Alice go but they said the lecture was very poor and inclined to be coarse. We all went down to-night and saw the play "Contentment" by the John Qualen company the actors were very good but the play not up to much. Marj. telephoned Dr. Hicks and found out that her father will be operated on to-morrow morning. Mr. Bagley is going up. Thursday July 28th I went down this morning to paint Ben's sign but found out there had been a misunderstanding between Ben. & George Zealand and neither of them had painted the background so I told Ben I couldnt paint the sign, so I finished painting Quint's board instead and had dinner at Auntys I got home about five and found Dad. Enah & Tid had gone to the Chautauqua to hear the Ferguson light opera company which they enjoyed very much. Mr. Bagley came over as soon as he got home from Brantford at five o clock and told us that Mr. Clarke had come through his operation nicely but was very weak as he had been on the operating table for three hours. Marj. Enah & I went down and heard Hon. Percy Alden lecture on "The outlook in Europe, and Marj. & I thought it was fine although Enah & Frank who was there with Irene Pickford said they didn't care for him. Aunty Alice thinks Aunty is beginning to mend slightly, but she looks pretty sick. Friday July 29th Frank and I went over to Tom's & Mark's this morning where {plan?} was to thrash alsike out of the field and Dad went to Art Quanbury's where Sam was thrashing. Art finished before noon but we couldn't start till about eleven o'clock as the stuff was tough and it was a very cloudy & muggy morning. We thrashed till about half past two when a little shower came up and we had to quit for an hour, during that hour Tom & I went with Charlie Butler over to his place and got a jug of hard cider. We worked hard after that till about five when a real thunder shower came up and we all got pretty wet and had to quit for the day