Crescent Dancing Club ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Index 19 Index Page List of Officers 21 By Laws 23 Roll of Members 24 Account of Dues 30 Record of Minutes 50 Receipts from Treasurer 80 Expense Account 100 Balances 110 Constitution 124 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 21 Officers of The Crescent Dancing Club. Terms expire Feb 25th 1884. Frank J. Becker. President. Charles Krone. Vice President. Fred A. Rife. Secretary. William Kraus. Treasure. Philipp Horther. Floor Manager. Committe of Arrangements. Chas Van Ausdall + Joseph Myers. Messer's Horther, Van Ausdall + Myers were expelled Jan 28th 1884. Mr John Keller elected Floor Manager to fill out unexpired term. Mr Haas elected to act with Mr. Keller and they together constatute the Com- mittee of Arrangements. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 22 Officers elected February 18th 1884. Terms expire May 18th 1884. William Kaus. President. Joseph Ruhl. Vice President. Fred A. Rife. Recording Secretary. William Dilg. Financial Secretary. Lewis Schreiber. Treasurer. John Keller. Floor Manager. Joseph Ruhl + John KLeller resigned Mar 10th 1884. John Keller elected Vice President. Charel Goodman elected Floor Manager. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ By Laws 23 1.- Roll Call of Members 2.- Reading of minutes of previous meeting. 3.- Treasures report of receipts + disbursements. 4.- Election of members. 5.- Miscellaineous business. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 24 Roll of Members 25 Nov Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Jan Jan Jan Jan Feb Feb Feb Joined Nov 26th 1883 26th 3rd 10th 12th 17th 23rd 31st 7th 14th 21st 28th 4th 11th 18th William Kraus. x x x x x x x x x x x x x x George Hass. x x x x x x x x x x x x x Philipp Horther. x x x x x x x x x x Curtis Samuels. x x x x x x x x x Edward Antrim. x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Geary Galloway. x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Lewis Schreiber. x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Fred A. Rife. x x x x x x x x x x x x x Frank Becker. x x x x x x x x x x Chas Krone. x x x x Dec 3rd 1883 Joseph Myers. x x John Keller. x x x x x x x x x x x x x John Manche. x x x x x x x x x x x x William Dilg. x x x x x x x x x x x Dec 10th 1883 Samuel Downey x x x x x x x x x x Daniel Doner. x x x x x Joseph Ruhl. x x x x x x x x Jan 12th 1883 Chas Van Ausdall x x x x x x Jan 14th 1884 Edward Blue x Jan 28th 1884 Thomas Hanly. x Roger Hanly. x x Feb 11th 1884 Chas Burner. x x Chas Goodman. x x Chas Seifert. x Ellworth Tucker. John Doner. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 26 Roll of Members 27 FEB M A R C H 25th 3rd 10 17th 31st Nov 26th 1883 William Kaurs. x x x Edward Antrim. x x Geary Galloway. x x x Lewis Schreiber. x x x Fred A. Rife. x x x Frank Becker. x Charles Krone. John Keller. x x x Dec 3rd 1883 John Manche. x x x William Dilg. x x x Dec 10th 1883 Samuel Downey. x x x Joseph Ruhl Feb 11th 1884 Charles Burner. x x x Charles Goodman. x x x Feb 25th 1884 Walter Webster. x x x John Miller x x x William Bracks. Mar 3rd 1884 John Young x x ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 28 Roll of Members 29 M A R C H A P R I L M A Y 17th 24th 31st 7th 14th 28th 5th 13th William Kraus. x x x x x x x Edward Antrim. x x x x x x Geary Galloway. x x x x x x x Lewis Schreiber. x x x x x x x Fred A. Rife. x x x x x x x John Keller. x x x x x x x John Manche. x x x x x x x William Dilg. x x x x x x x Samuel Downey. x Charles Burner. x x x x x x x Charles Goodman. x x x x x x x Walter Webster. x x x John Miller. x x x x x x John Young. x x x x x Henry Bov. x x x x x x Joseph Seegmuller. