Mon. April 19, 1897 Wea. nice

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Eastern people would certainly have thought we lived on the frontier if they had slept in the hotel last night. Four or five drunken cowboys came upstairs about midnight and serenaded the house by playing the guitar and singing (?). Of course felt very much rested. Started out for my school at 7 a.m. Mama rode with me to Mrs. A’s. My rig was a buggy minus a back and dash board & a plug about 17 years of age or probably sweet 16. I had 11 scholars. Real nice school & nice teacher.
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NOTES
1. Did the Satterlunds own the hotel?
2. The "(?)" was Hilda's.
3. Mrs. A. = Mrs. Anderson, with whom Hilda would stay while teaching.
4. Per Merriam-Webster dictionary, a plug is " an inferior often aged or unsound horse."
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