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1857
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Contents
Counting House Calendar, Banking Table, a Blank Space for Memoranda for every day in the year, Cash
Account for each Month, Annual Summary of Cash Account, Bills Payable and Receivable.
{facing page}
Calendar for the year 1857
== A TABLE == Showing the number of days from any day in the month to the same day in any other
month throughout the whole year.
January February March April May June July August September October
Jan. 365 334 306 275 245 214 184 153 122 92
Feb. 31 365 337 306 276 245 215 184 153 123
March 59 28 365 334 304 273 243 212 181 151
April. 90 59 31 365 335 304 274 243 212 182
May. 120 89 61 30 365 334 304 273 242 212
June. 151 120 92 61 31 365 335 304 273 243
July. 181 150 122 91 62 31 365 334 303 273
Aug. 212 181 153 122 92 61 31 365 334 304
Sept. 243 212 184 153 123 91 61 31 365 334
�Oct. 273 242 214 183 153 122 92 61 30 365
Nov. 304 273 245 214 184 153 123 92 61 31
Dec. 334 303 275 244 218 183 153 122 91 61
Explanation.-How many days are there from the 10th of January to the 10th of June? Look for January in
the column at the left hand, then seek for June along the line to the right, and you find the number of days
to be 151.
DIARY FOR 1857.
January, Thursday, 1. 1857.
Made about 1455¾ calls more or less &c
Friday, 2.
Making distance table for map of Peel
Saturday, 3.
Same as yesterday - Went to Mr Ellis to hurry him up with the Lithograph of Peel
January, Sunday, 4. 1857
No Entries
Monday, 5.
Same as on Saturday - finished about 4:30 P.M.
Tuesday, 6.
Transfering information from map of Peel to the tracings of the several Townships Went to Brampton by
the evening cars
January, Wednesday, 7. 1857
About the Village all day doing little or nothing
�Thursday, 8.
intended to travel through the county of Peel today but the weather was too cold
Friday, 9.
left Brampton about 9:30 A.M. then through Stanleys Mills, Castlemore, Coleraine, Bolton, Macville,
Sand Hill,(Paisley), & Mono Mills, to Orangeville Hunting information for map of Peel. Neither the clerk
of the Gore or the clerk of Albion were at home. Consequently could not get the school sections of either
of said townships.
January, Saturday, 10. 1857
Left Orangeville about 8:00 A.m. went to Alton staid there an hour then went to Charleston & got the
school sections of Caledon from Dodds, the clerk promised him a map for the same information. Then
drove home about 5:15 P.m. found {illegible}vin had telegraphed friday to go to town - ran over to station
- just in time for cars
Sunday, 11.
No Entries
Monday, 12.
Went to Brantford by Mornings train to get clothes to go to the bush - when I got back again 11.00 AM Mr
Jack thought I had better not go as I would be too late to overtake him before he got started from Orillia -
went to Ellis in the afternoon to get the Map of Peel
January, Tuesday, 13. 1857
Working at plan of peel {text is vertically written across Tuesday and Wednesday, the ink is faded}
Wednesday, 14.
Took the tracing to Ellis in the forenoon. Went to Brampton in the evening to travel in search of
information for map of Peel.
Thursday, 15.
Went to Bolton's Village to get a map of the school sections in Albion. Mr Swinarton said I could get it
from County Clerk next week - Called on the Clerk of the Gore for the same purpose. he said the
Township collector had it
�January Friday 16 1857
Went to Streetsville to get the school section of Toronto from the Town Clerk - he hadn't then said I could
get them from the County Clerk - went to Springfield & got a good deal of information from Mr Taylor
Councillor for the first Ward
Saturday 17
Very cold & stormy day - staid home all day
Sunday 18
No entry
January Monday 19 1857
{Written Vertically Along Left Side} Working at Plan of Peel
Went from Brampton to Toronto in the forenoon - went to Fitzgerald's to copy map of Streetsville before
leaving Brampton and he gave me one to bring with me
Tuesday 20
intended to meet Mr McCowan at the Scarboro Station but was too late for the Cars
Wednesday 21
Went to the the Cars to go to Scarboro - Cars dont call there went to Mink's and hired a horse and went
to McCowan’s house did a little measuring on his Lot but could not finish on account of not having a
description of Mrs Borwicks property arrived in Toronto about 6.00 P.M.
January Thursday 22 1857
{Written Vertically Along Left Side} Working at Plan of Peel -- but not very hard
Searched in registrey office for Description of Mrs Borwicks Lot & made Description of 24 Acres off the
north part of Mr McCowans portion of Lot No 22 Con C Scarboro Working at plan of Peel in the
afternoon - Got a plan of the school sections of Toronto Township from Mr Elliott Clerk of County Council
Friday 23
of the school sections sent map of township of Toronto back to Mr Elliott by F Forster
�Saturday 24
Took map of Peel to Mr Ellis W Case of Bell.V. White decided before the Chief justice in Bells favour -
recieved map of school sections of Chinguacousy from McCollum Wm went to Brampton in the evening
January Monday 26 1857
{Written vertically across Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th} Working at Distance table of Peel &c &c &c
{No Entries for January 26, 27, 28 and 29}
{Written vertically along left margin} had a thundering bad cold working a little at Distance table of Peel
Friday 30
Finished distance table and took it to Ellis’ about 1:00 P.M. went to Brampton at night
{No entries for January 31 and February 1}
Monday 2
Arrived in Toronto about noon put School sections of Chinguacousy and the Gore in map of Peel
Tuesday 3
Working a little at map of Muskoke Road
Wednesday 4
did not do much in the office went to Brampton to go to the Loydtown to get map of school sections of
Albion
Thursday 5
raining and storming all day did not go to Loydtown as I intended
February Friday 6 1857
Went to Loydtown and got copy of Mr Osler's Map of Albion - I Pattullo went with me - Stopped at Bolton
going and coming
�Saturday 7
Went to Town in the morning and put school sections of Albion on the map of Peel - went Back to
Brampton in the evening. Witt went with me
{No entry for Sunday February 8}
February Monday 9 1857
Came to Toronto in the morning. Went to Ellis and got the map to make a few alterations
W.H. came in in the morning
Tuesday 10
{Entries for 10th and 11th are written in darker ink over lighter entries}
In office greater part of day - attended Proffessor Chapmans lecture on mineralogy from 1 to 2 P.M.
in evening company at Unwins danced &c &c till 3:00 Am of 11th
Wednesday 11
at work at Hastings farm - Charley and John were with me
February Thursday 12 1857
{Written with darker pen over lighter entry}
Went to Elliis 3 or 4 times to see about map of Peel attended lecture at College
Friday 13
With Charley & John working at Hastings farm found I had made a mistake in measuring across the lot
last fall measuring 12.50 instead of 12.58 ½
Saturday 14
at Ellis all forenoon got 3 or 4 proof sheets about 12 noon sent 8 out to Brampton in the afternoon
{No Entry for February Sunday 15 1857}
�Monday 16
in office part of day - went to Crown Land office to get field notes and instructions of Township of North
Gwillimsbury
Tuesday 17
attended lecture at college made tracing of map of Toronto
_____________
February Wednesday 18 1857
At work at survey of the Hastings farme Charley and John with me. - finished it
Thursday 19
Attended lecture in the afternoon Went to Brampton in the evening to see about Proofs of Map of Peel
Making tracing of Plan of Grand trunk Railway through County of Peel - in the forenoon
Friday 20
Could not get the map of Peel on account of J Lynch not being at home. Came to town in the morning
February Saturday 21 1857
Finished tracing of Grand Trunk railway map
{No Entry for Sunday February 22}
Monday 23
Coppying the field notes taken at Sutton into another
February Tuesday 24 1857
Corrected A.F. Wrights map for registry - attended lecture
Wednesday 25
not doing much in the office Went to Brampton in the evening to get proofs of Peel
�Thursday 26
Came to town in the morning
attended lecture in afternoon Chas Robertson went with me
took corrected Proof of Peel to Ellis
February Friday 27 1857
Commenced and nearly finished a map of the town of St Mary's for J Lays Esq
Saturday 28
Finished map of St Mary's in the forenoon did nothing in the afternoon
this day finishes 2 years service
March Sunday 1
{No Entry}
March Monday 2 1857
With Roberts and John Guy left Toronto for Sutton where arrived about 4:30 P.M.
Tuesday 3
Produced townline down to the Lake and about 20.00 on to the ice - where I took Angles to the islands
and to several objects on shore traversed the shore from the Townline to Jackson's Point
Wednesday 4
With Roberts and John surveying Jackson's Point
March Thursday 5 1857
Finished Preliminary survey of Jacksons Point
Friday 6
Met Mr Lyndsay in the morning to run his line. concluded not to run it untill they petitioned Parliament for
a local act for the Lake Con to Gwillimbury - went to see Mr Mossington about running his line but he did
�not want it run untill Peter Barton swore to the Post bet - Nos 7 & 8 - in afternoon made pencil sketch of
Jackson's point - called at Howards in forenoon - and at Trent's in the evening
Saturday 7
running line between Nos 1 & 2 in the 8th for R.Reeford
March Sunday 8 1857
{No Entry}
Monday 9
Snowing hard all day - done nothing done
Tuesday 10
in forenoon ran a compass line part of the way through lot 14. lake con North Gwillimbury for J A
Lindsay in afternoon running line bet {bet is shortform for between} 1 & 2 8th con Georgina for Reeford
March Wednesday 11 1857
Finished line bet 1 & 2 ---
Thursday 12
Chaining line bet 1 & 2 in forenoon to put down posts - in afternoon attended races at Jackson’s Point
Friday 13
Finished chaining line bet 1 & 2 and put down Posts on the Townline 1/2 way up the lot
March Saturday 14 1857
Finished putting in the posts on the Townline
Sunday 15
Went up to Mr Howards in the evening
Monday 16
Put in the posts at the 9th Con line moved Mr Bouchiers post at S.W. L of No. 1 in the 9th con 16l
farther
south - put down the posts between 1 & 2
�March Tuesday 17 1857
Ran a line along the 7th con line to bet 6 & 7 in the 6th con - then bet 6 & 7 parallel to the Townline -
then cleared and measured across the Fronts of lots 7, 8, & 9 in the 6th con - where I found an old post
lying down & the point in the ground planted a cedar one in its place
Wednesday 18
raining in the morning & looked like rain all day. had so far to go to work did not go - making plan of
Reeford lot
Thursday 19
Charley sick John and I chained across 6th Con bet 6 & 7. then chained on 7th Con line bet across 7
& 1/2 of 8. then sent John home with instrument I planted posts - on front of 6th bet 7 & 8. at centre of
7 & at centre of 8.
March Friday 20 1857
Finished Mr Bouchiers lot at French Village about 6:15 P.M.
Saturday 21
Snowing in the forenoon Finished Mr Reefords Plan - in afternoon ran lines bet 1 & 2 and 2 & 3 of Mr
Reefords lots
Sunday 22
{No Entry}
March Monday 22 1857
Running lines in Mr Reefords Lots
Tuesday 23
Same as yesterday
Wednesday 24
Charley & John same as yesterday I made 2 pencil sketches of the point to thew proposed subdivision
finished them about 3:30 P.M
�March Thursday 26 1857
Finished running lines for Mr Reeford about 4:30 P.M.
Friday 27
Posting off Mr Bouchiers portion of no 2 - 18th con of Georgina - about half of the day - Charley at home
not well
Saturday 28
Left Sutton at 11 A.M. Arrived in Toronto at 7:00 P.M. John and I walked from Dughill to Lefroy
Charley went on to H. Landing
March Sunday 29 1857
{No Entry}
Monday 30
making pencil plan of Jacksons point for Mr Bouchier
Tuesday 31
Trying to get up a plan of Mr Bouchier's property in Georgina
attended lecture at College
April Wednesday 1 1857
Working at Mr Bouchiers plan.
Thursday 2
Same as yesterday -
attended lecture in afternoon
Friday 3
With Mr Unwin - measured the outlines of Mr Gwynes lot on corner of Yonge st and 3rd Con Line. then
went over Mrs, Seymour's lot (25. 3rd con). Arrived at home about 3:30 P.M.
�April Saturday 4 1857
Made copy of Diary and Accounts for April - made a pencil sketch of Mrs Seymour's lot - in afternoon
packed up & sent 18 mounted maps of Peel to Brampton. 3 Col and 6 plainer to Thompson's the same
to Bain & the same to McLear
Sunday 5
{No Entry}
Monday 6
made a pencil sketch of Mrs Seymour's lot packed up for Mr Walford, 12 coloured & 12 plain maps of
Peel.
April Tuesday 7 1857
Making copy of Diary and Accounts for January and February 1857. attended Geological lecture
Wednesday 8
Making plan of Mr Gwyne's lots on Yonge st
Thursday 9
in forenoon making plan of Gwyne's lots in afternoon went to Brampton
April Friday 10, to Monday 13 1857
{No Entries}
Tuesday 14
Came to Toronto in the morning working at Gwynes plan
Wednesday 15
in forenoon. With Unwin, Jack and Roberts. Surveying water lots for Mrs Brown in afternoon working
at Mr Bouchiers plan
April Thursday 16 1857
Working at Gwynes lots Plan attended lecture in afternoon
�Friday 17
ditto
Saturday 18
Same in forenoon - in afternoon with Unwin and Jack - surveying on E side of don - and south of Don
and Danforth road - for J Leys Esqr
April Sunday 19 Monday 20 1857
With Jack till 2:00 P.M, survey Arthurs lot East of Don. Then plotting the survey rest of day
Monday 20
See yesterday
made 2 bets with W. H. F. 1st an even bet of 8 1 that he would not enter 3 first classes, at the University
2nd a bet of 8 2 to 8 1 that he would not take any three that he could mention - he mentioned Geology -
English Literature & Mathematics
Tuesday 21
Working a little at Gwynes plan
April Wednesday 22 1857
With John Guy surveying Park lot No 24 for Revd. Mr Given's
Thursday 23
Calculating contents of park lot No 24 - & several other jobs - too numerous & unimportant to mention
Friday 24
part of the day helping U. & J. to survey Mrs Brown's lot
April Saturday 25 1857
helping Jack to survey Mrs Brown lot on front street. Went to Brampton in afternoon
Sunday 26
{No Entry}
�Monday 27
Came in from Brampton in the morning. Working at Gwynne's plan remainder of day
April Tuesday 28 1857
in forenoon helping Jack to make some calculations for the survey of Mrs Browns lot on Front st in
afternoon with Jack making the survey
Wednesday 29
With Chas and Joe and C Unwin in the afternoon. resetting the post on the Denison Estate homested
Thursday 30
Same as yesterday with Chas and Joe
May Friday 1 1857
Same as yesterday. finished about 1:00 P.M. raining all day
Saturday 2
In the office all day
Sunday 3
{No Entry}
May Monday 4 1857
in the morning with Chas & Joe went up to work at Mr Gwynne's lot above Yorkville - worked at then
until noon, when it came on heavy rain - at home all the afternoon - t in the evening took a letter to the
Colonist office - which I wrote in answer to one written by E Nugent
Tuesday 5
Tuesday in the office all day - sent 25 mounted maps to Brampton and 34 coloured to Carter to get
mounted
�Wednesday 6
Mr Unwin - with Jones & Butterworth went to orillia in the morning
putting some coloured maps on deeds for Bacon - finished one and partly finished 2 - - -
May Thursday 7 1857
With Charley and Joe. Working at Gwynes lots near Yorkville finished at 5:00 P.M.
Friday 8
in office all day doing nothing
Saturday 9
with Chas and Joe working at the Given's estate - making preliminary survey
May Sunday 10 1857
{No Entry}
Monday 11
{Entries written over older faint ones with darker ink}
same as yesterday - finished at 7:00 P.M. when I went to Judge Harrison's - when he told me to tell
Ley's that he stopped me surveying untill he had a settlement with him
Tuesday 12
met Mr Jarvis at Caerhowel, at 11:00 a.m. to take off Lots 30 E of William st 3H32 W of William and E of
Dummer st and A. E and W of Murray st - sent Joe for posts, went to office for Charley - commenced at
3:00 P.M. & finished at 6 P.M. William went to Brampton at night
May Wednesday 13 1857
in forenoon made sketch of the Givens farm in the afternoon. went with Jack to Thornhi
�Thursday 14
We met Mr Passmore at Townline. to run line between 18 and 19 2nd Con Markham - ranged out the
Townline and Angled nearly up to line bet 18 and 19. when it came on to rain very heavy* raining from
about 10:00 a.m.
*about 4:00 P.M.
Friday 15
ran the line as far as line bet 18 and 19 when it commenced raining very heavy Went to house and drew
up a bond bet. Helmkay and Phillips - and took affadavits of Peter Wise & John Helmkay. Jack and
Passmore went to Phillips at night
May Saturday 16 1857
measured across front of Lots 18,19 & 20, ran line between 18 & 19 finished about 5:00 P.M. when
they took Affadavit of Peter Phillips - Left Helmkays about 7:30 P.M. they brought Jack and I as far as
Hoggs Hollow - wher we walked to Toronto arriving about 1:15 A.M. of Sunday
Sunday 17
{No Entry}
Monday 18
drew out proposed subdivision of Leys property
May Tuesday 19 1857
did nothing in the forenoon - in afternoon helped Jack to stake off a lot on Victoria street
Wednesday 20
{Again written over with darker ink}
Charley sick - sent Joe & Muldoon up with some posts (327) to Leys place - H Butterworth and I ran
College street through then we straightened & chopped out the West side of the Centre street & planted
a post where it intersects the north side of College street in the morning sent carpet bag to Wm at
Brampton (per Express)
�Thursday 21
Joe and I working at Ley's place ran out line on the East side of West street and planted post at the
intersection of College st
May Friday 22 1857
With Charley and Joe working at Ley's place
Saturday 23
in office all forenoon. Went to Brampton in the evening
Sunday 24
{No Entry}
May Monday, 25 1857
{No Entry}
Tuesday 26
came to Toronto in the morning-
Wednesday 27
raining in the morning - in office all day doing nothing
May Thursday 28 1857
raining in the morning - same as yesterday
Friday 29
With Charley & Joe working at Ley's place stopped at Church's tavern at night
Saturday 30
Same as yesterday - in afternoon helping Jack & Jones to take levels of Given's street
May Sunday 31 1857
{No Entry}
�June Monday 1
raining in the morning - went up to Ley's place about 12:00
Charley & Joe with me
Tuesday 2
Working at Ley's place from 7:00 A.M. till 7:00 P.M. went to Town after supper
June Wednesday 3 1857
went up about 11:00 A.M. went to Grand trunk switch 3:30 intending to go to Brampton. but could not
get on. came on to rain very heavy about 4:00
Thursday 4
Working from 7:00 A.M. till 7:00 P.M. - went to Town after supper
Friday 5
staid in office all day. helping Jack to make plan of Leys place Charley & Joe working at Ley's place
June Saturday 6 1857
went up to Ley's about 9:00 A.M. working till 4:00 p.m. when went to help Jack & Jones to take levels of
Denis? st
sent Joe home after dinner to cut some wood
Sunday 7
{No Entry}
Monday 8
Raining - working at the plan of Given's Estate
June Tuesday 9 1857
Same as yesterday - went to Brampton in the afternoon
�Wednesday 10
at Brampton
Thursday 11
Came to Town in the evening
June Friday 12 1857
slight showers throughout the day. working at Ley's plan of the Given's Estate
Saturday 13
With Joe working at Ley's place
Sunday 14
{No Entry}
June Monday 15 1857
in forenoon produced St Patrick's st through to Bathurst st
{Written diagonally across part of Monday 15 and Tuesday 16}
With Joe working at the Given's Estate
Wednesday 17
with JCharley & Joe at same
{Written diagonally across Thursday 18, Friday 19, and part of Saturday 20}
With Charley and Joe working at the Givens Estate
Saturday 20
commenced raining at noon and rained all the afternoon
June Sunday 21 1857
{No Entry}
�Monday 22
raining greater part of day in office doing little or nothing
Tuesday 23
with Chas & Joe at the Givens estate
{Written diagonally across Wednesday 24 and part of Thursday 25}
same as Tuesday
Thursday 25
I went to Town in the evening
Friday 26
in office all the forenoon went up to Givens about 5:00 P.M.
June Saturday 27 1857
at the Givens place all day
went to town in the evening
Sunday 28
{No Entry}
Monday 29
raining all the forenoon
went to Brampton afternoon met Uncle's John & David going to Guelph
__________________
{Written diagonally across Tuesday 30, and part of Wednesday July 1
at Brampton
July Wednesday 1
attended meeting of Cricket Club in the evening
�Thursday 2
come in in the morning. then went up to the Cricket ground staid there till noon. afternoon at the office
got J 36 from Jack and went up and paid Fields for board - and bro' down the things from the Given's
survey
July Friday 3 1857
doing very little in office - in afternoon commenced to make a tracing of part of Canada to put on plan of
part of Brampton Mr Unwin arrived from the bush about 9:30 P.M. taking all by surprise
Saturday 4
went to cars to meet Uncle David then went round town with him untill 11:30. then went with him to the
boat for Niagara he started about 12:00-
in afternoon doing a little at tracing of part of Canada - and stretching cloth to mount paper for plan of
Muskoka Road Survey
Sunday 5
{No Entry}
{Written across July Monday 6 1857 and Tuesday 7}
Making a sketch of part of Rosepark for George Duggan Esq together with several other jobs
Wednesday 8
finished sketch in the forenoon in afternoon made and sent out to Brampton a tracing of part of A,F S
plan shewing proposed alteration of streets
July Thursday 9 1857
in morning recd telegraph from A.F.S to get Fitzgerald. went up to Cricket ground to tell him staid till
1:30 - in afternoon in the office doing nothing
Friday 10
went out to Brampton in the morning played a game at Cricket in the afternoon
�Saturday 11
returned from Brampton in the morning - staid at the house all afternoon not well
July Sunday 12 1857
{No Entry}
Monday 13
in forenoon plotting lines of Muskoka Road in afternoon went with Unwin to trac{e} out Townline across
1st Con York and take ofbservation of North star - Jack came along about 11:00 P.M. to help, when he
laid down and went to sleep. consequently was of a great deal of help - (over the left)
staid out all night
Tuesday 14
went to work as soon as we could see and finished tracing out Townline then walked into town arrived
about 9:00 A.M. got breakfast and went to sleep slept till noon - after dinner went to office - working at
Muskoka road plan
July Wednesday 15 1857
working at Muskoka road Plan in the forenoon - afternoon doing nothing at night took observation of
Polaris on line bet 23 and 24 1st Con York finished at 12:00 - midnight
Thursday 16
started to run line bet 23 and 24 - but commenced raining - in office all day
Friday 17
with Mr Unwin and Jack started line bet 23 and 24 then Jack went to office Unwin and I with Joe run it
thro then measured from it to W. City limit on North City limit
July Saturday 18 1857
in morning went to Brampton. then went over to Norval to play cricket with the Norval club beat them
badly. they kicked up a fuss - we came away late without our dinner. becau{se} the president would not
apologize &c
�Sunday 19
{No Entry}
Monday 20
came to Town in the morning. mad up Mr Bourchiers Act for surveying in March
July Tuesday 21 1857
surveying at Mrs Seymours lot. with Chas and Joe - Muldoon took up posts and tent &c - intend
camping out for the survey
Wednesday 22
same as yesterday
in the evening hired a man to come tomorrow. at $1.50 per day
Thursday 23
same as yesterday man working to day - not worth $1.50 but cant get one for less. I left about 5:15
P.M. and came to town
July Friday 24 1857
{Fainter entry written over with darker pen}
Raining in morning - went up to Mrs Seymour's Lot about noon - raining all the afternoon staid in camp
doing nothing - at night hired a boy to work tomorrow for 3/9
Saturday 25
{Overwritten with darker pen}
With all party cutting out lines all day - paid man and boy 18/9 - told mam to come again on Monday at
noon. Went to town at night - Joe left tonight
Sunday 26
{No Entry}
�July Monday 27 1857
{Overwritten with darker pen}
With James (a boy hired in Joes place) went up to Mrs Seymour's lots and put up the tent in the forenoon
- in afternoon with him & man cutting out lines
Tuesday 28
{Overwritten with darker pen}
Same as yesterday afternoon paid off man. went to town in the evening leaving James at the camp
Wednesday 29
{Overwritten with darker pen}
Went up again with Chas in the morning staking off lots all day James went to Town at night to bring up
some victuals in the morning
July Thursday 30 1857
{All Entries to August 4 overwritten with darker pen}
Staking off the lots from 7:00am till 8:00p.m.
Friday 31
Same as yesterday - finished about 8:00 P.M. when got supper & packed up the camp &c & went home
- arrived about 10:30 P.M. very heavy thunder shower from 3:30 till 5:30 P.M.
August Saturday 1
Made rough sketch of Mrs Seymour's lots to make plan from in the forenoon went to Brampton in the
afternoon took Gustave Genereux with me
August Sunday 2 1857
{No Entry}
�Monday 3
Went to Town in the morning went over to Island in the afternoon with A Butterworth & Unwin to have a
bathe
Tuesday 4
Went to Sutton in the forenoon in afternoon with John Trent staked off Mr Trent's last lot (No 25)
{S}tr J.C.M burnt at Barrie at night
August Wednesday 5 1857
{All Entries from August 5 to August 9 overwritten with darker pen}
in the morning laid out foundation for Church. then (about 9:00 AM) went to Mr Ritchie's to see about
surveying the Georgina Glebe lot - about 11:00 A.M. took angle on Jacksons point bet Townline and a
line from a tree in Innnisfil to the chimney of the parsonage - went over to lot & looked around for post
&c got dinner at Mr Sibbalds about 4:00 P.M. left there about 5:00-went to Mr Syall's to see if he knew
anything concerning the posts between 6 & 7 in the 8th con. got tea there about 6:00 then went to the
village - hired a man to chop tomorrow
Thursday 6
With man running a line parallel to Townline on sideroad between 6 & 7 in 8th con Georgina - got no
dinner went up to Mr Trent's in the evening hired John Croto in the evening for tomorrow
Friday 7
With the 2 men cutting out the line
August Saturday 8 1857
in the morning got Mr Lyall to help me to find the posts of road between 6 & 7 found the post on East
side of road
finished laying off the Glebe about 8:20 P.M. got dinner at Mr Sibbalds
Sunday 9
Went to church in forenoon went up to Mr Howards in afternoon
�Monday 10
in morning made up Mr Sibbald's account $30½ of which I recd $16 and paid off accounts up there
measured sheppards hayfield - about 12 Acres came to Toronto in the afternoon
August Tuesday 11 1857
With Mr Unwin went to Barrie to do a job for shortis & co - when got there found another survey{or} at it.
then examined part of lot 23 in the 7th Con Vespra - came to Toronto in the evening
Wednesday 12
In the office - not doing much
Thursday 13
same as yesterday
went to Brampton in the afternoon
Friday 14
came to town in the morning.
{Written diagonally across part of Friday 14th and part of Saturday 15th}
in the office doing little or nothing
Saturday 15
went to Brampton at night
Sunday 16
{No Entry}
August Monday 17 1857
Came to town in the morning
{Written diagonally across part of Monday 17th and part of Tuesday 18th}
in the office doing little or nothing
�Tuesday 18
in afternoon with Mr Unwin went by stage to Sydenham. then walked up to Thos Copeland's on the N
1/4. W 8. 1st Con N Dundas Street - to be ready tp commen{ce} in the morning to Lay off 10 acres for-
Caldwell.
Wednesday 19
at work all day. finished at 6:00 P.M. when we got supper - & Copeland drove us to Town. arrived at
11:15 P.M.
August Thursday 20 1857
up at Cricket Ground all day Canada vs United states
Friday 21
Went up to the Cricket Ground at 11:00 A.M. game finished at 1:00 P.M. Canada winning with 7 wickets
to spare
After dinner surveying for S Ridout with Mr Unwin
Saturday 22
in forenoon making plan of S Ridouts place Lots south of Jerard street
in afternoon with Mr Unwin and James staking off the Lots Charley working at the plan
August Sunday 23 1857
{No Entry}
Monday 24
in afternoon went to Brampton to see about an Account. Starrat recd as he said from Unwin
Tuesday 25
At Brampton saw Mr Starrat at night
August Wednesday 26 1857
Came to Town in the morning - working at map of Muskoka Road. checking it over &c
�Thursday 27
in forenoon same as yesterday. went around town with Aleck from 12:30 till 2:30
Friday 28
Checking over map of Muskoka Road survey. in afternoon went to meet the great Western cars - to
meet Lizzie but she didnt come
August Saturday 29 1857
this forenoon the same as yesterday forenoon - in afternoon met the boat and Cars. for Liz but she
didn't come went out to Weston by cars Went over to Denisons to get some money. They not at home
coudn't pay if they were - went to Kenter's for same purpos{e} with the same success. staid at John
Rauls at night John Scott staid with me
Sunday 30
Went to meeting {2ce} A. F. and W. H. came down in the buggy staid all night
Monday 31
Saw Kenter in morning said he couldn't pay now. but would sometime (or never) came in by the
morning cars helping Jack to copy the field notes of Muskoka Road plan survey
September Tuesday 1 1857
forenoon the same as yesterday. in after-noon went to the boat and Cars to meet Lizzy but she didn't
come
Wednesday 2
in forenoon hunting up bearings of lines diverging from Main Line of Muskoka Road
afternoon same as yesterday afternoon
Thursday 3
part of forenoon same as yesterday rest calculating distances chained for Diary in afternoon same as
yesterday. Went to Brampton
�September Friday 4 1857
at Brampton. played 2 games of Cricket
Saturday 5
at home all day
Sunday 6
{No Entry}
September Monday 7 1857
came to Town in the morning doing nothing in the office
Tuesday 8
in the morning made draft of description of a road through 33 con. at Scarboro. then leveled Mr Unwins
garden - in afternoon same as last tuesday. at night went to Wellington where saw W. H. S and J. L.
they going to Owen Sound tomorrow morning
Wednesday 9
{Written diagonally across Wednesday space}
doing nothing doing nothing doing nothing doing nothing
cos why. nothing to do
September Thursday 10 1857
same
Friday 11
Same
Saturday 12
Same
�September Sunday 13 1857
{No Entry}
Monday 14
part of forenoon with Mr Unwin measuring S. Ridouts lot on Adelaide st
Tuesday 15
forgot what I was doing this day but believe it was doing nothing
September Wednesday 16 1857
{Written diagonally across Wednesday and Thursday 17}
Working at old plan of Toronto put on it the Plan of lots at Don Station Mrs Ridouts Plan & several
others
Friday 18
{Written diagonally across Friday space}
Making calculations of Jacksons Point Survey. preparitory to making plan for the board of Examiners
September Saturday 19 1857
left office 11:00 A.M. went to went home with W.H.S. got dinner after dinner went up to G W R Stn to
meet girls - Cars 1/4 hour bhind time got Brown to wait girls come hurried them up left trunks
behind. Just in time
Sunday 20
{No Entry}
Monday 21
at home
September Tuesday 22 1857
{Entries overwritten with darker pen for 22 to 25}
in afternoon went over and laid off a 1/2 acre lot for School house at 3rd line East - finished at 4:00
�recd $3.00 for same $0.50 and $1/2 for hoses
Wednesday 23
Fair day - at home & at fair all day
Thursday 24
in morning went over to Mr Hutton's and measured 2 lots. to make description got home at 3:00 P.M.
then made out descriptions. finished at 11:00 P.M.
September Friday 25 1857
sent descriptions to town by J. C.Cummins Esq - to get Unwin and Jack's signature staked off Mr
Cummins lot
at home rest of day
Saturday 26
at Cricket ground greater part of day match bet Brampton and Norval clubs Brampton victorious by
25 having 98 in one innings - to Norvals 73. in two innings - recd descriptions from Toronto and gave
them to J. C. Cummins
Sunday 27
{No Entry}
September Monday 28 1857
Loafing all day
i.e. doing nothing
Tuesday 29
came to Toronto in the morning
Wednesday 30
doing nothing
�October Thursday 1 1857
Same
Friday 2
in afternoon with Mr Unwin went up Leys place to measure distance between posts planted on W side of
Shaw St and the West side of st in 2nd con opposite
Saturday 3
doing little or nothing
October Sunday 4 1857
{No Entry}
Monday 5
part of day going around town with W. H. Scott hunting up a boarding house for him.
Tuesday 6
Liz and Hat. came to town and staid at Ley's. I went there in evening staid till 10:00
October Wednesday 7 1857
In office all day
Thursday 8
In office all forenoon, in afternoon went with Mr J. C. Cummins to Yorkville to see some lots which he
wanted changed
Friday 9
With Charles & James went to Yorkville and altered the lots for J. C. Cummins Esq. finnished about 1:00
P.M. posted a plan of same to him at night
October Saturday 10 1857
in forenoon in the office in afternoon went to Weston
�Sunday 11
at Weston
Monday 12
came to town in the morning in afternoon in the office {fancy little squiggles at the bottom of page}
October Tuesday 13 1857
{Written diagonally across Tuesday, Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15}
in the office the greater part of the time
doing little or nothing
October Friday 16 1857
afternoon went to Brampton to do a job for John Clark
Saturday 17
Surveying J Clark's lot in Brampton finished about 3:30 P.M.
Sunday 18
{No Entry}
October Monday 19 1857
Came to town in morning then made description of J Clark's lot. than by afternoon cars with Thompson
went down to Scarboro. station then walked to Thompson's tavern on Ringston Road to see Morgan
about some survey to be made for him. Staid there all night
Tuesday 20
after breakfast. Morgan drove us up to Armstrongs. on the Markham and Danforth Roads. then went to
survey and lay out Morgans lots parts of lot 20 1st Con -
Wednesday 21
at the same wrought very late trying to finish. but could not
�October Thursday 22 1857
commenced at 6:30 A.M. finished at 8:00 A.M. then had breakfast. rode by stage to railroad crossing
then walked along railroad to Station and came by cars to Town. arrived at 11:00 A.M. rest of day
making plan of Morgans lots.
Friday 23
making plan of Morgans lots
Saturday 24
finished Morgans plan in forenoon
afternoon had toothache very bad
October Sunday 25 1857
{No Entry}
Monday 26
in forenoon took specification for a Theodolite to Potters to send for it concluded to wait till next week -
about noon took several altitudes of the sun. afternoon trying to fcalculate Latitudes by 2 altitudes of the
Sun
Tuesday 27
took several altitudes of the Sun with the Sextant
measuring the angle between the sun and its reflected immage in a plate of Water
October Wednesday 28 1857
{Written diagonally across Wednesday and Thursday 29}
in the office doing nothing
Friday 30
helping Mr Unwin to survey J. Ridouts lots on Seaton Street finished about 4:30 p.m.
�October Saturday 31 1857
in the office all forenoon doing little or nothing. in afternoon went to Brampton
November Sunday 1
{No Entry}
Monday 2
in morning went over to E Fletcher's to run line between 2 & 3. 2nd Con W.H.S. which Bristow had run
before. I came 7 inches farther south than his line finished about 3:00 P.M. came to town in evening.
November Tuesday 3 1857
in office all day doing nothing
Wednesday 4
{Written diagonally across Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5}
Working at R B Denison's Plan of Bellevue Estate
November Friday 5 1857
{Written diagonally across Friday 6th and Saturday 7}
Working at R B Denisons Plan of Bellevue Estate
Sunday 8
{No Entry}
November Monday 9 1857
Same as friday and Saturday
Tuesday 10
With Thompson & James surveying for Bell. on Bathurst and Adelaide sts finished at 3:00 P.M.
Wednesday 11
going round town with Liz and Hattie sent Liz to Brampton and Hattie to oshawa - at night
�November Thursday 12 1857
in morning went to see Bell. he was not in. then went to Crown Land office to get measurements of lots
about Bathurst & Adelaide sts relating to Bells survey
rest of day working at Plan of Bellevue
Friday 13
forenoon same as yesterday afternoon went to Weston
Saturday 14
came to Town in the morning - worked a little at Plan of Bellevue - in afternoon went to Brampton -
Robert Lowis's Barn Burnt about 7:00 P.M.
November Sunday 15 1857
{No Entry}
Monday 16
came to Town in the morning. got to office about noon. working a little at Plan of Bellevue
Tuesday 17
same as yesterday afternoon
November Wednesday 18 1857
nothing
Thursday 19
in morning with Thompson and James went up to Givens Estate when it came on rain went home.
afternoon nothing
Friday 20
with Thomson and James working at the Givens's Estate
November Saturday 21 1857
Snowing all day doing nothing
�Sunday 22
{No Entry}
Monday 23
{Written sideways}
in morning with Thomson went up to the Givens Estate to make some measurements finished about
noon. afternoon putting distances on map of the Given's Estate
November Tuesday 24 1857
in morning went to G.T.R. to go to Brampton 1 minute too late then went up to Given's Est to help
Unwin, Roberts, Thomson, & James. left there at three P.M. went to Brampton
Wednesday 25
at Brampton all day doing nothing heard Mr Ormiston lecture in the evening at Mechanics instute
Thursday 26
measured part of Nr 2 3rd con E.H.S. Chinguacousy for McBride & Starrat
went to town in the evening
November Friday 27 1857
in forenoon went made description of part of No 2 3rd con E.H.S. Chinguacousy
afternoon went to Brampton
Saturday 28, Sunday 29, November Monday 30 1857, December Tuesday 1& Wednesday 2
{No Entries}
December Thursday 3 1857
in forenoon went over to third line East (No 12) with Mr Armstrong to 1 measure two wheat fields
finished about 2:30 P.M.
Friday 4
came to town in the morning
�Saturday 5
doing nothing
December Sunday 6 1857
{No Entry}
Monday 7
With Mr Unwin & Thompson made survey for R. L. Denison of piece of ground occupied by Burgess
Tuesday 8
Went to office in the forenoon comparing plan of Newmarket - -
afternoon at home sick
December Wednesday 9 1857
at home all day ill
Thursday 10
at the office in forenoon doing nothing
at home all afternoon. met A. F. S. at Wellington at night
Friday 11
in office all day to attend case of Burgess Vs Denison in County court
December Saturday 12 1857
the same - about 11:00 A.M. went up to Yorkville with J. R. J. to examine damage done to Heward's
property by letting water off the road back at 12:30 -
in afternoon
Sunday 13
{No Entry}
�Monday 14
doing nothing in particular
Tuesday 15, Wednesday 16, Thursday 17
{Written top to bottom along right side through all of the above dates}
helping J. R. Jack a little with the plan of Newmarket
December Friday 18 1857
in the morning with Unwin and Jack went up to Yorkville to examine a water course through Heward's
property finished about noon. then went home met W. H. S. he was going to Oshawa. went in his
place for Hattie and Miss Arkland. raining nearly all day
Saturday 19
in the morning brought up Hattie and Miss A to Toronto she they staid at Ley's all day Liz & A. F. came
in from Brampton. all went to Brampton at night
Sunday 20
Went to English church twice
December Monday 21 1857
at home all day doing nothing the Misses Ley's came out of town tonight Bowlly then staid all night
being out at the Elections
Tuesday 22
went up to Edmonton with Dr Bull to get the state of the polles. had an upset and broke the cutter
Misses Sellar T Sellar J Thistle and J Wright over tonight
Wednesday 23
doing nothing all day -
the Misses Leys went home at night
went up to Patersons at night
�December Thursday 24 1857
nothing all day -
at Thistles at night enjoyed myself until 12:00 P.M.
Friday 25
Christmas day
sleighing party went up to Dublin
danced for 2 hours then came home again
Saturday 26
Took up carpet in front room shook it and put it down again
Sunday December 27 1857
{No Entry}
Monday 28
at Brampton
Tuesday 29
came to town in the morning
at Brampton
December Wednesday 30 1857
came to Town in the morning
doing little or nothing
Thursday 31
Same as yesterday
went to the station at 4:00 P.M. saw W Thistle there gave him my return ticket
�Memoranda
George Dodds clerk of Caledon
T McCallum " " Chinguacousy
government survey to Unwin & Jack
last summers - Ac - to Unwin
Butbe to Unwin
Memoranda
Subscribers to map of Peel
A. F. Wright Esq Toronto
Wm Forser Brampton
Memoranda
Wright J
Fitzgerald
Scott A
" W
Pattullo A
" J
Solar Observation
Oct 26/57
11-50-15 - a.m.- 38 - 29 33° - 29½
0 - 13 8 - 42 - P.M .- 33+18°
0 - 17 - 30 " " 33 - 06½
0 - 22 - 03 " " 32 - 57 12-7{0}
�Memoranda
Octr 27
h M S
10 - 53-10 - 63 + 45 I I
11 - 07 - 30 - - - 65 - 31 - Centre
11 - 27 - 30 - - - - - 66 + 52 - Centre
11 - 54 - 45 - - - 67+22 - Centre
12 - 00 - 20 - - 67 - 22 "
12 - 06 - 35 - - 67 - 11 "
12 - 10 - 00 67-11 -
12 - 53 - 40 - - - 64 - 00
Memoranda
Board in 1856
William from 15th Novr to 17th Decr
A.B. from 15 Novr to 31 Decr Excepting 2 week
Receipts for Peel
Wm McLellon. 1. map on Account 15.0
recd from J Lynch on Peel Account 3.0.0
�Cash Account - April
Date Rec'd Paid
8th Cash. C.Unwin 2.00
21st C Unwin 2 pr boots 8.00
Cash Account - May
Date Rec'd Paid
4th C Unwin cash 2.00
carting posts to Yorkville .75
6 postage 05. 05
13 J. B Jack. Cash 1
23 J. R. Jack. Cash 1
Cash Account - June
Date Rec'd Paid
8th Mrs Ridout - Paint for lots 33.3
13 mending picket 12.5
�Cash Account - July.
Date. Rec'd. Paid.
1st J. R. Jack. cash 36 ~
Board at Fields 36 ~
Cab 2 ~
mag. of Theodlite
25
7 Postage 10
9 " cash. C Unwin 4 ~
21 " " " 10
Carting posts (Leys) 3 00
" " (Mrs
Seymour)
1 50
" " Unwin 37 ½
- ¼ cwt biscuit 1 50
28th Axemen (Mrs Seymour 5 75
50 00 50 47 ½
�CASH ACCOUNT - AUGUST
Date. Rec'd. Paid.
4 Excursion Ticket. Sutton 3 00
Cash ( C Unwin 7 00
10 3
{3
written
in
pencil}
1st Axeman 2 50
7
{written
in
pencil}
2nd ~ } Sibbald. 16 00 1 { pencil}
10
{written
in
pencil}
Cash. (T. Sibbald 16 00 1
{written
in
pencil}
board at Shepperds 3 00
paper. pencils & c 3
{written
in
pencil}
20
passage. Sutton to
Toronto
2 12 ½
Cab from station home 50
�11 2 tickets to Barrie 3 75
Registry office Barrie 50
15 Cash. (C. U.) 1 00
18 Cash to C.U. 1 00
22 " C.U. (Peel) 20 00
24 Cars to Brampton 75
29 to Weston & back 62½
Cash (C.U) 1 00
25 00 40 95
CASH ACCOUNT - SEPTEMBER.
Date. Rec'd. Paid.
22 School trustees
chinguecousy
3 50
26 J.P. Hutton 9 00
24 search registry Brampton 37½ 37½
�24 horse hire 1 50
26 Cars, to Toronto ³⁄₉ cab
1/{5}
1 00
12 50 2 87 ½
CASH ACCOUNT - OCTOBER.
Date. Rec'd. Paid.
cash. (C Unwin) 6 00
Postage 10
bottle {gum}. 37 ½
19 2 to Scarboro 7 75
board at .ditto. 3 50
22 stage cars & cab. home 1 45
19 . cash per J. Clark 6 00
6 00 12 17 ½
�CASH ACCOUNT - NOVEMBER.
Date. Rec'd. Paid.
2 Cash. per E Fletcher 6 00
" to J.R. Jack 50
" per C Unwin 2 00
4.6.3
16
1.25
____________
17.25
CASH ACCOUNT - DECEMBER.
Date. Rec'd. Paid.
2 J Armstrong for measuring
wheat field
4 00
3 Cab from stn 2 25
4 00 - 25
�CASH ACCOUNT - SUMMARY
Rec'd. Paid.
Account of 1857 70 60 76 90½
JANUARY, 10 00 8 30
FEBRUARY, 5 00 1 83
MARCH, 24 00 20 22½
APRIL, 2 00 8 00
MAY, 4 00 80
JUNE, 33½
46
JULY, 50 00 50 47½
AUGUST, 25 00 40 95
SEPTEMBER, 12 50 2 87½
OCTOBER, 6 00 12 17½
NOVEMBER, 6 00 -- --
DECEMBER, 4
4 00 - 25
219 10 223 19½ 24
�JANUARY - BILLS PAYABLE.
Date. Name. Dolls. Cts.
J Trent
Aug
5
1 day surveying &
travelling
6
Expenses 3
9 00
RECEIVABLE
T Sibbald
Aug
10th
3½ days surveying 21 0
1 Axeman 2 days " 1.25 2 50
1 " 2 " " 1.50 3 00
Travelling Expenses 4
30 50
10th Buy Cash 16 00
14 50
{Several mathematical equations written at top of the January - Bills Payable page. Some entries written
over with darker pen.}
�FEBRUARY - BILLS PAYABLE
Date. Name. Dolls. Cts.
Captⁿ shaw's
tender for Givens st
Excavations per yard 0/9 91
surface grading per rod
15/0
planking ~ ~ 8/0
3 ft box culverts per yard
lineal 15/0
18 inch " " " " 5/6
12 " " " " " 4/6
~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~
RECEIVABLE.
Mrs
Seymour
July To 10 days surveying 60 00
" C.R. 8 days @ 7 1.50 12 00
�" John Joe & James 10
day . 1.50
15 00
Axemen 5 75
110 posts ~ 7 33
Carting d~~ 1 50
2 Weeks board board
& @3.00
20 00
MARCH - BILLS PAYABLE
Date. Name. Dolls. Cts.
J Leys Esqr Givens lot
June
27
24½ days surveying to date 147 00
1 Assistant 22 ½ days @
1.50
33 75
Assistant 21 days @1.00 21 00
Board. 9 weeks @ 4.00 36 00
740 posts @ 49 33
�RECEIVABLE.
- Morgan Dr
Oct
20
to 2½ days surveying &
traveling
15 00
assistant {ditto} {ditto} 3 75
board 3 50
traveling expenses 2 20
Plan 5 00
29 70
{large ink splotch on bottom of right hand page)
JUNE - BILES BAYABEE
{Text should read BILLS PAYABLE, but the letter P and two L's has been filled in to look like the letter B.}
Date. Name. Dolls. Cts.
Theodolite 154 00
Compass
Telescope 9 00
Chain 5 00
�Tape
Protractor
Scales. 10.20.30.40
Boxwood
6 00
" 50 & 60 Ivory 6 00
parallel ruler
Straight edge
Set squares
1 doz pins
BECEIVABEE. {text should read
RECEIVABLE but the letters R
and L have been filled in to look
like the letter B.}
{No
Entries}
JULY - BILES PAYABLE.
{text should read BILLS but the letter L has been filled in to look like the letter B.}
Date. Name. Dolls. Cts.
{No Entries}
�AUGUST - BILLS PAYABLE.
Date. Name. Dolls. Cts.
Unwin
&
Scott
T{o} J Ellis Dr
Feb
25
drawing map of Peel
on Stone
50 00
1000 copies @ $5.00
per 100
50 00
paper for D{o} 42
quires
33 60
12 sheets American
ship &c
75
134 35
By cash (per A.B.S.) 30 00
104 35
RECEIVABLE.
{No Entries}
�SEPTEMBER - BILLS PAYABLE.
Date. Name. Dolls. Cts.
April 29 G F Denison Esqr 160
May 4th J Gwyme Esq 50
May 27 ~~ J Leys Esq 327
June 2 ~ ~ ~ 183
RECEIVABLE.
{No Entries}
OCTOBER - BILLS PAYABLE.
Date. Name. Dolls. Cts.
Mr Thompson's Class
M 30. Nov --- not there
T 3 Dec - not there
M 7 ~ there
T 10 ~ no class
M 14 ~ there
�T 17 ~ not there
M 21 A B Scott {Written
very faintly in pencil} ~ ~
A B Scott {Written very
faintly in pencil}
RECEIVABLE. {outlined
with pencil. No Entries
other than some
mathematical calculations
written sideways on left
side}
{There is a mathematical calculation written on the bottom of the left hand page.}
{The page on the right hand side is the back cover of the diary. It is filled with numerous mathematical
calculations and a few drawings of triangles. The latitude of Toronto (43°. 39'.35" N) is prominently written
at the top of the page. The text on this page is written in both ink and pencil, though it appears that there
was an attempt to erase some of the writing done in pencil.}
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">Contents</span></h2>
<p>Counting House Calendar, Banking Table, a Blank Space for Memoranda for every day in the year, Cash Account for each Month, Annual Summary of Cash Account, Bills Payable and Receivable.</p>
<p>{facing page}</p>
<p>Calendar for 1857</p>
</div>
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<p>== A TABLE == Showing the number of days from any day in the month to the same day in any other month throughout the whole year.</p>
<table><tbody><tr><td></td>
<td>January</td>
<td>February</td>
<td>March</td>
<td>April</td>
<td>May</td>
<td>June</td>
<td>July</td>
<td>August</td>
<td>September</td>
<td>October</td>
<td>November</td>
<td>December</td>
</tr><tr><td>Jan.</td>
<td>365</td>
<td>334</td>
<td>306</td>
<td>275</td>
<td>245</td>
<td>214</td>
<td>184</td>
<td>153</td>
<td>122</td>
<td>92</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>31</td>
</tr><tr><td>Feb.</td>
<td>31</td>
<td>365</td>
<td>337</td>
<td>306</td>
<td>276</td>
<td>245</td>
<td>215</td>
<td>184</td>
<td>153</td>
<td>123</td>
<td>92</td>
<td>61</td>
</tr><tr><td>March</td>
<td>59</td>
<td>28</td>
<td>365</td>
<td>334</td>
<td>304</td>
<td>273</td>
<td>243</td>
<td>212</td>
<td>181</td>
<td>151</td>
<td>120</td>
<td>90</td>
</tr><tr><td>April.</td>
<td>90</td>
<td>59</td>
<td>31</td>
<td>365</td>
<td>335</td>
<td>304</td>
<td>274</td>
<td>243</td>
<td>212</td>
<td>182</td>
<td>151</td>
<td>121</td>
</tr><tr><td>May.</td>
<td>120</td>
<td>89</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>365</td>
<td>334</td>
<td>304</td>
<td>273</td>
<td>242</td>
<td>212</td>
<td>181</td>
<td>151</td>
</tr><tr><td>June.</td>
<td>151</td>
<td>120</td>
<td>92</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>31</td>
<td>365</td>
<td>335</td>
<td>304</td>
<td>273</td>
<td>243</td>
<td>212</td>
<td>182</td>
</tr><tr><td>July.</td>
<td>181</td>
<td>150</td>
<td>122</td>
<td>91</td>
<td>62</td>
<td>31</td>
<td>365</td>
<td>334</td>
<td>303</td>
<td>273</td>
<td>243</td>
<td>212</td>
</tr><tr><td>Aug.</td>
<td>212</td>
<td>181</td>
<td>153</td>
<td>122</td>
<td>92</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>31</td>
<td>365</td>
<td>334</td>
<td>304</td>
<td>273</td>
<td>242</td>
</tr><tr><td>Sept.</td>
<td>243</td>
<td>212</td>
<td>184</td>
<td>153</td>
<td>123</td>
<td>91</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>31</td>
<td>365</td>
<td>334</td>
<td>304</td>
<td>273</td>
</tr><tr><td>Oct.</td>
<td>273</td>
<td>242</td>
<td>214</td>
<td>183</td>
<td>153</td>
<td>122</td>
<td>92</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>365</td>
<td>334</td>
<td>304</td>
</tr><tr><td>Nov.</td>
<td>304</td>
<td>273</td>
<td>245</td>
<td>214</td>
<td>184</td>
<td>153</td>
<td>123</td>
<td>92</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>31</td>
<td>365</td>
<td>335</td>
</tr><tr><td>Dec.</td>
<td>334</td>
<td>303</td>
<td>275</td>
<td>244</td>
<td>218</td>
<td>183</td>
<td>153</td>
<td>122</td>
<td>91</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>365</td>
</tr></tbody></table>
Explanation.-How many days are there from the 10th of January to the 10th of June? Look for January in the column at the left hand, then seek for June along the line to the right, and you find the number of days to be 151.
<h2><span class="mw-headline">DIARY FOR 1857.</span></h2>
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<p>Thursday 1</p>
<p>Made about 1455 3/4 calls more or less +C</p>
<p>Friday 2</p>
<p>Making distance table for map of Peel</p>
<p>Saturday 3</p>
<p>Same as yesterday-went to Mr Ellis to hurry him up with the Lithograth of Peel</p>
<p>Monday 5</p>
<p>Same as Saturday finished about 4:30 p.m.</p>
<p>Tuesday 6</p>
<p>Transfering information from map of Peel to the tracings of the several townships went to Brampton by the evening cars</p>
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<p>Wednesday 7</p>
<p>About the Village all day doing little or nothing</p>
<p>Thursday 8</p>
<p>intended to travel through the county of Peel today but the weather was too cold</p>
<p>Friday 9</p>
<p>left Brampton about 9:30 A.M. then through Stanleys Mills, Castlemore, Coleraine, Bolton, Macville, Sand Hill,(Paisley), + Mono Mills. to Orangeville hunting information for map of Peel. Neither the clerk of the Gore or the clerk for the Albion were at home. Consequently could not get the school section of either of said townships.</p>
<p>Saturday 10</p>
<p>Left Orangeville about 8:00 A.m. went to Altonstaid there an hour then went to Charleston + got the school sections of Caledon from Dodds, the clerk promised him a map for the information. Then drove home about 5:15 P.m. found {Uncertain name} had telegraphed friday to go to town-ran over to station-just in time for cars</p>
<p>Monday 12</p>
<p>Went to Brantford by Morning train to get clothes to go to the bush - when I got back again 11-00 AM No luck thought I had better not go as I would be too late to overtake him before he got started from Orillia - went to Ellis in the afternoon to get the Map of Peel</p>
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<p>Tuesday 13</p>
<p>Working at plan of peel {text is diagonally written across Tuesday,13. and Wednesday,14.the ink is faded}</p>
<p>Wednesday 14</p>
<p>Took the tracing to Ellis in the forenoon. Went to Brampton in the evening to travel in search of information for map of Peel.</p>
<p>Thursday 15</p>
<p>Went to Boltons Village to get a map of the school sections in Albion. Mr {Swinerton?} said I could get it from community clerk next week-Called on the Clerk of the Gore for the same purpose. He said the Township collector had it</p>
<p>Friday 16</p>
<p>Went to Streetsville to get the school section of Toronto from the Town Clerk-he had it then said I could get them from the County clerk-went to Springfield & got a good good deal of information from Mr Laylor Councillor for the first Ward r</p>
<p>Saturday 17</p>
<p>Very cold stormy day-staid home all day</p>
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<p>Monday 19</p>
<p>{"Working at Plan of Peel" is written vertically across Monday, 19. and Tuesday, 20.}</p>
<p>Went from Brampton to Toronto in the forenoon-went to Fitzgerald's to copy map of Streetsville before leaving Brampton and he gave me one to bring with me</p>
<p>Tuesday 20</p>
<p>intended to meet Mr McCowan at the scarboro Station but was too late for the Cars</p>
<p>Wednesday 21</p>
<p>Went to the the cars to go to Scarboro-cars dont call there went to Mink's and hired a horse and went to McCowan’s house did a little measuring on his Lot but could not finish on account of not having a description of Mrs {Borwicks?}p property arrived in Toronto about 6.00 P.m.</p>
<p>Thursday 22</p>
<p>Searched in registry office for description of Mrs Borwicks Lot & made description of 24 acres off the northpart Mr McCowans portion of Lot No 22 Con C Scarboro Working at plan of Peel in the afternoon-got a plan of the school sections of Toronto Township from Mr Elliott clerk of County Council</p>
<p>Friday 23</p>
<p>of the school sections sent map of township of Toronto back to Mr Elliott by T {or J}Forster {Written vertically across Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th is "Working at plan of Peel but not very hard}</p>
<p>Saturday 24</p>
<p>Took map of Peel to Mr Ellis to case Bell.V. White decided before the chief justice in Bells favour - recieved map of school sections of Chinguacousy from Mr CollumWm went to Brampton in the evening</p>
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<p>Monday 26</p>
<p>{Written vertically across Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th "Working at distance table of Peel"}</p>
<p>Wednesday 28</p>
<p>{Written vertically across the 28th, 29th, and 30th "had a thundering bad cold working a little at Distance table of Peel}</p>
<p>Friday 30</p>
<p>Finished distance table and took it to Ellis’ about 1:00 P.m. went to Brampton at night</p>
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<p>Monday Feburary 2</p>
<p>Arrived in Toronto about noon put sShool sections of Chinguacousy and the Gore in map of Peel</p>
<p>Tuesday 3</p>
<p>Working a little at map of Muskoka Road</p>
<p>Wednesday 4</p>
<p>did not do much in the office went to Brampton to go to the Loydtown to get map of school sections of Albion</p>
<p>Thursday 5</p>
<p>raining and storming all day did not go to Loydtown as I intended</p>
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<p>Friday 6</p>
<p>Went to Loydtown and got copy of Mr Oslers map of Albion- {I or J} Pattullo went with me- Stopped at Bolton going and coming</p>
<p>Saturday 7</p>
<p>Went to town in the morning and put school sections of Albion on the map of Peel- went Back to Brampton in the evening. Walt went with me</p>
<p>Monday 9</p>
<p>Came to Toronto in the morning. Went to Ellis and got the map to make a few alterations W.H. came in in the morning</p>
<p>Tuesday 10</p>
<p>In office greater part of day-attended proffessor Chapmans lecture on mineralogy from 1 to 2 P.m. in evening company at {Unions?} danced &c &c till 3:00 AM of 11th</p>
<p>Wednesday 11</p>
<p>at work at Hostuys farm- Charley and John were with me</p>
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<p>Thursday 12</p>
<p>Went to Ellis 3 or 4 times to see about map of Peel attended lecture at college</p>
<p>Friday 13</p>
<p>With Charley & John working at Hastings farm found I had made a mistake in measuring across the lot last fall measuring 12-50 instead of 12-58 ½</p>
<p>Saturday 14</p>
<p>at Ellis all forenoon got 3 or 4 proof sheets about 12 noon sent 8out to Brampton in the afternoon</p>
<p>Monday 16</p>
<p>in office part of day - went to crown land office to get field notes and instructions of township of North Gwillimsbury</p>
<p>Tuesday 17</p>
<p>attended lecture at college made tracing of map of Toront</p>
<p>Tuesday 17</p>
<p>attended lecture at college made tracing of map of Toronto</p>
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<p>{Wednesdy 18</p>
<p>at work at survey of the Hastings farm Charley and John with me finished it</p>
<p>Tuesday 19</p>
<p>attended lecture in the afternoon went to Brampton in the evening to see about proofs of map of Peel making tracing of plan of grand trunk Railway through county of Peel-in the forenoon</p>
<p>Friday 20</p>
<p>Could not get the map of Peel on account of J Lynch not being at home came to town in the morning</p>
<p>Saturday 21</p>
<p>Finished tracing of grand Trunk railway map</p>
<p>Monday 23</p>
<p>Copying the field notes taken at sutton into another bookWednesday 18</p>
<p>At work at survey of the Hastings farm Charley & John with me - finished it</p>
<p>Tuesday 19</p>
<p>Attended lecture in the afternoon went to Brampton in the evening to see about Proofs of map of Peel making tracing of Plan of Grand trunk Railway through County of Peel - in the forenoon</p>
<p>Friday 20</p>
<p>Could not get the map of Peel on account of J Lynch not being at home came to town in the morning</p>
<p>Saturday 21</p>
<p>Finished tracing of Grand Trunk railway map</p>
<p>Monday 23</p>
<p>Coppying the field notes taken at Sutton into another book</p>
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<p>Tuesday 24</p>
<p>Connected A.F. Wrights map for registry - attended lecture</p>
<p>Wednesday 25</p>
<p>not doing much in the office Went to Brampton in the evening to get proofs of Peel</p>
<p>Thursday 26</p>
<p>Came to town in the morning attended lecture inafternoon Chas Robertson went with me took corrected proof of Peel to Ellis</p>
<p>Friday 27</p>
<p>Commenced and nearly finished a map of the town of St Mary's for J Leys Esq</p>
<p>Saturday 28</p>
<p>Finished map of St Mary's in the forenoon did nothing in the afternoon this day finishes 2 years service</p>
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<p>Monday March 2</p>
<p>WIth Roberts and John Guy left Toronto for Sutton where arrived about 4:30 P.m.</p>
<p>Tuesday 3</p>
<p>Produced townline down to the lake and about 20.00 on to the ice- where I took angles to the islands and to several objects on shore traversed the shore from the township to Jackson's Point</p>
<p>Wednesday 4</p>
<p>With Roberts and John surveying Jackson's Point</p>
<p>Thursday 5</p>
<p>Finished Preliminary survey of Jacksons Point</p>
<p>Friday 6</p>
<p>Met Mr Lindsay in the morning to run his line. concluded not to run it until they patitioned parliament for a local for a local act for the Lake con N Gwillimbury-went to see Mr Morsington about running his line but he did not want it run until Peter Barton swore to the post bet W 7+8-in afternoon made pencil sketch of Jackson's point-called at Howards in forenoon-and at Toronto in the evening</p>
<p>Saturday 7</p>
<p>running line between W 1+2 in the 8th for R.Reeford</p>
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<p>Monday 9</p>
<p>Snowing hard all day- nothing done. nothing done</p>
<p>Tuesday 10</p>
<p>in forenoon ran a compass line part of the way through lot 14. lake con North Gwillimbury for J A Lindsay in afternoon running line bet {bet is shortform for between} 1 & 2 8th con Georgina for Reeford</p>
<p>Wednesday 11</p>
<p>Fininshed line bet 1 & 2</p>
<p>Thursday 12</p>
<p>in forenoon Chaining line bet 1 & 2 to put down posts- in afternoon attended races at Jackson’s Point</p>
<p>Friday 13</p>
<p>Finished chaining line bet 1 & 2 and put down Posts on the townline 1/2 way up the lot</p>
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<p>Saturday 14</p>
<p>Finished putting in the posts townline</p>
<p>Sunday 15</p>
<p>Went up to Mr Howards in the evening</p>
<p>Monday 16</p>
<p>Put in the posts at the 9th con line moved Mr Bouchiers post at S.W. L of No. 1 in the 9th con 16 l {small letter l may be shortform for lengths} farther south- put down the posts between 1 & 2</p>
<p>Tuesday 17</p>
<p>Ran a line along the 7th con line to bet 6 & 7 in the 6th con - then bet 6 & 7 parallel to the townline - then cleared and measured across the Fronts of lots 7,8, & 9 in the 6th con - where I found an old post lying down and the point in the ground planted a cedar in into place</p>
<p>Wednesday 18</p>
<p>raining in the morning and looked like all day. had so far to go to work did not go- making plan of Reeford lot</p>
<p>Thursday 19</p>
<p>Charley sick John and I chained across 6th con bet 6 & 7. then chained on 7th con line across 7 & 1/2 of 8. then sent John home with instrument I planted posts - on front of 6th lot 7 & 8. at centre of 7 & at centre of 8.</p>
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<p>Friday 20</p>
<p>Finished Mr Bouchiers lot in French Village about 6:15 P.M.</p>
<p>Saturday 21</p>
<p>Snowing in the forenoon finished Mr Reefords Plan - in afternoon ran lines bet 1 & 2 and 2 & 3 of Mr Reefords lots</p>
<p>Monday 22</p>
<p>Running lines in Mr Reefords lot</p>
<p>Tuesday 23</p>
<p>Same as yesterday</p>
<p>Wednesday 24</p>
<p>Charley & John same as yesterday I made 2 pencil sketches of the point to shew proposed subdivision finished them about 3;30 P.M</p>
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<p>Thursday 26</p>
<p>Finished running line for Mr Reeford about 4:30 P.M.</p>
<p>Friday 27</p>
<p>Posting off Mr Bouchiers portion of no 2, 18th con of Georgina about half of the day - Charley at home not well</p>
<p>Saturday 28</p>
<p>Left Sutton at 11 A.M. arrived in Toronto at 7:00 P.M. John and I worked from Dughill to Lefroy Charley went on to N. H. Landing</p>
<p>Monday 30</p>
<p>making pencil plan of Jacksons Point for Mr Bouchier</p>
<p>Tuesday 31</p>
<p>Trying to get up a plan of Mr Bouchier's property in Georgina attended lecture at college</p>
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<p>Wednesday 1</p>
<p>Working at Mr Bouchiers plan.</p>
<p>Thursday 2</p>
<p>Same as yesterday-attended lecture in afternoon</p>
<p>Friday 3</p>
<p>With Mr Unwin- measured the outlines of Mr Gwynes lot on corner of younge st and 3rd con line. then went over mrs, Seymour's lot (25. 3rd con). Arrived at home about 3:30 P.m.</p>
<p>Saturday 4</p>
<p>Made copy of diary and accounte for april-made a pencil sketch of Mrs Seymonur's lot- in afternoon looked up and sent 18 mounted maps of Peel to Brampton. 3 Col and 6 plain to Thompson the same to Baire and the same to McLear</p>
<p>Monday 6</p>
<p>made a pencil sketch of MRS Seymours lot packed up for Mr Walford, 12 coloured and 12 plain maps of Peel.</p>
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<p>Tuesday 7 Making copy of Diary and account for January and February 1837. attended geological lecture</p>
<p>Wednesday 8 Making plan of Mr{Uncertain name} lot on Yonge st</p>
<p>Thursday 9 in forenoon making plan of {uncertain name}lot in afternoon went to Brampton</p>
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<p>Tuesday 14</p>
<p>Came to Toronto in the morning working at gwynes plan</p>
<p>Wednesday 15</p>
<p>in forenoon. With Unwin, Jackand Roberts. Surveying water lots for Mrs Brown in afternoon working at Mr Bouchiers plan</p>
<p>Thursday 16</p>
<p>Working at gwynes lots{crossed out}. Plan attended lecture in afternoon</p>
<p>Friday 17</p>
<p>ditto</p>
<p>Saturday 18</p>
<p>Same in forenoon- in afternoon with unwin and jack-surveying on E side of don- and south of Don and Danforth road- for J Seys</p>
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<p>Sunday 19{scathced out and says Monday 20}</p>
<p>With Jack till 2:00 P.m, survey Arthers lot East of Don. Then plotting the survey rest of day</p>
<p>Monday 20</p>
<p>See yesterday</p>
<p>made 2 bets with W.HJ. 1st an even bet of 1 that he would not enter 3 first classes, at the university 2nd a bet of 2 to 1 that he would not take any three that he could mention-he mentioned geology-English literature and mathematics</p>
<p>Tuesday 21</p>
<p>Working a little at gwynes plan</p>
<p>Wednesday 22</p>
<p>With John guy surveying park lot No 24. for Revd. Mr Gien's</p>
<p>Thursday 23</p>
<p>Calculating contents of park lot No 24- and several other jobs- too {uncertain word} and unimportant to mention</p>
<p>Friday 24</p>
<p>part of the day helping U, and J. to survey Mrs Browns lot</p>
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<p>Saturday 25</p>
<p>helping Jack to survey Mrs Browns lot on front street. Went to Brampton in afternoon</p>
<p>Monday 27</p>
<p>Came in from Brampton in the morning. Working at gwynares plans remainder of day</p>
<p>Tuesday 28</p>
<p>in forenoon helping Jack to make some calculations for the survey of Mrs Browns lot on Front st in afternoon with Jack making the survey</p>
<p>Wednesday 29</p>
<p>With Chas and Joe and C Unwin in the afternoon. resetting the post on the Denison Estate homestead</p>
<p>Thursday 30</p>
<p>Same as yesterday with Chas and Joe</p>
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<p>Friday May 1</p>
<p>Same as yesterday. finished about 1:00 P.m. ruining all day</p>
<p>Saturday 2</p>
<p>In the office all day</p>
<p>Monday 4</p>
<p>in the morning with Chas and Joe went up to work at Mr gwynaes lot above yorkville- worked at then until noon. when it came on heavy rain- at home all the afternoon- in the evening took a letter to the colomist office- which I wrote in answer to one written by G Mngeut</p>
<p>Tuesday 5</p>
<p>Tuesday in the office all day- sent 25 mounted maps to Brampton and 34 coloured to Carter to get mounted</p>
<p>Wednesday 6</p>
<p>Mr {uncertain name}-with Jones and Butterworth went to orillia in the morning putting some coloured maps on deeds for Bacon- finished one and partly finished 2.</p>
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<p>Thursday 7</p>
<p>With Charley and Joe. Working at gwynes lots near Yorkville finished at 5:00 P.m.</p>
<p>Friday 8</p>
<p>in office all day doing nothing</p>
<p>Saturday 9</p>
<p>with chas and Joe working at the given's estate-making prelimaniary survey</p>
<p>Monday 11</p>
<p>same as yesterday-finished at 7:00 P.m. when I went to judge Harrison's when he told me to tell Lay's that he stopped me surveying until he had a settlement with him</p>
<p>Tuesday 12</p>
<p>met Mr Faruis at Caerhowel, at 11:00 a.m. to take off lots 30 E of William st 31 and 32 W of William and E of Dummer st and A.E and W of Murray st sent Joe for posts went to office for Charley- commenced at 3:00P.m. and finished at 6 P.m. William went to Brampton at night</p>
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<p>Wednesday 13</p>
<p>in forenoon made sketch of the giveus farm in the afternoon went with Jack to thornhi</p>
<p>Thursday 14</p>
<p>We met Mr Passmore at Townline. To run line between 18 and 19 2nd con Markham-ranged out the townline and angled nearly up to line bet 18 and 19. when it came on to rain very heavy{asterisk} rainning from about 10:00 a.m. {asterisk}about 4:00 P.m.</p>
<p>Friday 15</p>
<p>ran the line as far as line bet 18 and 19 when it commenced raining very heavy went to house and drew up a bond bet. Helmkay and Phillips- and took affadavits of Peter Wise and John Helmkay. Jack and Passmore went to Phillips at night</p>
<p>Saturday 16</p>
<p>measure across front of lots 18,19 and 20, ran line between 18 and 19 fininshed about 5:00 P.m. when they took affadavit of Peter Phillips-Left Helmkays about 7:30 P.m.they brought jack and I as far as Hoggs Hollow-when we walked to Toronto arriving about 1:15 a.m.</p>
<p>Monday 18</p>
<p>drew out proposed subdivision of Lays property</p>
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<p>Tuesday 19</p>
<p>did nothing in the forenoon. in afternoon helped jack to take off a lot on Victoria street</p>
<p>Wednesday 20</p>
<p>Charley sick- sent joe and muldoon up with hosts (327) to Lays place- H Butterworth and I sem College street through then we straightened and chopped out the west side of the centre street and flanted a post where it intersects the north side of college street in the morning sent carpet bag to Wm at Brampton for Express</p>
<p>Thursday 21</p>
<p>Joe and I working at Lay's place ran out line on the East side of West street and flanted posts at the intersection of college st</p>
<p>Friday 22</p>
<p>With Charley and Joe working at Lays place</p>
<p>Saturday 23</p>
<p>in office all forenoon. Went to Brampton in the evening</p>
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<p>Tuesday 26</p>
<p>came to Toronto in the morning-</p>
<p>Wednesday 27</p>
<p>rainny in the morning-in office all day doing nothing</p>
<p>Thursday 28</p>
<p>rainny in the morning-same as yesterday</p>
<p>Friday 29</p>
<p>With Charley and Joe working at Lay's place stopped at church's tavern at night</p>
<p>Saturday 30</p>
<p>Same as yesterday- in afternoon helping Jack and Jones to take levels of givens street</p>
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<p>Monday June 1</p>
<p>rainning in the morning-went up to Lay's place about 12:00 Charley and Joe with me</p>
<p>Tuesday 2</p>
<p>Working at Lay's place from 7:00 a.m. till 7:00 p.m. went to town after supper</p>
<p>Wednesday 3</p>
<p>Went up about 11:00 a.m. went to grand trimk switch 3:30 intending to go to Brampton. but could not get on. came on to rain very heavy about 4:00</p>
<p>Thursday 4</p>
<p>Working from 7:00 a.m. till 7:00 p.m.- went to town after supper</p>
<p>Friday 5</p>
<p>staid in office all day. helping Jack to make plan of Lays place Charley and Joe working at Lay's place</p>
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<p>Saturday 6</p>
<p>went up to Lay's about 9:00 a.m. working till 4:00 p.m. when went to help Jack and Jones to take levels of Demia st sent Joe home after diner to cut some word</p>
<p>Monday 8</p>
<p>Rainning- working at the plan of given's Estate</p>
<p>Tuesday 9</p>
<p>Same as yesterday-went to Brampton in the afternoon</p>
<p>Wednesday 10</p>
<p>at Brampton</p>
<p>Thursday 11</p>
<p>Came to town in the evening</p>
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<p>Friday 12</p>
<p>slights showers throughout the day. working at Lay's plan of the given's Estate</p>
<p>Saturday 13</p>
<p>With Joe working at Lay's place</p>
<p>Monday 15</p>
<p>in forenoon prodieed st Patrick's st through to Bathurst st {Across Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 is written "With Joe working at the given's Estate}</p>
<p>Wednesday 17</p>
<p>with Charley and Joe at saue</p>
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<p>{Written across Thursday 18, Friday 19, and Saturday 20 "With Charley and Joe working at the givens Estate}</p>
<p>Saturday 20</p>
<p>commenced raining at noon and rained all the afternoon</p>
<p>Monday 22</p>
<p>rainy greater part of day in office doing little or nothing</p>
<p>Tuesday 23</p>
<p>with Chas and Joe at the givens estate</p>
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<p>{Written across Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25:"same as Tuesday"}</p>
<p>Thursday 25</p>
<p>I went to town in the evening</p>
<p>Friday 26</p>
<p>in office all the forenoon went up to givens about 5:00 p.m.</p>
<p>Saturday 27</p>
<p>at the givens place all day went to town in the evening</p>
<p>Monday 29</p>
<p>raining all the forenoon- went to Brampton afternoon me uncle's John and David going to guelph</p>
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<p>{Written across Tuesday 30, and Wednesday July 1:"at Brampton"}</p>
<p>Wednesday July 1</p>
<p>attended meeting of cricket club in the evening</p>
<p>Thursday 2</p>
<p>come in in the morning. then went up to the cricket grond stand there till noon. afternoon got 36 from from Jack and went up and paid Fields for board- and brought down the things from the givens survey</p>
<p>Friday 3</p>
<p>doing very little in office- in afternoon commenced to make a tracing of part of Canada to put on plan of part of Brampton Mr Unwin arrived from the bush about 9:30 p.m. taking all by surprise</p>
<p>Saturday 4</p>
<p>went to cars to meet uncle David then went rond town with him untill 11:30 then went with him to the boat for Niagara he started about 12:00- in afternoon doing a little at tracing of part of Canada- and stretching cloth to mount paper for plan of muskoka Road survey</p>
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<p>{Written across Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th "Making a sketch of Rest of Rosepark for george Duggan Esq together with several other jobs"}</p>
<p>Wednesday</p>
<p>finished sketch in the forenoon in afternoon made and sent out to Brampton a tracing of part of A,F. plan shewing proposed alteration of streets</p>
<p>Thursday 9</p>
<p>in morning read telegraph from A.F.{uncertain letter}to get Fitzgerald. went up to cricket ground to tell him staid till 1:30- in afternoon in the office doing nothing</p>
<p>Friday 10</p>
<p>went out to Brampton in the morning played a game at Cricket in the afternoon</p>
<p>Saturday 11</p>
<p>returned from Brampton in the morning-staid at the house all afternoon not well</p>
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<p>Monday 13</p>
<p>in afternoon plotting lines of muskoka Road in afternoon went with Unwin to tra out townline across 1st con york and take observation of north star-Jack came along about 11:00 p.m. to help when he laid down and went to sleep. consequently was of a great deal of help-(over the left) staid out all night</p>
<p>Tuesday 14</p>
<p>went to work as soon as we could see and finished tracing out townline then walked into town arrived about 9:00 a.m. got breakfast and went to sleep slept till noon- after dinner went to office-working at muskoka road plan</p>
<p>Wednesday 15</p>
<p>working at muskoka road plan in the forenoon-afternoon doing nothing at night took observation of polaris on line bet 2 3 and 24 1st con york finished at 12:00-midnight</p>
<p>Thursday 16</p>
<p>started to run line bet 23 and 24-but commenced raining-in office all day</p>
<p>Friday 17</p>
<p>with Mr Unwin and Jack started line let 23 and 24 then Jack went to office Unwin and I with Joe run at thrs then measured from it to W. city limit on North City limit</p>
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<p>Saturday 18</p>
<p>in morning went to Brampton. then went over to norval to play cricket with the norval club beat then badly. they kicked up a fuss-we came away late without our dinner. because the presidant would not apologize</p>
<p>Monday 20</p>
<p>came to town in the morning. mad up Mr Bourchiers act for surveying in March</p>
<p>Tuesday 21</p>
<p>surveying Mrs seymours lot. with chas and joe-muldoom took up posts and sent +c- intend camping out for the survey</p>
<p>Wednesday</p>
<p>same as yesterday in the evening hired a man to come tomorrow at $1.50 per day</p>
<p>Thursday 23</p>
<p>same as yesterday man working to day- not worth $1.50 but cant get one for less. I left about 5:15 p.m. came to town</p>
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<p>Friday 24</p>
<p>Raining in morning-went up to Mrs Seymour's lot about noon-raining all the afternoon staid in camp doing nothing-at night hired a boy to work tomorrow for 3/9</p>
<p>Saturday 25</p>
<p>With all party cutting out lines all day-paid man and boy 18/9-told man to come again on monday at noon. Went to town at night-joe left tonight</p>
<p>Monday 27</p>
<p>With James (a boy hired in Joes place) went up to Mrs Seymour's lots and put up the tent in the forenoon-in afternoon with him and man cutting out lines</p>
<p>Tuesday 28</p>
<p>Same as yesterday afternoon paid off man. went to town in the evening leaving James at the camp</p>
<p>Wednesday 29</p>
<p>Went up again with chas in the morning staking off lots all day James went to town at night to bring up some victuals in the morning</p>
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<p>Thursday 30</p>
<p><br /> Staking off the lots from 7:00am till 8:00p.m.</p>
<p><br /> Friday 31</p>
<p><br /> Same as yesterday-finished about 8:00p.m. then got supper and packed up the camp +c and went home-arrived about 10:30 p.m. very heavy thunder shower from 3:30 till 5:30 p.m.</p>
<p><br /> Saturday August 1</p>
<p><br /> Made rough sketch of Mrs Seymour's lots to make plan from-in the forenoon went to Brampton in the afternoon took gustave geneienk with me</p>
<p><br /> Monday 3</p>
<p><br /> Went to town in the morning went over to island in the afternoon with A Butterworth and Unwin to have a bathe</p>
<p><br /> Tuesday 4</p>
<p><br /> Went to Sutton in the forenoon in afternoon with John Trent staked off Mr Trent's last lot (W 25) W,I.C,M burnt at Barrie at night</p>
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<p>Wednesday 5</p>
<p>in the morning laid out foundation for church. then (about 9:00am) went to Mr Ritchie's to see about surveying the geogina globe lot- about 11:00 a.m. took angle on Jacksons point bet townline and a line from a tree in Innnisfil to the chimney of the parsonage-went over to lot and looked around for post +c got dinner at Mr Lillalds about 4:00 p.m. left there about 5:00-went to Mr Lyall's to see if he knew anything concerning the posts between 6 and 7 in the 8th con. got tea there about 6:00 then went to the village-hired a man to chop tomorrow</p>
<p>Thursday 6</p>
<p>With man running a line parallel to townline on sidewad between 6 and 7 in 8th con georgina-got no dinner went up to Mr Trent's in the evening hired John croth in the evening for tomorrow</p>
<p>Friday 7</p>
<p>With the 2 men cutting out the line</p>
<p>Saturday 8</p>
<p>in the morning got Mr Lyall to help me to find the posts of road between 6 and 7 found the post on East side of road finished laying off the globe about 8:20 p.m. got dinner at Mr Libbalds</p>
<p>Sunday 9</p>
<p>Went to church in forenoon went up to Mr Howards in afternoon</p>
<p>Monday 10</p>
<p>in morning made up Mr Sibbald's account $30 1/2 of which I need $16 and paid off accounts up there measured shepperds hayfield about 12 acres came to Toronro in the afternoon</p>
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<p>Tuesday 11</p>
<p>With Mr Unwin went to Barrie to do a job for shortis and co-when got there found another survey at it. then encamined part of lot 23 in the 7th con vespra-came to Toronto in the evening</p>
<p>Wednesday 12</p>
<p>In the office-not doing much</p>
<p>Thursday 13</p>
<p>same as yesterday went to Brampton in the afternoon</p>
<p>Friday 14</p>
<p>came to town in the morning.{Written across Friday 14th and Saturday 15th "in the office doing little or nothing}</p>
<p>Saturday 15</p>
<p>went to Brampton at night</p>
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<p>Monday 17</p>
<p>Came to town in the morning {Written across Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th "in the office doing little or nothing"}</p>
<p>Tuesday 18</p>
<p>in afternoon with Mr Unwin went by stage to Sydenham. then walked up to Thos Copelands on the N 1/4. W 8. 1st con N Dundas street-to be ready tp commenc in the morning to lay off 10 acres for- Caldwell.</p>
<p>Wednesday 19</p>
<p>at work all day. finished at 6:00 p.m. when we got supper- and copeland drover us to town. arrived at 11:15 p.m.</p>
<p>Thursday 20</p>
<p>up at Cricket ground all day Canada vs United States</p>
<p>Friday 21</p>
<p>Went up to the Cricket ground at 11:00 a.m. game finished at 1:00 p.m. Canada winning with 7 wickets to spare after dinner surveying for S Ridont with Mr Unwin</p>
<p>Saturday 22</p>
<p>in forenoon making plan of S Ridonts place lots south of gerard street in afternoon with Mr Unwin and James staking off the lots Charley working at the plan</p>
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<p>Monday 24</p>
<p>in afternoon went to Brampton to see about an account. Starrat read as he said from Unwin</p>
<p>Tuesday 25</p>
<p>at Brampton saw Mr Starrat at night</p>
<p>Wednesday 26</p>
<p>came to town in the morning-working at map of Muskoka Road. checking it over +c</p>
<p>Thursday 27</p>
<p>in forenoon same as yesterday. went around town with aleck from 12:30 till 2:30</p>
<p>Friday 28</p>
<p>Checking over map of muskoka Road survey. in afternoon went to meet the greet Western cars- meet aijjie but she didnt come</p>
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<p>Saturday 29</p>
<p>this forenoon the same as yesterday forenoon- in afternoon meet the boat and cars. Joe dig but she did'nt come went out to the Weston by cars went over to Denisons to get some money. They not at home coudnt pay if they were-went to Henter's for same purpose with the same success. staid at John Rauls at night John Scott staid with me</p>
<p>Sunday 30</p>
<p>Went to meeting 2ce A.f. and W.H. came down in the buggy staid all night</p>
<p>Monday 31</p>
<p>Saw Heiter in morning said he could'nt pay now. but would sometime (or never) came in by the morning cars helping Jack to copy the field notes of muskoka Road place survey</p>
<p>Tuesday September 1</p>
<p>forenoon the same as yesterday. in after-noon went to the boat and cars to meet Lizzy but she didnt come</p>
<p>Wednesday 2</p>
<p>in forenoon hunting up leavings of lines diverging from main line of Muskoka Road afternoon same as yesterday afternoon</p>
<p>Thursday 3</p>
<p>part of forenoon same as yesterday rest calculating distances chained for diary in afternoon same as yesterday. Went to Brampton</p>
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<p>Friday 4</p>
<p>at Brampton. played 2 games of Cricket</p>
<p>Saturday 5</p>
<p>at home all day</p>
<p>Monday 7</p>
<p>came to town in the morning doing nothing in the office</p>
<p>Tuesday 8</p>
<p>in the morning made draft of description of a road through 33 cot. carbow. then leveled Mr Unwins garden-in afternoon same as last tuesday. at night went to Wellington where saw W.H. and J.L. they going to Owens Sound tomorrow morning</p>
<p>Wednesday 9</p>
<p>{"Doing nothing" written multiple times, slanted across the whole section} cos why. nothing to do</p>
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<p>Thursday 10</p>
<p>same</p>
<p>Friday 11</p>
<p>Same</p>
<p>Saturday 12</p>
<p>Same</p>
<p>Monday 14</p>
<p>part of forenoon with Mr Unwin measuring {uncertain letter}. Ridouts lot on Adelaide st</p>
<p>Tuesday 15</p>
<p>forgot what I was doing this day but believe it was doing nothing</p>
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<p>{Written across Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th "Working at old plan of Toronto not on it the of lots at Don station Mrs Ridruts plan and several others"}</p>
<p>Friday 18</p>
<p>Making calculations of Jacksons point survey. preperitory and making plan for the board of Examiner</p>
<p>Saturday 19</p>
<p>left office 11:00 a.m. went to went home with W.H.S. got dinner after dinner went up to G W R H to meet grids-cars 1/4 how bhind time got Brown to wait grids came hurried them up left trunks behind. just in time</p>
<p>Monday 21</p>
<p>at home</p>
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<p>Tuesday 22</p>
<p>in afternoon went over and laid off a 1/2 acre lot for school house at 3rd line East-finished at 4:00 need $3.00 for same $0.50 and $4 for house</p>
<p>Wednesday 23</p>
<p>Fair day-at home and at fair all day</p>
<p>Thursday 24</p>
<p>in morning went over to Mrs Hutton's and measured 2 lots. to make description got home at 3:00 p.m. then made out descriptions. finished at 11:00 p.m.</p>
<p>Friday 25</p>
<p>sent description to town by L.C.Cummins Esq to get Unwin and Jacks signature staked off Mr Cummins lot at home rest of day</p>
<p>Saturday 26</p>
<p>at cricket ground greater part of day match bet Brampton and Norval clubs Brampton victorious by 28 having 98 in one innings- to Norvals 73. in two innings-reed descriptions from Toronto and gave them to L.C. Cummins</p>
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<p>Monday 28</p>
<p>Loafing all day i.e. doing nothing</p>
<p>Tuesday 29</p>
<p>came to Toronto in the morning</p>
<p>Wednesday 30</p>
<p>doing nothing</p>
<p>Thursday October 1</p>
<p>Same</p>
<p>Friday 2</p>
<p>in afternoon with Mr Unwin went up Leys place to measure distance between posts planted on W side of shaw st and the West side of St in 2nd con opposite</p>
<p>Saturday 3</p>
<p>doing little or nothing</p>
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<p>Monday 5</p>
<p>part of day going around town with W.H. Scott hunting up a boarding house for him.</p>
<p>Tuesday 6</p>
<p>Ly and Hat. came to town and staid at Ley's. I went there in evening staid till 10:00</p>
<p>Wednesday 7</p>
<p>In office all day</p>
<p>Thursday 8</p>
<p>In office all forenoon, in afternoon went with Mr J.C. Cummins to Yorkville to see some lots which he wanted changed</p>
<p>Friday 9</p>
<p>With charley and James went to Yorkville and altered the lots for J.c. Cummins Esq. finished about 1:00 p.m. posted a plan of same to him at night</p>
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<p>Saturday 10</p>
<p>in forenoon in the office in afternoon went to Weston</p>
<p>Sunday 11</p>
<p>at Weston</p>
<p>Monday 12</p>
<p>came to town in the morning in afternoon in the office</p>
<p>{Written across Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th "in the office the greater part of the time doing little or nothing"}</p>
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<p>Friday 16</p>
<p>afternoon went to Brampton to do a job for Clark</p>
<p>Saturday 17</p>
<p>surveying J Clarks lot in Brampton finished about 3:30 p.m.</p>
<p>Monday 19</p>
<p>Came to town in morning then made description of J Clark's lot than by afternoon cars with Thompson went down to Scarboro station then walked to Thompson's tavern on Rnigston Road to see Morgan about some survey to be made for him. Staid there all night</p>
<p>Tuesday 20</p>
<p>after breakfast. Morgan drove us up to Armstrongs. on the Markham and Danforth Roads. then went to survey and lay out Morgans lots parts of W 20 1st con-</p>
<p>Wednesday 21</p>
<p>at the same wrought very late trying to finish. but could not</p>
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<p>Thursday 22</p>
<p>commenced at 6:30 a.m. finished at 8:00 a.m. then had breakfast. rode by stage to railroad crossing then walked along railroad to Station and came by cars to town. arrived at 11:00 a.m. rest of day making plan of Morgans lots.</p>
<p>Friday 23</p>
<p>making plan of Morgans lots</p>
<p>Saturday 24</p>
<p>finished Morgans plan in forenoon afternoon had toothache very bad</p>
<p>Monday 26</p>
<p>in forenoon took specification for a Theodolite to patters to send for it concluded to wait till next week-about noon took several altitudes of the sun. afternoon trying to calculate Latitudes by 2 altitudes of the sun</p>
<p>Tuesday 27</p>
<p>took several altitudes of the sun with the sextant measuring the angle between the sun and its reflected immage in a plate of water</p>
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<p>{Written across Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 "in the office doing nothing"}</p>
<p>Friday 30</p>
<p>helping Mr Unwin to survey I. Ridouts lots on seation street finished about 4:30 p.m.</p>
<p>Saturday 31</p>
<p>in the office all forenoon doing little or nothing. in afternoon went to Brampton</p>
<p>Monday November 2</p>
<p>in morning went over to E Fletcher's to run line between 2 and 3. 2nd con W,H,F. which Bristow had run before. I came 7 inches farther south than his line finished about 3:00 p.m. came to town in evening.</p>
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<p>Tuesday 3</p>
<p>in office all day doing nothing</p>
<p>{Written across Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5th "Working at R B Deuison's plan of Bellevne Estate"}</p>
<p>{Written across Friday 6th and Saturday 7th "Working at R B Deuisons plan of Bellevne Estate"}</p>
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<p>Monday 9</p>
<p>Same as friday and saturday</p>
<p>Tuesday 10</p>
<p>With Thompson and James surveying for Bell. on Bathurst and Adelaide sts finished at 3:00 p.m.</p>
<p>Wednesday 11</p>
<p>going round town with Sig and Hattie sent Sig to Brampton and Hattie to oshawa-at night</p>
<p>Thursday 12</p>
<p>in morning went to see Bell he was not in. then went to Crownland office to get measurements of lots about Bathurst and Adelaide sts relating to Bells survey rest of day working at plan of Bellevne</p>
<p>Friday 13</p>
<p>forenoon same as yesterday and afternoon went to Weston</p>
<p>Saturday 14</p>
<p>came to town in the morning- worked a little at plan of Bellevne- in afternoon went to Brampton- Robert Sowis's Barn Burnt about 7:00 p.m.</p>
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<p>Monday 16</p>
<p>came to town in the morning got to office about noon working a little at plan of Bellevne</p>
<p>Tuesday 17</p>
<p>same as yesterday afternoon</p>
<p>Wednesday 18</p>
<p>nothing</p>
<p>Thursday 19</p>
<p>in morning with Thompson and Laynes went up to grivens Estate when it came on rain went home. afternoon nothing</p>
<p>Friday 20</p>
<p>with Thompson and James working at the grivens Estate</p>
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<p>Saturday 21</p>
<p>Snowing all day doing nothing</p>
<p>Monday 23</p>
<p>in morning with Thompson went up to the grivens Estate to make some measurements finished about noon. afternoon making distances on map of the griven's Estate</p>
<p>Tuesday 24</p>
<p>in morning went to G.T.R. to go to Brampton 1 minute too late then went up to griens Est to help Unwin, Roberts, Thomson, and James left there at three p.m. went to Brampton</p>
<p>Wednesday 25</p>
<p>at Brampton all day doing nothing heard {uncertain word} Orniston lecture in the evening at Mechanics {uncertain word}</p>
<p>Thursday 26</p>
<p>measured part of W 2 3rd con E.H.S. {uncertain word} for Mr Bride and Starrat went to town in the evening</p>
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<p>Friday 27</p>
<p>in forenoon went made description of part of W 2 3rd con E.H.S. Chinguacousy afternoon went to Brampton</p>
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<p>Thursday December 3</p>
<p>in forenoon went over to third line East (W 12) with Mr Armstrong to 1 measure thro wheat fields finished about 2:30 p.m.</p>
<p>Friday 4</p>
<p>came to town in the morning</p>
<p>Saturday 5</p>
<p>doing nothing</p>
<p>Monday 7</p>
<p>With mr Unwin and Thompson made survey for R.L.Deuison of piece of ground recuped by Burgess</p>
<p>Tuesday 8</p>
<p>Went to office in the forenoon comparing plan of newmarket-afternoon at home sick</p>
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<p>Wednesday 9</p>
<p>at home all day ill</p>
<p>Thursday 10</p>
<p>at the office in forenoon doing nothing at home all afternoon me A.F.S. at Wellington at night</p>
<p>Friday 11</p>
<p>in office all day to attend case of Buiges vs Deuison in county court</p>
<p>Saturday 12</p>
<p>the same-about 11:00 a.m. went up to Yorkville with J.R L, to examine damage done to Heward's property by letting water off the road back at 12:30- in the afternoon</p>
<p>Monday 14</p>
<p>doing nothing in particular</p>
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<p>{Written across tuesday 15th, Wednesday 16th, and Thursday 17th "helping J.R. Lack a little with the plan of Newmarket"}</p>
<p>Friday 18</p>
<p>in the morning with Unwin and Jack went up to Yorkville to examine a water eourse through Heward's property finished about noon. then went home met S.H,S, he was going to Oshawa. went in his place for Hattie and miss Arkland. Raining nearly all day</p>
<p>Saturday 19</p>
<p>in the morning brought up Hattie and Miss A to Toronto they staid at Ley's all day Sig and A.f. came in from Brampton. all went to Brampton at night</p>
<p>Sunday 20</p>
<p>Went to English church twice</p>
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<p>Monday 21</p>
<p>at home all day doing nothing the misses Ley's came out of town tonight Bowlly then staid all night being out at the elections</p>
<p>Tuesday 22</p>
<p>went up to Edmonton with D Bull to get the state of the poles. had an upset and broke the cutter Onisses sellar L Sellar L Thistle and L {uncertain name} over tonight</p>
<p>Wednesday 23</p>
<p>doing nothing all day- the misses Leys went home at night went up to Patersons at night</p>
<p>Thursday 24</p>
<p>nothing all day-at Thistles at night enjoyed myself until 12:00 p.m.</p>
<p>Friday 25</p>
<p>Christmas day sleighing party went up to Dublin danced for 2 hours then came home again</p>
<p>Saturday 26</p>
<p>Took up carpet in front room shook it and put it down again</p>
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<p>Monday 28</p>
<p>at Brampton</p>
<p>Tuesday 29</p>
<p>came to town in the morning at Brampton</p>
<p>Wednesday 30</p>
<p>came to town in the morning doing little or nothing</p>
<p>Thursday 31</p>
<p>Same as yesterday went to the station at 4:00 p.m. saw W Thistle there gave him my return ticket</p>
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<p>Memoranda</p>
<p>george Dodds clerk of Caledon J Mc Callum chinguacousy government survey to Nuna and Jack last summers-ac-to Unwin Button to Unwin</p>
<p>Memoranda</p>
<p>subscribers to map of Peel A.J. Wright Esq Toronto W Forser Brampton</p>
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<p>Memoranda</p>
<p>Wright and Fitzgerald scott and Pattullo A Soler Observation Oct 26/57</p>
<p>11-50-15-a.m.-33 degrees-291/2</p>
<p>0-8-42-p.m.-33+18 degrees</p>
<p>0-17-30--33-03 1/2</p>
<p>0-22-03--32-57 12-70</p>
<p>Memoranda</p>
<p>Oct 27</p>
<p><br /> H M S</p>
<p><br /> 10-57-10-63+45 I I</p>
<p><br /> 11-07-30---65-31-contre</p>
<p><br /> 11-27-30---66+52-contre</p>
<p><br /> 11-54-45 67+22-contre</p>
<p><br /> 12-00-20--67-22</p>
<p><br /> 12-06-35--67-11-</p>
<p><br /> 12-10-0 67-11-</p>
<p><br /> 12-53-40---64-00</p>
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<p>Memoranda</p>
<p>Board in 1856 William from 15th Nov to 17th Dec A.B. from 15 Nov to 31 Dec Eccepting 2 week Receipts for Peel W.M. Sellon. 1.map on account 15.0 reed from L Lynch on peel account 3.0.0</p>
<p>Cash Account-April</p>
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<td>Rec'd</td>
<td>Paid</td>
</tr><tr><td>8th</td>
<td>Cash. C.Unwin</td>
<td>2.00</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>21st</td>
<td>C Unwin 2 W loots</td>
<td></td>
<td>8.00</td>
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<p>Cash Account-May</p>
<table><tbody><tr><td>Date</td>
<td></td>
<td>Rec'd</td>
<td>Paid</td>
</tr><tr><td>4th</td>
<td>C Unwin cash</td>
<td>2.00</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>casting posts to Yorkville</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>6</td>
<td>postage</td>
<td></td>
<td>05.75</td>
</tr><tr><td>13</td>
<td>g.B Jack.Cash</td>
<td>1</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>23</td>
<td>j.B. Jack. Cash</td>
<td>1</td>
<td></td>
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Cash Account-June
<table><tbody><tr><td>Date</td>
<td></td>
<td>Rec'd</td>
<td>Paid</td>
</tr><tr><td>8th</td>
<td>Mr Ridout-paint for lots</td>
<td></td>
<td>33.3</td>
</tr><tr><td>13</td>
<td>mending picket</td>
<td></td>
<td>12.5</td>
</tr></tbody></table></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">CASH ACCOUNT - JULY.</span></h2>
<table><tbody><tr><th>Date.</th>
<th></th>
<th>Rec'd.</th>
<th></th>
<th>Paid.</th>
<th></th>
</tr><tr><td>1st</td>
<td>J.R.Jack. cash</td>
<td>36</td>
<td>~</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Board at fields</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>36</td>
<td>~</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Cab</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>2</td>
<td>~</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>mag. of Theodlite</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>25</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>7</td>
<td>Postage</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>10</td>
</tr><tr><td>9</td>
<td>" cash. C Unwin</td>
<td>4</td>
<td>~</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>21</td>
<td>" " "</td>
<td>10</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Carting posts (Leys)</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>3</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>" " (Mrs Seymour)</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>1</td>
<td>50</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>" " Unwin</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>37 ½</td>
</tr><tr><td>-</td>
<td>¼ cut biscuit</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>1</td>
<td>50</td>
</tr><tr><td>28th</td>
<td>Axemen (Mrs Seymour</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>5</td>
<td>75</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>50</td>
<td>00</td>
<td>5</td>
<td>47 ½</td>
</tr></tbody></table><h2><span class="mw-headline">CASH ACCOUNT - AUGUST</span></h2>
<table><tbody><tr><th>Date.</th>
<th></th>
<th>Rec'd.</th>
<th></th>
<th>Paid.</th>
<th></th>
</tr><tr><td>4</td>
<td>Excursion Ticket. Sutton</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>3</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Cash ( C Unwin</td>
<td>7</td>
<td>00</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>10 6 {6 written in pencil}</td>
<td>1st axeman</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>2</td>
<td>50</td>
</tr><tr><td>7 {written in pencil}</td>
<td>2nd ~ } Sibbald.</td>
<td>16</td>
<td>00</td>
<td>1 {written in pencil}</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>10 {written in pencil}</td>
<td>Cash. (J. Sibbald</td>
<td>16</td>
<td>00</td>
<td>1 {written in pencil}</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>board at Shepperds</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>3</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>paper. pencils & a</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>3 {written in pencil}</td>
<td>20</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>passage. Sutton {to?} Toronto</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>2</td>
<td>12 ½ {same text written below in pencil}</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Cab from station home</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>50</td>
</tr><tr><td>11</td>
<td>2 tickets to Barrie</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>3</td>
<td>75</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Registry office Barrie</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>50</td>
</tr><tr><td>15</td>
<td>Cash. (C. U.)</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>00</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>18</td>
<td>cash {to?} C.U.</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>1</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td>22</td>
<td>~ C.U. (Peel)</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>20</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td>24</td>
<td>cars {to?} Brampton</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>75</td>
</tr><tr><td>29</td>
<td>{to?} Weston & back</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>62</td>
<td>½</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>cash (C.U)</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>00</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>25</td>
<td>00</td>
<td>40</td>
<td>95</td>
</tr></tbody></table></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">CASH ACCOUNT - SEPTEMBER.</span></h2>
<table><tbody><tr><th>Date.</th>
<th></th>
<th>Rec'd.</th>
<th></th>
<th>Paid.</th>
<th></th>
</tr><tr><td>22</td>
<td>School trustees chuguecousy</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>50</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>26</td>
<td>J.P. Hutton</td>
<td>9</td>
<td>00</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>24</td>
<td>search registry Brampton</td>
<td></td>
<td>37½</td>
<td></td>
<td>37½</td>
</tr><tr><td>24</td>
<td>horse hire</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>1</td>
<td>50</td>
</tr><tr><td>26</td>
<td>cars, {to?} Toronto ³⁄₉ cal ?</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>1</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>12</td>
<td>50</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>87 ½</td>
</tr></tbody></table><p></p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">CASH ACCOUNT - OCTOBER.</span></h2>
<table><tbody><tr><th>Date.</th>
<th></th>
<th>Rec'd.</th>
<th></th>
<th>Paid.</th>
<th></th>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>cash. (C Unwin)</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>6</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Postage</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>10</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>bottle {ginn?}.</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>37 ½</td>
</tr><tr><td>19</td>
<td>2 {to?} Scarboro</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>3</td>
<td>75</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>board at ditto.</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>3</td>
<td>50</td>
</tr><tr><td>22</td>
<td>stage cars & cal. home</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>1</td>
<td>45</td>
</tr><tr><td>19</td>
<td>. cash for J. Clark</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>00</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>6</td>
<td>00</td>
<td>12</td>
<td>17 ½</td>
</tr></tbody></table></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">CASH ACCOUNT - NOVEMBER.</span></h2>
<table><tbody><tr><th>Date.</th>
<th></th>
<th>Rec'd.</th>
<th></th>
<th>Paid.</th>
<th></th>
</tr><tr><td>2</td>
<td>cash. {per?} E Fletcher</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>00</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>" to J.R. Jack</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>50</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>" {per?} C Unman</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>00</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr></tbody></table><p><br /> 4.6.3</p>
<p>16</p>
<p>1.25</p>
<p>____________</p>
<p>17.25</p>
<p></p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">CASH ACCOUNT - DECEMBER.</span></h2>
<table><tbody><tr><th>Date.</th>
<th></th>
<th>Rec'd.</th>
<th></th>
<th>Paid.</th>
<th></th>
</tr><tr><td>2</td>
<td>J Armstrong for</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>measuring wheat field</td>
<td>4</td>
<td>00</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>3</td>
<td>Cab from stn</td>
<td></td>
<td>2</td>
<td></td>
<td>25</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>4</td>
<td>00</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>25</td>
</tr></tbody></table></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">CASH ACCOUNT - SUMMARY</span></h2>
<table><tbody><tr><th></th>
<th></th>
<th>Rec'd.</th>
<th></th>
<th>Paid.</th>
<th></th>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Account of 1857</td>
<td>70</td>
<td>60</td>
<td>76</td>
<td>90½</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>JANUARY,</td>
<td>10</td>
<td>00</td>
<td>8</td>
<td>30</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>FEBRUARY,</td>
<td>5</td>
<td>00</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>83</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>MARCH,</td>
<td>24</td>
<td>00</td>
<td>20</td>
<td>22½</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>APRIL,</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>00</td>
<td>8</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>MAY,</td>
<td>4</td>
<td>00</td>
<td></td>
<td>80</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>JUNE,</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>33½ 46</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>JULY,</td>
<td>50</td>
<td>00</td>
<td>50</td>
<td>47½</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>AUGUST,</td>
<td>25</td>
<td>00</td>
<td>40</td>
<td>95</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>SEPTEMBER,</td>
<td>12</td>
<td>50</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>87½</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>OCTOBER,</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>00</td>
<td>12</td>
<td>17½</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>NOVEMBER,</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>00</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>--</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>DECEMBER,</td>
<td>4 4</td>
<td>00</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>25</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>219</td>
<td>10</td>
<td>223</td>
<td>19½ 24</td>
</tr></tbody></table><h2><span class="mw-headline">JANUARY - BILLS PAYABLE.</span></h2>
<table><tbody><tr><th>Date.</th>
<th>Name.</th>
<th>Dolls.</th>
<th>Cts.</th>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>J Trent</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>Aug 5</td>
<td>1 day journeying & travelling</td>
<td>6</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Expenses</td>
<td>3</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>9</td>
<td>or</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>RECEIVABLE</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>T Sibbald</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>Aug 10th</td>
<td>3½ days surveying</td>
<td>21</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>1 Axeman 2 days " 1.25</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>50</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>1 " 2 " . 1.50</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Travelling Expenses</td>
<td>4</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>30</td>
<td>50</td>
</tr><tr><td>10th</td>
<td>Buy Cash</td>
<td>16</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>14</td>
<td>50</td>
</tr></tbody></table><p>{Several mathematical equations written at top of the January - Bills Payable page.}</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FEBRUARY - BILLS PAYABLE</span></h2>
<table><tbody><tr><th>Date.</th>
<th>Name.</th>
<th>Dolls.</th>
<th>Cts.</th>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Captⁿ shaw's tender for grievs st</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>Excavations per yard</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>surface grading per rod</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>planking ~ ~</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>3 ft for culverts per yard</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>18 inch ~ ~ ~ ~</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>12 ~ ~ ~ ~</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>{There is a large wavy line drawn across entire page.}</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>RECEIVABLE.</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>Mrs Seymour</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>July</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>To 10 days surveying</td>
<td>60</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>" C.R. 8 days @ 7 1.50</td>
<td>12</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>" John Joe & James 10 day . 1.50</td>
<td>15</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Axemen</td>
<td>5</td>
<td>75</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>110 posts ~</td>
<td>7</td>
<td>33</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Carting d~</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>50</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>2 Weeks board board & @3.00</td>
<td>20</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr></tbody></table><h2><span class="mw-headline">MARCH - BILLS PAYABLE</span></h2>
<table><tbody><tr><th>Date.</th>
<th>Name.</th>
<th>Dolls.</th>
<th>Cts.</th>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>J Leys Esqr {Esquire} Givens lot</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>June 27</td>
<td>24¼ days surveying to date</td>
<td>147</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>1 Assistant 22 ½ days @ 1.50</td>
<td>33</td>
<td>75</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Assistant 21 days @1.00</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Board. 9 weeks @ 4.00</td>
<td>36</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>740 posts @</td>
<td>49</td>
<td>33</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>RECEIVABLE.</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>- Morgans {Dr?}</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>Oct 20</td>
<td>to 2½ days surveying & traveling</td>
<td>15</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>assistant {illegible}</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>75</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>board</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>50</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>{traveling?} expenses</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>20</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Plan</td>
<td>5</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>29</td>
<td>70</td>
</tr></tbody></table><p>{large ink splotch on bottom of right hand page)</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">JUNE - BILES BAYABEE</span></h2>
<p>{Text should read BILLS PAYABLE, but the letter P and two L's has been filled in to look like the letter B.}</p>
<table><tbody><tr><th>Date.</th>
<th>Name.</th>
<th>Dolls.</th>
<th>Cts.</th>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Theodolite</td>
<td>154</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Compass</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Telescope</td>
<td>9</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Chain</td>
<td>5</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Tape</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Protractor</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Scales. 10.20.30.40 Boxwood</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>" 50 & 60 Ivory</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>parallel ruler</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>straight edge</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>set squares</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>1 doz {dozen} pins</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>BECEIVABEE. {text should read RECEIVABLE but the letters R and L have been filled in to look like the letter B.}</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr></tbody></table><h2><span class="mw-headline">JULY - BILES PAYABLE.</span></h2>
<p>{text should read BILLS but the letter L has been filled in to look like the letter B.}</p>
<table><tbody><tr><th>Date.</th>
<th>Name.</th>
<th>Dolls.</th>
<th>Cts.</th>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>RECEIVABLE.</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr></tbody></table></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">AUGUST - BILLS PAYABLE.</span></h2>
<table><tbody><tr><th>Date.</th>
<th>Name.</th>
<th>Dolls.</th>
<th>Cts.</th>
</tr><tr><td>Unwin & Scott</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>T, J Ellis {Dr?}</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>Feb 25</td>
<td>drawing map of Peel {on Store?}</td>
<td>50</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>1000 copies @ $5.00 per 100</td>
<td>50</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>paper for {Dr?} 42 {guises?}</td>
<td>33</td>
<td>60</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>12 sheets {illegible} ship &c</td>
<td></td>
<td>75</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>134</td>
<td>35</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>By cash (per A.B.U.)</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>104</td>
<td>35</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>RECEIVABLE.</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr></tbody></table><h2><span class="mw-headline">SEPTEMBER - BILLS PAYABLE.</span></h2>
<table><tbody><tr><th>Date.</th>
<th>Name.</th>
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<td>~~ J Leys Esq {Esquire}</td>
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<p><br /> {The page on the right hand side is the back cover of the diary. It is filled with numerous mathematical calculations and a few drawings of triangles. The latitude of Toronto (43°. 39'.35" N) is prominently written at the top of the page. The text on this page is written in both ink and pencil, though it appears that there was an attempt to erase some of the writing done in pencil.}</p>
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== June1873 ==
1. Sunday wind Sclear .to 2 church wolveston , preactied . Gehen egéson to Zex , DeMoone and urfé peri- in
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160 feet Randall drowned in Just Horry To the hop X you're learn and shows to Ding ... ) I Walkerto Lines & Sunday with & clear at hairce Lejonare fourel
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9 - Monday weine Recteur To J Thomas Took boards took of Rogchanson 11/1000 form to build fenice
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10 tuesday wired 9 14 hai marked Rond Randall to help with lease Term at the same todos to direct and lea Brook field-Station
11 Wednesday wind Well,we I not well . Randall twee - Marcire part of the way
12 Thursday wind Italia To Belimasel fors maringot Nori Da choice 810 pais To Boyd son Garrow 88 75cts atwee got shoes from ly cultivate carne afterstone I learn To Ride horse Randall draut mosep
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13 fryday wind SE clear To St Thomas Brought jr Johnson home. Bawed $15 from Mrs Finch To cullvers to diner. Randall drawed Manure
14 Saturday wind SW clear cultivated corn fore noon Randall drawed manure and went to Belmont after noon got him a pair of shoes $2.25 cts neckTie and box colars Bargened with R Sleath for a plow for lumber at $13,50 per Thousand plow $18
15 Sunday wind SE clear to 2 church at 3 oclock James Learnd and Charles fergeson To diner W Barn and C Brown and wives To Tea and j Learm and wife and 3 boys to Tea
16 Monday wind SW clear To London got Mashine from Elet gave a note for $55 to be paid the 1st day of january 1874 got points for cultivater got a pair of shoes Randall spread manure joe to help Nub cow to Bull
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17 Tuesday wind SE clear cut Thistles Randall and Jane to pick nick 18 Wednesday wind SW clear I was sick Randall drawed wood and went to Belmont fare. Hanah Learn and Leta finch and Adaline Gracey and Mr D Moore called in the evening Johnson and bay came from Building fence to St Thomas 19 Thursday wind SW clear cultivated corn I Learn to help Randall comenced To plow sumer falowe Bees swarmed spot hefer to Bull let j R johnson have The wool to work on shares 45lb wool 20 fryday wind NW clear cultivated corn forenoon to Belmont afternoon got a plow from Sleath $18 got wagon tire set at Abots $1..50cts Randall plowed 21 Saturday wind SW clear plowed sumer falowe <s>Rand</s> Randall plowed got from Cambell a single harnes for $30 To be paid in lumber at $14 per 1000 R Learn here at night
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22 Sunday wind E Rain at home Randall and jane To Maplton George C Learn and George Deacon to Tea father and Mother here at night and Charles Learn jr 23 Monday wind E cloudy Set calage done choars Randall plowed let E Mc have 100 feet boards for $1.50 got from Mother $2. Mother here fathe went home Black cow To Bull Rain at night 24 Tuesday wind E cloudy helped Ev Learn To saw Randall and team To Mothe To EV Learn I Paid her $2 25 Wednesday wind E clear hoed potatoes got a pump from P Tutnam for $7,50 ct Randall plowed D Moore had a Cow To Bull 26 Thursday wind E went To simcoe To fine To S coners <s>Bugners</s> To Tea To Bugners at night To Philips Cullves 27 fryday wind SE To hullville to Barbers To Diner To W cullvers To Tea. To Philips at night
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28 Saturday wind S to simcoe to Carlton Cullvers for Diner To To R Willcox, to Tea to Nisbet Cullvers at night 29 Sunday wind SE to Blooms Burgh to Church Elder Slat preached. To philips at night. pide to Bull 30 Monday wind SW Rain all day To john Cullvers To Tea to Malons to Diner to philips at night
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== July 1873 == 1 Tuesday wind W Came home David Barber and wife with us 2 Wednes wind W rain Took a load of cheese 30 To Danchestar Station David Barber with me 3 Thursday wind W to Belmont To mill got money for cheese $31. Barber and wife went to St Thomas Randall and jane To E lick Brush here at night Bees swarmed 4 fryday wind S clearn hoed garden to Belmont got the chop 20 bushel let Sleath have 786 fet boards Abot 148 feet bees swarmed D Moore had a cow to B Randall and jane cam home 5 Saturday wind W clear Done choars paid Mrs finch $15 fore noon Randall hlped D Moore cut hay afternoon D Barber and wife here at night gave him $2 for Margret Cullver from E Brush
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6 Sunday wind W clear cool To 2 Church Wolverton preached David Barber and wife with us john finch and Siss to diner To prayer meeling at night 7 Monday wind SW clear Mowed fore noon Raked and Drawed in 1 load in the shed after noon Barber and wife and Ann To john Learns here at night 8 Tuesday wind W Rain fixed Barn brdge to church meeting at night Barber and wife here 9 Wednesday wind W cut hay fore noon Raked and put up after noon Ann with barbre and wife To London. Spot cow to Bull 10 Thursday Wind W rain{M Drawed in hay 3 load 1 in Barn 2 in shed to Belmont at night with D Barber got chees 6 lb? 10 cts Dyer 11 fryday wind W clear Drawed hay in barn 5 load lot james Camble have lumber 2144 feet D Barber went home celem stayed
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12 Saturday wind SE clear Drawed hay 2 load cut after noon Ann was sick had Dr Cline here Randall To Belmont at night John Stewart had a cow here 13 Sunday wind S clear To 2 church Celema with me Ann sick Reetch preached 14 Monday wind SW rain cut thistles james Shirk called in the evening and wife 15 Tuesday wind W rain fore noon cut hay after noon and put up. David Barber and Margret cullver came here at night 16 Wednesday wind SW cloudy cut hay finshed fore noon Raked and put up Drawed in 2 load after noon W jackson and wife D Barber and wife and Margret Cullver here To Diner 17 Thursday wind W Rain put up hay after noon Rain at night David Barber and wife and Mary Cullver here Lill and Broon cows to B ut
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18 fryday wind S rain Took D Barber and wife and Margret Cullver To The Cars for home fore noon Drawed 3 load of hay after noon 19 Saturday wind NW Rain Drawed hay in drive Barn 5 load 1 in Barn Randall Took jane home at night pide cow to Bull 20 Sunday wind NW clear To 2 church Wolverton preached. To W Bass To Diner james Learn and W AugusTine Adaline gracy and jane Stevenson to Tea. Randalls horse Ran away 21 Monday wind S clear Drawed in 4 load of hay Peter Tutnam Set up Mashine. Calista picked cherys Randall took his Bugy to Belmont to get mended Midge hefer To Bull 22 Tuesday wind SW clear cut and Bound wheat Mrs Tralon here and Mrs foster and Ed for cherys let james Camble have joies156 for $2,49 cts not paid
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23 Wednesday wind SE clear cut and put up weat EV Learn To help. Mrs Traton To Diner got chery 24 Thursday wind Sw clear hot cut and put up wheat and finished fall wheat Mrs Traton for chereys Calista for cherys here 25 fryday wind SW clear Rain at night Draged fore noon on sumer falowe cultivated after noon Randall Draged Mrs Traton here for cherys 26 Saturday wind SE cloudy to Belmont got the horses shod 6 set 2 new ones Catlarine Leach and jane Learn here at night. balon and wife To Tea 27 Sunday wind S clear hot To Mary jane farqurs funeral john finch and john fergeson and georg Learn to diner. Star cow To Bull 28 Monday wind E cloudy Rain helped EV Learn to line wheat Randall to help Mrs Traton and calestu here for cherys Mrs D Moore to Diner
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29 Tyesday wind W clear Drawed in wheat after noon Randall helped EV Learn fore noon 30 Wednesday wind SW clear hot Drawed in wheat finished Randall helped. got from Mrs Bass 10 quarts beryes for $1.00cts 31 Thursday wind SE cloudy Rain cut fence corners fore noon Randall Raked Stable Rain after noon Randall to harietsvill Robert Learn here at nght == August 1873 == 1 fryday wind SW to Belmont got cheese money $32 . . got from Odle 30 lb sugar $3 and a barel salt $1..65 cts Randall went to Aylmer uncle finch abd Annt Came from Loho Traughton to Diner. 2 Saturday wind SW clear cut thistles fore noon to covnant meeting after noon. Drawed in 2 load of Rakings afTer Tea Randall to help
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3 Sunday wind NW clear cool To 2 church at 11. and Night Wolverton preach fore noon Grant at night To hills to Tea 4 Monday wind NW clear Cultivated on sumer falow with flora and pete Ann picked the geese Randall to Lyons 5 tuesday wind SW clear Dug Onions. To church Meeting at night Randall draged sum erfalow 6 Wednesday wind SW clear To swamp To j R john sons to Diner. Randall sawed his Dash Board indians got honey and cherys $1.30 7 Thursday wind SW rain to help finches Thras with Team and Randall 8 fryday wind SW clear Done choars Randall drawed Manure johnsond and boy to tea lill to Bull 9 Saturday wind chang {illegible} clear To 1 church on camita To covnant meeTing Randall To Belmont got his Bugy To mapleTon at night <s>Diner<s> Tea D Ed woods</s></s>
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10 Sunday wind SE clear to 2 church Grant preached 11 Monday wind W rain, clear comenced to cut oats 12 Tuesday wind W cloudy cut oats jR johnson and Sam to help bind and Randall Bound 13 Wednesday wind E cloudy cut oats finished Randall and Sam jhn son Bound Ann sick 14 Thursday wind E clear set up oats Randall helped fore noon to Belmont after noon got from Odle12 yds coTon and {<s>of</s>?} 2 yds print 17 cts bar soap 20. 1 spool 15 cts comb 50 lamp glass 10 cts 15 fryday wind NE clear Done choars Randall to help EV Learn after noon Traded horses with George Apleford 16 Saturday wind N clear Rain Comenced spring wheat Hiram and George Smith to Diner. to john Learns after tea
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11 Saturday wind E clear to 2 church Wolverton preached Galaton finch to Diner 18 Monday wind SE clear cut spring wheat Randall Bound 19 tuesday wind S clear cut spring wheat Randall Bound EV Learn helped after noon finished 20 Wednesday wind SW clear Done choars Randall to help EV Learn Draw in oats. let G finch have .50 cts 21 thursday wind SW clear Drawed in the oats 7 acres Randall and joe Drawed Adaline Gracy here at night 22 fryday wind SW clear Drawed in spring wheat Randall and joe to help finished harvest 23 Saturday wind E N clear plowed for wheat Randall helped EV Learn Draw oats in
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24 Sunday wind E clear To 2 church Wolverlon preached j Shrink and wife and 2 girls to Diner here the old sow had 10 pigs 25 Monday wind SW rain forenoon to help EV Learn Thrash after noon 296 oats 44 bushel of wheat 26 Tuesday wind E cloudy cleaned wheat fore noon To Belmont to mill after noon 10 bushed of wheat and 12 of chop To wagon to E Mathews to get ex to fergesons at night Colen had his foot Taken of with reaper 27 Wednesday wind E clear cut sowed corn fore noon plowed for wheat after noon 28 Thursday wind SE clear plowed with 2 Teams finch shed to Belmont at get The grist let Hawkins have 200lb flour $ 6 50 let Abot have pears $ 1. 00 Let pots have pears .75 cts got from Odle 1/2 lb Tobaco and heave powder .50 29 fryday wind SW clear to Niles Town To court for a witness for jane Stvenson Bines To Deacon Edwards
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Randall put up corn EV Learn hat a cow to Bull 30 SaTurday wind S clear hot cut sowed corn to Belmot at night let Dyer have 9 Doz eggs got 9. bowls Randall got his colt shod to Abots 2 shers 31 Sunday wind SW Rain at home john Learn and wife and john finch to Tea == September 1873 == 1 Monday wind W clear. cool to ST Thomas to Diner To Charles Learns. put in the Mechants Bank $201 for my self and $45 for Randall Randall to help fawcett Thrash 2 Tuesday wind NW clear Sowed wheat 6 Randall Draged with colts 3 Wednesday wind SE rain at night finished Draging the wheat and furowed out 4 Thursday wind SW Rain to Belmont got wagon got from Dyer chees mong $30. Randall to Belmont to H Lacks sale
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5 fryday wind NW clea to james Shirk paid $5 john Denis paid $5 for the preacher got from A Ravy $ 8 helped D Morne to plow after noon with the 2 Teams and Randall 6 Saturday wind NW clear put up sowed corn fore noon To covnant meeting after noon W Marsh way put in Deacon. paid W Marsh for the preaches $24 7 Sunday wind SW Rain To 2 church Wolverton preached john Denis and wife and Magy Black To Diner jane Stevenson ja Alen to Tea Randall to Church Robert Learn To Diner 8 Monday wind SE clear To swamp got posts fixed posts after noon Randall cut sowed corn Turned. on. clover the cows and cattle 9 Tuesday wind SW cool clear to ST Thomas with posts and Trees 7 cherys 5 plums and 1 aple set Them Randall cut corn
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10 Wednesday wind SW clear cut corn Randall helped 11 Thursday wind S clear cut corn Randall helped took up 2 skips of Bees at night put 4 in the wood house 12 fryday wind S Rain at night cut corn Randall helped 13 Saturday wind N cool to Belmont paid Mathews $175 got from Odle goods for $174 Calvin Brown and wife and john finch here at night Traded horses with Georg C Learn 14 Sunday wind NW cool to 2 church to prayer MeeTing Browns with us to W Barrs to Diner Randall Drove peTe colt 15 Monday wind S Rain after n cut corn Randall helped Ram after noon Star cow To Bull 16 Tuesday wind NW clear Cut and put up corn Randall helped finishd cuTing. Let SroughTon have 100 feet plank for Road $150
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17 Wednesday wind SE cloudy put up corn fore noon finished. to Belmont fore after noon. got from Odle Dyes 1/2 lb tobacoe. 25cts 18 Thursday wind SW clear Drawed. wood killed a pig Done choars got 1 bus potatoes from Sraughton Rain at night 19 fryday wind NW clear comenced To Tharsh spring wheat 84 bushed Aplefords Thrashed Sraughton and bill and D Moore EV Learn and joe john cullver and galaTon finch to help 20 Saturday wind N clear Thrashed fall wheat 124 bushed 108 oats Mashine brake dawn james Learn here at night 21 Sunday wind S clear to Disiple Church E Shepard preached Randall to 2 church SLer preached 22 Monday wind SE Rain to Neal taylors. to Old Mr Taylors funeral D Apeford To London for Repairs
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10 Wednesday wind SW clear cut corn Randall helped 11 Thursday wind S clear cut corn Randall helped took up 2 skips of Bees at night put 4 in the wood house 12 fryday wind S Raind at night cut corn Randall helped 13 Saturday wind N cool to Belmont paid Mathews $173 got from Odle goods for $174 Calvin Brown and wife and john finch here at night Traded horses with Georg C Learn 14 Sunday wind NW cool to 2 church to prayer Meeting Browns with us to W Barrs to diner Randall Drove pete colt 15 Monday wind S Rain after n Cut corn Randall helpedRam after noon Star cow To Bull 16 Tuesday wind Nw clear Cut and put up corn Randall helped finishd cuTing let SroughTonhave 100 feet plank for Road $150
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17 Wednesday wind SE cloudy put up corn fore noon finished. to Belmont fore after noon. got from Odle Dyes 1/2 lb tobacoe. 25cts 18 Thursday wind SW clear Drawed. wood killed a pig Done choars got 1 bus potatoes from Sraughton Rain at night 19 fryday wind NW clear comenced To Tharsh spring wheat $4 bushed Aplefords Thrashed Sraughton and bill and D Moore EV Learn and joe john cullves and galaTon finch to help 20 Saturday wind N clear Thrashed fall wheat 124 bushed 108 oats Mashine broke dawn james Learn here at night 21 Sunday wind S clear to Disiple Church E Shepard preached Randall to 2 church Sler preached 22 Monday wind SE Rain to Neal taylors. to Old Mr Taylors funeral D Apeford To London for Repairs
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23 tuesday wind S cloudy finished thrashing oats 218 bushed David Barber and wife here at night paid for Thrashing $13.75 to D Apleford 24 Wednesday wind SE clear to London to fair David Barber and wife with us Colen fergeson here at night Rain at night 25 Thursday wind W clear to help Soeughton thrah D Moore to help Randall and Colin fergeson To London to fair David Barber and wife here 26 fryday wind S clear to help W Gracey Thrash Randall to help D Moore father and Mother and D Barber and wife here at night. Randall got a pair of boots at W jacksons. $2.90 27 fryday wind SW warm to Belmont to W jacksons To Diner paid him $2.90 got 3 shoes set to Abots David Barber and wife with us Randall to help gracy Thrash
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28 Sunday wind S warm to No 7 W jackson preach and to sunday school David Barber and wife and Ann to 2 church at 3 pm Sler preachedjg faucell and wife To diner, john and siss finch james and jane Learn and Miss Godby to Tea. 29 Monday wind N rain picked up aples fore noon cleaned wheat after noon David Barker and wife here john Learn and wife To Tea 30 Tuesday wind W clear To ST Thomas with David Barber got photograph group for $ 1.37 1/2 . To Diner to charles Learns The womin to faucett frost at night == October 1873 == 1 Wednesday widn N clear to swamp. Randall drawed wood. frost at night 2 thursday wind S clear Drawed in sowed corn and 1 load of corn and went To Belmont To Mill 18 bushel of wheat got from Odle 20lb sugar and 1 lb Tobacoe $2.50 cts got a buck from john Learn
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3 fryday wind E clear Dug potatoes fore noon Drawed corn after noon Ann pick the geese George C Learn To Diner 4 Saturday wind S Rain to Aylmer show To jesa Learns To Tea To Calum Browns at night 5 Sunday wind W cloudy rain at night To Aylmer To church. S Baldwin preached. To Edward Browns to diner at home at night. Rain 6 Monday wind N cool cloudy picked Aples 22 bushed Randall comenced to plow in midle field 7 Tuesday widn W clear picked up Aples 34 bushel Randall plowed W gracy wife to Diner 8 Wednesday wind SE clear picked Aples 12 bushel fore noon let Traughton have 20 bushel aples to Lyons show after noon Randall to show and Ann paid Hughs 48 cts promis to pay T j Putnam $ 20 for bad luck on colt
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9 Thursday wind S clear picke Aples fore noon 6 bu to belmont after noon let Dyer Odle have 536 lb flour at $3 per unt let Abott have 1 hundred flour $ 3.25 cts Randall plowed fore noon 10 fryday wind S clear picked Aples fore noon Took Maple boards to Belmont. 738 feet for Dr camble. had D Moores Mare. Randall plowed john Doan had a cow to Bull 11 Saturday wind SW Rain to Belmont let Dr camble have 828 feet boards he paid $21 fore noon To help D Moore thrash after noon Randall help all day 12 Sunday wind NW clear to new sarum to church Elder haycock preached to Diner to E turners Randall at home 13 Monday wind NW cloudy helped D f Moore thrash fore noon to j g faucetts sale after noon got a cow and fork for $ 15 35 cts Ann to j R johnsons got yarn
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13 tuesday wind SW clear warm Drawed in corn Randall helped 15 Wednesday wind E clear Drawed in corn finished borowed a horse from john Learn lent him the wagon 16 Thursday wind S E cloudy wind at night plowed fore noon Peter Putnam here to fix pump after noon 17 fryday wind E clear plowed fore noon Randall plowed all day P j Putnam put in the pump ater noon for $8.25 ct got loards {50 tm written above} Erick Smith and wife to Diner 18 Saturday wind SW Rain husked corn Randall To help D Moore clean wheat Cows star Broke her horn 19 Sunday wind SW cloudy at home to gracy to Archa Mcolum john Learn and wife and child charles Learn and wife and 2 children francy Deacon and wife and 2 children to Tea in evening
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20 Monday wind NE cloudy snow at night plowed Randall plowed in the 14 Acre field 2 teams kept the horses in the stable at night 21 Tuesday wind SW snow rain husked corn and killed a hog Randalf went to W gracyes at night put cows in the stable 22 Wednesday in SW clear To Belmont fore noon got cheese money $ 25 plowed and Randall after noon 2 Teams. Rain at night 23 Thursday wind SW Rain husked corn Randall To Belmont. Robert Learn Took the horse home 24 fryday wind SW clear husked corn fore noon Randall and Moore picked Aples. plowed after noon 2 Teams 25 Saturday wind SW clear plowed 2 teams Randall helped 26 Sunday wind E cloudy Rain at night to New Sarum To church Elder Haycock preached to Lymans To Diner To EV Learns to Tea. paid j Merlatt $101 for Taxes
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27 Monday wind S cloudy plowed after noon husked corn core noon Randall helped W gracy paid $ 8.65 28 Tuesday wind SEWN snow husked corn Randall to help 29 Wednesday wind WN snow husked corn Randall helped 30 Thursday wind SE cloudy rain fixed stable Drawed in pumpkins fore noon husked corn afternoon Randall helped 31 fryday wind SW snow husked corn Randall to help == November 1873 == 1 Saturday wind SW clear husked corn Randall To help. put the Buck with The sheep turned Them to D Moores 2 Sunday wind SW Rain at home Randall to gladsTone church 3 Monday wind NW snow clear husked corn Randall helped to D Moores in The evening
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4 Tuesday wind S clear fixed platform on well fore noon husked corn after non Randall plowed D Moore and wife and Sarah Ann Legg her in the evening. frze 5 Wednesday wind SW clear husked corn Randall plowed frze 6 Thursday wind SW clear plowed Randall went away and left me To do for him self 7 fryday wind SE cloudy plowed finished the 14 acre field Randall to eds 8 SaTurday wind NW cloudy to Sroughtons got 10{bushel?} potatoes fore noon Done choars after noon Robert Learn here at night 9 Sunday wind NW cloudy at home D f Moore and wife and jane Stevenson To tea put up 2 big steers 10 Monday wind W cloudy helped D f Moore kill hogs 2 fore noon plowed after noon in garden
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11 Tuesday wind E cloudy snow to Belmont got horses pete and charley shod 4 new 4 set got from Dyer Odele coton yarn 2 bunches $ 3 50 1 lb Tea {50 above}1 lb tabacoe {50 above} wick {2 above} $102 Magenta {10 above} 2 bag {beside} $472 to john pettits at night D Moore with us put up 2 little sTeers 12 Wednesday wind NW cloudy cold husked corn Done choars Randall away 13 Thursday wind NW cloudy to john petitts child funeral fore noon Done choars and Drawed 2 load of wood after noon Randall home at night 14 fryday wind SW clear Drawed wood Randall to Belmont got a bufalow Robe. to Mckelons for $14 75 D Moore fetched grist home from mill for me 15 Saturday wind S clear Done choars Randall to Belmont sent with j Troughton for flax seed 25 cts 16 Sunday wind SW cloudy thawed At home all day
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17 Monday wind E cloudy Built a corn crib D f Moore to help. Randall went a way pedling wire j Dean to help him 18 Tuesday wind N clear Made cider fore noon D Moore E Learn to help plowed after noon sold D Moore The geese 13 for $6..00 19 Wednesday wind NW cloudy snow at night Built ash house Randall home at night paid Taxes $26 20 wheat 20 Thursday wind NW cloudy killed 5 hogs salted down 4 in baken D Moore Randall and E Learn To help 21 fryday wind NE snowed fixed sTable. Randall To Belmont sent Money for wire $27.50 $2 for other things 22 Saturday wind SW clear fixed sTable fore noon Randall helped To Belmont after noon got from Dyer pair of slips for Ann 80 cts john Learn and wife To diner he Took his Buck home. Randall got sage to Sroughtons
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23 Sunday wind E cloudy snow at home Mother hariet and litle chaley here To Tea Mother went to E Learns Hariet and charley slayed at night 24 Monday wind NW cloudy Done choars Randall to j Denis s sale george Aplefor and wife jack and jeny To Tea Hariet and charley here 25 Tuesday wind N cloudy helped E Learn kill 2 hogs fore noon Done choars afTer noon Drawed 1 load of wood let p j putnam have a hog 159 lb $8 95 cts haiet to Eds charley away D Moore Took some geese 26 Wednesday wind NW cloudy Done choars Randall choped D Demery and wife Mrs finch and cullver here To tea hareitt and charley D Moore paid $6 for geese 27 Thursday wind NE snow cleaned wheat cut 6 pigs fore noon to Mrs finches to Diner and Tea Ann and Hariet withe me put in sTraw after noon Took in the colts at night
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28 fryday wind NW cloudy snow to Belmont let Dyer Odle have 21 1/4 {$113 above} bushel of wheat {$386 written below} let Abott have boards 256 feet 29 Saturday wind N clear Done choars to john Learns in the evening charles Learn and wife with us Ann and hariet went to Eds james Learn here at night Randall home at night 30 Sunday wind NE cloudy at home to D Moores in the evening Ann To Eds charley and hariet went home == December 1873 == 1 Monday wind NE cold to swamp To D pulins to Sandy currys to E Smiths To Diner Randall a way with wire Hanah Learns child Born at 5 oclock in the morning 2 tuesday wid SE rain all day warm Done choars Ann washed Randall away with wife 3 Wednesday wid SW Rain Done choars. Randall home {bound at night written between the lines} 4 Thursday wind SW clear cold fixed fence Randall helped fence blowed Down
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5 fryday wind W clear cold fixed fence piled boards Randall chaped. to george Aplefords in The evening Randall and Ann with met to Tea 6 Saturday wind N clear to Hills to diner to covnant MeeTing in The afternoon Ann at home Randall To Belmont Robert Learn here at night 7 Sunday wind E cloudy at home Randall away Robert Learn here to diner 8 Monday wind E cloudy Rain Done choars had a cold and lame buck Randall home at night 9 tuesday wind SW Rain I was sick Randall chaped and Done choars 10 Wednesday wind W cloudy I was sick geting beter Randall chaped and Done choars sent a leter to Philip cullvers 11 Thursday wind SW cloudy Rain caryed in corn to the crib 142 bushel Randall helped
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12 fryday wind NE rain put in sTraw fore noon Randall helped caryed in corn 32 bushel to crib after noon. Mrs Daniel Apleford here To Tea 13 Saturday wind NE snow 4 inch husked corn Randall choared Dick colt had Distemer 14 Stunday wind SW cloudy at home to D Moores To Tea Randall and Ann To 15 Monday wind SW clear husked corn filled The crib 200 <s>hund</s>rd bushel Randall drawed wood for sugar bush 16 tuesday wind SW clear Drawed wood fore noon To Belmont after noon got from Dyer 1 lb tobacoe {50 written above} 2oz nut meg {10 written above} 3 yrds Drill {25 written above} 12 1/2 g 2 yrds coton hired Clark procton half month for $3 17 Wednesday wind SW clear cut wood clark to help in wood house Randall a pedling wire toaly called falls called E Moore here in the eve ning
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18 Thursday wind NE cloudy cut wood in The woods Clark to help. Randall Done Nothing Mealum fruit agent here at night 19 fryday wind N cloudy cut wood in the woods clark to help Randall choped after noon. paid to joliff school tax $11 70 sold R tooly 2 steers for $37 to be paid 1 day of february 1874. Elgin Marsh to diner 20 Saturday wind N snow cut wood in the wood house clark to help Randall To Belmont 21 Sunday wind N clear coldat home jack Smithto Tea 22 Monday wind S cloudykilled a beef fore noonto Belmont after noon let George franeis have a quater beef $2 56 Mrs foster a quarte $2 60 and bag aples 50 j Black a hog aples 75ct Abott a hog 75 ct got from Dyer 15 lb sugar $1 50. an 2 lb bisket 20 . 1 and 4 lb Raisons 50 {illegible} 3 lb curants 25 1 lb Tea 50 and 1 oz cin 5 {illegible} 1 aunt {illegible} 6 yds shirTing 120 and 2L drill 63 cts 2 yrs coton 25 cts shod {5 above} returned slips 80cts
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clark choped Randall helped To kill beef fore noon chaped after noon 23 Tuesday wind NE clear Done choars fore noon sawed wood after noon clark cut wood Randall to Eds at night Ann made a shirt for clark 24 Wednesday wind SE cloudy snow at night cut wood fore noon Done choars after noon Sent clark procton away at Noon for haveing loused The Bed. Randall to london got home at night 25 thursday wind SW cloudy Christmas day to john Learns To diner Philips here at night john finch to to Tea Randall To finches to diner let john Learn have beef quarter 54 lb 26 fryday wind SW snow cloudy to help finches Thrash Randall To help and team Asa Learn and wife To diner philip here 24 Saturday wind NE cloudy to help finches Thrash with team and Randall philip Done choars
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28 Sunday wind SW cloudy at home j Emery and R white <s>to d</s> called D f Moore and wife to Tea Randall away at night philip took horse home 29 Monday wind W Blustery snow To help finches Thrash fore noon Randall to help Done choars after noon Randall to Lyons 30 Tuesday wind W snow Done choars Randall To help George Apleford Thrash. we was To W hills in the evening Ran {crossed out} dall To orwell 31 Wednesday wind SW cloudy Done choars Randall came home at noon the Dick Colt Brake with The Distemper
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== Janruary 1874 ==
1 Thursday wind SW cloudy Dine choars. To misionary Meeting at night to No 7 john Learn and wife and W Brown To diner Randall away home at night Ed Moore here at Night
2 fryday wind SW fogy Done choars Randall home Thawed Rain at night
3 Saturday wind thawed SW cloudy Done choars. Randall to Belmont after noon Mateland Brown and George Lawer here at night. Thawed
4 Sunday wind SW cold changed at home. To EV Learn in the evening to tea
5 Monday wind NW clear To Harriestsville paid to S Bass $3.00 for taxes paid To john Dafoe 80 cts school tax to Lyons to town Meeting voted for cline Woodworth Stewart and Charlton and Hair Randall to Lyons to vote
6 Tuesday wind NE snow killed a Beef Randall and Ed to help H Herin to diner Bell fasqur and jane Stevenson to tea
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== March 1874 ==
<table>
<tr>
<td>Dan lost Time</td>
<td>Days</td>
</tr>
<table>
<table>
<tr>
<td>28</td>
<td>away to Belmont</td>
<td>1/2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>18 April</td>
<td>away</td>
<td>1/2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>20</td>
<td>Dan sick</td>
<td>1/2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>29</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1/2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>30</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<table>
== May==
<table>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<table>
== June ==
<table>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>Dan done road work</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>26</td>
<td>Dan to pick nick</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<table>
== July 1874 ==
<table>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<table>
== Agust 1874 ==
<table>
<tr>
<td>26</td>
<td>Dan Drunk</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>27</td>
<td>Dan away Drunk</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<table>
== September 1874 ==
<table>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1/2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1/2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>23</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1/2</td>
</tr>
<table>
== October 1874 ==
<table>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1/2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1/2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>19</td>
<td>Dan away Drunk</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>20</td>
<td>Dan away Drunk</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>29</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>30</td>
<td>Dan away Drunk</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>31</td>
<td>Dan away Drunk</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<table>
== November 1874 ==
<table>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>Dan away drunk</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<table>
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June 1874 pair
Dan pair $ 1.00
12 Pair Dan 1.00
26 Pair Dan. 1.24
30 Pair Dan 4.00
August 1874
22 pair dan 1.00
25 Pair Dan 4.00
$ September 1874
Pair Dan 4.00
20 pair dan 2
October 1874
Pair Dan 5.00
November the 1874 Receivew from Andrew learn in full for work dollars and sevently eight cents
- Daniel Gracery
June 1874 pair
Dan pair $ 1.00
12 Pair Dan 1.00
26 Pair Dan. 1.24
30 Pair Dan 4.00
August 1874
22 pair dan 1.00
25 Pair Dan 4.00
$ September 1874
Pair Dan 4.00
20 pair dan 2
October 1874
Pair Dan 5.00
November the 1874 Receivew from Andrew learn in full for work dollars and sevently eight cents
- Daniel Gracery
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I wednesday in N & Rain Dane Chaars let Pq Putman have 90 Bushel en 10lbs wheat for 81 121/2 ets per bushes $10 Raindall to farquers at night.
& thursday in N w claudy to st thomsa got etms a Bani tam ove Shoes to dines to fathers to tea to elder A smiths to new Sasum to meeting in evening slay cock pneachew. to lyman learns at night Randall done chaars.
9 friday in sclaudy snoe to Break faste to lymass came hame fame maan randall to Behmant after mean sale week hid per $275
10 saturday in S Wclaudy snow to Belmant afternoon got from dyer over cau T$6 pair Dyer in full $ 1082 Randaal Drawer 2 load of wood sold yalm learners the old sew for $7.00 11 sunday win N.W snow to new sarumm to church slay rock pneacoches. to poilph Learners to diner gave Dearan New cant $175 for the Raptish Paper.
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12 Monday WM claudy to Belmant to mill to WBarrs in the evening Randall to Bahmant Robert and Philip Learn took the old saw home
15 Tuesday in NE snow to yohn Learns got shingles (oao and 3/4)Randall sick
14 Wednessday in NM Bluestery Dance chaar caller to Alack Stwarts in evenning his wife sick. Randall sick
15 Thursday in W Blurstery Done chaars cleanew wheat in the evening Demoane in the evening Demoane to help john Doan monew his house past 16 Friday in Wclear cold To spring field with spring whaet 19 hu 45 lbs sold for $104 Barley & bushed solld for $115 per bushed . Randall Away WY hill and wife hes to tea evening john learm and in wife to tea. pair nutman $55 fon Natc 17 saturday in Selear Drawed weoa with calts fone moan to Belmpnt after fun got table faith and dress and shoes from dyer $5.45 the [air fauceth $1 for paper Randall sick pet Bass heren
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18 sunday win SC clear to new sarun to church elder hayeaek Preachew wy hill and wife with us to james warwicks to diner Randall sick
19 Monday in SC rain NW snow Daechaars haw weak old was hoarsse Randeel sick toath aks
20 tuesday in L claudy dane chaars to behmant after moan to old dyesr sale pair dyer $140 fo shoes lyman learn and wife to diner Randall to Relmont to i u learns to tea
21 wednesday S fogy done chaars. ly man an betsey and a map peadles to diner randall away at night 22 thursday in S W Rain done chaars sold duglass the sheep 13 for $48 he pair me $10. D for Moan filer the Buck sew for me randall at home
23 friday in NW Blustery Lane chaars Randell to Behmont learn and wife and yeme hera to tea.
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24 saturday in NWbluesd Done chaars Randall went to mapletan
25 Sunday in NW cold at home Randall away mrs d moane and sarah mm legg to tea.
26 monday in S W claudy done chaars Randall came home D gracy here in the evening. hargenw fin to work a year for $160 dug lass took the sheep and pair $38
27 tuesday win Snow Rain Done chaars Randall to doams george emery aw wife an am and elen mj frank and george c learn here to tea.
28 wednesday in NW claudy done choars nelson learn and wife to diner randall away at night
29 THURSDAY IN NW CLAUDY to election votew fpr S day Randall vote for day 30 friday N E snow blustery to Black Stewails wife s funeral W Yacks and wife to diner Randall to finehers to a surprise at night.
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31 Saturday un Nclear to Belmant got the horse shad to a balls & set get 25 1/2 lbs to bacoe from dyer hose matches pair galaury 1/2 lbs tea from W yeack son fon 40ets Draw 2 loadwas lower $300 from Randall
Set Ruary 1874 sunday win N L claudu to new sarum to church elder slay cock preached went with Dan gracy to No 4 in evening pair to Deacon New canch $ 1.00 james learn here at night
2 monday wind N E snow done choars Randall and jim heard soaly pair his mate $37.00
3 tuesday in wc claudy to st thomas Randall done chars got from cary 41 yeds caton and 26 print for $9.30, put in the merchan its Bank $306 to dies to fathers
4 wednesday in wealears done choars fane moan to serving field with wheat 34 afternoon, randall away Robert learn here at night.
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5 thursday win w clear to spring field with wheat sold to kip for $120 cys 22 bustell got 500 Brant $300 Randall Done choars A Susprize party here at nigght Fathers and mother here and about co persons to the surprise party
I fry day win I snow to lyman learns got oats 26 bushesl en barley 12 Randall done chaars
4 saturday in R Claudy to belmont with oats to chap 26 bushel got from nugant i barell saltan from from dyer 4 lbs lea $ 275 sets paw john G fawcett $ 1250 fon cau Randall to Behmont
$ suunday in Sclear to elder to new sarum
9 monday in NW claudy Drawal Weal Fone Moan put cam after moan David Brown here at night Randall came home.
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10 tuesday in Wclaudy snow to whites mill with came for chop fathers and mother here david Brown here Randall to new sarum to tea meeting.
11 wednesday iin Wclaudy to Belmoont pair YG gauces th $1.00 95 th got from nugent i bare saltand pitcher $1.45 lts thase from dyer 25ets gotchap from mill 26 bushell to games shirkes in the evening to tea gets 5 3/4 chees from hin 70cts Randall away
12 thursday wind S thawew Dane chars Drave dcik catt jane learn and llida hilll here at night Randell home
13 Friday wiind S Rain done choars lida hill and jane here Randall home 14 satuday in S wclara done hill went home jane here
15 sunday in S clear than to new sarun to chuch to w jane to new sarum day cock kneak new.
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16 monday in NW smuu blus to Andrew cliles got 2 bushel clover seed $12.00 Randall an yane came home.
17 tuesday in w clear cold done choars Randall draw wood in the sugar bush jane here.
18 wednesday in S clear done choars Randall to Belmnt little john learn here james learn here at night
19 thursday n SW rain at mig done choars Randall home mrs moane took her Bird home W gragery Buril
20 Friday in NW clear thawe to will Bushed wheat and 12 af oats to Y fuc westts to diner got cheese macy $2of 76 ots got boats for from $ 1, 75 its Randall home 21 Saturday wind NP snow dave chars Randall home george learn to diner
22 sunday wind L claudy at ome Randall and Jone to PV learn in the evening
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Monday in wice storm to mrs thomsons funeral to david moanes shepard pneached Randall to belmat to Y camlder tp work at harness trade mrs lariet moane sick.
24 tuesday wind w clear to george learness to dines w moane caller. W gracy and wife and kdaline to tea done gracy in the evening.
25 wednesday in St snoe done choars
26 thursday in SW cald to behmant let slauck irss have 30a feet hoards $4.00
got the griss from the mill jane worker at an dress
21 friday in SW clear done choars to hills got 2 bags turnips jane worker at an dress
28 saturday wind s clear done choars Randall came home at night
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March 1874
Sunday wind S. clear at home Randall and jane to glad stone to church john learn and masgret cullver to diner and S flemins to tea Randall went to Bekmmont at night margret here
2 monday wind Sclear made spindes dones choars margnet clulver here.
3 tuesday wind S W rain Travell the Buckets to the Bush taped co trees and took mar gret to john in the after moan 4 wednesday in NW clear done choars put the Buckets Round to trees.
5 Thursday wind L clear took the kittens to he bush and hund them margnet cullver walked over n johns here at night
6 friday in L claudy Rain done choars margnet cullver here
7 saturday in S W cludy to john learns took marget there fill come home with us randall come home at night
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8 Sunday in N snow at home Randall home Dan gracy to diner
9 Monday in N W snow blus dane choars let george let george ap lefond have randa;l harness randa;; went tp behment
10 tuesday wind N blus tery done chars
11 wednesday N Blusstery done chars to george aplefanels in the evening
12 thurday wind Neol blustery done choars
13 fridat wind NW Blustery done chars
14 saturday wind w clear sone choars Trawel wood 3 load Randall came home at night 15 sunday wind S clear thunder at home Rnadall home to D moans in the evening
16 monday wind S cloudy tapew the bush cannenced to boil gracy to worked ofr a year for me $ 160 chapter wines.
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17 tuesday wind SP clear getherew sap 5 tuls and boilew suripew dawn dan gracy to help
18 wednesday wind SP cloudy worker in Bush getherew Sap 5 tubs boiler sugarew off 26 lb made moleses 2 galans Dan helhew
19 thurday in NW ckear worked in Bush gethere sap 4 tubs Boiled suagre off 50. Dan Helped
20 Friday wind S clear worked in Bush getheresw sap 2 1/2 tubs boiled dan to help sugared off 89lbs
21 saturday wind NW clear worked in the Bush gethered sap 2 tubs suagred of 26th Randall home janes learn and sarsh legg here at night dan ehaphew in form moan helped in the bush afternoon to belment at night.
22 sunday wind SW clear at home Randall home Dan here Robert learn here 23 monday in blush tery done choars dan chapter sugered odd 21lbs.
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24 Tuesday in W clear cab sauce stake cuts fame noar dan spily stakes after naan put the meete to smake jane to Moans at night
25 wednesday in SP clear saves stake cuts Dan to help Dan belmont at night
26 thursday wind S W main forn and night moan N cold snow after drawed sap 3 tubs dan to help. mate lan Brown and Tanpates to jiners.
27 friday wind SW clear Boiled sap getherew 2 tubs dan drawed wood after moon
28 saturday wind clear sawed stake cuts fone moan dan to help dan away after moan to Betmont after moan git from syer goods $$2.25 sugared off 28th Randall home at night
29 sunday wind SW clear at home Rnadall home an to john learns philip ad Rd learn here C moan to tea, catits ta babe brown 10.00
30 monday wind S W clear Dance choars Dan spilt stakes Lenert will and wife to dines changed oats 10 bus.
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And came home from johns, troughton and wife to tea fetched the cloth 50 yds pair her $6.25
31 tuesday wind NP clear Drawed staked 436 Dan split stakes
April 1874
1 wednesday wind JW clear to john learns get the wgon fone moan to hills got hungarion seed after mon to john to john learns ann to hills
2 thursday in SW clear Drawed staked 166 fane moon Dan spilt stakes gether w sap after noon father and mother to diner philip learn and wife to tea john finch and randall her at night
3 friday in NW snoe cold boiler sap dan split staked randall and jane event to lymass williams barr and wife berty to tea.
4 saturday NW cold drawed wood & load for moan sawed blackes aftre moan dan to help. pair W Cagams $14,60 Randwall home at night jane away home.
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5 Easter sunday wind & snow at home Randall and dan and jane away Randall and jane came home at night
6 monday wind W clear drawes fence blacks fone moan Dan cut Blocks after moan randell to belmount
& tuesday in W clear warm sawed blacks fane moan drawed blocks after moan dan spillt blocks
8 wednesday wiind & clear getheres and Barlew sah Dan cut loacks after oan and went to layolars and bought a marse for $35 after tear ann helped to cary up the surip Nub and black cans had calfer
9 thursday & clear drawed fence black fone moan drawed stakes after moan dan cut blacks put dawn malases 13 gad
10 friday in W clear get 1 load starw from & d learn gethered sap 4 1/2 tubs boiled dan to help i was sick after noan
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11 Saturday in N snow cold Done chores Dan suriped Down split wood and killed Blacks calf the black sow to boar we was to D Moores in the evening Randall came home at night
12 Sunday wind SE clear to 2 church to prayer meeting Dan and Jane wiith us Randall to D Moores in the evening
13 Monday in SE clear gethered and Boiled sap 3 1/2 tubs made Molases 6 galons Dan split stakes after noon bass choped wood Richard pullin to tea
14 tuesday in SW clear gethered sap 5 tubs boiled Dan to help went to helmont after tea Ann went to Johns Lyman Learn here at night
15 Wednesday wind N W clear Drawed sap 3 tubs made Molases 5 galons Dant to help Dan spilt stakes afternoon
sugar and Malases 600 lbs.
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16 thursday wind E clear to Mapleton got 4 shoes set on horses got from W Appleford hungarian hay 1 tun for $6 Dan split stakes Py Putnam sessed me for $3500
17 fryday wind NE clear gethered sap 3 tubs Boiled let Py Putnam have 8 bushel 19lbs wheat $9.81 side pork 41 lbs $5"13 d paid him in full to date Dan split stakes afternoon
18 Saturday wind E clear to Mapleton for hay forenoon to Belmont afternoon got from Dyer 2 spreads $525 1 1/2 lb tobacoe 75 cts let him have 1 1/2 bushel aples 3 galons Molases 16 1/2 lb buter 10 doz eggs let Y cambele have 3 aples $150 got hitch nanes $1 curcomb 20 cts Dan split stakes forenoon went away after noon Randall came home at night John Hawkin with him
19 Sunday wind E clear to Newsarum to church Haycock preached to dine to Lymans Randall home John Hawkins here. Dan away
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20 Monday wind E rain gethered sap 5 tubs Dan to help. Randall went to Belmont
21 tuesday wind S clear Boiled sap Dan thrashed hungarian seed. Betsey culliver here at night John L Learn to Dinner Robert Learn to tea
22 Wednesday wind S clear gethered the Buckets and Drawed in from bush cleaned hungarian seed forenoon Dan split stakes after noon finished Betsey cullver went home
23 thursday wind NW clear cultivated for barley Dan built fence Round corn field
24 fryday wind E clear Drawed stakes forenoon cultivated afternoon Dan built fence Ann to Baleys
25 Saturday wind E Rain snow to the swamp Dan at the fence Randall com home
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26 Sunday wind NW at home D f Moore and wife to Diner. froze at night
27 Monday wind NW clear cold sick with a boil bought a Drag of charlton $20 sold him 4 pigs $20 Dan at fence Randall to belmont gone to D f Moores at night
28 tuesday wind W clear cool sick with a boill Dan at fence. Spot cow had a calf, froze hard at night
29 Wednesday wind N cold sick with a boil Dan at fence forenoon away afternoon Midge hefer had a calf froze hard
30 thursday wind S cloudy Done chores Dan away Lyman Learn and wife here at night
May 1874
1 fryday wind W clear cold cultivated to 2 church Meeting at night got a letter of Dissmissial from the church for me and Ann. Dan away
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2 Saturday wind SW clear to Wiliam Barrs fore noon got a load of hay Borowed to paid Next winter to Belmont after noon got from Dyer $372 ct worth paid him $680 ut let Camble have 2 bags aples $150 malass $127 cts Let frots have Molases $460 D Wagoner 1 bag aples 75 paid Dan away Randall came home at night got from pratts 1 shovel I pail $225
3 Sunday wind E clear to Newsarum to church haycock preached to Lymans to Diner Randall and Jan to 2 church Sler preached Dan away
4 Monday wind E cloudy sowed Barley spring wheat and grass seede in 7 acre field Dan Draged. Randall went to Belmont Jane to Eds put old Doll to Jacksons horse Sent milk of 3 cows to factory
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5 tuesday wind NW clear Draged forenoon cultivated afternoon Dan at fence
6 Wednesday wind NW clear cultivated Dan at fence
7 Thursday wind W SW clear Draged oats in 16 acre field Dan sowed oats
8 fryday wind SW clear warm Draged Dan sowed grass seede Jane came home
9 Saturday wind SW clear warm finished dragging oats Rolled 14 acres Dan at the fence Randall came home at night Pide cow had a calf
10 Sunday wind S warm to Newsarum to church Elder haycock preached Randall and Jane at home to haycocks to Diner
11 Monday wind E clear Rolled 7 acres forenoon Made garden after noon Dan at fence forenoon Drawed old rails for wood after noon Randall to Belmanot
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12 tuesday wind S clear took the calves to the swamp forenoon let Sandy cury have plowed ground to put in hungarian grass for 1/2 worked at fence after noon Dan at fence
13 Wednesday wind N clear fixed fence Dan to help
14 thursday wind E clear plowed corn ground Dan at fence forenoon planted potatos afternoon sold empey calf skins got 4 pails from him Rose cow had a calf
15 fryday wind SE clear plowed corn ground Dan planted potatoes forenoon at fence afternoon
16 Saturday wind W Rain Made 2 gates forenoon plowed corn ground after noon Dan at fence Randalll came home at night
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17 Sunday wind SW Rain to Newsarum to church A Smith preached had comunion. To Lewis cloeses to Diner the horse was sick Randall and Jane at home Dan away in morning
18 Monday wind NE Rain plowed corn ground Dan at fence and put his Mare to Jacksons horse. Randall went to Belmont to work
19 tuesday wind SW clear finished plowing corn ground Rolled and draged dan at fence, turned the colts in litle field
20 Wednesday in SW Rain Draged corn ground Dan at fence
21 Thursday wind NW Rain Draged and Rolled corn ground Dan at fence
22 fryday wind NW clear Marked corn ground planted 52 Roes D f Moore and Dan to help
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23 Saturday wind W clear planted corn Dan to help D Moore helped afternoon. Randall came home at night
24 Sunday wind SW celar at home Randall and Jane to Mapleton Dan away. Rain at night
25 Monday wind W hard finished planting corn Dan helped let John tooly have 1 bushel corn $1 Randall to Belmont
26 tuesday wind W clear plowed in the medowe Dan at fence Let George Smith have 1/4 b corn for 25 cts
27 Wednesday wind S clear plowed in medowe Dan helped Ed Learn saw planted melons at night. to Belmont got from Dyer $403 in goods paid 32 doz eggs $320
28 thursday wind S clear warm sowed corn plnnted beans cucumbers and potatoes Calvin Brown and wife and Mrs Barr and Mrs Hill to diner
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6 Saturday in {Weleascold?}
Cleaned oats 83 bushel
henery to {help?} boy here
Randalf come home at
night. paid Mary 837s
7 Sunday {illegible} Eclear cold
to John Learns to Diner
John cullver here at
night charles an Nih
to johns Randalf home at night
8 Monday {in?} NWclear cold
to Belmont got horses shad {8?}
shoes set at Abotts let
Neuman have 497 {lb 812.42?{42 is written on top of line}}
of flour {82.50 cmy? {written between lines}}. got 2 barles salt 83
pair Boots $2,25 Broon 25 {it?}
colas 15. {Iaginaor?} 10. to Ginos
to faucetts John cullver
with me tnaughtan {in?}
wife an 2 children to ten
Randall home at might
John cullver here
9 tuesday in Wclear cold
to Lyons john cullver
with me Drove pony
Randall Drawed wood to
Lyons. home at night
henery Thnashed oats john
Cullver here at night .
10 Wednesday {in?} SE snow {at night written on top of snow}
to {Avan?} to Diner to
Manetts john cullver with
me. Randall {Dnewed?} wood
to Lyons. henery Thrashed
oats
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11 thursday {in?} W Bhistory {"cold" is written above line}
Done choars henery Thrashed
oats Randall went to
Lyons. john cullver went away with him
18 fryday {in?} Wclear cold
{drawed?} 2 {"1 1/2 cond" is written above line} load of wood
henery Thrashed oats
john Learn john
cullver Nib and chrles
cullver here to Diner
Randall home at night
pony Run away
13 Saturday {in?} Wclear cold
cleaned oats 98 bushel
Randall and henery and
jack and philip cleaned
14 Sunday {in?} NW clear, cold
at home. Df and Ed Moore
to Diner Randall and henery
to Diner
15 Monday {in?} Wclear cold
Drove Dick cold {"e" writem very small}{qcharley?}
henery thrashed oatss
Randall went away
St pettit and wife {qgish?}
and George Smith an wife
and gist to tea
16 tuesday {in} Wclear cold
Drove Dick and chaley
henery Thrashed oats
philip to school
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17 Wednesday in W Blustery {"cold" written above line}
Done choars henery thrase
oats philip to school to
geage {originally "geagel" but the "l" is erased and scratched out} learns at night
John an Robert Learn
to Tea
18 Thursday win W clear cold
to {Pf Moores sald?}. henery
thrashed oats. W Brown
and wife and john Learn
To Diner
19 fryday {in SE?} snow
to Belmont to Mill 10 bush
of wheat get 1 shoe set on
george at Abotts. get 2 {pas?}
Magenty 2oets, condition 25
of Newon. cleaned oats
after 73 bushed henery to
help. henry got his oats 43 4
philip home at night
20 Saturday {in?} Wcloudy {"much" is written smaller and above line}
Done choars. henery cut
wood philip home: here
at night
21 Sunday {in?} Wclear {illegible}
to New sarum To church
haycock preached to
Diner to james Warwicks
philip with us
22 Monday is S thawed {"rain at night" written above the word "thawed"}
to Belmont to mill Let
pots have 100 lb flour {$ 3 m?}
got from Newsnan. {Toets?}
get work to Abotts {yorts?}
paid hostage on 2 papers
to Dyers 40 cts .
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23 Tuesday {in?} E cloudy {Thawed?}
to Belmont took the
Roller to Abott to fine
henery at the wood
philip to school
y cook sessed me for
83350
24 Wednesday {in?} S cloudy {"fog" is written above word "cloudy"}
Done choars henery cut
wood philip To school
25 Thursday {in?} NW cloudy cold
Done choars henery an
Winters cut wood
philip to school. let
Winters have 1 bushel
of oats and a Rooster {at 25?}
26 fryday {in?} N clear cold
Done choars. henery and winters cut wood.
james Warwick and wife to Diner. y Shane called
27 Saturday {in?} NW clear cold
to swamp got posts 28
soldy Shane timber {$?} 4
henery and Winters cut
wood philip away at night
John Learn and wife end {9?} boy to diner
28 Sunday is NW clear cold
to No 7 to church Burk
preached. philip away
Ann at home
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March 1875
1 Monday in E snow {"cold" is written above "snow"} Blustery
Done choars. philip come
home. Robert Learn to dine
henery an winters to, diner
2 tuesday {in?} W clear cold
Done choars philip helped
henery and George Bass
cut wood
3 Wednesday in E snow - {"= very Blustery cold" written above line}{"drift" written above "very Blustery cold"}
Done choars. henery split
wood {fone?} noon philip home
4 Thursday in E clear mild
fisc spiles. Done choars phib
to help henery an {Nonm?}
cut wood after noon
5 fryday in SE snow
to Belmont got from New
man 2 pails and paper ink
for c5 cts. philip Done
choars. {Nonm?} and henery
cut wood fone noon
6 Saturday in W cloudy cold
to Lyons Diner To Randalls
Nonm and henery cut wood
Randall home at night
7 Sunday in E clear
to No 7 to church W
Jackson preached. philip
with me Randall away
at night. Ann home
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8 Monday {in?} W clear mild
to Belmont let Abott have
oats 8 bushel. to y sherks
after father an Mother
here to Diner an. {Degnoat?}
got the house at Lyons.
insured for $400 for three
years for $7.50. ctc {"ctc" written above line}
9 Tuesday an S clear mild
to London with Newon
got carpet from him 48 y {illegible}
for $43 to he paid in oats
at 40 cts per bushel
philip Done choars george
Learn and wife to tea
10 Wednesday {in?} SW clear
to Belmont let Newmon
have 54 bushel of oats 40 {cts?}
per bushel got each $1.00
Ann to {Alas?} finches
henery split wood {"at night" written below line}
11 Thursday {in?} SE cloudy Rain
to john cullvers funeral
Norman henery cut
wood philip Done choars
12 fryday {in?} S clear thawed
to Belmont let Newon have
oats 49 bushel {"40 ct" above "bushel"} and 200 feet
boards $2,40 got Talow 11 lb
thead 1/2 lb tacks 6 packs.
let Menite have 5 bushel
oats $1.95. W jackson
and wife to Diner and tea
Noam and henery cut wood
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13 Saturday and S clear thaw
Done choars. philip home
Nonm an henery cut
wood. let Norm have
oats 20 bushel fon $8.00
Randall home at night
14 Sunday {in?} S Thawed main
to No 7 to church Burk
preached Randall an
Sarah ann Legg to
DIner and tea philip
away
15 Monday {in?}{"high water" written above line} S Rain fogy
to st thomas took out of Merchants Bank $413
to Dine to Lymans
henery Done choars
philip away. got Deed
on Record
16 Tuesday {in?} SW snow {"cold blustery" written above "snow"}
Done choars y smith here
philip came home
17 Wednesday {in?} W snow {"cold" written above line} Blustery
to Lyons paid fuliton
for Ty Putnam $352. {illegible} 5
took up Notes. To johns to jack and philip sawed
wood
18 Thursday {in?} W clear cold
cut wood Drawed in 3
load. jack helped to cut
philip helped Draw
jack went away at 3
oclock
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19 fryday {in?} E clear {"mild" writtn above line}
to Belmont got home from New
an $2,10 {illegible word on top of line} got Toller freed
to Abotts $5.50 {illegible}
philip Done choars
20 Saturday {illegible} N snow {"cold Blurery" written on top}
Done choars to george Learns
in the eveng Randall
with us philip went
home at night
21 Sunday {illegible} W clear
To john Learns To Diner
Randall home herbert
an William Learn here
at night philip here
22 Monday {illegible} NW clear
fiseed for sugars jack to help and philip Randall
event to Lyons
23 Tuesday {illegible} SE clear
Took the Buckets to Bush
fone noon jack and philip
to help Drawed wood 7 cond
after philip To help
jack cut wood after
24 Wednesday {in?} NW snow {"Blustery" written on top of "snow"}
Done choars philip helped
Jack away
25 Thursday {in?} SE clear
To Belmont to Mill 26 boats
drawed wood 5 cont after
johm Learn an famely
ad sam Legg ad wife to tea
get cheese money $35.50 {illegible}
had {cbne?} $10
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26 fryday {in?} SW Rain
to Belmont got chop let
Warden have bag Aples {"75~" written on top of "Aples"}
taper 121 trees in Bush
William Barr an wife
and child to tea
Randall home at night
27 Saturday {in?} NW clear
finished Tapin Bush 205
Trees Burned out kittes
Randall home. to {sane?}
leggs to tea
28 Sunday in SS clear thawed
to No 1 Burk preached
Randall home on philip
29 Monday {in?} S clear Thawed
gethered sap an Boiled 4 {tsps?}
philip and Alvin sites
to help Alvin Sites
come to work for $2.,00
per month
30 Tuesday in S clear {illegible}
worked in Bush {suriped?}
Dawn gethered 2 1/2 tubs
of sap and boiled Alvin
To help Ann sugared of
31 Wednesday {in?} S clear warm
to cheese meeting fone noon
Norm took job Drawing
milk for $ 1C0. cut wood
afeter Alvin To help
Aga Winters To Diner
Ann sugared of $1 lb
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April 1875
1 Thursday in S Rain
gethered and Boiled sap 2 {tsps?}
alvin to help the sow
had 10 pigs
2 fryday {in?} NW cloudy
gethered sap 1 tub boiled
Alvin to help
Ann made Molases 5 gals
3 Saturday {in?} S clear
fixed Roller put meet to
smoke Done choars
Alvin choared
Randall home at night
4 Sunday {in?} N clear
at home Randall home
cullver finch to diner
5 Monday {in?} {"SE" written on top} N clear warm
gethered and boiled sap 3 {ts?}
Alvin to help coneneed
to plow
6 Tuesday {in?} E cloudy
plowed Alvin cleaned
stables Mrs Winters
to help Ann quilt
Made Molases 50 lb
7 Wednesday {in?} E cloudy {"sleet" written on top of "cloudy"}
plowed Alvin choared
Randall took Dick colt
to Lyons. sold the pony {"85" written on top of "pony"} $.
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8 Thursday {in?} S clear {"warm" written on top of "clear"}
plowed {Mvin?} Boiled
sap Edwin cullver
and Mother to Diner
Lyman and Randall
here at night
Let phileman have 1 bu {"eom" written above}
9 fryday {in?} SW clear
plowed. phileman at
hen pen Alvin choared
Mother to tea
10 Saturday {in?} SW clear
plowed phileman 1/2 day
at her pen Norm and
Alvin in Bush Mother
to diner. Randall home
at night. Let Ancha
Mcolum have bag of corn
11 Sunday in E clear
to 2 church Lynce {pmeache?}
Alvin home Randall
at home. Nety Learn
here at night
Rose cow had a calf
12 Monday {in?} E clear
plowed fone noon cultivate
after phileman at pen {"l" scratched out}
Alvin choared. Mother
and father to Breakfast
Mother to diner
13 Tuesday in E cloudy
Done choars let Norm have
Barley 10 bushel. phileman {"day" written on top of "phileman"} 1/2
Elder Lyce {between the y and c of "Lyce" the letters "on" are added in pencil} To diner. other
To diner. lill cow had calf
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14 Wednesday {in?} SW clear
plowed phileman an
Alvin Boiled sap
Ann laid carpet up
stairs Randall home
at night got 7 hens
15 Thursday {in?} {"after noon" written on top} S Rain
sowed Barley 8 bushel
Norm sowed it
Norm and wife to Diner
Mother To diner and tea
phileman at her 1?2 day
16 fryday {in?} NW cold snow
to Belmont got charley
shod 4 shoes 1 new to
Abbotts let john Learn
have 10 bushel Barley
Mother john ad {Ed?} to
tea Alvin chared.
17 Saturday {in?} W snow {"cold" written above "snow"}
Done choars let phileman
have hag 125 lb $8.75 cts
boards 26 feet 26 cts
Randall home at night
18 Sunday {in?} NW cloudy {"cold" written above "cloudy"}
To 2 church Lynce preache
Randall {and?} Sarah Ann
Legg to tea. Nub {"a calf" written on top} cord had
19 Monday {in?} W cloudy snow
to the swamp Norm {"felt" is erased}
fetched hosts fon me 1/2 day
Alvin huske corn
Mother here Norm to diner Ann washed
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20 Tuesday {in?} N clear {"cold" written above "clear"}
Done choars Ann
White washed. pide com
had a calf. Witers and
wife and Duglass to tea
21 Wednesday in N clear {"cold" written above "clear"}
to Belmont fone noon
Alvin husked conn
Mother here
22 Thursday {in?} N clear
fixed fence Alvin tohelp Phileman at pen
let hin have flour 33 lb
let Abbott have oats 9 1/2
bushel traded calves with Edwin
23 fryday {in?} SWNE {"at night" written above "SWNE"} snow
plowed afternoon Alvin
husked corn phileman
finished hen pen his
wife here to tea Mrs
winters here To help Ann
24 Saturday in NW cloudy {"cold" written above "cloudy"}
To Belmont got from
Newon 20 lb sugar 2 yds
carpet. phileman boiled
sap Alvin To help.
Randall home at night
25 Sunday {in?} W clear
to 2 church with us john
Learn and wife To tea
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26 Monday {in?} NW clear
plowed phileman ad
Alvin boiled sap in
Bush. Let george Learn
have 25 bushel of oats
{for?} 45 cts per bushel $11.25
to be paid first cheese
sale. Shot cow had calf
27 Tuesday {in?} E clear
cultivated {originally "cultivater" but changed "r" to "d"} for oats ad
sowed 1 bushel. phileman
and Alvin in the bush
Ann boiled Molases
Dawn {the "n" in "Dawn" is smudged} 4 1/2 galons
28 Wednesday {in?} S clear
Draged {"oats" is inserted later} Alvin To help
Norm sowed oats 16 be
Ed Weslake ad wife to teea
29 Thursday {in?} W high Rain
Rolled fallwheat Ann
put Dawn carpet in parler
30 fryday {in?} SW clear
plowed for corn. Randall
and jack to tea
{"May 1875" written in big letters}
1 Saturday {in?} E Rain had
comenced To send
Milk To factory to Belmont
from G cows Alvin went
home at night gave
{jiney?} Aple fond a calf
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2 Sunday {in?} NW {"cold" written above} snow
At home Randall
home to diner alvin
come back
3 Monday {in?} SW clear
To Belmont let Newon
have Molases 4 gel 8 lb
let Odle have honey 19
lb eggs 38 1/4 Doz got
from him goods $10.8 {bs?}
helpe Norm Draw load
of hay from fergesons
Randall home at night
4 Tuesday {in?} NWSW clear
Withe phileman to station
for his dog fone noon
plowed after the lurkey
set
5 Wednesday {in?} SW Rain
plowed Alvin choared
paid by order $2...00 To
Mrs Cites for Alvins
work. phileman at fence
6 Thursday in NW {"cool" written above} clear {fros?}
finished plowing sod
Drawed in things from
the Bush Alvin to help
phileman at fence
Aga helped Ann
7 fryday {in?} E cloudy frost
fisced posts for fence
phileman at fence
Aga helped Ann
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8 Saturday {in?} SW clear {"ward" written above}
Done choars set Bery.
{Bushres?} Alvin went
home at night.