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 30 Accounts 31 List of Fees and Dues paid by members. Nov Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Jan Jan Jan Jan Jan 26th 3rd 10th 12th 17th 28th 1st 7th 14th 21st 28th William Kraus. .50 15 10 25' 15 15 25 15 15 15 George. Hass. .50 15 10 15x 15 15 25 15 15 15 Chas. Held. .50 15 15 25 15 25 45 Philipp. Horther. .50 15 10 15 15 40 Curtis. Samuels. .50 15 10 15 15 45 Edward. Antrim. 50 15 10 30 25 25 25 Geary. J. Galloway. .50 15 10 25 15 15 25 15 15 15 Lewis. Schreiber. .50 15 10 25 15 15 25 15 15 15 Adam Friend. .50 15 10 25 Fred A. Rife. .50 15 10 15 15 15 25 15 15 15 Frank J. Becker. .50 15 10 15 15 15 25 30 20 Chas. Krohne. .50 15 10 55 25 55 Joe Myers. 50 50 John. Keller. 50 10 15 25 15 25 15 15 15 John Manche. 15 10 25 15 15 25 15 15 15 Samuel Downey. 50 10 40 15 25 50 William Dilg. 50 10 35 20 25 15 15 15 Daniel Doner. 50 10 25 15 Joseph Ruhl. 50 10 25 25 45 15 15 Charles Van Ausdall. 65 15 15 25 15 Edward Blue. 1.00 Thomas Hanly. 50 Roger Hanly. 50 Charles Burner. .50 Charles Goodman .50 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 32 Memoranda, copied from my Diaries. Verbatim. Nov 13th 1874. Eleventh Birthday. Cut hurl, and picked + scraped brooms for Geo. Brecht + Jack Burns, at Hancock's Broom Shop. Nov 20th 1874. First snow of the season, 1 in deep. Jan 1st 1875. Helped Albert work on broom han- dels, varnishing sand-papering +e at Hancock's. Jan 1st 1878. Cold + Cloudy, arose at eight AM. went to market with Mother, George worked I took dinner to him. Lida came to our house for dinner and John came for supper. A false alarm of fire from Box 13. about 4 oclock. Spent 8 cents for fire crackers + 3 cents for paper caps John Gormly came over in the afternoon. A woman walked a rope at the Star Bowling Alley but I did not see it. We had chicken + Ran Antrim for dinner + supper. Went to bed at 10 oclock. Jan 2nd 1878. Cold + cloudy snowed in the morning worked all day at the shop, Mother + Nellie went to Aunt Mary Ann's. Billy Gormley is very sick. Albert went to the city to work this morning. Jan 3rd 1878. Clear + cold, arose at 6 1/2 oclock and worked all day. Mother, Nellie + Katie went out to Aunt Hannah's this morning. We got $1. worth of coal this morning, Nora went bunning this eve, commenced snowing about 9 oclock this eve. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 33 Jan 4th 1878. Cold + snowing, snowed 4 in deep, first of the season. Worked all day, went over to Schon's in the eve stayed till 8 1/2 oclock. George cut his thumb. Nora + I played dominoes in the eve, John Tucker + Mollie Shellhouse came + stayed until 10 oclock. Jan 5th 1878. Clear + cold, arose about 5 made fire worked all day, was paid $1.00 wages. went over to Schon's in eve stayed till 9 PM, Ran Antrim stayed all night, spent 10 cents for mixed candy + 10 cents for Cathartic Pills. Jan 6th 1878. Clear + cold, arose about 9 AM. Ran Antrim stayed for breakfast + supper, had buck-wheat cakes for breakfast. Went to Sunday School + church. George was elected Secretary, and I Librarian of the Sunday School. Went to Church in Evening. Jan 7th 1878. Clear + cold arose at 7 1/2 AM did not work, Hancock went to New Orleans, will have no work for 2 weeks, went to pork house in afternoon. Jan 8th 1878. Clear + cloudy. arose at 7 1/2 AM. went to Schon's and paid $4. on grocery bill, took George's dinner + got John Gormley when I came back. Scraped 14 doz brooms in afternoon. Mrs Davis moved in Ann's front room. Jan 9th 1878. Cloudy + cold arose at 7 1/2 AM. fixed holes in kitchen, went to Lida's for dinner. John Gormly and I went hunting in afternoon with "Rover + Spot," but did not get anything. All of the family went to Lew's for supper it beiing his birthday. