Ledger of John T Ralston

This table is copied from loose pages provided by cousin Robert Ralston. They seem to be from a ledger book kept by Great Uncle Thomas J Ralston. He took over the farm after Grandpa P Wm Ralston married and moved to Chicago where he was engaged as a surveyor.
Month	Day	Sept 1895; page 5	Amount
May	27	Dry goods	4.98
-	31	Dry goods	1.32
-	-	Stabling	.15
-	-	L. McTaddert	$208.17
-	-	Elizabeth Ralston	32.00
June	1	Cream check	43.07
-	3	Sold 5 steers for	$116.00
-	-	" Commander	30.00
-	20	Paid for carpet wash	2.16
-	-	Sold 4 cow, 3 milkers	70.00
July	1	Cream check	33.70
-	-	Painting buggy	7.00
-	4	Church Picture	1.75
-	-	Dry goods	2.00
-	-	Horse nets	5.50
-	8	Sold fat cow	33.00
-	-	Wash? 12 lb.	2.40
-	9	Mrs Welch for weaving carpet	4.10
-	-	Coloring for carpet	2.00
-	-	E. H. Randle for Insurance	86.00
-	16	Dry goods	1.44
-	17	Telegram	.50
-	-	Fruit	.28
-	-	Thread	.23
-	-	Grace Lovejoy for book	$1.00
-	-	Sold 2 calfs	5.10
-	30	Cream check	29.40
August	4	Mrs Welch for carpet weaving	4.20
-	6	Fresh fish	.63
-	14	Soaps	.25
Sept	1	Cream check	33.23
-	5	E. Randle for flour	$10.50
-	-	(Next Column page 5)	-
Sept	7	Mr Burdick for cutting wool	$10.00
-	-	Book, What can a woman do	2.90
-	8	Dishes	4.28
-	-	Dry goods	.14
-	27	Sold Bessie to Mr Kelly for	$80.00
-	28	Sold one steer to F Cummings	$15.00
-	-	Paid L. S. Fyler	8.51
-	29	Gave for Missions	2.20
-	-	Gave Mary Holmes money	Page torn
-	30	Sold 10 hogs to F. C at 8.50 ?	$140.00
Oct	4	Eggs 5 &12; doz	.88
-	-	Groceries	1.51
-	-	Envelopes	.10
-	-	Cream check	$26.00
-	6	Paid Goldmiths? for cutting stalks	3.15
-	-	Paid twine	1.40
-	7	Seat rent	12.00
-	-	Sold calf	4.00
-	-	For Mrs Welsh house	1.00
-	10	Paid	Page torn
Oct	24	-	Page torn
-	30	-	Page torn
-	-	Nov. 1895 page 6	-
-	1	Paid Mr Hardy for thrashing	25.00
-	-	Paid J. Love for cutting stalks	15.00
-	4	Paid Mrs Adms	9.00
-	-	10 lb nails	.40
-	-	Postage stamps	.40
-	-	Paid F W Warner for sheep	15.75
-	-	Spool barbin	1.50
-	8	Carol Swanson for work	2.75
-	20	Wedding presents	2.00
-	25	5# sacks flour	9.25
-	-	Groceries	.60
-	-	Paid Andrew Benges for work	$194.00
-	28	Thanks offering	1.95
-	30	Bbl. Apples	2.75
-	-	Sock	.25
-	-	Stamps	.20
Dec	12	Ice cream for groceries?	1.90
-	-	Meat	2.21
-	16	Presents	4.07
-	-	Groceries	1.02
-	23	Groceries	1.00
-	Torn page	Dry goods	4.00
-	Torn page	Paid A Lovejoy for four rooster	4.00
-	Torn page	K. McCury for paper	1.00
-	Torn page	Fixing dishpan	.25
-	Torn page	Tresus? Present	.40
-	Torn page	Paid help	1.00
-	-	Next column; page 6	-
Feb.	4	Paid G. Gordon for saw wood	3.00