Randall home at night
Midge cow had a calf
phileman at fence {"day" written on top} 1/2
9 Sunday{in?} SW Rain
To New {Sarwm?} to church
Slaycock preached
to haycocks to diner
10 Monday {in?} W Rain
Done choars let Dun
can taylor have 2 bu
shel of Barley $1.80
gave j cope a calf
Alvin come at noon
Randall home at night
11 Tuesday {in?} SW Rain
Done choars set onions
Alvin helped went
home at night
. Randall went to Lyons
12 Wednesday {in?} NW Rain
Done choars let Albott
have 2 bushel of oats
Alvin away
13 thursday {in? SW clear}
set onions fore noon
Alvin to help sowed
peas and Draged after
Norm sowed bushel
fone me
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14 fryday {in?} SE Rain
husked corn finished
Alvin set strawbry
plants Randall home
15 Saturday {in?} NW clear
Sowed peas Norm sowed
Randall helped to drag Alvin set strawberys
set Duck Eggs 11
16 Sunday {in?} N clear
to {Newsarum?} to church
Hacock preached to
Diner to Lymans
17 Monday {in?} SW clear
plowed corn {gnawnd?}
fone noon Draged oats
for Norm after noon
Randall took trees an
wood to Lyons with
charley ad Dick
18 tuesday {in?} NW clear
plowed corn {gnownd?} and
cultivated for potatoes
Alvin planted potatoes
helped Norm to plow
after noon phileman
at fenece. Let john have
a bushel of potatoes
19 Wednesday {in?} SW clear
Drage corn grownd fore {onod? written on top}
to Belmont after got from
Odle {$5.c6?} w paid $7.75
Randall with us. Alvin
planted potatoes.
star {"star" is crossed out with pencil marking} cow to Bull
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20 thursday {in?} SW clear
took 6 cattle to the swamp
marke corn {gnound?}
Rolled the peas
Alvin to help
Brown cow had a calf
21 fryday {in?} SW Rain
planted corn Rolled
the Barley Alvin to
help {phrase written and scratched out in pencil "$11 cheese noey"?}
22 Saturday {in?} SW clear {"hot" written above line}
to Belmont let Odle have
potatoes 7. 3/4 bushed 83 cts
per bushel to johns after
tea Mother and Belsey
here Alvin choared
took 4 bushel wheat
to mill got from Odle
shingle nails 50 lb $250
23 Sunday {in?} SW clear
to New Sarum to
church hackock preache
to Lymans to DIner
james Learn an wife
Randall and Sarah Ann
Legg to tea here
pad to Newcoml $4.00
24 Monday in S clear hot
Draged for Milet Alvin
away. tured the sow
from The pigs
25 Tuesday {in?} NW clear hot
sowed Millet Alvin
helped drag. let Mrs cites
potatoes 2 bushel. h Brat
got them
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26 Wednesday {in?} E clear
Rolled oats Alvin choard
Randall home at night
27 thursday {in?} E clear to spring field 10 {Aylmu?}
to Orwell. to peter
Charltons to Diner
got a Bolt of coton 44 yd
got curtens an wimcy
to Aylmer $15.5 cts
28 fryday {in?} S clear to Belmont got pete
shod 4 shoes set to Abotts
let hooved have 3 golons
of Molases $3, co {"cte" written above} let Odle
have 16 1/2 Doz eggs got
from him $4.05 cts
planted Beans {Tumnd?}
out the Bull
29 Saturday {in?} N Rain {"in morning" written above}
to Orwell got shingles
from Wicket 8000
for $2.80 cts per 1000
planted cucumbers
took the sow to Boar
30 Sunday {in?} SW clear
to gladstone church {Lymce?}
preached. Ann home
Randall and Sarah Ann
Legg and Bub to tea
gave W Barr $3.00 to pay insurance
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31 Monday {in?} SW clear
to Orwell got shingles
from Wicket 7000 1/3 paid
him $42..00 slub cow had
a calf. W tansley an wife
here at night Randall home
{"June 1875" written in big letters}
1 tuesday {in?} S clear
to kings mill with oats
sold to Steeple for 45 cts
got $35.25 cts tanslet
with me. plated Beets and Melons. {"tel" smudged}
let Norm have 5 bushel
of oats at 45 cts
Randall home tansley
an wife to Diner went away
2 Wednesday {in?} S clear
to George Leggs. Randall
Maried to Sarah Ann
Legg E Shepard maried
them they went to
Waterford. Rain at night
3 thursday {in?} W clear
sowed oats on the {wheetd?}
Calista here. Elder
Rowlan to Diner
4 fryday {in?} S clear
to Belmont ordered
a scraper of Eler {scratched out writing}
Mckelon for the Road
let Odle have 8 3/4 doz eggs
got 1/2 lb starch and chees meg
$11.00
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5 Saturday {in?} S cloudy {"Rain" written above}
to springfield for Randall an wife fone
noon planted over
corn after noon
6 Sunday {in?} S clear
to Disiple church Shepard
preached. to Leggs to
DIner Randall an wife
to tea here father
an Mother here at night.
7 Monday {in?} W cloudy
to john Mckelons funeral
had a infair party for
Randall. george Legg
and wife Sam and wife
Charles and Mary Shepard
father an Mother
an M {Udle?}. janes
Learn and wife here
and John Learn and wife and Robert
8 tuesday {in?} W clear
Worked Road. James
Baley to Diner
Alvin hoed potatoes
Let father have 2 bushel
of oats 90 cts
9 Wednesday {in?} W clear
Worked the Road Norm
had charley. sold calf shin
for 60, cts Randall and wife
home at night. Spot
cow to. Bull.
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23 fryday WD {wind} SW clear Drawed wood frank to help. To Belmont got from Odle 12 glass jars and ties Vraces $2,75cts let Odle have 7 dov eggs
24 Satruday WD {wind} S clear to georges ground ciktes Calvin Brown and wife here to diner and tea
25 Sunday WD {wind} S clear to 2 church Lynce preached to W Barrs to Diner frank with us. Bronns these
26 Monday WD {wind} S Rain cut Round the wheat farnk to help. Stewarts picked chryes on shares
27 Tuesday WD {wind} W clear cut and bound wheat franks to help Randall and wife here at night
28 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear Bound wheat frank to help. Randall cut wheat. went home at night
29 Thursday WD {wind} W clear cut barley. frank bound wheat. To Belmont To see Dr Cline he was sick <s>$20 chese money</s>
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30 fryday WD {wind} NW clear Raked and put up barley frank and Lew to help To Belmont at night
31 Satruday WD {wind} E clear Raked and put up whet frank to help frank To Belmont got sash. 60cts To Odles he helped Norm after noon. William Learn here at night
== August 1875 ==
1 Sunday WD {wind} E Rain To 2 church Lynce preached james shirk and wife to diner here. frank to Eds at night
2 Monsday WD {wind} E cloudy Rain picked cheryes frank lame DR Daniel Cline died
3 Tuesday WD {wind} E Rain Done choars frank lame Norm and john Doan to Diner Randall and wife here at night
4 Wednesday WD {wind} W clear To Dr Clines funeral Randall and wife with us to Randalls To diner frank with us Rain at night
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5 Thursday WD {wind} S clear To Belmont To Mill 20 bushel to chop got from Odle 1 pair boots for frank $2..50. picked cheryes after
6 fryday WD {wind} W Rain Down with a lame back frank choared
7 Satrday WD {wind} W Rain To Belmont got grists let Odle have egg 16 /12 dz helon and Nety Learns To Tea
8 Sunday WD {wind} W clear To 2 church pro Crawford preached. john and Mrs Walice here to diner frank home. here at night
9 Monday WD {wind} SW clear too a load of chees 34 To Dorechston station fore noon drawed in Barley after and killed 2 pigs let Hoover have 400lb for $32..00
10 Tuesday WD {wind} SW clear Drawed in Barley and wheat frank to help
11 Wednesday WD {wind} E W Rain finished drawing in wheat and Barley frank to help
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12 Thursday WD {wind} S clear comenced to cut oats Randall to diner he got old Bounce from Norm.he Baroue the bugey. frank helpe in ots
13 fryday WD {wind} S clear cut oats frank To help hired jack to help To Belmont got cheese Mpney $28 got umbela from Odle $1.25cts Randall and wife here
14 Satruday WD {wind} S Rain cut oats john H fadon barg and frank to help Randall To London here at night frank away at night
15 Sunday WD {wind} S clear To 2 church Dr crawford preached. Randall and wife with us frank away. Randalls went home
16 Monday WD {wind} NW Rain To Belmont got horses shod 8 shoes set to Abbotts got from Odle box Teaslb 1 lb Tobacoe for $3.85cts finished cuting oats frank to help
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17 Tuesday WD {wind} W clear rain at night cut Millet fore noon Bound oats after frank to help. frank went home at night
18 Wednesday WD {wind} W Rain cut Millit. To Belmont Randall got his bugey from Dewaur $100 Randall and wife to diner
19 Thursday WD {wind} W Rain To the swamp Mrs Troughton and hall to tea
20 fryday WD {wind} S Rain Raked and put up the millet frank to help Will Mandaville and Tom Sin cleas here at night
21 Satruday WD {wind} SW Rain finished puting up Millet Alvin to help frank went home paid him $4..00
22 Sunday WD {wind} N clear To 2 chruch j A Baldwin preached Norm and wife with us LYda hill here at night
23 Monday WD {wind} E clear helped Norm Bind wheat
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24 Tuesday WD {wind} E clear To the swamp to help Sandy cury thrash had to my share 40 bushel wheat and 18 of oats Eder j A Baldwin and girl to dine Ann gave him $1..00 for chruch
25 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear To Lyons got Randall to help Draw in oats Randall and wife here
26 Thrusday WD {wind} S clear Drawee in oats finished Randall to help drawed in Millet Ann <s>3 load</s>to help. 3 load Randall went home noon Ann to Belmont eggs 23 1/3 got sugar $4.36 and 20
27 fryday WD {wind} S clear Drawed in Millet 6 load charles cline to help
28 satruday WD {wind} S clear Drawed in milit 5 load 1 peas cullver finch and charles Cline to help. W hill and wife here at night. let L Tibetts have peas 2 /12 bushel
29 Sunday WD {wind} S clear To 2 chruch Lynce preached Randall and wife to Diner Dick run away. charley stayed at home
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30 Monday WD {wind} W clear Raked peas forenoon Drawed in 3 load after Charles cline to helpp
31 Tuesday WD {wind} S clear Raked peas fore noon helped finches Thrash charles cline to help Ann To Randalls after noon Randall and wife here at night
== September 1875 ==
1 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear helped finches thrash with Team and 2 henus got telegram from philip cullver that Margret was sick Mrs Fawcett and Mrs Odle here to tea jesa Roberts come to work
2 Thursday WD {wind} S Rain Drawed in peas charles and randall to help comeenced to plow Ann went to Simcoe Randall and wife here at night
3 fryday WD {wind} S Rain plowed chales choard carah Ann here Randall here at night
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4 Satruday WD {wind} N clear Drawed peas finished charles cline to help got a letter from Ann Randall and wife went home
5 Sunday WD {wind} S clear To 2 chruch ly preached james Learn and wife here to diner Randall and wife here. Rain at night
6 monday WD {wind} N clear plowed paid charles cline $3..00 sent him away
7 Tuesday WD {wind} S clear plowed. the men put up the gate charle came back
8 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear plowed fore noon went to Bloomsburgh to philip<s>s</s> cullvers after to philips at night
9 Thursday WD {wind} S Rain at night came home fore noon plowed after
10 fryday WD {wind} N clear plowed charley choared killed the turkey
11 Satruday WD {wind} E clear plowed Randall and wife here at night
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12 Sunday WD {wind} S cloudy cool To New sarum to church haycock preached
13 Monday WD {wind} S clear plowed. charley cho<s>ard</s>
14 Tuesday WD {wind} S clear plowed finished all draged after noon charles choared Henert Moore to diner
15 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear sowed Wheat 8 bushl Draged charley drged
16 Thursday WD {wind} Rain cleaned wheat cut oats
17 fryday WD {wind} N clear cool snow sowed wheat 20 {written above} Norm sowed after noon charles cline draged
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18 Satruday WD {wind} W clear finished the wheat dragin Drawed in oats 2 load charley to help
19 Sunday WD {wind}E rain at home Randall an wife called
20 Monday WD {wind} W squals fixed Barn and granery killed a pig charley to help. the sow hag 6 pigs
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21 Luesday WD {wind} NW cloudy cool helped Norm Thrash with team 1/2 day helped all day and charley to help
22 Wednesday WD {wind} N clear Thrashed for Norm Team and charley fore noon. for my self after limlea Norm shirk frank p Bass Rob Alven Baxter boy g finch j fergeson j Doan N McTaget to help
23 Thursday WD {wind} NS clear Thrashed <s>2</s>90 oats 104 peas. Doan and fergeson Thrashed. limber while Rob finch shirk Norm Alve To help To john Deniss at night he was kicked by a horse paid fergeson $16.84
24 fryday WD {wind} W clear cut corn. Shirk painted Ed culver here to diner and tea. sent a grist to mill with Norm 6 let limber have 4 bus hel of wheat. $4..00
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25 Satruday WD {wind} W Rain Cut clover charles choa sold old Bounce marl To Marshel for $25.00 to be paid in six month shirk painted 1/2 day
26 Sunday WD {wind} N&S clear To 2 chruch Lynce preached Randall and wife to tea
27 Monday WD {wind} W clear cut clover and raked charley and limber to help after noon shirk painted
28 Tuesday WD {wind} E clear cut clover finished cutting put up limber and Charley to help after noon
29 Wednesday WD {wind} E clear To Belmont got cheese money $40.00 got boots from Der $3.50. got horse shod 4 shoes set to Abbotts. Raked clover after noon fiished limber and charley to help fetched Randalls bugy home
30 Thursday WD {wind} W cloudy Dug potatoes charley to help shirk painted Ann went to Randalls took flour and bugy To Randall
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== October 1875 ==
1 fryday WD {wind} NE & NW clear Drawed in 7 loadover charles to help. shirk painted
2 Saturday WD {wind} W clear Drawed in clover 7 load charles and william Barber To help Barber an boy. to diner. Randall and wife here at night
3 Sunday WD {wind} S clear To 2 church 1/2 past 2 orlod Lynce preached. Mother here to diner
4 Monday WD {wind} S clear finished the clover took in the Beans set up the corn charles To help shirk painted
5 Tuesday WD {wind} E cloudy to Belmont got george shod 2 shoes To Abbotts got from Dyer $1 shug and 25cts Bisket let him have eggs 22 doz {unknow character} 8 Lynce and wife here at night got chees money $28
6 Wednesday WD {wind} W Rain to john Learns Mother here at night
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7 Thursday WD {wind} W clear Drawed Manure 7 load shirk painted charley choared. Mother here
8 fryday WD {wind} SW Rain drawd Manure 5 load shirk finished paiting I paid him $48.00 Took him home charles choared. froze
9 Satruday WD {wind} SE clear killed a pig. 89lb Drawed Manure 7 load Randall Took a load of wood home. charles cho
10 Sunday WD {wind} cloudy To 2 church Randall and wife and chrles Legg with us Lynce preached charles cline here
11 Monday WD {wind} N snow squals Drawed Manure fore noon 4 load To Sam Leggs Raison after. Charles cline went away paid him $1,,50
12 <s>Drawed</s> Tuesday WD {wind} N clear Drawed Manure 3{or 2} load forenoon to Lyons show after To Randalls To diner
13 Wednesday WD {wind} W clear to Aylmer show judge on horses. To Randalls to tea
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14 Thursday WD {wind} SW clear Drawed Manure 7 load
15 fryday WD {wind} W Rain Done choars
16 Satruday WD {wind} N cloudy cool To Belmont got petete shod 4 shoes set to Abotts got from Dyer 6 galons lamp oil 21 per galon $168 1/2 Tobacoe 25cts picked aples 6 buckel George Legg and wife to Diner. Reped the horses in stable
17 Sunday WD {wind} SW Rain snow at home. lame back
18 Monday WD {wind} N clear plowed in wheat feild limber picked Aples 1/4 of day. Randall and wife here at night Randall gave me $65.00 for Deumaw
19 Tuesday WD {wind} W clear plowed limber spread manure 1/2 day. Randall took boards down to lyons
20 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear plowed.
21 Thursday WD {wind} SW clear plowed
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22 fryday WD {wind} S clear finished plowing in wheat feild Drawed 6 load manure 3 pumkins limber3/4 day. paid to Dewmaw $65,,00 for Randall
23 Satruday WD {wind} S clear picked Aples. Tibets paid for Randall $13..00
24 Sunday WD {wind} S clear to New sarum to church haycock preached To haycocks To Diner. Randal and wife here at night
25 Monday WD {wind} NE cloudy plowed. sold C hoaver 3 catle for $45,00 he paid $15.00 took 1 away Randall took old charley
26 Tuesday WD {wind} W Rain fore noon plowed after noon
27 Wednesday WD {wind} W cool plowed Randall Tool a load of hay home Pete putnam fixed the pump, 37cts paid
28 Thursday WD {wind} S clear plowed Randall Drawe wood 2 home
29 fryday WD {wind} E Rain plowed. Randall tto diner hoove to white heifer paid $17,00
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30 Saturday WD {wind} W squals finished plowing oat feild paid taxes $19.77 stoped to send milk to factory
31 Sunday WD {wind} W snow Blustry at home put cows in the stable at night
== November 1875 ==
1 Monday WD {wind} W cloudy To Belmont To mill 24 lb oats to chop. got cheese money $25,,00 paid Dyer $10.49 got 2 box salt. $2,20 litle john paid $5.00 hoover paid $10.00 took the young heifer away gave order to hawks for a suit of clother for $24.00
2 Tuesday WD {wind} SW clear DOne choars. john Luton and wife here to diner john Learns called at night
3 Wednesday WD {wind} E cloudy Opned Dilches sold jackson 2 pigs $16.00
4 Thursday WD {wind} N clear To Belmont got chop let Dyer have eggs 5 doz got capet 6 6 yds for 7 1/2 b of wheat. selled with
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Abbot paid him $8.24 jackson took the pigs away let creaner have 2 bags Aples $1,00
5 fryday WD {wind} N clear Drawe in corn. Ann to Lyons To Randalls Randall here to diner
6 Satruday WD {wind} S clear To Belmont let Dyer have wheat 8 bushel 28lb got 5lb nials 25{witten above} 1 condition powder 25{wirtten above} hald lb Tobacoe 30{wirtten above} file 10 butons 6
7 Sunday WD {wind} E clear to 2 church Lynce preached Henery finch and wife here in the evening To Tea
8 Monday WD {wind} E cloudy took in selor potatoes 48 bushel Elder haycock to diner father and mother here at night
9 Tuesday WD {wind} E clear tok in beets and cabage took the sox to Baxter plowed after noon Randall took a load of wood father and mother went to Eds and Notmgh
10 wednesday WD {wind} SW Rain Done choars. pain inn my side at night
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11 Thursday WD {wind} SW clear plowed fore noon husked corn after noon
12 fryday WD {wind} SW clear Done choars. Took a note from Norm. for $10 To be paid in 8 month Mother here To diner Randall fetched the horse home.
13 Satruday WD {wind} N storm To philips To diner Randall and wife and Ida putnam here at night
14 Sunday WD {wind} NE snow at home father and Mother To diner Norm and wife in the evening
15 Monday WD {wind} SW cloudy Done choars james smith paid $6..00for timber by jack
16 Tuesday WD {wind} NW snow Blustery Done choars. Mother here to diner
17 Wednesday WD {wind} NW snow 1 foot Done choars. john Learn and wife Robert Arney and Omer To Tea
18 Thursday WD {wind} S cloudy DOne choars sent a letter to philip cullvers
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19 fryday WD {wind} S clear DOnne choars killed a pig waid 116lb made a broom Norm helped to to kill the pig
20 Satruday WD {wind} S clear to Randalls plowed his garden fetched home potatoes from Randalls
21 Sunday WD {wind} N clear To 2 church <s>&</s> Lynce preached philip Learn here at night. cold
22 Monday WD {wind} E clear cold done choars
23 Tuesday WD {wind} SW cloudy Rain helped Randall draw logs for wood Randall and wife Ida and Lynce and wif here at night
24 Wednesday WD {wind} N clear helped Randall Draw leogs charles Legg helped let J Lynce have $60..00 Randall and wife went home at night
25 Thursday WD {wind} E clear to st Thomas got from Cary goods $ .60cts got photographs takin got Randalls and wife paid $7.00 pihlip done choars
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To fathers To diner got a Rooster from him
26 fryday WD {wind} SW Rain Done choars philip To help D F Moore here to tea
27 Satruday WD {wind} W clear Thrashed Beans philip To help Randall and wife here at night
28 Sunday WD {wind} SW snow Rain at home. Randall and wife went home fore noon philip here
29 Monday WD {wind} N cold DOne choars. philip wne thome. got the Dryed aples from Norms
30 Tuesday WD {wind} E cold snow To Belmont got cheese Money $25,,00 got from pots stove back and 2 leds $1,25
== December 1875 ==
1 Wednesday WD {wind} E cloudy Done coars. Randall and wife here at night. line one Befalow skin
Thursday WD {wind} E clear To Belmont let R Nickle have 2 1/4 bushel Beans and Abott 2 bushel got from Dyer goods $3.17 cts Randall and charley Leggs sawed wood after noon
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3 fryday WD {wind} S clear helped Randall and charley saw fore noon. choaed after got the bobs framed Norm gave up his 2 notes $26.. Balance back on notes $2..50 cts. Randall and wife went home after noon lmber fixed hen pen
4 Saturday WD {wind} SE cloudy Done choars. went to john Learns got beef 13lb
5 Sunday WD {wind} E Rain at home
6 Monday WD {wind} E Rain fogy Done choars. To EV Learn in the evening To tea
7 Tuesday WD {wind} SE Rain killed 5 hogs EV 3 hogs Norm and ed To help philip here at night
8 Wednesday WD {wind} S & N cloudy cut up the hogs and salted philip choared hogs wait.. 268lb 4,,154lb
9 Thursday WD {wind} NW cold To Belmont got charley shod 4 shoes set the Abbots got from Dyer 1 Doz plates $1,50. sinemen 20 Randall and charley sawed john Learn and wife to diner chirk To diner diner to j Blacks
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10 fryday WD {wind} W cloudy To help Dan Baxter thrash philip done choars husked corn. Norm and wife here in the evening
11 Satruday WD {wind} SW snow helped Baxter thrash fore noon. To Belmont after got esons from Dyer 10 cts philip Done choars
12 Sunday WD {wind} S cloudy at home Edward Learn here and philip
13 Monday WD {wind} N snow blustry Done choars philip choard Ed here at night
14 Tuesday WD {wind} W snow Went to sTthomas to court grand jurer To chastes Learn at night
15 Wednesday WD {wind} S thawed To court to chasles Learn at night
16 Thursday WD {wind} W cold snow To court To W cullvers at night
17 fryday WD {wind} W cold To court got pay $7.60cts home at night
18 Satruday WD {wind} W cold DOne choars traded with Norm Drag for a calf charles legg sawed.
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19<s>Sun</s>day WD {wind} NE clear cold at home philip went home
20 Monday WD {wind} S clear mild To Avon got 200 feet boards Rented the swam lot to Sandy cury for one year for $35.. to be paid in lumber
21 Tuesday WD {wind} S Rain thawed Done choars. Randall took a load of wood
22 Wednesday WD {wind} SW clear husked corn finished
23 Thursday WD {wind} N clear Done choars. Norm and wife here in the evening To tea.
24 fryday WD {wind} E Rain sleet DOne choars. Cury fetched the Bell colt home to me
25 Saturday WD {wind} N cloudy DOne choars. Geroge Legg and wife Randall and wife ed and philip Learn here To diner Randall at night
26 Sunday SE Rain heavy at home. Randall and wife went home
27 Monday WD {wind} SE clear Done choars. EDs wife here in the evening
28 Tuesday WD {wind} SE clear Done choars.
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29 Wednesday WD {wind} SE clear Done choars. had lame side
30 Thursday WD {wind} SE clear, warm DOne choars. Billy Barns cut his foot. S Done it up
31 fryday WD {wind} SW clear warm Done choars. Randall fetched Dick horse home henery Sticks to Diner
== Janruary 1876 ==
1 Satruday WD {wind} S clear warm So the horses sweat in stable to George Leggs To diner Randall and wife. sak and wife and D F Moore there to diner
2 Sunday WD {wind} SW clear warm at home To Norms in the evening paid her $1
3 Monday WD {wind} SW clear warm cooler Done choars.
4 Tuesday WD {wind} NE clear cold Done choars got from john Learn 68lb beef and 20lb Tallow $3,25cts john and philip and Arney To Tea
5 Wednesday WD {wind} S rain warm Done choars
6 Thursday WD {wind} N cloudy cold Done choars got from john Learn 60lb flour they called
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7 fryday WD {wind} SW clear To Belmot to cheese meeting. got $4.36 chees money. sent for paper paid $1.60 ct
8 Satruday WD {wind} S cloudy warm Done choars. Norm com enced to cut logs for wood
9 Sunday WD {wind} S Rain warm at home all day
10 Monday WD {wind} NW cold To Belmont got a suit of clother from hawkins for $24,,00 Norm cut logs for wood
11 Tuesday WD {wind} W clear cold Done choars. Norm cut logs 1/2 dat
12 Wednesday WD {wind} NW snow squals Done choars
13 Thursday WD {wind} NW clear cold To help galaton finch thrash with team Randall and dick{written below} took a load of wood
14 fryday WD {wind} SW cloudy cold to help galaton finch thrash with team
15 Saturday WD {wind} SW cloudy Done choars Norm at logs W Roberts To help him
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16 Sund<s>day</s> WD {wind} SW clear at home
17 Monday WD {wind} SW clear warm Thrashed peas with the horses
18 Tuesday WD {wind} S rain warm Thrashed peas finished Norm and wife here To tea Norm sold to out to D f Moore for $510..,
19 Wednesday WD {wind} W cloudy at night cold helped Norm kill a hog fore noon cleaned 21 bushe peas after Norm To help. Lewis Simpson to diner
20 Thursday WD {wind} W clear cold DOne choars.. To lynces EW Learn and wife here in the evening
21 fryday WD {wind} E clear cold To Belmont got from Dyer 1/2 lb Tobacoe 1/2 lb soda 35cts Sam Legg and wife and Boy here in evening To tea comencd on buter jar
22 Saturday WD {wind} E cloudy To Belmont To mill 10 1/2 bush wheat got jar mustard to Diner To Lewis Simpson
23 Sunday WD {wind} N cloudy at home. Robert called
24 Monday WD {wind} N cloudy cold Done choars to EV Learns in the evening. let Limber have job to mak box $1,50
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25 Tuesday WD {wind} NW cloudy snow To Belmont got the colts shod To Abbotts 4 new and 4 old set got Nails 5lb To dyers
26 Wednesday WD {wind} SW cleare choars. Mrs Winters To Diner. Rain at night
27 Thursday WD {wind} SW clear warm DOne choars. Lynce To diner and paid Note $60.00 Randall fetched oats 40 bushel and took a load of wood home
28 fryday WD {wind} SE Rain warm Done choars
29 Saturday WD {wind} SW cold To Belmont Took wagon box to Abbott to iron got limber 25cts sugar and half lb tobacoe. paid Hawkins $24 for clothes left a pictor To Bons To frame
30 Sunday WD {wind} SW clear To No 7 To church Dyer preached To georges to diner
31 Monday WD {wind} S clear Done choars. To Alack Stewarts To tea in evening
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== February 1876 ==
1 Tuesday WD {wind} SW snow Done choars. Randall took a load of wood home here to diner
2 Wednesday WD {wind} NW blustery snow Done choars. To finshes in evening To tea
3 Thursday WD {wind} SW snow took load of wood for Randall he took 2 Billy 1 Archa Taylor here at night
4 fryday WD {wind} NW clear To Belmont with wood for Norm. Randall took wood 1 load Billy 1 load Archa Taylor here at night
5 Saturday WD {wind} S clear To Belmont let Dyer have butter 45 3/4 48 cts for goods Archa cut Down trees Randall and wife here a night charley legg and Bily took a load of wood
6 Sunday WD {wind} S thawed warm To New sarum To church Haycock preached To diner To haycocks. Rol and Ed and philip and herby Learn here to tea
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7 Monday WD {wind} SW clear To harietsville paid the insurance $# 80/100 paid Taxes on swamp $3.00 To shirks in evening To Tea Tilda came with us
8 Tuesday WD {wind} S clear warm Skided logs fore noon 3 put in sraw after Tilda Shirk to sow here. Archa here at night
9 Wednesday WD {wind} E ran sleet Done chors. hired Bill gates for 8 month for $60 1/2 Tilda shirk sowed
10 Thursday WD {wind} E cloudy Rain at night DOne choars. Norm sawed wood 4 cord. Drawed in 2 cord Tilda here
11 fryday WD {wind} S Rain DOne choars. paid Norm for cuting logs $1.50cts
12 Saturday WD {wind} SW clear Done choars
13 Sunday WD {wind} E clear at home Tilda here Billy gates here a night Thunder and Rain at night
14 Monday WD {wind} SW clear warm put in straw Billy gates camenced To work for me for 8 month $60.50 ct
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15 Tuesday WD {wind} NW cloudy cold DOne choars Bily to help Tilda sowed
16 Wednesday WD {wind} W snow squals Done choars Billy split wood fore noon to milk meeting To john stewart george Bass too the job to draw milk for $150.00 6 1/2 month
17 Thursday WD {wind} SW snow helped Norm saw with Billy to help fore noon Drawed in 2 cord wood after
18 fryday WD {wind} W clear DOe choars. Billy went hom at night
20 Sunday WD {wind} NW clear To New sarum to church haycock preached To j Warwicks To diner Tillda with us Billy back at night
21 Monay WD {wind} SW Rain at night To help Norm saw with Billy and Team. sold j Mvplale a cow for $40
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22 Tuesday WD {wind} NW snow DOne choars Billy to help Archa Taylor here at night
23 Wednesday WD {wind} N cold blustery Done choars Billy choared Tilda sowed
24 Thrtusday WD {wind} W couldy Drawed wood 6 cord Billy To help Tilda sowed
25 fryday WD {wind} SE clear Drawed wood 9 cord Billy to help Tilda sowed
26 Saturday WD {wind} E clear Drawed wood 6 cord Ann took Tilda home paid her $5,00 Margred cullver and willy here at night. Randall and wife here at night
27 Sunday WD {wind} E hail snow at home Margret and willy here. Randall and wife went home after noon
28 Monday WD {wind}E snow to john Learns to diner got grass seed 3 bushel from him $5,00 Margret stayed thre Billy thrash Millet see 1 bushel
29 Tuesday WD {wind} NW cloudy Drawed logs 4 Norm helped To Belmont Margret Randall here at night john to tea
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== March 1876 ==
1 Wednesday WD {wind} N snow Drawed 3 logs To Belmont Randall and willy to london Margret and Sarah Ann here. W Lenard To diner let W lenard have 30 bushel oats got from him 1 3/4 bushel clover seed. Billy choared
2 Thursday WD {wind} N clear Drawed logs 6 to Belmont Norm To help To john Learns in the evening Margret stayed to johns got Billy pair boots and mitons $3..50 cts Billy choared
3 fryday WD {wind} W clear To Belmont got Dick shoe setlel Abbott have bag of aples got pictor from Moore Drawed 1 cord of wood in the Lynces To Tea sow had pigs 10
4 Saturday WD {wind} S clear Drawed in 6 cord of wood paid Norm $2 To johns for Margret Billy went hom at night
5 Sunday WD {wind} SW clear Rain at night at home Margret here
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6 Monday WD {wind} S clear Drawed in 6 cord wood Billy to help. Margret here willy went to johns
7Tuesday WD {wind} S Rain DOne choars made Ed one one handle Margret here
8 Wednesday WD {wind} N cold Done chors john Learn and wife To diner Margret here
9 Thursday WD {wind} E clear cut logs Billy to help sold james shirk a cow for $40 to be paid in 8 month Margret here philip and willy at night
10 fryday WD {wind} SE clear cut logs fore noon heled Norm To tap after. shirk took the cow home Margret and willy here Ed Learn here at night
11 Saturday WD {wind} E cloudy at night Rain Took Margret and willy to kings mill station she went home. sent for the home journal paper Billy helped Norm in the bush comenced to boil
12 Sunday WD {wind} NE Rain at home Billy got the pouts. To Leave
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13 Monday WD {wind} NW snow cold DOne choars Norm boiled sap Billy gates went away paid him $4.40 cts he quit to work for me
14 Tuesday WD {wind} S clear Done choars. To Belmont hot from Dyer 79cts goods Norm fetched in surip
15 wednesday WD {wind} E clear cold to help george Learn saw wood J SMith To diner
16 Thursday WD {wind} E hail Rain Done choars
17 fryday WD {wind} WN cold Blustery Done choars. Mrs Lyce and girl To Tea. hanah got beans and onions. 25 cts
18 Satruday WD {wind} N clear cold Done choars
19 Sunday WD {wind} SW clear thaw To george Learns to diner Randall and wife here to diner Norms wife had a boy
20 Monday WD {wind} NE snow Done choars. spot cow had a calf. William and joseph Alen here at night
21 Tuesday WD {wind} NW Blustery Drawed logs 3 Black ash joe Alen helped bill went home
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22 Wednesday WD {wind} W clear To Springfeild got joe trunk. To Randals to diner hoe with me
23 Thrusdasy WD {wind} SW clear To Belmont got from Dyer $4,20 cts paid him $6.75 put in straw after joe to help joe Alen comenced work for 7 month for $84.00
24 fryday WD {wind} E clear night snowet Done choars joe killed a calf fore noon. Drawe wood 5 cord after got our pictors.
25 Satruday WD {wind} SE Rain Sick with a cold. joe Done choars Let Norm have a ag of aples Ann made candles10 doz
26 Sunday WD {wind} NW cloudy snow at home sick joe DOne choars.
27 Monday WD {wind} W cloudy Was sick joe cut wood and Done choars
28 Tuesday WD {wind} NE snow Blustery I was sick joe Done choars Randall here to dine Norm boiled sap in bush paid joe 25cts
29 Wednesday WD {wind} snow lame. joe Done choars james Shirk and wife to diner
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30 Thrusday WD {wind} Blustery Not well. joe done choars
31 fryday WD {wind} W clear Not well joe choped and Done choars. hanah Learn her in the evening
== APril 1876 ==
1 Satruday WD {wind} NE clear To Belmont got wagon box got from potts 12 pie tins 12 hooks got from Dyer 1 lb Tobacoe {10 above} 12 yrds cord 1 broom 30 ct. got 1 shoe set at Abbotts. joe choped and choared. star calved let john Denis have a bull $15
2 Sunday WD {wind} SW clear at home Dan Gracey To Tea joe here. Star cow had a calf
3 Monday WD {wind} clear Done choars. joe choped pide had a calf Narm in the bush Syrep 50 lb
4 Tuesday WD {wind} S clear Done chaors joe killed 2 calves. choped after Norm in bush
5 Wednesday WD {wind} S snow rain fore noon shook millet fore noon joe choped after noon Norm in bush fetched Syrep 46 lb
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6 Thursday WD {wind} SW clear Done coars joe choped lill cow had a calf
7 fryday WD {wind} NW clear windy DOone choars joe helped sold james Baley a calf 50 cts
8 Saruday WD {wind} N clear Done choars joe choped 1/2 day. went ome after paid him $1.25cts Norm in bush syrip 27lb
9 Sunday WD {wind} E clear to jhon Learns to diner paid him $6.00 joe chopd
11 Tuesday WD {wind} SE clear put in straw joe helped Randall and wife to diner Randall let me have $ 5.00 ct Den finh john cloes and george cutis here in the evening. Norm fetched syrip 45 lb
12 Wednesday WD {wind} SW Rain thunder Done choars joe choped 1/2 Norm fethced syrip 25 lb
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13 Thursday WD {wind} E Rain Done choars joe choared
14 fryday WD {wind} W windy squals Rain Done choars joe choped
15 Satruday WD {wind} S Rain at nigt To Belmont let dyer have Butter 25 {25 above} $6.50 cts eggs 9 Doz 70 Mrs Legg and charley To diner joe choped
16 Easter Sunday {WD} wind W cloudy at home joe here 2 boy to diner
17 Monday WD {wind} N clear fixed fence joe to help choared after joe choped jack Smith here in evenig
18 Tuesday WD {wind} N clear To Randalls took a pig and 7 bushel oats meat and flour and butter aples got the horses shod to Denises 4 shoes set. 50 ct joe turned up buckets in bush
19 Wednesday WD {wind} SE clear took the sow to S stewart joe choped sined to Lynce $20
20 Thursday WD {wind} E cloudy comenced to plow joe plowed. Midge cow had a calf. cut the 3 pigs
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21 fryday WD {wind} NW clear Done choars. To john Mckelons sale joe plowed Elder Lynce and wife To Tea let him have pork 12 lb $1.50 cts
22 Saturday WD {wind} NW Rain plowed fore noon joe killed a calf plowed after
23 Sunday WD {wind} W clear To 2 church To prayer meeting. joe To Belmont
24 Monday WD {wind] E clear DOne choars turned the colts out joe plowed
25 Tuesday WD {wind} W clear Done choars. joe plowed Narms wife to tea
26 Wednesday WD {wind} SW clear Done choars. joe plowed
27 Thursday WD {wind} S cloudy cultivated for Barley joe plowed. Randall and wife to diner. Rain at night
28 fryday WD {wind} NW clear cultivated joe plowed fore noon sowed Barley after noon joe dragged
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29 Saturday WD {wind} W clear sowed grass seede joe draged
30 Sunday WD {wind} N clear cold at home charley Alen To diner bill To Tea
== May 1876 ==
1 Monday WD {wind} NW clear Done choars. joe plowed set 2 beds onions ethen comenced to send Milk
2 Tuesday WD {wind} NE clear cultivated joe plowed father here at night Ann to Belmont Took butter 31 lb {16 written over} $5.76 30 lb syrup $3.39 got goods $6,49 cts Balance $2,57cts
3 Wednesday WD {wind} SW clear cultivated joe plowed
4 Thursday WD {wind} W clear sowed oats and clover joe draged
6 fryday WD {wind} S cloudy Rain sowed oats and clover on barn feild joe plowed and draged. To Belmont let Dyes have 39 Doz eggs got shoes $1.25 cts
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7 Sunday WD {wind} S clear at home Randall and wife to diner joe here
8 Monday WD {wind} W Rain trimed orchard joe plowed for corn 1/2 day
9 Tuesday WD {wind} W cloudy helped Norm draw in Buckets fore noon joe plowed sowed peas after joe draged Walker to diner
10 Wednesday WD {wind} W Rain trimed trees joe plowed Randall and wife here at night
11 Thursday WD {wind} SW clear sowed oats and peas fore noon set onions after Randall draged. went home after joe plowed for corn
12 fryday WD {wind} NW clear took the sow to Dan Baxters joe trimed trees
13 Saturday WD {wind} NW clear To Belmont let Dyer have 10 Doz eggs $1.00 got from him $4.60cts got from tibets $10 took grist to mill 6 bw joe to Belmont got $30 {faded}
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14 Sunday WD {wind} SW clear to 2 chruch joe with us Lynce preached
15 Monday WD {wind} E cloudy Done choars planted potatoes joe plowed
16 Tuesday WD {wind} E Rain looked for the colts joe plowed
17 Wednesday WD {wind} SE Rain to Belmont got grists let Boid have 15.32 lb of wheat for $1.00 per bushel $15.53cts got from Dyer 35 cts goods joe choared
18 Thursday WD {wind} SW clear worked in the garden joe plowed finished Moare house to diner Randall here paid him for Tibbots $10.00
19 fryday WD {wind} SE clear planted potatoes sowed oats and peas joe draged corn ground Ann quilted
20 Saturday WD {wind} W Rain planted potatoes joe to help. Black cow had a calf
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21 Sunday WD {wind} W cloudy To 2 church Lynce preached. Randall and wife To tea
22 Monday WD {wind} N clear Done choars joe Draged corn ground
23 Tuesday WD {wind} NE clear Marked corn ground comenced to plant joe helped. Sold Jame Mcphale a cow $32.00 joe Smith To Diner
24 Wednesday WD {wind} SW clear Done choars Ann sick get Mary Ann Taylor wife to diner and tea DrWilson here paid him $2.00 joe planted corn
25 Thursday WD {wind} W clear planted corn joe planted to Belmont let dyes have eggs 20 3/4 Doz got 2 shoes set to Abbotts on charley Dr Wilson called Ann was sick. let C hoover have 2 calves for 60 cts
26 fryday WD {wind} SW clear planted corn joe to help Ann sick
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27 Satruday WD {wind} W clear DRaged for millet joe planted corn fiinished paid joe $4.00 Ann beter
28 Sunday WD {wind} S some Rain at home Ann sick joe went home and back Randall and wife called Mary went home paid her 75 cts
29 Monday WD {wind} W Rain Thunder and lightning Burned john Denis barn and killed 4 horses to john Stewarts. Done choas joe choared
30 Tuesday WD {wind} E clear Made soap planted Beans joe draged james Shirk and wife called here
31 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear Worked Raod with team and joe Traughton and boy to diner Wodle called
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== June 1876 ==
1 Thursday WD {wind} S clear Worked the roas ed road Master worked with team and joe . bill cow to B
2 fryday WD {wind} S clear sowed Millet joe draged
2 Saturday WD {wind} E Rain hard Done choars. Madge to B
4 Sunday WD {wind} S clear at home george Learn and wife to Tea and Robert joe to Belmont Alen tea
5 Monday WD {wind} W clear Top Belmont got from Dyer $7.44 cts paid $2.00 eggs. 20 doz got charley shod 3 shoes to Abbott joe choared. Rose cow had a calf
6 Tueday WD {wind} W clear To StThomas got watch cleaned to Nelsons $1 got goods $32.00 to polacks and crays to DIner to fathers joe choared
7 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear Doe choars joe Rolled d cullver to tea
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8 Thursday WD {wind} S clear fixed fence joe to help Randall took a load of wood let Norm have 1/2 bushel of Millet seede for 25 cts nt paid
9 fryday WD {wind} SW clear fixed fence fore noon Norm and joe to help joe rolled the oats after hoed the garden after
10 Saturday WD {wind} S clear hot hoed garden joe cut burs To Belmont let Abbott have dried aples $1.77 Dyer 7 Doz eggs. 72 cts gloves 25 cts got goods $2.85 cts
11 Sunday WD {wind} S clear to 2 church Randall and wife with us Lynce preached Randalls to diner
12 Monday WD {wind} S clear hot cultivaed corn joe helped Tilda shirk here
13 Tuesday WD {wind} S clear hot cultivated corn joe to help Tillda here
14 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear hot cultivated corn joe to help Eagan to diner pide cow to B
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15 Thrusday WD {wind} S clear To Lyons To Randalls To diner To swamp Randall with me
16 fryday WD {wind} S clear cool cultivated corn joe to help. Tillda went home at night
17 Saturday WD {wind} S Rain To Old Mr Mcolums funeral. joe away john Lawer and wife and pedler to diner
18 Sunday WD {wind} S clear To 2 chruch Lynce pread To W Barrs To diner Randall and wife here to Tea
19 Monday WD {wind} W clear to Belmont got 2 shes set to Abbotts let cap aroun have prok 17 1/2 bs Dyer 8 Doz eggs
20 Tuesday WD {wind} S clear went to philip cullvers to diner to center to tea to buners to philips at night
21 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear to simcoe to diner To Carlton cullvers to philips at night
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22 thrusday WD {wind} S clear To hullsvill To Warons To diner To Babers to To Tead to phileps at night
23 fryday WD {wind} SW clear To Nisbits cullvers to diner To Willcoxs to tea to philps at night
24 Saturday WD {wind} S clear to Simcoe to yongs to diner to john to tea to philips at night
25 Sunday WD {wind} SW cloudy To Bloamsburgh to chruch Simson preached to phips at night
26 Monday WD {wind} SW clear come home to diner to to centes to Tea To Randall home at night
27 Tuesday WD {wind} S rain to Andrew Roberts funeral. George Learn and wife to diner father and mother went home paid him 50 cts
28 Wednesday WD {wind} W clear cultivated corn joe to help
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29 Thrusday WD {wind} S clear To Lyons got the horses shod 8 shoes to Denises paid $1.00 sowed Millet for Randall joe cut Thristles. sold joe the pony colt for $26.00
30 fryday WD {wind} W clear To Walter Browns for strawberyes got 10 quarts Randalls with us joe cut thistles
== July 1876 ==
1 Saturday WD {wind} S Rain Done choars plowed in orchrd joe haleped
2 Sunday WD {wind} clear at home jesa Learn and wife here at night
3 Monday WD {wind} W clear To Belmont to Mill 26 bushel to chop let Dyer have 11 doz eggs got $1.00 sugar and Rope 70 cts fetched lumber 85 {ofet?} joe cut Thistles
4 Tuesday WD {wind} S Rain Done choars joe helped
5 Wednesday WD {wind} W Rain sold J Hoover a cow for $28. To be paid in four month. Ann sick joe spaded garden
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6 Thursday WD {wind} S clear To Belmont got from Dyer 4 gals lamp oil 1 1/2 lb tobacoe $2.21 got cheese money $13 paid patts $2.48cts got frist of chop 26 bush
7 fryday WD {wind} S clear hot to Belmont Drawed 2 load of lumber. joe to john pettits Raison
8 Saturday WD {wind} SW clear hot to 2 chruch W jackson preached Randalls with us
10 Monday WD {wind} W Rain To Avon fetched posts from the swamp cleaned wheat 20 bags joe picked beryes
11 tuesday WD {wind} W clear warm Done choars joe went to Srpingfeild at night
12 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear To Belmont Drawed 2 load lumber let Abbott have 33 3/4 lb pork $3.97cts paid J Camble $2<s>5<s>25cts joe away
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13 Thrusday WD {wind} S Rain cut thistles joe a way. Randall and wife here at night joe come nack at night
14 fryday WD {wind} W clear To Belmont let Baid and Mcknikle have 43 1/2 bushel of wheat for 100 {per?} bushel $43,50 took note for $40. To be paid in 3 month. got from Dyer 200lb sugar $19. got a kitle from patts $1,20 joe picked beryes fore noon Drawed wood after
15 Saturday WD {wind} NW clear To Belmont to Mill let Abbott have 100 lb flour patts 100lb hoover 19lb Dyer eggs 13 Doz got from poatts #2,60 worth Dyer 25cts joe picked Beryes fore noon Drawed wood after
16 Sunday WD {wind} S clear To New Sarum to church Tomkins preached to DIner james Learns joe at home
17 Monday WD {wind} S clear cut Barlet joe cut round barlet and wheat Bell and jeny Stewart picked cheryes
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18 Tuesday WD {wind} S Rain pm finished cuting barley comenced the wheat joe bound wheat
19 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear cut and bound wheat joe to help. Randall and wife to pick cheryes
20 Thrusday WD {wind} W clear Rain put up Barley and cut wheat joe and his father to help johns boys picked cheryes. Ann to Belmont after tea let Dyes have 5 doz 7 eggs got gloves and rosen 35ct
21 fryday W clear cool cut and bount wheat joe and his father to help
22 Saturday WD {wind} S clear showers Rain cut and bound wheat and finished joe and his father to help paid Alen $2,25 cts
23 Sunday WD {wind} N clear To New Sarum to church Tomkins preached joe away
24 Monday WD {wind} N clear To Lyons in forenoon Drawed in Barley after joe to help Randall and wife to pick chereys fathe and mother to diner Ann to Belmont let {os?} have 6 doz eggs
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25 Tuesday WD {wind} W clear Drawed Barley finished Drawed 3 load of wheat
26 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear Drawed in wheat joe to help
27 Thursday WD {wind} SE clear Rain at night Drawed whet fore noon finished. picked cheryes after joe mewed{?} fence
28 fryday WD {wind} W clear to john Learns ground the reaper knives to Belmont after tea got Bread joe {manued fend?}
29 Saturday WD {wind} E clear put up hay. went to Belmont got cheese money $38.00 paid Dyed $26.71cts joe to help john Elder Rowland here at night
30 Sunday WD {wind} E clear to 2 chruch Rowland preached To W Barrs To Diner. boy born 29th
31 Monday WD {wind} E clear got Mashine here to thrash Rodgers set
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== August 1876 ==
1 Tuesday WD {wind} E clear thrashed wheat 128 bushel Barley 100 bushel had to help j Beley S legg E Learn C Stewart j Mckelon D Mckelon E and p Learn joe Alen. Rodgers to thrash W and E and sine Dews paid them $8..00
2 Wednesday WD {wind} SE clear cut peas joe to hlep Lynce and wife to diner and tea. Randalls called
3 Thursday WD {wind} SE clear cut peas joe to help Ann went to Barrs after tea
4 fryday WD {wind} W clear hot cut peas fninshed joe to help. cut and bound oats 1 acre Rain at night
5 Saturday WD {wind} S clear cut oats fore noon joe Bound. To Lyons after got horses shod 7 shoes To Denises paid 90. cts Randall and wife here at night
6 Sunday WD {wind} S clear to 2 church Lyon preached Randalls with us
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7 Monday WD {wind} N clear cut oats joe Bound john H Smith called
8 Tuesday WD {wind} W clear Bound oat joe to help
9 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear tp help y Baley thrash with team joe to help Mckelon and Stewart Tomkins and wife to Diner here
10 Thrusday WD {wind} S clear setup fore noon joe helped stewart thrash cut oats after To Belmont at nightlet odle have 13 Doz eggs got tea egg nutmeg 12 joe 1 lb Tobacoe {sold?} $1,43
11 fryday WD {wind} S clear Drawed peas 6 load joe to help
12 Saturday WD {wind} S Rain Done choars joe sick To Belmont got charley shod 4 shes set to Abbotts joe got 2 shirts to Nugarts for #2.00
13 Sunday WD {S clear at home Randall charley legg to tea joe away back at night boy with him
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14 Monday WD {wind} S cler Drawed in oats joe to help. 9 load
15 Tuesday WD {wind} N clear Drawed in oats fore noon joe to help cut millet after joe bound oats
16 Wednesday WD {wind} NE clear Bound and drawed in oats finished joe to help
17 Thursday WD {wind} S clear cut and put up millet 155 joe to help
18 fryday WD {wind} S clear cut and put up millet 160 joe to help
19 Saturday WD {wind} NW clear Raked and put up millet finished joe to help 60/375
20 Sunday WD {wind} NE clear to New Sarum to church haycock preached to Geo Legs to Diner. frost
21 Monday WD {wind} E and W clear Drawed Millet joe to help 7 To Belmont let odle have eggs 13 Doz 2 got tobaco 2 lb Rive 5 lb colars 1 bs
22 Tuesday WD {wind} SW clear Drawed in millet joe to help 7 load
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23 Wednesday WD {wind} S Rain To Belmont to mill with chop 28 b 4 of wheat joe choared Mrs fargur and hanah Learn to tea paid joe 25cts
24 Thursday WD {wind} S thunder Drawed Millet 6 load joe to help
25 fryday WD {wind} NW Rain finished Drawing in the millet joe to help To Belmont hot grist let hoover have 90 lb flour. Randall and wife called
26 Saturday WD {wind} W clear put floore in hog pen joe to help. To Belmont to mill let Aabbott have flour 100lb father and mother to Tea joe went home
27 Sunday WD {wind} W clear To 2 church Rowlon preached Randall and wife To church to diner here joe come hack
28 Monday WD {wind} E clear done choars joe Drawed manure 7 load
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29 Tuesday WD {wind} NE clear To Newsarum to church horn preached joe drawed manure comenced to cut corn 30 {text above}
30 Wednesday WD {wind} S ofnain a swer clear To help Sam Legg thrash joe Drawed manure 9
31 Thursday WD {wind} S clear hot cut corn 101 shock joe Drawed manure 10 load
== September 1876 ==
1 <s>frys</s>day WD {wind} NW Rain cut corn 69 shock joe drawed manure
2 Saturday WD {wind} clear cut corn 100 chock joe Drawed manure sow had 5 pigs
3 Sunday WD {wind} clear To New sarum To church Tomkins preached To Lymans for diner
$ Mondy WD {W clear cut corn 81 shock joe drawed manure Lyman and wife here To tea john Eck with come to work. joe went away paid him in full $60.35cts
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5 Tuesday {wind} W clear cut corn john to help
6 Wednes day WD {wind} E cloudy Rained at night {text written above} To Belmont got cheese money $30. got coton 46 and shoes and other goods from jackson $9.35 let Mcbrane have 13 doz egg got tea 2lb1/4 cut corn after john to help
7 Thrusday WD {wind} E fogy mist Done choars john spred manure. gave order for a map in book stile from coal
8 fryday WD {wind} W clear To London with cheese 36b got boots and ships from Merit $3.50. To diner to gustons. john cut corn
9 Saturday WD {wind} N cloudy cut corn john to help Elder Rowlon here at night
10 Sunday WD {wind} E cloudy Rain {text above} To 2 chruch Rowlon preached. To diner to Deninses. john at home
11 Monday WD {wind} E cloudy cut corn john to help Rowlon to diner Randall took blocks for stable Ann got plums
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12 Tuesday WD {wind} E clear To New Sarum To ordinatir Meeting Tomkins preache to diner To Lewises. john cut corn
13 Wednesday WD {wind} SE clear cut corn john to help
14 Thursday WD {wind} NW Rain finished cuting corn john to help. To Randalls to tea Ann to john Learns
15 fryday WD {wind} NW clear Drawed wood fore noon john to help to mill after. Lyman and jane and Randall and here at night
17 Sunday WD {wind} E Rain at home. jane Tonsley here. Randalls went home
18 Monday WD {wind} N Rain Doen choars john sawed wood jane here
19 Tuesday WD {wind} W clear To Randalls with bards To leggs to diner got strawbery plants and set them john to help Tansley and wife to tea went home
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20 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear To Belmont To mill let W jackson have 600 lb flour 2.75 cts per 100 lb $16.50 got 1 lb salt $1,10 pants 75 ha 25 Let Mcbrane have 5 doz eggs 55cts Wardes 2 bags aples $5 john spread manure
21 Thursday WD {wind} clear Drawed in corn 100 shock Dug potatoes 17 bushel john to help
22 fryday WD {wind} E cloudy at night rain {text written above} To Calvin Browns to diner to jessa Learns to tea john spread manure
23 Saturday WD {wind} E Rain Done choars john went To Mapleton after noon john Learn and wife to tea
24 Sunday WD {wind} cloudy to 2 chruch philip with me Rowlan preached philip and wife and kity to diner Randall and wife to diner
25 Monday WD {wind} S cloudy Rain at night {text written above} Dug potatoes 7 {or 9} bushel Drawed wood 41/2 cord john to help
26 Tuesday WD {wind} NW Rain hard Drawed wood 4/12 cord john to help
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27 Wednesday WD {wind} NW Rain cloudy Drawed wood 1/2 and corn 50sh came to belmont. went to bills at night
28 Thursday WD {wind} SW Rain To London to Western show home at night john husked corn
29 fryday WD {wind} clear done choars john Drawed manure on garden
30 Saturday WD W clear To Belmont got cheese money $26.00 got cloth 3 1/2 yrds $105 from jackson 5ct peper john Drawed manure
== OCTOber 1876 ==
1 Sunday wd {wind} SW clear To Belmont to church Mckinen preached. john at home
2 Monday WD {wind} SW clear husked corn [icked aples john comenced to plow
3 Tuesday WD SW Rain to Lyons show john plowed
4 Wednesday WD {wind} W clear husked corn. john plowed
5 Thursday WD {wind} SW clear to Aylmer show john plowed Nolson and wife to tea
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6 fryday WD {wind} W Rain to help Ed thrash john plowed. Randall took a load of wood form Norms father and Mother here at night
7 Satruday WD {wind} hail To Belmont got l lb Tobacoe lamp chimney from jackson 65cts. john to help Ed thrash fore noon plowed after hanah and Mrs slevenson her in evening
8 Sunday WD {wind} W clear To 2 chruch Rowlan preached To Eds in evening. froze
9 Monday WD {SW clear picked aples 13 john flowed Elder Rowland to diner
10 Tuesday WD {wind} NW clear Drawed in corn 6 load john to help. Ann to john
11 Wednesday WD {wind} snow husked corn set up corn picked aples 4/12 bushel john plowed. froze
12 Thursday WD {wind} W clear set peach trees fore noon john plowed. picke aples 24 1/2 after john to help Randall took a load of wood
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13 Fryday [wind] S clear picked aples 3 fore noon john plowed Drawed in corn after john helped Randall made cider
14 Saturday [wind] NW Rain froze huske corn john plowed finished south field
15 Sunday [wind] NW snow to George Leggs to diner to johns after noon
16 Monday [wind] SW clear Drawed in corn 6 load john to help. Ann to Gilberts for butter 58lb paid $13,50 cts to johns at night calis Ta had a girl baby
17 Tuesday [wind] W clear Drawed in corn 5 load john to help. sent Butter by stage To Wm Meritt 58lb. got socks 2 pair and pair mits for john from jackson $1.50 cts
18 Wednesday [wind] SW clear Drawed in corn 2 load finished drawe in beans made cider john to help
19 Thursday [wind] SE clear killed a pig To Belmont got a jar sent a letter for a ring john plowed Lyman got aples Ann to johns
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20 Fryday [wind] S clear rain at night picked apples 10 bushel john plowed
21 Saturday [wind] S clear husked corn john plowed Randall called and got corn
22 Sunday [wind] S clea to 2 church Rowland preached. To johns after
23 Monday [wind] NW Rain all day bought spring wheat from EV Learn for $1 per bushel 15 bushel paid #15 john husked corn
24 Tuesday [wind] W Rain got wheat home to Belmont got for john to jacksons $3.53 cts worth got 1/2 lb Tobacoe 1/2 lbs starch got from patts 1 trap 2 Bolts 1 blacking. from Abbott 1 crew [drives?] got from Boyed & McNide $40.0 and a letter from Wm Meritt $14.50 cts letter from the dutch man with Ring john to Belmont {Unclear entry in parts, longer entries often become jumbled}
25 Wednesday [wind] NW cloudy husked corn john plowed
26 Thursday [wind] SW cludy sqails husked corn john plowed Ed got aples for cider
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27 Fryday [wind] W cloudy snow and at night Rain {and at night rain written above and below previous line indicating he returned to his diary to make a more accurate assessment of the days weather}
28 Saturday [wind] E Rain husked corn. john choared fore noon {smudged word} went to away after noon. paid him 50 cts
29 Sunday [wind] E cloudy at home john came back Randall and wife to tea
30 Monday [wind] S clear husked corn. john plowed
31 Tuesday [wind] W clear warm husked corn john plowed
== November 1876 ==
1 Wednesday [wind] W Rain warm husked corn john plowed finished the 14 acre field
2 Thursday [wind] W Rain husked corn john plowed 1/2 day
3 Fryday [wind] S cloudy husked corn john plowed
4 Saturday [wind] W clear to Lyons paid H wood $5 for gate To Randalls to diner john plowed
Sunday [wind] E clear To 2 church morning and even-ning Rowlands preached john home
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6 Monday [wind] SE Rain husked corn john to help
7 tuesday [wind] SW cloudy hused corn john to help Elder Rowland calle gave him a bag of corn
8 Wednesday [wind] N Rain husked corn john plowed Randall to Diner
9 Thursday [wind] NW cloudy husked corn set peach trees 50 john plowed james Shirk paid $40 EV Learn paid $1.80 cts
10 Fryday [wind] W cloudy To Belmont for noon husked corn after john plowed got from jackson 1 coat john $4.50 1/2 lb tobacoe 25cts
11 Saturday [wind] SE cloudy husked corn john plowed
12 Sunday [wind] SE clear to john Learns to diner
13 Moncay [wind] S cloudy Took beats parsnips and potatoes john to help plowed garden Ann to Leggs and finches
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14 Tuesday [wind] NE snow finished plowing cleaned a grist 10 bushel wheat john to help john went away for a tramp paid him 25 cts
15 Wednesday [wind] W clear husked corn Done choars
16 Thursday [wind] SW cloudy to mill 16 bushel of wheat let jackson have 400 lb flour. got the horses shod 8 shoes 4 new to Abbotts
17 Fryday [wind] E cloudy to old Mr Mcmurys funealElder Smith preached. To EV Learns to tea
18 Saturday [wind] E rain husked corn done choars
19 Sunday [wind] SE rain at home
20 Monday [wind] N cloudy to harietsville to see the consel To yellys to Diner. let Ed have 100 [feet?] pnank for raod $1.00 {uncertain words in entry}
21 Tuesday [wind] NE rain fine husked corn
22 Wednesday [wind W cloudy cold To Belmont fore noon got 1 lb tea Botle oil from jackson 85 cts husked corn after
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23 Thursday [wind] W cloudy To Lyons Dick horse was sick To Belmont got medison from Dyes .50 cts john came home paid Taxes to Mrs [putonun?] $26.04 cts
24 Fryday [wind] SW cloudy cold husked corn john to help
25 Saturday [wind] SE snow Sold joe jackson 8[,,?] hogs for $95..00 john husked corn
26 Sunday [wind] SE clear snow To 2 chruch Rowland preached. Ann a home Robert Learn here at night
27 Monday [wind] SE snow To joe jacksons got $95.00 To Randalls at night to M fulitons got well made
28 Tuesday [wind] E clear cold To philips cullvers at night
29 Wednesday [wind] NW clear cold To Alma cullvers weding To philips a night
30 Thursday [wind] NW clear cold to Nisbets cullvers to diner to David Barbers at night
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== Decmber 1876 ==
1 Fryday [wind] NW clear cold came home Diner to Randalls
2 Saturday [wind] N clear cold Done choars john choared took the sox to Baleys{drawing appears to represent a crossing}
3 Sunday [wind] NW clear at home
4 Monday [wind] NE clear husked corn. john choped comenced to feed the horses cut feed
5 Tuesday [wind] NE clear To Belmont to mill got from jackson 2 lb tobacoe and grocerys took note from c.y hoocer for $34 to be paid in 14 days. john choped
6 Wednesday [wind] SW clear To Belmont got grist got from Abbott wedge at 50 got from jackson tick $1.50 got from potts goods 75cts john choped wood
7 Thursday [wind] W snow husked corn john choped
8 Fryday [wind] W clear cold put corn in crib fore noon john to help fixed crib after john choped. EV Learn and wife here in evening
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9 Saturrday [wind] NW snow very blus Done choars john choared
10 Sunday [wind] SE cloudy snow coldat home john Learn and wife to Diner. Randall took his cutter home
11 Monday [wind] SE cloudy Done choars put colt in Ann was sick. john hosked corn. a tramp joe grag{ink smudging end of word} here at noght
12 Tuesday [wind] S cloudy thawed husked corn. john thrashed oats
13 Wednesday [wind] S cloudy husked corn john choped
14 Thursday [wind] SW clear Done choars john choped Randall to diner. Mothers here at night George Learn here from Bisty
15 Fryday [wind] W cloudy cold To Belmont to mill got meal 35 lb sent for free press $1.60cts john choped
16 Saturday [wind] W snow Blustey cold faced mitons john thrashed
17 Sunday [wind] NE snow at home George Learn here at night Bisty
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18 Monday [wind] W clear cold To Belmont let jackson have flour 200lb let potts have 70lb flour john Thrashed 1/2 and choped /12
19 Tuesday [wind] W cloudy cold Killed a hog 168 lb john to help fore noon husked corn after john thrashed cut sasage meet at night 24lb
20 Wednesday [wind] E cloudy cold to Belmont got fish 1/2 lb of jackson $5.00 from Abott a clevis. husked corn after john thrashed
21 thursday [wind] SE cloudy took a load of oats to Randall john thrashed
22 Fryday [wind] NE snowed sick with a cold john thrashed Ann made cake
23 Saturday [wind] W cloudy sick with a cold john done choars. Randall and wife here at ngiht
24 Sunday [wind] NE clear at home. Randall and Ann to 2 chruch Rowlan preached his wife stayed with me they went home at night
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25 Monday chistmas [wind] E snow To George Leggs to diner john done choars
26 Tuesday [wind] W clear To Belmont got over coat from jackson $13.50 got cheee money $50 to diner to Mrs clines john choared lip Learn and wife here for tea
27 Wednesday [wind] W clear To St thomas put in the Merchants Bank $304 01cts got a cap from coyn $2.50 to Lymans to diner Ann To Lymans john choared
28 Thursday [wind[ E snow cleaned oats 26 bushel fore noon to Randalls after too stove there john choared
29 Fryday [wind] E snow Blustery Killed 3 hogs jim wilsey to help paid him 75 cts john helped
30 Saturday [wind] W cold Blustery cut up hogs 3 made sausage john choared
31 Sunday [wind] W clear cloudy To 2 church Mconel preached To george To tea Ed and phil here at night
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== January 1877 ==
1 Monday [wind] SE clear To Lyons town meeting voted fo fuliton simpson charleton Bentley Ann to johns to diner to Randalls john thrashed oats
2 Tuesday [wind] E clear Drawed 1 load wood sent for the canadian Baptist paper3. $5.25ct to Belmont got chock for cheese$10 Randall here at night john thrashed oats
3 Wednesday [wind] NW NE clear to London paid taxes on swamp. Randall with me left cap to Belts to be cleaned and fixed Lyman and fam to diner Eckworth here at night john thrashed
4 Thursday [wind] SW clear To Enick Sminths to diner to the swamp john Done choars W Eckworth here day and night
5 Fryday [wind] SW cloudy To Belmont got lamp oil of jackson 4gals $2.10 to 23 tea 37 let him have drye Apples bushels 4 and 15 lb paid john 62 1/2 David Mondaville to diner john choared thrashed
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6 Saturday [wind] SW clear Done choars john to Lymans. Paid him 10 cts
7 Sunday [wind] SW cloudy to New sarum to church Tomkins preached to Elurners to diner. paid to D Nucomle $1 for organ
8 Monday [wind] N cold snow Cleaned oats 19 bushel and heat fore noon john to help john thrashed oats after
9 Tuesday [wind] SW clear To Belmont to mill 16 bus got from jackson goods $2 let Dyes have bean 1 1/2 $1.50 Abott 1 bushel Beans john thrashed oats
10 wednesday [wind] SW snow at home father and mother here john thrashed oats
11 Thrusday [wind] S and N snow at home Randall and wife here to diner father and motehr went away john thrashed pats and choared
12 Fryday [wind] NE cloudy cold To Belmont let jackson have 614 lb flour $2,85cts $1,7,50 and oats 42 1,60 {and oats written above} got Boots $350. 2 brooms john thrashed oats choar
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13 Saturday [wind] W clear cold at home john thrashed oats and choared
14 Sunday [wind] SE clear To 2 church Mconel preached to W Barss to diner john done the choars
15 Monday [wind] NE snow To Belmont with Randall to get frank hawkins David Brown here at night. cleaned oats 28 john choared thrashed
16 Tuesday [wind] W clear To Belmont with G Legg got 1 lb tobacoe from jackson Geroge less annd wife to diner geroge Learn and wife to tea. D brown here. john thrashed oats and choared
17 Wednesday [wind] W clear at home W Barr and wife Levy Smth and wife Cornell and wife a child here to diner D Brown went away john Thrashed oats
18 Thursday [wind] SW cloudy To st Thomas to fathers Birthday party he was 80 years old john done coars
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19 Fryday [wind] SW cloudy mild to Belmont to cheese meeting to Wh Odles to tea john thrashed and choared
20 Saturday [wind] N clear Cleaned oats 22 bushel john to help and choared
21 Sunday [wind] SW clear cold To New sarum to church Tomkings preached to Tomkins to diner john done the choars jane Stevenson to tea
22 Monday [wind] SW clear to halls Tomkins and wife to diner john learn and wife to tea john thrashed oats
23 Tuesday [wind] W clear cold To Belmont got the horses shod 8 shoes to abbotts got bobs from him $ 36 let him have Nole and hoover for $34 paid $1.75 To charles Learn to tea john choared
24 wenesday [wind] W cold clear To john learns to diner john thrashed and choared
25 Thursday [wind] W clear got sheep 6 from john Learn let him have baby To Randalls after john thrashed and choared
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26 fryday [wind] SW clear To swamp got posts from sandy cury 26 for $104 to litle johns to tea john thrashed and choared
27 Saturday [wind] SW clear To Aylmer with oats 37 bus got $15. sold to Lewis for 40 cts john choared and thrashed Earnest Learn here at night
28 Sunday [wind] SW clear To 2 church Mconel preache lib farques and jane stevon to diner. to george Aplefands to tea john to john Learns
29 Monday [wind] SW clear thawed to cheese meeting to john stewarts Randall and wife here to tea john choared and thrashed oats
30 Tuesday [wind] SE clear Thawed To Nelson Learns george Learn and wife with us to diner john choared.
31 Wednesday SE cloudyThaw to Belmont to mill 6 bushel of wheat 24 of chop oats peas got from potts 220 sptes from Nugent slips
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== February 1877 ==
1 Thursday [wind] SW clear To Belmont got grist let hoover have 100lb flour. got from jackson goods $2.55 paid john $171
2 Fryday [wind] E clear Thawed Done choars. went to james Batleys top tea john choared
3 Saturday [wind] NE cloudy Cleaned oats 38 bushel john to help john went to lymans at night Litle john Learn and wife here <s>at n</s> To tea
4 Sunday [wind] W clear Thawed at home john came home
5 Monday [wind] NW cloudy to harrietsville to ensurence meeting got ensured for $2500 paid $5...cts litle john and wife with us to diner to j geleys john choared
6 Tuesday [wind] SW cloudy at home cleaned wheat james learn and wife and Sarah Bolsby to diner john thrashed and choared
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7 Wednesday [wind] S clear To Aylmer Ann to johns to diner To Randalls. john choared thrashed
8 Thursday [wind] S clear to Aylmer with Wheat 32.7 bushel got $1.30 cts $41.75 to diner to T charlestons john choared Thrashed
9 Fryday [wind] S clear To Belmont to mill let jackson have honey 17 1/2 $3.32 cts got goods 43.72 cts ad cap $2.25 got Bedstead from Bonn $7 john choared thrashed
10 Saturday [wind] SW clear thawd Tusked corn. went to john Learns. john thrashed oats choared
11 Saturday [wind] SW clear To New Sarum to church Tomkins preached. to john finches to diner paid Newcomb $4..00 for Tomkins. john at home
12 Monday [wind] N cloudy blustery to john Lutons traded 23 bushel of Barley to diner Ann with me john thrashed choared Randall took charley
13 Tuesday [wind] NW clear thawd To Belmont to mill got grist Randall fetched charley home john thrashed choared
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14 wednesday [wind] SW clear To Randalls to diner john choared and thrashed
15 Thursday [wind] W cloudy cleaned oats 41 bushel john to help hanah to diner paid john 50cts
16 Fryday [wind] NW clear fixed sples john thrashe
17 Saturday [wind] NW snow Blustery traded Bell to Tom Belmore for Nelley B. john thrashe
18 Sunday [wind] SW cloudy snowat home john at home
19 Monday [wind] NW clear cold at home john thrashed let To Bellmore have barley 8 bushel for boot [Boat?]
20 tuesday [wind] SW clear To swamp. rented Sandy Cury the swamp for 1 year for $40 and road work and taxes to be paid john thrashed
21 Wednesday [wind] S clear husked corn john thrashed
22 Thursday [wind] S clear To Randalls Sarah Anns baby born at 5 oclock Ann to Randalls at night john Thrashed choard
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23 Fryday [wind] NW cloudy To Randalls to diner Ann came home let john Learn jr have 2 bus of corn $120 let Aga winters have 2 1/2 lb Butter 50cts john thrashed and choared
24 Saturday [wind] NE cloudy cleaned oats john to help 38
25 Sunday [wind] NW cold To Lyons to cheuch William preached to Randalls to diner Ann stayed to Randalls john at home
26 Monday [wind] N clear husked corn john choped Ann to Randalls
27 Tuesday [wind] S<s>E</s>W clear To R fulitons salee john Thrashed Ann came home
28 Wednesday [wind] SW clear To Belmont let jackson have 6 1/2 doz eggs 12 1/2 cts doz john choped got john 1 lb tobacoe pencil [5/6]8 cts
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== March 1877 ==
1 Thursday [wind] SW clear Drawed beckets to Bush taped 15 trees john washed the buckets. fthes to diner
2 Fryday [wind] S rain forenoon taped 145 trees after noon john to help
3 Saturday [wind] SW cloudy snow worked in bush taped 47 trees fix boiling place and gethered 2 tubs of sap john to help. frank haw kins fetched dick horse home from Randalls
4 Sunday [wind] NW cold at home
5 Monday [wind] NW cold Boiled sap john to help old Black cow down
6 Tuesday [wind] SW snow Thrashed oats with the horses john to help. Ann sugared off 22lb. Randall to diner. Midge cow h had a calf
7 Wednesday [wind] SE clear cold Thrashed oats john to help
8 Thursday [wind] SE Rain Threshed oats john to help
9Fryday [wind] NW cold snow Blustery To Belmont for Dr wilson Ann to Randalls john choared
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10 Saturday [wind] W clear Cleaned oats 82 bushel john to elp. Ann to Randalls
11 Sunday [wind] SW snow To Randalls Ann came home john to No 1 to church
12 Monday [wind] NE snow cold Thrashed peas john to help Randall took the cow home left the colt Elder Rowland to diner
13 Tuesday [wind] S clear Thrashed peas fore noon john to help To Randalls after lill cow had a calf
14 Wednesday [wind] S [and?] N snow Blustery Thrashed peas john to help
15 Thursday [wind] SW clear To Belmont let Dyes have egg 11 doz oats 4 bushel got for john shirting $181 cts got tea 3 /34 lbs to Randalls after john Thrashed peas choared Ann to Eds quilting spot cow had a calf
16 Fryday [wind[ NW snow cold cleaned peas 57 bushel john to help let cullver finch have oats 14 bushel $5.6ts. Mrs finch cullver and liley to tea
17 Saturday [wind] W clear finished thrashing oats john choared. Mrs DaCline and 2 children to tea
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18 Sunday [wind] SW snow To Randalls. john home
19 Monday [wind] NW snow To spring field with oats bushel 41. got 43 cts per bushel james Learn with me john choared [old Eckwith?] here at night. Levy and Enick Smith and wives here to diner Thunder at night {names in this entry difficutl to decipher}
20 Tuesday [wind] NE clear To thew swamp. john choped. Ann to Randalls
21 Wednesday [wind] NE snow clear after To Randalls for Ann cleaned oats 12 buchel john choared
22 Thursday [wind] SW thawed To spring field with oats 57 bushel 44cts $25.00 john choared
23 Fryday [wind] W clear thawed To belmont to mill 24 bus to chop. gethered sap 2 tubs after john to help. Randall to diner and yessa Robert to work for him. let jackson have 15 lb of Butter 25cts per lb $3.75
24 Saturday [wind] NE couldy To Belmont got grist boiled sap john boiled. Elder Rowlan Olover cullver and boy and lida and Martha hill here at night pide cow had a calf
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25 Sunday [wind] E Rain to 2 chruch Rowland preached. O cullver and boy here. sow had [6?] pigs
26 Monday [wind] N Rain snow <s>Ann sugard 25 lb</s> Done choars john skined the old Black cow Cullvers went away Ann sugared of 25 lb
27 Tuesday [wind] NW clear thawed to Belmont let potts have a hide 50 lb $250. Drawed sap after 3 tubs. john to help Randall and hawkins to diner
28 Wednesday [wind] NW windy Boiled sap john to help
29 Thursday [wind] NW clear wind to Eagans mill fore noon john choared Ann sugared off 25[or 35] lb
30 Fryday [wind] SW clear thawed To Randalls fore noon worked in the Bush afterjohn to help
31 Saturday [wind] SE Rain To belmont got 2 lb tobacoe and 1 of soap from McBrone for $1.14 cts 1 for john john choped
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== April 1877 ==
1 Sunday [wind] S Rain at home. Neley cow sick Norms wife to tea
2 Monday [wind] NW clear gethered and boiled sap 5 tubs john to help john comenced work for a year for $72
3 Tuesday [wind] NE SE clear Boiled sap john to help
4 Wednesday [wind] SE clear To Belmont got from W Martin timothey seed 80lb for $4.00 order a pair of pants from jackson john choped. Sam legg and wife to tea. Ann sugared off 73lb.
5 Thursday [wind] NW snow gethered sap 5 tubs boiled john to help
6 Fryday [wind] NW clear gethered sap 3 tubs boiled john to help. Ann sugared off 42lb
7 Saturday [wind] NE clear boiled sap Drawed wood john to help Ann sugared off 30lb
8 Sunday [wind] E windy at home joe Alen to tea Ed Learn to diner
9 Monday [wind] NE clear getherer sap 4 tubs Boiled john to help sold peas 2 [& lb?] ten to Ravy 18 to Dunn for 75 per lb Elder Rowland to diner Ann sugerd 40 lb
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10 Tuesday [wind] NE clear Boiled sap fore noon john to help john choped after
11 Wednesday [wind] N clear To Randalls got horses shoes set on front feet john choped
12 Thursday [wind] NS clear worked in bush finished let [ER?] Learn have 10 bushel peas [at?] 5 cts per bushel $7.50 traded oats with jim for peas 16 1/2 for 10 jim and wife to diner
13 Fryday [wind] NE clear To Belmont let jackson have eggs 27 doz 12cts got $250 {likley missing period} got seed to Matin got Bushes to Tibeh Let Taylon have 1/2 bapotto taes50 cts john choped {entry unclear}
14 Saturday [wind] SE clear to St Tomas put the Merchants Bank $96 all in the bank 400.0 to Elder Rowlands to diner Ann to philips john choped and choared
15 Sunday [wind] W clear at home Randall and Chaley legg called {uncertain}
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16 Monday [wind] SE rain fore noon clear after Cultivated 2 teams john to help
17 Tuesday [wind] E SE clear rain at night Sowed wheat 7 acres john draged
18 Wednesday [wind] E Rain Done choars john choared
19 Thursday [wind] E Rain To Belmont got pants from jackson $3.65 cts john choared
20 Fryday [wind] W clear to 2 church Elder Rowland preached. Randall and wife to diner
23 Monday [wind] S clear Rolled medow john cultivated. sold Mckets Barley 4 bushel. Elder Rowland to diner
24 Tuesday [wind] NW squals sowed grass seede john cultivated Sarah Ann and jessa Roberts to diner
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25 Wednesday [wind] N clear Done choars john cultivated
26 Thursday [wind] S clear sowed oats 24 bushel john draged
27 Fryday [wind] E clear sowed oats 14 bushel fore noon john draged rolled wheat after noon
28 Saturday [wind] E Rain To Belmont let Dyes have molases 4 gals $5.44 $1.25 egg 30 doz [10?] got 2lb Tobacoe and comb $ 1.50 john draged oats bin {entry unclear}
29 Sunday [wind] SW cloudy To No 1 To church Dyer preached joe Alen to diner
30 Monday [wind] W cloudy hail To Belmont let Dyer haver peas 6 1/2 bushel $5.50 got salt 3 barels $3.30 wash load 20 Let Norm have barley 10 bushel. let Litle john Learn have oats 30 bushel $13.50 paid
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== May 1877 ==
1 Tuesday [wind] N cleared Done choars john cultivated
2 wenensday [wind] N clear choared john cultivated
3 Thursday [wind] SW clear Sower pears 6 1/2 bushel Barley 12 bushel let M White have 1 bushel of corn for $1.00 not paid john draged
4 Fryday [wind] SW clear to Belmont let Dyes have eggs 16 [10?] doz [??] of onions $1.05 Ann got Dress. $12.05 john choared Rauy got pens 10 bushel paid $7.50 {entry unclear}
5 Satruday [wind] NE clear made garden john to help planted potatoes to john Learn after tea
6 Sunday [wind] E clear To 2 chruch Rowland preached. john Learn and wife to diner
7 Monday [wind] clear to [swamp?] fore noon let Norm have 10 bushel Barley lent 2 3/4 peas $2.47 1/2cts john cultivated
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8 Tuesday [wind] NE clear Turned the cows out to pater. john cultivated fore noon. helped to plant potatoes after Ann to Belmont to get dresse fited
9 wesnday [wind] NE Rain planted potatoe fore noon john to help To Belmont after to mill 16 bushel [chop] and 4 of wheat let jackson have 3 bags of potatoes $2.70 got goods $7.00 for john
10 Thrusday [wind] W clear Rolled john draged corn ground. let john Learn have 8 bushels of peas and 3 /12 corn $7.50
11 Fryday [wind} SE clear To Belmont got frist got from abbott belte rings and plow point john sick took him to DR spencer et jackson have better 24lb crack Randall to tea let him have $20.00 as lent
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13 Sunday [wind] SE clear To 2 church a stranger preached. john sick
14 Monday [wind S clear draged and Rolled corn grains let W bare and Cullver finch have 11/2 bushels of corn each john sick
15 tuesday [wiind] S clouldy Masked corn ground let litle joh have 1 busheld of hard corn D Brown 1/2 and Kor, 1/2 Not paid john sick
16 wednesday [wind] SW showrs sick john sick D pery to work Randall wife here got flour
17 Thursday [wind] S showers plowed john plaites corn pery split rails
18 Fryday [wind] SW clear hot plowed pery split rails john sick let D Baxter have corn 1 1/4 bushel $ 1.25 Ann to Randalls
19 Saturday [wind] SE clear hot planted corn john to help to Belmont let Dyer have eggs 35 doz [10?] $2.50 get $1.00
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20 Sunday [wind] S clear hot to church Rowland Preached. To Belmont with john to Dr Menlatt Randall and wife and jacot Shirk and wife john finch and wife David Shirk and Lely finch to diner
21 Monday [wind] S&N clear planted corn john and pery to help let john Simpson have 3/4 bushels corn 75 Cullver finch paid $1.50
22 Tuesday [wind] W rain to Randalls sale Bargen with colard for a drill for $70 let him have a harness for $35. frery split rails john finch planing corn
23 Wednesday [wind] N clear cool done choars john drawed rails. pery built fence
24 Thursday [wind] NW clear cool sowed miller planted beans john to help to Belmont after Rondal and wife withe us Ann got her linen Dress
25 Fryday [wind] NW clear To Randalls plowed gardon john choared pery split rails
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26 Saturday [wind] N clear Sowes corn and Turnps john draged. pery fine shed dence. paid him $4.00 fish pedler to diner
27 Sunday [wind] W clear To church [Slnanges?] preached. john to Lyman Learns
28 Monday [wind] NE clear DOne choars john piled manure. father and Mother to diner Randalls and Sam Leggs to tea
29 Tuesday [wind} S clear To Randalls father and mother with john [chot?] Nelson Learn here at night
30 Wednesday [wind] S clear Done choars. john piled Manure
31 Thursday [wind] S clear To Belmont got 4 shoes set to Abbotts got can fixed to potts. got Drill from W.Collard $80.00 let Dyer have eggs 12 doz
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== June 1877 ==
1 Fryday [wind] S clar warm done choar. paid William collard $ 77.50 cts for Drill in full to Belmont. got cheese Money $25 from Davison Neley Mare had a colt
2 Saturday [wind] S showers Some choars john choared sold [Yun?] 3 bushels of millet seeds $3.00
3 Sunday [wind] SW Rain To geroge Leggs to diner
4 Monday [wind] S clear Worker road teams john Sam legg Road Muster
5 Tuesday [wind] E cloudy coltivatec corn john to help to Belmont got charley shod to Abbotts 4 shoes .50 cts
6 Wednesday [wind] NE clear worked road john to an team Mrs [?] Brown and Mrs Bare to tea let geroge hae 1/2 bushel millt seeds
7 Thursday NE clear to St Thomas to diner to rawlands. Calles to charles got Anna bonet got a hat To tea to Weslakes john cut thistles {final entry diffcult to decipher}
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8 Fryday [wind] SW clear cultivated corn john to help to Belmont let Dyer have 11 1/2 doz eggs$1,26 got goods $1,70[?] got order from simptson $21.00 Sarah Learn and herbert Nety Sety Clady to diner
9 Saturday [wind] S Rain to henry Roberts got order paid $21.00 cultivated corn after john Learn paid $6.00 Ann got her dress paid $5.00 frank Learn here at nightpaid pery $4.50
10 Sunday [wind] W clear cool to New sarum to church Tomkins preached Ann at home Randals to tea
11 Monday [wind] S clear cultivated corn john to help Nelley Mare to hoe
12 Tuesday [wind] S clear took Ann to kings mill to go to waterford george Emer and wife here at night. cut thistles after noon. paid for frank to charlton[?] $ 14.75
13 Wednesday [wind] S shower cut thistles fore noon john to help john hoed potatoes Ann went home Tandall and wife here at night beed swarmed
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14 Thursday [wind] SW Rain went to Simcoe to Ed Cahons at night
15 Fryday [wind] S clear to R Wil coxes and yongs to philips at night
16 Saturday [wind] S clear To Nishet cullvers To philips at night
17 Sunday [wind] S clear to David Barber at night
18 Monday [wind] S clear came home Margret with us to Belmont let Dyes have 17 doz eggs got john shoes $1.25
19 Tuesday [wind] NW clear cut cloves cultivates corn Margret here Dan Smith here
20 Wednesday [wind] E clear cultivated corn john to help Margret here Smith went away
21 Thursday [wind] NW cloudy raked hay cultivated corn john to help Margret went to johns
22 Fryday [wind] N clear cultivated corn john to help to Belmont got goods from Dyes $2.00 took grist to mill
23 Saturday [wind] S clear cut hay and Drawed in 3 load john to help Margret came back from johns
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24 Sunday [wind] SW clear at home Margret here Randall and wife to diner Rain at night
25 Monday [wind] SW clear raked hay john to help Margret here
26 Tuesday [wind] SW Rain To Belmont got horses [shat?] 4 shoes wagon hole to Abbotts. paid Bill $ 1.00 Margret here
27 wednesday [wind] SW clear tpo Lyons got wagon and took it to Belmont to Abbott. let Dyes have 7 1/2 Doz eggs got goods $1,89 and paid john 75 Margret here
28 Thursday [wind] NW rain Drawed in har 5 load wnet to lambeth to john Smiths after Margret with us
29 Fryday [wind] NW rain came home to Nelsons to tea Margret with us
30. Saturday [wind] SW rain to Randalls Margret with john choared Bees swarmed
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</p><p>10 tuesday wired 9 14 hai marked Rond Randall to help with lease Term at the same todos to direct and lea Brook field-Station
</p><p>11 Wednesday wind Well,we I not well . Randall twee - Marcire part of the way
12 Thursday wind Italia To Belimasel fors maringot Nori Da choice 810 pais To Boyd son Garrow 88 75cts atwee got shoes from ly cultivate carne afterstone I learn To Ride horse Randall draut mosep
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>13 fryday wind SE clear To St Thomas Brought jr Johnson home. Bawed $15 from Mrs Finch To cullvers to diner. Randall drawed Manure
</p><p>14 Saturday wind SW clear cultivated corn fore noon Randall drawed manure and went to Belmont after noon got him a pair of shoes $2.25 cts neckTie and box colars Bargened with R Sleath for a plow for lumber at $13,50 per Thousand plow $18
</p><p>15 Sunday wind SE clear to 2 church at 3 oclock James Learnd and Charles fergeson To diner W Barn and C Brown and wives To Tea and j Learm and wife and 3 boys to Tea
</p><p>16 Monday wind SW clear To London got Mashine from Elet gave a note for $55 to be paid the 1st day of january 1874 got points for cultivater got a pair of shoes Randall spread manure joe to help Nub cow to Bull
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>17 Tuesday wind SE clear cut Thistles Randall and Jane to pick nick
</p><p>18 Wednesday wind SW clear I was sick Randall drawed wood and went to Belmont fare. Hanah Learn and Leta finch and Adaline
</p><p>Gracey and Mr D Moore called in the evening Johnson and bay came from Building fence to St Thomas
</p><p>19 Thursday wind SW clear cultivated corn I Learn to help Randall comenced To plow sumer falowe Bees swarmed spot hefer to Bull let j R johnson have The wool to work on shares 45lb wool
</p><p>20 fryday wind NW clear cultivated corn forenoon to Belmont afternoon
got a plow from Sleath $18 got wagon tire set at Abots $1..50cts Randall plowed
</p><p>21 Saturday wind SW clear plowed sumer falowe <s>Rand</s> Randall plowed got from Cambell a single harnes for $30 To be paid in lumber at $14 per 1000 R Learn here at night
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>22 Sunday wind E Rain at home Randall and jane To Maplton George C Learn and George Deacon to Tea father and Mother here at night and Charles Learn jr
</p><p>23 Monday wind E cloudy Set calage done choars Randall plowed let E Mc have 100 feet boards for $1.50 got from Mother $2. Mother here fathe went home Black cow To Bull Rain at night
</p><p>24 Tuesday wind E cloudy helped Ev Learn To saw Randall and team To Mothe To EV Learn I Paid her $2
</p><p>25 Wednesday wind E clear hoed potatoes got a pump
from P Tutnam for $7,50 ct Randall plowed D Moore had a Cow To Bull
</p><p>26 Thursday wind E went To simcoe To fine To S coners <s>Bugners</s> To Tea To Bugners at night To Philips Cullves
</p><p>27 fryday wind SE To hullville to Barbers To Diner To W cullvers To Tea. To Philips at night
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>28 Saturday wind S to simcoe to Carlton Cullvers for Diner To To R Willcox, to Tea to Nisbet Cullvers at night
</p><p>29 Sunday wind SE to Blooms Burgh to Church Elder Slat preached. To philips at night. pide to Bull
</p><p>30 Monday wind SW Rain all day To john Cullvers To Tea to Malons to Diner to philips at night
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="July_1873">July 1873</span></h2>
<p>1 Tuesday wind W Came home David Barber and wife with us
</p><p>2 Wednes wind W rain Took a load of cheese 30 To Danchestar Station David Barber with me
</p><p>3 Thursday wind W to Belmont To mill got money for cheese $31. Barber and wife went to St Thomas Randall and jane To E lick Brush here at night Bees swarmed
</p><p>4 fryday wind S clearn hoed garden to Belmont got the chop 20 bushel let Sleath have 786 fet boards Abot 148 feet bees swarmed D Moore had a cow to B Randall and jane cam home
</p><p>5 Saturday wind W clear Done choars paid Mrs finch $15 fore noon Randall hlped D Moore cut hay afternoon D Barber and wife here at night gave him $2 for Margret Cullver from E Brush
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>6 Sunday wind W clear cool To 2 Church Wolverton preached David Barber and wife with us john finch and Siss to diner To prayer meeling at night
</p><p>7 Monday wind SW clear Mowed fore noon Raked and Drawed in 1 load in the shed after noon Barber and wife and Ann To john Learns here at night
</p><p>8 Tuesday wind W Rain fixed Barn brdge to church meeting at night Barber and wife here
</p><p>9 Wednesday wind W cut hay fore noon Raked and put up after noon Ann with barbre and wife To London. Spot cow to Bull
</p><p>10 Thursday Wind W rain{M Drawed in hay 3 load 1 in Barn 2 in shed to Belmont at night with D Barber got chees 6 lb? 10 cts Dyer
</p><p>11 fryday wind W clear Drawed hay in barn 5 load lot james Camble have lumber 2144 feet D Barber went home celem stayed
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>12 Saturday wind SE clear Drawed hay 2 load cut after noon Ann was sick had Dr Cline here Randall To Belmont at night John Stewart had a cow here
</p><p>13 Sunday wind S clear To 2 church Celema with me Ann sick Reetch preached
</p><p>14 Monday wind SW rain cut thistles james Shirk called in the evening and wife
</p><p>15 Tuesday wind W rain fore noon cut hay after noon and put up. David Barber and Margret cullver came here at night
</p><p>16 Wednesday wind SW cloudy cut hay finshed fore noon Raked and put up Drawed in 2 load after noon W jackson and wife D Barber and wife and Margret Cullver here To Diner
</p><p>17 Thursday wind W Rain put up hay after noon Rain at night David Barber and wife and Mary Cullver here Lill and Broon cows to B ut
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>18 fryday wind S rain Took D Barber and wife and Margret Cullver To The
Cars for home fore noon Drawed 3 load of hay after noon
</p><p>19 Saturday wind NW Rain Drawed hay in drive Barn 5 load 1 in Barn Randall Took jane home at night pide cow to Bull
</p><p>20 Sunday wind NW clear To 2 church Wolverton preached. To W Bass To Diner james Learn and W AugusTine Adaline gracy and jane Stevenson to Tea. Randalls horse Ran away
</p><p>21 Monday wind S clear Drawed in 4 load of hay Peter Tutnam Set up Mashine. Calista picked cherys Randall took his Bugy to Belmont to get mended Midge hefer To Bull
</p><p>22 Tuesday wind SW clear cut and Bound wheat Mrs Tralon here and Mrs foster and Ed for cherys let james Camble have joies156 for $2,49 cts not paid
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>23 Wednesday wind SE clear cut and put up weat EV Learn To help. Mrs Traton To Diner got chery
</p><p>24 Thursday wind Sw clear hot cut and put up wheat and finished fall wheat Mrs Traton for chereys Calista for cherys here
</p><p>25 fryday wind SW clear Rain at night Draged fore noon on sumer falowe cultivated after noon Randall Draged Mrs Traton here for cherys
</p><p>26 Saturday wind SE cloudy to Belmont got the horses shod 6 set 2 new ones Catlarine Leach and jane Learn here at night. balon and wife To Tea
</p><p>27 Sunday wind S clear hot To Mary jane farqurs funeral john finch and john fergeson and georg Learn to diner. Star cow To Bull
</p><p><br />
28 Monday wind E cloudy Rain helped EV Learn to line wheat Randall to help Mrs Traton and calestu here for cherys Mrs D Moore to Diner
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>29 Tyesday wind W clear Drawed in wheat after noon Randall helped EV Learn fore noon
</p><p>30 Wednesday wind SW clear hot Drawed in wheat finished Randall helped. got from Mrs Bass 10 quarts beryes for $1.00cts
</p><p>31 Thursday wind SE cloudy Rain cut fence corners fore noon Randall Raked Stable Rain after noon Randall to harietsvill Robert Learn here at nght
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="August_1873">August 1873</span></h2>
<p>1 fryday wind SW to Belmont got cheese money $32 . . got from Odle 30 lb sugar $3 and a barel salt $1..65 cts Randall went to Aylmer uncle finch abd Annt Came from Loho Traughton to Diner.
</p><p>2 Saturday wind SW clear cut thistles fore noon to covnant meeting after noon. Drawed in 2 load of Rakings afTer Tea Randall to help
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>3 Sunday wind NW clear cool To 2 church at 11. and Night Wolverton preach fore noon Grant at night To hills to Tea
</p><p>4 Monday wind NW clear Cultivated on sumer falow with flora and pete Ann picked the geese Randall to Lyons
</p><p>5 tuesday wind SW clear Dug Onions. To church Meeting at night Randall draged sum erfalow
</p><p>6 Wednesday wind SW clear To swamp To j R john sons to Diner. Randall sawed his Dash Board indians got honey and cherys $1.30
</p><p>7 Thursday wind SW rain to help finches Thras with Team and Randall
</p><p>8 fryday wind SW clear Done choars Randall drawed Manure johnsond and boy to tea lill to Bull
</p><p>9 Saturday wind chang {illegible} clear To 1 church on camita To covnant meeTing Randall To Belmont got his Bugy To mapleTon at night <s>Diner<s> Tea D Ed woods
</s></s></p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>10 Sunday wind SE clear to 2 church Grant preached
</p><p>11 Monday wind W rain, clear comenced to cut oats
</p><p>12 Tuesday wind W cloudy cut oats jR johnson and Sam to help bind and Randall Bound
</p><p>13 Wednesday wind E cloudy cut oats finished Randall and Sam jhn son Bound Ann sick
</p><p>14 Thursday wind E clear set up oats Randall helped fore noon to Belmont after noon got from Odle12 yds coTon and {<s>of</s>?} 2 yds print 17 cts bar soap 20. 1 spool 15 cts comb 50 lamp glass 10 cts
</p><p>15 fryday wind NE clear Done choars Randall to help EV Learn after noon Traded horses with George Apleford
</p><p>16 Saturday wind N clear Rain Comenced spring wheat Hiram and George Smith to Diner. to john Learns after tea
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>11 Saturday wind E clear to 2 church Wolverton preached Galaton finch to Diner
</p><p><br />
18 Monday wind SE clear cut spring wheat Randall Bound
</p><p>19 tuesday wind S clear cut spring wheat Randall Bound EV Learn helped after noon finished
</p><p>20 Wednesday wind SW clear Done choars Randall to help EV Learn Draw in oats. let G finch have .50 cts
</p><p>21 thursday wind SW clear Drawed in the oats 7 acres Randall and joe Drawed Adaline Gracy here at night
</p><p>22 fryday wind SW clear Drawed in spring wheat Randall and joe to help finished harvest
</p><p>23 Saturday wind E N clear plowed for wheat Randall helped EV Learn Draw oats in
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>24 Sunday wind E clear To 2 church Wolverlon preached j Shrink and wife and 2 girls to Diner here the old sow had 10 pigs
</p><p>25 Monday wind SW rain forenoon to help EV Learn Thrash after noon 296 oats 44 bushel of wheat
</p><p>26 Tuesday wind E cloudy cleaned wheat fore noon To Belmont to mill after noon 10 bushed of wheat and 12 of chop To wagon to E Mathews to get ex to fergesons at night Colen had his foot Taken of with reaper
</p><p>27 Wednesday wind E clear cut sowed corn fore noon plowed for wheat after noon
</p><p>28 Thursday wind SE clear plowed with 2 Teams finch shed to Belmont at get The grist let Hawkins have 200lb flour $ 6 50 let Abot have pears $ 1. 00 Let pots have pears .75 cts got from Odle 1/2 lb Tobaco and heave powder .50
</p><p>29 fryday wind SW clear to Niles Town To court for a witness for jane Stvenson Bines To Deacon Edwards
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Randall put up corn EV Learn hat a cow to Bull
</p><p>30 SaTurday wind S clear hot cut sowed corn to Belmot at night let Dyer have 9 Doz eggs got 9. bowls Randall got his colt shod to Abots 2 shers
</p><p>31 Sunday wind SW Rain at home john Learn and wife and john finch to Tea
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="September_1873">September 1873</span></h2>
<p>1 Monday wind W clear. cool to ST Thomas to Diner To
Charles Learns. put in the Mechants Bank $201 for my self and $45 for Randall Randall to help fawcett Thrash
</p><p>2 Tuesday wind NW clear Sowed wheat 6 Randall Draged with colts
</p><p>3 Wednesday wind SE rain at night finished Draging the wheat and furowed out
</p><p>4 Thursday wind SW Rain to Belmont got wagon got from Dyer chees mong $30. Randall to Belmont to H Lacks sale
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>5 fryday wind NW clea to james Shirk paid $5 john Denis paid $5 for the preacher got from A Ravy $ 8 helped D Morne to plow after noon with the 2 Teams and Randall
</p><p>6 Saturday wind NW clear put up sowed corn fore noon To covnant meeting after noon W Marsh way put in Deacon. paid W Marsh for the preaches $24
</p><p>7 Sunday wind SW Rain To 2 church Wolverton preached john Denis and wife and Magy Black To Diner jane Stevenson ja Alen to Tea Randall to Church Robert Learn To Diner
</p><p>8 Monday wind SE clear To swamp got posts fixed posts after noon Randall cut sowed corn Turned. on. clover the cows and cattle
</p><p>9 Tuesday wind SW cool clear to ST Thomas with posts and Trees 7 cherys 5 plums and 1 aple set Them Randall cut corn
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>10 Wednesday wind SW clear cut corn Randall helped
</p><p>11 Thursday wind S clear cut corn Randall helped took up 2 skips of Bees at night put 4 in the wood house
</p><p>12 fryday wind S Rain at night cut corn Randall helped
</p><p>13 Saturday wind N cool to Belmont paid Mathews $175 got from Odle goods for $174 Calvin Brown and wife and john finch here at night Traded horses with Georg C Learn
</p><p>14 Sunday wind NW cool to 2 church to prayer MeeTing Browns with us to W Barrs to Diner Randall Drove peTe colt
</p><p>15 Monday wind S Rain after n cut corn Randall helped Ram after noon Star cow To Bull
</p><p>16 Tuesday wind NW clear Cut and put up corn Randall helped finishd cuTing. Let SroughTon have 100 feet plank for Road $150
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>17 Wednesday wind SE cloudy put up corn fore noon finished. to Belmont fore after noon. got from Odle Dyes 1/2 lb tobacoe. 25cts
</p><p>18 Thursday wind SW clear Drawed. wood killed a pig Done choars got 1 bus potatoes from Sraughton Rain at night
</p><p>19 fryday wind NW clear comenced To Tharsh spring wheat 84 bushed Aplefords Thrashed Sraughton and bill and D Moore EV Learn and joe john cullver and galaTon finch to help
</p><p>20 Saturday wind N clear Thrashed fall wheat 124 bushed 108 oats Mashine brake dawn james Learn here at night
</p><p>21 Sunday wind S clear to Disiple Church E Shepard preached Randall to 2 church SLer preached
</p><p>22 Monday wind SE Rain to Neal taylors. to Old Mr Taylors funeral D Apeford To London for Repairs
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>10 Wednesday wind SW clear cut corn Randall helped
</p><p>11 Thursday wind S clear cut corn Randall helped took up 2 skips of Bees at night put 4 in the wood house
</p><p>12 fryday wind S Raind at night cut corn Randall helped
</p><p>13 Saturday wind N cool to Belmont paid Mathews $173 got from Odle goods for $174 Calvin Brown and wife and john finch here at night Traded horses with Georg C Learn
</p><p>14 Sunday wind NW cool to 2 church to prayer Meeting Browns with us to W Barrs to diner Randall Drove pete colt
</p><p>15 Monday wind S Rain after n Cut corn Randall helpedRam after noon Star cow To Bull
</p><p>16 Tuesday wind Nw clear Cut and put up corn Randall helped finishd cuTing let SroughTonhave 100 feet plank for Road $150
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>17 Wednesday wind SE cloudy put up corn fore noon finished. to Belmont fore after noon. got from Odle Dyes 1/2 lb tobacoe. 25cts
</p><p>18 Thursday wind SW clear Drawed. wood killed a pig Done choars got 1 bus potatoes from Sraughton Rain at night
</p><p>19 fryday wind NW clear comenced To Tharsh spring wheat $4 bushed Aplefords Thrashed Sraughton and bill and D Moore EV Learn and joe john cullves and galaTon finch to help
</p><p>20 Saturday wind N clear Thrashed fall wheat 124 bushed 108 oats Mashine broke dawn james Learn here at night
</p><p>21 Sunday wind S clear to Disiple Church E Shepard preached Randall to 2 church Sler preached
</p><p>22 Monday wind SE Rain to Neal taylors. to Old Mr Taylors funeral D Apeford To London for Repairs
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>23 tuesday wind S cloudy finished thrashing oats 218 bushed David Barber and wife here at night paid for Thrashing $13.75 to D Apleford
</p><p>24 Wednesday wind SE clear to London to fair David Barber and wife with us Colen fergeson here at night Rain at night
</p><p>25 Thursday wind W clear to help Soeughton thrah D Moore to help Randall and Colin fergeson To London to fair David Barber and wife here
</p><p>26 fryday wind S clear to help W Gracey Thrash Randall to help D Moore father and Mother and D Barber and wife here at night. Randall got a pair of boots at W jacksons. $2.90
</p><p>27 fryday wind SW warm to Belmont to W jacksons To Diner paid him $2.90 got 3 shoes set to Abots David Barber and wife with us Randall to help gracy Thrash
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>28 Sunday wind S warm to No 7 W jackson preach and to sunday school David Barber and wife and Ann to 2 church at 3 pm Sler preachedjg faucell and wife To diner, john and siss finch james and jane Learn and Miss Godby to Tea.
</p><p>29 Monday wind N rain picked up aples fore noon cleaned wheat after noon David Barker and wife here john Learn and wife To Tea
</p><p>30 Tuesday wind W clear To ST Thomas with David Barber got photograph group for $ 1.37 1/2 . To Diner to charles Learns The womin to faucett frost at night
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="October_1873">October 1873</span></h2>
<p>1 Wednesday widn N clear to swamp. Randall drawed wood. frost at night
</p><p>2 thursday wind S clear Drawed in sowed corn and 1 load of corn and went To Belmont To Mill 18 bushel of wheat got from Odle 20lb sugar and 1 lb Tobacoe $2.50 cts got a buck from john Learn
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>3 fryday wind E clear Dug potatoes fore noon Drawed corn after noon Ann pick the geese George C Learn To Diner
</p><p>4 Saturday wind S Rain to Aylmer show To jesa Learns To Tea To Calum Browns at night
</p><p>5 Sunday wind W cloudy rain at night To Aylmer To church. S Baldwin preached. To Edward Browns to diner at home at night. Rain
</p><p>6 Monday wind N cool cloudy picked Aples 22 bushed Randall comenced to plow in midle field
</p><p>7 Tuesday widn W clear picked up Aples 34 bushel Randall plowed W gracy wife to Diner
</p><p>8 Wednesday wind SE clear picked Aples 12 bushel fore noon let Traughton have 20 bushel aples to Lyons show after noon Randall to show and Ann paid Hughs 48 cts promis to pay T j Putnam $ 20 for bad luck on colt
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>9 Thursday wind S clear picke Aples fore noon 6 bu to belmont after noon let Dyer Odle have 536 lb flour at $3 per unt let Abott have 1 hundred flour $ 3.25 cts Randall plowed fore noon
</p><p>10 fryday wind S clear picked Aples fore noon Took Maple boards to Belmont. 738 feet for Dr camble. had D Moores Mare. Randall plowed john Doan had a cow to Bull
</p><p>11 Saturday wind SW Rain to Belmont let Dr camble have 828 feet boards he paid $21 fore noon To help D Moore thrash after noon Randall help all day
</p><p>12 Sunday wind NW clear to new sarum to church Elder haycock preached to Diner to E turners Randall at home
</p><p>13 Monday wind NW cloudy helped D f Moore thrash fore noon to j g faucetts sale after noon got a cow and fork for $ 15 35 cts Ann to j R johnsons got yarn
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>13 tuesday wind SW clear warm Drawed in corn Randall helped
</p><p>15 Wednesday wind E clear Drawed in corn finished borowed a horse from john Learn lent him the wagon
</p><p>16 Thursday wind S E cloudy wind at night plowed fore noon Peter
Putnam here to fix pump after noon
</p><p>17 fryday wind E clear plowed fore noon Randall plowed all day P j Putnam put in the pump ater noon for $8.25 ct got loards {50 tm written above} Erick Smith and wife to Diner
</p><p>18 Saturday wind SW Rain husked corn Randall To help D Moore clean wheat Cows star Broke her horn
</p><p>19 Sunday wind SW cloudy at home to gracy to Archa Mcolum john Learn and wife and child charles Learn and wife and 2 children francy Deacon and wife and 2 children to Tea in evening
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>20 Monday wind NE cloudy snow at night plowed Randall plowed in the 14 Acre field 2 teams kept the horses in the stable at night
</p><p>21 Tuesday wind SW snow rain husked corn and killed a hog Randalf went to W gracyes at night put cows in the stable
</p><p>22 Wednesday in SW clear To Belmont fore noon got cheese money $ 25 plowed and Randall after noon 2 Teams. Rain at night
</p><p>23 Thursday wind SW Rain husked corn Randall To Belmont. Robert Learn Took the horse home
</p><p>24 fryday wind SW clear husked corn fore noon Randall and Moore picked Aples. plowed after noon 2 Teams
</p><p>25 Saturday wind SW clear plowed 2 teams Randall helped
</p><p><br />
26 Sunday wind E cloudy Rain at night to New Sarum To church Elder Haycock preached to Lymans To Diner To EV Learns to Tea. paid j Merlatt $101 for Taxes
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>27 Monday wind S cloudy plowed after noon husked corn core noon Randall helped W gracy paid $ 8.65
</p><p>28 Tuesday wind SEWN snow husked corn Randall to help
</p><p>29 Wednesday wind WN snow husked corn Randall helped
</p><p>30 Thursday wind SE cloudy rain
fixed stable Drawed in pumpkins fore noon husked corn afternoon Randall helped
</p><p>31 fryday wind SW snow husked corn Randall to help
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="November_1873">November 1873</span></h2>
<p>1 Saturday wind SW clear husked corn Randall To help. put the Buck with The sheep turned Them to D Moores
</p><p>2 Sunday wind SW Rain at home Randall to gladsTone church
</p><p>3 Monday wind NW snow clear husked corn Randall helped to D Moores in The evening
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>4 Tuesday wind S clear fixed platform on well fore noon husked corn after non Randall plowed D Moore and wife and Sarah Ann Legg her in the evening. frze
</p><p>5 Wednesday wind SW clear husked corn Randall plowed frze
</p><p><br />
6 Thursday wind SW clear plowed Randall went away and left me To do for him self
</p><p>7 fryday wind SE cloudy plowed finished the 14 acre field Randall to eds
</p><p>8 SaTurday wind NW cloudy to Sroughtons got 10{bushel?} potatoes fore noon Done choars after noon Robert Learn here at night
</p><p>9 Sunday wind NW cloudy at home D f Moore and wife and jane Stevenson To tea put up 2 big steers
</p><p>10 Monday wind W cloudy helped D f Moore kill hogs 2 fore noon plowed after noon in garden
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>11 Tuesday wind E cloudy snow to Belmont got horses pete and charley shod 4 new 4 set got from Dyer Odele coton yarn 2 bunches $ 3 50
1 lb Tea {50 above}1 lb tabacoe {50 above} wick {2 above} $102 Magenta {10 above} 2 bag {beside} $472 to john pettits at night D Moore with us put up 2 little sTeers
</p><p>12 Wednesday wind NW cloudy cold husked corn Done choars Randall away
</p><p>13 Thursday wind NW cloudy to john petitts child funeral fore noon Done choars and Drawed 2 load of wood after noon Randall home at night
</p><p>14 fryday wind SW clear Drawed wood Randall to Belmont got a bufalow Robe. to Mckelons for $14 75 D Moore fetched grist home from mill for me
</p><p>15 Saturday wind S clear Done choars Randall to Belmont sent with j Troughton for flax seed 25 cts
</p><p>16 Sunday wind SW cloudy thawed At home all day
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>17 Monday wind E cloudy Built a corn crib D f Moore to help. Randall went a way pedling wire j Dean to help him
</p><p>18 Tuesday wind N clear Made cider fore noon D Moore E Learn to help plowed after noon sold D Moore The geese 13 for $6..00
</p><p>19 Wednesday wind NW cloudy snow at night Built ash house Randall home at night paid Taxes $26 20 wheat
</p><p>20 Thursday wind NW cloudy killed 5 hogs salted down 4 in baken D Moore Randall and E Learn To help
</p><p>21 fryday wind NE snowed fixed sTable. Randall To Belmont sent Money for wire $27.50 $2 for other things
</p><p>22 Saturday wind SW clear fixed sTable fore noon Randall helped To Belmont after noon got from Dyer pair of slips for Ann 80 cts john Learn and wife To diner he Took his Buck home. Randall got sage to Sroughtons
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>23 Sunday wind E cloudy snow at home Mother hariet and litle chaley here To Tea Mother went to E Learns Hariet and charley slayed at night
</p><p>24 Monday wind NW cloudy Done choars Randall to j
</p><p>Denis s sale george Aplefor and wife jack and jeny To Tea Hariet and charley here
</p><p>25 Tuesday wind N cloudy helped E Learn kill 2 hogs fore noon Done choars afTer noon Drawed 1 load of wood let p j putnam have a hog 159 lb $8 95 cts haiet to Eds charley away D Moore Took some geese
</p><p>26 Wednesday wind NW cloudy Done choars Randall choped D Demery and wife Mrs finch and cullver here To tea hareitt and charley D Moore paid $6 for geese
</p><p>27 Thursday wind NE snow cleaned wheat cut 6 pigs fore noon to Mrs finches to Diner and Tea Ann and Hariet withe me put in sTraw after noon Took in the colts at night
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>28 fryday wind NW cloudy snow to Belmont let Dyer Odle
have 21 1/4 {$113 above} bushel of wheat {$386 written below} let Abott have boards 256 feet
</p><p>29 Saturday wind N clear Done choars to john Learns in the evening charles Learn and wife with us Ann and hariet went to Eds james Learn here at night Randall home at night
</p><p>30 Sunday wind NE cloudy at home to D Moores in the evening Ann To Eds charley and hariet went home
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="December_1873">December 1873</span></h2>
<p>1 Monday wind NE cold to swamp To D pulins to Sandy currys to E Smiths To Diner Randall a way with wire Hanah Learns child Born at 5 oclock in the morning
</p><p>2 tuesday wid SE rain all day warm Done choars Ann washed Randall away with wife
</p><p>3 Wednesday wid SW Rain Done choars. Randall home {bound at night written between the lines}
</p><p>4 Thursday wind SW clear cold fixed fence Randall helped fence blowed Down
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>5 fryday wind W clear cold fixed fence piled boards Randall chaped. to george Aplefords in The evening Randall and Ann with met to Tea
</p><p>6 Saturday wind N clear to Hills to diner to covnant MeeTing in The afternoon Ann at home Randall To Belmont Robert Learn here at night
</p><p>7 Sunday wind E cloudy at home Randall away Robert Learn here to diner
</p><p>8 Monday wind E cloudy Rain Done choars had a cold and lame buck Randall home at night
</p><p>9 tuesday wind SW Rain I was sick Randall chaped and Done choars
</p><p>10 Wednesday wind W cloudy I was sick geting beter Randall chaped and Done choars sent a leter to Philip cullvers
</p><p>11 Thursday wind SW cloudy Rain caryed in corn to the crib 142 bushel Randall helped
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>12 fryday wind NE rain put in sTraw fore noon Randall helped caryed in corn 32 bushel to crib after noon. Mrs Daniel Apleford here To Tea
</p><p>13 Saturday wind NE snow 4 inch husked corn Randall choared Dick colt had Distemer
</p><p>14 Stunday wind SW cloudy at home to D Moores To Tea Randall and Ann To
</p><p>15 Monday wind SW clear husked corn filled The crib 200 <s>hund</s>rd bushel Randall drawed wood for sugar bush
</p><p>16 tuesday wind SW clear Drawed wood fore noon To Belmont after noon got from Dyer 1 lb tobacoe {50 written above} 2oz nut meg {10 written above} 3 yrds Drill {25 written above} 12 1/2 g 2 yrds coton hired Clark procton half month for $3
</p><p>17 Wednesday wind SW clear cut wood clark to help in wood house Randall a pedling wire toaly called falls called E Moore here in the eve ning
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>18 Thursday wind NE cloudy cut wood in The woods Clark to help. Randall Done Nothing Mealum fruit agent here at night
</p><p>19 fryday wind N cloudy cut wood in the woods clark to help Randall choped after noon. paid to joliff school tax $11 70 sold R tooly 2 steers for $37 to be paid 1 day of february 1874. Elgin Marsh to diner
</p><p>20 Saturday wind N snow cut wood in the wood house clark to help Randall To Belmont
</p><p>21 Sunday wind N clear coldat home jack Smithto Tea
</p><p>22 Monday wind S cloudykilled a beef fore noonto Belmont after noon let George franeis have a quater beef $2 56 Mrs foster a quarte $2 60 and bag aples 50 j Black a hog aples 75ct Abott a hog 75 ct got from Dyer 15 lb sugar $1 50. an 2 lb bisket 20 . 1 and 4 lb Raisons 50 {illegible} 3 lb curants 25 1 lb Tea 50 and 1 oz cin 5 {illegible} 1 aunt {illegible} 6 yds shirTing 120 and 2L drill 63 cts 2 yrs coton 25 cts shod {5 above} returned slips 80cts
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>clark choped Randall helped To kill beef fore noon chaped after noon
</p><p>23 Tuesday wind NE clear Done choars fore noon sawed wood after noon clark cut wood Randall to Eds at night Ann made a shirt for clark
</p><p>24 Wednesday wind SE cloudy snow at night cut wood fore noon Done choars after noon Sent clark procton away at Noon for haveing loused The Bed. Randall to london got home at night
</p><p>25 thursday wind SW cloudy Christmas day to john Learns To diner Philips here at night john finch to to Tea Randall To finches to diner let john Learn have beef quarter 54 lb
</p><p>26 fryday wind SW snow cloudy to help finches Thrash Randall To help and team Asa Learn and wife To diner philip here
</p><p>24 Saturday wind NE cloudy to help finches Thrash with team and Randall philip Done choars
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>28 Sunday wind SW cloudy at home j Emery and R white <s>to d</s> called D f Moore and wife to Tea Randall away at night philip took horse home
</p><p>29 Monday wind W Blustery snow To help finches Thrash fore noon Randall to help Done choars after noon Randall to Lyons
</p><p>30 Tuesday wind W snow Done choars Randall To help George Apleford Thrash. we was To W hills in the evening Ran {crossed out} dall To orwell
</p><p>31 Wednesday wind SW cloudy Done choars Randall came home at noon the Dick Colt Brake with The Distemper
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Janruary_1874">Janruary 1874</span></h2>
<p>1 Thursday wind SW cloudy Dine choars. To misionary Meeting at night to No 7 john Learn and wife and W Brown To diner Randall away home at night Ed Moore here at Night
</p><p>2 fryday wind SW fogy Done choars Randall home Thawed Rain at night
</p><p>3 Saturday wind thawed SW cloudy Done choars. Randall to Belmont after noon Mateland Brown and George Lawer here at night. Thawed
</p><p>4 Sunday wind SW cold changed at home. To EV Learn in the evening to tea
</p><p>5 Monday wind NW clear To Harriestsville paid to S Bass $3.00 for taxes paid To john Dafoe 80 cts school tax to Lyons to town Meeting voted for cline Woodworth Stewart and Charlton and Hair Randall to Lyons to vote
</p><p>6 Tuesday wind NE snow killed a Beef Randall and Ed to help H Herin to diner Bell fasqur and jane Stevenson to tea
</p></div>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#May"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">May</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#June"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">June</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#July_1874"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">July 1874</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Agust_1874"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Agust 1874</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#September_1874"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">September 1874</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#October_1874"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">October 1874</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#November_1874"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">November 1874</span></a></li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="March_1874">March 1874</span></h2>
<table>
<tbody><tr>
<td>Dan lost Time</td>
<td>Days</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table><table>
</table><table>
<tbody><tr>
<td>28</td>
<td>away to Belmont</td>
<td>1/2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>18 April</td>
<td>away</td>
<td>1/2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>20</td>
<td>Dan sick</td>
<td>1/2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>29</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1/2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>30</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="May">May</span></h2><table>
</table><table>
<tbody><tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="June">June</span></h2><table>
</table><table>
<tbody><tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>Dan done road work</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>26</td>
<td>Dan to pick nick</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="July_1874">July 1874</span></h2><table>
</table><table>
<tbody><tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Agust_1874">Agust 1874</span></h2><table>
</table><table>
<tbody><tr>
<td>26</td>
<td>Dan Drunk</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>27</td>
<td>Dan away Drunk</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="September_1874">September 1874</span></h2><table>
</table><table>
<tbody><tr>
<td>5</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1/2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1/2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>23</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1/2</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="October_1874">October 1874</span></h2><table>
</table><table>
<tbody><tr>
<td></td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1/2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1/2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>19</td>
<td>Dan away Drunk</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>20</td>
<td>Dan away Drunk</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>29</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>30</td>
<td>Dan away Drunk</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>31</td>
<td>Dan away Drunk</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="November_1874">November 1874</span></h2><table>
</table><table>
<tbody><tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>Dan away drunk</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td>Dan away</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
{the 1s in the far right column could just as easily be /s}<table></table></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>June 1874 pair
</p><p>Dan pair $ 1.00
12 Pair Dan 1.00
26 Pair Dan. 1.24
30 Pair Dan 4.00
August 1874
22 pair dan 1.00
25 Pair Dan 4.00
$ September 1874
Pair Dan 4.00
20 pair dan 2
October 1874
Pair Dan 5.00
</p><p>November the 1874 Receivew from Andrew learn in full for work dollars and sevently eight cents
</p>
<pre> - Daniel Gracery
</pre></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>I wednesday in N & Rain Dane Chaars let Pq Putman have 90 Bushel en 10lbs wheat for 81 121/2 ets per bushes $10 Raindall to farquers at night.
</p><p>& thursday in N w claudy to st thomsa got etms a Bani tam ove Shoes to dines to fathers to tea to elder A smiths to new Sasum to meeting in evening slay cock pneachew. to lyman learns at night Randall done chaars.
</p><p>9 friday in sclaudy snoe to Break faste to lymass came hame fame maan randall to Behmant after mean sale week hid per $275
</p><p>10 saturday in S Wclaudy snow to Belmant afternoon got from dyer over cau T$6 pair Dyer in full $ 1082 Randaal Drawer 2 load of wood sold yalm learners the old sew for $7.00 11 sunday win N.W snow to new sarumm to church slay rock pneacoches. to poilph Learners to diner gave Dearan New cant $175 for the Raptish Paper.
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>12 Monday WM claudy to Belmant to mill to WBarrs in the evening Randall to Bahmant Robert and Philip Learn took the old saw home
</p><p>15 Tuesday in NE snow to yohn Learns got shingles (oao and 3/4)Randall sick
</p><p>14 Wednessday in NM Bluestery Dance chaar caller to Alack Stwarts in evenning his wife sick. Randall sick
</p><p>15 Thursday in W Blurstery Done chaars cleanew wheat in the evening Demoane in the evening Demoane to help john Doan monew his house past 16 Friday in Wclear cold To spring field with spring whaet 19 hu 45 lbs sold for $104 Barley & bushed solld for $115 per bushed . Randall Away WY hill and wife hes to tea evening john learm and in wife to tea. pair nutman $55 fon Natc 17 saturday in Selear Drawed weoa with calts fone moan to Belmpnt after fun got table faith and dress and shoes from dyer $5.45 the [air fauceth $1 for paper Randall sick pet Bass heren
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>18 sunday win SC clear to new sarun to church elder hayeaek Preachew wy hill and wife with us to james warwicks to diner Randall sick
</p><p>19 Monday in SC rain NW snow Daechaars haw weak old was hoarsse Randeel sick toath aks
</p><p>20 tuesday in L claudy dane chaars to behmant after moan to old dyesr sale pair dyer $140 fo shoes lyman learn and wife to diner Randall to Relmont to i u learns to tea
</p><p>21 wednesday S fogy done chaars. ly man an betsey and a map peadles to diner randall away at night 22 thursday in S W Rain done chaars sold duglass the sheep 13 for $48 he pair me $10. D for Moan filer the Buck sew for me randall at home
</p><p>23 friday in NW Blustery Lane chaars Randell to Behmont learn and wife and yeme hera to tea.
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>24 saturday in NWbluesd Done chaars Randall went to mapletan
</p><p>25 Sunday in NW cold at home Randall away mrs d moane and sarah mm legg to tea.
</p><p>26 monday in S W claudy done chaars Randall came home D gracy here in the evening. hargenw fin to work a year for $160 dug lass took the sheep and pair $38
</p><p>27 tuesday win Snow Rain Done chaars Randall to doams george emery aw wife an am and elen mj frank and george c learn here to tea.
</p><p>28 wednesday in NW claudy done choars nelson learn and wife to diner randall away at night
</p><p>29 THURSDAY IN NW CLAUDY to election votew fpr S day Randall vote for day 30 friday N E snow blustery to Black Stewails wife s funeral W Yacks and wife to diner Randall to finehers to a surprise at night.
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>31 Saturday un Nclear to Belmant got the horse shad to a balls & set get 25 1/2 lbs to bacoe from dyer hose matches pair galaury 1/2 lbs tea from W yeack son fon 40ets Draw 2 loadwas lower $300 from Randall
</p><p>Set Ruary 1874 sunday win N L claudu to new sarum to church elder slay cock preached went with Dan gracy to No 4 in evening pair to Deacon New canch $ 1.00 james learn here at night
</p><p>2 monday wind N E snow done choars Randall and jim heard soaly pair his mate $37.00
</p><p>3 tuesday in wc claudy to st thomas Randall done chars got from cary 41 yeds caton and 26 print for $9.30, put in the merchan its Bank $306 to dies to fathers
</p><p>4 wednesday in wealears done choars fane moan to serving field with wheat 34 afternoon, randall away Robert learn here at night.
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>5 thursday win w clear to spring field with wheat sold to kip for $120 cys 22 bustell got 500 Brant $300 Randall Done choars A Susprize party here at nigght Fathers and mother here and about co persons to the surprise party
</p><p>I fry day win I snow to lyman learns got oats 26 bushesl en barley 12 Randall done chaars
</p><p>4 saturday in R Claudy to belmont with oats to chap 26 bushel got from nugant i barell saltan from from dyer 4 lbs lea $ 275 sets paw john G fawcett $ 1250 fon cau Randall to Behmont
</p><p>$ suunday in Sclear to elder to new sarum
</p><p>9 monday in NW claudy Drawal Weal Fone Moan put cam after moan David Brown here at night Randall came home.
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>10 tuesday in Wclaudy snow to whites mill with came for chop fathers and mother here david Brown here Randall to new sarum to tea meeting.
</p><p>11 wednesday iin Wclaudy to Belmoont pair YG gauces th $1.00 95 th got from nugent i bare saltand pitcher $1.45 lts thase from dyer 25ets gotchap from mill 26 bushell to games shirkes in the evening to tea gets 5 3/4 chees from hin 70cts Randall away
</p><p>12 thursday wind S thawew Dane chars Drave dcik catt jane learn and llida hilll here at night Randell home
</p><p>13 Friday wiind S Rain done choars lida hill and jane here Randall home 14 satuday in S wclara done hill went home jane here
</p><p>15 sunday in S clear than to new sarun to chuch to w jane to new sarum day cock kneak new.
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>16 monday in NW smuu blus to Andrew cliles got 2 bushel clover seed $12.00 Randall an yane came home.
</p><p>17 tuesday in w clear cold done choars Randall draw wood in the sugar bush jane here.
</p><p>18 wednesday in S clear done choars Randall to Belmnt little john learn here james learn here at night
</p><p>19 thursday n SW rain at mig done choars Randall home mrs moane took her Bird home W gragery Buril
</p><p>20 Friday in NW clear thawe to will Bushed wheat and 12 af oats to Y fuc westts to diner got cheese macy $2of 76 ots got boats for from $ 1, 75 its Randall home 21 Saturday wind NP snow dave chars Randall home george learn to diner
</p><p>22 sunday wind L claudy at ome Randall and Jone to PV learn in the evening
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>23
</p><p>Monday in wice storm to mrs thomsons funeral to david moanes shepard pneached Randall to belmat to Y camlder tp work at harness trade mrs lariet moane sick.
</p><p>24 tuesday wind w clear to george learness to dines w moane caller. W gracy and wife and kdaline to tea done gracy in the evening.
</p><p>25 wednesday in St snoe done choars
</p><p>26 thursday in SW cald to behmant let slauck irss have 30a feet hoards $4.00
</p>
<pre>got the griss from the mill jane worker at an dress
</pre>
<p>21 friday in SW clear done choars to hills got 2 bags turnips jane worker at an dress
</p><p>28 saturday wind s clear done choars Randall came home at night
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>March 1874
</p><p>Sunday wind S. clear at home Randall and jane to glad stone to church john learn and masgret cullver to diner and S flemins to tea Randall went to Bekmmont at night margret here
</p><p>2 monday wind Sclear made spindes dones choars margnet clulver here.
</p><p>3 tuesday wind S W rain Travell the Buckets to the Bush taped co trees and took mar gret to john in the after moan 4 wednesday in NW clear done choars put the Buckets Round to trees.
</p><p>5 Thursday wind L clear took the kittens to he bush and hund them margnet cullver walked over n johns here at night
</p><p>6 friday in L claudy Rain done choars margnet cullver here
</p><p>7 saturday in S W cludy to john learns took marget there fill come home with us randall come home at night
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>8 Sunday in N snow at home Randall home Dan gracy to diner
</p><p>9 Monday in N W snow blus dane choars let george let george ap lefond have randa;l harness randa;; went tp behment
</p><p>10 tuesday wind N blus tery done chars
</p><p>11 wednesday N Blusstery done chars to george aplefanels in the evening
</p><p>12 thurday wind Neol blustery done choars
</p><p>13 fridat wind NW Blustery done chars
</p><p>14 saturday wind w clear sone choars Trawel wood 3 load Randall came home at night 15 sunday wind S clear thunder at home Rnadall home to D moans in the evening
</p><p>16 monday wind S cloudy tapew the bush cannenced to boil gracy to worked ofr a year for me $ 160 chapter wines.
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>17 tuesday wind SP clear getherew sap 5 tuls and boilew suripew dawn dan gracy to help
</p><p>18 wednesday wind SP cloudy worker in Bush getherew Sap 5 tubs boiler sugarew off 26 lb made moleses 2 galans Dan helhew
</p><p>19 thurday in NW ckear worked in Bush gethere sap 4 tubs Boiled suagre off 50. Dan Helped
</p><p>20 Friday wind S clear worked in Bush getheresw sap 2 1/2 tubs boiled dan to help sugared off 89lbs
</p><p>21 saturday wind NW clear worked in the Bush gethered sap 2 tubs suagred of 26th Randall home janes learn and sarsh legg here at night dan ehaphew in form moan helped in the bush afternoon to belment at night.
</p><p>22 sunday wind SW clear at home Randall home Dan here Robert learn here 23 monday in blush tery done choars dan chapter sugered odd 21lbs.
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>24 Tuesday in W clear cab sauce stake cuts fame noar dan spily stakes after naan put the meete to smake jane to Moans at night
</p><p>25 wednesday in SP clear saves stake cuts Dan to help Dan belmont at night
</p><p>26 thursday wind S W main forn and night moan N cold snow after drawed sap 3 tubs dan to help. mate lan Brown and Tanpates to jiners.
</p><p>27 friday wind SW clear Boiled sap getherew 2 tubs dan drawed wood after moon
</p><p>28 saturday wind clear sawed stake cuts fone moan dan to help dan away after moan to Betmont after moan git from syer goods $$2.25 sugared off 28th Randall home at night
</p><p>29 sunday wind SW clear at home Rnadall home an to john learns philip ad Rd learn here C moan to tea, catits ta babe brown 10.00
</p><p>30 monday wind S W clear Dance choars Dan spilt stakes Lenert will and wife to dines changed oats 10 bus.
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>And came home from johns, troughton and wife to tea fetched the cloth 50 yds pair her $6.25
</p><p>31 tuesday wind NP clear Drawed staked 436 Dan split stakes
</p><p>April 1874
</p><p>1 wednesday wind JW clear to john learns get the wgon fone moan to hills got hungarion seed after mon to john to john learns ann to hills
</p><p>2 thursday in SW clear Drawed staked 166 fane moon Dan spilt stakes gether w sap after noon father and mother to diner philip learn and wife to tea john finch and randall her at night
</p><p>3 friday in NW snoe cold boiler sap dan split staked randall and jane event to lymass williams barr and wife berty to tea.
</p><p>4 saturday NW cold drawed wood & load for moan sawed blackes aftre moan dan to help. pair W Cagams $14,60 Randwall home at night jane away home.
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>5 Easter sunday wind & snow at home Randall and dan and jane away Randall and jane came home at night
</p><p>6 monday wind W clear drawes fence blacks fone moan Dan cut Blocks after moan randell to belmount
</p><p>& tuesday in W clear warm sawed blacks fane moan drawed blocks after moan dan spillt blocks
</p><p>8 wednesday wiind & clear getheres and Barlew sah Dan cut loacks after oan and went to layolars and bought a marse for $35 after tear ann helped to cary up the surip Nub and black cans had calfer
</p><p>9 thursday & clear drawed fence black fone moan drawed stakes after moan dan cut blacks put dawn malases 13 gad
</p><p>10 friday in W clear get 1 load starw from & d learn gethered sap 4 1/2 tubs boiled dan to help i was sick after noan
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>11 Saturday in N snow cold Done chores Dan suriped Down split wood and killed Blacks calf the black sow to boar we was to D Moores in the evening Randall came home at night
</p><p>12 Sunday wind SE clear to 2 church to prayer meeting Dan and Jane wiith us Randall to D Moores in the evening
</p><p>13 Monday in SE clear gethered and Boiled sap 3 1/2 tubs made Molases 6 galons Dan split stakes after noon bass choped wood Richard pullin to tea
</p><p>14 tuesday in SW clear gethered sap 5 tubs boiled Dan to help went to helmont after tea Ann went to Johns Lyman Learn here at night
</p><p>15 Wednesday wind N W clear Drawed sap 3 tubs made Molases 5 galons Dant to help Dan spilt stakes afternoon
</p><p>sugar and Malases 600 lbs.
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>16 thursday wind E clear to Mapleton got 4 shoes set on horses got from W Appleford hungarian hay 1 tun for $6 Dan split stakes Py Putnam sessed me for $3500
</p><p>17 fryday wind NE clear gethered sap 3 tubs Boiled let Py Putnam have 8 bushel 19lbs wheat $9.81 side pork 41 lbs $5"13 d paid him in full to date Dan split stakes afternoon
</p><p>18 Saturday wind E clear to Mapleton for hay forenoon to Belmont afternoon got from Dyer 2 spreads $525 1 1/2 lb tobacoe 75 cts let him have 1 1/2 bushel aples 3 galons Molases 16 1/2 lb buter 10 doz eggs let Y cambele have 3 aples $150 got hitch nanes $1 curcomb 20 cts Dan split stakes forenoon went away after noon Randall came home at night John Hawkin with him
</p><p>19 Sunday wind E clear to Newsarum to church Haycock preached to dine to Lymans Randall home John Hawkins here. Dan away
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>20 Monday wind E rain gethered sap 5 tubs Dan to help. Randall went to Belmont
</p><p>21 tuesday wind S clear Boiled sap Dan thrashed hungarian seed. Betsey culliver here at night John L Learn to Dinner Robert Learn to tea
</p><p>22 Wednesday wind S clear gethered the Buckets and Drawed in from bush cleaned hungarian seed forenoon Dan split stakes after noon finished Betsey cullver went home
</p><p>23 thursday wind NW clear cultivated for barley Dan built fence Round corn field
</p><p>24 fryday wind E clear Drawed stakes forenoon cultivated afternoon Dan built fence Ann to Baleys
</p><p>25 Saturday wind E Rain snow to the swamp Dan at the fence Randall com home
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>26 Sunday wind NW at home D f Moore and wife to Diner. froze at night
</p><p>27 Monday wind NW clear cold sick with a boil bought a Drag of charlton $20 sold him 4 pigs $20 Dan at fence Randall to belmont gone to D f Moores at night
</p><p>28 tuesday wind W clear cool sick with a boill Dan at fence. Spot cow had a calf, froze hard at night
</p><p>29 Wednesday wind N cold sick with a boil Dan at fence forenoon away afternoon Midge hefer had a calf froze hard
</p><p>30 thursday wind S cloudy Done chores Dan away Lyman Learn and wife here at night
</p><p>May 1874
</p><p>1 fryday wind W clear cold cultivated to 2 church Meeting at night got a letter of Dissmissial from the church for me and Ann. Dan away
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>2 Saturday wind SW clear to Wiliam Barrs fore noon got a load of hay Borowed to paid Next winter to Belmont after noon got from Dyer $372 ct worth paid him $680 ut let Camble have 2 bags aples $150 malass $127 cts Let frots have Molases $460 D Wagoner 1 bag aples 75 paid Dan away Randall came home at night got from pratts 1 shovel I pail $225
</p><p>3 Sunday wind E clear to Newsarum to church haycock preached to Lymans to Diner Randall and Jan to 2 church Sler preached Dan away
</p><p>4 Monday wind E cloudy sowed Barley spring wheat and grass seede in 7 acre field Dan Draged. Randall went to Belmont Jane to Eds put old Doll to Jacksons horse Sent milk of 3 cows to factory
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>5 tuesday wind NW clear Draged forenoon cultivated afternoon Dan at fence
</p><p>6 Wednesday wind NW clear cultivated Dan at fence
</p><p>7 Thursday wind W SW clear Draged oats in 16 acre field Dan sowed oats
</p><p>8 fryday wind SW clear warm Draged Dan sowed grass seede Jane came home
</p><p>9 Saturday wind SW clear warm finished dragging oats Rolled 14 acres Dan at the fence Randall came home at night Pide cow had a calf
</p><p>10 Sunday wind S warm to Newsarum to church Elder haycock preached Randall and Jane at home to haycocks to Diner
</p><p>11 Monday wind E clear Rolled 7 acres forenoon Made garden after noon Dan at fence forenoon Drawed old rails for wood after noon Randall to Belmanot
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>12 tuesday wind S clear took the calves to the swamp forenoon let Sandy cury have plowed ground to put in hungarian grass for 1/2 worked at fence after noon Dan at fence
</p><p>13 Wednesday wind N clear fixed fence Dan to help
</p><p>14 thursday wind E clear plowed corn ground Dan at fence forenoon planted potatos afternoon sold empey calf skins got 4 pails from him Rose cow had a calf
</p><p>15 fryday wind SE clear plowed corn ground Dan planted potatoes forenoon at fence afternoon
</p><p>16 Saturday wind W Rain Made 2 gates forenoon plowed corn ground after noon Dan at fence Randalll came home at night
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>17 Sunday wind SW Rain to Newsarum to church A Smith preached had comunion. To Lewis cloeses to Diner the horse was sick Randall and Jane at home Dan away in morning
</p><p>18 Monday wind NE Rain plowed corn ground Dan at fence and put his Mare to Jacksons horse. Randall went to Belmont to work
</p><p>19 tuesday wind SW clear finished plowing corn ground Rolled and draged dan at fence, turned the colts in litle field
</p><p>20 Wednesday in SW Rain Draged corn ground Dan at fence
</p><p>21 Thursday wind NW Rain Draged and Rolled corn ground Dan at fence
</p><p>22 fryday wind NW clear Marked corn ground planted 52 Roes D f Moore and Dan to help
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>23 Saturday wind W clear planted corn Dan to help D Moore helped afternoon. Randall came home at night
</p><p>24 Sunday wind SW celar at home Randall and Jane to Mapleton Dan away. Rain at night
</p><p>25 Monday wind W hard finished planting corn Dan helped let John tooly have 1 bushel corn $1 Randall to Belmont
</p><p>26 tuesday wind W clear plowed in the medowe Dan at fence Let George Smith have 1/4 b corn for 25 cts
</p><p>27 Wednesday wind S clear plowed in medowe Dan helped Ed Learn saw planted melons at night. to Belmont got from Dyer $403 in goods paid 32 doz eggs $320
</p><p>28 thursday wind S clear warm sowed corn plnnted beans cucumbers and potatoes Calvin Brown and wife and Mrs Barr and Mrs Hill to diner
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>6 Saturday in {Weleascold?}
</p><p>Cleaned oats 83 bushel
</p><p>henery to {help?} boy here
</p><p>Randalf come home at
</p><p>night. paid Mary 837s
</p><p>7 Sunday {illegible} Eclear cold
</p><p>to John Learns to Diner
</p><p>John cullver here at
</p><p>night charles an Nih
</p><p>to johns Randalf home at night
</p><p><br />
</p><p>8 Monday {in?} NWclear cold
</p><p>to Belmont got horses shad {8?}
</p><p>shoes set at Abotts let
</p><p>Neuman have 497 {lb 812.42?{42 is written on top of line}}
</p><p>of flour {82.50 cmy? {written between lines}}. got 2 barles salt 83
</p><p>pair Boots $2,25 Broon 25 {it?}
</p><p>colas 15. {Iaginaor?} 10. to Ginos
</p><p>to faucetts John cullver
</p><p>with me tnaughtan {in?}
</p><p>wife an 2 children to ten
</p><p>Randall home at might
</p><p>John cullver here
</p><p><br />
</p><p>9 tuesday in Wclear cold
</p><p>to Lyons john cullver
</p><p>with me Drove pony
</p><p>Randall Drawed wood to
</p><p>Lyons. home at night
</p><p>henery Thnashed oats john
</p><p>Cullver here at night .
</p><p>10 Wednesday {in?} SE snow {at night written on top of snow}
</p><p>to {Avan?} to Diner to
</p><p>Manetts john cullver with
</p><p>me. Randall {Dnewed?} wood
</p><p>to Lyons. henery Thrashed
</p><p>oats
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>11 thursday {in?} W Bhistory {"cold" is written above line}
</p><p>Done choars henery Thrashed
</p><p>oats Randall went to
</p><p>Lyons. john cullver went away with him
</p><p><br />
</p><p>18 fryday {in?} Wclear cold
</p><p>{drawed?} 2 {"1 1/2 cond" is written above line} load of wood
</p><p>henery Thrashed oats
</p><p>john Learn john
</p><p>cullver Nib and chrles
</p><p>cullver here to Diner
</p><p>Randall home at night
</p><p>pony Run away
</p><p><br />
</p><p>13 Saturday {in?} Wclear cold
</p><p>cleaned oats 98 bushel
</p><p>Randall and henery and
</p><p>jack and philip cleaned
</p><p><br />
</p><p>14 Sunday {in?} NW clear, cold
</p><p>at home. Df and Ed Moore
</p><p>to Diner Randall and henery
</p><p>to Diner
</p><p>15 Monday {in?} Wclear cold
</p><p>Drove Dick cold {"e" writem very small}{qcharley?}
</p><p>henery thrashed oatss
</p><p>Randall went away
</p><p>St pettit and wife {qgish?}
</p><p>and George Smith an wife
</p><p>and gist to tea
</p><p>16 tuesday {in} Wclear cold
</p><p>Drove Dick and chaley
</p><p>henery Thrashed oats
</p><p>philip to school
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>17 Wednesday in W Blustery {"cold" written above line}
</p><p>Done choars henery thrase
</p><p>oats philip to school to
</p><p>geage {originally "geagel" but the "l" is erased and scratched out} learns at night
</p><p>John an Robert Learn
</p><p>to Tea
</p><p>18 Thursday win W clear cold
</p><p>to {Pf Moores sald?}. henery
</p><p>thrashed oats. W Brown
</p><p>and wife and john Learn
</p><p>To Diner
</p><p>19 fryday {in SE?} snow
</p><p>to Belmont to Mill 10 bush
</p><p>of wheat get 1 shoe set on
</p><p>george at Abotts. get 2 {pas?}
</p><p>Magenty 2oets, condition 25
</p><p>of Newon. cleaned oats
</p><p>after 73 bushed henery to
</p><p>help. henry got his oats 43 4
</p><p>philip home at night
</p><p>20 Saturday {in?} Wcloudy {"much" is written smaller and above line}
</p><p>Done choars. henery cut
</p><p>wood philip home: here
</p><p>at night
</p><p>21 Sunday {in?} Wclear {illegible}
</p><p>to New sarum To church
</p><p>haycock preached to
</p><p>Diner to james Warwicks
</p><p>philip with us
</p><p>22 Monday is S thawed {"rain at night" written above the word "thawed"}
</p><p>to Belmont to mill Let
</p><p>pots have 100 lb flour {$ 3 m?}
</p><p>got from Newsnan. {Toets?}
</p><p>get work to Abotts {yorts?}
</p><p>paid hostage on 2 papers
</p><p>to Dyers 40 cts .
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>23 Tuesday {in?} E cloudy {Thawed?}
</p><p>to Belmont took the
</p><p>Roller to Abott to fine
</p><p>henery at the wood
</p><p>philip to school
</p><p>y cook sessed me for
</p><p>83350
</p><p>24 Wednesday {in?} S cloudy {"fog" is written above word "cloudy"}
</p><p>Done choars henery cut
</p><p>wood philip To school
</p><p>25 Thursday {in?} NW cloudy cold
</p><p>Done choars henery an
</p><p>Winters cut wood
</p><p>philip to school. let
</p><p>Winters have 1 bushel
</p><p>of oats and a Rooster {at 25?}
</p><p>26 fryday {in?} N clear cold
</p><p>Done choars. henery and winters cut wood.
</p><p>james Warwick and wife to Diner. y Shane called
</p><p>27 Saturday {in?} NW clear cold
</p><p>to swamp got posts 28
</p><p>soldy Shane timber {$?} 4
</p><p>henery and Winters cut
</p><p>wood philip away at night
</p><p>John Learn and wife end {9?} boy to diner
</p><p>28 Sunday is NW clear cold
</p><p>to No 7 to church Burk
</p><p>preached. philip away
</p><p>Ann at home
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>March 1875
</p><p>1 Monday in E snow {"cold" is written above "snow"} Blustery
</p><p>Done choars. philip come
</p><p>home. Robert Learn to dine
</p><p>henery an winters to, diner
</p><p>2 tuesday {in?} W clear cold
</p><p>Done choars philip helped
</p><p>henery and George Bass
</p><p>cut wood
</p><p>3 Wednesday in E snow - {"= very Blustery cold" written above line}{"drift" written above "very Blustery cold"}
</p><p>Done choars. henery split
</p><p>wood {fone?} noon philip home
</p><p>4 Thursday in E clear mild
</p><p>fisc spiles. Done choars phib
</p><p>to help henery an {Nonm?}
</p><p>cut wood after noon
</p><p>5 fryday in SE snow
</p><p>to Belmont got from New
</p><p>man 2 pails and paper ink
</p><p>for c5 cts. philip Done
</p><p>choars. {Nonm?} and henery
</p><p>cut wood fone noon
</p><p><br />
6 Saturday in W cloudy cold
</p><p>to Lyons Diner To Randalls
</p><p>Nonm and henery cut wood
</p><p>Randall home at night
</p><p>7 Sunday in E clear
</p><p>to No 7 to church W
</p><p>Jackson preached. philip
</p><p>with me Randall away
</p><p>at night. Ann home
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>8 Monday {in?} W clear mild
</p><p>to Belmont let Abott have
</p><p>oats 8 bushel. to y sherks
</p><p>after father an Mother
</p><p>here to Diner an. {Degnoat?}
</p><p>got the house at Lyons.
</p><p>insured for $400 for three
</p><p>years for $7.50. ctc {"ctc" written above line}
</p><p><br />
9 Tuesday an S clear mild
</p><p>to London with Newon
</p><p>got carpet from him 48 y {illegible}
</p><p>for $43 to he paid in oats
</p><p>at 40 cts per bushel
</p><p>philip Done choars george
</p><p>Learn and wife to tea
</p><p>10 Wednesday {in?} SW clear
</p><p>to Belmont let Newmon
</p><p>have 54 bushel of oats 40 {cts?}
</p><p>per bushel got each $1.00
</p><p>Ann to {Alas?} finches
</p><p>henery split wood {"at night" written below line}
</p><p>11 Thursday {in?} SE cloudy Rain
</p><p>to john cullvers funeral
</p><p>Norman henery cut
</p><p>wood philip Done choars
</p><p>12 fryday {in?} S clear thawed
</p><p>to Belmont let Newon have
</p><p>oats 49 bushel {"40 ct" above "bushel"} and 200 feet
</p><p>boards $2,40 got Talow 11 lb
</p><p>thead 1/2 lb tacks 6 packs.
</p><p>let Menite have 5 bushel
</p><p>oats $1.95. W jackson
</p><p>and wife to Diner and tea
</p><p>Noam and henery cut wood
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>13 Saturday and S clear thaw
</p><p>Done choars. philip home
</p><p>Nonm an henery cut
</p><p>wood. let Norm have
</p><p>oats 20 bushel fon $8.00
</p><p>Randall home at night
</p><p>14 Sunday {in?} S Thawed main
</p><p>to No 7 to church Burk
</p><p>preached Randall an
</p><p>Sarah ann Legg to
</p><p>DIner and tea philip
</p><p>away
</p><p>15 Monday {in?}{"high water" written above line} S Rain fogy
</p><p>to st thomas took out of Merchants Bank $413
</p><p>to Dine to Lymans
</p><p>henery Done choars
</p><p>philip away. got Deed
</p><p>on Record
</p><p>16 Tuesday {in?} SW snow {"cold blustery" written above "snow"}
</p><p>Done choars y smith here
</p><p>philip came home
</p><p>17 Wednesday {in?} W snow {"cold" written above line} Blustery
</p><p>to Lyons paid fuliton
</p><p>for Ty Putnam $352. {illegible} 5
</p><p>took up Notes. To johns to jack and philip sawed
</p><p>wood
</p><p>18 Thursday {in?} W clear cold
</p><p>cut wood Drawed in 3
</p><p>load. jack helped to cut
</p><p>philip helped Draw
</p><p>jack went away at 3
</p><p>oclock
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>19 fryday {in?} E clear {"mild" writtn above line}
</p><p>to Belmont got home from New
</p><p>an $2,10 {illegible word on top of line} got Toller freed
</p><p>to Abotts $5.50 {illegible}
</p><p>philip Done choars
</p><p>20 Saturday {illegible} N snow {"cold Blurery" written on top}
</p><p>Done choars to george Learns
</p><p>in the eveng Randall
</p><p>with us philip went
</p><p>home at night
</p><p>21 Sunday {illegible} W clear
</p><p>To john Learns To Diner
</p><p>Randall home herbert
</p><p>an William Learn here
</p><p>at night philip here
</p><p>22 Monday {illegible} NW clear
</p><p>fiseed for sugars jack to help and philip Randall
</p><p>event to Lyons
</p><p>23 Tuesday {illegible} SE clear
</p><p>Took the Buckets to Bush
</p><p>fone noon jack and philip
</p><p>to help Drawed wood 7 cond
</p><p>after philip To help
</p><p>jack cut wood after
</p><p>24 Wednesday {in?} NW snow {"Blustery" written on top of "snow"}
</p><p>Done choars philip helped
</p><p>Jack away
</p><p>25 Thursday {in?} SE clear
</p><p>To Belmont to Mill 26 boats
</p><p>drawed wood 5 cont after
</p><p>johm Learn an famely
</p><p>ad sam Legg ad wife to tea
</p><p>get cheese money $35.50 {illegible}
</p><p>had {cbne?} $10
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>26 fryday {in?} SW Rain
</p><p>to Belmont got chop let
</p><p>Warden have bag Aples {"75~" written on top of "Aples"}
</p><p>taper 121 trees in Bush
</p><p>William Barr an wife
</p><p>and child to tea
</p><p>Randall home at night
</p><p>27 Saturday {in?} NW clear
</p><p>finished Tapin Bush 205
</p><p>Trees Burned out kittes
</p><p>Randall home. to {sane?}
</p><p>leggs to tea
</p><p>28 Sunday in SS clear thawed
</p><p>to No 1 Burk preached
</p><p>Randall home on philip
</p><p>29 Monday {in?} S clear Thawed
</p><p>gethered sap an Boiled 4 {tsps?}
</p><p>philip and Alvin sites
</p><p>to help Alvin Sites
</p><p>come to work for $2.,00
per month
</p><p>30 Tuesday in S clear {illegible}
</p><p>worked in Bush {suriped?}
</p><p>Dawn gethered 2 1/2 tubs
</p><p>of sap and boiled Alvin
</p><p>To help Ann sugared of
</p><p>31 Wednesday {in?} S clear warm
</p><p>to cheese meeting fone noon
</p><p>Norm took job Drawing
</p><p>milk for $ 1C0. cut wood
</p><p>afeter Alvin To help
</p><p>Aga Winters To Diner
</p><p>Ann sugared of $1 lb
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>April 1875
</p><p>1 Thursday in S Rain
</p><p>gethered and Boiled sap 2 {tsps?}
</p><p>alvin to help the sow
</p><p>had 10 pigs
</p><p>2 fryday {in?} NW cloudy
</p><p>gethered sap 1 tub boiled
</p><p>Alvin to help
</p><p>Ann made Molases 5 gals
</p><p>3 Saturday {in?} S clear
</p><p>fixed Roller put meet to
</p><p>smoke Done choars
</p><p>Alvin choared
</p><p>Randall home at night
</p><p>4 Sunday {in?} N clear
</p><p>at home Randall home
</p><p>cullver finch to diner
</p><p>5 Monday {in?} {"SE" written on top} N clear warm
</p><p>gethered and boiled sap 3 {ts?}
</p><p>Alvin to help coneneed
</p><p>to plow
</p><p>6 Tuesday {in?} E cloudy
</p><p>plowed Alvin cleaned
</p><p>stables Mrs Winters
</p><p>to help Ann quilt
</p><p>Made Molases 50 lb
</p><p>7 Wednesday {in?} E cloudy {"sleet" written on top of "cloudy"}
</p><p>plowed Alvin choared
</p><p>Randall took Dick colt
</p><p>to Lyons. sold the pony {"85" written on top of "pony"} $.
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>8 Thursday {in?} S clear {"warm" written on top of "clear"}
</p><p>plowed {Mvin?} Boiled
</p><p>sap Edwin cullver
</p><p>and Mother to Diner
</p><p>Lyman and Randall
</p><p>here at night
</p><p>Let phileman have 1 bu {"eom" written above}
</p><p>9 fryday {in?} SW clear
</p><p>plowed. phileman at
</p><p>hen pen Alvin choared
</p><p>Mother to tea
</p><p>10 Saturday {in?} SW clear
</p><p>plowed phileman 1/2 day
</p><p>at her pen Norm and
</p><p>Alvin in Bush Mother
</p><p>to diner. Randall home
</p><p>at night. Let Ancha
</p><p>Mcolum have bag of corn
</p><p>11 Sunday in E clear
</p><p>to 2 church Lynce {pmeache?}
</p><p>Alvin home Randall
</p><p>at home. Nety Learn
</p><p>here at night
</p><p>Rose cow had a calf
</p><p>12 Monday {in?} E clear
</p><p>plowed fone noon cultivate
</p><p>after phileman at pen {"l" scratched out}
</p><p>Alvin choared. Mother
</p><p>and father to Breakfast
</p><p>Mother to diner
</p><p>13 Tuesday in E cloudy
</p><p>Done choars let Norm have
</p><p>Barley 10 bushel. phileman {"day" written on top of "phileman"} 1/2
</p><p>Elder Lyce {between the y and c of "Lyce" the letters "on" are added in pencil} To diner. other
</p><p>To diner. lill cow had calf
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>14 Wednesday {in?} SW clear
</p><p>plowed phileman an
</p><p>Alvin Boiled sap
</p><p>Ann laid carpet up
</p><p>stairs Randall home
</p><p>at night got 7 hens
</p><p>15 Thursday {in?} {"after noon" written on top} S Rain
</p><p>sowed Barley 8 bushel
</p><p>Norm sowed it
</p><p>Norm and wife to Diner
</p><p>Mother To diner and tea
</p><p>phileman at her 1?2 day
</p><p>16 fryday {in?} NW cold snow
</p><p>to Belmont got charley
</p><p>shod 4 shoes 1 new to
</p><p>Abbotts let john Learn
</p><p>have 10 bushel Barley
</p><p>Mother john ad {Ed?} to
</p><p>tea Alvin chared.
</p><p>17 Saturday {in?} W snow {"cold" written above "snow"}
</p><p>Done choars let phileman
</p><p>have hag 125 lb $8.75 cts
</p><p>boards 26 feet 26 cts
</p><p>Randall home at night
</p><p>18 Sunday {in?} NW cloudy {"cold" written above "cloudy"}
</p><p>To 2 church Lynce preache
</p><p>Randall {and?} Sarah Ann
</p><p>Legg to tea. Nub {"a calf" written on top} cord had
</p><p>19 Monday {in?} W cloudy snow
</p><p>to the swamp Norm {"felt" is erased}
</p><p>fetched hosts fon me 1/2 day
</p><p>Alvin huske corn
</p><p>Mother here Norm to diner Ann washed
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>20 Tuesday {in?} N clear {"cold" written above "clear"}
</p><p>Done choars Ann
</p><p>White washed. pide com
</p><p>had a calf. Witers and
</p><p>wife and Duglass to tea
</p><p>21 Wednesday in N clear {"cold" written above "clear"}
</p><p>to Belmont fone noon
</p><p>Alvin husked conn
</p><p>Mother here
</p><p>22 Thursday {in?} N clear
</p><p>fixed fence Alvin tohelp Phileman at pen
</p><p>let hin have flour 33 lb
</p><p>let Abbott have oats 9 1/2
</p><p>bushel traded calves with Edwin
</p><p>23 fryday {in?} SWNE {"at night" written above "SWNE"} snow
</p><p>plowed afternoon Alvin
</p><p>husked corn phileman
</p><p>finished hen pen his
</p><p>wife here to tea Mrs
</p><p>winters here To help Ann
</p><p>24 Saturday in NW cloudy {"cold" written above "cloudy"}
</p><p>To Belmont got from
</p><p>Newon 20 lb sugar 2 yds
</p><p>carpet. phileman boiled
</p><p>sap Alvin To help.
</p><p>Randall home at night
</p><p>25 Sunday {in?} W clear
</p><p>to 2 church with us john
</p><p>Learn and wife To tea
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>26 Monday {in?} NW clear
</p><p>plowed phileman ad
</p><p>Alvin boiled sap in
</p><p>Bush. Let george Learn
</p><p>have 25 bushel of oats
</p><p>{for?} 45 cts per bushel $11.25
</p><p>to be paid first cheese
</p><p>sale. Shot cow had calf
</p><p>27 Tuesday {in?} E clear
</p><p>cultivated {originally "cultivater" but changed "r" to "d"} for oats ad
</p><p>sowed 1 bushel. phileman
</p><p>and Alvin in the bush
</p><p>Ann boiled Molases
</p><p>Dawn {the "n" in "Dawn" is smudged} 4 1/2 galons
</p><p>28 Wednesday {in?} S clear
</p><p>Draged {"oats" is inserted later} Alvin To help
</p><p>Norm sowed oats 16 be
</p><p>Ed Weslake ad wife to teea
</p><p>29 Thursday {in?} W high Rain
</p><p>Rolled fallwheat Ann
</p><p>put Dawn carpet in parler
</p><p>30 fryday {in?} SW clear
</p><p>plowed for corn. Randall
</p><p>and jack to tea
</p><p>{"May 1875" written in big letters}
</p><p>1 Saturday {in?} E Rain had
</p><p>comenced To send
</p><p>Milk To factory to Belmont
</p><p>from G cows Alvin went
</p><p>home at night gave
</p><p>{jiney?} Aple fond a calf
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>2 Sunday {in?} NW {"cold" written above} snow
</p><p>At home Randall
</p><p>home to diner alvin
</p><p>come back
</p><p>3 Monday {in?} SW clear
</p><p>To Belmont let Newon
</p><p>have Molases 4 gel 8 lb
</p><p>let Odle have honey 19
</p><p>lb eggs 38 1/4 Doz got
</p><p>from him goods $10.8 {bs?}
</p><p>helpe Norm Draw load
</p><p>of hay from fergesons
</p><p>Randall home at night
</p><p>4 Tuesday {in?} NWSW clear
</p><p>Withe phileman to station
</p><p>for his dog fone noon
</p><p>plowed after the lurkey
</p><p>set
</p><p>5 Wednesday {in?} SW Rain
</p><p>plowed Alvin choared
</p><p>paid by order $2...00 To
</p><p>Mrs Cites for Alvins
</p><p>work. phileman at fence
</p><p>6 Thursday in NW {"cool" written above} clear {fros?}
</p><p>finished plowing sod
</p><p>Drawed in things from
</p><p>the Bush Alvin to help
</p><p>phileman at fence
</p><p>Aga helped Ann
</p><p>7 fryday {in?} E cloudy frost
</p><p>fisced posts for fence
</p><p>phileman at fence
</p><p>Aga helped Ann
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>8 Saturday {in?} SW clear {"ward" written above}
</p><p>Done choars set Bery.
</p><p>{Bushres?} Alvin went
</p><p>home at night.
</p><p>Randall home at night
</p><p>Midge cow had a calf
</p><p>phileman at fence {"day" written on top} 1/2
</p><p>9 Sunday{in?} SW Rain
</p><p>To New {Sarwm?} to church
</p><p>Slaycock preached
</p><p>to haycocks to diner
</p><p>10 Monday {in?} W Rain
</p><p>Done choars let Dun
</p><p>can taylor have 2 bu
</p><p>shel of Barley $1.80
</p><p>gave j cope a calf
</p><p>Alvin come at noon
</p><p>Randall home at night
</p><p>11 Tuesday {in?} SW Rain
</p><p>Done choars set onions
</p><p>Alvin helped went
</p><p>home at night
</p><p>. Randall went to Lyons
</p><p>12 Wednesday {in?} NW Rain
</p><p>Done choars let Albott
</p><p>have 2 bushel of oats
</p><p>Alvin away
</p><p>13 thursday {in? SW clear}
</p><p>set onions fore noon
</p><p>Alvin to help sowed
</p><p>peas and Draged after
</p><p>Norm sowed bushel
</p><p>fone me
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>14 fryday {in?} SE Rain
</p><p>husked corn finished
</p><p>Alvin set strawbry
</p><p>plants Randall home
</p><p>15 Saturday {in?} NW clear
</p><p>Sowed peas Norm sowed
</p><p>Randall helped to drag Alvin set strawberys
</p><p>set Duck Eggs 11
</p><p>16 Sunday {in?} N clear
</p><p>to {Newsarum?} to church
</p><p>Hacock preached to
</p><p>Diner to Lymans
</p><p>17 Monday {in?} SW clear
</p><p>plowed corn {gnawnd?}
</p><p>fone noon Draged oats
</p><p>for Norm after noon
</p><p>Randall took trees an
</p><p>wood to Lyons with
</p><p>charley ad Dick
</p><p>18 tuesday {in?} NW clear
</p><p>plowed corn {gnownd?} and
</p><p>cultivated for potatoes
</p><p>Alvin planted potatoes
</p><p>helped Norm to plow
</p><p>after noon phileman
</p><p>at fenece. Let john have
</p><p>a bushel of potatoes
</p><p>19 Wednesday {in?} SW clear
</p><p>Drage corn grownd fore {onod? written on top}
</p><p>to Belmont after got from
</p><p>Odle {$5.c6?} w paid $7.75
</p><p>Randall with us. Alvin
</p><p>planted potatoes.
</p><p>star {"star" is crossed out with pencil marking} cow to Bull
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>20 thursday {in?} SW clear
</p><p>took 6 cattle to the swamp
</p><p>marke corn {gnound?}
</p><p>Rolled the peas
</p><p>Alvin to help
</p><p>Brown cow had a calf
</p><p>21 fryday {in?} SW Rain
</p><p>planted corn Rolled
</p><p>the Barley Alvin to
</p><p>help {phrase written and scratched out in pencil "$11 cheese noey"?}
</p><p>22 Saturday {in?} SW clear {"hot" written above line}
</p><p>to Belmont let Odle have
</p><p>potatoes 7. 3/4 bushed 83 cts
</p><p>per bushel to johns after
</p><p>tea Mother and Belsey
</p><p>here Alvin choared
</p><p>took 4 bushel wheat
</p><p>to mill got from Odle
</p><p>shingle nails 50 lb $250
</p><p>23 Sunday {in?} SW clear
</p><p>to New Sarum to
</p><p>church hackock preache
</p><p>to Lymans to DIner
</p><p>james Learn an wife
</p><p>Randall and Sarah Ann
</p><p>Legg to tea here
</p><p>pad to Newcoml $4.00
</p><p>24 Monday in S clear hot
</p><p>Draged for Milet Alvin
</p><p>away. tured the sow
</p><p>from The pigs
</p><p>25 Tuesday {in?} NW clear hot
</p><p>sowed Millet Alvin
</p><p>helped drag. let Mrs cites
</p><p>potatoes 2 bushel. h Brat
</p><p>got them
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>26 Wednesday {in?} E clear
</p><p>Rolled oats Alvin choard
</p><p>Randall home at night
</p><p>27 thursday {in?} E clear to spring field 10 {Aylmu?}
</p><p>to Orwell. to peter
</p><p>Charltons to Diner
</p><p>got a Bolt of coton 44 yd
</p><p>got curtens an wimcy
</p><p>to Aylmer $15.5 cts
</p><p>28 fryday {in?} S clear to Belmont got pete
</p><p>shod 4 shoes set to Abotts
</p><p>let hooved have 3 golons
</p><p>of Molases $3, co {"cte" written above} let Odle
</p><p>have 16 1/2 Doz eggs got
</p><p>from him $4.05 cts
</p><p>planted Beans {Tumnd?}
</p><p>out the Bull
</p><p>29 Saturday {in?} N Rain {"in morning" written above}
</p><p>to Orwell got shingles
</p><p>from Wicket 8000
</p><p>for $2.80 cts per 1000
</p><p>planted cucumbers
</p><p>took the sow to Boar
</p><p>30 Sunday {in?} SW clear
</p><p>to gladstone church {Lymce?}
</p><p>preached. Ann home
</p><p>Randall and Sarah Ann
</p><p>Legg and Bub to tea
</p><p>gave W Barr $3.00 to pay insurance
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>31 Monday {in?} SW clear
</p><p>to Orwell got shingles
</p><p>from Wicket 7000 1/3 paid
</p><p>him $42..00 slub cow had
</p><p>a calf. W tansley an wife
</p><p>here at night Randall home
</p><p>{"June 1875" written in big letters}
</p><p>1 tuesday {in?} S clear
</p><p>to kings mill with oats
</p><p>sold to Steeple for 45 cts
</p><p>got $35.25 cts tanslet
</p><p>with me. plated Beets and Melons. {"tel" smudged}
</p><p>let Norm have 5 bushel
</p><p>of oats at 45 cts
</p><p>Randall home tansley
</p><p>an wife to Diner went away
</p><p>2 Wednesday {in?} S clear
</p><p>to George Leggs. Randall
</p><p>Maried to Sarah Ann
</p><p>Legg E Shepard maried
</p><p>them they went to
</p><p>Waterford. Rain at night
</p><p>3 thursday {in?} W clear
</p><p>sowed oats on the {wheetd?}
</p><p>Calista here. Elder
</p><p>Rowlan to Diner
</p><p>4 fryday {in?} S clear
</p><p>to Belmont ordered
</p><p>a scraper of Eler {scratched out writing}
</p><p>Mckelon for the Road
</p><p>let Odle have 8 3/4 doz eggs
</p><p>got 1/2 lb starch and chees meg
</p><p>$11.00
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>5 Saturday {in?} S cloudy {"Rain" written above}
</p><p>to springfield for Randall an wife fone
</p><p>noon planted over
</p><p>corn after noon
</p><p>6 Sunday {in?} S clear
</p><p>to Disiple church Shepard
</p><p>preached. to Leggs to
</p><p>DIner Randall an wife
</p><p>to tea here father
</p><p>an Mother here at night.
</p>
<pre>7 Monday {in?} W cloudy
</pre>
<p>to john Mckelons funeral
</p><p>had a infair party for
</p><p>Randall. george Legg
</p><p>and wife Sam and wife
</p><p>Charles and Mary Shepard
</p><p>father an Mother
</p><p>an M {Udle?}. janes
</p><p>Learn and wife here
</p><p>and John Learn and wife and Robert
</p><p>8 tuesday {in?} W clear
</p><p>Worked Road. James
</p><p>Baley to Diner
</p><p>Alvin hoed potatoes
</p><p>Let father have 2 bushel
</p><p>of oats 90 cts
</p><p>9 Wednesday {in?} W clear
</p><p>Worked the Road Norm
</p><p>had charley. sold calf shin
</p><p>for 60, cts Randall and wife
</p><p>home at night. Spot
</p><p>cow to. Bull.
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>23 fryday WD {wind} SW clear Drawed wood frank to help. To Belmont got from Odle 12 glass jars and ties Vraces $2,75cts let Odle have 7 dov eggs
</p><p>24 Satruday WD {wind} S clear to georges ground ciktes Calvin Brown and wife here to diner and tea
</p><p>25 Sunday WD {wind} S clear to 2 church Lynce preached to W Barrs to Diner frank with us. Bronns these
</p><p>26 Monday WD {wind} S Rain cut Round the wheat farnk to help. Stewarts picked chryes on shares
</p><p>27 Tuesday WD {wind} W clear cut and bound wheat franks to help Randall and wife here at night
</p><p>28 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear Bound wheat frank to help. Randall cut wheat. went home at night
</p><p>29 Thursday WD {wind} W clear cut barley. frank bound wheat. To Belmont To see Dr Cline he was sick <s>$20 chese money</s>
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>30 fryday WD {wind} NW clear Raked and put up barley frank and Lew to help To Belmont at night
</p><p>31 Satruday WD {wind} E clear Raked and put up whet frank to help frank To Belmont got sash. 60cts To Odles he helped Norm after noon. William Learn here at night
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="August_1875">August 1875</span></h2>
<p>1 Sunday WD {wind} E Rain To 2 church Lynce preached james shirk and wife to diner here. frank to Eds at night
</p><p>2 Monsday WD {wind} E cloudy Rain picked cheryes frank lame DR Daniel Cline died
</p><p>3 Tuesday WD {wind} E Rain Done choars frank lame Norm and john Doan to Diner Randall and wife here at night
</p><p>4 Wednesday WD {wind} W clear To Dr Clines funeral Randall and wife with us to Randalls To diner frank with us Rain at night
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>5 Thursday WD {wind} S clear To Belmont To Mill 20 bushel to chop got from Odle 1 pair boots for frank $2..50. picked cheryes after
</p><p>6 fryday WD {wind} W Rain Down with a lame back frank choared
</p><p>7 Satrday WD {wind} W Rain To Belmont got grists let Odle have egg 16 /12 dz helon and Nety Learns To Tea
</p><p>8 Sunday WD {wind} W clear To 2 church pro Crawford preached. john and Mrs Walice here to diner frank home. here at night
</p><p>9 Monday WD {wind} SW clear too a load of chees 34 To Dorechston station fore noon drawed in Barley after and killed 2 pigs let Hoover have 400lb for $32..00
</p><p>10 Tuesday WD {wind} SW clear Drawed in Barley and wheat frank to help
</p><p>11 Wednesday WD {wind} E W Rain finished drawing in wheat and Barley frank to help
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>12 Thursday WD {wind} S clear comenced to cut oats Randall to diner he got old Bounce from Norm.he Baroue the bugey. frank helpe in ots
</p><p>13 fryday WD {wind} S clear cut oats frank To help hired jack to help To Belmont got cheese Mpney $28 got umbela from Odle $1.25cts Randall and wife here
</p><p>14 Satruday WD {wind} S Rain cut oats john H fadon barg and frank to help Randall To London here at night frank away at night
</p><p>15 Sunday WD {wind} S clear To 2 church Dr crawford preached. Randall and wife with us frank away. Randalls went home
</p><p>16 Monday WD {wind} NW Rain To Belmont got horses shod 8 shoes set to Abbotts got from Odle box Teaslb 1 lb Tobacoe for $3.85cts finished cuting oats frank to help
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>17 Tuesday WD {wind} W clear rain at night cut Millet fore noon Bound oats after frank to help. frank went home at night
</p><p>18 Wednesday WD {wind} W Rain cut Millit. To Belmont Randall got his bugey from Dewaur $100 Randall and wife to diner
</p><p>19 Thursday WD {wind} W Rain To the swamp Mrs Troughton and hall to tea
</p><p>20 fryday WD {wind} S Rain Raked and put up the millet frank to help Will Mandaville and Tom Sin cleas here at night
</p><p>21 Satruday WD {wind} SW Rain finished puting up Millet Alvin to help frank went home paid him $4..00
</p><p>22 Sunday WD {wind} N clear To 2 chruch j A Baldwin preached Norm and wife with us LYda hill here at night
</p><p>23 Monday WD {wind} E clear helped Norm Bind wheat
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>24 Tuesday WD {wind} E clear To the swamp to help Sandy cury thrash had to my share 40 bushel wheat and 18 of oats Eder j A Baldwin and girl to dine Ann gave him $1..00 for chruch
</p><p>25 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear To Lyons got Randall to help Draw in oats Randall and wife here
</p><p>26 Thrusday WD {wind} S clear Drawee in oats finished Randall to help drawed in Millet Ann <s>3 load</s>to help. 3 load Randall went home noon Ann to Belmont eggs 23 1/3 got sugar $4.36 and 20
</p><p>27 fryday WD {wind} S clear Drawed in Millet 6 load charles cline to help
</p><p>28 satruday WD {wind} S clear Drawed in milit 5 load 1 peas cullver finch and charles Cline to help. W hill and wife here at night. let L Tibetts have peas 2 /12 bushel
</p><p>29 Sunday WD {wind} S clear To 2 chruch Lynce preached Randall and wife to Diner Dick run away. charley stayed at home
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>30 Monday WD {wind} W clear Raked peas forenoon Drawed in 3 load after Charles cline to helpp
</p><p>31 Tuesday WD {wind} S clear Raked peas fore noon helped finches Thrash charles cline to help Ann To Randalls after noon Randall and wife here at night
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="September_1875">September 1875</span></h2>
<p>1 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear helped finches thrash with Team and 2 henus got telegram from philip cullver that Margret was sick Mrs Fawcett and Mrs Odle here to tea jesa Roberts come to work
</p><p>2 Thursday WD {wind} S Rain Drawed in peas charles and randall to help comeenced to plow Ann went to Simcoe Randall and wife here at night
</p><p>3 fryday WD {wind} S Rain plowed chales choard carah Ann here Randall here at night
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>4 Satruday WD {wind} N clear Drawed peas finished charles cline to help got a letter from Ann Randall and wife went home
</p><p>5 Sunday WD {wind} S clear To 2 chruch ly preached james Learn and wife here to diner Randall and wife here. Rain at night
</p><p>6 monday WD {wind} N clear plowed paid charles cline $3..00 sent him away
</p><p>7 Tuesday WD {wind} S clear plowed. the men put up the gate charle came back
</p><p>8 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear plowed fore noon went to Bloomsburgh to philip<s>s</s> cullvers after to philips at night
</p><p>9 Thursday WD {wind} S Rain at night came home fore noon plowed after
</p><p>10 fryday WD {wind} N clear plowed charley choared killed the turkey
</p><p>11 Satruday WD {wind} E clear plowed Randall and wife here at night
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>12 Sunday WD {wind} S cloudy cool To New sarum to church haycock preached
</p><p>13 Monday WD {wind} S clear plowed. charley cho<s>ard</s>
</p><p>14 Tuesday WD {wind} S clear plowed finished all draged after noon charles choared Henert Moore to diner
</p><p>15 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear sowed Wheat 8 bushl Draged charley drged
</p><p>16 Thursday WD {wind} Rain cleaned wheat cut oats
</p><p>17 fryday WD {wind} N clear cool snow sowed wheat 20 {written above} Norm sowed after noon charles cline draged
</p><p>frost
</p><p>18 Satruday WD {wind} W clear finished the wheat dragin Drawed in oats 2 load charley to help
</p><p>19 Sunday WD {wind}E rain at home Randall an wife called
</p><p>20 Monday WD {wind} W squals fixed Barn and granery killed a pig charley to help. the sow hag 6 pigs
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>21 Luesday WD {wind} NW cloudy cool helped Norm Thrash with team 1/2 day helped all day and charley to help
</p><p>22 Wednesday WD {wind} N clear Thrashed for Norm Team and charley fore noon. for my self after limlea Norm shirk frank p Bass Rob Alven Baxter boy g finch j fergeson j Doan N McTaget to help
</p><p>23 Thursday WD {wind} NS clear Thrashed <s>2</s>90 oats 104 peas. Doan and fergeson Thrashed. limber while Rob finch shirk Norm Alve To help To john Deniss at night he was kicked by a horse paid fergeson $16.84
</p><p>24 fryday WD {wind} W clear cut corn. Shirk painted Ed culver here to diner and tea. sent a grist to mill with Norm 6 let limber have 4 bus hel of wheat. $4..00
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>25 Satruday WD {wind} W Rain Cut clover charles choa sold old Bounce marl To Marshel for $25.00 to be paid in six month shirk painted 1/2 day
</p><p>26 Sunday WD {wind} N&S clear To 2 chruch Lynce preached Randall and wife to tea
</p><p>27 Monday WD {wind} W clear cut clover and raked charley and limber to help after noon shirk painted
</p><p>28 Tuesday WD {wind} E clear cut clover finished cutting put up limber and Charley to help after noon
</p><p>29 Wednesday WD {wind} E clear To Belmont got cheese money $40.00 got boots from Der $3.50. got horse shod 4 shoes set to Abbotts. Raked clover after noon fiished limber and charley to help fetched Randalls bugy home
</p><p>30 Thursday WD {wind} W cloudy Dug potatoes charley to help shirk painted Ann went to Randalls took flour and bugy To Randall
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="October_1875">October 1875</span></h2>
<p>1 fryday WD {wind} NE & NW clear Drawed in 7 loadover charles to help. shirk painted
</p><p>2 Saturday WD {wind} W clear Drawed in clover 7 load charles and william Barber To help Barber an boy. to diner. Randall and wife here at night
</p><p>3 Sunday WD {wind} S clear To 2 church 1/2 past 2 orlod Lynce preached. Mother here to diner
</p><p>4 Monday WD {wind} S clear finished the clover took in the Beans set up the corn charles To help shirk painted
</p><p>5 Tuesday WD {wind} E cloudy to Belmont got george shod 2 shoes To Abbotts got from Dyer $1 shug and 25cts Bisket let him have eggs 22 doz {unknow character} 8 Lynce and wife here at night got chees money $28
</p><p>6 Wednesday WD {wind} W Rain to john Learns Mother here at night
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>7 Thursday WD {wind} W clear Drawed Manure 7 load shirk painted charley choared. Mother here
</p><p>8 fryday WD {wind} SW Rain drawd Manure 5 load shirk finished paiting I paid him $48.00 Took him home charles choared. froze
</p><p>9 Satruday WD {wind} SE clear killed a pig. 89lb Drawed Manure 7 load Randall Took a load of wood home. charles cho
</p><p>10 Sunday WD {wind} cloudy To 2 church Randall and wife and chrles Legg with us Lynce preached charles cline here
</p><p>11 Monday WD {wind} N snow squals Drawed Manure fore noon 4 load To Sam Leggs Raison after. Charles cline went away paid him $1,,50
</p><p>12 <s>Drawed</s> Tuesday WD {wind} N clear Drawed Manure 3{or 2} load forenoon to Lyons show after To Randalls To diner
</p><p>13 Wednesday WD {wind} W clear to Aylmer show judge on horses. To Randalls to tea
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>14 Thursday WD {wind} SW clear Drawed Manure 7 load
</p><p>15 fryday WD {wind} W Rain Done choars
</p><p>16 Satruday WD {wind} N cloudy cool To Belmont got petete shod 4 shoes set to Abotts got from Dyer 6 galons lamp oil 21 per galon $168 1/2 Tobacoe 25cts picked aples 6 buckel George Legg and wife to Diner. Reped the horses in stable
</p><p>17 Sunday WD {wind} SW Rain snow at home. lame back
</p><p>18 Monday WD {wind} N clear plowed in wheat feild limber picked Aples 1/4 of day. Randall and wife here at night Randall gave me $65.00 for Deumaw
</p><p>19 Tuesday WD {wind} W clear plowed limber spread manure 1/2 day. Randall took boards down to lyons
</p><p>20 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear plowed.
