Thurs. June 30, 1898

Clear and warm

AM. mowed raked and unloaded 2 loads
P.M. hauled 6 loads of hay.

Wed. June 29, 1898

Clear and pleasant

AM. Mowed grass and turned hay.
P.M. Cut rye 2 acres in field at barn, then one load of hay.

Tues. June 28, 1898

A.M. Clear or nearly so. P.M. Partly cloudy with showers.

Mowed grass and turned hay. P.M. took 1 1/2 loads of hay in until showers came.

Mon. June 27, 1898

A.M. Clear and warm. Cultivated corn.
I and Henry Wismer went to see Mrs. Henry Tyson. Not very favorable.

Sun. June 26, 1898

Clear and very warm.

At meeting in Providence. Introductory by Henry Wismer. Text by me from Matt. 11-28-30.

Sat. June 25, 1898

Clear and very warm with slight rain in the evening. Shortly after 5 o'clock showers.

A.M. hauled 1 load of hay in.

Fri. June 24, 1898

Clear and Warm

A.M. Prepared for market

P.M. Hauled 5 loads of hay in from field at home.

Thurs. June 23, 1898

Clear and pleasant.
Went to Creamery for butter. Suceored (?) corn and mowed and turned hay.
P.M. Mowed some more turned and cultivated corn.

Wed. June 22, 1898

AM. Clear pleasant. PM. Partly cloudy with rain in evening about 5 o'clock.

Cultivated corn and pulled
PM. I mowed some grass in field at barn.

Tues. June 21, 1898

AM. Cloudy with slight rain in morning.
PM. Clear

AM. Went up to clean meeting house and mow grass on ground.
Cultivated corn, potatoes, etc.

Mon. June 20, 1898

Clear and pleasent

AM. Prepared truck patch
PM. cultivated corn and planted truck patch.

Sun. June 19, 1898

Cloudy at times with showers in afternoon.

At Meeting in Skippack. Henry Clemmer read 14 chapter of Luke. Jacob Minsch, introduction.
Henry Gottshall had spoken from Luke 12 - 37.
Henry Clemmer, Jos. Hallman, Issac Gottshalk's for dinner.

June 18, 1890 & 1901

1901
Clear and pleaseant.

Began to cut meadow grass. Cut about 1/2 half.

1890
Today harrowed hay. Put 2 loads in and harrowed again fo G. Schweitzerhoff.

June 17

This is the first of what I hope will be day entries from the diary of my great grandfather, Warren G. Bean. Warren was a farmer and a Mennonite Bishop in Mongomery County in Southeastern Pennsylvania.

The diary entries are usually short, sometimes only a single sentance, and always the weather. The entries will come from diaries he kept in the late 1800's and early 1900's. There will be entries from his daily diaries that usually have his farming activities and from his diaries of his church work.

This will be (hopefully) the only time I will comment in these entries. I do not want to influence what anyone takes from these entries. Therefore, what appears here will be directly from Warren's writing unless noted otherwise. I will only say that for me, the interest and connection (besides blood) is that we are seperated by 100 years and are roughly the same age (Warren was born in 1866, I was born in 1963), and both of us are farmers in Southeastern Pennsylvania.   B. F. Moyer

Mon.  June 17, 1901
Clear and Cool. PM Bought Cow of Alen Imis for $38.75. Paid cash.