Martin Waddell and Samuel Hill sent teams to haul them.

John Cameron and Peter Lukins had brought the window sash and some clapboards from Beardstown in a small flat boat.

Then came the day of the raising--a clear, warm day early in September.

All the men from the village and the near farms gathered to help make a home for the newcomers.

Samson and Jack Kelso went out for a hunt after the cutting and brought in a fat buck and many grouse for the bee dinner, to which every woman of the neighborhood made a contribution of cake or pie or cookies or doughnuts.
"What will be my part ?" Samson had inquired of Kelso.
"Nothing but a jug of whisky and a kind word and a house warming," Kelso had answered.
They notched and bored the logs and made pins to bind them and cut those that were to go around the fireplace and window spaces.