Looks Smokey high wind. Mrs. Othout's Mother and Father came with 6 Oct Train. Mrs. O better to day. D Nolan Sick. Pa shoots a chicken for him & Boys & Berty husking corn. Berty cut up & Salted the hog last night. Pa watching the fire from R R wood. Netty washed out a few things & Bakes apple pies. Minnie makes G. Jelly Cakes then drinks warm tea & goes to bed Sick. I clean up rooms & fix up expecting Mr & Mrs Hazeltine* our new preacher here to Tea. They do now come. But spend the afternoon with Mrs Mother.
It is quite apparent that the process of trying to decipher names will be my downfall in reading this journal. In the first entries, Anna Christina mentioned the new preacher in town but had not yet mentioned his name. The first opportunity I get to learn it, I simply cannot read it. I am hoping that she mentions him again. It also seems like she may be writing about evens that happened before she had the journal - or I may be reading things incorrectly.
I'd also really like to know what G. Jelly cakes are (probably this?) but apple pie and salted pork sounds perfectly wonderful too.
* Update 2/19/12: As I had hoped, the new preacher is mentioned again in the next entries and the writing was easier to read. Instead of what I had originally written, Mr .and Mrs. Heazelting, the name is actually Hazeltine!
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