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 34 Jan 10th 1878. Cloudy + cold arose at 7 1/2 AM. Mother went over to Aunt Mary's, I cooked 3 eggs for dinner, went to broom shop + scraped 18 doz brooms in afternoon, Nora went to Hargilts to wash and sprained her wrists. Made an engine for Maurice Shellhouse in eve. Jan 11th 1878. Cloudy + warm arose at 6.45. AM. Went to pork house and got some ribs + hearts, Mother washed. broke the will chain, scraped 18 doz brooms in after noon, Nora wrote a letter to Jennie Oyler, I made Maurice a set of dominoes in eve. Jan 12th Warm + cloudy arose at 7 1/2 AM cleaned out draw ers fixed bucket + went to Schon's in morning, scraped 18 doz brooms, made 65 cents this week, got a chicken at Rothenbushe's and played dominoes at Kates in eve. Jan 13th Rainy + cloudy arose at 7 AM, went to Sunday school + church in morning, Peter Troutman and family stayed for dinner, went down to Kate's and looked at her Bible. Passed books + papers at Sunday School. Jan 14th Rain + cold arose and made fire at 5 1/2 AM. Rose and Patsy stayed for dinner, put in a load of coal for Lida got 15 cents for it. went out along the railroad after coal. spent 15 cents for coal-oil milk +e. Jan 15th Cloudy + windy, arose at 7 1/2 AM went to Schon's + paid $4. on bill, scraped 13 doz brooms in afternoon. Jan 17 Clear + warm. arose at 7 1/2 AM. Scraped 17 doz brooms read Enquirer + Democrat cleaned chicken coop, wrote a letter to Cousin John Newkirk in eve. Had a fight with Bill Law yesterday on the railroad bridge, he got licked. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 35 Jan 18th Clear + warm arose at 7 1/2 AM. went down to pork house got some melts, Mother + Mary went to Aunt Mary's, scraped 18 doz brooms, dressed up in girls clothes in eve and went down to Kate's. Jan 19th Cloudy rainy + warm. arose at 6 1/2 AM. went to mar- fest with Mother, took George's dinner, scraped 15 doz brooms, Mrs Hutchison and Mrs Brandt came over in the after noon to get Mother to clean Church, and myself to be sexton. False alarm of fire in eve, Bill Law + I made up going to the fire. Jan 20th Rain + warm arose at 8 AM. smashed my finger nail between the door, wrote a letter to Albert, Hancock came home yesterday, he came over in the afternoon. Went to Sunday School in morning + church in eve, did not go in Church but Will Pay + I stayed in the vestry room. Jan 21st Rainy + warm arose at 6 AM. went to work, Labelled + scraped brooms all day. Albert came home about 4 PM. Went with Rob Wilson to get a Gramn? in eve. Nora went to the Christian Church. Jan 22nd Cloudy cold + snow, arose a 6 1/2 AM. Worked at labelling brooms all day, Nora went to a Ball + Mother and Nellie to Church. Jan 23rd Arose at 6 AM. Labelled + scraped brooms all day. Bought a book of the Nickel Library Mother, Nellie + Albert went to Christian Church. Jan 24th Arose at 6 AM, labelled brooms + cut hurl all day. Alarm of fire a 6.15 P.M. Box 23. Helped Albert take over broom press in evening. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 36 Jan 26th 1878. Arose at 6 1/2 AM. labelled brooms + carried broom corn all day, got paid wages $2. bought a 49 cent hat + a box of collars in eve. A smash up occurred at the railroad about 8 PM. a team of horses hitched to a wood wagon belonging to H. Shaffer ran away and ran into the rail road stonework one horse was killed and the wagon was smashed. Jan 27th Arose at 8 1/2 AM. went to Sunday School + Church in morning and evening, Rev J. P. Mc Lean preached a sermon on Hell. Katie Rife came down in eve. Mother baked cralls. Jan 28th Arose at 6.15 AM. labelled brooms and carried broom corn all day. Albert commenced tieing brooms today Lost 10 cents on Saturday + found it today. Jan 29th Arose at 6 AM. carried corn + scraped brooms all day, Mother + Nora went to