Hiram E. Leonard Diary, June 19 - 25, 1873

“19th Thursday  A fine hot dry day  I did my choars choared round some closed up at 8 & went to bed at 10 tiard & nearly sick.

“20th Friday  A hot dry day  I did my choars and was round the office the most of the day closed up at 8 & went to bed about 10 nearly sick  Gus Manning came to his fathers tonight.

“21st Saturday  A verry hot dry day  I did my choars choared round the store closed up at about 8 and went to bed about 10 sick with rheumtis etc  Connell finished splitting my wood at door this afternoon  Caroline and Emma Stone went Naperville in daytime & meeting in evening  Theodore Watson came out home today.

“22nd Sunday  cloudy & sprinkled a little in morning  A hot dry day but some cloudy  I did my choars was round home all day about sick  had a diarea in afternoon went to bed between 4 and 12 sick  Caroline & Emma Stone started for camp meeting about 9 ½ with John Hollister  They went up near Saint Charles, the Redfieldites and got home 5 minutes to 12 oclock at night.

“23rd Monday  fine dry weather & verry hot  I did my choars choared round some closed at 8 & went to bed about 9 nearly sick.

“24th Tuesday  fine hot dry weather  I did my choars choared round the office some closed up at 8 & went to bed at 10 nearly sick with rheumatism etc thurmometer at near 100.

“25th Wednesday  fine growing weather & verry hot  I did my choars choared round the office some closed up at 8 & went to bed about 10 nearly sick thurmometer at about 100.”