</p><p>21 Thursday WD {wind} SW clear plowed
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>22 fryday WD {wind} S clear finished plowing in wheat feild Drawed 6 load manure 3 pumkins limber3/4 day. paid to Dewmaw $65,,00 for Randall
</p><p>23 Satruday WD {wind} S clear picked Aples. Tibets paid for Randall $13..00
</p><p>24 Sunday WD {wind} S clear to New sarum to church haycock preached To haycocks To Diner. Randal and wife here at night
</p><p>25 Monday WD {wind} NE cloudy plowed. sold C hoaver 3 catle for $45,00 he paid $15.00 took 1 away Randall took old charley
</p><p>26 Tuesday WD {wind} W Rain fore noon plowed after noon
</p><p>27 Wednesday WD {wind} W cool plowed Randall Tool a load of hay home Pete putnam fixed the pump, 37cts paid
</p><p>28 Thursday WD {wind} S clear plowed Randall Drawe wood 2 home
</p><p>29 fryday WD {wind} E Rain plowed. Randall tto diner hoove to white heifer paid $17,00
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>30 Saturday WD {wind} W squals finished plowing oat feild paid taxes $19.77 stoped to send milk to factory
</p><p>31 Sunday WD {wind} W snow Blustry at home put cows in the stable at night
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="November_1875">November 1875</span></h2>
<p>1 Monday WD {wind} W cloudy To Belmont To mill 24 lb oats to chop. got cheese money $25,,00 paid Dyer $10.49 got 2 box salt. $2,20 litle john paid $5.00 hoover paid $10.00 took the young heifer away gave order to hawks for a suit of clother for $24.00
</p><p>2 Tuesday WD {wind} SW clear DOne choars. john Luton and wife here to diner john Learns called at night
</p><p>3 Wednesday WD {wind} E cloudy Opned Dilches sold jackson 2 pigs $16.00
</p><p>4 Thursday WD {wind} N clear To Belmont got chop let Dyer have eggs 5 doz got capet 6 6 yds for 7 1/2 b of wheat. selled with
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Abbot paid him $8.24 jackson took the pigs away let creaner have 2 bags Aples $1,00
</p><p>5 fryday WD {wind} N clear Drawe in corn. Ann to Lyons To Randalls Randall here to diner
</p><p>6 Satruday WD {wind} S clear To Belmont let Dyer have wheat 8 bushel 28lb got 5lb nials 25{witten above} 1 condition powder 25{wirtten above} hald lb Tobacoe 30{wirtten above} file 10 butons 6
</p><p>7 Sunday WD {wind} E clear to 2 church Lynce preached Henery finch and wife here in the evening To Tea
</p><p>8 Monday WD {wind} E cloudy took in selor potatoes 48 bushel Elder haycock to diner father and mother here at night
</p><p>9 Tuesday WD {wind} E clear tok in beets and cabage took the sox to Baxter plowed after noon Randall took a load of wood father and mother went to Eds and Notmgh
</p><p>10 wednesday WD {wind} SW Rain Done choars. pain inn my side at night
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>11 Thursday WD {wind} SW clear plowed fore noon husked corn after noon
</p><p>12 fryday WD {wind} SW clear Done choars. Took a note from Norm. for $10 To be paid in 8 month Mother here To diner Randall fetched the horse home.
</p><p><br />
13 Satruday WD {wind} N storm To philips To diner Randall and wife and Ida putnam here at night
</p><p>14 Sunday WD {wind} NE snow at home father and Mother To diner Norm and wife in the evening
</p><p>15 Monday WD {wind} SW cloudy Done choars james smith paid $6..00for timber by jack
</p><p>16 Tuesday WD {wind} NW snow Blustery Done choars. Mother here to diner
</p><p>17 Wednesday WD {wind} NW snow 1 foot Done choars. john Learn and wife Robert Arney and Omer To Tea
</p><p>18 Thursday WD {wind} S cloudy DOne choars sent a letter to philip cullvers
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>19 fryday WD {wind} S clear DOnne choars killed a pig waid 116lb made a broom Norm helped to to kill the pig
</p><p>20 Satruday WD {wind} S clear to Randalls plowed his garden fetched home potatoes from Randalls
</p><p>21 Sunday WD {wind} N clear To 2 church <s>&</s> Lynce preached philip Learn here at night. cold
</p><p>22 Monday WD {wind} E clear cold done choars
</p><p>23 Tuesday WD {wind} SW cloudy Rain helped Randall draw logs for wood Randall and wife Ida and Lynce and wif here at night
</p><p>24 Wednesday WD {wind} N clear helped Randall Draw leogs charles Legg helped let J Lynce have $60..00 Randall and wife went home at night
</p><p>25 Thursday WD {wind} E clear to st Thomas got from Cary goods $ .60cts got photographs takin got Randalls and wife paid $7.00 pihlip done choars
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>To fathers To diner got a Rooster from him
</p><p>26 fryday WD {wind} SW Rain Done choars philip To help D F Moore here to tea
</p><p>27 Satruday WD {wind} W clear Thrashed Beans philip To help Randall and wife here at night
</p><p>28 Sunday WD {wind} SW snow Rain at home. Randall and wife went home fore noon philip here
</p><p>29 Monday WD {wind} N cold DOne choars. philip wne thome. got the Dryed aples from Norms
</p><p>30 Tuesday WD {wind} E cold snow To Belmont got cheese Money $25,,00 got from pots stove back and 2 leds $1,25
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="December_1875">December 1875</span></h2>
<p>1 Wednesday WD {wind} E cloudy Done coars. Randall and wife here at night. line one Befalow skin
</p><p>Thursday WD {wind} E clear To Belmont let R Nickle have 2 1/4 bushel Beans and Abott 2 bushel got from Dyer goods $3.17 cts Randall and charley Leggs sawed wood after noon
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>3 fryday WD {wind} S clear helped Randall and charley saw fore noon. choaed after got the bobs framed Norm gave up his 2 notes $26.. Balance back on notes $2..50 cts. Randall and wife went home after noon lmber fixed hen pen
</p><p>4 Saturday WD {wind} SE cloudy Done choars. went to john Learns got beef 13lb
</p><p>5 Sunday WD {wind} E Rain at home
</p><p>6 Monday WD {wind} E Rain fogy Done choars. To EV Learn in the evening To tea
</p><p>7 Tuesday WD {wind} SE Rain killed 5 hogs EV 3 hogs Norm and ed To help philip here at night
</p><p>8 Wednesday WD {wind} S & N cloudy cut up the hogs and salted philip choared hogs wait.. 268lb 4,,154lb
</p><p>9 Thursday WD {wind} NW cold To Belmont got charley shod 4 shoes set the Abbots got from Dyer 1 Doz plates $1,50. sinemen 20 Randall and charley sawed john Learn and wife to diner chirk To diner diner to j Blacks
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>10 fryday WD {wind} W cloudy To help Dan Baxter thrash philip done choars husked corn. Norm and wife here in the evening
</p><p>11 Satruday WD {wind} SW snow helped Baxter thrash fore noon. To Belmont after got esons from Dyer 10 cts philip Done choars
</p><p>12 Sunday WD {wind} S cloudy at home Edward Learn here and philip
</p><p>13 Monday WD {wind} N snow blustry Done choars philip choard Ed here at night
</p><p>14 Tuesday WD {wind} W snow Went to sTthomas to court grand jurer To chastes Learn at night
</p><p>15 Wednesday WD {wind} S thawed To court to chasles Learn at night
</p><p>16 Thursday WD {wind} W cold snow To court To W cullvers at night
</p><p>17 fryday WD {wind} W cold To court got pay $7.60cts home at night
</p><p>18 Satruday WD {wind} W cold DOne choars traded with Norm Drag for a calf charles legg sawed.
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>19<s>Sun</s>day WD {wind} NE clear cold at home philip went home
</p><p>20 Monday WD {wind} S clear mild To Avon got 200 feet boards Rented the swam lot to Sandy cury for one year for $35.. to be paid in lumber
</p><p>21 Tuesday WD {wind} S Rain thawed Done choars. Randall took a load of wood
</p><p>22 Wednesday WD {wind} SW clear husked corn finished
</p><p>23 Thursday WD {wind} N clear Done choars. Norm and wife here in the evening To tea.
</p><p>24 fryday WD {wind} E Rain sleet DOne choars. Cury fetched the Bell colt home to me
</p><p>25 Saturday WD {wind} N cloudy DOne choars. Geroge Legg and wife Randall and wife ed and philip Learn here To diner Randall at night
</p><p>26 Sunday SE Rain heavy at home. Randall and wife went home
</p><p>27 Monday WD {wind} SE clear Done choars. EDs wife here in the evening
</p><p>28 Tuesday WD {wind} SE clear Done choars.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>29 Wednesday WD {wind} SE clear Done choars. had lame side
</p><p>30 Thursday WD {wind} SE clear, warm DOne choars. Billy Barns cut his foot. S Done it up
</p><p>31 fryday WD {wind} SW clear warm Done choars. Randall fetched Dick horse home henery Sticks to Diner
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Janruary_1876">Janruary 1876</span></h2>
<p>1 Satruday WD {wind} S clear warm So the horses sweat in stable to George Leggs To diner Randall and wife. sak and wife and D F Moore there to diner
</p><p>2 Sunday WD {wind} SW clear warm at home To Norms in the evening paid her $1
</p><p>3 Monday WD {wind} SW clear warm cooler Done choars.
</p><p>4 Tuesday WD {wind} NE clear cold Done choars got from john Learn 68lb beef and 20lb Tallow $3,25cts john and philip and Arney To Tea
</p><p>5 Wednesday WD {wind} S rain warm Done choars
</p><p>6 Thursday WD {wind} N cloudy cold Done choars got from john Learn 60lb flour they called
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>7 fryday WD {wind} SW clear To Belmot to cheese meeting. got $4.36 chees money. sent for paper paid $1.60 ct
</p><p>8 Satruday WD {wind} S cloudy warm Done choars. Norm com enced to cut logs for wood
</p><p>9 Sunday WD {wind} S Rain warm at home all day
</p><p>10 Monday WD {wind} NW cold To Belmont got a suit of clother from hawkins for $24,,00 Norm cut logs for wood
</p><p>11 Tuesday WD {wind} W clear cold Done choars. Norm cut logs 1/2 dat
</p><p>12 Wednesday WD {wind} NW snow squals Done choars
</p><p>13 Thursday WD {wind} NW clear cold To help galaton finch thrash with team Randall and dick{written below} took a load of wood
</p><p>14 fryday WD {wind} SW cloudy cold to help galaton finch thrash with team
</p><p>15 Saturday WD {wind} SW cloudy Done choars Norm at logs W Roberts To help him
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>16 Sund<s>day</s> WD {wind} SW clear at home
</p><p>17 Monday WD {wind} SW clear warm Thrashed peas with the horses
</p><p>18 Tuesday WD {wind} S rain warm Thrashed peas finished Norm and wife here To tea Norm sold to out to D f Moore for $510..,
</p><p>19 Wednesday WD {wind} W cloudy at night cold helped Norm kill a hog fore noon cleaned 21 bushe peas after Norm To help. Lewis Simpson to diner
</p><p>20 Thursday WD {wind} W clear cold DOne choars.. To lynces EW Learn and wife here in the evening
</p><p>21 fryday WD {wind} E clear cold To Belmont got from Dyer 1/2 lb Tobacoe 1/2 lb soda 35cts Sam Legg and wife and Boy here in evening To tea comencd on buter jar
</p><p>22 Saturday WD {wind} E cloudy To Belmont To mill 10 1/2 bush wheat got jar mustard to Diner To Lewis Simpson
</p><p>23 Sunday WD {wind} N cloudy at home. Robert called
</p><p>24 Monday WD {wind} N cloudy cold Done choars to EV Learns in the evening. let Limber have job to mak box $1,50
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>25 Tuesday WD {wind} NW cloudy snow To Belmont got the colts shod To Abbotts 4 new and 4 old set got Nails 5lb To dyers
</p><p>26 Wednesday WD {wind} SW cleare choars. Mrs Winters To Diner. Rain at night
</p><p>27 Thursday WD {wind} SW clear warm DOne choars. Lynce To diner and paid Note $60.00 Randall fetched oats 40 bushel and took a load of wood home
</p><p>28 fryday WD {wind} SE Rain warm Done choars
</p><p>29 Saturday WD {wind} SW cold To Belmont Took wagon box to Abbott to iron got limber 25cts sugar and half lb tobacoe. paid Hawkins $24 for clothes left a pictor To Bons To frame
</p><p>30 Sunday WD {wind} SW clear To No 7 To church Dyer preached To georges to diner
</p><p>31 Monday WD {wind} S clear Done choars. To Alack Stewarts To tea in evening
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="February_1876">February 1876</span></h2>
<p>1 Tuesday WD {wind} SW snow Done choars. Randall took a load of wood home here to diner
</p><p>2 Wednesday WD {wind} NW blustery snow Done choars. To finshes in evening To tea
</p><p>3 Thursday WD {wind} SW snow took load of wood for Randall he took 2 Billy 1 Archa Taylor here at night
</p><p>4 fryday WD {wind} NW clear To Belmont with wood for Norm. Randall took wood 1 load Billy 1 load Archa Taylor here at night
</p><p>5 Saturday WD {wind} S clear To Belmont let Dyer have butter 45 3/4 48 cts for goods Archa cut Down trees Randall and wife here a night charley legg and Bily took a load of wood
</p><p>6 Sunday WD {wind} S thawed warm To New sarum To church Haycock preached To diner To haycocks. Rol and Ed and philip and herby Learn here to tea
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>7 Monday WD {wind} SW clear To harietsville paid the insurance $# 80/100 paid Taxes on swamp $3.00 To shirks in evening To Tea Tilda came with us
</p><p>8 Tuesday WD {wind} S clear warm Skided logs fore noon 3 put in sraw after Tilda Shirk to sow here. Archa here at night
</p><p>9 Wednesday WD {wind} E ran sleet Done chors. hired Bill gates for 8 month for $60 1/2 Tilda shirk sowed
</p><p>10 Thursday WD {wind} E cloudy Rain at night DOne choars. Norm sawed wood 4 cord. Drawed in 2 cord Tilda here
</p><p>11 fryday WD {wind} S Rain DOne choars. paid Norm for cuting logs $1.50cts
</p><p>12 Saturday WD {wind} SW clear Done choars
</p><p>13 Sunday WD {wind} E clear at home Tilda here Billy gates here a night Thunder and Rain at night
</p><p>14 Monday WD {wind} SW clear warm put in straw Billy gates camenced To work for me for 8 month $60.50 ct
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>15 Tuesday WD {wind} NW cloudy cold DOne choars Bily to help Tilda sowed
</p><p>16 Wednesday WD {wind} W snow squals Done choars Billy split wood fore noon to milk meeting To john stewart george Bass too the job to draw milk for $150.00 6 1/2 month
</p><p>17 Thursday WD {wind} SW snow helped Norm saw with Billy to help fore noon Drawed in 2 cord wood after
</p><p>18 fryday WD {wind} W clear DOe choars. Billy went hom at night
</p><p>20 Sunday WD {wind} NW clear To New sarum to church haycock preached To j Warwicks To diner Tillda with us Billy back at night
</p><p>21 Monay WD {wind} SW Rain at night To help Norm saw with Billy and Team. sold j Mvplale a cow for $40
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Randalls wife To diner
</p><p>22 Tuesday WD {wind} NW snow DOne choars Billy to help Archa Taylor here at night
</p><p>23 Wednesday WD {wind} N cold blustery Done choars Billy choared Tilda sowed
</p><p>24 Thrtusday WD {wind} W couldy Drawed wood 6 cord Billy To help Tilda sowed
</p><p>25 fryday WD {wind} SE clear Drawed wood 9 cord Billy to help Tilda sowed
</p><p>26 Saturday WD {wind} E clear Drawed wood 6 cord Ann took Tilda home paid her $5,00 Margred cullver and willy here at night. Randall and wife here at night
</p><p>27 Sunday WD {wind} E hail snow at home Margret and willy here. Randall and wife went home after noon
</p><p>28 Monday WD {wind}E snow to john Learns to diner got grass seed 3 bushel from him $5,00 Margret stayed thre Billy thrash Millet see 1 bushel
</p><p>29 Tuesday WD {wind} NW cloudy Drawed logs 4 Norm helped To Belmont Margret Randall here at night john to tea
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="March_1876">March 1876</span></h2>
<p>1 Wednesday WD {wind} N snow Drawed 3 logs To Belmont Randall and willy to london Margret and Sarah Ann here. W Lenard To diner let W lenard have 30 bushel oats got from him 1 3/4 bushel clover seed. Billy choared
</p><p>2 Thursday WD {wind} N clear Drawed logs 6 to Belmont Norm To help To john Learns in the evening Margret stayed to johns got Billy pair boots and mitons $3..50 cts Billy choared
</p><p>3 fryday WD {wind} W clear To Belmont got Dick shoe setlel Abbott have bag of aples got pictor from Moore Drawed 1 cord of wood in the Lynces To Tea sow had pigs 10
</p><p>4 Saturday WD {wind} S clear Drawed in 6 cord of wood paid Norm $2 To johns for Margret Billy went hom at night
</p><p>5 Sunday WD {wind} SW clear Rain at night at home Margret here
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>6 Monday WD {wind} S clear Drawed in 6 cord wood Billy to help. Margret here willy went to johns
</p><p>7Tuesday WD {wind} S Rain DOne choars made Ed one one handle Margret here
</p><p>8 Wednesday WD {wind} N cold Done chors john Learn and wife To diner Margret here
</p><p>9 Thursday WD {wind} E clear cut logs Billy to help sold james shirk a cow for $40 to be paid in 8 month Margret here philip and willy at night
</p><p>10 fryday WD {wind} SE clear cut logs fore noon heled Norm To tap after. shirk took the cow home Margret and willy here Ed Learn here at night
</p><p>11 Saturday WD {wind} E cloudy at night Rain Took Margret and willy to kings mill station she went home. sent for the home journal paper Billy helped Norm in the bush comenced to boil
</p><p>12 Sunday WD {wind} NE Rain at home Billy got the pouts. To Leave
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>13 Monday WD {wind} NW snow cold DOne choars Norm boiled sap Billy gates went away paid him $4.40 cts he quit to work for me
</p><p>14 Tuesday WD {wind} S clear Done choars. To Belmont hot from Dyer 79cts goods Norm fetched in surip
</p><p>15 wednesday WD {wind} E clear cold to help george Learn saw wood J SMith To diner
</p><p>16 Thursday WD {wind} E hail Rain Done choars
</p><p>17 fryday WD {wind} WN cold Blustery Done choars. Mrs Lyce and girl To Tea. hanah got beans and onions. 25 cts
</p><p>18 Satruday WD {wind} N clear cold Done choars
</p><p>19 Sunday WD {wind} SW clear thaw To george Learns to diner Randall and wife here to diner Norms wife had a boy
</p><p>20 Monday WD {wind} NE snow Done choars. spot cow had a calf. William and joseph Alen here at night
</p><p>21 Tuesday WD {wind} NW Blustery Drawed logs 3 Black ash joe Alen helped bill went home
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>22 Wednesday WD {wind} W clear To Springfeild got joe trunk. To Randals to diner hoe with me
</p><p>23 Thrusdasy WD {wind} SW clear To Belmont got from Dyer $4,20 cts paid him $6.75 put in straw after joe to help joe Alen comenced work for 7 month for $84.00
</p><p>24 fryday WD {wind} E clear night snowet Done choars joe killed a calf fore noon. Drawe wood 5 cord after got our pictors.
</p><p>25 Satruday WD {wind} SE Rain Sick with a cold. joe Done choars Let Norm have a ag of aples Ann made candles10 doz
</p><p>26 Sunday WD {wind} NW cloudy snow at home sick joe DOne choars.
</p><p>27 Monday WD {wind} W cloudy Was sick joe cut wood and Done choars
</p><p>28 Tuesday WD {wind} NE snow Blustery I was sick joe Done choars Randall here to dine Norm boiled sap in bush paid joe 25cts
</p><p>29 Wednesday WD {wind} snow lame. joe Done choars james Shirk and wife to diner
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>30 Thrusday WD {wind} Blustery Not well. joe done choars
</p><p>31 fryday WD {wind} W clear Not well joe choped and Done choars. hanah Learn her in the evening
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="APril_1876">APril 1876</span></h2>
<p>1 Satruday WD {wind} NE clear To Belmont got wagon box got from potts 12 pie tins 12 hooks got from Dyer 1 lb Tobacoe {10 above} 12 yrds cord 1 broom 30 ct. got 1 shoe set at Abbotts. joe choped and choared. star calved let john Denis have a bull $15
</p><p>2 Sunday WD {wind} SW clear at home Dan Gracey To Tea joe here. Star cow had a calf
</p><p>3 Monday WD {wind} clear Done choars. joe choped pide had a calf Narm in the bush Syrep 50 lb
</p><p>4 Tuesday WD {wind} S clear Done chaors joe killed 2 calves. choped after Norm in bush
</p><p>5 Wednesday WD {wind} S snow rain fore noon shook millet fore noon joe choped after noon Norm in bush fetched Syrep 46 lb
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>6 Thursday WD {wind} SW clear Done coars joe choped lill cow had a calf
</p><p>7 fryday WD {wind} NW clear windy DOone choars joe helped sold james Baley a calf 50 cts
</p><p>8 Saruday WD {wind} N clear Done choars joe choped 1/2 day. went ome after paid him $1.25cts Norm in bush syrip 27lb
</p><p>9 Sunday WD {wind} E clear to jhon Learns to diner paid him $6.00 joe chopd
</p><p>11 Tuesday WD {wind} SE clear put in straw joe helped Randall and wife to diner Randall let me have $ 5.00 ct Den finh john cloes and george cutis here in the evening. Norm fetched syrip 45 lb
</p><p>12 Wednesday WD {wind} SW Rain thunder Done choars joe choped 1/2 Norm fethced syrip 25 lb
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>13 Thursday WD {wind} E Rain Done choars joe choared
</p><p>14 fryday WD {wind} W windy squals Rain Done choars joe choped
</p><p>15 Satruday WD {wind} S Rain at nigt To Belmont let dyer have Butter 25 {25 above} $6.50 cts eggs 9 Doz 70 Mrs Legg and charley To diner joe choped
</p><p>16 Easter Sunday {WD} wind W cloudy at home joe here 2 boy to diner
</p><p>17 Monday WD {wind} N clear fixed fence joe to help choared after joe choped jack Smith here in evenig
</p><p>18 Tuesday WD {wind} N clear To Randalls took a pig and 7 bushel oats meat and flour and butter aples got the horses shod to Denises 4 shoes set. 50 ct joe turned up buckets in bush
</p><p>19 Wednesday WD {wind} SE clear took the sow to S stewart joe choped sined to Lynce $20
</p><p>20 Thursday WD {wind} E cloudy comenced to plow joe plowed. Midge cow had a calf. cut the 3 pigs
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>21 fryday WD {wind} NW clear Done choars. To john Mckelons sale joe plowed Elder Lynce and wife To Tea let him have pork 12 lb $1.50 cts
</p><p>22 Saturday WD {wind} NW Rain plowed fore noon joe killed a calf plowed after
</p><p>23 Sunday WD {wind} W clear To 2 church To prayer meeting. joe To Belmont
</p><p>24 Monday WD {wind] E clear DOne choars turned the colts out joe plowed
</p><p>25 Tuesday WD {wind} W clear Done choars. joe plowed Narms wife to tea
</p><p>26 Wednesday WD {wind} SW clear Done choars. joe plowed
</p><p>27 Thursday WD {wind} S cloudy cultivated for Barley joe plowed. Randall and wife to diner. Rain at night
</p><p>28 fryday WD {wind} NW clear cultivated joe plowed fore noon sowed Barley after noon joe dragged
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>29 Saturday WD {wind} W clear sowed grass seede joe draged
</p><p>30 Sunday WD {wind} N clear cold at home charley Alen To diner bill To Tea
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="May_1876">May 1876</span></h2>
<p>1 Monday WD {wind} NW clear Done choars. joe plowed set 2 beds onions ethen comenced to send Milk
</p><p>2 Tuesday WD {wind} NE clear cultivated joe plowed father here at night Ann to Belmont Took butter 31 lb {16 written over} $5.76 30 lb syrup $3.39 got goods $6,49 cts Balance $2,57cts
</p><p>3 Wednesday WD {wind} SW clear cultivated joe plowed
</p><p>4 Thursday WD {wind} W clear sowed oats and clover joe draged
</p><p>6 fryday WD {wind} S cloudy Rain sowed oats and clover on barn feild joe plowed and draged. To Belmont let Dyes have 39 Doz eggs got shoes $1.25 cts
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>7 Sunday WD {wind} S clear at home Randall and wife to diner joe here
</p><p>8 Monday WD {wind} W Rain trimed orchard joe plowed for corn 1/2 day
</p><p>9 Tuesday WD {wind} W cloudy helped Norm draw in Buckets fore noon joe plowed sowed peas after joe draged Walker to diner
</p><p>10 Wednesday WD {wind} W Rain trimed trees joe plowed Randall and wife here at night
</p><p>11 Thursday WD {wind} SW clear sowed oats and peas fore noon set onions after Randall draged. went home after joe plowed for corn
</p><p>12 fryday WD {wind} NW clear took the sow to Dan Baxters joe trimed trees
</p><p>13 Saturday WD {wind} NW clear To Belmont let Dyer have 10 Doz eggs $1.00 got from him $4.60cts got from tibets $10 took grist to mill 6 bw joe to Belmont got $30 {faded}
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>14 Sunday WD {wind} SW clear to 2 chruch joe with us Lynce preached
</p><p>15 Monday WD {wind} E cloudy Done choars planted potatoes joe plowed
</p><p>16 Tuesday WD {wind} E Rain looked for the colts joe plowed
</p><p>17 Wednesday WD {wind} SE Rain to Belmont got grists let Boid have 15.32 lb of wheat for $1.00 per bushel $15.53cts got from Dyer 35 cts goods joe choared
</p><p>18 Thursday WD {wind} SW clear worked in the garden joe plowed finished Moare house to diner Randall here paid him for Tibbots $10.00
</p><p>19 fryday WD {wind} SE clear planted potatoes sowed oats and peas joe draged corn ground Ann quilted
</p><p>20 Saturday WD {wind} W Rain planted potatoes joe to help. Black cow had a calf
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>21 Sunday WD {wind} W cloudy To 2 church Lynce preached. Randall and wife To tea
</p><p>22 Monday WD {wind} N clear Done choars joe Draged corn ground
</p><p>23 Tuesday WD {wind} NE clear Marked corn ground comenced to plant joe helped. Sold Jame Mcphale a cow $32.00 joe Smith To Diner
</p><p>24 Wednesday WD {wind} SW clear Done choars Ann sick get Mary Ann Taylor wife to diner and tea DrWilson here paid him $2.00 joe planted corn
</p><p>25 Thursday WD {wind} W clear planted corn joe planted to Belmont let dyes have eggs 20 3/4 Doz got 2 shoes set to Abbotts on charley Dr Wilson called Ann was sick. let C hoover have 2 calves for 60 cts
</p><p>26 fryday WD {wind} SW clear planted corn joe to help Ann sick
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>27 Satruday WD {wind} W clear DRaged for millet joe planted corn fiinished paid joe $4.00 Ann beter
</p><p>28 Sunday WD {wind} S some Rain at home Ann sick joe went home and back Randall and wife called Mary went home paid her 75 cts
</p><p>29 Monday WD {wind} W Rain Thunder and lightning Burned john Denis barn and killed 4 horses to john Stewarts. Done choas joe choared
</p><p>30 Tuesday WD {wind} E clear Made soap planted Beans joe draged james Shirk and wife called here
</p><p>31 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear Worked Raod with team and joe Traughton and boy to diner Wodle called
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="June_1876">June 1876</span></h2>
<p>1 Thursday WD {wind} S clear Worked the roas ed road Master worked with team and joe . bill cow to B
</p><p>2 fryday WD {wind} S clear sowed Millet joe draged
</p><p>2 Saturday WD {wind} E Rain hard Done choars. Madge to B
</p><p>4 Sunday WD {wind} S clear at home george Learn and wife to Tea and Robert joe to Belmont Alen tea
</p><p>5 Monday WD {wind} W clear Top Belmont got from Dyer $7.44 cts paid $2.00 eggs. 20 doz got charley shod 3 shoes to Abbott joe choared. Rose cow had a calf
</p><p>6 Tueday WD {wind} W clear To StThomas got watch cleaned to Nelsons $1 got goods $32.00 to polacks and crays to DIner to fathers joe choared
</p><p>7 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear Doe choars joe Rolled d cullver to tea
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>8 Thursday WD {wind} S clear fixed fence joe to help Randall took a load of wood let Norm have 1/2 bushel of Millet seede for 25 cts nt paid
</p><p>9 fryday WD {wind} SW clear fixed fence fore noon Norm and joe to help joe rolled the oats after hoed the garden after
</p><p>10 Saturday WD {wind} S clear hot hoed garden joe cut burs To Belmont let Abbott have dried aples $1.77 Dyer 7 Doz eggs. 72 cts gloves 25 cts got goods $2.85 cts
</p><p>11 Sunday WD {wind} S clear to 2 church Randall and wife with us Lynce preached Randalls to diner
</p><p>12 Monday WD {wind} S clear hot cultivaed corn joe helped Tilda shirk here
</p><p>13 Tuesday WD {wind} S clear hot cultivated corn joe to help Tillda here
</p><p>14 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear hot cultivated corn joe to help Eagan to diner pide cow to B
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>15 Thrusday WD {wind} S clear To Lyons To Randalls To diner To swamp Randall with me
</p><p>16 fryday WD {wind} S clear cool cultivated corn joe to help. Tillda went home at night
</p><p>17 Saturday WD {wind} S Rain To Old Mr Mcolums funeral. joe away john Lawer and wife and pedler to diner
</p><p>18 Sunday WD {wind} S clear To 2 chruch Lynce pread To W Barrs To diner Randall and wife here to Tea
</p><p>19 Monday WD {wind} W clear to Belmont got 2 shes set to Abbotts let cap aroun have prok 17 1/2 bs Dyer 8 Doz eggs
</p><p>20 Tuesday WD {wind} S clear went to philip cullvers to diner to center to tea to buners to philips at night
</p><p>21 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear to simcoe to diner To Carlton cullvers to philips at night
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>22 thrusday WD {wind} S clear To hullsvill To Warons To diner To Babers to To Tead to phileps at night
</p><p>23 fryday WD {wind} SW clear To Nisbits cullvers to diner To Willcoxs to tea to philps at night
</p><p>24 Saturday WD {wind} S clear to Simcoe to yongs to diner to john to tea to philips at night
</p><p>25 Sunday WD {wind} SW cloudy To Bloamsburgh to chruch Simson preached to phips at night
</p><p>26 Monday WD {wind} SW clear come home to diner to to centes to Tea To Randall home at night
</p><p>27 Tuesday WD {wind} S rain to Andrew Roberts funeral. George Learn and wife to diner father and mother went home paid him 50 cts
</p><p>28 Wednesday WD {wind} W clear cultivated corn joe to help
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>29 Thrusday WD {wind} S clear To Lyons got the horses shod 8 shoes to Denises paid $1.00 sowed Millet for Randall joe cut Thristles. sold joe the pony colt for $26.00
</p><p>30 fryday WD {wind} W clear To Walter Browns for strawberyes got 10 quarts Randalls with us joe cut thistles
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="July_1876">July 1876</span></h2>
<p>1 Saturday WD {wind} S Rain Done choars plowed in orchrd joe haleped
</p><p>2 Sunday WD {wind} clear at home jesa Learn and wife here at night
</p><p>3 Monday WD {wind} W clear To Belmont to Mill 26 bushel to chop let Dyer have 11 doz eggs got $1.00 sugar and Rope 70 cts fetched lumber 85 {ofet?} joe cut Thistles
</p><p>4 Tuesday WD {wind} S Rain Done choars joe helped
</p><p>5 Wednesday WD {wind} W Rain sold J Hoover a cow for $28. To be paid in four month. Ann sick joe spaded garden
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>6 Thursday WD {wind} S clear To Belmont got from Dyer 4 gals lamp oil 1 1/2 lb tobacoe $2.21 got cheese money $13 paid patts $2.48cts got frist of chop 26 bush
</p><p>7 fryday WD {wind} S clear hot to Belmont Drawed 2 load of lumber. joe to john pettits Raison
</p><p>8 Saturday WD {wind} SW clear hot to 2 chruch W jackson preached Randalls with us
</p><p>10 Monday WD {wind} W Rain To Avon fetched posts from the swamp cleaned wheat 20 bags joe picked beryes
</p><p>11 tuesday WD {wind} W clear warm Done choars joe went to Srpingfeild at night
</p><p>12 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear To Belmont Drawed 2 load lumber let Abbott have 33 3/4 lb pork $3.97cts paid J Camble $2<s>5<s>25cts joe away
</s></s></p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>13 Thrusday WD {wind} S Rain cut thistles joe a way. Randall and wife here at night joe come nack at night
</p><p>14 fryday WD {wind} W clear To Belmont let Baid and Mcknikle have 43 1/2 bushel of wheat for 100 {per?} bushel $43,50 took note for $40. To be paid in 3 month. got from Dyer 200lb sugar $19. got a kitle from patts $1,20 joe picked beryes fore noon Drawed wood after
</p><p>15 Saturday WD {wind} NW clear To Belmont to Mill let Abbott have 100 lb flour patts 100lb hoover 19lb Dyer eggs 13 Doz got from poatts #2,60 worth Dyer 25cts joe picked Beryes fore noon Drawed wood after
</p><p>16 Sunday WD {wind} S clear To New Sarum to church Tomkins preached to DIner james Learns joe at home
</p><p>17 Monday WD {wind} S clear cut Barlet joe cut round barlet and wheat Bell and jeny Stewart picked cheryes
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>18 Tuesday WD {wind} S Rain pm finished cuting barley comenced the wheat joe bound wheat
</p><p>19 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear cut and bound wheat joe to help. Randall and wife to pick cheryes
</p><p>20 Thrusday WD {wind} W clear Rain put up Barley and cut wheat joe and his father to help johns boys picked cheryes. Ann to Belmont after tea let Dyes have 5 doz 7 eggs got gloves and rosen 35ct
</p><p>21 fryday W clear cool cut and bount wheat joe and his father to help
</p><p>22 Saturday WD {wind} S clear showers Rain cut and bound wheat and finished joe and his father to help paid Alen $2,25 cts
</p><p>23 Sunday WD {wind} N clear To New Sarum to church Tomkins preached joe away
</p><p>24 Monday WD {wind} N clear To Lyons in forenoon Drawed in Barley after joe to help Randall and wife to pick chereys fathe and mother to diner Ann to Belmont let {os?} have 6 doz eggs
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>25 Tuesday WD {wind} W clear Drawed Barley finished Drawed 3 load of wheat
</p><p>26 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear Drawed in wheat joe to help
</p><p>27 Thursday WD {wind} SE clear Rain at night Drawed whet fore noon finished. picked cheryes after joe mewed{?} fence
</p><p>28 fryday WD {wind} W clear to john Learns ground the reaper knives to Belmont after tea got Bread joe {manued fend?}
</p><p>29 Saturday WD {wind} E clear put up hay. went to Belmont got cheese money $38.00 paid Dyed $26.71cts joe to help john Elder Rowland here at night
</p><p>30 Sunday WD {wind} E clear to 2 chruch Rowland preached To W Barrs To Diner. boy born 29th
</p><p>31 Monday WD {wind} E clear got Mashine here to thrash Rodgers set
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="August_1876">August 1876</span></h2>
<p>1 Tuesday WD {wind} E clear thrashed wheat 128 bushel Barley 100 bushel had to help j Beley S legg E Learn C Stewart j Mckelon D Mckelon E and p Learn joe Alen. Rodgers to thrash W and E and sine Dews paid them $8..00
</p><p>2 Wednesday WD {wind} SE clear cut peas joe to hlep Lynce and wife to diner and tea. Randalls called
</p><p>3 Thursday WD {wind} SE clear cut peas joe to help Ann went to Barrs after tea
</p><p>4 fryday WD {wind} W clear hot cut peas fninshed joe to help. cut and bound oats 1 acre Rain at night
</p><p>5 Saturday WD {wind} S clear cut oats fore noon joe Bound. To Lyons after got horses shod 7 shoes To Denises paid 90. cts Randall and wife here at night
</p><p>6 Sunday WD {wind} S clear to 2 church Lyon preached Randalls with us
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>7 Monday WD {wind} N clear cut oats joe Bound john H Smith called
</p><p>8 Tuesday WD {wind} W clear Bound oat joe to help
</p><p>9 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear tp help y Baley thrash with team joe to help Mckelon and Stewart Tomkins and wife to Diner here
</p><p>10 Thrusday WD {wind} S clear setup fore noon joe helped stewart thrash cut oats after To Belmont at nightlet odle have 13 Doz eggs got tea egg nutmeg 12 joe 1 lb Tobacoe {sold?} $1,43
</p><p>11 fryday WD {wind} S clear Drawed peas 6 load joe to help
</p><p>12 Saturday WD {wind} S Rain Done choars joe sick To Belmont got charley shod 4 shes set to Abbotts joe got 2 shirts to Nugarts for #2.00
</p><p>13 Sunday WD {S clear at home Randall charley legg to tea joe away back at night boy with him
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>14 Monday WD {wind} S cler Drawed in oats joe to help. 9 load
</p><p>15 Tuesday WD {wind} N clear Drawed in oats fore noon joe to help cut millet after joe bound oats
</p><p>16 Wednesday WD {wind} NE clear Bound and drawed in oats finished joe to help
</p><p>17 Thursday WD {wind} S clear cut and put up millet 155 joe to help
</p><p>18 fryday WD {wind} S clear cut and put up millet 160 joe to help
</p><p>19 Saturday WD {wind} NW clear Raked and put up millet finished joe to help 60/375
</p><p>20 Sunday WD {wind} NE clear to New Sarum to church haycock preached to Geo Legs to Diner. frost
</p><p>21 Monday WD {wind} E and W clear Drawed Millet joe to help 7 To Belmont let odle have eggs 13 Doz 2 got tobaco 2 lb Rive 5 lb colars 1 bs
</p><p>22 Tuesday WD {wind} SW clear Drawed in millet joe to help 7 load
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>23 Wednesday WD {wind} S Rain To Belmont to mill with chop 28 b 4 of wheat joe choared Mrs fargur and hanah Learn to tea paid joe 25cts
</p><p>24 Thursday WD {wind} S thunder Drawed Millet 6 load joe to help
</p><p>25 fryday WD {wind} NW Rain finished Drawing in the millet joe to help To Belmont hot grist let hoover have 90 lb flour. Randall and wife called
</p><p>26 Saturday WD {wind} W clear put floore in hog pen joe to help. To Belmont to mill let Aabbott have flour 100lb father and mother to Tea joe went home
</p><p>27 Sunday WD {wind} W clear To 2 church Rowlon preached Randall and wife To church to diner here joe come hack
</p><p>28 Monday WD {wind} E clear done choars joe Drawed manure 7 load
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>29 Tuesday WD {wind} NE clear To Newsarum to church horn preached joe drawed manure comenced to cut corn 30 {text above}
</p><p>30 Wednesday WD {wind} S ofnain a swer clear To help Sam Legg thrash joe Drawed manure 9
</p><p>31 Thursday WD {wind} S clear hot cut corn 101 shock joe Drawed manure 10 load
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="September_1876">September 1876</span></h2>
<p>1 <s>frys</s>day WD {wind} NW Rain cut corn 69 shock joe drawed manure
</p><p>2 Saturday WD {wind} clear cut corn 100 chock joe Drawed manure sow had 5 pigs
</p><p>3 Sunday WD {wind} clear To New sarum To church Tomkins preached To Lymans for diner
</p><p>$ Mondy WD {W clear cut corn 81 shock joe drawed manure Lyman and wife here To tea john Eck with come to work. joe went away paid him in full $60.35cts
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>5 Tuesday {wind} W clear cut corn john to help
</p><p>6 Wednes day WD {wind} E cloudy Rained at night {text written above} To Belmont got cheese money $30. got coton 46 and shoes and other goods from jackson $9.35 let Mcbrane have 13 doz egg got tea 2lb1/4 cut corn after john to help
</p><p>7 Thrusday WD {wind} E fogy mist Done choars john spred manure. gave order for a map in book stile from coal
</p><p>8 fryday WD {wind} W clear To London with cheese 36b got boots and ships from Merit $3.50. To diner to gustons. john cut corn
</p><p>9 Saturday WD {wind} N cloudy cut corn john to help Elder Rowlon here at night
</p><p>10 Sunday WD {wind} E cloudy Rain {text above} To 2 chruch Rowlon preached. To diner to Deninses. john at home
</p><p>11 Monday WD {wind} E cloudy cut corn john to help Rowlon to diner Randall took blocks for stable Ann got plums
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>12 Tuesday WD {wind} E clear To New Sarum To ordinatir Meeting Tomkins preache to diner To Lewises. john cut corn
</p><p>13 Wednesday WD {wind} SE clear cut corn john to help
</p><p>14 Thursday WD {wind} NW Rain finished cuting corn john to help. To Randalls to tea Ann to john Learns
</p><p>15 fryday WD {wind} NW clear Drawed wood fore noon john to help to mill after. Lyman and jane and Randall and here at night
</p><p>17 Sunday WD {wind} E Rain at home. jane Tonsley here. Randalls went home
</p><p>18 Monday WD {wind} N Rain Doen choars john sawed wood jane here
</p><p>19 Tuesday WD {wind} W clear To Randalls with bards To leggs to diner got strawbery plants and set them john to help Tansley and wife to tea went home
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>20 Wednesday WD {wind} S clear To Belmont To mill let W jackson have 600 lb flour 2.75 cts per 100 lb $16.50 got 1 lb salt $1,10 pants 75 ha 25 Let Mcbrane have 5 doz eggs 55cts Wardes 2 bags aples $5 john spread manure
</p><p>21 Thursday WD {wind} clear Drawed in corn 100 shock Dug potatoes 17 bushel john to help
</p><p>22 fryday WD {wind} E cloudy at night rain {text written above} To Calvin Browns to diner to jessa Learns to tea john spread manure
</p><p>23 Saturday WD {wind} E Rain Done choars john went To Mapleton after noon john Learn and wife to tea
</p><p>24 Sunday WD {wind} cloudy to 2 chruch philip with me Rowlan preached philip and wife and kity to diner Randall and wife to diner
</p><p>25 Monday WD {wind} S cloudy Rain at night {text written above} Dug potatoes 7 {or 9} bushel Drawed wood 41/2 cord john to help
</p><p>26 Tuesday WD {wind} NW Rain hard Drawed wood 4/12 cord john to help
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>27 Wednesday WD {wind} NW Rain cloudy Drawed wood 1/2 and corn 50sh came to belmont. went to bills at night
</p><p>28 Thursday WD {wind} SW Rain To London to Western show home at night john husked corn
</p><p>29 fryday WD {wind} clear done choars john Drawed manure on garden
</p><p>30 Saturday WD W clear To Belmont got cheese money $26.00 got cloth 3 1/2 yrds $105 from jackson 5ct peper john Drawed manure
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="OCTOber_1876">OCTOber 1876</span></h2>
<p>1 Sunday wd {wind} SW clear To Belmont to church Mckinen preached. john at home
</p><p>2 Monday WD {wind} SW clear husked corn [icked aples john comenced to plow
</p><p>3 Tuesday WD SW Rain to Lyons show john plowed
</p><p>4 Wednesday WD {wind} W clear husked corn. john plowed
</p><p>5 Thursday WD {wind} SW clear to Aylmer show john plowed Nolson and wife to tea
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>6 fryday WD {wind} W Rain to help Ed thrash john plowed. Randall took a load of wood form Norms father and Mother here at night
</p><p>7 Satruday WD {wind} hail To Belmont got l lb Tobacoe lamp chimney from jackson 65cts. john to help Ed thrash fore noon plowed after hanah and Mrs slevenson her in evening
</p><p>8 Sunday WD {wind} W clear To 2 chruch Rowlan preached To Eds in evening. froze
</p><p>9 Monday WD {SW clear picked aples 13 john flowed Elder Rowland to diner
</p><p>10 Tuesday WD {wind} NW clear Drawed in corn 6 load john to help. Ann to john
</p><p>11 Wednesday WD {wind} snow husked corn set up corn picked aples 4/12 bushel john plowed. froze
</p><p>12 Thursday WD {wind} W clear set peach trees fore noon john plowed. picke aples 24 1/2 after john to help Randall took a load of wood
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>13 Fryday [wind] S clear picked aples 3 fore noon john plowed Drawed in corn after john helped Randall made cider
</p><p>14 Saturday [wind] NW Rain froze huske corn john plowed finished south field
</p><p>15 Sunday [wind] NW snow to George Leggs to diner to johns after noon
</p><p>16 Monday [wind] SW clear Drawed in corn 6 load john to help. Ann to Gilberts for butter 58lb paid $13,50 cts to johns at night calis Ta had a girl baby
</p><p>17 Tuesday [wind] W clear Drawed in corn 5 load john to help. sent Butter by stage To Wm Meritt 58lb. got socks 2 pair and pair mits for john from jackson $1.50 cts
</p><p>18 Wednesday [wind] SW clear Drawed in corn 2 load finished drawe in beans made cider john to help
</p><p>19 Thursday [wind] SE clear killed a pig To Belmont got a jar sent a letter for a ring john plowed Lyman got aples Ann to johns
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>20 Fryday [wind] S clear rain at night picked apples 10 bushel john plowed
</p><p>21 Saturday [wind] S clear husked corn john plowed Randall called and got corn
</p><p>22 Sunday [wind] S clea to 2 church Rowland preached. To johns after
</p><p>23 Monday [wind] NW Rain all day bought spring wheat from EV Learn for $1 per bushel 15 bushel paid #15 john husked corn
</p><p>24 Tuesday [wind] W Rain got wheat home to Belmont got for john to jacksons $3.53 cts worth got 1/2 lb Tobacoe 1/2 lbs starch got from patts 1 trap 2 Bolts 1 blacking. from Abbott 1 crew [drives?] got from Boyed & McNide $40.0 and a letter from Wm Meritt $14.50 cts letter from the dutch man with Ring john to Belmont {Unclear entry in parts, longer entries often become jumbled}
</p><p>25 Wednesday [wind] NW cloudy husked corn john plowed
</p><p>26 Thursday [wind] SW cludy sqails husked corn john plowed Ed got aples for cider
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>27 Fryday [wind] W cloudy snow and at night Rain {and at night rain written above and below previous line indicating he returned to his diary to make a more accurate assessment of the days weather}
</p><p>28 Saturday [wind] E Rain husked corn. john choared fore noon {smudged word} went to away after noon. paid him 50 cts
</p><p>29 Sunday [wind] E cloudy at home john came back Randall and wife to tea
</p><p>30 Monday [wind] S clear husked corn. john plowed
</p><p>31 Tuesday [wind] W clear warm husked corn john plowed
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="November_1876">November 1876</span></h2>
<p>1 Wednesday [wind] W Rain warm husked corn john plowed finished the 14 acre field
</p><p>2 Thursday [wind] W Rain husked corn john plowed 1/2 day
</p><p>3 Fryday [wind] S cloudy husked corn john plowed
</p><p>4 Saturday [wind] W clear to Lyons paid H wood $5 for gate To Randalls to diner john plowed
</p><p>Sunday [wind] E clear To 2 church morning and even-ning Rowlands preached john home
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>6 Monday [wind] SE Rain husked corn john to help
</p><p>7 tuesday [wind] SW cloudy hused corn john to help Elder Rowland calle gave him a bag of corn
</p><p>8 Wednesday [wind] N Rain husked corn john plowed Randall to Diner
</p><p>9 Thursday [wind] NW cloudy husked corn set peach trees 50 john plowed james Shirk paid $40 EV Learn paid $1.80 cts
</p><p>10 Fryday [wind] W cloudy To Belmont for noon husked corn after john plowed got from jackson 1 coat john $4.50 1/2 lb tobacoe 25cts
</p><p>11 Saturday [wind] SE cloudy husked corn john plowed
</p><p>12 Sunday [wind] SE clear to john Learns to diner
</p><p>13 Moncay [wind] S cloudy Took beats parsnips and potatoes john to help plowed garden Ann to Leggs and finches
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>14 Tuesday [wind] NE snow finished plowing cleaned a grist 10 bushel wheat john to help john went away for a tramp paid him 25 cts
</p><p>15 Wednesday [wind] W clear husked corn Done choars
</p><p>16 Thursday [wind] SW cloudy to mill 16 bushel of wheat let jackson have 400 lb flour. got the horses shod 8 shoes 4 new to Abbotts
</p><p>17 Fryday [wind] E cloudy to old Mr Mcmurys funealElder Smith preached. To EV Learns to tea
</p><p>18 Saturday [wind] E rain husked corn done choars
</p><p>19 Sunday [wind] SE rain at home
</p><p>20 Monday [wind] N cloudy to harietsville to see the consel To yellys to Diner. let Ed have 100 [feet?] pnank for raod $1.00 {uncertain words in entry}
</p><p>21 Tuesday [wind] NE rain fine husked corn
</p><p>22 Wednesday [wind W cloudy cold To Belmont fore noon got 1 lb tea Botle oil from jackson 85 cts husked corn after
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>23 Thursday [wind] W cloudy To Lyons Dick horse was sick To Belmont got medison from Dyes .50 cts john came home paid Taxes to Mrs [putonun?] $26.04 cts
</p><p>24 Fryday [wind] SW cloudy cold husked corn john to help
</p><p>25 Saturday [wind] SE snow Sold joe jackson 8[,,?] hogs for $95..00 john husked corn
</p><p>26 Sunday [wind] SE clear snow To 2 chruch Rowland preached. Ann a home Robert Learn here at night
</p><p>27 Monday [wind] SE snow To joe jacksons got $95.00 To Randalls at night to M fulitons got well made
</p><p>28 Tuesday [wind] E clear cold To philips cullvers at night
</p><p>29 Wednesday [wind] NW clear cold To Alma cullvers weding To philips a night
</p><p>30 Thursday [wind] NW clear cold to Nisbets cullvers to diner to David Barbers at night
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Decmber_1876">Decmber 1876</span></h2>
<p>1 Fryday [wind] NW clear cold came home Diner to Randalls
</p><p>2 Saturday [wind] N clear cold Done choars john choared took the sox to Baleys{drawing appears to represent a crossing}
</p><p>3 Sunday [wind] NW clear at home
</p><p>4 Monday [wind] NE clear husked corn. john choped comenced to feed the horses cut feed
</p><p>5 Tuesday [wind] NE clear To Belmont to mill got from jackson 2 lb tobacoe and grocerys took note from c.y hoocer for $34 to be paid in 14 days. john choped
</p><p>6 Wednesday [wind] SW clear To Belmont got grist got from Abbott wedge at 50 got from jackson tick $1.50 got from potts goods 75cts john choped wood
</p><p>7 Thursday [wind] W snow husked corn john choped
</p><p>8 Fryday [wind] W clear cold put corn in crib fore noon john to help fixed crib after john choped. EV Learn and wife here in evening
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>9 Saturrday [wind] NW snow very blus Done choars john choared
</p><p>10 Sunday [wind] SE cloudy snow coldat home john Learn and wife to Diner. Randall took his cutter home
</p><p>11 Monday [wind] SE cloudy Done choars put colt in Ann was sick. john hosked corn. a tramp joe grag{ink smudging end of word} here at noght
</p><p>12 Tuesday [wind] S cloudy thawed husked corn. john thrashed oats
</p><p>13 Wednesday [wind] S cloudy husked corn john choped
</p><p>14 Thursday [wind] SW clear Done choars john choped Randall to diner. Mothers here at night George Learn here from Bisty
</p><p>15 Fryday [wind] W cloudy cold To Belmont to mill got meal 35 lb sent for free press $1.60cts john choped
</p><p>16 Saturday [wind] W snow Blustey cold faced mitons john thrashed
</p><p>17 Sunday [wind] NE snow at home George Learn here at night Bisty
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>18 Monday [wind] W clear cold To Belmont let jackson have flour 200lb let potts have 70lb flour john Thrashed 1/2 and choped /12
</p><p>19 Tuesday [wind] W cloudy cold Killed a hog 168 lb john to help fore noon husked corn after john thrashed cut sasage meet at night 24lb
</p><p>20 Wednesday [wind] E cloudy cold to Belmont got fish 1/2 lb of jackson $5.00 from Abott a clevis. husked corn after john thrashed
</p><p>21 thursday [wind] SE cloudy took a load of oats to Randall john thrashed
</p><p>22 Fryday [wind] NE snowed sick with a cold john thrashed Ann made cake
</p><p>23 Saturday [wind] W cloudy sick with a cold john done choars. Randall and wife here at ngiht
</p><p>24 Sunday [wind] NE clear at home. Randall and Ann to 2 chruch Rowlan preached his wife stayed with me they went home at night
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>25 Monday chistmas [wind] E snow To George Leggs to diner john done choars
</p><p>26 Tuesday [wind] W clear To Belmont got over coat from jackson $13.50 got cheee money $50 to diner to Mrs clines john choared lip Learn and wife here for tea
</p><p>27 Wednesday [wind] W clear To St thomas put in the Merchants Bank $304 01cts got a cap from coyn $2.50 to Lymans to diner Ann To Lymans john choared
</p><p>28 Thursday [wind[ E snow cleaned oats 26 bushel fore noon to Randalls after too stove there john choared
</p><p>29 Fryday [wind] E snow Blustery Killed 3 hogs jim wilsey to help paid him 75 cts john helped
</p><p>30 Saturday [wind] W cold Blustery cut up hogs 3 made sausage john choared
</p><p>31 Sunday [wind] W clear cloudy To 2 church Mconel preached To george To tea Ed and phil here at night
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="January_1877">January 1877</span></h2>
<p>1 Monday [wind] SE clear To Lyons town meeting voted fo fuliton simpson charleton Bentley Ann to johns to diner to Randalls john thrashed oats
</p><p>2 Tuesday [wind] E clear Drawed 1 load wood sent for the canadian Baptist paper3. $5.25ct to Belmont got chock for cheese$10 Randall here at night john thrashed oats
</p><p>3 Wednesday [wind] NW NE clear to London paid taxes on swamp. Randall with me left cap to Belts to be cleaned and fixed Lyman and fam to diner Eckworth here at night john thrashed
</p><p>4 Thursday [wind] SW clear To Enick Sminths to diner to the swamp john Done choars W Eckworth here day and night
</p><p>5 Fryday [wind] SW cloudy To Belmont got lamp oil of jackson 4gals $2.10 to 23 tea 37 let him have drye Apples bushels 4 and 15 lb paid john 62 1/2 David Mondaville to diner john choared thrashed
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>6 Saturday [wind] SW clear Done choars john to Lymans. Paid him 10 cts
</p><p>7 Sunday [wind] SW cloudy to New sarum to church Tomkins preached to Elurners to diner. paid to D Nucomle $1 for organ
</p><p>8 Monday [wind] N cold snow Cleaned oats 19 bushel and heat fore noon john to help john thrashed oats after
</p><p>9 Tuesday [wind] SW clear To Belmont to mill 16 bus got from jackson goods $2 let Dyes have bean 1 1/2 $1.50 Abott 1 bushel Beans john thrashed oats
</p><p>10 wednesday [wind] SW snow at home father and mother here john thrashed oats
</p><p>11 Thrusday [wind] S and N snow at home Randall and wife here to diner father and motehr went away john thrashed pats and choared
</p><p>12 Fryday [wind] NE cloudy cold To Belmont let jackson have 614 lb flour $2,85cts $1,7,50 and oats 42 1,60 {and oats written above} got Boots $350. 2 brooms john thrashed oats choar
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>13 Saturday [wind] W clear cold at home john thrashed oats and choared
</p><p>14 Sunday [wind] SE clear To 2 church Mconel preached to W Barss to diner john done the choars
</p><p>15 Monday [wind] NE snow To Belmont with Randall to get frank hawkins David Brown here at night. cleaned oats 28 john choared thrashed
</p><p>16 Tuesday [wind] W clear To Belmont with G Legg got 1 lb tobacoe from jackson Geroge less annd wife to diner geroge Learn and wife to tea. D brown here. john thrashed oats and choared
</p><p>17 Wednesday [wind] W clear at home W Barr and wife Levy Smth and wife Cornell and wife a child here to diner D Brown went away john Thrashed oats
</p><p>18 Thursday [wind] SW cloudy To st Thomas to fathers Birthday party he was 80 years old john done coars
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>19 Fryday [wind] SW cloudy mild to Belmont to cheese meeting to Wh Odles to tea john thrashed and choared
</p><p>20 Saturday [wind] N clear Cleaned oats 22 bushel john to help and choared
</p><p>21 Sunday [wind] SW clear cold To New sarum to church Tomkings preached to Tomkins to diner john done the choars jane Stevenson to tea
</p><p>22 Monday [wind] SW clear to halls Tomkins and wife to diner john learn and wife to tea john thrashed oats
</p><p>23 Tuesday [wind] W clear cold To Belmont got the horses shod 8 shoes to abbotts got bobs from him $ 36 let him have Nole and hoover for $34 paid $1.75 To charles Learn to tea john choared
</p><p>24 wenesday [wind] W cold clear To john learns to diner john thrashed and choared
</p><p>25 Thursday [wind] W clear got sheep 6 from john Learn let him have baby To Randalls after john thrashed and choared
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>26 fryday [wind] SW clear To swamp got posts from sandy cury 26 for $104 to litle johns to tea john thrashed and choared
</p><p>27 Saturday [wind] SW clear To Aylmer with oats 37 bus got $15. sold to Lewis for 40 cts john choared and thrashed Earnest Learn here at night
</p><p>28 Sunday [wind] SW clear To 2 church Mconel preache lib farques and jane stevon to diner. to george Aplefands to tea john to john Learns
</p><p>29 Monday [wind] SW clear thawed to cheese meeting to john stewarts Randall and wife here to tea john choared and thrashed oats
</p><p>30 Tuesday [wind] SE clear Thawed To Nelson Learns george Learn and wife with us to diner john choared.
</p><p>31 Wednesday SE cloudyThaw to Belmont to mill 6 bushel of wheat 24 of chop oats peas got from potts 220 sptes from Nugent slips
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="February_1877">February 1877</span></h2>
<p>1 Thursday [wind] SW clear To Belmont got grist let hoover have 100lb flour. got from jackson goods $2.55 paid john $171
</p><p>2 Fryday [wind] E clear Thawed Done choars. went to james Batleys top tea john choared
</p><p>3 Saturday [wind] NE cloudy Cleaned oats 38 bushel john to help john went to lymans at night Litle john Learn and wife here <s>at n</s> To tea
</p><p>4 Sunday [wind] W clear Thawed at home john came home
</p><p>5 Monday [wind] NW cloudy to harrietsville to ensurence meeting got ensured for $2500 paid $5...cts litle john and wife with us to diner to j geleys john choared
</p><p>6 Tuesday [wind] SW cloudy at home cleaned wheat james learn and wife and Sarah Bolsby to diner john thrashed and choared
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>7 Wednesday [wind] S clear To Aylmer Ann to johns to diner To Randalls. john choared thrashed
</p><p>8 Thursday [wind] S clear to Aylmer with Wheat 32.7 bushel got $1.30 cts $41.75 to diner to T charlestons john choared Thrashed
</p><p>9 Fryday [wind] S clear To Belmont to mill let jackson have honey 17 1/2 $3.32 cts got goods 43.72 cts ad cap $2.25 got Bedstead from Bonn $7 john choared thrashed
</p><p>10 Saturday [wind] SW clear thawd Tusked corn. went to john Learns. john thrashed oats choared
</p><p>11 Saturday [wind] SW clear To New Sarum to church Tomkins preached. to john finches to diner paid Newcomb $4..00 for Tomkins. john at home
</p><p>12 Monday [wind] N cloudy blustery to john Lutons traded 23 bushel of Barley to diner Ann with me john thrashed choared Randall took charley
</p><p>13 Tuesday [wind] NW clear thawd To Belmont to mill got grist Randall fetched charley home john thrashed choared
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>14 wednesday [wind] SW clear To Randalls to diner john choared and thrashed
</p><p>15 Thursday [wind] W cloudy cleaned oats 41 bushel john to help hanah to diner paid john 50cts
</p><p>16 Fryday [wind] NW clear fixed sples john thrashe
</p><p>17 Saturday [wind] NW snow Blustery traded Bell to Tom Belmore for Nelley B. john thrashe
</p><p>18 Sunday [wind] SW cloudy snowat home john at home
</p><p>19 Monday [wind] NW clear cold at home john thrashed let To Bellmore have barley 8 bushel for boot [Boat?]
</p><p>20 tuesday [wind] SW clear To swamp. rented Sandy Cury the swamp for 1 year for $40 and road work and taxes to be paid john thrashed
</p><p>21 Wednesday [wind] S clear husked corn john thrashed
</p><p>22 Thursday [wind] S clear To Randalls Sarah Anns baby born at 5 oclock Ann to Randalls at night john Thrashed choard
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>23 Fryday [wind] NW cloudy To Randalls to diner Ann came home let john Learn jr have 2 bus of corn $120 let Aga winters have 2 1/2 lb Butter 50cts john thrashed and choared
</p><p>24 Saturday [wind] NE cloudy cleaned oats john to help 38
</p><p>25 Sunday [wind] NW cold To Lyons to cheuch William preached to Randalls to diner Ann stayed to Randalls john at home
</p><p>26 Monday [wind] N clear husked corn john choped Ann to Randalls
</p><p>27 Tuesday [wind] S<s>E</s>W clear To R fulitons salee john Thrashed Ann came home
</p><p>28 Wednesday [wind] SW clear To Belmont let jackson have 6 1/2 doz eggs 12 1/2 cts doz john choped got john 1 lb tobacoe pencil [5/6]8 cts
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="March_1877">March 1877</span></h2>
<p>1 Thursday [wind] SW clear Drawed beckets to Bush taped 15 trees john washed the buckets. fthes to diner
</p><p>2 Fryday [wind] S rain forenoon taped 145 trees after noon john to help
</p><p>3 Saturday [wind] SW cloudy snow worked in bush taped 47 trees fix boiling place and gethered 2 tubs of sap john to help. frank haw kins fetched dick horse home from Randalls
</p><p>4 Sunday [wind] NW cold at home
</p><p>5 Monday [wind] NW cold Boiled sap john to help old Black cow down
</p><p>6 Tuesday [wind] SW snow Thrashed oats with the horses john to help. Ann sugared off 22lb. Randall to diner. Midge cow h had a calf
</p><p>7 Wednesday [wind] SE clear cold Thrashed oats john to help
</p><p>8 Thursday [wind] SE Rain Threshed oats john to help
</p><p>9Fryday [wind] NW cold snow Blustery To Belmont for Dr wilson Ann to Randalls john choared
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>10 Saturday [wind] W clear Cleaned oats 82 bushel john to elp. Ann to Randalls
</p><p>11 Sunday [wind] SW snow To Randalls Ann came home john to No 1 to church
</p><p>12 Monday [wind] NE snow cold Thrashed peas john to help Randall took the cow home left the colt Elder Rowland to diner
</p><p>13 Tuesday [wind] S clear Thrashed peas fore noon john to help To Randalls after lill cow had a calf
</p><p>14 Wednesday [wind] S [and?] N snow Blustery Thrashed peas john to help
</p><p>15 Thursday [wind] SW clear To Belmont let Dyes have egg 11 doz oats 4 bushel got for john shirting $181 cts got tea 3 /34 lbs to Randalls after john Thrashed peas choared Ann to Eds quilting spot cow had a calf
</p><p>16 Fryday [wind[ NW snow cold cleaned peas 57 bushel john to help let cullver finch have oats 14 bushel $5.6ts. Mrs finch cullver and liley to tea
</p><p>17 Saturday [wind] W clear finished thrashing oats john choared. Mrs DaCline and 2 children to tea
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>18 Sunday [wind] SW snow To Randalls. john home
</p><p>19 Monday [wind] NW snow To spring field with oats bushel 41. got 43 cts per bushel james Learn with me john choared [old Eckwith?] here at night. Levy and Enick Smith and wives here to diner Thunder at night {names in this entry difficutl to decipher}
</p><p>20 Tuesday [wind] NE clear To thew swamp. john choped. Ann to Randalls
</p><p>21 Wednesday [wind] NE snow clear after To Randalls for Ann cleaned oats 12 buchel john choared
</p><p>22 Thursday [wind] SW thawed To spring field with oats 57 bushel 44cts $25.00 john choared
</p><p>23 Fryday [wind] W clear thawed To belmont to mill 24 bus to chop. gethered sap 2 tubs after john to help. Randall to diner and yessa Robert to work for him. let jackson have 15 lb of Butter 25cts per lb $3.75
</p><p>24 Saturday [wind] NE couldy To Belmont got grist boiled sap john boiled. Elder Rowlan Olover cullver and boy and lida and Martha hill here at night pide cow had a calf
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>25 Sunday [wind] E Rain to 2 chruch Rowland preached. O cullver and boy here. sow had [6?] pigs
</p><p>26 Monday [wind] N Rain snow <s>Ann sugard 25 lb</s> Done choars john skined the old Black cow Cullvers went away Ann sugared of 25 lb
</p><p>27 Tuesday [wind] NW clear thawed to Belmont let potts have a hide 50 lb $250. Drawed sap after 3 tubs. john to help Randall and hawkins to diner
</p><p>28 Wednesday [wind] NW windy Boiled sap john to help
</p><p>29 Thursday [wind] NW clear wind to Eagans mill fore noon john choared Ann sugared off 25[or 35] lb
</p><p>30 Fryday [wind] SW clear thawed To Randalls fore noon worked in the Bush afterjohn to help
</p><p>31 Saturday [wind] SE Rain To belmont got 2 lb tobacoe and 1 of soap from McBrone for $1.14 cts 1 for john john choped
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="April_1877">April 1877</span></h2>
<p>1 Sunday [wind] S Rain at home. Neley cow sick Norms wife to tea
</p><p>2 Monday [wind] NW clear gethered and boiled sap 5 tubs john to help john comenced work for a year for $72
</p><p>3 Tuesday [wind] NE SE clear Boiled sap john to help
</p><p>4 Wednesday [wind] SE clear To Belmont got from W Martin timothey seed 80lb for $4.00 order a pair of pants from jackson john choped. Sam legg and wife to tea. Ann sugared off 73lb.
</p><p>5 Thursday [wind] NW snow gethered sap 5 tubs boiled john to help
</p><p>6 Fryday [wind] NW clear gethered sap 3 tubs boiled john to help. Ann sugared off 42lb
</p><p>7 Saturday [wind] NE clear boiled sap Drawed wood john to help Ann sugared off 30lb
</p><p>8 Sunday [wind] E windy at home joe Alen to tea Ed Learn to diner
</p><p>9 Monday [wind] NE clear getherer sap 4 tubs Boiled john to help sold peas 2 [& lb?] ten to Ravy 18 to Dunn for 75 per lb Elder Rowland to diner Ann sugerd 40 lb
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>10 Tuesday [wind] NE clear Boiled sap fore noon john to help john choped after
</p><p>11 Wednesday [wind] N clear To Randalls got horses shoes set on front feet john choped
</p><p>12 Thursday [wind] NS clear worked in bush finished let [ER?] Learn have 10 bushel peas [at?] 5 cts per bushel $7.50 traded oats with jim for peas 16 1/2 for 10 jim and wife to diner
</p><p>13 Fryday [wind] NE clear To Belmont let jackson have eggs 27 doz 12cts got $250 {likley missing period} got seed to Matin got Bushes to Tibeh Let Taylon have 1/2 bapotto taes50 cts john choped {entry unclear}
</p><p>14 Saturday [wind] SE clear to St Tomas put the Merchants Bank $96 all in the bank 400.0 to Elder Rowlands to diner Ann to philips john choped and choared
</p><p>15 Sunday [wind] W clear at home Randall and Chaley legg called {uncertain}
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>16 Monday [wind] SE rain fore noon clear after Cultivated 2 teams john to help
</p><p>17 Tuesday [wind] E SE clear rain at night Sowed wheat 7 acres john draged
</p><p>18 Wednesday [wind] E Rain Done choars john choared
</p><p>19 Thursday [wind] E Rain To Belmont got pants from jackson $3.65 cts john choared
</p><p>20 Fryday [wind] W clear to 2 church Elder Rowland preached. Randall and wife to diner
</p><p>23 Monday [wind] S clear Rolled medow john cultivated. sold Mckets Barley 4 bushel. Elder Rowland to diner
</p><p>24 Tuesday [wind] NW squals sowed grass seede john cultivated Sarah Ann and jessa Roberts to diner
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>25 Wednesday [wind] N clear Done choars john cultivated
</p><p>26 Thursday [wind] S clear sowed oats 24 bushel john draged
</p><p>27 Fryday [wind] E clear sowed oats 14 bushel fore noon john draged rolled wheat after noon
</p><p>28 Saturday [wind] E Rain To Belmont let Dyes have molases 4 gals $5.44 $1.25 egg 30 doz [10?] got 2lb Tobacoe and comb $ 1.50 john draged oats bin {entry unclear}
</p><p>29 Sunday [wind] SW cloudy To No 1 To church Dyer preached joe Alen to diner
</p><p>30 Monday [wind] W cloudy hail To Belmont let Dyer haver peas 6 1/2 bushel $5.50 got salt 3 barels $3.30 wash load 20 Let Norm have barley 10 bushel. let Litle john Learn have oats 30 bushel $13.50 paid
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="May_1877">May 1877</span></h2>
<p>1 Tuesday [wind] N cleared Done choars john cultivated
</p><p>2 wenensday [wind] N clear choared john cultivated
</p><p>3 Thursday [wind] SW clear Sower pears 6 1/2 bushel Barley 12 bushel let M White have 1 bushel of corn for $1.00 not paid john draged
</p><p>4 Fryday [wind] SW clear to Belmont let Dyes have eggs 16 [10?] doz [??] of onions $1.05 Ann got Dress. $12.05 john choared Rauy got pens 10 bushel paid $7.50 {entry unclear}
</p><p>5 Satruday [wind] NE clear made garden john to help planted potatoes to john Learn after tea
</p><p>6 Sunday [wind] E clear To 2 chruch Rowland preached. john Learn and wife to diner
</p><p>7 Monday [wind] clear to [swamp?] fore noon let Norm have 10 bushel Barley lent 2 3/4 peas $2.47 1/2cts john cultivated
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>8 Tuesday [wind] NE clear Turned the cows out to pater. john cultivated fore noon. helped to plant potatoes after Ann to Belmont to get dresse fited
</p><p>9 wesnday [wind] NE Rain planted potatoe fore noon john to help To Belmont after to mill 16 bushel [chop] and 4 of wheat let jackson have 3 bags of potatoes $2.70 got goods $7.00 for john
</p><p>10 Thrusday [wind] W clear Rolled john draged corn ground. let john Learn have 8 bushels of peas and 3 /12 corn $7.50
</p><p>11 Fryday [wind} SE clear To Belmont got frist got from abbott belte rings and plow point john sick took him to DR spencer et jackson have better 24lb crack Randall to tea let him have $20.00 as lent
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>13 Sunday [wind] SE clear To 2 church a stranger preached. john sick
</p><p>14 Monday [wind S clear draged and Rolled corn grains let W bare and Cullver finch have 11/2 bushels of corn each john sick
</p><p>15 tuesday [wiind] S clouldy Masked corn ground let litle joh have 1 busheld of hard corn D Brown 1/2 and Kor, 1/2 Not paid john sick
</p><p>16 wednesday [wind] SW showrs sick john sick D pery to work Randall wife here got flour
</p><p>17 Thursday [wind] S showers plowed john plaites corn pery split rails
</p><p>18 Fryday [wind] SW clear hot plowed pery split rails john sick let D Baxter have corn 1 1/4 bushel $ 1.25 Ann to Randalls
</p><p>19 Saturday [wind] SE clear hot planted corn john to help to Belmont let Dyer have eggs 35 doz [10?] $2.50 get $1.00
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>20 Sunday [wind] S clear hot to church Rowland Preached. To Belmont with john to Dr Menlatt Randall and wife and jacot Shirk and wife john finch and wife David Shirk and Lely finch to diner
</p><p>21 Monday [wind] S&N clear planted corn john and pery to help let john Simpson have 3/4 bushels corn 75 Cullver finch paid $1.50
</p><p>22 Tuesday [wind] W rain to Randalls sale Bargen with colard for a drill for $70 let him have a harness for $35. frery split rails john finch planing corn
</p><p>23 Wednesday [wind] N clear cool done choars john drawed rails. pery built fence
</p><p>24 Thursday [wind] NW clear cool sowed miller planted beans john to help to Belmont after Rondal and wife withe us Ann got her linen Dress
</p><p>25 Fryday [wind] NW clear To Randalls plowed gardon john choared pery split rails
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>26 Saturday [wind] N clear Sowes corn and Turnps john draged. pery fine shed dence. paid him $4.00 fish pedler to diner
</p><p>27 Sunday [wind] W clear To church [Slnanges?] preached. john to Lyman Learns
</p><p>28 Monday [wind] NE clear DOne choars john piled manure. father and Mother to diner Randalls and Sam Leggs to tea
</p><p>29 Tuesday [wind} S clear To Randalls father and mother with john [chot?] Nelson Learn here at night
</p><p>30 Wednesday [wind] S clear Done choars. john piled Manure
</p><p>31 Thursday [wind] S clear To Belmont got 4 shoes set to Abbotts got can fixed to potts. got Drill from W.Collard $80.00 let Dyer have eggs 12 doz
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="June_1877">June 1877</span></h2>
<p>1 Fryday [wind] S clar warm done choar. paid William collard $ 77.50 cts for Drill in full to Belmont. got cheese Money $25 from Davison Neley Mare had a colt
</p><p>2 Saturday [wind] S showers Some choars john choared sold [Yun?] 3 bushels of millet seeds $3.00
</p><p>3 Sunday [wind] SW Rain To geroge Leggs to diner
</p><p>4 Monday [wind] S clear Worker road teams john Sam legg Road Muster
</p><p>5 Tuesday [wind] E cloudy coltivatec corn john to help to Belmont got charley shod to Abbotts 4 shoes .50 cts
</p><p>6 Wednesday [wind] NE clear worked road john to an team Mrs [?] Brown and Mrs Bare to tea let geroge hae 1/2 bushel millt seeds
</p><p>7 Thursday NE clear to St Thomas to diner to rawlands. Calles to charles got Anna bonet got a hat To tea to Weslakes john cut thistles {final entry diffcult to decipher}
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>8 Fryday [wind] SW clear cultivated corn john to help to Belmont let Dyer have 11 1/2 doz eggs$1,26 got goods $1,70[?] got order from simptson $21.00 Sarah Learn and herbert Nety Sety Clady to diner
</p><p>9 Saturday [wind] S Rain to henry Roberts got order paid $21.00 cultivated corn after john Learn paid $6.00 Ann got her dress paid $5.00 frank Learn here at nightpaid pery $4.50
</p><p>10 Sunday [wind] W clear cool to New sarum to church Tomkins preached Ann at home Randals to tea
</p><p>11 Monday [wind] S clear cultivated corn john to help Nelley Mare to hoe
</p><p>12 Tuesday [wind] S clear took Ann to kings mill to go to waterford george Emer and wife here at night. cut thistles after noon. paid for frank to charlton[?] $ 14.75
</p><p>13 Wednesday [wind] S shower cut thistles fore noon john to help john hoed potatoes Ann went home Tandall and wife here at night beed swarmed
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>14 Thursday [wind] SW Rain went to Simcoe to Ed Cahons at night
</p><p>15 Fryday [wind] S clear to R Wil coxes and yongs to philips at night
</p><p>16 Saturday [wind] S clear To Nishet cullvers To philips at night
</p><p>17 Sunday [wind] S clear to David Barber at night
</p><p>18 Monday [wind] S clear came home Margret with us to Belmont let Dyes have 17 doz eggs got john shoes $1.25
</p><p>19 Tuesday [wind] NW clear cut cloves cultivates corn Margret here Dan Smith here
</p><p>20 Wednesday [wind] E clear cultivated corn john to help Margret here Smith went away
</p><p>21 Thursday [wind] NW cloudy raked hay cultivated corn john to help Margret went to johns
</p><p>22 Fryday [wind] N clear cultivated corn john to help to Belmont got goods from Dyes $2.00 took grist to mill
</p><p>23 Saturday [wind] S clear cut hay and Drawed in 3 load john to help Margret came back from johns
</p></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>24 Sunday [wind] SW clear at home Margret here Randall and wife to diner Rain at night
</p><p>25 Monday [wind] SW clear raked hay john to help Margret here
</p><p>26 Tuesday [wind] SW Rain To Belmont got horses [shat?] 4 shoes wagon hole to Abbotts. paid Bill $ 1.00 Margret here
</p><p>27 wednesday [wind] SW clear tpo Lyons got wagon and took it to Belmont to Abbott. let Dyes have 7 1/2 Doz eggs got goods $1,89 and paid john 75 Margret here
</p><p>28 Thursday [wind] NW rain Drawed in har 5 load wnet to lambeth to john Smiths after Margret with us
</p><p>29 Fryday [wind] NW rain came home to Nelsons to tea Margret with us
</p><p>30. Saturday [wind] SW rain to Randalls Margret with john choared Bees swarmed
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Diary of
Angus S. Bauman
Elmira
Ontario
Canada
This “Diary” commenced on the
1st
of January in the year 1904
A.D—20 July 1919.
Blots excuse, mistakes forgive;
Think of the writer as long as you
live.
�2
It can be recalled by the older folks that the light of day was very much
darkened in the afternoon of the fifth day of September, 1881, caused by smoke
of a great fire in Michigan.
Newspaper articles included:
Do You Remember Big Snow Blockade? Signet Apr. 11, 1946
Start of Century was Excuse for Whoopee Dec. 32, 1949
Recalls Stormy Winter of 1904 January 1934 Signet
1904 January 1904 A.D.
1. Figured at Beef Ring Sheet. AM. Pointed flynet laces PM.
2. Dunged the stables AM. Parents in town. I helped at flynets PM.
3. SUNDAY: Louis Brox brought Laura Speath here AM. Nobody here PM.
4. I started to go to school. Father went over to Grandfather’s and paid Lavina’s
bills in the stores.
5. I at school. Father butchered at Grandfather’s. 30 below zero.
6. I at school. Father butchered at George Bauman’s. Deep snow and high
roads these days.
7. I at school. Father was in Waterloo and Berlin to buy leather for harnesses.
A little fire in school house.
8. I at school, scholars practiced for the “Fire Drill”.
9. Dunged the stables. Improved road for sleighing.
10.SUNDAY: Father, Eli and I were at Meeting. Parents at Eli Martin’s.
11.I at school. Father worked in his shop. Wm. Jacobi’s were here.
12.I at school. Father thrashing at Louis Beisel, ¾ day.
13.I at school. Father thrashing at Louis Beisel 1 day.
14.I at school. Father thrashing at Louis Beisel ½ day.
15.I at school. Father put double windows on Grandfather’s house.
16.“Beef Ring” was held today. Deep snow. Stormy in the evening.
17.SUNDAY: All at home AM Isaiah was sick. Parents at Grandfathers PM
18.I at school. Father at Enos Martin patching harness. Elias Bauman started to
work in the foundry.
19.I at home to feed. Father at Enos.
20.I at school. Father came home in the evening and brought mother’s bonnet.
21.I at school. Father worked in the shop.
22.I at school. Father shoveled snow off the barn roof.
23.Dunged the stables AM. Father and I went thrashing to Geo. Bauman.
24.SUNDAY: I visited Grandparents. Rest at home.
25.I at school. Father in town AM, worked in the shop.
26.I at school. Father butchering at Joe Ernst’s. Trains blocked.
27.I at school. Father worked at harness and made a stable for a hog.
28.I at school.
29.I at school. Father worked in the shop. Louis Weber died.
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30.Dunged the stables. Father worked in town.
31.SUNDAY: All at home AM. Parents at Noah Bearinger’s PM
February 1904
1. I at school. Father worked in the shop.
2. I at school. Father worked in the shop. Brakeman on the G. T. R. had a
misfortune about 1 ½ mi. south of Elmira.
3. I at school. Father worked in the shop.
4. I at school. Father worked in the shop.
5. I at school. Father worked in the shop.
6. Dunged the stables. Father in town in the afternoon.
7. SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at Meeting. Rainy today.
8. I at school. Father at fair AM, worked in the shop PM.
9. I at school. Father worked in the shop. Rueben Bauman here today.
10.I at school. Father worked in the shop. Addison Beisel (married?).
11.I at school. Father worked in the shop. Dav. Hoffer got tugs patched.
12.I at school. Father in town awhile.
13.Dunged the stables AM. Father & I thrashing at Geo. Bauman PM.
14.SUNDAY: Aaron Weber’s & their little boys, Israel Cressman’s and Mo(?)
Sam & Percida Eby were here. Isaiah & I were at Noah Martin’s.
15.I at school. Father worked in the shop. Cold & stormy.
16.I at school. Father worked in the shop. Cold. Rumple’s factory burned.
17.I at school. Father worked in the shop.
18.I at school. Father worked in the shop. Harness goods arrived today.
19.I at school. Father worked in the shop. Fine weather in the evening.
20.Dunged the stables. Father worked in the shop AM. Parents in town PM.
21.SUNDAY: All at home AM. Father & Isaiah at Noah Gingerich’s awhile PM.
22.I at school. Father worked in the shop. Sam Hoffman’s funeral.
23.I at school. Father butchered at Rueben Bauman’s.
24.I at school. Father worked in the shop. Stormy in the evening.
25.I at school. Father worked in the shop AM. Father & Rueben at Peter Offer’s
sale PM.
26.I at school. Father worked in the shop & in town in the evening.
27.Dunged the stables. Father & Rueben went in search of horse.
28.SUNDAY: All at home AM. Parents at Grandparents awhile PM.
29.Father at Noah Martin asking him to see horses in.
MARCH 1904
1. I did chores. Father & N. Martin saw & bought a horse in Peel.
2. I at school. Father worked in the shop. Rueb. Fetched some of his ham.
3. I at school. Father at Grandfather over night, he was unhealthy.
4. I at school. Father worked in the shop. Levi Weber fetched his harness.
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5. Dunged the stables. Menno fetched father over to Grandfather who was very
ill this time.
6. SUNDAY: Father came this morning from Grandfather. All at Meeting. Hy.
Martin’s & Jno. Hintz’s here for dinner. Parents at Grandparents in eve.
7. We boys cleaned wheat. Father at Fair AM, at Fear’s sale & bought a circular
saw, Jack & belt. Father at Grandparents in the evening.
8. Father all day at Grandparents.
9. Geo. Came over & told us that Grandfather died. Parents & Isaiah went over.
10.Father & I drawed a load of wheat to mill. Parents & I at Grandparents.
11.Dunged the stables. Father & Isaiah at Grandparents. I lengthened horse
bands.
12.All at Grandfather’s funeral, his age was 71 years, 11 months, 21 days.
Isaiah & I went home to feed at noon & then went over again.
13.SUNDAY: All at home AM. Parents went to Aaron Weber’s and fetched
Amos Cressman’s and took them to Eli H. Bauman’s for supper and thence to
Wendel Bauman’s for the night.
14.Father & I fetched the saw & Jack at Fear’s AM Father took a load of oats to
George to get it chopped.
15.I at school. Father took grain over to George & helped to chop.
16.I at school. Father at Grandmother looking after Grandfather’s stuff. Mild
weather.
17.I at school. Father away in search of a horse & bought one for $120 from E.
Massith in Peel.
18.I at school. Father took a load of oats to Geo. & got it chopped. Father
worked in the shop.
19.Dunged the stables AM. Father worked in shop, Mother, Eli & I in town & at
Grandmother PM.
20.SUNDAY: All at home all day.
21.I at school. Father, John, Aaron & Joe Ernst at Berlin in the register office to
get Grandfather’s will registered.
22.I at school. Father worked in the shop. Thawing.
23.I at school. Father drawed 11 pigs out to Elmira AM. Father helped to thrash
at George ½ day.
24.I at school. Father at George thrashing ¾ day.
25.I at school. Father at Grandmother; the sale was 1 year ago, that Grandfather
had.
26.Dunged the stables. Father worked in the shop.
27.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I were at Jones Martin’s for dinner. Eli was at Dav.
Cressman’s. Mary Ann Weber was here.
28.I at school. Father worked in the shop. Mild weather.
29.I at school. Father worked in the shop. Mild weather.
30.I at school. Father worked in the shop. Thawing.
31.I stopped going to school. PM. Father worked in the shop. Raining.
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APRIL 1904
1. GOOD FRIDAY: Father at Meeting. I was sick.
2. Father worked in the shop. I varnished the harness. Father got done making
harnesses today.
3. SUNDAY: EASTER: Parents, Isaiah & Eli at Meeting.
4. Worked small jobs. I took a mare (Minnie) to town which was sold for $100 to
Geo. Auman.
5. Father worked in the shop. I split wood & helped father in shop.
6. Father & I worked in the shop, I oiled belt.
7. Father, Isaiah & I sawed wood in Grandmother’s bush. Mild.
8. Father, Isaiah & I sawed wood in Grandmother’s bush. Rain PM.
9. Worked in Grandmother’s bush. Rainy at noon.
10.SUNDAY: All at home AM. Elias was here for supper.
11.Isaiah & I helped to drive Geo’s cattle to town. Father at Fair AM, at
Grandmother PM. Isaiah & I in bush.
12.Father, Isaiah & I in Grandmother’s bush making wood.
13.Father & Eli took 5 pigs & 1 calf out to town, then we drove our 5 fat cattle out
at a little over $.04 per lb. & sold a cow also for $.42. Father & I helped
thrashing at D. Hoffer PM. Bought a cow from J. Bowman.
14.In bush AM. Father & I at Hoffer thrashing PM.
15.Father helped to move Separator over to Geo. AM. Father filed circular saw
PM. We all have gripp.
16.Father filed at circular saw AM. Gave horses exercise PM.
17.SUNDAY: All at home. Moses Eby was here for supper.
18.We 3 all day in bush.
19.We 3 all day in bush. A. Erb died.
20.Hitched colt to sleigh & went to town. AM. In the bush PM.
21.We 3 all day in bush. Fine weather.
22.We 3 all day in bush. Geo. Helped a little PM.
23.Parents & I at Alonzo Erb’s funeral AM. Father fetched 6 bu. seed grain from
Dav. Hoffer.
24.SUNDAY: Noah Martin’s were here for dinner.
25.We 3 all day in bush.
26.We 3 all day in bush. Geo. helped today.
27.We 3 all day in bush. Geo. helped today.
28.I helped to clean grain at Geo’s. Isaiah & father helped Joe Ernst hauling in
roots from pit AM. Joe helped us cleaning grain.
29.Cleaned seed grain AM. Fetched 8 bags of potatoes from George’s and took
J. Ernst’s fanning mill home.
30.Father & I helped sawing wood with our circular saw at Rueben’s AM. Father
in town PM. Dav. Sauder’s child died.
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MAY 1904
1. SUNDAY: All at the meeting. Parents at Wendel Bauman’s for supper.
2. We oiled harnesses. Dav. Sauder’s child got buried.
3. Worked on the field. Isaiah white washed fence. I patched house roof &
worked small jobs. Rueb. was here to put hams in sacks.
4. Worked on fields. Isaiah white washed fences.
5. Father cultivated & sowed all day. I digged post holes.
6. I in Elmira AM., at Hy. Gingerich’s raising PM.
7. Worked on fields. We had Geo’s team to roll with, I took them home.
8. SUNDAY: Rueben Bauman’s, Elias & Grandmother were here, Isaiah & I
were at Amos Gingerich’s for dinner, at Hy. Horst’s for supper.
9. I worked at Geo’s—harrowing.
10.I worked at Geo’s—rolling. Cold these days.
11.I worked at Geo’s AM—harrowing.
12.ASCENSION DAY: Parents at Dav. Cressman’s.
13.We worked on sugar beet patch. Rainy in evening.
14.Ganged our wheat field AM & PM. Father cleaned butcher shop.
15.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at Aaron Weber’s, Hy. Brubacher’s were here for
supper.
16.Father fetched Geo’s team AM. Worked on fields PM.
17.I rolled with Geo’s team. Father cultivated.
18.Isaiah went to Geo’s to roll. Rained from 11 o’clock til evening.
19.I got a pair of teeth pulled. Father helped to white-wash kitchen. We sawed
stakes PM.
20.We rebuilt lane fence all day.
21.Isaiah & I rebuilt lane fence all day.
22.SUNDAY: Parents with Grandmother & her covered buggy went yesterday to
Jacob Bauman’s for dinner, Eszra Bauman’s for supper, Jno. Bauman’s for
the night; At Martin’s Meeting AM, at Enos Bauman’s for dinner, at Enos
Martin’s for supper.
23.Rebuilt fence. Father finished sowing PM. Thunderstorm last night. Mary
Ann Weber was here over Saturday & Sunday. I took her home this morning.
24.Father & I helped to wash Meeting House AM. We fetched rails to the lane
fence. Peter Beisel’s wife got burried.
25.Cultivated & harrowed beet patch, sowed sugar beets PM. Took drill home in
the evening. Sold 3 hogs.
26.Ploughed mangold patch. Rainy PM. Others rebuilt lane fence.
27.Gathered chips & old rails in lane. Dr. Bechtel cut a horse’s shoulder open.
Harrowed & rolled mangold patch.
28.I ridged AM. Father sowed mangolds PM. We rebuilt fences.
29.SUNDAY: Parents, Isaiah & I were at the Meeting AM. Levi Weber’s, Eszra
Martin’s & Martin Bauman’s Jr. were here for dinner.
30.I ploughed potatoe patch AM. Cut potatoes & planted 22 rows.
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31.Planted 7 rows potatoes AM. Father at Grandmother PM. Drawed manure
on corn patch PM. Bert Martin, Leah Sauder & Martha Martin here awhile.
They came from Pennsylvania.
JUNE 1904
1. I in town AM. Father at Grandmother PM. We white washed hen house.
Rainy.
2. Father prepared for cementing at George’s. We tinkered in the wood shed.
Rainy.
3. Father prepared for cementing at George’s. Peter Martin was here to make
wire fence. We prepared for butchering cattle.
4. Parents at Grandmother at the meeting. Grandfather’s clothes were divided
among the children. We sawed an old log pile in bush.
5. SUNDAY: Parents at Conestogo Meeting, visited Dilman Martin’s, Eli at
Aaron Weber’s. Isaiah & Lydia at Jno Frey’s.
6. Took a load of chopping to Geo. Got it chopped & some of Geo’s. Isaiah
took father to Dan B. Martin to built a rack lifter. Isaiah & I cut thistles at
Geo’s PM. Noah started to go to school.
7. Mother, Isaiah & I at meeting. Some Statser were there. Preacher Peter
Imhoff. Deacons Ub. Nighcomer, Michael Shaum; one Leash & Coppas were
also there AM. We cut thistles at George’s. Dan B. Martin brought father
home.
8. Father at Geo’s to built a concrete tank. We cut thistles.
9. Father worked at tank at Geo’s. We cut thistles.
10.Father worked at tank at Geo’s. Geo, Menno, Isaiah & I drawed wood out of
the bush. Slaughtered beef in the evening.
11.Father worked at tank at Geo’s. I prepared corn patch for sowing.
12.SUNDAY: I at Sarah Bauman, Isaiah at Dav. Cressman, Eli at Daniel
Bauman’s for dinner. Father at Hy. Brubacher & N. Martin for a while. Leah
Reist was here.
13.Father at Geo’s. I ploughed fallow.
14.Worked on turnip patch. Geo Auman bought 3 fat calves.
15.We sowed turnips.
16.Father cementing a Geo’s. I ploughed fallow AM. Cut thistles PM.
17.Father cementing at Geo’s, we cut thistles. Slaughtered Beef
18.Father cementing at Geo’s. I ploughed fallow AM. Cut thistles.
19.SUNDAY: Noah Weber, Isaiah & I at Martin’s Meeting AM & PM, at Jno
Bauman’s for dinner at Enos Martin’s for supper. Eli H. Bauman’s were here.
20.Father at Geo’s. We cut thistles. Rainy & thundered awhile PM.
21.Father in Berlin to get beef saw filed & to get his leather splitting machine.
We cut thistles.
22.Drawed wood out of the bush nearly all day. I scuffled sugar beets in the
evening. Father at C.P.R.’s meeting.
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23.Father, Isaiah & I cleaned sugar beets.
24.Father had Geo’s team hitched to the Road Machine on road all day. We
cleaned sugar beets.
25.Parents at Hy. Gingerichs’ child’s funeral. Age 6 months, 23 days. We
cleaned sugar beets.
26.SUNDAY: All at W.W. Meeting except Noah & I. Geo. Hoffman’s were here
for dinner. Isaiah & I at S. Peel Meeting PM., at Daniel Hoffman’s for supper,
visited Menno Wideman.
27.Father loaded gravel at the pit for the road, masoned at Sol. Reist PM. We
cleaned beets.
28.Father at Sol. Reist masoning. We cleaned beets; I scuffled mangold.
29.Father at S. Reist. I at Hy. Lackner’s raising. Ervin Beisel married.
30.Father & I at Geo’s, I went home in the evening. Picked potatoe bugs.
Rained PM.
JULY 1904
1. Father at Geo’s. We picked potatoe bugs AM. Cleaned some mangolds PM.
Rainy.
2. Father at Geo’s. We cleaned beets.
3. SUNDAY: Parents in Conestogo Meeting, at Dav. Martin’s for dinner. Aaron
& Amos Weber, Lizzie Bearinger, Lydia & Eli at Jno. Frey’s for dinner, by us
for supper.
4. Father at George’s. I scuffled potatoes & some sugar beets. Rainy in the
afternoon.
5. Father at Geo’s. We cleaned wheat AM. Pulled Yellow Dock PM.
6. Father at Geo’s. AM. Father & I fetched circular saw at Rueb. and the power
at George’s.
7. We set saw & power AM. Sawed wood PM. Rueb. & his laborer helped.
8. Father & I took power home in the morning. I scuffled sugar beets. Father
fetched wood home.
9. Father & Isaiah at Rueb’s to haul manure. I was at Hy. Horst’s raising.
Rainy.
10.SUNDAY: Parents at N.W. Meeting, at Mose Gingerich’s for dinner. Eli &
Lydia at Noah Martin’s. The Rest at home. Fine weather.
11.Father & Isaiah at Reub., to haul manure. Father at Sol. Reist’s raising after
supper. I scuffled mangolds AM. Hoed potatoes PM. I scuffled potatoes in
the evening. Eszra Bauman’s barn struck by lightening & burned.
12.We worked in the inside of the barn. Rainy. AM. Father & I took a load
chopping to George’s. PM. A little cool.
13.Father at Geo’s making a chop chist. We cleaned sugar beets. Hot weather.
14.I scuffled AM. Others cleaned turnips. I at Geo’s PM.
15.I scuffled sugar beets AM. Others cleaned turnips. We at Geo’s making hay.
Hot.
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16.We mowed 2 rounds grass & mowed fence corners out out AM. At George’s
PM. Hot.
17.SUNDAY Isaiah & I at Joshua Rudy’s for dinner. At Martin’s Meeting PM. At
Enos Bauman’s for supper. I. Brubacher’s boys were here.
18.Hauled 14 loads of hay into our barn. Hot.
19.Hauled 7 loads of hay into our barn.
20.Hauled 16 loads of hay into Rueb’s barn.
21.Hauled 14 loads of hay at Rueb’s. Made 1 hay stack.
22.Finished hauling hay away at Reub.
23.Rainy AM. We cleaned turnips. Father cultivated fallow.
24.SUNDAY: All in W. W. Meeting, Joseph Gingerich’s & Daniel Gingerich’s
here for dinner. Isaiah, Eli & I at Meeting PM. Aaron Bauman’s were here for
supper.
25.Father at Ab. Martin’s to put a rack lifter up. We cleaned beets AM. Went to
Geo to put in hay PM.
26.Father worked at lifters. Isaiah was at Geo’s hauling manure.
27.Father worked at lifters. Isaiah was at Geo’s hauling manure. I cleaned
sugar beets.
28.Father worked at lifter. Rainy AM. I mowed thistles in the fence corners.
Others finished cleaning beets.
29.I mowed thistles in the fence corners. The others pulled yellow dock. Father
came home from Dillman Martin AM. I scuffled sugar beets PM. The others
cleaned roots.
30.I scuffled roots all day. Others cleaned turnips AM. Parents, Eli, Lydia, Noah
& Reub. Baumans at Ed Speath.
31.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at Conestogo Meeting. Parents came home PM
AUGUST 1904
1. Father went with Rueb. to buy a horse. We cleaned roots. Jno. & Lydia
Bauman were here for dinner.
2. Father at St. Jacobs to see Jno. Bauman AM. Father fetched Geo’s waggon.
Drawed 17 loads manure out.
3. Drawed 9 loads manure out & spread some AM. I ploughed fallow, father in
town PM. I received a $9 watch.
4. I ploughed all day. Father painted buggy. Eli went to Geo AM. Father
bindered at Geo. PM.
5. I ploughed. Father painted buggy. Father & Isaiah sharpened edge tools.
6. We cut barely, Menno helped to shock PM
7. SUNDAY: Noah Martin Fetched Lydia & carriage to go to Hy. Martin’s Hy.
Bauman’s & Grandmother were here for dinner. Rainy.
8. Father went with Menno to buy him a horse for $155. We cleaned turnips
AM. We helped Geo. hauling in wheat about ¼ day. Amos Rudy & his
mother were here for supper.
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9. Helped Geo. Hauling in wheat about ½ day. I scuffled sugar beets PM.
Father varnished buggy.
10.Drawed 3 loads of earth in front of barn doors in morning. Rainy at noon.
Took a load of chopping over to Geo.
11.Father at Waterloo to get plaster. I scuffled AM. Father made carriage ready
for a paint. I scuffled PM.
12.Father painted carriage. We hauled earth to mud holes & made the earth
smooth in front of the barn.
13.Dunged the stables. Father painted carriage. Rainy all day. Thunder storm
will hail stones at about 3.40.
14.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I visited Dav. Bearinger at Israel Weber’s.
15.Father painted carriage. We hoed corn.
16.Fixed carriage together AM. A while in our jop PM.
17.We hauled in 11 loads of barely.
18.We hauled in 2 loads of barely. Cut oats & some mixture.
19.Cut mixture. Father bindered. Isaiah & I shocked.
20.Father in town AM. We dunged the stables. Father worked at circular saw.
We dig up a drain. Some U.S. visitors were here: Joe Shirk & Frank Horst:
Rainy last night.
21.SUNDAY: Peter Musselman got buried at Martins. Parents, Lydia & I at
W.W. Meeting. Enos Gingerich’s & Josiah Bauman’s were here for supper &
Samuel Eby also.
22.Rainy AM. Father worked at circular saw frame all day. Isaiah & I turned
earth round in the yard. PM.
23.Father & I & team at Geo. thrashing AM. Set Machines at Joe Ernst PM.
24.I at Hy. Brubacher’s thrashing ½ day. Father, Isaiah & team at J. Ernst
thrashing. AM. ¼ day. We cut oats PM.
25.Father bindered at Geo. ¼ day. We shocked AM.
26.We shocked the shocks up again which were not wind prove. Father at L.
Beisel thrashing till 5 o’clock then I filled his day up. Butchered.
27.Hauled in oats & barely and oats.
28.SUNDAY: Noah Weber, Isaiah & I at M. Wideman’s for dinner, at Moses
Martin’s for supper. Aps. Martin’s & Sarah Bauman here for dinner.
29.Father helped to thrash at Dave Cressman all day. Isaiah & I helped hauling
in grain at Geo’s.
30.Father, Isaiah & I hauled in grain AM. Cut oats & goose wheat PM.
31.Hauled in oats AM. Cut oats PM. Peter Good got buried today.
SEPTEMBER 1904
1. We drawed out manure all day.
2. Father at Ch. Esch thrashing AM., at Ph. Beisel PM. I was there from 5 to 6.
Others butchered. Manuel Martin’s baby got buried.
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3. Set power & separator AM. Parents at Chr. Eby to see about her sore leg.
We shocked PM.
4. SUNDAY: Parents at N.W. Meeting, at Henry Bauman’s for dinner.
5. We thrashed AM. We drawed out manure PM. I ploughed after supper.
6. I ploughed AM. Hauled in grain PM.
7. Hauled in grain PM.
8. Ploughed all day. Father fetched Elias’s horse AM.
9. Finished ploughing, harrowed & sowed.
10.I ganged AM Hauled in grain. Wm. Jacobe’s here for supper
11.SUNDAY: Parents at Martin’s Meeting with Grandmother at Dan Weber’s for
dinner, at Samuel Martin’s for supper.
12.Isaiah & I at Rueb. ploughing. Father at Fair AM. Ganged PM.
13.I ganged awhile AM. Isaiah raked. Hauled in grain, 2 hands of Rueben
helped.
14.Harvest Meeting. Parents, Isaiah & I at W.W. Meeting AM. I ganged, father
worked at circular saw frame. Isaiah walked to Rueben.
15.I harrowed AM & awhile PM & fetched potatoes. Father worked at circular
saw frame.
16.I raked AM. ganged PM. Hauled in rakings PM. Father fetched Isaiah from
Rueben.
17.N.B. (note in aisle) forgot day somewheres in this week”.
18.SUNDAY: Parents & Isaiah at W.W. Meeting. Martin Bauman’s, Peter
Ziegler’s here for dinner. P. Ziegler’s, Noah Weber & David Bearinger here
for supper.
19.Ringed piggies in morning, I ganged. Father painted saw frame. Isaiah at
Rueb. Isaiah & father painted window frames.
20.Fetched berries at Geos. & then I ganged. Had some rain.
21.Harrowed AM. Built frames around fruit trees. Father fetched jack & belt from
Aaron Snyder.
22.Sawed wood with circular saw in Grandmother’s bush.
23.Sawed Geo’s wood with circular saw in Grandmother’s bush. I helped
thrashing at Fred Weigel AM.
24.Isaiah & I cut & shocked some corn. Parents at Dr. Eby below Berlin. Rain.
25.SUNDAY: Parents at Joshua Rudy’s over night at Hy. Martin’s for dinner.
26.Hauling in wood into shed & cut corn.
27.Drawed out to town 9 pigs at $.05 a lb. Hauling in wood. Fine.
28.Three of us at Hy. Brubacher sawing wood with circular saw A.M. We hauled
6 loads of wood into Grandmother’s shed.
29.Father & I at Rueb. to thrash AM. sawed wood with c. saw PM.
30.We sawed rails at Reub. AM., took c. saw to Geo. & took home to us Geo’s
waggon.
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OCTOBER 1904
1. Gathered apples in morning. Drawed out 24 loads of manure.
2. SUNDAY: Parents & Lydia at Noah Martin’s for dinner. Parents at Noah
Bearinger’s awhile PM.
3. We drawed out 30 loads of manure.
4. We drawed out 21 loads of manure. Rainy at noon.
5. We drawed out 4 loads of manure. Father fetched apples from Reub. Made
cider apples ready. I in town. Took Geo’s waggon home.
6. We let apples cidered & apple butter cooked. Made out ½ of the mangolds.
Isaiah & I spread manure AM.
7. Father at Chr. Esch thrashing all day, I filled his day from 5 to 6. Isaiah & I
spread manure & made out mangolds. Butchered.
8. Father built 2 sugar beet tables AM. Isaiah & I spread manure, father helped
PM. Dunged the stables. Some Rain.
9. SUNDAY: Lydia at M.G. Reist’s, Isaiah & I at G.T.R. Station to see C.P.
Railway Contrator’s supplies, John Sittler got buried today.
10.Father fetched sugar beet lifter from Al. Lorch. Made out beets. Wm Spaeth
& his Norman & Mary came this noon to visit. Drear.
11.Isaiah fetched Elias’s horse, he & I then ploughed. Father & Eli made out the
rest of the mangolds. Wm. Awhile at Aaron Weber’s. Dreary & watery as in
the spring.
12.Father took visitors to the station & s. beet plow home. Father at Geo.
Picked apples PM. Rained a little.
13.Father improved horse blankets. Isaiah & I worked at apples.
14.Isaiah & I ploughed AM. Made out sugar beets PM.
15.Finished the season’s butchering. Isaiah & I ploughed ½ AM. We made out
some sugar beets PM.
16.SUNDAY: All at W.W. Meeting. Daniel L. Martin’s, Enoch Weber’s, Simion &
Levi Martin here for dinner. I in the bush gathering beechnuts.
17.Isaiah & I ploughed awhile AM. we made out s. beets. Elias helped ½ day.
Fine weather.
18.Isaiah & I ploughed AM. Made out sugar beets PM. Father fetched beet
plough in the evening. Fine weather.
19.Lifted s. beets & took lifter home AM. Made out s. beets, Elias helped ¾ day.
20.We & Elias made out 2 waggon boxes’ full of potatoes.
21.Elias booked for a beet car for us in the morning. Made out the rest of the s.
beets. Father & I drawed out to Elmira station 4 loads of sugar beets.
22.Father & I took 8 loads of beets to station.
23.SUNDAY: Parents, Lydia & Noah at Grandmother
24.Father & Isaiah drawed 1 load of beets to station. I ploughed AM. we hauled
in mangolds PM.
25.Isaiah & I ploughed some. Hauled in about 3 loads of carrots.
26.Father & Eli made out turnips. Isaiah & I ploughed. A snow storm.
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27.Isaiah & I ploughed. Father at W. Alleman’s sale PM.
28.Father, Isaiah & Eli fetched 2 calves from Alleman for $27. I made out
turnips. Hauled in 11 loads of turnips.
29.Hauled in 5 ¾ loads of turnips AM. I ploughed. Parents at Dr. C. Eby PM.
30.SUNDAY: I took Judith home in the morning. I a little at the station.
31.Father took out to town some chopping in the morning. I ploughed & Isaiah
also awhile. Cut oat sheaves at noon.
NOVEMBER 1904
1. Father drawed a load of sugar beets to Sugar Factory, Test 15.6, tare 4%. I
ploughed with the colts.
2. Father drawed beets to Factory, test 15% & tare 6%. I ploughed. Fog.
3. Father drawed beets to Factory & hauled pulp home. I ploughed. Fine.
4. Isaiah & I ploughed AM. Father fixed window panes. Loaded sugar beets in
the evening.
5. Father & I drawed beets to the Factory & hauled pulp home. Foggy & rain in
the morning. N. L. Martin fetched our carriage.
6. SUNDAY: Parents awhile at widow Benj. Martin. Eli at Aaron Weber’s.
7. Isaiah & I ploughed. Father at the Fair. N. L. Martin brought our carriage.
Noah Martin & father attended a sale near Erbsville.
8. I ploughed all day, Isaiah AM. Father & Isaiah at Chas.Widenhammers sale
& bought sheep for $3.50.
9. Father helped to thrash at Hy. Brubacher. Isaiah & I ploughed a little &
hauled home 2 loads of wood. Frozen.
10.Father at Geo. fixing our circular saw. Isaiah took a load chopping to town
AM. Isaiah & I at Geo. to plough PM.
11.Collected stoned along the fences. I took Judith to Noah Martin’s. Isaiah & I
at Geo. & hauled home 1 load of small stones.
12.Father & I up in our swamp to cut 20 poles. Moses Cressman’s & Eszra
Cressman’s were here over night. N. Martin brought Judith.
13.SUNDAY: All at W.W. Meeting except mother & Noah.
14.Father built a pair of rafters under barn roof. Hauled home some wood.
15.I & team helped to thrash at Geo. all day, Isaiah helped at Geo PM. Father at
Moses Martin sawing wood all day.
16.I helped to thrash at Fred Weigel ¾ day, Father at Reuben to butcher. Isaiah
at Geo. to ploughed PM.
17.We 3 sawed wood at Joe Ernst till 10.15 AM. Isaiah & I ploughed at Geo.
PM. Father at Reub. to patch barn roof.
18.Isaiah & I fetched 3 loads of stones from Grandmother’s bush. Father helped
to thrash at Ph. Beisel AM. Isaiah & I ploughed at Geo. PM.
19.Fetched Geo’s waggon & hauled stones from Grandmother’s farm & some of
our own. Menno brought stones in the evening.
20.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I a little at Aaron Weber’s PM. Little Reists were here.
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21.Father at Hy. Brubacher carpentering. Menno brought a load of stones, We
picked stones. Widow Jones Bauman got buried.
22.I ploughed at Geo’s AM. Isaiah & I a little PM. Father at Hy. Brubacher all
day. Menno at D. Cressman’s thrashing for us.
23.Father at D. Cressman thrashing AM. Menno & I ploughed ¾ day. Elias
helped PM. Father & Isaiah cleaned cistern.
24.Father, I & team helped to thrash at J. Ernst all day.
25.Menno all day, Elias AM. & Geo PM. Helped us to plough grassfield. Isaiah at
J. Ernst hauling in corn.
26.Set power & Separator. Finished plowing, Menno helped. Butchered a
sheep. Father & I took took flesh to N. Martin in the evening. Dav.
Cressman’s here for supper. Snowy.
27.SUNDAY: Jones Martin’s were here for dinner. I a little at D. Cressman’s
PM. The rest of us at home.
28.We thrashed all day. 12 men.
29.We thrashed ¾ of a day.
30.Father at Reub. fixing granary AM., thrashed PM. I worked in the barn all
day.
December 1904
1. Father at Reub. thrashing all day. Isaiah & I washed cutter AM. went to town
PM.
2. Father at Reub. thrashing all day, I changed teams with father in the morning.
I split wood.
3. Father at Reub. to chopp & brought the chopper AM. Father let horses shod
PM.
4. SUNDAY: Israel Brubacher’s were here for dinner. Isaiah, I & Judith at
Grandmother awhile PM.
5. We chopped all day. Geo. helped with teams.
6. We chopped till about 10 o’clock. Levi Weber’s here for dinner. Levi, father &
I at Moses Bauman’s sale, bought a light sleigh for $30. PM.
7. Set machine at Dav. Hoffer. I took Judith to town AM. I & 2 teams at J. Ernst
to chopp till 4 o’clock. Father painted cutter.
8. Father, I & team at Dav. Hoffer to thrash. Isaiah painted cutter.
9. Father, I & team at Dav. Hoffer thrashing till about 5 o’clock.
10.Father at Hy. Horst carpentering all day.
11.SUNDAY: All of us except mother & Noah at W.W. Meeting.
12.We at fair AM. I painted cutter. Isaiah went to Reub. to work.
13.I & team at J. Ernst to jop ¼ day. Elias fetched his horse. I took mother to
town. Father at Hy. Horst all day.
14.I painted cutter. Father & Judith at Geo. butchering.
15.Cleaned stove-pipes. Father filed & set circular saw.
16.Father changed pulley on saw shaft & varnished cutter.
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17.Father at Jno. Martin to saw wood all day.
18.SUNDAY: Eli Martin’s here for dinner. Father & Eli Martin at Noah
Bearinger’s awhile PM. Noah Martins awhile here PM. Judith & I at Aaron
Weber’s for supper. I at Wallenstein hill.
19.Made ready for butchering. Paul Martin’s here for supper.
20.We butchered. Menno, Reub, Noah Martin & J Ernst & Geo’s wife helped.
Butchered 6 hogs.
21.We drawed butcher stuff home & drawed 3 logs to mill.
22.Drawed 4 logs to mill AM. Father fitted seats on light sleigh.
23.Father at Geo’s fixing cement tank house nearly all day.
24.I & team at Geo’s to chopp ¾ day. Father salted hams. In town PM. Reuben
brought Isaiah.
25.SUNDAY & CHRISTMAS: All at home. Cold & stormy.
26.Father at Geo’s to fix water-works AM. Enos Cressman’s, Eli Good’s & Aaron
Weber’s here for supper.
27.Eli & I made the old wind wheel to pieces. Rainy.
28.Father let horses shod & at Eli Martin AM. Figured at Beef Ring sheet. The
roads were very icy. Stormy PM.
29.I let a horse shod AM. Father at Eli Martin to saw wood.
30.Father, I & 3 horses at Geo to thrash nearly ¾ day. Machine broke.
31.Father at Eli Martin to saw wood AM, at Ab. Humsberger to get plaster PM.
Noah Bearinger’s wife was here for dinner.
DIARY 1905
ANGUS S. BAUMAN
JANUARY
1. SUNDAY AND NEW YEAR: Eli Martin’s Jr. were here for dinner.
2. Father in town to square up debts AM, fixed stuff for separator.
3. Father & I made saw logs AM, at N.L. Martin hauling in a haystack PM.
Sharp wind.
4. Father & I made saw-logs all day. Grandmother here to quilt.
5. Father & Ph. Beisel thrashing about ¾ day.
6. We made saw logs AM. drawed some to mill PM.
7. We drawed saw logs to mill all day. Reub. brought Isaiah.
8. SUNDAY: All of us except mother & Noah at W.W. Meeting, I was also not at
the meeting. Dav. Horst’s & 3 boys here for dinner.
9. Father at fair AM. Joshua Rudy & Jno. Bauman were here for dinner. Father
drawed Grandmother’s logs to mill PM.
10.Father attended Amos Weber’s sale. Widow Solomon Musselman got buried
at Martins.
11.Father & Judith at Noah Martin’s butchering. Dr. Ullyot died.
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12.Father & I in Grandmother’s bush making saw logs AM. Drawed logs to saw
mill PM. Mild.
13.Father at J. Ernst butchering. I took scholars to & from school.
14.Father in town AM. Beef Ring Meeting PM.
15.SUNDAY: I at Ph. Beisel awhile AM. Took Judith to Grandmother awhile
then to Noah Martin.
16.Father at Geo. to help to chopp awhile AM. Hauled saw logs & fetched
Cressman’s woodrack PM. I put hellebore on cattle.
17.Father fetched 42 bunches of shingles at $0.65 ½ a bunch. One of the twins
of Jacob Martin’s buried today. Recevis Martins married.
18.Father took Cressman’s wooodrack home AM. Father & I were up in our
swamp to fetched poles.
19.Father fetched cedar posts from D. Ratz. We fetched 2 loads of sand from
Breichly.
20.Father went with Geo. in search of horses. I fetched 4 loads of sand & Menno
2 loads PM.
21.Parents in town. Elias Gingerich’s of Iowa, Noah Martin’s & Henry
Brubacher’s were here for supper. We took M. Gingerich’s rigg home.
22.SUNDAY: Parents at Grandmother for dinner. Amos Gingrich’s here for
supper.
23.Father & Geo. in search of horses all day. I took scholars to & from school.
24.Father & Geo. in search of horses nearly all day. Geo’s wife here to quilt.
25.Father made ax handles. I took scholars to & from school. Cold & stormy.
26.Father worked in the shop. I took scholars to & from school.
27.Father made ax handles AM., he & I in town PM.
28.Father mend robes AM. Hitched colt to cutter PM.
29.SUNDAY: All at home except Judith, who I drove to Grandmother in the
morning.
30.Father fixed separator & blistered a horse.
31.Father at Eli Martin to obtain an order for his harness. Father bought a mare
from Isacc Martin. P. Ziegler brought old harness.
FEBRUARY 1905
1. Father made out harness bill. We fetched mare from Isaac Martin for $135.
Took Judith to Grandmother in the morning.
2. Father in town AM. Father, I & team at Geo. to thrash PM.
3. Father repaired at P. Ziegler’s harness. I in town & at Grandmother.
4. Father to Elias in Waterloo to buy leather. Made a stable for a hog. Isaiah & I
fetched a young dog for $1.00 from Menno Wideman.
5. SUNDAY: Father, Judith, Isaiah, Eli & I at the Meeting. Eszra Bauman’s
were here last night.
6. Jacob Martin buried at N. Woolwich. Levi Weber’s here for dinner. Worked in
the shop.
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7. Father in town & worked in the shop. Grandmother helped to quilt.
8. Father at Geo. to see water tank AM. Worked at A. Hoffer’s fur mitts.
9. Father at St. Jacobs to buy lamb skin. I at Floradale to get lining for mitts &
fetched harness goods & scholars PM.
10.Father worked at mitts AM. Father & Judith at Jno. Bricker’s daughter’s
funeral. I & team at J. Ernst about 2 hours. Stormy.
11.Father worked at Ziegler’s harness. Isaiah & I fetched flour from Elmira &
brought fur mitts to Aaron Hoffer in Floradale PM.
12.SUNDAY: Father, Judith & I at the funeral of Irvin Musselman. Elmira.
13.Father at fair & worked in the shop. Severely cold.
14.Father & Judith at Reub. to butcher all day. Severely cold.
15.Father & I worked in the shop. Reub. brought Judith PM.
16.Father worked in the shop. Bad roads. Trains blocked up.
17.Father worked in the shop making harness. Wm. Spaeth came.
18.Father worked in the shop. Isaiah & I in town.
19.SUNDAY: Father & Wm. Spaeth awhile at Aaron Weber’s, at Jones Martin’s
for dinner at Noah Bearinger’s for supper. Moses C. Martin’s were here for
supper. I took Judith to Grandmother.
20.Father took Wm. to Waterloo & bought leather. I took a cow out to Elmira for
Auman for $40. Mild weather.
21.Father worked at S. Ziegler’s harness. I skinned old dog.
22.Father worked at S. Ziegler’s harness. I split wood. Foggy.
23.Father worked in the shop. I split wood.
24.Father & I at Geo. to thrash all day. Sam Kinzie buried at Martin.
25.Father worked in shop AM. I & team & Reub. To chopp from 9 to 4.
26.SUNDAY: Wendel Bauman’s & their boys & Daniel Bauman’s were here for
dinner. Stormy PM.
27.Father finished S. Ziegler’s Nic. Plated harness.
28.Father looked for cows & worked at Josiah Martin’s harness. I took Judith
over to Grandmother in the morning.
MARCH 1905
1. Father worked in the shop AM. Father went with Reub. to Sol. Snider’s sale
PM. I split wood. Fine weather.
2. Father worked in the shop. Elias brought Judith PM.
3. Father worked in the shop. I cleaned a tree. Reub. fetched Judith after
supper. Fair weather.
4. Father worked in the shop. P. Ziegler fetched harness. Mother & I in town &
at Noah Bearinger’s awhile PM. Clear weather.
5. SUNDAY: Father, Lydia, Isaiah, Eli & I at W.W. Meeting. Hy. Martin’s & Elam
& Lydia Ann Gingerich here for dinner.
6. Father & I fetched a heifer for $40 from W. Bauman AM. Father worked in the
shop. I cleaned apple trees PM. Fine weather.
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7. Father & I & team at Geo. to thrash all day. Judith came home PM.
8. Father took sheep ($.75), & dog skin ($.40) to St. Jacobs & at Martin Snider’s
sale, Elias was with father. Father bought a saddle for $.30)
9. Father in the shop all day. I cleaned trees. Fine weather.
10.Father in the shop all day. I cleaned trees. Cool.
11.Father in the shop all day. I cleaned trees.
12.SUNDAY: Judith, Isaiah, & I at Noah Martin’s for dinner.
13.Father & I at Fair & Ullyot’s sale, bought feather sack for $3.20. father at
George PM.
14.Father fetched 150 cedar stakes from A. Lorch at $.02 ½ a piece & 5 posts at
$.25 each, & took a load of chopping to Geo. Prices of hogs $5.65 per cwt.
15.Father & I took chopping to Geo. AM. Chopped 68 bags of grain PM.
16.Father & I at Geo. to chopp for Hoffer AM., chopped our oats PM.
17.Father & I at Geo. to chopp for Hoffer & Ernst awhile AM. Father at Hoffer &
Bolender’s sale. Ab. Martin here to see about the butcher business.
18.Father worked in the shop. We dunged the stables. Rainy.
19.SUNDAY: Eli at Aaron Weber’s for dinner. Isaiah & I were awhile at P.
Beisel.
20.Father worked in the shop. I cleaned trees. Sam Kinzie’s sale.
21.Father worked in the shop. I cleaned trees. Father & I in town PM. Cool.
22.Father worked in the shop. I cleaned trees. N. L. Martin fetched Judith. N.
Gingerich of St. Jacobs sold to us Potatoes 2 bu. $1.00, 1 bu. Corn $.75.
23.Father worked in the shop. I cleaned trees. Thawning.
24.Father worked in the shop. I cleaned trees & shovelled snow. Thawning.
25.Father worked in the shop. I cleaned trees.
26.SUNDAY: All at home all day. Moses Eby here awhile PM.
27.Father worked in the shop. I patched my boots. G. Auman bought hogs.
28.Father worked in the shop. I helped mother to wash & cleaned trees.
29.Father & I took out to town 20 hogs at $6.10 per cwt. AM. Father filed circl
saw. I helped to saw wood in Grandma’s bush PM. Hot.
30.Father at Wendel Bauman with circular saw to saw wood. I in Grandmother’s
bush all day.
31.Father & I in bush all day, D. Hoffer ¾ day, Geo. & Menno awhile PM.
APRIL 1905
1. Menno & I in the bush AM, Geo., Menno, Hoffer & we in the bush PM
2. SUNDAY: Parents, Isaiah & I at WW Meeting. Enos Bauman’s & Mose
Bauman’s were here for dinner, Mose Gingerich’s were here for supper.
Isaiah & I awhile at Aaron Weber’s.
3. Geo. Menno, Hoffer & I in bush all day, father AM, at Moses Martin to saw
wood PM.
4. Father, Isaiah, Geo, Menno, Hoffer & I in the bush all day. Ph. Weiss buried.
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5. Father, Isaiah, Geo, Menno, Hoffer & I in the bush all day; Hoffer helped for
Geo.
6. Father, Isaiah, Geo., Menno, Hoffer & I in the bush all day.
7. Father at Geo. to chopp. Isaiah & I in our bush. Cool.
8. Isaiah & I in the bush. Father at Eli Martin fetched seed grain 8 bu. Oats &
goosewheat & painted trimmings of heavy harness.
9. SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at M.G.Reist’s for dinner at Jones Martins for supper & a
little at N. Bearinger’s in the evening. Parents awhile at N. L. Martins PM.
10.Father at the fair. Isaiah & I helped mother about the house. Father filed
circular saw. Jacob Cleman’s wife buried. Rainy.
11.Isaiah & I made wood of apple trees. Father at Aps. Martin to saw wood, 5
hours. John Martin’s baby died, Father at John Martin’s in the evening.
12.Isaiah & I gathered apple branches AM. Oiled harnesses.
13.Oiled harness AM. Father at J. Martin’s funeral, I was (hustler?).
14.Made harnesses together AM. Finished gathering apple wood, father finished
Eli Martin’s harness PM.
15.Father at St. Jacobs to get potatoes. I in town AM. Fetched J. Ernst’s fanning
mill & cleaned grain PM.
16.SUNDAY: Lydia at N. L Martin’s, Isaiah & I at John Fry’s.
17.Cleaned grain all day. Noah Martin brought Judith.
18.Father, Isaiah & I helped to saw wood at Geo. AM.
19.Father in Galt & bought a ripp saw for $1.35. Isaiah & I digged post holes
AM, Pulled old posts PM.
20.Pulled old posts AM. Father in town. Isaiah & I picked stones PM.
21.GOOD FRIDAY: Isaiah & I in WW Meeting. Rainy & snowy.
22.Jopped 35 bags grain at Geo. Parents in town after supper.
23.SUNDAY: EASTER: Grandmother with parents in Martins Meeting at Levi
Weber’s for dinner, at Mose Weber’s for supper.
24.Father cleaned apple trees & worked at circular ripp saw frame. We picked
stones. Father, Eli, Isaiah, & I at CPR Wallenstein hill.
25.Finished collecting stones, rolled grassfield. Worked on land.
26.Worked on the fields. Father fetched flour in the evening. Fine.
27.Father cultivated all day. Isaiah & I worked in the garden.
28.I drilled 7 acres with oats. Eli at A. Snider asking for S. B. (sugar beet) drill
29.Worked beet field & sawed 3 acres, Dug post holes.
30.SUNDAY: All at WW Meeting. Samuel Eby here for supper.
MAY 1905
1. Father took Sugar Beet drill to A Snyder. Sowed & harrowed the rest of the
day. Digged post holes.
2. Sowed and digged post holes.
3. Nearly finished sowing, digged post-holes. Menno Musselman burried today.
We had some rain in the morning.
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4. Harrowed AM. Worked on mangold patch PM.
5. Worked on mangold patch AM. Sowed mangolds PM.
6. Father took drill to J. Ernst. I was sick. Rainy.
7. SUNDAY: Parents at A.W. Weber’s for dinner & supper.
8. Father at fair. Buried in fence posts.
9. I & team at Reub. to plough grass-field. Buried in fence posts.
10.I & team at Reub. to plough mangold patch. Father fetched tiles.
11.I worked in the garden, others buried in posts AM. Removed earth for
foundation of driving shed PM.
12.Father fetched iron gates & lime 12 bu. 20 & $.26. Isaiah rolled PM. Digged
at driving shed.
13.I drove parents out to town to meet Jones Martin’s to go visiting. We
cultivated, rolled & harrowed potatoe patch AM. Worked at driving shed PM.
Parents at Wm. Krafter’s for dinner, at Mose Kinzie’s for supper.
14.SUNDAY: Parent at Edward Spaeth’s for the night, at John Randall’s for
dinner, at Nason Clamer’s for supper.
15.We masoned at driving shed all day. Isaiah was sick.
16.We masoned at driving shed. Rainy PM.
17.Father helped to wash Meeting house AM. Masoned PM.
18.I white-washed cellar AM. Fetched stones & masoned PM.
19.We masoned all day at foundation wall for the driving shed.
20.Isaiah & I in bush AM. Father in town. Parents & Grandmother at Israel
Shantz’s for supper, at John Bauman’s for the night.
21.SUNDAY: Parents at Martin’s Meeting, at Menno Gingerich’s for dinner, at
Enos Bauman’s for supper. O. Bearinger & 1 young Frys were here.
22.Drawed out manure on potatoe patch. Made wire fence PM, Peter Martin
helped about ¾ day.
23.Finished wire fence & cut potatoes AM. Planted potatoes PM.
24.Isaiah & I at Geo. to chopp AM. Sowed & harrowed PM.
25.Worked & sowed corn patch AM. Sowed beans & rolled, father in town.
26.Leveled ground at driving shed, tried ripp saw & fetched a load of matched
lumber from Abs. Eby.
27.Sawed wood AM Edward Spaeth’s here for dinner. Parents & visitors at
Aaron Snyder’s for supper. I pointed stakes.
28.SUNDAY: All at WW Meeting except Noah & Eli. Dilman Martin’s, Dan
Martin’s, Israel Gingerich’s & Joshua Rudy’s here for dinner. Rudy’s here
also for supper. Isaiah & I at W. Montrose.
29.Lent Geo’s waggon, father at saw-mill, fetched 6 loads of lumber AM.
Whitewashed butcher shop. Rainy PM.
30.Isaiah & I fetched the rest of the lumber AM. Pointed stakes. Father at Dav.
Cressman carpentering. Noah Gingerich’s child’s funeral. Geo. fetched a
horse in the evening.
31.Father at D. Cressman all day. Isaiah & I made fence.
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JUNE 1905
1. ASCENSION DAY: Parents, Isaiah & I & Grandmother at Enos Bauman’s
child’s funeral, age 4 years, 4 months, 1 day.
2. Drawed out wood. Slaughtered beef for the 1st
of the season.
3. Drawed out wood. Menno brought our horse.
4. SUNDAY: Noah Weber, Isaiah & I at Hy. Horst’s for dinner. Hy. Horst’s here
for dinner. Parents at Hy. Brubacher’s for supper. Noah Weber here for
supper.
5. Worked on turnip patch & worked at driving shed frame. Rainy PM.
6. We worked at shed frame. Chopped at Geo. AM.
7. White-washed hen house AM. I at Geo. to help to clean wheat.
8. Worked at shed all day. I at Jno. Martin’s raising PM.
9. Worked at shed AM. Worked on turnip patch, walked through the wheat.
10.Scuffled sugar beets ¾ day. Father in town. Rainy
11.SUNDAY: Parents at Peter Ziegler’s for dinner at Joshua Brubacher’s for
supper. The rest were at home.
12.We at fair AM. I scuffled beets & I & others bunched beets.
13.Father worked on the road. We bunched beets AM. Ridged & sowed turnips.
Peter Risser’s & Enos Nighswanger’s of Markham here.
14.Worked on highways all day. Hy. Brubacher here for dinner. Hot.
15.Worked on highways AM. Cleaned sugar beets PM. Hot.
16.Father in town. Rainy all day. Brox bought some cattle.
17.We sawed rafters. Chr. Klinck had our team all day. Foggy.
18.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at Martins Meeting, at Dan. Martin’s for dinner, at Ab.
Horst’s for supper. Grandmother & Geo’s here for supper.
19.Drove ours & Hy. Brubacher’s cattle to town, our 5 weighed3740 lbs. at $4.00
per cwt. Cleaned s. beets. Chr. Klinck had our team.
20.Finished cleaning s. beets for the 1st
time. J. Ernst & Jno. Brubacher here to
clean beets all day. Raised rafters on d. shed. Cl Klinck had team.
21.Father at Dan Bauman sawing wood all day. C. Klinck had our team.
22.Scuffled sugar beets & mangolds. C. Klinck helped to cut thistles PM.
23.Cleaned mangolds & cut thistles. Chr. Klinck helped all day.
24.Father took beef hide out to town. Chopped about an hour at Geo. AM
Father at C. Klinck preparing for cementing. We hauled in wood.
25.SUNDAY: John Shiedel here over night. All at WW Meeting, Enos Martin’s
Dan Cressman’s of Wilmot, Israel Weber’s Amos Rudy & Isaiah Weber here
for dinner. Ab. Bearinger, Joe Martin, Aaron Weber, Joseph Snyder & 4 girls
here for supper.
26.Parent at the funeral of Noah Gingerich’s wife. Isaiah & I at Chr. Klinck nearly
AM. We 3 at Klinck PM.
27.Father at J. Ernst masoning all day. Isaiah & I at Klinck all day.
28.Father, Isaiah & I at Klinck cementing all day. Fine weather.
29.Father, Isaiah & I at Klinck cementing all day. Fine weather.
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30.Father, Isaiah & I at Klinck cementing al day.
JULY 1905
1. Father, Isaiah & I at Klinck cementing AM Father at John Bricker to splice
rope, Rainy PM.
2. Sunday: Isaiah & I at Conestogo Meeting AM & PM, at Peter Brubacher’s for
dinner.
3. Father at Reub. sawing laths with ripp saw. I scuffled beets. Jac Martin’s
wife (widow) got buried at NW Graveyard.
4. Reub’s laborer here helping to saw laths AM. C. Klinck here for carpentering
AM. C. Klinck had team PM. We nailed laths on rafters of shed.
5. We carpentered at driving shed all day. C. Klinck had our team AM.
6. We nailed shingles on laths. Father fetched lumber.
7. Parents in town, I fetched lumber, scuffled & cleaned beets.
8. I scuffled beets, hoed potatoes, worked at shed.
9. SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at S. Peel Meeting PM, at Dan. Bauman’s for supper.
Eli at W. Bauman’s. The rest at home.
10.We carpentered at the shed cornice. Rainy AM
11.We worked at outside of shed AM, Isaiah & I at Noah Martin hauling hay on a
stack PM. Eli scuffled.
12.Made doors at the shed. Rainy, AM. Father at Samuel Brubacher to put in a
rack lifter.
13.Father at Sam all day. We picked bugs. I at Joe Ernst’s raising after supper.
14.Isaiah & I made fence, father at shed AM. We cleaned beets PM.
15.Father in town AM. Cleaned beets. Parents awhile at George’s
16.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at John Frey’s for supper. Parents at the funeral of
David Brubacher.
17.We 4 at Geo’s making hay.
18.We 4 at Geo’s making hay.
19.We 4 at Geo’s making hay. Menno mowed AM. by us.
20.Menno mowed AM. Reub’s 2 h’ds & Geo’s 3 h’ds helped by us all day,
hauled away 19 loads of hay.
21.Reub’s & Geo’s here to make hay.
22.We 4 at Reuben’s all day, hauled away 22 loads of hay
23.SUNDAY: All at the Meeting except Noah & I, AM. We 3 boys at Meeting
PM. Joshua Snider’s, Jacob Shomaker & Daniel Hoffman’s Jr. were here for
supper.
24.We 3 at Reub. till supper. Little fellows picked raspberries.
25.Isaiah & I in town in the morning. Father mowed at Geo. ½ AM. Then we
went to Reub.
26.Father, Isaiah & I at Geo. all day, made a haystack.
27.Father at Geo to cut wheat all day. I at Geo. to shock PM.
28.Father, Isaiah & I at Geo. about all day to make hay.
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29.I scuffled beets all day. Others picked berries AM. Father in town PM.
Sharpened knives PM.
30.SUNDAY: Noah L Martin’s here for dinner. Parents awhile at Noah
Bearinger’s, thence to Jones Martin’s for supper.
31.We cut & shocked wheat, mowed thistles in the evening.
AUGUST 1905
1. Father at Dav. Martin in Peel to put up a rack lifter. We mowed thistles in the
fence corners. I took chopping to town.
2. I scuffled, others cleaned turnips. Father worked at lifters.
3. Finished cleaning turnips, pulled grass in corn. Father came home from Dav.
Martin.
4. We cut barely AM. Rainy PM. Father patched binder canvas.
5. Father in town. We boys at Geo’s to pick berries AM. Cut the rest of the
barely & shocked. I at A. Lorch’s raising.
6. SUNDAY: Parents & little ones in NW Meeting at Aaron Bauman’s for dinner
at Isacc Gingerich’s for supper. Isaiah & I at meeting PM.
7. Isaiah at Geo. all day. We hauled in wheat & raked.
8. Chopped at Geo. AM. Ploughed in wheat field. Tinsmith here PM.
9. Ploughed awhile AM. Cut oats & barely. Hauled in 2 loads of barely. Mother
at Israel Brubacher’s quilting.
10.We hauled in barely & raked.
11.Father, I & team at Geo. to thrash AM. Ploughed PM.
12.Isaiah & I ploughed in barely field all day, father in town AM.
13.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at Martins’ Meeting at Joe Snider’s for dinner, at Henry
Martin’s for supper. Judith & young Brubacher’s were here for dinner.
14.Cut & shocked oats, and oats & goosewheat.
15.Ploughed & harrowed. Father & I in St. Jacobs to get shoe measured.
16.I scuffled turnips & potatoes AM. Cut & shocked oats PM.
17.Hauled in 10 loads of barely & oats. I ploughed & Isaiah rolled after supper.
18.Father & Isaiah at Geo. hauling in grain. I ganged.
19.Father in town AM. Hauled in 4 loads of oats, rainy PM.
20.SUNDAY: All in WW Meeting. Fidas, Susannah & Sarah Bauman here for
dinner. Henry S. Martin’s here for supper.
21.Hauled in oats & goosewheat and oats. Eli at Geo’s PM.
22.Ploughed AM. Hauled in oats PM.
23.I ganged all day. Isaiah at Geo PM. Father helped to thrash at Hy.
Brubacher PM
24.I harrowed, ganged & ploughed. Isaiah at Geo’s AM. Father helped to thrash
at Fred Weigel AM. at Chr. Esch PM. I fetched flour.
25.I at Ph. Beisel to thrash all day. Father worked Esch’s till butcher time PM.
26.Father & I at Dav. Cressman to thrash all day, I helped for Esch. Isaiah
worked Hy. Brubacher PM.
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27.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at Aaron Weber’s for dinner. Sam Reist here for dinner,
Levi Brubacher’s here for supper.
28.Drawed 28 loads of manure out.
29.Drawed 10 loads of manure out, ploughed & spread manure.
30.Ploughed AM. Spread manure, hauled in 2 loads of oats, Windy.
31.Ploughed AM. Harrowed & sowed a little wheat PM.
SEPTEMBER 1905
1. Sowed wheat AM. Picked stones PM. Father worked at tiles.
2. Father & I at Dav. Cressman to thrash AM. I ganged & harrowed, father &
Isaiah surveyed our bush to lay tiles.
3. SUNDAY: Parents & Grandmother at NW Meeting at Joe Gingerich’s for
dinner, at Peter G. Martin’s for supper. Judith & Mary Ann Weber here for
dinner. The rest at home.
4. Father at Wendel Bauman to shingle a shed. I in St. Jacobs to fetched my
shoe & ploughed.
5. Ploughed nearly all day. Father at W. Bauman AM.
6. Fetched 3 loads of gravel home for cementing AM. 4 loads PM. Father at
Jacob Fries to built a cistern PM.
7. Father at Jacob Fries. We fetched 8 loads of gravel, all day.
8. Prepared for cementing sty all day. Took Geo’s waggon home.
9. Cemented all day. Fine weather.
10.SUNDAY: Parents at Martin’s Meeting, at Israel Gingerich’s for dinner, at
Henry Martin’s for supper.
11.Father filed circular saw, rainy AM, at Jacob Fries PM.
12.Father at J. Fries making a wood shed all day. Mother & I at Simon
Bauman’s funeral (aged 18 years 2 mon. 16 days) AM.
13.We made a model for and made a concrete hog-trough. Frost tonight.
14.Parents, Isaiah & I in WW Harvest Meeting AM. Father at J. Fries. We cut &
shocked corn PM.
15.Thrashed peas at Hy. Brubacher, father ¾ day, Isaiah & I ½ day
16.Father at J. Fries all day. We cut & shocked corn & harrowed.
17.SUNDAY: Parents, Eli & I at WW Meeting. Rainy.
18.We made a concrete trough & fetched elder berries from Geo. AM. We
helped to saw wood at Hy. Brubacher PM.
19.We drawed manure out AM. Father & I awhile at Geo’s to ditch, made a
concrete trough PM.
20.We set machine AM. We thrashed PM. 9 strangers.
21.Father & I fetched grain-crusher, Menno & 2 teams helped to chopp. I at
Geo’s to ditch ¾ day
22.Father, Isaiah & I at Geo’s to ditch all day.
23.Father & Isaiah made a ditch in J. Ernst’s bush. I at Geo’s from the morning
till 4 o’clock.
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24.SUNDAY: Parents, Grandmother and Noah Martin’s at Conestogo Meeting,
at Joe Hoffman’s for dinner, at Ezra Martin’s for supper. Noah Horst & Josiah
Gingerich were here for dinner.
25.Father at J. Fries carpentering all day. We ploughed.
26.Father at J. Fries carpentering all day. We ploughed. I at Reub. to thrash
with team AM.
27.Father at J. Fries carpentering all day. We ploughed AM, hauled pumpkins in,
made out 12 rows of mangolds.
28.Father at J. Fries AM. We ploughed AM. Made potatoes out.
29.We made saw-logs & ploughed AM. Drawed logs to mill & made mangolds
out. Hot these days.
30.Hauled lumber from mill & digged out the rest of the potatoes.
OCTOBER 1905
1. SUNDAY: Judith, Isaiah & I at NW Meeting, at Aaron Bauman’s for dinner,
the rest at home.
2. We worked at the sty all day besides some small jobs. Rainy AM.
3. We made mangolds out & drawed them in, made some sugar beets out, Joe.
Fries & his laborer helped all day.
4. We made sugar beets out, Joe Fries & laborer helped all day. M. G. Reist
helped also about ½ of a day.
5. We made sugar beets out. J. Fries & laborer & M. G. Reist helped all day.
6. J. Fries & laborer here about ¾ day. Reist helped also. We drawed 8 loads
of sugar beets to GTR Station. Widow Joe Martin buried at Martin.
7. We drawed 6 load of beets to station, car went off this noon. Oziah Snider’s
of Breslau were here for supper.
8. SUNDAY: Judith at Hy. Martin’s, Dan. Bauman’s here awhile PM.
9. We drawed 8 ¾ loads of beets to station.
10.Father at Hy. Brubacher’s to repair cistern. I picked and stored away apples
& took Geo’s waggon home. Isaiah at M. G. Reist helped to make sugar
beets out.
11.Father at J. Fries all day. I worked in root cellar, Isaiah came home from
Reist AM. Picked apples PM.
12.We sawed our wood, 3 of Geo’s & team ¾ day. Sawed 2 loads for Geo. PM.
Asserrian Peddler here for dinner.
13.Sawed wood for Geo. nearly till noon. I helped to thrash at F. Weigel. Father
fetched tools & stuff from the wood piles.
14.Father at Fred Weigel thrashing about ¾ day. Isaiah & I ploughed. MG Reist
fetched our beet waggon box. John Cutz’s, Moses Hunnings, Samuel
Moeser’s, Jacob Horst & others here. Into Canada.
15.SUNDAY: All at WW Meeting except Mother & Noah. Christ. Herkendorn
and Josiah Martin’s here for dinner.
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16.Father & Isaiah at Menno Snider sawing wood all day. I ploughed. Daniel
Hoffman’s Sr. brought Jno. Webers of Pennsylvania.
17.Father, Isaiah, I, team & circular saw at Ernst sawing wood AM. Wendel
Bauman’s brought people of Pens. Sam. Moeser’s, Geo. Zimmerman’s,
Jacob Horst & 2 girls, Susanna, Senseniah & Francis Hoover. We drawed
manure out PM.
18.Father & I at Grandma preparing for cementing sty PM. Rainy.
19.Father & I at Grandma prepared for & cemented. Isaiah helped Henry
Brubacher to fetch his steers
20.Father & I at Grandmother cementing all day. Isacc Gingerich’s brought to us
2 preachers Jno. Kurtz, Mose Honning & their wives of Pens. In the morning.
Dav. Frey’s baby buried at N. Woolwich.
21.Father at Grandmother worked at the sty. I fetched my boots ($4.25) from O.
Smith, St. Jacobs. Isaiah & I fetched 6 bags of sweet apples from Aaron
Weber’s.
22.SUNDAY: Father, Isaiah, Eli, Judith & Lydia & I at Conestogo Meeting. Mary
Ann Weber here for dinner. Noah Martins awhile here PM.
23.Father & Judith at Joe Brubacher’s child’s funeral AM. Father sold 9 chickens
(dressed) Wt 36 lbs. at $.09 a lb. to A. Ruf. PM.
24.Father at J. Fries carpentering all day. I at St. Jacobs cider-mill & got apple
sauce made AM. I at Chr. Esch to thrash PM. Judith today at Geo’s to work.
Isaiah ploughed.
25.Father at J. Fries all day. I at Chr. Esch to thrash till nearly noon, ploughed
the rest of the day.
26.We drawed out manure all day. J. Fries helped all day.
27.We drawed out manure till nearly noon. Father & I & team at Hoffer to thrash
PM. J. Fries helped to draw out & spreaded manure.
28.Father & I at Hoffer till nearly noon to thrash. Father & I at J. Ernst to thrash
from 2 o’clock till eve. Isaiah ploughed.
29.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at NW Meeting, at Isacc Gingerich’s for dinner, at Peter
Martin’s for supper. Elias & Grandmother here awhile PM. Elias & father at
N. Bearinger awhile PM.
30.Father, Isaiah & 2 teams at J. Ernst to chopp, I topped turnips AM. Made
carrots out & drawed them & the corn in PM.
31.Father at Grandma to make a concrete trough all day. Isaiah & I ploughed
AM, drawed in 5 loads of turnips PM.
NOVEMBER 1905
1. Father at Grandmother in the morning to fix concrete trough. Isaiah & I
ploughed AM. Looked after the potatoes for rotten ones PM. Snowy.
2. Father at Hy. Brubacher & I a little in the morning. I ploughed AM. Father
spread manure, we ploughed PM.
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3. Father fixed whips. Dillman Martin brought his (lounch?) to get it repaired
AM. Father & Eli spread manure, Isaiah & I ploughed PM.
4. Father in town in the morning, then he spreaded manure, Isaiah & I ploughed.
Drawed in turnips PM.
5. SUNDAY: Father, Eli & Noah at West Montrose to see railway construction.
Isaiah & I at Reuben Bauman’s for supper.
6. Father at Geo. all day. We tinkered about the buildings. A little rain.
7. Father & I at Noah Bearinger to built a wire fence all day. Drear.
8. Father & I at Noah Bearinger to built a wire fence all day.
9. Father & I at Noah Bearinger to built a wire fence all day.
10.Father at J Fries ¾ day. Isaiah & I ploughed all day.
11.Father at Grandmother all day, Isaiah PM to make a concrete trough. I
ploughed all day, Isaiah ploughed AM.
12.SUNDAY: All at WW Meeting. Henry Martin’s were here for dinner. Isaiah &
I at Israel Weber’s to visit David Bearinger.
13.Isaiah & I ploughed, father at the fair AM. Father, Isaiah, I & 2 teams at Joe
Ernst to chopp some of his grain & some of ours.
14.Father at Geo Claycorn to buy cedar beams for Grandmother’s H. P. Shed.
Isaiah & I hauled in wood all day.
15.Isaiah & I hauled in wood. Father at the sale at the wife of John Ritter PM.
Stormy AM.
16.Father & I & team at Joe Ernst to thrash all day.
17.I & team at J. Ernst to thrash ¾ day. Father at Menno M. Weber carpentering
at his driving shed all day.
18.I & 2 teams at J. Ernst to chopp nearly ½ day. Father at M. M. Weber to help
built shed. Isaiah & I ploughed PM.
19.SUNDAY: Parents at Reub. Bauman’s for dinner, at Aps. Martin’s for supper.
Moses & Sam Eby here for dinner. Judith & Lydia at S. Reist’s. Isaiah & I
awhile at Grandmother PM. Eli at Aaron Webers’
20.Father at M. M. Weber, masoning all day. We fetched top wood home.
21.Fetch 11 cedar sleepers at $.75 each & 4 end-posts at $.50 each, at Geo.
Claycorn. Geo. B. went with me. Isaiah & I hauled a load of gravel home PM.
Father at M. M. Weber masoning all day.
22.Father at M. M. Weber masoning all day. Isaiah & I drawed earth to & about
the root cellar & smoke house.
23.Father & I at Geo plastering concrete trough nearly ½ day. Fixed pulley on
thrash machine PM. Osias Cressman here for the night.
24.Father & I at Hy. Brubacher to thrash all day, thrashed clover AM.
25.Father & I at Hy. Brubacher to thrash nearly all day. Isaiah ploughed all day.
Judith at Geo’s yesterday and here today again.
26.SUNDAY: Parents at NW Meeting at Menno Bauman’s for dinner. Dav. &
Noah Bearinger & Wendel Martin were here for dinner.
27.I ploughed & Isaiah awhile AM. Father tinkered at separator PM.
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28.We tinkered about the buildings AM. Evened the floor in the driving shed PM.
Stormy & dreary.
29.Father & I at Geo. to thrash all day, Isaiah helped PM.
30.Father at N. L. Martin. Father took a load of machine stuff to Reub. I at Dav.
Cressman to thrash all day.
DECEMBER 1905
1. Father & team at Reub. to thrash all day. I at Dav. Cressman to thrash till
about 4 o’clock.
2. Father & team at Reub. all day. Isaiah & I in the bush AM & in barn PM.
3. SUNDAY: Parents at the funeral of Joseph Martin’s wife at N. Woolwich.
Menno M. Bauman and intending wife here for dinner.
4. Father at Reub. to thrash till about 3 o’clock. I in town AM. I fetched butcher
stuff. Geo. brought separator PM.
5. We butched a pig AM. Father in town & at Geo. PM
6. Father & Isaiah at J. Ernst to put other pinions into the H. Power. I at Ph.
Beisel to thrash all day.
7. I at Ph. Beisel to thrash all day. Father & Isaiah at J. Ernst to chopp AM.
Made saw-logs in Grandmother’s bush for H. P. Shed.
8. Father at Geo. worked at sty. I took dried apples to Elmira.
9. Father, Isaiah, Eli, I & Hy. Brubacher in Sugar Factory, Berlin & Waterloo.
10.SUNDAY: Father, Isaiah & I in WW Meeting.
11.Father at fair AM. Set thrashing machines PM.
12.Parents, Eli & Noah Martin’s at the wedding of Menno M. Bauman’s. I at Geo.
to feed all day.
13.We thrashed all day. 10 strangers.
14.We thrashed AM. 10 strangers, we chopped a while in the eve.
15.We chopped all day, chopped also a little for Geo., his 2 teams here.
16.Father, I & circular saw at Eli Martin about ½ day.
17.SUNDAY: Parents at Grandmother for dinner, at Geo’s for supper
18.Father & I at Eli S. Martin to saw wood AM. I at Eli to help to chopp PM.
Father filed circular saw.
19.Father at Reub. to saw wood till about 5 o’clock. I at Eli to work all day.
Mother & Isaiah at Menno Gingerich’s.
20.Father in Berlin to fetch a load of pine lumber for Grandmother’s H. Power
shed, & leather for us. I at Sarah Bauman to thrash at Eli S. Martin’s place.
21.I came home from E.S. Martin. Father at Aaron Weber carpentering ¾ day.
22.Father at Aaron Weber all day. I had tooth ache.
23.Father at Aaron Weber ¾ day & in town in the evening.
24.SUNDAY: All at home. David Cressman’s Jr. here for supper.
25.CHRISTMAS: Parents, Isaiah & I at WW Meeting. Father & Hy. Brubacher
visited Hy. Martin’s.
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26.Isaiah & I at Geo. Father filed saws AM. Parents at Noah Bearinger’s. We
cleaned wheat PM.
27.Father at Grandmother to work at H. P. shed all day. We cleaned wheat all
day.
28.Father at Grandmother to work at HP shed all day. We drawed wheat to the
mill.
29.Father at Joe Ernst to butcher AM. At Grandmother to work at HP shed PM.
I split wood.
30.Father at Grandmother to work at HP shed all day, I helped also PM. I split
wood AM.
31.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at Martin’s Meeting, at Israel Shantz’s for dinner at
Joshua Rudy’s for supper.
DIARY 1906
ANGUS S. BAUMAN
JANUARY
1. NEW YEARS DAY: Father in town, I opened lounch AM. Moses Eby was
here for supper. Father went to John Bauman in the evening.
2. Father at Jno. M. Bauman to patch up harness all day. Isaiah & I in the bush.
3. Father & I took 6 hogs to Elmira (1240 lbs. at $5.75 per cwt) Father & I at
Ratzs’ saw mill to help to saw logs for Grandmother’s H.(horse) P.(power?)
shed.
4. Father & I at Grandmother to ripp planks up for the track? Of the HP shed.
Elias Bauman died this evening.
5. I took father in the morning to Grandmother & mother at noon.
6. Father at Grandmother all day. I split wood.
7. SUNDAY: All at Elias Bauman’s funeral. Aged 32 years 10 months (? Days)
8. Father at the fair, people of Markham here AM. Father & I at Grandmother to
set horse-power in position in the shed.
9. We made harness bill out AM. Father in town PM.
10.Father in Elmira & St. Jacobs AM, worked at Dillman Martin’s lounch. I split
wood.
11.Father, I & 3 horses at Geo. to thrash all day.
12.I & team drawed 2 loads of stones for Menno M. Weber.
13.I & team drawed 1 load of stones for MM Weber AM. Beef Ring meeting PM.
Father & N Martin at Grandmother to work at Elias’s property.
14.SUNDAY: I at Geo. to feed at noon. Father & Eli at N. Bearinger. Israel
Shantz’s eldest boy buried at Martins.
15.I fetched butcher ware from Geo. & Made preparations for butchering. Father
at D Robinson’s sale PM.
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16.We butchered 3 hogs. N. L. Martin & Joe Ernst helped AM. We changed
pigs round in stables. Judith came last night.
17.Father at Aaron Weber to butcher all day. I fetched Grandmother from Hy.
Martin’s PM.
18.Father at N. L. Martin to butcher all day. I split wood.
19.Father worked in the shop. I fetched 900 bricks for Menno Weber PM.
20.Father worked in the shop all day. Isaiah & I washed Elias’s buggy.
21.SUNDAY: Father & Eli at Hy. Martin’s for dinner. The rest at home.
Thawning.
22.Father in the shop all day. I divided turnips. Foggy & warm.
23.Father in the shop all day. I husked corn. A little cold.
24.Father in the shop all day & I awhile PM.
25.Father at Geo’s to butcher all day. I in the bush all day.
26.Father & I in shop AM. Father in shop, I at O Smith St. Jacobs. PM.
27.Father in town & worked in the shop. I split wood for Grandmother. Isaiah &
team helped to chopp at Geo. PM.
28.SUNDAY: I at N. Bearinger awhile PM
29.Father & I in shop all day.
30.Father & I in shop all day. Accident on CPR Bridge at W. Montrose.
FEBRUARY 1906
1. Father in the shop all day. I at Jno. Fry to thrash ¾ day for Henry Brubacher.
2. Father in shop all day. I at Fry a little to thrash AM. I in town & got tooth
pulled, in shop awhile PM.
3. Father & I in the shop all day. Mose Bauman fetched Fidas’s harness & a
pair of blinds in the evening.
4. SUNDAY: Father, Isaiah & I at WW Meeting.
5. Father & I worked in the shop all day
6. Father & I worked in the shop. Wm. Spaeth came tonight to visit.
7. Father & I worked in the shop. W. Spaeth here.
8. Father & I worked at Menno Bauman’s harness. W. Spaeth here.
9. Father & I worked in the shop. W. Spaeth went to A. Lorch PM.
10.Father in town. I helped N. L. Martin to drive steers to station AM. Father in
the shop. I did the chores PM.
11.SUNDAY: I in Conestogo Meeting. Parents awhile at Grandmother PM.
Noah Weber here awhile. PM.
12.Father & I at fair AM. John Bauman & W. Spaeth here for dinner.
13.Father & I in the shop. Worked at Moses Bauman’s harness.
14.Father & I worked in the shop.
15.Father & I worked in the shop, father in town PM.
16.Father & I worked in the shop. Reub. let his harness ratched.
17.Father & NL Martin in Berlin. I at Grandmother to split wood PM.
18.SUNDAY: Mary Ann Weber was here for dinner.
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19.Father & I worked in the shop.
20.Father & I worked in the shop AM. Father & I at Geo. to thrash PM.
21.Father & I worked in the shop, father at Peter Bauman’s sale.
22.Father & I worked in the shop.
23.Father & I worked in the shop. Father in town AM
24.Father & NL Martin in Berlin. I helped to drive NL Martin’s cattle to station.
Mother & I in town PM.
25.SUNDAY: All at home. Muddy & drear.
26.Father & I worked in the shop, finished M. Bauman’s harness & started at
Mose Horst’s harness. L. Brox brought Emma Spaeth.
27.Father & I worked in the shop. I took Emma Spaeth to Joshua Rudy’s in the
afternoon. Land assessor here PM.
28.Father & I worked in the shop, father at G. Bulmer’s sale PM.
MARCH 1906
1. Father worked in the shop. I took 2 loads of grain to Geo. Chopped our grain
& a little of Joe’s & Geo’s PM.
2. Father & I in the shop, father in town.
3. Father worked in the shop. I fetched a waggon from J. B. Weber for $10.
Elias Eby buried at N Woolwich.
4. SUNDAY: All except mother & Noah in WW Meeting. Peter Bauman’s here
for dinner. Isaiah & I at Hy. Brubacher’s for supper.
5. Father & I worked in the shop, father in town to fetch leather PM.
6. Father & I worked in the shop. Menno Bauman’s moved on Aaron’s farm.
7. Father & I worked in the shop. I in town in the morning.
8. Father at Aaron Weber to butcher. I worked in the shop.
9. Father & I worked in the shop, finished Moses Horst’s harness.
10.Father & I started at Dav. Horst’s harness. Father in town AM.
11.SUNDAY: Parents at Noah Bearinger’s awhile PM.
12.Father & I at the fair AM. Worked in the shop PM. Horst fetched harness.
13.Father & I worked in the shop. Father at Dav. Fry & mother in town.
14.Father & I worked in the shop.
15.Father & I worked in the shop AM & at Geo. to thrash PM.
16.Father & I worked in the shop.
17.Father & I worked in the shop, I in town PM.
18.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I in SP Meeting at Amos Martin’s for dinner, at Elias
Martin’s for supper. Hy. Brubacher’s here for dinner.
19.Father & I worked in the shop. Stormy.
20.Father at Aaron Weber to butcher all day. I worked in the shop.
21.Father in town, I fetched butcher stuff AM. We in the shop PM
22.We butchered 2 hogs, N. L. Martin helped AM. Hannah Weber all day. Isaiah
& I took butcher stuff home.
23.Father at Absolom Martin to patch harness. I worked small jobs.
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24.Father at Absolom Martin to patch harness. Isaiah, I & team at Geo. to
chopp. Isaiah took mother to Geo. Geo’s baby buried.
25.SUNDAY: Isaiah & Eli at N. Bearinger’s for dinner. Parents at Amos
Gingerich’s for supper.
26.Father at Eli S. Martin to patch harness. I worked at Reist’s lounch.
27.Father at Eli S. Martin to patch harness. Rainy & soft.
28.Father & I drawed 14 hogs to station for Auman. Av. 18 cwt, $6.75 per cwt.
AM. Father & I in Grandmother’s bush PM.
29.Father & I in Grandmother’s bush to make wood all day.
30.Father & I in Grandmother’s bush nearly all day.
31.Father, I & Isaiah in bush AM. Father in town PM. Isacc Martin’s baby buried
at North Woolwich.
APRIL 1906
1. SUNDAY: All at the West Woolwich Meeting.
2. Father, Isaiah & I in bush all day.
3. Father at Wendel Bauman to saw wood. Isaiah & I in the bush.
4. Father fixed horse-collars. Isaiah & I in the bush.
5. Isaiah & I in the bush AM. Father & I awhile PM. Isaiah & 2 teams at Geo to
help to chopp.
6. Father, Isaiah, I, team & circular saw at Geo to saw wood about ¾ day.
7. Father in town to fetch sugar beets & clover ($10.50) seed. At Geo. in the
morning to ripp plank up. Isaiah & I in the bush.
8. SUNDAY: Parents & Grandmother at N L Martin’s for both meals.
9. Father & Isaiah at the fair & at Grandmother for dinner. Rainy.
10.I took father to Moses C. Martin to patch harness all day. I fetched from Sol.
Reist 3 gal. Maple syrup at $1.25 per gal. Isaiah & I in the bush PM. Wet.
11.Father at Mose Martin to patch harness all day. Isaiah & I took to the station
for Auman 3 hogs, av: wt. 150 lbs. at $.07 a lb. We in the bush awhile AM &
PM.
12.Father at M Martin AM. Isaiah & I in the bush AM. Father, N Martin & I at one
Lehmen’s sale about 1 mile North of W. Montrose.
13.GOOD FRIDAY: All at the WW Meeting.
14.Father at M Martin all day. I helped to drive Geo’s steers to station. Let
horses shod. Rainy at noon.
15.EASTER SUNDAY: Noah Weber was here for dinner. Eli was at Sol. Reist
for supper.
16.EASTER MONDAY: I, Isaiah, Eli & O. Bearinger (here for dinner) at W.
Montrose to buy 200 lbs. sugar at $4.50 a cwt. & at CPR bridge. Father
grafted pear trees & fixed lounch & filed circular saw. We sowed clover seed.
17.Father at Dav. Martin to saw wood all day. Isaiah & I split wood.
18.We finished S. Reists lounch. Oiled harness PM.
19.Oiled harness & made some together.
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20.Father took to town 3 bags of N. Spy apples at $.90 per bag. Cleaned grain.
21.Cleaned grain AM. Took fanning mill home. Father in town.
22.SUNDAY: Isaiah, I & Judith at Martin’s Meeting. Aaron Weber’s here for
supper. Eli at Israel Brubacher’s.
23.Chopped grain at Geo. for us AM. At Geo. to dig post holes.
24.We 3 at Geo. to dig post holes all day.
25.I at N L Martin’s to fetch currant bushes. Father & Grandmother at George
Hoffman’s wife’s funeral. Grandmother here PM.
26.Ganged & harrowed AM. Cultivated PM. Father made a chicken pen.
27.Cultivated in the morning, sowed, harrowed & rolled about 7 acres.
28.Cultivated, harrowed, rolled & sowed & picked some stones.
29.SUNDAY: All except Eli & Noah in WW Meeting. Menno Bauman’s here for
supper. Isaiah & I at Henry Horst’s.
30.Ganged, cultivated & worked in the garden.
MAY 1906
1. Sowed & rolled AM. Drawed out 13 loads of manure.
2. Drawed out 6 loads of manure & spread some & fixed fence. Rain.
3. Drawed out 19 loads of manure, father spread some. We ploughed.
4. Isaiah & I ploughed & harrowed in the evening.
5. Isaiah & I harrowed, sowed & rolled. Father at Grandmother PM.
6. SUNDAY: Parents at Daniel Bauman’s for dinner. Mose Eby here for supper.
7. Father at the fair. Cultivated, sowed, rolled & harrowed. Henry Martin was
here for dinner.
8. Worked on Sugar beet patch & ploughed AM. Rainy PM.
9. Father & I took to the station 1 old sow ($13) & 1 hog at $.07 per lb. AM. We
made a concrete foundation for the cream separator. Isaiah & I worked at
Grandmother’s lounch. Father bought a Jersey cow ($60)
10.We white washed butcher shop & house & picked stones AM Ploughed PM.
Noah Reist brought the $60 Jersey cow.
11.Ploughed till evening & then harrowed.
12.Harrowed, sowed barely, rolled & worked sugar beet patch. Fixed
Grandmother’s lounch. Sold calves to Geo. Auman.
13.SUNDAY: All at home except father was a while at Hy. Brubacher’s.
14.We took a cow ($40) & 4 calves (2730 lbs. at $3.70 a cwt & $1) to town for
Auman. Mother & I in town. Father at Enos Bauman ½ day.
15.Father at Enos Bauman all day. Isaiah & I fixed fences.
16.Father helped to wash out Meeting-house, cultivated, harrowed, & rolled
sugar beet patch & sowed sugar beets AM. Took sugar beet drill to Enoch
Bauman & ploughed mangold patch.
17.Father worked at the whippletrees, rainy AM. We made fence PM.
18.Father at Hy. Horst, making a cistern, all day. We made fence AM. Worked
on root field & fetched sower PM.
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19.Worked on root field & sowed it, planted 3 rows of potatoes.
20.SUNDAY: Parents, N L Martin’s & Grandmother at Martin’s Meeting at Martin
Bauman’s Sr. for dinner, at Jacob Bauman’s for supper.
21.Father sowed wet-land patches AM, at Hy. Horst PM. We planted potatoes,
pumpkins & sowed corn.
22.Father at Hy. Horst to work at cistern all day. I took Isaiah to Reub. in the
morning to work there. Eli & I picked stones.
23.Father at Grandmother to work at wire fence all day. Eli & I picked stones &
hauled in summer wood. I at M. M. Bauman in the evening to fetch rhubarb.
24.ASCENSION DAY: I in NW Meeting. Parents & Judith at Henry Martin’s for
supper. I & M. Eby at the CP Railway.
25.Father at Hy. Horst all day. I in Elmira & St. Jacobs.
26.Father in town, cut straw AM. I cemented PM. Isaiah came home.
27.SUNDAY: All in WW Meeting. Parents at N. Bearinger’s awhile PM. John
Bauman’s, P. Shantz’s wife & Lydia Bauman were here last night. Some
people of Indiana in this locality.,
28.I at F. Weppler, Conestogo, to fetch a calf. (2 weeks old for $3.50). Parents
and people of Indiana, namely Bishop John Martin & wife, Deacon Elias
Martin & Christian Weber (preacher) went to visit in a N. Eastern direction,
such as P. Zieglers, D. Horsts & others.
29.We drawed out about 30 loads of manure. Eli H. Bauman’s and Bishop
Christian Risser & wife of Markham were here awhile PM.
30.I ploughed nearly all day, others spread manure, parents were in town in the
afternoon. Judith came in the evening to work.
31.I ploughed fallow, father ganged turnip field, Eli went to Geo’s in the morning
to work there while Judith would here.
JUNE 1906
1. I harrowed & ploughed fallow. Reub. brought Isaiah home. N. L. Martin
helped to butcher a beef in the evening to get acquainted with the business
during father’s absent in the States.
2. I took parents to the GTR Station to leave for Michigan. I planted corn &
pumpkin. Isaiah harrowed awhile.
3. SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at the C Meeting. Judith & Lydia at N L Martin’s for
dinner.
4. Isaiah, I & M. Eby at the CPR, Wallenstein, PM. Judith & Lydia at
Grandmother for dinner.
5. Isaiah drawed 6 loads of gravel on the highway, I shovelled gravel in the pit all
day.
6. Isaiah drawed 1 load of gravel. I shovelled in the pit all day.
7. Isaiah & I rebuilt fences. Rain in the morning. Joe Snider’s barn raised.
8. Isaiah & I rebuilt fences. N. L. Martin helped us to butcher a beef,
thunderstorm in the evening.
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9. I in town AM. We cut thistles PM.
10.SUNDAY: Judith & I at the NW Meeting at Menno Bauman’s for dinner.
11.Isaiah & I cut thistles.
12.Isaiah & I cut thistles AM. Cultivated, harrowed & ploughed turnip patch &
fetched sower.
13.Cultivated, harrowed, rolled, ridged & sowed turnips, scuffled mangolds.
14.I scuffled sugar beets & corn. Others cleaned mangolds. Fine weather.
15.We cleaned mangolds.
16.We cleaned mangolds & beets. I went to town in AM.
17.SUNDAY: Judith & I at Martin’s Meeting AM & PM at Enos Bauman’s for
dinner.
18.We white-washed hen house & cleaned beets.
19.We cleaned sugar beets all day.
20.We cleaned sugar beets for awhile. Isaiah in town. Rainy.
21.We cleaned sugar beets nearly all day. Rainy awhile PM.
22.I in town, sawed some wood & cleaned some beets. Rainy.
23.We cleaned beets nearly all day. A little rain. Received Ind. Letter.
24.SUNDAY: All in the WW Meeting AM. & PM. Eli was here for supper.
25.Finished bunching sugar beets in the morning. Cut thistles the rest of the
day. Hy. Martin fetched our sulky plow.
26.We thinned sugar beets in the morning, then cut thistles.
27.We thinned sugar beets in the morning, then cut thistles.
28.Thinned sugar beets AM. Ganged fallow & scuffled beets.
29.I scuffled beets AM. Cut thistles PM. Judith went home in the morning.
Father went to town AM P.S. Parents arrived from Indiana on the evening of
June 27Th.
30.Father & N.L. Martin in Berlin. I at Menno Weber’s raising AM. I at Benj.
Martin’s raising PM. Grandmother here all day.
JULY 1906
1. SUNDAY: Parents & Grandmother at the C. Meeting at Daniel Brubacher’s
for dinner. Isaiah & I at the Conestogo Meeting PM.
2. Father at Dilman Martin Sr. to fix rack lifter. I ganged & harrowed fallow.
Reuben fetched Isaiah.
3. Parents at Grandmother at the distribution of Elias’ property.
4. I at Louis Beisel’s raising all day. Father at Hy. Wideman to put up a rack
lifter.
5. I at Menno Weber’s raising ¾ day. Father at Hy. Wideman.
6. Eli & I cleaned carrots, scuffled turnips, harrowed fallow. Father at Joseph
Ernst to put up a rack lifter.
7. In town & washed carriage AM. I, Isaiah, Noah Weber, Wendel Martin &
Noah Bearinger at Jesse Martin’s for supper at Edward Spaeth’s for the night.
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Daniel Gingerich & Judith Weber were here for the night. Father at J. Ernst
worked at rack lifter.
8. SUNDAY: We boys at Levi Weber’s for dinner, at Dan. Martin’s for supper.
9. Eli & I cleaned turnips. Father at J. Ernst worked at rack lifter.
10.Eli & I cleaned turnips, I scuffled potatoes, father at J. Ernst.
11.I scuffled beet, others cleaned beets, father at Jno. Geisel to fix rack lifter.
12.I ploughed fallow AM. We at Geo’s to make a little hay.
13.I ploughed fallow AM. We 3 at Geo’s to make hay till butchering time PM.
14.We 3 at Geo’s to make hay from 10 o’clock to the evening.
15.SUNDAY: I, Judith & Israel Brubacher’s hired girl at Martin’s Meeting at Israel
Gingerich’s for dinner, at Enos Martin’s for supper.
16.Father in town & at Hy. Brubacher to buy a steer for $25. I ploughed fallow in
the evening. Rainy at noon.
17.I ploughed fallow AM., at Geo’s from noon to the evening.
18.I ploughed fallow in the morning. At Geo’s about ¾ of a day.
19.We 3 at Reuben about ¾ day to make hay.
20.We 3 at Reub. a few hours. Rainy at noon & in the evening.
21.We 3 at Reub. PM. I ploughed fallow AM.
22.SUNDAY: All except I at the WW Meeting. Joe Snyder’s & Aaron Martin’s
here for dinner. Hen. Bauman’s here for supper. I in Peel Meeting, at Elias
Martin’s for supper. Rainy in the evening.
23.I fetched Geo’s mower. I & father mowed grass, cut & shocked wheat, father
at Reub. ¼ day.
24.Father & I mowed grass in the morning. Geos & Reubs helped to make hay.
25.Father at Geo. mowing grass. I raked hay in the morning. Geos & Reubs
helped to make hay. Put away about 26 loads of hay.
26.Father, Eli & I at Geo to make a hay stack.
27.Father fetched 625 (2 ½”) tiles from Hy. Stroh at $9.00 per M. AM & 625 tiles
PM. I ploughed fallow AM Mowed thistles PM.
28.Father in town, hauled in 2 loads of wheat AM. Prepared our bush for tiling
purposes. Rainy PM.
