The start of the contents pages in my book which made it so useful for geneological research in later years
The start of the contents pages in my book which made it so useful for geneological research in later years

After completing Des Merrill’s election addresses and visiting him, he was pleased and will now stand for the Democrats. Then the whole day and night completing the indexing section of my Little Paxton History book.

I worked on Des Merrill’s election addresses this morning and then went over to show him the copy and discussed it. He was pleased and is now committed to standing for us. I think he has a very good chance of winning. After this, I resumed working on my index and spent the whole day and most of the night completed the index at 5:30am this morning. My back and tummy were aching from so much sitting. The task was to go through the entire text, marking the items and electronically indexing. By this time, I had reached near exhaustion and still managed three hours of sleep before getting up at 8:30am