Not mincing words

Well an improvement to that index could have been made with some advance planning and then Maybel's Whore House would have been a 69. 😎 

Page 67 appears to refer to an attractive nuisance.

A 100 years ago in my area, surveys seldom had plats drawn unless it was to create a subdivision. The record of survey was of the narative style somewhat like GLO notes. Some surveyors continued this style into the 1960s for aliquat parts of sections. The index shown has surveys limited to one or two pages and leads me to believe they were of the narative style.

Makes me wonder if the unit of choice for 67 was inches. 

@pls8xx most of the 2 page jobs are simple sketches with some deflection angles and measurements show on the left side. Other books have several pages of defl angles and distance for rd traverses or section line section corner ties. Hardly any of the notes describe what was being set for corners. I wasn’t able to find the particular notes I needed for my project. Searching scanned .pdf images isn’t as quick as actually flipping through the book itself.

I have read through many such field books maintained by the county engineer/surveyor.  Many times a simple sketch is provided with a description.  Sometimes it is only the sketch.  On occasion, it will be a very careful, well-scaled drawing and a full description.  A route survey for a new road or an existing road may fill most or all of a field book depending on the number of miles included in the petition for the road.

In one said book, he had drawn up a box score-style entry for each game of the world series somewhere about the late 1940s, as I recall.  Why?  I have no idea.

It was in one said book where sketches and parol evidence was provided for the murder case that happened in a house that straddled the county line.  The issue, as I recall, was that the gun was fired in one county and struck the victim in another county although they were not very many feet apart.  I do not recall which county was appointed to handle the case through prosecution.  Sorry.

While in college, a co-worker at my part-time job asked me if I was familiar with a certain cat house not far from where I lived at the time.  He finally gave me exact directions how to find it.  I found it.  It was a cat house, no doubt.  It was an ancient single-wide trailer house with holes and ladders, exterior cages that opened into the trailer, feeders and such.  It was alive with cats coming and going as they so desired.  On cold, snowy or rainy days they tended to stay inside.  On nice, breezy days they could enter the trailer then enter the external wire cages to lounge and enjoy the good life.  Someone apparently stopped by often enough to keep the feeders and waterers full and remove anything that might create a smell.  This was on the edge of a small town that apparently had no control over the property or, at least, had no regulations on the issue.

I shared this discussion with a fellow engineer/surveyor.  He responded by telling of their project several years ago when a two-story 1866 building was being structurally improved and renovated.  The second floor had served the community as a whorehouse for decades in the past.  The first floor was a liquor store immediately prior to their work.  The Hole in the Wall liquor store.

My response to him was as follows:  I know where that is.  Many years ago, before I met my wife, I dated a woman from (that city).  One day we were riding in a car with her mother and stepfather.  Her stepfather pointed to the building and told us that when he was a young man there was a brothel on the second floor.  He admitted he had spent some time there "learning".  Her mother smiled and said, "Not enough."