29.SUNDAY: Eli & I at the C Meeting AM. Parents at N. Bearinger’s for a call
after supper. Rainy PM.
30.I mowed fence corners. Father fetched 530 five inch tiles at $25 per M.
31.I took chopping out to town, scuffled beets AM. Father fetched tiles. I
ploughed sod PM. Others scuffled beets & cleaned turnips.
AUGUST 1906
1. I ploughed sod about ¾ day. Hauled in wheat & scuffled mangolds.
2. I ploughed all day, father raked wheat field, then the other team ploughed.
3. The 2 teams ploughed sod all day till butchering time.
4. The 2 teams harrowed AM. Hauled in some barely, rain PM.
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5. SUNDAY: Parents at Moses Martin’s for dinner, at John Fry’s for supper. I at
CP Ry gravel pit to see the gravel steam shovel.
6. Harrowed on the ploughed sod & on the fallow & tiled (?much)
7. Tiled in our bush nearly all day. Rainy at noon.
8. Tiled awhile in the morning. Cut & shocked grain.
9. Cut & shocked grain. Eli at Geo’s drawing in barely. Rainy in the evening.
10.We tiled in the bush, father in town in the morning.
11.We tiled a little in the morning. Cut & shocked grain. I awhile at Ph. Beisel to
thrash till the machine came out of order.
12.SUNDAY: I, Judith & I. Brubacher’s hired girl at Martin’s Meeting, at Jacob
Martin’s for dinner, at Hy. Martin’s for supper. Benj. Bauman buried.
13.We cut & shocked oats, hauled in 4 loads of barely.
14.We cut & shocked oats AM. I at Ph. Beisel to thrash, others hauled in barely.
15.We raked & drawed in barely & other grain. I at Dav. Cressman to thrash PM.
Sold 2 hogs. Av. Wt. 180 lbs. at $.07 per lb.
16.Father at Chr. Esch to thrash AM We drawed in grain PM.
17.Father fetched machine, fetched power & drawed in grain.
18.Set thrashing machines AM. We thrashed PM, 9 strangers.
19.SUNDAY: All at the WW Meeting. Joe Gingerich’s, Joe Hoffman’s, Levi
Weber’s & Enos Bauman’s here for dinner. Samuel Martin’s & Levi Bauman’s
here for supper. I at Mose Reist’s for supper.
20.Took thrashing machines over to Geo. We tiled in the fallow.
21.We tiled in the fallow & cut the balance of our grain. Hot weather.
22.I cultivated & harrowed fallow. Tiled in the bush.
23.I cultivated on ploughed sod, father tiled AM. Hauled in oats PM.
24.I at Dav. Cressman to thrash AM. I at Dav. Hoffer to thrash PM. We finished
harvesting grain sheaves.
25.Father, Eli & I at Geo. to thrash ¼ day in the morning, then we went to Reub.
to haul in grain.
26.SUNDAY: Parents at Eli Martin’s for supper. I awhile at the CP Rys pit.
27.I rolled & ploughed some of the fallow. Eli raked about all day. Finished
harvesting grain in the evening. Father digged old tiles out.
28.Father, Eli & I at Reub. hauling in grain about all day.
29.Father & I at Reub. to set machine AM & to thrash PM.
30.Father, Eli & I at Reub. hauling in oats all day. A little windy.
31.Eli & I ploughed in the fallow, father worked at the tiles.
SEPTEMBER 1906
1. I & Eli rolled & harrowed & sowed some wheat in the fallow.
2. SUNDAY: Parents, Grandmother & Aaron Weber’s at the NW Meeting, at
Daniel Gingerich’s for dinner, at Mose Gingerich’s for supper. I at Jonas
Martin’s for dinner.
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3. Sowed & harrowed wheat-patch. Parents at the funeral of the wife of Simon
at Philiph Beisel’s.
4. We drawed manure on sown wheat patch. I ganged & harrowed. Father &
Eli spread manure.
5. We hauled out wood from Grandmother’s bush with 2 teams at the rate of 2/3
to us & 1/3 to Grandmother.
6. We with 2 teams drawed out wood nearly all day. Parents awhile at Hy.
Brubacher who was very low with fever.
7. Drawed some wood out, father took Geo’s wood rack home AM. We tiled PM.
8. We tiled all day. Father went to town in the morning.
9. SUNDAY: I AT Martins’ meeting, at Wendel Martin’s for dinner, at Israel
Martin’s for supper.
10.We tiled all day, father fetched 100 (5”) tiles in the evening.
11.We tiled all day.
12.I ganged & went to town. Eli worked at tiling place. Father at Wendel
Bauman to cement all day.
13.Parents, Eli, & I at the Harvest Meeting at WW, Hy. Martin’s here for dinner. I
ganged. Father at W. Bauman to cement PM.
14.I ganged all day, others made fence, father in town.
15.I took chopping to town AM & ganged PM. Father at Hy. Martin cementing.
Mose Weber’s here over night.
16.SUNDAY: All at the WW Meeting. Seth Bauman’s brought Elias Bauman’s of
Iowa, Aaron Bauman’s, Amos, Aaron & Israel Rudy were here for dinner.
Parents at Hy. Gingerich’s for supper.
17.I took father to Hy. Martin in the morning to erect concrete walls for a stable. I
cultivated root patch.
18.I harrowed root patch, cut & shocked corn & drawed wood together in our
bush. Eli rolled ganged fields.
19.I cleaned the ditch in Ernst’s bush for the tiles outlet. Eli rolled. Digged out 3
rows of potatoes. Isaiah came home from Reub.
20.I at Dav. Cressman to thrash ¾ day. Father came home from Hy. Martin.
Very dry for a long time till tonight when the ground was soaked.
21.All at Reuben Bauman’s child’s funeral (except Lydia) I at Fred Weigel to
thrash PM.
22.I at Fred Weigel to thrash nearly all day. Father at Hy. Martin all day. Eli
ganged & went to town with Isaiah.
23.SUNDAY: I at Aaron Weber’s for dinner, at Hy. Horst’s for supper.
24.Father at Hy. Martin cementing all day. We digged out 2 loads of potatoes. I
ganged a little AM.
25.Father at Hy. Martin cementing all day. We digged out ½ load of potatoes. I
harrowed a little and in town. Drawed wood together.
26.Eli, I & potatoe digger & Isaiah (who started to work at Reub. again) at Reub’s
to dig potatoes about ¾ day. Father filed & set circular saw. Parents at Peter
Beisel’s funeral. Some rain.
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27.We set saw & power AM. Eli & I at the Elmira Exhibition PM.
28.We sawed wood in our bush; 2 of Geo., Reub. & J. Ernst helped.
29.Tinkered about in the buildings; rainy about all the day.
30.SUNDAY: Parents at the NW Meeting, at Menno Bauman’s for dinner.
OCTOBER 1906
1. Father up at Hy. Brubacher (on Wendel Bauman’s farm) to cement. We
made out mangolds, hauled in pumpkins & took chopping out.
2. Father at Hy. Brubacher cementing. We made out mangolds.
3. I took a load of matched lumber from Elmira to St. Jacobs for Hy. Martin,
father helped to dig a grave for Joshua Brubacher’s child AM. We drawed in
wood with 2 teams PM.
4. Parents at J. Brubacher’s child’s funeral AM. We hauled in wood & set
sawing outfit to saw Grandmother’s wood.
5. We sawed Grandmother’s wood, 2 of Geo. & J. Ernst helped AM. We hauled
wood into Grandmother’s shed PM.
6. Fastened new handles on a plow, rainy nearly all day.
7. SUNDAY: Parents at Joshua Rudy’s for dinner.
8. Father & I went to town, lifted & made out some sugar beets.
9. Father, I & team at Geo. to thrash ¾ day. Rained last night.
10.Father painted at driving shed. Eli & I ploughed awhile. Snowed.
11.Eli & I ploughed. Father at Menno Weber to mason PM.
12.We drawed in about 12 loads of mangolds, ploughed with 2 teams. Father
painted some of the driving shed.
13.We drawed in about 4 loads of mangolds, ploughed the rest of AM. We made
out some sugar beets PM.
14.SUNDAY: All at the WW Meeting, Menno Gingerich’s, Dav. Horst’s & Isaiah
were here for dinner.
15.Ploughed a little, made sugar beets out, widow Fulton helped.
16.Fetched some apple-sauce apples, made sugar beet out. Fine weather.
17.We made the balance of the sugar beets out, made out carrots & hauled them
in, drawed out 3 loads of manure.
18.Drawed out about 27 loads of manure.
19.Parents at Enos Gingerich’s child’s funeral. Father fixed stove-pipes for
Grandmother. Rainy.
20.Father at Receveous Martin to make stalling. Eli & I ploughed, I in town,
fetched Geo’s waggon.
21.SUNDAY: I, Judith & B. Sauder at the C. Meeting, at August Sauder’s for
dinner, at Nathaniel Martin’s for supper.
22.We drawed out 8 loads of sugar beets to the GTR station, 2 teams.
23.We drawed out about 8 loads of sugar beets to the GTR station, 2 teams.
24.Hauled in about 14 loads of turnips. Benj. Bauman’s wife buried.
25.Father at R. Martin carpentering ¾ day. We ploughed.
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26.Father at R Martin carpentering all day. We ploughed, I at Henry Brubacher
to thrash ¼ day.
27.Father at R. Martin. We ploughed AM. I went to town, rainy PM.
28.SUNDAY: All at home Chr. Wideman’s Menno here for dinner.
29.I at Chr. Esch to thrash about ¾ day. Father took a load of sugar beets to the
factory, Wt. 3400 lbs., test 15.2% sugar, tare 8.7%. Wt. Of the beets in the
car 23 1277/2000 tons, test 14.8%, tare 11.4%. Snow in the evening.
30.I took father to R. Martin. I took mother to town & plough in the afternoon.
Snowfall in the morning.
31.I went to St. Jacobs to get cider & apple sauce made. Eli & I ploughed PM.
Father at R. Martin ¾ day & came home.
NOVEMBER 1906
1. I went to town AM. I & team at Joe Ernst to thrash. Levi B. Bauman’s wife
got buried.
2. Father took chopping to Elmira. We spread sugar beet tops & plougher.
Father painted driving shed.
3. I at Ph. Beisel to thrash AM. ploughed & painted shed.
4. SUNDAY: Eli & I at Reub. Bauman’s for dinner. Lydia at N. L. Martin.
5. We ploughed nearly all day. Father visited N. Bearinger.
6. Eli ploughed all day. I drawed out 12 loads of manure.
7. Eli ploughed a little. Drawed out 9 ½ loads of manure & spread some.
8. Drawed 3 cords of wood into Grandmother’s shed, Eli ploughed, I spread
manure, father fixed Grandmother’s stove-pipes.
9. Eli & I ploughed nearly all day. Rainy awhile.
10.I spread some manure, Eli & I ploughed. Parents went to Snyders, St. Jacobs
to buy dry goods, then at Hy. Martin’s for supper.
11.SUNDAY: All at the WW Meeting. Some young people here for supper.
12.Father at the fair, we ploughed & ditched.
13.Father, Eli & I tiled all day.
14.Father at Amos Martin to fetched skunk & ‘coon fat. Eli & I tiled all day.
Father at the Meeting House on business.
15.Father at R. Martin carpentering. Eli & I worked at the tile. Fruit tree agent
here last night.
16.Father at R. Martin. I went to town, re-opened ditch & covered tiles.
17.Father at R. Martin, Eli went to town. I re-opened ditch.
18.SUNDAY: Parents at the C. Meeting, at Dillman Martin’s for dinner.
19.Father at R. Martin all day. Eli & I painted shed for the 2nd
time.
20.Father at R. Martin all day. I ploughed sod AM. Worked in the buildings,
rainy PM.
21.Tinkered about the buildings. Butchered 10 hen, killed about 50 chickens &
hen this fall. Rainy & icy.
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22.I ploughed sod & Eli PM. Fetched 3 steers from Chas. Klinck at $25 per
head; weighing about 800 lbs. a piece.
23.Eli & I ploughed sod AM. Father & I at N. Bearinger carpentering PM.
24.Washed waggon. I a little at Grandmother to split wood. Parents went to
Edward Spaeth’s with Grandmother’s buggy.
25.SUNDAY: Parents at E. Spaeth’s last night till this afternoon. Mary Ann
Weber here for dinner. Eli at Solomon Reist’s for dinner.
26.Father at R. Martin to saw wood with circular saw. We piled up wood in our
bush. Rainy for awhile.
27.We worked at the implement shed & made a new floor on a well.
28.Father at Stroh, Waterloo, to look for leather. Mother at Geo’s for dinner.
Rag peddlar here for dinner. Freezing.
29.I took a load of wood to Hy. Martin AM. Father worked at harness-making
bench.
30.Father & I at Dav. Hoffer to thrash about ¾ of a day.
DECEMBER 1906
1. Father & I at Joe Ernst to thrash nearly all day. Norman Spaeth came to
visited us this afternoon.
2. SUNDAY: All at Sam Brubacher’s child’s funeral. (I was hostler). Daniel M.
Bauman’s & Peter Ziegler here for dinner. Parents at widow Henry Snider for
supper.
3. I at D. Cressman to thrash all day. Isaiah came home from Reub.
4. I at D. Cressman to thrash all day. Father with circular saw at Jno. Martin to
saw wood all day. Cold.
5. I at D. Cressman to thrash about ¼ day AM. & at Ph. Beisel about ¾ of a day.
Isaiah at J. Ernst to chopp PM.
6. I at Ph. Beisel to thrash a little over ½ of a day. Others set horse power. Our
waggon sold for $4.50 at T. Musselman’s sale.
7. We started to thrash in the morning but learned that a crank was broken in the
separator, took separator to the foundry & helped them to open it. Sleighing
& cold.
8. Father helped at the foundry all day. I took mother to town.
9. SUNDAY: All at the WW Meeting. Parents at Menno Weber’s for supper.
10.Father & I at the fair; bought S. Lichty’s waggon for $31.50. Fetched
separator from the foundry.
11.We thrashed all day; 9 strangers.
12.We thrashed till about 10 o’clock. Chopped some grain. Geo. fetched
chopper & helped to chopp. Moved machine to Reub.
13.Father, I & team at Reub. to thrash all day.
14.Father, I & team at Reub. to thrash all day.
15.Isaiah, I & team at Reub. to thrash AM & about an hour. PM
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16.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at the C. Meeting at Ezra Martin’s for dinner at Josiah M.
Martin’s for supper. Parents at the SP Meeting, at Moses Bauman’s for
dinner.
17.I at Hy. Brubacher in the morning to help to load hay. Father, Isaiah, &
circular saw at Joe Ernst to saw wood ¾ day. I helped at Joe also about ½ of
a day.
18.I started to work for Menno M. Weber’s in the morning. I drawed wood to the
brickyard, 3 loads. Elm top wood $2. Per cord.
19.I drawed 2 loads of wood to the brickyard & 2 loads of bricks home.
20.I drawed 2 loads of wood to the brickyard, & 1 load to Dav. Hollinger;
basswood & soft maple at $3.25; splitting wood.
21.Drawed 2 loads to the brickyard & 1 to D. Hollinger.
22.I drawed 1 load to the brickyard & 1 to town.
23.SUNDAY: I at the NW Meeting at Sol. Martins for dinner at David F. Martin’s
for supper.
24.I at A. W. Weber’s helped to chopp grain all day.
25.CHRISTMAS: I at the WW Meeting. Young people here for dinner. (At
Menno Weber’s) I at Noah Wideman’s for supper.
26.I drawed 4 loads of sand from S. Snider to here.
27.I drawed 2 loads of sand AM & 1 load of stones from Dav. M. Martin.
28.I drawed 3 loads of stones from David M. Martin.
29.I drawed 2 loads of stones from David M. Martin.
30.SUNDAY: I at N. L. Martin’s for dinner, at my real home for supper.
31.I drawed 2 loads of stones from David M. Martin. I worked for M. M. Weber
all this time. Thawning.
DIARY 1907
ANGUS S. BAUMAN
JANUARY
1. NEW YEAR’S DAY: Noah Horst & I at the Con. Meeting, at Receveous
Martin’s for dinner, at Menno Hoffman’s for supper.
2. I helped to draw hay from A. W. Weber to here all day.
3. I worked in the buildings & went to town. Cold rain all day.
4. I at Elias B. Martin to thrash all day.
5. I at Ephraim Weber to thrash all day.
6. SUNDAY: I at WW Meeting. David Bearinger & M. Burkhard here for supper.
Menno’s at Aaron W. Weber’s
7. I in the bush making wood about all day. Misty.
8. I helped to butcher 3 hogs all day.
9. Menno & I at A. W. Weber to butcher 4 hogs all day.
10.I worked in the bush. Menno drawed lumber to Elmira.
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11.I at Daniel Bauman to thrash all day.
12.Drawed wood into shed AM. At A. W. Weber to chopp PM.
13.SUNDAY: Menno Weber’s at Amzi Snyder’s.
14.Menno & I in the bush sawing wood. Fair day.
15.Menno & I in the bush sawing wood.
16.Menno & I in the bush. I went to town in the evening.
17.Menno & I in the bush. I at Dan. Bauman to thrash awhile.
18.I at Daniel Bauman’s new barn to thrash all day.
19.We made a chist AM. Eli Bauman of Iowa & Dav. Bauman here for supper. I
went to town. Beef Meeting at home.
20.SUNDAY: I & Eli B. Bauman at the NW Meeting, at Peter Martin’s for dinner,
at Aaron Bauman’s for supper. Strong wind & stormy.
21.Menno & I worked in the bush all day; clearing up bush.
22.In the bush cutting wood. Menno at A. W. Weber to patch roof.
23.I in the bush cutting wood all day.
24.Menno & I at A. W. Weber to thrash all day.
25.Menno & I in the bush cutting wood all day.
26.I in the bush all day. Isaiah & I at Joshua Rudy’s over night.
27.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at Martin’s Meeting, at Tilman B. Martin’s for dinner, at
Seth Bauman’s for supper.
28.I worked in the buildings & helped to load wood AM. I took a load of wood,
$4.00 chiefly beech & maple knots to A. Werner, Elmira.
29.I drawed a cord of wood, elm, beech & maple knots $4. to J. S. Ruppel. I
drawed a cord of splitting wood; basswood, ash, maple & beech $3.25 to J.
Foster, and 1 cord top wood to C. Stump.
30.I drawed 1 cord of wood to Elmira AM. I cut wood in the bush PM.
31.Menno & I in the bush about all day. Bagged up grain.
FEBRUARY 1907
1. Menno & I at A. W. Weber chopping AM. In the bush PM.
2. Menno at Eph. Weber to thrash all day. I worked in the buildings.
3. SUNDAY: Menno & I at the WW Meeting. Menno’s at N. Martin’s for supper.
4. I in the bush AM. Menno took me home & fetched Isaiah. I was a member on
the sick list: Eli B. Bauman & William Spaeth came in the afternoon.
5. I kept myself indoors, had gripp. Eli here till in the evening. William Spaeth
here all day.
6. I worked a little in the shop. William left here at noon.
7. I & Father worked in the shop all day.
8. I & Father worked in the shop all day. Nice weather.
9. I & father worked in the shop all day.
10.SUNDAY: Parents at D. Cressman’s Jr. for dinner, at David Cressman’s Sr.
for supper.
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11.Father at the fair. Jno. Bauman fetched his single harness. He & Joshua
Rudy here for dinner, we made troughs PM.
12.We made a pig stall, father at J. Ernst to butcher a beef AM. Father & I
worked in the shop PM.
13.Father & I worked in the shop. Isaiah came home in the evening.
14.Father & I worked in the shop. I fetched trunk from M. M. Weber.
15.Father & I worked in the shop all day.
16.Father & I worked in the shop. Parents went to town PM.
17.SUNDAY: Parents at Grandmother for dinner.
18.Father & I worked in the shop all day.
19.Isaiah & I hauled 4 loads of gravel from N. Hedrich. Father worked in the
shop.
20.Isaiah & I hauled home 4 loads of gravel from N. Hedrich. We at Fred Miller’s
sale & bought a cow for $52.50.
21.Isaiah & I fetched the cow home & 1 load of gravel from Hedrich AM. 2 loads
of gravel from S. Snider PM. Father worked in shop.
22.Isaiah & I hauled 2 loads of gravel from S. Snider AM. Father, I & N. L. Martin
in Peel & at Bergman’s horse sale, Floradale.
23.I worked in the shop all day, father went to town PM.
24.SUNDAY: I & with a sleighing party at Mose Weber’s last night, at Martin’s
Meeting, at Josiah Bauman’s for dinner, at Eno Martin’s for supper. Parents
at Sol. Reist’s for dinner.
25.Father, Isaiah, & I in the shop worked at Receveous Martin’s harness.
26.Father, Isaiah & I worked in the shop. Bought a horse from Noah B. Martin
for $160.00. Oziah Martin fetched his harness with Martingale for $23.00 &
took Josiah Brubacher’s along also.
27.Father, Isaiah & I worked in the shop all day.
28.We 3 worked in the shop. Parents went to town in the afternoon.
MARCH 1907
1. We 3 worked in the shop. Father filed M. M. Weber’s saw.
2. Finished R. Martin’s double harness & made ax handles. Stormy.
3. SUNDAY: All at the WW Meeting. Parents at Levi Brubacher’s for supper.
4. Receveous Martin fetched his new harness & brought old harness to get it
mend. Susanah Bauman here to visit over night.
5. Mended R. Martin’s harness & made ax handles AM. At Reuter’s sale PM.
6. I figured over the thrashing machine bills all day. Father took bass wood chist
lumber to Abs. Eby to get it dried & planed.
7. Father & N. L. Martin at Waterloo at Stroh fetched horse-collar leather, at Levi
Weber’s for dinner. I at Eli S. Martin for Geo. to help to thrash wheat all day.
8. Isaiah & I hauled top-wood from Grandmother’s bush. I at Geo to PM. Jno.
Bauman brought horse-collars to get clipps on.
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9. Isaiah & I hauled wood into Grandmother’s shed AM. Eli & I in the bush,
father went to town PM.
10.SUNDAY: Father awhile at N. Bearinger. I at A. W. Weber’s for supper.
11.We 3 at the fair AM. Isaiah & I in the bush PM.
12.We 3 at Geo to thrash all day. Dreary & thawning.
13.We 3 at Geo to thrash AM. Started at Ph. Beisel’s harness.
14.Father & I in the shop. Isaiah at Joe Ernst to cut wood PM.
15.Father & I in the shop. Isaiah at J. Ernst to cut wood all day.
16.Father & I in the shop. Father went to town PM.
17.SUNDAY: I AT George M. Bauman’s for dinner.
18.Father, Isaiah & I worked in the shop all day. Warm.
19.Father & I in the shop all day. Isaiah at J. Ernst. Enos Martin here for dinner.
Foggy.
20.Father & I in the shop. Isaiah at J. Ernst. Father went to town.
21.Father & I in the shop. Isaiah at J. Ernst.
22.Father stuffed out horse-collars. I work in the shop. Isaiah at Joseph Ernst to
help to make wood.
23.We worked in the driving shed AM. Isaiah & I in the bush PM.
24.SUNDAY: All at home all day. Muddy.
25.Father at Enos Martin to patch up harness. Isaiah & I in the bush.
26.Father at Enos Martin to patch up harness. Isaiah & I in the bush.
27.Father at Enos Martin to patch up harness. Isaiah & I in the bush.
28.Father in the shop. Isaiah & I made wood in Grandmother’s bush.
29.GOOD FRIDAY: Father, Eli, & I at WW Meeting. I at Eli M. Martin’s for
supper.
30.Father sent to town. Isaiah & I made wood in Grandmother’s bush.
31.SUNDAY: EASTER: All at the WW Meeting. Hy. B. Brubacher’s here for
dinner.
APRIL 1907
1. EASTER MONDAY: Parents in town AM. Isaiah & I at Bergman’s horse sale,
(word?)
2. Isaiah & I in the bush. Father fetched chist lumber home.
3. Isaiah & father in the bush. I at Eli. S. Martin to thrash a little over ½ a day.
4. Isaiah & I worked in the bush. Father at Eli S. Martin to mend harness.
5. Isaiah & I worked in the bush. Father at Eli S. Martin to mend harness AM.
Father & N. L. Martin at Henry Martin.
6. Isaiah at J. Ernst to chopp ½ day. Father in town. Worked in the bush.
7. SUNDAY: Joesph & Leah Reist here for dinner. Jacob & Ira Martin & Ab.
Bearinger here for supper. Rainy towards the evening.
8. Father, Isaiah & I at the fair, sold 12 pigs & weeks old for $30. Bought a calf
about 5 days old from Jno. Martin for $3.50. Isaiah & I in the bush.
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9. We 3 helped to wash out the Meeting House AM. Father at Hy. Horst. Isaiah
& I in the bush splitting wood PM.
10.Father at Hy. Horst AM. We drove to Elmira for O’Neil 3 steers weighing
3300 lbs. at $.04 ½ per lb. Isaiah & I worked in the bush.
11.Father at Hy. Horst carpentering all day. Isaiah & I in the bush.
12.Sewed halter straps, worked at house chist.
13.Father & I worked at chists. Isaiah & I went to town PM.
14.SUNDAY: Isaiah at Mose Reist’s for dinner. Mose Martin Jr. here for supper.
15.Isaiah & I in the bush. Father worked at the chists.
16.Isaiah & father took 6 hogs weighing 1070 lbs. at $6.10 @ cwt. To the GTR
Station for O’Neil. Isaiah & I in the bush awhile AM. Prepared for cleaning
grain. Snowstorm.
17.We boys drove 2 yearling calves wt. 1390 lbs. at $.04 ¼ @ lb. for O’Neil to
Elmira. Finished splitting wood. Cleaned some barely, father worked at the
chists. Ph. Beisel fetched his double brass harness.
18.Isaiah & I cleaned seed grain. Father worked at the chists.
19.Isaiah & I cleaned seed grain. Father worked at the chists & fetched 8 bu.
seed oats at $.45 a bu. from John Bauman.
20.Isaiah & I drawed grain over to Geo for to chopp.
21.SUNDAY: Parents at the Martins’ Meeting, at Paul Martin’s for dinner, at
Noah G. Martin’s for supper. Mary Ann Weber here for dinner.
22.Father, Isaiah, I & 2 teams at Geo to chopp some of his & some of ours AM.
Isaiah & I at Geo to help to draw in ½ of a hay stack & picked stones.
23.Isaiah, Eli & I picked stones & drawed them off the field. Isaiah rolled. I
ganged. Father, Lydia & Jones Martin in Toronto, via CPR at Dr. J. Harts.
24.I drawed wood into the shed in the morning. We oiled harness.
25.I ganged awhile, Isaiah rolled awhile, cultivated some & oiled harness.
26.Father went to town AM. Sowed barely & cultivated in the evening.
27.All at the funeral of the wife of Menno Wideman AM. I cultivated & sowed.
Others made fence. Warmed.
28.SUNDAY: All except Lydia & Noah at WW Meeting. Daniel Brubacher’s here
for dinner. Henry Martin’s here for dinner & supper.
29.I split wood, father went to town AM. Father, I & circular ripp saws at Moses
C. Martin to ripp boards up to laths. Some rain.
30.Aaron Weber brought his lounch to get it repaired, Isaiah & I worked at it.
Father started to trim David Martin’s buggy. Rainy.
MAY 1907
1. I repaired smear jack, father worked at the buggy AM. Father at M. C. Martin
to saw wood. Isaiah & I washed waggon.
2. Isaiah & I drawed wood out of the bush all day. Father finished buggy.
3. Isaiah & I drawed wood out of the bush nearly all day. Father finished lounch.
Parent took lounch home to A. W. Weber’s after supper.
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4. Worked in the shop AM. Planted & fixed rosberries. Father at
Grandmother’s.
5. SUNDAY: Parents & Grandmother at C. Meeting, at George Hoffman’s for
dinner. Grandmother here for supper.
6. I sowed & cultivated. Father painted waggon.
7. I sowed some barely, harrowed, rolled & cultivated.
8. I sowed & cultivated. Isaiah rolled & harrowed.
9. ASCENSION DAY: Lydia at Aaron Weber’s, Eli was away fishing.
10.I cultivated & sowed. Father fetched our new concrete mixer.
11.Father & Eli & Isaiah (hustler) at the funeral of Moses Gingerich. I sowed
some oats & ploughed.
12.SUNDAY: I & Lucinda Bauman at the SP Meeting, at Joshua Bauman’s for
dinner, at Daniel Hoffman’s for supper. Menno Weber’s here for dinner.
13.Isaiah & I ploughed AM. Sowed oats, harrowed, rolled & cultivated PM.
Father took concrete mixer to the foundry.
14.Cultivated, ploughed, harrowed & rolled sugar beet patch.
15.Worked on mangold patch & sowed 1 ½ acres of sugar beets AM. Took s. b.
drill to Hy. Bauman, Isaiah & I went to town. Rainy PM.
16.We cut straw & filled straw sacks & cultivated.
17.Ridged & sowed mangolds & planted 20 rows of potatoes.
18.Planted 8 rows of potatoes. Drawed manure on corn patch & ploughed some.
Eli rolled awhile. Father went to town.
19.SUNDAY: I & Lucinda Bauman at Martin’s Meeting, at John Bauman’s for
dinner & supper. Menno Bauman’s here for supper.
20.WHIT. MON: Father & I fetched concrete mixer from the foundry & took it to
Dan Bauman, father at Daniel PM. Isaiah & I at Ernie Shantz’s funeral; aged
17 years, 8 months, 5 days. A Martins.
21.Father at Dan Bauman all day. I took 3 hogs to the GTR Station for O’Neil;
wt. 420 lbs @ $.06 ½ . Drawed wood together. Cold.
22.Father at Dan Bauman all day. Isaiah, I & team at Joe Ernst drawing manure
all day.
23.Father at Dan Bauman. Isaiah at J. Ernst to plough & I to spread manure AM.
Drawed earth in our bush & drawed some wood together.
24.Father at Dan Bauman. Isaiah & I prepared corn patch & planted corn &
pumpkins. Rebuilt culvert in our bush.
25.Father at Dan Bauman. Isaiah & I drove 1 old cow ($39) & 2 calves 1050 lbs.
at $.04 a lb to CPR station for O’Neil.
26.SUNDAY: Parents, Isaiah, Eli & I at WW Meeting. Menno Eby, Alvin Weber
& Noah Knor here for dinner. Eli & Levi Gingerich & Oziah Bearinger here for
supper. Thunder in the evening.
27.Father finished cementing Dan Bauman’s cellar wall & brought concrete mixer
home AM. Isaiah & I removed earth for a concrete wall around the house
cellar, fetched J. Ernsts power & set it. Amzi Snider brought to us for supper
Joe Kistered’s, their dau. & his sister of Montgomery County, Pa.
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28.We prepared for & cemented some on the west side of our house.
29.We cemented all day. Nice weather.
30.We cemented all day.
31.Prepared to built a cellar cement stair under porch.
JUNE 1907
1. We cemented sides for the stair-case.
2. SUNDAY: I at SP Meeting, at Amos Martin’s for dinner, at Solomon Martin’s
for supper.
3. We made concrete steps in the stair-case & a concrete porch-floor.
4. Parents went to town AM. Fixed mixer so as to put a sulky under it. Rainy
PM.
5. Father fetched lumber & made a cellar-door AM., at N. L. Martin to work PM.
6. Father at Noah L. Martin masoning all day. We drawed earth & stones.
7. Father & I at N. Martin masoning till butcher time, then slaughtered the 1st
beef of the season.
8. Father & I at N. L. Martin masoning all day.
9. SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at NW Meeting, at Mose Gingerich’s for dinner, at
Moses Martin’s for supper.
10.Father & I at N. Martin masoning all day.
11.Father & I at N. Martin masoning all day. Isaiah & mother at Dav. Cressman’s
barn raising.
12.Father & I at N. Martin masoning all day.
13.Father at N. Martin preparing for making a cement tank all day. Isaiah &
mother at Allen Bauman’s wife’s funeral. I ridged & sowed turnips.
14.Father at N. Martin cementing all day. We cut thistles.
15.Father at N. Martin all day. We fixed up fences. I went to town, helped to dig
a grave for Hy. Gingerich’s child’s funeral.
16.SUNDAY: Parents & I (hustler) at Hy. Gingerich’s child’s funeral. Warm.
17.Father & I at N. Martin cementing all day. Warm.
18.Father at N. Martin cementing all day. We scuffled s. beets & mangolds AM.
Cut thistles PM. Elem Martin’s & their 3 children of Iowa here over night.
19.Parents took Elem Martin’s with them to visit up in Peel, at Ezra Martin’s for
dinner, at Ezra Burkhardt’s for supper. We scuffled S. Beets & mangolds &
cut thistles. Rainy for awhile PM.
20.Father at N. Martin cementing all day. We cleaned mangolds & cut thistles.
21.Father at N. Martin all day. We cleaned mangolds & sugar beets & cut
thistles.
22.Father at N. Martin all day. I went to town, cleaned s. beets.
23.SUNDAY: Parents, Eli, Isaiah & I at WW Meeting. Peter Ziegler’s here for
dinner. Isaiah & I at George M. Bauman’s for supper.
24.I & Hy. Brubacher graded up some of our public highway all day. Father at N.
Martin all day. Isaiah worked at the s. beets.
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25.Father at N. Martin all day. We cleaned sugar beets.
26.Isaiah drawed 3 loads of gravel on the highway, I shoveled gravel in the pit
AM. Father worked on the road all day & I PM.
27.Father & I worked on the road, Isaiah was door-keeper AM & PM.
28.Father at Louis Beisel preparing for cementing ¾ day. Isaiah & I cleaned
mangolds. Eli started to work at George Bauman’s.
29.Isaiah & I cleaned mangolds. Took a cow ($38) to CPR station for O’Neil.
Father at N. Martin masoning all day. Isaiah & I went to town PM.
30.SUNDAY: Parents at the C. Meeting, at Dan Cressman’s for dinner, at Israel
Weber’s for supper. Isaiah & I at the C. Meeting PM.
JULY 1907
1. Father starter to work at Peter Ziegler this morning. I at Menno Snider
cementing with our mixer AM. Isaiah at N. L. Martin hoeing potatoes AM.
Isaiah & I at N. Martin to spread manure PM.
2. Isaiah helped Geo to haul gravel on the road, Eli here at Isaiah’s place today.
I thined s. beets AM, pulled yellow dock PM.
3. Isaiah & I at N. Martin to spread manure all day. Father at Ziegler.
4. Isaiah & I at N. Martin to cut thistles PM. Father at P. Ziegler.
5. I scuffled s. beets & some potatoes AM. Hoed corn PM. Father at Peter
Ziegler AM.
6. Isaiah at N. Martin all day, I ¾ day. I fetched a cow ($40) from P. Zieler &
father 13 bunches shingles at $1.25 a bunch (2 bunches = 1sq?)
7. SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at NW Meeting PM, at Menno M. Bauman’s for
supper. Parents at Noah Bearinger’s awhile PM.
8. Isaiah scuffled turnips, I hoed corn AM. Isaiah & I at N. Martin to cut thistles
PM. Father at Menno Weber to make a hay rack all day.
9. Father at J. Ernst preparing for cementing all day. Isaiah & mother went to
town, I gathered potatoe bugs AM. We cut thistles PM.
10.Father at J. Ernst cementing all day & I PM. We cleaned turnips & cut thistles
AM. Isaiah cleaned turnips PM.
11.Parents & I at N. L. Martin’s raising AM. We traded our team 6 & 7 yrs. Old to
N. Martin for a team of 2 year old colts, we gave $35 yet out. Rainy almost all
the time.
12.Father & I at J. Ernst cementing ¾ day. Isaiah cleaned turnips.
13.Father at L. Beisel worked at the stables at the new barn. I scuffled corn,
potatoes & some s. beets. Isaiah cleaned turnips.
14.SUNDAY: Reuben Baumans & children here for dinner. Isaiah & I at Martin’s
meeting PM. At Ab. Horst’s for supper. Ephraim Martin’s baby got buried.
15.Father at L. Beisel all day. I scuffled s. beets in the morning & cleaned
mangolds the rest of the day. Isaiah cleaned roots.
16.Father at N. Martin masoning all day. Isaiah & I cleaned mangolds & sugar
beets. Rainy last night.
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17.Father at N. Martin masoning all day. Isaiah & I cleaned sugar beets and cut
thistles. Warm.
18.Father mowed grass with mower AM. I mowed out fence corners nearly all
day. Isaiah fetched tedder & side-rake.
19.We hauled in hay, Reub’s 2 hds & Geo’s 3 hds helped ¾ day.
20.We hauled in hay, Reubs 2 hds & Geo’s 3 helped ½ day. About 20 loads hay.
21.SUNDAY: All at the WW Meeting, Isacc Gingerich’s, Aaron & Veronica Martin
here for dinner. All at the WW Meeting PM. Aaron Snyder’s & Amos F.
Martins here for supper.
22.I scuffled some mangolds & s. beets in the morning. Isaiah cleaned turnips.
3 of us at Geo hauling in hay ½ day PM.
23.I at Geo all day, father & Isaiah ¾ day hauling in hay.
24.Father at L. Beisel ¼ day in the morning carpentering. We 3 at Geo a little
over ½ day. A shower of rain at supper time.
25.Isaiah & I a little at Geo, father went to Reub with hay fork AM. We 3 at Reub
hauling in hay till supper time PM.
26.Father went to town, Isaiah & I cleaned turnips AM. We worked at the house
PM.
27.We 3 at Reub. hauling in hay ¾ day. Cool.
28.SUNDAY: Parents at C. Meeting, at Receveous Martin’s for dinner, Isaiah &
I at C. Meeting PM.
29.We fetched from Geo’s orchard 2 small loads of hay AM. Father cut wheat
with the binder. Isaiah & I shocked it PM.
30.Father at Dan B. Martin to make a rack lifter all day. Isaiah & I at Geo nearly
all day, I spread & Isaiah loaded manure.
31.Father at D. B. Martin all day. I spread & Isaiah loaded manure at Reub.
AUGUST 1907
1. Father at Menno Weber with circular ripp saw all day. Isaiah at J. Ernst
cleaning mangolds nearly all day. I scuffled roots. Mother & I in town in the
morning. Some rain.
2. Father at N. L. Martin carpentering till butcher time, Isaiah at J. Ernst cleaning
mangolds all day. I scuffled mangolds PM.
3. Isaiah at J. Ernst cleaning mangolds all day. Father went to town & I mowed
fence corners AM. Father cut & I shocked wheat.
4. SUNDAY: Isaiah & I & Lucinda Bauman at Dav. Martin’s for dinner, at the SP
Meeting PM, at John Martin’s for supper (Isaiah & I)
5. Father fetched from Jacob Frey 25 ½ bu. Lime @ $.25. I scuffled some s.
beets AM., then prepared for masoning around the house.
6. Father & I masoned at the brick wall around our house all day. Isaiah at N. L.
Martin to get grain chopped for us.
7. Father masoned at the house all day. Isaiah & I drawed in wheat.
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8. Father masoned at the house all day. Isaiah raked & then drawed in wheat. I
worked at the house & masoned some. Mother at Grandmother PM.
9. Father & I masoned at the house & cut some barely, Isaiah shocked.
10.Father & I masoned at the house all day. Isaiah helped also.
11.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at Martin’s Meeting, at Daniel Shantz’s for dinner, at
Israel Gingerich’s for supper. Hy. Gingerich’s here for supper.
12.Father cut grain. Isaiah & I shocked, did some masoning. Warm.
13.Father & I masoned at the house, Isaiah helped too, all day. Mother & Judith
Bauman in Berlin AM. Windy.
14.Father, Isaiah & I built a scaffold round the house AM. Tore some of the old
chimneys down & prepared for masoning PM.
15.Father masoned all day. Isaiah & I drawed in barely.
16.Father went to town, a little rain AM. We worked at the house PM.
17.Father & I worked at the house, masoned etc. Isaiah scuffled turnips.
18.SUNDAY: All at the WW Meeting. Joshua Rudy’s here for dinner & supper.
Some young people here for dinner.
19.Father cut grain, Isaiah & I shocked.
20.Father cut grain, Isaiah & I shocked, rain before noon, AM. Masoned PM.
21.We 3 masoned & worked at the house all day. Judith visited here.
22.Father masoned. Isaiah & I hauled in grain nearly all day.
23.I at Ph. Beisel to thrash AM. Father cut & we shocked oats.
24.Father at Hy. Brubacher to splice rope in the morning then worked at the
house. Isaiah & I hauled in grain all day.
25.SUNDAY: Parents with Aaron Weber’s at SP Meeting, at Amzi R. Snyder’s
for dinner, at Noah B. Martin’s for supper. Eli, Lydia & Mary Ann Weber at
Enos Bauman’s for dinner.
26.I at Eli S. Martin to thrash for Geo AM. Father masoned at the house & I PM.
27.We 3 worked & masoned at the house all day. Misty & some rain.
28.We 3 masoned at the house AM. Hauled in oats PM.
29.I at Dav. Cressman to thrash AM. Father at J. Frey & fetched 7 bu. Lime @
$.25. Isaiah ganged. Father & I masoned PM. Hauled in a little oats.
30.Father & I masoned all day. Isaiah raked grain AM.
31.Father & I masoned all day. Isaiah & mother went to town AM.
SEPTEMBER 1907
1. SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at NW Meeting, at Jonathan Martin’s for dinner, at
Moses Martin for supper.
2. Father & I masoned all day. Isaiah harrowed & ganged.
3. Father & I masoned in the morning, then we drawed out manure for wheat
patch.
4. Father & team at Reub. to thrash AM. Isaiah & I spread manure AM. Father
brought separator, I helped him to fetch the power.
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5. We set thrashing machines, Rainy AM. Isaiah & I ploughed. Father worked
at the house PM.
6. We thrashed, 9 strangers helped AM. Isaiah & I ploughed, father set circular
saw in the barn, moved separator to Geo PM.
7. Father at Enos Gingerich to build a chimney nearly all day. Isaiah & I finished
ploughing, harrowed, rolled & sowed wheat.
8. SUNDAY: Parents at Grandmother for dinner. I at Mose Reist’s for supper.
9. Father & I went to town then worked at the cornice. Isaiah rowed & ganged.
10.Father & I worked at the house. Isaiah let grain chopped at Floradale. Rainy
PM.
11.Father & I put cornice on house all day. Isaiah ganged.
12.Mother, Lydia & I attended the WW Harvest Meeting AM. I ganged PM.
Father, Isaiah & Eli went to Goderich via CP Railway. Fare for 1 person
$1.15.
13.Father, Isaiah & I shingled on the house roof, Peter Ziegler helped us to
shingle a little over ½ day. Isaiah ganged PM.
14.Father, I & P. Ziegler finished shingling house roof then worked at the cornice.
Isaiah ganged. N. L. Martin brought visitor of Pa. For a call, Martin Lichty’s to
Nighswanger’s.
15.SUNDAY: Parents, Lydia & I at WW Meeting, Nathaniel Martin’s here for
dinner. I at Menno M. Weber’s for supper.
16.Worked some small jobs at the house. Isaiah ganged & harrowed.
17.Father, I, team & saw at Jones Martin to saw wood AM. We set saw & H.
Power by us & worked at the house. Isaiah harrowed PM.
18.We sawed wood in Grandmother’s bush—J. Ernst, 2 of Geo & Jonas Martin &
team helped to saw wood till nearly noon. Isaiah & I drawed wood into
Grandmother’s shed, father went to town PM.
19.Isaiah & I drawed wood into Grandmother’s shed & helped Geo to thrash
about 1 ½ hours. Father at J. Ernst erecting new stalls all day.
20.Isaiah & I drawed wood into our shed. Isaiah & mother went to town at noon.
Father at J. Ernst erecting stalls till butcher-time.
21.Isaiah & I drawed wood into our shed nearly all day. Father in town.
22.Sunday: Wendel H. Bauman & his grandson Ezra here for dinner. Noah
Horst, Josiah Gingerich & Mose Eby here for supper.
23.Father & I worked at the veranda on the north side of our house. Isaiah
harrowed. Lydia at N. Martin’s the last few days.
24.Isaiah & I at Dav. Hoffer to thrash about ¾ of a day. Father took chopping to
Floradale. A little rain PM.
25.I took to the CPR Wallenstein station for Fendon, 4 hogs, Wt. 710 lbs. @
$5.85 per cwt. Isaiah & mother at Grandmother to fetch elderberries. Isaiah
& I cut & shocked corn PM. Father & Dan. Bauman were up in Peel to buy
beef-ring cattle.
26.I at F. Weigel to thrash ¾ day. Father at Simion Brubacher, Waterloo, to fetch
maple house-flooring 285’ at $50 per M.
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27.I at Chr. Esch nearly all day thrashing. Others worked at house.
28.We worked inside of the house. Rainy nearly all day.
29.SUNDAY: All at home all day. Dreary.
30.We worked inside of the house,-put in new floor & wain-skirting. Isaiah &
father in town PM.
OCTOBER 1907
1. Reub. brought Eli home after a 2 wks. stay. We including Eli drawed out 43
loads of manure.
2. I went to town, father fetched a beef-ring beef from one Butt in Peel. We 4
drawed out 21 loads of manure.
3. I went to town, then drawed out some manure AM. Father took Isaiah to N. L.
Martin to start to work. We digged out about 1 ¼ waggon-boxful of potatoes.
Tinsmith here.
4. I spread manure all day. Father carpentered inside of the house. Eli spread
manure AM & ploughed PM.
5. I drawed out & spread manure AM. I ploughed PM. & Eli all day. Father
worked in the house.
6. SUNDAY: I at N. L. Martin’s for dinner. Parents at Dav. Cressman’s Jr., their
baby died last night.
7. Mother at D. Cressman’s preparing for the funeral. Eli & I ploughed AM.
Digged out 1 boxful of potatoes. Rain in the evening.
8. Parents & I (hustler) at the funeral of D. Cressman’s child, Lydia & Eli at the
Meeting House. Father & I washed potatoes in the evening.
9. We 3 digged out nearly 2 boxes ful of potatoes & made out mangolds.
10.I ploughed all day & Eli PM. Father took a load of potatoes to J. Steddick,
Elmira, 23 bagsful at $.65 a bag.
11.I lathed in the house AM. Eli & I ploughed PM. Father went to town &
carpentered in the house. Butchered our beef in the evening.
12.Eli & I ploughed AM. We 3 made mangolds out. Father took beef-hide to
town ($.05 ½ a lb.)
13.SUNDAY: All at the WW Meeting, Edward Spaeth’s & dau. Here for dinner,
then they & Parent & Lydia at Aaron Snyder’s awhile, at Amzi Snyder’s for
supper. Edward’s here for the night.
14.I at J. Frey & fetched 7 bu. Lime a $.25 @ bu. & 1 load of sand AM. I made
mangolds out PM.
15.Eli & I ploughed till nearly noon then made mangolds out.
16.Eli ploughed. Wm. Schmidt here plastering ½ day, father & I helped too. I
picked apple in the evening. Mother & Eli went to town.
17.Father, Eli & I made out sugar beets all day.
18.Father, Eli & I & Orvall Esch made out sugar beets all day.
19.Eli, I & O. Esch made out sugar beets ¼ day. Eli & I hauled in corn shocks
PM. Father plastered.
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20.SUNDAY: I at C. Meeting, at Aaron Hoffman’s for dinner, at Peter
Brubacher’s for supper. Eli at Mose Martin’s for dinner.
21.Eli & I hauled in mangolds. Father worked in the house.
22.Eli & I hauled in mangolds AM. I at Hy. Brubacher to thrash ½ day. Father
prepared to go AM., then went to P. Ziegler to cement PM.
23.I at Hy. Brubacher , about an hour in the morning, to thrash. Eli & I ploughed.
Father at Peter Ziegler cementing all day.
24.I at the station to order a car, Eli & I ploughed AM. We stored up apples PM.
Father at P. Ziegler all day.
25.Eli & I ploughed. Father at P. Ziegler all day.
26.I in town in the morning. Eli & I made out & hauled in some turnips. Father at
P. Ziegler all day.
27.SUNDAY: Eli at NW Meeting, at Isacc Gingerich’s for dinner. Parents at Eli
S. Martin’s for supper. I at home.
28.Eli & I topped turnips in the morning, then ploughed. Father at P. Ziegler.
29.Eli & I ploughed & hauled in turnips. Father at P. Ziegler all day.
30.Eli & I ploughed all day. Father at Peter Ziegler all day.
31.Eli & I ploughed AM. I drawed out to the station 2 loads of sugar beets PM.
Father at P. Ziegler all day.
NOVEMBER 1907
1. I drawed out 6 loads of sugar beets to the car at the station. Father at Peter
Ziegler all day.
2. We worked under the roof, rainy all day. Father at P. Ziegler.
3. SUNDAY: Parents at Sarah Bauman for dinner. The rest at home.
4. Father at N. L. Martin carpentering all day. I drawed the balance of the sugar
beets out to the station AM. There were 10 loads averaging about 37 ½ cwt.
Eli & I ploughed PM.
5. Eli & I ploughed all day. Father at N. Martin all day.
6. Eli & Isaiah (here today) ploughed all day. I at D. Cressman to thrash all day.
Father at N. Martin carpentering all day.
7. Eli & Isaiah (here today) ploughed all day. I at D. Cressman to thrash all day.
Father at N. Martin carpentering all day.
8. Eli & I ploughed, father at D. Cressman to thrash till nearly noon. I at Geo to
thrash PM. Father worked at home.
9. Father at Ph. Beisel to thrash AM. Eli & I ploughed.
10.SUNDAY: All at WW Meeting, Daniel Hoffman’s Sr. here for dinner.
11.Father & I went to town in the morning. Father at P. Ziegler PM. Eli & I
ploughed sod PM. Fair day.
12.Eli & I ploughed sod. Father at P. Ziegler all day.
13.Eli & I drawed in some elm wood & worked small jobs. Father at Peter Ziegler
all day.
14.Eli & I worked jobs around buildings. Father at P. Ziegler.
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15.Eli & I worked jobs around buildings. M. Reist fetched circular saw AM. I at
M. Reist to saw wood PM. Father at Peter Ziegler all day.
16.I at M. Reist to saw wood from noon till about 4 o’clock. Father at P. Ziegler
all day. I. Brubacher’s boys fetched from us 148 old 4” tiles.
17.SUNDAY: I at SP Meeting, at Sam Bauman’s for dinner, at Jacob Martin’s for
supper. Martin Bauman’s Sr. here for dinner.
18.Father filed saws & worked about the buildings. I went to town & built a part
of the fence enclosing an old well.
19.Father at Aaron Weber to work at their kitchen all day. Eli & I & saw at Reub.
to saw wood nearly ½ day PM.
20.Father at A. W. Weber all day. Eli at Reub. piling up wood in the shed all day.
I built a wire fence enclosing an old well, and went to town. Grandmother was
here the last few days.
21.Father at A. Weber all day. Eli & I ploughed sod all day.
22.Father at A. Weber all day. Eli & I finished ploughing sod & hauled earth,
from our bush, into our house-yard.
23.Father at A. Weber all day. Eli at Geo’s to feed at noon. I hauled earth into
our house-yard.
24.SUNDAY: Dav. M. Martin’s here for dinner. Eli & Lydia at Joshua Rudy’s for
dinner.
25.Eli & I drawed soft wood out to the clearing in Grandmother’s bush all day.
Parents went to town AM. Father at A. W. Weber PM.
26.I at Solomon Reist to saw wood with our circular saw about ¾ day.
27.I & father at Joe Ernst to thrash about ¾ day.
28.We prepared for our thrashing AM. Father at the Meeting House fixing up
there. I went to town. Eli started to work for Reub.
29.We thrashed ¼ day in the morning till a casting in the H. power broke. Father
went to town.
30.Fixed H. Power in the morning. Started to thrash at 8 o’clock till noon & 1 hr.
in the afternoon. Moved machine to Reub. I helped to set the same, in the
evening, at Reub. Aaron Weber’s brought Joe Brubacher’s of Iowa here to us
for supper.
DECEMBER 1907
1. SUNDAY: I with Solomon Martin at Martin’s Meeting, at Wendel Martin’s for
dinner, at Enos Bauman’s for supper.
2. I at Reuben to thrash all day. Father at A. W. Weber ¾ day.
3. I at Reuben to thrash AM. Father at A. W. Weber ¾ day.
4. I went to town & worked in the barn. Father worked in the Meeting House.
5. Father & I prepared for chopping AM, 1 of Geo’s & J. Ernst helped to chopp
by us PM.
6. We chopped & cut corn, 1 of Geo & J. Ernst helped AM. I helped to chopp at
J. Ernst PM. Father took machine stuff to Geo.
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7. I worked small jobs. Father at Berlin Sugar Factory to fetch 1100 lbs. of
sugar. Carload of sugar beets of 1 ½ acre,--Wt. Of dirty beets 37310 lbs.,
clean beets 34736 lbs, test 16.4%, tare 6.9%, Amount $94.94.
8. SUNDAY: All at WW Meeting. Noah Bearinger & Moses Reist here for
supper.
9. I worked at my chist. Philiph Kilner of Ind. here over night, Ph. & father were
at the fair AM., at Eli S. Martin for dinner.
10.Father at Louis Beisel carpentering in the new barn all day. I went to town &
worked small jobs.
11.Father at Louis Beisel carpentering all day. I worked small jobs.
12.Father at L. Beisel all day. I cleaned wheat & worked small jobs.
13.Father & I at Geo. thrashing all day.
14.Father worked small jobs for Grandmother, I was there also a while splitting
wood & did the chorse. Stormy.
15.SUNDAY: Parents at N. L. Martin’s for dinner & at Grandmother a while in
the afternoon. I at home. Snowing about all day.
16.Parents went to town & took wheat to the mill ($.90 @ bu. Test 61)AM.
Father went to the Sugar Factory to fetch 800 lbs. sugar PM.
17.Father at Menno Weber butchering all day. I worked small jobs AM. I at Ph.
Beisel to thrash PM.
18.I at Ph. Beisel to thrash a little over ½ day. Father prepared for butchering. 4
of D. Bauman’s log-makers here for dinner.
19.We butchered, Noah Martin, J. Ernst, Reub., Sol. Martin & Hannah Weber
helped. Logmakers here for dinner. Eli came home after a 3 week stay at
Reuben Bauman.
20.Eli & I cleaned wheat, I clipped cattle. Father at Henry B. Martin’s worked
inside of the house.
21.I splitt wood. Eli & Mother went to town & at Grandmother. Log-makers here
for dinner. Father at Hy. Martin a little over ½ day.
22.SUNDAY: I at N. W. Meeting, at Daniel Gingerich’s for dinner, at Mose
Martin’s for supper. Parents at N. Bearinger’s for dinner.
23.Father at J. Ernst butchering ½ day. I took wheat to the mill, 35 ½ bu. Test
61, at $.90. I worked awhile at my chist. Snowing.
24.I hauled 3 loads of gravel from S. Snider. Father worked in the shop.
25.CHRISTMAS: I with a sleigh-party at Levi Weber’s last night, at Martin’s
Meeting, at Joe Snyder’s for dinner, at Daniel Weber’s for supper. Isaiah &
Mary Ann Weber here for supper.
26.I took a bag sugar to A. W. Weber & at Grandmother AM. Father & Eli at
Sycillas Bauman’s son’s funeral PM. Hiram Lokers & children of Galt came
this afternoon & were here till next forenoon. Philiph Lorch of Iowa here over
night.
27.Father took Loker’s to L. Brox’s. I at Grandmother splitting wood nearly all
day. Thawning & rain towards the evening.
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28.Father fetched from Abs. Eby hemlock lumber, 4 plank & 4 boards 12’x8” at
$23.00 per M. Then we made a new floor on a well.
29.SUNDAY: Parents at Israel Brubacher’s for dinner & awhile at Grandmother .
Noah & Hannah Weber here for dinner.
30.I, Brubacher’s boys, brought their lounch to get it repaired. Father went to
town. I worked in the shop. South winds.
31.I hauled 3 loads of gravel. Father worked at I. Brubacher’s lounch.
DIARY 1908
ANGUS S. BAUMAN
JANUARY
1. NEW YEAR’S DAY: I at N. W. Meeting, at Joe Gingerich’s for dinner, at Peter
Martin’s for supper. Parents at the Conestogo Meeting.
2. I hauled 4 loads of gravel ($.08 @ ld.) Father worked in the shop.
3. Father & I cleaned wheat & cut corn AM, & drawed out to Ratz’s saw-mill two
12 ft. old oak logs of ours. PM.
4. I figured at the “Beef Sheet” all day. Parents & Eli went to town.
5. SUNDAY: Parents, Lydia & I at WW Meeting, Dan. Weber’s & Mose
Bauman’s here for dinner. Elias Martin’s & some young people of Peel here
for supper.
6. Father helped to thrash at N. L. Martin ¾ day. I wrote in this “Diary” nearly all
day.
7. I cut up elm top-wood in Grandmother’s bush. Father at Jno. Bauman to
make chopp chists all day.
8. I cut up elm top wood in Grandmother’s bush. Father at Jno. Bauman to
make chopp chists all day.
9. I cut up elm top-wood in Grandmother’s bush. Father in Waterloo at J. Stroh
& bought 100 lbs. of leather at $.30 a lb.
10.I cut up elm wood in Grandmother’s bush. Father at the Elora Flour Mills to
get our wheat ground, 5 bagsful, test 61. It cost $.10 a bu. to get it ground,
from 60 lbs. wheat is to be got 40 lbs of flour.
11.Father fetched from Mose Bauman 500 lbs. bran at $22.50 a ton. I worked in
Grandmother’s bush. Father started to make harness.
12.SUNDAY: Amos & Aaron Weber here for dinner. Snowstorm nearly all day.
13.We opened roads in the morning. Father at the fair & filed M. Weber’s saw. I
worked small jobs & at my chist. Judith Bauman died at about 10 o’clock this
evening. Parents went over for the night.
14.Father at Grandmother nearly all day, mother PM & I awhile PM. Preparing
for the funeral.
15.Father worked awhile in the shop & at Grandmother taking stuff over. I
worked at my chist.
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16.We all at Judith Bauman’s funeral,-aged 33 yrs. 10 mon. & 10 day.
17.We at Geo’s AM. “Beef Ring” meeting here PM.
18.Father worked at Dav. Bauman’s harness. I worked at my chist. John Spaeth
came to visit us yesterday evening & went this afternoon. Mother & I went to
town. Deep Snow.
19.SUNDAY: Parents at Aaron Weber’s for dinner. Eli at Noah Martin’s for
dinner. Solomon Martin here for supper.
20.Father at Eli M. Martin nearly all day. I shoveled snow & David Cressman
disced on highways AM. I in Grandmother’s bush helping to make stove
wood PM.
21.I in Grandmother’s bush AM. Parents at Eli M. Martin’s preparing for the
funeral. I took word to the S. E. direction.
22.Father at Aaron Weber butchering all day. I went to town AM & in the bush
PM. I took mother to Eli M. Martin’s.
23.We all except Noah at Eli M. Martin’s child’s funeral, I was hustler; child
buried at Conestogo, aged 7 mon. 17 days. Stormy.
24.Parents, Lydia & I at Tilman S. Martin’s funeral, aged 67 years. I in the bush
PM. Father at Andrew Freeman to fetch 28 bags of oats at $.50 per bushel.
25.I in the bush helped to cut wood. Father at A. Freeman to fetch 24 bags of
oats; 13 bags of seed oats (Early Goslad) at $.50 a bu.
26.SUNDAY: Parents & Grandmother at Hy. B. Martin’s for dinner. Snowfall.
27.Father worked at Dav. Bauman’s harness, I repaired horse-mangers. Stormy
nearly all day. High roads & banks.
28.Father worked in the shop. I in town & at Grandmother to clean drum.
29. Father worked in the shop. I cut top-wood in Grandmother’s bush.
30.Father worked in the shop. I helped to work up elm top-wood.
31.Father worked in the shop. I helped to work up elm top-wood.
FEBRUARY 1908
1. Father worked at the harness & went to town. I worked at Mose Bauman’s
lounch to rebuilt it. Stormy.
2. SUNDAY: I at the WW Meeting. The rest at home. Very Stormy.
3. I in town in the morning, father & I worked at M. Bauman’s lounch.
4. Father & I worked awhile in the shop. Eli S. Martin’s brought Jesse Bauman’s
of Iowa,--both here for dinner. Jesse Bauman’s & parents at Hy. Brubacher’s
awhile, at Aaron Weber’s for supper & left Jesse’s at Daniel Bauman’s for the
night.
5. Father worked in the shop all day. Wm. here all day. I went to town & divided
roots in the root cellar. Stormy about all day. Deep snow, especially on the
roads. Trains have difficulties.
6. I went to town to fetch bran ($1.10) & shorts ($1.15 a cwt.) I shoveled snow
off the road. Father worked in the shop & I awhile. Father went to N. Martin
in the evening. Wm. here all day. Stormy.
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7. Father at N. L. Martin butchering all day I put hellebore on cattle & worked
other jobs. Wm. here all day. Some storm.
8. Father came home with N. Martin who was here for dinner & got his harness
patched. Wm. & father went to town. I worked in shop.
9. SUNDAY: I at Grandmother for dinner, at Noah Bearinger’s for supper.
10.Father at the fair, I wrote in the “Diary” AM. I at J. Ernst to chopp about 3 hrs.
father went with N. L. Martin to Reub. in the afternoon. Hy. Brubacher of Iowa
here for supper.
11.Father at Reub. to butcher all day. I took mother to Benj. Martin’s in the
morning. I fixed pitch-holes in the highway PM.
12.Parents & I (hustler) at Benj. Martin’s child’s funeral. Father worked on the
highway with others PM. Dreary.
13.I cleaned wheat & worked small jobs. Father worked in the shop & fetched
harness trimings. Foggy & soft weather.
14.I at Geo to thrash AM. Father worked in the shop. Rainy PM.
15.Father & I worked in the shop, father went to town PM.
16.SUNDAY: Noah Weber & Ezra Bauman were here for dinner. Irvin Martin &
Noah Horst here for supper. Parents at Enos Gingerich’s for supper.
17.Father & I worked in the shop, finished Dav. Bauman’s harness.
18.Father worked in the shop. Lydia & I at Mose Martin’s Mary Ann’s funeral
AM. I took wheat to the mill, price $.92, test 61.
19.Father & I worked in the saddler-shop.
20.Father & I worked in the saddler-shop.
21.Father & I worked in the shop, I sewed at my harness traces.
22.Father worked in the shop & I awhile. Mother & I went to town, I got me a suit
of clothes measured on PM.
23.SUNDAY: Parents at Eli H. Bauman’s for dinner, at Wendel Bauman’s for
supper. Eli at John Frey’s for dinner. Isaiah & Mary Ann Weber here for
dinner.
24.Father & I worked in shop all day. Fine weather.
25.Father worked in shop. I took 2 loads grain over to George.
26.Father worked in shop AM. Father & I at Geo to chopp with our 2 teams & 2
of Geo’s. Solomon helped too PM.
27.I fetched chopping of ours from Geo AM. I in shop PM. Father worked in
shop all day.
28.Father & I worked in shop at his & my harness, all day.
29.Father & I worked at our harnesses AM. We in town PM.
MARCH 1908
1. SUNDAY: We all attended the WW Meeting. Stormy.
2. Father & I worked in shop.
3. Father & I worked in shop. I awhile at Geo. to butcher.
4. Father & I worked in shop AM., at John Weber’s sale PM.
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5. We finished father’s, mine & Ezra Bauman’s single harness.
6. We worked at G. M. Bauman’s double harness; binders, collars & breechens
excluded. Wet & unchangeable weather.
7. Eli & I went to town to fetch shorts ($1.30 a cwt). Father repaired at M.
Bauman’s harness, I worked in shop.
8. SUNDAY: Parents at Reub. Bauman’s for dinner. Eli & Noah at M. M.
Weber.
9. Father & I at the fair. We took to Elmira for Hedrich 8 hogs, Wt. 1310 lbs. at
$4.90 @ cwt.
10.I helped Jno. Frey’s to move down on the Jno. Weber farm. Father at the
Lichty’s sale & I awhile in the evening.
11.Father & I worked in the saddler shop. Thawning.
12.Father & I worked in the saddler shop. Warm & thawning.
13.We worked in shop. I sewed at the new traces for father’s old single harness.
Eli cleaned apple trees.
14.Father & I worked in shop. Father & Eli went to town PM.
15.SUNDAY: We all were at home all day. Rainy AM.
16.Father & I worked in shop.
17.Father & I worked in shop. Father visited school. I in town PM.
18.Father & I worked in shop. Finished Geo’s harness and a pair blind bridals
for us. Mother visited Grandmother. Foggy.
19.Father stuffed out a light collar for himself, I worked small jobs AM. We in
town to get lumber fixed for a democrat.
20.Father worked at the democrat box. I went to town in the morning, then I
cleaned apple trees.
21.Father at Andrew Schmidt to examine his cement stables AM., then worked at
box. I cleaned apple trees.
22.SUNDAY: I at the SP Meeting, at Martin Frey’s for dinner, at Jacob Martin’s
for supper. Parents & Grandmother at Jones Martin’s for dinner & awhile at
N. Bearinger’s. Thawned.
23.Father worked in shop. I cleaned apple trees. Thawning.
24.Father & I in town AM. Father at A. Freeman to examine his stables. I wrote
out thrashing & other accounts.
25.Father made 2 benches for the veranda. I cleaned apple trees.
26.Father & I oiled and worked at harness.
27.Father & I oiled and worked at harness.
28.Father & Eli went to town to fetch the democrat from the black smith. I
worked small jobs and made harness together.
29.SUNDAY: Parents, Lydia and I at the WW Meeting. Parents at Elias Martin’s
for supper.
30.I went to town to fetch bran @ $1.25 per cwt. Father & I painted democrat
and made ax-handles.
31.Father & I worked at stone hammers’ and ax-handles & worked other small
jobs. Drear & foggy.
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APRIL 1908
1. We cut corn and painted democrat AM. Father & I cut wood in Grandmother’s
bush PM.
2. I commenced to work for Noah L. Martin at a salary of $185. a year. Isaiah
went home after working about ½ a year for Noah. Noah & I made harness
together. We both had a bad cold. Stormy.
3. We tinkered at the harness & worked other small jobs.
4. I did the chores AM. Noah’s wife (Mary) & I went to town PM.
5. SUNDAY: All at home. Noah and I had cold these days. Some rain.
6. I did the chores AM. I went to town to order the doctor out for Noah. I had
not much of a voice these days.
7. We did the chores and worked some small jobs.
8. We did the chores and worked some small jobs.
9. Noah and I took a calf out (3 ½ wks. old for $4.) I got my throat burned by the
doctor AM. I build some of the cluck-houses. Noah in St. Jacobs.
10.We did the chores and worked small jobs.
11.We worked small jobs. Henry Martin here for dinner.
12.SUNDAY: We all at home. Noah went down to his father overnight.
13.I did the chores AM. Noah & I fetched a load of lumber from the Elmira saw-
mill.
14.I did the chores, Noah at Jno. Frey’s child’s funeral AM. We fetched straw-
cutter from Horst and cut some PM.
15.We worked about the buildings AM. We picked stones together on grassfield
and chopped grain PM.
16.Noah & I in bush to make wood.
17.GOOD FRIDAY: Noah, Mary Ann & I at the WW Meeting. Aaron Bauman’s
here for dinner. Daniel Bauman’s Hy. Ziegler & Sarah Bauman’s 2 girls, Noah
Bearinger & Joe Reist here for supper.
18.We tinkered about the buildings. Rainy about ½ day.
19.SUNDAY: EASTER: We all at home. Noah went down to his father.
20.I did the chores AM. Piled up wood in bush. Noah by his father last night and
to-day.
21.I awhile in bush. Noah and Mary Ann helped to wash out Meeting house AM.
I straightened up wire fences PM.
22.I hauled stones from grassfield & worked other small jobs. Noah fetched a
load of hay from Geo. M. Bauman AM. I rolled grassfield. Noah ganged and
cultivated PM. Warm.
23.I sowed grain, harrowed & rolled. Noah cultivated. Warm.
24.I sowed barely AM., harrowed PM. Noah cultivated & sowed a little.
25.I did chores & ganged. Noah in town AM, at Enos Martin to fetch seed barely
and brought Hy. Martin’s pony along too.
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26.SUNDAY: Noah, Mary Ann & I at the WW Meeting. Menno Bauman’s and
Seth Bauman’s here for dinner.
27.Noah and I worked small jobs and chores. Some rain.
28.I sowed a little & Noah cultivated. We cleaned feed oats. Some rain.
29.I sowed grain AM., peas PM. Noah cultivated. Dreary & a little rain.
30.Noah & I at the burial of Wendel S. Bauman AM. I harrowed awhile & Noah
cultivated. We chopped. Snowstorm.
MAY 1908
1. I did the chores AM. I hauled a little load of gravel on the culverts on the
highway & sowed oats. Noah cultivated PM.
2. We worked small jobs. Noah in town. Snowy and wet.
3. SUNDAY: George M. Bauman’s & Grandmother here for supper. Noah went
down to his father, to wait on him through the night.
4. I sowed oats nearly all day. Noah cultivated.
5. I harrowed all day. Noah cultivated.
6. I harrowed a little & sowed oats, Noah cultivated. We worked small jobs in
morn. Dreary and some rain.
7. We worked small jobs, I cleaned cattle & cut Noah’s hairs. Rainy.
8. We worked small jobs. Noah’s in town. Cloudy weather & wet on land.
9. I did the chores, Noah took 8 bags potatoes to St. Jacobs at $.80 a bag AM. I
sowed oats, Noah cultivated PM. High wind.
10.SUNDAY: Henry Martin’s here for dinner. Menno Weber’s here for supper. I
at Hy. Horst for supper. Noah went down to his father to wait on him. Jacob
Bauman’s child buried.
11.I did the chores, harrowed & picked stones. Noah was by his father nearly all
day.
12.Noah & I drawed stones from fields AM. I cultivated root patch. Noah helped
in the garden. High wind.
13.I harrowed flax patch (flax sower here & sowed about 5 acre at $10. an acre)
and root patch. Noah rolled awhile & helped in the garden. Rainy towards
evening.
14.We fixed gates, drawed a load of hay from driving shed into the barn &
worked other small jobs. Wet & some rain.
15.I worked in the barn. Noah in town AM. we straightened up fences.
16.Noah & I repaired fences nearly all day. Rain last night.
17.SUNDAY: Noah’s at Martin’s Meeting at John Bauman’s for dinner, at Enos
Martin’s for supper. Noah went down to his father to wait on him. Nice
weather.
18.I did the chores & picked a load of stones. Noah came home at noon then we
ploughed at mangold patch PM.
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19.I by my father to sow & cultivate all day. Noah worked on mangold patch.
Drear and warm.
20.We ridged & I sowed mangolds & took drill home to Reub. Bauman & picked
stones after supper. Noah in town after supper.
21.I did chores AM, hauled stones & harrowed root patch after supper. Noah
and my father went to Henry Martin to mason.
22.August Sauder here to fix up wire fences. Noah and I helped too. I in town
AM.
23.Repaired wire fences all day. A. Sauder here to help us all day. Nice weather
these days.
24.SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting. Isacc Martin’s here for dinner. Jacob
Martin here for supper. Noah went to his father.
25.I cut potatoes AM. Noah, I & Mary Ann planted potatoes.
26.I planted pumpkins, water-melons, beans & corn. Mary Ann & my brother Eli
(here this afternoon). Helped (?ink too faint) Noah started to help to build a
part to Meeting-house. Some rain.
27.Eli (here today) & I washed buggies & drove 3 calves to Dan. B. Martin in his
pasture, repaired fences & picked stones. Noah drawed gravel to Meeting
house.
28.ASCENSION DAY: Noah’s, my parents & Grandmother at David Horst’s for
dinner, at Peter Ziegler’s for supper. Mary Ann at Aaron Weber’s for dinner. I
at home.
29.I picked some stones, rain shower a little before noon. Noah worked at
Meeting-house about all day & I PM.
30.Noah & I drove 4 steers out to Elmira for Brox & Hedrich (one 1190# @ $.05
¼, one 790# @ $.05 & two 1440# @ $.04 ½)Noah & I helped at the Meeting-
house PM.
31.SUNDAY: Noah’s at Receivous Martin’s for dinner, at Hy. Lackner’s for
supper. Noah L. Bauman here for dinner.
JUNE 1908
1. I helped to fasten plaster laths in Meeting-house AM. Noah fetched laths from
Floradale AM & did other teaming PM. Mary Ann & I cut thistles in wheat PM.
2. I helped to shingle Meeting-house all day. Noah helped AM, then cut thistles
in wheat patch PM. & worked turnipland.
3. Noah & I picked stones from fields AM, Noah helped at the Meeting-house;
Mary Ann & I cut thistles in wheat patch PM.
4. Noah & I helped at Meeting-house AM. Noah, Mary Ann & I cut thistles PM.
Fine weather these days.
5. Noah & I helped at Meeting-house AM. Noah, Mary Ann & I cut thistles PM.
We drawed hay from driving shed into barn after supper.
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6. Noah at Hy. Martin to help to put up a wire fence all day. I did the chores &
cut thistles,--Mary Ann helped PM. I went with a carriage party down to Elias
Weber’s over night.
7. SUNDAY: The carriage party & I at Allen Bauman’s for dinner, at Jacob
Bauman’s for supper. Hy. Horst’s here for dinner. Hy. Ziegler & John
Martin’s Isacc’s here for supper. Mary Ann at my parents.
8. Noah’s at Grandmother, Noah awhile in town. Mary Ann at the quilting at
Sarah Bauman, I fetched her after supper.
9. Noah & I, Isaiah & Eli & their team helped all day to draw out 53 loads of
manure on fallow.
10.Noah took to Elmira for Auman 5 hogs weighing 890 lbs. at $5.85 per cwt. I,
Isaiah, Eli & their team helped all day & Noah about ¾ day; drawed out 41
loads of manure.
11.I spread manure all day, Noah spread AM, then bought 3 bags barely at $.01
¼ per lb. At St. Jacobs.
12.I fetched turnip drill from Dan. Bauman in morn. & spread manure about a ¾
day, Noah ridged up turnip patch & sowed them AM., then spread manure
PM.
13.I hoed beans & watermelons & did some chores, Noah in town AM. Noah & I
hauled earth in front of shed and cut thistles.
14.SUNDAY: Noah’s at Dr. Ratz to get herself examined. The rest at home.
15.I ploughed in fallow about all day. Noah at the fair & bought 5 pigs about 5
wks. old at $2. a piece AM., then he was down by his father on business in
the afternoon. Cool today.
16.Noah & I ploughed in fallow AM. I & Jno. Grosz (helped ½ day) thined
mangolds, Noah scuffled them & went to J. Frey after supper.
17.I ploughed in fallow, Noah helped in the house & ploughed some AM. Noah, I
& J. Grosz cut thistles PM.
18.Noah & I ploughed in fallow nearly all day. I cut thistles after supper. Hot
weather.
19.I ploughed AM. Noah ploughed awhile AM. I, Jno. Grosz’s Eli Martin’s
laborer cut thistles till to supper. Noah in town at noon. Rain in the evening.
20.Noah & I ploughed in fallow till supper time, then I cut thistles.
21.SUNDAY: I at the WW Meeting. Isaiah (my brother), Isacc Martin & sister,
Aaron Martin & sister, Dan. L. Martin’s here for dinner. Hy. Martin’s & Amos
Rudy here for both meals. Sol. Martin’s & Jno. Lichty’s; Iwin, Josiah &
Wendel Martin here for supper.
22.I ploughed nearly all day, Noah PM. Noah telephoned Dr. Wallace of Alma
who was here in the eve. Rain & thunder in the eve. Geo brought
Grandmother tonight to stay awhile here.
23.Noah finished ploughing summer fallow AM. I cleaned mangolds AM. We
worked small jobs. Some rain.
24.I & Eli Martin’s laborer cleaned mangolds all day, Noah awhile PM. Noah &
Jno. Lackner hunted a man for Mary’s sake at doctoring.
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25.I, Eli’s laborer, Isaiah & Eli cleaned mangolds AM. We four & Noah awhile,
cut thistles PM. Dan. Hoffman’s brought Joe Shaum’s of Ind. & Chr. Sauder
of Pa. Here for a call AM.
26.I & Eli’s laborer cut thistles all day. Noah in town AM. & cut thistles awhile
PM. Joseph S. Martin’s here for supper.
27.I & Eli’s laborer cut thistles & worked other jobs. Noah harrowed summer
fallow. I fetched beef in the morning.
28.SUNDAY: Sarah Bauman, widow, here for dinner. Leah Bauman here for
supper. Leah, Mary Ann & I at the Conestogo Meeting PM. My parents here
for a call after supper.
29.Levi Weber brought Judith to here to work & took Grandmother home. Noah
hauled gravel on the high-way all day. I mowed thistles in orchard & field,
Eli’s laborer here PM. It started to rain a little before supper & into the night.
30.Noah hauled gravel on the high-way, I shoveled in pit till to supper time. Jno.
M. Bauman’s here for supper. Paul Martin’s here awhile.
JULY 1908
1. I mowed thistles on the road & in field all day. Noah mowed a little grass with
mower & cultivated some in fallow & was in Elmira and mowed some thistles
too.
2. I drawed wood together in bush, Noah cultivated in fallow, We cut thistles
awhile PM. Hauled in hay after supper.
3. I mowed thistles in bush & in fence corners & hoed potatoes. Noah cultivated
fallow & scuffled potatoes & some mangolds.
4. Rainy AM. I worked small jobs, such as dunged the stables & washed
carriage. Noah went to Chr. Brubacher PM.
5. SUNDAY: Judith Weber & I with others on buggies at Joshua Bowman’s last
night, at the SP Meeting AM., at Jno. Bowman’s for dinner, at the Meeting
PM. At Dan. Hoffman’s for supper. Wendel H. & Eli H. Bauman’s & Eli S.
Martin’s here for dinner. My parents & grandmother here for a call PM. Eph.
Weber’s, Dav. B. Bauman’s, Ezra L. Martin’s & Jno. Frey’s here for super.
Other people here for calls too to visit Mary, who was sick.
6. I scuffled a little & harrowed fallow & took a $45. cow partways up to Sam
Weber. Noah went to Chr. Eby to see about his wife Mary.
7. Noah in Elmira, I mowed some grass with mower AM. Rainy and cool in the
evening. I tinkered in buildings. Noah at Chr. Eby again.
8. I mowed grass with mower & seythe, Noah fetch a load of cedar rails from
Peter Bauman AM. Prepared for haying & chopped grain.
9. We mowed grass & turned grass over, raked & hauled in 10 loads of hay. Eli
& his laborer helped ¾ day. Fine weather.
10.We mowed grass & stirred up hay, raked & hauled in nearly 7 loads of hay.
Eli & his laborer helped ¾ day. Fine weather.
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11.Noah mowed grass. We, Eli & his laborer & Hy. Brubacher (here ¾ day)
drawed in about 10 loads of hay. Very hot.
12.SUNDAY: Judith & I at Martin’s Meeting AM & PM., at Levi Weber’s for
dinner, at home for supper. Reuben Bauman’s, Hy. Horst here for supper,
Sister Lydia here for dinner. Sarah Weber here all day.
13.Noah in Elmira to get horses shod, I cleaned mangolds AM. We drawed in
about 5 loads of hay, Eli helped ¼ day & his laborer a little more. We had a
hail storm & rain after supper.
14.Noah & I hoed mangolds about all day. Noah ganged fallow after supper.
15.Noah & I at Eli Martin to help to draw in 13 loads of hay about a ¾ day. Noah
& Mary Ann in town, sold 16 young live roosters 39 ½ lbs. @ $.11. Cool
weather.
16.Noah culitivated turnip patch, I ganged awhile in fallow in morn. We hauled in
about 8 loads of hay at Eli, ¾ day.
17.Drear & rainy about all day. We worked small jobs. Noah went to Dan Weber
to see about electric batteries.
18.I picked cherries, Noah in Elmira & fetched beef in morn. We ploughed sod
PM. Thunder storm early in the morning.
19.SUNDAY: Noah, I, Mary Ann & Alvina at the WW Meeting, Menno Bauman’s
Moses & Maedalena Weber here for dinner, Israel Bauman’s here for supper.
20.Noah & I ploughed sod AM. We at Eli’s hauling in hay PM.
21.We worked small jobs, rainy AM. I ploughed sod, Noah down in Berlin and at
Chr. Eby PM.
22.I ploughed sod awhile, Noah bindered wheat & I shocked it.
23.We cleaned water trough in morn. Noah bindered wheat & I shocked AM.
Noah ganged fallow & I scuffled mangolds.
24.I spread manure at Hy. Brubacher all day. Noah ganged fallow. Jno. Lichty
here for supper & over night on a visit.
25.I ganged fallow, Noah in town & fetched beef AM. Noah ganged fallow, I
scuffled potatoes & went to town in the eve. Warm.
26.SUNDAY: Sam. Reist & Mandy Eby here for dinner. Hy. Ziegler, Jonas
Martin’s & Enos Gingerich’s here for a call. Mary Ann & I at Conestogo
Meeting PM., at Daniel Cressman’s for supper.
27.I harrowed fallow, Noah at Floradale AM. We hauled in 6 loads of wheat. Hot
weather.
28.Noah & I ploughed sod & set thrashing machine. Noah & Judith at Elmira
PM. Exceedingly warm weather.
29.We thrashed wheat awhile in morn., 6 strangers here, engine got disordered,-
-Dan Hoffman here to fix it, I over at his place during his absence. We
thrashed after supper. Very hot.
30.We hauled in wheat AM. Noah cut & I shocked barely PM. Warm.
31.Noah bindered barely & other grain, I shocked, we ploughed a little & fetched
the 3 calves which pastured at Dan. B. Martin after supper.
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AUGUST 1908
1. I disced soil AM. Noah disced & ploughed, I ploughed PM. Hy. Martin
brought his wife to spent the day here. Noah bought a 3 year old mare from
Annie Bauman for $170.00
2. SUNDAY: Levi L. Martin’s here for dinner. Noah’s at Dav. Bauman’s for a
call. Noah Horst & I at NW Meeting PM., at Mose Gingerich’s for supper.
Judith with some one else away last night & at the Meetings.
3. Noah & I ploughed in fallow AM. Noah bindered grain, I shocked, harrowed &
ploughed sod, Warm.
4. I at Daniel Bauman to thrash wheat AM. Noah ploughed AM. We ploughed
awhile PM. Rain before & after supper,--some thunder.
5. I at Dan Bauman to thrash wheat AM. I ploughed with the 4 horse sulky plow
PM. Noah’s at Enos Bauman’s for dinner, at Christian Eby & in Berlin, at
Henry Martin’s for supper.
6. Noah ploughed in fallow all day, I helped AM. I ganged wheat stubbs PM. A
gang of flax pullers here today.
7. I ganged nearly all day. Noah harrowed fallow & some ganged land.
8. We hauled in some barely & thrashed some grain,-some town boys helped.
9. SUNDAY: Leah Bauman, Mary Ann & I at Martin’s Meeting, at Enos
Bauman’s for dinner, at Joe Brubacher’s for supper. Hy. Ziegler here for
dinner. Dav. Cressman’s & Jonathan Martin’s Josiah here for supper.
10.Noah took Judith Weber home after a six weeks stay & fetched Hattie Lichty
& his pea-harvester from Enos Bauman. I raked some barely & then we
hauled it in & unload some other and cut off some oats. A little rain.
11.Noah in Elmira, I ganged till nearly noon. We cut & shocked oats.
12.We chopped some grain, cleaned wheat; Noah drawed a load to Elmira ($.80
a bu.) I ganged a little. Some rain.
13.We ganged; Rainy AM. Cut & shocked oats after supper.
14.Noah fetched a horse of Eli’s to help ours. We cut & shocked oats.
15.Noah bindered oats, I shocked till supper time,-binder got disordered. Levi
Weber’s here for supper. Noah took Eli’s horse home.
16.SUNDAY: Noah, I, Mary Ann, Hattie & Alvina at the WW Meeting. Isaiah
Weber here for dinner, then he & I at Grandmother for supper. Tilman Horst’s
here for supper. Rain & thunder this night.
17.I ganged nearly all day. Noah in town & got binder fixed. Rain showers.
18.I pulled some peas & bindered a little, Noah’s visited Aaron Weber’s AM.
Noah cut & I shocked oats till to supper. Mowed some peas. Noah sold to
Arthur Klinck 2 sorrel horses, both recommended as 9 yrs. old for $375.
Noah bought an aged horse for $25 from A. W. Weber.
19.I repaired at pea harvester, Noah away to see about horses, some rain AM.
Noah mowed peas, Mary Ann & I rolled peas up on heaps till to supper time.
Noah & I hauled in some grain. Cool & windy.
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20.Noah fetched a mare for $170 from C. Kock. We placed machines in order in
driving shed & hauled in 9 loads of grain.
21.We prepared for thrashing AM. We hauled in & thrashed peas & some oats,
4 strangers helped. Dan. Ernst’s wife visited Noah’s wife.
22.I helped to thrash at Hy. Brubacher AM. We hauled in oats. Hy. Martin
helped nearly all day. Most of the flax was fetched to-day.
23.SUNDAY: Noah’s at Israel Weber’s for dinner. Annie & Leah Bauman here
for dinner. I by my parents for supper. Solomon Martin’s and Elias Weber’s
here for supper.
24.We hauled in oats about all day. Wm. Fischer of Elmira helped some too,-
then Noah cut balance of flax which Wm. didn’t pull.
25.I ploughed all day. Noah’s at Hy. Martin’s for dinner, at Berlin & at Chr. Eby,
at Seth Bauman’s for supper.
26.We raked awhile in morn, then I ploughed. Noah in town AM. & worked small
jobs. We fetched rakings in after supper.
27.I ploughed nearly all day, Noah raked nearly all day. We hauled in rakings
after supper.
28.I ploughed nearly all day. Mary Ann & I loaded some flax. Noah took some
straw & lumber to Hy. Martin & hauled some coal for him from the station,
then fetched seed wheat ($.85 per bu.) from Solomon Lichty.
29.I ploughed all day,-finished fallow. Noah worked small jobs AM. and
harrowed in fallow PM.
30.SUNDAY: Noah’s at my parents for dinner. Hattie & Mary Ann at Lackner’s
for a call PM. I at home all day.
31.Noah harrowed AM. & sowed wheat in fallow PM. I ganged nearly all day &
harrowed a little at noon. Warm.
SEPTEMBER 1908
1. I sowed wheat AM. & ganged PM. Noah’s in Elmira AM. Noah harrowed
fallow. A little rain PM.
2. I ganged nearly all day, Noah harrowed fallow AM & ploughed stubleland PM.
We cut some straw at noon. Cool breeze.
3. I ganged, Noah ploughed AM. I drawed out manure on stuble land, Noah
helped awhile too, Noah in Elmira, Mary at Menno Weber’s.
4. I ganged, Noah ploughed AM. We drawed out manure on stuble land, Jno.
Grosz helped PM.
5. I spread manure, Noah fetched beef & helped to spread manure too AM. I
ganged, Noah ploughed stuble land PM. Hattie & I by her parents (Solomon
Lichty’s) over night.
6. SUNDAY: Hattie & I at Martins’ Meeting, at Joshua Rudy’s for dinner, at
Christian Martin’s for supper. Isacc Gingrich’s here for dinner.
7. I ganged all day. Noah ploughed & took his wife over to David Bauman’s for
a short visit.
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8. I ganged & Noah ploughed nearly all day and we drawed some stones from
fallow too. Martin Bauman’s here for supper.
9. Noah up by Floradale & bought from Brox & Snider 4 steers; 2 weighed
together about 1650# & 2 about 1200# for $36, the others cost $52, total $88.
I ploughed AM. Noah ploughed & I ganged & digged out a little potatoes PM.
10.Noah, I Mary Ann & Hattie at the WW Harvest Meeting. We cleaned a load of
wheat, then Noah drawed the load to Conestogo Mill. I ganged PM. Joe,
Amos & Hy. Gingrich & their wives here for a call PM.
11.Noah & I over by my father to saw wood AM. I ganged, Noah prepared for
sawing wood PM. Smoky air.
12.We set saw & gasoline engine & sawed wood nearly ¾ day, father, Isaiah &
the 2 Daniel Hoffman’s helped. We removed machines & hauled in a load of
wood. Hy. Weber’s here for supper.
13.SUNDAY: Noah, I, Hattie, Mary Ann & Alvina at the WW Meeting. Paul
Martin’s & Dav. Horst’s & some young people here for dinner. Sam Martin for
supper.
14.Noah at the fair & piled up some wood, I hauled in wood AM. Noah hauled in
wood, I at Oziah Martin to thrash PM. I got sick tonight.
15.Noah at Daniel Bauman to thrash AM. I am on the sick list; I went home at
noon & send Isaiah over at my place, he hauled in wood, Noah piled up wood
in shed PM.
16.I was sick. Noah’s at Chr. Eby, at Berlin, at Esther Ziegler for dinner, Isaiah
ganged all day. Grandmother visited my parents.
17.I piled wood a little & in town AM. Eli & I hauled in a load of wood & digged
out potatoes PM. Isaiah hauled in wood, Noah set it AM. Isaiah ganged &
Noah ploughed PM.
18.Noah & Isaiah ploughed nearly all day. Eli & I cut & shocked corn. I came
over to Noah’s again, Isaiah went home.
19.I ploughed all day with 4 horse sulky plow. Noah fetched beef & in town, did
the chores & thrashed at Menno Weber awhile in eve. We chopped awhile.
Enoch Martin’s barn struck by lightning & burned.
20.SUNDAY: Noah’s at Solomon Reist’s for dinner. I at home.
21.I at Menno Weber to thrash AM & at Eli Martin PM. Noah took Hattie Lichty to
Elmira & thence home after a 6 weeks stay, he at Enos for dinner & then
ploughed a while.
22.Noah helped to thrash at E. Martin about a ¾ day. I ploughed with sulky plow
& cut Noah’s hair. Hot weather.
23.Noah at Hy. Horst to thrash, I ploughed at the preploughed sod all day.
Warm weather.
24.I helped to thrash at Hy. Horst ¼ day, ploughed PM. Noah helped to fill silo at
Dan Hoffman. Hot weather.
25.Noah helped to fill silo at D. Hoffman in the morning. I ploughed all day.
Noah ploughed PM. Hot & dry.
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26.Noah’s in town & visited Noah Bearinger’s, I plowed & harrowed AM. Noah &
I drawed out manure PM. Exceedingly hot week.
27.SUNDAY: Noah’s at Elias Martin’s for dinner. Ezra Bauman & Lydia Gingrich
& my sister Lydia here for dinner. Henry Martin’s were here for supper.
28.Noah went with my father down to Enoch Martin to help to build the new barn.
I worked in buildings. Rain about ½ time.
29.Noah, I & Josiah Gingrich digged out potatoes about 2 ½ waggon boxes full,
nearly all day, we had Lackner’s digger. Cool.
30.We harrowed potatoe patch & collected some & hauled in pumpkins & drawed
out manure. Cool & a little rain.
OCTOBER 1908
1. I harrowed, Noah collected apples AM. Noah drawed out some manure &
harrowed a little, I at Hy. Horst to ditch PM.
2. I harrowed & spread manure a little, Noah in Elmira AM. Noah harrowed & I
ganged PM.
3. I fetched beef in morn. & did the chores & ganged. Noah went to his brother
Dan for breakfast,-thence to Waterloo, at Chr. Eby & at Tobias Martin to fetch
sweet apples.
4. SUNDAY: I by my parents for dinner, at Mose Reist’s for supper & made a
call at N. Bearinger’s, A. W. Weber’s & Hy. Horst’s here for a call.
5. Noah fetched Rebecca Bauman,-who started to work here. We prepared to
thrash AM, thrashed PM. ¼ day. I ganged awhile.
6. I at Osiah Martin to thrash all day. Noah in St. Jacobs to get cider & apple-
butter made & ganged PM.
7. I ganged & Noah erected a post under engine house & pulled some mangolds
AM. Hauled in & made out mangolds. J. Grosz’s 2 girls helped PM. Stored
away 9 loads.
8. We made out mangolds & carrots & hauled them in nearly 8 loads & 1 ½
carrots; Mary Ann & Hannah Grosz helped.
9. I harrowed, Noah in town AM. We chopped grain & drawed engine &
separator to John Grosz.
10.I helped to thrash at Jacob Fries all day & Noah at J. Grosz a little over ½ day
with his outfit. Noah & Jno. hauled machines home.
11.SUNDAY: Noah, I & Rebecca at the WW Meeting. Levi L. Martin’s & Allen
Martin here for dinner. Enos Martin’s Jno. here for supper.
12.I ploughed all day; started at the fall ploughing. Noah in Elmira & fetched
wind pumptop (Toronto make) for $40. & sold the old wheel for $3 ½ AM., &
put apples away PM.
13.I ploughed AM. I at Dav. Bauman (G. M. Bauman helped for us too) to thrash
PM. C. Hahn & Sol. Lichty & Noah removed old wheel & erected some of the
new. Noah’s father with Enos Bauman’s here for dinner. Grandmother here
for dinner & supper.
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14.Noah, Hahn & Lichty worked at the wheel about all day & I ploughed.
15.I ploughed all day. Noah went to Chr. Eby AM. then worked a t the apples.
Jonathan L. Martin here for supper.
16.I ploughed all day, Noah ploughed AM. & worked at the apples & in Elmira
PM. Hy. Martin’s here for supper.
17.Noah & I ploughed nearly all day; worked some chores at noon.
18.SUNDAY: I at S. Peel Meeting, at Amos Martin’s for dinner, at Dav. Martin’s
for supper. Seth Bauman’s here for dinner. Moses Bauman’s were here for
supper.
19.I ploughed all day, Noah ploughed AM & worked about buildings.
20.I ploughed nearly all day, Noah ploughed PM. Hy. Martin’s here for dinner &
supper. Hy. got cider made in St. Jacobs for us.
21.I ploughed, Noah worked small jobs AM. I harrowed & Noah ploughed.
22.Noah & I ploughed nearly all day, chopped grain at noon awhile.
23.I harrowed & ploughed all day. Noah ploughed all day. Ground very dry.
24.We worked in the buildings, Noah in town AM. We ploughed awhile in the
evening. Some rain.
25.SUNDAY: I at Aaron Weber’s for dinner, Noah Weber & I at Noah
Bearinger’s for a call. Grandmother here all day. Emanuel & Salina Gingrich
& Sarah Bauman (cousin) here for dinner.
26.I ploughed & spread some manure, Noah ploughed awhile AM. & took
Grandmother home & in town & spread some manure. A little rain.
27.Noah & I ploughed nearly all day, & spread some manure.
28.Noah & I ploughed some. Rainy about ½ a day, I worked some in buildings.
29.Noah & I ploughed all day.
30.I ploughed all day, Noah ploughed nearly all day. Some rain.
31.Joe Stange here to lower old tile drain, I helped all day.
NOVEMBER 1908
1. SUNDAY: I at Menno Weber’s for dinner. George Bauman’s brought
Grandmother to stay awhile.
2. J. Stange & I worked at tile drains, Noah helped nearly all day & Noah Horst
helped PM. Noah’s wife very low.
3. I ploughed all day. Noah in town AM. & ploughed PM.
4. I helped to thrash at Hy. Brubacher all day. Noah ploughed awhile. Noah
kept company with his wife sometimes these days. Cold high wind.
5. Noah & I ploughed. Noah awhile in the house by wife & visitors.
6. I ploughed nearly all day, Noah nearly all AM. Noah in the house by his wife,
who was very low. Aaron Weber’s, John Lackner’s & Dan. Bauman’s here for
supper; Mary died at about 10.15 PM, of consumption. I told my parents to
come over.
7. We, friends & neighbors helped to prepare for the funeral. Menno Weber &
Oziah Martin here to wake during the night.
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8. SUNDAY: Hy. Horst’s & Aaron Weber’s here at noon, Dan. Bauman’s here
for supper, Dan’s wife here over night. Josiah Cressman & Hy. Ziegler here
to wake during the night. I took Grandmother to her home for awhile in the
afternoon.
9. Mary’s funeral to-day at 9.30 at the house. Her age was 39 years, 10 months
and 25 days. It was reported that 92 teams left from here in the procession.
Hy. Martin’s here over night.
10.I ploughed all day. Noah, my parents & other friends helped to clean house &
wash & replace stuff to its former order.
11.Noah & I ploughed nearly all day. Wet snow in the morning.
12.Noah & I ploughed nearly all day, chopped awhile at noon.
13.Noah & I ploughed all day. Noah drove scholars part ways down. Isaiah &
team here PM. & here over night.
14.Noah, I & Isaiah (here today) ploughed nearly all day. Steady snowfall.
15.SUNDAY: Noah & children & Grandmother at Hy. Martin’s for dinner. Noah
took Grandmother home in the evening. The rest at home.
16.Noah fetched some fine gravel for the hens & took some of Grandmother’s
stuff home. We drawed a load of hay into the barn. I mend some harness,
splitt wood, etc. Storms of snow by jerks.
17.Noah over by my father drawing wood together nearly all day, I helped PM. I
did chores & trimmed steer tails AM. Sleighing.
18.I did chores & other work AM. I cut wood in bush PM. Noah let horses shod
& fetched Hy. Martin’s wife who was here today.
19.I helped to thrash at Dav. Bauman all day. Noah did the chores & in St.
Jacobs & prepared for butchering. Mild.
20.We butchered 2 hogs all day. Mild.
21.I helped Noah to clean out the cistern & did chores AM. I helped to thrash at
Dan. Bauman PM. Noah & Mary Ann in town AM. & took butcher stuff home
& in town PM.
22.SUNDAY: Rebecca & I at the NW Meeting, at Daniel Gingrich‘s for dinner, at
Israel Martin’s for supper. Mild.
23.We prepared for thrashing AM. Thrashed PM.,-10 strangers.
24.I at my parents to help to thrash AM. & harrowed PM. Noah disced & worked
some other jobs. Drear & some rain.
25.I harrowed nearly all day. Noah in St. Jacobs & at an auction sale. Fog.
26.I washed carriage. Noah fetched a dump-cart from Jno. Fries & I one from C.
Eisenbach. We dug out some stones. Windy.
27.Noah, I, my father & Isaiah & Dan. Hoffman Sr. helped to draw earth out of
the lane into an old well (40’x7’) all day.
28.I did chores, Noah with Wm. Moeser bought a colt rising 3 years’ old for $70
from near Macton. We drawed earth into old well. Jonathan Martin’s Josiah
here for supper on a visit.
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29.SUNDAY: Noah & his girls at Amos Gingrich’s for dinner. Mary Ann &
Rebecca at Menno Weber’s for dinner. Henry Ziegler here for dinner and for
supper also.
30.Noah in St. Jacobs & changed old horses, I in Elmira & did chores AM. I
killed & skinned off an old horse. Noah took Rebecca Bauman home after 8
wks. of labor & fetched Mary Ann Bauman,-who started to work for Noah now.
DECEMBER 1908
1. Noah & I chopped AM. I started to work for some wks. at Menno Weber at
noon. Menno & I cut wood PM.
2. We butchered 2 hogs all day. Rough weather.
3. Chas. Schliter here with traction engine & chopper nearly all day. I helped
some at the chopping & cut some wood. Chopped about 45 bu. per hour @
$.60,-plate mill.
4. I helped to thrash clover at Ephriam Weber all day.
5. Menno & I cut wood in bush all day.
6. SUNDAY: Menno’s & I at the WW Meeting. Wendel Martin’s here for supper.
I at Grandmother for supper. Snowfall PM & night.
7. I cut up treetops, Menno at the fair AM., we in bush PM.
8. Menno & I cut wood in his bush all day. Menno sold yesterday & today 15
pigs of about 40 or 50 lbs. at $3 a piece. Some snow these days.
9. Menno & I in bush nearly all day. We did small jobs at noon. Menno at
Meeting house to give some payments.
10.Menno & I in bush all day.
11.Menno & I in bush nearly all day. Some light rain.
12.Menno & I in bush all day. Menno’s wife & his mother at Jones Martin’s on a
visit awhile PM.
13.SUNDAY: Noah Weber, Ezra Bauman & I at a Meeting of the other
Mennonites AM. I visited Ezra at E. Gingrich’s over noon. We made a call at
Elias Martin’s to visit. Samuel, Ezra & I visited Josiah Gingrich at Jno.
Lackner’s for supper.
14.Menno & I in bush all day.
15.Menno & I in bush all day. Mild weather. I went over to Noah to feed in the
eve. He & his 2 girls at A. Knorr’s wedding.
16.I tinkered about in the barn, I had a kind of sore throat these days.
17.I tinkered about in the barn. We chopped some grain PM.
18.I tinkered about in the barn at Noah till noon, then I at Menno in his bush PM.
19.I helped to thrash at Epraim Weber all day. I went to town in the evening.
20.SUNDAY: Mary Ann Weber & I at the SP Meeting, at Martin Frey’s for dinner,
at Daniel Bauman’s for supper. My parents visited Noah & stayed for dinner
& supper.
21.Menno & I in bush all day. I fetched saw from father who filed it.
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22.Menno & I at Susanah Messer’s funeral by Jno. Lackner’s AM. We in bush
PM.
23.I in bush all day, & Menno PM. Menno drawed a load of wood for Chas.
Klinck in Elmira.
24.Menno & I in bush AM. I cut up tree tops, Menno & J. Grosz sawed PM.
25.CHRISTMAS: Menno & I at the WW Meeting AM. Leah Bauman here for
supper.
26.I in town Am, at my parents for dinner. I awhile at G. M. Bauman’s PM.
Aaron Weber’s were here for dinner.
27.SUNDAY: Mary Ann Bauman, Hannah Weber & I at Martins’ Meeting, at
Wendel Martin’s for dinner, at Enos Martin’s for supper. Menno’s at Reuben
Bauman’s for dinner, at Hy. Horst’s for supper. A. Weber’s boys did the
chores here.
28.Menno & I in bush all day. I went to Noah over night.
29.Noah thrashed all day, I helped, 9 strangers AM & 10 PM.
30.Noah thrashed about ¼ day, I helped to work for him till noon AM. I helped to
thrash at Daniel Bauman for Menno PM.
31.Menno & I helped to thrash at Dan Bauman all day. Stormy.
DIARY 1909
ANGUS S. BAUMAN
JANUARY
1. NEW YEAR’S DAY: I drove Mary Ann Bauman & Mary Ann Weber to Dan.
Bauman in the forenoon. I fed for Noah & Menno. Menno’s at Martin
Bauman’s for both meals. I went with Solomon Martin to Noah Bearinger’s for
a call PM.
2. Menno & I ¼ day at Dan Bauman to thrash & did some chores AM. Worked
in bush PM. I went over to Noah in the evening. John Lehman’s of Alberta at
Noah.
3. SUNDAY: Noah & Jno. Lehman’s at the WW Meeting, at Eli Martin’s for
dinner, at Aaron Weber’s for supper. Mary Ann Weber & I at the WW Meeting
too. Some young folks here for supper. Jacob W. Martin’s wedding. Soft
weather.
4. I did chores & splitt some wood. Noah in Berlin to fetch a bbb Motor gasoline
(Qeen City oil Co.) 47.6 gal. @ $.17 ½.
5. Noah & I by my parents to butcher all day. I helped in Menno Weber’s name.
6. I did chores, cleaned cattle & put Zenolium on some. Noah took some hogs
($.06 a lb.) to Elmira AM & then at Hy. Gingrich to thrash PM. Rough
weather.
7. Menno & I in his bush AM., at Dav. Bauman to thrash.
8. Menno in bush. I helped to thrash at A. W. Weber all day.
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9. Menno & I helped to thrash at A. W. Weber about all day.
10.SUNDAY: Menno’s at the SP Meeting, at Josiah Martin’s for dinner, at Amzi
Snyder’s for supper. Mary Ann Weber & I at my parents for dinner.
11.Menno at the fair, I cut up top wood AM. We in bush PM.
12.Menno & I in bush all day. Addison Ziegler helped a little over ½ a day.
13.Menno & I in bush all day. Cold.
14.I at Noah again. Noah & I in bush nearly all day.
15.I did the chores AM., & worked in bush PM. Noah & Mary Ann Weber at the
funeral of Sam Weber’s wife at Levi Weber’s.
16.Hy. Shantz’s of Dumpfries here last night. I did chores, Noah & I awhile in
bush AM. I in bush PM. Noah at the Beef-ring Meeting.
17.SUNDAY: Noah & his girls & Hy. Horst’s at Levi Martin Sr. for dinner, at
Daniel Martin’s for supper. Annie Bauman was here awhile.
18.I did the chores & splitt some wood. Noah in Elmira & by my father.
19.Noah & I chopped AM. Drawed fire-wood logs together in bush PM. Noah &
Geo Bauman went to Jno. Lichty over night, thence to funeral.
20.I did chorse AM. Drawed logs together in bush PM. Noah & Geo at the
funeral of Amos Cressman, in Wilmot. Mild.
21.I did chores, cleaned cattle & helped Eli Martin making saw-logs about ¼ day.
Noah helped to butcher at Reub. Bauman. Mild.
22.We worked about in the barn. Dreary and some rain.
23.I worked about in buildings & piled up wood in bush. Noah in town. Dreary,
rainy & mild, snow fast disappearing.
24.SUNDAY: Noah & his girls at Grandmother for dinner. The rest at home.
25.I did chores & piled up some wood in bush. Noah & Mary Ann Weber helped
to prepare for the funeral at Jones Martin’s. Noah in town PM. Sold 3 year
old colt to Geo. Bauman for $85.
26.I hustler at Jones Martin & by the dentist to get 2 teeth filled for $1.50. The
other also at the funeral of Hannah S. Bauman, Aged 22 years, 1 mon. & 10
days. Noah at Aaron Hoffman to see a horse.
27.I did chores, cleaned cattle & splitt wood. Noah visited Noah Bearinger’s over
noon & at Jones Martin to see a horse. Some snow.
28.I chored round & splitt wood. A. Hoffman here on horse business & over
noon. Noah & I sawed wood in bush PM.
29.Noah & I worked in bush AM. Cleaned wheat, price $.95, stormy PM.
30.I did chores & prepared for butchering. Noah fetched a brown mare rising 3
years old for $166. Geo. fetched his $85. colt.
31.SUNDAY: Noah, I & Mary Ann Bauman at the WW Meeting. Mary Ann
Bauman & I at Daniel Bauman’s for supper. Cold.
FEBRUARY 1909
1. We butchered 4 hogs & a young cow; my parents, Noah Horst & his mother &
Eli Martin helped here.
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2. I did the chores & other jobs. Noah took butcher stuff home AM. & took wheat
to mill. Dan. Bauman buried at NW Yard.
3. I did chores & worked in bush. Noah hauled saw-logs to Dan. Bauman’s saw-
mill, Floradale, AM. & PM.
4. I hauled logs to Floradale, Noah in town AM. Noah hauled logs to Floradale, I
in bush PM. Mild.
5. We hauled fire-wood logs out & sawed some short. Mild & drear.
6. I did chores & small jobs, Noah in Elmira. Henry Martin’s were here for
supper.
7. SUNDAY: Noah & his girls & Hy. Martin’s at the funeral of a widow,-Peter
Shantz’s wife, aged 78 years, 2 mon. & 27 days; I & Mary Ann Weber at
Meeting house at the funeral. Noah at Hy. Martin’s for supper. Mary Ann
Weber at M. M. Weber for supper.
8. I did chores & other jobs. Noah at the fair AM. & PM.
9. We chopped grain AM. Noah & Mary Ann Bauman in Elmira, I cleaned cattle,
stormy. PM.
10.I awhile in bush & worked other jobs. Mary Ann Weber at a quilting at Mose
Bauman’s, Noah drove her up & I fetched her. Noah fetched 3 pigs av. about
84 lbs. for $13.25 from Henry Lackner.
11.We cleaned seed oats AM. Made fire-wood PM. Stormy.
12.I did chores & awhile in bush. Noah fetched oak horse-stall posts from Joe
Snyder. We in bush drawing wood together PM. Mild weather.
13.I did the chores, Noah in Elmira AM. We awhile in bush PM.
14.SUNDAY: Mary Ann Weber & I at the NW Meeting, at Aaron Bauman’s for
dinner, at Joseph Martin’s for supper. Henry Ziegler here for dinner & supper.
John Lehman’s came tonight.
15.Mary Ann Bauman & I at the funeral of Elias Brubacher’s Lavina, aged 17
years, 1 mon. 20 days AM. I did chores PM. Noah & Jno. Lehman’s went
round visiting all day, at Annie Bauman’s for dinner, at my parents for supper
and in Elmira too.
16.I did the chores & worked other jobs & 2 hrs. at Eli Martin in his bush. Noah &
Lehman’s went visiting, at Israel Weber’s for dinner, at Seth Bauman’s for
supper & at other places, then Noah drove them to his uncle Joe Martin.
17.I did chores, Noah in St. Jacobs to fetch, middlings at $1.20 per cwt., bran
$1.10 & corn at $1.30 a cwt. AM. I worked at fire-wood PM.
18.Noah & I helped to thrash at Dav. Bauman ¾ day. Bechtell’s wife buried.
19.Noah & I cut wood for Eli AM. We cleaned oats a little. Rainy PM.
20.Noah & I in Eli’s bush AM. Noah & Mary Ann Weber in Elmira, I in Eli’s bush
about 3 hrs PM.
21.SUNDAY: Noah & his girls at Jonathan Martin for dinner, at John M.
Bauman’s for supper. My brethern, Lydia & Noah here for dinner. Mild
weather.
22.I did chores AM. Noah & I in Eli Martin’s bush PM.
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23.We were a short while in Eli’s bush; Noah sold to Levi Groff a dark brown
mare for $165. Rainy. Noah at Small’s sale. I did chores.
24.I did chores, Noah & Mary Ann Weber in Elmira AM. Noah & I in Eli’s bush ½
a day PM. High winds towards eve.
25.I did chores. Noah at Abs. Martin. We in Eli’s bush ½ a day PM.
26.We in Eli’s bush ¼ day AM. We in Noah’s bush PM.
27.I did the chores & other jobs. Noah in Elmira AM. & PM. & bought salt off the
car,--2 bags @ $.75 each containing 200 lbs.
28.SUNDAY: We all in WW Meeting. Aaron Bauman’s, Ezra L. Martin’s, Enos
Martin’s, 3 of Levi L. Martin’s children, Hannah & Nelson Martin here for
dinner, Amos & Aaron Rudy & Jones Bauman, Isacc Bauman & Malinda
Sittler were here for supper.
MARCH 1909
1. We did the chores, chopped grain & sawed wood in bush.
2. Noah at E. M. Martin to butcher nearly all day. I did chores & in bush.
3. Noah took Levi Groff’s mare down to him & at Aaron Shantz’s sale. I did the
chores, cleaned cattle & splitt wood. Stormy.
4. I did the chores AM. & sawed maple wood PM. Noah at Henry Martin’s for
dinner & fetched a fresh heifer $31 & 4 bu. black barely at $1.20 a bu. and got
a sleigh from Brubachers, St. Jacobs.
5. I did the chores & cut wood in bush. Noah & Dav. Martin went away to see
horses.
6. I did the chores AM., in bush PM. Noah away looking after horses.
7. SUNDAY: Mary Ann Bauman & I at the Conestogo Meeting & funeral of
Amos Brubacher’s child, at Daniel Cressman’s for dinner, at Osiah Martin’s
for supper. My parents & Menno M. Bauman’s here for dinner. Eli M.
Martin’s here for supper.
8. Noah at the fair AM., & then he & Sam. Weber looked after horses. Dav.
Martin fetched from here a brown horse, rising 6 yrs. old for $140. I at the fair
AM., & did chores & awhile in bush PM.
9. I did chores, Noah looked after horses in Peel. Noah & I by Winterbourne to
see horses. Cold fog & wet.
10.I did chores AM, & in bush, sawed, splitt & piled up wood PM. Noah hauled 3
loads of gravel from S. S. for Osiah Martin.
11.I did chores AM., & in bush PM. Noah by his brother Jonathan over noon,
then at Seth Bauman’s sale. I wrote letters to Eli Bauman Iowa; Eli Weaver,
Ind; & to Amos Rudy Berlin.
12.I did chores AM. & in bush PM. Noah fetched a load of gravel from S. S. for
himself & fetched posts PM.
13.I did chores AM., & in bush PM. Noah in Berlin over noon.
14.SUNDAY: Noah & his girls at Andrew Freeman’s for both meals. My brother
Isaiah here for both meals. Mary Ann Bauman & Mary Ann Weber at Menno
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Fry’s for dinner. Mary Ann Weber at Dan. Bauman’s for supper. Isaiah & I
made a call on Theodore Beisel who lies in bed with a broken leg.
15.I did chores, Noah in town AM. I washed harnesses PM. Grandmother came
in morn, Noah took her home in eve.
16.I did chores & oiled & washed harnesses. Noah fetched Hy. Martin’s wife
(here today) in morn, by his brother Levi and at one Shantz’s sale PM.
17.Noah & I worked at harnesses & cleaned some barely. Mary Ann Bauman at
Eli S. Martin’s quilting.
18.I did chores & oiled harness, Noah at Sarah Bauman on a horse buisness,
then we chopped grain PM.
19.I did chores & made harness together. Noah to Jno. M. Bauman over noon &
exchanged chopped barely on seed mixture.
20.Noah & M. Ann B. in Elmira, I made harness together AM. I drove Noah
down nearly to his brother Jonathan from where he fetched an old cow for
$45. M. Ann W. & I at Israel Shantz’s over night, visited Hattie Lichty, who
worked here.
21.SUNDAY: M. Ann W. & I at Martins’ Meeting, at Ab. Horst’s for dinner & at
Tobias Martin’s for supper. Three of Dan. Bauman’s girls here for dinner to
visit their sister Mary Ann.
22.We did chores & docked a horse AM. then cleaned apple trees PM.
23.We did the chores & cleaned apple trees.
24.Cleaned apple trees AM. Dan & Hy. Ernst were here for dinner. I splitt some
wood.
25.We worked small jobs. Noah at A. Straub’s sale PM. I trimmed oak horse
stall posts PM.
26.I trimmed oak posts, Noah on dog buisness AM. We took posts to Elmira to
get them sawed out PM.
27.Noah fetched a load of gravel & in town PM. I did chores & cleaned apple
trees
28.SUNDAY: Noah, I & M. Ann B. & little girls in WW Meeting. Noah Lichty &
David Bearinger & 3 children of Jonathan Martin here for dinner. Lno.
Lackner’s here for supper.
29.I did chores & cleaned apple trees. Noah in Conestogo to get a horse shod,
PM.
30.We chopped grain AM., & divide potatoes PM. Noah in town in eve. M. Ann
B. at Dav. Martin’s “quilting bee”.
31.I did the chores & worked in barn & cleaned cherry trees. Noah away with
Hy. Brubacher on horse buisness.
APRIL 1909
1. We bagged up potatoes, etc, AM. I worked at oak posts. Noah took potatoes
to Elmira at $.50 @ bag.
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2. We sowed clover seed in morn & worked small jobs AM. I worked at oak
posts, Noah exchanged oats at A. Freeman.
3. I worked small jobs & at the oak posts. Noah in Elmira.
4. SUNDAY: M. Ann W. & I at the SP Meeting, at Elias W Martin’s for dinner, at
Daniel Hoffman’s for supper. Noah’s girls & M. Ann B. up by her parents.
Noah at David Bauman’s for supper. Mild & muddy.
5. We tore old horse stable out, Noah in Elmira. Mild.
6. Noah & I & my father (here today.) worked at the horse stable, rebuilt it, put in
oak posts surrounded with concrete cement. Very warm.
7. Noah, I & my father worked at horse stable all day. High wind.
8. Noah, I & my father worked at horse stalls all day. I took father home in the
evening.
9. GOOD FRIDAY: We all at the WW Meeting. Annanias Martin’s here for
dinner.
10.Noah, I & my father worked at horse stable all day.
11.SUNDAY: EASTER: M. Ann W. & I at the NW Meeting, at Noah B. Martin’s
Jr. for dinner, at Moses Martin’s for supper. Noah & his girls at Hy. Brubacher
for supper. Menno Sauder here for dinner. Chr. Martin’s (Sr.) wife got burried
at Martin
12.EASTER MONDAY: I helped to sow clover seed & did chores; Noah fetched
a young dog from Enoch Burkhardt & at fair AM. My father, Noah & I worked
at chopp chists, etc. Amos Martin here for supper. A “quilting bee” took place
here today.
13.Noah took father’s circular saw home, we did chores & worked small jobs.
Rain & snow PM.
14.Noah in St. Jacobs to fetch mill food & old pipes from Is. & Moses Martin AM.
& in Elmira to get pipes cut for in front of the horses’ troughs PM. I did chores
& other jobs.
15.Noah & I went to Hy. Horst’s to cut straw & fill bed straw sacks AM. I at Eli M.
Martin to help to cement PM.
16.I helped to cement at Eli M. Martin AM. Noah fixed iron pipes in front of the
horses’ troughs AM. We chopped, etc, PM.
17.I helped to cement at Eli M. Martin all day. Noah worked small jobs & took 3
pigs to Elmira at $7.10 per cwt., Wt. av. 170
18.SUNDAY: Noah & his girls at John Martin’s for dinner. M. Ann B. at David
Bauman’s for supper. I at home all day.
19.I shovelled gravel in on road, Noah fetched a load of gravel for Eli M. Martin
AM. I splitt wood & mend harness PM.
20.We planted trees & worked in orchard. Noah & the two Mary Anns in Elmira
PM.
21.Noah & I drawed apple tree twigs out of orchard, chopped some grain &
worked other jobs. Some rain.
22.We repaired & set posts & gates & fence.
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23.I repaired fences. Noah & M. Ann B. at the funeral of Jacob Martin in S. Peel,
aged 68 years AM. Joe Snyder’s here for dinner from the funeral. Noah cut
my hair.
24.I repaired fences & did chores. Noah at D. Hoffman to exchange seed oats
AM., then Noah & his girls in St. Jacobs & visited his father, at Hy. Martin’s for
supper.
25.SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting. John M. Bauman’s, Dan B. Martin’s
here for dinner. Hy. B. Martin’s here for both meals.
26.I repaired fences. Noah & M. Ann. W. at Dan Hoffman’s to prepare for
funeral. Noah & I got out seeding machines & rolled grassfield & ganged in
furrows.
27.I & others at the funeral of Wendel H. Bauman, aged 81yrs. 7mon., 21days.
We made fence awhile PM. Levi L. Martin’s here for supper.
28.I fixed fences & did chores AM, & went to Dan. Hoffman’s over noon to act
hostler, then ganged a little & washed buggy. Noah & M. Ann W. at Dan
Hoffman’s (Jr) child’s funeral. Noah in town in evening.
29.I did chores & cleaned cattle & worked about in barn. Noah & Hy. Lackner at
C. Bowman to see about the big water ditch. Cyrus Cressman’s wife got
burried. A little cold & storms of snow which heaped up banks some 2’ deep.
30.I did chores, worked at a post-hole & sawed wood. Noah fetched mill food
from St. Jacobs, corn per cwt $1.40. Midd $1.30.
MAY 1909
1. I did chores & sawed summer wood etc. Noah in town, PM. Parents awhile
here. Snow storms by jerks.
2. SUNDAY: I was home all day. Noah & his girls at Enos Gingrich’s for
supper. Chr. Martin’s child burried at Martins’. Thick snowstorms by jerks.
(Jno. Martin’s child got burried at N. Woolwich yesterday.)
3. I did chores & sawed up summer wood. Noah took 8 pigs to St. Jacobs, Wt.
1370# @ $.07 ¼ AM. & then took M. Ann B. home.
4. We fastened an end post for a wire fence, patched barn roof & worked other
jobs. M. Ann B. came again tonight.
5. Noah took M. Ann W. over to Grandmother to help her clean house. I splitt &
piled up summer wood AM. We patched roofs, etc; PM.
6. We drawed a little manure, earth & stones, I ganged awhile & Noah
cultivated. Noah fetched M. Ann W. from Grandmother in eve.
7. We drawed some stones & ash, etc; AM. Cleaned up a corner full of small
trees by orchard. Jno. Martin’s child burried at N. Woolwich, last Sat. was the
day the other got burried. We had rain last evening and night.
8. We drawed trees & tops & stones. Noah cultivated & I sowed about 3 acres
in oats. Fine weather.
9. SUNDAY: Noah & his girls by my parents for supper. Noah Horst & Josiah
Gingrich here for supper.
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10.I did the chores, cleaned cattle & splitt wood. Noah in Elmira. Wet & some
rain.
11.I repiled wood in bush & dug apple-stumps partly out etc. Noah & M. Ann W.
helped to wash-out Meeting house, AM. Noah & M. Ann B. helped to prepare
for funeral at Elias Martin’s PM.
12.I drawed apple-tree stumps, ash on land & stones from & I was also in Elmira.
Noah & Dan. Bauman on the “Ditch Buisness” that had arosed hard feeling in
the neighborhood.
13.Noah & I cultivated some, AM. I hostler over noon at Elias Martin’s, Noah &
the girls also at the funeral at Meeting house. Noah cultivated & I sowed oats
PM.
14.I sowed oats awhile & ganged, Noah broadcast AM. Rainy PM. We worked
then small jobs.
15.I did chores & ganged then barely patch. Noah in St. Jacobs & Elmira, AM.
Noah sowed oats. Rain in eve.
16.SUNDAY: M Ann B. & I at Elias W. Martin’s for dinner, at Dav. Martin’s for
supper. Hy. Horst’s & Moses C. Martin’s & Noah’s Aunt Veronica here for
supper.
17.I washed buggy, fixed driving-shed door, etc. Noah fetched about 50 rds. of 9
wire fence at $.44 per rd. from Jno. Martin, Wallenstein, C.P.R. Wetland.
18.Noah fetched tiles from Louis Beisel, lent 380 tiles. I ditched nearly all day.
Jno. Grosz ganged here PM.
19.I ditched AM., & sowed peas PM. Noah helped to tile about all day. Joe
Stange helped about ¾ day. J. Grosz drove horses for us about ¾ day.
20.ASCENSION DAY: Noah, I & M. Ann B. at the Conestogo Meeting AM. I
sowed B. & O., Noah cultivated. Northgraves (nursery agent) here over noon.
We planted trees in eve.
21.I sowed B. & O. & ganged a little AM., harrowed PM. Noah cultivated &
sowed some also.
22.I sowed some black oats & goosewheat & harrowed AM, & sowed with
broadcast seeder PM. Noah sowed AM, and at the “Waterditch Meeting” in
Conestogo PM.
23.SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting. Some young folks here for supper.
24.We drove out to Elmira for Wm. O’Neil, 2 steers, Wt. 2410# @ 5¼; 4 others,
Wt. 3860# @ $.05; 1 heifer (wt. 610#) at $30. Then I ganged at barely patch
& Noah sowed oats.
25.I finished ganging barely patch & sowed barely. Noah cultivated, harrowed &
rolled.
26.I harrowed about 24 acres with 3 horses. Noah rolled some & harrowed
barely patch & ploughed some of root patch.
27.I worked small jobs. Noah got a horse shod in St. Jacobs AM. Noah in
Elmira, I drawed stones from field PM.
28.I drawed stones from field. Noah in Floradale & bo't a long wooden ladder for
$2, from Jno. Brox AM. & also bought of Hy. Gingrich 7 pigs about 3 mon. old
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(small for their age) for $11. We ploughed in mangold patch PM. Drear &
some fine rain.
29.I by my parents, there all day, loading & spreading manure & set power & c.
mixer. Noah worked on mangold patch. Menno Weber lent a horse from
here for about 1 ½ days.
30.SUNDAY: Noah & his girls at Grandmother for dinner, at Recevious Martin’s
for supper. The rest of us at home.
31.I fetched a mangold drill, sowed mangolds & took drill home, harrowed &
rolled potatoe patch. Noah ridged mangold patch & at the WW Meeting. M.
Ann W. at a quilting at Elias Martin’s. M. Ann B. & Noah’s girls up by her
parents nearly all day. Warm.
JUNE 1909
1. I cut potatoes & Noah awhile too. Noah took M. Ann. W. to help to prepare
for funeral at Enos Gingrich’s AM. Noah, I & M. Ann W. planted potatoes.
2. We all at Enos Gingrich’s child’s funeral, I was hustler, aged 1yr. 5mon. I dug
end post hole. Iwan Martin here to stretch up wire fence PM. Chr. Weaver,
Eli Winger & Dan Warner & their wives of Ind. paid here a call. Sam. Horst’s
& Hy. Horsts came along too. Warm.
3. I by my parents helped to build silo all day. Noah worked at wire fence post &
rolled land. Warm.
4. I by my parents helped to build silo & to butcher the 1st
beef of this season, all
day. Noah & Moses Bauman build some wire fence AM. Menno Wideman
Sr. here for dinner on a visit. Noah rolled land after supper.
5. I did chores & rolled land. Noah fetched beef AM. Noah & M. Ann B. in
Elmira PM.
6. SUNDAY: Noah & his girls at Esther Ziegler, Waterloo, for dinner, at Sol.
Lichty’s for supper. M. Ann B. & M. Ann W. at Aaron Weber’s for both meals.
I at home all day.
7. I rolled land nearly all day. Noah at fair. Cool.
8. I worked to hang on an iron gate & stretch a barb wire along on top of a fence.
Noah in St. Jacobs AM. We pulled googles in wheat PM.
9. Noah & I pulled googles about ¾ day & place rails on fence.
10.I laid rails on fence, cut washers for vehicles, etc. Noah & I repaired some
fence. Chopped some grain.
11.I tied down top-rails on fence, etc. Noah in town AM. Noah & I cut thistles in
peas PM.
12.We cut thistles in peas & hauled a load of hay from D. shed into barn. Noah
bo’t a calf about 6 or 7 wks old for $5. from Ceiling, North of Elmira.
13.SUNDAY: Hy. Horst’s & Noah with his girls at Martin’s Meeting, at Paul
Martin’s for dinner, at Enos Martin’s for supper. M. Ann. W. & comrades at
Martin’s Meeting. Drear, rain & hail in eve.
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14.I cut thistles & pulled yellow dock & worked a few other jobs. Noah at
Conestogo Meeting & worked other jobs. M. Ann W. cut thistles.
15.We worked some small jobs & drawed out 34 loads of manure. Menno
Weber helped ½ day PM.
16.We drawed out about 42 loads of manure & spread a little. Menno Weber
helped all day. About 76 lds. on 8 acres.
17.Noah in St. Jacobs to get heavy team shod, I worked small jobs AM. We
spread manure PM. Some rain. Noah sold to Everatt’s a calf, age about 1
mon. Wt. about 106# for $4.75.
18.Noah & I shovelled & hauled gravel about all day & spread some manure after
supper.
19.I hauled on highways AM. & Noah PM. Noah in Elmira & fetched beef AM. I
spread manure PM. John Lichty here over night.
20.SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting. Alvin Weber, Manassa Martin & sister,
Johnnason Martin & 2 sisters, Menno Hoffman’s here for dinner. Scylas &
Annie Martin here for supper. Ohio preachers were at Meeting, Dan Martin &
Jac. Weber.
21.Noah & I ploughed AM, cut thistles, M. Ann W. helped PM.
22.We ploughed fallow nearly all day, cut thistles after supper. A little rain at
noon. Hot weather. M. Ann B. at quilting at Hy. Gingrich’s.
23.Noah & I ploughed fallow AM. Noah in Elmira & bro’t a McCormick hay rake,
32 teeth, 10 feet wide, for $28. We cut thistles.
24.Noah & I ploughed fallow AM. Noah scuffled mangolds, I & girls cleaned
some, Noah helped after supper.
25.Noah & I ploughed fallow nearly all day & cleaned mangolds.
26.I ploughed about ¾ day, & Noah AM., finished ploughing fallow for the 1st
time; I then cleaned mangolds. Noah & Hy. Lackner in Conestogo to see
township clerk, etc. A very warm week & the ground a little dry.
27.SUNDAY: Mary Ann Bauman & I at the Conestogo Meeting, at Hy. B.
Martin’s for dinner, Noah & his girls at Menno Weber’s for supper.
28.We cleaned some mangolds & cut thistles, the 2 Mary Anns helped. Noah in
town PM. Jacob Dunke burried.
29.We cut thistles, girls helped PM. We pulled googles after supper.
30.We cut thistles, girls helped some. We pulled googles after supper.
JULY 1909
1. We cut thistles, girls helped some. We pulled googles after supper.
2. We cut thistles, M. Ann W. helped about ¾ day. I hauled in summer wood
after supper. Noah in Elmira after supper to see about the water ditch. Some
rain to-night.
3. I harrowed fallow AM. I cut thistles, M. Ann W. helped awhile PM. Noah in
Elmira & fetched beef AM; took his girls to Hy. Martin’s after dinner & then
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went to Court of Revision, of water ditch, in Conestogo. Noah sometimes
away & neighbors here during past week to consider over said ditch.
4. SUNDAY: M. Ann W. & I at the NW Meeting, at Menno M. Bauman’s for
dinner, at Isacc Gingrich’s for supper. Daniel Bauman’s & Hy. Ziegler here for
dinner. We at Meeting PM.
5. Noah & I cleaned mangles AM. Noah & girls cut thistles & cleaned mangles.
I helped to shingle barn roof by my parents.
6. I helped at father’s roof AM. Isaiah & I then went over to Noah & with others
cleaned mangles PM.
7. Noah, I, Isaiah all day, Mary Ann nearly all day cleaned some mangles & cut
thistles.
8. Noah, I Isaiah (here all day) scuffled & hoed potatoes & cut thistles. M. Ann
W. helped PM.
9. We uprooted burdocks, rolled fallow & cut thistles.
10.I disced fallow with 4 horse team & mowed a few thistles. Noah in Waterloo.
Rain, tonight, accompanied by lightning & thunder.
11.SUNDAY: M. Ann B. & I at Martin’s Meeting AM & PM, at Eli Horst’s for
dinner, at Allen Knorr’s for supper. Noah & his girls at Hy. Gingrich’s for
supper.
12.I mowed grass with sycthe & Noah with mower a little. I pulled out burdocks,
helped Noah move implements & cut thistles. I washed at riggs after supper.
13.I mowed fence corners out & cut thistles. Noah & M. Ann W. helped each
awhile. Noah mowed with mower. I harrowed after supper. Noah in St.
Jacobs to fetch feed.
14.I finished harrowing fallow & then we stirred up hay, drawed in 7 loads of hay
Eli Martin helped ½ day, his laborer about ¾ day. Warm. Norman Spaeth
burried.
15.We awhile at Eli to make hay till rain came shortly after noon, then I chopped
oats & Noah in Elmira.
16.We worked at a chopp bin, father helped AM. Noah & I helped at Eli to put
away hay, about 7 loads.
17.I scuffled potatoes & ganged some of fallow, Noah fetched beef & worked at
bin AM. We at Eli to put away hay, about 5 loads.
18.SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting. I & girls in Peel Meeting PM. M. Ann
B. by her parents for supper. Dav. Bauman’s here for supper.
19.Noah & I mowed grass AM. Noah & I at Eli to put away hay, 6 loads, PM.
20.Noah & I mowed grass & I raked & worked a little up in barn AM. Drawed in 8
loads of hay, 2 of Eli’s helped.
21.I at the driving shed raising at Osiah Martin, then I, Noah, & Eli’s laborer
unloaded some hay, a little rain AM. We hauled in about 2 loads hay, ganged
fallow & scuffled potatoes.
22.I ganged fallow, Noah in town AM., then we worked at chopp bin. I took Beef
Ring steer to father. Rain PM.
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23.I helped to load manure at Menno Weber about ½ day. Noah at Eli to move
woodshed, etc. Drear & some rain.
24.I spread manure at Menno Weber, Noah in town, took beef hide out ($.09)
AM. I mowed thistles, Noah ganged in fallow PM.
25.SUNDAY: I & girls in the afternoon Meeting at Conestogo. Noah & his girls
at David B. Martin’s.
26.Noah harrowed fallow & scuffled mangles AM. We & girls cleaned mangles
for the 2nd
time PM. Noah fetched some tiles after supper & replaced them at
L. Beisel.
27.Noah & I cleaned bal. of mangles & drawed out manure, Menno Weber
helped nearly ½ day. Hy. Martin’s wife & Judith Weber here for dinner.
28.Noah, I & M. Weber drawed out manure on sod AM. Noah & I got binder out
& then he bindered wheat & I shocked some.
29.We bindered & shocked wheat & spread manure. M. Weber helped ½ dy.
AM. Noah bindered wheat & I shocked PM. A little rain. Warm.
30.Noah & I ploughed fallow AM. Noah ploughed with 2-furrowed plow in fallow.
I shocked some wheat & finished spreading manure on sod.
31.Noah ploughed about all day. I mowed weeds in bush AM & scuffled mangles
PM.
AUGUST 1909
1. SUNDAY: Noah & his girls & Hy. Martin’s at Levi Weber’s for dinner, at Geo.
Musselman’s for supper. I & the two Mary Ann’s at the NW Afternoon
Meeting.
2. I at Eli Martin nearly all day, tore up old woodshed foundation wall. Noah
ploughed in fallow. We fetched a load of wheat after supper. Isaiah Kinzie &
horses here over night.
3. Noah & I hauled in about 9 loads of wheat.
4. Noah & I ploughed fallow & set up thrashing machine AM. Hy. Martin here
about ¾ day. We thrashed 5 loads of wheat & a small load for Eli, 2 of Eli’s
helped PM. About 15 lds. of wheat from about 10 ac.
5. I raked wheat patch & Noah ploughed in fallow, then we fetched in rakings
AM. We at Eli to tare off wall & ploughed sod a little after supper. Warm.
6. Noah & I ploughed sod nearly all day, thrashed wheat rakings & jopped grain
a little at noon. Warm.
7. I ploughed sod nearly all day; Noah ploughed awhile & in Elmira AM, then at
Hy. Martin’s to haul coals for him. M. Ann W. & I at Nathan Clemmer’s over
night. Very warm.
8. SUNDAY: M. Ann W. & I at Martin’s Meeting AM & PM, at Israel Gingrich’s
for dinner, at Ab. Martin’s for supper. My parents & Reuben Bauman’s here
for dinner.
9. Noah & I ploughed sod. Noah & M. Ann W. in Elmira.
10.Noah & I ploughed sod. Noah & his girls at AW Weber’s.
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11.Noah ploughed sod all day, & I ploughed AM & harrowed PM.
12.Noah & I ploughed bal. of sod, pulled out a few stumps, drawed a few stones
& wood. Noah disced some sod, & I painted wooden pickets on wire fence
after supper.
13.Noah disced all day on sod, I painted pickets & pulled out some weeds in
potatoe patch.
14.I in town & fetched beef AM, I at the afternoon Meeting for the young people,
at WW; Amos Rudy here this eve. & night. Noah disced sod. Dan. L. Martin’s
here overnight too.
15.SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting AM. Young people (I included) got
Baptized. Elias W. Martin’s, Joshua Rudy’s & young folks here for dinner,
Allen Knorr & a few young folks here for supper.
16.I painted fence pickets, Noah harrowed sod AM. I grinded reaping knives PM.
Rainy PM.
17.I patched harness AM. & harrowed bal. of sod & some of fallow. Noah away
again on the “Ditch Buisness”.
18.I harrowed bal. of fallow, Noah took away 12 hens, wt. 62# @ $.07 & then
Noah bindered barely & I shocked.
19.We cleaned wheat awhile, then Noah bindered grain & I shocked.
20.We worked some small jobs in morn. Noah bindered oats & I shocked. Cool
weather.
21.We worked small jobs, bindered & shocked oats.
22.SUNDAY: M. Ann B. & I at the Conestogo Meeting, at Dav. Sauder’s for
dinner. Ma. Ann. W. at Hy. Gingrich’s for supper. Noah & his girls at Enos
Bauman’s (she was ill) for dinner, at Henry B. Martin’s for supper.
23.We made off peas, Noah mowed, M. Ann W. & I rolled them aside. Dav.
Bauman’s child died. M. Ann. B. & Noah helped at the funeral preparations. I
ploughed in the evening & waked at David’s over night.
24.I ploughed, Noah helped to dig grave for David’s child AM. Noah & I at Eli
Martin drawing in grain till to supper then we drawed in 2 loads of ours after
supper.
25.We all at David Bauman’s child’s (Noah) funeral, aged 11 months & 25 days,
AM. Noah awhile at David’s yet, I helped to thrash at Jacob Fries PM. Noah
bindered.
26.Noah bindered oats & I shocked AM. We thrashed peas & other grain PM. ½
day.
27.We worked in barn awhile then Noah cut oats & I shocked.
28.I worked about barn & Noah fetched beef, then we drawed in barely. A little
rain at noon. We cut & shocked bal. of oats. Drawed in grain after supper.
Rain to-night.
29.SUNDAY: I at home all day. Apsolom Martin’s here for supper.
30.Noah & I ploughed a little in fallow & disced some of sod intended to be sown
in wheat, AM, & drawed in grain PM.
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31.I harrowed & sowed wheat on prepared sod. Noah ploughed fallow AM. &
bindered some oats & goosewheat.
SEPTEMBER 1909
1. I at Hy. Brubacher to thrash AM, & ploughed in fallow PM. Noah in town &
ploughed awhile AM. Noah’s father here for supper on a visit. Cool.
2. We ploughed in fallow awhile in morn, then we hauled in some oats & cut bal.
of B. & O & shocked.
3. Noah & I ploughed bal. of fallow AM. Drawed in oats, I harrowed some of
fallow PM. Busy week.
4. We harrowed fallow. Hy. Lackner fetched seed wheat from here. Hy.
Martin’s here nearly all day. We unloaded some oats. I sowed fallow in
wheat. Some fog & rain.
5. SUNDAY: I here at home all day. Noah & his girls at Grandmother for
supper. Annie & Leah Bauman visited girls.
6. I harrowed fallow in morn. Hy. Martin here about ¾ day. Dav. Bauman
helped ½ day PM. hauling in about 14 loads of oats. Eli Martin fetched drill &
seed wheat. The two Mary Anns at the funeral of John Brubacher, aged 81
years, 4 months & 25 days.
7. I raked grain in morn then we fetched in grain.
8. I raked grain in morn then we fetched in grain. Noah in town in morning. We
burned grass & weeds in eve.
9. I raked in morn, fetched in rakings, Noah helped AM. Noah & M. Ann B. in
town in afternoon. I disced sod & ganged PM.
10.I ganged nearly all day, Noah did some light ploughing. We put implements in
order in shed.
11.I ganged all day. Noah fetched beef & ganged.
12.SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting AM. Israel Gingrich’s & Peter Ziegler’s
here for dinner. Sol. Lichty’s & Seth Bauman’s here for supper. M. Ann W. &
I at Geo. M. Bauman’s for supper.
13.I ganged nearly all day. Noah in town AM., & ganged awhile PM. We hauled
a few stones.
14.I ganged nearly all day & piled wood in shed. Noah ganged & drawed in
wood. Warm & dry.
15.Noah hauled in wood & I piled nearly all day. A little rain.
16.HARVEST MEETING: We all except Alvina at the Harvest Meeting AM. We
drawed in some wood & ganged PM. Jacob Fry (with 1 arm) burried at N.
Woolwich PM.
17.I helped to re-open ditch at Menno Webers AM. I helped to thrash at Osiah
Martin PM. Noah ganged & in town in eve. My parents came home from
Jordan.
18.I helped to re-open ditch at M. Weber all day. Noah at the funeral of widow
Daniel Martin, aged 69 yrs. Noah in Waterloo PM.
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19.SUNDAY: Noah & his girls by my parents for dinner, at Daniel Bauman’s for
supper, I up in Peel after supper.
20.Noah & I ganged nearly all day. Jopped awhile at noon.
21.I ganged all day, Noah AM. Noah, Minerva & the two Ms Anns at SP Meeting
PM. (Last Thur. there was also a Harvest Meeting at S. Peel; there were 4
men elected for a Deacon & today a Meeting was called to make the Deacon,
but, owing to misunderstandings & disturbances in church affairs, was post-
poned)
22.I ganged & harrowed about all day. Noah did small jobs.
23.Noah & I & 3 horses at Eli hauling manure nearly all day. Some rain at noon.
Yesterday it was dreary.
24.Noah, & I & 3 horses at Eli hauling manure a little over a half a day, then
worked small jobs. Rain in eve.
25.I ganged AM. Noah in town, fetched beef AM. & looked for steers PM. I,
Isaiah, Isaiah Weber & A. Rudy & 4 girls at Edward Spaeth’s for supper &
night.
26.SUNDAY: We at Tilman Weber’s, Bridgeport, for dinner, at Levi Weber’s for
supper. Noah made a call at N. Bearinger.
27.I ganged, Noah looked for steers AM. I loaded manure & Noah unloaded,
drawed out 13 loads PM.
28.Noah & I up at Jesse Snider to fetch steers, bo’t by the head 2 (Wt. about
850# each @ $.04) steers $34 each, 1 (Wt. about 600# @ $.03 ½) for about
$21. We drawed 17 loads manure.
29.We worked small jobs, cleaned wheat. I ganged & Noah harrowed nearly ½
day PM. Rainy AM.
30.I ganged & Noah harrowed about all AM. Some rain. We spread manure &
worked small jobs PM.
OCTOBER 1909
1. I ganged all day (finished). Noah harrowed AM & took some wheat to Elmira,
Price $.98, test 62, PM.
2. I harrowed, did chores & in town in eve. Noah, his girls, his outfit & Hy.
Horst’s went visiting down in & towards Dumfries this morning.
3. SUNDAY: Noah away all day. M. Ann Weber & I by my Parents for dinner.
M. Ann B. at her home.
4. I harrowed AM. Started fall ploughing PM. Noah came back from his visit this
evening.
5. Noah & I drawed out about 20 loads of manure, cleaned manure yard, all day.
Warm.
6. I helped to fill silo, about ¼ day by my parents. Then I raised & topped off
mangles. Others drawed in mangles about 11 loads, Jno.Grosz helped all
day.
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7. Noah, I & girls awhile PM, made out & drawed away mangles, about 10 loads.
Nice weather.
8. I worked small jobs in morn. Noah fetched Lackner’s potatoe plow. We dug
out & drawed in about 2 loads of potatoes, girls helped awhile PM. Warm.
9. I dug out potatoes, Noah in Elmira, AM. Noah & I finished at potatoes &
chopped grain, and prepared for thrashing for Menno Weber PM.
10.SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting AM. Cyranes Ziegler’s and Enos M.
Bauman’s here for dinner.
11.We set machines & thrashed about 8 ½ hours for Menno M. Weber today.
12.Noah & I set machines & thrashed about 6 hours for Jno. Grosz. Noah
bought an aged cow for $18 from Grosz. Windy.
13.I ploughed AM. I helped to thrash at Jac. Fries ½ day, PM. Noah fetched a
load of mangolds at $.08 @ bu. from Dan. L. Martin.
14.Noah, I & girls gathered apples & prepared for cidering. Noah & I fetched
some sweet apples, at $.10 a bag, from Eli Martin.
15.Noah got cider made & apple butter cooked AM, & ploughed awhile PM. I
ploughed nearly all day & worked a few small jobs.
16.We drawed hay from D. Shed into barn & worked a few small jobs & ploughed
some. Rainy. I & some other young folks at Syranes Ziegler’s over night.
17.SUNDAY: I & others at Hy. B. Brubacher’s for dinner, at Joshua Brubacher’s
for supper. Hy. Ziegler here for a call PM.
18.I worked small jobs, fetched a horse of Eli’s AM. We ploughed PM. I fetched
26 bags of oats at $.36 a bu. from Grosz after supper.
19.We ploughed all day,-I with single plow & Noah with double.
20.Noah & M. Ann B. in Elmira AM. We chopped grain a little at noon. I
ploughed all day, Noah PM.
21.We worked small jobs, drear & rainy AM. We ploughed awhile, rainy PM.
22.We ploughed awhile in morn & then chopped oats AM. We ploughed PM.
Rainy, sometimes.
23.I ploughed with single plow all day, Noah with sulky, We at Hy. Martin’s, I took
my watch to D. Brubacher, watchmaker, St. Jacobs, to get it fixed.
24.SUNDAY: I at home all day. Noah & his girls at Menno M. Bauman for
dinner, at Aaron M. Bauman’s for supper.
25.We ploughed all day. Noah hitched up a colt for the 1st
time.
26.We ploughed, I all day, Noah with colts PM. Noah drawed to Elmira, for
O’Neil, 2 hogs, wt. 390# @ $.07 ½.
27.Noah & I helped to thrash at Dav. Bauman’s ½ day AM. We ploughed,-I with
sulky & Noah with single & colt.
28.I ploughed on sulky plow all day, Noah with single & colts; M. Ann Weber at
Grandma today & yesterday.
29.We drawed hay from driving-shed into barn in morn, then we ploughed, I with
sulky.
30.We ploughed, I with sulky all day & Noah nearly all day.
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31.SUNDAY: M. Ann Bauman & I at the Peel Meeting, at Josiah S. Martin’s for
dinner, at Menno Martin’s for supper.
NOVEMBER 1909
1. We ploughed, I with sulky all day, & Noah nearly all day.
2. I ploughed a few rounds in morn., washed buggy & cleaned engine & etc. We
chopped a little. Light rain.
3. Noah & I helped to thrash at Eli M. Martin all day. Mild.
4. Noah & I helped to thrash at Eli M. Martin awhile in morn., then at Hy. Horst’s
about ¼ day AM. Noah at Horst for Hy. B. We ploughed PM. I received my
watch from D. B., St. Jacobs.
5. I helped to thrash at Hy. Horst AM., Noah ploughed AM. I finished ploughing
& harrowed. Noah awhile at H. Hass’s sale.
6. Noah & I put apples down into cellar in morn., then Noah went to St. Jacobs
to fetch mill feed (bran $1.10) & at Hy. S. Martin’s to plough. I ganged root-
patch & did chorse.
7. SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting. Titus Bauman & sister here for dinner,
some young folks here for supper.
8. We worked at drain to refix it in front of house and worked a few other jobs.
9. I worked at drain. Noah in St. Jacobs to let horses shod & fetched gravel for
chickens AM. We picked small stones on grassfield PM.
10.Noah & I set separator & thrashed oats, a little, & chopped grain, fetched
some hay over & picked small stones.
11.We picked small stones off grassfield in morn., then I removed earth for a
drain, at about middle of N. end of farm; Noah worked awhile at ditching &
ploughed sod, a little.
12.I worked about buildings & at house cellar toll-drain, to re-open. Noah fetched
1300 two & ½” tiles @ $9 per M from Stroh.
13.I did chores & re-opened at cellar-drain, Noah in Elmira. We thrashed ¼ day
in afternoon, a few neighbors helped. We chopped.
14.SUNDAY: M. Ann W. & I at Conestogo Meeting, at Hy. B. Martin’s for dinner,
at Oziah Martin’s for supper. Noah & Menno Weber went together to
Meeting. Menno’s & my parents here for dinner.
15.Noah & I ditched for tiles all day, we had a digger plow of Elmira; Joe Stange,
1 of E. Martin & Noah Hurst helped us all day.
16.Noah & I, 1 of Hy. Lackner (J.G.) & Eli Martin’s laborer worked at tile ditch
about ¼ day. I worked other small jobs; Icy and rainy nearly all day.
17.Noah, I & 1 of Hy. Lackner (J.G.) worked at tile ditch AM., Noah also PM; I
helped to thrash ½ day, PM at Oziah Martin.
18.I helped to thrash at Oziah Martin all day. Noah & M. Ann W., in Elmira, Noah
worked at tile ditch.
19.I helped to thrash about an hour in morn. at Oz. Martin. We finished putting in
tiles in N. end of farm; I worked at toll.
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20.Noah & I worked at house-cellar drain, I covered tiles & did chorse PM. Noah
in Elmira. M. Ann W. with others visited relatives.
21.SUNDAY: I at home all day; Noah & his girls at Hy. Horst’s for dinner. M.
Ann W. visited relatives round by Breaslau.
22.Noah & I chopped grain & worked other jobs in buildings. Cold rain & icy
about all day, trees laden with sleet.
23.I did chores, clipped steer, & other jobs. Noah in Elmira.
24.I did chores & small jobs; Noah in St. Jacobs, fetched 2 pigs from Hy. Martin
to butcher them here; We prepared for butchering & worked at chopp slide.
25.We & Hy. Martin’s butchered at their 2 hogs nearly all day.
26.I helped to thrash at Dan Bauman all day. Noah took butcher ware home &
did the chorse.
27.I helped Noah to finish chopp slide, I did chorse etc. Mild.
28.SUNDAY: My bro. Isaiah & I at Martin’s Meeting at Enos Martin’s for dinner,
at Joshua Rudy’s for supper. M. Ann W. & others down at Meeting too. G. M.
Bauman’s & Hy. Lackner’s here for dinner.
29.We worked small jobs AM. Removed stumps in field PM.
30.We did the chorse & digged out stumps in field. Mild.
DECEMBER 1909
1. We did chorse & digged out stumps in field. Mild Weather.
2. I did chorse, Noah in Floradale AM. We digged out stumps PM. Jonathan
Martin’s Josiah here on a visit over noon.
3. We hauled out of fields the stumps we had recently pulled & a big stone. I
washed stable windows.
4. I did chorse, plastered a patch in house, brushed down cobwebs in stables,
etc. Noah in Elmira, he & his girls visited his father Levi, over supper. A Nice
week.
5. SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting; Oziah Martin’s here for dinner. A party
of young people here for supper.
6. We chopped grain & worked small jobs. Dan Ratz, Elmira, got burried.
7. Noah & I cut up wood awhile that lay on ground AM. We set thrashing
machines, etc. PM.
8. I in bush AM., in Elmira to get boots & shoes PM. Noah in Berlin to get
gasoline 40 gal. @ $.17 ½. Stormy.
9. We worked small jobs AM. We thrashed ½ day PM.
10.I worked in barn AM. We awhile in bush PM.
11.We thrashed about ¼ day AM. I did chorse & other jobs, then in eve. I &
chums went to Paul M. Martin’s.
12.SUNDAY: We at Cyrus Shantz’s for dinner, made a call at Ezra Bauman’s to
visit Menno Wideman, who had a broken leg, we at Josiah Bauman’s to visit
Eszra Bauman, there for supper. Cold & sleet in eve.
13.I did chorse & other jobs. Noah at fair. Rainy.
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14.I in bush cut up top-wood all day. Noah hauled a load gravel.
15.We opened pit & hauled 3 loads gravel & 1 load of sand.
16.Noah in St. Jacobs (to let Gordia shod). We hauled 3 loads of gravel for
cementing & 3 loads sand for masonary. We fetched gravel from J. DeKay’s
pit. Meeting of matter of Dan B. Weber. Sleighing.
17.We hauled home 5 loads gravel & 2 loads sand.
18.We hauled home 7 loads gravel & 3 loads sand. Hy. Lackner’s laborer (J.G.)
helped all day. Noah got team shod in morn.
19.SUNDAY: Noah & his girls at Reub. Bauman’s for dinner. I & the two Mary
Anns at Amos Gingrich’s for dinner.
20.I did chorse & splitt wood, Noah helped to butcher at Hy. Horst’s AM. I in
bush, Noah & M. Ann W. in Elmira, PM.
21. I worked round buildings AM. I at Amel Lenan’s sale, Noah went over a little
before noon.
22.I did chorse, cleaned cattle, put melted lard & coil oil on them & awhile in
bush. Noah butchered about ½ day at Reub. Bauman.
23.I helped to thrash a little over ½ day, helped to get machines through snow, in
morn, to Hy. Brubacher. Noah helped Hy. Lackner hauling saw-logs to
Bloomingdale.
24.I helped to thrash at Hy. Brubacher ½ day AM. Noah fetched butcherware
AM., I cut Noah’s hair & awhile in bush, PM.
25.CHRISTMAS: We all at the WW Meeting. M. Ann W. & I by my parents for
supper (cousin Susanna Spaeth there)
26.SUNDAY: Urias Beuhler’s child’s funeral at Conestogo. Noah & his girls at
Benj. Martin’s for dinner & awhile at N. Bearinger’s. I at home, wrote letters to
A. R. & M. Wideman.
27.We prepared for butchering & did other jobs AM., I in bush & Noah in St.
Jacobs & fetched ¼ beef from Dav. Martin.
28.We butchered 4 hogs, my father & Hy. Martin’s helped all day.
29.I worked about in buildings all day; we chopped grain PM. My father & Hy.
Martin here for dinner & part of the day, talking about a strawshed, to be build.
Cold.
30.Noah & I hauled stones home from Eli Martin which we had piled up from an
old wall.
31.Noah & I hauled stones home from Eli Martin AM. I did chorse & awhile in
bush PM. Noah away on buisness PM.
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DIARY 1910
ANGUS S. BAUMAN
JANUARY
1. NEW YEAR’S DAY: Noah & I at Conestogo Meeting AM. Annie Bauman
here for dinner. Noah & his girls at Eli M. Martin’s for supper.
2. SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting. Mose Weber, M. Wideman, Eli Horst &
girls here for dinner. M. Ann B. & I at Annie Bauman (widow) for supper.
Noah’s nephew E. Martin here for supper.
3. We worked round in buildings, chopped grain & prepared for thrashing. D. L.
Martin & Jonas Bauman here for dinner. Stormy.
4. We thrashed all day; Cold weather.
5. Noah & M. Ann B. by my parents to butcher all day. I did chorse & other
small jobs. Sleet in morning.
6. I did chorse & splitt wood AM., I in bush PM. Hy. Martin & Noah went away to
see horses.
7. I did chorse, hung up hams, awhile in bush & fetched scholars. Noah & Hy.
Martin away after horses. Nich. Hedrich’s funeral.
8. I did chorse, Noah & M. Ann B. in Elmira, AM. I mend harness & robe PM.
Noah by Hartshoch, St. Clemens. Hy. M. bro’t a colt.
9. SUNDAY: Noah with Aaron Weber’s at Conestogo Meeting. Rest of us at
home.
10.Noah & I at Elmira fair AM. I mend at robe PM. Noah & Hy. Martin along bo’t
holstein heifer for $4 (4 days old) from R. Bauman.
11.I did chorse, in bush cut up top-wood, etc. Noah at Enos Martin’s bought a
grey mare, supposed to rise 4 years old, for $150; Noah & Hy. Martin in
Elmira with colt.
12.I in bush nearly all day. Noah hauled wood together PM. We drawed bal. of
hay from D. Shed into barn. Mild.
13.Noah & I helped to thrash at David Bauman all day.
14.I helped to thrash at David Bauman about ¼ day. We cleaned wheat & did
chorse. Stormy weather.
15.I did the chorse, awhile in bush, etc.; Noah took wheat to Elmira,--33 bu.,
price $1.04, test 62, AM; at Beef Ring Meeting.
16.SUNDAY: We all at home. Ezra Martin’s Scylas and Ezra & Ab. Martin here
for dinner. Hy. Ziegler here for both meals. M. Ann B. with brethern away
visiting.
17.Noah took his horse, of Eby, up to Listowel, for $145. Noah & Dav. Martin
with one of his & 1 of D. Cressman’s went together. I did chorse & drawed
wood together in bush. Misty these days.
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18.I worked about in barn, cleaned engine & cattle & fetched scholars. Noah at
sale of Dan Weber, Conestogo, & fetched a grey mare, to rise 4 years old, for
$150 from Enos Martin. Rain & snow storm.
19.I put sulphur on cattle, worked the chorse; Noah in Elmira, AM. I in bush;
Noah & Hy. Martin hitched up colts, PM.
20.I in bush; Noah & Hy. Martin at the funeral of Jno. M. Lichty’s child at N.
Woolwich, AM. We tinkered at engine and chopped grain awhile. Mild
weather.
21.I in bush AM. We chopped awhile, Dan. Hoffman fixed at engine PM. Some
rain & snow mixed.
22.We worked in buildings; Noah cut my hair; I cleaned cattle. Noah re-bought
colt from Hy. Martin.
23.SUNDAY: Noah & his girls at Hy. B. Martin’s for dinner. Eli (bro.) here for
dinner.
24.M. Ann W. & I helped to butcher at Geo. M. Bauman about ¾ day. Noah
fetched cedar posts at $.20 each from Peter Martin.
25.I fetched Judith Weber, then attended wedding of Sylvester to see them get
married in afternoon. Noah & Grandmother down too.
26.We in bush & etc. AM; Noah hauled logs to Floradale saw-mill.
27.I worked about the buildings; Noah in St. Jacobs, AM.
28.I helped to thrash at Dan. Bauman all day.
29.I helped to thrash at Dan. Bauman ½ day AM & worked small jobs, Noah out
after horses AM., & took the grey mare of E. Martin to St. Jacobs, for $160,
for Fidas Shantz, Berlin.
30.SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting; Hy. Brenerman, of N. Michigan at Meeting
(preacher); Peter Bauman’s here for dinner. Aaron Weber’s here for supper.
I at my parents for supper.
31.I did chores & awhile in bush AM., I hauled logs to mill & timber home, PM.
M. Ann B. at Rec. Martin’s preparing for funeral.
FEBRUARY 1910
1. M. Ann W. & I helped at funeral of Recevious Martin’s child’s funeral, Noah
attended funeral also & away after horses.
2. I in bush awhile AM., hauled logs to mill & timber home PM. Noah fetched
(part ways) a brown horse, rising 3 yrs, for $170.
3. Noah & I at Dan. Hoffman’s to see about horses AM. I worked about barn.
Horse buyers here for dinner & bought a mare for $210,-the mare of Aaron
Hoffman. Heavy snowfall last night.
4. We made saw-logs AM. I cut topwood & Noah hauled logs, PM.
5. I worked the chorse & awhile in bush cut topwood. Noah in Elmira AM & by
his father for supper.
6. SUNDAY: I drove M. Ann B. home AM. & fetched her again, then she & I at
Dav. B. Bauman’s for supper. Amos M. Martin’s here for dinner.
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7. I worked in barn AM., & hauled logs to & stuff from mill, PM. Noah in St.
Jacobs AM. & at Elmira fair PM. Cold weather.
8. I did chorse, cleaned cattle, etc. Noah & A. Freeman away after horses all
day; Noah fetched & bo’t a brown horse,-recommended to rise 4 years old for
$170 from Wismer, this side of Linwood.
9. I did chorse & splitt wood. Noah with Hy. Lackner to fetch a horse AM. We
awhile in bush, PM.
10.I did chorse AM. & cut up elm top-wood PM. Noah helped to butcher at Eli M.
Martin’s nearly all day.
11.We chopped grain, I cleaned cattle. Hy. Martin here for dinner. Cold.
12.I did chores, cleaned cattle & drove girls to Menno Weber’s. Noah at funeral
of Joe Snider’s child, at Martins.
13.SUNDAY: My brother Isaiah & I at the NW Meeting. (Noah L. Martin & Eliza
Clemmer got published) I drove M. Ann W. & Isaiah up to Peel PM. Noah
came home in eve.
14.I did chores & helped Noah to make way & take log away.
15.I did chores & took log up to mill & planks home. Noah in St. Jacobs AM. & in
Elmira, PM. Sleet & stormy.
16.I did chorse AM. & in bush PM. Noah took the two Mary Anns to quilting at
Menno Weber’s. Cold.
17.I did chores etc; Noah sold to Hy. Ziegler a sorrel colt, rising 3 years old for
$140. AM.; Noah & I took logs to mill & building stuff home. Noah sold fat
cattle to Brox. Cold.
18.Noah & I made logs & hauled logs to mill & lumber home. Noah in Elmira.
Cold weather.
19.We hauled logs to mill AM. I did chorse & awhile in bush PM. Noah took his
girls to Hy. Martin’s for over night.
20.SUNDAY: Noah away all day. Isaiah Weber & Noah Bearinger here for
dinner.
21.I did chores & splitt wood, AM. I in bush, Noah hauled logs PM.
22.I did chores & awhile in bush, Noah hauled logs & lumber AM. We made
sawlogs PM. Simon Ratz’s funeral.
23.We did chores & chopped grain, etc. Stormy.
24.I did chorse & cleaned cattle. M. Ann B. & I at the burial of Annie Frey (aged
22yrs. 1 mon., 15 days) committed suicide, at N. Woolwich. Noah hauled a
log to saw-mill.
25.I did chorse, Noah hauled log to mill, AM. We hauled logs, etc., PM.
26.I hauled logs to mill in morn. & did chorse. Noah in Elmira Am., then he & his
girls went away for the wedding.
27.SUNDAY: M. Ann W., M. Ann B. & I at the WW Meeting AM. The girls went
to Menno Weber’s for dinner; M. Ann B. at Aaron Weber’s for supper. Noah &
Eliza got married.
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28.I took a heavy brown mare, rising 5 years old, (Bell) out to Elmira for $215.
For Auman, AM. I did chorse & small jobs PM. Noah with his new wife came
home in eve.
MARCH 1910
1. We prepared for butchering AM. My father, Noah & I butchered 2 old cows
PM. Father here over night. Mild.
2. We butchered 4 pigs (1 for Hy. Martin). My father & Hy. Martin’s wife helped
all day. Eli M. Martin helped AM. Mild.
3. Noah took Everatt 1 front qter. Beef 148# @ $.08 & 2 beef hides 89# & 64#
@ $.08, & took butcherware home AM. Noah took Mary Ann Bauman home
for good PM. I did chorse, etc.
4. We cleaned wheat. Noah took a load to Elmira, test 62#, Price $1.03 AM & a
load to St. Jacobs, test 62#, price $1.06 PM. I did chorse.
5. Noah at St. Jacobs, fetched Lavina AM. Noah & Lavina in Elmira PM. I did
chorse & small jobs. A mild week.
6. SUNDAY: M. Ann W. & I at Joshua Bowman’s for dinner, I at Josiah W.
Martin’s for supper, Mary Ann at Jacob’s. Noahs at home.
7. Noah at fair AM. I did chorse & prepared for thrashing. Stormy.
8. We thrashed out, ¾ day; 9 neighbours helped.
9. I in bush cut topwood & did chorse. Noah helped to move for Leo
Devenbach. I visited Menno Wideman in the eve.
10.I did chorse & cut topwood in bush, got horse shod in Elmira. Noah’s fetched
of her furniture, etc. from Jacob Clemmer.
11.I took a log up to Floradale AM., Noah took 1 up PM. I cut down trees & their
tops PM. Nice weather.
12.We drawed out about 14 loads manure, to back end of farm.
13.SUNDAY: Hy. Horst’s here for dinner. We all at the funeral of Benj. Martin’s
child, (aged 1 year, 2 mon., 15 days) PM.
14.I in bush about all day, Noah AM., & in St. Jacobs PM. Cold.
15.I did chorse, etc; Noah took a mare out to Elmira for J. Snyder $210, AM. We
drawed out 7 loads of manure, PM.
16.I worked in bush all day, Noah AM, & hauled logs to mill PM.
17.I sawed & splitt maple wood. Noah hauled logs to mill.
18.I sawed & splitt maplewood, Noah hauled logs to mill AM.
19.I did chorse & in bush, Noah in bush AM. Warm.
20.SUNDAY: I visited Sam. R. Martin dinner. Paid a call on M. Wideman, at
Simon Martin’s for supper (Visited Is. W.) Dav. Bauman’s & Recevious
Martin’s here for dinner. Buggies out.
21.We in bush AM. I worked about buildings PM.
22.Noah’s at Berlin. I worked about building AM, in bush.
23.I worked about barn & awhile in bush. Israel Gingrich fetched 43 bu. seed
oats. Dr. Bechtel looked after colt’s hoof.
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24.We made heading & firewood. Snow almost disappeared.
25.GOOD FRIDAY: We all at the WW Meeting. Hy. Martin’s here for both
meals. I at Moses Reist’s for supper.
26.I did chorse & in bush. Noah & Hy. Martin at Berlin. Fine weather.
27.SUNDAY: EASTER: We all at the WW Meeting. Brother Isaiah, Aaron
Gingrich, and Wendel Martin here for supper.
28.EASTER MON: I took Mary Ann to & from quilting at Amos Martin’s & did the
chorse & wrote into this diary, PM. Noah fetched shingles (at about $2.40 per
sq.) from S. Brubacher, Berlin.
29.I worked in barn AM. Noah fetched his new laborer,-Josiah Gingrich AM. I &
Josiah cut firewood PM.
30.I did chorse, in Elmira, washed & oiled my harness. Noah & Josiah fetched
shingles from Berlin (177 bunches in all)
31.I washed harnesses & mend some. Noah & Josiah made chopp & piled up
lumber.
APRIL 1910
1. I patched up harness all day. Josiah oiled. Noah’s at the funeral of Moses
Bearinger AM. & Hy. Ernst’s wife in the afternoon.
2. We made harness together AM. Josiah ploughed, Noah in Elmira; I hauled
my stuff over to my parents,-after a 2 years stay at N. L. Martin, & took team
back & there for supper yet.
3. SUNDAY: I at home all day. Parents at Conestogo Meeting, at Levi Martin’s
& Dilman Martin’s.
4. We drawed out manure, I load manure for father 1 day.
5. I loaded manure & did other small jobs, for father, 1 day.
6. I helped mother to wash, clean barn floor & berry patch, 1 day. Parents
helped Geo. M. Bauman’s to burry a still born child.
7. I at the burial of Ezra L. Martin’s Isacc, aged about 23 years (committed
suicide) AM. I splitt wood by Grandma ½ day PM. Cold wind.
8. I oiled harness, helped to draw stones from field, etc, 1 day. Father fetched
black barely, at $1.25 from M. Brubacher.
9. I did some small jobs & helped father to saw wood, 1 day. Others worked on
fields.
10.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at Chr. Wideman, to visit Menno, for dinner; at Simon
Martin’s for supper.
11.I splitt wood in bush & sharpened edge tools nearly 1 day. Father at fair.
Jesse Martin’s here for supper. A little rain.
12.I helped to saw & splitt wood for father 1 day.
13.Father & I went to Noah Bearinger in morn. to build a kitchen & woodshed;
We tore old shed away & prepared for a concrete foundation.
14.We made a model for cistern & built some of it & worked at cistern & cellar
outlet.
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15.We made models & built foundations of concrete.
16.Worked at foundations, father went to town to order lumber. I completed the
cistern outlet through the cellar.
17.SUNDAY: We all at home. Sol. Reist’s here for dinner. Drizzly.
18.Father & Eli hauled lumber to N. Bearinger AM. I made a concrete foundation
wall AM., father & I laid joices PM.
19.I at N. Bearinger’s till to afternoon, did few small jobs. I at home for to wash
riggs & supper in eve. Drear & rainy.
20.Father & Eli hauled door & window frames in morn. Father & I erected frame
of building at N. Bearinger.
21.Father & Benj. Martin fetched siding & sheeting AM. I helped at building & put
on siding. At home over night to get stuff.
22.Father & I worked at siding & sheeting.
23.I worked a while at siding, made an entrance in brick masonary & punched
nails in on siding to seal them with putty then. Father & Umbach put on
cornich. Amos Rudy, Guelph, here over night.
24.SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting. Moses B. Martin’s, Ivan Martin, Amos
Bauman & Aaron Rudy here for dinner. David Lichty’s wife widow got burried
at Martins.
25.Father & I put on tin shingles at N. B. ½ day, PM. Isaiah fetched bricks for
N.B. Rainy in morning.
26.We worked at roof, put on tin & cedar shingles. Father prepared foundations
for chimney PM.
27.I punched nails & oiled their hollows. We prepared for chimney & built some
of it. Father in town.
28.I helped father to build chimney AM. Father & Jonas Martin fetched lumber,
etc. PM. I filled nail hollows with putty & finished putting on sheeting &
roofing.
29.I helped father to make doors & to build masonary between joists. I made fast
a second ply of b’ds west of kitchen, etc.
30.I put on petition siding, laid some top flooring, etc.
MAY 1910
1. SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at Conestogo Meeting, at Israel Weber’s for dinner, at
Tilman Horst’s for supper.
2. I laid flooring all day, father laid some too & put panes in sashes. Rainy
nearly all day.
3. Father & I did some boarding, lathing, slacked lime, father in town, etc..
4. I did lathing, outside painting & helped father to prepare plaster mortar.
Father worked at sink & cupboard.
5. ASCENSION DAY: I made a hand plaster-board, did some writing & reading.
Parents & Grandma at Levi Weber’s for dinner & supper. Simeon Martin & Is.
Rudy here for supper.
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6. Father & I at N.B. lathed & fixed door frame in wall. King Edward VII died.
7. Father & I plastered at kitchen all day.
8. SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at N. Woolwich Meeting, at Daniel Gingrich’s for dinner, I
at Daniel Bauman’s for supper. Eli & Lydia at S. Peel Meeting.
9. We plastered cistern, father in town & worked at pump. I did some finishing
on outside of building.
10.We put finish on plaster, I did some outside painting.
11.I did outside painting while father was in town, then we made porch floor & top
of cistern, casing around cellar window & prepared for a sidewalk.
12.I worked at sidewalk & other concrete structures. Father at N. L. Martin to line
off strawshed & did inside carpentering.
13.I worked at cellar well & put some surroundings of house in order, father
worked at inside carpentering.
14.Father worked at inside carpentering. I made gravel box for waste water,
removed earth, & did painting a little.
15.SUNDAY: (WHIT): Lydia & I at Martins’ Meeting at Sylvester Martin’s for
dinner, at Joe Brubacher’s for supper. Parents at Meeting also, at Manassa
Martin’s & at Menno Gingrich’s.
16.I tinkered around AM. Noah Weber & I at Josiah Bauman’s for supper, visited
Ezra Bauman, We at the Singing school at Bearinger’s School in eve.
17.Father carpentered inside, I carpentered & did inside painting.
18.I did inside painting & carpentering, father did carpentering. We laid some
new floor in Noah’s bed room. Windy. Halley'’ Comet was to pass today
between earth & sun as recommended by astronomers.
19.We did carpentering & painting, etc. then we moved home from Noah
Bearinger, for whom we had built a kitchen & woodshed, etc., in the past
weeks.
20.Isaiah & I worked at silo rings about all day. Last night, Aaron Zimmerman &
Jacob Horst & their wives of Lancastor Co., Pa., were here last night; parents
hauled them around in neighbourhood today. Rainy. King’s funeral.
21.I was in Elmira & worked at silo rings, etc. Father at N. H. Bearinger finished
kitchen.
22.SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting. Tilman B. Martin’s here for dinner, I at
Hy. Horst’s for supper. Elias Gingrich’s of Iowa here over night.
23.Father & I masoned at Menno Gingrich, about all day. Drear.
24.Father & I masoned at Menno Gingrich all day.
25.Father & I masoned at Menno Gingrich’s all day.
26.I in town AM. Helped to move some silo outfit to Annie Bauman PM. Father
& Lydia in Berlin AM.
27.Is., I & father started to build a silo, (1 r’g) at Annie Bauman, 1 day.
28.Is, I & father build 2 ringsfull on silo, at Annie Bauman 1 day.
29.SUNDAY: Parents at Conestogo Meeting AM., at N. Bearinger’s awhile PM.
Lydia, Eli & I at S. Peel Meeting PM. Isaiah up all day.
30.Father, Is. & I filled 2 silo rings at Annie Bauman all day.
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31.Father, Is & I filled 1 silo ring AM. & worked at door frames & did some
concreting PM.
JUNE 1910
1. I took word of Enoch Wideman’s child’s funeral out West towards
Hawkesville, AM. Rainy. I worked at N. L. Martins old shed (tore off) ½ day,
PM.
2. Father & I in Berlin (Breaslau & other places) & bo’t silo rings for $85 from
David Christner, 93 David St., Berlin.
3. I was hostler at Annie Bauman; Enoch Wideman’s child’s funeral (aged 1
year, 3 mon., 17 days). The rest at funeral too. Father & Isaiah at Jno.
Lackner to give them the start to built concrete water-tank. Nice weather.
4. We build 2 rings on silo at Annie Bauman. I with young folks at Amos
Martin’s Jr. over night.
5. SUNDAY: We young folks at Addison Gingrich’s for dinner, at Meeting PM.
At Aaron Bauman’s for supper.
6. We build 2 rings on silo at Annie Bauman.
7. We build 2 rings on silo at Annie Bauman.
8. We build 2 rings on silo at Annie Bauman.
9. We build 1 ring on silo at Annie Bauman (37 ½ ft. of silo) Moved to Sol. Reist
PM. & set some. (cement at $1.80 @ bbl)
10.Is. & I build 2 rings for start of silo at Solomon Reist.
11.Father & I at Annie Bauman, labouring ¾ day. Rainy.
12.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at Martin’s Meeting PM., at Enos Bauman’s for supper.
Eli & Lydia also at Meeting.
13.Father & I at Annie Bauman plastered silo, I all day.
14.I & scaffold moved before breakfast to Sol. Reist, Isaiah & I filled 3rd
& 4Th
rings.
15.Isaiah & I helped to build 5 & 6Th rings silo at Sol. Reist.
16.Isaiah & I helped to build 7Th & 8th rings silo at Sol Reist.
17.Isaiah & I helped to build 9Th & 10Th rings silo at Sol. Reist.
18.Isaiah & I helped to build 11Th & 12Th rings silo at Sol. Reist. We build a silo
30 ft. x 12 ft. Warm week.
19.SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting AM. I, Is., Eli & Lydia at Meeting PM.
Aaron Martin’s, Oziah Martin’s & Jno. Frey’s here for dinner. Levi Bauman’s
Jr. here for supper.
20.Father & I at Sol. Reist to plaster silo all day. Hy. Brubacher’s (Sr.) funeral, at
St. Jacobs.
21.Father & I build arch over root-cellar at M. Gingrich, 1 day.
22.Father & I build concrete arch over root-cellar at M. Gingrich, 1 day.
23.Father & I laid concrete floor in stable at Menno. Gingrich, 1 day. (Widow)
Jacob Martin’s wife’s funeral, aged 93 yrs, 2 mon, 4 days.
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24.Isaiah & I set up & build 2 rings of concrete silo at David Sauder all day.
Warm weather this week.
25.We build 3rd
& 4Th rings silo at D. Sauder.
