[Evening Journal of Evansville, Indiana on October 31, 1844 advertised meeting of Clay Whig Club at court house today. Although it is not certain, Lincoln may have been one of speakers. LL, No. 271.]

According to Nat Grigsby, Lincoln's boyhood friend who gave his recollections to Herndon in 1865, Lincoln speaks at "Carlin township about three-quarters of a mile from the home farm," and at Rockport and Gentryville on this stumping tour. This must have been the day, if not Thursday or Friday, for Carlin Township voters.Hertz, Hidden Lincoln, 356.

In letter to David Turnham just before his election to presidency, Lincoln wrote: "I well remember when you and I last met, after a separation of fourteen years, at the cross-road voting place, in the fall of 1844." Abraham Lincoln to David Turnham, 23 October 1860, CW, 4:130-31.

[Whigs carry Springfield 1,031 to 758 and Sangamon County 1,837 to 1,371. Theodore C. Pease, ed., Illinois Election Returns, 1818-1848, vol. 18 of Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1923), 151.]

Menard Circuit Court opens three-day term at Petersburg. Reply to petition in Broadwell v. Broadwell, written by Lincoln, is filed in Supreme Court, Springfield. Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Mrs. Lincoln buys 12¢ comb, pair of "Kid Slippers," $1.25, and $4.39 in groceries.Irwin Ledger and Journal.]

On Lincoln's motion, Antrim Campbell is appointed guardian ad litem in Dormady v. Latham et al. Appeal to Supreme Court is granted plaintiff in Lesure and Bliss v. County of Menard.Record.

In Throckmorton and Everett v. Dockum, ejectment suit, defendant files bill of exceptions. Appeal to Supreme Court is granted defendant, either party to be permitted to file record at ensuing term of Supreme Court.