Meilicke Diary

This is the first of a series of items. The storey is a transcription of Julius (aka Jewell) and Emma diary  or similar which was sent to JA's farther, and survived. It was transcribed by young decendent and sent to mother, Alberta, by Mildred Nickols, all of the extended Meilicke Clan. I ran the transcription thorough OCR and fixed up the formatting, which OCR cannot handle. As I had to do some figuring to make sence of this, I will explain after each page. Note that this is November of 1915.

MEILICKE DIARY

Trip and homestead in Canada/

(Diary written by Julius and Emma Meilicke)

Kirksville, Mo. A

(Written by Julius) November 3th, 1915.

I was at Wills in the morning. And after breakfast we made a couple of jugs of cidar to

take to Ed Wrights in Kirksville and also to take a bottle of it to Fred whom we are to

meet in St. Paul on our way to Alberta.

Will drove me to town with the lumber wagon. And we left the team in the 10c feed yard

whiled we went out to Ed Wrights for dinner. After dinner we went up town to get a few

things we needed for the trip.

At 8:30 P.M. we boarded the Wabash train for St. Paul. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wright

Dave Wright and Miss. Green were at the train to see us off.

Nov. 4th.

Arrived at St. Paul 11: A.M. Meet brother Fred at Hotel Sherman. After having Greeted

each other we had dinner. An A. 1. dinner it was too. So then we had the rest of the

day for visit.

Fred looked well. It seemed as tho. the country and all agreed well with him.

In the evening we three went to a theater. The play was fairly good. The best part was

a mule (a brother to Mary's Jake) they had on the stage, his part was to let no one ride

on his back. There were a couple of nigers and some white men trying to mount him,

and when one succed to get on his back he was at once unseated for the mule would

bite as well as kick. I believe if Mary would train her Jake a bit he might yet make a

name for himself.

We all enjoyed the play very much and when it closed we went to the Hotel and retired

for the night.

Nov 5th

In the morning we walked over the city. Had dinner at the State capitol building. The

Minn. capitol building is built with white granit and is finished inside with marble and

other costly stone, It all cost $4,700,000

Explanation:

Will likely is JA's younger brother, born William Carl Meilicke, May 17, 1885, in Dallas County Iowa. Lived near Kirksville, MO.

Fred likely is JA older brother, born Frederick G (Gustav?) Meilicke, 1877, Frankfurt, or Pensylvanien  which is the german spelling of Pennsylvania with one n. 

 Ed Wright... no idea...

Mary may be JA's older sister, Born Anne Maria Helena Meilicke (aka Mary) November 14, 1873, Frankfurt, Married 1896 to Charles West, Minburn, which is 3 miles west, 5 north of Dallas Centre.