26.SUNDAY: We at Conestogo Meeting PM., at Daniel Horst’s for supper. N. L.
Martin’s here for dinner.
27.We filled 5Th & 6Th rings silo at D. Sauder. Rain a little PM.
28.We cleaned mangles for Sauder AM, & after supper. We filled 7Th ring silo,
PM.
29.We helped to fill 8Th & 9Th rings silo at Da. Sauder.
30.We helped to fill 10Th & 11Th rings silo & cleaned mangles.
JULY 1910
1. We filled 12Th ring silo at D. Sauder, AM. Moved 1 set rings & mixer to
Menno L. Weber & sett them up, PM.
2. Isaiah & I plastered silo at Dav. Sauder all day. Parents at funeral of Isaac H.
Bauman, aged 79yrs. 10mon, 22days. Warm weather 95 degrees.
3. SUNDAY: Isaiah & Lydia at N.W. Meeting PM. I up too, I at Peter Martin’s for
super.
4. Eli & I at M. L. Weber, build 2 rings silo all day.
5. Isaiah & I build 2 rings silo at M. L. Weber, all day.
6. We moved outfit over to Manuel Martin AM., build 2 rings of silo, PM.
7. Isaiah & I build 2 rings silo at Manuel Martin.
8. I plastered in house of M. Martin & took off 1 sett silo rings, AM., I at M. L.
Weber to plaster silo PM.
9. I at Manuel Martin to take off other sett rings & plaster silo & moved outfit to
Enoch Bauman after sup.
10.SUNDAY: I at home all day. Eli & Lydia at Martin’s Meeting AM. Young
people got baptized.
11.I helped father all day, small jobs AM., helped at hay PM.
12.I cleaned mangles, mowed grass with sycthe, etc. for N. L. Martin. Parents at
Martin Shirk’s (son of Peter) funeral, at Berlin. Some rain. No hay weather.
13.I cleaned mangles & helped to put away hay, 1 day, for N. Martin.
14.I cleaned mangles & helped to put away hay, 1 day, for N. Martin.
15.I walked, before breakfast, to Reub. Bauman, mowed with scythe & helped to
store away hay, all day.
16.I helped to put away hay in morn, then we had rain a little; I helped to remove
earth for silo at Reub. Bauman.
17.SUNDAY: Martin Bauman’s child’s funeral, AM. We all at WW Meeting AM.
Aaron M. Bauman’s here for dinner & Ab. Brubacher’s for supper, & some
young folks.
18.I helped to put hay away & mowed weeds out of fence corners & bush at
Reub. Bauman all day.
19.I sett up silo outfit at Enoch Bauman AM. Build 1 ring concrete silo PM.
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20.Isaiah & I helped to build 2nd
& 3rd
ring at Enoch Bauman.
21.We helped to build 4Th & 5Th ring at Enoch Bauman.
22.We helped to build 6Th & 7Th ring at Enoch Bauman.
23.We helped to build 8Th & 9Th ring silo at E. Bauman, and shocked wheat
about 3 hrs. PM.
24.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at A. W. Weber’s for dinner & supper. Lydia at Enos
Gingrich’s for dinner & also at A.W. for supper.
25.Isaiah & I at Enoch Bauman to fill 2 rings silo. We removed earth for silo at
Reub. PM.
26.We filled 12Th ring silo at E. Bauman & moved some stuff to Reub. & did
some shoveling too.
27.We plastered silo at E. Bauman about all day, rain & hail storm, washed off
some plaster, we re-plastered some.
28.Finished plastering at E. Bauman & moved down to Reub., AM. Set up 1 ring
& filled it, PM.
29.We helped to fill 2nd
& 3rd
ring of silo at Reub. Bauman.
30.We helped to fill 4Th & 5Th ring of silo at R. Bauman.
31.SUNDAY: I at home all day.
AUGUST 1910
1. We filled 6Th ring silo at Reub. AM. I worked for Reub., pitched wheat, made
door frame, etc. PM. Rainy.
2. We helped to fill 7Th & 8Th ring silo at Reub. Bauman.
3. We helped to fill 9Th & 10Th ring silo at R. Bauman. Heavy thunder between
10 & 11 o’clock, PM. rain; we walked over to Dan Snider’s barn, which was
struck by lightning & burned to the ground.
4. We helped to fill 11Th & 12Th ring silo at R. Bauman.
5. We reaped barely with cradle in orchard & pitched wheat etc, for R. M.
Bauman all day.
6. We lowered silo rings, cleaned them, & plastered silo at R. Bauman.
7. SUNDAY: Isaiah & I at Josiah Cressman’s for supper.
8. I walked to Reub. before breakfast, moved silo out-fit to Paul Snider AM.
Isaiah & I set outfit up PM.
9. We helped to build 1st
& 2nd
rings silo at P. Snider.
10.We helped to build 3rd
& 4Th rings silo at P. Snider.
11.We helped to built 5Th & 6Th rings silo at P. Snider.
12.We helped to built 7Th ring silo & helped at harvest bal. of day.
13.We helped to built 8Th ring silo & helped at harvest bal. of day.
14.SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting. I at Enos Gingrich’s for supper.
15.We helped to built 9Th & 10Th rings silo at P. Snider.
16.We helped to build 11Th & 12Th rings silo at P. Snider.
17.We plastered silo all day at P. Snider. We at David Cressman’s flax bee in
eve.
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18.We mover to Menno S. Bauman, Floradale, AM. Set outfit up PM.
19.We helped to fill 1st
& 2nd
rings silo at M. S. Bauman. Hy Lackner’s Eddie got
burried.
20.I shocked grain AM. We filled 3rd
ring. Daniel Gingrich’s barn raised, old barn
was struck by lightning.
21.SUNDAY: Lydia & I at S. Peel Meeting. (Is. & Eli there also) We at Jno.
Hintz’s for dinner at Amzi Snyder’s for supper.
22.I helped father all day, fetched separator & sett AM. Thrashed grain, 2 of C.
Esch helped, PM.
23.I loaded manure for father all day.
24.We helped to build 4Th & 5Th ring silo & laboured 2 hr for M.S.B.
25.We helped to build 6Th ring silo, & thrash peas PM.
26.We helped to build 7Th ring silo, & haul in grain, etc. PM
27.We helped to build 8Th ring silo, & haul in grain, for M.S.B.
28.SUNDAY: Young folks & I included at Menno Wideman’s (widower) for
dinner, at David Brubacher for supper.
29.We helped to build 9Th ring silo, & haul in grain, PM. for MSB.
30.We helped hauling in grain all day for M. S. Bauman.
31.We helped to build 10Th & 11Th ring silo at M. S. Bauman.
SEPTEMBER 1910
1. We helped to build 12Th ring silo., lowered 1 sett rings & cleaned it &
removed some rotten bottom of stave silo, 4 hrs.
2. We plastered silo & worked a little at old silo, at MSB.
3. I made models, etc, for bottom of stave silo all day, others filled space with
concrete PM. I & a carriage load of young folks at Moses Weber’s over night.
4. SUNDAY: We young folks at Martins’ Meeting AM. at Levi Weber’s for
dinner, at Jacob F. Martin’s for supper.
5. I made models nearly all day for silo at M.S.B.
6. I made models, etc, about 3 hrs. Moved silo outfit home PM.
7. I removed models, etc, & plastered concrete bottom of stave silo all day at M.
S. Bauman.
8. I helped father to build concrete foundations for woodshed etc.
9. I helped father to build concrete foundations for shed, 1 day.
10.I helped father to build concrete works. We at Sing school.
11.SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting. Peter Martin’s here for dinner, Aaron
Weber’s here for supper. I at Geo. M. Bauman for dinner, at Amos Gingrich’s
for supper.
12.I walked to Hy. Sauder, St. Jacobs to plaster old concrete silo; made a
scaffold & plastered some, 1 day.
13.I plastered bal. of silo & build a part of concrete floor. Eli & father at Jonas
Martin to lay stable floor.
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14.Is. & I at Jonas Martin, to finish stable & made a concrete porch floor, nearly
all day.
15.Is. & I & outfit moved to Charles Ritter, set up & filled 1st
ring silo. Harvest
Meeting at W. Woolwich.
16.We helped to build 2nd
& 3rd
ring silo at C. Ritter.
17.We helped to build 4Th & 5Th ring silo at C. Ritter. Meeting at WW; Jno
Kurtz, preacher, & Dan Burkholder, deacon of Lanc. Co., Pa. attended.
18.SUNDAY: I at N. L. Martin for dinner.
19.I plastered silo at C. Ritter & moved to William Beisel.
20.I build 5 ft. silo at Wm. Beisel.
21.I plastered silo & moved home from Wm. Beisel; AM. I cleaned silo rings PM.
22.I cleaned silo rings awhile & shingled on shed roof. Joe Gingrich’s Jr. child’s
funeral. Father fetched new cutting box.
23.We sawed wood, (father, Is. & I) at M. Weichel & Son, ½ dy., AM. We sawed
also some wood for J. B. Lein, 1 ¾ hours.
24.Father & I worked at woodshed all day. Rain & fog.
25.SUNDAY: Is. & Lydia at NW Meeting. I at Menno M. Bauman’s for supper.
Sam Reist & Amanda Eby here for dinner.
26.I prepared for cementing at N. L. Martin AM. I helped awhile, cutting corn at
C. Esch & fixed at cutting box at home awhile.
27.Father & I prepared for cementing, etc, at N. L. M. all day.
28.I all day, father & Is. PM. cemented at pig stable floor & front wall at N. L.
Martin.
29.Father, Is. & I at N. L. Martin cemented floor & fixed pipes & burried them in
ground, all day.
30.Father & I finished floor, built water-box, & pig-troughs. We butchered beef in
eve. A quick & short thundering tonight at about 9.30, A. M. Bauman’s barn
struck by lightning and burned (Floradale)
OCTOBER 1910
1. Is., Eli & I cut off corn with boat about 3 ½ acres & hauled in mangles. Father
& cutting box at David Hoffer. Parents at Aaron Bauman’s after supper
awhile.
2. SUNDAY: Lydia & I at Martin’s Meeting, at Tobias Martin’s for dinner, at
Israel Martin’s for supper. Noah Weber & I paid a call on Dan. Weber’s
Josiah.
3. I helped cutting corn, etc, for father, 1 day.
4. Father & I build pig trough, etc, about 1 day at N. L. M. Rainy.
5. Father & I leveled off new site for implement shed AM. I helped to build
concrete foundation of shed at N. L. M., PM. Father at Hy. Horst to build
cistern. Is. filled silo at A. Weber.
6. I worked small jobs at N. L. Martin AM., I bought old buggy for $13 from Noah.
I at home PM. Rainy all day.
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7. I spread manure AM., build concrete foundation for shed at N. L. Martin PM.
8. We finished foundation & put in mangles. Levi Frey’s child burried at S. Peel.
9. SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting AM. Young people of Martins’ here
dinner. Eli, I & Lydia at M. M. Weber’s for supper.
10.I helped to make mangles out for father all day.
11.I helped to make mangles out for father, AM. I helped to cut corn at F. Weigel
½ day, PM.
12.Father & I masoned at Aaron M. Bauman all day.
13.Father & I masoned at Aaron M. Bauman all day.
14.Jno. Frey’s dau. Leah of St. Jacobs got burried at C. Father & I masoned at
A. M. Bauman all day.
15.Father & I masoned at A. M. Bauman all day.
16.SUNDAY: Parents at Conestogo Meeting, at Hy. Martin’s, I at home.
17.Parents & I at A. M. Bauman’s all day; helped to mason.
18.Father & I helped to mason & pointed out walls at A.M.B.
19.I pointed out on rough walls, etc, at A.M.B., all day.
20.I helped to saw logs at mill & haul them to A.M.B., 1 dy.
21.I helped the carpenters etc., at A. M. Bauman, all day.
22.I helped the carpenters, etc, at A. M. B. nearly all day. Rain evening; also had
there been last night.
23.SUNDAY: Is. & I in S. Peel Meeting, at Martin Frey’s for dinner, at Daniel
Bauman’s for supper.
24.I at A. M. Bauman’s carpentering, etc all day.
25. I helped to put in lower part of barn (raising) & helped at saw-mills in eve.
Etc. at A. M. Bauman.
26.I at saw-mills in morn, then helped at barn raising at A. M. B. Barn 78’ x 58’;
lg. Posts s. to s. 29’; pitch 8 x 12.
27.I helped to fix some of inside of wash house for father 1 day.
28.I helped to lath ceiling for father AM. Father & I went to Annie Bauman at
noon to built silo roof PM.
29.Father & I worked at solo, etc, all day. Cold & snow. I & other young folks at
Geo. Musselman’s over night.
30.SUNDAY: We at Martins’ Meeting and Wm. Eby’s funeral, aged 79 years,
AM. at Sidney Martin’s for dinner, at Allen Knor’s for supper.
31.Father & I worked at silo, etc, all day at Annie Bauman.
NOVEMEBER 1910
1. Father & I worked at silo, etc, all day at Annie Bauman.
2. Father & I worked at silo, etc, all day at Annie Bauman.
3. I helped at wash-house for father, AM. Father & I started to work at silo roof at
Reub. PM.
4. Father & I worked at Reub’s silo roof, etc, all day, except father being absent
to buy 4 steers of about 1300# @ $5.75 @ cwt.
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5. Father & I worked at Reub’s silo all day.
6. SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting. Moses Weber, Israel Brubacher,
Aaron Rudy & Enoch Frey, & girls here for dinner. Lydia & I at Aaron Weber’s
for supper.
7. Father & I carpentered at silo at Reub. all day.
8. Father & I at Sol. Reist about all day, at silo roof.
9. Father & I carpentered at silo roof, etc, at S. Reist all day.
10.Father & I carpentered at hen-house at S. R. nearly 1 day; rainy.
11.I carpentered at silo at Sol. Reist all day.
12.I carpentered at hen-house at Sol. Reist all day.
13.SUNDAY: Is., I & Lydia at SP Meeting, at Joshua Bauman’s for dinner, I at
Dav. Martin’s for supper.
14.I went in town in morn, then went to Paul Snider to built silo ¾ day. Isaiah
helped PM.
15.I carpentered at silo roof, etc, at P.S. all day. Is. helped too.
16.I carpentered at silo roof, etc, at P. Snider, all day.
17.I carpentered at silo roof, etc; at P. Snider, all day. Wife of Jno. Hintz (dau. Of
Dav. Martin) burried at S. Peel.
18.I carpentered at silo roof, etc at M. S. Bauman all day.
19.I carpentered at silo roof, etc at M. S. Bauman all day.
20.SUNDAY: I & Parents at home all day at home. Others at NW Meeting.
21.I carpentered at silo, etc, at M. S. Bauman all day.
22.I carpentered at silo, etc, at M. S. Bauman all day.
23.I carpentered at silo, etc, at M. S. Bauman all day.
24.I carpentered & ploughed, etc, at M. S. Bauman all day.
25.I helped to thrash at Dav. Cressman all day.
26.I filed saw & helped father to chopp AM. I pedled fish & ordered s. shoes at
St. Jacobs; and in Elmira.
27.SUNDAY: I at Noah Bearinger’s for supper.
28.I carpentered at silo at Dav. Sauder ½ day. Unpleasant weather.
29.I carpentered at silo, etc, at Dav. Sauder all day. Wife of Chr. Frey (widow) of
Peel burried at W. Woolwich.
30.I carpentered at silo; etc, at Dav. Sauder all day.
DECEMBER 1910
1. I carpentered at silo at Dav. Sauder ½ day AM. I moved to Alvin Shantz &
worked at silo roof, PM.
2. I carpentered at silo roof at Alvin Shantz all day.
3. I awhile at N. L. Martin & in Elmira.
4. SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting AM. Levi L Martin here for dinner,
Isaiah & Lydia at N. L. Martin’s for supper.
5. I prepared for my journey to U.S.; I in St. Jacobs to fetch shoes & in Elmira to
get tooth filled.
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6. Eli Horst & I left Co. Waterloo in morn. for the Niagara Falls, at Suspension
Bridge for the night.
7. Eli & I took Great Gorge Route on Streetcar and got around to see falls &
sceanary. Left this place in the afternoon for further.
8. Arrived at Blue Ball, in the forenoon, Lancastor Co., Pa., visited Jacob W.
Horst’s noon & night, at Peter Shirk, sup.
9. We at Dav. Martin’s, call; Eli Z. Horst’s call; Jacob Horst’s Sr., dinner; Jno S.
Wenger (blind) call at store; Hy. Weber’s Sr., call; Frank Weber’s Jr. supper;
Isaac W. Horst’s over night.
10.We at Frank Weber’s Sr., call; Harry Martin’s, dinner; Dav Horst’s wife burried
(maybe 9Th?); Joe Shirk’s, call; Aaron Z Horst’s, supper; Frank Horst’s
preacher, over night; Eli Weaver’s (son of Chr.) arrived from Ind.
11.SUNDAY: We at “Weaverland” Meeting AM; Dav. Martin’s, dinner; Frank
Horst’s for supper; at singing at widow Joe Martin’s wife, after supper; at
Aaron Zimmerman’s, for night.
12.We at Jno. Martin’s, dinner; Ab. Zimmerman’s, call; Barbara Horst, call;
Moses Sauder’s, for supper; Jonas Martin for the night, son of Bishop Jonas
Martin.
13.We at Hy. Martin’s (son of Bish. J. M.), call; Bishop Jonas Martin’s, call; Peter
Martin’s, dinner; Jonathan Martin, call,; David Zimmerman Sr., supper; David
M. Martin’s, night & sing’g.
14.We at Jno. Martin’s, call; Martin Zimmerman’s, dinner; Rufus Martin’s, call;
Ezra Sensenig’s supper; Eli Z. Horst’s, night, Eli is son of Isaac, was once in
Can.
15.We at Dan. Hoover’s, call; David Hoover’s, supper (Sr.); Jno. C. Nolts, night,
Mrr’d to a Musselman, father to Dan. In the morn we & Eli Z Horst went to
East Earl with tabacco.
16.We at Eli Hoover’s call; David Fox’s Jr., dinner; Joe Brubacher, Once a
“Stauffer” Bishop, call; Jno. S. Kurtz’s supper, (preacher); David Burkholder’s,
night, father to Dav. & Lydia.
17.We at Hy. Martin’s, dinner; David Burkholder’s, call, visited Joe Hostetter;
Jno. W. Weaver’s, supper, father to Ida; Amos Witmer’s at singing after
supper; Hy. S. Snyder’s, night.
18.SUNDAY: We at “Martindale” Meeting AM.; Jno. Eby’s, dinner, father to
Peter & Enos; Michael Nolt’s, supper, father to Jacob, At Moses Shirk’s over
night, father to Davis & Hetta.
19.Aaron Burkholder’s, call; visited Martindale shirt factory; Isaac Weber’s,
dinner; Menno Zimmerman’s preacher, for supper; Maria-Preacher Menno’s
mother call; Menno, son of preacher, a call; Moses Burholder’s night, son of
deacon, her son Hy. Rutt lived here.
20.We at Weaver Burkholders, call; Dan. Burkholder, deacon, dinner; David
Zimmerman’s, call; Adam Zimmerman’s supper, son of Menno; Levi
Burkholder’s, night, father to Noah.
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21.We at Moses G. Horning’s, preacher, dinner; Sam Musser’s Jr., call; Benj.
Horning’s, supper; Frank Horning’s, night, father to Dav.
22.We at Hy. Gayman’s, call; Joe Horning’s, dinner; Aaron Good’s call; Dav.
Horning’s, call; Sam Musser’s, supper, Deacon; Benj. Shirk’s, night, father to
Benj. & bro. to Moses, Joe & Peter.
23.We at Reuben Weaver’s, call; Monroe Garman’s, dinner; Noah Horning’s,
call; Christian Shirk’s, supper,-bro. to Peter at Bridgeport, Ont; Christian
Sauder’s night.
24.We at Levi Martin’s (son of Bish. Jno. Ind.) call; Aged widow David Shirk’s
wife (age, 98 yrs. On Feb. 23/11) call; Johnathan Shirk’s, dinner; Levi Weber
Sr., call; Geo. Weaver’s, supper; Henry Martin’s, night; father to Sam, son of
Nathanel.
25.SUNDAY: CHRISTMAS: We at “Weaverland” Meeting; Levi Burkholder’s,
dinner; Chr. Sensenig’s, supper; Peter Shirk’s, Blue Ball, night.
26.Peter Shirk hauled us to East Earl, there we and Jno. B. Weaver left for
Philidelphia, visited Memorial Hall and the Zoological Gardens; at Keystone
Hotel over night.
27.We 3 visited Navy Yards, Mint, City Hall, Wonamaker’s store, & crossed
Delaware River over to Camden. Went back to Israel G. Horning’s, over
night, father to Moses.
28.We at Israel’s yet for dinner; Martin Weaver’s, call; Peter H. Nolt’s call; Levi
W. Nolt’s, supper; D. G. Nolt’s, son of Jac., night.
29.We at Jac. Nolt, Sr., call; Jacob Martin, Akron, call; Amos Horst’s, dinner;
Clemont Martin’s Ephrata, call; Martin Zimmerman’s, father to Amos & Mary,
supper,-we & Amos & Mose Horning on spring waggon with a ass team, at a
Dunkard sing school, after supper; Joe O. Wenger’s, preacher, night; We also
visited Ephrata’s Knitting Mills.
30.We at Amos Martin’s, call, Jr.; Sam Martin’s dinner; Mahlon Nolt’s, call; Hy.
W. Weaver’s, supper; Aaron Reiff’s, night.
31.We at Eli H. Nolt’s, call; Jno. H. Nolt’s Sr., dinner; Dr. Michael Horst, Talmage,
call; Aaron G. Nolts, deacon, supper, son of Jac., father to Joseph; Jonas
Reiff’s Sr., night, father to Mary.
DIARY 1911
ANGUS S. BAUMAN
JANUARY
1. SUNDAY: NEW YEAR: We at “Groffdale” Meeting; at Jno. D. Zimmerman’s
bal. of Sunday, once in Canada. Rainy.
2. We at Dav. Hoover’s Jr., dinner; Ab. Burkholder’s, call; Jacob Metzler’s, call;
Jno. Martin’s, supper, last fall in Can.; Elam Martin’s, night, father to Jno., son
of Jno.
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3. We at Jno. Martin lives by son Elam, aged 83 yrs. Blind; Jacob Reiff’s, call;
John Horst’s, dinner; Widow Jac. Rutt’s wife, call; Dav. Groff’s, supper; Jno.
Weaver’s, father to Aaron, night.
4. We at Joe Obberholzer’s, call; Benj. F. Hoover’s, dinner; Jac. H. Nolt’s, call;
Jno. Sensenig’s, supper; Eli Hoover’s, night, bro. to Dan.
5. We at Amos Martin Sr., call; Dav. Good’s, call; Amos Martin’s dinner, Jr.
(singer); Visited Silk Mills at New Holland. Aaron Hoover’s, supper & night,
father to Noah,-6’1 ½” tall.
6. We at John H. Weber’s, dinner; John M Weaver’s supper;
7. We at Michael Nolt’s for dinner & night; We met Sam Brubacher’s girls of
Can. here; Amon Weber’s, supper. At the singing at Menno Zimmerman’s
after sup.
8. SUNDAY: We at “Weaverland” Meeting; Dav. Zimmerman’s dinner; Frank
Weaver’s, supper; Jac. W. Horst’s, Blue Ball, at singing & over night,
Canadian girls here too.
9. We at Joe Weaver’s, call; Sam Martin’s, dinner; Adam H. Weaver’s, supper;
Dav. Martin’s, night, (2nd
time), father to Ab & Anna.
10.Eli Horst went off for home this morning. I was at Dav. Martin’s for dinner yet;
Dav. Burkholder’s supper, visited Joe Hostetter; Joe Brubacher, night, (2nd
time) visited Dan. Weber.
11.I visited Joe Martin’s wife (widow), mother to Levi, dinner & supper; Harry
Rutt, call; Isaac Bauman’s, night, son of Sam.
12.I at Jno S.Kurtz’s, dinner; Jno. W. Weaver’s, supper; Sam Bauman’s, night,
father to Isaac & David, wife disabled.
13.I at Hy. S. Snyder’s, dinner, father to Joe, (2nd
time); Joe Martin’s, call; Dav.
Hoover’s Sr., supper, 2nd
time, father to 13 children; Jno. C. Nolt’s, night,
father to Dan & Mary, (2nd
time).
14.I at Isaac Weaver’s, dinner, (2nd
time), father to Jno. who was with us in
Philidelphia; Dav. Burkholder’s, supper, (2nd
time) father to Dav. & Lydia; At a
funeral of Dav. Kurtz’s baby, at “Martindale”. Israel Brendle’s, at singing &
over night, father to Is, Susan & Will.
15.SUNDAY: Meeting was at “Martindale”, I at Menno Zimmerman’s dinner,
(preacher) Jonathan & Allen Martin of Can. here too; Hy. Martin’s, supper,
(2nd
time); Weaver Burkholder’s, night, father to Dav.
16.I at Isaac Wenger’s, saddler, Martindale, a call; Hy. Sensenig’s wife (widow),
dinner, Susana, her dau., once in Can.; Jacob Horst’s Sr., supper, 2nd
time;
Jac. W. Horst’s Jr., night, father to Emma.
17.I started, in morning for further, departed Blue Ball at about 8.30 AM., arrived
at Orrville, O. at about 10.35 PM., central time. The trip from Lancaster, Pa.
To Orrville, O. is 404.7 mi. as per R’y guide.
18.I went to John Kilmer’s, breakfast, son of Ph., Ind.; Hy. Kilmer, bro. to Jno., in
from Ind., & I visited Orrville, AM., at Hy. Burkhardt’s, dinner; Bishop Hy.
Horst’s, call; Noah Good’s, supper; Sam. L. Weber’s wife, (widow), night.
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19.Hy. Kilmer & I at Jno. Martin, dinner, his son “Elmer” & we two visited & went
into a coal mine; Jonathan Martin, (widower) Aged 86 yrs, father to Jno.,
Sam., Dav. Barb & Annie, his G children my 5Th cousin’s, here for supper;
Dav. Martin’s; night.
20.Hy. & I at Dan. H. Eberly’s call; Pares B. Horst’s, call; John Buckwalter’s,
dinner; Sam W. Martin’s, Dalton, supper; wife is a sister to Dav. Hoover Sr. of
Lanc. Co., Pa.; Ezra Good’s, night.
21.Hy. & I at Jno. Martin’s, dinner; at horse sale in Orrville; at Peter
Baumgartner’s, supper; Jno. Eberly’s, night, near by Burton City.
22.SUNDAY: Hy. & I at “Chestnut Ridge” Meeting, and at the funeral of Dav.
Brennerman (Dunkard) at Martins’ Church, AM.; Sam Lehman’s, dinner,
Burton City; Benj. Good’s, Preacher, supper & night, son of Noah, married to
a Rohrer.
23.Hy. & I at his Bro. Jno. Kilmer, again over night & the meals; Hy. & I at a
singing at Noah Good’s in the evening.
24.Eli Weaver’s of Ind., Joel Weaver, Ind., & I started for further, left Orrville at
6.45 AM. on the C. F. & P. line. Arrived at Warsaw, Ind., at about 12.58 PM.,
took Interurban Ry. to Goshen where Eli’s father fetched us to their home for
the night.
25.I at Christian Z. Weaver all day, father to Eli, Eli is Married to Barbara
Gayman. Chr. to a cousin of Jno. Wenger, Pa.
26.Eli took me to his bro. Menno for dinner; at his place for supper again; I at
Aaron Reed’s for the night. Drizzly.
27.I at Aaron Reed’s also for dinner; at Preacher Martin Ramer’s supper & night,
married to Lydia Shaum; Father to Tobias & Will.
28.I at Martin Ramer’s also for dinner; Jno. B. Weaver’s, supper.
29.SUNDAY: I AT “Yellow Creek” Meeting; I at Sam. S. Wenger’s bal. of day,
father to Enos, who with Tobias Ramer were in Can. & Pa.
30.I at Harvey Martin’s, dinner; Hy. M. Weaver’s, supper & night.
31.I at Levi Hoover’s, dinner & supper, married to Chr. Z. Weaver’s sister; John
M. Weaver’s, night, son of Chr., m’rr’d to dau. Of Hy. Shrock.
FEBRUARY 1911
1. I at John W. Martin’s, dinner; Amos W. Witmer’s, supper, Wm. Hoover’s,
night; school teacher.
2. I at Eli Wenger’s, dinner, father to Franklin, Eli is a bro. to Chr. Z. Weaver’s
wife; Dan. Warner’s, supper & night.
3. I at Jno. Brown’s funeral (River Brother) at “Yellow Creek”, at Jno. M.
Weaver’s, dinner (2nd
time); Bishop John Martin’s, supper & night; father to
Elias; Levi of Pa., Hy; Joe, Wm. & Amanda.
4. I at Wm. F. Holdeman’s for dinner; Joe Musser’s, supper; Christian Weaver’s
again over night.
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5. SUNDAY: I at “County Line” Meeting; at Harvey Shaum’s, dinner, Jno. B.
Weaver’s, night (2nd
time), father to Joel. Snowstorm.
6. I at Deacon Levi Ressler’s, dinner; Preacher Christian L. Ressler, supper;
Dav. K. Ressler’s, night, son of Deacon Levi.
7. I at the funeral of Jesse Lehman’s wife, member of the “Funk” denomanation;
Noah Ramer’s, night, son of Sam.
8. I at Sam. Ramer’s, call; Isaac Leinbach’s, dinner; Jacob Bechtel’s, supper;
Philip Kilmer, night, father to Hy.
9. I at Noah Weaver’s, dinner; Chr. Zimmerman’s, call; Isaac Martin’s, supper &
night, deacon, father to Harvey, Ab, Reub. & Amos.
10.Isaac Martin’s Reub. & Amos & I at Mishawaka & South Bend, visited
Studebachers’ Carriage Shop, Fire department & Court house, I back to
Isaac’s for supper, at their son Ab. for night.
11.I at Wakarusa, at horse sale, nearly all day; Aaron Reed’s supper; at a singing
at Jno B. Weaver’s; Levi Ressler’s, night.
12.SUNDAY: I at “St. Joe” Meeting; Joseph Ramer’s, dinner; Joe Shaum’s wife
(widow) supper & night, mother to Harvey & Mary.
13.I at Hy. Shrock’s, dinner, preacher, father to Rosco; Chr. Hunsberger Sr.,
supper; John Shrock’s, night, father to Hy.
14.I at Elias Martin’s, dinner, son of Jno.; Chr. Leinbach’s supper & night, wife
dau. of Bishop Jno. Martin.
15.I at Christian Z. Weaver’s again, about all day. Muddy roads.
16.I started off for home at Wakarusa, at about 2.23 AM., central time, on the
Wabash line to Detroit; then proceed on via, London, Woodstock, Guelph
June, Guelph & Elmira, on the C.P.R., arrived at Elmira at about 7.20 PM.
eastern time. Travelled about 400 mi. today as per Ry. Guide. Departure
lasted 10 wks., 2 dys. Total cost of whole trip between $50 & $60.
17.I tinkered about at home AM. Was at Jones Martin’s on buisness, visited N.
Bearinger’s for supper.
18.I down at Enos Bauman’s for dinner, at Dan. E. Martin to see about silo
building.
19.SUNDAY: I at funeral of Jno. Martin’s wife (widow), lived by Noah B. Martin’s,
Yatton, aged 79 years old, at W. Woolwich. I at N. L. Martin’s for both meals,
he has blood-poison.
20.I looked after my property and wrote letters to the States.
21.I was out after silo jobs, at A. M. Bauman’s over noon.
22.I helped Eli to chopp grain awhile, & worked my books.
23.I out on silo buisness, etc. all day.
24.I in Elmira AM. & with Eli at Reub. Martin’s sale, PM.
25.I at my books, etc., AM., looked after a horse, inspected N. Bearinger’s fence,
PM. Fine weather. Jonas Bauman here to help in harness shop since Tue.
morning.
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26.SUNDAY: All at WW Meeting, AM.; Urias Martin, Elias Wideman, & Ezra
Bauman here for dinner; Hy. Bauman & Isaac Sittler here for supper.
Sylvester Martin’s here too.
27.I helped to thrash at Dav. Bauman’s for N. L. Martin all day. Chr. Martin’s wife
(Frey) got burried at Martin’s.
28.I at Dav. Bauman’s to thrash 2 hrs. in morn., then did chorse, AM., J. Gingrich
& I sawed firewood for N. L. M., PM.
MARCH 1911
1. Josiah & I sawed wood, etc., for N. L. M. all day.
2. Josiah & I sawed wood, etc., for N. L. M., AM. I in Elmira.
3. I up near by Macton, in Floradale & Elmira on buisness.
4. I down between Bloomingdale & N. Germany at L. Spitzig to order a 1 horse-
power. Menno Kock’s house burned.
5. SUNDAY: Isaiah here last night, then he & I at Conestogo Meeting, at Dan.
Cressman’s for dinner, at David B. Martin’s for supper. Snowfall in eve.
6. Father & I helped to butcher at N. Martin all day.
7. I fetched team from Geo., then Eli & I hauled manure from Jno. Steddick,
Elmira, about all day.
8. I helped to fetch manure from Steddick for father AM.; Hy. Martin & I looked
after horses out North PM.
9. Hy. Martin & I looked after horses, at Joe Snyder’s for dinner, also down by
Jac. Brox to see a mare.
10.I at Floradale, AM. I & N. L. Martin after a horse PM.
11.I helped father to drive out 4 head fat cattle, av. Wt., 1437# at $5.65 @ cwt.
(bo’t at $5.75). I inspected Amos Martin’s house & in Elmira PM.
12.SUNDAY: I at home all day. Parents at Jonas Martin’s for dinner.
13.I at the Elmira fair all day. Nice weather.
14.I fetched a brown horse, rising 6 years old, for $150. from Israel L. Martin AM.
I fetched my old buggy from N. L. Martin, PM. Father patched harness at E.
Martin.
15.I got my horse shod & took tools to Amos B. Martin, AM. I at Sarah
Heckendorn’s sale, bo’t log chain 20’ l’g & 26# in wt. for $2.90, PM. Joseph
Martin’s (son of Peter) child’s funeral.
16.I worked at inside of house at Amos B. Martin, 1 day.
17.I worked at inside of house at Amos B. Martin, 1 day.
18.I white-washed walls, etc, at Amos B. Martin, 1 day.
19.SUNDAY: Lydia & I at S. Peel Meeting, at Joshua Bauman’s for dinner, at
Amos Martin’s for supper.
20.I fastened 1’ter r’ds, plastered patches on walls & white’washed rooms at
Amos B. Martin, 1 day.
21.I whitewashed & filled cracks on walls, painted floors etc, 1 day.
22.I painted staircase & floors at Amos Martin, 1 day.
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23.I white-washed kitchen twice, filled crack in walls with plaster paris & painted
at Amos B. Martin’s, 1 day.
24.I in bush, AM., painted floor, etc, PM at A.B. Martin, 1 day.
25.I wrote 10 letters, visited N. L. Martin who has a severe attack of blood-
poisoning, I fetched tools from A.B. Martin.
26.SUNDAY: We all except mother at WW Meeting. Eli Horst & Nelson Martin
here for dinner. I at Levi Hort’s for supper.
27.I up at Floradale, fetched fence pickets ($.02 a piece) for N. Bearinger, AM. I
fixed at my buggy, etc. PM. Rainy.
28.I worked small jobs, prepared for cementing. Stormy.
29.I worked at my sircingle, etc. Am. I at N. L. Martin, visited him & piled up
lumber a little, PM.
30.I helped to worked at Noah Martin all day, got implements ready for seeding
AM. Hauled and spread manure in orchard PM.
31.Filled bal. of orchard with manure, stored away sleighs & sawed old timber
short for summer wood at N. L. Martin 1 day.
APRIL 1911
1. I in St. Jacobs & Elmira & hauled fence stuff to N. Bearinger & did small jobs.
No nice weather this wk. Sol. Gingrich’s child’s funeral at N. Woolwich.
2. SUNDAY: I at N. Bearinger for dinner & supper, N. Bearinger’s wife here for
supper. Geo. Bauman’s & Grandmother here for dinner & supper.
3. I tinkered at small jobs all day, sowed grass seed for father.
4. I took funeral message of Israel Brubacher’s child around in the
neighborhood, AM. I studied at Physical Science book, etc, PM. Cold rain &
sleet PM.
5. I took funeral message to Dan. Brubacher’s & Joe Hoffman’s AM. I wrote into
this diary PM. Rain.
6. I was hostler at Israel Brubacher’s child’s funeral, aged 6 yrs, 8 mon. Muddy
& a little rain in eve.
7. I wrote into this diary & white washed kitchen for mother. I have got a cold
this week. Elmira Horse Show.
8. I fixed up garden fence at Noah Bearinger, 1 day.
9. SUNDAY: Lydia & I at S. Peel Meeting, at Sol. Bowman’s for dinner, Elias M.
Martin’s for supper. Father visited N. L. Martin,
10.I at Elmira Fair AM. Repaired fence at N. Bearinger PM.
11.I awhile at N. Bearinger to fix fence in morn; I fetched cement mixer from
Aaron M. Bauman.
12.I helped to wash & oil harness (mine included) for father.
13.I helped to wash harness & put mine together AM. I in Elmira to buy silo
goods, Rainy, PM.
14.GOOD FRI: I at WW Meeting AM., Noah Weber & I at Dav. Brubacher’s
(visited Ab. Bearinger) for supper.
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15.I in Elmira AM., & at Waterloo & Berlin PM., at Enos Bauman’s for supper and
night.
16.SUNDAY: EASTER: I at Martins’ Meeting AM., at Joe Brubacher’s for
dinner, at Enos Martin’s for supper.
17.EASTER MON.: I worked awhile at mixer, repairing. Parents came home
tonight from a visit at Martins since Sat. night.
18.I at Elmira AM. Father & Eli helped to wash Meeting House.
19.Parents at funeral of Joseph S. Martin, Aged 77 yrs., 7 mon. 25 days, at
Martins. I worked at mixer & in town.
20.I worked at mixer & hauled same to Elmira Foundry in eve. Others chopped
grain. Nice weather.
21.I out to see about jobs AM. I received a load of hay from Geo. M. Bauman
PM.
22.I prepared for cementing & fetched Isaiah from Enos M. Bauman PM. Father
cut my hair.
23.SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting AM., Menno Gingrich’s Sr. here for
dinner, Sol, Gingrich’s here for supper besides some young folks.
24.Is. & I circled silo rings shorter & moved to Hy. Bauman & removed earth for
water tank PM.
25.I cut a silo curbing section into 2 & helped to mix concrete for tank 1 day,
Isaiah helped too.
26.Is. & I mixed concrete ½ day AM. for Hy. Bauman. I prepared for painting at
Amos B. Martin, Is. at Grandma, PM.
27.I prepared for painting outside trimmings of house, removed old putty, etc, at
Amos B. Martin all day. Is. whitewashed rooms in house at Grandma.
28.Is. & I formed an arch over water tank at Hy. Bauman.
29.Is. & I built scaffold & painted windows, etc, at Amos Martin all day. Warm
and nice week.
30.SUNDAY: Parents and I at funeral of Aaron Martin’s wife, Aged 53 yrs, 3
mon, 7 days, at N. Woolwich, PM.
MAY 1911
1. I fetched me a 1-h. Power ($35) from L. Spitzig, N. Germany. Rain.
2. Is. & I painted outside wood material, etc, at A. Martin, ¾ day.
3. Is. & I painted outside wood material, etc, at A. Martin 1 day.
4. Is. & I painted outside wood material, etc, at A. Martin 1 day.
5. Is. & I painted outside wood material, etc, at A. Martin 1 day.
6. Is. & I painted outside wood material, etc, at A. Martin 1 day.
7. SUNDAY: Amos & Aaron Rudy here for supper. Fine weather.
8. Is. & I painted outside wood material, etc, at Amos Martin 1 day.
9. Is. & I painted outside wood material, etc, at Amos Martin 1 day.
10.I painted veranda, etc, at Amos Martin 1 day. Isaiah fixed at cement mixer.
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11.I out on buisness & fixed at c. mixer, Is. took power & mixer to Hy. Klinck.
Rain & thunder in eve.
12.Is. & I. at Hy. Klinck to build foundation of concrete under a building intend to
be a slaughter house for “beef ring”, 1 day.
13.Is. & I leveled floor, then put in concrete floor & lowered building on walls, 1
day.
14.SUNDAY: I at Dav. Bauman’s for dinner. Parents at Annie Bauman for
dinner. Wendel Martin here for supper.
15.Is. & I built sidewalk a little over ½ day at Joe Ernst. Is. prepared for moving
silo outfit. I plastered tank at Hy. Bauman.
16.I finished plastering tank at Hy. Bauman. Is. & I moved silo outfit to Dan. E.
Martin and staked same up.
17.We filled 1st
& 2nd
ring concrete silo at Dan. E. Martin.
18.We filled 3 & 4 ring concrete silo at D. E. Martin.
19.We filled 5 & 6 ring concrete silo at D. E. Martin.
20.We filled 7 & 8 ring concrete silo at D. E. Martin. Warm weather at end of
week.
21.SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting, Daniel Cressman’s & David B. Martin’s
here for dinner.
22.We filled 9 & 10 ring concrete silo at D. E. Martin.
23.We filled 11 & 12 ring concrete silo at D. E. Martin.
24.We plastered inside of silo all day at D. E. Martin.
25.ASCENSION DAY: Parents at Sol. Reist to help at funeral. Is. & Eli were
hostlers, Lydia & I attend to funeral of Sol. Reist’s wife, aged 45 years. I at
funeral of Jno. O. Driesinger’s wife, Elmira., PM.
26.Is. & I did concreting at D. E. Martin AM., then we moved outfit to Silas
Bauman above Floradale.
27.We sett up, & filled 1st
& 2nd
ring silo at Silas Bauman.
28.SUNDAY: Funeral of Peter Musselman’s wife (widow) lived by Amos Esch,
burried at Martins’. I & others at Sam Brubacher’s for dinner, at Dav. L.
Martin’s for supper. Operation of blood poison performed on N. L. Martin this
eve.
29.Dan. Cressman’s house burned to-day. We filled 3 & 4 ring concrete silo at
Silas Bauman.
30.We filled 5 & 6 ring concrete silo at Silas Bauman.
31.We filled 7 & 8 ring concrete silo at Silas Bauman.
JUNE 1911
1. We filled 9 & 10 ring concrete silo at Silas Bauman.
2. We filled 11 & 12 ring concrete silo at Silas Bauman.
3. We plastered silo at S. Bauman and moved bal. of outfit to M. B. Bowman in
eve, some put over last eve.
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4. SUNDAY: I at Aaron W. Weber’s for supper, I with others at Daniel G.
Gingrich’s for over night.
5. WHIT MON: I & others at Elora rocks at noon, at Joshua Brubacher’s for
supper. 40 young people up.
6. We filled 1st
& 2nd
ring concrete silo at M. B. Bowman
7. We filled 3 & 4 ring concrete silo at Menno B. Bowman.
8. We filled 5 & 6 ring concrete silo at Menno B. Bowman. I at Reuben Snider,
Conestogo, after supper.
9. We filled 7 & 8 concrete silo at Menno B. Bowman. Father & Reub. came
home from Buffalo. Rain today.
10.We filled 9 & 10 concrete silo at Menno B. Bowman.
11.SUNDAY: Isaiah & I visited N. L. Martin after supper. Aaron W. Weber’s
here for dinner. Rain, storm & few hailstones.
12.We filled 11 & 12 ring concrete silo at M. B. Bowman. Norman F. Martin’s
child’s funeral, drowned in tub.
13.We plastered silo at M. B. Bowman.
14.We moved silo outfit to Aaron Martin & put up 1 & 2 ring.
15.We filled 3 & 4 ring concrete silo at Aaron Martin.
16.We filled 5 & 6 ring concrete silo at Aaron Martin.
17.We filled 7 & 8 ring concrete silo at Aaron Martin.
18.SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting. Some young people here for dinner, Joe
Hoffman’s here for supper.
19.We filled 9 & 10 concrete ring silo at Aaron Martin.
20.We filled 11 & 12 ring concrete silo at Aaron Martin. Aaron’s son Absolom fell
25’ from scaffold on concrete floor with the result of his left leg broken.
21.We plastered silo at Aaron Martin.
22.Is. & I loaded outfit & then went to Reub. Snyder between Conestogo &
Bloomingdale, digged gravel out in root cellar at place where silo is to be built,
PM.
23.I removed gravel at site of silo a little over ½ day, filled 1st
. ring concrete silo
at R. Snider.
24.We filled 2 & 3 ring silo at R. Snider.
25.SUNDAY: Is. & I at Conestogo Meeting, PM., at Tilman Horst’s for supper.
Hy. S. Brubacher’s here for dinner.
26.We filled 4 & 5 ring concrete silo at R. Snider. Warm.
27.We filled 6 & 7 ring concrete silo at R. Snider.
28.We filled 8 & 9 ring concrete silo at R. Snider.
29.We filled 10 & 11 ring concrete silo at R. Snider.
30.We filled 12 & 13 ring concrete silo at R. Snider.
JULY 1911
1. We plastered silo and loaded outfit for the move at Reub. Snider. Dry
Weather.
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2. SUNDAY: I visited Absolom (with broken leg) at Aaron Martin over noon. At
NW Meeting PM., at Jonas Martin’s for supper. Susanna Spaeth & 2 of
Simon Kinzie’s girls here for the night.
3. John Martin (father to Isaac & Dan.) burried at Martins. Is. & I went to Hy S.
Bauman, staked up & filled 1st
ring.
4. We filled 2nd
ring silo & helped at hay-making at Hy. S. B.
5. We filled 3 ring silo & helped at hay. Light rain.
6. We filled 4 ring silo & helped at hay at Hy. S. B.
7. We filled 5 ring silo & helped at hay at Hy. S. B.
8. We filled 6 & 7 ring silo at Hy. S. B. Warm & dry weather.
9. SUNDAY: Wm. Spaeth’s here for dinner & supper. Is. & I at Dan. Weber’s
for dinner, at Martin’s Meeting PM., at Wendel Martin’s for supper.
10.Is. & I helped draw in 10 loads of hay for father. Rain in eve.
11.I at Elmira AM., Is. & I filled 8th
ring silo at Hy. L. Bauman.
12.We filled 9 & 10 ring silo at Hy. S. Bauman.
13.We filled 11 & 12 ring silo at Hy. S. Bauman.
14.We filled 13 & 14 ring silo at Hy. S. Bauman. A little rain. Elias Martin’s wife
(widow) burried at Martins’, aged 80 years.
15.We plastered nearly all of silo at Hy. S. B. Rain in eve.
16.SUNDAY: Parents, Eli & I at WW Meeting AM. Is. visited Abs. Martin AM.
Hy. B. Martin’s here for both meals. Young people here for dinner. Dav.
Horst here for supper; Two of L. Brox’s children here for supper also. Rain
today; the ground being dry for quite awhile.
17.We finished silo at Hy. S. B. & moved to Dan. B. Martin.
18.We filled 1st
, 2nd
& 3rd
ring silo at Dan B. Martin.
19.We filled 4 & 5 ring concrete silo at D. B. Martin. Rain in eve.
20.We filled 6 ring silo AM. We pitched dung for father PM.
21.We spread manure for father 1/3 dy. Filled 7 & 8 ring silo at D. B. M.
22.We filled 9 & 10 ring silo at Dan. B. Martin. Josaiah Bauman’s girl, aged 13
years, burried at Martins’ AM. Oliver Lichty’s wife burried at N. Woolwich PM.
Dan. M. Bowman builds dam at present, at Floradale.
23.SUNDAY: I visited Abs. Martin AM. Lydia & I at S. Peel Meeting PM., at
Amzi Snyder’s for supper.
24.We plastered silo at Dan. B. Martin.
25.We moved outfit to Jacob Musselman AM. Filled 1st
& 2nd
ring concrete silo
PM.
26.We build concrete front at barn floor & plastered silo & hauled rings & scaffold
home; mixer and power to C. B. Eix near Hawkesville.
27.We prepared for cementing horse stable & cemented stalls & petition in pig
stable.
28.We build hog troughs., etc.
29.We plastered hog troughs, concreted some in sty & horse stable.
30.SUNDAY: Dav. Cressman’s Jr. here for supper. I at home.
31.Is. & I at N. L. Martin to build sidewalks, etc.
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AUGUST 1911
1. We build sidewalks, porch floor, etc. at N. L. Martin.
2. We finished cementing at N. L. Martin at noon. We moved to Jno. S.
Brubacher & prepared to re-roof house.
3. We removed old roof of house, replaced some new sheeting with Oshawa
steel shingles on top at J. S. B.
4. We put steel shingles on roof, etc. at Jno. S. B.1 day.
5. We build concrete arch over some of Menno Gingrich’s root-cellar besides a
few small jobs. 1 day.
6. SUNDAY: Is. & I at Martins’ Meeting, young people baptized, AM. We at
Simeon Weber’s for dinner, at Moses Weber’s for supper.
7. Is. & I at Jno. S. Brubacher worked on house roof 1 day.
8. Is. & I worked at Jno. S. Brubacher’s house roof 1 day.
9. Is. & I helped father to thrash AM. We helped to draw in grain at Aaron
Martin’s ½ day, PM.
10.We helped to draw in grain at Aaron Martin all day.
11.We helped to put away old horse, etc., AM., at A. Martin. We all at the funeral
of Emerson Esch, aged 35 years, 7 mon. & 28 dys.,--killed by electric shock,
Berlin.
12.I helped to hoe turnips, cut off peas, etc. at A. Martin.
13. SUNDAY: We all at the WW Meeting. I at Geo. Bauman’s for supper.
14.I helped to store away grain nearly ½ day AM. at Paul Snider. Paul & I
repaired culvert at F. Weigel, 6 hrs. PM.
15.Paul & I repaired culvert at F. Weigel, 6 hrs. PM. Rain AM.
16.I repaired at culvert at F. Weigel 7 ½ hrs. Some rain.
17.I worked at cistern & hard water well floors at G. M. Bauman.
18.I worked at cistern & hard water well floors at G. M. Bauman.
19.I worked at cistern & hard water well floors, etc, at G. M. Bauman.
20.SUNDAY: I at home, made a call at A. W. Weber’s after supper. Is. Weber
here for dinner. Parents at Abs. Martin’s and Reub. Bauman’s.
21.I worked at well floor, sidewalk, etc, at G. M. Bauman, 1 day.
22.I concreted porch floor, etc, at Mose Gingrich, 1 day.
23.I worked at porch floor, cistern top & waste water entrance. at M. Gingrich.
Doctors operated on father, removed tumor.
24.I worked at sidewalks & concrete door cill, etc, at M. Gingrich. Hy.
Brubacher’s wife, widow burried at Conestogo (of St. Jacobs).
25.I looked after silo filling jobs & was at P. Ziegler over night.
26.I helped to remove earth at silo site, at P. Ziegler, all day.
27.SUNDAY: I at home. Wm. Jacobi’s here for both meals. Levi Brubacher’s
here for dinner.
28.I filled 1st
& 2nd
ring concrete silo at P. Ziegler.
29.I filled 3 & 4 ring concrete silo at P. Ziegler.
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30.I filled 5 ring concrete silo & build gangway floor at P. Z.
31.Peter & I at Floradale in morning. I fetched scaffold from home & cement
from Elmira to P. Ziegler.
SEPTEMBER 1911
1. I filled 6 & 7 ring concrete silo at P. Ziegler.
2. I filled 8 ring silo & prepared for next at P. Ziegler.
3. SUNDAY: Eli & I at S. Peel Meeting AM., at Amos F. Martin’s for dinner, at
Menno Frey’s for supper.
4. I filled 9 & 10 ring silo & fixed cellar steps at P. Ziegler.
5. I filled 11 & 12 ring concrete silo at P. Ziegler. Rain.
6. I lowered silo curbings & cleaned them, etc., at P. Z.
7. I & Urias Martin carpentered at silo roof at P. Ziegler, 1 dy.
8. I carpentered at silo roof 1 dy, Urias ½ dy, at P. Ziegler.
9. I plastered silo at P. Ziegler all day.
10.SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting, except mother. Noah S. Martin’s, Isaac
Gingrich’s & Dan Hoffman’s Jr. here for dinner.
11.I in Floradale & Elmira, oiled silo curbs, bolts, etc.
12.I did concreting jobs on outside of house at Jonas Martin.
13.I did concreting jobs on outside of house at Jonas Martin.
14.I at Harvest Meeting at W. Woolwich AM., I at D. M. Bowman fixed gate
apparatus on dam wall, PM.
15.I worked at & prepared for water wheel at D. M. Bowman.
16.I worked at & prepared for water wheel at D. M. Bowman.
17.SUNDAY: Neighbors here to visit mother (in bed). I at R. M. after supper.
18.I helped to remove earth for water wheel at D. M. Bowman.
19.I & Ab. Bearinger commenced our corn cutting season. We set up at M.
Snider (rain) AM., cut corn PM.
20.We cut corn at C. Esch, AM.; Dav. Hoffer PM.
21.We cut corn at G. M. Bauman, AM; Rain PM.
22.We cut corn at G. M. Bauman, AM., F. Weigel, PM.
23.We cut corn at C. Wilken, AM,; Paul Snider, PM.
24.SUNDAY: I at home all day. Mary Cressman & Mary Martin here for dinner.
Rain to-night. Mary Ann Weber was here to help Lydia do housework several
days.
25.We cut corn at P. Snider, AM.; by my father ½ day, PM.
26.We cut corn at Aaron Weber.
27.We cut corn at Elias Martin, PM.; Rain AM.
28.We cut corn at Elias Martin, moved cutting-box home, AM. I at N. L. Martin &
in Elmira & helped father, PM.
29.I in Elmira, helped father to cut some corn, made a silo roof draft & oiled silo
curbings. Rainy AM.
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30.I helped concreting casing around water wheel at D. M. Bowman, Floradale, 1
day.
OCTOBER 1911
1. SUNDAY: I at Menno Weber’s for supper, Eph. Weber’s here for supper.
2. I cemented at Anthony Gies, ¾ day.
3. I cemented at Anthony Gies, 1 day.
4. I at D. M. Bowman, Floradale, worked at tail race.
5. I cemented, etc, at tail race, at D. M. Bowman.
6. I cemented at tail race & helped a little at cider mill. Rainy PM. The last while
we had rain about every other day.
7. I helped to set curbing & cemented tail race at D. M. Bowman.
8. SUNDAY: We nearly all at WW Meeting AM., Dan. L. Martins & Menno M.
Bauman’s here for dinner & also a few girls.
9. I helped to make out potatoes & loaded manure for father all day. Bright
weather.
10.I helped to load manure all day for father.
11.I helped to load manure ½ dy for father; I at D. M. B., PM.
12.I helped to cement at water wheel, etc, at D. M. B.
13.I helped to cement at water wheel, etc, at D. M. B.
14.I helped to cement at water wheel, etc, at D. M. B.
15.SUNDAY: Jno. Geisel’s here for dinner, Albert Lorch’s here for supper. I at
Joshua Bowman’s for supper.
16.I helped to cement at water wheel at D. M. Bowman.
17.I helped to remove earth under mill ½ day for D. M. Bowman. Rain nearly all
day.
18.I helped to cement, etc, at D. M. Bowman, 1 day.
19.I leveled off & cemented foundation wall for driving shed ¾ day at Receveous
Martin.
20.I worked at shed foundations AM. Made cribbing for water trough PM., at
Receveous Martin.
21.I build water-trough, etc, 1 day, at Receveous Martin. I & others away visiting
at Amos Weber’s over night.
22.SUNDAY: We young people at Allen Bauman’s for dinner, at Jno.
Brubacher’s for supper. Rainy day.
23.I helped to lower shed on foundation & build some more wall under it &
plastered trough at R. Martin.
24.I helped to finish bal. of foundation, etc, ½ dy, at R. M. I re-pointed out
strawshed wall at A. Gies, ½ day.
25.I did concreting jobs at Anthony Gies 1 day.
26.I cemented foundation wall for ice-house, etc, at Rueben Bauman, 1 day.
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27.I cemented at outhouse foundation & build root-cellar door at R. M. Bauman
AM., I worked at silo roof at Dan E. Martin, PM.
28.I worked at silo roof at Dan. E. Martin all day.
29.SUNDAY: I at home all day. Elias B. Martin’s here for supper.
30.I carpentered at silo roof at Dan. E. Martin all day.
31.I carpentered at silo roof at Dan. E. Martin all day.
NOVEMBER 1911
1. I carpentered at silo roof at Dan. E. Martin all day.
2. I carpentered at silo roof at Dan. E. Martin, AM.; I carpentered ¼ day at Hy.
Bauman PM.
3. I carpentered at silo roof at Hy. Bauman 1 day.
4. I carpentered at silo roof at Hy. Bauman 1 day.
5. SUNDAY: We all except Noah at WW Meeting. Jno. S. Brubacher’s here for
dinner. Mose & Leah Reist here for supper.
6. I carpentered at Hy. Bauman nearly all day.
7. I carpentered at Hy. Bauman nearly all day.
8. I carpentered at Hy. Bauman a little over ½ day. I at Isaac Gingrich awhile in
eve. to work at stable.
9. I worked at horse stable, prepared for cementing at I. G.
10.I worked at horse stable, prepared for cementing at I. G.
11.I worked at horse stable, cemented at h. stable, 1 day, at I. G.
12.SUNDAY: Lydia, Noah & I at Geo. Bauman’s (& Grandma) for dinner. Is. &
Eli at WW Meeting House at funeral of Isaac Stauffer’s wife, PM. Snow &
stormy.
13.Is. & I awhile at Elmira Fair, AM. We started to build silo roof at Aaron Martin
PM. Rough weather.
14.Is. & I worked at silo roof & chute at A. Martin, 1 dy. Snow in eve.
15.I prepared for cementing a calf stable, etc, at Isaac Gingrich all day. Is.
carpentered at Aaron Martin.
16.I prepared for & cementing small petition wall & finished horse stable floor at I.
G. Is: finished at A Martin.
17.I worked at stable AM. Layed bricks for a floor in house cellar at Isaac
Gingrich PM. Stormy.
18.I cemented calf stable, etc, at I G. all day. Stormy.
19.SUNDAY: We all at home. Sam. R. Martin & sisters here for dinner.
Sleighing commenced. Deep snow banks.
20.I worked at cistern, build brick wall in house cellar at Isaac Gingrich’s ¾ day.
21.I worked at cistern at Isaac Gingrich, 1 day.
22.I masoned in cellar besides cistern at I. Gingrich, 1 day. Pastor Schulz
burried at Elmira.
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23.I plastered inside of cistern AM., Set models for water-trough at I Gingrich’s, 1
day.
24.I put second coat plaster on cistern AM., build water-trough at I. Gingrich, PM.
1 day.
25.I helped to build 2 water troughs & gangway floor at I. G.
26.SUNDAY: Parents at Martin’s down yesterday already. Is. & Eli at S. Peel. I
at home did the feeding.
27.I build foundation cribbing for cistern top at I. G. 1 day.
28.I build concrete floor on cistern at I. Gingrich, 1 day.
29.I carpentered at woodwork over water troughs at I. G., 1 day.
30.I carpentered at woodwork over water troughs at I. G. 1 day.
DECEMBER 1911
1. I carpentered at woodwork over water troughs at I. G., 1 day.
2. I carpentered at woodwork over water troughs at I. G., 1 day.
3. SUNDAY: We all except father at WW Meeting. Aaron Gingrich here for
dinner. I at N. L. Martin for supper. Isaiah & Eli at Henry Gingrich’s for
supper.
4. I looked over my accounts & in Elmira AM.; I did a little carpentering at R. M.
Bauman PM.
5. I worked at silo roof at S. K. Brubacher, 1 day.
6. I worked at silo roof at S. K. Brubacher, 1 day.
7. I worked at silo roof at S. K. Brubacher, 1 day.
8. I worked at silo roof at S. K. Brubacher, 1 day.
9. I worked at silo roof at S. K. Brubacher, 1 day. Warm & mild weather; dirty
roads.
10.SUNDAY: Parents at funeral of Frederick Westfall at W. Montrose, PM. I at
Mose Reist for supper, paid a call on N. Bearinger. We boys inspected
washed out dam race of D. M. Bowman’s at Floradale.
11.I at Reub. Bauman, layed cells for ice-house & cleaned wheat a little over ½
day. Rainy & wett.
12.I helped to butcher for father all day. Reub. Noah & Mary Ann helped;
butchered 3 hogs. Mild weather, snow gone. Some people plowed sod.
13.I helped to butcher for Hy. B. Martin, AM. by father. I worked at ice-house at
Reub., ½ day, PM.
14.I worked at ice-house at Reub. all day.
15.I worked at ice-house at Reub. ½ day AM. I at auction sale at Menno
Hoffman PM.
16.I worked at ice-house at Reub. all day. Sleet.
17.SUNDAY: Parents at David M. Martin’s for dinner. Eli & Lydia at S. Peel
Meeting. I did some feeding at home.
18.I at Elmira Fair, AM., at R. Bauman carpentering PM.
19.I carpentered at outhouse at R. Bauman 1 day.
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20.I carpentered at outhouse & pump floor at R. Bauman 1 day.
21.I build concrete shoots in front of hog troughs at R. M. B., 1 day.
22.I fixed new bottom in chopp chist at R. M. B. ½ day, AM.
23.I did small jobs, at my books, etc. I with other young folks at Levi Weber’s
over night.
24.SUNDAY: We young folks at Martins’ Meeting, at Aaron Brubacher’s for
dinner, at Moses Weber’s for supper.
25.CHRISTMAS: We all at WW Meeting. Tilman Bauman here for dinner.
Three of Moses Bauman’s children here for supper. Parents went to Ed.
Spaeth for the night.
26.Parents arrived from visiting Ed. Spaeth. I worked at my books. I went to
Enos M. Bauman to work there this winter.
27.Enos & I prepared for butchering, I made trussels.
28.Butchered 1 cow & 2 hogs; I, A. Knorr & W. Martin helped. Stormy.
29.We prepared for thrashing AM, thrashed grain, ½ day, PM.
30.I did chores, etc., AM. We chopped grain, PM.
31.SUNDAY: Simeon Martin & Amos Rudy here for supper.
DIARY 1912
ANGUS S. BAUMAN
JANUARY
1. NEW YEAR: I did small jobs, chores, wrote letters to Pa., & Ind.
2. We thrashed about ¾ day & chopped oats a little.
3. I took g. engine to E. Martin & worked in barn AM; I at Allen Knorr to help to
thrash ½ day PM.
4. I took saws to Shaeffer to get them filed, etc, AM. I fetched a load sugar beet
pulp from factory with waggon, PM. Enos & wife in Berlin with my horse.
5. I fetched 2 loads of pulp from factory.
6. I fetched 2 loads of pulp from factory. I & Amos Rudy went to Ed. Spaith for
the night. Cold.
7. SUNDAY: I & Amos at Ed. Spaeth over noon yet, then went to WM. Spaith,
Berlin,f or supper & night.
8. I & Amos Rudy at funeral of Abraham Brubacher (preacher) aged 76 years, 5
days; burried at Conestogo. We by my parents for dinner, paid call at N.
Bearinger. I at Joshua Rudy’s for supper. Cold & stormy.
9. We did chores & small jobs, I splitt wood. Cold & stormy.
10.We opened drifted roads & made double door for calf stable.
11.We sharpened axes, etc, I fetched a load s. b. pulp, PM.
12.We worked small jobs, made way into bush & drawed wood.
13.I worked around in barn. Enos & I sawed wood in bush PM.
14.SUNDAY: All at home. Emmerson Martin’s here for supper.
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15.I hauled gravel on public road with beat, all day.
16.I in bush nearly all day; Enos, PM.
17.I in bush nearly all day; Enos, PM.
18.I splitt wood & trimmed cattle’s tails, etc. Rain nearly all day after about 2
weeks cold weather.
19.I worked round by buildings AM. We in bush PM.
20.Enos Martin here with his engine,-he and we chopped grain. Levi L Martin’s
here for supper. I in St. Jacobs after supper.
21.SUNDAY: Enos, I & hired girl at Martins’ Meeting. Some young folks & Hy.
B. Martin’s here for dinner. I at Tilman Martin’s after supper. (got cutter
smashed)
22.I worked around in barn; Enos at St. Jacobs AM. We in bush.
23.I in bush AM., at A. Knorr to thrash PM. Enos’s at Noah Horst’s wedding at
Joe Snyder’s. Jno. Lichty here to keep old Levi company. Receveous
Martin’s here over night.
24.I chopped grain for about 1 ½ hours & monkied round with E martin at his g.
engine, being out of fix. Snowfall.
25.I in bush nearly all day cutting firewood. Enos’s to town.
26.We cleaned wheat AM., in bush cutting firewood PM.
27.Enos hauled wheat (test 61, price 90c) to St. Jacobs. We sawed elm, PM.
28.SUNDAY: I & hired girl at W. W. Meeting, at Aaron Weber’s for dinner, I &
Hy. Bowman at David B. Bauman for supper.
29.Henry Martin Sr. burried at S. Peel. I in bush AM. We worked small jobs, I
mend robe; rainy, PM.
30.We sawed elm wood all day.
31.We sawed & splitt wood all day. I bought buggy, cutter and harness from
Jeremiah Sitler, tonight.
FEBRUARY 1912
1. I got saw filed at Jno. Shaeffer, by Erbsville, AM. I in bush splitt elm wood,
Enos butchered at Ab. Martin.
2. I drawed 6 loads of wood out of bush. Enos in bush.
3. I drawed 5 loads of wood out of bush. Enos chored & in bush.
4. SUNDAY: Noah Horst’s here for dinner. I stayed at home.
5. I in bush, AM., hauled heading to saw mill, PM. Enos’s at funeral of Joesph
Gingrich (preacher), aged 69 years, burried at North Woolwich.
6. I hauled heading & firewood; We sawed logs in bush, PM.
7. Enos & I sawed logs in bush, AM.; we at Benj. Hurst’s sale, PM.
8. Enos & I sawed wood in bush, AM. We cleaned wheat at noon, then I hauled
a load (price 95c, test 62) to St. Jacobs. N. L. Martin’s here.
9. I hauled sawlogs to Levi Bowman’s mill all day.
10.I chored, AM., hauled sawlogs to mill. PM. 27 degrees below zero.
11.SUNDAY: Enos’s at Dan. L. Martin’s for dinner.
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12.I & Enos at Elmira Fair. Eli & I up North to see after silos, PM.
13.We in bush sawed saw-logs.
14.I hauled saw-logs to mill all day. D. L. Martin & Enos after horses.
15.I hauled saw-logs to mill all day. Enos’s at Mrs. Rudy’s sale.
16.I hauled saw-logs to mill all day. Mild weather these days.
17.I cleaned stables & did chores, AM., hauled saw logs, PM.
18.SUNDAY: Edwin & I at Martins’ Meeting AM. Tilman Horsts, Moses C.
Martin’s & Joe Hoffman here for dinner; I at Josiah Shantz’s for supper.
19.We cut down white ash tree & hauled logs to mill. Wet weather.
20.I helped to thrash at A. Knorr ¾ day, Enos ½. Enos in bush, PM.
21.I splitt wood in shed. Very stormy. J. Sitler off for West.
22.I splitt wood in shed, Etc. Very stormy. Trains blocked up.
23.We hauled snow out of sheds, AM. I had cold, kept stove co.
24.We cut down white ash tree, I hauled logs to mill. Soft weather.
25.SUNDAY: Enos’s at Dan E. Martin’s for dinner. I at Sol. Lichty for supper.
26.We & A. Knorr cut down large elm tree & sawed 1st
log off & butchered a cow.
Wet snow & sleet.
27.We & A. Knorr butchered 2 hogs.
28.Enos & I brought a large elm log in as far as to barn, AM. I helped to thrash
½ day at Wendel Martin PM.
29.We hauled saw-logs to mill-one 12’ log containing 500’ log meas.
MARCH 1912
1. Enos & I in bush cut up basswood tree-tops, AM. I hauled a load of 66 one-
foot tiles (13c each) from Conestogo to Amos Shantz’.
2. I hauled 2 loads one-foot tiles from Conestogo to Amos Shantz.
3. SUNDAY: I & Lizzie Sauder by her parents for dinner, at Levi M. Bowman’s
for supper. Levi Weber’s & Jno. M. Bauman’s here for dinner.
4. I hauled 1 load of one-foot tiles from Conestogo to Amos Shantz, AM. We
helped to thrash at Wendel Martin, PM.
5. I hauled 1 foot tiles from Conestogo to A. Shantz, AM. Enos & I at St. Jacobs
fetched a load of feed & at cow sale, PM.
6. We cut wheat-straw & filled bed sacks & cleaned cistern.
7. We sawed basswood heading in bush.
8. I hauled heading to mill; Enos helped me in bush. Flurries.
9. I hauled heading to S. mill, AM. firewood home, PM.
10.SUNDAY: I at S. Peel Meeting AM., at Titus Bauman’s for dinner, at Sol.
Bowman’s for supper, under parental roof for night.
11.I at Elmira Fair AM., looked after silo job, PM.
12.Enos & I in bush sawed & splitt firewood all day.
13.Enos & I in bush sawed elm topwood all day.
14.Enos & I sawed wood in bush, AM. We cleaned wheat at noon; Enos hauled
wheat to St. Jacobs, I splitt wood in bush.
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15.We cleaned seed grain & chored. Snow storm.
16.I shovelled & teamed away of yesterdays snow & fetched load wood in.
17.SUNDAY: Lizzie Sauder & I at Martins’ Meeting. Levi L. Martin’s young
people here for dinner. Some young folks here for supper. Mild weather.
18.I hauled wood in from bush, Enos splitt wood, AM. I & Enos’s at funeral of
Simeon Good, aged 44 years, burried at Martins’. Levi Martin’s (deacon), I.
Gingrich & Hy. Bowman Sr. here for dinner, Dav. B. Martin’s for supper. Very
mild.
19.I hauled wood home from bush, Enos splitt wood, AM. We & E. E. Martin’s
boys opened public road for traffic. Mild.
20.We splitt elm wood in bush, AM. Cut down old path on public road, PM. A
little cold to-day.
21.We cleaned wheat; Enos hauled wheat to St. Jacobs. I in bush PM. Snow
storm AM.
22.Enos & I splitt wood about all day.
23.I hauled wood home,-6 loads. Enos’s at Berlin.
24.SUNDAY: I at William Jacobi’s of near Ebsville for dinner.
25.I fetched Enos Martin & his engine, then we chopped grain about 5 hours,-
some at rate of 60 bu. per hour.
26.Enos returned engine, then we cut wood short for old Levi.
27.We cut wood short for Levi & hauled in 1 load. Re-opened public road. Enos
sold 4 steers, w’t about 300 # @6 ¼c, leave last wk. in April.
28.We in bush cut wood short, AM. I at Menno L. Weber’s sale, PM.
29.We in bush cut wood short for Levi & hauled in 2 loads.
30.I hauled wood home from bush all day. I moved home in eve.
31.SUNDAY: I at Hy. S. Brubacher for supper. Snow going.
APRIL 1912
1. Eli & I felled maple trees in Grandma’s bush ¾ day.
2. Eli & I fell & cut up maple trees in Grandma’s bush 1 day.
3. We cut up maple trees in Grandma’s bush 1 day.
4. Funeral of Jonathan Sitler’s wife (widow) burried at Martins’. We cut maple
trees in Grandma’s bush 1 day.
5. GOOD FRIDAY: We all at the W. W. Meeting, I at N. Bearinger’s for dinner,
at Benj. Martin for supper. High waters.
6. We cut up maple trees in Grandma’s bush 1 day.
7. SUNDAY: I at G. M. Bauman’s for supper (visited Grandma). Rain last night.
8. I at Elmira Fair, AM., we in Grandma’s bush, PM. Joshua Rudy here for
dinner. Riggs with wheels out.
9. We (& Is. Weber ½ day) cut wood in Grandma’s bush 1 day.
10.We & Is. Weber cut & sawed wood in Grandma’s bush 1 day. Father hauled
13 pigs to Elmira at 8c per pound. Snow almost gone.
11.Is. Weber, I & Eli worked in Grandma’s bush nearly 1 day. I in Elmira at noon.
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12.I started to cement at a 4 cornered silo at N. G. Martin 1 day.
13.I cemented at silo at N. G. Martin 1 day.
14.SUNDAY: I at home all day. Dreary, rainy and thundering in eve.
15.I worked at concrete silo at N. G. Martin 1 day.
16.Funeral of Jacob S. Martin’s wife,-aged 45 years, 4 mon., 20 days., buried at
Martins. I helped father in bush 1 day.
17.I worked at concrete silo at N. G. Martin 1 day.
18.I splitt maple wood in Grandma’s bush for father 1 day.
19.I worked in Grandma’s bush for father ¾ day. Bro. Noah & I at Wm. Schaner,
Hawkesville, secured silo job in eve.
20.I moved mixer & power from I Gingrich’s other farm to Hy. Horst & did small
jobs at home. Warm.
21.SUNDAY: Parents at Eli M. Martin’s for supper. Noah Bearinger, Eli Horst &
Ab. Bearinger here for supper. We all at WW Meeting AM. Bro. Is. here for
both meals.
22.I helped to recover porch roof at Dav. Cressman Sr. AM. I started to work at
Hy. Horst, removed part of old house wall & placed door frame in; leveled site,
PM.
23.I at Hy. Horst, masoned door frame in & sett some cribbing. Windy.
24.I, Eli & Lydia, & Parents at funeral of Urias Gingrich aged 24 yrs, 10 mon, 4
days, buried at N. Woolwich, AM., died on fever in N. West. I set cribbing for
house foundation concrete wall at Hy. Horst. PM.
25.Set mixer & build part of concrete cellar wall at Hy. Horst’s.
26.Build concrete wall at Hy. Horst, 1 day.
27.Build concrete wall at Hy. Horst, 1 day.
28.SUNDAY: I at Conestogo Meeting at Daniel Horst for dinner, at Daniel
Cressman’s for supper.
29.We build partition wall in cellar at Hy. Horst.
30.We build cellar entrance sides, porch foundation etc. at Hy. Horst’s.
MAY 1912
1. I plastered walls on inside & outside at Hy. Horst.
2. I cemented at small jobs at Hy. B. Martin, 1 day.
3. I prepared for foundation for building to house etc at Hy. B. M.
4. I prepared & cemented at foundation at Hy. B. Martin.
5. SUNDAY: Lydia, Eli & I at NW Meeting, at Anson Gingrich’s for dinner, at
Daniel Gingrich’s for supper. Rain tonight.
6. I took cistern rings down to M. Eby in morn. & concreted at Hy. B. Martin, 7
hrs. Israel Gingrich’s helped PM.
7. I concreted at Hy. B. Martin 6 hrs. AM. Made cribbing for coal shed at Menno
Eby, 4 hrs. PM. Is Martin & laborer helped.
8. I build cistern wall & foundation for shed at M. Eby: 1 day. Israel & Manassa
Gingrich, & Philiph Knorr helped.
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9. I prepared scantling frame for shed at Hy. B. Martin.
10.I raised frame & fastened siding, etc.; M. Horst helped, at Hy. B. M.
11.I worked at rafters & sheathing, etc., at Hy. B. Martin. Some rain. I took
cistern rings to Hy. Horst in eve.
12.SUNDAY: Lydia & I at Jno. Nahrgang to see his dead corpse, PM. Parents
at Levi Brubachers for supper. Dreary.
13.John Nahrgang’s remains intermented in Wilmot aged 73 yrs, 2 mon. & 15
days. I plastered silo at N. G. Martin.
14.I & father carpentered on Hy. Martin’s building.
15.I & Hy. Martin build chimney of his,-cement brick.
16.ASCENSION DAY: Hy. & I prepared plaster mortor, I prepared for ceiling
AM., at Hy. B. Martin. Went home at noon. Rainy.
17.I worked small jobs. Rainy. I plastered cistern at Eby.
18.I plastered inside in additional part of kitchen nearly 1 day at Hy. B. Martin &
plastered cistern at Eby. Rain in eve.
19.SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting AM. I took ill PM. Rain in eve.
20.I did a few small jobs, did not feel well. Parents & Eli helped at Dav.
Brubacher’s child’s funeral, aged 7 mon. Rainy.
21.I was sick, made a call at Dr. Faulds, Elmira. Rainy & wet. Ground well
soaked. Wm. Lorch of Iowa came to night.
22.I tinkered around, looked after jobs. Rain in morn.
23.Wm. & I build cistern floor at M. Eby AM. Put in cellar floor at Hy. Horst, PM.
24.Wm. & I put in cellar floor & build cistern 6 x 5’ hight at Hy. Horst.
25.Wm & I worked on silo construction, build 5 ft., at Seth Bauman.
26.SUNDAY: (Whit) I, Lydia & Noah at Conestogo Meeting. Men nomanated for
a preacher.
27.Wm. & I build 3rd
& 4Th ring silo at S. Bauman. In the morning we first
plastered cistern at Hy. Horst.
28.We build 5 & 6 ring of monolithic silo at S. Bauman.
29.We build 7 & 8 ring of monolithic silo at S. Bauman.
30.We build 9 & 10 ring of monolithic silo at S. Bauman. I attended meeting at
Martins where Ezra Martin was ordained as preacher for the Conestogo
district.
31.We build 11 & 12 ring silo at S. Bauman. Moved mixer to H. D.
JUNE 1912
1. Wm. & I plastered silo at S. Bauman & loaded bal. of outfit.
2. SUNDAY: Parents, Noah, & Levi Brubacher’s up at N. Woolwich Meeting.
Men nomonated for a preacher.
3. We set up & filled 1st
& 2nd
ring concrete silo at Hy. Doerbecker.
4. We filled 3 & 4 ring concrete silo at Hy Doerbecker.
5. We filled 5 & 6 ring concrete silo at Hy. Doerbecker.
6. We filled 7 & 8 ring concrete silo at Hy. Doerbecker.
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7. We filled 9 & 10 ring concrete silo at Hy. Doerbecker.
8. We filled 11 & 12 ring concrete silo at Hy. Doerbecker.
9. SUNDAY: Lydia & Eli at Peter G. Martin for supper. I called on N. Weber.
10.We plastered silo at Hy. Doerbecker & loaded outfit.
11.We put conv\crete foundation in for bridge, 15’ span & 14’ wide on road by
Jno. M. Bauman.
12.We worked at abutment at concrete bridge.
13.We worked at abutments at concrete bridge.
14.We worked at forms for concrete bridge.
15.We worked at forms for railing, etc. ½ day. Rain at noon.
16.SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting. I at Sol. Reist for supper.
17.We build concrete floor on bridge all day.
18.We build forms for railing all day.
19.We filled railing forms & loaded machine.
20.We staked & build 5’ silo at Jacob S. Hahn, Hawkesville.
21.We build 2 ½’ silo for Hahn; moved, staked & build 2 ½ ‘ for Wm. Schaner,
Hawkesville.
22.We build 2 & 3 ring concrete silo at Wm. Schaner.
23.SUNDAY: I at home all day. Parents & N. L. Martin’s at P. Ziegler.
24.We build 4 & 5 ring concrete silo at Wm. Schaner.
25.We build 6 & 7 ring concrete silo at Wm. Schaner.
26.We build 8 & 9 ring concrete silo at Wm Schaner.
27.We build 10 & 11 ring concrete silo at Wm. Schaner.
28.We build 12 ring silo & worked about silo PM.
29.We plastered silo at Wm. Schaner. Wm. Lorch quite working for me; 33 days;
going home to Iowa.
30.SUNDAY: I at N. Woolwich Meeting AM.; at Addison Gingrich’s for dinner, at
Jno. F. Martin’s for supper.
JULY 1912
1. I at Simon Martin built top on root cellar, 1 day.
2. I built 1st
& 2nd
ring concrete silo at Val. Otterbein, Heidelberg.
3. I built 3 & 4 ring concrete silo at Val Otterbein.
4. I built 5 & 6 ring concrete silo at Val. Otterbein.
5. I built 7 & 8 ring concrete silo at Val. Otterbein.
6. I built 9 & 10 ring concrete silo at Val. Otterbein.
7. SUNDAY: I with other young folks at Enoch Weber’s over night, at Noah W.
Weber’s for dinner, at Dan. W. Weber’s for supper. Also at Martins’ afternoon
Meeting now starting.
8. I was up at Joe Gingrich’s on buisness before breakfast. I built 11 & 12 ring
concrete silo at Val. Otterbein.
9. I plastered silo at Val. Otterbein.
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10.We loaded outfit & moved to Joe Gingrich’s AM. I set up outfit. Some rain
PM. Aug. Sauder’s barn burned.
11.We built 1, 2 & 3 ring silo at Joe Gingrich’s.
12.We built 4 & 5 ring concrete silo at J. Gingrich.
13.We built 6 & 7 ring concrete silo at J. Gingrich.
14.SUNDAY: All at WW Meeting except I Edwin Bauman & Ivan W. Martin here
for dinner. I & Mary Cressman at South Peel afternoon Meeting, at Dan
Bauman’s for supper.
15.I helped to prepare & draw in 6 loads hay for father.
16.I & others filled 8 ring silo at J. Gingrich. I mixed concrete & nearly filled the
9th
ring myself PM.
17.We filled bal. of 9th
ring at J. Gingrich. I helped father put away hay ¾ day.
18.I helped put away hay for father ½ day & tinkered around a little at J.
Gingrich’s PM.
19.We filled 10 & 11 ring silo at Joe Gingrich.
20.We filled 12 & 13 ring silo at Joe Gingrich.
21.SUNDAY: I at Conestogo Meeting PM. At N. L. Martin’s for supper.
22.I plastered at silo at Joe Gingrich.
23.I plastered bal. of silo & built chute walls at J. Gingrich.
24.Rainy nearly all AM. Loaded outfit & moved to Benj. Brubacher; staked in the
evening.
25.We built 1, 2, & 3 ring concrete silo at Benj. Brubacher.
26.We built 4, 5 & 6 ring concrete silo at B. Brubacher.
27.We built 7 & 8 ring concrete silo at B. Brubacher.
28.SUNDAY: Noah Bearinger & I at NW Meeting PM., at Peter G. Martin’s.
29.We built 9 & 10 ring concrete silo at B. Brubacher.
30.We built 11 & 12 ring concrete silo at B Brubacher.
31.We built 13 & 14 ring concrete silo at B. Brubacher.
AUGUST 1912
1. Lowered rings & plastered silo at B. Brubacher.
2. We build concrete enclosure for pump in well at Benj. Brubacher & moved to
C. K. Weber, Floradale, in eve.
3. We filled 1 & 2 ring silo of concrete at C. K. Weber.
4. SUNDAY: Noah Bearinger & I at Martins’ Meeting AM & PM at Eli Horst’s for
dinner, Tobias Martin’s for supper. Pa. folks round Preacher Frank Horst &
his father & others.
5. We build 3 & 4 ring concrete silo at C. K. Weber.
6. We build 5 & 6 ring concrete silo at C. K. Weber.
7. We build 7 & 8 ring concrete silo at C. K. Weber.
8. We build 9 ring concrete silo at C. K. Weber. Rainy.
9. We build 10 & 11 ring concrete silo at C. K. Weber.
10.We build 12 ring concrete silo, at C. K. Weber, let ring down.
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11.SUNDAY: I at WW Meeting AM & PM.; I at Jonas Martin’s for supper, Joseph
Snyder’s & Dav. Sauder’s here for dinner.
12.I plastered silo at C. K. Weber. Parents drove Pa. folks round.
13.We moved silo outfit from C. K. Weber to Wm. Water’s, Glen Allen and set
and built the first ring silo.
14.We filled 2 & 3 ring concrete at Wm. Waters.
15.We filled 4 & 5 ring concrete silo at Wm. Waters.
16.We filled 6 & 7 ring concrete silo at Wm. Waters.
17.We filled 8 & 9 ring concrete at Wm. Waters.
18.SUNDAY: I at Conestogo Meeting; Young people got baptized, AM. I at
Daniel Horst’s for dinner, at Amos B. Martin’s for supper, visited brother
Isaiah.
19.We filled 10 & 11 ring concrete silo at Wm. Waters. John Weaver’s & Aaron
Burkholder’s made a call at Parents at home in morning, they are of Pa.
20.We build 12 & 13 ring concrete silo at Wm. Waters.
21.We build 14 ring concrete silo, lowered 1 set rings. I cleaned them then went
home in the evening.
22.I prepared for Western trip on Harvest Excursion.
23.I departed Elmira for Saskatchewan. Departed Toronto at about 4 o’clock.
24.Travelled through Northern Ont, through Fort William.
25.SUNDAY: Arrived Winnipeg at about 7 o’clock PM. (Joseph Gingrich’s barn
burned)
26.Departed Winnipeg at 12 this morn. Changed at Brandon, departed at about
7:15 AM; Cent T., Arrived Drake Sask. at about 7:30 PM.; Mountain Time. I
went to Jno. Steiner in eve.
27.I at Jno. Steiner’s till eve, then went to my boss Albert Schroeder.
28.I wrote letters to friends. Wet weather.
29.Tinkered around. Wm. & I went to Drake PM.
30.I stooked wheat for Albert 1 day.
31.I stooked wheat for Albert 1 day.
SEPTEMBER 1912
1. I stayed at Albert’s all day.
2. I stooked wheat for Albert 1 day.
3. I stooked wheat for Wm. Schroeder 1 day.
4. I stooked wheat for Wm. ½ day. Rain PM.
5. I tinkered round all day. Wet. Jonas Good’s wife burried at Martin’s in the
East.
6. Tinkered around. Chopped grain for Albert’s father.
7. I stooked wheat for Wm. 1 day.
8. SUNDAY: Wm. & I to their church AM. Mary Sauder got burried at old
Conestogo grave yard.
9. I stooked wheat for Wm. 1 day.
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10.I stooked wheat for Wm. 1 day.
11.I stooked oats for Wm. AM. Wm. & I each fetch a load of oats from Jacob
Remple PM.
12.I stooked oats for Wm. ¾ day & for Jac. Schroeder ¼ day.
13.I stooked for Jacob Schroeder 1 hr. Rainy.
14.I stooked for Albert 1 day.
15.SUNDAY: I visited Paul Schroeder. Nice day. Frost.
16.I helped to make out potatoes, etc. 1 day.
17.Wm. & I a few miles above Lanagan to fetch small poplar trees for firewood.
Wm. took gasoline, at 30c a gal. along from Lanigan. 7 lbs in a gallon
gasoline
18.We 3 worked at erecting bins; butchered hog PM.
19.Raining, did small jobs. Wrote letters to East.
20.I helped Albert to select potatoes in cellar, etc. Some rain.
21.Albert & I chopped wood awhile. We 3 moved Cooper’s buildings to another
site with engine PM.
22.SUNDAY: I at home all day. Frost to-night.
23.I helped Albert to built bin, I to Drake fetched lumber.
24.I helped to built hay racks at G Ewert.
25.I stooked oats for Wm. 1 day.
26.I stooked oats for Hy. Bartel 1 day.
27.Snowfall, nearly all AM. I took gasoline tank to Jac. Remble.
28.Wm. & I each fetched a load of hay from their stack.
29.SUNDAY: I to church AM. Christian Endeavor PM.
30.We commenced thrashing at Jac. Remble 6 ½ hrs.
OCTOBER 1912
1. Thrashed at Jac. Remble 1 ¼ hr. Nice weather.
2. Thrashed at J. Remble AM.; C. C. Jantz PM. 11 hrs.
3. Thrashed at C. C. Jantz & A F. Schroeder. 8 ¾ hrs.
4. Thrashed for A. F. Schroeder & Wm. D. Schroeder. 11 ¼ hrs.
5. Thrashed for Wm. D. Schroeder. 10 ¾ hrs.
6. SUNDAY: I at home all day. Wrote letters to friends.
7. Thrashed for Wm. & A. F. Schroeder, & Jac. Jantz. 9 hrs.
8. Thrashed for Jac. Jantz. 2 ¼ hrs.
9. Thrashed for Jac. Jantz. 9 hrs.
10.Thrashed for Jac. Jantz. Snowed last night. 9 hrs.
11.Thrashed for Jac. Jantz. 11 ½ hrs.
12.Thrashed for Jac. Jantz. 10 ½ hrs.
13.SUNDAY: I at home all day. Wrote letters to East.
14.Thrashed for Jac. Jantz. 10 hrs.
15.Thrashed for C. C. Jantz. 11 ¼ hrs.
16.Thrashed for Jac. Remble/ J. E. & H. H. Jantz. 9 ¾ hrs.
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17.Thrashed for H. H. Jantz. Light rain. 3 ¼ hrs.
18.I at G Ewert last night, went to Albert, Carpentered a little PM.
19.We set out with machine to move over to Benj. Lichty; got stuck & broke
spindle, removed pieces & went to Drake.
20.SUNDAY: I visited Benj. Lichty, there for dinner & supper. Snow fall today.
21.Wm. & I looked round in country for old binder wheel.
22.Wm. & I fetched another binder wheel to that of yesterday’s. The blacksmith
in Drake fixed these wheels on the Separtor hind 8” wheels with 6” extention.
I hauled 1 load oats.
23.Albert & I took a load wheat to elevator. We took repairs to machine; Benj.
Lichty & I fixed machine in eve, 6 hrs.
24.We fixed on Separator & thrashed for Benj. Lichty. 8 ½ hrs.
25.Thrashed at B. Lichty & Hy. Jantz. 9 ¼ hrs.
26.Thrashed for H. H. & Val. Jantz.
27.SUNDAY: I at home all day. Wrote to East.
28.Thrashed for Val. & J. E. Jantz. 11 hrs.
29.Thrashed for J. E. Jantz. 11 ½ hrs.
30.Thrashed for H. H. Jantz. 8 ½ hrs.
31.Thrashed for Bob Taylor. 11 ¼ hrs.
NOVEMBER 1912
1. Thrashed for Bob Taylor. 7 ½ hrs.
2. Thrashed for Bob Taylor & Slottery. 7 ½ hrs.
3. SUNDAY: I at home by Albert’s all day. Wrote to East.
4. We thrashed for Alex. Burns. 7 hrs.
5. Thrashed for Alex. Burns. Chr. Martin Sr. burried at Martins. 9 ¼ hrs.
6. Thrashed for G. Ewert & Frank Gibney. 8 hrs.
7. Thrashed for Frank Gibney. 7 hrs.
8. Thrashed for Frank Gibney. 5 hrs.
9. Thrashed for Frank & James Gibney. 5 ¾ hrs.
10.SUNDAY: I at John Steiners for supper. Snowfall.
11.We thrashed at Ph. Leopard & Archie Elder. 7 hrs.
12.Thrashed at Hy. Bartel, stacks. 5 hrs.
13.Thrashed at Hy. Bartel, stacks & stooks. 8 ½ hrs.
14.Hy. Bartel got thrashed to-day, stooks. 13 ¾ hrs.
15.Thrashed stacks at Hy. Bartel. 5 hrs.
16.Thrashed stacks at Hy. Bartel, Engine broke. ½ hr.
17.SUNDAY: I at home at Albert’s all day. Last Sunday’s snowfall disappear
fast today. I bothered with boils.
18.Albert took engine apart,-found broken exhaust valve.
19.I simply had to tend to my boils the last 3 day.
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20.Started to thrash at Hy. Bartel but exhaust valve on opposite cylinder broke in
a pretty short time. Stooks dry again now. My boil turned. Albert & I visited
old man’s machine.
21.I splitt wood, etc. AM.
22.Replaced new valve, started engine, inlet valve broke.
23.Thrashed for Hy. Bartel with our Sep. & Jac’s engine. 4 hrs.
24.SUNDAY: I at home by Albert’s all day. Nice weather these days.
25.I prepared for departure. Albert took me to Lanigan. Took 13.35 train for
Carstairs Alta. During thrashing season I acted as Separator operator for A.
F. & W. D. Schroeder at $5 per day.
26.Arrived Wetaskwin in morn. Took leave at about 10 AM., arrived at Carstairs
at 1422. Found Urias Martin in evening.
27.Having decided to see country till Urias is ready, I left Didsbury for Calgary &
visited Simeon Snyders, 15Th Ave. East No. 119 for supper & night. (Ab.
Brubacher’s wife burried at Conestogo.)
28.Left Calgary for Field B.C. in the rockies, back to Calgary.
29.Left Calgary for Aldersyde by Elias Bucker’s for dinner, at Syrannes Shantz’s
for supper, back to Calgary.
30.At Sim. Snyder’s last night & for breakfast. Left Calgary at 8 AM. arrived Olds
at 10.15 AM. Walked out to nearly all way to Jno. Lehman, Mayton, Alta,
there for supper & night.
DECEMBER 1912
1. SUNDAY: I with Jno. Lehman’s at their church by Mayton, at Milton Sitler’s
for dinner, supper & night visited his brother Isaac.
2. I with Orlo Blosser & Ab. Wideman out rabbit shooting (I got 14) I at Ab.
Wideman Sr. for dinner, supper. Jeremiah Sattler here over night with me.
3. I at Wilhelm Wideman’s for dinner. I started for Olds, got auto ride, so I &
Amos Bauman’s son Noah lodged together there.
4. I met Urias Martin here, departed for & at Edmonton over night.
5. We visited city of Edmonton & Strathcona, left here for Wetaskiwin (attended
Salv. Army Meeting) Left Wetaskiwin at 23.15 for Saskatoon.
6. Came to Saskatoon at noon, visited city here overnight.
7. Left Saskatoon at 7.15 AM., arrived at Guernsey 9.45 AM. In town over noon,
at Ira Gingrich’s for supper & night.
8. SUNDAY: Urias & I with Gingrich’s rig at their church, at Aaron Biehn’s for
dinner, at Simeon Gingrich’s for supper & night. Wife of Wendel S. Bauman
(who comitted suicide as did her husband) got burried at W. Woowich, aged
48 years.
9. We left Simeon’s at Ira’s for dinner. Left Guernsey at about 15.10 for
Winnipeg.
10.Arrived Winnepeg 8.20 AM. visited city. Left city in eve via Canadian
Northern Ry.
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11.We arrived at Duluth late at noon, departed on Chicago Nor. Western at 6.15
PM., bound for Chicago Ill.
12.Arrived at Chicago at 8.20 AM., stock yards & canning Factory, Zoo; took
leave for Detroit in evening.
13.Arrived at Detroit in morn. Urias left me here early noon for Baden, Ont. I
visited Amos Rudy, Windsor Ont. I left Detroit at 10.30PM. via G. T. R.
14.I arrived at Berlin a 5.00 AM., visited market place. Took noon train for
Elmira, came home in afternoon.
15.SUNDAY: Lydia, Eli & I at NW Meeting, at Sol. Gingrich’s for dinner, visited
Absolom Martin there for supper. Wm. & Amanda Martin & Onea Bare of Ind.
here over night.
16.I took Ind. young folks on a visit tour at Wendel & Ab. Martin’s for calls, at
Josiah Bauman’s for dinner, thence to Enos Martin’s. I with others at Amos
Webers over night.
17.N. Weber, Ivan Martin, Dan. Gingrich, Josiah Gingrich, Til. Bowman, N.
Bearinger & I, with 4 girls Lydia Gingrich, Leah & Lydia Bauman & Mary Ann
Weber. The above got return tickets, while Sid Weber with 3 Ind. folks (for
Pa.) took a trip to Niagara Falls. We eleven stopped at Toronto overnight.
18.We visited stores etc. in Toronto, took leave at 1 pm. arrived Berlin at about 4.
We boys visited Sugar Factory.
19.I around at home all day. Snowfall last night about 5 “.
20.Eli & I at Amos Martin in bush hauling out logs. Father helped to butcher at
Enoch Wideman’s.
21.I at my books & in Elmira on buisness. Snowfall.
22.SUNDAY: I at Martin’s Meeting, at Enos Martin’s for dinner, at N. G. Martin’s
for supper. Sol. Lichty’s child burried at W Woolwich.
23.I fixed on & made a pair log bolsters on father’s sleigh.
24.Eli & I each hauled 2 loads saw-logs to Floradale Mills.
25.CHRISTMAS: We except Lydia at WW Meeting. I at Amos B. Martin’s for
supper.
26.Eli, I & Noah Weber hauled logs to Floradale all day.
27.Eli, I & Noah Weber hauled Maple logs, of father’s to Floradale saw-mills. A
little snow last night.
28.I helped father to saw logs in Grandma’s bush & in Elmira.
29.SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting. I at N. L. Martin’s for supper.
30.I wrote letters, in Elmira & St. Jacobs, etc. Snowfall AM.
31.I wrote letters & fetched clothes I send off in West from depo.
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DIARY 1913
ANGUS S. BAUMAN
JANUARY
1. NEW YEARS: Noah & I at Conestogo Meeting, at Hy. B. Martin’s for dinner,
at Geo. M. Bauman’s for supper, by Grandma.
2. Father butchered,-I, Noah L. Martin & Mary Ann Weber helped. Butcherd 4
hogs.
3. Eli & I fetched father’s lumber home from Floradale sawmills; at books PM.
4. Is. & I in Elmira & at N. Bearinger’s for a call; etc.
5. SUNDAY: I at Daniel Bauman’s all day.
6. I wrote in this book nearly all day.
7. I wrote 6 letters, etc.
8. I helped to butcher at Menno Weber’s nearly 1 day.
9. I mend my Imt. Robe & worked about my stuff.
10.I wrote 2 letters, & worked about my stuff.
11.I drove round inviting relatives & friends to our wedding. I at Dan. Bauman’s
for dinner; Leah & I at Dan. E Martin’s for supper. Levi Weber’s for night.
12.SUNDAY: We at Joshua Rudy’s for dinner, Reub. Bauman’s for supper.
Stormy.
13.I & J. Gingrich helped father to butcher & dress 14 hogs.
14.I studied at books. Father & Eli took 14 dressed hogs to MacCoutcheon,
Berlin—2338 lbs. @ 11c.
15.I helped to dig grave for Josiah Cressman’s child AM. I at Norman Beisel’s
sale PM.
16.Parents & Eli attended to services of J. Cressman’s child’s funeral, aged 3
years, 1 mon. & 23 dys, at W. Woolwich. Is. & Lydia at funeral at Meeting
house. I studied at books. Sultry.
17.I studied at books. Mild, snow disappearing.
18.I studied at books all day.
19.SUNDAY: I & Leah at David B. Bauman’s for dinner; then by my parents.
20.I at books. Cut straw, etc. Davis Shirk of Pa. here.
21.I & Davis Shirk at Mose B. Reist, dinner; a call on N. Bearinger’s & Mose
Eby’s; Emanuel Martin’s for supper. I took Davis to N. L. Martin for over night.
22.I fixed lids on 2 store boxes. Mother & I in Elmira PM.
23.Our wedding day at Dan. Bauman’s,-8 couple young folks, my grandma & 12
couple old folks, also Jesse Bauman, Iowa, being present.
24.I awhile at Dan, then went home AM. I cut up treetops in A Martin’s bush PM.
Silas Bauman burried at No. Woolwich, aged-51 yrs., 4 mon., 25 days.
25.I cut treetops at A. Martin’s bush all day. Dan Bauman’s here by my parents
for supper.
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26.SUNDAY: We visited my Grandmother over dinner; Eli H. Bauman’s for
supper. Young folks by my parents.
27.I awhile at books; At St. Jacobs to fetch clocks & footwear.
28.I & wife moved on one of my father-in-law’s farms,-Eli & Lydia helped.
29.Dan & I built Jar-shelf, etc. AM. Urias & I cemented in house cellar.
30.I helped to thrash at Dav. all day. Wife was along too.
31.Dan & I built potatoe bins, etc. AM. Jesse & I cemented in house cellar by me
PM. Rain AM. & a little snow PM.
FEBRUARY 1913
1. I took a load grain to Elmira to get chopped. Cold.
2. SUNDAY: We at S. P. Meeting. At home rest of day. Cold.
3. I helped to thrash at Dav. about all day.
4. I helped to thrash at Simon Martin all day.
5. I at Elmira AM. Cut wood in J. Schweitzer’s bush 4 ½ hrs.
6. I cut wood in Schweitzer’s bush 7 ¼ hrs.
7. I helped Urias to haul wood into shed; took thrashing Separator apart.
8. I worked at t. separator AM. Worked in building PM.
9. SUNDAY: My parents here for dinner.
10.Dan & I at Elmira fair AM. I in Schweitzer’s bush 3 ½ hrs.
11.Wife & I helped to butcher at Dan's all day.
12.I worked at t. machine AM. In Schwitzer’s bush 4 ¼ hr.
13.I worked at t. machine & got grain chopped at Dan. AM. N. Bearinger & Davis
Shirk here for dinner. I bagged grain.
14.I with a load of grain over to Dan & chopped AM. I in Schweitzer’s bush 4 ¾
hrs. PM. Not so very cold today.
15.I did chorse AM. In Schwitzer’s bush 5 ¼ hrs. PM.
16.SUNDAY: We at Martins’ Meeting, at Sylvester Martin’s for dinner, at John M.
Bauman’s for supper. Roads for either rig.
17.I in bush helped to make saw-logs.
18.I at N. F. Martin’s to thrash ¾ day.
19.I in bush to help to make logs AM. Hauled logs PM.
20.I in bush AM.; Jesse & I cemented bal. of cellar floor PM. Jacob Fries burried
at Heidelberg, aged 39 yrs, got killed in bush by accident. Soft weather,-dull.
21.I down in bush about all day, I fetched my buggies to here from my father.
22.I tinkered about buildings. Some rain, thunder PM. I hauled logs to Floradale
PM. Sleet.
23.SUNDAY: We at W. Woolwich Meeting AM.
24.I hauled logs up to saw-mill & lumber home AM. In bush PM. Good sleighing
again.
25.I hauled 2 loads sand from Lubutski & in Elmira..
26.I helped to set machines at Dan., etc, AM. I helped to thrash there PM.
27.I down in bush cutting up treetops. Wife at David’s.
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28.I hauled 2 loads wood up to Dan AM., chopped there PM.
MARCH 1913
1. I did chores & in Elmira AM. In Schweitzer’s bush 5 hrs. PM.
2. SUNDAY: Sol. Bowman’s here for dinner. Stormy.
3. I did chorse, cleaned cattle AM. Helped to cut straw & clean wheat over by
Dan. Stormy AM.
4. I in Schwitzer’s bush 7 ¼ hrs.
5. I over by Dan. to chopp AM. At Sid. Snider’s sale PM.
6. We at funeral of David Frey, aged 42 yrs, 15 days, at W Woolwich, AM. I did
small jobs PM. Very Stormy.
7. I chored & did small jobs; 2 hrs. in Schwitzer’s bush. Simeon Weber’s child’s
funeral a Martins. Cold.
8. I did chores & tinkered at pump AM. In Schweitzer’s bush 4 ½ hrs.
9. SUNDAY: Benj. Lichty Sr. burried at Conestogo. Noah Weber & lover here
for supper.
10.I, Jesse & Urias at fair AM. I in Schwitzer’s bush 3 ½ hrs.
11.I helped to thrash at Dan all day. Mild weather.
12.Father & I up in his swamp to cut poles. Wife at my Mother’s quilting.
Sleighing just about gone.
13.Dav. & I cleaned apple trees all day. He had his family here.
14.I cleaned apple trees all day. Very mild.
15.I skinned a sheep & chored.
16.SUNDAY: My brethren,-Eli, Lydia & Noah here for dinner; Anson Martin here
for supper.
17.Jesse, I & Bro. Eli, with 2 teams up in father’s swamp & fetched them 36
poles which I & father had cut.
18.I helped to chopp at Dan about all day. 2 loads of hre.
19.Wife of Jonathan Martin got burried at N. Woolwich, aged 42 yrs. I in
Schwitzer’s bush 1 hr.-cut my foot.
20.I cleaned a few apple trees. Warm weather.
21.GOOD FRIDAY: We at S. Peel Meeting AM. Rain AM. High Winds PM.
which tore holes in our roofs; also wrecked D. C. (d.) shed.
22.I chored AM. Dan & I hauled orchard brushes to bush.
23.SUNDAY: EASTER: We at WW Meeting, at Abs. Martin’s for dinner. Wife’s
sister Mary Ann here for supper. Heavy rain & thunder this night,-many
culverts washed out.
24.EASTER MON.: I & Dav. at Hy. Brubacher’s sale (1 mi. N. of Elmira). Wife at
David’s PM. High water.
25.Worked small jobs AM. Fetched leather, etc. from father then patched
harness awhile at Dan. Sleet.
26.I patched & mend harnesses at Dan. about all day. The trees heavily laden
with sleet.
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27.I patched & mend harness at Dan about all day. Snow. Trees still under
burden.
28.I patched & mend harness at Dan about all day. He sold cattle. Ab.
Bearinger got kick from a horse,-bad condition.
29.I patched harness, at Dan about all day. Warm.
30.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Widow of Joseph Burkhardt burried at N.
Woolwich, aged 76 years.
31.I mend collars, etc. at Dan. Rain in morn, colder in eve.
APRIL 1913
1. I over by Dan, cleaned wheat & timothy seed. J. Fries’s sale.
2. I shingled on S. W. corner of barn roof at Dan. Wheat worth 93c.
3. I did chores & small jobs. Raining nearly all day.
4. I did chores; worked in granary AM. Down in bush PM.
5. I at Dan to stake garden off AM. Down in bush PM.
6. SUNDAY: Brother Isaiah here over dinner.
7. I patch up Dan’s barn roof, etc., AM. Hauled apple-tree brushes into bush,
etc. PM. N. Weber & I were at Daniel Horst’s to wait on Ab. Bearinger (got
kicked awhile ago).
8. I took a load grain over to Dan & helped to chopp AM. I patched Dan’s house
roof PM. Clear weather, a little warm.
9. I removed old shingles on S. side of house here; replaced new ones about all
day; the other boys helped me.
10.I awhile in bush. Rain over ½ day. Bro. Noah here for dinner.
11.I down in bush AM. Jesse & I in near by bush PM.
12.Jesse & I in bush nearly all day. Dan took out 10 head of cattle av. Wt. 1395#
(gain 158#) at $6.90 a cwt.
13.SUNDAY: We at Martins’ Meeting; at Enos M. Bauman’s for dinner, home for
supper. Fair weather.
14.Jesse & I cut wood in bush AM., then put new shingles on N. side of house
here. Fair weather.
15.Jesse & I placed new shingles on N. side of house here. Leah helped to
wash out Meeting house. Ab. Bearinger improving.
16.Jesse & I finished house roof & patched barn roof all day. Dan at James
DeKay barn raising. Warm weather, dry roads.
17.I at Dan to dig post-holes & set posts all day.
18.I helped to put up garden wire fences at Dan. Rain & thunder in eve.
19.I fetched chaff from Dan. AM. I took a load grain over & helped to chopp. I in
Elmira in the evening.
20.SUNDAY: We at W.W.Meeting. At Menno Weber’s for supper.
21.I helped to chopp grain at Dan. AM. Jesse & I picked small stones from grass
field PM.
22.Jesse & I picked off small stones from grass field about all day.
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23.I awhile in bush AM. Ganged in furrows PM. Rain & thunder last night.
24.I disced up land and sowed oats.
25.I sowed a few rounds oats in morn. then disced upland.
26.I sowed mixed grain nearly all day. Rain in eve.
27.SUNDAY: We at SP Meeting. Young folks (8 buggies) here for supper.
28.I in bush split wood AM. Disced awhile & sowed barely.
29.I disced AM.; Sowed barely & oats PM. Cool AM.
30.Eve Brubacher residing at Daniel Brubacher, buried at Conestogo, aged 82
yrs. I sowed barely & oats, picked stones, harrowed.
MAY 1913
1. ASCENSION DAY: We at Conestogo Meeting AM, by my parents for supper.
2. I picked stones from seeded fields.
3. I hauled manure into fruit garden; spread & planted potatoes in same patch.
Israel Bearinger’s here over night.
4. SUNDAY: We at NW. Meeting, at Mose Gingrich’s for dinner, at Aaron
Bauman’s for supper. Warm weather.
5. I pitched manure on Dan’s yard all day, hauled about 48 loads.
6. I pitched manure on Dan’s yard all day, hauled about 47 loads.
7. I pitched manure on my yard AM., about 18 loads. We spread manure PM.
8. We spread manure, etc., AM. Chopped grain, of mine too, at Dan.
9. We removed earth for cellar at Dav., an addition to house. Dan brought 6
pigs over to me for to feed. Cool.
10.I at Dav. to level & sq. proposed foundation & removed earth.
11.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Wrote a letter to Wm. Lorch, Iowa.
12.WHIT MON: We at funeral of Isaiah Martin’s Israel, aged 24 yrs., 6 mon., 15
dys, at Conestogo, (he was afflicted with palsy.) I in Elmira & fetched mixer
from father to David.
13.I build cribbing at David’s cellar walls, etc., all day.
14.We filled cribbings with concrete about ½ ways up.
15.I build cribbing at Dav’s cellar wall all day. Rain to-night after a dry epoch.
16.Build cribbing & filled them up at Dav.
17.I build cribbing. Others filled up; finished outside walls & started at petition
wall in eve at Dav. A little rain.
18.SUNDAY: We at SP Meeting AM; at Isaac Martin’s child’s funeral aged 10
mon., at N. Woolwich, PM.
19.We built petition concrete wall in Dav’s cellar, etc.
20.We built concrete stair-block; prepared for & made floor.
21.I helped to fix horse stalls & prepared to build a concrete sill at barn doors
over by Dan. about all day. Rain.
22.We built barn door sills of concrete, also a pier for a post over by Dan. all day.
23.I repaired chimneys at Dan. AM. Build concrete cellar stair, here by me,
(outside entrance)
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24.I repaired chimneys here by me & also a concrete window case. Moved
mixer to Arthur Klink.
25.SUNDAY: We all day at home. Nice weather.
26.I commenced at Art. Klinck’s silo,-set machines & forms & filled 5 ft.
Proposed to be built 10’x30’. Cool.
27.We build 3 & 4 ring concrete silo at Art. K. Cool.
28.We build 5 & 6 ring concrete ring silo at Art K.
29.We build 7 & 8 ring concrete silo at Art K.
30.We build 9 & 10 ring concrete silo at Art K.
31.We build 11 & 12 ring concrete silo at Art K. Funeral of David P. Martin, aged
63 yrs, 2 mon, 13 days. Warm.
JUNE 1913
1. SUNDAY: We at N. W. Meeting, at Daniel G. Gingrich’s for dinner, at Menno
M. Bauman’s for supper.
2. I lowered rings & plastered silo at Art Klinck.
3. I & Art loaded outfit in morn. I went home & built a concrete window case (for
cellar window).
4. I built concrete cellar window case & sills, etc, here.
5. Funeral of Jno. B. Bowman’s child at W. Woolwich, aged 2 years, 3 mon. I
started to built concrete silo at Aaron M. Bauman-built 1st
& 2nd
ring.
6. We filled 3 & 4 ring silo at Aaron Bauman.
7. We filled 5 & 6 ring concrete silo at A.M.B. A little rain last night. Cool today.
8. SUNDAY: We at SP Meeting. Mary Ann Weber here for dinner. Young
dau’s of N. L. Martin’s & Hy. Brubacher’s here for supper.
9. Carpenters arrived at Dav. to erect balloon frame for house. I helped all day.
10.Carpenters put up rafters & sheathing. I helped 1 dy.
11.Carpenters up on shingles & some inside boards, I helped all day. Aaron
Snyder’s barn burned this afternoon with about 14 steers & about 50 pigs.
Fire supposed to have originated from engine sparks. They were chopping
grain. A little south from Floradale.
12.Carpenters put in flooring & inside boards etc. I put on the latter chiefly today.
13.I build 7 & 8 ring concrete silo at AMB.
14.I build 9 & 10 ring concrete silo at AMB. Funeral of Joe Brubacher’s child at
Martins’. David Martin ordained as deacon at S. Peel. Cyrus Eby’s wife
burried in Michigan. Dan delivered 10 steers at 6 cents & 10 at 6 ½ cents to
Brox, Elmira.
15.SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting. A little shower rain in morn. & more tonight,
after a long dry epoch. Thunder is supposed to have struck & burned barn on
farm Isaac B. Martin lately lived.
16.We build 11 & 12 ring silo at A. M. Bauman.
17.We build 13 & 14 ring silo at AMB.
18.We build 15 & 16 ring silo at AMB.
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19.We lowered rings AM. I plastered about 10 ft. on top of silo. Rainy today,-
washed some plaster off today.
20.I lathed at Dav’s house. Rainy, unfit to plaster silo.
21.I plastered silo complete inside & removed scaffold.
22.SUNDAY: We at father-in-law’s for dinner; at Conestogo Meeting PM.;
at Manassa Martin’s for supper.
23.My father & I began to prepare for & layed bricks around David’s balloon-
framed addition to house.
24.Father & I layed bricks at David.
25.Father & I layed bricks at David.
26.Father & I layed bricks at Davids.
27.Father & I layed bricks at Davids.
28.I did masonary at David. Father away visiting.
29.SUNDAY: We at SP Meeting AM. My brethren,--Is., Eli, & Lydia here for
dinner. We at SP Meeting PM.
30.Sol. Martin & I layed bricks at Dav. all day. My parents & Jonas Martin’s in
Wilmot visiting these last days. We called on Pa. Folks at Hoffman’s after
supper.
JULY 1913
1. Father & I layed bricks at Dav. Chr. Warner burried.
2. Father & I layed bricks at Dav.
3. Father & I layed bricks at Dav.
4. Father & I layed bricks at Dav.
5. I built East chimney, also helped father build up West gable end, at Dav.
Mary Shirk, Pa, died—100 yrs old.
6. SUNDAY: We was at home all day. Urias here for dinner.
7. I build West chimney & helped father put on cornice at Dav.
8. We put on bal. of cornice & a coat paint on same AM. I helped to clean
turnips PM.
9. I put cement water shedding cuffs on chimneys at Dav. also painted cornice
AM. Cleaned turnips PM.
10.I cleaned turnips all day. I delivered 17 chickens weighing 26# @ 16 cents to
Hollinger, Elimra, tonight.
11.I picked cherries here; painted cornice, helped to remove scaffold, filled out
scaffold openings in wall at Dav’s, etc.
12.I painted cornice here by me; etc; Some rain.
13.SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting AM. at Elias Wideman’s for dinner, at Levi
Martin’s for supper.
14.We stored hay away here by me, 10 loads.
15.Funeral of Joe Martin’s wife (widow) burried at Martins, aged ____., Dav. & I
at Aaron Snyder’s barn raising, 70’ x 82’.
16.I helped to do carpentering at Aaron Snyders sty.
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17.I helped to prepare for cementing a barn door sill at Aaron Snyder’s. Some
rain.
18.I helped to cement sills, etc, at Aaron Snyder.
19.I prepared to build concrete porch floor at Dav.
20.SUNDAY: We at SP Meeting at Martin Frey’s Jr. for dinner; also paid a call
on a neighbour Hy. Martin’s wife, widow, at N. F. Martin’s after supper. Some
rain.
21.I build front porch floor etc at Dav. Father prepared plaster mortar at Dav.
22.I prepared mortar; helped a little at cutting wheat.
23.Father, I, & Sol, Martin plastered in lower flat at Dav. all day. Also floated
some.
24.Father, I, & Sol. Martin plastered & floated some at Dav.
25.Father & I floated plaster & prepared mortar at Dav.
26.I lathed & prepared rooms for plastering, etc; Father made a enclosure for
clothes, at Dav.
27.SUNDAY: We at Amzi Snyder’s for dinner.
28.Father & I plastered all day at Dav.
29.Father & I floated plaster & plastered all we could for present.
30.I helped to haul in wheat at Dan. & Dav. Warm weather.
31.I & others cleaned turnips AM. Hauled material & scaffolding to Dan’s house
& hauled in rakings.
AUGUST 1913
1. I helped to thrash wheat at Dan. AM. I plastered some of East gable end of
Dan’s brick house, PM.
2. I plastered bal. of gable end of Dan’s house, etc.
3. SUNDAY: We at home all day. A little rain sprinkle.
4. I rebuilt brick wall at Dan’s root-cellar all day.
5. Dav. & I cut grain & shocked down by him.
6. Dav. & I cut grain & shocked down by him.
7. Frank Houser’s wife died the other day & her corpse was taken down to
Cayuga for interment. Dav. & I cut & shocked grain. I to Elmira to call in V. S.
(sick horse).
8. Dav. & I cut & shocked grain. Horse died,-we skinned & b’r’d him.
9. After a long dry epoch we got rain last night & this forenoon; I worked small
jobs AM. I worked at cellar steps at Dav. PM. Hy. Brubacher’s child’s funeral
at Conestogo.
10.SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting (baptize service). Thunder & rain last night.
Bro. Noah & 5 neighbour boys here for supper.
11.I scuffled mangolds AM. Reshocked blown over shocks PM.
12.I worked at Dav’s cellar steps AM.; haul in grain at Dan, also a few loads into
barn by me PM.
13.I reshocked sheaves AM. We hauled out 10 lds. manure, here, PM.
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14.I ploughed AM.; then we hauled in grain at Dan. PM.
15.Funeral of Sol. Gingrich’s child, aged 15 mon., at N. Woolwich. We hauled in
grain (19 lds.) mostly all by me.
16.We hauled in grain by Dan AM., & Dav. PM. 23 l’ds altogether today. Pretty
warm weather these days.
17.SUNDAY: We by my parents for dinner & supper.
18.Dan delivered to Elmira 5 lambs, w’t 380# @ 6 ½ cents. We hauled in grain
at Dav. 17 loads.
19.Hauled in grain by Dav. 4 l’ds, by Dan 14.
20.I erected mailbox on road. We hauled manure at David.
21.We hauled out manure at Dav. & spread some AM.; hauled out manure at
Dan PM.
22.Rain in morn. I worked at Dav’s cellar steps.
23.We hauled out manure at Dan all day.
24.SUNDAY: We at NW Meeting, at Addison Gingrich’s for dinner, at Anson
Gingrich’s for supper.
25.We hauled manure in morn; I spread manure awhile, harrowed & plowed, --
prepared for wheat seeding.
26.I built 1st
& 2nd
ring silo (of concrete) at Aaron Snyder.
27.I build 3 & 4 ring concrete silo at Aaron Snyder.
28.I build 5 & 6 ring concrete silo at A. Snyder.
29.I build 7 & 8 ring concrete silo at A. Snyder.
30.I build 9 & 10 ring concrete silo at A. Snyder.
31.SUNDAY: We at SP Meeting. Young folks here for supper.
SEPTEMBER 1913
1. I built 11 & 12 ring concrete silo at A. Snyder.
2. I built 13 & 14 ring concrete silo at A. Snyder. Levi Bowman’s saw-mill
burned down tonight.
3. I did patchwork,-lathing & plastering at Dav. all day.
4. I built 15 & 16 ring concrete silo at A. Snyder.
5. I built 17 & 18 ring concrete silo at A. Snyder.
6. I built 19 & 20 ring concrete silo at A. Snyder.
7. SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting; Nancy Bowman here for dinner. Wife’s sister
Mary Ann here for supper.
8. We lowered rings & loaded outfit at A. Snyder’s then I worked at porch floor at
Dav.
9. I set outfit and build 5 ft. silo at Al. Heipel, Heidelberg.
10.I plastered ½ silo at A. Snyder.
11.I plastered bal. of silo, we also applied cement cream.
12.I applied cement cream on silo (inside), removed & loaded scaffold. I
cemented awhile at Dav.
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13.We at funeral of Jno. F. Martin’s child, aged 3 days, at S. Peel, AM. I built
concrete window case at Dav.
14.SUNDAY: We at Conestogo Meeting AM., at Levi Martin’s ( son of Jac.) for
dinner.
15.I at Albert Heipel, --erected scaffold & another 5’ silo.
16.I cemented small jobs AM., loaded manure at Dav. PM.
17.I helped to clean out ditch at Dav. A little rain.
18.I helped to clean out ditch at Dav., AM., helped to chopp grain at Dan., PM.
19.I helped to haul out manure at Dan., AM. Then we hauled out manure here
by me PM.
20.Hauled out manure about ¾ day & spread bal. in eve.
21.SUNDAY: We at SP Meeting. David Bauman’s here for supper. Rain last
night, also yesterday eve.
22.I helped to cut corn at Elias Martin, 1 day.
23.I started to do fall planting all day.
24.I built 5 ft. concrete silo at Geo. Musselman all day.
25.I plowed all day. Ground pretty dry.
26.I plowed nearly all day. Rain a little before noon.
27.I plowed all day. We at Elmira after supper.
28.SUNDAY: We at Martin’s Meeting, at Joshua Rudy’s for dinner, at Hy. B.
Martin’s for supper (St. Jacobs).
29.I plowed all day.
30.I helped to thrash at N. F. Martin all day.
OCTOBER 1913
1. I plowed all day.
2. I delivered 6 hogs (those we fed here) & others, -Dav. also helped, at $8.75
per cwt., to Elmira. I plowed PM.
3. I plowed AM. We hauled 9 loads mangolds to Dan PM.
4. We dug out 2 loads potatoes. Nice weather.
5. SUNDAY: We attended WW Meeting AM. Eszra Bauman & Malinda Sitler
here for dinner.
6. We dug out 2 loads potatoes; & hauled away bal. of mangolds with the
exception 1 load.
7. I plowed AM., helped to pick apples at Dan. PM.
8. I plowed AM., helped to pick apples by me PM.
9. I plowed AM, helped to pick apples by me PM. Warm these days. Dan’s at
funeral of David Martin (bachelor), aged 75 yrs. at Martin’s.
10.I plowed AM., picked apples by me, PM.
11.I plowed nearly all day. Some rain, -cooled off a little.
12.SUNDAY: We at SP Meeting, my parents here for supper.
13.I plowed AM. I hauled a load manure from Dan to strawberry patch here. I
had the gripp.
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14.I helped to thrash at Dan AM., to chopp PM.
15.I plowed all day.
16.I plowed AM., at Tom Bulmer’s strawshed raising.
17.We at funeral of Chr. Wideman’s wife, aged 68 yrs, 1 mon, 10 days, at W.
Woolwich. I tinkered about,--rainy, PM.
18.I plowed AM., hauled in wood to Dan & me PM.
19.SUNDAY: We made a call at N. Bearinger’s after noon, at Eli S. Martin’s for
supper. First snow tonight.
20.I tinkered around, build window lids for cellar. Wet snow AM. I helped other
boys in their field to plow.
21.I removed rail fence over on jopp in line for a new one.
22.Wife of Peter G. Martin, aged 59 yrs. burried at N. Woolwich. I hauled fence
rails all day.
23.Some rain in morn. I worked small jobs, hauled pieces of old fence over to
Dan on a pile.
24.I started to break jopp nearly all AM. I to Elmira & to father PM. Rainy.
25.I ploughed jopp all day.
26.SUNDAY: We at Josiah S. Martin’s for dinner.
27.I ploughed jopp all day.
28.I ploughed jopp nearly all day. A little rain in morn.
29.I ploughed all day. A little rain.
30.I ploughed AM; at Simon Martin to thrash, PM.
31.I ploughed jopp all day. Snow last night.
NOVEMBER 1913
1. I & others hauled away about 21 loads turnips.
2. SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting. Nice day.
3. Jesse & Annie & O. Bearinger brought 5 girls of Lanc. Co., Pa., for a call in
morn., namely—Annie Martin, Lizzie & Susanah Burholder, Barbara Sauder,
& Mary Shirk, I & others hauled away turnips.
4. We hauled away turnips AM. I also plowed jopp.
5. I hauled stones from jopp all day.
6. I hauled stones from jopp all day. Wife & her parents in Elmira.
7. I hauled stones from jopp all day. Gathered roots, etc. PM.
8. I did odd jobs, some rain AM. I finished plowing job. Jesse finished 1st
discing too ( on jopp).
9. SUNDAY: Aaron W. Weber’s here for supper. Wet snow & sleet.
10.Prepared for & stabled cattle, chopped grain at Dan awhile.
11.We at funeral of Hy. S. Bauman’s child, aged 3 mon, 8 days, at W. Woolwich.
We fetched 20 head of cattle from Fenton, Wallenstein, av. 714# (425# to
about 1000) at 5 ½ cents.
12.I at Dan to chopp AM., & thrash PM.
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13.Dan & I cleaned wheat, others chopped grain AM. We set machines by me
PM.
14.We thrashed here by me ¾. Nice weather.
15.Chopped grain here by me about all day; & tore down old sty.
16.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Nice weather.
17.We chopped by me AM. I helped to thrash at Elias Martin ½ day PM.
18.I carpentered at chopp chists at Simon Martin AM. 4 ½ hrs. I helped to thrash
at Dav. PM. Rainy in eve.
19.I worked small jobs. Rainy.
20.I cleaned away rubbish, etc, of old sty. Nice weather.
21.I build yard rail fence AM., helped Dav. on his culvert.
22.I hauled dung from old sty site out on sod; Jesse helped AM. A little rain in
eve. Warm weather a few days.
23.SUNDAY: We at SP Meeting. My brethren Is., Lydia & Noah, also Titus
Bauman’s here for dinner.
24.Hauled manure (from old sty site) & wood ashes on sod.
25.Jesse, Urias & I made zig-zag rail fence in jopp.
26.I did a few small jobs AM. Eli H. Bauman’s & Dan’s wife here for dinner. I
helped to thrash at N. L. Martin.
27.I hauled 100 cedar rails from Elias Martin to Dan’s jopp & some stakes to
same place AM., helped to build fence PM.
28.I carpentered at pig stable 9 ¼ hrs. at Simon Martin.
29.I carpentered 8 hrs. at Simon Martin.
30.SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting. N. F. Martin’s & some young folks including
Amos Rudy here for supper. Mild weather to-day.
DECEMBER 1913
1. I shovelled gravel in M. F. Martin’s pit for road, 1 day.
2. I shovelled gravel in M. F. Martin’s pit, for on road, 1 day.
3. I shovelled gravel in M. F. Martin’s pit, for on road, 1 day.
4. I shovelled gravel in M. F. Martin’s pit, for on road, 1 day.
5. We with Dan’s young folks on carriage at funeral of Isaiah Martin, aged 23
yrs., 10 mon., 17 days, at Martins. Jesse & I disced jopp awhile PM.
6. Jesse & I disced jopp nearly all day.
7. SUNDAY: We at home all day.
8. I & wife at Elmira fair, AM. Worked small jobs PM.
9. We helped to butcher 6 hogs at Dan all day.
10.I shovelled gravel at M. F. Martin’s pit for concreting barn foundation here by
me next summer.
11.I shovelled (cement) gravel at pit, others hauled.
12.I shovelled (cement) gravel at pit, others hauled.
13.I shovelled (cement) gravel at pit, others hauled.
14.SUNDAY: We at S Peel Meeting AM. At home rest of day.
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15.I shovelled (cement) gravel at pit, others hauled.
16.I shovelled (cement) gravel at pit, others hauled. We hauled now 80 loads
gravel to me from M. F. Martin for cementing.
17.I shovelled sand at M. F. Martin’s pit all day.
18.I shovelled sand at M. F. Martin’s pit all day. (20 lds. in all).
19.2 Teams of Dan’s & 1 of Simon’s hauled earth from the latters manure yard to
barn-bank here by me; I shovelled.
20.2 Teams of Dan’s & 1 of Simon’s hauled earth from & to the same places as
that of yesterday; I shovelled. 53 lds. earth these 2 dys.
21.SUNDAY: Simon Martin’s & family here for dinner.
22.I did carpentering work in stable, 7 ¾ hrs at Simon Martin.
23.I helped to thrash at David at day. Snow-fall.
24.I helped to thrash at David ½ day, AM. I helped to move machine from David
to Dan PM.
25.CHRISTMAS: We at WW Meeting; by my parents for dinner; at Menno Frey’s
for supper.
26.I worked out sticks of wood for barn in reduced scale.
27.I helped to fetch horse-power from Dav. to Dan, thrashed at Dan PM.
28.SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting. David B. Martin’s & Isaac Martin, (the
former’s father) here for supper.
29.I helped to butcher at Elias Martin.
30.I helped to thrash at Dan all day. Moderate weather.
31.I carpentered at Simon Martin’s 8 hrs.
DIARY 1914
ANGUS S. BAUMAN
JANUARY
1. NEW YEARS: I wrote into this Diary.
2. I helped to clean wheat at Dav. AM. We in St. Jacobs & Elmira PM.
3. I helped to thrash at Noah F. Martin ¾ day.
4. SUNDAY: We at S. Peel Meeting AM. Amos W. Bauman’s here for supper.
5. I & Dan measured timber out from a pile here AM. Isaac B. Bauman of Iowa
here for dinner & PM.
6. I helped to clean wheat at Dan AM. I to Elmira, etc. PM.
7. I worked a little over in Dan’s barn & got my sleigh out AM. I at Sid Snider’s
sale at Hawkesville, PM.
8. I fetched a load shingles from Elmira (altogether 80 sq. at 1.85). Dan & I at
Tom Fenton’s sale, Yatton, PM.
9. I fetched my silo rings from Heuhn, South of Heidelberg & Dan was along to
Wm. Herzog, St. Clements.
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10.I took team over for to chopp grain; I spliced log AM., Dan & I made sawlogs
in his nearby bush PM.
11.SUNDAY: We at home. Menno Weber’s & family here for dinner.
12.I put mostly of small scaled barn together. Stormy.
13.I shovelled snow, etc. AM. I, Jesse & Dav. fetched cedar rails from one Bush,
St. Clements (100 on a ld.). Severely cold,-reported 28 degrees below 0.
14.I in nearby bush of Dan’s, cut down trees. About 12 degrees below 0.
15.I in nearby bush made logs & cut up treetops. Mild.
16.I in nearby bush made logs etc. Mild, wet snow PM.
17.I in nearby bush made logs & cut up treetops.
18.SUNDAY: My brethren, Eli & Lydia here for dinner.
19.I in nearby bush, cut down trees, cut logs & topwood.
20.I in nearby bush, cut down trees, cut logs & topwood.
21.I in nearby bush, cut down trees, cut logs & topwood.
22.I in nearby bush AM. At David’s bush made logs PM.
23.I in Dav’s bush nearby all day, made logs.
24.I chored AM. In David’s bush PM. Mad dog at large in St. Jacobs.
25.SUNDAY: We at SP Meeting. Bro. Isaiah made a call in eve.
26.I sharpened knives & chored AM. I David’s bush PM.
27.We helped to butcher hogs at Simon Martin’s all day.
28.I drove wife to my parents to “quilting” & was there myself for supper. I in
David’s bush, made logs.
29.I in David’s bush about all day. Poor sleighing; snow thawned considerable
today. Had mild weather this week so far.
30.I cut topwood in Dav’s bush AM. Dan & I reviewed timber bills.
31.I chored in Elmira, etc. Sleet, snow & stormy all day. Poor sleighing—about
½ rigs on roads are those of wheels.
FEBRUARY 1914
1. SUNDAY: Noah L. Martin’s here for dinner.
2. I helped Dan to butcher a cow of his & grinded beef.
3. We helped to butcher 6 hogs at Dan all day. Mild weather.
4. I cut logs & treetops in David’s bush all day.
5. I helped to work up treetops in Dav’s bush all day. N. H. Bearinger died this
morning.
6. I worked up treetops in Dav’s bush nearly all day. Snowstorm PM.
7. We at funeral of Noah H. Bearinger, aged 55 yrs. 2 mon. 1 day, at W.
Woolwich AM. Blinding snowstorm nearly all day. I chored PM.
8. SUNDAY: Bro. Isaiah, & Jesse Bauman with their girls here about all day.
Snowstorm all day.
9. I at Elmira fair AM. Set up power & chopper here PM.
10.Jesse, Urias & I chopped grain here all day. Cold.
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11.Jesse & I moved power over to Dan, then fetched a load logs AM. Dav. & I
cut up treetops PM. Wife of Amos Cressman, widow, Wilmot Tp., funeral
today. Cold.
12.I in Dav’s bush about all day.
13.I in Dav’s bush about all day. Paul Moesser & his house burned at an early
hour this morning, at St. Jacobs.
14.I helped sawing logs in David’s bush nearly all day. Cold week.
15.SUNDAY: We at home all day.
16.I made logs in David’s bush AM. I & Dav. Snider’s hired man (Enoch
Bauman) dug grave for Hy. S. Bauman’s boy at W. Woolwich graveyard PM.
17.I attended funeral (wife at house) of Hy. S. Bauman’s son, Amos, aged 11 yrs,
3 mon. at W. Woolwich AM. Cleaned cattle PM.
18.Funeral of Philiph Algier, aged 76 yrs., at N. Woolwich. I drove Isaac B.
Bauman out to G.T.R. Station, on way to Iowa. I helped to make sawlogs for
lathing in Dan’s bush nearby.
19.Dav & I cut lath saw logs in nearby bush AM., then treetops in his PM.
20.Dav. & I cut up treetops in his bush.
21.Dav. & I cut up treetops AM. I took team over to Dan to chopp PM. Cold
week, but not in the extreme.
22.SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting AM.
23.I cut up treetops in David’s bush all day.
24.I cut up treetops in David’s bush AM. We visited by Grandmother (& in
Elmira) who is at present ill, PM.
25.I cut up treetops in David’s bush all day. Cold.
26.Martin Bauman’s Jr. child’s funeral, aged about 6 mon., at Martin’s. I helped
cutting sawlogs for lath & treetops in Dav’s bush.
27.I helped to work up 2 treetops in Dav’s bush AM., felled 2 maple trees & made
logs thereof PM.
28.I helped to thrash at N. L. Martin a little over ½ day, took account of lumber &
timber here, etc. PM. Thawning today.
MARCH 1914
1. Funeral of widow Menno Reist, aged 58 yrs., 2 mon., 10 days at W. Woolwich
AM. We visited Noah M. Weber’s over dinner; we at N. F. Martin’s overnight,
--the widow Hy. Martin (Noah’s mother) died this night after a few days of
illness.
2. I at N. F. Martin’s to prepare for funeral. High winds.
3. I at N. F. Martin’s to wait on Daniel (Noah’s bro) nearly all day.
4. We at funeral of my grandmother, --widow Geo. H. Bauman; aged 75 yrs., 7
mon., 13 days, at W. Woolwich.
5. We helped at house of N. F. Martin’s for the funeral of his mother, widow
Henry B. Martin, aged 72 yrs, 11 mon, buried at S. Peel.
6. I did small jobs AM. I helped to cut logs, etc, in Dav’s bush.
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7. I did small jobs AM., cut up treetops PM.
8. SUNDAY: We at N. F. Martin’s about all day to wait on sick.
9. I separated some turnips & worked few odd jobs; I had cold.
10.We helped to butcher 2 hogs for David’s at Dan’s all day.
11.I in bed all day with great heat in head, mind unbalanced. Perhaps I had a
slight attack of pleurisy.
12.I in bed all day, --head more balanced, heat decreasing. Wife’s parents here
awhile; N. F. Martin paid a call too.
13.I was up, out of bed all day, improving. A good week’s sleighing.
14.I mostly yet in house, did evening chores. Mild weather.
15.SUNDAY: My father here for supper. Sleighing about gone, mild.
16.I chored, cleaned cattle, etc. Mild weather; wheel rigs out on roads.
17.I chored, cleaned cattle, whitewashed bedroom. Mild.
18.I fixed spirit-level & a chair, chored, took my team over to Dan for to chopp. A
great part of time in house for cold’s sake.
19.I cleaned cattle & brushed some lard (warm) & cod oil on them. I a call on
Daniel, at N. F. Martin’s, who is still in bed.
20.I chored; & helped to work up treetops in David’s bush PM.
21.I chored, etc, cut up treetops in nearby bush awhile.
22.SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting. We at Hy. S. Bauman’s for supper.
23.I cut wood in nearby bush AM. Urias & I hauled grain over to Dan PM.
24.I worked small jobs AM. Cut firewood in nearby bush PM. Bishop Paul
Martin died last night. Thawning today.
25.I mend harnesses, etc, at Dan all day about.
26.We at funeral of Bishop Paul Martin, aged 65 yrs., 1 mon., 9 days, at Martins’.
I mend harness’ a while at Dan PM. Soft weather, muddy roads; a rain
shower.
27.I patch & mend harnesses at Dan all day. Rainy.
28.I patched harness at Dan AM. Cut wood in nearby bush PM.
29.SUNDAY: We at S. Peel Meeting AM. Called at N. F. Martin’s after supper.
30.I awhile in Dan’s shop mend harness etc. AM. Cut wood PM.
31.I in nearby bush worked at firewood, & burried laths in straw.
APRIL 1914
1. Daniel F. Martin died a little before 5 o’clock AM. I awhile there AM. I mend
harness at Dan PM.
2. We over at N. F. Martin’s at his brother Daniel F. Martin’s funeral PM, aged 47
yrs., 5 mon., 36 days, burried at S. Peel.
3. I cut up gables AM, at auction sale of Hy. B. Martin’s estate, household
effects, at N. F. Martin’s PM.
4. I chored, etc. AM., cut firewood in nearby bush PM.
5. SUNDAY: We at N. F. Martin’s for supper, their baby ill.
6. I worked at firewood in nearby bush AM. Got waggon out, cleaned cattle.
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7. I worked at firewood in nearby bush AM., fetched roll wire fence & a wind
pump & derrick from Elmira PM.
8. I fetched cedar sleepers from A. D. Schmidt, Elmira AM., worked in woodshed
etc. PM.
9. I worked small jobs, did chores. We to Elmira PM.
10.GOOD FRIDAY: We at S. Peel Meeting AM., by my parents for supper.
11.I enwalled well (south of barn) with bricks against the wooden curbing; boys
helped. We waited on the sick child of N. F. Martin’s this night.
12.EASTER SUNDAY: Hy. F. Bowman’s here for supper. Wife awhile at N. F.
Martins.
13.EASTER MONDAY: I wrote into this Diary & 2 letters. Wife at S. Martin’s
quilting.
14.I sowed clover seed & took team over to Dan to chopp AM. I enwalled bal. of
well with bricks PM.
15.I fixed gate, etc., AM. Boys & I tore off old sheep stable.
16.Urias & I moved hen stable a few feet South. Jesse fetched cement. We at
N. F. Martin’s this night, -baby died a little after midnight. Wendell B. Martin’s
child’s funeral, aged 2 yrs.
17.Prepared for water-tank, south of barn.
18.I worked on old pump, put a piece under stalk; etc. AM. Prepared for &
cemented a little at tank. Warm week.
19.SUNDAY: We helped at house, at N. F. Martin’s child’s funeral,-aged 8
months, 1 day. Rainy.
20.I cut top-wood short in shed, fixed bucksaw, etc; Rainy.
21.I resett a pair of doors & helped to pile maple lumber at Simon Martin, A.M.
N. Hoffer here to put up wind pump; I dug holes for derrick’s feet.
22.We prepared for raising derrick A.M., raised same after dinner, -neighbours
helped; put in pipes for tank, etc. P.M.
23.I made cribbing for water-tank, others mixed A.M. Jesse & I filled in cribbing
with concrete tank P.M.
24.Urias & I completed the tank-walls (8 ½ x 6’) worked at it all day. Jesse
started cultivating. Dan’s at funeral of Hy. M. Martin’s wife (resided at Eph.
Betgner’s) aged 65 yrs, 5 mon, 29 days.
25.I did chores & small jobs; We by my parents for supper, then to Elmira after
that.
26.SUNDAY: We were at Jacob W. Martin’s for supper.
27.Wm. Herzog & 7 hands here to frame timber, 1 day. I helped.
28.Wm. Herzog & 7 hands here to frame timber, 1 day. I helped A.M. I helped
father to put up cribbing for his house in Elmira ½ day P.M.
29.I waited on carpenter’s a little, plastered water-tank. Wm. Herzog & 7 hands,
cut rafters & mortised in old barn frame 1 day.
30.Wm. Herzog & 7 hands here to frame timber all day. I tore off at old granary,
etc. A.M. Helped father to put cement into cribbing at his cellar wall in Elmira,
½ day P.M.
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MAY 1914
1. I helped father to erect cribbing for cellar wall in Elmira 1 day.
2. I helped father to erect & remove cribbing, etc, for cellar wall in Elmira, all day.
Others filled cribbing with concrete.
3. SUNDAY: Anson Martin, Nancy Bowman, Mary Martin & wife’s sister Annie
here for supper, more here after supper.
4. I fetched chopp & hay from David, shower rain, A.M. I seeded about 4 acres
in mixed grain P.M.
5. Funeral of late Wm. Eby’s wife, widow, at Martins; resided at Tobias Martin’s.
I sowed mixed grain & harrowed a little in eve. Light rain in morn.
6. I harrowed A.M.; Sowed mixed grain P.M.
7. I sowed mixed grain, & picked stones off seeded field A.M. I scrapered hills
off & filled hollows in jopp which we had plowed last fall.
8. I scrapered hills off & filled-in hollows in jopp all day.
9. I scrapered hills off & filled-in hollows in jopp all day.
10.SUNDAY: We at S. Peel Meeting A.M. Mose Gingrich’s Sr. here for dinner.
A sprinkling rain.
11.I took team over for to help chopping grain, I brought a load home; I also
scattered timothy seed along new fence A.M. I scrapered in jopp P.M.
12.We at S. Peel Meeting; Bishop Daniel Brubacher, Mich., officiated. Rainy, did
small jobs P.M.
13.I cultivated turnip patch A.M. I fetched seed peas & oats from N.F. Martin &
scrapered in jopp P.M.
14.I scrapered in jopp A.M., fetched a little hay from Dav. at noon; hauled stones
& stump-roots from jopp P.M.
15.I hauled stones & stump-roots from jopp A.M. I helped Dav. to load & spread
manure P.M.
16.I helped to drive fat cattle up to Wallenstein, 7 I fattened here, 11 from Dav. &
6 from Dan. Those by me sold at 7 ½ cents a lb., bal. at 7 cents, A.M. I
planted potatoes P.M.
17.SUNDAY: We at W.W. Meeting AM; at Menno Wideman’s for supper.
18.I sowed barely at poor places in wheat patch, AM. Boys & I sett end posts for
a wire fence in jopp to fence off pasture.
19.I placed stakes for wire fence & helped to place wire fence also gate at line
fence in lane between us & David. Warm.
20.Jesse, Urias, & I hauled manure on, & spread same on prepared turnip patch
all day. Very warm.
21.ASCENSION DAY: Enos Gingrich’s here for dinner. We at David’s for
supper, paid a call by my parents after supper.
22.I build cribbing in tank & also build a concrete top on same, nearly all day;
Some rain AM, cooled off.
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23.Jesse, Urias & I hauled manure out on grassfield AM. I fixed a trough &
stable for young pigs, etc, PM
24.SUNDAY: N.F. Martin’s here for Supper. Some rain in eve.
25.I laid water pipes temporary & took cribbing out of tank & fixed lid on.
26.We at funeral of Menno M. Weber’s child, aged 1 mon., 3 days. Burried at W.
Woolwich. I scrapered earth from driveway into barn for a new root cellar.
27.I helped my father about ¾ day laying concrete floor in cellar. Some rain.
28.I helped my father to finish yesterday’s job, ¼ day. Brought cement mixer
along to here AM. Urias & I scrapered earth away from root-cellar site PM.
29.Urias & I hauled large & small stones to proposed wall. I also started at
cribbing. Storm & rain in eve.
30.Set mixer & power. I made cribbing for barn-wall.
31.SUNDAY: We at S.P. Meeting AM. Geo. M. Bauman’s here for dinner.
Joshua Rudy’s & Menno S. Frey’s here for supper.
JUNE 1914
1. We build concrete wall at South end of root-cellar & some on West.
2. We build concrete wall at West side of root-cellar.
3. We build concrete wall at N. West corner of barn.
4. Rain last night,-a good soaker, I worked small jobs, AM. We build wall on N.
end of barn PM.
5. We build concrete wall at N. end of barn all day.
6. We build concrete wall at N. end of barn & levelled off for straw-shed
foundation wall.
7. SUNDAY: We at Martins’ Meeting, at Edwin Snyder’s for dinner, at Amos
Brubacher’s for supper. Some rain after supper, and lightning, -Joe Snyder’s
large stump pile burned.
8. We squared off for proposed strawshed wall, dug out earth for same, & filled
some with concrete.
9. We build 2 piers for posts to carry barn, I made cribbing, etc. We build South
wall of straw-shed.
10.We build E. & N. wall of straw-shed foundation, 1 pier under barn, also 2 for
lintel.
11.I helped by my father at house in Elmira to raise a balloon frame & joists for
2nd
flat all day.
12.I helped at father’s house, nailed on siding, etc. all day.
13.I helped at father’s house, nailed on siding all day.
14.SUNDAY: We at W.W. Meeting. Urias Martin’s here for supper.
15.I helped at father’s house, nailed on siding & cut rafters, 1 day.
16.I helped at father’s house, raised rafters & put sheathing on, 1 day.
17.I helped at father’s house, put on some cornice, & cedar shingles.
18.I helped at father’s house, put on cedar shingles all day. David Ernst’s wife
burried at old Conestogo Meeting House.
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19.Rainy AM. I helped father at house, boarded up 3 gable ends, etc. Frost
tonight—a little damage to crops.
20.I helped at father’s house, made concrete sills under cellar-window frames,
made some mortar, set door frame.
21.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Day for voting for a Bishop, at Conestogo.
22.Rainy in morn. I helped father at house, set 2 door frames; placed corner
strings as guide for brick wall & laid some bricks ¾ day.
23.Funeral of Isaiah Martin’s wife (nee Brubacher) burried at Conestogo. I
worked at father’s house, made concrete caps over cellar window frames &
laid bricks.
24.I laid bricks at father’s house, 1 day. A little rain.
25.I laid bricks at father’s house, also set w. frames in 1st
flat.
26.I laid bricks at father’s house, on W. side of main house.
27.I laid bricks at father’s house, on E. side of main house
28.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Some rain.
29.I helped at father’s house laying bricks, etc.
30.I helped at father’s house laying bricks, etc.
JULY 1914
1. I helped at father’s house laying bricks, etc.
2. I helped at father’s house laying bricks & c. caps on windows.
3. I helped at father’s laying bricks, & c. caps on windows.
4. I helped at father’s house, laying bricks, c. caps on win. & door. Jesse &
Urias tore roofing off barn here & hauled it away.
5. SUNDAY: We at home all day. Nice & warm today.
6. I helped at father’s house, laying bricks & set door frame. Boys took down
rafters from barn here.
7. I helped at father’s house laying bricks, etc, all day.
8. I helped at father’s house laying bricks, etc, all day.
9. I helped at father’s house laying bricks & build window caps.
10.I helped at father’s house laying bricks on East gable end of main house & set
window frame in kitchen upstairs.
11.I laid bricks around kitchen E. & S. sides, 1 day, by father.
12.SUNDAY: We at W.W. Meeting AM., Aaron & Malinda Rudy here for dinner.
We at S. Peel Meeting PM.
13.Rainy AM. I picked cherries & cleaned turnips PM.
14.Wm. Herzog & 3 hds. here worked on barn frame all day. I helped too.
15.Four hands of Wm. Herzog here putting in 2 beams, a couple of sills, and
matched some siding. I made a 48’ table in lawn; I helped also put uppers up
on beams, laid some joists, etc. Warm.
16.Raising here, put up framework of a mow, enlarged barn over new root cellar,
strawshed & lintel; about 80 men here, mostly here already AM. Herzog & 4
men here. Tyrannes Shantz of Alta. here too. Warm.
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17.Herzpg & 3 hds. (Anson Martin helped, AM) here all day, matched siding &
nailed of same on building. I helped on the above job all day.
18.Herzog & 3 hds. here all day, matched siding, & nailed of same on building; I
helped on above job also.
19.SUNDAY: Noah Weber’s & we at Tyranus Martin’s for dinner at Israel
Bearinger’s for supper. Nice weather.
20.Herzog & 5 hds. besides Anson & Jno. Martin nailed on laths, also bal. of
rafters (upper) & bal. of siding on S. side. Dan & I waited on them all day.
21.Herzog & 5 hds. besides Anson & Jno. Martin here (old Herzog from 11
o’clock on) nailed on bal. of laths, placed shingle bunches on roof, put on
cornice boards & started to shingle on West side of barn. I helped chiefly in
handling laths & shingles.
22.Herzog & 3 hds. Besides Anson & Jno. Martin & I shingled on East side of
barn . Some rain.
23.Herzog & 3 hds. (Elias Martin 6 hrs.) besides Jno Martin & I shingled on East
side of barn. Some rain.
24.Herzog not here today, but his 5 men besides Jno. Martin & I shingled on east
side of barn & on shed.
25.Herzog & 5 men besides Jno & Anson Martin shingle bal. of shed, put on
ridge boards, layed joists & barn floor planks, put up ladders, work some on
granary, made a pair new barn doors, patched old doors up, I helped
carpenters AM. I helped haul in 9 lds. hay here PM.
26.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Nice day.
27.I helped Hoffer to clean out well by house here; I helped Jesse to get binder in
motion to cut wheat. I did some yard cleaning, etc. Rain shower in morn.
28.I worked by fater in Elmira, laying bricks all day.
29.I helped at father’s house laying bricks & 2 window caps. Aug. Herzog laid
barn floor here.
30.I helped at father’s house, build nearly 2 chimnies on main house. A. Herzog
& Dan. worked at granary here.
31.I helped at father’s house, laid bricks on South end of kitchen, etc. A. Herzog
worked on granary.
AUGUST 1914
1. I worked at father’s house, build kitchen chimney & brought roof against the
chimnies. A. Herzog here all day. I & Hy. Wideman were by his father (who
is low) to wait on him last night. Chr. died today.
2. We at S. Peel Meeting AM. Tyranus Ziegler’s here for dinner. We at funeral
of Israel Cressman’s Susanna at W. Woolwich; aged 10 yrs., 28 days.
3. I helped put on cornice on father’s house
4. We at funeral of Christian Wideman; aged 70 yrs, 4 mon, 19 days, burried at
W. Woolwich AM; wife stayed at house over noon. I helped father put on
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cornice; put on ridge boards & put cement water sheds at roof, on chimnies,
PM.
5. I helped father fit in house doors AM., helped his boys to haul in wheat, also
barely PM.
6. I windproofed end of joists & layed flooring, 1 day.
7. I laid flooring all day; father helped PM. Warm.
8. Father & I laid flooring at his house all day.
9. SUNDAY: We at W.W. Meeting AM & PM.
10.I cleaned cistern here this morning. Rain in morn. I laid flooring in father’s
house & helped him in field to cut grain nearly 1 day.
11.I laid flooring in father’s house, worked a little in field.
12.I & father finished laying floors & erected studs in lower flat. Dav. Martin’s
(preacher) wife died last night.
13.I & father build platform ½ way down in cellar & build a flight of steps up &
down from it. Rainy.
14.Wife & I at preacher David Martin’s wife, helped at house, she was burried at
S. Peel, aged 68 yrs, 3 months. I helped at father’s house, worked on
studdings PM.
15.Father & I papered & stripped for lathing in main house, 1st
flat.
16.SUNDAY: We at Simeon Martin’s for dinner, (Wife’s Aunt). Young people
baptized at Conestogo today.
17.Father & I papered & stripped for lathing in kitchen, etc.
18.Father & I placed stairs from kitchen to 2nd
flat, etc.
19.Father & I placed studs & cellar beams, etc, 2nd
flat.
20.Father & I placed studs for petitions upstairs. Rainy these days, ground
soaked. Others lathed these days.
21.Father & I papered & stripped upstairs, etc.
22.Father & I worked upstairs; I built petitions above kitchen, fixed another corner
off over stairs, lathed.
23.SUNDAY: We at S. Peel Meeting, AM. Manassa Martin’s here for supper.
24.I lathed at father’s house, upstairs, all day.
25.I helped to thrash AM. & helped to haul in oats PM, by father.
26.I helped to lath AM., helped drawing in oats PM by father.
27.I lathed, upstairs, at father’s house, all day.
28.I lathed upstairs, at father’s house, all day.
29.I lathed a little, placed bolts through brick & board wall of house to attach
porches to on outside; also connected pieces of silo rings together for storing
up plaster mortar. Rain.
30.SUNDAY: We at Ezra M. Bauman’s for dinner, at Israel Cressman’s for
supper.
31.I helped to load manure at Dan. all day.
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SEPTEMBER 1914
1. I started to sow fall wheat, but was soon hindered by rain, then I filled up
under proposed hog floor with ld. mortar.
2. I set horse stall posts & prepared for cementing hog stable.
3. I made a hole through wall from feed going into root cellar & made door frame
for same; also placed another door frame on N. end of root cellar & cribbing
for wall. Rain shower in PM.
4. N.F. Martin & Michael Fries Jr. here to help me put in hog-stable floor, etc., 1
day. (floor 3 to 4” thick, mixed 1x6, about 9bbls)
5. M. Fries & I build bal. concrete wall on N. end of root cellar in morn. I helped
to pull peas then; helped to unload 4 loads peas, & worked around under
barn.
6. SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting AM, at Jonas B. Martin’s for supper, at Nancy
Bearinger (visited Noah) for supper. Rain at noon.
7. I helped to plaster at father’s house, upstairs, all day.
8. I helped to plaster at father’s house, up & downstairs, also brought saw dust
from Wallenstein mills to father’s house.
9. I helped to float plaster which was applied on the last 2 days, we also
plastered kitchen in eve. Solomon and John Martin helped now each 3 days.
10.We at WW Harvest Meeting, AM. I made a concrete hog trough, etc, PM. A
cool week.
11.I made cribbing for and build alone 33’ concrete hog troughs, for same I used
between 4 & 5 bags cement, mixed 1x4 ½ .
12.I helped to thrash at Elias Martin’s ½ day AM., I was over to Dan to fit on
arms to his new H. Power PM.
13.SUNDAY: We at S. Peel Meeting AM., Moses Weber’s here for supper.
14.I worked on fittings on horse power again AM., helped to thrash at Dan.
15.Urias & I placed broad studs between new horse mangers, AM. I cemented
the bottom of mangers PM.
16.I cemented the bottom of mangers & door frame in at root-cellar; placed
petition studs over hog troughs. My wife & her sister Annie helped father to
whitewash his new house.
17.I made swing fronts at hog stalls, etc.
18.I made a small hog stall allround closed & finished, also applied a cement
cream on hog troughs & prepared horse-stable for cementing.
19.Jesse, Urias, & I cemented most of horse stable.
20.SUNDAY: David Bauman’s & we went visiting together in their carriage, at
Moses Gingrich’s for dinner, at Anninias Martin’s for supper.
21.Jesse, Urias & I cemented the 5 stands for horses, dug a trench for concrete
wall at lintel, etc.
22.I worked at hog stable, fastened 3 doors, made a petition, etc. Rain &
thunderstorm a little before supper. Past week warm & dry.
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23.Sprinkle rain AM. Dan & his boys over here to work on barn. I build a hog-
stable-wire fence petition; the lower 2’ of concrete.
24.I (& wife along too) helped to cut in corn by father, 1 day.
25.I made cribbing for concrete wall under lintel.
26.Urias & I, & Jesse awhile, build concrete wall under lintel.
27.SUNDAY: We at Solomon Bowman’s for dinner.
28.Jesse & Urias build up on concrete wall under lintel, etc. I made cribbing for
the above job & prepared for nailing on siding on N. side of hog stable. Frost
held out till to about the last few nights.
29.I loaded manure at Daniel’s all day.
30.I loaded manure at Dan. AM., prepared for the siding on hog stable by me
PM. Also took off lintel wall cribbing.
OCTOBER 1914
1. I filed hand ripp saw; then put on matched siding on N. & E. of hog stable.
2. I nailed on siding on E. & S. of hog stable, patched 2 hog stable doors,
chiseled outlet over concrete wall for manure fluid.
3. I build a 2-piece main door between barn & shed on N. side.
4. SUNDAY: We at W.W. Meeting AM. Enos B. Martin’s here for dinner. Elias
Martin’s Lavina here for supper.
5. I started building 2-piece stable door under lintel.
6. I fastened together things on the door I started on yesterday, put bal. of hog
stable siding on & build some part of door on N. of barn.
7. Finished door on North side of hog stable. Tore some old wall down of old
lintel & build 3 concrete piers.
8. I cleaned out old cow stable, etc, Tore bal. old lintel stone wall down & build 1
pier (foundation for post).
9. I removed old lintel post to a different place and build a new concrete pier
underneath it, also prepared for another post. Jesse & Urias tore old horse
stable away here PM. Rainy PM.
10.I gathered & fetched in 12 bags apple for the pigs & cleaned their pens AM.
Jesse, Urias & I build 2 piers PM. Rainy PM.
11.SUNDAY: Elias B. Martin’s here for dinner, also my parents. Elias B.
Martin’s Esther here for supper.
12.I prepared for cementing cattle trough bottoms AM. Wife & I helped Dan. to
dig out potatoes. I put ½ waggon box full in our cellar.
13.I prepared for cementing –trough bottoms; lifted temporary laid water pipes a
little up in order to cement underneath; fitted window-sashes into frames.
Cold breezes.
14.I prepared for cementing cattle trough bottoms AM. I helped to top mangles &
load some of same.
15.I helped to dig out potatoes AM. Light rain at noon. I prepared for cementing
cattle-trough bottoms & between sleepers E. of straw-shed.
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16.Jesse, Urias & I dug in stable posts & removed some stone laid flooring;
Drizzly weather.
17.Urias & I cemented cattle-trough bottoms for double stable & cemented
spaces between straw shed slippers.
18.SUNDAY; We a N. W. Meeting AM., at Sol. B. Martin’s for dinner.
19.I topped off mangles nearly all day.
20.I helped to load mangles AM., removed cribbing from trough bottoms &
prepared for cattle concrete floor, helped to butcher a hog which became
ruptured here, in the evening.
21.Jesse & I prepared for cementing double stable floor—filled up & took off on
ground. Urias hauled a couple loads of wood into our shed here (firewood).
22.Jesse, Urias & I cemented at double stable floor; 20 stands 3” thick, a fraction
less 1 bag cement per stand.
23.Jesse, Urias, & I cemented gutters & walk between gutters & the area
between hog stable & cattle stable mostly. Nice.
24.Jesse & I cemented a double stand in back stable, & 2 feed allies.
25.SUNDAY: We at S. Peel Meeting AM. My brethren Eli & Lydia here for
dinner. Anson Gingrich’s here for supper.
26.I laid, with 3 mixerfuls concrete, the floor between hog & horse stable at North
maine door, filed saw, & started at box-stalls.
27.Dan & I worked at making boxstalls AM. I started at cattle stable, -
carpentering, PM. Ground frozen too hard to plough AM.
28.I dug out foundation for water-trough & back-stable door sill AM. I placed
door jams of back-stable forth to besides the water-trough and worked at
water-trough inside model in eve. August Herzog here worked at cattle
stables all day. Dan helped him AM., then he fetched 12 head of cattle from
Creekbank, bought of Brox at 7 ½ cents/lb. & sold back at 9c here to me.
29.I concreted water trough bottom & door sill. A. Herzog & Dan build cattle &
horse stalls. Most of this week drizzly or wet snow.
30.I build concrete water trough, etc. A. Herzog carpentered here 1 day. Levi
Brubacher’s Jr. child burried at W. Woolwich.
31.I worked small jobs AM. We thrashed here PM. A. Herzog here ¾ dy. Nice.
NOVEMBER 1914
1. SUNDAY: We at W. W. Meeting AM. Amzi Snyder’s & Martin Frey’s here for
supper.
2. I filled spaces between slippers in root cellar with brick & c. mortar, evened
root cellar floor, removed cribbing from water-trough & topped turnips. Urias
hauled in 1 load.
3. I did finishing ups in cementing & carpentering. Raining in morn. Boys & I
hauled in 10 loads turnips. Nice weather PM.
4. Jesse & hauled in 16 loads turnips, others helped. Nice weather. Jeremiah
Martin’s child burried at Martin’s.
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5. Jesse & I hauled in 6 ½ loads turnips AM. I hauled 3 loads from M.F. Martin’s
to here. Hauled 30 ½ loads turnips to me, 3 over.
6. I made another water trough cribbing for the horses, AM. I did small jobs in
afternoon, piled turnips back, dunged stables.
7. I mixed concrete, filled cribbing to form a trough, & a part stable floor., in back
stable, etc. Frost last night. Warm today. Chopped grain here.
8. SUNDAY: We at Menno F. Martin’s for dinner.
9. I ploughed AM. Removed cribbing from water trough, etc.
10.I worked on water-trough, large one, enclosing with wood work, over above.
Dan took out to Elmira, 8 hog at 7 cents, which I fed here. Sale of home &
household effects of the late Chr. Wideman.
11.Dan & I worked on swing lid for water trough AM. I ploughed PM. A short wet
snow shower PM.
12.I ploughed about all day. I started to feed regular 19 steer. Nice.
13.I ploughed a little AM., fitted swing for water trough & placed water-float in
position. Helped Dan a little at hog chopp-chest.
14.I did stable work & ploughed at turnip & rapes patch. Nice today.
15.SUNDAY: Brother Isaiah here for dinner; Noah Weber’s here for supper.
Drizzly.
16.I helped to finish ploughing, being just in time, AM. Boys & I hauled out
manure from here to orchard. Snowstorm; freezing PM.
17.I filled out spaces between joists at lintel & on N. end of barn. Jesse helped,
helped 1 day, Urias PM. Dan build horse stalls.
18.Dan & Jesse chopped grain here all day. I filled joist space & made a hang-
on-below-bin-chute PM.
19.Dan & I chopped grain here AM. I in Elmira PM.
20.Boys chopped here PM. I fixed a slide lid on the hang-on-below-chute, made
cribbing for another hog trough, etc.
21.I chored AM., helped to thrash at David Bauman PM. Funeral of Menno B.
Bowman’s wife at N. Woolwich, aged 38 yrs, 2 mon.
22.SUNDAY: We at home all day. 11 Votes taken for a preacher at Martin’s.
23.I fixed manure yard fence & did small jobs in carpentering.
24.We at Martin’s Meeting, Urias Martin was ordained a preacher AM. I chored
PM. Some sleighs out.
25.Funeral of John Heer’s child at Martin’s. I helped to thrash at David Bauman
¾ day.
26.I chored AM., helped to thrash at N.F. Martin, PM. Mild night.
27.We thrashed here by me all day.
28.We thrashed here ½ day, AM. I chored PM.
29.SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting AM. Aaron M. Bauman’s here for dinner.
30.Dan & boys here to clean up surroundings. I build hog trough,etc.
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DECEMBER 1914
1. I took pump out, at barn, & repaired on same. Addison Freeman brought Hy,
Ruth, & D. Z. Burkholder of Pa. to here for dinner. Sultry.
2. I chored, worked on pump. We to Elmira, PM. Muddy roads.
3. I opened small ditch on N. E. corner of s. shed, etc. Boys hauled stones to
water trough under lintel to fill up, PM.
4. Boys here to chopp about all day; I helped some & chored.
5. Boys here to chopp PM. Dan & I carpentered on hog stable; I chored.
6. SUNDAY: We at S. Peel Meeting. Menno M. Wideman’s here for supper.
7. I at fair, AM. Prepared a little for butchering, etc.
8. We over at Dan’s to help to butcher 4 hogs, I helped only AM. I trimmed my
cows & heifer at tail, back & head.
9. I put double windows on at house, on buisness over by my parents, etc.
Several days wind from East, now also snow.
10.I chored AM., helped to thrash at Dan. PM.
11.I chored, and made 2 slide doors at straw shed opening, took team to and
from Dan where they were engaged at chopping.
12.I took team to and from Dan. I chored.
13.SUNDAY: We by my parents for dinner. Snow falls.
14.I chored, cleaned a few cattle. Jesse cut my hairs. Stormy.
15.I chored, cleaned 15 head of cattle, took clock apart. Stormy.
16.I chored & did several other small jobs. Cold & a little stormy.
17.I chored; in Elmira; worked a little in woodshed, etc. Cold.
18.I chored; build a slide lid for straw-hole in pig stable.
19.I chored; boys over, then we dehorned 7 head of cattle.
20.SUNDAY: We ate N.F. Martin’s for dinner. Some young neighbours here for
supper.
21.Funeral of widow, Christian Snyder’s wife, burried at Martin’s. I fixed a latch
on door above barn stairs. Stormy.
22.I build a chop chest in hog feed gangway, etc. Stormy.
23.I cleaned 10 cattle & chored, fetched 3 roosters from M.F. Martin. Shovelled
snow. Stormy awhile PM.
24.I chored & in Elmira PM.
25.CHRISTMAS: We with Dan’s to W.W. Meeting AM. We by Dan’s for dinner.
26.I chored AM. Wrote into this diary PM. Cold.
27.SUNDAY: We at S. Peel Meeting. Jno. W. Martin here for supper.
28.Chored & prepared feeding for the morrow, sheared hairs off back & cleaned
7 head young cattle. Moses Bauman brought Enos Eby & Frank Horst of Pa.
here for supper.
29.I helped to thrash at N.F. Martin’s all day.
30.I build supports under joists of box stalls, besides feeding.
31.I completed supports under joists & placed iron pipes in front of horse
mangers. Did today’s chores & partly for tomorrow.
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DIARY 1915
ANGUS S. BAUMAN
JANUARY
1. NEW YEAR’S DAY: We at David B. Bauman’s for supper.
2. I did the Saturday chores & some for tomorrow. Stormy.
3. SUNDAY: Wife’s sister Mary Ann here for supper.
4. I cleaned 22 head of cattle besides chores.
5. I at St. Jacob’s creamery & in Elmira AM., Chored PM. Nice day.
6. I chored AM. Helped to thrash by Dan PM. Drizzly.
7. I helped to thrash by Dan about ¾ day.
8. I chored AM., took team to Dan for to chopp. I fixed grain spout on separator.
9. I chored AM., took team to Dan for to chopp. Urias & I cleaned 20 bags peas
by me.
10.SUNDAY: We at home all day.
11.David & I at Elmira fair, AM. Boys & I cleaned peas PM. Jesse exchanged a
load of peas for corn at Klinck’s Elmira. Peas worth $1.30. Gave 1 pound
peas for 1 pound corn & 1 cent.
12.Jesse exchange grain like yesterday. Urias & I cleaned wheat AM. Boys & I
moved & set power over to here. Fine sleighing & weather.
13.Boys here to chopp nearly all day. I cleaned cattle & chored, etc.
14.Dan’s boys here to chopp nearly all day. I at Alfred Shantz’s sale 1 mile West
of Hawkesville; went up in forenoon already.
15.Boys here to chopp nearly all day. I cleaned cattle, chored, etc.
16.I chored AM. Jesse & I moved power over to Dan. Sawed & split wood. Nice
week, scarcely any snowfall or storm.
17.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Mild weather.
18.Boys over here to help me clean wheat. Mild.
19.Jesse hauled wheat, which we cleaned yesterday, to St. Jacobs. Urias & I
sawed pieces of timber short AM. I made a door, with hinges on, in barn
siding, from barn floor out to manure yard. About 5” snowfall last night.
20.Besides chores, I build a required extension on back stable door.
21.Besides chores, I made a root-cellar door & fastened it, also made a chop
chest in back feed gangway & stable door traps. Colder.
22.Besides chores I made a pig walk for loading them & a step-stand for use in
granary; fastened bal. required pipes on front of horse mangers, also chains
on top board of mangers. Urias & I cleaned about 150 bushel seed oats here
by me PM.
23.Did general Sat. chores AM. Urias & I placed 3 iron connecters from beam to
beam across long posts. I fixed a window into barn siding so as to admit
some light on barn floor. Jesse hauled my mixer & power to my father’s farm.
24.SUNDAY: Martin H. Bauman’s funeral, at Martins’, aged about 80 years.
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25.I chored, etc. Snowfall last night.
26.I chored & cleaned 15 head of cattle.
27.I chored. My parents here for supper. A son born to us.
28.I chored; fetched some household effects from Dan. Annie started to work
here (wife’s sister). Funeral of Christian Martin’s (son of Christian Sr.) child at
Martins’.
29.Funeral of Isaac Martin’s child (residing in Elmira) at W. Woolwich. I cleaned
stove pipes, chored. Stormy.
30.Harvey Rick’s (Susanne Spaeth) & my sister Lydia here for a call PM. I did
Sat. chores AM. In Elmira PM.
31.SUNDAY: Parents here for a call. Mary Ann here in Annie’s stead. Sleet.
FEBRUARY 1915
1. I chored, did a few small jobs. High winds.
2. I chored, cleaned 9 head of cattle. Stormy & high winds.
3. I chored; looked over papers. Nice Day. N.F. Martin’s wife called in.
4. I chored; did some reading. Nice day.
5. Funeral of Henry Weber, aged about 61 yrs, burried at Martins’. Funeral of
Simeon Brubacher, Berlin, aged 52 yrs., 9 mon., 6dys. I chored & cleaned
cattle, etc.
6. We drove 12 head of fat cattle, which I fed this winter, to C.P.R. Elmira, for
Brox, total wt. 14,430#, av. gain about 180#. Cattle market dull; feed dear;
Elias Martin’s paid a call.
7. SUNDAY: I at S. Peel Meeting AM.
8. I at Elmira fair AM., took team to Dan to chopp awhile PM.
9. I chored AM. I helped to get father’s sale bill out over by him. Cold.
10.I helped to butcher at Dan’s all day. Susie here in Annie’s stead today & for
tomorrow.
11.I chored AM., tooked team over to Dan & I too helped to chopp.
12.I chored AM. Fetched wild cherry bark from Enos M. Bauman.
13.I did Saturday’s chores AM. In Elmira PM. Simeon Weber’s child burried at
Martin’s.
14.SUNDAY: We at home all day. David Bauman’s here for dinner. Enos
Gingrich’s here for a call PM.
15.I at Jacob Bricker’s sale nearly all day.
16.I chored and wrote, etc.
17.I helped to butcher at David Bauman.
18.I chored, etc, AM., at Connolly’s sale, by Macton, PM.
19.I in Elmira, AM. Chored, also some for tomorrow.
20.I at sale of Peter Allgier’s property, etc., bought & drove home a white hiefer,
M.F. Martin took my team home.
21.SUNDAY: I & Mary Ann at WW Meeting AM. Levi B. Martin’s & Sylvester
Martin’s here for dinner. Mild.
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22.Chored, etc, AM. At Dan. G. Gingrich’s sale, 2 mi N. of Floradale. Practically
nice weather in Feb. –up to date save Feb. 1st
, 2nd
.
23.I chored & read. All day raining.
24.I chored in morn. At Menno S. Bauman’s sale. Bought hiefer & brought her
along home.
25.I chored & read. With N. F. Martin to Scott’s sale, by Macton PM. Getting
colder after mild period.
26.I with mother-in-law in Elmira & at funeral of Manassa Bauman’s child, aged 1
yr., 2 months & 13 days, at W. Woolwich AM. I at Dechert’s (Jr.) sale, E. of
Linwood, bought 2 calves. Stormy. I ordered a Frost & Wood binder; also
twine.
27.I did Saturday chores AM., by my parents, took some fruit jars over PM. Cold.
Mary Ann here 1 wk; I took her home.
28.SUNDAY: Jesse & I at S. Peel Meeting AM. Brother Noah & sister Lydia
here for dinner. Lydea & Daniel Gingrich here for supper.
MARCH 1915
1. I chored; went over to Dan to load a hog (Wt. 325#) which Jesse took over to
my parents to be slaughtered for us. Later I helped wife do washing; I at
Isaiah F. Martin’s sale PM. Also at Conestogo to examine a coalheater.
2. Urias & I loaded manure, here by me, Jesse drawed out.
3. Urias & I loaded manure, here by me, Jesse drawed out.
4. I fetched butcherware from N. L. Martin and took a few other item along to my
father’s farm. I & team helped to chopp at Dan, then drawed chopp over to
here PM.
5. Mother-in-law & I helped to butcher 2 hogs (1 from father-in-law, & 1 from my
father) by my parents.
6. I did Sat. chores. Jno Schwitzer’s here for a call PM.
7. SUNDAY: We at home all day. Nobody here.
8. I at Elmira fair AM. Fetched coal heater, $10.00, from Ebel, Conestogo.
9. I cleaned cattle AM. Attended Stroh’s sale, East of Elmira, PM.
10.I chored about AM. Helped father to get stuff ready for auction sale, PM.
11.I & family at father’s sale, which aggregated $1693.50. Mine account ran up
to $944.65.
12.I chored, & paid a call on Eli Bauman of Iowa, who were last night by father-
in-law’s. Jesse & I hauled a load of our household effects over to my parents,
PM.
13.I took team over to Dan to help chopp. I over by my parents to get parlor
stove & coal heater in order & their pipings connected to chimneys’ I also in
Elmira.
14.SUNDAY: Rebecca & Louisa Martin, & Louisa Bauman, Lavina Gingrich, and
Anson Martin’ here for dinner.
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15.Eli B. Bauman’s of Iowa at Dan’s, last night. I over & paid a call on same; &
chored AM. I & Jesse moved a load of household effects to father’s farm PM.
16.Dan’s people helped us to move to father’s farm, Jesse with team, also David,
and Noah Martin’s with teams. The latter’s wife helped also. Parents moved
to Elmira.
17.I at Daniel Hoffman’s (Sr.) wife’s funeral at Conestogo, aged 74 yrs., 2 days,
AM. I got surroundings more in shape PM.
18.Lydia here over noon & AM. Noah, wife & I in Elmira to buy 1000# coal &
some hardware; We hanged up hams. Bad roads.
19.Made order in shop & repaired several articles. Nice week.
20.I worked small jobs. I in Elmira PM.
21.SUNDAY: Noah & I at WW Meeting, Snowing at noon.
22.We took 20 bags oats down to father AM. Cleaned wheat, etc., PM. Widow
Dav. Brubacher burried at Old Conestogo, aged 94 yrs.
23.Noah & I cleaned seed grain nearly all day.
24.We Measured oats & hay & did other odd jobs.
25.I in Elmira & fastened table legs more securely.
26.Noah & I made leaf table for in kitchen. Dehorned heifer, etc.
