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Milton Dyment (1880-1969)
1907-1911
Transcribed by Rural Diary Archive volunteers
Expenses in connection with Valen's Swamp. {Arrow pointing to Valen's: Beverly Twp {Township}.
Wentworth County}
Oct 1907.
Dec 3rd 1907.
Dec 3rd 1907.
saw
$100
axes
150
axe Handles
50
Beetle rings
50
sawhandles
20
{dipper?}
5
sawset
40
Groceries
165
file
10
Paper
45
Hay & straw
180
Horse expence
60
Bread & soap
30
Lumber Lath &
shingles
stove & Pipe
1410
nails
42
Lock
60
Buck saw
65
Horses to hay
50
hooks staples &
Hinges etc
50
185
Dec. 19/07
Jan 21st/08
Horse hire
350
Hotel Lodgeing
150
Groceries, file. Etc.
245
Groceries, etc.
174
Jan 7th/08. Gave Tellford $60.00 for one acre of {seder?} and recieved receipt. ∞
Jan 24th/08 Bought this book from Orton for $2.75.
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Bennetts Theatre Matine
Hamilton
A Razor hone from Parks &
Parks
Snow Storm Hamilton
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Wintry. At the Savoy.
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Paid In full for Violin. Bow.
Case. & Book.
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$1.25
$5.00
Jan 25th, 1908. Hamilton. snow storm.
Feb 4th 1908. Hamilton Decidedly cold
Feb 6th Mr Gilmour Hamilton Feb 6th 1908
Dear Sir.
I hear you intend putting ice in. As my brother and I is not busy at Presant. I thought I would write
and ask you what you would give us for hunderd P, locks, for cutting, of some stated size you to use
your team for scraping snow if neccessary, Yours Truly. M. Dyment.
Feb 11th Arton. Noah. Henry. Mable. Rilla {short for Lorilla}. and Myself Happened to meet at 141
James St North Hamilton.
Feb 19th Helped Noah Load a car of Potatoes.
Mar 14th. Helped Orton Move from 141 James North to 63 Kindred Ave.
Mar 14th Sindicate Co sold Percheron Stallion to Hamilton & Hawthorn of Simcoe for $800.00
Mar 26th gave Henry $80.00 for expences and note to pay my share of each.
Mar 31st I finished playing in the Hamilton. Y.M.C.A. checker tournament, in which thirty men were
to play for a silver cup, and I won the cup, and Mr Best presented it to me April the 2nd. a list of the
fellows If {I} played with, and the order of the points lost and won.
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J. Mcqueen
Fleming
H Smith
Simpson
Belzner
Deacon
Sears
A S Potter
N. Long.
Lost.
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J C Jury
P McGregor
Marshall
Lumsdum
W Englis
E Loiselle
Best.
Unknown
Lost
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Mar 6th Henry. Noah & Myself spent some time in prospecting Mr Forbes Bush near Sulfer Springs
Mar 12. To Hamilton. cold and dull.
Jerseyville. April. 8/1908,
Dear Sis
For one Dollar enclosed, Please send me the Family Herald and Weekly Star one year. Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville. Ont.
April 14th. I played with the Hamilton Y.M.C.A checker team against the Hamilton City team. the
score was twelve game’s twelve draw’s and twenty nine games in favor of the City team.
May 3rd to Hamilton. Cold my twenty eight birth day.
Jerseyville Aug 25th 1908
Dear Sir.
your card of the 15th recieved. I want -3 pieces for the out side of the one big wheel (No R233) and
about a doz links for the carrier chain, and a doz links for
the chain that runs the shaker. I could meet you in Hamilton someday next week and get them, If
you would let me know just when and where to meet you. Yours Very Truly.
Milton Dyment
Jerseyville Ont.
Sep 5th 1908. Was to Toronto Fair.
" 12 Gave through out the summer for Hired help nine and a half Dollars to Allan Vansickle. eight
Dollars to C. Smith. five Dollars to Syrus Drake and Twenty and three quarters to Andy Swazye.
" 12 Gave two Dollars and fifty five cents to a gentlement in Mrcormick ware room Hamilton, for three
lugs, shaker chain, and a doz links for carrier chain. of the Hoover digger.
" 12 To Hamilton. Warm. Very dry weather.
" 12 A pair of shoes from Gilbert Hamilton Kin Sr. Three and a half Dollars.
Nov 14 Cold. To Bennetts Matinee
" 15 Cold. To Hamilton
" 20 fine and warm. Loaded a car of potatoes at Summit Station for Mr Barrett for 52ct per bag.
" 22 At Hamilton. to Ortons, fine and warm.
" 27 Loaded potatoes for Mr Barrett at Summit
" 28 Finished loading car of potatoes at 52ct per bag.
" 28 Paid Loyd Dodman five Dollars in full for work.
" 28 Paid Sylvester Dodman One Dollar and a half in full for work.
" 28 Paid Gess Willson three Dollars in full for work.
" 30 Warm with some rain.
" 30 Paid Mr John Rouse for fifty Dollar Note he had against Noah and Me.
Dec 1 Cold, covered Potato Pits.
" 2 Cold. covering Potato Pits.
" 3 Warmer. came to Hamilton.
Dec 4 Wintry. At Bennets theatre at night
" 4 At the court Room.
" 17 Bought and Paid in full $80.00 for marked timber about 2 acres from Noah Dyment
" 17 Recieved Thirty of the Sixty Dollars I was to recieve for handling the Potatoes.
" 24 Warm. Hamilton. Chrmans {Christmas}.Tree Jerseyville
Jan 18 Paid Charles Morris 1.25 in full for work.
" 18 Engaged Seth Vansickle. to help cut cedar post.
" 19 Martin Vansickle drove Seth Vansickle. George Cornell and Myself to cedar swamp near
Valen's.
" 20 fine and warm, cut cedar.
" 21 fine and warm, cut cedar.
" 22 Rain. George, Seth, and I walked from swamp to Jerseyville
" 22 Went to hamilton on T.H.&B. 1P.M
" 23 Bennetts after noon.
" 25 fine Weather. cut wood.
" 26 cut wood.
" 27 Walked to Ancaster and drew $25 of my account. to H branch Bank. and went on to Hamilton.
" 28 Touring the town.
" 29 Heavy gales of snow. spent some time at Liberal club.
" 28 Was to Brittanna Rink 8.P.M and seen Miss Winters who won the Star Walking race for ladies
last fall win from Mrs Grifith in a five mile walking contest Time 43 minutes and a half. Mayor
McLaren presented the fifty Dollar silver cup go her imediately after the race.
" 30 Cold and Stormy.
Feb 1 cut wood.
" 2 Was Pall bearer for the burial of Mileda Vansickle
" 3 cut wood. Nice weather.
" 4 Was to Lynden. At methodist Church to Lecture.
" 5 Came to Hamilton. Warm.
Feb 5 Long boat Defeated Shrubb in Marathon Race Madison Squar garden New York.
Feb 6 Hamilton. Toured the town.
Feb 7 Hamilton. Fine and warm.
" 10 Went to the ceder swamp.
" 11 cut cedar. Mr Sault helped 1 day
" 12 cut cedar Mr Sault helped 1 day.
" 13 cut cedar Mr Sault helped 1/2 day.
" 13 Paid Mr Sault three & one quarter Dollars in full for work. and eggs.
" 9 Paid Charles Morries seventy five cents in full for work.
" 9 Paid Mr Peterkin one Dollar in fall for work.
" 15 came to Hamilton. Stormy
" 16 Very stormy. Hamilton.
" 17 Cold. Hamilton.
" 14 Work & eatebles in connection with swamp
March 3 Hamilton. Stormy.
" 3 W Howell and Paterson Duit.
" 4 Hamilton Wintry.
" 15 To cedar swamp. for tools.
" 16 Bought and paid. Noah twenty dollars in full for his interest in sprayer.
" 16 Sold two white oak logs & an axe to (Noah) for $9.00.
" 16 Sold 150 feet in log length to Noah for eleven dollars.
" 17 Sold to Noah 60 feet log length for six dollars.
" 18 Helped Noah draw logs
" 19 Bought and paid in full three Dollars for his interest in large cask.
" 20 Helped Noah cut and draw logs. to the amount to 122 feet in log length. and has 58 feet to his
credit
" 20 Paid Seth Vansickle three Dollars in full for work cutting cedar sometime ago. through the hands
of George Cornell.
" 20 Simpson and Shrubb foot race. Toronto.
" 21 Hamilton over Sunday.
" 22 Paid G Cornell 3 {Above it reads: $} infull sometime ago for work.
March 1909
Jerseyville March 27, 1909
Mr J Whitehead Walkerton. Ont.
Dear Sir, Your question under the circumstance is a hard one to answer, you not stating weather
{whether} you have had any experience in raising potatoes or not. I might say such a piece of
ground ought to be in good fertility for potatoes, and in an average year with proper seed, and the
right kind of care done in the cheapest manner possible, there ought to be a good profit. But as I
dont know weather you have had any experience in the business or not, I wont advice you to raise
25 or 30 acers the first year. you'll find it requires experience to get the best results. Spraying for
blight alone requires some skill, I might say my experience in the business which has been for
several years, a profit could be had in the last, with prices much lower than this year. Yours Truly
M. Dyment
Jerseyville. Ont.
" 28 Fine. Hamilton.
Jerseyville March 29. 1909
Mr Barrett Brantford. Ont.
Dear Sir. We are about to ready to ship potatoes So if you want a car potatoes, write me at once.
We have been offered sixty three¢ for a car per bag to load them ourselves. We thought we'd give
you a chance to make an offer.
Yours Truly.
M Dyment Jerseyville.
1909 April 10 Jerseyville April 10 1909
Mr Zavitz
Dear Sir Please send me two medium varieties of Potatoes (286) for experiment. Yours Truly, Milton
Dyment.
Jerseyville. Ont.
" 8 Paid George Paterson six and a half Dollars in full for a Paris cultivator.
Jerseyville April 8, 1909,
Mr Broughton
Dear Sir I have been expecting word from you stating the price of those four Pieces I was needing
for the Rolins Planter I would like word at once. Yours Truly
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville. Ont.
" 7 Paid Mr V Dodman $3.50 in full for work.
" 7 Paid Mr G Wilson $3.50 in full for work.
" 7 Paid Mr G Smith $1.25 in full for work.
" 8 finished loading a car of Potatoes of Potatoes.
" 10 Was to Bennetts theater after noon and heard Mrs E Fay answer questions etc.
" 17 Paid L Dodman $1.00 for work.
" 17 Recieved Payment in full $156.80 for Potatoes from Mr Barrett.
" 19 Paid George Baguley $37.50 in full for cutting 42 ¾ cord of wood.
“ 19 Paid Mr Howard Knap $7.50 in full at his own residence for Potato cutter.
" 20 Paid 50cts to H Vansickle for work.
1909 April 21st Paid L Dodman 75cts in full for work.
" 21st Paid Bradshaw Bro's 10cts in full for repairing.