-	-	Paid T. Burdick work	3.00
-	-	Paid Eli Burdick work	1.50
-	-	Seat rent	10.00
-	-	Paid Whiting for coal	10.00
-	-	Cream check	35.50
-	-	Wedding present (maybe for sister Lizzie and Dan McKay; married 10 January 1895)	1.35
-	-	7 Church pamphlets @25	1.75
-	-	Picture of church	4.20
-	-	Roscoe entertainment	1.00
-	-	Paid R. R. Allen	2.00
-	-	Sold 85 bu. @ 15	12.65
-	-	Stamps	.10
-	18	Sold F. M. Cummings 3 head cattle for	83.00
-	-	Paid M Bundick for cutting posts	5.00
-	19	Dr Ward	3.00
-	-	Kay McCurry	1.00
-	24	Paid M Bundick for work	10.75
March	4	Rockford S. W, Register Gazette	1.00
-	-	Grocery	2.07
-	-	Dry goods	1.08
-	-	Stabling	.15
-	5	Paid Whiting	5.00
-	-	Paid L S Fyler	5.00
-	-	Paid Howard Rodgers for silver ware	1.00
-	-	Cream check	44.48
Apr	2	Cream check	59.86
-	4	Paid drilling well	55.40
-	-	April 1896; Page 7	-
April	6	Groceries	1.24
-	-	Horse collar	4.00
-	17	Sold 4 pigs at 3.10 per lb.	41.23
-	-	Fixing for hame	.75
-	-	Sharpening plow	1.50
May	-	Seat rents	6.00
-	2	Cream check	39.74
-	-	Sold Mr Howe one cow	18.00
-	5	Paid E. Randell for groceries	10.00
-	-	Mr Fyler for day	4.63
-	6	Groceries	.47
-	8	Paid Briggs collection	1.00
-	9	Paid J. Welsey for work	16.00
-	14	J. Tway for work	4.00
-	-	Sold wool	15.82
-	-	Paid for shearing	1.40
-	-	Paid McCabe	10.00
-	-	Paid Carlson for clover	10.00
-	-	Paid Whiting	21.00
-	-	Sold rye 2.97 bu. @ 34?	201.00
-	-	Spade	.75
-	-	Straw berries	.25
-	-	Horse brush	.25
June	4	Tea & coffee	2.30
-	-	Stabling	.65
-	-	Towels	.80
-	-	Strawberries	.20
-	-	cake	.34
-	-	Cream check	35.69
-	-	Next column; page 7	-
June	7	Willie interest	17.00
-	-	Renew Chiago Journal	9.00
-	-	Lumber for hay rack	3.50
-	-	Paint for house	29.00
-	-	Paid Worcester for painting	30.00
-	-	Renewed Pres. Banner	2.25
-	-	Renewed Pres. Delineator	1.00
July	21	Paid Mrs Adms 11.55 for groceries	11.55
-	22	Paid L S Fyler 7.70 for groceries	7.70
-	-	Sold 9 doz eggs	8.81
-	-	Sold 3 cows to J McMillen	62.00
-	23	Sold Mr How one cow for	25.00
-	-	300 bu oats at?	42.00
-	-	Received for cow	23.70
-	-	Paid for little tank	5.00
-	-	Sold 2 sheep	6.50
-	-	Sold 2 pigs	5.00
-	-	Paid for meat	5.00
-	-	Tea , coffee, oatmeal	4.92
-	-	W. Sammon for shucking	8.00
-	-	Forks	1.20
-	-	P W. Ralston for ?	5.00
-	-	John McDonald haying	5.00
-	-	Sugar	.50
-	-	Paid for making sorgum	10.50
-	-	Paid on separator	25.00
-	-	Sold hogs, average ?? @ 2.50	83.00
Oct	2	Sold Norman	80.00
-	-	Oct 1896; page 8	-
-	6	Paid Mr Hardy for thrashing	$38.00
-	-	Dry goods	4.37
-	13	Paid W. Ralston for timothy seed	6.30
-	-	Kerosene	.54