27.I finished the 2 tables I worked on recently. I in Elmira. Also placed 2 pieces
fire-crates in brick kettle stove.
28.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Snow storm to-night.
29.I helped wife to wash; I in Elmira fetched emery grinder, etc. Stormy.
30.I figured at f. books etc. Stormy.
31.I fetched flour & feed from St. Jacobs mill; took a little wheat along down, of
father’s, price $1.25, has been $1.50 already this winter. I down in Berlin,
fetched 2 pieces oak 4”x4”x12’ (@8 ½ c per ft.)
APRIL 1915
1. Enos Martin’s child burried at Martin’s, aged about 15 mon. I prepared a
blood purifier from roots & barks. I in Elmira.
2. GOOD FRIDAY: Noah & I at WW Meeting AM. I read PM.
3. I fetched seed corn in Elmira from Hoffman; also feed corn.
4. SUNDAY: Amos B. Martin’s here for dinner.
5. EASTER MON: Dan Bauman’s here for dinner. I wrote into this book.
6. Noah & I cleaned cistern AM. Washed cutters & stored them up-up in driving
shed. Took old buggy apart.
7. Noah & I in Elmira to fetch a new Frost & Wood binder. Stored bob sleigh
away. Took concrete mixer apart.
8. I took father’s 2 hogs to Elmira, Wt. 310#, price $8.60. I awhile over at
Cressman’s Sr.,-she has died yesterday. I worked on mixer frame. Noah
washed & oiled harness.
9. I worked on mixer frame, & helped to dig grave for Dav. Cressman’s wife. A
little rain in eve. Warm. Spring-like.
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10.We at funeral of David Cressman’s (Sr.) wife, at WW Meeting house, aged 64
yrs, 10 mon, 27 dys. We then by mother for dinner; Noah was hostler at
Cressman’s. Muddy roads.
11.SUNDAY: We all at home. Noah at Parents for supper.
12.I helped wife to wash AM; fetched 6 bu. Goosewheat at $1.50 per bu. from
David Hoffer, & 47 gallons gasoline at 19c.
13.I at Meeting house to fix up things AM. Chopped grain & worked at mixer
frame PM.
14.I helped wife to white-wash 2 rooms AM. I fetched bolts at noon & put mixer
frame together & painted same.
15.I placed drum on mixer frame & repaired on the former. I fetched silo rings
from Dan Bauman & took mixer & power all up to Ab. Bauman.
16.I worked small jobs, Noah let team shod, AM. I took 9 bbl. cement from
Elmira to Ab. Bauman & set machine.
17.I helped to build 5 ft. silo at Ab. Bauman. My power broke. Hy. Gies’s wife
burried at Conestogo.
18.SUNDAY: Noah & I at WW Meeting AM. Addison Gingrich’s & Noah
Bearinger here for supper.
19.We put up 3rd
& 4th
ring concrete silo up at Ab. Bauman.
20.We put up 5 & 6 ring c. silo at Ab. Bauman. Noah picked stones, etc.
21.We put up 7 & 8 ring c. silo at Ab. Bauman. Noah ganged in furrows.
22.We put up 9 & 10 ring c. silo at Ab. Bauman. Noah cultivated, I in morn.
23.Noah & I sowed, harrowed & roled about 7 acres, (?B & O)
24.Noah & I ganged awhile; then cultivated sod, sowed 32 acres, oats. A warm
week. Grass growing; Spring came gradually; little flooding.
25.SUNDAY: Wife’s sister Mary Ann & Amos & Eli Gingrich, and Norman Martin
here for dinner. Wife’s brethren, Mary Ann, Annie & Urias, Isaac Bauman,
Lizzie Bearinger & my sister Lydia here for supper.
26.I harrowed sod, sowed peas & rolled same. Noah ganged, -I sowed oats, &
some goosewheat.
27.Noah cultivated AM. I did small jobs, worked in garden. Hail & rain storm
PM. Ground soaked after warm period.
28.I worked small jobs about silo at Ab. Bauman.
29.I destroyed caterpillars on apple trees AM. Noah & I sowed oats, & some
goosewheat.
30.I harrowed that what we had sown yesterday. Cultivated & drilled barely,
mixed grain, and grass seed with the two. Noah piled up wood in jop &
harrowed. Cool & dreary these days.
MAY 1915
1. Noah cultivated AM. I did small jobs AM. I sowed oats & harrowed.
2. SUNDAY: We at Daniel Bauman’s for dinner & supper.
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3. I at funeral of Ezra L. Martin’s wife at Conestogo, aged 55 yrs, 6 mon, 29 days
AM. Noah sowed about 2 acres, finished, AM. Noah & I planted a few
potatoes, harrowed & rolled.
4. Noah, team & cultivator down by father in morn, I cultivated root field awhile
AM & Noah PM. I piled up wood etc. Dreary.
5. We put up 11 & 12 ring c. silo at Ab. Bauman. Noah plowed root field.
6. I in Elmira, worked in garden, & ridged some for mangles.
7. Rain 1 day. Noah & I divided turnips AM. I sick PM.
8. We put up 13 & 14 ring c. silo at Ab. Bauman. Rain in eve.
9. SUNDAY: We at Noah Weber’s for dinner & supper.
10.I lowered silo rings at Ab. Bauman, also prepared for plastering. Also worked
3 hrs. squaring & levelling proposed strawshed foundation at Daniel B. Martin.
11.I plastered silo at Ab. Bauman. Noah sowed mangles.
12.We at funeral of Titus Bauman’s wife (nee Salina Gingrich) at W. Woolwich,
aged 27 yrs., 1 1 mon. AM. I in Elmira PM. Noah was also at funeral AM.
then rolled PM.
13.ASCN’N DAY: We at home all day. Noah afishing.
14.I set power & mixer & helped to dig out earth & filled same with concrete for
strawshed foundation walls, at Dan B. Martin, 1 day.
15.I made cribbing all day at Dan. B. Martin; Others put in croncrete.
16.SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting. Ezra Bauman’s & some young folks here for
supper.
17.I made cribbing all day at Dan. B. Martin; Others put in concrete.
18.I made cribbing ½ day AM at D. B. Martin. Prepared for building silo at Levi
B. Bowman PM.
19.We build 1, 2, & 3rd
ring concrete silo at Levi B. Bowman.
20.We build 4 & 5 ring c. silo at L. Bowman & set up mast.
21.We build 6 & 7 ring c. silo at L. Bowman. Rain at noon.
22.We build 8 & 9 ring c. silo at L. Bowman.
23.SUNDAY: David Bauman’s & we at Eli H. Bauman’s & David Martin’s for
dinner. David’s then here for supper.
24.We build 10 & 11 ring c. silo at L. Bowman, also some flooring.
25.Amos Rudy here on a visit from last night till today noon. I in Elmira.
Chopped grain. Planted potatoes. Rain in eve.
26.I build 12 & 13 ring c. silo at L. Bowman & 1 horse stall.
27.I build 14 ring c. silo at L. Bowman, also lowered, outside ring AM. Planted
potatoes PM.
28.I lowered rings & plastered silo at L. Bowman.
29.We made corn patch in shape & sowed corn & planted a few potatoes &
rolled above said patches yet.
30.SUNDAY: We at home all day.
31.I destroyed tent caterpillars on apple trees. Noah & I divided roots in cellar
apart. I in Elmira. Made chicken pen. Noah drove my heifer to C. Esch’s
pasture, in eve.
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JUNE 1915
1. I at N. L. Martin, put in concrete floors in 2 cellar apartments under his house,
etc, 1 day.
2. I helped to make walls & floors, etc at N. L. Martin, 1 day.
3. I hauled 3 loads of nut coal home. Noah & I patched at fences. Father had
my team to haul sand to his house.
4. I worked 3 days statue labour by hauling 5 loads gravel.
5. We drove father’s cattle to C.P.R. Elmira. I put in 2 days statue labor by
hauling earth AM & 2 loads gravel PM. Noah worked small jobs. Warm.
6. SUNDAY: We at Martin’s Meeting, at Hy. Bowman’s for dinner (Len
Weber’s); at Moses Weber’s Jr. for supper. Nice Day.
7. I helped to build a re-inforced concrete wall around old cistern & build cellar
steps at N. L. Martin.
8. I helped to prepare for & cemented some for wood-shed foundation, etc, at N.
L. Martin.
9. I helped to build wood-shed foundation at N. L. Martin.
10.I helped to build cement porch walls, plastered cistern on outside, etc, at N. L.
Martin.
11.I at Bernhardt Rudisuela to rig up silo outfit, & build 5’ in height of concrete
silo wall, 1 day.
12.I in Elmira; sowed turnip; Noah prepared land for same.
13.SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting AM; Bro. Isaiah, Jno Martin (son of Enos),
Absolom & Eliza Martin, & Nancy Bowman here for dinner. Bro. Eli, Nancy &
Susie Bauman here for supper.
14.Noah & I cut thistles. Father had my team to drive around Jonas Martin’s &
Joe Wenger of Pa. Martin Sauder’s & Geo. Webers here around same place
& time.
15.Thunder & rain last night, a nice soaker. I took wife to her parent’s home. We
cut thistles in eve, etc.
16.We cut thistles about all day, Eli helped awhile PM. Peter Zieglers kitchen &
woodshed burned down. Compressed boiled oil supposed to be originator of
fire.
17.I helped to put up wire fence, dig post holes, etc, at WW Meeting house.
18.Noah & I cleaned 4 rows mangles & cut thistles, Father helped.
19.Noah & I cleaned mangles & cut thistles; Father helped PM.
20.SUNDAY: We at funeral of Emanuel Martin’s child, burried at W Woolwich,
aged 2 yrs, 6 mon, 7 days, in afternoon. Bishop John Martin, Ind, officiated at
Conestogo Meeting today.
21.Noah scuffed corn, then he helped me clean mangles & cut thistles after
supper.
22.Noah, I (& father awhile) cleaned mangles, cut thisles in 2 grassfields. Cool.
23.We cut thistles, etc. Cold.
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24.Wm. Moeser & Eph. Reist here to erect new binder AM. We cut thitles for 2nd
overrun. Pulled yellowdock.
25.I in Elmira AM., at Dan B. Martin, put in c. flooring PM.
26.I at Dan. B. Martin, put in concrete floor 1 day.
27.SUNDAY: We at N. Woolwich Meeting AM., at Aron M. & Amos Bauman’s for
dinner. Amos & I at NW Meeting PM.
28.Father & I masoned nearly all day at Peter Ziegler.
29.Father & I up at P. Ziegler. I helped to build cylinderic concrete cistern 6’2”
wide. Noah scuffled corn.
30.Noah scuffled awhile, then helped me to do hoeing.
JULY 1915
1. Noah & I cleaned corn about all day.
2. Noah hauled in summer wood, I in Elmira; then hoed corn.
3. Noah & I hoed corn about all day. Light rain at noon.
4. SUNDAY: We at S. Peel Meeting AM., at Ab. Bearingers for dinner, at Dan.
Bauman’s for supper.
5. Mixer at Aaron Bauman to build c. wall for D. shed.
6. I hoed 2 rows corn, then turnips. Noah scuffled corn, etc.
7. Noah & I hoed turnips AM. Noah & I up by Elias Martin to see fixture on his g.
engine, etc. Rainy PM.
8. I build concrete hog trough & c. petition at Dan B. Martin, 1 dy.
9. Wendel Martin’s child funeral at Martin’s. I at Dan. B. Martin to build @
petition in hogs stable & 10 c. hen’s rests, rebuild top of a chimney, etc, 1 day.
Noah mowed grass.
10.I fetched beef in morn. Chopped grain. Prepared for & hauled in 6 loads hay.
Father helped. Warm day.
11.SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting AM; Josiah B. Martin’s Sr. & Hy. B. Martin’s
here for dinner. Noah at PM Meeting.
12.Noah scuffled corn, I cleaned turnips in morn. We stirred up & hauled in 2
loads hay, father helped. Some rain. Cut next piece of grass in eve.
13.Noah scuffled corn & hoed turnips AM. We stirred up hay & hauled in 3 ¼
loads hay, father helped ½ day.
14.Father & I mowed grass with mower & scythe in orchard in morn. Noah
scuffled awhile roots, then we all stirred up hay till noon; hauled in 5 ¼ loads
hay.
15.Father here to splice hay rope, I worked small jobs, a little rain, AM. I made
concrete hen’s nests & hog stable petition ½ dy. PM, at Dan. B. Martin.
16.Noah hoes potatoes & turnips AM. We hauled away 3 loads hay, Eli helped a
little PM.
17.I in Elmira, pulled yellow dock & mullen in jop, mowed fence corners out.
Noah raked hay & fetched in in, also mowed.
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18.SUNDAY: We at Dav. B. Bauman’s for dinner at Ivan Martin’s for supper.
Rain to-night.
19.Noah & I hoed mangles awhile AM. Drizzly in morn. I & wife out by Dentist to
get some of her teeth pulled & 1 nerve killed (preparatory for artificial teeth. 2
Boys from near Elora brought silo outfit, home which Rudisuela’s had lented.
20.I applied paris green on potatoe plants, then Noah & I picked cherries AM.
Hauled 2 loads hay to fathers barn & 1 in mine, father had helped too. I got
about 21 loads.
21.I hauled 12 loads manure out on old sod & spread some after supper. Noah
helped me a little & scuffled potatoes & turnips & mowed thistles.
22.I mowed grass with mower in the Exhibitton grounds all day. Noah spread
manure & hoed mangles. Shower rain.
23.I spread manure in morn, & raked hay in Ex. Grounds AM. We hauled 6
loads hay & unloaded 5 into Wm. Moeser’s barn. Wm. Moeser was in his
barn. Geo. Reuter raked hay. Suppered at Wm.
24.We dumped a load hay into G. Reuter’s barn, hauled 2 more to Moeser’s
barn, AM. Noah plowed sod. I cleaned mangles, up by Aaron Bauman to
load c. outfit, prior enroute to Hy. B. M.
25.SUNDAY: We at Eli Horst’s near Hawkesville, for dinner, Elias B. Martin’s for
supper. Rain in eve.
26.Rain in morn. Noah plowed sod. I cleaned mangles. We all to Elmira PM.
Heavy rain PM. Hy. Martin fetched old binder of father’s, was here over noon.
27.I helped to excavate earth & build walls of concrete for cistern. Set mixer. 1
day.
28.I helped to lay cellar concrete floors, ¼ dy, at Hy. B. Martin.
29.I helped to lay cellar concrete floors, & concrete top on cistern & plastered
cistern inside & put a floor in same, 1 day, at Hy. B. Martin, Conestogo.
30.We worked small jobs; prepared for, bindered, & shocked wheat.
31.I fetched beef in morn, then we cleaned mangles, & turnips.
AUGUST 1915
1. We at Daniel G. Gingrich’s for dinner. Noah at Martins (Baptism)
2. I made concrete manhole lid on cistern, prepared for & made some sidewalks
at Hy. B. Martin ¾ day.
3. I made model for cellar window concrete frontage; build one of them & build
concrete floor in stable, etc. ¾ dy at Hy. Martin. Rainy. Water standing in
fields.
4. Noah & I picked raspberries in morn. I build side walks ½ day at Hy. B.
Martin.
5. I build sidewalks at Hy. B. Martin, 1 day, loaded outfit.
6. I spreaded manure 2/3 day at Dan. Baumans.
7. I in Elmira, picked mulberries, etc. Cool.
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8. SUNDAY: Aaron B. Weber’s Jr. here last night. Enos M. Bauman’s for
dinner. We were all at WW Meeting (Young people the last of 2 parties got
baptized). Michael Brubacher’s son here for supper. Thunder & rain in morn.
9. We worked small jobs; I took cream out to Elmira. Wet.
10.Noah & I build sidewalk’s by father. We cut & shocked barely.
11.I in Elmira, then we chopped grain, AM. Father helped us to haul in wheat
PM. I fetched 7 Rock rooster from I. Brubacher.
12.Rain last night. I wrote letters, etc.
13.I helped wife in house, etc; Wife had summer complaints.
14.I helped father to build sidewalks 1 day, Noah helped PM.
15.SUNDAY: We at home; Nobody here on visit.
16.We cut grain; father helped about ¾ day.
17.We cut grain; father helped about ¾ day.
18.Noah ploughed wheat stubles; I harrowed lately plowed sod & that what Noah
plowed, AM. We hauled in 5 loads barely PM.
19.We cut oats nearly all day, father helped to binder.
20.Noah plowed; I harrowed & sowed some rapes AM. We hauled in 6 loads
grain PM. Nice week.
21.I fetched beef. Noah finished plowing & harrowing wheat stuble patch; I
sowed balance in rapes. I did small jobs. Dreary.
22.SUNDAY: Dan. Bauman’s here for dinner. Hy. Brubacher’s here for supper.
23.I rake grain stubles & fetched apples from Dan Bauman’s; Noah ganged AM.
Father bindered & we shocked oats.
24.Noah cultivated recently plowed sod; I pulled weeds in corn, AM. We hauled
in 1 load oats at noon, -thunder & rain at noon after we had the load in. Then
Noah ganged & I raked.
25.I helped to thrash grain at Sol. Reist ½ dy. AM. I hauled separator from Geo.
to here. We prepared for thrashing, PM.
26.We thrashed ¼ day in morn, -Father, Geo. M. B., Esch, & Reist helped. Took
separator back to Geo. AM. Father bindered oats and a patch goosewheat,
we shocked. Hauled in 2 l’ds grain.
27.Noah & I hauled in 8 loads oats & 3 mixture, father helped.
28.Noah & I hauled in 3 loads oats & 9 mixture, father helped. Nice.
29.SUNDAY: Jesse Bauman, Dan. Gingrich, bro. Isaiah and their lady
companions here for supper.
30.I took wife to my parents. We rake stuble land. Cold.
31.I helped to thrash at Geo. Bauman. AM. I pulled peas PM. Noah ganged
stuble land about all day.
SEPTEMBER 1915
1. I pulled peas. We hauled in3 loads oats & 2 rakings. Nice.
2. I pulled peas. We hauled in 4 loads goosewheat & 3 peas. Nice weather.
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3. I pulled balance of peas, raked about 7 acres stubles, Noah cultivated sod,
then we also spread ashes on same sod patch on highest altitudes. Hauled
in ¾ load rakings & 1 ½ peas. Done harvesting.
4. I helped to haul in grain about ¾ day at Hy. Brubacher. Noah sowed wheat &
harrowed same & hauled in 1 ld. wood.
5. SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting AM. Syrannes Martin’s here for dinner.
Wife’s sister Annie here for dinner & supper.
6. Rain last night. I inspected steers in Geo. M. B’s pasture. Noah chopped
grain. I dunged out stables, etc. Noah ganged. One of Jno. Sauder’s twin
babies burried at Conestogo.
7. Noah & team plowed ¾ day at Dav. Bauman. I worked small jobs.
8. I picked mulberries AM.; I in Elmira also AM. Noah burried rubbish under
earth. Did other odd jobs. Heavy rain last night.
9. HARVEST MEETING: Wife & Noah at Harvest Meeting; I helped to thrash at
C. Esch, AM. Noah harrowed PM. I helped to shock grain at Dan. Bauman.
10.I helped to shock grain at Dan. Bauman ¾ day.
11.I pitched sheaves at Dan. Bauman ¾ day.
12.SUNDAY: We at Menno Weber’s for dinner. Heavy rain. Rivers high.
13.Noah & I at Elmira fair. I bought steers for $108.00, judged av. wt. about 550
lbs, from Wm. Bauman. We fetched them in afternoon.
14.I helped to thrash at David Bauman AM. for Dan. Bauman. I helped a little
mowing grain in Dan’s new land; helped Dav. at w. fence.
15.I took some silo curbing to Amos Eby where I helped to build a 1 foot high
stand for a wooden silo AM. I did a few smal jobs yet at home. Noah started
fall plowing. Geo. Holzwarth funeral this afternoon. Light rain.
16.I helped to build cistern walls at Josiah Schmidt, AM. I helped to thrash at Hy.
Brubacher PM. Noah had helped at F. Weigel AM. & then ¼ day at Hy.
Brubacher, PM.
17.I helped to thrash at Hy. Brubacher, ¾ day & Noah ¼ day. I in Elmira in eve.
Rain last night.
18.I made cribbing for West end of Israel Bearinger’s silo all day.
19.SUNDAY: Levi W. Martin’s here for dinner. Noah away.
20.I pitched sheaves at Dan. Bauman about ¾ day. Noah plowed, AM. Noah
helped to harvest grain at Hy. Brubacher ½ dy. PM.
21.Noah plowed all day. I worked small jobs. Rainy & windy.
22.I took 8 hogs, wt 1560#, price 9 ¼ c per lb., to Elmira. Noah & I plowed each
awhile. I at Dan Bauman pitching sheaves ¾ day. Noah helped to harvest
grain at Hy. Brubacher, 6 hrs.
23.I pitched sheaves at Dan. Bauman ¾ day. Noah helped at Hy. B.
24.I pitched scythe mowed grain in Dan. Bauman’s new land, PM.
25.Noah & I drawed out 20 lds. manure. Noah spread of some. Some farmers
finished harvesting this wk. Some 2nd
crop hay.
26.SUNDAY: All at home. Rain this morn & last night that tangled corn badly.
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27.I gathered blown down apples, spread manure. I helped to cement at I
Bearinger PM. Jno. Reist burried at N. Woolwich.
28.I was up by Ab. Bauman trying to engage cutting box, then spread manure. I
helped to thrash at D. Cressman PM. Noah plowed.
29.Noah & I drawed out 26 loads anure. Nice weather.
30.Noah & I hauled out 15 l’ds manure & 1 l’d mangles in in eve.
OCTOBER 1915
1. Noah helped to thrash at Menno Weber ½ dy. AM. Noah got a horse shod in
Elmira PM. I spread manure & made out some mangle of which we fetched in
1 ¾ l’ds. Enos M. Bauman fetched c. mixer. Fine rain PM.
2. I helped to build 5 ft. high cistern & build cribbing for woodshed foundation at
Enos Bauman, 1 day. Noah spread manure.
3. SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting; Menno M. Bauman’s, & Nathan & Rebecca
Martin here for dinner; Sol. Bauman’s for supper.
4. I was up at Ab. Bauman to see after cutting box, then we made out & hauled
in 5 loads mangles, Eli helped, Rain in eve.
5. We made out & hauled in 9 loads mangles.
6. I helped to cut in corn at Sol. Reist. Noah & Eli cut off corn.
7. Noah & I cut corn off by hand AM., Joe Ernst & I PM. Noah & team helped to
cut in corn at C. Esch PM. Cutting outfit came here.
8. We set corn cutting outfit, -M. C. Martin’s engine (steam) & M. C. & Eli S.
Martin’s cutting box. We put in all day. Cut awhile with M. C. Martin’s engine,
-engine gave out, -put my gasoline on then. We practically filled up silo. The
foll. helped: -Dav. Bauman & team, C. Esch & team & 1 more man, M. Weber,
Hy. Brubacher, 2 of Geo. & team, 2 of Sol. Reist & team, 1 for D. Hoffer; Eli &
parents.
9. Noah ploughed. I chored about, dunged stables, etc.
10.SUNDAY: We at Menno Wideman’s for dinner.
11.I helped to cut corn at Dav. Hoffer nearly ¾ day, at Geo. ¼ day.
12.Noah helped to cut corn with team by Geo., AM., ¼ day at S. Reist. Noah & I
ploughed potatoe patch, found 2 pailsful. Eli & I at James MacCormicks sale,
Macton, & brought home from Sam Bowman 7 pigs, 5 wk. old, for $3.50 each,
PM. Nice Days.
13.We made out & hauled in 3 loads mangles; plowed bal. of potatoe patch, -
potatoe crop exceptionaly poor –rotten. Fetched in wood.
14.Noah ploughed, I picked apples, etc.
15.Noah plowed; I picked apples PM & fetched gasoline pump from M. F. M.
16.Noah plowed. I at funeral of Joseph Martin (son of Jacob) at Conestogo
Meeting House, AM, aged 42 yrs, 10 mon, 15 days. Wife & I at funeral of
widow Jno. Nahigang (nee Cressman), aged 75 yrs, at W. Woolwich, PM.
Noah & I fetched some oats at 35 c a bu. from Hy. Brubacher after sup.
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17.SUNDAY: We at S. Peel Meeting, at Aaron F. Bowman’s for dinner, at Dan.
M. Bauman’s for supper.
18.I at fair, -bought 10 pigs, 7 weeks old for $4 AM. I took wife to Elmira & also
fetched 3 bags potatoes along home, 90 lbs for $1.35 from Klinck’s. Noah
ploughed. Rain.
19.I fixed fence & spread manure AM. I fetched flour & millfeed from St. Jacobs
Mill PM. Noah plowed. Nice.
20.I helped to thrashed at D. Hoffer nearly 1 dy. Noah plowed.
21.I plastered cistern & laid maple flooring at Enos Bauman, 1 dy.
22.I worked on tile ditch, -outlet for sink & cistern at Enos B., 1 dy.
23.I spread manure, fetched potatoes from A. S. Gingrich, Elmira. 4 bags for me
& 4 for father. We chopped grain. Noah plowed. Urias Beuhler’s son’s
funeral, aged 22 yrs, 6 mon, at Conestogo. Nice.
24.SUNDAY: We at Noah Horst’s for dinner. Frost in morn. Nice weather.
25.I loaded manure at Peter Bowman all day. Heavy frost last night.
26.I at funeral of Samuel Reist, aged 90 yrs, 8 mon, at W Woolwich AM. Noah
was hostler at Reist'’. I loaded & spread manure at P.B., PM.
27.I helped to thrash at F. Weigel ¾ day, Noah helped ½ day for Peter Bowman.
Noah topped turnips, PM. We hauled in 2 l’ds.
28.We hauled in 5 ½ loads turnips. Sol. Reist’s barn burned, started about 7 PM.
from an upset lantern. We over.
29.I helped to thrash at P. Bowman ¾ day. Noah fetched in turnips & plowed. I
in Elmira in eve.
30.I helped to thrash at Hy. Brubacher 1 dy. Noah plowed awhile in eve, -Was
also with father to Berlin.
31.SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting. Josiah S. Martin’s here for dinner.
NOVEMBER 1915
1. I helped to thrash at Hy. Brubacher ¼ dy in morn. I awhile at Sol. Reist
removing old walls, & fetched 410# blackstrap at 2 ½ c per lb. from Klinck’s.
Noah plowed. Nice weather.
2. I helped to cement porch, etc. at Enos Bauman ¾ dy.; also took can of cream
to St. Jacobs creamery. Noah plowed. Rough.
3. I chored about. Chr. Heckendorn’s brought Jesse Bauman’s of Iowa to here
over noon. I helped to mason at Sol. Reist a few hrs. PM. Noah plowed.
Jno. Sauder’s other twin child burried.
4. I tightened chopp chists, etc, in Elmira. Noah plowed. Sleet.
5. I masoned on Reist’s barn foundation wall. Noah plowed.
6. Noah plowed. I worked at Reist’s masoned & carpentered at hog stable.
7. SUNDAY: We at Noah L. Martin’s for dinner.
8. I helped to shingle pigstable roof & turn bore-machine at Sol. Reist ¾ day.
Noah plowed. Nice weather.
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9. I hauled 2 loads of mill feed from St. Jacob’s mills to here, Also took wife up to
& from her parents. Noah plowed.
10.We unloaded mill feed & fetched a load manure from father AM. I helped to
frame on timber awhile at Reists. Noah plowed. After supper we fetched
2300# oats @ 1 c from Hy. Brubacher. David Sauder was ordained as
Deacon for Conestogo District.
11.I dunged stables & in Elmira. I helped to thrash at C. Esch, PM. Noah
plowed all day.
12.I helped to thrash at C. Esch AM. Noah finished up plowing. I fetched 2 bags
wheat for hens from Dav. Bauman & 1700# oats @ 1 c from Hy. Brubacher,
(for father). Rain last night.
13.Noah & I brought father 1400# oats, then at Sol. Reist’s barn raising. Nice
weather except a little cold wind. A. Lorch got hurt.
14.SUNDAY: We at Geo. M. Bauman’s for dinner. Nice weather.
15.I chored about. Eli cut my hair AM. I helped preparing barn siding at Sol.
Reist PM. Noah plowed at Reist. Colder.
16.Noah plowed at Reists. I fetched heifer from C. Esch’s pasture, etc.
17.Noah plowed at Reists. I shaped up stables for cattle, etc.
18.Noah plowed at Reists. I shingled on Reist’s barn roof. Cattle confined to
stables.
19.Noah & I build pig pen in horse stable. Rain.
20.Noah fetched a load cleaning ups from father’s lot. We chored, etc.
21.SUNDAY: We at Martins’ Meeting, at Urias Martin’s for dinner, at Enos
Martin’s for supper. Wet snow showers.
22.Noah fetched plow from Reist. Opened silo. Trimmed awhile.
23.We at Dan. Gingrich’s wedding, by my parents. Some sleighs out.
24.We chored About, I helped to shingle on Reist’s roof. Milder.
25.I helped to thrash at M. Weber 1 day, Noah helped to thrash at David
Cressman 1 day. Snow melting, slush.
26.I helped to thrash at D. Cressman about 1 hr. in morn. till crank broke. Noah
helped to thrash at M. Weber AM. I in Elmira on buisness PM. Slushy.
27.We chored & did small jobs, chopped grain awhile. Rain.
28.SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting AM. Dan. Gingrich’s here for supper.
29.We chored about. Noah got horse shod. I helped to thrash at Dav.
Cressman ½ dy., PM. Colder.
30.Noah & team helped Lydia or rather Dan’s fam. to move furniture to their
home near Winfield. I helped in morning to load. I chored about. Cold wind
& snow.
DECEMBER 1915
1. I paid taxes in Elmira & by father.
2. I helped to thrash at D. Hoffer ¾ dy, and paid “fire damage” at W. Woolwich
Meeting house for 2 church members.
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3. I helped to thrash at Geo. M. Bauman all day.
4. I helped to thrash at Geo. M. Bauman all day.
5. SUNDAY: We at home. Jonas Martin’s Norman here for dinner.
6. We moved g. engine to Joe Ernst & set up ready for thrashing AM., -thrashed
PM., Noah, I & engine present.
7. We helped to thrash at Joe Ernst AM. Moved outfit home to me, Joe teamed
1 load up & helped a little in setting.
8. We thrashed 1 day. The foll. helped: --Geo. 1; Cressman 1; Esch 1; Hoffer 1;
J. Ernst 1; M. Weber 1; Hy. AM & F. Weigel, PM.
9. We thrashed 1 day. The foll. helped: --2 from Geo; Esch 1; Cressman 1; D.
Hoffer 1; J. Ernst 1; F. Weigel 1; M. Weber 1; P. Bauman 1.
10.We got separator, etc, ready to move, chored AM. Reuben fetched separator,
Noah took other load down to the former’s place. I drove Sussie home who
helped here over thrashing.
11.We dunged stables & worked small jobs.
12.SUNDAY: We at home. Noah at parents for supper.
13.I helped wife to wash AM. Eli & Levi Gingrich brought Harvey Weaver of Pa.
here for over noon.
14.Wife & I helped to butcher 4 hogs at Dan. Bauman all day. Henry M. Martin
burried today, lived near Conestogo.
15.I took poultry out to Elmira, took wife to Dentist to get artificial teeth measured
& in store. Nice sleighing.
16.We prepared for & cleaned wheat & bagged same.
17.I sheared hairs off of cattle’s back & took wife to Dentist. Jno. Spaeth burried.
Sleet & Rainy.
18.I took 31 bush. wheat, test 60, price 98 c, to Conestogo mills & brought a ton
middlings home. AM. Got horse shod PM.
19.SUNDAY: We at Dav. Bauman’s for dinner.
20.I took 26 bu. wheat, test 59, standard price 98 c to St. Jacobs, & 1290 lbs.
bran home, Noah & I hauled up hardwood which father made short in Geo’s
bush, into our shed, 4 l’ds.
21.I fetched 2 loads sand for garden & 1 for chickens from M. Snider AM. Noah
& I at Mrs. Louisa Brubacher’s sale, PM.
22.I helped to thrash at Evan Martin for Hy. Brubacher 1 day. Noah chored &
hauled 2 loads gravel into J. Cressman’s lane.
23.We prepared for & chopped a few hrs, grain. I fetched gasoline from Elmira.
Wet from above.
24.We dunged stables out. Cleaned cattle, put lard & coal oil on them.
25.CHRISTMAS: Noah & I at WW Meeting.
26.SUNDAY: Alvin & Mary Bauman (children of Orvern in Mich.) & Jesse here;
they & Noah M. Weber’s here for dinner. Peter Brubacher’s wife burried at
Conestogo. Wife’s sisters Mary Ann & Annie here yesterday.
27.Chored. Wife & I by Dentist, PM.
28.We inspect potatoes & apples, at Ab. Weber’s sale PM. Nice sleighing.
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29.I fetched 7 bags potatoes @ 1.25 from Enos Bauman. Bishop Risser of
Markham burried. Noah chored. Snowstorm, PM.
30.Noah & I took a bed straw sack to parents, chored, etc.
31.Noah hauled 1 l’d gravel for J. Cressman & 1 to here. I chored & in Elmira.
DIARY 1916
ANGUS S. BAUMAN
JANUARY
1. NEW YEAR DAY: We at home. Noah at Dan Gingrich’s.
2. SUNDAY: Martin Bauman’s baby burried at Martins. I read.
3. I started to make a lounch, framework, Noah, a manure sleigh.
4. I took wife up to her parents in morn. & fetched her in eve.
5. I finished lounch frame, took same to father & got works for same also to
father. Got horse shod. Rainy, snow going.
6. I worked at works on lounch by father under his supervision, AM. I & team
went with Hy. Brubacher to Yatton to fetch hay for his barn; Hy. & his brother
Benj. each a load too. Stormy.
7. I helped Hy. Brubacher to unload a load hay in morn. Then he & I fetched
each a load hay again from & to same place as yesterday. Sleighing icy &
then on high gradings. Cold.
8. We loaded some chaff in morn; Noah hauled same to Sol. Reist AM. We
loaded a load straw & hauled it to father PM.
9. SUNDAY: We at Daniel Gingrichs, Bro.-in-law for dinner. Amos Bearinger’s
here for supper.
10.We at Elmira fair. I took wife up to her parents PM.
11.We at Amos Bearinger’s Wedding all day.
12.We butchered a cow, --Father & M. Weber helped a little.
13.N. L. Martin, my parents, wife’s parents, & wife’s sister Mary Ann helped, Eli
here too, butchered 3 hogs.
14.I helped to butcher at M. Weber all day. Wife’s sister Mary Ann here yet, to
paint (grain) corner cupboard. Cold.
15.I in Elmira AM. I took Mary Ann home & cow hide, to Hawksville, 71# @ 15c.
PM, Roads practically for wheels.
16.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Stormy.
17.We chored about. I took cream down to parents. Cold & Stormy.
18.I worked at my lounch, by father, he helped a little. Stormy.
19.I helped to butcher at Ivan Martin all day. Weather milder.
20.Wife & I down by parents. I & father put surface cover on lounch.
21.Noah & I chopped grain, etc. Fine rain, then very Spring like.
22.I in Elmira & fetched lounch home, etc. Sleighing gone.
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23.SUNDAY: Noah & I at W Woolwich Meeting. 2 boys here for dinner, Samuel
F. Bowman’s here for supper.
24.I fetched dehorner, then we dehorned & 9 head of cattle. I at funeral of Mary
Snider, widow of late Hy. Snider, aged 82 yrs., burried at W. Woolwich. David
Bauman’s here for supper. Warm.
25.I fetched (Sold) flour $4 per cwt., 100# chopped corn, 2300# middlings from
St. Jacobs mill. Soldiers marched from Waterloo to Elmira today. Nice
weather. I fetched 2 bags corn at 82 c @ bu. from Elmira. Father’s health not
better past while. Mother has inflamation of the bladder.
26.Noah & I sifted corn meal from corn chopp; cleaned wheat; unloaded
middlings. Practically no freezing past nights.
27.We cleaned goosewheat, etc. Rainy AM. Mild.
28.Cleaned barely & oats mixture, also some peas.
29.I in Elmira. Helped J. Cressman dehorn cattle. Cold.
30.SUNDAY: We at Hy. Brubacher’s for dinner. Sam Brubacher’s boys here for
supper. Light rain.
31.We cleaned peas. I & family by her parents over noon; --then Dan & I at
Enoch M. Bauman’s sale near Wallenstein.
FEBRUARY 1916
1. We cleaned barely AM. J. Cressman brought Anninias Bauman, lately of
Iowa, to here for a call.
2. I took to Elmira 18 hens, wt. 91# @ 12 c, 495# peas @ $1.65 per bu., 249#
Goosewheat at $1.15 per bu. AM. I fetched mill feed from St. Jacobs.
3. I took wife to Dentist AM. I up by Enoch Burkhard to buy 2 sows PM. Cold &
stormy.
4. We did the chores, etc. Noah in Elmira PM.
5. I in Elmira. I & Geo. in his bush to pick out firewood trees for me.
6. SUNDAY: Aaron W. Weber’s and Isaiah Weber here for supper.
7. Noah & I in Elmira, took out 43 hens, 29# @ 12c. Wife’s mother here to help
boil soap. Stormy.
8. Wife’s mother here to help boil soap, I took her home after dinner, then I was
in Elmira. Sleighing by night time.
9. I fetched 2 young sows at $22.00 each from Enoch Burkhard. Noah took 2
bags goosewheat to I. Brubacher, Elmira, at $1.20 per bu., AM. We cut down
& in pieces 2 maple trees in Geo’s bush, PM.
10.We hauled home those 2 trees in Geo’s bush, which we cut.
11.I in Elmira & paid a call on parents. We cut short tree top.
12.We dunged out stables, AM. Sawed treetops PM.
13.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Noah away for supper.
14.I fetched 7 small pigs from Dav. Bauman for $27. AM. I took cream down to
parents. Noah cleaned cattle. Cold.
15.We chored about, sawed wood, & other small jobs.
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16.We sawed logwood short. I painted lounch legs. Milder.
17.We chored & sawed wood. Nice weather, --thawed a little.
18.I in Elmira. We worked odd jobs. Stormy. Daniel Weber, burried at Martins,
he lived about 2 miles N W from St. Jacobs.
19.We did the Sat. chores. Noah visited parents PM.
20.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Noah at WW Meeting.
21.I helped wife to wash AM., took cream down. Cold.
22.Chored. Noah at Geo. Herman’s sale, East of Elmira. I read.
23.Chored. Sawed & splitt some wood.
24.Chored. Wife’s mother here, her father also for supper. I read.
25.Chored. I in Elmira. I read books.
26.We did Sat. chores. I read books. Noah in Elmira; Stormy.
27.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Very Stormy.
28.I took cream down & fetched child’s rocking horses from Amos Weber.
29.Ephraim sick from teething; I fetched doctor in. We let grain chopped.
MARCH 1916
1. Noah at Addison Snyder’s Sale, near Floradale. I read, etc. Nice.
2. I in Elmira, Chored & read. I helped in house these days.
3. We chored & read.
4. We did the Sat. chores; Mixed hog feed; etc.
5. SUNDAY: We at home all day.
6. I helped wife to wash. Noah & I took cream down to parents. Sleet, stormy;
thunder & lightning in eve.
7. We chored & read. Wife’s mother here today. Amos Bearinger’s moved to
“Old Bearinger’s homestead”. Milder.
8. Sale at Joe Snyder. Jno. Sheidel, Deacon, burried at Martin’s, aged 84 yrs.
25 days. I read. Stormy.
9. I read. Chored. Leah B. Bauman here on a visit.
10.I took 20 doz. eggs to Elmira, etc, Leah Bauman visit here.
11.I fetched 1 ton middling, from A. S. Gingrich, Elmira and drove Leah Bauman
up to Dan Bauman’s. Chored.
12.SUNDAY: We at home all day.
13.Noah at fair. A still-born baby boy was born to us. I fetched wife’s mother in
morn. Thawed a little.
14.I & Dav. Cressman Sr. searched out burial site at W. Woolwich graveyard. I
by parents. I fetched Leah B. Bauman as hired girl from now on. Eli & I
burried dead child at above named place. Doctor called in. Cold.
15.I took C.P.R., Elmira, --5 hogs, wt 820#, & 6 hogs, wt. 990#, price 10c a lbs,
for Auman. I had another one along but it got legs broke, so we butchered it
PM. Doc. called.
16.I in Elmira; took mother-in-law home. Cold.
17.Noah sorted good mangles from bad ones. I waited on wife & child.
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18.I in Elmira & by parents AM. A. Lorch here to asses farm etc. Wives of Dan.
& Dav. Bauman & Hy. Brubacher here. Cold.
19.SUNDAY: Noah & I at WW Meeting. Wife’s sister Mary Ann here for sup.
20.I in Elmira AM. I fetched 400 four-inch tiles from Conestogo to M. Eby, to be
used as a drain for father’s house cellar. Amos Bearinger’s paid a call in
morning. Wet snowfall.
21.I fetched 400 four-inch tiles from Conestogo re father’s house-cellar drain AM.
I at B. Rudisuela’s sale PM.
22.I helped to wash clothes AM. Prepared for chopping, etc.
23.Laced belting, etc. Noah & I at Gideon Snyder’s sale. I bought cow for
$89.00. Noah brought her home. Nice weather.
24.Peter Bowman here to exchange barely chopp for mixed seed grain. We
cleaned mixed grain for Dav. Bauman, etc.
25.I in Elmira fetched 5 gal. Gasoline @ 33c. We chopped grain. Eli up at same
time while we chopped. Mild. Levi Cress Burried at St. Jacobs, aged 79 yrs,
28 days.
26.SUNDAY: Josiah Cressman’s & Noah Bearinger & Ezra Weber here for
dinner. Aaron B. Martin’s child burried at NW.
27.I fetched ½ ton corn @ 82c per bu. We chopped grain awhile PM. Very mild,
rain, high water. Roads bad. Hy. Brubacher’s (son-in-law of Hy. Weber) child
got burried.
28.Noah & I cut straw, etc, AM. Dav. Bauman & I at Titus Bauman’s sale, PM.
Bauman & Letson’s sash factory burned this afternoon. Sleighing now gone.
29.Noah & I filled bed straw sack. I took him down to father to work awhile there
now making harnesses. Widow of late Dan. Bowman burried at N. Woolwich,
aged 92yrs. 10 days. Snow going fast. I wrote letter to A. Rudy.
30.Wife of Sidney Weber (nee Barbara Sauder) burried in Lancaster Co., Pa. I
chored & cleaned apple trees. Warm.
31.I fetched 473# salt at 35c per cwt. from Hy. Brubacher at Elmira. Amos
Martin’s child burried at S. Peel. I chored.
APRIL 1916
1. I did Sat. chores. I up at Linwood, C.P.R. yards & fetched home 2 calves at
$6 & 11.50 each. Bad roads & weather.
2. SUNDAY: My brother Isaiah here for dinner; Jonas Bauman’s for supper.
3. I chored about, etc. Nice weather, but muddy roads.
4. I chored & cleaned trees.
5. I chored & in Elmira.
6. I chored AM., at sale by West Montrose, --bought & fetched desk $3.35 (?)
7. I chored and cleaned some at desk I brought yesterday.
8. I did Sat. chores, AM.; In Elmira PM.
9. SUNDAY: We at home all day. Nice weather.
10.I at fair. Fixed desk. Noah back from father. Nice weather.
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11.I had team out to draw water for others to wash out WW Meeting house, --
hired girl helped to wash. We made shingle stool.
12.Scrubbed & washed my desk, did the women folks. I took to C.P.R. Elmira,
for Auman 4 hogs, wt. 690#, price 10.75. Then we washed harnesses, I took
some of harness to father to get mend.
13.We oiled harnesses. I cleaned apple trees, etc., PM.
14.I prepared for & sett end batch clucks. I at sale of late Daniel Bowman’s
household effects. Noah worked on harness.
15.I cleaned trees AM & Noah PM. I at sale of late Levi Cress household effects,
St. Jacobs. I bought some articles. Some soft rain.
16.SUNDAY: Noah & hired girl at WW Meeting. Dan Bauman’s & Isaac (bro. to
hired girl) here for dinner. Israel Shantz’s, & Jacob, son of Enos Martin, here
for supper. Thunder & rain in evening.
17.I helped to build a temporary roof, etc, at Bauman & Letson’s new building
site, Elmira, PM. We cleaned appletrees.
18.We cleaned apple trees, etc., Wife & I took child to Dr. Heist, Elmira; Paid my
mother a call. Windy.
19.I helped to shingle on a new roof on house of Peter Bowman, 1 dy. Noah
chored & cleaned appletrees. Nice Weather.
20.I fixed cellar stairs, cleaned apple trees, etc. Some rain. New Post Office, in
Elmira, rings out the hours these days.
21.GOOD FRIDAY: We all at WW Meeting AM. Jesse & Mary Ann Bauman
(wife’s brethren) & Hannah Martin here for supper. Rain in eve.
22.We chored about. I worked on silo bolts, repaired corner chisel.
23.EASTER SUNDAY: We at Amos Bearinger’s for dinner. Noah & Leah at S.
Peel.
24.“ MONDAY: I wrote into this Diary. Wife & hired girl at Dan. Bauman’s
quilting.
25.Women folks down by Israel Bauman’s doing housecleaning. Father here.
We repaired corner chisel, step ladder, horse eveners, etc.
26.We finished up cleaning apple trees.
27.We sawed & cut apple tree branches. I in Elmira.
28.I hauled 3 loads of gravel from I Bearinger’s pit to Bauman & Letson’s new
planning mills. Land drying off.
29.I hauled 2 loads of gravel from I. Bearinger’s pit to Bauman & Letson’s new
planning mills AM. I helped to shingle on Peter Bowmans house roof. PM.
Noah chored.
30.SUNDAY: We at N. Woolwich Meeting AM., at Seth B. Martin’s for dinner, at
Aaron B. Martin’s for supper. Nice day.
MAY 1916
1. I worked on chicken pens, fetched pole from Geo’s bush & prepared same for
a cultivator tongue. Rain towards eve.
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2. We chopped grain. Wife & I with child by Dr. Heist, by my parents for sup.
3. We prepared chicken pen & repaired hog pen. Some rain.
4. Wife & I had Ephraim in Berlin by Dr. Hagmier’s in X-ray machine.
5. I in Elmira & chored about. Noah plowed sod a little then drawed apple tree
brushes on a pile.
6. I took a “thin” steer to C.P.R. Elmira for Auman Wt 470# for $30.00. Got seed
corn from D. Hoffman. We drawed brushes out of orchard. I dunged stables.
Light rain PM.
7. SUNDAY: Noah & hired girl at Eli S. Martin’s for dinner, at N. Martin’s for
supper. I called on Hy. Brubacher’s to inquire after sick girl. Wife’s parents
here for supper. Nice day.
8. Rain & thunder in morn. We burned brush pile. Plowed sod. I in Elmira PM.
High Winds.
9. We teamed rails & stakes along rail fences AM. Windy. We repaired rail
fences PM. I took wife & child to Dr. Heist.
10. We repaired rail fences. Chopped grain till chopper broke.
11. We repaired rail fences nearly all day.
12. We picked stones from & rolled grassfield AM. Noah ganged in furrows. I
worked small jobs & in Elmira.
13.I cultivated nearly all day, sowed peas a little. Nice Weather.
14.SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting AM. John M. Bauman’s here for dinner,
Isaac Martin Sr. here for supper. Rain PM & tonight.
15.I took chopper to Elmira Foundry to get repaired, then fetched a calf for $7
from Levi Horst. Noah put up fence south of orchard. Aaron Hoffman’s
child’s funeral at Conestogo, age 27 mon.
16.Noah & I drawed out 4 loads manure & spread same on grassfield. We also
cleaned seed oats, Rainy, PM. I & women folks put finish paint on my desk &
on cradle. Wife & child by Dr. Heist.
17.Hired girl & I helped preparing for funeral at Peter Bowman’s. We fixed up
fences when I came back.
18.Wife & I at funeral, at house, at Peter Bowman’s, --I drove the coffin carriage;
aged 1 yr., 1 mon., 27 dys. Noah & Leah at Meeting House.
19.We hauled out 8 l’ds manure on grassfield & for proposed goosewheat.
Rainy PM. Wife by my parents, --I fetched her in eve. Father getting weaker
& has now Ericyplyes on forehead, --his right eye swollen in.
20.We hauled out 3 loads manure & spread. Noah cultivated PM. I got 17 bags
grain chopped & did other odd jobs.
21.SUNDAY: We at Dan M. Bauman’s for dinner, at David B. Bauman’s for
supper. Hired girl at M. M. Weber’s for dinner. Nice weather.
22.We sowed & harrowed about 3 acres goosewheat, & sowed about 3 acres
oats. Rain after dinner. I in Elmira & by parents, PM.
23.I got 2 of my teeth filled in Elmira AM. We patched up rail fences.
24.I took 8 hogs to C.P.R., Wt. 1400#, price $10.50 for Wm. Auman. Noah
cultivated hoe crop field. I treated oats for smut, etc. Nice.
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25.We harrowed proposed hoeing field, sowed oats & harrowed. Nice.
26.Cultivated & sowed oats. Nice Warm weather.
27.Wife & child & I by my parents greater part of day. Rain in Morn.
28.SUNDAY: We down by parents nearly all day. Nice weather.
29.I took wife down to my parents, --she helped to wash. Noah plowed. I fixed
fence, took a load chopping to Elmira. Rain in eve & night. Wet as ever.
30.Noah helped C. Esch to drive cattle along with mine up to his pasture. Wife &
I had Ephraim by Dr. Heist D. O.; I did odd jobs.
31.Martin Bauman’s child’s funeral at Martin. I destroyed tent caterpillar’s by
soaking their nests with coil oil. We fixed fences, etc.
JUNE 1916
1. ASCENSION DAY: I at NW Meeting AM. I tilled some of hoe land. Wife &
child & hired girl called on Eli H. Bauman’s. Amanda Bowman died, --dau. of
Henry by Floradale. Nice weather. Father weaker. Brubacher’s child still
low. Dan Gingrich filled up in face, otherwise as the last while.
2. I tilled mangle patch & also sowed about 1 acre B. & Oats. Rain towards
evening. We loaded some hay intended for father’s horse.
3. I at M. Oswald’s sale, Elmira, bought leaf table, also took hay to father. Jno.
M. Bauman’s waited on parents latter part of week.
4. SUNDAY: We by parents nearly all day. Noah & Leah at Martin’s Corners.
Raining in the evening. Isaiah waited on father tonight.
5. Noah fetched chopper from Foundry. I waited on dad PM & tonight.
6. Wife helped to wash by parents nearly all day. I helped there AM. I sowed B.
& Oats PM. I waited on father over night.
7. I sowed B. & Oats & harrowed AM. & a little after noon till rain came; I went to
father in afternoon & stayed over night.
8. I by father AM, --he had a severe spell of pain. Dad summoned for doctor.
Jno. Bauman’s on duty again by parents. I fetched a morris chair from Dan
Gingrich’s Sr. for father to sit in when he so wishes to, PM.
9. I in S. Peel Meeting, --Mose Horning & Frank Horst officiated, they being both
from Lancaster Co. Pa. Rain & thunder at noon. I to Parents in afternoon.
10.I fetched “beef Ring” beef in morn, then today & night by parents.
11.SUNDAY: I waited on father all day (he had exceeding pain). Rain in
afternoon. Isaiah waited on father tonight.
12.I offered young pigs for sale at Market place AM. I by dad PM. Dan Gingrich
(bro.-in-law) waited on my father tonight, I there too. Rain PM.
13.I waited on father nearly all AM & tonight. Helped to plant potatoes.
14.I waited on father today, --N. L. Martin tonight, I there too. Widow of late
preacher Peter Martin burried at W. Woolwich, aged 93 yrs., 6 mons. Rain in
afternoon.
15.I waited on father nearly all day. Isaiah came too in afternoon there for the
night. Preacher F. Horst & Bishop M. Horning & wife, David Horning & Jonas
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Martin’s who drove these people of Pa. paid a call on my parents in afternoon;
at same time a storm raged outside consisting of heavy rain, thunder &
lightning, --also a cyclone showed up coming from South of Elmira visited
East part of Elmira & played havoc on buildings & trees.
16.I sowed grass seed & worked other small jobs. Noah & wife in Elmira.
17.We took 7 head of cattle to C.P.R. for Auman, Wt 6150# @ 8 ½ c. Eli S.
Martin from yesterday noon till today noon waited on father. I by father PM. &
night. Jonas Martin there too over night. Rain PM.
18.SUNDAY: I by father all day & night. Dan Gingrich there to wait tonight.
Women folks awhile at Hy. Brubacher’s. Some rain today.
19.I waited on father all day. Jno. M. Bauman’s came to parents PM. Reuben
M. Bauman there too over night. Father vomited about 1 cup blood, also
some yesterday.
20.We all at funeral of Hy. Brubacher’s child, Lydia Ann, aged 11 yrs., 2 mons.,
burried at W. Woolwich, all others at Hy’s over noon. I sowed about 1 acre
mixed grain yet, tilled land & sowed same in corn & mangle seed. I & Geo. B.
waited on dad. (Jno’s there too).
21.Noah tilled up turnip patch. I walked through wheat, etc. We sowed turnips &
mangles. Is. Brubacher & I by dad over night. Jno. Bauman’s helped during
day time. No Rain.
22.I by father all day & night. Brother Isaiah there too over night. Noah worked
up another patch for turnips. No Rain.
23.I by father AM., Eli S. Martin PM & night. He ate his last spoonful of
nourishment (beef juice) today. Noah & I cut awhile thistles, Noah took a load
silo outfit to Elias Martin Sr. PM.
24.We cleaned silo rings etc., AM. Noah took silo rings to Elias Martin Sr. I by
dad PM & night; Jonas Martin also tonight.
25.SUNDAY: I by father all day & night. Dan Gingrich’s & Isaiah also tonight.
26.I by father all day & tonight. Reub. & Jno’s there too over night, --the latter
there also during daytime.
27.Father died this morn at about 5.10 oclock AM. I helped to prepare for the
change about the house all day. Eli Martin helped about all day too. Dan.
Gingrich’s there over night.
28.I was summoned to Elias Martin Sr. to inspect silo building operations
engaged there, then to my mother to help there.
29.We all at funeral of my father, aged 56 yrs., 3 mons, 9 dys. Burried at W.
Woolwich.
30.I helped to build 6th
& 7th
ring concrete silo at Elias Martin Sr.
JULY 1916
1. I helped to build 8 & 9 ring silo at Elias Martin Sr. Warm weather. Noah
sowed some oats & a little corn mixed under for pasture.
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2. SUNDAY: We at home all day. Ephraim sick all past week. Noah & Leah
away.
3. I build 10 & 11 ring silo at E. Martin Sr. Noah rolled land etc.
4. I at E. Martin Sr. erected 12 ring silo & prepared for plastering. Noah
performed statue labor by hauling 5 loads gravel.
5. I plastered silo at Elias Martin Sr. Noah performed statue labor.
6. I build 1 & 2 ring concrete silo at Oliver D. Snyder.
7. I build 3 & 4 ring silo at O. D. Snyder.
8. I build 5 & 6 ring silo at O. D. Snyder. Sol. Lichty’s child’s funeral at W.
Woolwich today.
9. SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting AM. Dan Gingrich’s (sister) Eli Horst’s,
Samuel Bowman’s Jr. here for dinner. Some young folks also here for dinner.
I at PM Meeting.
10.Mary & Ada Martin of Akron, Pa., here last night & today. I build 7 & 8 ring
silo at O. D. Snyder. Noah & Leah cut thistles.
11.Noah mowed grass. N. L. Martin & I made an inventory & prepared same &
will for to be put on record in registry office. Noah & I are appointed executor
for my father.
12.Noah mowed grass in morn while I prepared for hauling in hay. We hauled in
5 loads of hay.
13.Noah mowed grass with mower & I with scythe. Hauled in 5 ¼ l’ds hay.
14.Noah & I mowed grass in morn. We hauled in 5 ¼ l’ds hay. We all at funeral
of Menno Frey’s wife (nee Leah Martin) aged 32 yrs, 8 mon, & 6 days at W.
Woolwich.
15.We hauled in 3 ½ loads of hay here & I down to mother. Wife went to her
parents. Hauled away in all 20 l’ds hay. Hot weather all wk.
16.SUNDAY: We at Sol. Bowman’s for dinner, at Simon Martin’s for supper.
Bishop Jonas Martin Sensenig’s funeral in Pa. Noah & Leah away.
17.Fetched in l’d summer wood. N. L. Martin & I by H.W. Zillax re executor’s
affairs. I took waggon to D. Hollinger to get retired. We cut thistles.
18.Noah scuffled hoe crop. I made fences more piggy proof, etc. We cut thistles
PM. I fetched waggon from Hollinger’s. Hot.
19.Noah & I cleaned mangles & turnips all day. Hot weather.
20.I cut grass with team & mower in Elmira Exhibition Grounds 1 dy. Noah
mowed weeds in fence corners. Seth Bauman’s funeral, aged 64 yrs, 7
months, at Martin’s.
21.Noah & I hauled a l’d hay from Exhibition Grounds to Moeser’s barn Elmira
AM. I by Ivan Martin to help put away hay; --after supper I went home &
fetched team & waggon & took a load hay home from Ivan.
22.We hauled hay out of Exhibition Grounds to town barns. Whole wk. without
rain in this vinicity, but had some up North. Hired girl helped to work by
mother.
23.SUNDAY: Reub. Bauman’s young folks here for dinner. We by my mother
for supper. I paid a call at Ed. Spaeth PM.
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24.I helped to haul hay out of Exhibition Grounds to town barns AM. I helped to
put hay away at Eli M. Martin PM.
25.I helped to put away hay at Eli M. Martin ¾ dy. Noah cleaned turnips. Mary
Bauman, dau. of Elias, of Pa., here for a call.
26.I build 9 & 10 ring silo at O. D. Snyder. Noah & my wife (& child) up to Dan
Bauman cleaning turnips.
27.I build 11 & 12 ring silo at O.D. Snyder. Noah & my wife (& child) up to Dan
Bauman cleaning turnips.
28.I build 13 & 14 ring silo at O.D. Snyder. Noah in town, chopped awhile & cut
wheat.
29.Lowered silo rings & plastered silo at O.D. Snyder. Noah cleaned cistern &
shocked wheat. Hired girl helped my mother. Hot wk.
30.SUNDAY: We at Martin’s Meeting AM., at Joshua Rudy’s for dinner, at Alvin
Weber’s for supper.
31.I got things ready for the move of silo outfit to Elias Martin Jr., AM: I set outfit,
filled 1st
ring at E. Martin Jr., PM.
AUGUST 1916
1. I helped to build 2,3 & 4 ring silo at E. Martin Jr. Noah fetched mill feed from
St. Jacobs Mills. Wife had child by Dr. Heist.
2. Funeral of Peter Martin, aged 71 yrs, less 7 days, at N. Woolwich. I build 5 &
6 ring silo at E. Martin Jr. Noah & hired girl fetched in 3 l’ds wheat. Great fire
in N. Ontario’s forests.
3. Aaron Weber Sr. burried at W. Woolwich. I build 7 & 8 ring silo at E. Martin
Jr. AM., I in Elmira & worked small jobs PM. Noah pulled w. oats.
4. I build 9 & 10 ring silo at E. Martin Jr. Noah chopped grain & pulled w. oats.
5. I helped to build 11 & 12 ring silo at E. Martin Jr. Naoh in Elmira & pulled wild
oats. A few rain drops in morn, --yet very dry.
6. SUNDAY: We at W Woolwich Meeting AM. Hired girl to S. Peel Meeting PM.
7. I build 13, & 14 ring silo at E. Martin Jr. Noah cleaned turnips.
8. I plastered silo at E. Martin Jr. Women folks at D. Bauman’s quilting. Noah
blistered “Dick” for sidebone. Light rain last night.
9. I helped to cement a little & prepared mixing outfit for the move at E.M., AM
Prepared for & cemented some part of foundation for a concrete bridge in Hy.
Horst’s lane, PM.
10.I made bridge cribbing, etc at Hy. Horst 1 dy. Noah cut barely.
11.N.L. Martin & I secured probate of father’s will & excuted some of the
executor’s duties AM. I helped at Hy. Horst’s bridge PM. Noah shocked
barely. Wife hoed mangles & corn.
12.We set silo outfit & build 1 & 2 ring silo at Emil Snyder near Heidelberg. Noah
fetched “Beefring” beef, hoed corn, blistered “BiAy”.
13.SUNDAY: We at Edward Spaeth’s for supper. Noah & Leah at Conestogo
Meeting.
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14.I helped to build 3 & 4 ring silo at E. Snyder. Noah hoed turnips.
15.I helped to build 5 & 6 ring silo at E. S., AM. Ezra Weber’s barn, of near
Winterbourne burned, fire mysterious originated. Noah & I chopped grain &
hauled in barely. Cool last days.
16.I helped to build 7 & 8 ring silo at E. Snyder. Noah scuffled hoe crop AM.,
Pulled peas PM.
17.I helped to build 9 & 10 ring silo at E. Snyder. Noah hauled in peas.
18.Noah & I bindered & shocked oats, & goosewheat.
19.I helped to build 11 & 12 ring silo at E. Snyder. Geo. Fries funeral.
20.SUNDAY: David Bauman’s & family here for dinner. Paul M. Martin’s barn
burned from curious origination.
21.I helped to build 13th
ring silo at Emil Snyder, also let down rings & prepared
for applying cement cream. Noah at Geo. ¼ dy. thrashing.
22.Let down ring, white washed inside of silo with a cement cream at Emil
Snyder. Emil hauled 1 l’d of outfit to Ab. Gingrich. Noah bindered 2 acres
mixture. Dark clouds, little rain, cooled off.
23.I hauled 7 hogs, Wt. 1150, at $11.75 to C.P.R. for Auman, then I bindered
mixed grain. Finished bindering. Cool.
24.We hauled in Goosewheat, also oats, wife helped. I fetched 1 l’d of silo outfit
from E. Snyder after supper. Some rain.
25.Noah & I hauled silo outfit load to Ab. Gingrich in morn. We set outfit & filled
1 & 2 rings silo. Noah scuffed corn.
26.I helped put in 3 & 4 & 5 ring silo at Ab. Gingrich. Noah & wife hauled in 4
loads grain; Eli helped on 1 load.
27.SUNDAY: Enoch Bauman’s child’s funeral at Martins’, PM. We with Dav.
Bauman’s & Hy. Brubacher’s at Hy. B. Martin’s for dinner, at Jno. S. Frey’s for
supper. Isaiah here for supper.
28.I helped to build 6 & 7 ring silo at Ab. Gingrich. Noah & I hauled out & spread
7 loads manure PM. Noah plowed sod.
29.Noah & I hauled 7 l’ds manure AM. I helped put in 8 & 9 ring silo at Ab.
Gingrich PM. Noah hauled out 4 l’ds manure.
30.I helped to build 10 & 11 ring silo at Ab. Gingrich AM. Noah plowed sod.
31.I helped to build 12 ring silo at Ab. Gingrich AM. Noah plowed sod AM. We
hauled in 3 large loads of grain PM.
SEPTEMBER 1916
1. The name of Berlin Ont. officially tranferred to Kitchener. I plastered silo at
Ab. Gingrich. Noah fetched Middlings from Klincks 1100# @ $32 per ton,
then plowed sod; Cool tonight.
2. I helped to build 1, 2 & 3 rings silo at Louis Brox.
3. SUNDAY: We al at WW Meeting AM. Young folks here for supper. Frost last
night, some corn damaged.
4. I helped to build 4 & 5 ring silo at L. Brox. Noah plowed sod.
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5. I helped to build 6 & 7 ring silo at L. Brox. Noah fetched Middlings.
6. I helped to build 8 & 9 ring silo at L. Brox. Noah hauled 1400# Middlings from
Klinck’s also 100 bu. oats @ 58 c per bu., to here.
7. HARVEST MEETING: We all at WW Harvest Meeting AM. We a while by
wifes parents. Noah fetched 54 bu. oats from Klinck & plowed sod awhile.
8. I plastered silo at Louis Brox. Noah raked stubbles & hauled in wood.
9. We raked stubles & hauled in rakings & more wood. Fetched a load manure
from Mother. Wife’s parents here for supper.
10.SUNDAY: We at Conestogo Meeting, at Manassa Martin’s for dinner.
11.We fetched a l’d manure from mother, at Elmira Fair, AM. Noah helped to
thrash at F. J. Weigel about 4 hrs. PM. I attended a tiling meeting by Mose
Eby, and examined my ditch.
12.Noah & I re-opened ditch in Geo’s & J. Ernst’s bush. I & wife took (our hired
girl) Leah Bauman to G. T. Station to give her a send off together with wife’s
parents on their departure for Pa. I at Manassa Bauman’s house where a
funeral proceeded there from to Martins’ for burial, --It was the widow of late
Isaac Sitler, aged 67 yrs. 8 mons, 27 dys. We at Amos Bearinger’s for
supper.
13.Noah helped to thrash at Hy. Brubacher AM. I worked on ditch nearly all day,
Noah PM.
14.I helped to make tile ditch by D. Hoffer & M. Eby all day. Rain in eve.
15.I made tile ditch put in tiles & covered said up again across highway said
being for a better outlet for mother’s cellar toll. ¾ day; Isaiah helped ½ dy. I
examined & bought pigs from A. Martin.
16.I & Noah cleaned ditch in our bush. I prepared for & laid tiles by M. Eby ½
dy., PM. Cool these days & night.
17.SUNDAY: We at S. Peel Meeting AM., at Martin Frey’s Jr. for dinner, at
Anson Martins for supper.
18.I fetched 6 pigs for me & 2 for Noah from Aaron Martin @ $2 each. We
worked awhile on ditch, AM. I helped L. Brox to move silo outfit & fetched 25
cement tiles from Hy. Shantz to be used by M. Eby. Noah helped to thrash at
Sol. Reist ½ day, PM.
19.Frost last night-got corn. I laid tiles for M. Eby nearly all day. Noah helped to
thrash at J. Ernst 4 hrs. & worked on ditch.
20.Noah & I cut clover with mower & platform attachment for the 2nd
man to shuff
heaps there from on rows, we cut this proposed seed clover on J. Ernst’s
land, nearly all day. Nice.
21.Noah, I, O. Esch & Amos Bearinger build 1 & 2 ring silo at Hy. Stadelbauer.
Rain between 11 & 12 o’clock.
22.O. Esch, A. Bearinger & I build 3, 4 & 5 ring silo at Hy. Stadelbaum.
23.O. Esch, A. Bearinger & I build 6 & 7 ring silo at Hy. Stadelbauer.
24.SUNDAY: We all at home. Nobody here.
25.O. Esch, A. Bearinger & I build 8 & 9 ring silo at Hy. Stadelbauer.
26.O. Esch, Noah & I build 10 & 11 ring silo at Hy. Stadelbauer.
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27.O. Esch, Noah & I build 12 & 13 ring silo at Hy. Stadelbauer. Rigged up
mixing outfit & moved same home in eve. Rain in eve.
28.I fetched separator from J. Ernst to here AM., took wife to mother, then
fetched flour & feed from Conestogo Mills. Rain.
29.Noah & I lowered silo rings & applied cement cream on silo at Hy. S.
30.I finished up silo at Hy. Stadelbauer ¾ dy. Noah plowed. Magnificient
Northern Lights this evening. Nice weather.
OCTOBER 1916
1. Sunday: We all at WW Meeting.
2. We scrapered out ditch, part in chob & part in field.
3. I fetched gasoline 1 Bbl @ 30c per gal. Set machines. We fetched a load
clover from J. Ernst & thrashed it, fetched 1 l’d more.
4. We thrashed clover several times over; fetched more in evening.
5. We finished thrashing clover AM. Cleaned clover & set separator PM.
prepared for thrashing grain.
6. We and neighbours thrashed here ¾ dy’s grain.
7. We scrapered with team at ditch AM., Noah plowed, I in Elmira & Floradale.
8. SUNDAY: We and my mother visited Eli H. Bauman’s over dinner; we at
Solomon Reist’s for supper.
9. Noah & I hauled out 12 loads manure, etc. Rain in morn.
10.Noah & I hauled out 11 loads manure. I took Wife & Ephraim to Dr. Heist. I
brought J. Ernst’s share of clover which we thrashed.
11.We hauled out 12 l’ds manure. I made out mangles while Noah unloaded.
12.We hauled out 14 l’ds manure. I made out mangles while Noah unloaded.
We hauled in also a load of corn on shocks.
13.I helped to thrash at Menno Weber ¾ day, & gathered in some apples. Noah
plowed; unloaded corn & chopped a little. Cold & a little rainy.
14.I fetched beef in morn, apples in from orchard & spread manure. Noah
plowed.
15.SUNDAY: I paid a call on Dan G. Gingrich AM. My mother here for dinner
then she along with us paid a call on Peter Bowman’s (she’s ill)
16.I at fair, then spread manure rest of day. Noah plowed.
17.I spread manure & Noah plowed AM.; hauled out 6 l’ds manure. Sleet.
18.We hauled out 7 l’ds manure & l l’d from Mother; hauled in 1 ½ l’d mangles,
etc.
19.We dispatched a tubercular calf, skinned & burried him. Moved stove into
winter quarters. I in town. Rainy & drizzly all day.
20.Noah & I plowed nearly all day. Rain over noon. Dreary.
21.Noah & I plowed all day with 2 teams. Ground is now more moist.
22.SUNDAY: We at Dan Bauman’s for dinner and super. Nice.
23.We plowed all day. Beautiful day.
24.We plowed all day. Dreary.
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25.We plowed all day. A little rain.
26.We plowed all day. Colder.
27.I to Floradale to buy applebutter, but obtained nothing. Noah plowed awhile
in morn, --Noah & I to Elmira AM. We plowed PM.
28.I fetched 2423# Middlings from St. Jacobs’ Mills, paid Edward Spaeth’s a call
AM. I fetched 15 bags potatoes from Klinck @ $1.40 per bag. I bought
haystack from Jno. S. Frey.
29.SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting. Solomon B. Martin’s here for dinner, Lydia
Bennerman & Lydia Shirk both of Pa. here with Jesse & Mary Ann Bauman &
Elias Martin, for a call PM. Thomas Risser and Freeman Rittenhauser took
part a Meeting services.
30.Noah & I plowed all day.
31.Noah plowed nearly all day. I patched roofs on buildings & finished up ditch
we recently cleaned out. I in Elmira in eve.
NOVEMBER 1916
1. I cleaned out stables, etc. & cleaned wheat. Noah plowed.
2. Noah plowed nearly all day. We chopped grain ¼ dy. I plowed etc. Thunder
& lightning and a little rain in eve at 6 o’clock.
3. I plowed & topped turnips turn about AM. Noah also plowed AM. Noah & I
prepared for & hauled in 2 l’ds turnips PM. Frost in morn.
4. I cleaned out stables & topped turnips. Noah plowed all day. Dreary.
5. SUNDAY: We at Amos B. Martin’s for dinner.
6. Noah plowed AM. I made out turnips, etc. AM. We hauled in 3 ½ l’ds turnips
PM.
7. Noah plowed, I got “Roy” shod & made out turnips AM. Noah & I hauled in 2
½ l’ds turnips PM.
8. Funeral of Dan Ernst’s wife PM. I took 25 bu. wheat, test 63, price $1.75, for
Klinck to Wallenstein. I worked at Irvin Martin, patch work in front of stable
PM. Noah plowed.
9. Rainy & drizzly nearly all day. David Cressman Sr. brought Martin Ramer’s to
here for over dinner, --the former also stayed for dinner, --the latter I visited
when enroute through Ind. I took Ramer’s to preacher Dav. Martin for a call,
to deacon David Martin for supper, to Dan Hoffman’s overnight.
10.I worked on front of stable by Irvin Martin nearly all day. I paid a call on wife
of Simeon Snyder of Alta., at M. Good’s. Noah plowed.
11.I completed job, by Irvin Martin; I in Elmira. Noah plowed.
12.SUNDAY: We at N Woolwich Meeting AM., at Noah Weber’s for dinner.
13.Noah plowed. I at fair, took 1 ¼ ton Bran along home at $30 @ ton from A S.
Gingrich. C. Esch & I fetched our pasture cattle.
14.I helped to thrash at Dav. Cressman all day. Noah plowed.
15.I helped to thrash at D. Cressman awhile in morn. then about ¾ dy at Chr.
Esch. Noah dunged stables.
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16.We hauled out 7 l’ds manure with sleigh AM. Noah plowed under the above
mentioned manure on sod. I in Elmira.
17.Eli gone to Hospital for a rest cure. Noah plowed sod. I did small jobs & in
Elmira.
18.Noah hostler at David M. Martin’s for Eli H. Bauman’s funeral. We, mother &
Amanda Eby attended funeral of above, at house and Meeting house at W.
Woolwich, aged 87 yrs, 1 mon., 24 dys.
19.SUNDAY: We at S. Peel Meeting, at Elias W. Martin’s for dinner, at Enos
Gingrich’s for supper. Nice weather.
20.Funeral of Joe Shoemaker’s wife at N. Woolwich. We sawed wood in our
bush AM. I helped to thrash at Eli S. Martin PM.
21.Martin Good’s funeral at Martins’. I ditched at Geo. M. B., AM; helped to
thrash at D. Hoffer PM. Noah got grain chopped.
22.Hy. Steckley’s child’s funeral in Haye. I ditched at Geo. AM; helped to thrash
at D. Hoffer PM. Noah chored about.
23.Noah & I helped to thrash at D. Hoffer ¼ dy each; Chored about PM. Mother
here today and yesterday. Drizzly rain.
24.George Koenig, Elmira, burried. I took mother home. Noah fetched cement, -
-we made concrete edge at shed pavement.
25.We made concrete edge at shed pavement, chored. Snow storm.
26.SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting AM. No visitors, Noah away.
27.I made “baby proof” self locks on sink & cupboard doors.
28.We repaired soft-water pump, put double windows on house.
29.I helped to thrash at Sol. Reist all day. Noah & mother at B. & W. Hospital
visited Eli. Soft weather prevails the last days.
30.Noah helped to thrash at Sol. Reist all day. I at Dan Gingrich’s Sr. Sale,
Winfield; took mother up to Lydia. Colder.
DECEMBER 1916
1. I on buisness in Elmira AM., helped Geo. put in tiles PM. I paid by taxes also
settled for mother’s.
2. I let grain chopped & brought home 1 ½ ton Bran. Noah Hostler at D. Hoffer.
I attended funeral of D. Hoffer’s wife (nee Shantz) aged 50 yrs, at Elmira, PM.
Thawed some, cold at night.
3. SUNDAY: Reub. M. Bauman’s & Noah F. Martin’s here for dinner. Noah
visited Eli at B & W. Hospital. Weather milder.
4. I unloaded bran. We cleaned seed peas; & mixed grain. Cloudy.
5. Funeral of David Ernst, St. Jacobs. Noah & Orval of Guelph, I in Elmira,
bought feed, worked small jobs.
6. I took wife up to her parents & fetched her again. We cleaned seed
goosewheat, also barely. Prepared for drawing hay. Windy.
7. Noah & I hauled 2 l’ds hay from Jno. S. Frey, --1 to here & 1 to mother.
8. We unloaded hay by mother AM., fetched another l’d hay, PM.
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9. We unloaded hay here. I fetched Middlings & scorched corn from Geo. Klinck
PM. Snowstorm.
10.SUNDAY: We at David Bauman’s for dinner. Colder weather.
11.I at fair; we fetched last l’d of haystack from Jno. S. Frey PM.
12.We unloaded hay by mother AM.; I sorted potatoes PM.
13.I helped to thrash at Geo. M. B. all day till in eve when Noah took my place & I
waited on visitors at home viz: --Dan Bauman’s, & Owen Bauman’s, Mich.,
here for supper.
14.I in Berlin, also at Hospital to see Eli. Sleighing again. Stormy.
15.I helped to thrash at Geo. AM., Noah PM. Mose Gingrich’s brought Jesse
Baumans of Pa. here, all here over dinner.
16.Noah helped to thrash at Geo., AM; I fetched 40 bu. corn @ $32.00 a ton
which I had order in fall, AM. Amos Bearinger’s & wife’s sister Mary Ann here
for dinner. Noah drove Mary Ann home in eve. We dunged stables PM.
17.SUNDAY: We at Dan M. Gingrich’s (Lydia) for dinner. Noah by Eli (B & W H)
18.I paid corn bill at Klinck’s AM. Etc. PM.
19.We helped (wife & I) to butcher all day by Dan Bauman.
20.I in Elmira AM. I with A. Bearinger per R. R. * 3, PM.
21.I took summer sauage @ 35c per lbs. to Ruppel & Co. & lard to Mrs. D.
Martin.
22.I fetched bag seed potatoes from A. Bearinger, AM. I paid Ed. Spaeth a call,
also Va. Hahn Heidelberg re silo erecting.
23.I visited Josiah Schmidt re silo erecting AM.; I visited Dan G. Gingrich; &
Amos Weber at Aaron W. Weber’s, --whose wounds are about healed up
after an operation performed on head re palsy at Guelph Hospital.
24.SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting, AM., David Brubacher’s here with Elias
Gingrich’s & family of Pa., Amos Brubacher’s, Levi Weber’s & Hy. Bauman’s
all for dinner; Ab. Bearinger’s for supper.
25.CHRISTMAS: We all at WW Meeting. Isaiah & Jesse Bauman with their
intenandts-to-be here for dinner.
26.We did small jobs. I fetched 109# beef @ 10 ½ c (fore q. of cow) from Dav.
Brubacher, then cut up some. Trees got laden with ice.
27.We butchered 2 hogs; Dan Bauman’s & bro. Is. helped. Mild.
28.Did the after butchering look-afters; by Mother. Amos Rudy here for supper &
night.
29. A. Rudy here awhile in morn’ I with him by mother for dinner.
30.We chored about, etc. Wife & I by mother for supper. I by R.M.B.
31.SUNDAY: We at S. Peel Meeting, at Amzi Snyder’s for dinner, at Ezra
Bauman’s for supper. Simeon Weber’s child’s funeral at Martin.
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DIARY 1917
ANGUS S. BAUMAN
JANUARY
1. NEW YEAR’S DAY: We at NW Meeting, at Franklin Housser’s for dinner, at
Daniel B. Martin’s for supper. Josiah Schalhorn’s boy died, & burried at S.
Peel.
2. I helped to butcher at M. Weber’s all day. Noah got pig sleigh in order, etc.
3. Wife & I helped to butcher at Dav. Bauman all day. Soft weather. Noah
hauled 8 hogs, Wt. 1250# @ $11.60 per cwt, to C.P.R. Elmira for Wm.
Auman.
4. I helped to do carpentering work by Reub. Bauman ¾ day. Mild.
5. I fetched 1 ton scorched corn @ $34.00 from Klink. Rainy AM.
6. I helped to close up lintel sheds at Reub. Bauman ¾ day.
7. SUNDAY: We at NW Meeting, at Aaron M. Bauman’s for dinner, at Isaac
Gingrich’s for supper.
8. Noah & I at fair I exchanged 2 bags potatoes at Dan Bauman (so as to secure
home raised potatoes for planting purposes) and Russian seed oats I got by
Dav. Bauman.
9. I did carpentering work at Reub. Bauman ¾ day.
10.I helped to butcher at Ivan Martin all day. Wife of Jno. Snyder Alta. paid my
wife a short visit.
11.I helped butcher at N.L. Martin nearly all day, discussed over Executors
affairs in eve. I also fetched sausage casings from here to N.L. Martin &
fetched his scholar.
12.We chored about. Cold. Snow tonight.
13.I took cow, Wt. 1270# @ 6 ½ c, to C.P.R. for Wm Auman. Banker Dav. Ratz
died. I worked on my acct. books.
14.SUNDAY: We all at home. Wind drifted snow last night.
15.I worked on I.M. Bauman estate book’s AM.
16.I took wife & child to my mother to visit AM.
17.I read in a doctor book; etc.
18.We chopped grain, etc. Stormy.
19.I took 9 roosters & 15 hens out to Manassa Bauman (15c per lb.).
20.We chored about. I in Elmira PM.
21.SUNDAY: We (Noah & I) in WW Meeting AM. Ephraim teething hard.
22.I drove mail team; Elmira R. R. #3. Stormy & roads heavy.
23.I drove mail team, Elmira R. R. #3.; I drove wife to & from Dan Bauman’s.
24.I drove mail team, Elmira R. R. #3; Jonas Martin’s sale. Nice day.
25.I drove mail team, Elmira R. R. #3; Stormy & roads heavy.
26.I drove mail team, R. R. #3; I read, etc. Snow flurries.
27.I drove mail team R. R. #3; Stormy, -I wrote off from doctor book.
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28.SUNDAY: George M. Bauman’s here for dinner. Nice day.
29.I conveyed mail for Elmira R. R. #3. Damp & Rainy.
30.I took wife to my mother, “quilting”. I conveyed mail for Elmira, R. R. #3.
31.I helped to prepare for funeral at Aaron Weber’s & conveyed mail, Elmira, #3.
FEBRUARY 1917
1. Noah took wife to A. Weber’s, --I kept Ephraim company, AM. Chored, etc.,
PM.
2. Wife & I & Noah helped at Aaron W. Weber’s all day, at funeral of Daniel G.
Gingrich, aged 38 yrs., 4 mon., 11 days; Getting Stormy.
3. Snowstorm & cold all day. I paid a call at Mother. Isaiah and Jesse Bauman
back from Pa. after a visit.
4. SUNDAY: We at Dan M. Baumans, dinner & supper; wife stayed over night.
5. We took Elias Gingrich’s to Hy. Gingrich’s for dinner, then drove them to his
bro. Mose; stormy.
6. I took cream down to Mother AM. We chopped grain PM. I took about 19
hens to O. Hollinger, --94# @ 15c, in eve.
7. I, Dav. Cressman & Hy. Gingrich at Toronto, --Dav got a “surgical truss” for
his rupture, I visited Eaton & Simpson stores, also stockyards. Isaac Weber
burried at Martins (75 yrs).
8. We chored. Wife & I on buisness in St. Jacobs & Elmira; I copied items of
herb department from a doctor book.
9. I in Elmira. Chored about, etc.
10.I wrote from doctor book. Cold Week.
11.SUNDAY: Noah Horst’s here for supper. Cold & nice.
12.Noah & I at Fair. 20 below zero. I worked on books.
13.I worked on books & took wife to & from my mother’s quilting. Noah at
Balthaser Israel’s sale PM.
14.I helped to thrash at Sol. Reist ¾ day. Nice day.
15.I placed grain & chopp in order AM., worked on books PM.
16.I wrote from doctor book, I had cold. Noah in Elmira.
17.I had cold. Dan Bauman brought Sussie in afternoon.
18.SUNDAY: We all including Sussie at WW Meeting AM.
19.I helped wife AM in house; Ab. Gregory, Mich., here with Ivan Brubacher for
supper. Sleet in eve.
20.I took cream to Mother, wife along too, --at her quilting. I fetched flour at
$4.00 per cwt. from St. Jacobs.
21.I helped to butcher at Hy. Brubacher nearly all day. Hogs $13.50.
22.Wife & I in town. Dan Bauman’s here for dinner & supper. Dan & I to Hy.
Brodhecker'’ sale, N-E. of Elmira. Nice PM.
23.I took 7 doz eggs @ 50c to Elmira, & did reading. Thawed.
24.I fetched a bag of flour from St. Jacobs, etc.
25.SUNDAY: We at Amos Bearingers’ for dinner, at Jos. Cressman’s for supper.
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26.Noah & I at Carl Weber’s sale, E. of Elmira, PM. Nice & mild.
27.I & family at Sol. Martin’s childs funeral at NW aged 6 mon., 3 days. Noah & I
cut 3 trees in Geo’s bush PM.
28.We all at funeral of Manassa Martin’s child, aged 11 days, at WW. Noah & I
weighed pigs, made road to trees in Geo’s bush & cut topwood. Nice day.
Hogs worth $14.25.
MARCH 1917
1. I and family at Jesse Bauman’s wedding, at M. F. Martin’s.
2. I helped Hy. Brubacher unload salt at G.T.R. I bought some salt at 42c per
cwt, --course salt.
3. I took a “tubercular” cow to Elmira for Auman for $38. I cut maple topwood,
Noah hauled same home. Nice day.
4. SUNDAY: We at home all day. Ephraim not well. Noah away.
5. Snowstorm last night & today. I in Elmira, & did reading.
6. We hauled firewood logs from Geo’s bush to here.
7. I took wife to & from her parents, I there for supper. I bought fertilizer from
Hy. Brubacher at Elmira. Wet snow.
8. I helped to butcher at Geo. M. Bauman ¾ day.
9. We separated inferior grain from black barely. Stormy.
10.We sawed, split & piled up wood we fetched from Geo.
11.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Noah away. Slushy roads.
12.Noah & I at fair AM., Chopped grain PM. Nice.
13.Noah & I worked on firewood. Mother here today.
14.Noah & I sort seed black barely from inferior grain. Colder.
15.Sol. B. Martin’s & Judith Gingrich brought Enoch B. Martin and family of West
Can. to here for dinner. We took pump apart, I in Elmira. A little rough
weather.
16.I churned butter. I took to O. Hollinger, Elmira, 21 hens, wt. 118# @ 19c, then
fetched a load middlings from St. Jacobs.
17.I dunged hen stable, shoveled snow, etc. We piled up wood. Noah in Elmira.
Rain and later snowstorm.
18.SUNDAY: Noah at WW Meeting AM. Ivan Brubacher here for supper.
19.We hauled 12 loads manure out on proposed corn patch.
20.We hauled 2 loads manure up from mother, put same with 4 loads of ours on
grassfield.
21.We drawed 8 loads manure out.
22.We drawed 4 loads manure out. Rebecca born to us, I took mother home.
Thawing.
23.I helped about in house. We fixed hay rake, weighed pigs, dreary & rain at
noon. Bad roads. Thunder in eve.
24.I helped about in house. Noah & I opened roads. Doctor called in.
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25.SUNDAY: Amos Bearinger brought Mary Ann & took wife’s mother to his
place as they too have a boy born to them. Wife’s mother here since
Thursday. I called on doctor. Wheels out.
26.I in Elmira AM. Waited on wife, --she has childbed fever (septicemia), temp.
105, pulse 135. Doctor in.
27.I waited on wife. Doctor in. Rain in morn, snow & wind PM.
28.My mother here today. Noah & I fixed parts of waggon & mower. Doctor paid
a call.
29.Dan Bauman’s here for a call. Noah made 1 pair new horse-rocker soles, etc.
Wife’s temp. 102, pulse 115.
30.Wife low last night & this morn., temp about 105, pulse 150. Noah fetched
wife’s mother AM.; Doctor in, I there in eve.
31.Wife a little better. I worked about in house & in Elmira AM. Doctor called in
in eve.
APRIL 1917
1. SUNDAY: I at Doctor’s offices in morn. Ivan Martin’s, Menno Widemans &
David Baumans and Dan Bauman here for dinner. Wife worse again, doctor
in, Temp. 104. My mother here; also wife’s mother till eve.
2. I by doctor in morn; wife better again. I helped Mary Ann to wash. We
washed & patched harness. Rainy.
3. Doctor in, AM. We oiled harness. Wife’s mother boiled soap here today.
Wife practically over fever now.
4. I rigged up waggon, etc., fetched boar from Dan Bauman. I took wife’s
mother home in eve, Noah made harness together.
5. I disinfected hen’s nests & set a few clucks, I in Elmira & did other odd jobs.
Rain & snow.
6. GOOD FRI: Noah & I at WW Meeting, AM.
7. I at Noah Martin on buisness AM. I helped about in house PM. Mary Ann
had grippe.
8. EASTER SUNDAY: Nobody here. Mary Ann had grippe badly.
9. Noah & I at fair AM., at Joe Ernst’s sale PM. Wife of late Daniel Gingrich here
for dinner.
10.Noah & I by my mother nearly all day, other brothers & Dan Gingrich’s & N.L.
Martin there too, to divide property up of fathers. Nice day.
11.I sold 2 hogs to Auman, Elmira, Wt. 330 # @ 15.25. Also took 2 hogs of
Noah’s along AM. I did carpenter work at D. Cressman’s house PM.
12.I whitewashed our bedroom AM., I at D. Cressman build part of a chimney,
etc. PM. Colder in eve.
13.We hauled out 6 l’ds manure AM. Noah hauled out 2 PM. I & N.L. Martin by
mother PM., re estate work.
14.We hauled out 3 l’ds manure on grassfield, changed hogs, etc.
15.SUNDAY: Noah & Mary Ann at WW Meeting AM. F. Weigel low, ill.
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16.I at funeral of Levi W. Martin’s Urias, aged 3 mon, 15 days, at WW. I fetched
788# feed oats No. 1 at 82c, 1000# middlings for $22.50, from Elmira. We
cleaned seed oats.
17.Meeting house got washed out, I there AM. I build bal. of chimney & prepared
plaster mortor at D. Cressman PM.
18.We cut straw & filled a bed strawsack. Chopped grain. Hauled ashes out on
land, picked stones off grassfield. Warm.
19.Noah picked stones AM. I at Weigel’s preparing for funeral AM. We spread
some manure. Rain in eve. I at Weigels over night.
20.Noah spread manure & plowed sod. I worked on executor books, and in
Elmira.
21.Noah & I plowed awhile AM. Noah acted hostler at Weigel’s over noon & PM.
I drove a carriage load of mourners at funeral of Fred. Weigel, aged 48 yrs.
Funeral held at Elmira. Dan Bauman exchanged girls, brought Sussie & took
Mary Ann.
22.SUNDAY: Sussie & I at funeral of Amos Bearinger’s child, Enoch, aged 26
days, at W. Woolwich; we there over noon. Snow tonight.
23.I at Jesse Bauman to clean & plaster cistern, also worked at house water-
well. Wheat worth 2.25.
24.I plastered at kitchen at Dav. Cressman. Cool & nice.
25.I brought Dan Bauman his boar & a sow he bought of me, in morn. Then we
cultivated, sowed oats, & peas. Cold, high winds.
26.I floated plaster walls at D. Cressman’s kitchen, AM. I settled acc’ts with Geo.
Bauman & cleaned silo rings. Noah plowed sod for proposed corn patch.
Some rain & cold.
27.Noah cultivated, then sowed oats, 3 acres, harrowed it, then cultivated in the
far field. I worked on silo bolts, etc.
28.Noah cultivated AM., harrowed PM. I sowed mix. grain.
29. SUNDAY: Henry S. Brubacher’s here over dinner; Amos Bearinger’s called.
30.Noah sowed 1 acre B. Barely and mixed grain & harrowed. I helped to work
in garden, etc. Very nice weather.
MAY 1917
1. I spread manure on grassfield. Noah finished up plowing sod for corn. Rainy.
I took cream down to mother, etc.
2. I cleaned & cut dandelion roots for medical purposes, worked on books &
visited David Bauman. Snowstorm in morn. Windy.
3. Noah cultivated sod for corn patch, sowed a little grain and harrowed. I
worked small jobs. Cool.
4. Noah cultivated & sowed 7 acres oats. I treated seed grains with formalin, for
smut, etc. Land in fine shape.
5. Sprinkling rain. I in Elmira. Noah painted buggy.
6. SUNDAY: Menno Weber’s here for dinner. Noah & Sussie away.
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7. We carried straw out on raspberry patch in morn, I at fair. Noah cultivated, &
harrowed about 7 acres.
8. Noah cultivated AM., sowed oats & harrowed. I fetched fertilizer drill from Hy.
Brubacher & sowed with it 7 acres in barley, and goosewheat, some with
fertilizer.
9. Noah harrowed AM., then prepared potatoe patch. I rolled 2 fields. In eve we
planted 5 rows early potatoes.
10.We worked up mangle patch, I fetched sower from Geo. Noah ridged land & I
sowed mangles.
11.I in Elmira bought 925# oats @ 86c, finished sowing mangles. Noah rolled
mangle & oat patches. I worked in garden by my mother awhile. PM.
12.Noah & I rolled land each a while. I took heifer to C.P.R Elmira, for Auman,
Wt. 930# @ 11c and another wt 780# @ 10 ½ c AM. Wife of Hy. Brubacher
brought wife of Moses Ortwein to us for a call. Sussie & I washed my 2
buggies. Holding hard back for rain & cool.
13.SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting. Aaron M. Baumans here for dinner.
Aaron Rudy’s here for supper.
14.We drawed out 13 l’ds manure for top dressing on grain.
15.We drawed out 2 l’ds manure & spread 15 loads.
16.I hauled 10 hogs, wt. 1620 @ $16.25, to C.P.R. Elmira, for Auman,
whitewashed kitchen; Got brown team reshoed & brought 2900# nut coals
home, $9.00 per ton. Smokey air. A little warmer now.
17.ASCENSION DAY: We, Sussie & my mother at Dan Bauman’s for dinner &
supper.
18.Noah & I hauled some of silo outfit to Josiah Schmidt & cistern rings to
Joseph B. Martin & then I worked on cistern by Joseph.
19.Noah & I & team helped at Geo. M. B. drawing out manure nearly all day.
Heavy rain and thunder started at 5.30PM and worked havoc around Winfield,
--Warm with high winds before.
20.SUNDAY: We at Jesse Bauman’s for dinner, at Sam M. Bowman’s for
supper.
21.I went abroad to collect mandrake & bloodroot. Rain in eve.
22.We worked small jobs, I took Sussie to Dav. Bauman to help clean their
house. I also in town. Rainy.
23.Noah & I repaired silo scaffold, etc. I in Elmira. Rainy.
24.Noah & I worked small jobs. Wet snow in morn. I helped to remove earth for
silo at Josiah Schmidt ½ dy. PM.
25.Noah repaired mixer horse-power; I at J. Schmidt removing earth.
26.Noah took steer, wt. 680# @ 9c to C.P.R. for Auman, Elmira. I hauled a load
silo outfit to J. Schmidt, build 1 ring concrete silo.
27.SUNDAY (Whit): Noah Bearinger, Jonas Martin’s Sarah here for dinner.
Amos Bearinger’s here for supper.
28.WHIT MON: We & all my brethren at mother’s place, divided father’s clothes.
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29.I helped to build 2 & 3 ring silo at J. Schmidt. Noah prepared for & planted 8
rows potatoes.
30.Noah hauled gravel per statue labor AM & sowed corn PM. I & wife planted
potatoes, etc., AM. I helped to build 4 ring silo at J. S.
31.I helped to build 5 & 6 ring silo at J. S. Noah hauled gravel on road all day.
JUNE 1917
1. Rain in morn. I to J.S., erected scaffold & put seventh ring silo. Noah painted
my buggy. Amos Rudy here tonight on a visit.
2. I helped to build 8 & 9 ring silo at J. Schmidt.
3. SUNDAY: We paid a call on Eli H. Bauman’s widow, at Jonas Bauman’s for
supper.
4. I helped to build 10 & 11 ring silo at J. S. Noah piled up wood in bush.
5. Noah & Sussie helped at funeral of Levi Brubacher’s wife in Elmira. We at
funeral too, AM. I helped to build 12th
ring silo at J.S.
6. I helped to build 13 & 14 ring silo at J. Schmidt.
7. I plastered silo at J. Schmidt. Noah fetched hay from mother.
8. I at J. Schmidt in morn to load outfit, --moved to Val. Hahn, Heidelberg, set up
& filled 1 ring silo. Noah put cattle in Esch’s pasture.
9. I helped to build 2 & 3 ring silo at Val Hahn. Noah fetched shavings (wood).
10.SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting; Joshua Rudys & Dan Gingrich’s here for
dinner.
11.Peter G. Martin’s child burried at S. Peel. I helped at Val Hahn to build 4 & 5
ring silo. Noah tilled hoe patches.
12.I helped to build 6 & 7 ring silo at V. Hahn. Noah sowed turnips.
13.I helped to build 8 & 9 ring silo at V. Hahn. Noah drove a carriage load of
mourners at Jac. Peppler’s wife’s funeral. Rain and thunder in eve, and then
yet frost.
14.I helped to build 10 & 11 ring silo at V. Hahn. Noah scuffled mangles, etc.
15.I plastered silo at Val Hahn. Noah worked in mangle patch, etc.
16.I rigged up & build 1 & 2 ring silo at Charle Busch, St. Clemens. Noah worked
in mangle patch.
17.SUNDAY: We and wife’s sister Mary Ann, Amos Bearinger’s & Josiah
Cressman’s & family at Serranes Martin’s for dinner, at Serannes Ziegler’s for
supper, I had team in. Nice day.
18.Noah & I cut thistles nearly all day, Sussie helped PM.
19.I helped to fill 3 & 4 ring silo at Ch. Busch. Noah & Sussie cut thistles. I took
my wife to Dav. Bauman in morn. Noah fetched her.
20.I helped to build 5 ring silo & walls at Ch. Busch. Noah & Sussie cut thistle.
21.I plastered silo at Ch. Busch, moved to Jno. M. Brubacher & made silo floor in
eve. Noah & wife cut thistles.
22.I helped to build 1 & 2 ring silo at Jno. Brubacher. Noah cut thistles, etc.
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23.I helped to build 3 & 4 ring silo at J. B. Noah fetched beef & cut thistles.
Rain.
24.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Noah & Sussie away.
25.I helped to build 5 & 6 ring silo at J. B. Noah took Sussie home and cleaned
mangles.
26.Rain and thunder last night and greater part of day. I in Elmira. Noah & I cut
thistles in eve.
27.I helped to build 7 & 8 ring silo at J.B., --also a water trough. Noah cleaned
mangles all day.
28.Mother & I at funeral of Israel L. Martin, at Martins, aged 42 yrs, 7 days, AM.
Noah cleaned mangles AM. Some Rain PM.
29.I plastered silo, etc, at J.B. Noah cleaned mangles. Rain in morn.
30.Noah & I cleaned mangles & cut thistles. I in town at noon.
JULY 1917
1. SUNDAY: Heavy rains & high floods in morn. Jonas Martin’s here for dinner.
2. I helped to build 1 & 2 ring silo at Manassa Martin.
3. I helped to build 3 & 4 ring silo at M. M.
4. I helped to build 5 & 6 ring silo at M. M.
5. I helped to build 7 & 8 ring silo at M. M. also at Hy. Sauder’s barn raising
awhile. Noah scuffled corn. Mother by our place yesterday & today.
6. I helped to build 9 & 10 ring silo at M. M.
7. I helped to build 11 & 12 ring silo at M.M. Rain PM.
8. SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting. Moses Weber’s Jr. here for supper.
9. I lowered silo rings & prepared for plastering silo at MM. Rain PM. Noah
fetched 2 l’ds shavings from Elmira.
10.I plastered a little of silo, rain, replastered again as rain washed it off, at
Manassa Martin.
11.I finished plastering silo at M.M. rigged up and moved from Manassa to
Merdard Martin, N. of Elmira; Rain in eve.
12.Rainy in morn, I picked potatoe bugs off plants, took beef ringer to Hy. Klinck,
in Elmira, worked on executor books. Noah & Mother in Conestogo & St.
Jacobs.
13.I helped to build 1 & 2 ring silo at Merdard Martin. Noah cleaned turnips &
fetched oats from Elmira (80c).
14.I helped to build 3 & 4 ring silo at Merd. Martin. Noah cleaned turnips. Rain
every day this week.
15.SUNDAY: David Bauman’s & family here for dinner & supper.
16.I helped to build 5 & 6 ring silo at Merd. M. Noah cleaned turnips. Dav.
Bauman’s Lizzie spends holidays here.
17.I helped to build 7 & 8 ring silo at Merd. M. Noah cleaned turnips.
18.I helped to build 9 & 10 ring silo at Merd. M., Noah helped me AM at Merd. M.
Noah hoed corn PM. Wife at Dan Bauman.
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19.Noah hoed corn all day. I helped to fill 11th
ring silo & lowed other ring at
Merdard Martin.
20.I plastered silo at Merdard Martin, we then also load outfit.
21.I helped to rigg up & fill 2 rings silo wall at Amos M. Martin, Yatton. Noah
scuffled corn & mangles. Warm.
22.SUNDAY: David Bauman’s, my mother and we at NW Meeting, at Anson
Gingrich’s for dinner, I took mother to Dan Gingrich’s, we others at Addison
Gingrich’s for supper. Exceedingly hot weather, reported to be 100 degrees
in shade.
23.I helped to build 3 & 4 ring silo at Amos Martin. Noah cut grass in orchard,
some wild oats, & awhile in Show Grounds.
24.I helped to build 5 & 6 ring silo at Amos Martin. Noah mowed grass in show
Ground all day.
25.We put in 1 load orchard hog & l l’d green feed & cocked some. We hauled 5
loads of hay from show Grounds to town.
26.We hauled away bal. of hay in show Grounds to town AM. We hauled 3 loads
of hay away by us. Threatening to rain, at noon. Very hot weather these
days.
27.We hauled away 4 ½ loads hay. Noah mowed grass. I picked bugs.
28.Noah raked hay, I picked bugs, etc, AM. Hauled in 4 l’ds hay. I mowed grass
in eve, Noah raked hay.
29.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Warm weather. Threatened to rain last eve.
30.We hauled in 4 l’ds hay. (We got in all 13 timothy, 5 ½ green feed).
31.We hauled in 1 l’d green feed. I picked bugs. Noah hoed corn.
AUGUST 1917
1. Menno Horst burried at Martins. I at Amos Martin to help build 7 ring silo.
Noah fetched 1 l’d hay from Dan Bauman. Heavy rain & thunder.
2. I helped to build 8 & 9 ring silo at Amos Martin.
3. I helped to build 10 & 11 ring silo at Amos Martin, I hoed corn in eve. Noah
fetched 2 l’ds hay from Daniel Bauman.
4. I helped to build 12 & 13 ring silo at Amos Martin. Noah scuffled.
5. SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting. Eli B. Martin’s Jr., Noah Weber’s, & some
young folks here for dinner. Isaiah here for supper.
6. I plastered silo at Amos Martin. Noah hoed potatoes.
7. I helped to build 1 & 2 ring silo at Chr. F. Martin. Noah worked on hoe crop.
8. I helped to build 3 & 4 ring silo at Chr. Martin. I took wife to & from Dan
Bauman’s. Rain early in morn.
9. I helped to build 5 & 6 ring silo at Chr. Martin. Noah plowed sod at Dav.
Bauman. I destroyed some potatoe bugs. Cool.
10.I helped to build 7 & 8 ring silo at Chr. Martin. Noah plowed sod at Dav.
Bauman AM. We cut some barley PM.
11.I plastered silo at Chr. Martin; & picked bugs. Noah shocked barley, etc.
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12.SUNDAY: Absolom Martin’s & Josiah Cressman’s here for dinner.
13.I helped to rigg up outfit & built 1 & 2 ring silo at Jac. D. Johnson. Noah hoed
turnips and picked cherries. Mother here today, --Noah drove her.
14.I helped to build 3 & 4 ring silo at J.D. Johnson. Noah hoed turnips.
15.I helped to build 5 & 6 ring silo at J. Johnson. Noah hoed turnips. We hauled
in a load black barely.
16.I helped to build 7 & 8 ring silo at J. Johnson. Noah hoed turnips & hauled in
2 l’ds barley; We fetched another one in eve.
17.We hauled in 2 l’ds barley in morning. Noah cut mixed grain. I helped to
build 9 & 10 ring silo at Jac. Johnson.
18.I helped to build 11 & 12 ring silo at J. Johnson. Noah cut grain, etc.
19.SUNDAY: We with Amos Bearinger’s at Isaac B. Martins for dinner, at Josiah
Gingrich’s for supper.
20.I plastered silo at Jacob D. Johnson, Noah cut grain.
21.Noah cut grain and I shocked of same. Dry weather.
22.I fetched heifer from C. Esch’s pasture & shocked grain. Noah shocked, AM
& bindered PM. Hogs worth about $18.80.
23.Land rain started last night & continued all day after dryspell. I took wife to
my mother for over dinner, I did buisness in town.
24.Noah & I picked mulberries, & made room for oat sheaves in barn. We also
shocked grain. Drear, cool & some rain.
25.I fetched beef, in town, raked barley stubles AM., at Geo. to thrash PM. Noah
shocked grain & ganged barley stubles, etc. Dreary, drizzly.
26.SUNDAY: We and David Bauman’s and my mother at Martins Meeting, at
Israel Gingrich’s for dinner, at Joe Snyder’s for supper.
27.We cut oats, and goosewheat and shocked some of same.
28.Rain in morn. Noah ganged & harrowed. I nailed shingles on David
Bauman’s driving shed roof, & spliced rope PM.
29.I shingled on Dav. Bauman’s driving shed roof ¾ dy. Noah picked mulberries
AM. Cut oats PM. Cool weather.
30.We shocked grain in morn; finished bindering, AM, --used about 105 lbs.
twine. We hauled in 5 loads mixed grain. Nice day.
31.We hauled in 7 loads mixed grain. Sprinkle rain tonight.
SEPTEMBER 1917
1. We hauled in 4 loads mixed grain & 2 goosewheat. Hogs $16.80.
2. SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting. Aaron F. Bowman’s here for supper. Rain in
morn.
3. We hauled in 8 loads mixed grain. (Labor Day).
4. We hauled in 7 loads oats & 2 Goosewheat. Cool weather.
5. We hauled in 8 loads oats & 1 goosewheat. A little wind & cloudy.
6. HARVEST MEETING: We all at WW Meeting AM. We cut peas with mower
& hauled in 2 loads oats, PM.
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7. I, family, mother & David P. Martin’s widow, at funeral at Martins, of Tobias
Martin, preacher, aged 57 yrs, 5 dys. Noah & I raked stubleland, hauled in 3
loads oats; Sheaves all in.
8. We raked stubleland & hauled in 2 loads rakings. I in town.
9. SUNDAY: We at wife’s parents for dinner & supper. Very cool.
10.Noah & I put in overhead floor in barn & fetched in 1 load rakings & 2 peas,
took a load firewood to mother. Noah mowed thistles.
11.Funeral of Eli Horst’s wife at Martins. Noah, I & team hauled in grain at Dav.
Bauman nearly all day. Cool.
12.Noah &” I & team hauled in grain at Dav. Bauman nearly all day.
13.I & team hauled in grain at Dav. Bauman AM. I pitched sheaves in field for
Dan Bauman PM. Noah helped to thrash at Geo. Nice.
14.Noah & I helped to thrash out of field at Hy. Brubacher ¾ day, etc.
15.Noah & I hauled out 15 loads manure & I spraed nearly all of it too. I fetched
beef in morn & in town. Elmira Fall Exhibition. Nice day.
16.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Nice Day.
17.I helped to thrash all day at Hy. Brubacher. Nice Day. Noah started to work
for Amos Bearinger in morn.
18.I hauled out 13 loads manure. A sprinkle rain.
19.I fetched mixing outfit to here from J. Johnson AM. Helped to set silo rings at
Geo. H. Eisenbach, PM, on top of part old silo.
20.I helped to fill 1 & 2 ring silo at Geo. H. Eisenback, --he had a man at my
stead to help thrash at C. Esch, 1 day.
21.I helped to fill 3 & 4 ring silo at Geo. H. Eisenbach.
22.I helped to fill 5 & 6 ring silo at Geo. H. E. Noah came home from A.
bearinger in eve, after 1 week there. Funeral of an old widow Rudy, burried at
Martin’s. A long dry weather.
23.SUNDAY: We by mother for dinner; Dan Gingrich’s there too. Nice.
24.Funeral of Isaac G. Martin at Martins, aged 42 yrs, 7 mon. Noah helped to
thrash at Dav. Cressman AM., dug out potatoes PM. I helped to fill 7 & 8 ring
silo at Geo. H. E.
25.I helped to fill 9 & 10 ring silo at Geo. H. E. Noah dug out potatoes, picked off
beans, & thrashed at Weigel’s ¼ day.
26.I plastered silo at Geo. H. E. Noah thrashed at Weigel’s all day.
27.I helped to move mixing outfit to Nathan Clemmer in morn, then we rigged up
& build 1 & 2 ring silo. I went home in eve. Noah helped to thrash at Weigel’s
¾ day & picked beans.
28.I put in 3 & 4 ring silo at N. Clemmer. Noah plowed.
29.I helped to fill in 5 & 6 ring silo at N. Clemmer. Noah plowed & in town.
30.SUNDAY: Amos & Malinda Rudy here last night. We all at WW Meeting.
Jesse B. Bauman’s here for dinner.
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OCTOBER 1917
1. Funeral of late Benj. B. Martin’s widow, residing by her son Elias, burried at
Conestogo, aged nearly 75 yrs. I helped to fill in 7 & 8 ring silo at N.
Clemmer. Noah plowed & fetched oats from Geo.
2. I helped to fill 9 & 10 ring silo at N. Clemmer. Noah plowed.
3. I fetched a load gravel from A. Muttasch AM & 50 gal. gasoline & 2 bbl
cement from K & Ahrens. We put concrete bottom in our silo. Drizzly rain.
4. I helped to fill 11 & 12 ring silo at N. Clemmer.
5. I helped to fill 13 & 14 ring silo at N. Clemmer. A little rain.
6. I plastered 22 ft silo at N. Clemmer. Noah heped to cut in corn at Solomon
Reist all day. Frost tonight.
7. SUNDAY: My brother here (Eli) for dinner, Dan Bauman’s for supper.
8. I helped to build 15 & 16 ring silo at N. Clemmer. Noah plowed.
9. I plastered bal. of silo except top 5 feet where we left rings on yet, took
scaffold out, build approach walls to silo at N. Clemmer. Noah plowed AM.,
helped awhile cutting corn at Geo. PM.
10.I drove in morn from N. Clemmer to N. L. Martin, for breakfast by him,
discussing re selling I. M. Bauman farm. I engaged auctioneer Class to sell
farm and at Printing office to get farm published as for sale to the public. I
bought 2 steers 1720# @ 9c S. Weber & O’Neill. I repaired on our silo, etc. I
took Mary Ann home after helping my wife to sow some while. Noah helped
to cut corn at Geo.
11.Funeral of Israel Martin, son of Levi L. (who got killed on traction engine) at
Martins, aged about 21 years. We made out 14 rows potatoes. We got in all
2 even boxesful.
12.Rainy day. I fetched in 2 loads mangles, top & all. Chored about. Fetched
those 2 steers from S. Weber, I had bought latley.
13.I fetched beef, & 100# Dr. Hess stock Dorie for $7.00 AM., plowed PM. Noah
plowed all day. A little rain at noon.
14.SUNDAY: We at NW Meeting, at Josiah Martin’s Jr. for dinner, at Amos
Bauman’s for supper.
15.I fetch cutting box from Geo. Eisenbach & oats from Geo. (lent) Noah & I (&
Dav. Bauman PM) cut corn off by hand. Nice day.
16.Noah cut balance of corn off, I fetched separator from Geo., etc., AM, We
made out mangles & hauled in 4 loads PM.
17.We made out & hauled in 8 loads mangles (Turnips 16c 50lbs.)
18.We cut corn ¾ day, some strangers helped too. A little rain at noon.
19.We thrashed all day, some strangers helped. (Hogs $17.50)
20.We thrashed all day. Some strangers helped.
21.SUNDAY: We & mother at Josiah S. Martins, visited “Aunt” Sussie, for
dinner, at Aaron W. Weber’s for supper.
22.Noah plowed all day, I plowed AM. & fetched in 2 l’ds mangles.
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23.Noah plowed all day. I got grain chopped AM & topped turnips PM. Funeral
of Jno. M. Brubacher of Elmira, burried at Berlin.
24.Noah plowed all day. I topped turnips done, pulled beans, etc.
25.Noah plowed all day. I replaced loaned oats at Geo’s. and helped to thrash at
Sol. Reist, ¾ day, buckwheat. Nice PM.
26.I made turnips out by hand all day. Noah plowed, AM & hauled 4 loads
turnips into house cellar. Rainy in eve.
27.We hauled in 7 loads turnips & prepared room for same. Rain towards
evening. I in town.
28.SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting. Hy. & Solomon Bowman’s & their wives
here.
29.Rainy nearly all day. We prepared for, AM, & thrashed PM., neighbors
helped. Noah plowed awhile in morn.
30.Noah & I plowed all day. Snow splurts once in a while.
31.Noah & I plowed ¾ day, --frozen so hard that it just went so.
NOVEMBER 1917
1. Chr. Esch, N.L. Martin & I up in fathers swamp to examine same. Noah
plowed all day; --I plowed PM. Men of Military age Class I called out to P.O.
to register for service or exemption, --time to Nov. 10 inst. (Hogs about
$15.25)
2. I fetched steer from C. Esch’s pasture in morn, then I plowed, --Noah plowed
all day.
3. Noah & I plowed nearly all day, fetched in a few turnips. Nice.
4. SUNDAY: We at Christian Esch’s for supper. Nice day.
5. I at Dan Gingrich to build smoke house ¾ day. Noah plowed about all day.
Foggy & Frost AM., nice PM.
6. Noah plowed. I shingled at Dav. Bauman’s shed ¾ dy.
7. Brother Isaiah & I up on the 4th
of Peel to examine farms of Sam. Switzer &
Mary Lawson. Nice Day. (50 lbs. Turnips 19c)
8. I at funeral of Jacob Bauman’s Eldon at W. Woolwich, aged 6 mon, 9 days,
AM. Noah spread manure & plowed; I plowed PM. Fog in morn.
9. I & N.L. Martin by H. W. Zilliax re drawing papers for selling. I. M. Bauman
farm. Noah plowed all day, I PM.
10.I re-examined Lawson farm AM., plowed PM; Noah plowed all day.
11.SUNDAY: We at Dan Bauman’s for dinner. Nice day.
12.We all at my mother for dinner. I attended sale of I. M. Bauman farm (at
Elmira fair) sold by auction to Christian Eschs for $6350.00, I bought at same
time & place 2 acres swamp N. E. from Elmira for $20.00, I in Elmira PM.
Noah plowed PM.
13.I examined Jno. Mahon’s farm 6th
of Peel AM. I plowed PM. Noah plowed,
dunged stables, opened silo.
14.I helped to build silo roof at Amos M. Martin, Yatton. Noah plowed.
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15.I helped to build silo roof at A. Martin, Yatton. Noah plowed.
16.I helped to thrash at Dav. Cressman all day. Noah drawed wood from this
farm down to mother.
17.Noah helped to thrash at Dav. Cressman ¾ day. I chopped grain AM., I
hauled wood to mother, in Elmira, at Aaron Bauman.
18.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Noah at Martins.
19.Noah started working in Elmira Foundry. I drawed 3 loads wood to mother;
helped to thrash at D. Hoffer, PM.
20.I helped to thrash at D. Hoffer 1 day. Nice weather till now in Nov.
21.I helped to thrash at D. Hoffer 1 hr. in morn., then at Peter Bowman balance
of AM. I dunged stables PM. Noah Bearinger, N.L. Martin’s & Noah Shirk’s
of Pa. here for supper.
22.I changed chopp about, dunged henstable. Rain last night.
23.I & Dan Bauman up to see Lawson farm AM., I chored PM.
24.I up West of Glenallan to buy farm from Mary Lawson, AM. I chored PM.
Premier Borden held meeting at Kitchener (disorder).
25.SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting. Enos B. Martin’s here for dinner.
26.I at N.L. Martin & Dan Gingrich’s on buisness AM., chored, PM.
27.Menno Shantz (deacon) burried at Martins, aged 81 years, 7 mon, 8 days. I
chored AM. I helped to thrash at Sol. Reist PM. Intended to meet Mary
Lawson in eve at Elmira, but she seemingly misunderstood affairs & was not
there.
28.I helped to thrash at Menno Weber all day. Fair weather.
29.I helped to thrash at Menno Weber ¾ day. Fair weather.
30.I up to Mary Lawson to rearrange affairs for signing agreement, which she
did, this afternoon, --I bought her farm for $4200.00, 100 acres, East ½ of Lot
15, 5th
Con. Of Peel. Paid down $400.00. Ivan Martin here to fetch pigs &
hens.
DECEMBER 1917
1. I did chores, etc., fetched holstein cow for $105 from Ivan Martin.
2. SUNDAY: We at Amos Bearinger’s for dinner. Oziah Bauman’s here for
supper.
3. I & J. Cressman dehorned some of my cattle, I twice in Elmira.
4. Put double windows on. We in St. Jacobs & Conestogo on buisness.
5. Cleaned some grain, sorted rotten potatoes. Nancy Bowman here.
6. N.L. Martin & I worked in interest of I. M. Bauman Est. Nice day.
7. I took cutting box home to Geo. Eisenbach, & chored about.
8. I chored about & worked small jobs. Storm from East.
9. SUNDAY: Jno. H. Schmidt’s wife burried at W Woolwich, --services at Elmira
Luthern church. Bad snowstorm from West.
10.I took 18 pigs to Elmira fair, sold to several parties.
11.Eli & I chopped grain PM. Dan Bauman’s here for supper.
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12.I helped to thrash at Geo. Bauman all day.
13.I helped to thrash at Geo., PM. I chored & in Elmira.
14.I helped to thrash at Geo. all day. Cold these days.
15.I at Dan G. Martin to secure beef-ring share, examined buildings on my Peel
farm. At Hy. Klinck’s beef ring Meeting. I arranged to procure seed grain
from M. Schwitzer.
16.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Nobody here.
17.I hauled 3 loads wood from Geo’s bush to mother & fetched salt from Hy.
Brubacher, G.T. R. Station, at 65c per cwt. & 1 crown 2-furrow plow from Wm
Moeser. Nice Day.
18.I hauled wood stuff to mother, etc.
19.I cleaned stables, chored, made a Eaton order bill out, on my farm measuring
proposed wire fences.
20.Chored, trimmed cattle tails, etc. Aaron Bauman’s team & man fetched a load
ensilage from this silo. Mild.
21.I made an Eaton order out, look after binder re repair.
22.I helped to drive 4 head of cattle of mine up to Aaron Bauman, --weighed
them at Sam Weber, the 2 I got from him weighed 1870 lbs @ 10c, gain 150#;
the others wt. 1540# @ 9c. Wheels on road again. I fetched repair for on
binder, etc. PM.
23.SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting; Seth Martin’s here for dinner.
24.I sheared backs of young cattle & put on some lime & ashes. Noah cleaned
them & did chores. Aron Bauman’s team fetched a load ensilage. Noah & I
sorted potatoes & took a l’d straw to mother.
25.CHRISTMAS: We at WW Meeting AM.
26.I prepared quarters in horse stable for a hog. Mary Ann here. Mary Ann &
wife at Dav. Bauman’s; I fetched wife in eve.
27.I prepared quarters in steer stable for hogs, moved grain about.
28.I chored AM., at Sol. Reist to thrash PM ¼ day. Very cold.
29.I in Elmira to fetch Eaton Goods & took cream out. Cold.
30.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Amos Bauman’s child burried at N.
Woolwich.
31.Aaron Bauman’s team fetched a load ensilage. I in Elmira.
DIARY 1918
ANGUS S. BAUMAN
JANUARY
1. NEW YEARS: We at Dan Bauman’s for dinner & supper.
2. I paid a call on Ph. Beisel AM. Balanced up I.M.B. Est. books.
3. I at Ezra Fords’ sale PM. I in Elmira, Eli fetched a little grain.
4. I helped Hy. Brubacher to fetch a pr. of colt from C. Ford.
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5. A.M. Bauman’s team fetched ensilage. Eli & I up in my swamp to cut posts,
etc. PM. whole week cold. (Hogs $17.50)
6. SUNDAY: We at home all day.
7. I at fair AM. & repaired harness tug, etc. PM.
8. I helped to butcher at N.L. Martin nearly all day. Brought butcherware to here
from Noah. Eli chored.
9. I up in my swamp all day, cut poles, posts & firewood. Eli chored. Aaron
Bauman’s team fetched ensilage & brought 2 hogs for Mose Eby & 1 for
mother to be butchered here.
10.We butchered 1 hog of ours, dressed 1 for mother & 2 for M. Eby; Mose & Eli
helped me. I worked awhile on my meat & awhile by mother worked at hers.
Elias Brubacher’s woolen mills of Baden burned. Stormy.
11.I cut firewood, mostly poplar up in my swamp ¾ dy. Eli chored & fetched
galv. pipes of Eatons from station.
12.I moved jars about in cellar, chored. S.W Gale, -very stormy.
13.SUNDAY: We at home all day. S. W. Gale, -very stormy. Proposed meeting
at Martins postponed (re storm).
14.I drove Mary Ann home after sowing 1 week here. I shoveled snow, & in
Elmira. Eli chored here AM.
15.I cut wood in my swamp ¾ dy. Eli chored here. Aaron Bauman’s team
fetched ensilage. Hogs worth $18.00.
16.I helped to thrash at Sol. Reist 1 day. Eli chored here. Aaron Bauman’s team
fetched some grain. Enoch Bauman died.
17.I helped to thrash at Sol. Reist 1 day. Eli chored here. I paid a call at Ph.
Beisel’s, --he died yesterday. Continually cold.
18.I helped to thrash at Sol. Reist till 11 o’clock. Eli chored AM. I at funeral of
Ph. Beisel Sr., PM.
19.I cut poplar firewood & sawlogs & poles in my swamp, ¾ dy. Eli chored.
Aaron Bauman’s team fetched ensilage. Cold.
20.SUNDAY: I at WW Meeting. Jacob Martin (son of Enos) here.
21.I chored AM. Eli & I in swamp PM. Cold last while.
22.I chored AM & at Stange’s sale, upper Woolwich, bought disc for $25.50, 40
rds wire fence @ 45c PM.
23.I in swamp cut poles & firewood. Eli chored.
24.I chored AM., & at Elias Brubacher’s sale PM.
25.I in swamp. Eli here to chore PM.
26.I in Elmira, & at C. Esch discussing re swamp. I in swamp PM.
27.SUNDAY: We at home all day. Cold.
28.I cleaned black barley, also peas. Very stormy.
29.I helped Eli to wash harness AM., he & I chopped PM.
30.I helped to butcher at Aaron Weber all day. Nice but cold.
31.I hauled a load poles from swamp to Peel farm.
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FEBRUARY 1918
1. I made cedar posts ready to team in swamp nearly all day, --C. Esch & I
considered locality of swamp too.
2. I hauled 35 posts from swamp to Peel farm PM. I in Elmira.
3. SUNDAY: We at home all day. Very cold.
4. I hauled 32 posts, etc from swamp to Peel farm & chored.
5. I hauled 20 posts from swamp to Peel farm & 3 poplar sawlogs also from
swamp to Floradale saw mills. (26 below zero) Very cold.
6. I hauled a few posts & firewood from swamp to Peel farm. Wet.
7. I in Peel by G. Steenson discussing over his hay in my barn. Worked a little
in granary. Dan Bauman’s paid a call. Cold.
8. I chored about AM & in Elmira on buisnes. PM.
9. Wife of Peter P. Martin burried at Conestogo. I dunged all stables, etc.
Factories & buisness place closed by order of Gov’t re coal shortage (today &
next Mon.).
10.SUNDAY: We at Hy. S. Brubacher’s for dinner. Tree laden with ice, --also
the 9th
.
11.Aaron Bauman’s team fetched a load mixed grain AM. I at Dav Hoffer’s sale
PM. 1st
thaw for this year, today.
12.Elmira fair today, I was there; Chored PM. Rainy. Roads bad.
13.I cleaned barely about all day, also bagged 62 bu. of same.
14.Icleaned barely AM. Urias & Isaac Bauman, Pa. here. Thawing.
15.I drawed 3 small loads barely & some peas to A. S. Gingrich’s store sold
barley at $1.50 a bu. & peas 6c a lb. & fetched front quarter beef at 17c from
Dav. S. Brubacher. Cold.
16.I chored, cut up beef, got sorrel team sharpened at hind shoes.
17.SUNDAY: I at WW Meeting AM; Menno F. Martin’s here for dinner. Isaiah
and his intended to be wife here for supper.
18.We butchered 3 hogs, -Dan Bauman & his Mary Ann, Menno M. Weber &
Geo. Bauman’s hired man (Oz. G.) helped. Nice day. Cold. Aaron
Bauman’s team fetched a load grain.
19.Soft & rainy; I in Elmira, rubbed curing mixture on hams, sorted hens.
20.I took 41 hens & 2 roosters @ 23c a lb. to M.B. Bauman, Elmira; also 15
pullets for Amos Bearinger, I smoked sausage. Cold.
21.Mother & I attended wedding of Isaiah Bauman’s at N.B. Martin’s. Wife
waited on Rebecca who had cold. Jacob Bauman’s Liva burried at W.
Woolwich, aged about 15 years. Sharp cold wind.
22.Aaron Bauman’s team fetched a load grain. I took that roll of wire fence I got
from Stange’s sale & posts, etc., from here to Peel farm.
23.I took a cow to Elmira for Auman, Wt 1070# for $105. Aaron Bauman’s team
fetched a load grain. I hauled a load cistern rings, etc, to Peel farm PM.
Road getting bad. Isaiah came to work here.
24.SUNDAY: David Cressmans here for dinner.
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25.I hauled 2 loads of oats, hayrake & cutting box too, to Peel farm. Damp.
26.Snowstorm AM. We took root pulper’s knives out. I took oats up to Peel
farm, PM., storm wrecked some wind mills.
27.I hauled 2 loads grain up to Peel farm. Isaiah fixed pulper. I got sorrel team
sharpened at front shoes at Yatton. Nice day.
28.I took 2 loads grain, boxes & some kegs of nails up to Peel farm. Wet
snowfall. Sleighing a good deal better.
MARCH 1918
1. I took a load plows etc. to Peel farm AM. O. Esch took drill, disc & cultivater,
while I had binder, to Peel farm. Isaiah along too. Nice day & nice roads.
2. I took engine up AM., Hay loader, roller & mower PM. Nice.
3. SUNDAY: We at Dav. Bauman’s for dinner, at Dan. Bauman’s for supper.
4. Isaiah brought his wife to us to start to work. I took butcherware to N.L.
Martin & chopper to Foundry. I took a load of planks, etc. to Peel farm.
5. I took 2 loads old timber, & lumber up to Peel farm. Isaiah helped me to load
same & chored, etc. Misty.
6. Wife & I helped to butcher at Dan Bauman all day. Isaiah took a load lumber,
etc. to Peel farm.
7. Is. & I took 2 loads hay to Peel farm. Wife along to see Peel house.
8. Is. & I took 2 loads hay up to Peel farm. Nice day. Good sleighing.
9. Is took 1 load greenfield to Peel farm, then he & I tore off old wall paper &
fumigated Peel house with 5# sulphur. I at Dan Gingrich’s for dinner. Peter
Bowman, deacon, burried at N. Woolwich, aged 71 years, 4 mon, 6 days.
10.SUNDAY: All at home. Stormy.
11.Is. at fair. I, wife, Hannah, & Mary Ann Bauman cleaned house in Peel.
12.Is. took a load small lumber up to Peel farm AM. I at Paul Snider’s sale ¾ dy.
PM. Thawed.
13.Is. hauled 2 loads gravel (Isaac Gingrich’s team also 2 today and also Noah
Martin Jr. 2 loads yesterday.) to Peel farm. I took dinner up to Peel farm, &
worked there. Bishop Josiah Martin burried at Mich, -brother to late Paul
Martin, today. Mother here.
14.Is., Aaron Bauman’s team, Menno Weber each 1 load gravel and Mose
Gingrich’s teams delivered 4 loads to Peel farm. I helped to shovel at pit in
morn, spliced rope at Dav. Bauman, worked small jobs at home. Trees ice-
laden. Some rain. Is. worked on Peel farm.
15.Good sleighing. Aaron Bauman fetched 9 young pigs at $6 each. The
following hauled gravel from N. Snider to Peel farm, --Is., Geo Bauman’s team
2 loads; Aaron Weber 2, Aaron Bauman’s team 2, Dan Bauman’s team 2.
N.L. Martin & I received bal. of pay on farm, from Chr. Esch, at H.W. Zillax’s
office AM., at mother over dinner & supper, --We executors distributed legacy
to heirs of I.M.B. Est. Is. awhile there too.
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16.Geo. Bauman’s team hauled 1 load gravel to Peel farm. I, Hannah & Mary
Ann Bauman cleaned house on Peel farm. I hauled about 1 ton coal & maple
firewood, & a load lumber to Peel farm.
17.SUNDAY: We all at WW Meeting. Isaiah’s father-in-laws here for dinner.
18.Is. hauled a load lumber & firewood to Peel farm AM. We loaded 3 stoves on
my sleigh; and a load furniture on Dan Gingrich’s waggon which he took to his
place for storage, --he & his brother Anson here for dinner, then to Amos M.
Martin’s sale & bought his mail box for $2.50 for me.
19.We moved from I. M. Bauman farm to our Peel farm, --Some neighbors
helped us to haul household effects, etc, and to drive cattle. Is. fetched 3
head of cattle with team yet PM. Roads rough, --wheel out again. Mild
weather.
20.I fetched 2 hogs from Woolwich farm & 1 cow from Dan Bauman, for $100,
AM. Is. fetched 1 load household effects, my carpenter chist etc., RM. I took
beef sausage to Dan Gingrich’s to smoke them. Thaw.
21.I fetched contents of shop, & carriage from Woolwich farm AM. I fetched
another load of lumber, harness, manure & gravel planks PM. Urias Bauman
fetched a load greenfeed from there to Peel farm, Warm.
22.I took goosewheat out to Gingrich’s store, got 17 bags grain chopped at
Klincks & hauled same & 15 bundles shingles home.
23.Menno Weber & Dav. Bauman brought turnips & a little firewood up to us from
Woolwich farm, --I some hay, pig chute stand, gasoline tank, fanning mill, etc.
& another load potatoes, lumber, etc.
24.SUNDAY: We at Dan Gingrich’s for dinner & supper. Noah Martin Jr. here
for supper, visited Isaiah’s.
25.We sawed summer wood AM., Cut trees down for winter wood, PM.
26.We & Isaiahs at Eli Bauman’s wedding at Joshua Bowmans.
27.We stored our cutter in Jonathan Martin’s driving shed; stove & furnitue at
Dan Gingrich’s; also worked other odd jobs.
28.I fetched c. mixer & power from Nathan Clemmer, there over noon, at Reub.
Bauman for supper, in Conestogo to fetch flour, left mixer at Dan Martins
Floradale.
29.GOOD FRIDAY: Isaiah’s at Geo. & Reub. Bauman’s. We at home all day.
30.I fetched 6 cedar end posts $5.00 from Serranus Martin, there over noon,
then in Elmira, brought pump along from A. M. Bowman who rigged up same
for 24’ lift for proposed temporary use in old well. Is. worked about buildings.
31.SUNDAY: We at NW Meeting. We at M.M. Bauman’s for dinner. Josiah
Gingrichs here for supper.
APRIL 1918
1. I paid Balance on farm to Mary Lawson & Sam Weber at H.W. Zillax’s office,
Elmira. I by mother over noon. I fetched seed grain from Jno. W. Schwitzer &
chopper from foundry. Rainy.
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2. I & Cyrus Martin sawed firewood all day. Isaiah topped trees out ¾ day &
Jonathan Martin splitt wood ½ dy. Nice.
3. I & Cyrus sawed firewood all day, while Is. handled the ax.
4. Is. took grain to Floradale Chopping Mills, then fetched from Elmira 30
bundles laths & some scantlings, etc. Frank Housser here, --he & I worked in
kitchen, made a shelf for cupboard, put roofing (asphalt) on sides of kitchen,
made trap door to cellar.
5. Is. fetched choppings from Floradale & piled lumber in barn. F. Housser & I
fitted door to staircase in kitchen, knocked board—partitions out in maine
house, finished putting roofing on kitchen walls.
6. Is. chored, fetched scaffold brakets from Mose Martin, drawed lumber from
house to barn. Housser & I removed board ceilings, 1st
flat maine house,
proped up 1st
flat in cellar, & prepared to prop up 2nd
flat with a new partition.
Nice days of late.
7. SUNDAY: We at Amos Bearingers for supper.
8. F. Housser & I put up partition studs in 1st
flat & 2nd
flat & cut a opening out
West for doors from 2nd
flat. Dr. Bechtel doctored heifer.
9. We worked on door entrances. (Housser & I) 2nd
flat maine house, stripped
and lathed some. Is. sorted & piled lumber, etc. Cold wind.
10.Housser & I lathed all day. Is. & my wife in Elmira. Is. & I skinned heifer
which was sick.
11.Housser & I finished lathing upstairs & tore old celler and upstairs cases & all
away, tore old chimney down. Is. hauled 2 loads sand from M. Snider.
12.I build floors over old staircase openings, closed old stovepipe hole & made
different one in floor, nailed upstairs floors. Is. fetched 1 load sand AM. Put
glass panes in windows.
13.I helped Is. to start plowing sod, --he plowed nearly all day. I piled up lumber
in barn, etc. PM. Warm. Roads dusty & dry. Gov’t put “Daylight Saving Bill”
in effect tonight, --1 hr. ahead.
14.SUNDAY: Jonathan Martin’s here for supper. Dry & warm.
15.I drove over to Ed Martin, Weisenburg, to secure drilling out—fit for here, --
wife to Elmira, we at Elis for dinner, I took beef hide to Hedrich, Elmira at 8c
re 20c of last winter. Is. plowed sod & fired old hay on grassfield, --he &
Cyrus had to watch fire from spreading. Is. harrowed in front field PM. Warm.
Seeding commenced. Housser lathed in bedroom, etc., all day. Heavy
fighting going on in France these days.
16.Is. harrowed & sowed 7 acres barley. I worked in connection with seeding
AM. Housser lathed AM, --He & I tore old shingles off on E. side of house &
started reshingling same PM.
17.Is. got a load grain chopped, AM. Housser & I lathed, etc, all day. Rain &
thunder last night & PM. Hogs worth about $19.00, recently $20.00.
18.Is. patched harness, dunged stables. Housser & I tore old walls away and
build shaft for a dumb waiter all day. Cool & some snow.
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19.I in Elmira to fetch laths, etc., AM. Housser put roofing on inside of house
walls, etc., AM. Housser & I lathed PM. Dan Bauman’s here for dinner.
20.Housser & I finished up lathings, etc. I burried heifer, cut wood, etc.
21.SUNDAY: Rain in morn. Dan Gingrich’s & my mother here for dinner &
supper.
22.F. Housser worked on dumb waiter, doors for same, etc., Wife & I in Elmira,
fetched parts of dumb waiter, plaster hairs & cement. AM. I in Elmira to get
1860# lime @ 65c per cwt., secured deeds for farm & swamp. Is. chored,
made a mortarbox, etc.
23.Is fetched 10 bbl cement from Jno. Klinck, Elmira, & chored. Hannah with
J.P. Martin’s to help to wash out NW Meeting house. Housser & I alacked
lime, shingled E. of houseroof, worked on waiter, all day. Dav. Bauman
brought a load gravel. Wind & rain.
24.Housser & I worked on dumbwaiter, build props in cellar to support above
floor, etc, I helped us some & did other small jobs. I removed lightning rods
from barn & shed in eve. Frozen this morning.
25.Mose Martin here to hunt water for a well. Housser made hair mortar, I fixed
cistern ring together to store mortar in. I helped Isaiah to take binders (old)
apart to secure bolts.
26.We put works in order at dumb waiter, slacked lime, made stand for chimney
upstairs & started bucking chimney. Is. took 2 old binders to Elmira for Max
Bierman & brought shingles from Elmira and lumber from Floradale sawmills,
of my poplar logs.
27.Housser masoned around dumb waiter & I build chimney etc. Is. sowed
about 4 acres barley.
28.SUNDAY: We all at NW Meeting. Eli Bauman’s here for dinner.
29.Housser & I worked in barn, reinforcing frame work with new pieces of timber
& started build new grain bins. Is. sawed awhile. Windy.
30.Houser & I build grain bins all day. Is. sowed barely, & oats.
MAY 1918
1. Housser & I build grain bins all day. Is. plowed sod.
2. I plowed & harrowed. Is. cultivated & drilled 2 acres goosewheat.
3. Isaiah sowed grain & cultivated too. Housser bolted timbers to barn frame &
started shingling on house, --I help him some.
4. Is. harrowed & sowed oats & grasseed. I rolled, disced etc. Is. sowed peas.
Housser shingled on house all day.
5. SUNDAY: Isaiah’s at Amos Baumans & by her parents. Warm.
6. Housser & I prepared for & plater upstairs. I sowed a few acres & harrowed.
7. Is. got grain chopped at Floradale & fetched lime from Elmira, I rubbed plaster
walls of yesterday. Put pump into well, but a part slipped down so we left
pump out & dipped water as before.
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8. Housser & I plastered balance of upstairs AM. Housser slacked lime & made
plaster mortar. I cleaned oats, build concrete top on chimney. Is. disced all
day. Mose Gingrich’s (Jr.) child’s funeral at W. Woolwich.
9. Isaiah’s & I at WW Meeting AM. Urias & Mary Ann here. Dan Brubacher
elected for Bishop.
10.Is. sowed oats & I harrowed. Housser plastered bedroom, 1st
flat.
11.Is. plowed sod in orchard; & disced behind bush PM. Housser & I plastered
other room on 1st
flat & rubbed walls of bedroom besides.
12.SUNDAY: We at Dan Bauman’s for dinner & supper. Isaiah’s at Josiah
Gingrich’s for dinner. Wet day.
13.Housser & I rubbed large room on 1st
flat AM. set mixer & prepared for
cementing part floor in kitchen. Is. plowed sod in orchard & hauled manure
into garden. Damp, rain in eve. 12 apple & 2 pear trees were brought tonight
I had bought of Len Weber. Norman Bearinger called to London by Military
authorities.
14.Housser & I mixed concrete & build floor with same in kitchen and ½ floor of
cellar. I plowed garden, rolled land, disced & sowed oats.
15.Housser patched barn roof AM. I harrowed AM & Is. sowed oats. Is. & I
hauled 3 loads stones off fields PM. Hannah rolled a field PM. Housser put
woodwork fitting on in inside of house.
16.Housser put woodwork fittings on in inside of house & put up small cupboard
in our bedroom. Wife & I in Elmira to fetch lumber, etc. We planted
appletrees. I tilled orchard sod & sowed peas in same.
17.I & Is. hauled 3 loads stones off fields AM., Is then rolled land. Housser did
finishing up carpentering upstairs, --I helped him PM. Warm.
18.Housser did finishing up carpentering work all day, I helped him to make a
clothes room AM. Is. disced new land. We harrowed, sowed turnips &
mangleseed & planted a few potatoes.
19.SUNDAY: Isaiah’s at Conestogo Meeting, at Peter Brubacher for dinner at
Ab. Bearinger’s for supper. Mose Gingrich’s Sr. here after supper.
20.Rain & thunder early in morn. I trimmed off fence posts; Is. patched harness,
etc.
21.Is. & I dug in fence posts.
22.We put in fence posts. Rain in morn.
23.We put in 2 end posts & others & put up barbed wire fence. Housser did
inside finishing up carpentering on 1st
flat.
24.Wife & I in Elmira, wife by doctor, --she has excema on hand. I brought doors
& lumber from Elmira. Is. put in posts, I helped PM. Housser did finishing up
carpentering on 1st
flat.
25.Rainy AM. We chored about AM. & put in 2 end posts. PM. Housser worked
on clothes cupboard all day.
26.SUNDAY: We at NW Meeting. Isaiah’s at S. Peel Meeting PM, at Josiah B.
Martin’s for supper. Neighbor Noah Lichty’s here for supper.
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27.Is. split & hauled wood in to house. Is. & I put in 2 end posts & others
besides. Housser did finishing up carpentering on 1st
flat.
28.I in Elmira & Floradale to fetch 100 rods new wire fences, got grain chopped,
bought lumber, borrowed fence stretcher from Aaron Bauman, also about 14
rods all fencing from J. Ort. Housser did carpentering work all day, --I helped
him on cornice PM. Is. dug in posts.
29.Is. & I stretched up wire fences, rained then, so we worked other small jobs.
Housser did inside carpentering work in house ¾ dy. Jacob Burkholder of
Pa., paid us a call at back of farm with Mose Martin.
30.Is. & I stretched up wire fence all day. Housser did odd carpentering about
house ¾ day. Isaac Gingrichs & Mose Martin’s brought for a call to us, folks
of Pa., --Jno. Kurtz’s & Jno. C. Nolt’s.
31.Is. fetched a load of hay from Jesse Bauman, I tore bush fence down, AM., --
then we put up wire fence W. side of bush PM.
JUNE 1918
1. Is. & I put up line fence at far end W. side. Is. put in posts PM. I & family at
Sylvester Martin’s for supper, at Jno. Bauman’s for the night.
2. SUNDAY: We at Martin’s Meeting AM, at Edwin Snyder’s for dinner at Aaron
B. Weber’s for supper. Voted for a deacon.
3. We worked on fence far end. Hannah helped us plant potatoes.
4. Is. plowed fallow nearly all day. I worked on wire fences AM. Wife & I at
funeral of Isaiah F. Martin’s child at S. Peel, aged 3 days. Wife to Elmira
while I was at S. Peel House. Joe Martin made deacon.
5. Is. plowed fallow all day. I dug in posts & smothened upstairs floor in house.
Aaron Bauman fetched mortar.
6. Is. & I plowed fallow done, then he cultivated & I disced on same. Mary Ann
& Sussie here to women folks to get upstairs floors ready and paint some of
same. Rain in eve.
7. Is. hauled wood together in bush, I dug in posts, AM. We hauled stones off of
N. end of farm PM.
8. We hauled stones off fields nearly all day. I harrowed fallow in eve. Dau. of
late Isaac G. Martin burried at Martins, aged about 15 years.
9. SUNDAY: Isaiah’s at WW Meeting AM & PM. Military official interviewed
young boys intending to join church.
10.Is. hauled wood together & helped me in morn to move barbed wire to new
build up fences where I worked on.
11.Is. hauled 4 l’ds gravel on road per statue labor. Rain & thunder in eve. I did
carpentering work, etc, to Floradale. Mother-in-law & Mary Ann here to help
wife.
12.I did finishing ups about house. Is. dunged stables, etc., AM Is. & Dan
Gingrich prepared horse box stall & pig stall. S. W. Corner PM. Lydia came
with Dan to help women folks.
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13.I worked on house cornice, finished bal. of cellar floor,--Dan Gingrich &
brother Noah helped Is. to bring in concrete for cellar floor, also for made
floors in stalls they had got ready also started foundation for piers under
strawshed all day.
14.F. Housser & I build 2 piers, concrete pig trough, kitchen floor patches, etc.
Is. hauled 3 loads gravel on road, & wood out of bush.
15.Is. cultivated & harrowed fallow & dragged wire grass roots on heaps.
Housser & I screwed up barn & shed more level, etc. all day.
16.SUNDAY: We at Conestogo Meeting AM at Dav. B. Martin’s for dinner, at
Jesse Bauman’s for supper. Isaiah’s at SP Meeting, at Aron F. Bowman’s for
dinner.
17.Housser & I made ready for & cemented at foundation for strawshed AM. We
knocked down old shed wall where we latter build a concrete water trough, --a
small sliver stone flew into his eye, turn out to be fatal later, -he got eye
removed & glass one put instead. Is. fetched 50 bags cement from Elmira, &
burned twitchgrass roots. Lydia helped women folks at house painting.
18.Is. cleaned roots & scuffled. I at St. Jacobs to fetch shorts, got team shod.
Paid a call on Ed. Spaeth’s St. Jacobs.
19.Is. I & Hannah cleaned roots about all day. Lydia painted PM.
20.Is., I (& Leah awhile) cleaned roots; Is. & I pulled mustard awhile. Mose
Martin hunted water for well awhile PM.
21.I & Noah Lichty cemented some at strawshed foundation wall & made more
cribbing for same. Is. & N. Lichty’s son tore old pig stable out under barn &
hauled stones in for filling up. Some rain.
22.I, N. Lichty, & Enos Gingrich cemented at strawshed foundation wall etc, all
day. Is, & N. Lichty’s son filled up & made back stable ready to cement all
day. All inhabitants between ages 16 & 60 were to register at schools, etc, in
Canada, we obeyed same. Beef ring started at D.M.
23.SUNDAY: We all at N. Woolwich AM., David Bauman’s & family & Israel B.
Martin’s here for dinner. Nelson, Allen & Edna Martin & Aaron Gingrich here
for supper.
24.I, Is, Enos Gingrich, N. Lichty & son put in back stable floor & backed earth
back on E. side of proposed tank & removed earth for tank all day. Mary Ann
& Sussie helped women folks all day.
25.Is. & I, E. Gingrich & N. Lichty helped removing earth for tank, prepared for &
laid a few water pipes from tank. Is. cultivated fallow PM. I & strangers pulled
yellowdock & mustard after supper.
26.Is. & I & Gordon Metzger made floor & side of water tank 11’ x 5’ r’d. I
fetched 10 bbls. cement & 650# oats from Elmira.
27.Is & I & G. Metzger build about 25 ft concrete pig troughs & plastered tank
PM. Is., Hannah & G. Metzger planted potatoes AM.
28.Is. & Dan cleaned ditch all day. Noah & I prepared for a water trough, laid
pipes, etc. Dan Bauman’s here for dinner and supper.
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29.Brother Noah here all day to dung stables, disced removals of yesterday ditch
cleanings, search run away cattle, etc. Is. washed carriage etc. AM. Isaiah’s
& Dan Gingrich’s went to Jno Bauman’s visiting PM. I in Elmira got pipes
fitted up, made a support intank for lid, etc.
30.SUNDAY: Isaiah’s visited around at Martins. We at Noah Weber’s for dinner,
at Solomon B. Martins for supper.
JULY 1918
1. Noah & I rested strawshed & shed on walls & piers, started cribbing for water
trough. Is fetched a load of hay from Jesse Bauman, & worked at hog stable.
Cold wind. Light rain in eve.
2. Is. worked on hog stable all day. I finished water trough cribbing & then filled
same with concrete; Noah also had helped Is. Hy. Brubacher’s team brought
a load gravel. Nice. H’gs $17.25.
3. Alvin Weber’s child burried at Martins, aged 5 months. Noah cultivated fallow
AM. Is. worked on fallow too. I removed watertrough cribbing, made one for
to build a top on tank. G. Metzger & Jesse cleaned up under strawshed.
Urias helped Is. to unload hay, screwed up S. W. corner of leanto AM. Jesse
& Urias, Gordon, Noah & I mowed thistle heads S. of barn PM.
4. Josiah Martin & I got tank top ready to be cemented then & few others helped
to put concrete on top. Jesse bro’t a load gravel along up. Urias bro’t 10
bbls. cement up. Gordon & Noah put wire grass roots on heaps in morn, -Is.
burned them in eve. Jesse & I pulled mustard PM. Others topped thistles.
Warm.
5. I worked on leanto all day. Is & others topped thistles. Warm.
6. I in Elmira bought oats at 80c, etc, AM. Josiah Martin & Jesse helped Is. to
nail on barn boards etc AM. then they topped thistles PM. I build manhole on
tank, nailed board fast. Jno. Stahlbaum here to hunt water for well. Drillers
came.
7. SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting, at Geo. Bauman’s for dinner, at Abs. Martin’s
for supper. Young people got baptised.
8. Is. & Urias fetched casings from near Rumelhardt. Drillers rigged up their
machines. I cleaned out tank, etc. Wife & I fetched beds from Dan
Gingrich’s.
9. Wife at her parents quilting. Drillers sank well about 15’. Urias brought his
load casings & helped us lay sleepers over root cellar. I looked for wanter
tank at Amos Bauman & bought 2422# oats at Hugh Campbell at 75c @ bu.
Is. fetched tank & oats; & water at J. P. Martin.
10.Drillers sank well 30’ more. We prepared for cementing sills of barndoors &
set sleepers. I renail boards on barn. Is. changed pigs about. S. Moyer put
up eave troughs & condutors to tank at barn nearly all day.
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11.Drillers sank well about 10’ more, -bored through stone, S. Moyer here to put
up eave troughs & conductors all day. We cemented some barn door sills, I
helped tinsmith. Women folks hoed potatoes PM.
12.I waited on small pigs to nurse them and was by the drillers who had struck a
spring, at about 60 ft. down from top; water raised half aways. Is. fetched a
tankful of water & cultivated fallow. I cemented barndoor sills done & made
S.W. corner of leanto wall higher with concrete.
13.I fetched beef from Dan G. Martin & furniture from Dan Gingrich. I & family at
Elis for dinner, I at N. L. Martin on executor’s buisness. I was on the way to
Hospital to visit F. Housser but met him then in Elmira, -he has now an
artificial eye his natural eye was wounded by a stone sliver while working by
us. Is. scuffled hoeing crop, etc. Drillers worked on well. Warm.
14.SUNDAY: Isaiah’s at Conestogo Meeting. Amos Bearingers here all day.
Amzi Snyder’s, Menno Weber’s & Martin Bauman’s widow here for supper.
15.I in Elmira on executor’s buisness & fetched old tin. Is. fetched water. I
looked after well while being tested, pumped water 5 gal. per min., went
down.
16.Dan Bauman’s here for dinner. Drillers downed 30’ more. I made float box,
etc. Is. & women folks hoed potatoes & turnips
17.Drillers sank well a little further & put in 5 in. casing into the 6”. Is. fetched a
tankful of water from Dav. Martin, AM. I dunged pigstables etc. AM. We
worked on barn floor, put tin between sills & b’d. Rain last night & dreary
today, AM. Bought grain from R. Kelly 6th
ln.
18.Is mowed grass. I worked on grain bins. Drillers on their job.
19.I laid flooring above pig stable. Is. fetched Noah Martin’s waggon for hauling
in hay, & raked hay. I helped him hauling in hay, 4 loads. Drillers down a
little over 100 ft. with 5” casing. Very warm.
20.I laid flooring above pig stable, etc. Is. fetched water from Dav. Martin &
raked hay, fixed mower knives. We fetched in ½ load hay. Is. mowed grass
after dinner. Drillers down about 132’ with drill & put in 4” case.
21.SUNDAY: We at S. Peel Meeting & Isaiah’s at NW Meeting AM. Noah B.
Martin here for dinner, Elam Gingrich’s here for supper. Very warm weather.
22.Is. mowed grass & raked hay on rows. I made a hay-hole in corner of granary
AM. We hauled in about 4 l’ds hay. Drillers down about 2 ft. Hannah at Sam
F. Bowman’s to pick raspberries.
23.Is. mowed grass in morn. I fetched wood up to drillers engine, and raked hay.
We fetched in 4 loads hay, Cyrus Martin helped PM. I fetched water from
Conestogo River in eve. Is. & Cyrus put straw out of mow.
24.I fetched 50’—4” casing at Wallenstein. Drillers endeavored to get drill out of
well which broke off yesterday & slipped down 150’., AM. then went home. Is.
mowed grass a little then he & Cyrus raked hay. I laid floor over 1st
team in
horsestable AM. We fetched in 5 ½ loads hay in eve. I raked. Cyrus here ¾
day.
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25.Drillers including Albert Martin himself here all day trying to get drill out but of
no avail, as far at eve as at morn. Is. mowed grass AM. Dan Bauman here to
see how drillers get along. We hauled in 4 l’ds hay. Cyrus here ¾ day.
26.I mowed grass, etc., Is. mend harness & fetched water from Dav. Martin, AM.
We dunged pigstables at noon. Fetched in ½ load hay when rain chased us.
I picked potatoe bugs after supper.
27.I cleaned 8 rows roots. AM. Is. chored about AM. We fetched in 3 large
loads of hay. 25 ½ loads for the season.
28.SUNDAY: We at Dan Bauman’s all day. Isaiah’s at Dan Gingrichs for dinner.
29.I fetched 2260# mix. grain @ 2.40 @ cwt from R. Kelley on the 6th
line. Is.
mowed fence corners & cultivated at fallow till it rained PM.
30.I at St. Jacobs to fetch 240 # flour (20% substitute is to be used to wheat
flour, rye flour etc., per regulations of law). Fed horses at Ed Spaeth at noon,
in Elmira to pay debts, got grain chopped in Floradale. Is. got up wood for
drillers, etc. Drillers worked all day at drill raised it by driving smaller casing
over it & raised both together.
31.Is. scuffled potatoes & roots, & I hoed of them & mowed thistles. Is. culti.
fallow.
AUGUST 1918
1. Is. harrowed fallow & piled twitch grass roots on heaps & burned them &
drawed stones from fallow too. I picked raspberries AM. etc PM. F. Housser
fetched his tools PM. Drillers back again tonight.
2. I fetched 2 bags potatoes from Aaron Bauman. Is. cut 7 acres barley & I
shocked. Drillers put in 4’ casing again & removed about 35 feet filling up
from well. Cool nights for awhile.
3. Is. & I cemented a concrete bracket against wall of barn driveway in root
cellar. Drillers on their job.
4. SUNDAY: We at home all day. Isaiah’s away.
5. Is. bindered & I shocked barley about 7 acres. No drillers today.
6. Is. bindered & shocked mix grain. I fitted a outside granary door on AM &
Cemented about in root cellar, etc. Drillers on job. Great fire in centre of
Elmira.
7. I helped to thrash at Amos Bauman ¾ day. Is. cultivated & harrowed fallow,
etc., drillers on job AM., fetched water glass PM.
8. I helped to thrash at Amos Bauman AM. Is. fetched up wood for drillers &
waggon from J. P. Martin. We fetched in 2 loads barley. Had rain &
thunderstorm. Is. plowed sod. Drillers in fine sand & water.
9. Is. & I plowed sod. Dan Bauman here to see how drillers get along. Drillers
declared 2nd
spring shut out & are through a streak hard pass.
10.I took choppings to Floradale, Is. cleaned stables; we finished plowing sod.
Is. reshocked grain sheaves. Drillers on job all day. I measured well with a
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string tonight about 178 ½ ft. clear, water up within 60 ft. from top, Casings in
from top (even) 182’.
11.SUNDAY: Eli Bauman’s here for dinner. Isaiah’s at J.P. Martin’s for supper.
We at Conestogo Meeting, at Menno Wideman’s for dinner, at Levi Martins for
supper.
12.Is. fetched up wood & water for drillers. Is. disced & Hannah rolled sod PM.
Drillers here to test well, -pump at it for 5 hours at a rate from 4 to 5 gallon per
min., spring lowered about 4 ft. Paid $3.00 a foot for 182 feet (about 2’ less
for joints for actual depth) later on I put a few pailsful of gravel into well. (4’
casing in).
13.I helped to thrash at Amos Bauman ¾ day from field. Is. cut oats & some
mixed grain.
14.We hung tank on an apple tree & fetched in 8 loads barley & mixed grain &
shocked oats. Drillers moved away after dinner.
15.We fetched in 3 loads of barley, Is. cut oats. I fetched 2 bags oats from A. B.
16.I & Is. cut 2 acres peas & about 2 acres goosewheat & cut oats, & shocked.
17.Is. bindered oats nearly all day. I shocked & I helped after supper. Nice
week.
18.SUNDAY: We all at NW Meeting; Israel Bearinger’s, Jesse Bauman’s here
for dinner; Ezra Bauman’s, Israel Cressman’s & young folks here.
19.We thrashed from field here. I helped Amos Bauman to move outfit up AM;
thrashed peas, oats, mixed grain & goosewheat PM.
20.Amos & I thrashed 4 hrs. at J. P. Martin, at E. Gingrich 5 ¼ hrs. Is. got grain
chopped, etc.
21.Amos & I thrashed at Ananias Martin AM., Sam Switzer PM. 3 ¼ hrs. in field
till it rained, --Is. helped at Sam too. Mother here today on a visit. Is. helped
to thrash at N. Martin ¼ dy.
22.A. B. & I thrashed at J. Gingrich 4 ½ hrs., at Jac. Musselman 5 hrs. Is.
harrowed sod. Heavy short shower PM.
23.Is. helped to thrash at N. Martin ½ day AM, raked stuble land & started to
gang. A. B. & I thrashed 5 hrs. PM at Mose Gingrich, Rain.
24.I fetched beef in morn, on buisness in Elmira, at Dan. Bauman’s for dinner;
unsettled weather AM but cleared up PM.
25.SUNDAY: Isaiah’s at Martin’s Meeting. We at home all day.
26.Is. ganged. Amos Bauman & I at Yatton to bushout chaff blower boxings AM.
I finished it up & fastened in position again, etc.
27.I pulled peas in orchard & reshocked oats a little & fetched waggon from
Floradale blacksmithshop. Is. ganged; we fetched in 1 l’d oats.
28.We fetched in 1 l’d oats & unloaded 2. Is. mend harness, got sorrel team
reshoed at Winfield, helped to thrash at C. Israel 1 ½ hrs. I prepared on
pump. Rainy. Noah fetched mother to Daniel’s in eve. Rain tonight.
29.Is. helped to thrash at C. Israel ½ day. AM. & ganged PM. I helped to thrash
at M. Gingrich 5 ½ hrs. & moved to An. Martin.
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30.Is. ganged & harrowed AM. Is. & 1 of women folk hauled in 4 loads oats PM.
I dug out for well-room, etc. AM., helped to thrash at An. Martin PM. Rain
tonight.
31.I went to Amos Eby to set machines AM. Thrashed & cut straw – 5 hrs. PM.
Is. haul in 1 load oats, dunged stables, etc. Cool.
SEPTEMBER 1918
1. SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting, at David M. Martin’s, visited wife’s
grandmother, for dinner, at Oziah Bauman’s for supper. Isaiah’s at Aaron
Bauman’s.
2. I pushed shocks over & Is. turned peas over, etc, AM. We hauled in 7 loads
oats & 2 l’ds peas. A. B, hired man & team helped PM. Finished except
rakings. Dreary towards night.
3. I took 3 hogs to Wallenstein for C.C. Diefenbachers, wt. 550# @ 19c &
brought 1 H.P. mogul engine from station ($90.00). Dug out top of well &
cemented 2 ½’ wall in same. Is. ganged & let grain chopped.
4. I fetched beef ringer from Jno. F. Martin; then at Amos Bauman to thrash, &
gathered wild plums there PM. Got rainy PM. Is. ganged fallow done & some
other besides (stuble land).
5. HARVEST MEETING: Isaiah’s at S. Peel Meeting, he ganged PM. We at
WW Meeting AM., at Chr. Heckendorn’s for dinner, at funeral of Levi W.
Martin’s child at W. Woolwich PM., aged 5 mon. & about 23 days.
6. Is. ganged about all day. I fetched 750—3” tiles from Conestogo.
7. Is. cemented bal. of well-wall, etc, AM. He & Cyres helped to thrash peas at
Amos Bauman PM. I fetched 800—3” tiles from Conestogo, also hauled in
raking yet.
8. SUNDAY: Isaiah’s by her folks both meals. We at Eli’s for dinner. At funeral
of Serranes Martin’s child, aged 3 yrs., 4 months, at WW.
9. I fetched 800—3” tiles from Conestogo. Is. fixed up back cross fence, etc.
10.I fetched 800—3” tiles from Conestogo. Is. started to plow.
11.I fetched 600—4” tiles from Conestogo. Is. plowed awhile & then cleaned out
in root cellar. Rainy PM.
12.Rainy nearly all day. I got top piece of casing cut off by drillers at Lesly
Peterson, AM. Is. finished cleaning out root cellar. We removed some goods
from granary to kitchen upstairs.
13.Is. got grain chopped at Floradale & at Elmira. I worked on 1 HP Mogul.
14.C. Hahn brought pump jack in morn; I fetched beef in morn & measured on
pump works, painted out some rough cast wall in root cellar. Is. dunged
stables AM & plowed PM.
15.SUNDAY: We all at N W Meeting AM. We at (neighbors) Noah Martin’s for
supper.
16.I fetched a carriage load of apples from Joshua Rudy. Is. plowed. Rain.
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17.Is. plowed. I shook apples off trees & gathered up of them into bags, etc.
Hannah at Israel Martin to fetch 13 pumpkins.
18.Is. fetched 450 tiles from Conestogo. Wife at her parents to fetch elderberries
(from Dan E. Martin) I helped to saw wood & chopp grain at Amos Bauman
nearly all day, --chopped some for me too.
19.Is. fetch that load of choppings from A. Bauman. I bagged some apple yet,
etc. We put pump into well at noon. I got apple butter made at Floradale, -17
sugar bags full of apples gave 72 gals. Cider (45c worth Bi-carb of soda into
cider) 13 crocks full of apple butter; 7c per gal. to boil cider down to apple
butter) $5.49. Boiled almost to hard down, --stiff thick, 10 pailsful of pumpkins
in.
20.Is. fetched 110—4” tiles & 150—6” from Conestogo. I prepared for building
top on well & build. Headstone for our dead child.
21.Elmira Fall Fair Is. plowed out potatoes, etc. We at N. Bearinger’s for dinner,
at Enos Bauman’s for supper, at Joshua Rudy’s night.
22.SUNDAY: At Martins Meeting AM., at Amos Brubacher’s for dinner, at Titus
Bauman’s for supper. Ezra F. Martin’s here.
23.I build concrete top on well, etc. Is. plowed. Rain in eve.
24.I build concrete lid on top of well, dunged stables, cleaned old lumber. Is.
fetched 150—6” tiles from Conestogo.
25.I fetched a load gravel from M. Snider AM. & 1 from N. Snider
26.Is. fetched 2 loads gravel from N. Snider. I attended funeral of Wm.
O’Donnel’s child at Macton RC Church AM. I fastened doors under N. side of
strawshed & drove beef ringer to D. G. M.
27.Is. fetched a load gravel & I plowed Am; Is. plowed & I worked on barn doors
PM. Nice & cool weather.
28.I fired engine at Amos Bauman to cut corn AM. I plowed PM. Is. fetched beef
& took beef hide to Hy. Klinck, fetched cement & shingles.
29.SUNDAY: We all at S. Peel Meeting. We at Ab. Bearinger’s for dinner.
30.I fetched from Elmira a load shingles, & hauled in 2 load firewood into barn for
storage. Is. plowed.
OCTOBER 1918
1. We hauled 2 loads wood into barn then Is. plowed with 4 horses hitched on. I
piled wood. I fired engine at Elam Gingrich to cut corn PM. Nice Day. Heavy
frost last night.
2. We re-hooked barn doors, etc. a little rain in morn, -then Is. plowed. I fired
engine at M. Gingrich cutting corn PM.
3. I fired engine at M. Gingrich cutting corn a few hours & dunged pig stables
AM. I cleaned out part of double stable preparatory for cementing PM. Is.
plowed with 4 horses all day. Nice Day. Bulgaria surrendered to the Allies
the other day.
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4. I fired engine at Amos Eby cutting corn ¾ day, I moved engine & separator to
Wm. O’Donnell in eve. Is. plowed with 4 horses, 2 abreast.
5. Is. plowed with 4 horses, -2 abreast. I prepared stable for cementing. Sam F.
Bowman brought to us 4 barrels apples at $3.00 each. Hannah there this
week helping at the apples.
6. SUNDAY: We at Dan Bauman’s for dinner, at N. B. Martin’s for supper. Jno.
F. Martin’s here for dinner.
7. Funeral of wife of Daniel B. Martin (nee Hoffman) at Conestogo, aged 50 yrs,
7 mon. I fetched 240 # flour from St. Jacobs & at brickyard, Conestogo, re
tiles. Is . plowed.—We cemented cattle troughs.
8. I fetched 340—5” tiles & 270—2 ½” from Conestogo. Is. plowed.
9. I fetched 200—5” tiles & 530-2 ½” from Conestogo. Is. plowed, etc.
10.I fetched 400—2 ½” tiles & 220—5” from Conestogo. Is. worked on ditch.
11.I fetched 440—5” tiles & 155—2 1.2” from Conestogo. Jonathan along too, to
fetch tiles for himself, he brought 50 tiles for me too. Is. made potatoe bin in
cellar & prepared stable for cementing. Fine day.
12.We drove & hauled two brood sows away & cemented stables. Some rain.
13.SUNDAY: We all at NW Meeting AM. I at funeral of Martin Bowman’s child,
aged about 6 mons. At N. Woolwich PM. Isaiah’s also at funeral at Hy. M.
Gingrich’s then. Smoky in morn.
14.Is. & I at NW Meeting House to pay into the Sailor’s Fund AM., Is. plowed PM.
I carpentered on cattle stalls PM.
15.Is. plowed with 4 horses, I worked on stables, pulled mangles.
16.Hannah, Is. & I made out & hauled in an even boxfull of potatoes. Nice.
17.Hannah, Is. & I made out a little potatoes, Is. & I hauled in a load mangles
with tops at noon & then drawed out 9 loads manure on s. fallow.
18.We hauled out 17 loads manure, I spread some of it. I attended a sub.
Meeting (prior to 22nd
of month) at Moses Martin re: considering “Victory
Bonds”.
19.We hauled out 11 loads manure, I spread some. Amos Bauman & I
expanded flues, etc. on engine by Wm. O’Donnell AM., Is. fetched sows.
20.SUNDAY: Dav. F. Martin’s here for dinner. Jonathan Martin’s and Anson
Gingrich’s here for supper. Soaking rain last night.
21.We dunged stables (Hannah,--hen house), bathed 23 pigs & castrated some.
Is. spread manure, PM., I tore some of old cowstable out PM.
22.I prepared thrashing outfit for service at Wm. O’Donnell and at Meeting at W.
Woolwich re “Victory War Loan” bonds, Is. prepared cowstable for cementing
& cemented manger bottoms. I erected Headstone fo our child at W.W.
23.Is. & I thrashed for Wm. O’Donnell all day, moved outfit to J. Gingrich.
24.We hauled out 3 loads manure then filled up in stable with earth & cemented
1 side of stable. Funeral of Ezra Martin’s (son of Nath.) child at Martins.
Threatening for rain all day, a few sprinkles.
25.We hauled out 17 loads manure & spread some. Sultry.
26.We hauled out 5 loads manure A.M. & fetched in 4 loads turnips. PM.
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27.SUNDAY: Dan Bauman’s here for supper. Isaiah’s at Jesse Bauman’s
nearly all day. Meetings cancelled by order of Board of health on account of
Influenze.
28.Rainy AM. I build cowstalls AM & Is. at it PM. I fetched 2200# mix grain from
Ray. Kelley at $2.40 per cwt., & hauled same to chopping mills. Dr. Faulds
died today in Elmira. All sick with the “flu” at Ivan Martin, -she’s low.
29.We cemented gutters for double stable, & part of wall due W. of shed. I
fetched choppings from Floradale in morn.
30.We cemented small jobs, AM. We fetched in 6 loads turnips PM.
31.We hauled in 2 loads turnips in morn, then Is. plowed. Wife & I on buisness in
Elmira & fetched ditching plow from Dan Bauman.
NOVEMEBER 1918
1. Is. & I plowed AM. We all at funeral of wife of Ivan Martin (nee Mary Ann
Weber) at W. Woolwich PM., aged 25 yrs, 10 mons. A short sermon
delivered at grave, as no gatherings are allowed yet in churchs, etc., -she had
died from flu & complications (1st
one in our church)
2. I up the 4th
line to look for oats & then fetched 860# oats @ 80c from H.
Freeman in eve. I plowed in orchard. Is. plowed in field N. of orchard.
3. SUNDAY: We at Dan M. Gingrich’s for dinner, at Dan G. Martin’s for supper.
4. Is. plowed some, I weighed oats & fetched water from Jonathan, & then we
started on tile ditch.
5. We worked on tile ditch,-I laid some in in morn, -Enos Gingrich helped all day
& Josiah Martin PM. Moses Martin & I surveyed front field. Enos Bauman
here to see gasoline engine, & to lent money from I. M. B. Est.
6. Is. plowed with 4 horses. I worked on tile ditch all day. Josiah Martin & Enos
Gingrich helped 1 day & Mose B. Martin PM. Nice days.
7. Is. plowed with 4 horses. I & G. Metzger worked on tile ditch al day, Josiah
Gingrich, PM. False report of Armistice in France, --whistles blew. Market
price of hogs $17.00 per cwt.
8. J. Gingrich & I worked on tile ditch AM., Is. plowed AM., Rainy PM. Is. & I
carpentered on cowstalls & floatbox lid.
9. Is. dunged pig stables & I sawed wood in morn, then we carpentered on
cowstalls AM. Is. plowed PM. I, J.G, & 2 of J. Martin on tile ditch PM.
10.SUNDAY: We all at NW Meeting. Isaiah’s at Israel B. Martin’s for supper.
11.Is. plowed with 4 horses. I & Amos Bauman & J. G. all day & 2 of Jos. Martin
on tile ditch PM. Hy. Bauman ordained preacher for S. Peel. Armistice
signed by Germany in France to end world war 1914—1918. Whistles blew,
etc, in that regard.
12.Is. helped to plow up ground between pump & lane AM. & then plowed in field
PM. I & E. Gingrich all day, 1 of Jos. Martin, AM & PM on ditch.
13.Is. & E. Gingrich plowed all day. I, A. Bauman & G. Metzger on ditch 1 dy.
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14.Is. & E. Gingrich plowed AM, I yet PM. I & J. Gingrich all day, & Enos
Gingrich & Amos Bauman PM. worked on ditch, --tiles in to middle of lane.
15.Amos Bauman & I each fetched a load of oats from Jno. Walter Con. 5 Lot 3,
--I had 111 bu. @ 70 ½c. Peter Bowman, J. Gingrich & Is. worked on tile
ditch S. of house all day, I helped awhile at eve.
16.I, Is., J. Gingrich & A. Bauman on tile ditch all day. Neighbors have “Flu”.
Alex Strome’s boy’s funeral yesterday. P. Beisel’s child died at Winfield.
17.SUNDAY: We at David Bauman’s for dinner & supper. Levi Gingrich’s visited
Isaiah’s.
18.I ditched ¾ day., Is. worked about barn. Dan Gingrich helped to thrash for me
at Dav. F. Martin ¾ day for me. A little rain.
19.I, Dan Gingrich & A. Bauman on tile ditch all day; & Is. AM, plowed PM.
20.I, A. Bauman, Is. & bro. Noah on tile ditch all day. Finished putting 5” drain
Amos Bauman & I paid a call on F. Housser after supper.
21.I, Is., & Dan Gingrich worked on tile ditch all day. Snowed a little.
22.I, Is., & brother Noah on tile ditch all day; I attended beef ring Meeting after
sup.
23.I, Is., & Dan Gingrich’s worked on tile ditch all day.
24.SUNDAY: We at WW Meeting, at Levi W. Martin’s for dinner, at Jonas B.
Martin’s for supper. Cold. Ground frozen.
25.Amos Bauman & I rigged up thrashing outfit at J. Gingrich & thrashed PM.
26.A. Bauman & drilled stub bolt out of engine crank bearing, AM, & thrashed,
PM at Josiah Gingrich. Is. hauled wood & experienced on pump works.
27.Funeral of 2nd
wife of Menno S. Frey. We thrashed at J. Gingrich ¼ day, then
at F. Schill. Is. repaired granary & filled in ditch. O’Donnell has “Flu”.
28.A. B. & I thrashed at F. Schill ¾ day & a little at Chas. Israel. Is. worked on
granary, etc.
29.We thrashed at Chas. Israel all day. Is. let grain chopped at Floradale.
30.We thrashed at Chas. Israel AM, at Sam Switzer PM. Is. worked about barn,
etc. S. Western snowstorm in eve.
DECEMBER 1918
1. SUNDAY: Mother here, also yesterday. I chored some at O’Donnell’s, he’s
ill. Rest at home.
2. A.B & I thrashed at Sam Switzer all day. I pumped water for thrashing.
3. We thrashed at Sam Switzer and moved to here AM. We thrashed here ½
day PM. Neighbors helped us.
4. We thrashed here till 11 o’clock, neighbors, helped. Moved separator to J.P.
Martin at noon. Is. & Amos chopped grain here PM. I got “flu”.
5. I in bed al day with “flu”, wife to Floradale on buisness. Amos & Is. thrashed
at J. P. Martin AM. Is. chored here PM. Nearly all of J.P. Martin’s family laid
up with “flu”.
6. Is. & Amos thrashed at J.P. Martin and Elam Gingrich. I chored at noon.
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7. I dunged stables, etc. Dan. Bauman paid a call here. Is. & Amos thrashed at
Elam all day nearly.
8. SUNDAY: All at home today, -had cold.
9. A.B. & I finished thrashing at Elam & then thrashed at Mose Gingrich’s 2nd
barn a little over ½ day. Mild weather.
10.A.B. & I thrashed at M. Gingrich AM., bar on platform of engine broke, got it
fixed & thrashed awhile at Amos Eby. East Wind. Is. to Floradale to pay my
taxes $79.83 & contributions at N.W. Meeting House for the Government.
A.K. Snyder badly scalded on an engine.
11.A.B. & I thrashed at A. Eby all day, moved to Jac. M. Is. helped his wife to
wash, chored, etc. My wife in bed on “flu” yesterday & AM.
12.A.B. & I thrashed at Jac. Musselman all day. Is. in Elmira to fetch gasoline,
etc. got engine ready too. Wife of Manassa Martin (nee Maria Frey) died
shortly. Nice days.
13.A.B. & I thrashed at Jac. Musselman ¾ day, moved to Amos for machines
winter quarters. Is. got gasoline engine into shape, etc.
14.We chored, etc., AM. I helped to chopp awhile at Amos PM., also helped him
to clean engine boiler. Is. took gasoline engine to An. Martin & set for action.
Manassa Martin’s wife burried at WW, aged 21 yrs.
15.SUNDAY: Urias, Mary Ann & Sussie here for dinner. Isaiah’s away.
16.Is. operated gasoline engine at Ananias Martin about 3 hrs., had bother to
keep pulley on separator. I placed window at W. end of shed. Is. also
shovelled some ground at different places in eve.
17.Is. operated g. engine at An. Martin all day. I worked on building a hog stable
at W. end of shed. Alvin Bauman, Mich., son of Owen, burried.
18.Is. operated g. engine at An. Martin, AM., then moved engine to M. Gingrich’s
other barn & fetched 25 gal. gasoline @ 37c from Floradale. I helped to
butcher at Jonathan ¾ day.