Aunt Mary's Sent a letter to B. Husted, Nassau, N.Y. for 125 cards + 1 Magic Pen. Sent a 50 cents P.O. order. Jan 30th Arose at 6 AM. carried corn and labelled brooms all day, Mother took sick, Nora made vinegar pies and got supper in eve, commenced snowing. Feb 2nd 1878. Arose 5 1/2 AM. got some meat for breakfast labelled + scraped brooms + sorted corn all day, got paid $2. Got Ray of Church from Will Pay in eve. bought a cocoanut + fire kindlers + exchanged book in eve. Feb 4th Arose at 7 AM, went over to Church made 3 fires and rang the bell twice, John Gormley came over in the afternoon, Geo went with me to the Church in eve to show me how to tend to the gas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 37 Feb 6th Arose at 6 AM. cut hurl + scraped brooms all day, went to Church, made fires + lit gas but did not stay long, went to Schon's for eggs in eve. Feb 7th Arose at 6 1/2 AM. worked all day. helped Rose home with children in eve. took $3.50 to Winter's for Velvet, found 5 cents in afternoon. Feb 10th Arose at 7. AM. went to Church made 3 fires + rang bell, bought an Enquirer. John Gormley came over in afternoon, River very high. Opend Church in eve, lost 5 cents. Feb 12th Arose at 6 AM. labelled brooms + cut hurl all day, dressed and went over and opened up Church in eve for a Lecture by Miss Laurey, was offered 25 cents for it but refused as that was about all that she cleared. After lecture I went up to an Oyster Supper over the 3rd Ward engine house given by the Temple of Honor, paid 35 cents to go in had a splendid supper, went home with Mother + Nellie about 12 oclock. Feb 14th Arose at 615 AM. sorted corn with John Malt hias and Hake Horner, got cards + magic pen from B Husted. 25 for J. Vines, 25 for J. Shellhouse 25 for M. Shellhouse, 25 for Katy Leveline 25 for Nellie + 13 samples with type list +e Feb 16th Arose at 6 1/2 AM. cut hurl and scraped brooms, got paid $3. bought a pair of shoes for $2.35 at Henn + Marvs. Exchanged book for Nora in eve bought 5 cents worth of figs. Continured on Page 40. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 38 Roll Call of Members Admitted Nov 26th/83 William Krause. George Hass. Expelled Feb 18th 1884 Chas Held. Dropped Philipp Horther. Expelled Jan 28th 1884. Curtis Samuels. Expelled Jan 28th 1884 Edward Antrim. Geary Galloway. Lewis Schreiber. Adam Friend. Resigned Dec 23rd 1883 Fred A. Rife. Frank J. Becker. Expelled Mar 24 84 Chas Krohne. Dropped Dec 3rd 1883 Joseph Myers. Expelled Jan 28th 1884 John Keller. William Dilg. John Manche. James Snively. Rejected. Thos. Regan. Rejected. Dec 10th/83 Joseph Ruhl. Resigned Mar 10th 1884. Daniel Doner. Dropped. Dec 12th 1883 Charles Van Ausdall. Expelled Jan 28th 1884 Dec 10th 1883 Samuel Downey. Resigned. Jan 14th 1884 Edward Blue. Dropped. Jan 28th 1884 Roger Hanly. Resigned Mar 10th 1884. Thomas Hanly. Resigned Mar 10th 1884. Dec 23rd 1883 George Manche. Dropped Jan 8th 1884 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Admitted 39 Feb 4th 1884 Charles Burner. Charles Goodman. Charles Seifert. Dropped. John Doner. Dropped. Ellworth Tucker. Dropped. Feb 25th 1884 Walter Webster. Resigned. John Miller. William Brucks. Dropped. Mar 24th Henry Bov. Mary 5th Joseph Seegmuller. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 40 Feb 17th 1878. Arose at 7 AM. had buckwheat cakes + honey for breakfast. Opened Church in morning + eve, went to Mary's for dinner, Geo Dechar + I went to a Temperance Lecture at Opera Hall after Church Prof. Palmer lectured. Feb 11th. Arose at 615 AM. labelled and scraped brooms all day, took Georges supper over in eve. Mrs Richmond died last night at 11 1/2 PM Feb 20th Cut hurl and scraped brooms all day. Opened vestry room for Teachers Meeting in eve. Got my hair cut at Carpenters Barber shop in eve. Feb 22nd Cut hurl + scraped brooms all day. Nora + Ran Antrim masked as niggers and went to a ball last night. Feb 23rd. Cut hurl + scraped brooms all day, Went to lecture in eve at Opera House, Prof Palmer lectured on Physiology, he examined 200 children. Feb 28th Labelled brooms + cut hurl all day. Silver Bill vetoed by President Hayes, but passed over the veto by a vote of 198. to 73 nayes in House. 