Jerseyville April 30th 1909
W C Wells
Dear Sir
I have no potatoes for sale now.
Yours Truly.
M Diamond {not Dyment?}
" 30 Cold and damp Hamilton
June Planting
Cottage Empire
Dempseys seedling
Our own Empire state
Burpeese extra early
Rose of the north
1st row
2nd row
3rd row
4th row
row 5th
June 13 Hamilton.
March 6 1911 March 7 Paid Vansickle's $2.25 for butter for Mable.
" 6 Jerseyville Feb 23. 1911
Mr Carrol
Hamilton
Ont
Dear Sir
We have been holding our potatoes for advance in prince, If you could pay us a Dollar a bag the
former part of march, we would lay a car load of fine stock in for you. Yours Truly.
Dyment Bros.
Jerseyville. Ont.
" 6 March 6. Recieved $2.50 in full for wood from Mrs Smith.
" 6 March 6. Paid Mrs Wait for the renewal of my subscription to the family Herald and Weekly star.
Montreal. Quebec. One Dollar in full.
" 6 March 6. Paid Mr John Lee 45cts in full for Mits.
" 6 March 6 cold. and fair. cutting wood.
March 7 March 7. cold and fair. cutting wood.
" 7 Paid Mr. John Lee. three cents in full for stove pipe wire
" 7 Jerseyville March 7. 1911
Mr Thompson
Dear Sir
We have quoted prices to other parties, and are waiting for an answer. Yours Truly.
Dyment Bros.
Jerseyville.
" 9 March 8 fine and mild, cutting wood, to Alberton Tea Meeting
" 9 March 8. Recieved eight Dollars and seventy five cents in full for wood, from Hugh Toland.
" 9 March 9. Mild and cloudy. cutting wood.
" 9 March 9. Gave Noah Dyment five Dollars for the five Dollars I borrowed March 4. 1911.
" 12 March 12 Warm and rainy. Was to Methodist Church Jerseyville to hear Mr Cousin's preach
anniversary sermon, and subscribed 50cts, and paid Mr Hildreth the same in full.
" 14 March 13. Noah and I got father's sap pan for which We agree to give him a gallon of syrup.
14 March 15 Noah and I borrowed Mr Cliver Howells sap pails and spile's
"14 March 14 Fine and warm Trapping.
" 14 March 14 I bought four hundred one Dollar Shares of the Cobalt Frontenac Mining Co. Limited.
from G M Jones agent for one hundred Dollars. and gave note for thirty Day's from date. and got
receipt for settlement in full.
" 14 March 14. Roy Kelly borrowed Noah’s wagon and returned it
1911 March 14. Jerseyville March 14 1911
Dear Sister
Noah and I are each sending you Five Dollars as a gift. am sorry you are not well. Let us know how
you are getting along. I am busy now I have started to tap. Your Loving Brother.
Milt.
" 16 Very cold.
" 16 March 16 Helped Roy Kelly afternoon loading manure.
" 16 Borrowed one Dollar from Noah Dyment.
" 16 March 16 Bought and paid in full one Dollar and ten cents for a pair of rubbers from Black's
Clerk.
" 16 March 16 Finished cutting sixteen cords of stove wood, at fifty cents per cord, and recieved
payment in full for same.
" 16 March 16 Paid Noah Dyment in full eight Dollars. for the use of his team drawing my cedar
posts from the swamp to Valen's Corner's.
" 17 March 17. Cold. and Blustry.
" 17 March 17. helped Roy Kelly. draw manure one day.
" 17 March 17 Recieved one Dollar of the one Dollar and eighty seven and a half cents, from Roy
Kelly that he owed me for March the 16 and March the 17.
" 19 Jerseyville March 20 1911
Mr Woodhouse.
Dundas
Dear Sir
I would like to have pay for the car load of wood I shiped {shipped} to you Dec 22, 1910.
Yours Truly
M Dyment.
Jerseyville. Ont.
" 19 Wrote to Professor Zavitz of the Agricultural College Guelph to send me experiment 28C, first
choice, 28B, second choice, for. 1911 year’s experiment.
1911 March 20 March 20. Recieved one Dollar and twenty cents from Mable Dyment March 19. to
give to Mrs E. Vansickle. which I did give in full for four pounds Butter March 20. 1911.
" 20 Jerseyville. March. 20 1911
Mr. H. Knox
Lynden.
Dear Sir
The price on Blue Vitrol {a.k.a. copper sulfate: used as insecticide} by the barrell. at Wood and
Vallance hardware store to day is five cents per lb. I didn't price anywhere else. Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
" 20 March 20. Rain at first clearing and turning colder. Came from Hamilton on the T.H.&.B 11.14.
" 21 March 21. Fine and warm. drawing manure. and helping Oliver Howell move a building to Fred
Howells.
" 21 March 21 The card I wrote to H Knox March 20 about Blue Vitrol, I burnt.
" 23 March 23. Taylor Olmstead's sale. Very cold. drawing manure and boiling sap.
" 23 Jerseyville March 23. 1911
Mr Siddall
Hamilton
Dear Sir
Your letter of the 22nd recieved We intend to ship potatoes to Hamilton soon. just when, I cant say.
We have four or five car load's for sale yet, Ill likely write you again or call on you, when we are
about to sell.
Yours Truly,
M Dyment.
1911 March 23 Jerseyville March 23 1911
National Drug Co
Hamilton
Dear Sir’s
Quote me your cash price on two Barrells of Blue Vitrol, or about twelve hundred lbs, and one
hundred of paris green, laid down here at Jerseyville
Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville. Ont.
“ 24 March 24 fine and cold. was drawing manure. W C Vansickle took dinner with us.
“ 24 Jerseyville March 24 1911
Woodhouse & Co
Dundas
Dear Sirs.
Your letter recieved, I packed car full, and estimated there was thirteen and a half cords of wood or
more in the car, which at Four Dollars and a half a cord would amount to sixty Dollars and seventy
five cents. Yours Truly.
M. Dyment.
Jerseyville. Ont.
“ 24 Jerseyville March 24. 1911
W C Wells
Brantford
Dear Sir
Your letter of the 22nd recieved. I have potatoes for sale of the common variety and would take a
Dollar a bag for twenty bag on car at Jerseyville this month. Yours Truly M Dyment Jerseyville Ont.
1911 March 28 March 25. Recieved one Dollar as payment in full for work done. for Roy Kelly 16
and 17 march
“ 28 March 25 Recieved one Dollar as loan from Noah
“ 28 March 25 Noah and I agreed to load a car of potatoes, for which Amos Dyment agreed to give
us eighty cents per bag on car at Jerseyville.
April 3 March 30. Loading potatoes
“ 3 March 31 Finished loading car of potatoes. to be shipped to Amos Dyment.
“ 3 April 1 Recieved sixty Dollars and seventy five cents for wood shiped Dec 22. 1910 to Woohouse
and Co Dundas. At Bank of Commerce. Dundas.
“ 3 April 1 Noah recieved two Hundred and sixty Dollars in full for car load of potatoes of three
hundred and twenty five bags. Shipped and sold to Amos Dyment.
“ 3 April 1 Lent Noah Dyment sixty Dollars.
“ 3 April 1 Sold car load of potatoes to M Cornell John St. Grocer at eighty seven cents per bag to be
delivered in the week of April the 3rd.
“ 3 April Recieved five Dollars interest from Orton Dyment on notes past due.
“ 3 April 2 Was to Hamilton. Cold.
“ 3 April 3 Recieved the sixty Dollars I lent to Noah Dyment April 1st.
“ 3 April 3 Reciepted the bill Woodhouse and Co sent me when sent the check on the Bank of
Commerce at Dundas for wood. For sixty Dollars and seventy five cents.
“ 7 April 7 paid frank Miller fifty and a half Dollars in full for a note he had against Mr John hunter,
fifty three Dollars including interest to be paid May 24th 1911.
“ 7 April 7. Jess Wilson Helped one day at potatoes.
“ 8 April 8. Jess Wilson Helped one day load potatoes.
“ 8 April 8. Paid Jess Wilson two Dollars {Above it reads: and half} in full for work April 7 and 8th.
“ 8 April 8. Paid N Smith twelve dollars in full for shiping car of potatoes.
“ 8 April 8 Recieved fourty cent to give J Wilson to pay for horse shoeing and recieved three cents
back.
“ 12 April 11. Paid M Carroll three Hundred and twenty five bags of potatoes in at eighty seven cents
per bag and Noah recieved only twenty five Dollars on them.
“12 April 11 Noah and I bought one bag of Potates by the name of Bovee for two Dollars. He paid
Steel Briggs
“ 12 April 12. Boiled Sap. Rainy
1911 April 12 April 12 Jerseyville
Mr Dunlop
Hamilton Ont
Dear Sir
We will take ninty-five cents per bag for 400 bags of potatoes on car at Hamilton, freight prepaid.
{Diagonally it reads: if you want them answer by return mail.} Yours Truly.
Dyment Bros.
Jerseyville Ont
April 15 April 14. Noah and I had some settling up. We settled for the one trip off his ticket amounting
to twenty five cents and for the Dollar I borrowed on March 16 and the Dollar I borrowed on March
23 and for the twenty four day that Rob helped me last summer, I gave him twenty four Dollars. He
settled for the interest on the twelve hundred and two hundred Dollar Notes for a year giveing me
eighty four Dollars he paid me eight Dollars in full for small Potatoes. He settled for the one hundred
and thirty Dollars that he owed me on the car of Potatoes tha {that} Amos Dyment got. in settling I
am to get the fifty nine Dollars and fifty five cent that’s coming to him from Mr Carroll. etc. In the end
he owed me the twelve Hundred Dollar note, and interest since Dec 27, 1910, and the two Hundred
Dollar note, and interest since April 7 1911, and one hundred and thirty three Dollars and seventy
five cents to be handed to me soon.
“ 15 April 14 Paid Mr Lee in full five cents for Mucilage.
“ 15 April 15 Arthur Lee. Agent for the Cobalt Frontenac Mining Co Limited Sold me six hundred
shares of stock in the mentioned Co for one hundred and fifty Dollar’s. and gave note to be paid in
thirty days from date, and Receipt recieved.
" 19 Roy Kelly Got two Posts out of the pile Noah and did not Pay for them. Value thirty cents
" 19 April 19 H. Vansickle Paid in full thirty cents for two Posts.
1911 April 19 April 19. Sold Noah Dyment seventy six Posts for nine Dollars.
" 19 Jerseyville. April 19 1911
Mr Barrett.
Brantford.
Dear Sir We offer you a car {Above it reads: load} of good carman potatoes to be loaded at once, at
ninty cents per bag. {Diagonally it reads: Let us know at once if you want them.} Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville Ont
April 19 Jerseyville April 19 1911
The Dawson Elliott Co.