19.I all day & Jonathan Martin ¾ day dug ditch between well & barn for water
pipes. Is. chored AM., & operated engine to chopp at M. Gingrich 3 hrs. PM.
Nice weather this week. “Flue” around Floradale.
20.Jonathan & I worked on waterpipe ditch all day, -put pipes in tiles, (4” tiles)
from pump to close to barn. Is. in bed with “flu”. One of twin babies of Menno
Burkhardt’s burried at WW. Amos Bauman has “Flu” a few days, the
Gingrich’s on the 6th
also.
21.I chored about barn AM. Wife & I in Elmira PM. Is. in bed.
22.SUNDAY: Is. in bed. We paid a call on Dan Gingrich’s, Mother there while
too.
23.I worked at odd jobs in morn. I went to Amos Bauman a little before dinner to
chopp grain PM. Is. started choring again in eve.
24.Nurse waiting on Amos Bauman, I there to thrash awhile & chopp grain. Is.
chored about barn.
25.CHRISTMAS: We at Amos Bearinger’s for dinner & supper, at Dan Bauman’s
overnight.
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26.We at Dan Bauman’s for dinner & supper. I chored at Dan’s at noon, -others
at house over noon by J. Cressman, -we also at Josiah’s wife’s funeral, (nee
Lucinda Bauman) aged 35 yrs, 9 mons., at W Woolwich PM. I waited on A.
Bauman at night.
27.I waited on Amos Bauman all day & night.
28.I waited on Amos Bauman all day. Is. chopped grain at M. Gingrich, 4 hrs.
29.SUNDAY: We at Josiah Gingrich’s for dinner, Isaiah’s at Conestogo Meeting.
30.Is. operated g. engine at M. Gingrich, thrashing 9 hrs; I fetched lumber & salt.
31.Is. moved engine to Israel Shantz AM., thrashed with engine PM. Funeral of
Dan Hoffman’s girl, aged 12 yrs, at Conestogo AM., & Wendel Martin’s Ivan,
aged about 21 yrs, at Martins PM. I worked on I. M. B. Est. books, etc.
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March
Diary for 1878
2
Friday 15
9:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful day. More like May than March. Sky blue
with light fleecy clouds, sun shining and birds singing. This morning
Emily went back to her school after two weeks sick leave. They went
from here to Alfred's and took two horses and the light wagon from
there the rest of the way. Pa has just returned and reports the roads
almost impassable in places. Jenny has been busy baking all day and
I have knitted two blocks for my quilt.
Saturday 16
8:50 pm
This has been a miserable dull day. The morning was very bright but
it clouded up and rained before noon. This morning the boys went
down to Alfred's to help Henry kill the pig. They came home shortly
before 6 o'clock tonight. They did not go to Rockwood for the papers
as we expected so we did not hear the story tonight. Alfred and Annie
went past here today on their way a school examination. We did not
see them return. Some people were looking at McNab's old house over
here
Sunday 17
8:30 pm
This morning was dull and threatening rain. I rose at six o'clock and
went for a short walk to see what the roads were like. Decided it was
useless to attempt to go to church today as it was so wet. It began
to rain before I got back and came quite a shower. I stayed in the
house the rest of the day and wrote two letters, one to Ruth Fear, the
other to Richard. Tonight about five o'clock who should come along but
Fred. He looks a great deal better than he did the last time I saw
him and made himself very agreeable all the evening.
He brought
us a large piece of head-cheese that looks very tempting.
Monday 18
9:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful bright balmy day, birds singing and frogs
crocking in chorus. Fred left about 8:30 this morning. Ma started
for Guelph shortly afterwards. Pa drove her as far as Rockwood and
found Annie waiting. He brought the papers and a letter for Henry. Ma
has not returned yet. We have decided she is not coming tonight. We
washed today and finished shortly before 5 o'clock.
Tuesday 19
9:00 pm
This morning while we were at breakfast we witnessed a heavy
snowstorm but it was of short duration It continued cloudy and dark
until noon when it began to clear up and this evening was very bright
and clear. Alfred had rheumatism in his shoulder today and ithurt him
to pan it in any way, so he decided to stay here all night and we sent
David down to tell Annie and get the saddle. On his way home he met
Mr. & Mrs. McCaig going down there so Alfred had to start for home
about 6 o'clbck. Georgie went to Rockwood to post a card for Alfred
and brought back a card from Lila asking us to go for the dog.
�March 3
Wednesday 20
8:50 pm
Today has been a beautiful bright sunshiny day. This morning when
I first went out a pheasant flew away from the school porch. Pa went
To Mr. Loree's this morning to inquire about some work he heard they
intended to let. He returned while we were at Dinner. David has gone
to an Open Lodge in Rockwood tonight and has not yet returned. I made
a pair of pants for him today.
Thursday 21
8:00 pm
Today was dull and it snowed nearly all day. Alfred held his
examination today. The children did very well. Georgie was the
highest. The visitors were Mr. McCaig and Mary, two Gordons, teachers,
Mr. John and David Shultiss, Mr. John and Hugh Black, Mr. Dryden
and two of his children Pa and Jenny and I. Annie and the children
and Mrs. Talbot, two Mrs Maudes and Miss Maude, Misses Tovell,
Stewart Moore. Alison another whom I do not know and Mr. A. Hill,
besides three boys whose names I do not know. We gave them dinner in
the school and tonight the two Mr. Gordons and Mr. D. Shultiss and Miss
Stewart and Annie and Alfred and Mrs. Talbot came in here to tea.
After tea I drove Mrs. Talbot and the children down to Alfred's and
Annie and Miss Stewart walked. Alfred and Mr. Shultiss have not left
yet. They have been examining the papers and awarding the prizes.
Friday 22
8:40 pm
This morning the ground was white with snow and the sky cloudy when I
got up but it cleared off gradually and the sun shone most of the afternoon. There was no school today so David and George went to Rockwood
this morning for pa's tools and the papers.
This afternoon they went
off with the gun and did not come back until dark.
They say they
were helping Mr. Burns' hired man boil sap. While they were eating
their supper Henry came to say they are going to cut stuff tomorrow
for the horses. So pa and the boys will have to go down in the morning.
He says Alfred and Miss Stewart went down to Jim Collins's examination
today and had not returned when he left. We sowed tomato seeds today.
Saturday 23
9:30 pm
Today was fine with high wind until about 5 o'clock when it clouded
up and rained heavily after dark. This morning the boys and pa went
down to Alfred's, and Alfred went away to Dan Talbot's examination.
About 10:30 A.M. Bennie Townsend came, stayed to dinner and then
went down to Alfred's. He and the boys returned about 6:30 tonight.
Pa came shortly before. About 5 o'clock tonight Jennie went over to
McNab's for milk. Tonight Bennie and David played checkers for awhile
then we played Pannchee ma and I winning three games out of four.
Sunday 24
8:45 pm
Today has been blustering and very cold with dashes of snow.
This
morning David and Bennie and I went to the Presbyterian church. There
were a good many there. Coming home I got a ride with Hill's most of
the way. This afternoon passed in reading and the evening in talking.
�March 4
Monday 25
9:15 pm
Today has been very cold and windy with flying snow and gleams of
sunshine.
This morning the boys spent in the house.
This afternoon
they went to Rockwood and explored the rocks. David came home alone
tonight, George and Bennie going down to Alfred's where George
commences work tomorrow. Margaret McNab came over this afternoon
and stayed to tea after which I went a piece with her. Pa went to
Alfred's this afternoon and got back while we were at tea. Jennie sent
David over to M c N a b 1 s for buttermilk after he came home. An old man
called here this afternoon asking for help to pay his way to London
on the cars. He was frantically blind.
Tuesday 26
8:35 pm
Today has been milder and calmer but towards night the wind rose and
it began to snow. The ground is white and it is snowing yet but the
wind has ceased and it is very still. This morning pa and David went
down to Alfred's and about 8:30 Alfred and Bennie arrived here. Bennie
stayed a little while and then started for the station. Shortly after
9 o'clock Lois Black came in to change baskets, Eddie having taken
the wrong one on Thursday. Tonight about 5:30 I went over to McNab's
for milk and pa came home while I was away. Tonight is the Granger's
meeting. I do not think there is many there.
Wednesday 27
8:35 pm
This morning was misty but the sun came out quite bright about noon but
about 3 o'clock it thundered heavy and tonight it came a heavy shower
but it has stopped now.
This morning ma went down with pa and about
8:30 Alfred and Annie came up with their buggy and ma was just behind
them. Annie wanted me to go for a drive and I said I would if she
would take our horse, so she did and we went up to Thomas Talbot's
first. He was away but Mrs. Talbot gave Annie the information she
wanted and showed us the cattle. From there we went to Mrs. Oliphant's
and got our dinner and arrived at home at 3 o'clock. Alfred and
Annie stayed to tea and started home between showers.
Thursday 28
10:00 pm
This morning when I woke it was raining heavily but after breakfast
it turned to snow and continued to snow heavily and steadily until
3 o'clock when it ceased and gradually cleared up. This morning
David and Alfred came up together. About 10:30 Mr. Vinetti called to
tell them they were going to saw Alfred's lumber this afternoon.
So after dinner David went down to tell Henry to go and take away
the lumber and pa went down to the mill. About 6 o'clock he returned
very tired and out of sorts. Henry had not gone to the mill at all
and he had had to carry all the lumber himself. David did not come
Back. Pa brought the papers and a letter from Emily to Jennie.
�5
March
Friday 29
8:40 pm
Today has been a beautiful sunshiny day without a cloud. This morning
pa went down to the mill again. Alfred brought the horse and buggy
when he came and closed the school at 12 o'clock and left to attend
Mr. Gordon's examination at Ospringe. Pa came home a little after six
tonight. David did not come home.
The tomatoes are coming up.
Saturday 30
9:35 pm
Today has been fine with a high cold east wind. It is snowing now. This
is Jennie's birthday. This morning pa went to Guelph by train and
walked home arriving about two o'clock.
He brought the young Ladies
Journal and Young Men of Great Britain. The boys came home before tea.
After tea I went over to McNab's for milk. Tonight I read aloud
"Oswald the Unknown" for the boys. A teacher named Mr. Cameron was at
Alfred's today.
Sunday 31
12:15 pm
This morning it rained for awhile but cleared up before noon. It was
too muddy to think of going to church so we stayed at home all day.
This afternoon pa and the boys drowned the chipmunk out of his hole
in the garden and despatched him with sticks. Tonight N.S, was here
to tea and stayed the evening.
APRIL
Monday 1st
8:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful warm sunshiny day. We washed today and
got the clothes out before dinner.
Georgie and David went down to
Alfred's this morning. Pa was chopping and splitting wood most of the
day. Towards evening he went to Rockwood and got some coal oil. I hung
up the hams tonight. Georgie came home at 7:40 tonight.
Tueaday 2nd
8:20 pm
Today has been another balmy delightful day. Georgie and I went to
Guelph today and got home a little after 6 o'clock. We enjoyed our
ride very much. The roads are so dry, almost dusty. We went to
Carrie Porter's to dinner. Found her and her aunt looking well. Promised
to go in next week to stay a few days with her. There was not very
much stir in town today, owing I suppose to the fact that tomorrow is
fair day. Did not see many folks I knew. Passed Thomas Black on our
way home. Jenny is not very well tonight. Georgie got a pair of shoes
and a hat today. Ma sold the picture of the school.
Wednesday 3
8:40 pm
Another beautiful cloudless day. This morning pa and Georgie washed
the buggy and then pa and ma went to Guelph and Georgie rode as
far as the corner. A little piece up the road they met Alfred and Annie
and David with the team and heavy wagon. Alfred stopped at the school
of course and David also ran in for his overcoat. He and Annie were
going up to McConachie's for the potatoes. This afternoon Janet came
in at intermission and stayed until school was out. Ma and Pa got
home at 5:40 tonight and Jenny and I were at
tea. Ma went to see
Lila Humphreys today and she had a chat with Mrs. Fear. Jenny has
sore throat tonight
�April 6
Thursday 4th
9:30 PM
Today has been fine like its predecessors. Pa has been drawing wood
up here all day. This afternoon I went over to Margaret McNab's to
help her pick out a knitting pattern and ma and Jenny went down to
Alfred's for a drive. I got home about 7 o'clock and they arrived
about
7:30.
Friday 5
10:00 pm
Today has been clear and bright as usual. This morning pa w a s cutting
Wood. This afternoon he and ma went to Sunley's on a visit, calling
at Pat Lee's as they went to tell him about Alfred's barn. This evening
about 5 o'clock David came home. I got him to go over to McNab's for
milk. Alfred left about 5:30. Pa and ma got home about 8:40 tonight.
I was baking today.
Saturday 6
10:00 pm
Today has been cloudy and windy with gleams of sunshine. This morning
David went down to Alfred's with the horse and buggy as Alfred was
going to Brookville to the teacher's meeting and his horse was working.
Pa has been sawing and splitting wood all day. Tonight about 9:50
David came home and Emily and Miss Cunningham came with him.
They
were at the meeting and took the opportunity to come up. Georgie did
not come home tonight.
Sunday 7
9:40 pm
Today has been fine but rather cool. This morning about 8:30 Georgie
came home. His hand is very sore so that he cannot use it, so David
will have to take his place tomorrow. About 10:30 Alfred and Annie
and Bertie and Dan Talbot arrived. A few minutes afterwards Mr. &
Mrs. McCaig came along on their way to church. They stopped at the
gate and he came in. We girls and the boys were just coming in from
inspecting the playhouses. He spoke to us and said he called to see
Dan then he went on to the house and the rest followed while I went
and chattered to Mrs. McCaig until he came out. About 2 o'clock Alfred
hitched up his horse and he and Dan went up to McCaig's. Shortly
afterwards Daivd hitched our horse for us and Jenny and I went to
take Emily and Miss Cunningham back to school. We had a pleasant
drive although we had to go very slow on account of the load.
We
left Emily at McPhails to walk the rest of the way. Mrs. McPhail made
us stay to tea and we reached home at 9:10. Alfred has not returned
yet for Annie and Bertie.
Monday 8
9:00 pm
Today has been fine but tonight the wind has risen and clouds obscure
the moon. This morning Alfred arrived on foot having gone home sometime
in the small hours. Ma and Annie and Bertie sat up for him last night
until 12 o'clock and then went to bed in dispair. So this morning Jenny
had to go and take them home, getting back about 11 o'clock and bringing
Maggie to school. Today I trimmed Emily's hat and washed my nightdress
which ma had just finished. Before tea I went over to McNab's for milk.
Georgie's hand is some better tonight.
�APRIL 7
Tuesday 9
9:30 pm
Today has been cold and windy and rainy. This morning pa. and ma went
down to Alfred's. They came back about 6:^40 tonight. Georgie went
down to the post-office this afternoon but returned without, any letters,
Alfred stayed to tea waiting for his return, and at last set off to
meet him. Mr. Auld called today to see Alfred on business but did
not come in. Today is Miss Kate McKeown' s wedding day. Rather a gloomy
one.
Wednesday 10
9:J30 pm.
Today has been mild and showery and dull. This morning Alfred and Annie
started up here on foot as Annie and I intended to go to Guelph with
our horse but it began to rain and Annie went into Barnet Shultis's
while Alfred came on. When the shower was over, she followed getting
here about 9:30. She stayed to dinner and then went home in. despair
of it clearing up. Alfred left with her as he was. going in, by the
afternoon train, leaving George Hill in. charge of the schpgl, which
he dismissed about 3 o'clock. About 3:30 Mr. Patrick Lee called to
see Alfred on business and stayed a short time then left for the
station. Today is Lucy Duffield's wedding day.
Tonight's clear
and starlight.
Thursday 11
ll:1O pm.
Today has been fine but not without clouds. This morning I got all ready
the buggy at the door when, Alfred arrived, with his horse and buggy to
say that Annie went to Guelph yesterday with him so I had to go by the
train. Georgie drove me to the station and I got a return, ticket for
30 cts
lasting four days. When I reached Guelph I went down to
Carrie's and found the house empty so I went up town and met then on
the street.
Tonight Carrie and I went to a lecture in Kriox's church
delivered by the Rev. Mr. Handford from Toronto. It was splendid and
we enjoyed it immensely. We have just returned. He said among other
funny things that if you only threw mud enough at a, man. some of it would,
be sure to stick but if the man had sense enought to leave it alone
until it dried it would rub off without any harm being done.
He gave
2 very amusing and interesting accounts of Oliver Cromwell's boyhood
and the pranks he imagined him playing. Oliver Cromwell was the
subject of the Lecture and he did justice to it.
Friday 12
9:00 pm
Today has been fine but windy. This morning Miss Eliza Hamilton
called on her way to school and promised to come in to dinner which she
did.
This afternoon Carrie and I went up town to do some shopping
and we called on Lila Hamphreys and saw the baby.
She is going about
quite smart. Mrs. Fear is there yet.. She and. Freddie came down, as
far as the corner with us on their way to the post-office. I got a
parasol for Emily today. Tonight Mr, Porter came home. He was not
home last night as he went down to Hamilton instead and let the
other man come up here. Mr. Porter has just come in. 9:40
�APRIL 8
Saturday 13
8:20 pm
Today was fine but cold and very windy. This morning Carrie and I
went up to Mr. Hamilton's. Just before we left Fanny Smith called and
she stayed for a short time with Mrs Nevilles. We rode in the stage
as far as the corner and then walked the rest of the way. I enjoyed my
visit very much. The girls are so friendly. There are three girls
and one boy in the family. Mr. & Mrs. Hamilton are away down to Toronto
at present. Miss H walked back with us and went to the post-office. She
called on her way home to say she got a card from her parents. Carrie
has gone up town tonight with Mr. Porter to get him a hat.
We got
home a little after six o'clock otnight. I am going to bed with a
headache.
Sunday 14
8:30 pm
Today has been very fine and warm. This morning Mr. Porter and Carrie
and I went to Mr. Ball's church and Mrs Nevilles went to the Methodist.
Mr. Porter's brother Andrew came down with him to dinner. After
dinner the two gentleman set out for their father's. Tonight Mrs. N and
Carrie and I went to the
Methodist church. On our way home I was
introduced to cousin Mary Day and she invited me to go and see her. Mr.
Porter has not yet returned.
Monday 15
8:30 pm
Today has been dull and cool. This morning Miss Eliza Hamilton called
to say they had got a letter from their parents and that the operation
was successful. About 10 o'clock ma and Jenny arrived with the horse and
buggy and I went up town with them to do some shopping then we
went down to dinner. About 1:30 they started for home taking my things
with them.
I started for the station about 4:30. Carrie went up
with me and saw me off. Just as we were starting Eliza H. came in on her
way home. I walked home from Rockwood meeting Annie going in,
chatted to her a few minutes and reached home at 6 o'clock and
eat my supper. Pa came home at dark. I saw Margaret McNab as I passed
there and Mrs. Maude.
Tuesday 16
9:30 pm
Today has been a fine breezy day. We washed today and got the clothes
dried and folded tonight. This afternoon about 4 o'clock Annie came up
with Prince and the buggy and brought a horse collar to take to Everton
to get fixed. Alfred seftt her on with it and Jenny went with her
for company. After they had gone the boys came with the team for pa's
tools. About 6:30 pa came home and about 7:30 Jenny came. The Grangers
are holding a meeting tonight. There are a good many there, two
or three ladies among them. Planted my gladiolus root today.
Wednesday 17
9:20 pm
Today has been very fine and warm. This morning ma went with pa to
Alfred's. Annie came back with her and they brought the spinning wheel.
Then ma changed her dress and she and Annie went to Mrs. Scott's
funeral. Mrs. James Black rode back with them and made them go in
there to dinner and stay the afternoon. It was nearly 6 o'clock when
they got here and I was over at McNab's for milk. They called for
a shawl and then ma took Annie home and brought pa back. Jenny
planted onions and sowed lettuce today.
�APRIL 18
9:30 pm
Today has been fine out. This afternoon it clouded up like rain. I
was baking today and starching and ironing Emily's dark print dress.
This afternoon Mrs. William Burns came over. She left shortly before
6 o'clock. Then Jenny harnessed the horse and ma went for pa. David
came home with them.
Good Friday 18
9:30 pm
This morning it rained heavily for some time and there was one clap
of thunder and flash of lightning. It continued dull until noon when
it cleared a little but clouded again towards evening and rained a
little.
This morning we moved the stoves. Just as we had got things
straightened a bit I took the lumbago in my back and had to keep quiet
all the rest of the day. It is better tonight. After dinner David and
Jenny got ready and started for Nassagawega. Tonight Alfred let his
school out earlier and George Hill went home and changed his clothes
and came back and accompanied Alfred home to go with him tomorrow
morning to Emily's examination. Pa went to Rockwood this forenoon
and got some strawberry plants and he and ma started them after dinner.
Saturday 20
10:00 pm
This morning about 2 o'clock there was a heavy thunderstorm. It commenced
raining again about 7:30 but cleared up before noon and was very
windy all the afternoon and evening. This forenoon Myra Laight
called to pay ma some money she owed her. This afternoon a tramp called
for something to eat.
He was very civil.
Ma and I were all alone.
Tonight pa came home about 7 o'clock without his supper. David and
Jenny have just got home.
Easter Sunday 21
9:00 pm
Today has been fine and mild. This morning Georgie came home about
9 o'clock. This afternoon there was Sunday school in the schoolhouse.
Mr. McNab and Mr. Hugh Black were the teachers and they has very few
scholars. Tonight we went down to church. There were not many there.
Margaret McNab and John overtook us on our way down. My back was bad
and I had to walk slow so she walked with me. Coming back Elsie and
Agnes walked with us as far as the track and a little farther on
Margaret and John overtook us again and walked as far as their place.
Monday 22
9:20 pm
This morning was dull and cold. About 8:30 it began to rain and continued
to do so until late in the afternoon. It thundered and lightened for
a short time about noon. Tonight pa came home early followed soon
after by David.
Tuesday 23
9:15 pm
Today has been cold and windy with a dense fog and rain towards
evening. This morning pa went down to Alfred's with the buggy. David
went with him and brought the horse back and Alfred came up with him.
Then Jenny sent David over to McNab's for buttermilk. At noon Mr.
John Black called for some circulars ma had relating to some magnetic
belts etc. At intermission ma sent for Lois Black to give her a
paper she had forgotten to give Mr. Black. After tea I sent David over
to McNabs for sweet milk. Pa came home tonight at 8 o'clock.
�APRIL
Wednesday 24
9:00 pm
This morning was cloudy and warm. About 8:30 it began to rain and
continued to be showery all day. We had several very heavy showers
with some thunder and lightening. Pa went down this morning to work.
David started shortly after and got nearly there when he met Henry
coming up with wood so he came back and helped him unload and load
up again with manure.
This afternoon Henry came up again and brought
the sugar kettle and leach barrel and a barrel for ashes and he took
another load of manure home. About 5:30 two tramps called for something
to eat. Pa came home about 6:30. Ma is very poorly with a cold.
Thursday 25
9:30 pm
Today has been fine but cool. This morning Georgie came up with a
load of wood and took back manure, David going with him. This
afternoon the two of them came up twice with loads. David stayed the
last load. A tramp called this afternoon for something to eat. Pa
came home just before dark. He had been to Rockwood and brought
the papers. David went over to Maude's tonight to have a chat
and came back about 9 o'clock.
Friday 26
9:00 pm
Today has been showery and warm. This morning pa and David went down
to work at Alfred's. At 12 o'clock I started for Emily. On the road down
the bolts came out of the front of the buggy and let me down. Dr.
Wynn was just behind me and he came and fixed it all right and when
I reached the blacksmith's shop I got a new bolt in. I met Emily
just the other side of Brookville riding with Mr. McPherson so I had
not so far to go and we reached home in good time. Pa and David came
home shortly after.
Saturday 2 7
9:20 pm
Today has been fine and mild. Ma and I have been working hard all
day to finish Emily's dress. David has a pain in his side and cannot
work so he stayed at home today. We sent him over
to McNab's
tonight for milk. Pa came home at dark.
Sunday 28
10:00 pm
Today has been a strange day. This morning David and Emily and I went
to the Presbyterian Church. It was very warm but cloudy with gleams of
sunshine. This afternoon I went to take Emily back and it came on
rain. We got two heavy showers going down and the second one we took
refuge in the shed at Brookside but not before we got pretty wet.
Coming home I got several showers but none of them very heavy until
I got here when it came down very heavy. Pa was in bed and ma had
to call him up. Georgie did not come home today.
Monday 29
9:20 pm
This morning it was raining steadily when I rose, and was rather
misty but it cleared a little before noon but has been dull and showery
all the afternoon. At 6 o'clock this morning, as I was preparing
breakfast, Alfred came. He and Annie had been at Richard Talbot's
all night and he had just come from there. Annie took the horse home
and he walked on here from the corner. David went into school today
and Mr. Lee came with George Hill in the forenoon. This afternoon pa
went to Rockwood and tonight David went over to McNabs for milk.
�11
APRIL
9:00 pm
Tuesday 30
This morning was dull and rather misty but it cleared somewhat th,i.s.
afternoon. This morning pa went down to. work at Alfred's. David was
cutting wood all day. Pa came home a little before 8 tonight, Jenny
and I have been working at her dress all day.
MAY
9:00 pm
Wednesday 1st
Today has been fine but windy. Tonight it clouded up and rained
a little. We washed this morning and I was gardening this
afternoon. David was cutting wood all day. Pa came home shortly after
6 o'clock. Charlie McNab was married yesterday, so George Hill told
David tonight.
Thursday 2
9:20 pm
Today has been showery and tonight we had a heavy thunderstorm. This
afternoon pa went down to Alfred's and made a packing box for ma and
brought it home in the buggy and brought a bag of flour. David went
to Rockwood to get some cotton for us and he heard that Charlie McNab
is not married yet but will be next week. Jenny sowed beets today.
Firday 3
9:10 pm
Today has been one continuous downpour of rain. About 7 o'clock
tonight it stopped and the clouds scattered a little and a beautiful
rainbow appeared in the southeast. This afternoon David went fishing
and caught a trout and came home dripping wet. We finished Jenny's
dress today minus the buttons.
Saturday 4
9:00 pm
This morning it was raining heavy but it soon stopped and David
went down and got some lime and we cleaned the kitchen today. It
was 6 o'clock when we got through. Pa and David went down to Alfred's
this morning and they came home about 7:30 tonight and Georgie came
with them. Alfred and Annie were down to Mr. Cameron's today.
Sunday 5
9:20 pm
Today has been fine and rather cool. This morning David and George
and I went to Eden to quarterly meeting.
There were a great many
there. During our absence Alfred and Annie called and left the
children and when we came home they were at dinner. It was nearly
9 o'clock tonight when they came back and took Bertie home with them
and left Maggie.
Monday 6
8:3 0 pm
Today has been a beautiful sunshiny day. This morning Georgie rose
at five and started off to work. After breakfast pa and David went off
to Edwards to work so we are alone tonight. Jenny and I cleaned
upstairs today. I am so sleepy I am going to bed early.
�May
Tuesday 7
9:30 pm
This morning it was raining heavy when I woke but it soon quit and
turned out quite a fine day, very warm. Tonight a little after 8
we had a thunder shower but it is clearing off now. This morning we
sprouted the potatoes and this afternoon, ma and I made soap and when
we got that done I did some gardening, digging a bed and sowing
my flower seeds.
Wednesday 8
9:10 pm
Today has been fine until about 5 o'clock when we had a smart shower
and about six we had a dreadful rain with some thunder and lightening.
It washed a lot of my flower seeds away. This morning Jenny and I
washed the bed clothes and after dinner we washed the yarn. Tonight
after school Jenny cleaned out the wood-shed.
Thursday 9
9:20 pm
Today has been fine but very windy. Tonight about 7 o'clock
we had a furious storm of rain and wind but it did not last long
It is now clear moonlight. This morning I did some gardening and
Jenny went over to McNab's for buttermilk. After dinner an old man
came in begging. This afternoon I sewed 12 blocks of my quilt together.
After tea I did some more gardening. Ma Twisted a ball of cotton
today.
Friday 10
9:30 pm
Today has been fine but cold and windy. This morning at 9 o'clock
we had a heavy rain but it soon passed and the sun shone again.
Tonight about 4:30 I started for Alfred's walking with Janet McKersie.
Just the other side of the Rockwood turn we met Annie on her way
here with the team and light waggon so I got in and came back with her.
Then shortly after we got here pa and David came home. A little after
Alfred and Annie started for Johnny Talbot's. They returned past here
just before dark. Tonight I read the story aloud.
Saturday 11
10:00 pm
Today has been cloudy and cold and windy. This morning pa and David went
down to Alfred's to work andtookthehorseandbuggy.Shegotsomethingsfor us and sent
them home by the men tonight. Georgie came home with the rest about
8:30. Jenny and I shook the carpets this afternoon and put them down.
Sunday 12
9:30 pm
Today has been fine but cold and rather windy. This afternoon Norris
Black came in to get the school key before Sunday School and Lois came
in afterwards to bring it back. Tonight Jenny and I went to church and
heard
Mrs. O r r 1 s funeral sermon. The church was crowded. We walked
home with Maude's girls.
�MAY 13
Monday 13
9:10 pm
Today has been fine but cold. Pa and the boys went down to Alfred's
this morning to work. Jenny and I washed today and got through
before dinner. Last night there was a very hard frost. It made
the trees in the woods look brown but it did not do much damage in
the garden
Tuesday 14
9:00 pm
Today has been fine and rather milder. Last night we had a
dreadful hard frost...Freezing everything stiff. This morning I
poured water over some of the plants in the garden to thaw the
frost.
Jenny ironed this morning. This afternoon we all went down
to Alfred's on a visit and explored most of the farm, had a
very pleasant time. David came home with us tonight. I brought some
daisy plants home with me.
The Grangers meeting tonight.
Wednesday 15
:30 pm
Today has been fine and very pleasant. This morning I took David
down to Alfred's and got the periwinkle plant and then I drove to
Rockwood and got some knitting cotton and some letters. One was from
Emily to me. This afternoon we starched a pair of curtains and got
them dry and ma and Jenny made some cords and tassels to tie them
back with. Ma went over to McNab's this morning and got some eggs.
Charley is to be married tonight.
Thursday 16
9:15 pm
Today has been calm and mild.
This morning I starched and dried the
other pair of curtains. This afternoon I put them up. Ma and Jenny
were gardening, planting the tomatoes etc. About 3:30 Lois Hill came
and stayed to tea. About 6:30 George Hill came along and she went
down to Rockwood with him. After that I practised a piece of music
and then dug a little in the garden. Tonight I set bread.
Friday 17
9:20 pm
Today has been a beautiful sunshiny day. This morning I was baking.
This afternoon Jenny and I went over to see Myra Laight. We found
her doing her Saturday's work as she intends going to Guelph tomorrow.
We enjoyed our visit very much though. She gave us some sweet music,
singing some very pretty pieces.
We got home at 7:50
Saturday 18
9:00 pm
Another beautiful day but cloudy and dull tonight. This morning Jenny
planted the corn. Tonight she went for pa and David. Georgie did not
come with them but he has just now arrived. Tonight about 7 o'clock
Mr. Burns called to tell pa the hay he promised us is
musty.
Sunday 19
9:00 pm
Today has been a miserable dull wet day. We did not get out anywhere.
This afternoon Georgie had to go down to Alfred's as Henry was
going to be away. There were not many at Sunday School. Mr. McNab and
Mr. Hugh Black came as usual.
�MAY
Monday 20
9:20 pm
Today has been pleasant but windy and showery. This morning pa and
David went down with the horse and buggy for Annie to come up with.
But Maggie was sick so she could not leave and Alfred brought the horse
home.
This afternoon about 3 o'clock Mr. Townsend came and stayed to
tea. About 4 we had a heavy shower and another about 6. After tea
Alfred and Mr. T. set off for Alfreds just as it was beginning to
rain and were out in the last shower.
Tuesday 21
9:30 pm
Today has been dull and cool. This forenoon ma drove up to Johnny
Talbots to ask if they had heard from Tom and then down to Alfred's.
About 11 o'clock James and Thomas Black brought a load of hay. This
afternoon Jenny went over to McNab's for buttermilk and she got some
brides cake. Ma got home about 8:30 tonight.
Wednesday 22
9:30 pm
Last night there was a white frost but it did not seem to do much
harm. Today has been fine and warm. This morning Jenny went down and
brought Annie and the children up. Annie wanted ma to fix her dress
so they were working at that all day. This afternoon Jenny and I went
to Rockwood to get the horse shod and we took Bertie with us. After
tea I took Annie and the children home and brought back a bag of flour.
Today Jenny planted the cucumbers.
Thursday 23
9:20 pm
Today has been another beautiful day. This morning I ironed Emily's
dresses and Jenny planted the beans. After dinner I went down for
Emily and ma went with me as far as Mr. Wetherald's. I met Emily on the
big hill. We went into Wetherald's and stayed to tea and a M r s .
Marshall came in to tea. We reached home at 8:20 tonight.
Friday 2 4
9:15 pm
Sometime during last night we had a thunder shower and this forenoon
was dull and threatening but it cleared up beautiful and bright
about noon and continued so all day although rather windy. It is
very warm tonight and the mosquitoes are humming.
There was a picnic
today at the Erin school. Maude's girls were there and they called in
for a drink tonight on their way home and they said there were a
good many there and they enjoyed themselves.
This afternoon between
3 and 4 o'clock Georgie came home and went fishing. About 7 Alfred
and Annie went by on their way to her mother's. They stopped talking
for awhile with Emily. I got the pleating ready for Annie's dress today.
Jenny sowed the rest of the carrots.
Saturday 2 5
10:30 pm
Today has been warm and bright but very windy making it very unpleasant
riding on account of the dust.
This morning we expected Alfred to
call on his way home but as he did not come before 10 o'clock Emily
and I went to Guelph. We returned home about 4 o'clock. Annie and
Dan Talbot called about 3 but as we were not at home Annie went on
home and Dan went over to Alex Burns to the raising where Alfred
had gone. He came back about 6:30 and said Alfred was coming down with
Johnny after the raising was over. So he did come but it was after
9 o'clock. He and Johnny came in and chatted for awhile and then
they all left and I read the story aloud to pa. He got home about 6.
David went over to the raising and came home from there shortly
before Alfred came. Georgie did not come home tonight.
�MAY
15
Sunday 26
9:00 pm
Today has been fine but windy. This morning David and Emily and Jenny
went up to the Centre church to quarterly meeting. Alfred and Annie
were there with the children. They wanted the girls to go up to
Talbot's to dinner but Jenny wouldn't so Emily went and they took
our horse and buggy and David and Jenny came home with their rig.
About 5 o'clock they came down here and stayed to tea and went home
about 8:30. I did not get out at all today as it kept me so late
getting tea tonight. They took our buggy tonight and left theirs for
us to take Emily down in the morning.
Monday 2 7
9:15 pm
Today has been a beautiful day with high wind. This morning Jenny went
down with Emily and pa and the boys went off to work before
breakfast so ma and I were alone at that meal. I washed today and ma
went over to McNab's to spend the afternoon. Jenny got home about
4 o'clock. She had to come by Alfred's to change the buggies so she
got her dinner there. Ma came home about 8 o'clock.
Tuesday 28
9:30 pm
Today was fine but cool. This morning ma and I went down to Alfred's
to help Annie with her dress. This afternoon we were busy sewing at
when Sydney Shultz and Annie Dunbar came in. Annie had to run away
to bake something for tea and she left me to entertain her company.
They left shortly before we did. We reached home about 8:30. I brought
the dress skirt with me and the trimming and I have to finish it for
her.
Wednesday 29
10:00 pm
Today was fine but cold and since dinner cloudy and dull. This morning
Jenny washed the flannels and this afternoon she and I went over to
Socketts. We found Lucy busy whitewashing and baking.
Had a pleasant
time and got home about 9:30.
Thursday 30
10:20 pm
Today has been fine but cool and windy. This afternoon Jenny drove
down to Alfred's for some bags to put the sets in tomorrow and while
she was away Mary McCaig came to spend the afternoon. Jenny came
back about 3:30. Alfred stayed to tea and then took our horse and
buggy and went up to Everton and to Mrs. Talbots and brought Dan
Talbot down with him. They got here about 9:30 and after putting away
the horse they came in for a few minutes and then started for Alfred's
on foot. Mary went away just before dark and Jenny and I went with her
as far as Hugh Black's gate. I set bread tonight.
Friday 31
9:30 pm
Today has been a real summer day, warm and bright. I have been busy
baking all day. Ma and Jenny cut the sets this morning for planting
tomorrow. I went over to McNab's this forenoon for buttermilk. They
were busy house-cleaning. I watered some of the garden tonight.
�16
JUNE
Saturday 1
9:10 pm
Today has been another summer's day, very warm. This morning ma
and Jenny went down to Alfred's. Jenny went to help plant potatoes.
They took two bags with them and then ma came back and got the
other two and then brought the horse home. Tonight we got tea at five
and then I went for pa and Jenny. David stayed to help Henry finish
covering what they had planted and then he was going to Rockwood. He
has not come yet nor George. Tonight I watered the garden again.
Sunday 2
Today was very warm and bright and dusty. We did not go out in the
morning but tonight Jenny and I went down to church. The boys went
off somewhere for a walk directly after dinner and did not come back
until nearly 7 o'clock. Alfred and Annie went up to her mother's
and called here on their way back tonight. As we were coming home
from church James Black and George Hill overtook us this side
of
Maude's gate and came the rest of the way with us. When we got home
we found N.S. here who stayed some time.
Monday 3
9:20 pm
This morning we had a couple of light showers. This afternoon was very
warm and fine. About 5 o'clock George Moore called to see Alfred who
was in the school and stayed chatting to him outside for some time.
Shortly after he left Annie came to get a bag of potatoes as they
had not enough to finish the field. We put up the potatoes and then
tea was ready and she stayed to tea. Just before dark Mr. Hunter's
little boy came over for water and he came in to see if we wanted
to buy some cabbage plants as his mother had more than she wanted.
We did not take any.
Tuesday 4
11:00 pm
This morning was fine but the wind rose and drove up the clouds and
this afternoon was dull and tonight very cold and windy.
This morning
we started for Uncle Watson's and took ma as far as Ann Eliza's
and left her and then Jenny went into Uncles and I went on to Atkinson's
to take the pattern and get some money and got back to Uncle's in
time for dinner. A little after 7 we started for home called for ma
and got home about 10:30.
Ann Eliza sent a jar of milk home by me. I
forgot to say Thomas Hill called this morning before we left and
brought a postal card for Alfred.
Wednesday 5
Today has been fine but cool
here for his breakfast. This
as he was going to Guelph so
and stayed until nearly five
for two pounds of butter. Mr
Mount Forest where they went
and then covered some of the
9:30 pm
and windy. This morning a tramp called
afternoon Alfred let out school early
Janet McKersie came in to have a chat
then she left and I went over to McNab's
& Mrs. McNab had just returned from
on Monday. Tonight we watered the garden
things in case of frost.
�JUNE
Thursday 6
10:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful day but cool. This afternoon Jenny and
I went over to John Black's and ma went with us as far as Hugh Black's.
We had a pleasant visit. Lorrie came home for good last Friday night.
Tonight I called for ma and Jenny came on home. It was 9:30 when we
got home.
Friday 7
9:00 pm
Today has been dull and cold and drizzling rain most of the time.
While we were at dinner David came for Alfred as a man had
come to look at the farm.
This afternoon Jenny did her Saturday's
work so that she can go to Guelph tomorrow if it is fine. Tonight
pa came home sick with a cold and pain in the stomach.
Saturday 8
10:00 pm
Today has been dull and cold and windy. After dinner pa went to Guelph
by the train. Sometime after David came with the gun and shot a
chipmunk and a little while after Alfred came for our horse to go
down to Brookville as his horses's feet were sore. Awhile after that
Joe Moore came along with a load of hay and David went with him to
Rockwood. He returned shortly before dark and Pa came home about
6:30 and brought a pair of shoes for David and two magazines.
Georgie
came just after we lit the lamp and I was beginning to read aloud
"Oswald the Unknown". Tonight about 9:30 Emily came bringing the
horse home. She had come up with Alfred. Georgie brought ma a letter
from Richard.
Sunday 9
9:30 pm
Today has been warmer and a beautiful day. This morning Emma Tolton
called here to ask the way to Alfred's. Shortly afterwards Alfred and
Annie and Miss Tolton passed here on their way to Tom Talbot's.
Tonight Emily and Jenny and the boys and I went down to church.
Alfred and Annie came just before we started, stayed to get their
tea and then followed us.
Mr. Greenwood preached a splendid sermon.
Coming home Jenny rode with Annie as far as the corner and Alfred
walked with Emily as far as the railroad and went up that w a y .
Monday 10
9:30 pm
Today has been fine but not particularly bright with a cool west wind.
About 5:30 pm we had a nice steady shower which continued sometime.
This morning I went down with Emily. Pa left before we rose. We passed
Jim Collins on the road. Emily had to go to Reids for the key and her
watch and then she rode back with me as far as the school. I reached
home about 12:30. They commenced road-work today down there. Jenny
washed today. A man called at the school today with some bills
describing a performance he intends to have here next Monday. Alfred
stayed to tea tonight and then went up to Mr. John Stewarts.
�JUNE
Tuesday 11
9:30 pm
Today has been fine interspersed with light showers. This morning
ma and Jenny went to Guelph and I washed the flannels and ironed.
Alfred brought me a newspaper Richard had sent me.
It was after
6 o'clock tonight when ma and Jenny got home. They went to Mr.
Humphrey's today and saw Ruth and got their dinner. Lila
is going
down to London to stay for awhile soon and Ruth will keep house.
Jenny got a new pair of shoes today.
Wednesday 12
9:10 pm
Today has been a beautiful fine, calm day. I made a pair of pants
for George today.
This afternoon Jenny went over to McNabs for
butter but came back without any. They are going to churn tomorrow.
Tonight Jenny sowed the carrot seed where the other did not come up
and I watered the garden.
Thursday 13
9:20 pm
Today has been another beautiful day. This forenoon Annie came up with
two bags of wheat in the buggy and called here on her way to Everton
mill but Alfred sent her back
to Rockwood, a team that was passing
taking the bags for her. This P.M., ma and Jenny went down there to
take David's shoes and George's pants intending to call at McNab's
on their way home for butter but soon after they left Agnes and Elsie
came along and brought 4 lbs of butter.
Ma and Jenny got home about
7:30. I made a pair of moleskin pants for David today. Tonight I
watered the garden.
Friday 14
9:40 pm
Today has been very fine and warm almost hot. This afternoon
I went up to John McNab's to spend the afternoon. About five Annie
came up for Alfred and stayed some time.
They left sometime before I
came.
I got home just at 7 o'clock. Then I changed my dress and
Jenny and I watered the garden. Tonight I set bread.
Saturday 15
11:40 pm
Today has been very hot and bright. Since dark it has been
sprinkling rain. This morning I baked bread and scrubbed. This
afternoon I went down to Alfred's to fix Annie's dress and bring pa
home. Mr. & Mrs Cameron and Miss Bowfield were there but I did not
see them as I did not go into the room. David went off somewhere to
play ball tonight and did not come home until after nine. Georgie
came home just at nine. Jenny and I watered the garden. Tonight I
read a story aloud.
Sunday 16
9:00 pm
Last night we had some thunder and lightning and a little rain.
Today has been hotter than any preceeding one and I put on thinner
clothes. Tonight Jenny and I went to church. Dr. Curry preached
a short sermon. There was not much of a turnout.
�JUNE
Monday 17
1:00 am
Today has been very fine and cooler. This afternoon at intermission
I had a chat with Janet McKersie and after school I drove down to
Alfred's and gave Janet a ride that far. I got some flour and groceries
and then went to Rockwood to post a card to Mary Watson and get some
groceries for Annie. Tonight Professor Huntsman gave an exhibition in
the school house.
McKersie's girls came up early. There were a good
many there. Ma went in with Mrs. John Black. Lorrie was not well
so she did not come. Annie came late and did not come into the school.
This morning I starched my print dresses and white skirts.
Tuesday 18
9:10 pm
Another
fine warm day. This morning Professor Huntsman did not
come for his things until nearly nine o'clock and as he had the key the
children could not get into the school till he came so Janet McKersie
came into the house and stayed till the bell rang. Tonight shortly
before 6 o'clock Annie passed on her way home bringing Mrs. Richard
Talbot down to their place. Jenny and I watered the garden tonight
and I transplanted some petunias.
Wednesday 19
9:30 pm
Today has been the warmest day we've had yet. This morning ma went down
to Alfred's to get the lard and the cake tins and she found them
all in bed excepting the men and Mary.
This morning while she was
away Thomas Hill called to leave a letter for Alfred. This afternoon
I went over to McNab's for buttermilk and stayed some time to cool
myself. Mr. McNab and Betsy went away this morning to Wawanosh and
will not be back until Monday. After tea I went up to see Myra
Laight and ask her to the raising and from there over to Black's to
ask Lorrie. It was after nine when I got home.
Thursday 20
9:30 pm
Today has been very warm and fine until about 5 o'clock when it
clouded up and between 7 and 8 it came quite a gentle shower. This
morning ma went for Ann Eliza and got home about 11:30. Tonight after
tea I took her home and got 8 lbs of butter and some buttermilk.
Coming home I called at the postoffice and got the papers and a
letter from Emily. From there home I got the benefit of the shower.
It was about 8:10 when I reached home. Alfred sold his farm yesterday
for $4,000.00.
Friday 21
9:00 pm
Today has been showery but a beautiful growing day, very warm. We
were busy baking all day. We baked 13 loaves of bread, 190 buns,
6 sponge cakes and 10 railroad cakes for the raising. Tonight after
tea ma went down with a load of provisions. Just as she was starting
pa came. He had not had his tea, having come from Rockwood. He says
David went for Emily this afternoon Ma got home about 8 o'clock.
�JUNE
Saturday 22
Today has been dull and drizzling rain most of the time with several
smart showers and after dark a heavy rain.
This morning ma and pa
went down with another load of provision and ma came back with the
horse. About 11 o'clock ma and I went down with some more. I stayed
there and ma came home again and she and Jenny came down in the
afternoon. We had a good time in spite of the rain.
There were a
great many there. Reids and McPhails's from Nassagaweya were there.
After the tables were cleared away we had dancing in the driving house
until 10:30 when we had tea. Everybody seemed to enjoy themselves.
Pa and ma came home at dark. Dan Talbot took Emily home and then
came back for Jenny and me. It was 1:20 am when we got home.
Sunday 23
9:10 pm
Today has been dull and showery but not quite so wet as yesterday.
This morning it was late when we rose. When we finished breakfast
it was 9:40. Shortly after 12 o'clock Reids and McPhails came and
Eva Talbot with them.
A very little while after Mr. & Mrs. Talbot
came along and called for her. About 2:30 we had dinner. After that
we went into the school.
There was James and Nancy Reid and Willie
and Katie McPhail.
They left for home about 3:30 taking Emily with
them. Between 4 and 5 o'clock ma and pa went down to Alfred's to get
some things as pa intends to go away with the horse in the morning.
They have just returned. We all took a piece tonight instead of supper.
Monday 24
9:10 pm
Today has been fine but windy. This morning pa went to Mr. Bathgate's
and from there to Cousin Robert's to begin work and ma went along to
bring the horse back. She stayed there to dinner and on her way home
called at uncle David's to see aunt Susan who is very ill.
She
reached home about 5:30. Shortly before she came a lame man called,
trying to sell some trifles but I had no money. This morning on their
way out they met Mr. & Mrs. Atkinson and got the $4.00 they owed us.
Tonight about 7:30 Mr. McNab came home bringing Mrs. McNab and Betsy.
We saw him go down this afternoon to meet them
Tuesday 25
9:00 pm
Today has been very warm and fine. This morning Thomas Hill called with
a letter for Alfred and shortly afterwards Alfred came in haste to
get the mortgage as he was going to Guelph and George Hill taught all
day for him.
Jenny ironed this morning. Tonight after tea
Jenny and I went up to Mr. Burn's bush for fungus and we got as many
as we could carry. Going up we met Thomas Hill. Coming home we met
Lois and stopped a few minutes talking to her.
Wednesday 26
9:20 pm
Today has been fine and very warm and this afternoon very windy. This
afternoon ma and Jenny went to Rockwood to see Mr. Wetherald and
from there to Alfred's to get some things.
They got home between
4 and 5 o'clock. Tonight we had strawberries for tea. After tea I hoed
weeds in the garden and while I was so employed Alfred and Annie came
by on their way to Johnny Talbots.
�JUNE
Thursday 2 7
9:30 pm
Today has been very warm and fine. This morning a man called with
strawberries. This afternoon another man called on the same errand
and ma bought 3 baskets for 25 cts. Tonight I watered some things
in the garden.
Friday 28
9:30 pm
Today has been a scorching hot day, everybody puffing for air. This
morning I baked and melted the lard to salt it. This afternoon I
cut out my Muslin jacket. Tonight about 5 o'clock Jenny went for pa
as he has to go to Guelph tomorrow. Janet McKersie came in before she
left to see if we had got a bill of the performance in Rockwood next
Monday night. Another strawberry man called here today. Pa and
Jenny have not come yet.
Saturday 29
10:00 pm
Today has been very hot but not so calm consequently more bearable.
This morning ma and pa went to Guelph by the train. Alfred and Annie
also went. Jenny drove down to Emily's for her trunk so I w a s alone all
day. In the forenoon Mr. John Moore Sen. called to see pa but left
on being told he was away. Tonight Emily came home with Jenny and
they overtook pa and ma at our gate. It was about 6 o'clock. David had
to walk all the way home and got here about 10. Georgie did not come
tonight.
Sunday 30
9:20 pm
Today has been hotter than ever, scarcely a breath of air stirring
until near evening when a little breeze sprang up. Tonight Fmily and
I went down to church to hear the new minister. He seems to be a
pretty good preacher. Coming home Mr. David Shultz walked with us as
far as his place. Ann Jane Maude joined us this side of the railroad
and came the rest of the way with us. Georgie
came home this morning
between 9 and 10.
JULY
Monday 1st
Today has been another suffocating day. The boys washed the buggy
this morning then they changed their clothes and went to Guelph by
train. This afternoon pa and ma went down to Alfred's and Alfred
and Annie had gone to Action for shingles. When our folks came home
we got an early tea and just as we finished N.S. came for me. While
he got his supper I got ready and we wnet down to Rockwood. The girls
followed soon after. We saw the horse race and the Calithumpians
and then we went to the concert in the hall. We enjoyed ourselves
very well. It was nearly 1 o'clock A.M. when we got home.
Tuesday 2
9:00 pm
Today has been very warm. This afternoon we had a light shower or
two. This morning we rose at 4:30 and snatched a hasty breakfast
and then I went ot take pa and David as far as the Centre Inn. Emily
met me in Rockwood on my way back and I took her down to school and
got some cones. Then I came back to Mrs Wetheralds and put in the
horse to rest and got my dinner and stayed till the rain was over.
Then I came home. Mr. & Mrs. Wetherald are just on the eve of
moving into Rockwood. She gave me a tiny plant and a bracket made
of fungus. David has just come with the news that Aunt Susan died
this morning and is to be buried t o m o r r o w . Cousin Robert brought him
as far as Rockwood.
�JULY
Wednesday 3
9:30 pm
Today has been dull and showery and a little cooler. This morning
Jenny and I washed. A little after 12 ma started for pa, taking
his clothes with her to go to the funeral. Shortly after she left
Annie came for Alfred. He gave half a day holiday. This afternoon
David took the gate hinge to Rockwood to get it fixed. He came back
about 4 o'clock. It was after 9 when ma got home.
Thursday 4
9:40 pm
Today has been warm but cloudy and sunshiny at intervals. This morning
Jenny rinsed the clothes and hung them out. David went over to McNab's
for buttermilk and I commenced a rustic fram of cones etc. Tonight
after tea David went away to cousin Robert's to work and I folded the
clothes.
Friday 5
9:30 pm
Today has been a beautiful day with a cool breeze. This morning I
ironed and a man called inquiring the road to Rockwood. Alfred gave
a half holiday today to attend Miss Young's examination. There is no
more school for six weeks.
Saturday 6
10:00 pm
Today has been very warm and bright. This afternoon I worked at
my muslin jacket. Tonight about 8:30 pa and Georgie came home. David
stayed at cousin Robert's. Alfred and Annie went to Guelph today.
Pa brought the papers tonight and I read the story aloud.
Sunday 7
10:00 pm
Today has been exceedingly hot. This morning Georgie and I went down
to bring Emily home. We reached there just as they were getting their
dinner. After dinner we went down to the village to church. Nancy
and Katie went first to Sunday School Mr. MacMillan took Emily in his
buggy and Archie Reid hitched his horse to our buggy and took Georgie
and me. Coming home Nancy and Katie rode with us and we had a smart
ride. After tea we started for home and reached here about 9:30.
Alfred and Annie had just driven in and we stayed outside talking
to them for some time.
Monday 8
9:45 pm
Today the weather has been variable, sunshine and rain, following
one another in quick succession but withal very hot. This morning pa
waited some time for it to clear up but at last he and George set
off for Alfred's. Alfred had arranged to go with pa and bring the
horse home as he wanted to see several people on business today. He
arrived here just before dark. This afternoon two men came in with trays
of images on their heads and one came in to try to sell some but we
did not buy.
He spoke very imperfect English and looked like Italian.
�JULY 23
Tuesday 9
10:15 pm
Today has been a scorching hot day. This morning ma and Emily and I
went to Guelph. Before we left home Alfred and George came along and
told us Annie was in Rockwood to get some paris green and as she could
not get it we were to get it in Guelph so we looked for her but could
not see her. We drove up to Dr. McCullough's to get some medicine
for Emily. Ma came back as far as the station and went in by train.
We drove in. While ma was at the station Annie came.
She had been
all the way up here and finding we were gone hurried down before the
train left.
It was dreadful hot in town. We went down to Carrie's
to dinner.
She and her aunt have been quite ill but are better now.
We stayed there until 4 o'clock then we had some shopping to do and ma
missed the train and had to ride out with us. We reached home about
8 o'clock. Alfred and George came along on their way home about 9 so
we sent the things by them that Annie sent for. Tonight some Grangers
came but they did not stay long.
I got a pair of fourmella shoes
today for $1.25
Wednesday 10
9:55 pm
Today has been a little cooler than yesterday and rather cloudy.
This morning Jenny and I rose early intending to go down to pick
potatoe bugs but there came quite a shower and it looked so like
heavy rain that we put it off until this pm. About 3:30 we started and
we returned about 7:30. When we came Emily proposed that I should
change my dress and she and I would drive into Rockwood to get the
buggy seat and call at the postoffice.
We did so and had a very
pleasant drive reaching home about 9.
Thursday 11
9:20 pm
Today has been cooler and cloudy most of the time. Towards evening
it began to rain and rained steadily for some time. It is raining
now. This morning I washed the flannels and coloured clothes. This
afternoon I trimmed Emily's hat. Tonight I set bread.
Friday 12
9:00 pm
Today it has been raining most of the time. This morning I baked and
Jenny ironed Emily's dress and some starched things. Tonight about
5 o'clock the girls went to Rockwood to get the papers and get a
shoe put on one of Jessie's feet. They got back about 7:40.
Saturday 13
10:15 pm
Today has been beautiful and bright. Today Hugh Black was buried. This
afternoon a man called to sell fruit trees. Tonight I went for pa and
David and met them just this side of uncle David's gate. Georgie came
soon after we got home.
Sunday 14
9:30 pm
Today has been exceedingly warm. This evening Emily and Jenny and I
and the boys went down to church. There was no service in the Presbyterian church today so we had a good many of them there tonight.
Coming home Elsie and Margaret McNab walked with us as far as John's.
�JULY 24
Monday 15
9:20 pm
Today has been very warm and fine but it is cooler tonight and looks
like rain. This morning Georgie went first, then pa and David. They took
the horse to keep her out there this week. Jenny and I washed today
and had all done by 10:30 am. Tonight after tea me went over to
M c N a b 1 s for butter and brought home some cherries. Emily and Jenny
went to meet her and I folded the clothes. Tonight after dark one of
Hunter's boys came over for water and came in to ask if we would
buy some berries. We replied in the negative and he left.
Tuesday 16
10:40 pm
Today has been exceedingly hot. This morning I ironed and Emily
and Jenny went for raspberries. They came home shortly after 12
with about a quart. They were very hot and tired they had to walk so
far. Tonight after tea they went over to McNab's for the butter and
they did not get back until after 9 o'clock. I watered the garden
tonight.
Wednesday 17
10:20 pm
Today has been hotter than yesterday with a warm wind. About 4:30
Emily and Jenny started for Alfred's. About 5 o'clock we
had a smart shower accompanied by wind. It did not last long and
shortly after sundown I was sitting at the front door when Mary
McCaig came along and asked me to go with her for a drive. So I
changed my dress and went. It was nearly 10 when I got home and the
girls had just returned.
Written Sunday 21
9:00 am
Thursday 18 - early in the morning I walked down to Alfred's and got
there while they were eating breakfast. Annie had to drive the reaper
so I had to help Mary. Shortly after 12 o'clock it came on a heavy
thunder shower so Annie and I got some sewing done at her dress that
afternoon. It was very hot and close before the rain.
Friday 19 was dreadful hot. I came up home in the morning with Prince
and the buggy for a bag of oats, went back again in time to take out
the lunch. We baked and ironed that day. Alfred got stung by a bee
on one of his eyes.
Saturday 20 was very close and oppressive in the morning but a breeze
sprang up before night. Georgie was sick all day and did not eat any
dinner and scarcely any breakfast and a little supper but he managed
to work all day. He drove part of the afternoon. He and I walked home
after sundown. Pa and David were here
Sunday 21
9:00 pm
Today has been quite cool and pleasant but towards evening quite windy
making it rather disagreeable to go out. This morning ma and pa went
to Alfred's for a drive and stayed to dinner and then Alfred and Annie
drove up with them on their way to her mother's. Tonight Emily and
Jenny and David and I went to church. Coming home Maude's walked
with us. Mr. Masson read the pastorial address tonight.
�JULY
Monday 22
9:00 pm
Today has been fine and cool but very windy. This morning w e rose
early and Jenny went off for berries and pa and David went out to
their work and George and I rode with them as far as the corner and
then walked the rest of the way.
When we got here Alfred and Annie
were out loading in the field. George went to them.
They got in
14 loads and then Annie came in and Henry took her place and they are
now getting the 15th load. Mr. Carter and Henry have been cradling
and binding all day. Tonight after tea I drove over to Mr. Lee's to
get him to come to finish the barn. He was at Anstee's harvesting and
I had to go there.
He says he cannot come until next week. It was
dusk when I got home.
Tuesday 23
8:40 pm
Today has been very pleasant, a little warmer than yesterday and not
so windy. Today they finished cutting the field against the road.
After tea they drew in the rakings out of the other field and a load
of what they cut today and they are now getting another. I helped
unload the load that was in the barn and then went in the field and
threw the sheaves into heaps until dark.
I must now go and wash the
children. Mary washed the clothes today.
Wednesday 24
Today has been very warm and very fine.
early to see about the potato bugs. She
came in and took the lunch to the barn.
o'clock pm. Today they finished drawing
field that they cut yesterday.
9:20 pm
This morning Jenny came down
picked what there was and then
She went home between 3 and 4
in the wheat in the front
Thursday (written Friday morning)
Today the weather has been variable. This morning it was fine, towards
noon it became cloudy and about 5 o'clock it began to rain and has
continued to do so ever since with very slight abatement. This morning
Jenny came down just as I started for home with the horse and buggy
to bring a bag of oats and the pitchfork and gun. I got back again
about 9:30 am. This afternoon Jenny helped in the barn. Maggie has
been in the house all day with a sore foot. After tea they unloaded
the load in the barn and then Jenny and I started for home as the
rain had slackened but looked like a wet time. We arrived about
8 o'clock without getting very wet.
Friday 2 6
9:00 pm
Today has been a pouring day.
The rain fell without ceasing until
about 4 o'clock pm when it cleared a little but drizzled again a little
after 4. About 5 Alfred and Annie with Maggie came up and took tea
and stayed chatting awhile and then left for the doctor's to ask his
opinion on Maggie's foot. Annie was up with her all night.
�Saturday 27 26
9:30 pm
Today has been a beautiful fine pleasant day. Jenny & I rose at
4 this morning and went for berries. We got very wet but we got a
patent pail full and got home shortly after two o'clock. Last night
after we got to bed pa and David came home. This morning pa went down
to Alfred's and from there to Guelph by train and Alfred and Annie
went with him. David also went down to Alfred's to spend the day.
Emily scrubbed the floor and baked bread and when we came home she
and ma went down to Alfred's for a waist pattern and from there to
Rockwood for sugar for the berries and then home calling on their way
home at Margaret McNab's for buttermilk. When they got home and
delivered their parcels ma turned around and drove back to meet pa.
Tonight shortly before dark Hunter's boy brought us a present from
his mother of a mess of butter beans. Our boys have just come home.
Sunday 28
9:20 pm
Today has been fine and very pleasant. This forenoon David went over
to Hill's to see George and came home about 4:30 pm.After dinner
the girls and George went for a walk up to Wm. Burns's bush. They came
back shortly after David. Tonight Emily and I and the boys went to
church and ma and pa went over to Mr. Burns's. Maude's girls walked
with us coming home.
Going down we met Peter Talbot and Mrs. Tovell
going to Alfred's.
Monday 2 9
8:10 pm
Today has been cool and calm and cloudy.Towards evening it began to
sprinkle a little and now it is raining quite a shower. This morning
Jenny and I rose at 4 o'clock and got a bite and then started for berries.
Georgie left for Alfred's just before us. After breakfast David went
down also and pa drove av^sr to Armstrong's to see whether they were
ready for building. They will not be ready until next week. This
afternoon he and ma went down to Alfred's
just before we got home
which was about 3:20. They returned in time for tea. We got the two
cans full of berries. We have got six jars all together of berries.
Tuesday 30
8:30 pm
Today has been dull and drizzling rain falling most of the time.
This morning pa went down to Alfred's to work. This afternoon Georgie
came past on his way to Everton mill with a grist of new wheat.
Shortly after Alfred came along with the buggy on his way to
McArthur's to see about the thrashing. Georgie came back just before
dark and called here for some oats, there was not quite a bag full.
Tonight about 8 o'clock pa came home. About 20 minutes after David came.
He had been to Rockwood and brought Emily her cheque and some
papers. The cheque is for $61.76
Wednesday 31
8:40 pm
Today has been fine but somewhat cloudy. This morning pa and David
went away after breakfast and ma drove down about 10 o'clock. After
dinner we three girls went over to Myra Laight's and spent the
afternoon. Coming home up their lane we met old Mrs. Black, Mrs.
Hugh Black and Mrs. Jackson Black and old Mr. Black. When we got home
we found ma and pa here. Thomas Hill is helping Mr. Laight with his
harvest.
AUGUST
Thursday 1st
9:30 pm
Today has been threatening but a light shower was the only result.
�27
August
This morning the girls drove down to Brookville for Emily's money and
pa rode with them as far as Alfred's. The girls got back shortly
after 11 o'clock am. This afternoon we three girls went over to
Cousin Ann Eliza's and enjoyed our visit very much. We reached home
about 8:30
Friday 2
9:00 pm
Today has been fine but windy. This morning I baked and Jenny
ironed. This afternoon we three went down to George Ramshaw's to
spend the afternoon. On our way down we called at Alfred's to leave
Annie's dress waist and then we went on to McKersies' to ask them
to name a day for coming to our place. They promised to come next
Thursday. From there we went to Ramshaw's. It was 8:30 tonight when
we got home. Pa came home just before us.
Saturday 3
10:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful day but tonight is very warm. This
morning Mr. Wm Burns came over with a load of hay before we were up
and pa got up and helped unload it. After breakfast ma and Emily started
for Guelph and pa rode with them as far as the corner. They got home
at 6:30 tonight and Jenny and I had just finished tea. They brought
me a pair of new leather shoes and a necktie for Jenny and some frilling
and a linen dress for Emily ready made and ma got a dress and
shawl and gloves and shoes for herself and a pair of pants and boots
for Georgie. Pa did not get home until late and the boys did
not come at all.
Sunday 4
9:00 pm
Today has been pleasant but rather warm. This morning about 8 o'clock
the boys came without their breakfast. Shortly after 9 we three
girls started for church it being quarterly meeting. It was nearly
one when we got home again. Tonight it looked so threatening that
we dare not venture but after tea we all went for a walk up the
road. This afternoon Mr. McNab came in for the school key and in a
short time brought it back. He only had two scholars a boy and a
girl.
Monday 5
9:00 pm
Today has been variable. This afternoon we had a heavy shower
accompanied by thunder and lightning but it cleared off before dark.
This morning the men went away together with the horse and buggy
They were thrashing at Alfred's today and will be tomorrow and they
have our horse. Jenny and I washed today and got the clothes dried
before the rain. Tonight pa and David came home about 8:30.
Tuesday 6
10:00 pm
Today has been fine and warm most of the time. Just before daybreak
this morning we had a dreadful storm of wind and rain accompanied by
thunder and lightning in almost one continuous flash and roll and the
house shook with the force of the wind. At noon we had a heavy thunder
shower. Tonight it is clear and calm. Pa's head was bad all day and
he was unable to go down to Alfred's so David went alone this
morning. He came home about 9 o'clock tonight and he
says they were threshing all day and there is over 500 bushels of
wheat alltogether.
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AUGUST
Wednesday 7
9:20 pm
Today has been fine but windy. This morning pa and David went out
to Armstrong's to work and Emily went along to bring the horse back.
She got home shortly after 11 o'clock am. This afternoon we three
girls went down to Acton to get our photos taken.
We had just
started when Janet McKersie drove up with the team and we stopped
to speak to her. Last night after we went to bed Janet and Fanny came
up to tell us they could not come tomorrow as they had promised as
they were going to thresh that day. So today Janet came to say they
could come as the threshers were not coming till Saturday. When we
returned from Acton we found the house shut up, ma being away. She
returned just at dark having walked all the way to Alfred's and
home again. Alfred and A n n i e w e r e away or she would not have walked
home I guess. They called tonight on their way home to borrow our
sewing machine as Annie's will not work.
Thursday 8
10:50 pm
Today has been a beautiful day but very windy and very warm. This
morning ma went to Guelph by the train and Emily took her to the station
and waited in Rockwood until she returned by the 11 o'clock train. It
was nearly 12 when they reached home. This afternoon the girls came
about 2:30. Fanny and Janet first and Louisa some time after. We
had a pleasant time and tonight at dark Jenny and I hitched the horse
and took them home. We called at Alfred's going down and Jenny stayed
there while I took the girls home. When I came back I drove up and
got a bag of rye and Jenny got some apples. We got the girls photos
tonight. Alfred and Annie were drawing in peas when we left. Henry
and George in the field and they in the barn.
Friday 9
10:00 pm
Today has been fine but dreadful windy and warm. This morning ma
and Emily drove over to Laight's for some butter and got 2 lbs then
they went to McNab's and got some buttermilk. After dinner we three
girls drove over to Sunley's to spend the afternoon. We had a pleasant
time and reached home at 9 o'clock. Ma spend the afternoon with
Mrs. Hunter and came home tonight when she saw the light and knew
we were home.
Saturday 10
9:20 pm
Today has been fine but windy. This morning I finished sewing my
quilt together. This afternoon I went for pa and David. As I was going
I called at the blacksmith shop and got a shoe put on the pony then I
went on and called at Ann Eliza's to leave her jar and speak for
butter. Then I went on to the mill and went into Uncle Watson's and
got my supper and got some harvest apples, then we came home, calling
at the post office on our way to see if our photos had come but they
had not. Georgie has not come yet.
�AUGUST 29
Sunday 11
Today is fine but windy as usual. This morning about 9 Georgie came
home. About 12 Annie with the children and Mrs. Richard Talbot
came up. They just called to get our buggy and then went on to Johnny
Talbot's. About 4:20 Annie returned and stayed here to tea. After
tea we went to church with the boys. A little way up the road we met
Alfred and Henry with Jack hitched with Doll to the light wagon. He
seemed to go very quiet. Mrs. Maude walked with us coming from
church and she told us she saw them going home and ma and pa
following them with our rig. When we reached home we found they had
returned and N.S. was here. The
boys did not get home for some time
after we did.
Monday 12
9:20 pm
Today has been fine and cool. This morning Georgie rose early and
went down to Alfred's Emily went with pa and David to bring back the
horse and she brought 2 bags of flour from
Armstrong's mill. Jenny
and I washed today. Tonight after sundown ma and Emily went down to
Alfred's for our sewing machine and just before they left Mary McCaig
came along and asked me to go for a drive as far as Rockwood with her
and Katie, so I went and got the photos. Emily's and Jenny's are good
but mine are miserable and I intend to take them back. Tomorrow morning
we start for Garafraxa if fine.
Tuesday 13
10:30 pm
Today has been a beautiful day. It did not rain here but where we
were it rained very heavy for a short time and then cleared up and the
sun shone again. This morning Emily and I started for Garafraxa about
6:30. We had a very pleasant ride and enjoyed our visit very much. Mrs.
Townsend sent ma a bottle of honey and gave me some plants and Emily
a bouquet of flowers. It was 10 o'clock when we reached home. Jenny
was lying on the lounge asleep and ma was just going to bed.
Wednesday 14
9:20 pm
Today has been fine and warm with a smart shower during the afternoon.
About 3 pm we three girls went up to McCaig's. We had a pleasant visit
and were just on the point of starting home when Myrna Laight and
Miss Stronick came in so we had to stay while longer and then they
came with us as far as the gate.
It was about 9 when we got home.
While we were away Sarah and Lorrie Black came and finding we were not
at home they went to
Hills.
Thursday 15
9:30 pm
Today has been fine but very warm. This morning after breakfast Jenny
drove down to Alfred's for some potatoes. She came back shortly
before 11 o'clock and ma took the rig and went up to Johnny Talbots
for Mrs. Richard Talbot and brought her down to dinner. Tonight about
9 Alfred came along and ma went out and had a chat with him.
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30
Friday 16
9:20 pm
Today has been fine most of the time and very warm. Tonight we had
a heavy thunder storm about 5 o'clock and another about 8.
This
morning Jenny took Emily down with all her luggage.
She had to go
today because the horse has to go for pa tomorrow Jenny got home about
6 o'clock. About 4:15 Annie came for Mrs. Talbot and then started
for Rockwood to get the horse shod. Tonight I started to read aloud
"Kenilworth Castle". Today Warden's cleaned the school and the little
girls came in and played with Bessie Talbot.
Saturday 17
9:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful d a y . It was very misty in the morning
but it soon cleared away.
This forenoon ma went to Rockwood to
get the horse show and from there to Alfred's to fit Georgie's pants.
She reached home shortly after twelve. At 12 Alfred came along with
Bertie on his way home from Everton after taking his last load of
wheat. He had exactly 500 bushels and he got $1.00 per bushel all round.
I went out and chatted for awhile. At 2 o'clock Jenny went for pa and
David and they reached home about 8. Georgie came just before dark. This
forenoon a man came in to look at the house, saying he intended to
build and he thought this house was about the size he should like.
Sunday 18
9:00 pm
Today has been very pleasant.
This morning Annie took Mrs. Talbot
up past here and tonight she returned with Peter with her. Sometime
last night Shaw's came to their place.
Four girls and a boy. Tonight
we went to church, the boys and Jenny and I. Today is pa's birthday.
He is 56 years old.
Monday 19
10:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful day although it was dull and threatening
for some time this morning.
Early this morning ma and pa started
for Garafraxa and Jenny and I washed the clothes.
David went down to
Alfred's. Georgie went as soon as he got up.
The school opened today
and Mr.
Cochrane came with Alfred and stayed all day. After school
they came in and asked for a lunch as they were going to Guelph
on the evening train.
They left here about 4:40. This afternoon David
came up on Prince for the polonaise pattern for Annie. He came home
again tonight a little before 8 o'clock. Ma and pa came home at 9:30
They brought another bottle of honey and a bouquet of flowers.
Tuesday 20
9:30 pm
Today has been beautiful and bright. This morning pa and David started
off to their work again and ma was going to Guelph by train so she
rode with pa as far as Miss Edward's where she stayed until it was
time to go up to the station and David walked down the track and
met pa at the station.
When Alfred came Mr. Cochrane came with him
again and at noon when they came into their dinner Mr. Cunningham came in
but he had had his dinner.
He did not stay long. After school tonight
Mr. Cochrane came in to bid us good-bye as he is going away.
After
they left I started for the station to meet ma. On my way I posted a
letter to Aunt Eliza.
The train was late and it was 7 o'clock
when
ma and I reached home. We found Jenny beginning her supper in despair
of our appearance.
�AUGUST 31
Wednesday 21
9:40 pm
Today has been the same as yesterday, beautiful.
We have been
very busy all day sewing.
I was trimming ma's dress and she was
making a fine shirt for George. Tonight between four and five
o'clock Henry came past here with the team on his way to Johnny Talbot's
to help him draw in grain. He called in to speak to us.
He says George
is going up in the morning. I read aloud this evening from Kenilworth
Castle.
Thursday 22
10:00 pm
Today has been fine but very warm. We have been hard at work all day
sewing.
This afternoon Mrs. Talbot senior with Mrs. Richard
Talbot called at the school to see Alfred. They did not come in so
ma went out to speak to them but they did not stay long. Tonight
sometime after dark Alfred called to see if pa was home and to say
he is going to thresh tomorrow and next day.
Friday 23
9:30 pm
Today the weather has been a repetition of yesterday's. I trimmed ma's
bonnet today and bound pa's coat with new binding. Tonight about 6:30
pa came home. David had gone to Alfred's and arrived about 7:30
with George bearing a basket of apples.
Saturday 24
9:00 pm
Today has been dull and showery and tonight it is misty. This morning
we rose early as they were all going away by train. Pa and ma and
George went to Seaforth and David went to Guelph to the circus. Pa
and David started on foot for the station early and ma and I and
George followed in the buggy.
I brought the horse home. This afternoon
Mr. John Black called to inspect the school cleaning. Shortly after
he left Emily arrived with a load of McPhail's two boys and two girls
and Nancy Reid.
They stayed a short time and then went on to Erin.
After tea we three drove down to Alfred's for some potatoes.
While
there we enjoyed a good swing and were introduced to the Miss Shaws.
When we came home we found David asleep on the sofa.
Sunday 25
10:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful day, cool and clear but rather windy. This
afternoon about 5 o'clock McPhail's came along and called for Emily.
They did not come in. After they left we got our supper and then
Jenny and I went down to church and left David alone. After we got home
I had to light the fire and set bread.
Monday 2 6
10:20 pm
Today has been cool and very clear and rather windy. This morning
we washed and I baked bread. This afternoon David and I drove over to
Mr. Loree's to see about renting his cottage. We returned a little
after 3 o'clock and I baked cakes for tea.
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32
Tuesday 27
8:30 pm
Today has been fine and warmer and calmer than yesterday. This morning
Jenny ironed. This afternoon David and I went down to Acton to return
my pictures and get taken again, however the man refused to retake
them and would only take off 6 more for me lighter in place of the
dark ones. David got an ambrotype of himself. We came back by Alfred's
and called for some apples. We reached home about 6:35.
Wednesday 28
9:20 pm
Today has been dull with faint glimmers of sunshine and shortly
after noon two smart showers closely succeeding one another. This
morning David went down to Alfred's. A short time after he left Thomas
Hill called to leave
a note for Alfred and a handbill. David returned
tonight just before tea. About 8 o'clock tonight a man came knocking
at the door inquiring after a stray dog and requesting us to ask the
master
to make inquiries among the children.
Thursday 2 9
9:00 pm
Today has been fine and very warm with scarcely any wind. This morning
early David went down to Alfred's to help clean up some grain. About
7:30 I went over to Wm Burn's to tell them about some money we owed
them and arranged to go for her at 10 with the horse and buggy. I
took her up to Henry Maude's to see about getting a girl. When I
reached home again it was 11:30 am. Tonight after tea Jenny and I
went down to McKersie's for a drive to take them our photos. As we
passed Bernard Shultz's Alfred came out and rode as far as his place
with us. The
girls were all away to Guelph so we did not stay long.
As we passed Alfred's on our way home we saw David riding Jack to break
him in. He rode down to speak to us and then over to Ferries's with
Alfred and we came on home. He arrived about half an hour later. I set
bread tonight.
Friday 30
9:20 pm
Today has been very similar to yesterday as regards weather. This
morning early David started for Ferries's to a threshing for Alfred.
A short time after he left Jenny started for Armstrong's Mill for some
flour they owe us. She returned shortly after noon with 130 lbs being
all they had at present. Alfred brought his horse and buggy today.
David has not yet returned.
Saturday 31
8:10 pm
Today has been rather dull but tonight about 5 o'clock it set in steady
rain and has rained heavily most of the time since.
This afternoon about
4 I started for the station to meet our travellers. I started early that
I might have time to go to Ann Eliza's for the butter.
When I
reached the station coming back the train had just come in. Pa walked
home and Georgie rode with ma and me. It rained very heavy most of the
way home and our wrappings got very wet. David came home about 7
o'clock. Ma is very poorly and has been for several days.
�SEPTEMBER 33
8:00 pm
Today
Sunday it1st
has rained most of the time coming in heavy showers. Just
before sunset it began to clear off and the sun set quite clear. We did
not go out at all. Ma is a little better tonight I think.
Monday 2
8:30 pm
Today has been fine but windy most of the day and tonight after dark it
clouded up and blew hard and rained quite a shower.
This morning
pa started off on a business trip. First he went to L o r e e 1 s and
rented the cottage so that is settled. Then he went to Uncle
Daniel's and from there to Armstrong's Mill for the remainder of the
flour. He reached home about 6:30 tonight. This morning Alfred came
driving Johnny Talbot's horse and buggy. He has undertaken to break
in the horse for Johnny. When he came he found young Nelson awaiting
for him.
He had brought his brother to school as he does not improve
under Mr. Hill's tuition. He came in the house with Alfred for awhile
then he went in the school and stayed until intermission when he took
leave.
Jenny and I washed this morning and I folded the clothes
tonight. This morning the boys went off and did not return until after
dinner.
They brought two guns, one was ours and the other Tom Davidson's.
This afternoon George went over to McNab's for buttermilk. Johnny Talbot'
man called today to speak to Alfred and on his way home he called for
the gun.
Tuesday 3
10:15 pm
Today has been dull and threatening most of the time with a little
shower and now it is thundering and lightening heavy and sharp and
raining a little. This morning David went off on an excursion to Toronto
and Scarboro Heights.
He has not yet returned. Pa and George drove down
to Alfred's this morning and brought home a bag of potatoes and a basket
of apples, a bottle of milk and a roll of butter. Tonight as Alfred
was hitching his horse, Annie and Miss Jenny Shaw came on foot. Miss
Shaw was going to Guelph by train and as Alfred was going they thought
to go in company and expected to meet Alfred on the road so they only
stayed a minute and then left in the buggy with him. Georgie went down
to Alfred's again this afternoon for a walk and returned just before
supper.
Wednesday 4
9:25 pm
Today has been dull and showery.
Last night David returned at 12:15
midnight. He did not get wet. This morning pa and the boys set off for
Alfred's to get some oats and to see Mr. Shaw on business. They met him
and Alfred so pa turned back and went to Rockwood while the boys went on.
They got home some time before he did. Tonight the boys went over to
John Burns's to see if he wanted a boy as his was leaving. While they
were away Mr. Ching called with some bills concerning the election.
�SEPTEMBER
Thursday 5
9:45 pm
Today has been fine and warm. This morning pa went off to see about
some work he had heard of at a distance.
He returned about the
middle of the afternoon. The boys went off this morning to Johnny
Talbots with Dunbar's gun, Alfred having told them there were
a lot of pigeons up that way.
They got our gun from Johnny but they
did not find the game until afternoon.
They came home at dark with
5 pigeons.
This morning we had an old beggar woman here for her breakfast but she proved so saucy that she left without it.
Friday 6
10:00 pm
Today was fine in the morning but dull in the afternoon and very
close. This morning about 8:30 Mr. McKeown Senior came in to see
Alfred on business and sat chatting with pa until Alfred came.
He wanted to buy a horse so after he had talked with Alfred pa hitched
up our pony and drove him down to look at Alfred's horses.
They
returned at intermission and came in and he had another talk with
Alfred. After school tonight Alfred drove up there and took pa along
for a drive. He made a bargain for Prince.
This afternoon the boys
went to Rockwood for the papers and some cotton and called at Mr.
David Shultz's for 2 dozen eggs and got them for 10 cts per dozen.
Saturday 7
10:20 pm
Today has been fine though threatening several times to end in bad
weather. This morning pa went to Guelph by train and returned by the
evening train.
This afternoon the boys went down to Alfred's and did
not return till after dark. Alfred went to Guelph with Johnny Talbot
I finished m y counterpane today ready for bleaching.
Sunday 8
9:00 pm
Today has been fine and very warm though there was quite a breeze. This
forenoon Alfred passed here on his way home from Johnny Talbots. He
called in for his paper as we had it. Shortly after he came back with
Annie and Bertie on their way to her mother's. They just stopped to
speak and then went on.
We went down to church tonight, Jenny and I
and the boys.
There were a good many there. Mr. Wright had a baby
christened. Coming home Muade's girls were with us.
Monday 9
10:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful day but cloudy towards evening. This morning
pa went over to Mr. Hugh Black's to see about taking the job of a barn
foundation he intends building next year. When he returned he hitched up
the pony and went to see about another he had heard of and me went along
for a drive. They returned about 3:30 without having tasted any dinner so
I set them a lunch. About 4:30 the boys went to Rockwood
to get the
horse shod. They returned just before dark to their supper. About noon
James Black called to see Alfred. Jenny and I washed today.
�SEPTEMBER 35
Written Monday 16th
3 pm.
Last Tuesday morning pa and David and George and I went up to Garafraxa,
That forenoon was cloudy with occasional gleams of sunshine. We had only
been there a short time when it began to rain and continued to d,o so
until the afternoon of the day following when it slackened and cleared
a little and Georgie started for home, Arthur coming with him..
It was quite cold all the time. Thursday it rained pretty steady.
In the afternoon Pa and Mr. Townsend went over to Mr. Martin,,:s and.
stayed to tea and returned after dark. That night the wind rose and.
blew furiously and the rain poured down and drove through between,
the logs of the house and beside the chimney. Friday morning it still
poured rain and blew hard. After dinner it slackened again an.d pa.
proposed to start for home so Ralph hitched the horses to take them
apiece.
They started through the swamp but the logs were floating
and the horses were frightened and pa and Ralph got out and the horses
went to jump across some water and threw David out and the wheels went
over him but did not hurt him much. They broke the whippletrees too
so pa walked on and they came back. David was soaking, wet and had to
change his clothes. Saturday proved finer but very windy with a few
little showers in the forenoon. In the Afternoon David and Cecelia,
Ann and I came down with one horse and the rig. We got home safe
about 6:30, a tree across the road being our only difficulty. We
succeeded in driving over the top without mishap. We found pa had got
a ride part way home. That evening after dark N.S. same and stayed till
12.
Sunday afternoon Jenny and Cecelia, Ann and I went down to Alfred's,
Pa had gone down in the forenoon and stayed to dinner and started home
when we got there. We stayed to tea and then drove to church, Miss
Amelia Shaw riding with us
and Alfred and Annie following with Miss
Louisa. Coming home Miss Shaw got out at the corner and Annie and Louisa
drove up then and took her up, Alfred having walked up the track. David
walked down to church and back. George and Arthur did not come.
Monday 16
9:35 pm.
Today has been fine and a little warmer but still cool. This morning
pa and David and Arthur and Cecilia Ann went off to Garry and Jenny
and I washed. Tonight after tea ma and I drove down to Alfred's and
got a bag of oats and half a bag of potatoes, the quilting grames and
mat hook, some tea and a basket of apples and the polonaise pattern.
Henry has hired with another man for a year and Georgie went down,
this morning to take his place.
Tuesday 17
9 :30 pm.
Today has been fine but somewhat hazy, tonight the wind, is rising.
This morning we put a mat on the frames. After dinner ma drove down
to Alfred's to help Annie make"Governor's Sauce,"
About 3 o'clock
Mrs. John Black came to spend the afternoon but find ma, was absent
she only stayed to rent and then went to Hugh Black's, Ma returned
at dark. Tonight
just before I came upstairs a young man. called to
inquire the road to Guelph.
�SEPTEMBER
Wednesday 18
9:20 pm
Today has been beautiful. This morning Jenny drove me into Guelph
to the Exhibition and then returned. I met McNab's girls and kept with
them all day. We had a splendid time. I rode out with them tonight.
Annie went in on the train this morning and Alfred went by the
afternoon train.
I saw cousin Mary Watson and Aunty, John Day and Mrs.
Richard Talbot and Eva and Myra Laight and Thomas Black.
Thursday 19
9:00 pm
Today has been fine although it threatened rain this morning and it
has been very warm. Alfred gave half a day's holiday and went in to
the show again today. Annie did not come home last night. A man
called this afternoon selling tomatoes. Tonight after tea Janet
McKersie came up to see when we were going down. She stayed till after
dark and then Jenny and I went as far as Dunbar's hill with her. The
wind blew very strong and the lightning flashed in the west and
shortly after we got back it came up a heavy thunderstorm with a furious
wind but it was soon over. Fanny and Louisa have gone to the show
today.
Friday 20
9:30 pm
Today has been fine but very windy and warm. Tonight before dark
we had a storm of wind and rain. After school Alfred went up to Johnny
Talbot's Today we cut out a polonaise for me from my gray dress and
partly fitted it.
Saturday 21
9:40 pm
Today has been fine but rather windy and cool. This morning while I
was scrubbing Mr. Wm Burns called about the money for the hay. This
afternoon at 4 o'clock I went down to Rockwood for the papers. It was
5:40 when I returned. Tonight Georgie came home about 8:30 and brought
a little canary.
Sunday 22
9:20 pm
Today has been beautiful and clear and cool. This morning Georgie
dressed and went down to Alfred's. Tonight Jenny would not go to
church so I went alone. I got a ride part of the way with a young
gentleman from Guelph. Passed George on his way to church and the
Shaw's girls and Maggie.
Monday 2 3
9 :2 0 pm
Today has been a repetition of yesterday's weather. This morning we
washed. Georgie rose early and went down to work. About 8:40 Mrs.
McNab called in to have a chat as she was on her way to John's. She
did not stay long. Tonight Annie and the children came up in the new
buggy about 4 o'clock and then Alfred went with them up to Johnny's
for some crab apples. On their way home they called here to leave some
of the crabs. It was about 8:30 o'clock.
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Tuesday 24
9:40 pm
This morning it was raining fast at daylight and continued to do so until
after 8:30 when it began to clear and turned out a beautiful day.
At noon a boy called with fresh herrings. Shortly after Mr. Docherty
came to see Alfred. Tonight after tea Jenny drove down to Alfred's for
a bundle of straw.
Wednesday 25
10:00 pm
Today has been dull and cold and windy. Tonight after dark it rained
and turned warmer. At 12 o'clock noon I started for Emily. I reached the
school at 3:30. She dismissed the scholars and we drove up to Raids.
We only stayed there a short time and then went down to McCaven's for
Miss Cunningham. She had not come from school so we went to meet her.
Then we had to stay to tea and we were late getting home. On the
road we lost the whip and stopped quite awhile to look for it but did
not succeed in finding it.
Thursday 26
10:15 pm
Today has been cloudy and cold and windy. This forenoon I drove Emily
and Miss Cunningham down to Acton and then came back by Alfred's
and got a bag of oats. It was 2:30 PM when I reached home. About 4:30
David came home on foot. Townsends brought them as far as Sherwoods.
When they came Georgie had just came with the team for Alfred and he
was going to McKeown's for a cow, so David went with him. About 5:30
I started for Acton for Emily. When we returned we found Uncle Turner
here. He has just come from Toronto. David went down to Alfred's
with Georgie.
Friday 27
10:30 pm
Today has been fine, clear and cold.
This morning Emily and Jenny
started for Acton, going by Alfred's and calling for him. Uncle left
shortly after as he was going by the morning train. Pa walked with him
as far as the corner as he was going to Alfred's where he has been
digging potatoes all day. So ma and I were left alone. In the forenoon
I went over to McNab's for buttermilk. When I came back I did some
baking and ma was busy preserving and making jelly. Pa came home tonight
about 8 o'clock. The girls have not yet returned.
Saturday 28
Midnight
Today has been fine but cold and windy. This morning pa went off after
breakfast to Alfred's and about 10 am the girls came home. After dinner
I drove over to Ann Eliza's to take the crock for butter. On my way
home I got a gallon of coal oil in Rockwood. As I passed our place I
left the oil and then drove down to Acton for Miss Cunningham. We came
as far as Alfred's and spent the evening there. Emily walked down
from home. Alfred and Annie were away to Guelph but they came while
we were at tea. Georgie came home with us.
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Sunday 29
9:30 pm
Today has been fine but rather dull and tonight is misty. This forenoon
Willie Townsend came on horseback. After dinner Georgie went to
take Emily and Miss Cunningham back. Shortly after they left Willie and
David went off together and have not yet returned. Tonight Jenny and
I went to church. There was not many there.
Monday 30
10:20 pm
Today has been fine although the morning was misty and dull. This
morning Georgie rose early and went off to his work. After breakfast
Willie left for home and pa and David started for Alfred's to dig
potatoes. Jenny and I washed the clothes.
At noon Mr. John Johnson
from Eramosa came. He put in his horse and stayed to dinner and then
started for Alfred's to see pa. About 2 o'clock ma and Jenny
followed suit leaving me alone. Tonight I folded the clothes. About 8
ma and pa came home without Jenny. Willie Adams came to Alfred's today.
He is going to stay and come to school.
OCTOBER
9:00 pm
Tuesday
Today has1st
been beautiful and bright and warm. Tonight the wind has risen
This morning pa and Jenny and I went down to dig potatoes. We met
Alfred and Maggie and Willie coming to school. Tonight they rode down
with Mr. Townsend. He brought pa's tools home today and then drove down
there. Awhile after he came Johnny Talbot came down and stayed to tea.
After tea Jenny and I drove home and pa came after with JOhnny.
It was nearly 8 when we got home.
Wednesday 2
9:20 pm
Today has been very fine although it rained a little this morning and
the wind has been high. This morning we want down again to work. On
the way we met Mr. Townsend and Alfred riding with him. At noon Mr.
Burns sent over for a hand for this afternoon and tomorrow morning so
Georgie had to go and leave us minus his help. We have nearly a days
work yet to do. We reached home at 8 o'clock tonight.
Thursday 3
9:30 pm
Today has been very fine and warm but windy. This morning pa and Jenny
and I went down to our work again and on our way we met Alfred riding
with Shaw's. Georgie was away at Mr. Burns's all day and David had to
go away with a cow this forenoon and Mary was sick so Annie had to stay
in to do the work. So all together we made very poor headway but we
finished tonight and reached home at 8.
Friday 4
9:20 pm
Today has been fine and windy but cooler than yesterday. This morning
Mr. Hugh Black passed on foot and pa went out to speak to him on
business. After breakfast ma and pa drove up to see our future home
and it is arranged for us to move in two weeks. From there they
drove to Alfred's and brought Bertie with them. After dinner pa went
down to Alfred's and from there to Rockwood and then home. School
was out so he did not put the horse in but turned and took Alfred home
and brought back a bundle of straw. About 4 o'clock me went over to
Wm. Burns's but Mrs. Burns was away so she went on to McNab's and stayed
to tea and pa went over for her after he had taken his tea. He met her
in their lane.
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�OCTOBER 39
Saturday 5
9:10
pm
Today has been fine but dull and about 4 o'clock there was a little
shower and again after dark it rained some. This morning McNab's
hauled away the manure and ma and pa went to Guelph.
This afternoon
Mrs. David Moore called in on her way to Rockwood to get some flower
seeds. Shortly after she left ma and pa came home. Tonight about
8:20 the boys came. Georgie had an umbrella and David had Alfred's
waterproof on. Georgie has a very bad cold.
Sunday 6
9:10 pm
Today has been fine but cold. Tonight David and Jenny and I went down
to church. There were a good many there. Coming home David and GEorge
Hill overtook us and walked the rest of the way with us.
Monday 7
9:15 pm
Today has been fine but cold. This morning David rose early and w e n t down
to Alfred's. After breakfast pa started for Mr. Johnson's to work and
Georgie went along to bring the horse back. On the way they met Alfred
and Annie. She went with them to her mother's and Georgie called for
her on his way back and they spent the afternoon posting up hand-bills
about the sale. They came past here about 4:30 just as Alfred was
starting home so he rode with them. They are to keep the horse down
there tonight. This afternoon Jennie walked down to Alfred's to carry
a message to David and then went on to McKersie's to tell them we
intend to pay them a visit tomorrow if the weather permits. She
reached home about 6 o'clock very tired.
Tuesday 8
9:00 pm
This morning Agnes and Elsie McNab called here on their way to John's
to ask us to go with them to pick apples and we were so sorry we could
not go. Mr. Blanchefield called the same time to see Alfred
on business. After dinner we started for McKersie's on foot. Agnes and
Elsie saw us passing and gave us some apples. We spent a pleasant
time and tonight the girls brought us home with the team and their
cousin Mr. Hudson came along. When we got home we found David here.
He brought some pork up. The boys went to Guelph today with pork.
There were some Grangers here tonight when we came. It has been fine
today but somewhat dull. Tonight was moonlight.
Wednesday 9
8:50 pm
This morning about 9 o'clock it rained heavily and blew furiously
but before noon it cleared off although the wind continued very high.
This morning David drove down to Alfred's and George and Alfred came
up with Jack and Jessie with the stove and some apples and some wheat.
George went on to Everton with the wheat. He returnedpast here about
11 o'clock and shortly afterwards David came. He had been to Rockwood
posting bills. At noon Alfred dismissed school and went home this
being Rockwood show-day and he had only 8 scholars. Johnny Talbot
had left his horse and buggy here during the forenoon for Alfred. About
2 o'clock Georgie came up with our horse and buggy. He changed his
things and then they both went off to Rockwood and we soon followed. We
met McKersie's girls near Cummin's hotel and we kept together all the
time. We had a good time although it was very cold. We parted with
the girls on Harris's hill and we reached home soon after dark. The
boys got a ride and passed us on the road.
�OCTOBER 40
Thursday 10
9:10 pm
Today has been clear and calm and milder than yesterday. The boys went
down to Alfred's this morning after breakfast and Jenny and I only
stayed to do up our morning work and then we drove down and picked
apples all day. This afternoon David brought 7 bags up here in the
light wagon for Alfred. When he got back we started home and reached
here about 7 o'clock and found ma getting her tea. We spent the
evening paring and coring apples for drying.
Friday 11
9:50 pm
Today has been dull and cold and tonight it rained considerable. This
morning ma drove down to Alfred's and returned shortly before noon bringing two bags of apples in the buggy. This afternoon Alfred had his
sale.
He left here for Rockwood about 11 and George Hill taught until
2 o'clock. About noon Willie and John Townsend and Mr. Martin came
down and called here but finding Alfred had gone they drove on there.
About
2 we went over to McNab's to spend the afternoon. We reached
home about 9 tonight.
Saturday 12
9:30 pm
Today has been beautiful and clear and fine and tonight is clear
moonlight, this forenoon I went down to see Emily and take some things
down. I found her well and stayed to tea. Nancy and Peter were away
to Nelson and Mrs. Reid was sent for by a neighbour while I was there. I
started home shortly after five and reached home at 8. Mr.
Macmillan
rode with me as far as Easterbrook's and Miss Macmillan rode as far as
Mrs. Reids gate. When I reached home I found the boys and pa here. Mr.
Johnson drove pa home about 4 tonight.
Sunday 13
9:00 pm
Today has been fine in the morning and dull in the afternoon and
sprinkling rain tonight. This forenoon I wrote a letter to Richard.
After dinner David took the horse and took Archie Shaw for a drive
to Acton and returned this way and Georgie rode with them as far as
the bridge and then brought the horse home. David went down with Archie
and afterwards to church with him. While Georgie and pa went from here
to the Methodist church, Jenny and I did not go.
Monday 14
10:50 pm
Today has been fine although it threatened rain several times. This
morning pa took the boys down to Alfred's and then drove
to cousin Roberts to see if he could get his team for a few days. Jenny
and I started to wash and then I had to walk to Rockwood for some
yeast cakes to set yeast and that made me late with my part of the
washing. Then Katie McCaig came in to say that Mary and Myra Laight
were coming this afternoon. Accordingly about 3:30 they came and stayed
until 8:30 and then Jenny and I walked home with Mary to get some yeast
as ours did not rise. When we returned we found pa here with Robert's
horses and wagon.
One year ago tonight witnessed my betrothal.
�Tuesday 15
9:00 pm
Today has been fine but cloudy and quite warm. This morning pa went off
with the team and took a load of potatoes and a load of wood up to our
future home. We had 31 bags of potatoes this year off 1/2 an acre.
Pa came home tonight about 7 o'clock. The boys were busy today
pulling carrots. We finished my mat today.
Wednesday 16
8:00 pm
Today has been similar to yesterday with regard to weather. This morning
we rose early and pa took two loads of wood up to our place and brought
one here tonight, arriving about 6:30. This forenoon I sorted some
feathers and filled my bed. George Hill called intoday with an
invitation to a surprise party at Robert Dunbar's on Friday night. I
scarcely think we will go. John Smith also called with some change
from Myra Laight. Ma and Jenny started to quilt this afternoon.
Thursday 17
Today has been a miserable wet day. It began to rain about 9 this
morning and has continued to rain pretty steady all day. Early this
morning pa went away and managed to take up one load of wood and on his
way back he called at the mill for some lumber and then went down to
Alfred's for scantling and then home, reaching here just after dinner.
About 8:40 this morning Alfred and Annie came in the buggy with Jack.
Annie stayed all day cutting out a waterproof cloak and she and Alfred
drove home after school. This afternoon pa laid a floor in the cellar
for Alfred's roots. Tonight just before dark David came home.
Friday 18
8:20 pm
Today has been fine but rather dull and cooler. This morning pa went
away as usual and David stayed for awhile and cut some wood for us.
Then he went down to Alfred's. Pa took two loads of wood up today
and brought a load of potatoes here tonight. David came with him and
dressed for the party and is now waiting for them to call for him.
Jenny and I helped pa to unload the potatoes and then we went in the
cellar and shoveled them back.
Saturday 19
9:40 pm
Today has been fine but windy and cold. This morning pa and David and
Jenny went down to Alfred's. Pa brought a load of carrots and a load
of potatoes up here before noon and after noon he took a load of carrots
up to our place and went from there to Roberts to take the horses home
and bring back Jessie. He came home about 9 o'clock. The boys and Jenny
came home at 7. They finished the mangel-worsels. Willie Adams came up this
morning for a book of his. I got a letter from Emily tonight. She
is engaged for another year there
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OCTOBER
Sunday 20
Today was fine but cold. Tonight the boys and I went to church. They
went to the Presbyterian and I went to our church. John and Margaret
McNab came out of their gate just as we reached it so they walked down
with us and Margaret went to our church with me.
The boys got home
before I did but we overtook John McNab and he and M. Walked on with me
within sight of the house.
Pa was in bed and N.S. was here.
Monday 21
9:00 pm
Today has been beautiful and clear and bright and milder than yesterday.
This morning pa took Georgie out to Mr. Loree's and then went down to
Alfred's where David had preceded him. We washed this morning and this
afternoon Lorrie Black came and tonight after pa and David came Jenny
and I drove her over to Hugh Black's Alfred stayed to tea tonight and
shortly after Annie called for him on her way home from her mother's.
This is my birthday and I am 25 today.
Tuesday 22
8:40 pm
Today has been the same as yesterday with regard to weather. This morning
pa and David drove down to Alfred's and finished getting up the carrots
and came home at noon. This afternoon I took David part way to Roberts and
then came back calling at Mr. Stouts on my way for some tinware
as
we left some rags there as we went. Alfred brought Bertie up with him
this morning and tonight I saw them in Rockwood. Bertie* was in Pasmore' s
with Louisa Shaw and Alfred was at Turner's getting Jack shod. I posted
Georgie's letter
to Emily today.
Wednesday 23
8:40 pm
Today has been dull and miserable, cold and windy and raining most
of the time. We put a quilt on the frames this morning and ma and I
worked at it all day. Jenny baked in the morning. Pa stayed in the house
all day.
Thursday 24
8:50 pm
Today has been fine and not quite so cold. This morning pa went down
to Alfred's and ma went with him to bring the horse back. While she
was away Thomas Hill called to invite us to a surprise party tomorrow
night at Alfred's. When ma came back Alfred rode with her. We cleaned
upstairs today. Tonight pa came home a little after 7 o'clock.
Friday 25 (written Saturday morning)
This day was fine but very cold and windy. This morning I went with pa
down to Alfred's and got the old stove and took
if to Rockwood and got
some time.
From there I went on to Ann Eliza's
for some butter and got
3 lbs and some sweet milk. Coming back I called at the post office and
got the papers, coming home Jessie stumbled and fell in front of John
McNabs and broke the back strap. Fortunately John McNabhappened to be
at home and he mended it for me. Today Alfred gave me a voluminous letter
from Richard that he had got from the post office for me. Tonight
Jenny and I drove down to the party calling for Margaret McNab as we went.
Pa brought the horse home. We walked home about 3 am in the rain but it
did not rain hard enough to wet us much. Tom Dunbar and Ben Shultz
carried a lamp before us all the way. It was quite a pleasant party.
�OCTOBER
Saturday 2 6
7:30 pm
Today has been a dismal wet day. Pa walked down to Alfred's this morning
to finish his job. He came home again about 2:30. Georgie came
home about 10 am. About 3 pm he hitched the pony and went to meet
David. He met him at Pasmore's so he was soon home again. It is raining
heavy now and the wind is cold.
Sunday 27
9:20 pm
Today has been dull and windy and cold. Tonight it calmed down and
was milder. This morning the boys went to the Presbyterian Church. This
afternoon a gentleman called to say he would preach in the school
at 7 o'clock in the evening. Jenny and I and the boys walked to
Rockwood to hear Mr. Brock from Guelph preach an excellent sermon. When
we came out it was very dark and snowing fast and a girl slipped off
the sidewalk and jumped into the water and a gentleman fished her out.
After we got on the road a piece Jenny fell over a large stone and when
we got near hom I slipped and fell however no one was hurt. The man at
the school had 6 persons to hear him. Mrs. Thomas Naude and her three
daughters and father and mother. Today was the opening of the church
in Eden
and we were disappointed in not getting down.
Monday 28
8:50 pm
Today has been fine and bright but cold and frosty. This morning pa
drove up to the Centre to see about the parsonage and put up a stove
to dry it.
He came home about 3:30 pm. The boys were out shooting
all day merely coming home to dinner. Mr.
& Mrs. Borwn called at noon
to see Alfred on business and stayed to dinner. Tonight Annie called
for Alfred. Jenny washed the white clothes today.
Tuesday 2 9
8:30 pm
Today has been fine but dull and cold. This morning the ground was white
with snow. The boys drove out to Robert's this morning and pa rode
as far as the parsonage and remained all day putting up another
stove and keeping up fires. This forenoon we finished the quilt and this
afternoon Jenny and I went up to John McNab*s. We came away just before
dark and pa came along at the same time. Archie Shaw brought up Alfred's
mangel-worsels today and tonight Alfred stayed and helped him unload
the last load and then rode home with him.
Wednesday 30
8:45 pm
Today has been dull and drizzling most of the time until after dark
when it set in steady rain. It is not quite so cold as yesterday.
This morning pa went over to John McNab's and remained all day helping
them with the turnips. He came home after dark. Georgie came home about
7:30 tonight. He says if it had kept fine Robert would have finished
his turnips tomorrow.
�OCTOBER
Today has been cloudy and windy and very cold. Before dark everything
was frozen hard. It is the coldest night we've had yet. This morning
GEorgie went to John McNab's to work at the turnips and pa drove over
to the parsonage to light fires there and Mr. Gaspel promised to tend
to them. He came home just at dinnertime. Alfred and Annie have gone to
Dundalk on business and James Collins is teaching for Alfred the
rest of the week so we had him here to dinner. After dinner pa went
down to Alfred's to see about our turnips there. He came home between
4 and 5 and brought a bag of oats and several things. Georgie came home
between 6 and 7. Jenny and I cleaned the parlor today and packed the
best dishes.
NOVEMBER
Friday 1
11.0 0 pm
Today has been exceedingly cold and windy but clear and bright. This
morning pa and Georgie started for Alfred's to clean up oats but they
stopped at John McNab's and helped them at the turnips so they finished
at noon and then they came home and got the horse and pa went up to Henry
Talbot's to see about getting some hay and George rode part way on
his way to Mr. Loree's. Henry Talbot was away so pa came home about
4:30. This afternoon I went
over to McNab's and got some buttermilk
and a pound of yarn and took home a plate of Mrs. Wm Burns's that
we got with butter. Mr. Collins went up with George Hill to dinner today.
Tonight about 8 o'clock Agnes and Elsie and Wm McNab came over and
stayed until nearly 11.
Saturday 2
8:30 pm
This morning was fine but cold but before noon it began to rain and
continued until about 3:30 pm when it began to clear. About that time
Georgie came home. A little after 1 pm pa took the umbrella and went
down and got Henry to go with him to Harris's mill to show him which
was Alfred's lumber. When he came home
just before dark Henry came
with him and stayed to tea. Just as he was leaving a little after 6
David came home. We finished house-cleaning here today and expect to move
on Tuesday.
Sunday 3
9:10 pm
Today has been fine but cold. This morning David and I went down to
Eden to quarterly meeting and we found the roads very muddy. Hannah
Sunley and Jimmy were there and they asked us to go up there so we went
and stayed till 5 pm. When we got home we found that Jenny and George
had gone to church. When they came home they brought a little kitten
with them that had followed them all the way from Rockwood. We saw Mrs.
Humphrey at church. She is staying at Norris's and intends coming here
tomorrow.
Monday 4
9:00 pm
Today has been very fine and bright but windy and very cold. This morning
pa and Georgie went down to Alfred's to clean up oats and David went up
to Loree's for the light wagon.
He went by Talbots to see about getting
some hay and then he Helped the man unload it at our place. From Loree's
he went down to Alfred's and got a load of oats and brought up here, then
he went back and took a load up to our place. Alfred and Annie came home
last night and Alfred drove up to school this morning.
Mr. Collins got
�here just before him but he went back at intermission. This afternoon
Henry Talbot's man brought a load of hay here for Alfred. He came just
after school so Alfred helped him unload it. After he left Alfred
hitched up and drove up to Mr. Stewarts. I was waiting to ride home with
Alfred thinking he was going home and so I had to walk. When I reached
there George was just starting home. Uncle David and Caroline were there
and Ada. I got my supper and then pa and I rode as far as the corner with
them. David reached home about 8:00 pm.
Tuesday 5
This morning it was bright and fine but cold. Shortly after noon it
began to snow and continued for some time. We moved into our new home
today. Pa came up in the morning with Jessie and the light wagon and
brougth two stoves and set them up. The boys walked up ahead of him
and Georgie went to Mr. Loree's to work, while David helped pa unload
and then came home with him. After dinner Jenny and I started with a
load of valuables in the spring box. Jenny got out in Rockwood and walked
up to Ann Eliza's for some butter and then came across the fields.
When I got here Mr. Loree opened the gate for me and made a fire inthe
cooking stove while David who had come across the fields unhitched the
horse and helped me unload. Mr. Cooper came and got his preserves. In a
little while Jenny came and took the horse back for me. John and William
McNab brought two loads of furniture and Alfred brought me in his buggy.
Jenny brought another load of valuables and did not get here until
some time after dark. Mr. Loree came and stayed the evening and took the
boys down there to sleep.
Wednesday 6
9:00 pm
Today has been milder but misty and snowy . This morning Annie expected
me to go to Guelph with her and drove up here for me but I could not
have as we were so late moving yesterday and everything was in confusion
so she went on without me. About 9 o'clock pa went down for a load
of miscellaneous articles. Among other things he brought the room
stove and the rocking chair. Georgie was at Loree's all day and David
half a day. We got things somewhat straightened and the stoves fixed
right and I cleaned the roomstove and pipes. David came home before tea
and Georgie some time after.
Thursday 7
9:10 pm
Today has been cold and snowing most of the time. This morning pa
went and brought another load of things and this afternoon he went
to Alfreds and brought some scantling and tools etc.
The boys have
been cutting wood. Tonight Georgie took the can to Loree's for buttermilk
and left it. After tea pa went over and brought it full of sweet milk
and Mrs. Loree will churn in the morning. We cleaned the sitting room
and ma's bedroom today.
Friday 8
9:40 pm
Today has been fine with a cold north wind. This morning Pa got Mr. Loree's
team and went for a load of lumber and I went to the school with the buggy
for a load of valuables. I reached home at noon shortly after pa took
the horses home. After dinner Georgie went for Emily. Some time after
Mr. Loree came and brought the buttermilk. I cleaned our bedroom this
afternoon. Georgie and Emily came about 8:30.
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Saturday 9
9:00 pm
Today has been dull and misty. This morning Emily and I went to
Guelph. We went to Lila Humphrey's and spent the afternoon while Miss
Ellis trimmed Emily's hat. We reached home by 7:15.
Sunday 10
This day has been fine but rather windy some of the time. This morning
pa walked down to Alfred's to see if he could get Jack to take Emily
back as Jessie lost a shoe yesterday. But they were away so he had
to walk back. After dinner Jenny went with Emily with the intention of
staying all night and getting the horse shod as she comes home
tomorrow. Tonight about 8:30 N.S. came and stayed some time.
Monday 11
8:00 pm
Today has been dull and misty in the morning and pouring rain since
2 o'clock pm.
This morning pa dug around some of the plum trees
and Georgie pulled weeds for awhile and then went over to Loree's
to the turnips. David went down to Alfred's for the heifer and returned
with her at noon. Shortly before two Jenny came andsome time after
George came as it was too wet to work at the turnips any longer.
I washed the fine things and coloured clothes today.
Tuesday 12
9:30 pm
Today has been fine but very windy. This morning pa and David went
with
Jessie for a load of things. They returned about noon. Pa walked
home and carried the clothes-horse while David came with the load
and brought 1/2 gallon of coal oil. This afternoon pa started on foot
for cousin Roberts to see if he can g e t the team and Georgie and I
went for a load of carrots and garden plants. We got home about 7.
After tea David went over to Loree's to borrow the Mercury as we did
not get ours.
Wednesday 13
9:00 pm
Today has been a succession of snow storms with a strong and cold
north-west wind. This morning David and I planted the flower roots
and then pa came with Roberts horses. He brought 5 or 6 bags of apples
and left them here and then he and George went for the turnips. There
were two loads. This afternoon I went to Ann Eliza's and got the butter
57 lbs.
I reached home shortly after dark.
Thursday 14
9:15 pm
Today has been fine and calm. This morning David went to Swazey's
threshing for Mathew Loree and pa went down to Alfred's for another
load of things. He came home about 3 pm and left his load and then
took the horses home, returning just as we were about to sit down to
supper. David came home about 7:30.
�Friday 15
9:20 pm
Today has been fine but dull. This morning David went away to the
threshing again and about 10:30 Mr. Loree told George that Mr.
Hodgekinson wanted him there at a threshing so George went with Sam
Loree as he was going. Pa went over to see Mr.Benham this morning
about some mason-work and took the job. When he came back he took
Jessie and the light wagon and brought Alfred's two pigs up here
to feed. This afternoon he brought a load of peas. About 4,pm ma
went over to Loree's and after tea pa went over for her. They have
not yet returned.
Saturday 16
9:20 pm
Today has been dull with 2 or 3 little showers and tonight it is
raining steady. This morning the boys went away to Hodgekinson's
threshing again Pa stayed home today and fixed the gate and driving
house door. This afternoon I went over to Loree"s for buttermilk. The
boys came home about 4:30.
Sunday 17
8:00 pm
Today has been a miserable day, raining and misting all the time.
We did not go out anywhere. This was Mr. Cooper's Sunday at this
church and it seemed so provoking we could not go.
Monday 18
9:00 pm
Today has been dull and the morning was misty. This morning Jenny
washed and the boys and pa worked in the garden. This afternoon they
went to Swayzie's sale. It was dark when they came home.
Tuesday 19
9:00 pm
Today has been dull and calm. Today the boys worked in the garden
and pa made a work-bench and put up the scantling for the partition
of their bedroom. Mother finished my nightgown and Jenny baked bread
and I made a basket of splits and did several little tasks.
Wednesday 20
9:00 pm
Today has been fine until near dark when there came quite a shower
but it is clear now.
THis morning pa went up to Swayze's to buy
some oats. When he came back he went down to Farish's mill to
ascertain the price of oats. From there he went to Bernard's to
see him about a brick house he intends to build but he was away.
The boys worked in the garden until he came back and then they cut some
wood.
Thursday 21
9:00 pm
Today has been fine and calm and mild.
This afternoon ma and Jenny
went to Alfred's to get the big pot. They took the yarn along and left
it at Mrs. Wetheralds for blankets. She has been quite sick again.
The boys went down to Shaw's and got the gun and went shooting
this afternoon. They came home about 6:30. About 3 pm Mr. Swayze
came with a load of oats. Ma and Jenny came home about 5 o'clock.
The boys went over to Loree's this morning to borrow a spade and they
hearc) that old Mrs. Reid is dying in the asylum and Mr. Loree and
Mr. Turner went down this morning.
�NOVEMBER
Friday 22
9:15 pm
Today has been dull and raining most part of the time. This morning pa
went to Rockwood and got the papers. After dinner he went to Dickson's
sale returning about dark. Tonight Georgie took home Mr. Loree's
spade and they gave him some celery and some apples.
Mrs. Reid is better
than they expected. Tonight a tramp called wanting lodging. Pa gave
him 10¢ and sent him on.
Saturday 23
9:15 pm
Today has been bright but cold and windy with some snow. This
morning pa went up to James Socket's to see him about some chopping
he wanted done and took the job of chopping 2 0 cords of hard wood. This
afternoon he made an axe-handle and did some carpenter work in the
kitchen.
Sunday 24
10:00 pm
Today has been fine but not bright and calm and mild. This forenoon
the boys went up to the church to hear Mr. Hodskinson preach. This
afternoon they went to Rockwood to the English church. Tonight pa and
I walked down to hear Mr. Masson. He was late coming so we were late
home.
Monday 25
9:00 pm
Today has been calm and mild with a steady fall of snow from 8:30 am
till 4:30 pm. This morning or rather forenoon Mr. McLaughlan came and
stayed to dinner and then pa went away to Mr. Donohue's to see about
some work there that Mr. McL had told him about and David borrowed
Mr. Loree's saddle and rode down to Alfred's for an axe. He returned
about 4:30 shortly after pa. A little while after they came Mr.
Swayze came along with a load and brought in a bag of oats and pease to
weigh it to try out shillgards as he was going to the mill and could
weigh it again there.
TUESDAY 2 6
9:10 pm
Today has been fine but dull and cold and calm. This morning pa and
David went up to Mr. Loree's to grind their axes and then they went
off to chop. They took their dinner with them and came home at dark.
Jenny and George went down to Shaw's with the buggy and got 4 hens.
They also got a gallon of coal oil at Pasmore's and a ball of crochet
cotton. They came home about 1:30
Wednesday 27
9:00 pm
This morning was very cold with a strong east wind. About 11 o'clock
it began to rain and continued all the rest of the day till everything
is covered with ice. Pa and David went away to chop this morning but
the rain drove them home at noon. George
went over to Loree's
this morning and got some buttermilk.
�NOVEMBER 28
9:00 pm
Today has been fine but cold and windy. This morning the boys went
to chop and pa went to Rockwood and got some coal oil in the big can and
some tea and sugar. He came home at 11 o'clock and brought a letter
for Jenny from Emily. The boys came home to dinner and pa and David went
back to chop and Georgie stayed and cut wood here.
Friday 29
10:10 pm
Today has been fine but cold. This morning pa and David went away to
chop and Georgie split the wood he had sawed and brought it in
and after dinner he took the gun and went off returning at dark. This
afternoon Mrs. Loree came over and Mr. Loree came to tea and stayed
the evening.
We had a pleasant evening. Georgie went over to Loree's
this morning and got some sweet milk.
Saturday 30
9:40 pm
Today has been very calm. This morning it snowed quite a quantity.
The boys went to chop this morning and pa went to Rockwood expecting to
be back by noon. The boys came home to dinner and waited till nearly
3 o'clock for pa but as he did not come they went back again. It was
nearly dark when he came. He had been to Alfred's and got his dinner and
he brought us a goose to roast. Ma went down to Lucy Socketts this
afternoon but she came home before tea.
DECEMBER
Sunday 1
10:00 pm
Today has been dull with a cold east wind. This forenoon ma and pa and
David and Jenny and I went to church expecting to hear Mr. Cooper.
But he was away and Mr. Kenetter spoke. Tonight David and Jenny and I
walked to Rockwood to hear Mr. McLean from Georgetown preach a
missionary sermon. The church was full but I was rather disappointed
in the sermon.
Monday 2
9:30 pm
Today has been a miserable cold, wet, windy, gloomy day. This morning
Georgie went over to Loree's for some sweet milk. This afternoon pa
fixed the window blinds in the sitting room with some Chalk-line Mrs.
Loree sent over by George.
Tuesday 3
9:10 pm
Today has been fine and calm. This afternoon was bright and clear. This
morning pa and David went away to chop and Georgie cut wood here. This
afternoon Jenny went over to Loree's for buttermilk and Mrs. Loree told
her that Mrs. Reid is dead and will be buried tomorrow. Mr. Loree and Mr.
Turner have gone down today for the body. I began my log cabin quilt
today and made four blocks.
�DECEMBER 50
Wednesday 4
9:30 pm
Today has been fine and cold. Last night there was quite a fall of snow.
This morning pa went to Mrs. Reid's funeral and the boys went to chop
returning to dinner.
This afternoon pa went with David and Georgie
split wood here. This morning a cripple called for help and ma gave him
a few cents all she could scrape up.
Thursday 5
10:20 pm
Today has been fine and bright. Last night at 12 o'clock Alfred
called in on his way home from Richard Talbot's and asked us to write a
note to Richard changing a plan they had arranged and send it by some
of the school children from this neighbourhood which I accordingly
did this morning and David took it on his way to work and gave it to
John Loree who was going to Guelph with wood. Georgie went up to Mr.
Loree's for some yeast this morning and then borrowed Mr. Loree's light
wagon and went down to Shaw's for some cedar and got a branch off
Richard's pine tree. He got home about 2:30 and brought some meat that
Mrs. Loree came running out with. This afternoon we went over to Loree's
and the boys came over after tea and stayed the evening.
Friday 6
9:00 pm
Today has been fine with a sprinkle of snow. This morning Georgie
went with pa and David stayed to clean out the pigsty. After awhile
Georgie came back to say that pa had got some straw from Mr. Swayze
and he and David were to go for a load with Jessie. They came back at
12 and after dinner George went away to pa and David stayed here and
cut wood. Tonight I wrote to Richard.
Saturday 7
This day has been calm and snowing fine snow most of the forenoon.
This morning the boys went to chop and pa went to Guelph. About 1:30
the boys came home and went to Rockwood for the papers and posted
two letters, one to Richard and one to the publishers of the Household
Journal. The boys returned just before dark and pa came shortly
after. About 8:30 N.S. came and stayed awhile.
Sunday 8
10:00 pm
Today has been fine but cold with a raw east wind. Tonight David
took Jenny and I down to church in Rockwood with the buggy and
George walked. He called at Loree's and Will Sunley went with him.
Fanny and Janet and Louisa McKersie were there.
Monday 9
9:0 0 pm
This morning it snowed heavy until about 11 o'clock when it began to
rain and continued to rain steady all day from the east. The boys fixed
the pump today and pa worked at carpenter work. This forenoon I wrote
to Mary Ann.
�Tuesday 10
9:00 pm
Today has been almost a continual down fall of rain. This forenoon pa
walked to Rockwood and posted two letters and got some nails and
some yarn and Sam Loree came over for the ladder.
This afternoon pa
went up to Socket's and got his axe and got a pole to make a
ladder and while he was away Tommy Corner came to see him on business
but left before he returned.
He came home just before dark and
shortly after William Cunningham came with some beef and pa
bought
all he had.
Wednesday 11
9:15 pm
Today it snowed and blowed furiously all day and was very cold. This
morning pa went to Rockwood and got the cutter fixed and the horse
shod and this afternoon he went for some lathe with the light wagon
and returned about 6:45
Thursday 12
9:00 pm
Today has been cold and windy with some snow.
This morning pa went
to Guelph for lime and the boys went to the fat cattle Show. They
started to walk and got chance rides in and out again. They got
home before dark. Pa came home about 1:30 and after feeding the horse
and getting his dinner he went down to Alfreds for some tressles and
scantling returning shortly after dark.
Friday 13
9:20 pm
Today has been fine but cold. This morning pa started to lathe the
kitchen and the boys went for sand. They got 3 loads. Pa's head was
very bad all day so that he did not get as much done as he expected.
This forenoon an agent called, the same as was here before. Tonight
David went to Rockwood to an entertainment and before tea Sammy
Loree came over to see if he was going and he promised to call for
Sammy and Will Sunley.
Saturday 14
9:15 pm
Today has been cold and the snow fairly tumbled down all day. The boys
and pa lathed the kitchen and bedroom today. This forenoon Mr. Loree
came over to see how pa was. Tonight I sent George for some buttermilk,
I forgot to say yesterday Mrs. Loree sent over a pailful of cider.
Sunday 15
9:30 pm
Today has been cold but calm and pleasant with a light fall of snow.
This morning we all went to church but George. This afternoon the
boys went for a drive with the cutter returning just before dark.
Tonight the boys and Jenny and I went to church to hear Bishop Carmen.
�DECEMBER 52
Monday 16
9:35 pm
Today has been fine and calm. Pa plastered most of the kitchen today.
This afternoon Jenny and George went to Alfred's and got some flour
and called in Rockwood and got some currants and raisins and lemon
peel. While they were away Mr. Awry came and got his bee-hives. Tonight
after tea cousin Ann Eliza and her husband came and stayed the evening.
This morning cousin Robert came and brought us two pigs.
Tuesday 17
8:40 pm
Today has been fine and calm like yesterday. Pa finished the kitchen
and plastered the bedroom today. This afternoon the boys went
skating for awhile and then David went to Rockwood and returned just
as we had finished tea. After tea Alfred came and stayed the evening.
Wednesday 18
9:00 pm
Today has been calm with some snow. This morning pa went to chop and
George went to Alfred's for some feed for the pigs and David took the
heifer to Socket's and back and then brought us some straw from
Loree's for the carpet and then cut up the pigs. After dinner Jenny
and I put down the carpet and then I put up the curtains. Tonight
we chopped sausage meat and rendered lard. GEorge brought David's
magic lantern with him from the office.
Thursday 19
9:00 pm
Today has been fine with dashes of snow. This morning pa and David
went down to Shaw's to do some work for Alfred and about 2 pm they
returned. Tonight David was trying his Magic Lantern.
Friday 20
10:00 pm
Today has been cold and snowy. This morning George went over to
Loree's and got some buttermilk and a little sweet milk. About 11 I
started for Emily. When I reached the school I called but it seemed to
be deserted so I went on to Reids and there I was informed that Emily
had her scholars in the other part of the school. So about 3 pm Mr. Reid
hitched up one of his horses and Nancy and I drove down for her. We
started for home almost directly and reached here about 8:25. Pa went
to Rockwood this afternoon and got the papers and a card for me from
Mary Ann.
Saturday 21
9:10 pm
Today has been cold and stormy. This forenoon pa went to Rockwood and
got some cloth for the boys pants and a latch for the kitchen door and
some currants and raisins and lemon peel. Jenny did some baking and
I helped Emily with her report.
�DECEMBER 53
Sunday 22
9:00 pm
Today was fine and sunshiny in the morning but this afternoon it began
to snow heavy and continued till near dark and now the wind has risen
and is blowing hard. This morning Emily and Jenny and David went up
to church returning at 12:30. About 4 Alfred came with the children and
stayed to tea and then went back taking Emily and leaving Maggie.
Monday 23
9:30 pm
Today has been very cold and rather windy. Alfred held his exam today
and this morning the boys started for there taking Maggie with them.
Pa chopped all day coming home to dinner. Jenny washed this morning.
Tonight we chopped the mincemeat. The boys and Emily came home about
6:30.
Tuesday 24
10:00 pm
Today has been too stormy for pa to go to chop. It has blowed and
snowed all day. Tonight pa drove to Rockwood station to meet Mary
Ann and the train was late so it was 8 o'clock when they came. Cousin
Emily was with her.
Wednesday 25
10:00 pm
Christmas. Today has been very cold and stormy.The boys went skating
this afternoon and we girls ate apples and drank cider and talked
nonsense. Tonight we played quiet games and David displayed his
magic lantern.
Thursday 26
9:20 pm
Today has been calmer and milder. Today pa made his ladder. This
afternoon the boys went over to Loree's and stayed awhile. Tonight
just before tea Nancy and Katie Reid came with Emily's money.
Friday 2 7
7:40 pm
Today has been rather stormy. This morning David and mother and I
went to Guelph. Just before we started Mr. Loree came over for the pick
and George went back with him to help get turnips out of the pit and pa
went up to chop. Tonight we reached home at dark. David got a chance
ride home early.
Saturday 28
9:30 pm
Today has been cold and stormy part of the time. This morning Alfred
and Miss Shaw came up and stayed all day. This forenoon David and pa
and Sammy Loree brought two loads of hay for us from Swazye's with
Mr. Loree's horses and George went to mill and got a hundred of flour.
This afternoon George went to Annie's for the polonaise pattern and
Emily went with him as far as Currie's and he was to call for her coming
home but we forgot to tell him and he came home without her. The last
load of hay they brought upset before they got here and threw pa off
and hurt his shoulder and head.
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Sunday 29
Today was fine but rather cold. This morning David drove down for
Emily and Mary Ann went with him for a drive. They returned shortly
before dinner. Tonight Mary Ann and Jenny and I went to Rockwood
to church in the cutter and the boys walked. We reached home at 9 and
shortly after N.S. came and stayed for some time.
Monday 30
9:30 pm
Today has been fine and warmer. This morning I washed. Pa went to
Harris's factory and returned just before dinner. He only stopped a
few minutes and then drove up to the Centre and from there to
afternoon. We got tea early and then pa drove the girls down to the
station to meet the 6 o'clock train and when he came back Emily and
Jenny took Miss Aldons home. Before he returned Alfred came and is
staying all night. The boys went up to the teameeting and have not
yet returned.
Tuesday 31
9:20 pm
Today has been fine and bright. This morning they killed the pigs.
Alfred left about 10:30 am. Tom Talbot's baby was buried today and he
had to go to the funeral. This afternoon pa went to Rockwood and
returned about 4 o'clock. Shortly after Mr. Socket called to see him
about the wood and he had just gone when Will Cunningham called to
see if we wanted beef.
JANUARY 1879
Wednesday 1st
9:20 pm
Today has been beautiful, calm and bright. This morning pa and David
went away to chop. About 11 o'clock George went to Rockwood and got
some vinegar and then drove up for pa and David. This forenoon Miss
Hodgeskinson called collecting for the Missionary Society. After
dinner George took the men up to work again and just as he got the
horse put away, uncle Watson and his family came and he had to get
out the horse and go for pa and David again. They left shortly
after 6 tonight.
Thursday 2
10:20 pm
Today has been a fearful stormy, cold day. This morning Georgie went
to Mr. Cochlin's where he has hired for a year and pa went with him.
David and Emily went to Guelph. They returned at 3:30. pm.
Friday 3
12:00 pm
Today has been stormy but bright. This morning David went to school
and pa went to chop. Pa returned to dinner at 2 and did not go back but
went over to Loree's and stayed awhile. Tonight we got ready to go over
there to spend the evening but just then their boys came here and
stayed so we did not get. They have just left.
McLoughlin's
�JANUARY
Saturday 4
10:15 pm
Today has been stormy but not so cold. Pa has been very bad all day with
cramp in the stomach. We have been busy all day with sewing and
housework.
Sunday 5
9:30 pm
Today has been snowy but not so much wind. This forenoon Georgie came
home and stayed until about 2:30 when David took him back in the
cutter. Shortly before he left Mr. Loree came over and stayed until
after tea.
Written Monday 20
8:40 pm
Monday 6th. pa drove me over to Crofts and then went on to Rockwood and
that afternoon Jenny took Emily down and stayed all night and came home
next morning. I remained at Ann Eliza's until Saturday
evening when pa
came for me. I found a letter from Richard waiting for me.' Sunday
was a beautiful bright day and David drove Jenny & I up to the Centre
to quarterly meeting and then brought the horse home. Pa walked up
and we all walked back. As we were going up we met Georgie coming home.
Towards evening David took Georgie back and then we went to Rockwood to
church. Monday morning pa took Alfred's pig home and I rode with him
as far as Rockwood and then walked up to Ann Eliza's. I forgot to say
Alfred and Annie came to tea Saturday evening and stayed till after
10. They took our little stove away with them and during the following
week pa brought their parlor stove here. Last Friday we went over to
Joseph Croft's and spent the afternoon and Robert came for us in the
evening.
Saturday evening pa came for me again and we brought home 17 lbs
of butter and 25 lbs of lard. I found a letter from Mary Ann for me
and a note from Cousin Emily. Sunday morning was fine but the afternoon
was stormy and the evening sharp. Georgie came home in the forenoon
and David took him back again towards evening. We went to Rockwood
at night and returning found N.S. here. Today has been dull and calm.
This morning Jenny washed and David went to school. Today I began to
fix my jacket. Pa has been chopping all day.
Tuesday 21
9:30 pm
Today has been cold and snowy. This morning pa went up to Mr.
Cochlins to see him on business and then back to his chopping. He came
home to dinner.
Wednesday 22
10:00 pm
Today has been dull with a sharp wind. Pa did not come home to dinner
today. I finished my jacket this forenoon and this afternoon Jenny
and I went down to Socket's and stayed till after 9.
Thursday 23
10:00 pm
Today has been fine and calm. This morning ma and I went to Guelph and
went down to Carrie Porter's for our dinner. We reached home shortly
after dark. Tonight Mr. Benham came over with the plan of
his kitchen
�JANUARY
Friday 24
10:20 pm
Today has been windy but milder. This morning pa drove to Rockwood
and from there to Alfred's to dinner. About 2 o'clock he returned bringing Bertie. Then he drove up for his axe and Jenny and I rode as far
as Matthew Loree's and David came in on his way home from school. Pa
drove up as far as Cousin Roberts.
Saturday 25
9:20 pm
This morning was mild but windy. About 11 am a dreadful storm of snow
and wind commenced and continued most of the afternoon. This
morning pa and ma took Bertie home. They went by Croft's
and took the keg and Alfie's stockings home. After leaving Bertie they
went on to Laight's to get some feathers and just as they started home
the storm commenced and they had to face it all the way. They reached
home at 1 pm.
Sunday 26
3:20 pm
Today has been fine with a cold wind. This forenoon Georgie came home
a little earlier than usual and pa and Jenny and I went to church up
here. About 4 pm pa took Georgie back and tonight pa and Jenny and I
went to Rockwood to church.
Monday 27
9:00 pm
Today has been mild with a warm wind and occasional showers of rain which
is fast removing the snow.
This morning I washed and pa went up to
Mr. Jonathan Oaks's on business. He returned about 2 pm. This afternoon
Mr. & Mrs. John Awry passed here and stopped to speak to pa who was
outside and inquired the way to Mat Loree's.
Tuesday 28
9:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful bright day overhead but rather wet and
slushy under foot. This morning I hung out the clothes and they got
nicely dried by tonight. Jenny washed the flannels. Pa took his dinner
with him today.
Wednesday 29
10:00 pm
Today has been beautiful and bright like yesterday but rather cooler.
This morning pa went to Guelph by the train and returned by the
evening train. He called to the post office tonight and brought a
letter fro Jenny from Emily.
Thursday 30
9:15 pm
Today has been another bright fine day but cloudy towards evening.
This morning pa went up to chop and came home to dinner and after
dinner he drove to Rockwood to get some rings for his maul and then
he drove to Alfred's. It was nearly dark when he returned. This
forenoon Mr. Warner called to inquire if Alfred had rails to sell.
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Friday 31
Written Saturday
This day was cold and windy with dashes of snow. This morning David
went over to Loree 1 s to see if they could draw some wood for us from
Shaw's and he and John went off for a load and on their way home
managed to upset. Mr. Loree came along just then with the other team
and he took some of the wood and went home to dinner and the boys came
on here. After dinner Mr. L. brought his load over and came in and paid
me Georgie's money $3.00. Ma was lying down so he did not see her. When he
left I started for Emily. The roads were very ban and it was late when
we got home and I was sick.
FEBRUARY
Saturday 1st
11:00 pm
Today has been cold and stormy. This morning pa went to chop and David
went over to Loree's and he and John went off for another load. They
brought two yesterday. This afternoon pa did not go out. Alfred and
Annie passed on their way to George Miller's funeral and on their
return they came in and stayed the evening.
Sunday 2nd
Written Tuesday evening
This day was exceedingly cold and windy. I was very ill all day with
sick headache.
Georgie came home about 9:30 and pa took Emily away about
2 pm.
Georgie left about 3:30 and walked back.
Monday 3
This day was milder and calm. Pa caught cold coming home last night and
was unable to go to chop.
He walked down as far as John Socket's in the
forenoon to see him about some oats but he was away to Rockwood so he went
down again in the afternoon and bought 50 bushels at 28 cts. David went
to school as usual
Tuesday 4
8:30 pm
Today has been mild and calm. This morning Jenny washed and pa drove
over to Alfred's to tell him about the oats. He returned about 4:30
bringing David's paper and a letter for himself from James Day.Tonight
I answered
the letter and sent him my picture.
Wednesday 5
9:15 pm
Today has been mild and the forenoon was snowy, the afternoon clear.
This morning Jenny and I drove to Rockwood, called at Miss Edwards,
at Stouts and the Post Office and then drove to Ann Eliza's and got some
milk and came home by the gravel road, reaching home by 1:30 pm
Thursday 6
9:20 pm
Today has been soft and snowy. This morning father and mother and Jenny
and I went to Guelph. Jenny and I drove ma to the station and pa walked
there and they went by train and we drove. We all went to Mr. Humphrey's
to dinner. We got my wedding dress and a dress for each of the girls.
We reached home just at dark and pa was just before us.
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FEBRUARY
Friday 7
9:30 pm
Today has been colder but fine.
This morning I drove into Guelph
to get my dress cut and fitted. Ruth Fear went with me to Miss
Stewart's and she fitted it.
I also took Emily's back and changed it
for cashmere like Jenny's. Tonight Ruth came home with me and we reached
here at 7:10.
Saturday 8
10:00 pm
Today has been fine and bright. This morning pa drove to Rockwood to
get the horse shod and from there to Alfred's. He returned about
3 pm. David went to Mr. Benham's threshing.
We worked steady all day
at my dress.
Sunday 9
10:00 pm
Today has been cold and stormy. Georgie came home about 10. About
4 David and Ruth took him back. Tonight we went to church in Rockwood.
We three girls rode in the cutter and David walked. We reached home at
8:40.
Monday 10
10:30 pm
Today has been fine and mild. Pa was sick all day with Neuralgia. David
went to school. This afternoon Jenny went to Rockwood and from there to
Ann Eliza's to get some milk but she was
away. Tonight Noah and Hannah
Sunley came and stayed the evening.
Tuesday 11
10:20 pm
Today has been mild and snowy. This morning pa went over to Mr. Benham's
to help him clean up his barn floor but he returned about 10 almost
crazy with neuralgia. He is some better tonight.
Wednesday 12
10:00 pm
Today has been very cold and stormy. This morning Jenny washed and I
took Ruth over to Norrish's and then drove to Ann Eliza's and got some
milk. This afternoon we made and baked my wedding cake.
Thursday 13
9:20 pm
Today has been fine and cold. This morning I finished my wedding
dress and then we cut out Jenny's dress. This afternoon pa went
to Guelph for some medicine to cure his neuralgia which still troubles
him. After he came home a man called with a dress model to sell but
we declined purchasing for the very good reason that we have too many
already.
Friday 14
10:00 pm
Today has been cold and windy with some snow. This morning David went
to Mr. Benham's threshing and pa went to Rockwood and posted a letter
from me to Emily and got the papers and then drove to Alfred's returning
at noon. This afternoon Mr. Cooper called to borrow an axe but pa would
not lend his but he lent him the saw.
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FEBRUARY
Saturday 15
9:15 pm
Today has been very cold and windy.
This morning pa drove up for the
saw and this afternoon he went up and chopped some wood for Mr. Cooper.
We iced my cake today with two coats and we finished Jenny's polonaise.
Sunday 16
9:40 pm
Today has been rather milder with some snow. Georgie came home about
10:30 and this afternoon Jenny and I took him back. Tonight David took
us to Rockwood church and Louisa and Janet McKersie were there. We
reached home about 8:30.
Monday 17
Written on Wednesday
This day was chilly with an east wind and snow at night. This morning
Jenny washed the clothes and I washed a quilt and the counterpane.
Mr. Loree came over and brought a pitcher of milk and stayed awhile.
This evening N.S. came and stayed some time.
Tuesday 18
This day was beautiful and bright with very little wind. This morning I
finished Jenny's dress and after dinner pa went over to Loree's to see
if they could draw wood for us this afternoon. Then he went up to chop
and soon after Johnny Loree came along with the team and called for
an axe. About 2:20 Jenny and I started for Alfred's. We found Annie at
home and spent a pleasant time. There was a meeting at the school at
night and Alfred and Mr. Wansborough went in. We reached home about 10:40
While we were away a woman called with some wash tubs for sale and pa
bought two. In the evening pa went over to Mr. Benham's.
Wednesday 19
9:30 pm
Today has been fine with some snow and it is snowing fast now. This
morning pa whitewashed their bedroom and tonight I put the carpet down.
This afternoon Johnny Loree was hauling wood again.
Thursday 2 0
Written Friday evening
This day was fine with a very cold north wind. This morning I ironed
and this afternoon David came home at 3:30 and we three went down to
Shaw's. In the evening James Hill came in and we had a good time.
It was nearly 1 o'clock when we got home.
Friday 21
9:10 pm
Today has been a beautiful day and milder than yesterday. There was
no school at David's school so he cut wood this morning and after
dinner he helped pa grind his axe and then went down to Alfred's.
He returned about 8:40. This afternoon Jenny went for Emily and they
reached home about dark. Pa broke his axe this forenoon so he ground it
and put a new handle in it this afternoon.
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February
Saturday 22
9:30m
Today was stormy in the morning but clear and mild in the afternoon.
This morning Emily and I went to Guelph and got her dress fitted.
We went to Mr. Humphries to dinner and started home just before five
and reached home at dark.
Sunday 23
9:00 pm
Today has been stormy and cold. This forenoon Georgie came home as usual.
After dinner David went away with Emily. Georgie left at 4 o'clock.
David returned about 7 o'clock.
Monday 24
9:5 0 pm
Today was fine but very cold. This morning Jenny washed. This afternoon
pa went to Mr. George Armstrong's to see about a job of mason work. He
returned at dark having found the job was let.
Tuesday 25
9:00 pm
Today has been very stormy and cold. Pa stayed at home and cut wood
and made 2 axe handles' Ma and Jenny worked at my quilt and I worked
at Emily's dress.
Wednesday 26
written on Thursday
This day was very cold and stormy. This forenoon pa broke his axe and
had to come home and grind it. This evening N.S. came.
Thursday 27
8:40 pm
Today has been extremely cold but clear. This morning pa chopped and
after dinner he got ready and rode with Mr. Loree to George Miller's
sale. He returned about 5 and David came with him. After tea he went up
to Mr. Cochlin's and has not yet returned.
Friday 28
Written Saturday morning
This day was fine but very cold. This morning David went to pile wood for
pa and after dinner he took ma over to Loree's and then took Jenny and
I to Mr. Wetherald's and went on to Alfred's himself. In the evening
he brought the horse for us and we drove home while he stayed to the
Caledonian entertainment in the Town Hall. I brought Jenny home and then
went to Loree's for ma. Pa came ahead with the house key as Jenny could
only get into the kitchen. It was about 8 o'clock when we got home.
David rode home with Will Sunley about 2 am.
MARCH
Saturday 1
9:40 pm.
Today has been windy but milder. This forenoon pa finished his
contract of wood chopping for Mr. Socket and David drove up for him
and his tools
about
11:00 am. This afternoon pa went to the Centre
Inn to give his estimate for Mc Coghlin's barn but he did not get the
job. He came home by Rockwood having to take a plane of Mr. Corner's home
and to pay Mr. Wetherald for weaving.
�March
Sunday 2
9:00 pm
Today has been calm and mild. This forenoon Georgie came home about
10:20 and this afternoon Jenny took him back. Tonight we went to
church at Rockwood and McKersie's girls were there and we made
arrangements for them to come over next Tuesday.
Monday 3
9:20 pm
Today has been a beautiful day clear and warm and sunshiny. This
morning Mr. Benham came over with some pine lumber for pa and pa
promised to go over tonight to sit up with old Mr. B. After he left
ma and pa went to Guelph and Jenny and I did the washing. This
afternoon John Townsend came. He had been to Guelph. Ma and pa came
home about 6 o'clock. John would not stay all night as they would be
uneasy at home. He left about 8:30 and pa went over to Benham's.
He returned in about half an hour to say that Mr. George Swanson would
stay tonight and he was to go over tomorrow night.
Tuesday 4
11:00 pm
This morning was windy and sleety and miserable but this afternoon
it cleared up real fine. The girls came this afternoon as they
promised.
They have just left. Tonight pa went over to sit up with Mr.
Wednesday 5
11:15 pm
Today has been mild and calm and bright. This afternoon ma and pa went
to Alfred's and have only just returned. Tonight David went up to Mr.
Cooper's but did not go in. He reports the necktie social a success as
fas as numbers are concerned.
Thursday 6
Written on Friday
This day was dull and threatening in the morning but cleared up fine
before night. This morning pa went to cousin Robert's and settled with
him. He gave pa 10 dollars and 10 cords of green wood and pa called at
John Edwards on his way home and engaged him to draw the wood. He
reached home about 4:30. Tonight we went to the tea-meeting in Eden
Mills
and Janet and Louisa McKersie were there and we had a good
time. The meeting was a success. We reached home at 12:20.
Friday 7
9:15 pm
Today has been a beautiful day, bright and calm. The snow is going fast.
I washed the window curtains this morning and we finished quilting my
quilt which we began yesterday. Today Mr. Loree came over and he and pa
went back in the swamp to look at some wood he wanted cut but he decided
not to cut it as he could not get it out. Tonight pa has gone over to
sit up with Mr. Benham. This evening Janey Ritchie came over to
borrow some tea.
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Saturday 8
9:20 pm
Today has been chilly with some thunder and lightning, but clear
towards evening. Today I starched the curtains. This morning pa went
to Rockwood and got the papers. Tonight Janey Ritchie brought back the
tea she borrowed.
Sunday 9
Written Monday evening
This day was mild and hazy and the evening was wet. This morning Jenny
and David and ma went to church. This afternoon I took Georgie back
and coming home I overtook Janey Ritchie and drove her down to Loree's
and found David was there. He told me not to go to church tonight as the
road was dreadful bad on this line. As I came home it came on a smart
shower and sprinkled me a bit. About 8:40 N.S. came and shortly
afterwards David came home. Pa has a dreadful bad cough and had gone to
bed. Shortly after 9 there came a heavy thundershower with high wind.
Monday 10
9:40 pm
Today has been bright and very mild and calm, a real spring day.
This morning Jenny and I washed. I washed my blankets and got them
nicely dry. About 11 Mr. Edwards and his boy came with two loads of
wood. This afternoon Mr. John Black came in to assess. About 5 o'clock
pa borrowed Mr. Loree's little sleigh and went for some straw from
Swazey's. Tonight pa's cough is very bad.
Tuesday 11
9:00 pm
Today has been very windy and rather cooler. This morning pa went to
Rockwood to see the doctor about his cough. He returned about 11 with
some medicine and David's paper. Tonight he went
over to see how Mr.
Benham was. He found the family assembled and expecting him to die before
morning. All his daughters were there. I finished my fine chemise
today and ma made some apple jelly.
Wednesday 12
9:40 pm
Today has been dull and cold. This forenoon pa went over to have a chat
with Mr. Loree. He came back about 10:30. The medicine he got yesterday
has checked his cough. Today I cut out my polonaise and put it together,
Tonight Sammy Loree came in and spent the evening.
Thursday 13
9:00 pm
Today has been dull and raw and windy. This morning pa went up to Jimmy
Ray's and as he went he called at Benham's to see how Mr. Benham was.
Shortly afterward the little boy came running over to say his grandpa
was dead and they would like pa to go over but as he was away of course
that was impossible. So tonight after tea he went over and has not
yet returned. Last night I wrote to Emily and also a postal
card for Mary Watson and David posted them this morning.
Friday 14
Written Saturday evening
This day was windy and snowy. This morning ma went over to Loree's
and stayed a short time. After she returned David went to Rockwood on
Jessie and got the papers and a letter from Richard for me. Tonight
we went over to Loree's to spend the evening and it was nearly 12 when
we returned.
�MARCH 63
Saturday 15
Today has been cold and stormy yet bright. This afternoon pa and David
went to Mr. Benham's funeral. There were a great many there. Pa was
one of the pall-bearers. Mr. Duff from Speedside was the minister.
Sunday 16
Written Monday evening
This day was cold and rather stormy. David took Georgie back this
afternoon. In the evening Jenny went for a walk as far as the railroad
and back. David went to meet her and then went on with John Loree
to Rockwood. Pa was sick all day with cramp in the stomach and went
to bed early. About 8:30 N.S. came and shortly afterward David came.
Monday 17
8:40 pm
Today has been calm and mild and snowy. This morning Jenny and I
washed and pa went down to John Socket's. This afternoon pa went
to Farish's mill and from there to Everton, calling at Alfred's on
his way. He got 100 lbs of flour. This evening Mrs. Cooper called
to invite us to a surprise party at Mr. Hodgeskinson on Friday night.
After tea David went up to Mathew Loree's and has not yet returned.
Tuesday 18
9:30 pm
Today has been cold and somewhat snowy. This morning ma and I went to
Guelph and got my hat and shoes and gloves. We got home about 3:30 and
found cousin Mary Watson here. We met pa just across the railroad on his
way to Farish's mill for flour. He got 200 lbs and Mr. John Edwards
brought it up home for him.
Wednesday 19
10:30 pm
Today has been rather chilly with some snow but on the whole fine. This
afternoon Mary and Fanny and Tenie Smith came
and shortly afterwards
Rhoda and Ella Hodgeskinson came. About 7:30 Smith's left and Mr.
Townsend and Willy came just before. About 8 Micholas McMurray came for
the other girls and they stayed to play a game of carpet balls and then
left. Mary Smith brought me a card-case and match holder and Fanny
brought me a bead pin-cushion. Pa went to Mr. Anstee's sale today but
did not stay long.
This is Sarah Benham's wedding day.
Thursday 20
9:30 pm
Today has been fine and bright. This morning I took Mary
over to Crofts and got some milk and some yeast and Ann Eliza gave me
the presents they had purchased for me.
She gave me a table cloth and
two towels and Robert gave me a set of crystal. This afternoon she
and Mary passed here on their way to Loree's and she ran in for a
minute. Tonight cousin James Day came. I ornamented my cake this
afternoon.
Friday 21
10:00 pm
Today has been beautiful and bright and mild. This morning after
breakfast cousin James left for Guelph and David rode with him to
school. This forenoon pa went to Rockwood and got the papers and
this afternoon he went for Emily. We took down my bedstead today and
I blacked the stove.
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Saturday 22
9:20 pm
Today has been very stormy and a great quantity of snow fell.
This morning Emily and I went to Guelph and David went to Alfred's
examination. We went down to Carri's to dinner and we left there at
2:30 and arrived at home about 5. David reached home at 8:30. We
got Emily's hat and my toilet set and some plates and various small
items.
Sunday 2 3
written Monday
This day was fine but dull. This forenoon we three girls went to church
and after dinner we and the boys went over to Loree's and stayed to
tea and then I came home for the horse and Georgie came home and
changed his clothes and went away. Emily and I rode to Rockwood to church
in our buggy and Johnny Loree took Jenny and Mary Watson who came over
on foot from Ann Eliza's. Will Sunley and David and Sammy Loree went
down in the cutter. Coming home Will Sunley brought Emily and Johnny
Loree brought Jenny and Marg rode with me while David and Sammy walked.
Will and Johnny came in and stayed awhile and Noah came shortly
after we got home.
We spend a pleasant evening and they left about
10 except N.
Monday 24
9:30 pm
Today has been stormy and wet and tonight is very windy. This morning
pa went to Alfreds and got some dishes and then drove over for Ann
Eliza. We were at dinner when they came. Ann Eliza baked some Ammonia
cakes for me and after tea she and Marg went away in our cutter
and David went and brought the horse back and went for George and got
back about 9.
Tuesday 25
Written Wednesday evening
This day was a most beautiful day without a cloud. It was my wedding-day.
All of both families were present. We were married at 1 o'clock by
Mr. Masson. Emily was bridesmaid and Will Sunley was groomsman.
Everything passed off very well and about dark Noah and I started for
his father's where we stayed that night. On our way we called in at
Loree's to say good-bye to Mrs. Loree. That afternoon Will Sunley took
Emily down to Reid's and remained all night.
Wednesday 26
8:20 pm
Today has been fine until towards evening when it began to storm.
This morning Noah and I went to father's to get my things, we stayed
to dinner and then Noah went on with the team and pa took me and my
most precious belongings in the buggy. The roads were bad and we had
to go very round-about roads so it made us rather late. We found Mr.
and Mrs. Sunley there busy cleaning and the house nice and warm. I like
the appearance of my new home very much. Pa stayed till Noah came and then
he helped him unload and put up the bedstead and then he left for home.
Mr. & Mrs. Sunley stayed to tea and then left in the storm.
�MARCH
Thursday 27
Time not known
Today has been calm and dull but mild. This morning I was busy
straightening things and scrubbing. This afternoon I mended Noah's
overcoat and did some other little chores. Noah was drawing wood.
Friday 28
Today has been dull and raw and tonight it is raining fast. This
morning Noah went down to his father's
for a load of oats so I was alone
all day. He returned some time after dark and Hannah came with him.
Saturday 29
Written Monday afternoon
This day was dull and misty in the distance but mild. This morning
Noah went over to Oaks's for the plough with the sleigh and he
called at the store in Oustic and got me a stove brush. Sometime
toward evening Mr. Sunley came with a load of seed peas and brought
three of our old chairs from home. He had a dreadful time coming up
the road was so bad the way he came. He got stuck in one place. He
got his supper here and then started back.
Sunday 30
This day was cold and windy with flying snow. This afternoon we took
Hannah over to Oaks's and stayed the evening. It was after 9 when
we left. They seem to be very nice folks. Hanna is going to stay
there till Tuesday and then she is going home with us. This was
Jenny's birthday. She is 20 years old now.
Monday 31
This was fine but windy and cold. This morning Noah went down to his
father's for a load of oats and returned about 5 o'clock
APRIL
Tuesday 1st
Afternoon
Today has been milder than yesterday but is growing colder and
threatening snow. Noah went over to Leslie's this morning and met pa on
his way to Robert's for some hay. We are now waiting for Hannah preparatory
to starting for Mr. Sunley's (Later). Hannah came about 5 and we
reached Sunley's at dark. Just before we reached cousin James Smith's we
saw ma and Jenny drive out and we drove fast and overtook them at Mitchel's
corner and ma gave me $1.50 to get myself a pair of strong shoes.
Wednesday 2nd
Written Thursday
This day was cold and stormy. This morning Noah and Johnny Sunley started
for Guelph with the cattle about 6 o'clock and about 7 Mr. S. followed
them with the team. About 9 Mrs. Sunley and I went with old Charlie
and the buggy. It was Easter fat cattle show as well as the monthly
fair day and there was a great crowd in town. I saw a good many that
I knew. We got back at 3 o'clock and the men were just an hour after.
After tea Noah and I started for home taking JOhnny with us. We got
here about 7:30. We had my bureau and the churn and I carried the
clock on my lap all the way. The roads were pretty rough but nothing
was damaged.
�APRIL
7:30 pm
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Thursday
Today
has 3 been colder and more stormy than yesterday. This morning
Noah went down to his father's for a load of grain and returned about
5:30. He brought some hens with him. I got things into a little better
order today.
9:20 pm
Friday 4
Today has been cold but not so stormy as yesterday. This morning Noah
went down to Oustic to see mr Oaks and he posted a letter I wrote last
night to Richard. When he came back he went down to his father's for
another load of grain and did not get back till dark. Tonight I set
bread for the 1st time.
Saturday 5
8:30 pm
Today has been fine and calm and milder than yesterday. This morning
Noah went over to Oaks's for the crosscut saw and tonight he took it
back and got the Mercury from the post office. I baked today and
scrubbed.
Sunday 6
written Monday
This day was a beautiful, bright,warm day. This morning Noah and I
walked over to Speedside church. This afternoon about 5 cousin Mary
Watson and two Miss Sloans and Miss Easton called in and stayed a short
time. There had been a prayer meeting at Sloan's and Mary had been to
it and was on her way back to Speedside where Robert was to meet her.
Monday 7
8:4 5 pm
Today has been a. repetition of yesterday. This morning I washed for the
first time here. This afternoon a man came and got his dinner.
He was taking orders for fruit trees.
Tuesday 8
Today has been a perfect spring-day,
the stove and had just finished when
two mottoes and my wreath and in the
waist for her. They left about 4:45.
and has just left
9:20 pm
beautiful. This morning I cleaned
ma and Jenny came. They brought my
afternoon I fitted ma's basqueTonight about 7 Johnny Sloan came in
Wednesday 9
10:00 pm
Today has been very warm and fine. This morning at 6 o'clock Noah started
for his father's en route for Guelph and only returned half an hour
ago. He reports the roads fearful bad. He came home in the buggy.
Today I scrubbed and ironed.
Thursday 10
9:00 pm
Today has been very windy and wet, raining in the forepart of the
day and snowing and freezing towards evening. Tonight after tea Noah
went over to Jim Duffields and only returned a few minutes since.
�APRIL
Friday 11
8:45 pm
Today has been rather cold but very fine and bright. This morning Noah
and Johnny started down home at 6:15 o'clock to bring up our live
stock viz a cow, two young cattle, 8 sheep and 6 hens and a rooster.
They reached here at 2:30 pm. Jim came with them to stay for a few days
and Johnny rode back again on one of the horses after they had
eaten their dinner. About 5:30 Jimmy rode, over to Oustic for some nails
and he got the paper.
Saturday 12
9:00 pm
Today has been bright and fine like yesterday but milder. This
morning Noah went over to the sawmill for some scantling to make a gate
and Jimmy went over to Oustic again. This afternoon Jim Duffield was
over for awhile but he did not come to the house.
Sunday 13
9:00 pm
Today has been a dull wet day snowing fine snow almost all day. This
morning Jimmy went over to Oaks's
and
his cousin came back with him
about 1-30 and stayed till dark and just as he was leaving Johnny
5loan came over and stayed until now.
Monday 14
8:45 pm
Today has been very fine and warm. This forenoon about 11 o'clock Mr.
Socket and Lucy and the children came and stayed until after tea. Noah
and Jimmy hung the new gate at the road today and fixed the pump stand.
Tonight after dark Noah went over to Oustic for spikes.
Tuesday 15
8:45 pm
Today has been fine but rather dull. This afternoon directly after dinner
Jimmy went over to Oaks's for an auger. Tonight about 6 o'clock he started
for home with the team.
Wednesday 16
9:15 pm
Today has been fine but dull like yesterday. About 12 o'clock
Mr. Sunley came in the buggy with Johnny behind with the team. About
half an hour afterward and before they came in to dinner Mr. Stovel came
with the pump. So I had quite a company to dinner. Mr. Stovel bringing
a boy with him. This afternoon Mr. Duff the minister at Speedisde called
on us. Noah and his father were away off to the bush so he did not
see him then but he was going further up the road to make another call
and on his way back he called in again but he did not come into the
house. Tonight at dark Noah went over to Oaks's and he called at the
post office and brought me a letter from Richard. It enclosed a prescription for Hannah.
Thursday 17
9:00 pm
Today has been fine and most of the time bright with a high wind.
This morning Noah went over to see Mr. Collis about the line fence.
This afternoon he fixed the dairy for me.
�April
Friday 18
9:25 pm
Today has been very fine and warm. About 12:30 Mr. Sunley came with the
team and brought our table. This afternoon he and Noah and some of the
neighbours were arranging about the line fence. After tea Mr. Sunley
left for
home. This morning Noah was trying to plough but found it
would not do.
Saturday 19
9:10 pm
Today has been another fine warm day. This morning Noah and one of
the neighbours were laying out the line fence. This afternoon about
4:30 Noah went over to O a k s 1 s to change some seed.
Sunday 20
9:00 pm
Today has been like yesterday, fine and warm. This forenoon Bob Sloan
came over and stayed awhile talking and this afternoon James Oaks
and Sarah came over and stayed until a short time ago when Noah and
I went a piece with them.
Monday 21
9:00 pm
Today has been a repetition of yesterday's weather. Noah commenced
ploughing today. This morning a man came in and asked if we had a clock
that wanted cleaning but he did not come into the house.
Tuesday 2 2
8 :15 pnv!
Today has been as fine as ever and exceedingly warm. This morning I
washed and this afternoon I churned but the cream was too warm and
consequently spoiled my butter so as we were quite out of butter I went
over to Oaks's and got 2 lbs.
Wednesday 23
8:20 pm
Today has been dull most of the time and threatening rain. This
morning a man came in thinking Sloan's lived here but on finding
his mistake retired precipitately. This afternoon Mr. Sunley and Jimmy
came up with the team about 2 o'clock and left about 4:30. After they
left I took a walk as far as the bush. Today was the day of the inauguratic
of Guelph as a city.
Thursday 24
8:10 pm
Today has been fine and cool but threatening rain towards night.
This morning Noah sowed peas and this afternoon I commenced working
in the garden digging up a piece of sod.
Friday 25
9:00 pm
Today has been a dull drizzling sort of a day. The men were
sowing
peas and gang ploughing all day in spite of the wet
Saturday 2 6
8:50 pm
Today has been smoky and warm but rather dull. Tonight Johnny went
to Oustic and brought the paper and a letter from Emily. She gives
me a lot of news.
�APRIL
Sunday 2 7
8:20 pm
This morning was smoky and drizzling rain now and then, but it cleared
up about 10 o'clock,and was very warm all day. This morning Noah
and I went to church at Speedside. We got a ri.de partway, N o a h with Allan's
and I with Sloan's. I saw cousin Robert and had a chat with him.. This
afternoon we had arranged to go over to Jim Duffields about 3 o'clock
when about 2:30 Mr. Grieves came in and stayed till just now he left.
Shortly after he came I went for a walk as far as the top of Mutrie's
hill. On my way back I met Miss Grieves and a younger brother going
home from Sloan's and Miss Sloan and her sister and two brothers and
another gentleman, I forget his name were with them. We stood a long
while talking and then Miss Grieves and brother went on and Miss
Sloan and party came back with me.
Monday 28
Today has been beautiful and cool and fine. This afternoon I
walked down home and gave them a surprise. After tea Jenny and I went
over to see Mrs. Loree and she loaded me with apples and sent a pitcher
of milk for me to drink while I was home. Pa is working at Benham's
now and he came home at dark.
Tuesday 2 9
8:45 pm
Today has been fine in the morning but dull this afternoon and
threatening rain.
This forenoon Jenny and I drove over to Alfred's
and stayed to dinner and started back about 3:30 bringing Maggie
with us to stay with me for awhile. We just called at father's to
get some things and then Jenny brought me home and is staying here
all night.
We reached here at 6 o'clock.
Wednesday 30
8:15 pm
Today has been dull and cold and windy. We had tea at 5 tonight and
Jenny started for home directly after. Shortly after she left Mrs.
Oaks came along on her way home from Sunley's having been down for Sarah
and Noah went out to speak to her and got some butter that his mother
had sent for us.
MAY
Thursday 1st
8:25 pm
Today has been very cold and windy. This afternoon I sowed lettuce
and beet seed and some cress seed that Ann Eliza gave me.
Friday 2nd
8:50 pm
Today has been fine and bright though cool.
This afternoon I got my
garden ready and sowed some flower seeds. While I was at it a butcher
called to see if we had anything to sell.
Saturday 3
9:50 pm
Today has been warmer and very fine. I set a white hen today and sowed
some more flower seeds. Tonight while I was in the garden sowing the
seeds an old man came in begging but finding no one in the house he
left without seeing me.
�MAY
Monday 12
8:35 pm
Today has been warmer than yesterday and windy and very fine. This
morning Johnny went to Oustic and got the paper. This afternoon I put
a new back in Noah'^ old vest.
Tuesday 13
8:45 pm
Today has been exceedingly warm and calm and clear and tonight it is
lightning . This afternoon I wrote to cousin Mary Ann and sowed some
flower seeds.
Wednesday 14
8:40 pm
Today has been fine and very warm. This afternoon I started for Oaks's
and a little piece up the road I met Miss Oaks
and Miss Grieves
coming here so I had to turn back. After tea I went a piece with
them. I have promised to go to Oaks's tomorrow if it is fine. Noah
finished seeding tonight.
Thursday 15
8:45 pm
Today has been dull and showery and tonight is quite cool.I did not
go to Oaks's.Tonight
after tea Noah went over there and I sent my letter
to post.
I milked the cow in the field tonight
Friday 16
10:20 pm
Today has been a beautiful bright pleasant day. Tonight after tea we
went over to Sloan's. The girls were away to Guelph and Jim Duffield
and his wife came over too and soon after the girls came home.
We had
music and singing and spent a pleasant time.
Saturday 17
9:30 pm
Today has been very fine and pleasant. This morning about 11 o'clock
Ma and Emily came and stayed till after tea. Emily got a chance ride
home last night. She brought me the rest of my cards.
We are going down
in the morning if it is fine.
Sunday 18
Written Tuesday evening
This
day was very fine and warm. In the morning we went down home, reachin
there about 11:15. They were all at church but pa to hear Mr. Cooper
preach his farewell sermon as he is about to leave that circuit. They
reached home about 1 o'clock and about 2 Noah and the boys went down to
Socket's. After tea we three girls started for Rockwood church and met
Noah and Georgie coming up. David had gone down to church. We tried to
persuade Noah to go with us but he wouldn't. When we got there we
found
Fanny McKersie there and she and I went for a short walk as it was
early and then we sat in the same seat. Louie was there in the choir.
Coming back David rode with us and we were not long going home. I found
Noah waiting for me so he got out the horse and we started home
reaching here about 10 and finding Johnny asleep on the lounge.
�MAY
Monday 19
This day was fine like yesterday. In the morning Noah took Jim
Duffield's buggy home and I rode with him as far as the pasture to
milk the cow. When he came back he and Johnny started for his father's
to get some hay and to bring up some cattle but he returned shortly
after 7 o'clock with a load of hay and minus Johnny who had gone
to Guelph. I was washing all day and felt very tired.
Tuesday 20
9:00 pm
Today has been very warm and rather windy. This morning I baked
pies and cakes. This afternoon about 4:30 Mr. Sunley and Johnny
came with the cattle, two steers and a cow and about
7:30 Mr. Sunley left for home and Noah went over and helped me milk.
Wednesday 21
8:40 pm
Today has been very fine and cool. This forenoon Noah went to Oustic
to get me some whole pepper and ginger. He got the ginger but they had
no pepper. Tonight I sowed the cucumber seed.
Thursday 22
9:40 pm
Today has been fine and quite cool. We rose early and started for Mr.
Sunley's reaching there at 8. About 10 we started for Guelph with Mr.
Sunley and Hannah. I got my hat trimmed and we got the wallpaper for the
house and got back there about 6:20, got our supper and started for
home here with the buggy, reaching here at 9.
Friday 23
8:35 pm
Today has been very fine and warm but cool tonight. This morning Noah
went down to his father's early and returned tonight at 6 with a load
of things. About 4:30 Alfred and Annie and the children came and
stayed till dark.
Saturday 24
8:55 pm
Today has been fine and warm. This afternoon Noah washed the sheep.
A good many people passed here today, spending their holdiay.
Sunday
Written Monday
This day was fine but cool. This morning about 11 o'clock Mr. McFarlane
and Rachel came and after dinner Mr. & Mc and Noah went over to Jim
Duffield's and about 3:30 Len Parkinson and Man Duffied came and after
putting away the horse they went over after the others and about teatime they came back again together except Man who did not come till after
tea. About 6:30 Mr. McF went home and Rachel is staying till Tuesday.
The others left a little before 9.
Monday 26
9 :2 0 pm
Today has been fine but very cool. This morning about 9:15 Rachel started
for Oaks's with the children and she came back about 8:40. Mr. Oaks
brought the bricklayers out today from Guelph.
�73
MAY
Tuesday 27
9:15 pm
Today has been dull and cold. This afternoon Rachel and I with the
children went over to Jim Duffields and about 5 o'clock Hannah came.
She came with
Mr. McF who had come for Rachel so after tea we hurried
home and they started home immediately.
Wednesday 28
Written Saturday
This day was fine and warm. In the morning we began our house-cleaning
spree that Hannah had come to help me about and about 10:30 Jenny
came. She brought me a pail of soft soap and a basket of apples. We did
not quite finish
the kitchen today. Tonight Johnny Sloan came over and
stayed till nearly 10. I was just about starting for their place when he
came so when Noah came in I went and took the shawl home that I
borrowed the other night and took a pitcher for yeast but they had just
made new yeast and it had not risen enouqh, then so I left the pitcher.
si
Thursday 29
This day was very warm and dry. This morning Noah r o d e down with Jim
Duffield as far as Lyon's corner and then walked home and went to
Guelph with his father to get a buggy. The girls finished the kitchen
and my bedroom today and after tea Jenny went home and I sent half of
my last churning of butter down home by her.
This morning I set two
hens. Tonight Hannah and I went over for the yeast and we had a splended
swing. Noah did not come home tonight and soon after we came back
from Sloan's a drunken man came down the road and came in here. We
locked the doors and kept quiet and he soon left.
Friday 30
This day was very windy and hot. I baked today and we did the other
bedroom all but the floor.
About 4 o'clock Noah and Jim came with the
buggy and about
7:30 Jim and Hannah left for home.
Saturday 31
8:35 pm
Today has been very warm and windy and about 4 it began to rain and is
still raining steady and thundering and lightning. This morning Noah
sheared the sheep. Today I finished cleaning up and baked pies.
JUNE
Sunday 1st
9:00 pm
Today has been dull but pleasant till about 4:30 when it commenced to
rain and rained heavy for some time. This forenoon Noah and I went
down to his father's and just before we left Fred Duffield came over and
stayed all day with Johnny. We had a pleasant ride down but coming
home tonight it was rather wet.
Monday 2
8:10 pm
Today has been dull and cold. This morning I churned and Fred
Duffield brought the gang plough home
�JUNE 74
Tuesday 3
9:10 pm
Today has been cold and wet.
This morning Mr. Sunley came up and he and
Noah built the flue and put out the stove and put up a little one in
the house. Tonight they went over to Oustic to a political meeting.
Wednesday 4
8:00 pm
Today has been dull and drizzling except for a short time during the
afternoon when the sun shone out. This morning they finished the
chimney and this afternoon about 3 o'clock Mr. Sunley started for home.
Tonight Tom Sloan came over and stayed a little while.
Thursday 5
Written Tuesday
This day was very fine but cool and rather windy. This morning I washed
the white clothes and this afternoon Noah went down to the Centre
to vote and I went with him and drove on home but ma and Jenny were away
so I went to L o r e e 1 s and Mrs. Benham was there. I stayed till 7 o'clock
and then went home to see the garden before dark. While I was there pa and
DAvid came home and they got the key and opened the house and I had a
look at the organ. About 8 ma and Jenny came and at the same time Noah
came from Loree's with the buggy so he drove in and we stayed till
9:10. They had been to Mr. Sunley's.
Friday 6
This day was fine but fearfully windy. I finished my washing and folded
the clothes at night. Tonight Noah went to Oustic and got the paper
Saturday 7
This day was fine and a little warmer. I scrubbed and baked and
and in the evening I planted the beans.
ironed
Sunday 8
This day was fine but rather threatening. In the morning Johnny started
for Mr. Sunley's with the team. About 10:30
pa and ma came and about 2
Mr. & Mrs. Oaks came and about 3:30 Jim Duffield and his wife came, so we
had plenty of company. After tea pa and ma left and a while after Jim
and his wife left and just before dark Mr. & Mrs. Oaks left and Jim came
with the young horses.
Monday 9
This day was very fine and warm. They commenced road work today. In the
mcmninq I washed my blankets and all my clothes. This afternoon I
churned.
Tonight after tea Noah and Jim hitched the colt single
for the first time and she went very quietly.
Tuesday 10
9:25 pm
Today has been fine and very hot. At noon we had a little shower.
They finished their road work at 11 and this afternoon they rolled the
turnip ground and then hitched the colt to the buggy and went over to
Oustic with the butter and got some groceries and some coal oil. About
7 Jim started for home. I commenced cleaning upstairs today. Tonight
after dark Jim Oaks came over and Noah is still out with him. Tom
Grieves got badly hurt today pulling down the old barn. Some of it
fell on him and one of the framers
and hurt them very badly.
�JUNE
Wednesday 11
written Monday
This day was very fine and warm. This afternoon about 4 o'clock ma came.
I did not quite finish upstairs today. Tom Grieves died this morning at
4 o'clock and will be buried tomorrow at 2.
Thursday 12
This day was very fine and pleasant. This morning about 9:30 we started
for Garry and had a very pleasant visit. It was dark when we got back.
We got a lot of flower plants and Mr. Townsend gave ma the fowls he
promised pa long ago. Two hens and a rooster of the Silver Hamburgs.
Firday 13
Written Monday
This day was fine and very warm. This morning we planted out my plants
and then I starched my white skirts and after dinner ma fixed my
grenadine dress and I finished cleaning upstairs. About 4:00 ma started
for home.
Saturday 14
This day was fine and pleasant till about 3:30 when it commenced to rain
and rained quite heavy before dark. I whitewashed and cleaned the
passage today.
Sunday 15.
This morning it rained quite heavy but cleared off about 10 and Noah
and I started for his father's. We reached there soon after 11 and after
dinner we went to Eden to church with Mr. & Mrs. Sunley and Hannah and
on our way back we went into Rachael's and stayed to tea. When we were
on our way home it came on a dreadful heavy rainstorm and we got pretty
wet. We did not come home tonight as it is very dark and wet.
Monday 16
9:30 pm
Today has been very fine and cool. This morning we rose
early and
started for home at 5:30. I brought a hen and 8 little ducks. Today
is Mr. Sunley's birthday.
Tuesday 17
Written Thursday
This day was dull and cold and windy. About 11 am. Mr. Sunley came up with
the turnip drill and they sowed the turnips in the afternoon. I washed
today. Mr. Sunley left about 7 o'clock.
Wednesday 18
This day was fine but cool. I ironed and baked today. Six little
chickens hatched today. This afternoon Noah rode down home with Jim
Duffield and came back with him about 9:30 tonight. Mrs. Sunley is
very poorly.
rhursday 19
9:00 pm
Today has been beautifully fine and warmer than yesterday. I cleaned the
summer kitchen partly today. Eight more chickens came out today.
�JUNE 76
Friday 20
written Monday
This day was very fine and warm. I finished cleaning the kitchen and
cleaned the dairy and entry which concludes my house-cleaning
Saturday 21
This day was fine and very warm and just after dark it rained a little
I baked and scrubbed today and at dark Jim Duffield and his wife called
for some cucumber plants.
Sunday 22
This day was exceedingly warm. This afternoon Noah and I went over to
Oakes's and stayed till 9 o'clock. Mr. & Mrs. Oaks were away at James
Benham's.
�Anna Melia Day Sunley b. 1893 died 1948 at 95. her father was Thomas Day. married Noah Sunley in
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Diary for 1878 2
March
Friday 15 9:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful day. More like May than March. Sky blue
with light fleecy clouds, sun shining and birds singing. This morning
Emily went back to her school after two weeks sick leave. They went
from here to Alfred's and took two horses and the light wagon from
there the rest of the way. Pa has just returned and reports the roads
almost impassable in places. Jenny has been busy baking all day and
I have knitted two blocks for my quilt.
Saturday 16 8:50 pm
This has been a miserable dull day. The morning was very bright but
it clouded up and rained before noon. This morning the boys went
down to Alfred's to help Henry kill the pig. They came home shortly
before 6 o'clock tonight. They did not go to Rockwood for the papers
as we expected so we did not hear the story tonight. Alfred and Annie
went past here today on their way a school examination. We did not
see them return. Some people were looking at McNab's old house over
here
Sunday 17 8:30 pm
This morning was dull and threatening rain. I rose at six o'clock and
went for a short walk to see what the roads were like. Decided it was
useless to attempt to go to church today as it was so wet. It began
to rain before I got back and came quite a shower. I stayed in the
house the rest of the day and wrote two letters, one to Ruth Fear, the
other to Richard. Tonight about five o'clock who should come along but
Fred. He looks a great deal better than he did the last time I saw
him and made himself very agreeable all the evening. He brought
us a large piece of head-cheese that looks very tempting.
Monday 18 9:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful bright balmy day, birds singing and frogs
crocking in chorus. Fred left about 8:30 this morning. Ma started
for Guelph shortly afterwards. Pa drove her as far as Rockwood and
found Annie waiting. He brought the papers and a letter for Henry. Ma
has not returned yet. We have decided she is not coming tonight. We
washed today and finished shortly before 5 o'clock.