46. to 19 in Senate. Mar 2nd Labelled brooms + cut hurl got paid $2. Bought some Tapers for Church, Bought an Enquirer Dickey-Lytus case settled. Lytus to pay Miss. Dickey $6.000. Mar 3rd Dressed at 7 1/2 AM. Opened Church in morn + eve. Read Enquirer all afternoon, was paid $3. for sexton. Mar 4th. Worked all day. The boiler at the Miami Distillery exploded killing Wm Morton + injuring John Milk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 41 Mar 7th 1878. Clear + hot, worked all day. Mar 9th Worked all day, wages raised from $2. to $2.25 per week, quit work at 4.30 and made garden, planted lettuce. Mar 10th Fearful rain + wind storm, worked all day. Mar 17th Opened Church in morn and eve. Large excursion went to Cincinnati this morn. Mar 25th Cloudy + cold, worked all day, two alarms of fire sounded, one at 8 AM. and one at 12.M Box 24 Mar 26th Cloudy + warm worked all day, Uncle Henry died at 1 oclock this morning. alarm of five at 8 AM. Box 24. Apr 1st All Fools + Election day. was paid $2.00 for service as sexton. Nov 13th 1878. Fifteenth Birthday, worked all day at Hancocks broom shop, opend vestry room for Teachers Meeting in evening. Nov 19th 1878. Commenced working in the paint shop at the Hamilton Plow Co. with Jno Weidig. Nov 28th 1878. Thanksgiving Day, worked all day went to George's for dinner. June 19th 1879. Went to work for Joseph Garver in the country, plowed corn all day. June 20th Pitched + loaded hay. From 21st to 27th inclusive harvested wheat. 28th + 30th Plowed corn. July 1st + 2nd Mowed + loaded hay. July 3rd plowed corn July 4th 1879. Loaded + mowed hay with Uncle Jo + Rob Wilson. Tom Garver's barn burned about 10 AM. July 5th + 6th Mowed + loaded hay. July 8th hoed weeds. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 42 July 9th 1878. Mowed hay. 10th loaded hay. July 11th 12th 14th + 15th Hauled in wheat. 16th + 17th plowed corn 18th plowed corn + theshed out wheat with a horse on the barn floor. July 19th Harvested oates, was paid $10.00 for months work, and never was a boy more happier than I when I got home. No more country for me. Saturday Nov 1st 1879. Worked in John McHale's broom shop on Wood St. Went up to Mary's in eve. Nov 2nd 1879. John + family came and staid all day, went to Unversalist Church in eve. Nov 3rd Cut hurl + sorted broom corn. Lew came down in eve. Nora quit work at McKeny's Nov 4th Went to work this morning at Milliken + Cisle's shop working in the wood shop at $4. per week ave. working but 9 hours a day. There has been no rain for weeks. Coal $5 per load. Wed Nov 5th worked on plow rounds all day was paid $4.50 by McHale. Gave mother $3.50 and Albert $1 went up town in evening. Nov 6th Worked on circular saw all day. Mother went to Phillip Levlines for supper. I went to Mary's in eve. Nora went to St. John's fair. Nov 7th Worked, boring plow rounds. Mrs Landis came down for supper. Nov 8th Worked all day. Mother + Nellie went out to Aunt Hannah's this afternoon. Nov 9th Arose at 8 1/2 AM rained all morning. Went to Wilson's woods in afternoon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 43 Thursday Nov 13th 1879. Sixteenth Birthday. Arose at 6 AM. planed plow handles and other work all day, went up to Mary's in evening. Nora came home this eve. Went to bed at 10 PM. Nov 14th The largest rain storm + tornado that has