Toronto
Dear Sir’s I noticed your Ad in the Farmer's Sun. We have three or four car loads of good potatoes of
our own grown to sell. you might make us an offer for a car load, if you like or let us know what is
your commission. Yours Truly.
Dyment Bros.
Jerseyville Ont
" 19 Jerseyville April 19. 1911
Vance & Co.
Toronto
Dear Sir’s We have three or four car loads, of good potatoes for sale. All are own grown. Yours
Truly.
Dyment Bros.
Jerseyville Ont.
1911 April 22 April 22 The letter of the 19th I wrote to Mr C Barrett I did not post or send.
" 22 April 22 Mr H Herman got twenty seven bags of seed potatoes and Paid thirteen 50 {Above it
reads: cts} Dollars in full. two Dollars 60 {Above it reads: cts} of which I recieved for my share in full.
April 26 April 24 Paid Mrs E Vansickle one Dollar and Thirty cents for four pound’s of butter. for
Mable.
April 26 April 26. Paid Mr Lee five cents for four bolts and nuts.
April 26 April 26 Ros helped me four hours.
April 26. April 26. J Wilson helped one day.
April 26 April 26 Jerseyville April 26 1911
David Fraser
Hamilton
Dear Sir.
Your letter of the 24th just recieved. The address was wrong. As we are loading a car of potatoes on
TH & B at Jerseyville, and want to finish seeding before we load. any more. We wont quote any price
just now. We have three car load of carman potatoes to sell yet. Yours Very Truly.
Dyment Bros.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
April 26 April 26 Jerseyville April 26. 1911
Vance & Co
Toronto
Dear Sir
We are just loading a car of Potatoes now, and we want to finished seeding before we load any
more. So we dont care to quote prices just now. Yours Truly.
Dyment Bros.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
1911 April 28 April 27 Jess Wilison. Helped one day.
" 28 April 27 Ros helped eight hours.
" 28 April 28 Paid Agent Smith thirty five cents for frieght on bags.
" 28 April 28 Recieved one Dollar and seventy cents for two bags of Potatoes, in full and gave Noah
half.
" 28 April 28 Gave Colman Howell two Dollars to buy me a gallon of Formalin {aqueous
formaldehyde solution} which he did at two Dollars.
" 28 April 28 Jess Wilison helped one day.
" 28 April 28 Gave Jess WIlison five Dollars, fifty cents, over payment in full for 26th 27th 28th.
" 28 April 28 Ros helped eight hours.
" 28 April 28 Billed car of Potatoes out for Hamilton.
" 28 April 28 Recieved twenty five cents as my share from Noah for Potatoes Mr Jamieson got.
May 3 May 1 Jess Helped one day.
" 3 May. 3 Jess Helped one day.
" 3 May 3 Ros Helped four hours
" 3 May 3 Paid R. Black in full one Dollar and seventy eight for Rags Bread and a Pair of Pants.
" 3 Jerseyville May 3 1911
Messrs Soloman & Stevens
Hamilton
Dear Sir
Your letter recieved containing check as payment in fill for car of Potaotes you bought over Phone
May 1st. We are loading. another car now about 350 bags some being in loose, our bags being
away, These we expect will be in Hamilton Friday morning ready to unload. If you want these at 93ct
per bag on car at Hamilton Let us know at once. We have two small car loads to offer later.
Yours Very Truly
M Dyment.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
May 3 May 3 In settling with Noah the standing account he owes me one Hundred and thirty nine
Dollars and seventy cents.
" 3 Cold. Sending Potatoes.
1911 May 7 May 4 Jess Wilison helped one day
" 7 May 4 Ros Helped eight hours.
" 7 May 5 Jess Helped one day.
" 7 May 5 Ros helped eight hours.
" 7 may 5 R Baguley helped one half day.
" 7 May 4 R Baguley helped one day.
" 7 May 6 Jess helped one day.
" 7 May 5 Delivered nineteen Bags of Potatoes to Brooks Bros unpaid to get ninety cents per bag.
" 13 Jerseyville May 13. 11
Mr Petrie
Hamilton
Dear Sir
Your letter recieved, We have only about five Hundred bags of potatoes now. There we want to hold
a while. We might write you again. Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
" 13 May 8 Jess helped one day.
" 13 May 9 Jess helped one day.
" 13 May 10 Jess helped one day.
" 13 May 11 Jess helped one day.
" 13 May 12 Jess helped one day.
" 13 May 13 Jess helped one day.
" 13 May 13 {Ros?} helped one day
" 13 May 13 Roy. Baguley helped one day.
" 13 May 13 Paid Roy Baguley two Dollars and a half in full for two and a half days work.
" 13 May 13 Paid Noah three Dollars in full for six days work done by Ros.
" 13 May 13 Paid Jess Wilison fifteen Dollars in full for eleven day work. done the last two weeks.
" 13 May 13 Recieved Noah and me seventeen Dollars and ten cents in full from J Brooks for
Potatoes and settled for them with Noah
" 13 May 13 Recieved Noah and me One hundred and fourty nine Dollars from Amos Dyment for
potatoes. loaded to day balance Due fifty cents
1911 May 13 May 13 Paid Father one hundred and one Dollars and sixty cents in full for Potatoes he
loaded for Carroll.
" 13 May 13 Recieved money in full for check we recieved from Stevens and Soloman for Potatoes
through Amos Dyment amounting to Six hundred and eight seven Dollars and thirty three cents.
" 13 May 13 Recieved nine Dollars in full from Noah for seventy six Posts.
" 13 May 13 Recieved some money from Noah in settling up so as to have against him one hundred
Dollars exactly. besides the Notes.
" 22 May 20 Paid Jess Wilison seven Dollars besides the fifty cents he owed one. Witch {which} is
payment in full for the weeks work of the 20th.
" 22 May 22 Very hot. Planting.
" 22 May 22 Jess helped one day.
" 25 May 25 Jerseyville May 25/11
Dear Cousin
You can have 500 posts or more at ten cents each taking them as they come. If you intend to take
them, write
" 29 May 27 Paid Jess Wilison seven Dollars and seventy five cents in full. for the weeks work of the
22nd of may.
" 29 May 27 Received seventy five cents in full for seed Potatoes.
" 31 May 31 Jerseyville May 31st 1911
Mr Petrie
St Cathrines
Dear Sir
We are loading our last car load of potatoes, which will be something like four hundred bags. These
are extraordinary fine {Above it reads: solid} white stock. If you want them at one Dollar and five cent
per bag on car at St Cathrines let us know by Saturday night. Most of these will be left in bags
weighted to ninty lbs each, and the empty bags could be shipped back
Yours Truly
Dyment Bros.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
1911 June 8 June 3rd Paid Jess Wilson eight Dollard and seventy five cents in full for the weeks
work.
June 8 June 3rd Paid Elie V. two Dollars and a half in full for two days work June 2. and 3rd. and he
is two recieve some potatoes for Jun 1 afternoon.
June 8 June 7. Just got home from unloading car of potatoes.
June 10 June 10. Paid Jess Wilson seven and a half Dollars in full for the weeks work
June 10 Recieved seventy five cents in full from Jess Wilson for three Bags of potatoes.
June 10 June 10 Delivered to Elie V. two and a half Bags of potatoes as payment in full for work
June 17 June 17 Paid Jess Wilson seven Dollars and fifty cents for the weed work of six days.
June 24 Jerseyville June 24 1911
Mr Leddicoate
Waterdown
Dear Cousin
As another party is thinking of buying the remainder or a large quantity of posts. I would like to know
when you will have yours all away. So as to be able to sell the bunch with out reserving any. As I
havent sold any to anybody but you you might state if the pile has been meddled with.
Yours Truly.
Milton.
June 24 June 23. Was to Mr Fletcher’s office. Hamilton and Paid him two hundred {Above it reads: &
60$} {Above it reads: the} Cobalt Frontenac Mining Co Limited.
June 26 June 26 Recieved five Dollars from E Vansickle as part Payment for seventy {Above it
reads: posts} at twelve cents each.
June 26 June 26 Paid E vansickle two Dollars and eighty cents in full for twelve lbs of Butter for
Mable.
July 4 July 4 Very hot.
" 4 July 4 Paid Dan Wilson two Dollars. and twenty five cents in full for July 4 one day and July 3rd
one half day.
1911 July 4 June 28 Mr Jones and Mr Fletcher come here for supper and I bought for a note of five
hundred and sixty Dollars to be paid before Oct 31st. Two thousand and eight hundred shares in
The Cobalt Frontenac Mining Co.
July 4 June 28 Recieved five Dollars in full for W Almstead of Ancaster for the use of my Potato
Planter.
July 4 June Paid Howard Knox forty nine Dollars in adition {addition} to the Fifteen he had Recieved
from Noah for nine hundred lbs of the Vitrol and one hundred lbs of Paris Green.
July 4 bought of Noah his share of note agaisnt G. Woodworth. which we recieved June 24 to be
paid five months after date. and paid ten Dollars in full for same.
July 4 July Settled up with Noah. everything except notes
July 5 Jerseyville July 5 1911
Dear Sirs
For the two Dollar Postal order. Send me enough packing to pack the two plungers of my spramotor
and The one end of one plunger that the hole is in that fastens to the plunger bar and Three of those
little bolts that goes through the plunger bar’s and two plunger bar’s and the rest of the money in
disc’s and in washers and in packing. {Diagonally below it reads: in haste.}
Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville
Ont
July 5 July 5 Very hot Jess helped me one day.
July 8 July 8 Paid Jess Wilson eight Dollars and seventy five cents in full for work to Date. Five
Dollars for the week of June the 19. four days. and the rest for July 5th 1 day July 6th one half day
July 7 one half day July 8 one half day.
July 17 July 10 Jess Worked one half day.
July 17 July 14 Jess Worked one day.
July 17 July 14 Paid Ervin ten cents in full for work.
July 17 July 15 Jess helped one Day.
July 17 July 17 Brought a pair shoes at Hamilton Royal Shoe store for six Dollars and a half.
1911 July 24 July 29. Paid Jess Wilson three Dollars and seventy five cents in full for done July 10 ½
day July 14 1 day July 15 1 day.
July 24 July 29 Paid Ethel Vansickle one Dollar and eight cents in full for butter Mable had got.
July 24 Paid Mr Lee 45ct in full for Melon.
Aug 5 August Jerseyville Aug 5 1911
Enclosed fine 25 cents for disc and washers in haste Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
Aug 12 Aug 5 Paid Mr Ervin 10 cts in full for work.
" 13 Aug 9 Paid E Vansickle $1.07 cts in full for butter.
" 13 Aug 11 Recieved only 30 worth of commission in shares and bought Noah’s 50 {Above it reads:
40} worth and recieved 500 shares of the Co for some.
Jerseyville Aug 15 1911
Dear Sirs
I recieved reciept for the 25cts I sent you for discs, and washers for Spramotor but I have not
recieved the goods. Please send at once. I had to make a disc out of tin. Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville.
Aug 23 Jerseyville Aug 23. 1911
Mr Markle
Dear Sir.
