22 September 8. Clara leaves for new teaching position at Burleson College, Greenville, Texas. September 28. James’ brother Dan, on neighboring farm, dies. October 14. New tenant house completed. December. Clara, Jason, Harlan home for Christmas. Homer and Mary have moved to So. Carolina where he is preaching (health improved). December 31. Jason will return to Tarkio (?), Mo. and Clayton goes with him to attend Business College there. Harlan returns to work in Iowa for the Washburn & Crosby Co. 1903 January 1. Martha tells where she and Mr. Mc, as she calls her husband, have spent the day– and in the evening as they sit nearby alone lists where the family is: Fannie at Port Jarvis, N.Y. - Fred in Des Moines, Ia. - Harlan is also at Des Moines - Home at Lowndesville, N.C. - Clara at Burleson College, Texas - Clayton and Jason to Tarkio College, Missouri; Paul at local school. Also names the first tenants in the new tenant house, and names the “house servants.” March 5. Describes a dinner party–cousin Helen McMillan’s going to Monmouth. March 13. Neighbors’ farewell party for Will McMillan’s going to Monmouth. April 3. Homer and Mary come for a visit before going on to California. April 28. James and Martha leave for trip to So. Carolina, Tenn. & Michigan. [Note: The responsibility for keeping the diary was turned over to Paul from April 29 to June 12. Martha’s account of this trip is located in the back of the diary.] May 31. Dr. Morton died (pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Church [in Cedarville]) June 13. James and Martha return from their trip (trip described in back of this book, p. 303) June 22. Jason home from Tarkio. July 2. The MacKenzies arrive for summer visit. July 11. Clara arrives home. July 28. Cousin Anabel Murdock visits. August. Homer arrives from California. Fred and Harlan from Des Moines. September 1. Professor Jurkat [Cedarville College] and Alice Bromegan were married last week. September 3. Clayton and Jason leave for Greely, Colorado to visit Rankin sisters (whom they met at Tarkio College). Jason will return to Tarkio for fall term. September 7. Fred and Harlan return to Des Moines. September 9. MacKenzies return home. September 10. Homer leaves for Columbus and later for California. September 30. Clayton returns from western trip. October 8. Clara leaves for Philadelphia, Pa., to enter National School of Oratory. December 17. James and Martha and son Paul leave for a visit to California at Homer’s While in Columbus Mary [Homer’s wife] had her first baby (Richard) in August, and when Homer left in September for their home now in Calif. Mary was not able to go– now she is returning along with James and Martha .[Note: The responsibility for keeping the diary was turned over to Aunt Mary from December 18, 1903 to July 21, 1904.] The California trip of James and Martha is written up in a separate volume–it was from Dec. 13, 1903 to July 21, 1904.
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