occured for 15 years passed over the southern portion of the city at 10 1/2 this morn demolishing fences out buildings +e. The steeple of St. Joseph's Catholic Church was blown down smashing the organ bells and building loss about $10.000. The Distillery roof, rope walk soap factory Imfirmary roof and several large barns + stables were blown down. Nov 15th Worked nine hours. This is a day of re- pairing the havoc of yesterday, helped Will Milliken fix his shed, and was repairing fences around the shop all day, Bought a new pair of shoes at Henn + Marv's for $2.25. Nov 16th Went out in the woods this morning and to Sunday school Concert in eve. Clear + warm Nov 18th Worked all day, went to George's for dinner. Nov 21st Worked all day shipping plows. shipped 500 small plows to Rumsey Co. St. Louis, Mo Nov 24th Worked all day making fence, shop did not run received wages $4. Nov 27th Thanksgiving Day. shop did not on account of not having coal. Went to Lews for dinner. Albert worked. Light Infantry paraded and drilled in afternoon, went up to Dans in eve. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 44 Nov 28th. Heavy lightning and thunder storm, worked all day. Nov 30th Went to John Tuckers for dinner. Rob Wilson came in in the afternoon. went up to Dan's f in evening. Dec 9th Worked all day and 2 hours in eve. Dec 10th Went to John + Rentschlers with horse + wagon worked 12 hours. Dec 12th Numbered plows all day did not work in eve. Alarm of fire in eve Box 23. Dec 13th Helped load + number plows, shipped 1 car load to Little Rock Ark. Mon Dec 15th Worked all day received wages $4. Alice Shellhouse broke her leg in eve. Dec 23rd Thunder + lightning storm worked all day. Dec 24th Worked all day rained in eve went over the river and up to Christian Church in eve. divided candy for children afterwards. Dec 25th 1878. Arose at 9 oclock went over to Schons in morning, got a handkercheif from Mother a new shirt from Ann + other gifts. snowed all day but melted immediately went up to Dan's in eve. Dec 27th Worked all day. went to Light Infantry fair with John Tucker in eve. Spent 35 cents. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 45 Thursday Jan 1st 1880. Cloudy + cool did not work arose at 7 AM. went up to coal yard and ordered coal and put it in, then dressed and went over the river, bought a new brass handled knife for 50 cents a book for Billy Gormly + 5 cents worth of candy + an almanac. John + Lydia, Dan + Mary, George + Sophia + Mrs Landis came for dinner + supper. Ate the first oysters today taste not very good. Albert worked all day, went over the river in afternoon, smoked a cigar in evening. Jan 3rd 1880 Hot + clear thermometer 70 degrees above ate dinner on the porch went over the river in eve. Jan 9. Worked all day. It has been raining almost continually for a week, the river is as high as it was in 1875. Subscribed for the Daily News. Sept 4th 1881. Although the foregoing Diary is but a few years old, yet it is a great pleasure for me to persue their contents. My most earnest wish is that I would have continued it up to the present time. But, as I grow older my time has other occupations and when a fellow gets into a clique of associates he does not care about writing Diaries. But for a providential rain, this entry would not have been made. We have had no rain of any consequence since last June, and the ground is dry and parched. Fruit and vegetables are inormously high ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 46 Coal is $5 per load and increasing in price. The river at this point is like a gutter their being but 3in at the swift. The Ohio River channel at Cincinnati shows but 12in of water. I am at Hooven, Owens, Rentschler + Co's shops helping Jas Kiernan. November 13th 1882. This