I would like you to pay the 28 {Above symbol for dolalrs?} note and interest I have against you, when
it falls due Aug 27 1911. I could wait until Dec 1st 1911 if it is any better for you.
Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville. Ont.
Aug 31 Jerseyville
Dear Friend Your card recieved with thanks. I expect to be after posts next week. All though the
summer has been hot and dry my potatoes of 32 acres promises a good yield. We have just got rural
mail delivery. in this vacinity {vicinity} Tomorrow is the first gathering so this will be the first card in
the box. I must say in finishing dont play too many dominoes. I remain as ever your friend. Milton.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
Aug 31 Jerseyville. Aug 31. 1911
Dear Sir.
I can get the team some day next week. So. Ill get you post as soon as possible. Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
Sept 10 Sept 9 I drew W. Book 89 Posts and received $13.00 in full.
" 10 Sept 9 I drew Noah 84 Posts.
" 10 Sept 9 Recieved $2.00 in full for wood from Mr R Telford, which he got out of the swamp.
Jerseyville Sept 19 1911
Mr Alderson
Dear Sir
Please leave in Hamilton some pace A 22 for my potato Digger, as soon as possible and drop a
card. Yours Truly
M Dyment
William B. Vansickles address 133 Bold St.
Jerseyville Sept 25 1911
Dear Sir
As we are about ready to handle potatoes I Would like to have those bags, about 140 in number I
think you have of ours. Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
Jerseyville Sept 25 1911
Dear Cousin
I would like to have those 42 potato bags which you got last spring. We expect to handle some
potatoes soon. Yours Truly.
M Dyment
Jerseyville Sept 25 1911
Mr Alderson
Carlisle
Dear Sir
I wrote to you sometime ago, stating I wanted A22 for my potato digger, and havent heard from you.
I have been heeding it. Please write at once and let me know where to go for this piece A22. Yours
Truly.
M Dyment.
1911 Sept 25 Sept 25 Paid Mr Ervin 25 cts in full for work
Sept 25 Sept 29 Got notes renewed I had against E Vansickle first note 121 {Above it reads: $
1906}. Dec 21ts 1911 at 7ct per annum = $161.23 second note $100 {Above it reads: $} March 26.
1907 to Sept 29. 1911 = 131.50 posts $3.40 due all toll = $296.13. I recieved a $2.46 note for a year,
and a fifty Dollar note for three Months. as settlement
Sept 30 Paid Wesley Morris $1.50 in full for work
Sept 30 Jerseyville Sept 30. 1911
Mr Zavitz
Guelph.
Dear Sir
I generally Plant thirty acres, of potatoes each spring, and this year my potatoes tops got frozen,
before the potatoes had come to maturity. What would you advise me to do. would seed from this
years crop be fit for planting. I spray for Blight. Yours Truly
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
1911 Oct 5 Oct 4 Got gas pipe from Roy Kelly and offered to pay for it and he refused to take any
pay.
" 5 Oct 4 Paid Taylor 35 cts in full for work.
" 5 Oct 4 Lent Noah $5.00 in addition to $1.00 he had borrowed the other day.
" 5 Oct 5 Jerseyville Oct 5 1911
Mr Alderson
Dear Sir
Send me through mail if possible two V36 Brass Box's with out the Part they fit in, or oil tube I got
A22 repaired {so?} I am in no rush for it just now. Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville
Oct 7 Oct 7 Paid Taylor 25cts in full for work done this day.
" 9 Oct 9 Paid Mr Powers 25cts in full for work to Day.
Jerseyville Oct 9. 1911
Messrs Stevens and Soloman
Dear Sirs.
Your letter of the 6th recieved. Owing to the day weather through July and August our potatoes will
not yield so well as they did last year. and will be some what smaller, but I think will make a very nice
sample. We are just in the midst of digging just now, and do not intend to sell untill they are all
harvested, and will give {your’s?} prices Later.
Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
" Oct 14 Paid Wesley Morris’ $4.00 in full for this week’s work of five and a half day.
" 19 Oct 18 Paid Vansickle’s $1.20 infull for 4lbs butter Mable had got.
" 19 Oct 19 Recieved $15 from Mary Baguley as interest on Mortage on Mr Baguleys lot. interest
being paid to Oct 12. 1910 and wrote on envelope reciept.
" 28 Oct 28 Paid Wesley $8.60 in full for the Last two weeks of 8 ¾ days.
" 28 Oct 28 Ordered car for potatoes to load Monday.
1911 Oct 28 Oct 27 paid at the Merchants Bank. Hamilton a $5.60 not {note} I gave the Cobalt
Frontenac Mining Co for 2.800 shares of stock.
" 28 Oct 27 Sold to Mr Toland 1 ¼ cord of wood. Limbs for $2.50. and recieved Payment in full.
" 28 Oct 27 Drew Mr Crockran {likely Cochran} ½ cord of wood and recieved $2.50 in full
Jerseyville Oct 27 1911
Mr Alderson
Carlisle
Dear Sir
Find inclosed post office money order $2.10 for 2 Brass Boxes and postage. I have not got A22 yet,
but will Call for it some day I happen down to City. I am just about through digging now. I have dug a
lot of potatoes withit, and with a few repairs it would be about as good as a new machine.
I remain Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville. Ont.
Jerseyville Oct 17 1911
Mr Penfold
Dear Sir
Your card recieved. We could not give you a price on our potatoes just now. But will give you prices
soon.
Yours Truly.
Dyment Bros.
Jerseyville.
Nov 4 Nov 3 Noah started to Cobalt.
" 4 Nov 4 Paid Welsey $4.50 infull for the weeks work of 6 days.
" 4 Nov 4 Drew G. Swartz ½ cord of wood $1.25 unpaid.
" 4 Jerseyville Nov 4 1911
Dear Sirs
Inclosed find shiping bill. You will find 288 Bushells of 288 Bags containing 90lbs, so there is 420
Bags by weight. I lost my sewing needle Other wise I could of got 90lb in nearly every Bag. which
would of been much better. We have not got many bags left so send us our 315 bags as soon as
possible.
there was 70cts freight on the bags you sent us. I ordered car for Monday morning and expect to of
gotten it out Tuesday night. but it did not come untill thursday morning, then I expected to have it
sent down Friday night, but My Brother went away. Friday and didnt get much help. I am sorry to
have disapointed you. Bags in haste. I remain Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
Jerseyville
Ont.
Nov 9 Nov 7 Recieved $2.50 in full for wood ½ cord for church from R R Black. Which he recieved a
year ago.
Nov 9 Nov 7. Paid R Black 66cts in full for 12 sugar sack and 6 Bags.
Nov 9 Nov 7 Recieved $1.35 in full for wood from Mr Peterkin and Noah recieved 25cts from him for
drawing it this day.
" 10 Paid Vansickle’s $1.20 in full for butter.
" 10 Nov 7 Paid Noah $5.00 in full for Potatoes R Brown. got. Nov 4th
Jerseyville Nov 9 1911
Dear Sirs
Recieved your letter of the 7th containing check $399.00 as payment in full for car of potatoes Big 4.
7547 and 70cts freight on the Bags. We have about all the potatoes promised We are to sell at the
present time, not knowing what kind of weather we will have to open pits, We have a car load in the
cellar to sell after we quit the pits and will likely give you prices. Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
Jerseyville. Nov 9. 1911
Mr C Barrett
Toronto
Dear Sir
Your letter recieved. We have all the potatoes sold we care to promise, not knowing what the
weather will be like to open pits. We have a car load in cellar to offer later. Yours Truly. M Dyment.
Nov 13 Paid Wesley Morris $3.50 in full for work. 3 + 2/3 days.
" 13 Charles Barrett Address 960 Bloor St Toronto
" 13 Albert Case 49 Smith Ave.
Jerseyville Nov 15 1911
Mr Penfold
Dear Sir
We have been offered, and sold a quantity of our potatoes for $1.25 per bag. We would let you have
some at the same price, if you let us know at once.
Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
Jerseyville
Ont.
" 18 Nov 16th Recieved $2.50 in full for a cord of wood from G Swartz.
" 18 Nov 18 Paid Rob Jamieson 40cts in full for work.
" 18 Nov 18 Paid W Morris 55cts in full for work.
" 18 Nov 23 paid Jess Wilson $3 in full for work Nov 22 & 23.
" 23 Nov 23 Paid Ervin $1 in full for shoeing this Day.
" 23 nov 22 Paid C Howell for Ball of twine and am to recieve 60cts in change.
Jerseyville Nov 23. 1911
Dear Sir
We could let you have some potatoes, at $1.25 per bag at the barn. If you take them next week.
Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
Jerseyville
Jerseyville Nov 23. 1911
Mr Carr & Co
New York
Dear Sirs
Your letter recieved. Potatoes I think {Above it reads: Potatoes} are two far to think of exporting any
now, and are scarce in this neighborhood. They are about a dollar and a half on Hamilton market
{Below it reads: per Bag.} Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
Jerseyville. Ont
1911 Nov 25 Nov 24 Gave Mable & Elliott 12 Bags of potatoes.
" 25 Nov 24 Rob & I drew a load of potatoes to Hamilton.
" 25 Nov 25 Rob & I put 200 bags of potatoes in Mr Siddle’s cellar on hughson st. South for $1.15
per bag. and recieved payment in full.
" 25 Nov 25 Gave Rob Jamieson $1.00 on the weeks work.
" 25 Nov 24 Ross paid Vansickle for Mable’s butter.
" 25 Nov 25 Paid Noah in full for his half interest in car potatoes We on loaded. Nov 25.
Nov 25 Recieved Payment in full from Noah for help through out the summer.
Nov 25 Paid Noah in full for helped through the full.
Nov 25 Nov 25 Paid Noah $9.50 in full for the help Ross gave me This fall 26 days.
Nov 25 Recieved from Noah $72 dollars in full interest on the
Nov 25 Nov 25 $1200.00 note I have against him, this paying the interest to the 28th of Dec 1912..
Nov 25 Nov 25. Settled with Noah to date he owes me now $2.00 note & interest & $1,200.00 note
and some commission in selling C & F. stock
Nov 28 Nov Paid Mr Ervin 10cts in full for repairing fork.
Dec 1 Dec 1 Recieved $50 in full for load of potatoes A Vansickle got. Nov 30.
" 1 Dec 1 Recieved $18,65 in full from W Book for posts.
" 1 Dec 1 Paid Rob Jamieson $6.75 in full for work to Date
Jerseyville Dec 1 1911
Dear Sir
Your Letter of the 28th recieved, There has been a lot of turnips loaded here, a great many car loads
of fine stock has gone out this season, but I beleave {believe} They are getting scarce now. I could
of loaded some for you had you wanted some sometime ago. but I dont know just where I could get
any now. However if I find a quantity I will drop a line.
Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
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1907-1911
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Expenses in connection with Valen's Swamp. {Arrow pointing to Valen's: Beverly Twp {Township}.