-	-	Sugar .50, corn meal .15, jam .15	.80
-	-	Stool	1.00
-	-	Seat rent	10.00
-	-	Groceries	1.74
-	-	Dry goods	1.22
-	-	Cider barrel	.75
-	-	Sugar	1.00
-	-	Flour	.95
-	16	Nails	.40
-	-	Cranberries 7, cheese 25	.33
-	22	Oatmeal 25 crackers 25	.50
-	-	Flour	1.00
-	-	Harness repair	1.90
-	-	Lime	.25
-	24	4 bbl. salt	3.20
-	-	Bid for 25 lb cheese	2.60
-	28	Crackers 25, stamps 10	.35
-	29	Carpet	11.98
-	-	Lounge cover	2.00
-	-	Silk	.14
-	-	Grimp	.15
-	-	Dotted muslin	.46
-	-	Thread	.30
-	-	Hooks	.10
Nov.	1	Cream check	30.13
-	-	Paid meat, Fred R	17.82
-	5	Tooth picks	.05
-	7	Flour 1.20 pepper 05	1.25
-	-	Next column Nov 1896; page 8	-
-	9	Sold Mr Chadin 43 roosters at 5?	10.20
-	10	Yarn	.35
-	-	Canten flannel	.45
-	-	Stabling	.15
-	-	Coffee 46? tea 50	.96
-	-	Ginger	.10
-	11	Crackers 15, mucilage 05	.20
-	-	Stamps	.11
-	-	Oil 25? nails 40	.65
-	-	Solder	.30
-	14	Crackers 25? salmon 18?	.43
-	17	Beans 25? medicine 48?	.73
-	-	Money order	.15
Nov.	21	Sugar 1.00 Flour 1.25	2.25
-	-	Overalls	.75
-	-	Cornmeal 15 Flour 1.25	.15
-	-	Lamp chimney 18? writing paper 20?	.38
-	-	Kerosene 18? p plaster 20?	.85
-	25	Canton flannel	.20
-	28	Oatmeal 25 soda 8?	.33
-	30	Oilcloth	.85
-	-	Binding agent	.25
-	-	Stamps 10 fright 35	.45
Dec	3	Oilcloth	.85
-	-	Paid H. Rodgers for husking corn	23.00
-	7	3 sacks flour	3.60
-	-	Sugar	1.00
-	-	Carpet tacks	.5
-	-	Dry goods	5.66
-	-	Lining thread	.10
-	-	Handkerchief	.35
-	-	Lunch	.15
-	-	December 1896; page 9	-
-	9	Cream check	$19.70
-	-	Salt 25 thread 5	.30
-	-	Meat	.40
-	-	Butter coloring	.25
-	11	Soap	.29
-	-	Oatmeal	.25
-	-	Received for oats	125.80
-	-	Coal	7.50
-	-	Grist	2.00
-	14	Groceries	1.12
-	-	Stabling	.15
-	-	Dolls 20? mittens 15	.35
-	-	Yarn 44 combs 5?	.49
-	-	Xmas presents	3.49
-	-	Gazette	1.00
-	16	Gave Lizzie	184.00
-	-	Draft for money	.30
-	19	R. Harvey	1.50
-	22	G Wood for brooms	.55
-	-	Paid Fred Nelson	35.00
-	-	Rubber cord	.05
-	23	Express on presents	1.00
-	-	Crackers	.10
-	24	Thomas present	1.00
-	-	Paid expense on box	.35
-	-	Paid for grinding corn	.90
-	-	D. Andrews	.25
-	-	Sinclair	.05
-	-	Admission	.30
-	-	Dividend on cream	25.55
Jan	6	Dry goods	20.00
-	-	Cream check	18.96
-	-	Dry goods	13.45
-	-	Groceries	2.58
-	-	Stabling	.25
-	-	Next column 1897; page 9	-
-	-	Ribbon	.25
-	-	Hairpins 5? Combs 10	.15
-	-	2 handkerchiefs	.45
-	-	Brestpin for M	1.00
-	-	Wedding cards	2.50
-	-	Groceries	2.37
-	-	Hose	.53
-	-	Perfume	.10
Jan	22	Sold 24 hogs at 1.34 to M Cummings	218.00
-	26	Drygoods	2.46
-	-	Biscuits	3.88
-	-	Flour	.65
-	-	Groceries	1.98
-	-	Fruit	5.00
-	-	Feb 1897	-
-	-	Cream check	16.74
