{page one} James Cameron Island 4th o Dec 1897 Very Foggy Lots of Frost on the Trees E Wind Boys after Ducks got none Gordon and Leander crofsed got the Mail and a Lot of Papers From D M Master Sent a Letter and 2 Paper to John Cameron Junction City Kansas got 5 cents in Postage stamps Turned to Rain and Wind and Frost Got a Bottle of Minards Liniment from Gordon got the mail 5th Fair Fixed the Ducks to Send to DMM Randolph here 6th EW The Festival of the German's St Nicholas Fernandez went with the Box of Ducks to Mr Hagarty to take to the Station I am not very well soar all night a Bad Pain under my Left Brast Gordon not well 7th EW Eddy Renshaw here him and Fernandez to the Kitt Kit Took Pills some Grains of Snow 8th Fine Warm E Wind Soft Fixed a Window in the Stable Fernandez went to Lancaster Gordon not Well {page two} James Cameron Island 9th of Dec 1897 E Wind Kind of soft Mowing Rushes the Mink in the Bay But Dont come to the Trap Wrote a Letter to Bismarck Victoria Steam Laundry 152 Yates Street British Columbia Fernandez Cameron came from Lancaster to Summerstown 10th Leander's Birth Day 1872 a Fine Day Gordon not well Leander for EEls got 4 Got a few Perch Got a Mink up in the Bay Rained some to night not very well 11th Rain Fixing on the Barn Floor put in Boards Leander crossed to Summerstown 12th E Wind Found 45 Feet of Rope Fernandez went to A Frasers to Be Ready to see about his vote on the 13th 13th very Fine Day Leander and Stanley Plouging on the Lower Point