Wentworth County}
Oct 1907.
Dec 3rd 1907.
Dec 3rd 1907.
saw
$100
axes
150
axe Handles
50
Beetle rings
50
sawhandles
20
{dipper?}
5
sawset
40
Groceries
165
file
10
Paper
45
Hay & straw
180
Horse expence
60
Bread & soap
30
Lumber Lath &
shingles
stove & Pipe
1410
nails
42
Lock
60
Buck saw
65
Horses to hay
50
hooks staples &
Hinges etc
50
185
Dec. 19/07
Jan 21st/08
Horse hire
350
Hotel Lodgeing
150
Groceries, file. Etc.
245
Groceries, etc.
174
Jan 7th/08. Gave Tellford $60.00 for one acre of {seder?} and recieved receipt. ∞
Jan 24th/08 Bought this book from Orton for $2.75.
“ 25
“ 26
Bennetts Theatre Matine
Hamilton
A Razor hone from Parks &
Parks
Snow Storm Hamilton
“ 27
Wintry. At the Savoy.
“ 27
Paid In full for Violin. Bow.
Case. & Book.
“ 25
$1.25
$5.00
Jan 25th, 1908. Hamilton. snow storm.
Feb 4th 1908. Hamilton Decidedly cold
Feb 6th Mr Gilmour Hamilton Feb 6th 1908
Dear Sir.
I hear you intend putting ice in. As my brother and I is not busy at Presant. I thought I would write
and ask you what you would give us for hunderd P, locks, for cutting, of some stated size you to use
your team for scraping snow if neccessary, Yours Truly. M. Dyment.
Feb 11th Arton. Noah. Henry. Mable. Rilla {short for Lorilla}. and Myself Happened to meet at 141
James St North Hamilton.
Feb 19th Helped Noah Load a car of Potatoes.
Mar 14th. Helped Orton Move from 141 James North to 63 Kindred Ave.
Mar 14th Sindicate Co sold Percheron Stallion to Hamilton & Hawthorn of Simcoe for $800.00
Mar 26th gave Henry $80.00 for expences and note to pay my share of each.
Mar 31st I finished playing in the Hamilton. Y.M.C.A. checker tournament, in which thirty men were
to play for a silver cup, and I won the cup, and Mr Best presented it to me April the 2nd. a list of the
fellows If {I} played with, and the order of the points lost and won.
4
6
6
6
4
4
6
6
2
Won
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Mar 31st
Won
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
2
4
J. Mcqueen
Fleming
H Smith
Simpson
Belzner
Deacon
Sears
A S Potter
N. Long.
Lost.
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2
0
0
0
2
2
0
0
4
G. Giguere
J C Jury
P McGregor
Marshall
Lumsdum
W Englis
E Loiselle
Best.
Unknown
Lost
0.
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0
0
0
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0
4
2
Mar 6th Henry. Noah & Myself spent some time in prospecting Mr Forbes Bush near Sulfer Springs
Mar 12. To Hamilton. cold and dull.
Jerseyville. April. 8/1908,
Dear Sis
For one Dollar enclosed, Please send me the Family Herald and Weekly Star one year. Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville. Ont.
April 14th. I played with the Hamilton Y.M.C.A checker team against the Hamilton City team. the
score was twelve game’s twelve draw’s and twenty nine games in favor of the City team.
May 3rd to Hamilton. Cold my twenty eight birth day.
Jerseyville Aug 25th 1908
Dear Sir.
your card of the 15th recieved. I want -3 pieces for the out side of the one big wheel (No R233) and
about a doz links for the carrier chain, and a doz links for
the chain that runs the shaker. I could meet you in Hamilton someday next week and get them, If
you would let me know just when and where to meet you. Yours Very Truly.
Milton Dyment
Jerseyville Ont.
Sep 5th 1908. Was to Toronto Fair.
" 12 Gave through out the summer for Hired help nine and a half Dollars to Allan Vansickle. eight
Dollars to C. Smith. five Dollars to Syrus Drake and Twenty and three quarters to Andy Swazye.
" 12 Gave two Dollars and fifty five cents to a gentlement in Mrcormick ware room Hamilton, for three
lugs, shaker chain, and a doz links for carrier chain. of the Hoover digger.
" 12 To Hamilton. Warm. Very dry weather.
" 12 A pair of shoes from Gilbert Hamilton Kin Sr. Three and a half Dollars.
Nov 14 Cold. To Bennetts Matinee
" 15 Cold. To Hamilton
" 20 fine and warm. Loaded a car of potatoes at Summit Station for Mr Barrett for 52ct per bag.
" 22 At Hamilton. to Ortons, fine and warm.
" 27 Loaded potatoes for Mr Barrett at Summit
" 28 Finished loading car of potatoes at 52ct per bag.
" 28 Paid Loyd Dodman five Dollars in full for work.
" 28 Paid Sylvester Dodman One Dollar and a half in full for work.
" 28 Paid Gess Willson three Dollars in full for work.
" 30 Warm with some rain.
" 30 Paid Mr John Rouse for fifty Dollar Note he had against Noah and Me.
Dec 1 Cold, covered Potato Pits.
" 2 Cold. covering Potato Pits.
" 3 Warmer. came to Hamilton.
Dec 4 Wintry. At Bennets theatre at night
" 4 At the court Room.
" 17 Bought and Paid in full $80.00 for marked timber about 2 acres from Noah Dyment
" 17 Recieved Thirty of the Sixty Dollars I was to recieve for handling the Potatoes.
" 24 Warm. Hamilton. Chrmans {Christmas}.Tree Jerseyville
Jan 18 Paid Charles Morris 1.25 in full for work.
" 18 Engaged Seth Vansickle. to help cut cedar post.
" 19 Martin Vansickle drove Seth Vansickle. George Cornell and Myself to cedar swamp near
Valen's.
" 20 fine and warm, cut cedar.
" 21 fine and warm, cut cedar.
" 22 Rain. George, Seth, and I walked from swamp to Jerseyville
" 22 Went to hamilton on T.H.&B. 1P.M
" 23 Bennetts after noon.
" 25 fine Weather. cut wood.
" 26 cut wood.
" 27 Walked to Ancaster and drew $25 of my account. to H branch Bank. and went on to Hamilton.
" 28 Touring the town.
" 29 Heavy gales of snow. spent some time at Liberal club.
" 28 Was to Brittanna Rink 8.P.M and seen Miss Winters who won the Star Walking race for ladies
last fall win from Mrs Grifith in a five mile walking contest Time 43 minutes and a half. Mayor
McLaren presented the fifty Dollar silver cup go her imediately after the race.
" 30 Cold and Stormy.
Feb 1 cut wood.
" 2 Was Pall bearer for the burial of Mileda Vansickle
" 3 cut wood. Nice weather.
" 4 Was to Lynden. At methodist Church to Lecture.
" 5 Came to Hamilton. Warm.
Feb 5 Long boat Defeated Shrubb in Marathon Race Madison Squar garden New York.
Feb 6 Hamilton. Toured the town.
Feb 7 Hamilton. Fine and warm.
" 10 Went to the ceder swamp.
" 11 cut cedar. Mr Sault helped 1 day
" 12 cut cedar Mr Sault helped 1 day.
" 13 cut cedar Mr Sault helped 1/2 day.
" 13 Paid Mr Sault three & one quarter Dollars in full for work. and eggs.
" 9 Paid Charles Morries seventy five cents in full for work.
" 9 Paid Mr Peterkin one Dollar in fall for work.
" 15 came to Hamilton. Stormy
" 16 Very stormy. Hamilton.
" 17 Cold. Hamilton.
" 14 Work & eatebles in connection with swamp
March 3 Hamilton. Stormy.
" 3 W Howell and Paterson Duit.
" 4 Hamilton Wintry.
" 15 To cedar swamp. for tools.
" 16 Bought and paid. Noah twenty dollars in full for his interest in sprayer.
" 16 Sold two white oak logs & an axe to (Noah) for $9.00.
" 16 Sold 150 feet in log length to Noah for eleven dollars.
" 17 Sold to Noah 60 feet log length for six dollars.
" 18 Helped Noah draw logs
" 19 Bought and paid in full three Dollars for his interest in large cask.
" 20 Helped Noah cut and draw logs. to the amount to 122 feet in log length. and has 58 feet to his
credit
" 20 Paid Seth Vansickle three Dollars in full for work cutting cedar sometime ago. through the hands
of George Cornell.
" 20 Simpson and Shrubb foot race. Toronto.
" 21 Hamilton over Sunday.
" 22 Paid G Cornell 3 {Above it reads: $} infull sometime ago for work.
March 1909
Jerseyville March 27, 1909
Mr J Whitehead Walkerton. Ont.
Dear Sir, Your question under the circumstance is a hard one to answer, you not stating weather
{whether} you have had any experience in raising potatoes or not. I might say such a piece of
ground ought to be in good fertility for potatoes, and in an average year with proper seed, and the
right kind of care done in the cheapest manner possible, there ought to be a good profit. But as I
dont know weather you have had any experience in the business or not, I wont advice you to raise
25 or 30 acers the first year. you'll find it requires experience to get the best results. Spraying for
blight alone requires some skill, I might say my experience in the business which has been for
several years, a profit could be had in the last, with prices much lower than this year. Yours Truly
M. Dyment
Jerseyville. Ont.
" 28 Fine. Hamilton.
Jerseyville March 29. 1909
Mr Barrett Brantford. Ont.
Dear Sir. We are about to ready to ship potatoes So if you want a car potatoes, write me at once.
We have been offered sixty three¢ for a car per bag to load them ourselves. We thought we'd give
you a chance to make an offer.
Yours Truly.
M Dyment Jerseyville.
1909 April 10 Jerseyville April 10 1909
Mr Zavitz
Dear Sir Please send me two medium varieties of Potatoes (286) for experiment. Yours Truly, Milton
Dyment.
Jerseyville. Ont.
" 8 Paid George Paterson six and a half Dollars in full for a Paris cultivator.
Jerseyville April 8, 1909,
Mr Broughton
Dear Sir I have been expecting word from you stating the price of those four Pieces I was needing
for the Rolins Planter I would like word at once. Yours Truly
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville. Ont.
" 7 Paid Mr V Dodman $3.50 in full for work.
" 7 Paid Mr G Wilson $3.50 in full for work.
" 7 Paid Mr G Smith $1.25 in full for work.
" 8 finished loading a car of Potatoes of Potatoes.
" 10 Was to Bennetts theater after noon and heard Mrs E Fay answer questions etc.
" 17 Paid L Dodman $1.00 for work.
" 17 Recieved Payment in full $156.80 for Potatoes from Mr Barrett.
" 19 Paid George Baguley $37.50 in full for cutting 42 ¾ cord of wood.
“ 19 Paid Mr Howard Knap $7.50 in full at his own residence for Potato cutter.
" 20 Paid 50cts to H Vansickle for work.
