File #38939: "Christina McLennan 1883-88 Diary 144.pdf"

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March 1887
1 Tuesday. Beautiful day. Got 1 lb tea at last night Gurty's, 45 cts
2 Had a good prayer meeting. Far came home.
4 snowing and storming. The women's Meeting at Sandy Owens
5 It stormed My offer{ing} 25 cts. 2 1/2 yds twilled cotton 35 cts. =pd.
6 Storming, it began furriously last night and is still wild
7 Jimie was out with the plough cleaning, the roads I never saw so much snow around our house at the back of the Kitchen there is a bank up to the second pain of glass in the window, and at the front of the house there are two peaks like the Alps. It began to rain this evening.
8 Very fine day. They covered the book at the reading room last night. There was a sale of Cattle at Archy Colbourn Grants' today Far was thair and bought a heifer calf will be two years in August
9 Been cold in the forenoon now 10. P.M. soft like rain we had a very good prayer meeting. subject. 13 Chp 1 Corinthians.
11 Last evening I went with Jimie to Lancaster to hear a lecture from Edgar Hill of St Andrew's church Montreal. Suject. "Prince Charley" James McArthur of Martintown sung a number of Jacobite songs. Miss Burnet played the accompanyment, tickets 25= Far & Neil Watson were down. the night was frosty 50
12. Got 1 lb. tea 45 cts. Mrs McDonald & Mrs Snider were here, getting names for a quilt ten cents or more for a name. I gave 25
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