-	-	Seat rents	7.00
-	-	Fred Nelson	5.00
-	-	Freight on M. Yunlin	8.25
-	-	2 sacks flour	2.45
-	-	Groceries	2.00
-	22	Tax on woodland	1.26
-	23	Tax for 1897	82.75
-	-	Grinding feed	2.30
-	-	Flour 1.00 matches 20?	1.20
-	28	sold 4 head cattle for	9675
-	-	Writing paper fo camps	.60
-	-	Breeders Gazette	1.00
-	-	Mr Gordon for sawing wood	3.50
-	-	Mr Buchannak for delivering	1.40
Mar	2	Salts 10? soda, gas, stamps	.40
-	-	Mar 1897; page 10	-
-	10	Paid Mrs Adms	7.25
-	-	Paid paint	.70
-	-	For Mrs. Bannen	4.00
-	-	Orange juice f??	1.00
-	-	Willie interest	10.00
-	-	Stamps 10? writing paper	.20
-	13	12 doz eggs at 10	1.20
-	-	Oat meal	.25
-	-	Flour	1.20
-	-	Lamp chimney	.08
-	18	Sold 8 doz eggs	.80
-	-	Overalls	.85
-	-	Paint brush	.30
-	-	Linen thread	.10
-	25	Sold 15 doz eggs	1.55
-	-	Sack flour	1.20
-	-	Coffee	.30
-	-	Grinding feed	.40
-	-	Straps	.30
-	-	Fixing shoes	.20
-	26	10 rods wire from Mr Wamernd @ .60 a rod	$6.00
-	-	Clover seed	19.25
-	-	Paid H. Andrew for separator	$103.00
Apr	2	Sold 16 doz eggs at 8?	1.32
-	-	Sold 9 pigs at 3.75 per lb	107.25
-	-	Pipe 2? stove blacking10?	.15
-	-	Sugar 40? oatmeal 25	.65
-	-	Paid for grinding feed	1.45
-	7	2 plow lays	4.00
-	8	Sold eggs	1.12
-	-	Sack flour	1.20
-	-	Stays - rubbers 40	.48
-	-	-	-
-	-	Freight on coal	.32
-	-	Jar butter	.32
-	17	Sold 8?	.84
-	-	Oatmeal 26 saland 8	.33
-	-	Sugar	.50
-	18	Sea rent	7.00
-	-	Posts & lumber for gate	$2.00
-	28	Sold 16 doz eggs	1.08
-	-	Sack flour	1.25
-	-	Coffee 25? radish 5 juice 8?	.38
May	1	Nails	.60
-	-	Express on box	.25
-	3	2 sacks flour	2.00
-	-	Onion sets	.10
-	-	Fixing teeth	.75
-	-	Cream check	26.92
-	-	20 galon jar	2.00
-	-	Suspenders	.50
-	7	Sack flour	1.00
-	-	Framing pictures	4.00
-	-	Dry goods	3.57
-	-	Cookie	.05
-	10	Dr Shaw	3.00
-	12	Sold 10 doz eggs	.78
-	-	Coffee 25? tea 25? oatmeal 25?	.75
-	-	Sugar	1.00
-	22	Sold 13 doz eggs	.78
-	-	Kerosene	.60
-	-	Soda 8 baking powder 25	.33
-	-	One can bbls lye	.12
-	25	Horse shoeing	1.55
-	-	Drill fixing	1.30
-	-	One canetaste	.05
-	26	Dr Ward	3.25
-	-	June 1897; page 11	-
May	27	Planks	1.15
-	-	For Chicago Journal	3.00
-	28	Fixing watch	1.25
June	1	Cream check	27.65
June	2	Sold corn to F. R.	34.00
-	-	Sold 11 doz eggs at 7?	.77
-	-	Sugar coffee 25?	1.25
-	-	Oatmeal	.25
-	-	Present for Mr Alexander	1.00
-	2	Groceries	1.68
-	10	3 sacks flour	3.00
-	-	Sugar	1.00
-	-	Tea 20? Strawberries .25	.45
-	-	Salts	.20
-	-	Dry goods	2.73
-	-	Shoes	3.00
-	-	Rock from S. W for ?	15.00
-	11	Dry goods	1.10
-	-	Coffee 25? salt 15?	.40
-	-	Cornmeal	.15
-	-	Sold 14 doz at 7?	.98
