File #43306: "Theobald Toby Barrett 1918 Diary 104.pdf"

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Dick, Frank and I went down town to-night. Dick went to the dance and stayed down town all night. I bummed around town awhile and then went and got my hair cut. Mr. & Mrs. Millman & Nita came up in the car this afternoon and are going to take Percy and Kathleen back to-morrow. Pretty hot and rainy looking. Sunday August 25th Tid. and I went down to Sunday school this morning but as no Bible Class teacher showed up, I went on to see Hazen Waddle who is home on a week end here. I hadn't seen him since he got into uniform till this morning. I found him at breakfast in company with three damsels two of whom were strangers to me and the third one Miss Shiltz. Hazen seems to be standing the army racket pretty well although he says he is just getting over a little attack of Ptomain poisoning. He told me he was talking to a returned man the other day who in the course of conversation asked him where he was from and when Hazen told him his hometown was Port Dover, the fellow said "That's funny, I could show you a place in France where there is a stick in the ground with a board on it on one side of which is written 'there lies a Fritz" and on the other side is printed 'The Port Dover Canning Company.'" I went to church from there and sat in the front seat with. Aunty, Aunt Ida and Dick, but Dick and I slept most of the time Morton Brown was again the preacher. Dad. drove Enah down with Queen as Joe is lame from some unknown cause, and so Dad. didn't stay to church but drove Tid. home. Enah and I went down to Aunty's after church where we ran across the Millmans and Mr. Millman drove us home in the car. Huby and Dick came over with us but went back to Aunty's with Mr. Millman for dinner. I read and slept all the afternoon. Frank went down town and for a swim in the lake with Lloyd Ryerse and Dad. and Tid went down to the mill for a swim but I guess just paddled around in the creek. John Quanbury came over after Dad. to-night and he went over with him to see his sick cow but Dad. said it was all right. Wilbur Ryerse came in to-night to tell me that if I went over there to Tuppers in the morning I could go down to Douglas with them. Frank said that the Millman's went to turn the car around down in front of Aunty's this afternoon and backed the thing right down the hill on to the
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