1909 April 21st Paid L Dodman 75cts in full for work.
" 21st Paid Bradshaw Bro's 10cts in full for repairing.
Jerseyville April 30th 1909
W C Wells
Dear Sir
I have no potatoes for sale now.
Yours Truly.
M Diamond {not Dyment?}
" 30 Cold and damp Hamilton
June Planting
Cottage Empire
Dempseys seedling
Our own Empire state
Burpeese extra early
Rose of the north
1st row
2nd row
3rd row
4th row
row 5th
June 13 Hamilton.
March 6 1911 March 7 Paid Vansickle's $2.25 for butter for Mable.
" 6 Jerseyville Feb 23. 1911
Mr Carrol
Hamilton
Ont
Dear Sir
We have been holding our potatoes for advance in prince, If you could pay us a Dollar a bag the
former part of march, we would lay a car load of fine stock in for you. Yours Truly.
Dyment Bros.
Jerseyville. Ont.
" 6 March 6. Recieved $2.50 in full for wood from Mrs Smith.
" 6 March 6. Paid Mrs Wait for the renewal of my subscription to the family Herald and Weekly star.
Montreal. Quebec. One Dollar in full.
" 6 March 6. Paid Mr John Lee 45cts in full for Mits.
" 6 March 6 cold. and fair. cutting wood.
March 7 March 7. cold and fair. cutting wood.
" 7 Paid Mr. John Lee. three cents in full for stove pipe wire
" 7 Jerseyville March 7. 1911
Mr Thompson
Dear Sir
We have quoted prices to other parties, and are waiting for an answer. Yours Truly.
Dyment Bros.
Jerseyville.
" 9 March 8 fine and mild, cutting wood, to Alberton Tea Meeting
" 9 March 8. Recieved eight Dollars and seventy five cents in full for wood, from Hugh Toland.
" 9 March 9. Mild and cloudy. cutting wood.
" 9 March 9. Gave Noah Dyment five Dollars for the five Dollars I borrowed March 4. 1911.
" 12 March 12 Warm and rainy. Was to Methodist Church Jerseyville to hear Mr Cousin's preach
anniversary sermon, and subscribed 50cts, and paid Mr Hildreth the same in full.
" 14 March 13. Noah and I got father's sap pan for which We agree to give him a gallon of syrup.
14 March 15 Noah and I borrowed Mr Cliver Howells sap pails and spile's
"14 March 14 Fine and warm Trapping.
" 14 March 14 I bought four hundred one Dollar Shares of the Cobalt Frontenac Mining Co. Limited.
from G M Jones agent for one hundred Dollars. and gave note for thirty Day's from date. and got
receipt for settlement in full.
" 14 March 14. Roy Kelly borrowed Noah’s wagon and returned it
1911 March 14. Jerseyville March 14 1911
Dear Sister
Noah and I are each sending you Five Dollars as a gift. am sorry you are not well. Let us know how
you are getting along. I am busy now I have started to tap. Your Loving Brother.
Milt.
" 16 Very cold.
" 16 March 16 Helped Roy Kelly afternoon loading manure.
" 16 Borrowed one Dollar from Noah Dyment.
" 16 March 16 Bought and paid in full one Dollar and ten cents for a pair of rubbers from Black's
Clerk.
" 16 March 16 Finished cutting sixteen cords of stove wood, at fifty cents per cord, and recieved
payment in full for same.
" 16 March 16 Paid Noah Dyment in full eight Dollars. for the use of his team drawing my cedar
posts from the swamp to Valen's Corner's.
" 17 March 17. Cold. and Blustry.
" 17 March 17. helped Roy Kelly. draw manure one day.
" 17 March 17 Recieved one Dollar of the one Dollar and eighty seven and a half cents, from Roy
Kelly that he owed me for March the 16 and March the 17.
" 19 Jerseyville March 20 1911
Mr Woodhouse.
Dundas
Dear Sir
I would like to have pay for the car load of wood I shiped {shipped} to you Dec 22, 1910.
Yours Truly
M Dyment.
Jerseyville. Ont.
" 19 Wrote to Professor Zavitz of the Agricultural College Guelph to send me experiment 28C, first
choice, 28B, second choice, for. 1911 year’s experiment.
1911 March 20 March 20. Recieved one Dollar and twenty cents from Mable Dyment March 19. to
give to Mrs E. Vansickle. which I did give in full for four pounds Butter March 20. 1911.
" 20 Jerseyville. March. 20 1911
Mr. H. Knox
Lynden.
Dear Sir
The price on Blue Vitrol {a.k.a. copper sulfate: used as insecticide} by the barrell. at Wood and
Vallance hardware store to day is five cents per lb. I didn't price anywhere else. Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
" 20 March 20. Rain at first clearing and turning colder. Came from Hamilton on the T.H.&.B 11.14.
" 21 March 21. Fine and warm. drawing manure. and helping Oliver Howell move a building to Fred
Howells.
" 21 March 21 The card I wrote to H Knox March 20 about Blue Vitrol, I burnt.
" 23 March 23. Taylor Olmstead's sale. Very cold. drawing manure and boiling sap.
" 23 Jerseyville March 23. 1911
Mr Siddall
Hamilton
Dear Sir
Your letter of the 22nd recieved We intend to ship potatoes to Hamilton soon. just when, I cant say.
We have four or five car load's for sale yet, Ill likely write you again or call on you, when we are
about to sell.
Yours Truly,
M Dyment.
1911 March 23 Jerseyville March 23 1911
National Drug Co
Hamilton
Dear Sir’s
Quote me your cash price on two Barrells of Blue Vitrol, or about twelve hundred lbs, and one
hundred of paris green, laid down here at Jerseyville
Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville. Ont.
“ 24 March 24 fine and cold. was drawing manure. W C Vansickle took dinner with us.
“ 24 Jerseyville March 24 1911
Woodhouse & Co
Dundas
Dear Sirs.
Your letter recieved, I packed car full, and estimated there was thirteen and a half cords of wood or
more in the car, which at Four Dollars and a half a cord would amount to sixty Dollars and seventy
five cents. Yours Truly.
M. Dyment.
Jerseyville. Ont.
“ 24 Jerseyville March 24. 1911
W C Wells
Brantford
Dear Sir
Your letter of the 22nd recieved. I have potatoes for sale of the common variety and would take a
Dollar a bag for twenty bag on car at Jerseyville this month. Yours Truly M Dyment Jerseyville Ont.
1911 March 28 March 25. Recieved one Dollar as payment in full for work done. for Roy Kelly 16
and 17 march
“ 28 March 25 Recieved one Dollar as loan from Noah
“ 28 March 25 Noah and I agreed to load a car of potatoes, for which Amos Dyment agreed to give
us eighty cents per bag on car at Jerseyville.
April 3 March 30. Loading potatoes
“ 3 March 31 Finished loading car of potatoes. to be shipped to Amos Dyment.
“ 3 April 1 Recieved sixty Dollars and seventy five cents for wood shiped Dec 22. 1910 to Woohouse
and Co Dundas. At Bank of Commerce. Dundas.
“ 3 April 1 Noah recieved two Hundred and sixty Dollars in full for car load of potatoes of three
hundred and twenty five bags. Shipped and sold to Amos Dyment.
“ 3 April 1 Lent Noah Dyment sixty Dollars.
“ 3 April 1 Sold car load of potatoes to M Cornell John St. Grocer at eighty seven cents per bag to be
delivered in the week of April the 3rd.
“ 3 April Recieved five Dollars interest from Orton Dyment on notes past due.
“ 3 April 2 Was to Hamilton. Cold.
“ 3 April 3 Recieved the sixty Dollars I lent to Noah Dyment April 1st.
“ 3 April 3 Reciepted the bill Woodhouse and Co sent me when sent the check on the Bank of
Commerce at Dundas for wood. For sixty Dollars and seventy five cents.
“ 7 April 7 paid frank Miller fifty and a half Dollars in full for a note he had against Mr John hunter,
fifty three Dollars including interest to be paid May 24th 1911.
“ 7 April 7. Jess Wilson Helped one day at potatoes.
“ 8 April 8. Jess Wilson Helped one day load potatoes.
“ 8 April 8. Paid Jess Wilson two Dollars {Above it reads: and half} in full for work April 7 and 8th.
“ 8 April 8. Paid N Smith twelve dollars in full for shiping car of potatoes.
“ 8 April 8 Recieved fourty cent to give J Wilson to pay for horse shoeing and recieved three cents
back.
“ 12 April 11. Paid M Carroll three Hundred and twenty five bags of potatoes in at eighty seven cents
per bag and Noah recieved only twenty five Dollars on them.
“12 April 11 Noah and I bought one bag of Potates by the name of Bovee for two Dollars. He paid
Steel Briggs
“ 12 April 12. Boiled Sap. Rainy
1911 April 12 April 12 Jerseyville
Mr Dunlop
Hamilton Ont
Dear Sir
We will take ninty-five cents per bag for 400 bags of potatoes on car at Hamilton, freight prepaid.
{Diagonally it reads: if you want them answer by return mail.} Yours Truly.
Dyment Bros.
Jerseyville Ont
April 15 April 14. Noah and I had some settling up. We settled for the one trip off his ticket amounting
to twenty five cents and for the Dollar I borrowed on March 16 and the Dollar I borrowed on March
23 and for the twenty four day that Rob helped me last summer, I gave him twenty four Dollars. He
settled for the interest on the twelve hundred and two hundred Dollar Notes for a year giveing me
eighty four Dollars he paid me eight Dollars in full for small Potatoes. He settled for the one hundred
and thirty Dollars that he owed me on the car of Potatoes tha {that} Amos Dyment got. in settling I
am to get the fifty nine Dollars and fifty five cent that’s coming to him from Mr Carroll. etc. In the end
he owed me the twelve Hundred Dollar note, and interest since Dec 27, 1910, and the two Hundred
Dollar note, and interest since April 7 1911, and one hundred and thirty three Dollars and seventy
five cents to be handed to me soon.
“ 15 April 14 Paid Mr Lee in full five cents for Mucilage.
“ 15 April 15 Arthur Lee. Agent for the Cobalt Frontenac Mining Co Limited Sold me six hundred
shares of stock in the mentioned Co for one hundred and fifty Dollar’s. and gave note to be paid in
thirty days from date, and Receipt recieved.
" 19 Roy Kelly Got two Posts out of the pile Noah and did not Pay for them. Value thirty cents
" 19 April 19 H. Vansickle Paid in full thirty cents for two Posts.
1911 April 19 April 19. Sold Noah Dyment seventy six Posts for nine Dollars.
" 19 Jerseyville. April 19 1911
Mr Barrett.
Brantford.
Dear Sir We offer you a car {Above it reads: load} of good carman potatoes to be loaded at once, at
ninty cents per bag. {Diagonally it reads: Let us know at once if you want them.} Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville Ont
April 19 Jerseyville April 19 1911
The Dawson Elliott Co.
