File #42116: "Mary Ann King 1905 Diary-15.pdf"

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Teu 27 Will & Arthur went to Welland Paul cutting bushes on the roadside I swept & dusted the school house yesterday Arthur cultivated our potatoes Mr Reebs bees was hived it came out they went in the heat & came out & settled under the hive Wed 28 Paul half day on the road got sick Will had 7 hay to rake on the hill Mrs Reebs came in the afternoon to see about the bees & at night they came after them in the afternoon another swarm came out & went in their hive Marjorie & Hattie went to pick berries made 10 cts instead of churning I washed out some things to change my underwear Thurs 29 hol: I churned & packed a crock of butter 11 1/2 lbs Marjorie went up in the evening to George Heximers to see if we could get seed potatoes I could hardly churn it was such a heavy churning Friday 30 Marjories has gone over the river rode down with Maggie. I turned my bed up & swept about the school. Took my window out & washed it & put up a clean curtain & swept the dining room. Maggie brought our groceries home. had 3 doz eggs at & 11 1/2 lbs butter @ 14 borax 5 ct Matches 5 soap 10 ginger 10 Tea 13 pail 25 Soda 5 castor oil 10 sugar 25 oatmeal 25 lemons 13 stamps 2. rum 5[[?]] Sat 1 Dominion day July 1905 27 Dull all forenoon but O so hot in the afternoon it started to rain & at times poured the poor little calves looked more dead than alive I got wet through getting the turkeys home rained in the night for all it was worth. Arthur cut some hay Hattie stayed all night' I churned Sun 2 weather dont look settled yet kept the turkeys in the barn untill noon The new minister preached. Kate & Hattie & Tom Spall there. In the afternoon it got nice & everything so quiet. Hattie came over in the afternoon Marjorie came home rode up with Mr Crookshanks Mon 3 dreadful hot. Paul went to pick strawberries made 78 cts 1 1/2 cts pr basket. I churned butter very soft Marjorie working on Pauls shirt. I scrubbed where there was not carpet & cleaned the floor & scrubed all the boards they drawed in some hay. Teu 4 dreadful hot. I worked the butter then went at washing. I never felt the heat so bad. Roy Earl & Clarance came a terrible storm comeing up wind blew hard for awhile it looked as if we were going to have a terrible bad storm one heavey clap struck some where close. Fannie at Chippawa but it rained so hard
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