File #39339: "Christina McLennan 1888-93 Diary 182.pdf"

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October 1893
7 Saturday sent a letter to Far
8 Rev McVica returned mifsionary from China gave an address Farqurson is putting out manure .
9 Very high wind Lapair came to tell he would not take the Branch farm
10 Done some washing Peter Santino paid $200 of rent
11 Fine day. Pa & Jimie got cedar to fix floor for Kintail pump I just came from prayer meeting, sold 2 lbs butter to Mrs Slack
12. Washed some blankets. Mary, Gore & Mifs Oxley were here for a short time
13 Washed more blankets
14 Pa & Jimie went to the funeral of Mifs Margret McLennan North of L. Station. to 2d burial ground. turned cold and very high wind
15 Cold and high wind Mrs Jamison who spent eight years as a mifsionary in Fermosia spoke in our church yesterday last night
16 Cold today. looks like snow. I sold 4 3/4 butter 22 cts pr lb 104. Sugar 50. cotton 37. yeast 10 sulphur 1/2 lb. 4. stove polish 3 = 7 97 7
17 Baked today. Jimie has a tooth ache
18 Jimie's tooth ache has turned to a gum boil And I am poultising it
19 Very fine weather. Jimie is no better.
20 Friday. our Fast day. before the sacrament A Mr Bland of Cornwall Methodist church (a cripple, officiated A very fine sermon. Jimie's boil broke last night. He will go to Florida soon
21. I was writing from Memory, it was Mr McPherson, preached on Friday. Mr Bland today. Angus McGregor's daughter died last night of scarlet fever, got sick Monday. Murdy got 60. dollars from Leitch for Jimie on Friday.
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