. 6 looks like rain - Thrashing for Funk 7 foggy 8 fearful thunder + lightning all night; 2 barns and 2 straw stacks burnt by lightning within sight. W. Hancock Mr. Smith - 2 trees 9 wind N. cloudy 10 began fall plowing 11 54º cool + clear - visited Marys 12 cloudy 13 very clear Mary have $20.00 (James Roberts visit and folks here) 14 53º clear N wind. thrashing for Wagonbails(?) 15 49º clear Lull Bot. 1/2 thrashing machine 17 52º do. Sabbath S. Convention(?) at Morton 18 55º do. sick man here Mr. Wolf of Peoria 19 Thunder showers all day 20 clear + cooler 21 cool Wind SE 21 Thunder showers 22 clear + cool 23 thunder showers around Camp meeting Eureka 90º at noon sultry