1872
Friday
March 22

Well we did not get home until about 1 this morning & I sat up until 2 & then pumped the wells & came & went to bed. Clayton went down town this morn & I went up to see Cap. Denny. Came home & oil was running on the ground at no.1. Ella went over to Dingmans. I went down to oil men's ..?.. & Ella went to a temperance lecture.

(The Temperance Movement was a movement to reduce or restrict the use of alcohol.)