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Feb 1, 1934
had missed their car.  Rolled in at 3:00 A.M.
Feb 2, 1934
Up at 7:30 A.M. & to office where we found a telegram from Young saying budget sent to
Congress.  Wrote wires to leaders.  Visited Intermediate
Credit Bank.  Sent date to Clemons for Farm Trio and visited Boyd-Coulee Warehouse
to look for grain for next year.  Called at Davenport Hotel & then after missing Ovenden returned to car & started for Ritzville.  Left
Spokane 1:30 P.M. arr Ritzville 5:30 P.M. Saw a few [[underlined]] Tree Sparrows [[/underlined]] and also a 
few [[underlined]] Redpolls [[/underlined]] along the way.
Learned that Elmer had been drunk in Spokane a week ago last Sunday, Jan. 21-34
Standing in street drunk near Galax Hotel Connors caught him & put him to bed [[strikethrough]] & said he still looked shaky the next morning! [[/strikethrough]]
Galax Hotel Main & Bernard, at 10:30 A.M. Monday Jan 22.  He was unable to locate Elmer Sunday & put him to bed when found & kept him there until 2:30 P.M. Monday.  Elmer
went out Tuesday with Connors.
Feb 3, 1934.
Left Ritzville 9:00 A.M. with Connors & Ingalls C.W.A. Hunter to visit 5 poison stations.  This is a new man who took 51 Coyotes last month His stations are mostly too close to the road
& is suffering some loss by thieves.  Good man but a trifle noisy & boisterous. Thence to La Cross where we met hunter
Fenimore but no time to go over poison stations as it was 4:00 P.M. before we met. Then on to Steve Block where we visited
with him & stayed all night arriving at