Toronto
Dear Sir’s I noticed your Ad in the Farmer's Sun. We have three or four car loads of good potatoes of
our own grown to sell. you might make us an offer for a car load, if you like or let us know what is
your commission. Yours Truly.
Dyment Bros.
Jerseyville Ont
" 19 Jerseyville April 19. 1911
Vance & Co.
Toronto
Dear Sir’s We have three or four car loads, of good potatoes for sale. All are own grown. Yours
Truly.
Dyment Bros.
Jerseyville Ont.
1911 April 22 April 22 The letter of the 19th I wrote to Mr C Barrett I did not post or send.
" 22 April 22 Mr H Herman got twenty seven bags of seed potatoes and Paid thirteen 50 {Above it
reads: cts} Dollars in full. two Dollars 60 {Above it reads: cts} of which I recieved for my share in full.
April 26 April 24 Paid Mrs E Vansickle one Dollar and Thirty cents for four pound’s of butter. for
Mable.
April 26 April 26. Paid Mr Lee five cents for four bolts and nuts.
April 26 April 26 Ros helped me four hours.
April 26. April 26. J Wilson helped one day.
April 26 April 26 Jerseyville April 26 1911
David Fraser
Hamilton
Dear Sir.
Your letter of the 24th just recieved. The address was wrong. As we are loading a car of potatoes on
TH & B at Jerseyville, and want to finish seeding before we load. any more. We wont quote any price
just now. We have three car load of carman potatoes to sell yet. Yours Very Truly.
Dyment Bros.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
April 26 April 26 Jerseyville April 26. 1911
Vance & Co
Toronto
Dear Sir
We are just loading a car of Potatoes now, and we want to finished seeding before we load any
more. So we dont care to quote prices just now. Yours Truly.
Dyment Bros.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
1911 April 28 April 27 Jess Wilison. Helped one day.
" 28 April 27 Ros helped eight hours.
" 28 April 28 Paid Agent Smith thirty five cents for frieght on bags.
" 28 April 28 Recieved one Dollar and seventy cents for two bags of Potatoes, in full and gave Noah
half.
" 28 April 28 Gave Colman Howell two Dollars to buy me a gallon of Formalin {aqueous
formaldehyde solution} which he did at two Dollars.
" 28 April 28 Jess Wilison helped one day.
" 28 April 28 Gave Jess WIlison five Dollars, fifty cents, over payment in full for 26th 27th 28th.
" 28 April 28 Ros helped eight hours.
" 28 April 28 Billed car of Potatoes out for Hamilton.
" 28 April 28 Recieved twenty five cents as my share from Noah for Potatoes Mr Jamieson got.
May 3 May 1 Jess Helped one day.
" 3 May. 3 Jess Helped one day.
" 3 May 3 Ros Helped four hours
" 3 May 3 Paid R. Black in full one Dollar and seventy eight for Rags Bread and a Pair of Pants.
" 3 Jerseyville May 3 1911
Messrs Soloman & Stevens
Hamilton
Dear Sir
Your letter recieved containing check as payment in fill for car of Potaotes you bought over Phone
May 1st. We are loading. another car now about 350 bags some being in loose, our bags being
away, These we expect will be in Hamilton Friday morning ready to unload. If you want these at 93ct
per bag on car at Hamilton Let us know at once. We have two small car loads to offer later.
Yours Very Truly
M Dyment.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
May 3 May 3 In settling with Noah the standing account he owes me one Hundred and thirty nine
Dollars and seventy cents.
" 3 Cold. Sending Potatoes.
1911 May 7 May 4 Jess Wilison helped one day
" 7 May 4 Ros Helped eight hours.
" 7 May 5 Jess Helped one day.
" 7 May 5 Ros helped eight hours.
" 7 may 5 R Baguley helped one half day.
" 7 May 4 R Baguley helped one day.
" 7 May 6 Jess helped one day.
" 7 May 5 Delivered nineteen Bags of Potatoes to Brooks Bros unpaid to get ninety cents per bag.
" 13 Jerseyville May 13. 11
Mr Petrie
Hamilton
Dear Sir
Your letter recieved, We have only about five Hundred bags of potatoes now. There we want to hold
a while. We might write you again. Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
" 13 May 8 Jess helped one day.
" 13 May 9 Jess helped one day.
" 13 May 10 Jess helped one day.
" 13 May 11 Jess helped one day.
" 13 May 12 Jess helped one day.
" 13 May 13 Jess helped one day.
" 13 May 13 {Ros?} helped one day
" 13 May 13 Roy. Baguley helped one day.
" 13 May 13 Paid Roy Baguley two Dollars and a half in full for two and a half days work.
" 13 May 13 Paid Noah three Dollars in full for six days work done by Ros.
" 13 May 13 Paid Jess Wilison fifteen Dollars in full for eleven day work. done the last two weeks.
" 13 May 13 Recieved Noah and me seventeen Dollars and ten cents in full from J Brooks for
Potatoes and settled for them with Noah
" 13 May 13 Recieved Noah and me One hundred and fourty nine Dollars from Amos Dyment for
potatoes. loaded to day balance Due fifty cents
1911 May 13 May 13 Paid Father one hundred and one Dollars and sixty cents in full for Potatoes he
loaded for Carroll.
" 13 May 13 Recieved money in full for check we recieved from Stevens and Soloman for Potatoes
through Amos Dyment amounting to Six hundred and eight seven Dollars and thirty three cents.
" 13 May 13 Recieved nine Dollars in full from Noah for seventy six Posts.
" 13 May 13 Recieved some money from Noah in settling up so as to have against him one hundred
Dollars exactly. besides the Notes.
" 22 May 20 Paid Jess Wilison seven Dollars besides the fifty cents he owed one. Witch {which} is
payment in full for the weeks work of the 20th.
" 22 May 22 Very hot. Planting.
" 22 May 22 Jess helped one day.
" 25 May 25 Jerseyville May 25/11
Dear Cousin
You can have 500 posts or more at ten cents each taking them as they come. If you intend to take
them, write
" 29 May 27 Paid Jess Wilison seven Dollars and seventy five cents in full. for the weeks work of the
22nd of may.
" 29 May 27 Received seventy five cents in full for seed Potatoes.
" 31 May 31 Jerseyville May 31st 1911
Mr Petrie
St Cathrines
Dear Sir
We are loading our last car load of potatoes, which will be something like four hundred bags. These
are extraordinary fine {Above it reads: solid} white stock. If you want them at one Dollar and five cent
per bag on car at St Cathrines let us know by Saturday night. Most of these will be left in bags
weighted to ninty lbs each, and the empty bags could be shipped back
Yours Truly
Dyment Bros.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
1911 June 8 June 3rd Paid Jess Wilson eight Dollard and seventy five cents in full for the weeks
work.
June 8 June 3rd Paid Elie V. two Dollars and a half in full for two days work June 2. and 3rd. and he
is two recieve some potatoes for Jun 1 afternoon.
June 8 June 7. Just got home from unloading car of potatoes.
June 10 June 10. Paid Jess Wilson seven and a half Dollars in full for the weeks work
June 10 Recieved seventy five cents in full from Jess Wilson for three Bags of potatoes.
June 10 June 10 Delivered to Elie V. two and a half Bags of potatoes as payment in full for work
June 17 June 17 Paid Jess Wilson seven Dollars and fifty cents for the weed work of six days.
June 24 Jerseyville June 24 1911
Mr Leddicoate
Waterdown
Dear Cousin
As another party is thinking of buying the remainder or a large quantity of posts. I would like to know
when you will have yours all away. So as to be able to sell the bunch with out reserving any. As I
havent sold any to anybody but you you might state if the pile has been meddled with.
Yours Truly.
Milton.
June 24 June 23. Was to Mr Fletcher’s office. Hamilton and Paid him two hundred {Above it reads: &
60$} {Above it reads: the} Cobalt Frontenac Mining Co Limited.
June 26 June 26 Recieved five Dollars from E Vansickle as part Payment for seventy {Above it
reads: posts} at twelve cents each.
June 26 June 26 Paid E vansickle two Dollars and eighty cents in full for twelve lbs of Butter for
Mable.
July 4 July 4 Very hot.
" 4 July 4 Paid Dan Wilson two Dollars. and twenty five cents in full for July 4 one day and July 3rd
one half day.
1911 July 4 June 28 Mr Jones and Mr Fletcher come here for supper and I bought for a note of five
hundred and sixty Dollars to be paid before Oct 31st. Two thousand and eight hundred shares in
The Cobalt Frontenac Mining Co.
July 4 June 28 Recieved five Dollars in full for W Almstead of Ancaster for the use of my Potato
Planter.
July 4 June Paid Howard Knox forty nine Dollars in adition {addition} to the Fifteen he had Recieved
from Noah for nine hundred lbs of the Vitrol and one hundred lbs of Paris Green.
July 4 bought of Noah his share of note agaisnt G. Woodworth. which we recieved June 24 to be
paid five months after date. and paid ten Dollars in full for same.
July 4 July Settled up with Noah. everything except notes
July 5 Jerseyville July 5 1911
Dear Sirs
For the two Dollar Postal order. Send me enough packing to pack the two plungers of my spramotor
and The one end of one plunger that the hole is in that fastens to the plunger bar and Three of those
little bolts that goes through the plunger bar’s and two plunger bar’s and the rest of the money in
disc’s and in washers and in packing. {Diagonally below it reads: in haste.}
Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville
Ont
July 5 July 5 Very hot Jess helped me one day.
July 8 July 8 Paid Jess Wilson eight Dollars and seventy five cents in full for work to Date. Five
Dollars for the week of June the 19. four days. and the rest for July 5th 1 day July 6th one half day
July 7 one half day July 8 one half day.
July 17 July 10 Jess Worked one half day.
July 17 July 14 Jess Worked one day.
July 17 July 14 Paid Ervin ten cents in full for work.
July 17 July 15 Jess helped one Day.
July 17 July 17 Brought a pair shoes at Hamilton Royal Shoe store for six Dollars and a half.
1911 July 24 July 29. Paid Jess Wilson three Dollars and seventy five cents in full for done July 10 ½
day July 14 1 day July 15 1 day.
July 24 July 29 Paid Ethel Vansickle one Dollar and eight cents in full for butter Mable had got.
July 24 Paid Mr Lee 45ct in full for Melon.
Aug 5 August Jerseyville Aug 5 1911
Enclosed fine 25 cents for disc and washers in haste Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
Aug 12 Aug 5 Paid Mr Ervin 10 cts in full for work.
" 13 Aug 9 Paid E Vansickle $1.07 cts in full for butter.
" 13 Aug 11 Recieved only 30 worth of commission in shares and bought Noah’s 50 {Above it reads:
40} worth and recieved 500 shares of the Co for some.
Jerseyville Aug 15 1911
Dear Sirs
I recieved reciept for the 25cts I sent you for discs, and washers for Spramotor but I have not
recieved the goods. Please send at once. I had to make a disc out of tin. Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville.