-	15	Pens 5? stamps 10?	.15
-	-	Wire net	.30
-	-	Dress pattern	.10
-	-	Twine	.30
-	19	Rec'd for wool	32.60
-	20	Sold 15 doz eggs	1.20
-	-	Sugar	1.00
-	-	Oatmeal 25? soap 10?	.35
-	26	Painting buggy	8.00
-	28	Sugar pipes	1.35
-	-	Fruit cans	1.30
-	30	Coffee	.25
-	-	Next column JULY 1897; page 11	-
-	30	Wrapper	1.00
-	-	Dry goods	3.05
-	-	John clothes	6.00
-	-	Mower fixing	1.00
-	-	Stabling	.15
-	-	Brush	.40
July	2	Sugar	1.00
-	-	Doz cans	.65
-	-	Freight on butter	.35
-	-	10 doz eggs	.80
-	-	Doz cans	.65
-	-	Paris green	.20
-	-	Cream check	38.40
-	7	Libbie monarch	1.00
-	8	Sugar $1 ginger 15	1.10
-	-	Fruit jars	1.20
-	-	Starch 10? tacks 5?	.15
-	-	Cans 5? sugar 25?	.30
-	-	Jelly glasses	.18
-	-	Sold 9 doz eggs 8?	.72
-	-	Stamps	.20
-	26	Stamps	.20
-	-	Straw hat	.15
-	-	Flour	1.15
-	-	Cornmeal 15? ? 25	.40
-	-	Sugar	1.00
-	31	Crackers 10? ??25?	.35
-	-	Sugar	.25
-	-	Rec'd 10 head cattle	290.00
Aug	3	Cream check	25.26
-	-	Jar 8? lemons 35? bananas 15?	.58
-	-	Stabling	.15
-	-	Paid note	211.40
-	-	Aug. 4 1897; page 12	-
Aug	4	Post hole digger	1.00
-	-	Ivory soap	.10
-	-	Sold 18 hens	5.05
-	-	Writing paper	.15
-	-	Ax handle	.15
-	5	Sugar	1.00
-	-	Dipper	.10
-	-	Potato masher	.10
-	-	Straw hat	.15
-	-	Tooth picks 10? thread 10?	.20
-	-	Fixing tin	.20
-	-	Oatmeal	.10
-	-	Freight on butter	.35
-	-	Paid W Sammons? For work	$10.25
-	-	Paid L. S. Fyler	3.90
-	-	Rec'd for eggs	1.20
Aug	7	Paid Adams & Randell for groceries	6.17
-	-	Baldwin for meat	2.00
-	-	Missionary collection	.30
-	11	?? for trough	1.00
-	-	F. Cummings for twine + fertilizer	34.60
-	14	Oatmeal	.25
-	-	Grinding feed	1.25
-	16	2 sacks flour	2.30
-	-	Cutting hair	.25
-	-	Shings + shingle	.40
-	18	Sold ??	.92
-	-	Salt 10? sugar .55	.65
-	-	Buttons butter	.20
-	25	Sold 4 lambs	9.00
-	26	Oatmeal	.10
-	-	2 ??	.30
-	-	Glen? Blacking	.30
-	-	Aug 1897; page 12	-
Aug	27	Sugar	1.00
-	-	Fruit cans ½ doz	.30
-	28	Coffee	.25
-	-	Lumber	.40
Sept	2	Suit clothes	10.00
-	-	Shirt	1.00
-	-	Coffee + tea	.30
-	-	2 shirt waists	.50
-	-	Thread	.25
-	-	Embroidering	.50
-	-	Elastic	.20
-	-	Muslin	.25
-	-	Lace	.16
-	-	Peashes	.35
-	4	Shirt	.50
-	-	Calico	.71
-	-	Stabling	.85
-	7	John ticket to Min	14.31
-	8	Oil 25? 2 bbl salt 2.00	2.20
-	9	Sugar	1.00
-	-	Flour	1.50
-	-	Oatmeal	.25
-	-	Coffee	.25
-	-	Kerosene	.50
-	-	Grist	1.20
-	-	Check for rye straw	27.82
-	10	Stamps 20 writing paper 35	.55
-	-	Freight for butter	.35
-	-	Wood chuck pinion	1.00
-	11	Coen meal	.12
-	-	Lemons	.05
-	14	Rec'd for 18 young roosters	4.18
-	-	Sold 13 doz eggs	1.56

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