being the 19th aniversary of my birth the events of the day received more than a mere passing notice Am working at present at the Ritchie + Dyer Machine Co's shop at Lowell + Vine + Railroad + Fourth Sts, am doing all the painting and helping in the blacksmith shop. In speaking of the recent elections resulting so disasterously to the Repub- licans as it did we were asked to name the probable candidates for Governor of Ohio in 1883 and President in '84. Fisher named Jas G Blaine + Jno A. Logan as Rep Candidates in '84. and B. F. Butler + Frank Hand as Dem. He thought Lawence of Logan Co Rep and Hoadly of Cin Candidate for Goven. My opinion is that to nominate Ben H. Harrison and Levi P Morton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 47 and with a united party the Rep- ublicans can carry the day and put the time of Free Trade and Democratic authority in National offairs four more years hence. I think that Grover Cleavland and Joe Mc Donald will be the Democrats. Ben Eggleston of Cin or Ezna B. Taylor would be good candidates of the Reps for Governor. While I think Ben Lefevre will be the Democratic nomines. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 104 Fred A Rife signed application for membership Monday Oct 11th 1885. Application endorsed by Matt Sauner. Enlisted as private in Company B, 7th Regiment, Ohio National Guard, Hamilton Ohio Wednesday Nov 4th 1885. Ordered into camp for regular duty at Camp Fovaker, Carthage, O. Saturday May 8th 1886. Ordered back to Hamilton Tuesday May 18th 1886. Ordered into camp for camp duty. at Camp Axline Springfield O July 21st 1886 Wednesday Appointed Fifth Corporal July 22rd 1886. Appointed Corporal of Regimental Color-Guard July 23rd 1886. Ordered to Hamilton July 28th 1886. Appointed Third Sergeant Nov. 13th 1886. Nominated for First Leutenant unanimously Monday Jan 31st 1887, but declined. Nominated for First Leutenant in opposition to Wm J. Morand, Mon Feb 7th 1887. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 105 Election held Thursday Eve Feb 17th 1887 36 ballots were case with following result Morand 18. Rife 18. Second election ordered and held Monday eve Feb 28th 1887. result 28 ballots cast. Rife 27. Morand 1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 146 Memoranda of Monie received and expended in connection with the sale of our house. Amount sold for to John Weber $850.00 Sept 22nd 1883 Amount due Venice Bldg and Loan Ass. on mortgage 644.55 Amount paid Price Farr for taxes for 1881 with 25 % prem- ium + 6 % interest to date 42.84 ------- Total $687.39 Amount sold for $850.00 Amount withheld for claims, 687.39 ------- Amt received of John Weber 162.61 Paid Jacob Troutman for writing deed, Sept 22nd $2.00 Paid Oliver Traber Notary Public for sealing deed Sept 22nd 1.50 Paid Samuel Manche for moving Sept 26th 5.00 Paid Giffen _ Bro for lumber due them; Sept 22nd 25.00 Paid Elizabeth Stengel for safe Sept 26th 7.00 ------ $40.50 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 147 Balance forward. - - $40.50 Paid Fred A. Rife amount due 20.00 Paid Elizabeth Rife. 2.11 ------- Amount expended $62.61 Deposited in Second Nat Bank Oct 2nd 1883. $100.00 ------- Total Amount $162.61 Draw from Bank Nov 13th 1883 $100.00 Paid Wm Matthias amt due 5.00 " Elizabeth Rife Dec 1st 1883 15.00 " " " Dec 4. 1883. 10.00 " Thompson for coal Jan/84 5.00 " Fred A. Rife Nov 1883 10.00 " Elizabeth Rife for rent 12.00 " Geo H. Skinner 2.50 " Elizabeth Rife Missellay Insurance +c 18.00 ------ Total paid up tp July 1885. $77.50 Amount drawn from bank $100.00 Amount paid out 77.50 ------- Balance on hand July 1885 $22.50 Paid Elizabeth Rife Dec 12th 85 2.50 Paid Elizabeth Rife Jan 13th 86 2.50 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------