Aug 23 Jerseyville Aug 23. 1911
Mr Markle
Dear Sir.
I would like you to pay the 28 {Above symbol for dolalrs?} note and interest I have against you, when
it falls due Aug 27 1911. I could wait until Dec 1st 1911 if it is any better for you.
Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville. Ont.
Aug 31 Jerseyville
Dear Friend Your card recieved with thanks. I expect to be after posts next week. All though the
summer has been hot and dry my potatoes of 32 acres promises a good yield. We have just got rural
mail delivery. in this vacinity {vicinity} Tomorrow is the first gathering so this will be the first card in
the box. I must say in finishing dont play too many dominoes. I remain as ever your friend. Milton.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
Aug 31 Jerseyville. Aug 31. 1911
Dear Sir.
I can get the team some day next week. So. Ill get you post as soon as possible. Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
Sept 10 Sept 9 I drew W. Book 89 Posts and received $13.00 in full.
" 10 Sept 9 I drew Noah 84 Posts.
" 10 Sept 9 Recieved $2.00 in full for wood from Mr R Telford, which he got out of the swamp.
Jerseyville Sept 19 1911
Mr Alderson
Dear Sir
Please leave in Hamilton some pace A 22 for my potato Digger, as soon as possible and drop a
card. Yours Truly
M Dyment
William B. Vansickles address 133 Bold St.
Jerseyville Sept 25 1911
Dear Sir
As we are about ready to handle potatoes I Would like to have those bags, about 140 in number I
think you have of ours. Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
Jerseyville Sept 25 1911
Dear Cousin
I would like to have those 42 potato bags which you got last spring. We expect to handle some
potatoes soon. Yours Truly.
M Dyment
Jerseyville Sept 25 1911
Mr Alderson
Carlisle
Dear Sir
I wrote to you sometime ago, stating I wanted A22 for my potato digger, and havent heard from you.
I have been heeding it. Please write at once and let me know where to go for this piece A22. Yours
Truly.
M Dyment.
1911 Sept 25 Sept 25 Paid Mr Ervin 25 cts in full for work
Sept 25 Sept 29 Got notes renewed I had against E Vansickle first note 121 {Above it reads: $
1906}. Dec 21ts 1911 at 7ct per annum = $161.23 second note $100 {Above it reads: $} March 26.
1907 to Sept 29. 1911 = 131.50 posts $3.40 due all toll = $296.13. I recieved a $2.46 note for a year,
and a fifty Dollar note for three Months. as settlement
Sept 30 Paid Wesley Morris $1.50 in full for work
Sept 30 Jerseyville Sept 30. 1911
Mr Zavitz
Guelph.
Dear Sir
I generally Plant thirty acres, of potatoes each spring, and this year my potatoes tops got frozen,
before the potatoes had come to maturity. What would you advise me to do. would seed from this
years crop be fit for planting. I spray for Blight. Yours Truly
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
1911 Oct 5 Oct 4 Got gas pipe from Roy Kelly and offered to pay for it and he refused to take any
pay.
" 5 Oct 4 Paid Taylor 35 cts in full for work.
" 5 Oct 4 Lent Noah $5.00 in addition to $1.00 he had borrowed the other day.
" 5 Oct 5 Jerseyville Oct 5 1911
Mr Alderson
Dear Sir
Send me through mail if possible two V36 Brass Box's with out the Part they fit in, or oil tube I got
A22 repaired {so?} I am in no rush for it just now. Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville
Oct 7 Oct 7 Paid Taylor 25cts in full for work done this day.
" 9 Oct 9 Paid Mr Powers 25cts in full for work to Day.
Jerseyville Oct 9. 1911
Messrs Stevens and Soloman
Dear Sirs.
Your letter of the 6th recieved. Owing to the day weather through July and August our potatoes will
not yield so well as they did last year. and will be some what smaller, but I think will make a very nice
sample. We are just in the midst of digging just now, and do not intend to sell untill they are all
harvested, and will give {your’s?} prices Later.
Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
" Oct 14 Paid Wesley Morris’ $4.00 in full for this week’s work of five and a half day.
" 19 Oct 18 Paid Vansickle’s $1.20 infull for 4lbs butter Mable had got.
" 19 Oct 19 Recieved $15 from Mary Baguley as interest on Mortage on Mr Baguleys lot. interest
being paid to Oct 12. 1910 and wrote on envelope reciept.
" 28 Oct 28 Paid Wesley $8.60 in full for the Last two weeks of 8 ¾ days.
" 28 Oct 28 Ordered car for potatoes to load Monday.
1911 Oct 28 Oct 27 paid at the Merchants Bank. Hamilton a $5.60 not {note} I gave the Cobalt
Frontenac Mining Co for 2.800 shares of stock.
" 28 Oct 27 Sold to Mr Toland 1 ¼ cord of wood. Limbs for $2.50. and recieved Payment in full.
" 28 Oct 27 Drew Mr Crockran {likely Cochran} ½ cord of wood and recieved $2.50 in full
Jerseyville Oct 27 1911
Mr Alderson
Carlisle
Dear Sir
Find inclosed post office money order $2.10 for 2 Brass Boxes and postage. I have not got A22 yet,
but will Call for it some day I happen down to City. I am just about through digging now. I have dug a
lot of potatoes withit, and with a few repairs it would be about as good as a new machine.
I remain Yours Truly.
Milton Dyment.
Jerseyville. Ont.
Jerseyville Oct 17 1911
Mr Penfold
Dear Sir
Your card recieved. We could not give you a price on our potatoes just now. But will give you prices
soon.
Yours Truly.
Dyment Bros.
Jerseyville.
Nov 4 Nov 3 Noah started to Cobalt.
" 4 Nov 4 Paid Welsey $4.50 infull for the weeks work of 6 days.
" 4 Nov 4 Drew G. Swartz ½ cord of wood $1.25 unpaid.
" 4 Jerseyville Nov 4 1911
Dear Sirs
Inclosed find shiping bill. You will find 288 Bushells of 288 Bags containing 90lbs, so there is 420
Bags by weight. I lost my sewing needle Other wise I could of got 90lb in nearly every Bag. which
would of been much better. We have not got many bags left so send us our 315 bags as soon as
possible.
there was 70cts freight on the bags you sent us. I ordered car for Monday morning and expect to of
gotten it out Tuesday night. but it did not come untill thursday morning, then I expected to have it
sent down Friday night, but My Brother went away. Friday and didnt get much help. I am sorry to
have disapointed you. Bags in haste. I remain Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
Jerseyville
Ont.
Nov 9 Nov 7 Recieved $2.50 in full for wood ½ cord for church from R R Black. Which he recieved a
year ago.
Nov 9 Nov 7. Paid R Black 66cts in full for 12 sugar sack and 6 Bags.
Nov 9 Nov 7 Recieved $1.35 in full for wood from Mr Peterkin and Noah recieved 25cts from him for
drawing it this day.
" 10 Paid Vansickle’s $1.20 in full for butter.
" 10 Nov 7 Paid Noah $5.00 in full for Potatoes R Brown. got. Nov 4th
Jerseyville Nov 9 1911
Dear Sirs
Recieved your letter of the 7th containing check $399.00 as payment in full for car of potatoes Big 4.
7547 and 70cts freight on the Bags. We have about all the potatoes promised We are to sell at the
present time, not knowing what kind of weather we will have to open pits, We have a car load in the
cellar to sell after we quit the pits and will likely give you prices. Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
Jerseyville. Nov 9. 1911
Mr C Barrett
Toronto
Dear Sir
Your letter recieved. We have all the potatoes sold we care to promise, not knowing what the
weather will be like to open pits. We have a car load in cellar to offer later. Yours Truly. M Dyment.
Nov 13 Paid Wesley Morris $3.50 in full for work. 3 + 2/3 days.
" 13 Charles Barrett Address 960 Bloor St Toronto
" 13 Albert Case 49 Smith Ave.
Jerseyville Nov 15 1911
Mr Penfold
Dear Sir
We have been offered, and sold a quantity of our potatoes for $1.25 per bag. We would let you have
some at the same price, if you let us know at once.
Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
Jerseyville
Ont.
" 18 Nov 16th Recieved $2.50 in full for a cord of wood from G Swartz.
" 18 Nov 18 Paid Rob Jamieson 40cts in full for work.
" 18 Nov 18 Paid W Morris 55cts in full for work.
" 18 Nov 23 paid Jess Wilson $3 in full for work Nov 22 & 23.
" 23 Nov 23 Paid Ervin $1 in full for shoeing this Day.
" 23 nov 22 Paid C Howell for Ball of twine and am to recieve 60cts in change.
Jerseyville Nov 23. 1911
Dear Sir
We could let you have some potatoes, at $1.25 per bag at the barn. If you take them next week.
Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
Jerseyville
Jerseyville Nov 23. 1911
Mr Carr & Co
New York
Dear Sirs
Your letter recieved. Potatoes I think {Above it reads: Potatoes} are two far to think of exporting any
now, and are scarce in this neighborhood. They are about a dollar and a half on Hamilton market
{Below it reads: per Bag.} Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
Jerseyville. Ont
1911 Nov 25 Nov 24 Gave Mable & Elliott 12 Bags of potatoes.
" 25 Nov 24 Rob & I drew a load of potatoes to Hamilton.
" 25 Nov 25 Rob & I put 200 bags of potatoes in Mr Siddle’s cellar on hughson st. South for $1.15
per bag. and recieved payment in full.
" 25 Nov 25 Gave Rob Jamieson $1.00 on the weeks work.
" 25 Nov 24 Ross paid Vansickle for Mable’s butter.
" 25 Nov 25 Paid Noah in full for his half interest in car potatoes We on loaded. Nov 25.
Nov 25 Recieved Payment in full from Noah for help through out the summer.
Nov 25 Paid Noah in full for helped through the full.
Nov 25 Nov 25 Paid Noah $9.50 in full for the help Ross gave me This fall 26 days.
Nov 25 Recieved from Noah $72 dollars in full interest on the
Nov 25 Nov 25 $1200.00 note I have against him, this paying the interest to the 28th of Dec 1912..
Nov 25 Nov 25. Settled with Noah to date he owes me now $2.00 note & interest & $1,200.00 note
and some commission in selling C & F. stock
Nov 28 Nov Paid Mr Ervin 10cts in full for repairing fork.
Dec 1 Dec 1 Recieved $50 in full for load of potatoes A Vansickle got. Nov 30.
" 1 Dec 1 Recieved $18,65 in full from W Book for posts.
" 1 Dec 1 Paid Rob Jamieson $6.75 in full for work to Date
Jerseyville Dec 1 1911
Dear Sir
Your Letter of the 28th recieved, There has been a lot of turnips loaded here, a great many car loads
of fine stock has gone out this season, but I beleave {believe} They are getting scarce now. I could
of loaded some for you had you wanted some sometime ago. but I dont know just where I could get
any now. However if I find a quantity I will drop a line.
Yours Truly.
M Dyment.
Jerseyville.
Ont.
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