Tuesday 19 9:00 pm
This morning while we were at breakfast we witnessed a heavy
snowstorm but it was of short duration It continued cloudy and dark
until noon when it began to clear up and this evening was very bright
and clear. Alfred had rheumatism in his shoulder today and ithurt him
to pan it in any way, so he decided to stay here all night and we sent
David down to tell Annie and get the saddle. On his way home he met
Mr. & Mrs. McCaig going down there so Alfred had to start for home
about 6 o'clbck. Georgie went to Rockwood to post a card for Alfred
and brought back a card from Lila asking us to go for the dog.
�March 3
Wednesday 20 8:50 pm
Today has been a beautiful bright sunshiny day. This morning when
I first went out a pheasant flew away from the school porch. Pa went
To Mr. Loree's this morning to inquire about some work he heard they
intended to let. He returned while we were at Dinner. David has gone
to an Open Lodge in Rockwood tonight and has not yet returned. I made
a pair of pants for him today.
Thursday 21 8:00 pm
Today was dull and it snowed nearly all day. Alfred held his
examination today. The children did very well. Georgie was the
highest. The visitors were Mr. McCaig and Mary, two Gordons, teachers,
Mr. John and David Shultiss, Mr. John and Hugh Black, Mr. Dryden
and two of his children Pa and Jenny and I. Annie and the children
and Mrs. Talbot, two Mrs Maudes and Miss Maude, Misses Tovell,
Stewart Moore. Alison another whom I do not know and Mr. A. Hill,
besides three boys whose names I do not know. We gave them dinner in
the school and tonight the two Mr. Gordons and Mr. D. Shultiss and Miss
Stewart and Annie and Alfred and Mrs. Talbot came in here to tea.
After tea I drove Mrs. Talbot and the children down to Alfred's and
Annie and Miss Stewart walked. Alfred and Mr. Shultiss have not left
yet. They have been examining the papers and awarding the prizes.
Friday 22 8:40 pm
This morning the ground was white with snow and the sky cloudy when I
got up but it cleared off gradually and the sun shone most of the after-
noon. There was no school today so David and George went to Rockwood
this morning for pa's tools and the papers. This afternoon they went
off with the gun and did not come back until dark. They say they
were helping Mr. Burns' hired man boil sap. While they were eating
their supper Henry came to say they are going to cut stuff tomorrow
for the horses. So pa and the boys will have to go down in the morning.
He says Alfred and Miss Stewart went down to Jim Collins's examination
today and had not returned when he left. We sowed tomato seeds today.
Saturday 23 9:30 pm
Today was fine with high wind until about 5 o'clock when it clouded
up and rained heavily after dark. This morning the boys and pa went
down to Alfred's, and Alfred went away to Dan Talbot's examination.
About 10:30 A.M. Bennie Townsend came, stayed to dinner and then
went down to Alfred's. He and the boys returned about 6:30 tonight.
Pa came shortly before. About 5 o'clock tonight Jennie went over to
McNab's for milk. Tonight Bennie and David played checkers for awhile
then we played Pannchee ma and I winning three games out of four.
Sunday 24 8:45 pm
Today has been blustering and very cold with dashes of snow. This
morning David and Bennie and I went to the Presbyterian church. There
were a good many there. Coming home I got a ride with Hill's most of
the way. This afternoon passed in reading and the evening in talking.
�March 4
Monday 25 9:15 pm
Today has been very cold and windy with flying snow and gleams of
sunshine. This morning the boys spent in the house. This afternoon
they went to Rockwood and explored the rocks. David came home alone
tonight, George and Bennie going down to Alfred's where George
commences work tomorrow. Margaret McNab came over this afternoon
and stayed to tea after which I went a piece with her. Pa went to
Alfred's this afternoon and got back while we were at tea. Jennie sent
David over to McNab1
s for buttermilk after he came home. An old man
called here this afternoon asking for help to pay his way to London
on the cars. He was frantically blind.
Tuesday 26 8:35 pm
Today has been milder and calmer but towards night the wind rose and
it began to snow. The ground is white and it is snowing yet but the
wind has ceased and it is very still. This morning pa and David went
down to Alfred's and about 8:30 Alfred and Bennie arrived here. Bennie
stayed a little while and then started for the station. Shortly after
9 o'clock Lois Black came in to change baskets, Eddie having taken
the wrong one on Thursday. Tonight about 5:30 I went over to McNab's
for milk and pa came home while I was away. Tonight is the Granger's
meeting. I do not think there is many there.
Wednesday 27 8:35 pm
This morning was misty but the sun came out quite bright about noon but
about 3 o'clock it thundered heavy and tonight it came a heavy shower
but it has stopped now. This morning ma went down with pa and about
8:30 Alfred and Annie came up with their buggy and ma was just behind
them. Annie wanted me to go for a drive and I said I would if she
would take our horse, so she did and we went up to Thomas Talbot's
first. He was away but Mrs. Talbot gave Annie the information she
wanted and showed us the cattle. From there we went to Mrs. Oliphant's
and got our dinner and arrived at home at 3 o'clock. Alfred and
Annie stayed to tea and started home between showers.
Thursday 28 10:00 pm
This morning when I woke it was raining heavily but after breakfast
it turned to snow and continued to snow heavily and steadily until
3 o'clock when it ceased and gradually cleared up. This morning
David and Alfred came up together. About 10:30 Mr. Vinetti called to
tell them they were going to saw Alfred's lumber this afternoon.
So after dinner David went down to tell Henry to go and take away
the lumber and pa went down to the mill. About 6 o'clock he returned
very tired and out of sorts. Henry had not gone to the mill at all
and he had had to carry all the lumber himself. David did not come
Back. Pa brought the papers and a letter from Emily to Jennie.
�5
March
Friday 29 8:40 pm
Today has been a beautiful sunshiny day without a cloud. This morning
pa went down to the mill again. Alfred brought the horse and buggy
when he came and closed the school at 12 o'clock and left to attend
Mr. Gordon's examination at Ospringe. Pa came home a little after six
tonight. David did not come home. The tomatoes are coming up.
Saturday 30 9:35 pm
Today has been fine with a high cold east wind. It is snowing now. This
is Jennie's birthday. This morning pa went to Guelph by train and
walked home arriving about two o'clock. He brought the young Ladies
Journal and Young Men of Great Britain. The boys came home before tea.
After tea I went over to McNab's for milk. Tonight I read aloud
"Oswald the Unknown" for the boys. A teacher named Mr. Cameron was at
Alfred's today.
Sunday 31 12:15 pm
This morning it rained for awhile but cleared up before noon. It was
too muddy to think of going to church so we stayed at home all day.
This afternoon pa and the boys drowned the chipmunk out of his hole
in the garden and despatched him with sticks. Tonight N.S, was here
to tea and stayed the evening.
APRIL
Monday 1st 8:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful warm sunshiny day. We washed today and
got the clothes out before dinner. Georgie and David went down to
Alfred's this morning. Pa was chopping and splitting wood most of the
day. Towards evening he went to Rockwood and got some coal oil. I hung
up the hams tonight. Georgie came home at 7:40 tonight.
Tueaday 2nd 8:20 pm
Today has been another balmy delightful day. Georgie and I went to
Guelph today and got home a little after 6 o'clock. We enjoyed our
ride very much. The roads are so dry, almost dusty. We went to
Carrie Porter's to dinner. Found her and her aunt looking well. Promised
to go in next week to stay a few days with her. There was not very
much stir in town today, owing I suppose to the fact that tomorrow is
fair day. Did not see many folks I knew. Passed Thomas Black on our
way home. Jenny is not very well tonight. Georgie got a pair of shoes
and a hat today. Ma sold the picture of the school.
Wednesday 3 8:40 pm
Another beautiful cloudless day. This morning pa and Georgie washed
the buggy and then pa and ma went to Guelph and Georgie rode as
far as the corner. A little piece up the road they met Alfred and Annie
and David with the team and heavy wagon. Alfred stopped at the school
of course and David also ran in for his overcoat. He and Annie were
going up to McConachie's for the potatoes. This afternoon Janet came
in at intermission and stayed until school was out. Ma and Pa got
home at 5:40 tonight and Jenny and I were at tea. Ma went to see
Lila Humphreys today and she had a chat with Mrs. Fear. Jenny has
sore throat tonight
�April 6
Thursday 4th 9:30 PM
Today has been fine like its predecessors. Pa has been drawing wood
up here all day. This afternoon I went over to Margaret McNab's to
help her pick out a knitting pattern and ma and Jenny went down to
Alfred's for a drive. I got home about 7 o'clock and they arrived
about 7:30.
Friday 5 10:00 pm
Today has been clear and bright as usual. This morning pa was cutting
Wood. This afternoon he and ma went to Sunley's on a visit, calling
at Pat Lee's as they went to tell him about Alfred's barn. This evening
about 5 o'clock David came home. I got him to go over to McNab's for
milk. Alfred left about 5:30. Pa and ma got home about 8:40 tonight.
I was baking today.
Saturday 6 10:00 pm
Today has been cloudy and windy with gleams of sunshine. This morning
David went down to Alfred's with the horse and buggy as Alfred was
going to Brookville to the teacher's meeting and his horse was working.
Pa has been sawing and splitting wood all day. Tonight about 9:50
David came home and Emily and Miss Cunningham came with him. They
were at the meeting and took the opportunity to come up. Georgie did
not come home tonight.
Sunday 7 9:40 pm
Today has been fine but rather cool. This morning about 8:30 Georgie
came home. His hand is very sore so that he cannot use it, so David
will have to take his place tomorrow. About 10:30 Alfred and Annie
and Bertie and Dan Talbot arrived. A few minutes afterwards Mr. &
Mrs. McCaig came along on their way to church. They stopped at the
gate and he came in. We girls and the boys were just coming in from
inspecting the playhouses. He spoke to us and said he called to see
Dan then he went on to the house and the rest followed while I went
and chattered to Mrs. McCaig until he came out. About 2 o'clock Alfred
hitched up his horse and he and Dan went up to McCaig's. Shortly
afterwards Daivd hitched our horse for us and Jenny and I went to
take Emily and Miss Cunningham back to school. We had a pleasant
drive although we had to go very slow on account of the load. We
left Emily at McPhails to walk the rest of the way. Mrs. McPhail made
us stay to tea and we reached home at 9:10. Alfred has not returned
yet for Annie and Bertie.
Monday 8 9:00 pm
Today has been fine but tonight the wind has risen and clouds obscure
the moon. This morning Alfred arrived on foot having gone home sometime
in the small hours. Ma and Annie and Bertie sat up for him last night
until 12 o'clock and then went to bed in dispair. So this morning Jenny
had to go and take them home, getting back about 11 o'clock and bringing
Maggie to school. Today I trimmed Emily's hat and washed my nightdress
which ma had just finished. Before tea I went over to McNab's for milk.
Georgie's hand is some better tonight.
�APRIL 7
Tuesday 9 9:30 pm
Today has been cold and windy and rainy. This morning pa. and ma went
down to Alfred's. They came back about 6:^40 tonight. Georgie went
down to the post-office this afternoon but returned without, any letters,
Alfred stayed to tea waiting for his return, and at last set off to
meet him. Mr. Auld called today to see Alfred on business but did
not come in. Today is Miss Kate McKeown' s wedding day. Rather a gloomy
one.
Wednesday 10 9:J30 pm.
Today has been mild and showery and dull. This morning Alfred and Annie
started up here on foot as Annie and I intended to go to Guelph with
our horse but it began to rain and Annie went into Barnet Shultis's
while Alfred came on. When the shower was over, she followed getting
here about 9:30. She stayed to dinner and then went home in. despair
of it clearing up. Alfred left with her as he was. going in, by the
afternoon train, leaving George Hill in. charge of the schpgl, which
he dismissed about 3 o'clock. About 3:30 Mr. Patrick Lee called to
see Alfred on business and stayed a short time then left for the
station. Today is Lucy Duffield's wedding day. Tonight's clear
and starlight.
Thursday 11 ll:1O pm.
Today has been fine but not without clouds. This morning I got all ready
the buggy at the door when, Alfred arrived, with his horse and buggy to
say that Annie went to Guelph yesterday with him so I had to go by the
train. Georgie drove me to the station and I got a return, ticket for
30 cts lasting four days. When I reached Guelph I went down to
Carrie's and found the house empty so I went up town and met then on
the street. Tonight Carrie and I went to a lecture in Kriox's church
delivered by the Rev. Mr. Handford from Toronto. It was splendid and
we enjoyed it immensely. We have just returned. He said among other
funny things that if you only threw mud enough at a, man. some of it would,
be sure to stick but if the man had sense enought to leave it alone
until it dried it would rub off without any harm being done. He gave
2 very amusing and interesting accounts of Oliver Cromwell's boyhood
and the pranks he imagined him playing. Oliver Cromwell was the
subject of the Lecture and he did justice to it.
Friday 12 9:00 pm
Today has been fine but windy. This morning Miss Eliza Hamilton
called on her way to school and promised to come in to dinner which she
did. This afternoon Carrie and I went up town to do some shopping
and we called on Lila Hamphreys and saw the baby. She is going about
quite smart. Mrs. Fear is there yet.. She and. Freddie came down, as
far as the corner with us on their way to the post-office. I got a
parasol for Emily today. Tonight Mr, Porter came home. He was not
home last night as he went down to Hamilton instead and let the
other man come up here. Mr. Porter has just come in. 9:40
�APRIL 8
Saturday 13 8:20 pm
Today was fine but cold and very windy. This morning Carrie and I
went up to Mr. Hamilton's. Just before we left Fanny Smith called and
she stayed for a short time with Mrs Nevilles. We rode in the stage
as far as the corner and then walked the rest of the way. I enjoyed my
visit very much. The girls are so friendly. There are three girls
and one boy in the family. Mr. & Mrs. Hamilton are away down to Toronto
at present. Miss H walked back with us and went to the post-office. She
called on her way home to say she got a card from her parents. Carrie
has gone up town tonight with Mr. Porter to get him a hat. We got
home a little after six o'clock otnight. I am going to bed with a
headache.
Sunday 14 8:30 pm
Today has been very fine and warm. This morning Mr. Porter and Carrie
and I went to Mr. Ball's church and Mrs Nevilles went to the Methodist.
Mr. Porter's brother Andrew came down with him to dinner. After
dinner the two gentleman set out for their father's. Tonight Mrs. N and
Carrie and I went to the Methodist church. On our way home I was
introduced to cousin Mary Day and she invited me to go and see her. Mr.
Porter has not yet returned.
Monday 15 8:30 pm
Today has been dull and cool. This morning Miss Eliza Hamilton called
to say they had got a letter from their parents and that the operation
was successful. About 10 o'clock ma and Jenny arrived with the horse and
buggy and I went up town with them to do some shopping then we
went down to dinner. About 1:30 they started for home taking my things
with them. I started for the station about 4:30. Carrie went up
with me and saw me off. Just as we were starting Eliza H. came in on her
way home. I walked home from Rockwood meeting Annie going in,
chatted to her a few minutes and reached home at 6 o'clock and
eat my supper. Pa came home at dark. I saw Margaret McNab as I passed
there and Mrs. Maude.
Tuesday 16 9:30 pm
Today has been a fine breezy day. We washed today and got the clothes
dried and folded tonight. This afternoon about 4 o'clock Annie came up
with Prince and the buggy and brought a horse collar to take to Everton
to get fixed. Alfred seftt her on with it and Jenny went with her
for company. After they had gone the boys came with the team for pa's
tools. About 6:30 pa came home and about 7:30 Jenny came. The Grangers
are holding a meeting tonight. There are a good many there, two
or three ladies among them. Planted my gladiolus root today.
Wednesday 17 9:20 pm
Today has been very fine and warm. This morning ma went with pa to
Alfred's. Annie came back with her and they brought the spinning wheel.
Then ma changed her dress and she and Annie went to Mrs. Scott's
funeral. Mrs. James Black rode back with them and made them go in
there to dinner and stay the afternoon. It was nearly 6 o'clock when
they got here and I was over at McNab's for milk. They called for
a shawl and then ma took Annie home and brought pa back. Jenny
planted onions and sowed lettuce today.
�APRIL 18 9:30 pm
Today has been fine out. This afternoon it clouded up like rain. I
was baking today and starching and ironing Emily's dark print dress.
This afternoon Mrs. William Burns came over. She left shortly before
6 o'clock. Then Jenny harnessed the horse and ma went for pa. David
came home with them.
Good Friday 18 9:30 pm
This morning it rained heavily for some time and there was one clap
of thunder and flash of lightning. It continued dull until noon when
it cleared a little but clouded again towards evening and rained a
little. This morning we moved the stoves. Just as we had got things
straightened a bit I took the lumbago in my back and had to keep quiet
all the rest of the day. It is better tonight. After dinner David and
Jenny got ready and started for Nassagawega. Tonight Alfred let his
school out earlier and George Hill went home and changed his clothes
and came back and accompanied Alfred home to go with him tomorrow
morning to Emily's examination. Pa went to Rockwood this forenoon
and got some strawberry plants and he and ma started them after dinner.
Saturday 20 10:00 pm
This morning about 2 o'clock there was a heavy thunderstorm. It commenced
raining again about 7:30 but cleared up before noon and was very
windy all the afternoon and evening. This forenoon Myra Laight
called to pay ma some money she owed her. This afternoon a tramp called
for something to eat. He was very civil. Ma and I were all alone.
Tonight pa came home about 7 o'clock without his supper. David and
Jenny have just got home.
Easter Sunday 21 9:00 pm
Today has been fine and mild. This morning Georgie came home about
9 o'clock. This afternoon there was Sunday school in the schoolhouse.
Mr. McNab and Mr. Hugh Black were the teachers and they has very few
scholars. Tonight we went down to church. There were not many there.
Margaret McNab and John overtook us on our way down. My back was bad
and I had to walk slow so she walked with me. Coming back Elsie and
Agnes walked with us as far as the track and a little farther on
Margaret and John overtook us again and walked as far as their place.
Monday 22 9:20 pm
This morning was dull and cold. About 8:30 it began to rain and continued
to do so until late in the afternoon. It thundered and lightened for
a short time about noon. Tonight pa came home early followed soon
after by David.
Tuesday 23 9:15 pm
Today has been cold and windy with a dense fog and rain towards
evening. This morning pa went down to Alfred's with the buggy. David
went with him and brought the horse back and Alfred came up with him.
Then Jenny sent David over to McNab's for buttermilk. At noon Mr.
John Black called for some circulars ma had relating to some magnetic
belts etc. At intermission ma sent for Lois Black to give her a
paper she had forgotten to give Mr. Black. After tea I sent David over
to McNabs for sweet milk. Pa came home tonight at 8 o'clock.
�APRIL
Wednesday 24 9:00 pm
This morning was cloudy and warm. About 8:30 it began to rain and
continued to be showery all day. We had several very heavy showers
with some thunder and lightening. Pa went down this morning to work.
David started shortly after and got nearly there when he met Henry
coming up with wood so he came back and helped him unload and load
up again with manure. This afternoon Henry came up again and brought
the sugar kettle and leach barrel and a barrel for ashes and he took
another load of manure home. About 5:30 two tramps called for something
to eat. Pa came home about 6:30. Ma is very poorly with a cold.
Thursday 25 9:30 pm
Today has been fine but cool. This morning Georgie came up with a
load of wood and took back manure, David going with him. This
afternoon the two of them came up twice with loads. David stayed the
last load. A tramp called this afternoon for something to eat. Pa
came home just before dark. He had been to Rockwood and brought
the papers. David went over to Maude's tonight to have a chat
and came back about 9 o'clock.
Friday 26 9:00 pm
Today has been showery and warm. This morning pa and David went down
to work at Alfred's. At 12 o'clock I started for Emily. On the road down
the bolts came out of the front of the buggy and let me down. Dr.
Wynn was just behind me and he came and fixed it all right and when
I reached the blacksmith's shop I got a new bolt in. I met Emily
just the other side of Brookville riding with Mr. McPherson so I had
not so far to go and we reached home in good time. Pa and David came
home shortly after.
Saturday 2 7 9:20 pm
Today has been fine and mild. Ma and I have been working hard all
day to finish Emily's dress. David has a pain in his side and cannot
work so he stayed at home today. We sent him over to McNab's
tonight for milk. Pa came home at dark.
Sunday 28 10:00 pm
Today has been a strange day. This morning David and Emily and I went
to the Presbyterian Church. It was very warm but cloudy with gleams of
sunshine. This afternoon I went to take Emily back and it came on
rain. We got two heavy showers going down and the second one we took
refuge in the shed at Brookside but not before we got pretty wet.
Coming home I got several showers but none of them very heavy until
I got here when it came down very heavy. Pa was in bed and ma had
to call him up. Georgie did not come home today.
Monday 29 9:20 pm
This morning it was raining steadily when I rose, and was rather
misty but it cleared a little before noon but has been dull and showery
all the afternoon. At 6 o'clock this morning, as I was preparing
breakfast, Alfred came. He and Annie had been at Richard Talbot's
all night and he had just come from there. Annie took the horse home
and he walked on here from the corner. David went into school today
and Mr. Lee came with George Hill in the forenoon. This afternoon pa
went to Rockwood and tonight David went over to McNabs for milk.
�11
APRIL
Tuesday 30 9:00 pm
This morning was dull and rather misty but it cleared somewhat th,i.s.
afternoon. This morning pa went down to. work at Alfred's. David was
cutting wood all day. Pa came home a little before 8 tonight, Jenny
and I have been working at her dress all day.
Today has been fine but windy. Tonight it clouded up and rained
a little. We washed this morning and I was gardening this
afternoon. David was cutting wood all day. Pa came home shortly after
6 o'clock. Charlie McNab was married yesterday, so George Hill told
David tonight.
Thursday 2 9:20 pm
Today has been showery and tonight we had a heavy thunderstorm. This
afternoon pa went down to Alfred's and made a packing box for ma and
brought it home in the buggy and brought a bag of flour. David went
to Rockwood to get some cotton for us and he heard that Charlie McNab
is not married yet but will be next week. Jenny sowed beets today.
Firday 3 9:10 pm
Today has been one continuous downpour of rain. About 7 o'clock
tonight it stopped and the clouds scattered a little and a beautiful
rainbow appeared in the southeast. This afternoon David went fishing
and caught a trout and came home dripping wet. We finished Jenny's
dress today minus the buttons.
Saturday 4 9:00 pm
This morning it was raining heavy but it soon stopped and David
went down and got some lime and we cleaned the kitchen today. It
was 6 o'clock when we got through. Pa and David went down to Alfred's
this morning and they came home about 7:30 tonight and Georgie came
with them. Alfred and Annie were down to Mr. Cameron's today.
Sunday 5 9:20 pm
Today has been fine and rather cool. This morning David and George
and I went to Eden to quarterly meeting. There were a great many
there. During our absence Alfred and Annie called and left the
children and when we came home they were at dinner. It was nearly
9 o'clock tonight when they came back and took Bertie home with them
and left Maggie.
Monday 6 8:3 0 pm
Today has been a beautiful sunshiny day. This morning Georgie rose
at five and started off to work. After breakfast pa and David went off
to Edwards to work so we are alone tonight. Jenny and I cleaned
upstairs today. I am so sleepy I am going to bed early.
MAY
Wednesday 1st 9:00 pm
�May
Tuesday 7 9:30 pm
This morning it was raining heavy when I woke but it soon quit and
turned out quite a fine day, very warm. Tonight a little after 8
we had a thunder shower but it is clearing off now. This morning we
sprouted the potatoes and this afternoon, ma and I made soap and when
we got that done I did some gardening, digging a bed and sowing
my flower seeds.
Wednesday 8 9:10 pm
Today has been fine until about 5 o'clock when we had a smart shower
and about six we had a dreadful rain with some thunder and lightening.
It washed a lot of my flower seeds away. This morning Jenny and I
washed the bed clothes and after dinner we washed the yarn. Tonight
after school Jenny cleaned out the wood-shed.
Thursday 9 9:20 pm
Today has been fine but very windy. Tonight about 7 o'clock
we had a furious storm of rain and wind but it did not last long
It is now clear moonlight. This morning I did some gardening and
Jenny went over to McNab's for buttermilk. After dinner an old man
came in begging. This afternoon I sewed 12 blocks of my quilt together.
After tea I did some more gardening. Ma Twisted a ball of cotton
today.
Friday 10 9:30 pm
Today has been fine but cold and windy. This morning at 9 o'clock
we had a heavy rain but it soon passed and the sun shone again.
Tonight about 4:30 I started for Alfred's walking with Janet McKersie.
Just the other side of the Rockwood turn we met Annie on her way
here with the team and light waggon so I got in and came back with her.
Then shortly after we got here pa and David came home. A little after
Alfred and Annie started for Johnny Talbot's. They returned past here
just before dark. Tonight I read the story aloud.
Saturday 11 10:00 pm
Today has been cloudy and cold and windy. This morning pa and David went
down to Alfred's to work andtookthehorseandbuggy.Shegotsomethingsfor us and sent
them home by the men tonight. Georgie came home with the rest about
8:30. Jenny and I shook the carpets this afternoon and put them down.
Sunday 12 9:30 pm
Today has been fine but cold and rather windy. This afternoon Norris
Black came in to get the school key before Sunday School and Lois came
in afterwards to bring it back. Tonight Jenny and I went to church and
heard Mrs. Orr1
s funeral sermon. The church was crowded. We walked
home with Maude's girls.
�MAY 13
Monday 13 9:10 pm
Today has been fine but cold. Pa and the boys went down to Alfred's
this morning to work. Jenny and I washed today and got through
before dinner. Last night there was a very hard frost. It made
the trees in the woods look brown but it did not do much damage in
the garden
Tuesday 14 9:00 pm
Today has been fine and rather milder. Last night we had a
dreadful hard frost...Freezing everything stiff. This morning I
poured water over some of the plants in the garden to thaw the
frost. Jenny ironed this morning. This afternoon we all went down
to Alfred's on a visit and explored most of the farm, had a
very pleasant time. David came home with us tonight. I brought some
daisy plants home with me. The Grangers meeting tonight.
Wednesday 15 :30 pm
Today has been fine and very pleasant. This morning I took David
down to Alfred's and got the periwinkle plant and then I drove to
Rockwood and got some knitting cotton and some letters. One was from
Emily to me. This afternoon we starched a pair of curtains and got
them dry and ma and Jenny made some cords and tassels to tie them
back with. Ma went over to McNab's this morning and got some eggs.
Charley is to be married tonight.
Thursday 16 9:15 pm
Today has been calm and mild. This morning I starched and dried the
other pair of curtains. This afternoon I put them up. Ma and Jenny
were gardening, planting the tomatoes etc. About 3:30 Lois Hill came
and stayed to tea. About 6:30 George Hill came along and she went
down to Rockwood with him. After that I practised a piece of music
and then dug a little in the garden. Tonight I set bread.
Friday 17 9:20 pm
Today has been a beautiful sunshiny day. This morning I was baking.
This afternoon Jenny and I went over to see Myra Laight. We found
her doing her Saturday's work as she intends going to Guelph tomorrow.
We enjoyed our visit very much though. She gave us some sweet music,
singing some very pretty pieces. We got home at 7:50
Saturday 18 9:00 pm
Another beautiful day but cloudy and dull tonight. This morning Jenny
planted the corn. Tonight she went for pa and David. Georgie did not
come with them but he has just now arrived. Tonight about 7 o'clock
Mr. Burns called to tell pa the hay he promised us is musty.
Sunday 19 9:00 pm
Today has been a miserable dull wet day. We did not get out anywhere.
This afternoon Georgie had to go down to Alfred's as Henry was
going to be away. There were not many at Sunday School. Mr. McNab and
Mr. Hugh Black came as usual.
�MAY
Monday 20 9:20 pm
Today has been pleasant but windy and showery. This morning pa and
David went down with the horse and buggy for Annie to come up with.
But Maggie was sick so she could not leave and Alfred brought the horse
home. This afternoon about 3 o'clock Mr. Townsend came and stayed to
tea. About 4 we had a heavy shower and another about 6. After tea
Alfred and Mr. T. set off for Alfreds just as it was beginning to
rain and were out in the last shower.
Tuesday 21 9:30 pm
Today has been dull and cool. This forenoon ma drove up to Johnny
Talbots to ask if they had heard from Tom and then down to Alfred's.
About 11 o'clock James and Thomas Black brought a load of hay. This
afternoon Jenny went over to McNab's for buttermilk and she got some
brides cake. Ma got home about 8:30 tonight.
Wednesday 22 9:30 pm
Last night there was a white frost but it did not seem to do much
harm. Today has been fine and warm. This morning Jenny went down and
brought Annie and the children up. Annie wanted ma to fix her dress
so they were working at that all day. This afternoon Jenny and I went
to Rockwood to get the horse shod and we took Bertie with us. After
tea I took Annie and the children home and brought back a bag of flour.
Today Jenny planted the cucumbers.
Thursday 23 9:20 pm
Today has been another beautiful day. This morning I ironed Emily's
dresses and Jenny planted the beans. After dinner I went down for
Emily and ma went with me as far as Mr. Wetherald's. I met Emily on the
big hill. We went into Wetherald's and stayed to tea and a Mrs.
Marshall came in to tea. We reached home at 8:20 tonight.
Friday 2 4 9:15 pm
Sometime during last night we had a thunder shower and this forenoon
was dull and threatening but it cleared up beautiful and bright
about noon and continued so all day although rather windy. It is
very warm tonight and the mosquitoes are humming. There was a picnic
today at the Erin school. Maude's girls were there and they called in
for a drink tonight on their way home and they said there were a
good many there and they enjoyed themselves. This afternoon between
3 and 4 o'clock Georgie came home and went fishing. About 7 Alfred
and Annie went by on their way to her mother's. They stopped talking
for awhile with Emily. I got the pleating ready for Annie's dress today.
Jenny sowed the rest of the carrots.
Saturday 2 5 10:30 pm
Today has been warm and bright but very windy making it very unpleasant
riding on account of the dust. This morning we expected Alfred to
call on his way home but as he did not come before 10 o'clock Emily
and I went to Guelph. We returned home about 4 o'clock. Annie and
Dan Talbot called about 3 but as we were not at home Annie went on
home and Dan went over to Alex Burns to the raising where Alfred
had gone. He came back about 6:30 and said Alfred was coming down with
Johnny after the raising was over. So he did come but it was after
9 o'clock. He and Johnny came in and chatted for awhile and then
they all left and I read the story aloud to pa. He got home about 6.
David went over to the raising and came home from there shortly
before Alfred came. Georgie did not come home tonight.
�MAY
15
Sunday 26 9:00 pm
Today has been fine but windy. This morning David and Emily and Jenny
went up to the Centre church to quarterly meeting. Alfred and Annie
were there with the children. They wanted the girls to go up to
Talbot's to dinner but Jenny wouldn't so Emily went and they took
our horse and buggy and David and Jenny came home with their rig.
About 5 o'clock they came down here and stayed to tea and went home
about 8:30. I did not get out at all today as it kept me so late
getting tea tonight. They took our buggy tonight and left theirs for
us to take Emily down in the morning.
Monday 2 7 9:15 pm
Today has been a beautiful day with high wind. This morning Jenny went
down with Emily and pa and the boys went off to work before
breakfast so ma and I were alone at that meal. I washed today and ma
went over to McNab's to spend the afternoon. Jenny got home about
4 o'clock. She had to come by Alfred's to change the buggies so she
got her dinner there. Ma came home about 8 o'clock.
Tuesday 28 9:30 pm
Today was fine but cool. This morning ma and I went down to Alfred's
to help Annie with her dress. This afternoon we were busy sewing at
when Sydney Shultz and Annie Dunbar came in. Annie had to run away
to bake something for tea and she left me to entertain her company.
They left shortly before we did. We reached home about 8:30. I brought
the dress skirt with me and the trimming and I have to finish it for
her.
Wednesday 29 10:00 pm
Today was fine but cold and since dinner cloudy and dull. This morning
Jenny washed the flannels and this afternoon she and I went over to
Socketts. We found Lucy busy whitewashing and baking. Had a pleasant
time and got home about 9:30.
Thursday 30 10:20 pm
Today has been fine but cool and windy. This afternoon Jenny drove
down to Alfred's for some bags to put the sets in tomorrow and while
she was away Mary McCaig came to spend the afternoon. Jenny came
back about 3:30. Alfred stayed to tea and then took our horse and
buggy and went up to Everton and to Mrs. Talbots and brought Dan
Talbot down with him. They got here about 9:30 and after putting away
the horse they came in for a few minutes and then started for Alfred's
on foot. Mary went away just before dark and Jenny and I went with her
as far as Hugh Black's gate. I set bread tonight.
Friday 31 9:30 pm
Today has been a real summer day, warm and bright. I have been busy
baking all day. Ma and Jenny cut the sets this morning for planting
tomorrow. I went over to McNab's this forenoon for buttermilk. They
were busy house-cleaning. I watered some of the garden tonight.
�16
JUNE
Saturday 1 9:10 pm
Today has been another summer's day, very warm. This morning ma
and Jenny went down to Alfred's. Jenny went to help plant potatoes.
They took two bags with them and then ma came back and got the
other two and then brought the horse home. Tonight we got tea at five
and then I went for pa and Jenny. David stayed to help Henry finish
covering what they had planted and then he was going to Rockwood. He
has not come yet nor George. Tonight I watered the garden again.
Sunday 2
Today was very warm and bright and dusty. We did not go out in the
morning but tonight Jenny and I went down to church. The boys went
off somewhere for a walk directly after dinner and did not come back
until nearly 7 o'clock. Alfred and Annie went up to her mother's
and called here on their way back tonight. As we were coming home
from church James Black and George Hill overtook us this side of
Maude's gate and came the rest of the way with us. When we got home
we found N.S. here who stayed some time.
Monday 3 9:20 pm
This morning we had a couple of light showers. This afternoon was very
warm and fine. About 5 o'clock George Moore called to see Alfred who
was in the school and stayed chatting to him outside for some time.
Shortly after he left Annie came to get a bag of potatoes as they
had not enough to finish the field. We put up the potatoes and then
tea was ready and she stayed to tea. Just before dark Mr. Hunter's
little boy came over for water and he came in to see if we wanted
to buy some cabbage plants as his mother had more than she wanted.
We did not take any.
Tuesday 4 11:00 pm
This morning was fine but the wind rose and drove up the clouds and
this afternoon was dull and tonight very cold and windy. This morning
we started for Uncle Watson's and took ma as far as Ann Eliza's
and left her and then Jenny went into Uncles and I went on to Atkinson's
to take the pattern and get some money and got back to Uncle's in
time for dinner. A little after 7 we started for home called for ma
and got home about 10:30. Ann Eliza sent a jar of milk home by me. I
forgot to say Thomas Hill called this morning before we left and
brought a postal card for Alfred.
Wednesday 5 9:30 pm
Today has been fine but cool and windy. This morning a tramp called
here for his breakfast. This afternoon Alfred let out school early
as he was going to Guelph so Janet McKersie came in to have a chat
and stayed until nearly five then she left and I went over to McNab's
for two pounds of butter. Mr & Mrs. McNab had just returned from
Mount Forest where they went on Monday. Tonight we watered the garden
and then covered some of the things in case of frost.
�JUNE
Thursday 6 10:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful day but cool. This afternoon Jenny and
I went over to John Black's and ma went with us as far as Hugh Black's.
We had a pleasant visit. Lorrie came home for good last Friday night.
Tonight I called for ma and Jenny came on home. It was 9:30 when we
got home.
Friday 7 9:00 pm
Today has been dull and cold and drizzling rain most of the time.
While we were at dinner David came for Alfred as a man had
come to look at the farm. This afternoon Jenny did her Saturday's
work so that she can go to Guelph tomorrow if it is fine. Tonight
pa came home sick with a cold and pain in the stomach.
Saturday 8 10:00 pm
Today has been dull and cold and windy. After dinner pa went to Guelph
by the train. Sometime after David came with the gun and shot a
chipmunk and a little while after Alfred came for our horse to go
down to Brookville as his horses's feet were sore. Awhile after that
Joe Moore came along with a load of hay and David went with him to
Rockwood. He returned shortly before dark and Pa came home about
6:30 and brought a pair of shoes for David and two magazines. Georgie
came just after we lit the lamp and I was beginning to read aloud
"Oswald the Unknown". Tonight about 9:30 Emily came bringing the
horse home. She had come up with Alfred. Georgie brought ma a letter
from Richard.
Sunday 9 9:30 pm
Today has been warmer and a beautiful day. This morning Emma Tolton
called here to ask the way to Alfred's. Shortly afterwards Alfred and
Annie and Miss Tolton passed here on their way to Tom Talbot's.
Tonight Emily and Jenny and the boys and I went down to church.
Alfred and Annie came just before we started, stayed to get their
tea and then followed us. Mr. Greenwood preached a splendid sermon.
Coming home Jenny rode with Annie as far as the corner and Alfred
walked with Emily as far as the railroad and went up that way.
Monday 10 9:30 pm
Today has been fine but not particularly bright with a cool west wind.
About 5:30 pm we had a nice steady shower which continued sometime.
This morning I went down with Emily. Pa left before we rose. We passed
Jim Collins on the road. Emily had to go to Reids for the key and her
watch and then she rode back with me as far as the school. I reached
home about 12:30. They commenced road-work today down there. Jenny
washed today. A man called at the school today with some bills
describing a performance he intends to have here next Monday. Alfred
stayed to tea tonight and then went up to Mr. John Stewarts.
�JUNE
Tuesday 11 9:30 pm
Today has been fine interspersed with light showers. This morning
ma and Jenny went to Guelph and I washed the flannels and ironed.
Alfred brought me a newspaper Richard had sent me. It was after
6 o'clock tonight when ma and Jenny got home. They went to Mr.
Humphrey's today and saw Ruth and got their dinner. Lila is going
down to London to stay for awhile soon and Ruth will keep house.
Jenny got a new pair of shoes today.
Wednesday 12 9:10 pm
Today has been a beautiful fine, calm day. I made a pair of pants
for George today. This afternoon Jenny went over to McNabs for
butter but came back without any. They are going to churn tomorrow.
Tonight Jenny sowed the carrot seed where the other did not come up
and I watered the garden.
Thursday 13 9:20 pm
Today has been another beautiful day. This forenoon Annie came up with
two bags of wheat in the buggy and called here on her way to Everton
mill but Alfred sent her back to Rockwood, a team that was passing
taking the bags for her. This P.M., ma and Jenny went down there to
take David's shoes and George's pants intending to call at McNab's
on their way home for butter but soon after they left Agnes and Elsie
came along and brought 4 lbs of butter. Ma and Jenny got home about
7:30. I made a pair of moleskin pants for David today. Tonight I
watered the garden.
Friday 14 9:40 pm
Today has been very fine and warm almost hot. This afternoon
I went up to John McNab's to spend the afternoon. About five Annie
came up for Alfred and stayed some time. They left sometime before I
came. I got home just at 7 o'clock. Then I changed my dress and
Jenny and I watered the garden. Tonight I set bread.
Saturday 15 11:40 pm
Today has been very hot and bright. Since dark it has been
sprinkling rain. This morning I baked bread and scrubbed. This
afternoon I went down to Alfred's to fix Annie's dress and bring pa
home. Mr. & Mrs Cameron and Miss Bowfield were there but I did not
see them as I did not go into the room. David went off somewhere to
play ball tonight and did not come home until after nine. Georgie
came home just at nine. Jenny and I watered the garden. Tonight I
read a story aloud.
Sunday 16 9:00 pm
Last night we had some thunder and lightning and a little rain.
Today has been hotter than any preceeding one and I put on thinner
clothes. Tonight Jenny and I went to church. Dr. Curry preached
a short sermon. There was not much of a turnout.
�JUNE
Monday 17 1:00 am
Today has been very fine and cooler. This afternoon at intermission
I had a chat with Janet McKersie and after school I drove down to
Alfred's and gave Janet a ride that far. I got some flour and groceries
and then went to Rockwood to post a card to Mary Watson and get some
groceries for Annie. Tonight Professor Huntsman gave an exhibition in
the school house. McKersie's girls came up early. There were a good
many there. Ma went in with Mrs. John Black. Lorrie was not well
so she did not come. Annie came late and did not come into the school.
This morning I starched my print dresses and white skirts.
Tuesday 18 9:10 pm
Another fine warm day. This morning Professor Huntsman did not
come for his things until nearly nine o'clock and as he had the key the
children could not get into the school till he came so Janet McKersie
came into the house and stayed till the bell rang. Tonight shortly
before 6 o'clock Annie passed on her way home bringing Mrs. Richard
Talbot down to their place. Jenny and I watered the garden tonight
and I transplanted some petunias.
Wednesday 19 9:30 pm
Today has been the warmest day we've had yet. This morning ma went down
to Alfred's to get the lard and the cake tins and she found them
all in bed excepting the men and Mary. This morning while she was
away Thomas Hill called to leave a letter for Alfred. This afternoon
I went over to McNab's for buttermilk and stayed some time to cool
myself. Mr. McNab and Betsy went away this morning to Wawanosh and
will not be back until Monday. After tea I went up to see Myra
Laight and ask her to the raising and from there over to Black's to
ask Lorrie. It was after nine when I got home.
Thursday 20 9:30 pm
Today has been very warm and fine until about 5 o'clock when it
clouded up and between 7 and 8 it came quite a gentle shower. This
morning ma went for Ann Eliza and got home about 11:30. Tonight after
tea I took her home and got 8 lbs of butter and some buttermilk.
Coming home I called at the postoffice and got the papers and a
letter from Emily. From there home I got the benefit of the shower.
It was about 8:10 when I reached home. Alfred sold his farm yesterday
for $4,000.00.
Friday 21 9:00 pm
Today has been showery but a beautiful growing day, very warm. We
were busy baking all day. We baked 13 loaves of bread, 190 buns,
6 sponge cakes and 10 railroad cakes for the raising. Tonight after
tea ma went down with a load of provisions. Just as she was starting
pa came. He had not had his tea, having come from Rockwood. He says
David went for Emily this afternoon Ma got home about 8 o'clock.
�JUNE
Saturday 22
Today has been dull and drizzling rain most of the time with several
smart showers and after dark a heavy rain. This morning ma and pa
went down with another load of provision and ma came back with the
horse. About 11 o'clock ma and I went down with some more. I stayed
there and ma came home again and she and Jenny came down in the
afternoon. We had a good time in spite of the rain. There were a
great many there. Reids and McPhails's from Nassagaweya were there.
After the tables were cleared away we had dancing in the driving house
until 10:30 when we had tea. Everybody seemed to enjoy themselves.
Pa and ma came home at dark. Dan Talbot took Emily home and then
came back for Jenny and me. It was 1:20 am when we got home.
Sunday 23 9:10 pm
Today has been dull and showery but not quite so wet as yesterday.
This morning it was late when we rose. When we finished breakfast
it was 9:40. Shortly after 12 o'clock Reids and McPhails came and
Eva Talbot with them. A very little while after Mr. & Mrs. Talbot
came along and called for her. About 2:30 we had dinner. After that
we went into the school. There was James and Nancy Reid and Willie
and Katie McPhail. They left for home about 3:30 taking Emily with
them. Between 4 and 5 o'clock ma and pa went down to Alfred's to get
some things as pa intends to go away with the horse in the morning.
They have just returned. We all took a piece tonight instead of supper.
Monday 24 9:10 pm
Today has been fine but windy. This morning pa went to Mr. Bathgate's
and from there to Cousin Robert's to begin work and ma went along to
bring the horse back. She stayed there to dinner and on her way home
called at uncle David's to see aunt Susan who is very ill. She
reached home about 5:30. Shortly before she came a lame man called,
trying to sell some trifles but I had no money. This morning on their
way out they met Mr. & Mrs. Atkinson and got the $4.00 they owed us.
Tonight about 7:30 Mr. McNab came home bringing Mrs. McNab and Betsy.
We saw him go down this afternoon to meet them
Tuesday 25 9:00 pm
Today has been very warm and fine. This morning Thomas Hill called with
a letter for Alfred and shortly afterwards Alfred came in haste to
get the mortgage as he was going to Guelph and George Hill taught all
day for him. Jenny ironed this morning. Tonight after tea
Jenny and I went up to Mr. Burn's bush for fungus and we got as many
as we could carry. Going up we met Thomas Hill. Coming home we met
Lois and stopped a few minutes talking to her.
Wednesday 26 9:20 pm
Today has been fine and very warm and this afternoon very windy. This
afternoon ma and Jenny went to Rockwood to see Mr. Wetherald and
from there to Alfred's to get some things. They got home between
4 and 5 o'clock. Tonight we had strawberries for tea. After tea I hoed
weeds in the garden and while I was so employed Alfred and Annie came
by on their way to Johnny Talbots.
�JUNE
Thursday 2 7 9:30 pm
Today has been very warm and fine. This morning a man called with
strawberries. This afternoon another man called on the same errand
and ma bought 3 baskets for 25 cts. Tonight I watered some things
in the garden.
Friday 28 9:30 pm
Today has been a scorching hot day, everybody puffing for air. This
morning I baked and melted the lard to salt it. This afternoon I
cut out my Muslin jacket. Tonight about 5 o'clock Jenny went for pa
as he has to go to Guelph tomorrow. Janet McKersie came in before she
left to see if we had got a bill of the performance in Rockwood next
Monday night. Another strawberry man called here today. Pa and
Jenny have not come yet.
Saturday 29 10:00 pm
Today has been very hot but not so calm consequently more bearable.
This morning ma and pa went to Guelph by the train. Alfred and Annie
also went. Jenny drove down to Emily's for her trunk so I was alone all
day. In the forenoon Mr. John Moore Sen. called to see pa but left
on being told he was away. Tonight Emily came home with Jenny and
they overtook pa and ma at our gate. It was about 6 o'clock. David had
to walk all the way home and got here about 10. Georgie did not come
tonight.
Sunday 30 9:20 pm
Today has been hotter than ever, scarcely a breath of air stirring
until near evening when a little breeze sprang up. Tonight Fmily and
I went down to church to hear the new minister. He seems to be a
pretty good preacher. Coming home Mr. David Shultz walked with us as
far as his place. Ann Jane Maude joined us this side of the railroad
and came the rest of the way with us. Georgie came home this morning
between 9 and 10.
JULY
Monday 1st
Today has been another suffocating day. The boys washed the buggy
this morning then they changed their clothes and went to Guelph by
train. This afternoon pa and ma went down to Alfred's and Alfred
and Annie had gone to Action for shingles. When our folks came home
we got an early tea and just as we finished N.S. came for me. While
he got his supper I got ready and we wnet down to Rockwood. The girls
followed soon after. We saw the horse race and the Calithumpians
and then we went to the concert in the hall. We enjoyed ourselves
very well. It was nearly 1 o'clock A.M. when we got home.
Tuesday 2 9:00 pm
Today has been very warm. This afternoon we had a light shower or
two. This morning we rose at 4:30 and snatched a hasty breakfast
and then I went ot take pa and David as far as the Centre Inn. Emily
met me in Rockwood on my way back and I took her down to school and
got some cones. Then I came back to Mrs Wetheralds and put in the
horse to rest and got my dinner and stayed till the rain was over.
Then I came home. Mr. & Mrs. Wetherald are just on the eve of
moving into Rockwood. She gave me a tiny plant and a bracket made
of fungus. David has just come with the news that Aunt Susan died
this morning and is to be buried tomorrow . Cousin Robert brought him
as far as Rockwood.
�JULY
Wednesday 3 9:30 pm
Today has been dull and showery and a little cooler. This morning
Jenny and I washed. A little after 12 ma started for pa, taking
his clothes with her to go to the funeral. Shortly after she left
Annie came for Alfred. He gave half a day holiday. This afternoon
David took the gate hinge to Rockwood to get it fixed. He came back
about 4 o'clock. It was after 9 when ma got home.
Thursday 4 9:40 pm
Today has been warm but cloudy and sunshiny at intervals. This morning
Jenny rinsed the clothes and hung them out. David went over to McNab's
for buttermilk and I commenced a rustic fram of cones etc. Tonight
after tea David went away to cousin Robert's to work and I folded the
clothes.
Friday 5 9:30 pm
Today has been a beautiful day with a cool breeze. This morning I
ironed and a man called inquiring the road to Rockwood. Alfred gave
a half holiday today to attend Miss Young's examination. There is no
more school for six weeks.
Saturday 6 10:00 pm
Today has been very warm and bright. This afternoon I worked at
my muslin jacket. Tonight about 8:30 pa and Georgie came home. David
stayed at cousin Robert's. Alfred and Annie went to Guelph today.
Pa brought the papers tonight and I read the story aloud.
Sunday 7 10:00 pm
Today has been exceedingly hot. This morning Georgie and I went down
to bring Emily home. We reached there just as they were getting their
dinner. After dinner we went down to the village to church. Nancy
and Katie went first to Sunday School Mr. MacMillan took Emily in his
buggy and Archie Reid hitched his horse to our buggy and took Georgie
and me. Coming home Nancy and Katie rode with us and we had a smart
ride. After tea we started for home and reached here about 9:30.
Alfred and Annie had just driven in and we stayed outside talking
to them for some time.
Monday 8 9:45 pm
Today the weather has been variable, sunshine and rain, following
one another in quick succession but withal very hot. This morning pa
waited some time for it to clear up but at last he and George set
off for Alfred's. Alfred had arranged to go with pa and bring the
horse home as he wanted to see several people on business today. He
arrived here just before dark. This afternoon two men came in with trays
of images on their heads and one came in to try to sell some but we
did not buy. He spoke very imperfect English and looked like Italian.
�JULY 23
Tuesday 9 10:15 pm
Today has been a scorching hot day. This morning ma and Emily and I
went to Guelph. Before we left home Alfred and George came along and
told us Annie was in Rockwood to get some paris green and as she could
not get it we were to get it in Guelph so we looked for her but could
not see her. We drove up to Dr. McCullough's to get some medicine
for Emily. Ma came back as far as the station and went in by train.
We drove in. While ma was at the station Annie came. She had been
all the way up here and finding we were gone hurried down before the
train left. It was dreadful hot in town. We went down to Carrie's
to dinner. She and her aunt have been quite ill but are better now.
We stayed there until 4 o'clock then we had some shopping to do and ma
missed the train and had to ride out with us. We reached home about
8 o'clock. Alfred and George came along on their way home about 9 so
we sent the things by them that Annie sent for. Tonight some Grangers
came but they did not stay long. I got a pair of fourmella shoes
today for $1.25
Wednesday 10 9:55 pm
Today has been a little cooler than yesterday and rather cloudy.
This morning Jenny and I rose early intending to go down to pick
potatoe bugs but there came quite a shower and it looked so like
heavy rain that we put it off until this pm. About 3:30 we started and
we returned about 7:30. When we came Emily proposed that I should
change my dress and she and I would drive into Rockwood to get the
buggy seat and call at the postoffice. We did so and had a very
pleasant drive reaching home about 9.
Thursday 11 9:20 pm
Today has been cooler and cloudy most of the time. Towards evening
it began to rain and rained steadily for some time. It is raining
now. This morning I washed the flannels and coloured clothes. This
afternoon I trimmed Emily's hat. Tonight I set bread.
Friday 12 9:00 pm
Today it has been raining most of the time. This morning I baked and
Jenny ironed Emily's dress and some starched things. Tonight about
5 o'clock the girls went to Rockwood to get the papers and get a
shoe put on one of Jessie's feet. They got back about 7:40.
Saturday 13 10:15 pm
Today has been beautiful and bright. Today Hugh Black was buried. This
afternoon a man called to sell fruit trees. Tonight I went for pa and
David and met them just this side of uncle David's gate. Georgie came
soon after we got home.
Sunday 14 9:30 pm
Today has been exceedingly warm. This evening Emily and Jenny and I
and the boys went down to church. There was no service in the Presby-
terian church today so we had a good many of them there tonight.
Coming home Elsie and Margaret McNab walked with us as far as John's.
�JULY 24
Monday 15 9:20 pm
Today has been very warm and fine but it is cooler tonight and looks
like rain. This morning Georgie went first, then pa and David. They took
the horse to keep her out there this week. Jenny and I washed today
and had all done by 10:30 am. Tonight after tea me went over to
McNab1
s for butter and brought home some cherries. Emily and Jenny
went to meet her and I folded the clothes. Tonight after dark one of
Hunter's boys came over for water and came in to ask if we would
buy some berries. We replied in the negative and he left.
Tuesday 16 10:40 pm
Today has been exceedingly hot. This morning I ironed and Emily
and Jenny went for raspberries. They came home shortly after 12
with about a quart. They were very hot and tired they had to walk so
far. Tonight after tea they went over to McNab's for the butter and
they did not get back until after 9 o'clock. I watered the garden
tonight.
Wednesday 17 10:20 pm
Today has been hotter than yesterday with a warm wind. About 4:30
Emily and Jenny started for Alfred's. About 5 o'clock we
had a smart shower accompanied by wind. It did not last long and
shortly after sundown I was sitting at the front door when Mary
McCaig came along and asked me to go with her for a drive. So I
changed my dress and went. It was nearly 10 when I got home and the
girls had just returned.
Written Sunday 21 9:00 am
Thursday 18 - early in the morning I walked down to Alfred's and got
there while they were eating breakfast. Annie had to drive the reaper
so I had to help Mary. Shortly after 12 o'clock it came on a heavy
thunder shower so Annie and I got some sewing done at her dress that
afternoon. It was very hot and close before the rain.
Friday 19 was dreadful hot. I came up home in the morning with Prince
and the buggy for a bag of oats, went back again in time to take out
the lunch. We baked and ironed that day. Alfred got stung by a bee
on one of his eyes.
Saturday 20 was very close and oppressive in the morning but a breeze
sprang up before night. Georgie was sick all day and did not eat any
dinner and scarcely any breakfast and a little supper but he managed
to work all day. He drove part of the afternoon. He and I walked home
after sundown. Pa and David were here
Sunday 21 9:00 pm
Today has been quite cool and pleasant but towards evening quite windy
making it rather disagreeable to go out. This morning ma and pa went
to Alfred's for a drive and stayed to dinner and then Alfred and Annie
drove up with them on their way to her mother's. Tonight Emily and
Jenny and David and I went to church. Coming home Maude's walked
with us. Mr. Masson read the pastorial address tonight.
�JULY
Monday 22 9:00 pm
Today has been fine and cool but very windy. This morning we rose
early and Jenny went off for berries and pa and David went out to
their work and George and I rode with them as far as the corner and
then walked the rest of the way. When we got here Alfred and Annie
were out loading in the field. George went to them. They got in
14 loads and then Annie came in and Henry took her place and they are
now getting the 15th load. Mr. Carter and Henry have been cradling
and binding all day. Tonight after tea I drove over to Mr. Lee's to
get him to come to finish the barn. He was at Anstee's harvesting and
I had to go there. He says he cannot come until next week. It was
dusk when I got home.
Tuesday 23 8:40 pm
Today has been very pleasant, a little warmer than yesterday and not
so windy. Today they finished cutting the field against the road.
After tea they drew in the rakings out of the other field and a load
of what they cut today and they are now getting another. I helped
unload the load that was in the barn and then went in the field and
threw the sheaves into heaps until dark. I must now go and wash the
children. Mary washed the clothes today.
Wednesday 24 9:20 pm
Today has been very warm and very fine. This morning Jenny came down
early to see about the potato bugs. She picked what there was and then
came in and took the lunch to the barn. She went home between 3 and 4
o'clock pm. Today they finished drawing in the wheat in the front
field that they cut yesterday.
Thursday (written Friday morning)
Today the weather has been variable. This morning it was fine, towards
noon it became cloudy and about 5 o'clock it began to rain and has
continued to do so ever since with very slight abatement. This morning
Jenny came down just as I started for home with the horse and buggy
to bring a bag of oats and the pitchfork and gun. I got back again
about 9:30 am. This afternoon Jenny helped in the barn. Maggie has
been in the house all day with a sore foot. After tea they unloaded
the load in the barn and then Jenny and I started for home as the
rain had slackened but looked like a wet time. We arrived about
8 o'clock without getting very wet.
Friday 2 6 9:00 pm
Today has been a pouring day. The rain fell without ceasing until
about 4 o'clock pm when it cleared a little but drizzled again a little
after 4. About 5 Alfred and Annie with Maggie came up and took tea
and stayed chatting awhile and then left for the doctor's to ask his
opinion on Maggie's foot. Annie was up with her all night.
�Saturday 27 26
9:30 pm
Today has been a beautiful fine pleasant day. Jenny & I rose at
4 this morning and went for berries. We got very wet but we got a
patent pail full and got home shortly after two o'clock. Last night
after we got to bed pa and David came home. This morning pa went down
to Alfred's and from there to Guelph by train and Alfred and Annie
went with him. David also went down to Alfred's to spend the day.
Emily scrubbed the floor and baked bread and when we came home she
and ma went down to Alfred's for a waist pattern and from there to
Rockwood for sugar for the berries and then home calling on their way
home at Margaret McNab's for buttermilk. When they got home and
delivered their parcels ma turned around and drove back to meet pa.
Tonight shortly before dark Hunter's boy brought us a present from
his mother of a mess of butter beans. Our boys have just come home.
Sunday 28 9:20 pm
Today has been fine and very pleasant. This forenoon David went over
to Hill's to see George and came home about 4:30 pm.After dinner
the girls and George went for a walk up to Wm. Burns's bush. They came
back shortly after David. Tonight Emily and I and the boys went to
church and ma and pa went over to Mr. Burns's. Maude's girls walked
with us coming home. Going down we met Peter Talbot and Mrs. Tovell
going to Alfred's.
Monday 2 9 8:10 pm
Today has been cool and calm and cloudy.Towards evening it began to
sprinkle a little and now it is raining quite a shower. This morning
Jenny and I rose at 4 o'clock and got a bite and then started for berries.
Georgie left for Alfred's just before us. After breakfast David went
down also and pa drove av^sr to Armstrong's to see whether they were
ready for building. They will not be ready until next week. This
afternoon he and ma went down to Alfred's just before we got home
which was about 3:20. They returned in time for tea. We got the two
cans full of berries. We have got six jars all together of berries.
Tuesday 30 8:30 pm
Today has been dull and drizzling rain falling most of the time.
This morning pa went down to Alfred's to work. This afternoon Georgie
came past on his way to Everton mill with a grist of new wheat.
Shortly after Alfred came along with the buggy on his way to
McArthur's to see about the thrashing. Georgie came back just before
dark and called here for some oats, there was not quite a bag full.
Tonight about 8 o'clock pa came home. About 20 minutes after David came.
He had been to Rockwood and brought Emily her cheque and some
papers. The cheque is for $61.76
Wednesday 31 8:40 pm
Today has been fine but somewhat cloudy. This morning pa and David
went away after breakfast and ma drove down about 10 o'clock. After
dinner we three girls went over to Myra Laight's and spent the
afternoon. Coming home up their lane we met old Mrs. Black, Mrs.
Hugh Black and Mrs. Jackson Black and old Mr. Black. When we got home
we found ma and pa here. Thomas Hill is helping Mr. Laight with his
harvest.
AUGUST
Thursday 1st 9:30 pm
Today has been threatening but a light shower was the only result.
�August
27
This morning the girls drove down to Brookville for Emily's money and
pa rode with them as far as Alfred's. The girls got back shortly
after 11 o'clock am. This afternoon we three girls went over to
Cousin Ann Eliza's and enjoyed our visit very much. We reached home
about 8:30
Friday 2 9:00 pm
Today has been fine but windy. This morning I baked and Jenny
ironed. This afternoon we three went down to George Ramshaw's to
spend the afternoon. On our way down we called at Alfred's to leave
Annie's dress waist and then we went on to McKersies' to ask them
to name a day for coming to our place. They promised to come next
Thursday. From there we went to Ramshaw's. It was 8:30 tonight when
we got home. Pa came home just before us.
Saturday 3 10:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful day but tonight is very warm. This
morning Mr. Wm Burns came over with a load of hay before we were up
and pa got up and helped unload it. After breakfast ma and Emily started
for Guelph and pa rode with them as far as the corner. They got home
at 6:30 tonight and Jenny and I had just finished tea. They brought
me a pair of new leather shoes and a necktie for Jenny and some frilling
and a linen dress for Emily ready made and ma got a dress and
shawl and gloves and shoes for herself and a pair of pants and boots
for Georgie. Pa did not get home until late and the boys did
not come at all.
Sunday 4 9:00 pm
Today has been pleasant but rather warm. This morning about 8 o'clock
the boys came without their breakfast. Shortly after 9 we three
girls started for church it being quarterly meeting. It was nearly
one when we got home again. Tonight it looked so threatening that
we dare not venture but after tea we all went for a walk up the
road. This afternoon Mr. McNab came in for the school key and in a
short time brought it back. He only had two scholars a boy and a
girl.
Monday 5 9:00 pm
Today has been variable. This afternoon we had a heavy shower
accompanied by thunder and lightning but it cleared off before dark.
This morning the men went away together with the horse and buggy
They were thrashing at Alfred's today and will be tomorrow and they
have our horse. Jenny and I washed today and got the clothes dried
before the rain. Tonight pa and David came home about 8:30.
Tuesday 6 10:00 pm
Today has been fine and warm most of the time. Just before daybreak
this morning we had a dreadful storm of wind and rain accompanied by
thunder and lightning in almost one continuous flash and roll and the
house shook with the force of the wind. At noon we had a heavy thunder
shower. Tonight it is clear and calm. Pa's head was bad all day and
he was unable to go down to Alfred's so David went alone this
morning. He came home about 9 o'clock tonight and he
says they were threshing all day and there is over 500 bushels of
wheat alltogether.
�AUGUST
28
Wednesday 7 9:20 pm
Today has been fine but windy. This morning pa and David went out
to Armstrong's to work and Emily went along to bring the horse back.
She got home shortly after 11 o'clock am. This afternoon we three
girls went down to Acton to get our photos taken. We had just
started when Janet McKersie drove up with the team and we stopped
to speak to her. Last night after we went to bed Janet and Fanny came
up to tell us they could not come tomorrow as they had promised as
they were going to thresh that day. So today Janet came to say they
could come as the threshers were not coming till Saturday. When we
returned from Acton we found the house shut up, ma being away. She
returned just at dark having walked all the way to Alfred's and
home again. Alfred and A n n i e w e re away or she would not have walked
home I guess. They called tonight on their way home to borrow our
sewing machine as Annie's will not work.
Thursday 8 10:50 pm
Today has been a beautiful day but very windy and very warm. This
morning ma went to Guelph by the train and Emily took her to the station
and waited in Rockwood until she returned by the 11 o'clock train. It
was nearly 12 when they reached home. This afternoon the girls came
about 2:30. Fanny and Janet first and Louisa some time after. We
had a pleasant time and tonight at dark Jenny and I hitched the horse
and took them home. We called at Alfred's going down and Jenny stayed
there while I took the girls home. When I came back I drove up and
got a bag of rye and Jenny got some apples. We got the girls photos
tonight. Alfred and Annie were drawing in peas when we left. Henry
and George in the field and they in the barn.
Friday 9 10:00 pm
Today has been fine but dreadful windy and warm. This morning ma
and Emily drove over to Laight's for some butter and got 2 lbs then
they went to McNab's and got some buttermilk. After dinner we three
girls drove over to Sunley's to spend the afternoon. We had a pleasant
time and reached home at 9 o'clock. Ma spend the afternoon with
Mrs. Hunter and came home tonight when she saw the light and knew
we were home.
Saturday 10 9:20 pm
Today has been fine but windy. This morning I finished sewing my
quilt together. This afternoon I went for pa and David. As I was going
I called at the blacksmith shop and got a shoe put on the pony then I
went on and called at Ann Eliza's to leave her jar and speak for
butter. Then I went on to the mill and went into Uncle Watson's and
got my supper and got some harvest apples, then we came home, calling
at the post office on our way to see if our photos had come but they
had not. Georgie has not come yet.
�AUGUST 29
Sunday 11
Today is fine but windy as usual. This morning about 9 Georgie came
home. About 12 Annie with the children and Mrs. Richard Talbot
came up. They just called to get our buggy and then went on to Johnny
Talbot's. About 4:20 Annie returned and stayed here to tea. After
tea we went to church with the boys. A little way up the road we met
Alfred and Henry with Jack hitched with Doll to the light wagon. He
seemed to go very quiet. Mrs. Maude walked with us coming from
church and she told us she saw them going home and ma and pa
following them with our rig. When we reached home we found they had
returned and N.S. was here. The boys did not get home for some time
after we did.
Monday 12 9:20 pm
Today has been fine and cool. This morning Georgie rose early and
went down to Alfred's Emily went with pa and David to bring back the
horse and she brought 2 bags of flour from Armstrong's mill. Jenny
and I washed today. Tonight after sundown ma and Emily went down to
Alfred's for our sewing machine and just before they left Mary McCaig
came along and asked me to go for a drive as far as Rockwood with her
and Katie, so I went and got the photos. Emily's and Jenny's are good
but mine are miserable and I intend to take them back. Tomorrow morning
we start for Garafraxa if fine.
Tuesday 13 10:30 pm
Today has been a beautiful day. It did not rain here but where we
were it rained very heavy for a short time and then cleared up and the
sun shone again. This morning Emily and I started for Garafraxa about
6:30. We had a very pleasant ride and enjoyed our visit very much. Mrs.
Townsend sent ma a bottle of honey and gave me some plants and Emily
a bouquet of flowers. It was 10 o'clock when we reached home. Jenny
was lying on the lounge asleep and ma was just going to bed.
Wednesday 14 9:20 pm
Today has been fine and warm with a smart shower during the afternoon.
About 3 pm we three girls went up to McCaig's. We had a pleasant visit
and were just on the point of starting home when Myrna Laight and
Miss Stronick came in so we had to stay while longer and then they
came with us as far as the gate. It was about 9 when we got home.
While we were away Sarah and Lorrie Black came and finding we were not
at home they went to Hills.
Thursday 15 9:30 pm
Today has been fine but very warm. This morning after breakfast Jenny
drove down to Alfred's for some potatoes. She came back shortly
before 11 o'clock and ma took the rig and went up to Johnny Talbots
for Mrs. Richard Talbot and brought her down to dinner. Tonight about
9 Alfred came along and ma went out and had a chat with him.
�AUGUST
30
Friday 16 9:20 pm
Today has been fine most of the time and very warm. Tonight we had
a heavy thunder storm about 5 o'clock and another about 8. This
morning Jenny took Emily down with all her luggage. She had to go
today because the horse has to go for pa tomorrow Jenny got home about
6 o'clock. About 4:15 Annie came for Mrs. Talbot and then started
for Rockwood to get the horse shod. Tonight I started to read aloud
"Kenilworth Castle". Today Warden's cleaned the school and the little
girls came in and played with Bessie Talbot.
Saturday 17 9:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful d a y . It was very misty in the morning
but it soon cleared away. This forenoon ma went to Rockwood to
get the horse show and from there to Alfred's to fit Georgie's pants.
She reached home shortly after twelve. At 12 Alfred came along with
Bertie on his way home from Everton after taking his last load of
wheat. He had exactly 500 bushels and he got $1.00 per bushel all round.
I went out and chatted for awhile. At 2 o'clock Jenny went for pa and
David and they reached home about 8. Georgie came just before dark. This
forenoon a man came in to look at the house, saying he intended to
build and he thought this house was about the size he should like.
Sunday 18 9:00 pm
Today has been very pleasant. This morning Annie took Mrs. Talbot
up past here and tonight she returned with Peter with her. Sometime
last night Shaw's came to their place. Four girls and a boy. Tonight
we went to church, the boys and Jenny and I. Today is pa's birthday.
He is 56 years old.
Monday 19 10:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful day although it was dull and threatening
for some time this morning. Early this morning ma and pa started
for Garafraxa and Jenny and I washed the clothes. David went down to
Alfred's. Georgie went as soon as he got up. The school opened today
and Mr. Cochrane came with Alfred and stayed all day. After school
they came in and asked for a lunch as they were going to Guelph
on the evening train. They left here about 4:40. This afternoon David
came up on Prince for the polonaise pattern for Annie. He came home
again tonight a little before 8 o'clock. Ma and pa came home at 9:30
They brought another bottle of honey and a bouquet of flowers.
Tuesday 20 9:30 pm
Today has been beautiful and bright. This morning pa and David started
off to their work again and ma was going to Guelph by train so she
rode with pa as far as Miss Edward's where she stayed until it was
time to go up to the station and David walked down the track and
met pa at the station. When Alfred came Mr. Cochrane came with him
again and at noon when they came into their dinner Mr. Cunningham came in
but he had had his dinner. He did not stay long. After school tonight
Mr. Cochrane came in to bid us good-bye as he is going away. After
they left I started for the station to meet ma. On my way I posted a
letter to Aunt Eliza. The train was late and it was 7 o'clock when
ma and I reached home. We found Jenny beginning her supper in despair
of our appearance.
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Wednesday 21 9:40 pm
Today has been the same as yesterday, beautiful. We have been
very busy all day sewing. I was trimming ma's dress and she was
making a fine shirt for George. Tonight between four and five
o'clock Henry came past here with the team on his way to Johnny Talbot's
to help him draw in grain. He called in to speak to us. He says George
is going up in the morning. I read aloud this evening from Kenilworth
Castle.
Thursday 22 10:00 pm
Today has been fine but very warm. We have been hard at work all day
sewing. This afternoon Mrs. Talbot senior with Mrs. Richard
Talbot called at the school to see Alfred. They did not come in so
ma went out to speak to them but they did not stay long. Tonight
sometime after dark Alfred called to see if pa was home and to say
he is going to thresh tomorrow and next day.
Friday 23 9:30 pm
Today the weather has been a repetition of yesterday's. I trimmed ma's
bonnet today and bound pa's coat with new binding. Tonight about 6:30
pa came home. David had gone to Alfred's and arrived about 7:30
with George bearing a basket of apples.
Saturday 24 9:00 pm
Today has been dull and showery and tonight it is misty. This morning
we rose early as they were all going away by train. Pa and ma and
George went to Seaforth and David went to Guelph to the circus. Pa
and David started on foot for the station early and ma and I and
George followed in the buggy. I brought the horse home. This afternoon
Mr. John Black called to inspect the school cleaning. Shortly after
he left Emily arrived with a load of McPhail's two boys and two girls
and Nancy Reid. They stayed a short time and then went on to Erin.
After tea we three drove down to Alfred's for some potatoes. While
there we enjoyed a good swing and were introduced to the Miss Shaws.
When we came home we found David asleep on the sofa.
Sunday 25 10:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful day, cool and clear but rather windy. This
afternoon about 5 o'clock McPhail's came along and called for Emily.
They did not come in. After they left we got our supper and then
Jenny and I went down to church and left David alone. After we got home
I had to light the fire and set bread.
Monday 2 6 10:20 pm
Today has been cool and very clear and rather windy. This morning
we washed and I baked bread. This afternoon David and I drove over to
Mr. Loree's to see about renting his cottage. We returned a little
after 3 o'clock and I baked cakes for tea.
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Tuesday 27 8:30 pm
Today has been fine and warmer and calmer than yesterday. This morning
Jenny ironed. This afternoon David and I went down to Acton to return
my pictures and get taken again, however the man refused to retake
them and would only take off 6 more for me lighter in place of the
dark ones. David got an ambrotype of himself. We came back by Alfred's
and called for some apples. We reached home about 6:35.
Wednesday 28 9:20 pm
Today has been dull with faint glimmers of sunshine and shortly
after noon two smart showers closely succeeding one another. This
morning David went down to Alfred's. A short time after he left Thomas
Hill called to leave a note for Alfred and a handbill. David returned
tonight just before tea. About 8 o'clock tonight a man came knocking
at the door inquiring after a stray dog and requesting us to ask the
master to make inquiries among the children.
Thursday 2 9 9:00 pm
Today has been fine and very warm with scarcely any wind. This morning
early David went down to Alfred's to help clean up some grain. About
7:30 I went over to Wm Burn's to tell them about some money we owed
them and arranged to go for her at 10 with the horse and buggy. I
took her up to Henry Maude's to see about getting a girl. When I
reached home again it was 11:30 am. Tonight after tea Jenny and I
went down to McKersie's for a drive to take them our photos. As we
passed Bernard Shultz's Alfred came out and rode as far as his place
with us. The girls were all away to Guelph so we did not stay long.
As we passed Alfred's on our way home we saw David riding Jack to break
him in. He rode down to speak to us and then over to Ferries's with
Alfred and we came on home. He arrived about half an hour later. I set
bread tonight.
Friday 30 9:20 pm
Today has been very similar to yesterday as regards weather. This
morning early David started for Ferries's to a threshing for Alfred.
A short time after he left Jenny started for Armstrong's Mill for some
flour they owe us. She returned shortly after noon with 130 lbs being
all they had at present. Alfred brought his horse and buggy today.
David has not yet returned.
Saturday 31 8:10 pm
Today has been rather dull but tonight about 5 o'clock it set in steady
rain and has rained heavily most of the time since. This afternoon about
4 I started for the station to meet our travellers. I started early that
I might have time to go to Ann Eliza's for the butter. When I
reached the station coming back the train had just come in. Pa walked
home and Georgie rode with ma and me. It rained very heavy most of the
way home and our wrappings got very wet. David came home about 7
o'clock. Ma is very poorly and has been for several days.
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Sunday 1st
8:00 pm
Today it has rained most of the time coming in heavy showers. Just
before sunset it began to clear off and the sun set quite clear. We did
not go out at all. Ma is a little better tonight I think.
Today has been fine but windy most of the day and tonight after dark it
clouded up and blew hard and rained quite a shower. This morning
pa started off on a business trip. First he went to Loree1
s and
rented the cottage so that is settled. Then he went to Uncle
Daniel's and from there to Armstrong's Mill for the remainder of the
flour. He reached home about 6:30 tonight. This morning Alfred came
driving Johnny Talbot's horse and buggy. He has undertaken to break
in the horse for Johnny. When he came he found young Nelson awaiting
for him. He had brought his brother to school as he does not improve
under Mr. Hill's tuition. He came in the house with Alfred for awhile
then he went in the school and stayed until intermission when he took
leave. Jenny and I washed this morning and I folded the clothes
tonight. This morning the boys went off and did not return until after
dinner. They brought two guns, one was ours and the other Tom Davidson's.
This afternoon George went over to McNab's for buttermilk. Johnny Talbot'
man called today to speak to Alfred and on his way home he called for
the gun.
Tuesday 3 10:15 pm
Today has been dull and threatening most of the time with a little
shower and now it is thundering and lightening heavy and sharp and
raining a little. This morning David went off on an excursion to Toronto
and Scarboro Heights. He has not yet returned. Pa and George drove down
to Alfred's this morning and brought home a bag of potatoes and a basket
of apples, a bottle of milk and a roll of butter. Tonight as Alfred
was hitching his horse, Annie and Miss Jenny Shaw came on foot. Miss
Shaw was going to Guelph by train and as Alfred was going they thought
to go in company and expected to meet Alfred on the road so they only
stayed a minute and then left in the buggy with him. Georgie went down
to Alfred's again this afternoon for a walk and returned just before
supper.
Wednesday 4 9:25 pm
Today has been dull and showery. Last night David returned at 12:15
midnight. He did not get wet. This morning pa and the boys set off for
Alfred's to get some oats and to see Mr. Shaw on business. They met him
and Alfred so pa turned back and went to Rockwood while the boys went on.
They got home some time before he did. Tonight the boys went over to
John Burns's to see if he wanted a boy as his was leaving. While they
were away Mr. Ching called with some bills concerning the election.
Monday 2 8:30 pm
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Thursday 5 9:45 pm
Today has been fine and warm. This morning pa went off to see about
some work he had heard of at a distance. He returned about the
middle of the afternoon. The boys went off this morning to Johnny
Talbots with Dunbar's gun, Alfred having told them there were
a lot of pigeons up that way. They got our gun from Johnny but they
did not find the game until afternoon. They came home at dark with
5 pigeons. This morning we had an old beggar woman here for her break-
fast but she proved so saucy that she left without it.
Friday 6 10:00 pm
Today was fine in the morning but dull in the afternoon and very
close. This morning about 8:30 Mr. McKeown Senior came in to see
Alfred on business and sat chatting with pa until Alfred came.
He wanted to buy a horse so after he had talked with Alfred pa hitched
up our pony and drove him down to look at Alfred's horses. They
returned at intermission and came in and he had another talk with
Alfred. After school tonight Alfred drove up there and took pa along
for a drive. He made a bargain for Prince. This afternoon the boys
went to Rockwood for the papers and some cotton and called at Mr.
David Shultz's for 2 dozen eggs and got them for 10 cts per dozen.
Saturday 7 10:20 pm
Today has been fine though threatening several times to end in bad
weather. This morning pa went to Guelph by train and returned by the
evening train. This afternoon the boys went down to Alfred's and did
not return till after dark. Alfred went to Guelph with Johnny Talbot
I finished my counterpane today ready for bleaching.
Sunday 8 9:00 pm
Today has been fine and very warm though there was quite a breeze. This
forenoon Alfred passed here on his way home from Johnny Talbots. He
called in for his paper as we had it. Shortly after he came back with
Annie and Bertie on their way to her mother's. They just stopped to
speak and then went on. We went down to church tonight, Jenny and I
and the boys. There were a good many there. Mr. Wright had a baby
christened. Coming home Muade's girls were with us.
Monday 9 10:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful day but cloudy towards evening. This morning
pa went over to Mr. Hugh Black's to see about taking the job of a barn
foundation he intends building next year. When he returned he hitched up
the pony and went to see about another he had heard of and me went along
for a drive. They returned about 3:30 without having tasted any dinner so
I set them a lunch. About 4:30 the boys went to Rockwood to get the
horse shod. They returned just before dark to their supper. About noon
James Black called to see Alfred. Jenny and I washed today.
�SEPTEMBER 35
Written Monday 16th 3 pm.
Last Tuesday morning pa and David and George and I went up to Garafraxa,
That forenoon was cloudy with occasional gleams of sunshine. We had only
been there a short time when it began to rain and continued to d,o so
until the afternoon of the day following when it slackened and cleared
a little and Georgie started for home, Arthur coming with him..
It was quite cold all the time. Thursday it rained pretty steady.
In the afternoon Pa and Mr. Townsend went over to Mr. Martin,,:
s and.
stayed to tea and returned after dark. That night the wind rose and.
blew furiously and the rain poured down and drove through between,
the logs of the house and beside the chimney. Friday morning it still
poured rain and blew hard. After dinner it slackened again an.d pa.
proposed to start for home so Ralph hitched the horses to take them
apiece. They started through the swamp but the logs were floating
and the horses were frightened and pa and Ralph got out and the horses
went to jump across some water and threw David out and the wheels went
over him but did not hurt him much. They broke the whippletrees too
so pa walked on and they came back. David was soaking, wet and had to
change his clothes. Saturday proved finer but very windy with a few
little showers in the forenoon. In the Afternoon David and Cecelia,
Ann and I came down with one horse and the rig. We got home safe
about 6:30, a tree across the road being our only difficulty. We
succeeded in driving over the top without mishap. We found pa had got
a ride part way home. That evening after dark N.S. same and stayed till
12. Sunday afternoon Jenny and Cecelia, Ann and I went down to Alfred's,
Pa had gone down in the forenoon and stayed to dinner and started home
when we got there. We stayed to tea and then drove to church, Miss
Amelia Shaw riding with us and Alfred and Annie following with Miss
Louisa. Coming home Miss Shaw got out at the corner and Annie and Louisa
drove up then and took her up, Alfred having walked up the track. David
walked down to church and back. George and Arthur did not come.
Monday 16 9:35 pm.
Today has been fine and a little warmer but still cool. This morning
pa and David and Arthur and Cecilia Ann went off to Garry and Jenny
and I washed. Tonight after tea ma and I drove down to Alfred's and
got a bag of oats and half a bag of potatoes, the quilting grames and
mat hook, some tea and a basket of apples and the polonaise pattern.
Henry has hired with another man for a year and Georgie went down,
this morning to take his place.
Tuesday 17 9 :30 pm.
Today has been fine but somewhat hazy, tonight the wind, is rising.
This morning we put a mat on the frames. After dinner ma drove down
to Alfred's to help Annie make"Governor's Sauce," About 3 o'clock
Mrs. John Black came to spend the afternoon but find ma, was absent
she only stayed to rent and then went to Hugh Black's, Ma returned
at dark. Tonight just before I came upstairs a young man. called to
inquire the road to Guelph.
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Wednesday 18 9:20 pm
Today has been beautiful. This morning Jenny drove me into Guelph
to the Exhibition and then returned. I met McNab's girls and kept with
them all day. We had a splendid time. I rode out with them tonight.
Annie went in on the train this morning and Alfred went by the
afternoon train. I saw cousin Mary Watson and Aunty, John Day and Mrs.
Richard Talbot and Eva and Myra Laight and Thomas Black.
Thursday 19 9:00 pm
Today has been fine although it threatened rain this morning and it
has been very warm. Alfred gave half a day's holiday and went in to
the show again today. Annie did not come home last night. A man
called this afternoon selling tomatoes. Tonight after tea Janet
McKersie came up to see when we were going down. She stayed till after
dark and then Jenny and I went as far as Dunbar's hill with her. The
wind blew very strong and the lightning flashed in the west and
shortly after we got back it came up a heavy thunderstorm with a furious
wind but it was soon over. Fanny and Louisa have gone to the show
today.
Friday 20 9:30 pm
Today has been fine but very windy and warm. Tonight before dark
we had a storm of wind and rain. After school Alfred went up to Johnny
Talbot's Today we cut out a polonaise for me from my gray dress and
partly fitted it.
Saturday 21 9:40 pm
Today has been fine but rather windy and cool. This morning while I
was scrubbing Mr. Wm Burns called about the money for the hay. This
afternoon at 4 o'clock I went down to Rockwood for the papers. It was
5:40 when I returned. Tonight Georgie came home about 8:30 and brought
a little canary.
Sunday 22 9:20 pm
Today has been beautiful and clear and cool. This morning Georgie
dressed and went down to Alfred's. Tonight Jenny would not go to
church so I went alone. I got a ride part of the way with a young
gentleman from Guelph. Passed George on his way to church and the
Shaw's girls and Maggie.
Monday 2 3 9 :2 0 pm
Today has been a repetition of yesterday's weather. This morning we
washed. Georgie rose early and went down to work. About 8:40 Mrs.
McNab called in to have a chat as she was on her way to John's. She
did not stay long. Tonight Annie and the children came up in the new
buggy about 4 o'clock and then Alfred went with them up to Johnny's
for some crab apples. On their way home they called here to leave some
of the crabs. It was about 8:30 o'clock.
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Tuesday 24 9:40 pm
This morning it was raining fast at daylight and continued to do so until
after 8:30 when it began to clear and turned out a beautiful day.
At noon a boy called with fresh herrings. Shortly after Mr. Docherty
came to see Alfred. Tonight after tea Jenny drove down to Alfred's for
a bundle of straw.
Wednesday 25 10:00 pm
Today has been dull and cold and windy. Tonight after dark it rained
and turned warmer. At 12 o'clock noon I started for Emily. I reached the
school at 3:30. She dismissed the scholars and we drove up to Raids.
We only stayed there a short time and then went down to McCaven's for
Miss Cunningham. She had not come from school so we went to meet her.
Then we had to stay to tea and we were late getting home. On the
road we lost the whip and stopped quite awhile to look for it but did
not succeed in finding it.
Thursday 26 10:15 pm
Today has been cloudy and cold and windy. This forenoon I drove Emily
and Miss Cunningham down to Acton and then came back by Alfred's
and got a bag of oats. It was 2:30 PM when I reached home. About 4:30
David came home on foot. Townsends brought them as far as Sherwoods.
When they came Georgie had just came with the team for Alfred and he
was going to McKeown's for a cow, so David went with him. About 5:30
I started for Acton for Emily. When we returned we found Uncle Turner
here. He has just come from Toronto. David went down to Alfred's
with Georgie.
Friday 27 10:30 pm
Today has been fine, clear and cold. This morning Emily and Jenny
started for Acton, going by Alfred's and calling for him. Uncle left
shortly after as he was going by the morning train. Pa walked with him
as far as the corner as he was going to Alfred's where he has been
digging potatoes all day. So ma and I were left alone. In the forenoon
I went over to McNab's for buttermilk. When I came back I did some
baking and ma was busy preserving and making jelly. Pa came home tonight
about 8 o'clock. The girls have not yet returned.
Saturday 28 Midnight
Today has been fine but cold and windy. This morning pa went off after
breakfast to Alfred's and about 10 am the girls came home. After dinner
I drove over to Ann Eliza's to take the crock for butter. On my way
home I got a gallon of coal oil in Rockwood. As I passed our place I
left the oil and then drove down to Acton for Miss Cunningham. We came
as far as Alfred's and spent the evening there. Emily walked down
from home. Alfred and Annie were away to Guelph but they came while
we were at tea. Georgie came home with us.
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Sunday 29
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9:30 pm
Today has been fine but rather dull and tonight is misty. This forenoon
Willie Townsend came on horseback. After dinner Georgie went to
take Emily and Miss Cunningham back. Shortly after they left Willie and
David went off together and have not yet returned. Tonight Jenny and
I went to church. There was not many there.
Monday 30 10:20 pm
Today has been fine although the morning was misty and dull. This
morning Georgie rose early and went off to his work. After breakfast
Willie left for home and pa and David started for Alfred's to dig
potatoes. Jenny and I washed the clothes. At noon Mr. John Johnson
from Eramosa came. He put in his horse and stayed to dinner and then
started for Alfred's to see pa. About 2 o'clock ma and Jenny
followed suit leaving me alone. Tonight I folded the clothes. About 8
ma and pa came home without Jenny. Willie Adams came to Alfred's today.
He is going to stay and come to school.
Today has been beautiful and bright and warm. Tonight the wind has risen
This morning pa and Jenny and I went down to dig potatoes. We met
Alfred and Maggie and Willie coming to school. Tonight they rode down
with Mr. Townsend. He brought pa's tools home today and then drove down
there. Awhile after he came Johnny Talbot came down and stayed to tea.
After tea Jenny and I drove home and pa came after with JOhnny.
It was nearly 8 when we got home.
Wednesday 2 9:20 pm
Today has been very fine although it rained a little this morning and
the wind has been high. This morning we want down again to work. On
the way we met Mr. Townsend and Alfred riding with him. At noon Mr.
Burns sent over for a hand for this afternoon and tomorrow morning so
Georgie had to go and leave us minus his help. We have nearly a days
work yet to do. We reached home at 8 o'clock tonight.
Thursday 3 9:30 pm
Today has been very fine and warm but windy. This morning pa and Jenny
and I went down to our work again and on our way we met Alfred riding
with Shaw's. Georgie was away at Mr. Burns's all day and David had to
go away with a cow this forenoon and Mary was sick so Annie had to stay
in to do the work. So all together we made very poor headway but we
finished tonight and reached home at 8.
Friday 4 9:20 pm
Today has been fine and windy but cooler than yesterday. This morning
Mr. Hugh Black passed on foot and pa went out to speak to him on
business. After breakfast ma and pa drove up to see our future home
and it is arranged for us to move in two weeks. From there they
drove to Alfred's and brought Bertie with them. After dinner pa went
down to Alfred's and from there to Rockwood and then home. School
was out so he did not put the horse in but turned and took Alfred home
and brought back a bundle of straw. About 4 o'clock me went over to
Wm. Burns's but Mrs. Burns was away so she went on to McNab's and stayed
to tea and pa went over for her after he had taken his tea. He met her
in their lane.
OCTOBER
Tuesday 1st
9:00 pm
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Saturday 5 9:10 pm
Today has been fine but dull and about 4 o'clock there was a little
shower and again after dark it rained some. This morning McNab's
hauled away the manure and ma and pa went to Guelph. This afternoon
Mrs. David Moore called in on her way to Rockwood to get some flower
seeds. Shortly after she left ma and pa came home. Tonight about
8:20 the boys came. Georgie had an umbrella and David had Alfred's
waterproof on. Georgie has a very bad cold.
Sunday 6 9:10 pm
Today has been fine but cold. Tonight David and Jenny and I went down
to church. There were a good many there. Coming home David and GEorge
Hill overtook us and walked the rest of the way with us.
Monday 7 9:15 pm
Today has been fine but cold. This morning David rose early and went down
to Alfred's. After breakfast pa started for Mr. Johnson's to work and
Georgie went along to bring the horse back. On the way they met Alfred
and Annie. She went with them to her mother's and Georgie called for
her on his way back and they spent the afternoon posting up hand-bills
about the sale. They came past here about 4:30 just as Alfred was
starting home so he rode with them. They are to keep the horse down
there tonight. This afternoon Jennie walked down to Alfred's to carry
a message to David and then went on to McKersie's to tell them we
intend to pay them a visit tomorrow if the weather permits. She
reached home about 6 o'clock very tired.
Tuesday 8 9:00 pm
This morning Agnes and Elsie McNab called here on their way to John's
to ask us to go with them to pick apples and we were so sorry we could
not go. Mr. Blanchefield called the same time to see Alfred
on business. After dinner we started for McKersie's on foot. Agnes and
Elsie saw us passing and gave us some apples. We spent a pleasant
time and tonight the girls brought us home with the team and their
cousin Mr. Hudson came along. When we got home we found David here.
He brought some pork up. The boys went to Guelph today with pork.
There were some Grangers here tonight when we came. It has been fine
today but somewhat dull. Tonight was moonlight.
Wednesday 9 8:50 pm
This morning about 9 o'clock it rained heavily and blew furiously
but before noon it cleared off although the wind continued very high.
This morning David drove down to Alfred's and George and Alfred came
up with Jack and Jessie with the stove and some apples and some wheat.
George went on to Everton with the wheat. He returnedpast here about
11 o'clock and shortly afterwards David came. He had been to Rockwood
posting bills. At noon Alfred dismissed school and went home this
being Rockwood show-day and he had only 8 scholars. Johnny Talbot
had left his horse and buggy here during the forenoon for Alfred. About
2 o'clock Georgie came up with our horse and buggy. He changed his
things and then they both went off to Rockwood and we soon followed. We
met McKersie's girls near Cummin's hotel and we kept together all the
time. We had a good time although it was very cold. We parted with
the girls on Harris's hill and we reached home soon after dark. The
boys got a ride and passed us on the road.
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Thursday 10 9:10 pm
Today has been clear and calm and milder than yesterday. The boys went
down to Alfred's this morning after breakfast and Jenny and I only
stayed to do up our morning work and then we drove down and picked
apples all day. This afternoon David brought 7 bags up here in the
light wagon for Alfred. When he got back we started home and reached
here about 7 o'clock and found ma getting her tea. We spent the
evening paring and coring apples for drying.
Friday 11 9:50 pm
Today has been dull and cold and tonight it rained considerable. This
morning ma drove down to Alfred's and returned shortly before noon bring-
ing two bags of apples in the buggy. This afternoon Alfred had his
sale. He left here for Rockwood about 11 and George Hill taught until
2 o'clock. About noon Willie and John Townsend and Mr. Martin came
down and called here but finding Alfred had gone they drove on there.
About 2 we went over to McNab's to spend the afternoon. We reached
home about 9 tonight.
Saturday 12 9:30 pm
Today has been beautiful and clear and fine and tonight is clear
moonlight, this forenoon I went down to see Emily and take some things
down. I found her well and stayed to tea. Nancy and Peter were away
to Nelson and Mrs. Reid was sent for by a neighbour while I was there. I
started home shortly after five and reached home at 8. Mr. Macmillan
rode with me as far as Easterbrook's and Miss Macmillan rode as far as
Mrs. Reids gate. When I reached home I found the boys and pa here. Mr.
Johnson drove pa home about 4 tonight.
Sunday 13 9:00 pm
Today has been fine in the morning and dull in the afternoon and
sprinkling rain tonight. This forenoon I wrote a letter to Richard.
After dinner David took the horse and took Archie Shaw for a drive
to Acton and returned this way and Georgie rode with them as far as
the bridge and then brought the horse home. David went down with Archie
and afterwards to church with him. While Georgie and pa went from here
to the Methodist church, Jenny and I did not go.
Monday 14 10:50 pm
Today has been fine although it threatened rain several times. This
morning pa took the boys down to Alfred's and then drove
to cousin Roberts to see if he could get his team for a few days. Jenny
and I started to wash and then I had to walk to Rockwood for some
yeast cakes to set yeast and that made me late with my part of the
washing. Then Katie McCaig came in to say that Mary and Myra Laight
were coming this afternoon. Accordingly about 3:30 they came and stayed
until 8:30 and then Jenny and I walked home with Mary to get some yeast
as ours did not rise. When we returned we found pa here with Robert's
horses and wagon. One year ago tonight witnessed my betrothal.
�Tuesday 15 9:00 pm
Today has been fine but cloudy and quite warm. This morning pa went off
with the team and took a load of potatoes and a load of wood up to our
future home. We had 31 bags of potatoes this year off 1/2 an acre.
Pa came home tonight about 7 o'clock. The boys were busy today
pulling carrots. We finished my mat today.
Wednesday 16 8:00 pm
Today has been similar to yesterday with regard to weather. This morning
we rose early and pa took two loads of wood up to our place and brought
one here tonight, arriving about 6:30. This forenoon I sorted some
feathers and filled my bed. George Hill called intoday with an
invitation to a surprise party at Robert Dunbar's on Friday night. I
scarcely think we will go. John Smith also called with some change
from Myra Laight. Ma and Jenny started to quilt this afternoon.
Thursday 17
Today has been a miserable wet day. It began to rain about 9 this
morning and has continued to rain pretty steady all day. Early this
morning pa went away and managed to take up one load of wood and on his
way back he called at the mill for some lumber and then went down to
Alfred's for scantling and then home, reaching here just after dinner.
About 8:40 this morning Alfred and Annie came in the buggy with Jack.
Annie stayed all day cutting out a waterproof cloak and she and Alfred
drove home after school. This afternoon pa laid a floor in the cellar
for Alfred's roots. Tonight just before dark David came home.
Friday 18 8:20 pm
Today has been fine but rather dull and cooler. This morning pa went
away as usual and David stayed for awhile and cut some wood for us.
Then he went down to Alfred's. Pa took two loads of wood up today
and brought a load of potatoes here tonight. David came with him and
dressed for the party and is now waiting for them to call for him.
Jenny and I helped pa to unload the potatoes and then we went in the
cellar and shoveled them back.
Saturday 19 9:40 pm
Today has been fine but windy and cold. This morning pa and David and
Jenny went down to Alfred's. Pa brought a load of carrots and a load
of potatoes up here before noon and after noon he took a load of carrots
up to our place and went from there to Roberts to take the horses home
and bring back Jessie. He came home about 9 o'clock. The boys and Jenny
came home at 7. They finished the mangel-worsels. Willie Adams came up this
morning for a book of his. I got a letter from Emily tonight. She
is engaged for another year there
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OCTOBER
Sunday 20
Today was fine but cold. Tonight the boys and I went to church. They
went to the Presbyterian and I went to our church. John and Margaret
McNab came out of their gate just as we reached it so they walked down
with us and Margaret went to our church with me. The boys got home
before I did but we overtook John McNab and he and M. Walked on with me
within sight of the house. Pa was in bed and N.S. was here.
Monday 21 9:00 pm
Today has been beautiful and clear and bright and milder than yesterday.
This morning pa took Georgie out to Mr. Loree's and then went down to
Alfred's where David had preceded him. We washed this morning and this
afternoon Lorrie Black came and tonight after pa and David came Jenny
and I drove her over to Hugh Black's Alfred stayed to tea tonight and
shortly after Annie called for him on her way home from her mother's.
This is my birthday and I am 25 today.
Tuesday 22 8:40 pm
Today has been the same as yesterday with regard to weather. This morning
pa and David drove down to Alfred's and finished getting up the carrots
and came home at noon. This afternoon I took David part way to Roberts and
then came back calling at Mr. Stouts on my way for some tinware as
we left some rags there as we went. Alfred brought Bertie up with him
this morning and tonight I saw them in Rockwood. Bertie* was in Pasmore' s
with Louisa Shaw and Alfred was at Turner's getting Jack shod. I posted
Georgie's letter to Emily today.
Wednesday 23 8:40 pm
Today has been dull and miserable, cold and windy and raining most
of the time. We put a quilt on the frames this morning and ma and I
worked at it all day. Jenny baked in the morning. Pa stayed in the house
all day.
Thursday 24 8:50 pm
Today has been fine and not quite so cold. This morning pa went down
to Alfred's and ma went with him to bring the horse back. While she
was away Thomas Hill called to invite us to a surprise party tomorrow
night at Alfred's. When ma came back Alfred rode with her. We cleaned
upstairs today. Tonight pa came home a little after 7 o'clock.
Friday 25 (written Saturday morning)
This day was fine but very cold and windy. This morning I went with pa
down to Alfred's and got the old stove and took i
f to Rockwood and got
some time. From there I went on to Ann Eliza's for some butter and got
3 lbs and some sweet milk. Coming back I called at the post office and
got the papers, coming home Jessie stumbled and fell in front of John
McNabs and broke the back strap. Fortunately John McNabhappened to be
at home and he mended it for me. Today Alfred gave me a voluminous letter
from Richard that he had got from the post office for me. Tonight
Jenny and I drove down to the party calling for Margaret McNab as we went.
Pa brought the horse home. We walked home about 3 am in the rain but it
did not rain hard enough to wet us much. Tom Dunbar and Ben Shultz
carried a lamp before us all the way. It was quite a pleasant party.
�OCTOBER
Saturday 2 6 7:30 pm
Today has been a dismal wet day. Pa walked down to Alfred's this morning
to finish his job. He came home again about 2:30. Georgie came
home about 10 am. About 3 pm he hitched the pony and went to meet
David. He met him at Pasmore's so he was soon home again. It is raining
heavy now and the wind is cold.
Sunday 27 9:20 pm
Today has been dull and windy and cold. Tonight it calmed down and
was milder. This morning the boys went to the Presbyterian Church. This
afternoon a gentleman called to say he would preach in the school
at 7 o'clock in the evening. Jenny and I and the boys walked to
Rockwood to hear Mr. Brock from Guelph preach an excellent sermon. When
we came out it was very dark and snowing fast and a girl slipped off
the sidewalk and jumped into the water and a gentleman fished her out.
After we got on the road a piece Jenny fell over a large stone and when
we got near hom I slipped and fell however no one was hurt. The man at
the school had 6 persons to hear him. Mrs. Thomas Naude and her three
daughters and father and mother. Today was the opening of the church
in Eden and we were disappointed in not getting down.
Monday 28 8:50 pm
Today has been fine and bright but cold and frosty. This morning pa
drove up to the Centre to see about the parsonage and put up a stove
to dry it. He came home about 3:30 pm. The boys were out shooting
all day merely coming home to dinner. Mr. & Mrs. Borwn called at noon
to see Alfred on business and stayed to dinner. Tonight Annie called
for Alfred. Jenny washed the white clothes today.
Tuesday 2 9 8:30 pm
Today has been fine but dull and cold. This morning the ground was white
with snow. The boys drove out to Robert's this morning and pa rode
as far as the parsonage and remained all day putting up another
stove and keeping up fires. This forenoon we finished the quilt and this
afternoon Jenny and I went up to John McNab*s. We came away just before
dark and pa came along at the same time. Archie Shaw brought up Alfred's
mangel-worsels today and tonight Alfred stayed and helped him unload
the last load and then rode home with him.
Wednesday 30 8:45 pm
Today has been dull and drizzling most of the time until after dark
when it set in steady rain. It is not quite so cold as yesterday.
This morning pa went over to John McNab's and remained all day helping
them with the turnips. He came home after dark. Georgie came home about
7:30 tonight. He says if it had kept fine Robert would have finished
his turnips tomorrow.
�OCTOBER
Today has been cloudy and windy and very cold. Before dark everything
was frozen hard. It is the coldest night we've had yet. This morning
GEorgie went to John McNab's to work at the turnips and pa drove over
to the parsonage to light fires there and Mr. Gaspel promised to tend
to them. He came home just at dinnertime. Alfred and Annie have gone to
Dundalk on business and James Collins is teaching for Alfred the
rest of the week so we had him here to dinner. After dinner pa went
down to Alfred's to see about our turnips there. He came home between
4 and 5 and brought a bag of oats and several things. Georgie came home
between 6 and 7. Jenny and I cleaned the parlor today and packed the
best dishes.
NOVEMBER
Friday 1 11.0 0 pm
Today has been exceedingly cold and windy but clear and bright. This
morning pa and Georgie started for Alfred's to clean up oats but they
stopped at John McNab's and helped them at the turnips so they finished
at noon and then they came home and got the horse and pa went up to Henry
Talbot's to see about getting some hay and George rode part way on
his way to Mr. Loree's. Henry Talbot was away so pa came home about
4:30. This afternoon I went over to McNab's and got some buttermilk
and a pound of yarn and took home a plate of Mrs. Wm Burns's that
we got with butter. Mr. Collins went up with George Hill to dinner today.
Tonight about 8 o'clock Agnes and Elsie and Wm McNab came over and
stayed until nearly 11.
Saturday 2 8:30 pm
This morning was fine but cold but before noon it began to rain and
continued until about 3:30 pm when it began to clear. About that time
Georgie came home. A little after 1 pm pa took the umbrella and went
down and got Henry to go with him to Harris's mill to show him which
was Alfred's lumber. When he came home just before dark Henry came
with him and stayed to tea. Just as he was leaving a little after 6
David came home. We finished house-cleaning here today and expect to move
on Tuesday.
Sunday 3 9:10 pm
Today has been fine but cold. This morning David and I went down to
Eden to quarterly meeting and we found the roads very muddy. Hannah
Sunley and Jimmy were there and they asked us to go up there so we went
and stayed till 5 pm. When we got home we found that Jenny and George
had gone to church. When they came home they brought a little kitten
with them that had followed them all the way from Rockwood. We saw Mrs.
Humphrey at church. She is staying at Norris's and intends coming here
tomorrow.
Monday 4 9:00 pm
Today has been very fine and bright but windy and very cold. This morning
pa and Georgie went down to Alfred's to clean up oats and David went up
to Loree's for the light wagon. He went by Talbots to see about getting
some hay and then he Helped the man unload it at our place. From Loree's
he went down to Alfred's and got a load of oats and brought up here, then
he went back and took a load up to our place. Alfred and Annie came home
last night and Alfred drove up to school this morning. Mr. Collins got
�here just before him but he went back at intermission. This afternoon
Henry Talbot's man brought a load of hay here for Alfred. He came just
after school so Alfred helped him unload it. After he left Alfred
hitched up and drove up to Mr. Stewarts. I was waiting to ride home with
Alfred thinking he was going home and so I had to walk. When I reached
there George was just starting home. Uncle David and Caroline were there
and Ada. I got my supper and then pa and I rode as far as the corner with
them. David reached home about 8:00 pm.
Tuesday 5
This morning it was bright and fine but cold. Shortly after noon it
began to snow and continued for some time. We moved into our new home
today. Pa came up in the morning with Jessie and the light wagon and
brougth two stoves and set them up. The boys walked up ahead of him
and Georgie went to Mr. Loree's to work, while David helped pa unload
and then came home with him. After dinner Jenny and I started with a
load of valuables in the spring box. Jenny got out in Rockwood and walked
up to Ann Eliza's for some butter and then came across the fields.
When I got here Mr. Loree opened the gate for me and made a fire inthe
cooking stove while David who had come across the fields unhitched the
horse and helped me unload. Mr. Cooper came and got his preserves. In a
little while Jenny came and took the horse back for me. John and William
McNab brought two loads of furniture and Alfred brought me in his buggy.
Jenny brought another load of valuables and did not get here until
some time after dark. Mr. Loree came and stayed the evening and took the
boys down there to sleep.
Wednesday 6 9:00 pm
Today has been milder but misty and snowy . This morning Annie expected
me to go to Guelph with her and drove up here for me but I could not
have as we were so late moving yesterday and everything was in confusion
so she went on without me. About 9 o'clock pa went down for a load
of miscellaneous articles. Among other things he brought the room
stove and the rocking chair. Georgie was at Loree's all day and David
half a day. We got things somewhat straightened and the stoves fixed
right and I cleaned the roomstove and pipes. David came home before tea
and Georgie some time after.
Thursday 7 9:10 pm
Today has been cold and snowing most of the time. This morning pa
went and brought another load of things and this afternoon he went
to Alfreds and brought some scantling and tools etc. The boys have
been cutting wood. Tonight Georgie took the can to Loree's for buttermilk
and left it. After tea pa went over and brought it full of sweet milk
and Mrs. Loree will churn in the morning. We cleaned the sitting room
and ma's bedroom today.
Friday 8 9:40 pm
Today has been fine with a cold north wind. This morning Pa got Mr. Loree's
team and went for a load of lumber and I went to the school with the buggy
for a load of valuables. I reached home at noon shortly after pa took
the horses home. After dinner Georgie went for Emily. Some time after
Mr. Loree came and brought the buttermilk. I cleaned our bedroom this
afternoon. Georgie and Emily came about 8:30.
�NOVEMBER 46
Saturday 9 9:00 pm
Today has been dull and misty. This morning Emily and I went to
Guelph. We went to Lila Humphrey's and spent the afternoon while Miss
Ellis trimmed Emily's hat. We reached home by 7:15.
Sunday 10
This day has been fine but rather windy some of the time. This morning
pa walked down to Alfred's to see if he could get Jack to take Emily
back as Jessie lost a shoe yesterday. But they were away so he had
to walk back. After dinner Jenny went with Emily with the intention of
staying all night and getting the horse shod as she comes home
tomorrow. Tonight about 8:30 N.S. came and stayed some time.
Monday 11 8:00 pm
Today has been dull and misty in the morning and pouring rain since
2 o'clock pm. This morning pa dug around some of the plum trees
and Georgie pulled weeds for awhile and then went over to Loree's
to the turnips. David went down to Alfred's for the heifer and returned
with her at noon. Shortly before two Jenny came andsome time after
George came as it was too wet to work at the turnips any longer.
I washed the fine things and coloured clothes today.
Tuesday 12 9:30 pm
Today has been fine but very windy. This morning pa and David went
with Jessie for a load of things. They returned about noon. Pa walked
home and carried the clothes-horse while David came with the load
and brought 1/2 gallon of coal oil. This afternoon pa started on foot
for cousin Roberts to see if he can get the team and Georgie and I
went for a load of carrots and garden plants. We got home about 7.
After tea David went over to Loree's to borrow the Mercury as we did
not get ours.
Wednesday 13 9:00 pm
Today has been a succession of snow storms with a strong and cold
north-west wind. This morning David and I planted the flower roots
and then pa came with Roberts horses. He brought 5 or 6 bags of apples
and left them here and then he and George went for the turnips. There
were two loads. This afternoon I went to Ann Eliza's and got the butter
57 lbs. I reached home shortly after dark.
Thursday 14 9:15 pm
Today has been fine and calm. This morning David went to Swazey's
threshing for Mathew Loree and pa went down to Alfred's for another
load of things. He came home about 3 pm and left his load and then
took the horses home, returning just as we were about to sit down to
supper. David came home about 7:30.
�Friday 15 9:20 pm
Today has been fine but dull. This morning David went away to the
threshing again and about 10:30 Mr. Loree told George that Mr.
Hodgekinson wanted him there at a threshing so George went with Sam
Loree as he was going. Pa went over to see Mr.Benham this morning
about some mason-work and took the job. When he came back he took
Jessie and the light wagon and brought Alfred's two pigs up here
to feed. This afternoon he brought a load of peas. About 4,pm ma
went over to Loree's and after tea pa went over for her. They have
not yet returned.
Saturday 16 9:20 pm
Today has been dull with 2 or 3 little showers and tonight it is
raining steady. This morning the boys went away to Hodgekinson's
threshing again Pa stayed home today and fixed the gate and driving
house door. This afternoon I went over to Loree"s for buttermilk. The
boys came home about 4:30.
Sunday 17 8:00 pm
Today has been a miserable day, raining and misting all the time.
We did not go out anywhere. This was Mr. Cooper's Sunday at this
church and it seemed so provoking we could not go.
Monday 18 9:00 pm
Today has been dull and the morning was misty. This morning Jenny
washed and the boys and pa worked in the garden. This afternoon they
went to Swayzie's sale. It was dark when they came home.
Tuesday 19 9:00 pm
Today has been dull and calm. Today the boys worked in the garden
and pa made a work-bench and put up the scantling for the partition
of their bedroom. Mother finished my nightgown and Jenny baked bread
and I made a basket of splits and did several little tasks.
Wednesday 20 9:00 pm
Today has been fine until near dark when there came quite a shower
but it is clear now. THis morning pa went up to Swayze's to buy
some oats. When he came back he went down to Farish's mill to
ascertain the price of oats. From there he went to Bernard's to
see him about a brick house he intends to build but he was away.
The boys worked in the garden until he came back and then they cut some
wood.
Thursday 21 9:00 pm
Today has been fine and calm and mild. This afternoon ma and Jenny
went to Alfred's to get the big pot. They took the yarn along and left
it at Mrs. Wetheralds for blankets. She has been quite sick again.
The boys went down to Shaw's and got the gun and went shooting
this afternoon. They came home about 6:30. About 3 pm Mr. Swayze
came with a load of oats. Ma and Jenny came home about 5 o'clock.
The boys went over to Loree's this morning to borrow a spade and they
hearc) that old Mrs. Reid is dying in the asylum and Mr. Loree and
Mr. Turner went down this morning.
�NOVEMBER
Friday 22 9:15 pm
Today has been dull and raining most part of the time. This morning pa
went to Rockwood and got the papers. After dinner he went to Dickson's
sale returning about dark. Tonight Georgie took home Mr. Loree's
spade and they gave him some celery and some apples. Mrs. Reid is better
than they expected. Tonight a tramp called wanting lodging. Pa gave
him 10¢ and sent him on.
Saturday 23 9:15 pm
Today has been bright but cold and windy with some snow. This
morning pa went up to James Socket's to see him about some chopping
he wanted done and took the job of chopping 2 0 cords of hard wood. This
afternoon he made an axe-handle and did some carpenter work in the
kitchen.
Sunday 24 10:00 pm
Today has been fine but not bright and calm and mild. This forenoon
the boys went up to the church to hear Mr. Hodskinson preach. This
afternoon they went to Rockwood to the English church. Tonight pa and
I walked down to hear Mr. Masson. He was late coming so we were late
home.
Monday 25 9:00 pm
Today has been calm and mild with a steady fall of snow from 8:30 am
till 4:30 pm. This morning or rather forenoon Mr. McLaughlan came and
stayed to dinner and then pa went away to Mr. Donohue's to see about
some work there that Mr. McL had told him about and David borrowed
Mr. Loree's saddle and rode down to Alfred's for an axe. He returned
about 4:30 shortly after pa. A little while after they came Mr.
Swayze came along with a load and brought in a bag of oats and pease to
weigh it to try out shillgards as he was going to the mill and could
weigh it again there.
TUESDAY 2 6 9:10 pm
Today has been fine but dull and cold and calm. This morning pa and
David went up to Mr. Loree's to grind their axes and then they went
off to chop. They took their dinner with them and came home at dark.
Jenny and George went down to Shaw's with the buggy and got 4 hens.
They also got a gallon of coal oil at Pasmore's and a ball of crochet
cotton. They came home about 1:30
Wednesday 27 9:00 pm
This morning was very cold with a strong east wind. About 11 o'clock
it began to rain and continued all the rest of the day till everything
is covered with ice. Pa and David went away to chop this morning but
the rain drove them home at noon. George went over to Loree's
this morning and got some buttermilk.
�NOVEMBER 28 9:00 pm
Today has been fine but cold and windy. This morning the boys went
to chop and pa went to Rockwood and got some coal oil in the big can and
some tea and sugar. He came home at 11 o'clock and brought a letter
for Jenny from Emily. The boys came home to dinner and pa and David went
back to chop and Georgie stayed and cut wood here.
Friday 29 10:10 pm
Today has been fine but cold. This morning pa and David went away to
chop and Georgie split the wood he had sawed and brought it in
and after dinner he took the gun and went off returning at dark. This
afternoon Mrs. Loree came over and Mr. Loree came to tea and stayed
the evening. We had a pleasant evening. Georgie went over to Loree's
this morning and got some sweet milk.
Saturday 30 9:40 pm
Today has been very calm. This morning it snowed quite a quantity.
The boys went to chop this morning and pa went to Rockwood expecting to
be back by noon. The boys came home to dinner and waited till nearly
3 o'clock for pa but as he did not come they went back again. It was
nearly dark when he came. He had been to Alfred's and got his dinner and
he brought us a goose to roast. Ma went down to Lucy Socketts this
afternoon but she came home before tea.
DECEMBER
Sunday 1 10:00 pm
Today has been dull with a cold east wind. This forenoon ma and pa and
David and Jenny and I went to church expecting to hear Mr. Cooper.
But he was away and Mr. Kenetter spoke. Tonight David and Jenny and I
walked to Rockwood to hear Mr. McLean from Georgetown preach a
missionary sermon. The church was full but I was rather disappointed
in the sermon.
Monday 2 9:30 pm
Today has been a miserable cold, wet, windy, gloomy day. This morning
Georgie went over to Loree's for some sweet milk. This afternoon pa
fixed the window blinds in the sitting room with some Chalk-line Mrs.
Loree sent over by George.
Tuesday 3 9:10 pm
Today has been fine and calm. This afternoon was bright and clear. This
morning pa and David went away to chop and Georgie cut wood here. This
afternoon Jenny went over to Loree's for buttermilk and Mrs. Loree told
her that Mrs. Reid is dead and will be buried tomorrow. Mr. Loree and Mr.
Turner have gone down today for the body. I began my log cabin quilt
today and made four blocks.
�DECEMBER 50
Wednesday 4 9:30 pm
Today has been fine and cold. Last night there was quite a fall of snow.
This morning pa went to Mrs. Reid's funeral and the boys went to chop
returning to dinner. This afternoon pa went with David and Georgie
split wood here. This morning a cripple called for help and ma gave him
a few cents all she could scrape up.
Thursday 5 10:20 pm
Today has been fine and bright. Last night at 12 o'clock Alfred
called in on his way home from Richard Talbot's and asked us to write a
note to Richard changing a plan they had arranged and send it by some
of the school children from this neighbourhood which I accordingly
did this morning and David took it on his way to work and gave it to
John Loree who was going to Guelph with wood. Georgie went up to Mr.
Loree's for some yeast this morning and then borrowed Mr. Loree's light
wagon and went down to Shaw's for some cedar and got a branch off
Richard's pine tree. He got home about 2:30 and brought some meat that
Mrs. Loree came running out with. This afternoon we went over to Loree's
and the boys came over after tea and stayed the evening.
Friday 6 9:00 pm
Today has been fine with a sprinkle of snow. This morning Georgie
went with pa and David stayed to clean out the pigsty. After awhile
Georgie came back to say that pa had got some straw from Mr. Swayze
and he and David were to go for a load with Jessie. They came back at
12 and after dinner George went away to pa and David stayed here and
cut wood. Tonight I wrote to Richard.
Saturday 7
This day has been calm and snowing fine snow most of the forenoon.
This morning the boys went to chop and pa went to Guelph. About 1:30
the boys came home and went to Rockwood for the papers and posted
two letters, one to Richard and one to the publishers of the Household
Journal. The boys returned just before dark and pa came shortly
after. About 8:30 N.S. came and stayed awhile.
Sunday 8 10:00 pm
Today has been fine but cold with a raw east wind. Tonight David
took Jenny and I down to church in Rockwood with the buggy and
George walked. He called at Loree's and Will Sunley went with him.
Fanny and Janet and Louisa McKersie were there.
Monday 9 9:0 0 pm
This morning it snowed heavy until about 11 o'clock when it began to
rain and continued to rain steady all day from the east. The boys fixed
the pump today and pa worked at carpenter work. This forenoon I wrote
to Mary Ann.
�Tuesday 10 9:00 pm
Today has been almost a continual down fall of rain. This forenoon pa
walked to Rockwood and posted two letters and got some nails and
some yarn and Sam Loree came over for the ladder. This afternoon pa
went up to Socket's and got his axe and got a pole to make a
ladder and while he was away Tommy Corner came to see him on business
but left before he returned. He came home just before dark and
shortly after William Cunningham came with some beef and pa bought
all he had.
Wednesday 11 9:15 pm
Today it snowed and blowed furiously all day and was very cold. This
morning pa went to Rockwood and got the cutter fixed and the horse
shod and this afternoon he went for some lathe with the light wagon
and returned about 6:45
Thursday 12 9:00 pm
Today has been cold and windy with some snow. This morning pa went
to Guelph for lime and the boys went to the fat cattle Show. They
started to walk and got chance rides in and out again. They got
home before dark. Pa came home about 1:30 and after feeding the horse
and getting his dinner he went down to Alfreds for some tressles and
scantling returning shortly after dark.
Friday 13 9:20 pm
Today has been fine but cold. This morning pa started to lathe the
kitchen and the boys went for sand. They got 3 loads. Pa's head was
very bad all day so that he did not get as much done as he expected.
This forenoon an agent called, the same as was here before. Tonight
David went to Rockwood to an entertainment and before tea Sammy
Loree came over to see if he was going and he promised to call for
Sammy and Will Sunley.
Saturday 14 9:15 pm
Today has been cold and the snow fairly tumbled down all day. The boys
and pa lathed the kitchen and bedroom today. This forenoon Mr. Loree
came over to see how pa was. Tonight I sent George for some buttermilk,
I forgot to say yesterday Mrs. Loree sent over a pailful of cider.
Sunday 15 9:30 pm
Today has been cold but calm and pleasant with a light fall of snow.
This morning we all went to church but George. This afternoon the
boys went for a drive with the cutter returning just before dark.
Tonight the boys and Jenny and I went to church to hear Bishop Carmen.
�DECEMBER 52
Monday 16 9:35 pm
Today has been fine and calm. Pa plastered most of the kitchen today.
This afternoon Jenny and George went to Alfred's and got some flour
and called in Rockwood and got some currants and raisins and lemon
peel. While they were away Mr. Awry came and got his bee-hives. Tonight
after tea cousin Ann Eliza and her husband came and stayed the evening.
This morning cousin Robert came and brought us two pigs.
Tuesday 17 8:40 pm
Today has been fine and calm like yesterday. Pa finished the kitchen
and plastered the bedroom today. This afternoon the boys went
skating for awhile and then David went to Rockwood and returned just
as we had finished tea. After tea Alfred came and stayed the evening.
Wednesday 18 9:00 pm
Today has been calm with some snow. This morning pa went to chop and
George went to Alfred's for some feed for the pigs and David took the
heifer to Socket's and back and then brought us some straw from
Loree's for the carpet and then cut up the pigs. After dinner Jenny
and I put down the carpet and then I put up the curtains. Tonight
we chopped sausage meat and rendered lard. GEorge brought David's
magic lantern with him from the office.
Thursday 19 9:00 pm
Today has been fine with dashes of snow. This morning pa and David
went down to Shaw's to do some work for Alfred and about 2 pm they
returned. Tonight David was trying his Magic Lantern.
Friday 20 10:00 pm
Today has been cold and snowy. This morning George went over to
Loree's and got some buttermilk and a little sweet milk. About 11 I
started for Emily. When I reached the school I called but it seemed to
be deserted so I went on to Reids and there I was informed that Emily
had her scholars in the other part of the school. So about 3 pm Mr. Reid
hitched up one of his horses and Nancy and I drove down for her. We
started for home almost directly and reached here about 8:25. Pa went
to Rockwood this afternoon and got the papers and a card for me from
Mary Ann.
Saturday 21 9:10 pm
Today has been cold and stormy. This forenoon pa went to Rockwood and
got some cloth for the boys pants and a latch for the kitchen door and
some currants and raisins and lemon peel. Jenny did some baking and
I helped Emily with her report.
�DECEMBER 53
Sunday 22 9:00 pm
Today was fine and sunshiny in the morning but this afternoon it began
to snow heavy and continued till near dark and now the wind has risen
and is blowing hard. This morning Emily and Jenny and David went up
to church returning at 12:30. About 4 Alfred came with the children and
stayed to tea and then went back taking Emily and leaving Maggie.
Monday 23 9:30 pm
Today has been very cold and rather windy. Alfred held his exam today
and this morning the boys started for there taking Maggie with them.
Pa chopped all day coming home to dinner. Jenny washed this morning.
Tonight we chopped the mincemeat. The boys and Emily came home about
6:30.
Tuesday 24 10:00 pm
Today has been too stormy for pa to go to chop. It has blowed and
snowed all day. Tonight pa drove to Rockwood station to meet Mary
Ann and the train was late so it was 8 o'clock when they came. Cousin
Emily was with her.
Wednesday 25 10:00 pm
Christmas. Today has been very cold and stormy.The boys went skating
this afternoon and we girls ate apples and drank cider and talked
nonsense. Tonight we played quiet games and David displayed his
magic lantern.
Thursday 26 9:20 pm
Today has been calmer and milder. Today pa made his ladder. This
afternoon the boys went over to Loree's and stayed awhile. Tonight
just before tea Nancy and Katie Reid came with Emily's money.
Friday 2 7 7:40 pm
Today has been rather stormy. This morning David and mother and I
went to Guelph. Just before we started Mr. Loree came over for the pick
and George went back with him to help get turnips out of the pit and pa
went up to chop. Tonight we reached home at dark. David got a chance
ride home early.
Saturday 28 9:30 pm
Today has been cold and stormy part of the time. This morning Alfred
and Miss Shaw came up and stayed all day. This forenoon David and pa
and Sammy Loree brought two loads of hay for us from Swazye's with
Mr. Loree's horses and George went to mill and got a hundred of flour.
This afternoon George went to Annie's for the polonaise pattern and
Emily went with him as far as Currie's and he was to call for her coming
home but we forgot to tell him and he came home without her. The last
load of hay they brought upset before they got here and threw pa off
and hurt his shoulder and head.
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Sunday 29
Today was fine but rather cold. This morning David drove down for
Emily and Mary Ann went with him for a drive. They returned shortly
before dinner. Tonight Mary Ann and Jenny and I went to Rockwood
to church in the cutter and the boys walked. We reached home at 9 and
shortly after N.S. came and stayed for some time.
Monday 30 9:30 pm
Today has been fine and warmer. This morning I washed. Pa went to
Harris's factory and returned just before dinner. He only stopped a
few minutes and then drove up to the Centre and from there to McLoughlin's
afternoon. We got tea early and then pa drove the girls down to the
station to meet the 6 o'clock train and when he came back Emily and
Jenny took Miss Aldons home. Before he returned Alfred came and is
staying all night. The boys went up to the teameeting and have not
yet returned.
Tuesday 31 9:20 pm
Today has been fine and bright. This morning they killed the pigs.
Alfred left about 10:30 am. Tom Talbot's baby was buried today and he
had to go to the funeral. This afternoon pa went to Rockwood and
returned about 4 o'clock. Shortly after Mr. Socket called to see him
about the wood and he had just gone when Will Cunningham called to
see if we wanted beef.
JANUARY 1879
Wednesday 1st 9:20 pm
Today has been beautiful, calm and bright. This morning pa and David
went away to chop. About 11 o'clock George went to Rockwood and got
some vinegar and then drove up for pa and David. This forenoon Miss
Hodgeskinson called collecting for the Missionary Society. After
dinner George took the men up to work again and just as he got the
horse put away, uncle Watson and his family came and he had to get
out the horse and go for pa and David again. They left shortly
after 6 tonight.
Thursday 2 10:20 pm
Today has been a fearful stormy, cold day. This morning Georgie went
to Mr. Cochlin's where he has hired for a year and pa went with him.
David and Emily went to Guelph. They returned at 3:30. pm.
Friday 3 12:00 pm
Today has been stormy but bright. This morning David went to school
and pa went to chop. Pa returned to dinner at 2 and did not go back but
went over to Loree's and stayed awhile. Tonight we got ready to go over
there to spend the evening but just then their boys came here and
stayed so we did not get. They have just left.
�JANUARY
Saturday 4 10:15 pm
Today has been stormy but not so cold. Pa has been very bad all day with
cramp in the stomach. We have been busy all day with sewing and
housework.
Sunday 5 9:30 pm
Today has been snowy but not so much wind. This forenoon Georgie came
home and stayed until about 2:30 when David took him back in the
cutter. Shortly before he left Mr. Loree came over and stayed until
after tea.
Written Monday 20 8:40 pm
Monday 6th. pa drove me over to Crofts and then went on to Rockwood and
that afternoon Jenny took Emily down and stayed all night and came home
next morning. I remained at Ann Eliza's until Saturday evening when pa
came for me. I found a letter from Richard waiting for me.' Sunday
was a beautiful bright day and David drove Jenny & I up to the Centre
to quarterly meeting and then brought the horse home. Pa walked up
and we all walked back. As we were going up we met Georgie coming home.
Towards evening David took Georgie back and then we went to Rockwood to
church. Monday morning pa took Alfred's pig home and I rode with him
as far as Rockwood and then walked up to Ann Eliza's. I forgot to say
Alfred and Annie came to tea Saturday evening and stayed till after
10. They took our little stove away with them and during the following
week pa brought their parlor stove here. Last Friday we went over to
Joseph Croft's and spent the afternoon and Robert came for us in the
evening. Saturday evening pa came for me again and we brought home 17 lbs
of butter and 25 lbs of lard. I found a letter from Mary Ann for me
and a note from Cousin Emily. Sunday morning was fine but the afternoon
was stormy and the evening sharp. Georgie came home in the forenoon
and David took him back again towards evening. We went to Rockwood
at night and returning found N.S. here. Today has been dull and calm.
This morning Jenny washed and David went to school. Today I began to
fix my jacket. Pa has been chopping all day.
Tuesday 21 9:30 pm
Today has been cold and snowy. This morning pa went up to Mr.
Cochlins to see him on business and then back to his chopping. He came
home to dinner.
Wednesday 22 10:00 pm
Today has been dull with a sharp wind. Pa did not come home to dinner
today. I finished my jacket this forenoon and this afternoon Jenny
and I went down to Socket's and stayed till after 9.
Thursday 23 10:00 pm
Today has been fine and calm. This morning ma and I went to Guelph and
went down to Carrie Porter's for our dinner. We reached home shortly
after dark. Tonight Mr. Benham came over with the plan of his kitchen
�JANUARY
Friday 24 10:20 pm
Today has been windy but milder. This morning pa drove to Rockwood
and from there to Alfred's to dinner. About 2 o'clock he returned bring-
ing Bertie. Then he drove up for his axe and Jenny and I rode as far
as Matthew Loree's and David came in on his way home from school. Pa
drove up as far as Cousin Roberts.
Saturday 25 9:20 pm
This morning was mild but windy. About 11 am a dreadful storm of snow
and wind commenced and continued most of the afternoon. This
morning pa and ma took Bertie home. They went by Croft's
and took the keg and Alfie's stockings home. After leaving Bertie they
went on to Laight's to get some feathers and just as they started home
the storm commenced and they had to face it all the way. They reached
home at 1 pm.
Sunday 26 3:20 pm
Today has been fine with a cold wind. This forenoon Georgie came home
a little earlier than usual and pa and Jenny and I went to church up
here. About 4 pm pa took Georgie back and tonight pa and Jenny and I
went to Rockwood to church.
Monday 27 9:00 pm
Today has been mild with a warm wind and occasional showers of rain which
is fast removing the snow. This morning I washed and pa went up to
Mr. Jonathan Oaks's on business. He returned about 2 pm. This afternoon
Mr. & Mrs. John Awry passed here and stopped to speak to pa who was
outside and inquired the way to Mat Loree's.
Tuesday 28 9:00 pm
Today has been a beautiful bright day overhead but rather wet and
slushy under foot. This morning I hung out the clothes and they got
nicely dried by tonight. Jenny washed the flannels. Pa took his dinner
with him today.
Wednesday 29 10:00 pm
Today has been beautiful and bright like yesterday but rather cooler.
This morning pa went to Guelph by the train and returned by the
evening train. He called to the post office tonight and brought a
letter fro Jenny from Emily.
Thursday 30 9:15 pm
Today has been another bright fine day but cloudy towards evening.
This morning pa went up to chop and came home to dinner and after
dinner he drove to Rockwood to get some rings for his maul and then
he drove to Alfred's. It was nearly dark when he returned. This
forenoon Mr. Warner called to inquire if Alfred had rails to sell.
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Friday 31
Written Saturday
This day was cold and windy with dashes of snow. This morning David
went over to Loree1
s to see if they could draw some wood for us from
Shaw's and he and John went off for a load and on their way home
managed to upset. Mr. Loree came along just then with the other team
and he took some of the wood and went home to dinner and the boys came
on here. After dinner Mr. L. brought his load over and came in and paid
me Georgie's money $3.00. Ma was lying down so he did not see her. When he
left I started for Emily. The roads were very ban and it was late when
we got home and I was sick.
FEBRUARY
Saturday 1st 11:00 pm
Today has been cold and stormy. This morning pa went to chop and David
went over to Loree's and he and John went off for another load. They
brought two yesterday. This afternoon pa did not go out. Alfred and
Annie passed on their way to George Miller's funeral and on their
return they came in and stayed the evening.
Sunday 2nd
Written Tuesday evening
This day was exceedingly cold and windy. I was very ill all day with
sick headache. Georgie came home about 9:30 and pa took Emily away about
2 pm. Georgie left about 3:30 and walked back.
Monday 3
This day was milder and calm. Pa caught cold coming home last night and
was unable to go to chop. He walked down as far as John Socket's in the
forenoon to see him about some oats but he was away to Rockwood so he went
down again in the afternoon and bought 50 bushels at 28 cts. David went
to school as usual
Tuesday 4 8:30 pm
Today has been mild and calm. This morning Jenny washed and pa drove
over to Alfred's to tell him about the oats. He returned about 4:30
bringing David's paper and a letter for himself from James Day.Tonight
I answered the letter and sent him my picture.
Wednesday 5 9:15 pm
Today has been mild and the forenoon was snowy, the afternoon clear.
This morning Jenny and I drove to Rockwood, called at Miss Edwards,
at Stouts and the Post Office and then drove to Ann Eliza's and got some
milk and came home by the gravel road, reaching home by 1:30 pm
Thursday 6 9:20 pm
Today has been soft and snowy. This morning father and mother and Jenny
and I went to Guelph. Jenny and I drove ma to the station and pa walked
there and they went by train and we drove. We all went to Mr. Humphrey's
to dinner. We got my wedding dress and a dress for each of the girls.
We reached home just at dark and pa was just before us.
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FEBRUARY
Friday 7 9:30 pm
Today has been colder but fine. This morning I drove into Guelph
to get my dress cut and fitted. Ruth Fear went with me to Miss
Stewart's and she fitted it. I also took Emily's back and changed it
for cashmere like Jenny's. Tonight Ruth came home with me and we reached
here at 7:10.
Saturday 8 10:00 pm
Today has been fine and bright. This morning pa drove to Rockwood to
get the horse shod and from there to Alfred's. He returned about
3 pm. David went to Mr. Benham's threshing. We worked steady all day
at my dress.
Sunday 9 10:00 pm
Today has been cold and stormy. Georgie came home about 10. About
4 David and Ruth took him back. Tonight we went to church in Rockwood.
We three girls rode in the cutter and David walked. We reached home at
8:40.
Monday 10 10:30 pm
Today has been fine and mild. Pa was sick all day with Neuralgia. David
went to school. This afternoon Jenny went to Rockwood and from there to
Ann Eliza's to get some milk but she was away. Tonight Noah and Hannah
Sunley came and stayed the evening.
Tuesday 11 10:20 pm
Today has been mild and snowy. This morning pa went over to Mr. Benham's
to help him clean up his barn floor but he returned about 10 almost
crazy with neuralgia. He is some better tonight.
Wednesday 12 10:00 pm
Today has been very cold and stormy. This morning Jenny washed and I
took Ruth over to Norrish's and then drove to Ann Eliza's and got some
milk. This afternoon we made and baked my wedding cake.
Thursday 13 9:20 pm
Today has been fine and cold. This morning I finished my wedding
dress and then we cut out Jenny's dress. This afternoon pa went
to Guelph for some medicine to cure his neuralgia which still troubles
him. After he came home a man called with a dress model to sell but
we declined purchasing for the very good reason that we have too many
already.
Friday 14 10:00 pm
Today has been cold and windy with some snow. This morning David went
to Mr. Benham's threshing and pa went to Rockwood and posted a letter
from me to Emily and got the papers and then drove to Alfred's returning
at noon. This afternoon Mr. Cooper called to borrow an axe but pa would
not lend his but he lent him the saw.
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FEBRUARY
Saturday 15 9:15 pm
Today has been very cold and windy. This morning pa drove up for the
saw and this afternoon he went up and chopped some wood for Mr. Cooper.
We iced my cake today with two coats and we finished Jenny's polonaise.
Sunday 16 9:40 pm
Today has been rather milder with some snow. Georgie came home about
10:30 and this afternoon Jenny and I took him back. Tonight David took
us to Rockwood church and Louisa and Janet McKersie were there. We
reached home about 8:30.
Monday 17
Written on Wednesday
This day was chilly with an east wind and snow at night. This morning
Jenny washed the clothes and I washed a quilt and the counterpane.
Mr. Loree came over and brought a pitcher of milk and stayed awhile.
This evening N.S. came and stayed some time.
Tuesday 18
This day was beautiful and bright with very little wind. This morning I
finished Jenny's dress and after dinner pa went over to Loree's to see
if they could draw wood for us this afternoon. Then he went up to chop
and soon after Johnny Loree came along with the team and called for
an axe. About 2:20 Jenny and I started for Alfred's. We found Annie at
home and spent a pleasant time. There was a meeting at the school at
night and Alfred and Mr. Wansborough went in. We reached home about 10:40
While we were away a woman called with some wash tubs for sale and pa
bought two. In the evening pa went over to Mr. Benham's.
Wednesday 19 9:30 pm
Today has been fine with some snow and it is snowing fast now. This
morning pa whitewashed their bedroom and tonight I put the carpet down.
This afternoon Johnny Loree was hauling wood again.
Thursday 2 0
Written Friday evening
This day was fine with a very cold north wind. This morning I ironed
and this afternoon David came home at 3:30 and we three went down to
Shaw's. In the evening James Hill came in and we had a good time.
It was nearly 1 o'clock when we got home.
Friday 21 9:10 pm
Today has been a beautiful day and milder than yesterday. There was
no school at David's school so he cut wood this morning and after
dinner he helped pa grind his axe and then went down to Alfred's.
He returned about 8:40. This afternoon Jenny went for Emily and they
reached home about dark. Pa broke his axe this forenoon so he ground it
and put a new handle in it this afternoon.
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February
Saturday 22 9 : 3 0 m
Today was stormy in the morning but clear and mild in the afternoon.
This morning Emily and I went to Guelph and got her dress fitted.
We went to Mr. Humphries to dinner and started home just before five
and reached home at dark.
Sunday 23 9:00 pm
Today has been stormy and cold. This forenoon Georgie came home as usual.
After dinner David went away with Emily. Georgie left at 4 o'clock.
David returned about 7 o'clock.
Monday 24 9:5 0 pm
Today was fine but very cold. This morning Jenny washed. This afternoon
pa went to Mr. George Armstrong's to see about a job of mason work. He
returned at dark having found the job was let.
Tuesday 25 9:00 pm
Today has been very stormy and cold. Pa stayed at home and cut wood
and made 2 axe handles' Ma and Jenny worked at my quilt and I worked
at Emily's dress.
Wednesday 26
written on Thursday
This day was very cold and stormy. This forenoon pa broke his axe and
had to come home and grind it. This evening N.S. came.
Thursday 27 8:40 pm
Today has been extremely cold but clear. This morning pa chopped and
after dinner he got ready and rode with Mr. Loree to George Miller's
sale. He returned about 5 and David came with him. After tea he went up
to Mr. Cochlin's and has not yet returned.
Friday 28
Written Saturday morning
This day was fine but very cold. This morning David went to pile wood for
pa and after dinner he took ma over to Loree's and then took Jenny and
I to Mr. Wetherald's and went on to Alfred's himself. In the evening
he brought the horse for us and we drove home while he stayed to the
Caledonian entertainment in the Town Hall. I brought Jenny home and then
went to Loree's for ma. Pa came ahead with the house key as Jenny could
only get into the kitchen. It was about 8 o'clock when we got home.
David rode home with Will Sunley about 2 am.
MARCH
Saturday 1 9:40 pm.
Today has been windy but milder. This forenoon pa finished his
contract of wood chopping for Mr. Socket and David drove up for him
and his tools about 11:00 am. This afternoon pa went to the Centre
Inn to give his estimate for Mc Coghlin's barn but he did not get the
job. He came home by Rockwood having to take a plane of Mr. Corner's home
and to pay Mr. Wetherald for weaving.
�March
Sunday 2 9:00 pm
Today has been calm and mild. This forenoon Georgie came home about
10:20 and this afternoon Jenny took him back. Tonight we went to
church at Rockwood and McKersie's girls were there and we made
arrangements for them to come over next Tuesday.
Monday 3 9:20 pm
Today has been a beautiful day clear and warm and sunshiny. This
morning Mr. Benham came over with some pine lumber for pa and pa
promised to go over tonight to sit up with old Mr. B. After he left
ma and pa went to Guelph and Jenny and I did the washing. This
afternoon John Townsend came. He had been to Guelph. Ma and pa came
home about 6 o'clock. John would not stay all night as they would be
uneasy at home. He left about 8:30 and pa went over to Benham's.
He returned in about half an hour to say that Mr. George Swanson would
stay tonight and he was to go over tomorrow night.
Tuesday 4 11:00 pm
This morning was windy and sleety and miserable but this afternoon
it cleared up real fine. The girls came this afternoon as they
promised. They have just left. Tonight pa went over to sit up with Mr.
Wednesday 5 11:15 pm
Today has been mild and calm and bright. This afternoon ma and pa went
to Alfred's and have only just returned. Tonight David went up to Mr.
Cooper's but did not go in. He reports the necktie social a success as
fas as numbers are concerned.
Thursday 6
Written on Friday
This day was dull and threatening in the morning but cleared up fine
before night. This morning pa went to cousin Robert's and settled with
him. He gave pa 10 dollars and 10 cords of green wood and pa called at
John Edwards on his way home and engaged him to draw the wood. He
reached home about 4:30. Tonight we went to the tea-meeting in Eden
Mills and Janet and Louisa McKersie were there and we had a good
time. The meeting was a success. We reached home at 12:20.
Friday 7 9:15 pm
Today has been a beautiful day, bright and calm. The snow is going fast.
I washed the window curtains this morning and we finished quilting my
quilt which we began yesterday. Today Mr. Loree came over and he and pa
went back in the swamp to look at some wood he wanted cut but he decided
not to cut it as he could not get it out. Tonight pa has gone over to
sit up with Mr. Benham. This evening Janey Ritchie came over to
borrow some tea.
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Saturday 8 9:20 pm
Today has been chilly with some thunder and lightning, but clear
towards evening. Today I starched the curtains. This morning pa went
to Rockwood and got the papers. Tonight Janey Ritchie brought back the
tea she borrowed.
Sunday 9
Written Monday evening
This day was mild and hazy and the evening was wet. This morning Jenny
and David and ma went to church. This afternoon I took Georgie back
and coming home I overtook Janey Ritchie and drove her down to Loree's
and found David was there. He told me not to go to church tonight as the
road was dreadful bad on this line. As I came home it came on a smart
shower and sprinkled me a bit. About 8:40 N.S. came and shortly
afterwards David came home. Pa has a dreadful bad cough and had gone to
bed. Shortly after 9 there came a heavy thundershower with high wind.
Monday 10 9:40 pm
Today has been bright and very mild and calm, a real spring day.
This morning Jenny and I washed. I washed my blankets and got them
nicely dry. About 11 Mr. Edwards and his boy came with two loads of
wood. This afternoon Mr. John Black came in to assess. About 5 o'clock
pa borrowed Mr. Loree's little sleigh and went for some straw from
Swazey's. Tonight pa's cough is very bad.
Tuesday 11 9:00 pm
Today has been very windy and rather cooler. This morning pa went to
Rockwood to see the doctor about his cough. He returned about 11 with
some medicine and David's paper. Tonight he went over to see how Mr.
Benham was. He found the family assembled and expecting him to die before
morning. All his daughters were there. I finished my fine chemise
today and ma made some apple jelly.
Wednesday 12 9:40 pm
Today has been dull and cold. This forenoon pa went over to have a chat
with Mr. Loree. He came back about 10:30. The medicine he got yesterday
has checked his cough. Today I cut out my polonaise and put it together,
Tonight Sammy Loree came in and spent the evening.
Thursday 13 9:00 pm
Today has been dull and raw and windy. This morning pa went up to Jimmy
Ray's and as he went he called at Benham's to see how Mr. Benham was.
Shortly afterward the little boy came running over to say his grandpa
was dead and they would like pa to go over but as he was away of course
that was impossible. So tonight after tea he went over and has not
yet returned. Last night I wrote to Emily and also a postal
card for Mary Watson and David posted them this morning.
Friday 14
Written Saturday evening
This day was windy and snowy. This morning ma went over to Loree's
and stayed a short time. After she returned David went to Rockwood on
Jessie and got the papers and a letter from Richard for me. Tonight
we went over to Loree's to spend the evening and it was nearly 12 when
we returned.
�MARCH 63
Saturday 15
Today has been cold and stormy yet bright. This afternoon pa and David
went to Mr. Benham's funeral. There were a great many there. Pa was
one of the pall-bearers. Mr. Duff from Speedside was the minister.
Sunday 16
Written Monday evening
This day was cold and rather stormy. David took Georgie back this
afternoon. In the evening Jenny went for a walk as far as the railroad
and back. David went to meet her and then went on with John Loree
to Rockwood. Pa was sick all day with cramp in the stomach and went
to bed early. About 8:30 N.S. came and shortly afterward David came.
Monday 17 8:40 pm
Today has been calm and mild and snowy. This morning Jenny and I
washed and pa went down to John Socket's. This afternoon pa went
to Farish's mill and from there to Everton, calling at Alfred's on
his way. He got 100 lbs of flour. This evening Mrs. Cooper called
to invite us to a surprise party at Mr. Hodgeskinson on Friday night.
After tea David went up to Mathew Loree's and has not yet returned.
Tuesday 18 9:30 pm
Today has been cold and somewhat snowy. This morning ma and I went to
Guelph and got my hat and shoes and gloves. We got home about 3:30 and
found cousin Mary Watson here. We met pa just across the railroad on his
way to Farish's mill for flour. He got 200 lbs and Mr. John Edwards
brought it up home for him.
Wednesday 19 10:30 pm
Today has been rather chilly with some snow but on the whole fine. This
afternoon Mary and Fanny and Tenie Smith came and shortly afterwards
Rhoda and Ella Hodgeskinson came. About 7:30 Smith's left and Mr.
Townsend and Willy came just before. About 8 Micholas McMurray came for
the other girls and they stayed to play a game of carpet balls and then
left. Mary Smith brought me a card-case and match holder and Fanny
brought me a bead pin-cushion. Pa went to Mr. Anstee's sale today but
did not stay long. This is Sarah Benham's wedding day.
Thursday 20 9:30 pm
Today has been fine and bright. This morning I took Mary
over to Crofts and got some milk and some yeast and Ann Eliza gave me
the presents they had purchased for me. She gave me a table cloth and
two towels and Robert gave me a set of crystal. This afternoon she
and Mary passed here on their way to Loree's and she ran in for a
minute. Tonight cousin James Day came. I ornamented my cake this
afternoon.
Friday 21 10:00 pm
Today has been beautiful and bright and mild. This morning after
breakfast cousin James left for Guelph and David rode with him to
school. This forenoon pa went to Rockwood and got the papers and
this afternoon he went for Emily. We took down my bedstead today and
I blacked the stove.
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Saturday 22 9:20 pm
Today has been very stormy and a great quantity of snow fell.
This morning Emily and I went to Guelph and David went to Alfred's
examination. We went down to Carri's to dinner and we left there at
2:30 and arrived at home about 5. David reached home at 8:30. We
got Emily's hat and my toilet set and some plates and various small
items.
Sunday 2 3
written Monday
This day was fine but dull. This forenoon we three girls went to church
and after dinner we and the boys went over to Loree's and stayed to
tea and then I came home for the horse and Georgie came home and
changed his clothes and went away. Emily and I rode to Rockwood to church
in our buggy and Johnny Loree took Jenny and Mary Watson who came over
on foot from Ann Eliza's. Will Sunley and David and Sammy Loree went
down in the cutter. Coming home Will Sunley brought Emily and Johnny
Loree brought Jenny and Marg rode with me while David and Sammy walked.
Will and Johnny came in and stayed awhile and Noah came shortly
after we got home. We spend a pleasant evening and they left about
10 except N.
Monday 24 9:30 pm
Today has been stormy and wet and tonight is very windy. This morning
pa went to Alfreds and got some dishes and then drove over for Ann
Eliza. We were at dinner when they came. Ann Eliza baked some Ammonia
cakes for me and after tea she and Marg went away in our cutter
and David went and brought the horse back and went for George and got
back about 9.
Tuesday 25
Written Wednesday evening
This day was a most beautiful day without a cloud. It was my wedding-day.
All of both families were present. We were married at 1 o'clock by
Mr. Masson. Emily was bridesmaid and Will Sunley was groomsman.
Everything passed off very well and about dark Noah and I started for
his father's where we stayed that night. On our way we called in at
Loree's to say good-bye to Mrs. Loree. That afternoon Will Sunley took
Emily down to Reid's and remained all night.
Wednesday 26 8:20 pm
Today has been fine until towards evening when it began to storm.
This morning Noah and I went to father's to get my things, we stayed
to dinner and then Noah went on with the team and pa took me and my
most precious belongings in the buggy. The roads were bad and we had
to go very round-about roads so it made us rather late. We found Mr.
and Mrs. Sunley there busy cleaning and the house nice and warm. I like
the appearance of my new home very much. Pa stayed till Noah came and then
he helped him unload and put up the bedstead and then he left for home.
Mr. & Mrs. Sunley stayed to tea and then left in the storm.
�MARCH
Thursday 27 Time not known
Today has been calm and dull but mild. This morning I was busy
straightening things and scrubbing. This afternoon I mended Noah's
overcoat and did some other little chores. Noah was drawing wood.
Friday 28
Today has been dull and raw and tonight it is raining fast. This
morning Noah went down to his father's for a load of oats so I was alone
all day. He returned some time after dark and Hannah came with him.
Saturday 29
Written Monday afternoon
This day was dull and misty in the distance but mild. This morning
Noah went over to Oaks's for the plough with the sleigh and he
called at the store in Oustic and got me a stove brush. Sometime
toward evening Mr. Sunley came with a load of seed peas and brought
three of our old chairs from home. He had a dreadful time coming up
the road was so bad the way he came. He got stuck in one place. He
got his supper here and then started back.
Sunday 30
This day was cold and windy with flying snow. This afternoon we took
Hannah over to Oaks's and stayed the evening. It was after 9 when
we left. They seem to be very nice folks. Hanna is going to stay
there till Tuesday and then she is going home with us. This was
Jenny's birthday. She is 20 years old now.
Monday 31
This was fine but windy and cold. This morning Noah went down to his
father's for a load of oats and returned about 5 o'clock
APRIL
Tuesday 1st Afternoon
Today has been milder than yesterday but is growing colder and
threatening snow. Noah went over to Leslie's this morning and met pa on
his way to Robert's for some hay. We are now waiting for Hannah preparatory
to starting for Mr. Sunley's (Later). Hannah came about 5 and we
reached Sunley's at dark. Just before we reached cousin James Smith's we
saw ma and Jenny drive out and we drove fast and overtook them at Mitchel's
corner and ma gave me $1.50 to get myself a pair of strong shoes.
Wednesday 2nd
Written Thursday
This day was cold and stormy. This morning Noah and Johnny Sunley started
for Guelph with the cattle about 6 o'clock and about 7 Mr. S. followed
them with the team. About 9 Mrs. Sunley and I went with old Charlie
and the buggy. It was Easter fat cattle show as well as the monthly
fair day and there was a great crowd in town. I saw a good many that
I knew. We got back at 3 o'clock and the men were just an hour after.
After tea Noah and I started for home taking JOhnny with us. We got
here about 7:30. We had my bureau and the churn and I carried the
clock on my lap all the way. The roads were pretty rough but nothing
was damaged.
�APRIL
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Thursday 3
7:30 pm
Today has been colder and more stormy than yesterday. This morning
Noah went down to his father's for a load of grain and returned about
5:30. He brought some hens with him. I got things into a little better
order today.
Today has been cold but not so stormy as yesterday. This morning Noah
went down to Oustic to see mr Oaks and he posted a letter I wrote last
night to Richard. When he came back he went down to his father's for
another load of grain and did not get back till dark. Tonight I set
bread for the 1st time.
Saturday 5 8:30 pm
Today has been fine and calm and milder than yesterday. This morning
Noah went over to Oaks's for the crosscut saw and tonight he took it
back and got the Mercury from the post office. I baked today and
scrubbed.
Sunday 6
written Monday
This day was a beautiful, bright,warm day. This morning Noah and I
walked over to Speedside church. This afternoon about 5 cousin Mary
Watson and two Miss Sloans and Miss Easton called in and stayed a short
time. There had been a prayer meeting at Sloan's and Mary had been to
it and was on her way back to Speedside where Robert was to meet her.
Monday 7 8:4 5 pm
Today has been a
. repetition of yesterday. This morning I washed for the
first time here. This afternoon a man came and got his dinner.
He was taking orders for fruit trees.
Tuesday 8 9:20 pm
Today has been a perfect spring-day, beautiful. This morning I cleaned
the stove and had just finished when ma and Jenny came. They brought my
two mottoes and my wreath and in the afternoon I fitted ma's basque-
waist for her. They left about 4:45. Tonight about 7 Johnny Sloan came in
and has just left
Wednesday 9 10:00 pm
Today has been very warm and fine. This morning at 6 o'clock Noah started
for his father's en route for Guelph and only returned half an hour
ago. He reports the roads fearful bad. He came home in the buggy.
Today I scrubbed and ironed.
Thursday 10 9:00 pm
Today has been very windy and wet, raining in the forepart of the
day and snowing and freezing towards evening. Tonight after tea Noah
went over to Jim Duffields and only returned a few minutes since.
Friday 4 9:20 pm
�APRIL
Friday 11 8:45 pm
Today has been rather cold but very fine and bright. This morning Noah
and Johnny started down home at 6:15 o'clock to bring up our live
stock viz a cow, two young cattle, 8 sheep and 6 hens and a rooster.
They reached here at 2:30 pm. Jim came with them to stay for a few days
and Johnny rode back again on one of the horses after they had
eaten their dinner. About 5:30 Jimmy rode, over to Oustic for some nails
and he got the paper.
Saturday 12 9:00 pm
Today has been bright and fine like yesterday but milder. This
morning Noah went over to the sawmill for some scantling to make a gate
and Jimmy went over to Oustic again. This afternoon Jim Duffield was
over for awhile but he did not come to the house.
Sunday 13 9:00 pm
Today has been a dull wet day snowing fine snow almost all day. This
morning Jimmy went over to Oaks's and his cousin came back with him
about 1-30 and stayed till dark and just as he was leaving Johnny
5loan came over and stayed until now.
Monday 14 8:45 pm
Today has been very fine and warm. This forenoon about 11 o'clock Mr.
Socket and Lucy and the children came and stayed until after tea. Noah
and Jimmy hung the new gate at the road today and fixed the pump stand.
Tonight after dark Noah went over to Oustic for spikes.
Tuesday 15 8:45 pm
Today has been fine but rather dull. This afternoon directly after dinner
Jimmy went over to Oaks's for an auger. Tonight about 6 o'clock he started
for home with the team.
Wednesday 16 9:15 pm
Today has been fine but dull like yesterday. About 12 o'clock
Mr. Sunley came in the buggy with Johnny behind with the team. About
half an hour afterward and before they came in to dinner Mr. Stovel came
with the pump. So I had quite a company to dinner. Mr. Stovel bringing
a boy with him. This afternoon Mr. Duff the minister at Speedisde called
on us. Noah and his father were away off to the bush so he did not
see him then but he was going further up the road to make another call
and on his way back he called in again but he did not come into the
house. Tonight at dark Noah went over to Oaks's and he called at the
post office and brought me a letter from Richard. It enclosed a pre-
scription for Hannah.
Thursday 17 9:00 pm
Today has been fine and most of the time bright with a high wind.
This morning Noah went over to see Mr. Collis about the line fence.
This afternoon he fixed the dairy for me.
�April
Friday 18 9:25 pm
Today has been very fine and warm. About 12:30 Mr. Sunley came with the
team and brought our table. This afternoon he and Noah and some of the
neighbours were arranging about the line fence. After tea Mr. Sunley
left for home. This morning Noah was trying to plough but found it
would not do.
Saturday 19 9:10 pm
Today has been another fine warm day. This morning Noah and one of
the neighbours were laying out the line fence. This afternoon about
4:30 Noah went over to Oaks1
s to change some seed.
Sunday 20 9:00 pm
Today has been like yesterday, fine and warm. This forenoon Bob Sloan
came over and stayed awhile talking and this afternoon James Oaks
and Sarah came over and stayed until a short time ago when Noah and
I went a piece with them.
Monday 21 9:00 pm
Today has been a repetition of yesterday's weather. Noah commenced
ploughing today. This morning a man came in and asked if we had a clock
that wanted cleaning but he did not come into the house.
Tuesday 2 2 8 :15 pnv!
Today has been as fine as ever and exceedingly warm. This morning I
washed and this afternoon I churned but the cream was too warm and
consequently spoiled my butter so as we were quite out of butter I went
over to Oaks's and got 2 lbs.
Wednesday 23 8:20 pm
Today has been dull most of the time and threatening rain. This
morning a man came in thinking Sloan's lived here but on finding
his mistake retired precipitately. This afternoon Mr. Sunley and Jimmy
came up with the team about 2 o'clock and left about 4:30. After they
left I took a walk as far as the bush. Today was the day of the inauguratic
of Guelph as a city.
Thursday 24 8:10 pm
Today has been fine and cool but threatening rain towards night.
This morning Noah sowed peas and this afternoon I commenced working
in the garden digging up a piece of sod.
Friday 25 9:00 pm
Today has been a dull drizzling sort of a day. The men were sowing
peas and gang ploughing all day in spite of the wet
Saturday 2 6 8:50 pm
Today has been smoky and warm but rather dull. Tonight Johnny went
to Oustic and brought the paper and a letter from Emily. She gives
me a lot of news.
�APRIL
Sunday 2 7 8:20 pm
This morning was smoky and drizzling rain now and then, but it cleared
up about 10 o'clock,and was very warm all day. This morning Noah
and I went to church at Speedside. We got a ri.de partway, Noah with Allan's
and I with Sloan's. I saw cousin Robert and had a chat with him.. This
afternoon we had arranged to go over to Jim Duffields about 3 o'clock
when about 2:30 Mr. Grieves came in and stayed till just now he left.
Shortly after he came I went for a walk as far as the top of Mutrie's
hill. On my way back I met Miss Grieves and a younger brother going
home from Sloan's and Miss Sloan and her sister and two brothers and
another gentleman, I forget his name were with them. We stood a long
while talking and then Miss Grieves and brother went on and Miss
Sloan and party came back with me.
Monday 28
Today has been beautiful and cool and fine. This afternoon I
walked down home and gave them a surprise. After tea Jenny and I went
over to see Mrs. Loree and she loaded me with apples and sent a pitcher
of milk for me to drink while I was home. Pa is working at Benham's
now and he came home at dark.
Tuesday 2 9 8:45 pm
Today has been fine in the morning but dull this afternoon and
threatening rain. This forenoon Jenny and I drove over to Alfred's
and stayed to dinner and started back about 3:30 bringing Maggie
with us to stay with me for awhile. We just called at father's to
get some things and then Jenny brought me home and is staying here
all night. We reached here at 6 o'clock.
Wednesday 30 8:15 pm
Today has been dull and cold and windy. We had tea at 5 tonight and
Jenny started for home directly after. Shortly after she left Mrs.
Oaks came along on her way home from Sunley's having been down for Sarah
and Noah went out to speak to her and got some butter that his mother
had sent for us.
MAY
Thursday 1st 8:25 pm
Today has been very cold and windy. This afternoon I sowed lettuce
and beet seed and some cress seed that Ann Eliza gave me.
Friday 2nd 8:50 pm
Today has been fine and bright though cool. This afternoon I got my
garden ready and sowed some flower seeds. While I was at it a butcher
called to see if we had anything to sell.
Saturday 3 9:50 pm
Today has been warmer and very fine. I set a white hen today and sowed
some more flower seeds. Tonight while I was in the garden sowing the
seeds an old man came in begging but finding no one in the house he
left without seeing me.
�MAY
Monday 12 8:35 pm
Today has been warmer than yesterday and windy and very fine. This
morning Johnny went to Oustic and got the paper. This afternoon I put
a new back in Noah'^ old vest.
Tuesday 13 8:45 pm
Today has been exceedingly warm and calm and clear and tonight it is
lightning . This afternoon I wrote to cousin Mary Ann and sowed some
flower seeds.
Wednesday 14 8:40 pm
Today has been fine and very warm. This afternoon I started for Oaks's
and a little piece up the road I met Miss Oaks and Miss Grieves
coming here so I had to turn back. After tea I went a piece with
them. I have promised to go to Oaks's tomorrow if it is fine. Noah
finished seeding tonight.
Thursday 15 8:45 pm
Today has been dull and showery and tonight is quite cool.I did not
go to Oaks's.Tonight after tea Noah went over there and I sent my letter
to post. I milked the cow in the field tonight
Friday 16 10:20 pm
Today has been a beautiful bright pleasant day. Tonight after tea we
went over to Sloan's. The girls were away to Guelph and Jim Duffield
and his wife came over too and soon after the girls came home. We had
music and singing and spent a pleasant time.
Saturday 17 9:30 pm
Today has been very fine and pleasant. This morning about 11 o'clock
Ma and Emily came and stayed till after tea. Emily got a chance ride
home last night. She brought me the rest of my cards. We are going down
in the morning if it is fine.
Sunday 18
Written Tuesday evening
This day was very fine and warm. In the morning we went down home, reachin
there about 11:15. They were all at church but pa to hear Mr. Cooper
preach his farewell sermon as he is about to leave that circuit. They
reached home about 1 o'clock and about 2 Noah and the boys went down to
Socket's. After tea we three girls started for Rockwood church and met
Noah and Georgie coming up. David had gone down to church. We tried to
persuade Noah to go with us but he wouldn't. When we got there we
found Fanny McKersie there and she and I went for a short walk as it was
early and then we sat in the same seat. Louie was there in the choir.
Coming back David rode with us and we were not long going home. I found
Noah waiting for me so he got out the horse and we started home
reaching here about 10 and finding Johnny asleep on the lounge.
�MAY
Monday 19
This day was fine like yesterday. In the morning Noah took Jim
Duffield's buggy home and I rode with him as far as the pasture to
milk the cow. When he came back he and Johnny started for his father's
to get some hay and to bring up some cattle but he returned shortly
after 7 o'clock with a load of hay and minus Johnny who had gone
to Guelph. I was washing all day and felt very tired.
Tuesday 20 9:00 pm
Today has been very warm and rather windy. This morning I baked
pies and cakes. This afternoon about 4:30 Mr. Sunley and Johnny
came with the cattle, two steers and a cow and about
7:30 Mr. Sunley left for home and Noah went over and helped me milk.
Wednesday 21 8:40 pm
Today has been very fine and cool. This forenoon Noah went to Oustic
to get me some whole pepper and ginger. He got the ginger but they had
no pepper. Tonight I sowed the cucumber seed.
Thursday 22 9:40 pm
Today has been fine and quite cool. We rose early and started for Mr.
Sunley's reaching there at 8. About 10 we started for Guelph with Mr.
Sunley and Hannah. I got my hat trimmed and we got the wallpaper for the
house and got back there about 6:20, got our supper and started for
home here with the buggy, reaching here at 9.
Friday 23 8:35 pm
Today has been very fine and warm but cool tonight. This morning Noah
went down to his father's early and returned tonight at 6 with a load
of things. About 4:30 Alfred and Annie and the children came and
stayed till dark.
Saturday 24 8:55 pm
Today has been fine and warm. This afternoon Noah washed the sheep.
A good many people passed here today, spending their holdiay.
Sunday
Written Monday
This day was fine but cool. This morning about 11 o'clock Mr. McFarlane
and Rachel came and after dinner Mr. & Mc and Noah went over to Jim
Duffield's and about 3:30 Len Parkinson and Man Duffied came and after
putting away the horse they went over after the others and about tea-
time they came back again together except Man who did not come till after
tea. About 6:30 Mr. McF went home and Rachel is staying till Tuesday.
The others left a little before 9.
Monday 26 9 :2 0 pm
Today has been fine but very cool. This morning about 9:15 Rachel started
for Oaks's with the children and she came back about 8:40. Mr. Oaks
brought the bricklayers out today from Guelph.
�MAY
Tuesday 27 9:15 pm
Today has been dull and cold. This afternoon Rachel and I with the
children went over to Jim Duffields and about 5 o'clock Hannah came.
She came with Mr. McF who had come for Rachel so after tea we hurried
home and they started home immediately.
Wednesday 28
Written Saturday
This day was fine and warm. In the morning we began our house-cleaning
spree that Hannah had come to help me about and about 10:30 Jenny
came. She brought me a pail of soft soap and a basket of apples. We did
not quite finish the kitchen today. Tonight Johnny Sloan came over and
stayed till nearly 10. I was just about starting for their place when he
came so when Noah came in I went and took the shawl home that I
borrowed the other night and took a pitcher for yeast but they had just
made new yeast and it had not risen enouqh, then so I left the pitcher.
s
i
Thursday 29
This day was very warm and dry. This morning Noah rode down with Jim
Duffield as far as Lyon's corner and then walked home and went to
Guelph with his father to get a buggy. The girls finished the kitchen
and my bedroom today and after tea Jenny went home and I sent half of
my last churning of butter down home by her. This morning I set two
hens. Tonight Hannah and I went over for the yeast and we had a splended
swing. Noah did not come home tonight and soon after we came back
from Sloan's a drunken man came down the road and came in here. We
locked the doors and kept quiet and he soon left.
Friday 30
This day was very windy and hot. I baked today and we did the other
bedroom all but the floor. About 4 o'clock Noah and Jim came with the
buggy and about 7:30 Jim and Hannah left for home.
Saturday 31 8:35 pm
Today has been very warm and windy and about 4 it began to rain and is
still raining steady and thundering and lightning. This morning Noah
sheared the sheep. Today I finished cleaning up and baked pies.
JUNE
Sunday 1st 9:00 pm
Today has been dull but pleasant till about 4:30 when it commenced to
rain and rained heavy for some time. This forenoon Noah and I went
down to his father's and just before we left Fred Duffield came over and
stayed all day with Johnny. We had a pleasant ride down but coming
home tonight it was rather wet.
Monday 2 8:10 pm
Today has been dull and cold. This morning I churned and Fred
Duffield brought the gang plough home
73
�JUNE 74
Tuesday 3 9:10 pm
Today has been cold and wet. This morning Mr. Sunley came up and he and
Noah built the flue and put out the stove and put up a little one in
the house. Tonight they went over to Oustic to a political meeting.
Wednesday 4 8:00 pm
Today has been dull and drizzling except for a short time during the
afternoon when the sun shone out. This morning they finished the
chimney and this afternoon about 3 o'clock Mr. Sunley started for home.
Tonight Tom Sloan came over and stayed a little while.
Thursday 5
Written Tuesday
This day was very fine but cool and rather windy. This morning I washed
the white clothes and this afternoon Noah went down to the Centre
to vote and I went with him and drove on home but ma and Jenny were away
so I went to Loree1
s and Mrs. Benham was there. I stayed till 7 o'clock
and then went home to see the garden before dark. While I was there pa and
DAvid came home and they got the key and opened the house and I had a
look at the organ. About 8 ma and Jenny came and at the same time Noah
came from Loree's with the buggy so he drove in and we stayed till
9:10. They had been to Mr. Sunley's.
Friday 6
This day was fine but fearfully windy. I finished my washing and folded
the clothes at night. Tonight Noah went to Oustic and got the paper
Saturday 7
This day was fine and a little warmer. I scrubbed and baked and ironed
and in the evening I planted the beans.
Sunday 8
This day was fine but rather threatening. In the morning Johnny started
for Mr. Sunley's with the team. About 10:30 pa and ma came and about 2
Mr. & Mrs. Oaks came and about 3:30 Jim Duffield and his wife came, so we
had plenty of company. After tea pa and ma left and a while after Jim
and his wife left and just before dark Mr. & Mrs. Oaks left and Jim came
with the young horses.
Monday 9
This day was very fine and warm. They commenced road work today. In the
mcmninq I washed my blankets and all my clothes. This afternoon I
churned. Tonight after tea Noah and Jim hitched the colt single
for the first time and she went very quietly.
Tuesday 10 9:25 pm
Today has been fine and very hot. At noon we had a little shower.
They finished their road work at 11 and this afternoon they rolled the
turnip ground and then hitched the colt to the buggy and went over to
Oustic with the butter and got some groceries and some coal oil. About
7 Jim started for home. I commenced cleaning upstairs today. Tonight
after dark Jim Oaks came over and Noah is still out with him. Tom
Grieves got badly hurt today pulling down the old barn. Some of it
fell on him and one of the framers and hurt them very badly.
�JUNE
Wednesday 11 written Monday
This day was very fine and warm. This afternoon about 4 o'clock ma came.
I did not quite finish upstairs today. Tom Grieves died this morning at
4 o'clock and will be buried tomorrow at 2.
Thursday 12
This day was very fine and pleasant. This morning about 9:30 we started
for Garry and had a very pleasant visit. It was dark when we got back.
We got a lot of flower plants and Mr. Townsend gave ma the fowls he
promised pa long ago. Two hens and a rooster of the Silver Hamburgs.
Firday 13 Written Monday
This day was fine and very warm. This morning we planted out my plants
and then I starched my white skirts and after dinner ma fixed my
grenadine dress and I finished cleaning upstairs. About 4:00 ma started
for home.
Saturday 14
This day was fine and pleasant till about 3:30 when it commenced to rain
and rained quite heavy before dark. I whitewashed and cleaned the
passage today.
Sunday 15.
This morning it rained quite heavy but cleared off about 10 and Noah
and I started for his father's. We reached there soon after 11 and after
dinner we went to Eden to church with Mr. & Mrs. Sunley and Hannah and
on our way back we went into Rachael's and stayed to tea. When we were
on our way home it came on a dreadful heavy rainstorm and we got pretty
wet. We did not come home tonight as it is very dark and wet.
Monday 16 9:30 pm
Today has been very fine and cool. This morning we rose early and
started for home at 5:30. I brought a hen and 8 little ducks. Today
is Mr. Sunley's birthday.
Tuesday 17 Written Thursday
This day was dull and cold and windy. About 11 am. Mr. Sunley came up with
the turnip drill and they sowed the turnips in the afternoon. I washed
today. Mr. Sunley left about 7 o'clock.
Wednesday 18
This day was fine but cool. I ironed and baked today. Six little
chickens hatched today. This afternoon Noah rode down home with Jim
Duffield and came back with him about 9:30 tonight. Mrs. Sunley is
very poorly.
rhursday 19 9:00 pm
Today has been beautifully fine and warmer than yesterday. I cleaned the
summer kitchen partly today. Eight more chickens came out today.
�JUNE 76
Friday 20 written Monday
This day was very fine and warm. I finished cleaning the kitchen and
cleaned the dairy and entry which concludes my house-cleaning
Saturday 21
This day was fine and very warm and just after dark it rained a little
I baked and scrubbed today and at dark Jim Duffield and his wife called
for some cucumber plants.
Sunday 22
This day was exceedingly warm. This afternoon Noah and I went over to
Oakes's and stayed till 9 o'clock. Mr. & Mrs. Oaks were away at James
Benham's.
�Anna Melia Day Sunley b. 1893 died 1948 at 95. her father was Thomas Day. married Noah Sunley in
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Walton Family Diary Collection
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Minetta, Sarah and Annie Walton
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1883-1890
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19th Century, Halton County, Trafalgar South Township, Ontario
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Sarah Walton Diary, 1883
Annie and Minetta Walton Diary, 1883-1884
Minetta "Nettie" Walton Diary, 1883 Part 1
Minetta "Nettie" Walton Diary, 1883 Part 2
Minetta "Nettie" Walton Diary, 1884-1885
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Annie Rothwell (1872 – 1960)
1894-1895
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{Printed} MAJESTIC EXERCISE BOOK {Handwritten} A. Rothwell Jan. 3rd 1894
{Printed - Advert for 'Boys Own Paper'}
Diary 1894.
Jan 1st Monday. Mother and Father went to Mr. Whitelock's for dinner and to uncle
John's for tea. Visited Mrs. Huff, who is ill, Miss M
c
Leod and Miss Coombs called in the
afternoon. Ida & Ed went skating in the afternoon on the lake. Rebie went to Mary
Edith's for dinner. Libbie and I called on Mrs. Bennett in the evening and then went to
Miss M
c
Leod's party. Formed many good resolutions which I hope to keep. Charlie
Deering, Frank Whitelock Libbie & I Grace & Earnest & Jonathan were at this party.
Jan 2nd. Came to Bradford with Father and Annie Nesbitt. Settled down.
Jan 3rd. School opened in due form, all the teachers present namely, Mr. Waugh, Miss
Potts, and Mr. M
c
Lean. Five new scholars - Mr. Wilson, Mr. Houston, Miss Beatty and
Miss Grace Rogerson, also Miss Longheed.
Jan 4th. Arose this morning at break of day. Went to school and was well satisfied with
the lessons. Took tea with Mrs. Hill. After tea had some music and then came to my
room and studied.
Jan 5th. School, lessons in very good shape especially the classical geography. Went
down street after four to look at some books for the Sunday School library. Read the
Forty Thieves.
Jan 6th Read "Triumphs of Architecture" and studied. At 8 p.m went to rink and thence
to store then returned and studied the Conference of Pillnitz.
Jan 7th. Went to C.M. Church in the morning and heard a sermon given by Mr.
Ferguson. Went to Mrs. Kneeshaw's for dinner with Louisa Driffil. Went to Sunday
School in the afternoon. After Sunday School went to Mr. E. Coomb's
�Mrs. D. McLeod was there also Mr. Martin. In the evening heard Mr. Chillcott preach
from the 3rd chapt. of St. John. After I came home conversed for a short time and spent
the rest of the evening singing.
Jan 8th. School, new pupils Miss Jean Ferguson, Miss King, Mr. Henry and Mr.
Thompson.
Jan 9th. School, more new scholars Miss Brawley, R Kneeshaw, and Miss Simpson.
Jan 10th. School, wrote a synopsis of the III canto of the Lady of the Lake. Heard of
Mrs. Short's sudden death with La Grippe had a short talk with Mrs. Kneeshaw.
Jan 10th. Came from school studied a short time and then called on Mr & Mrs. W.
Goodfellow and then proceeded to the carnival & spent a very enjoyable time. Uncle
Sam was my escort. Death of Mrs. Bannerman.
Jan. 11th. School. Mr. Waugh read to us about Cato. Walked home with Miss M Beath,
a part of the way.
Jan. 12th. School. Geography of Sicily, Euclid dividing a line into medial section. Read
the Diamonds and Loads also Alladin's Lamp.
Jan 13th. Studied the most of the day. Went to Uncle King's in the evening. Dinner of
heart with D's.
Jan 14th. Sunday. Came to Bradford in the evening heard Rev. Mr. Bedford preach
Jan. 15th. Exam. on Ancient History went to E.L in the evening Mr. Martin conducted
the meeting. Subject - Thoughts for the New Year
Jan. 16. School. Went to store and seen about library.
Jan 17. New scholar. Miss Jo Grose. A talk with Florence on books.
N.V. On Jan 12th. Florence, Eva and Louisa came to room and presented candies and
boxes.
Jan. 18. School.
Jan 19. School. Went home Friday evening with father. Pleased to see all.
�Jan 20. Saturday - Did a bit of work, called on Mrs. Maggee, Mrs. Mattenley and Mrs.
Whitelock. May Kearns and Baby Leslie at "Grandpa" Mattenley's Vera Leslie at Mrs.
Magee's. In the evening took tea with Mrs. Bennett. Libbie and Maggie M
c
Leod were
there too. Pleasant evening and a good discussion of the "Lady of the Lake"
Jan 201th. Went to Churchill in the morning Mr. Ross preached and taught the Bible
Class. Drove home with uncle Sam and took dinner at Uncle Eben's, went to see uncle
Joe's and took tea with them. Went to Gilford church services conducted by Rev. R
Toye then went to see J. M
c
Leod who felt some better. Considered the day a very
profitable and beneficial one.
Jan 212st. Rose before six o'clock a.m. and got a hustle on to come to Bradford. A fine
morning and a fine drive with pa. School exam on grammar and rhetoric. In the
afternoon Rev. Mr. Jennings a missionary from British Columbia addressed the school.
In the evening went to missionary meeting where addresses were delivered by
Mr. Jennings Hart a missionary from China and Mr. Jennings a missionary from B.C.
Jan 23nd. School. Miss Dack a new pupil. Mr. Waugh read to us of Julius Caesar.
Jan 24th School. Mr. Waugh read to us of Rome.
" 24" In the evening attended Conformation services.
Jan 25" Thursday - School. A cold but very bright morning. Got along well to-day for I
know my history. Lesson on Mithradates, King of Pontus.
Jan 26. School. Mr & Mrs. Wilson's marriage party. a good time spent with about
twenty-five guests.
Jan 27. Saturday - Study. In the afternoon went to see the new Presbyterian church.
Tea with Mrs. Driffil.
Jan 28. Sunday, Service in the new Presbyterian Church conducted by Rev. Dr.
M
c
Claren. of Toronto. Libbie and Maggie M
c
Leod came down to the afternoon service
which was conducted by Rev. Ferguson. The evening service conducted by Rev. Dr.
M
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Claren. A very large attendance. Was out to uncle King's.
Jan 39th. Monday - Mr. Maudson, the new teacher taught the chemistry.
�Jan 30th. Tuesday morning, a fresh lot of snow. School - Emma Lougheed here for tea.
Jan 31st. A fine morning. Rose at 7 a.m. Mr. Maudson took charge of the physics. In
the evening studying. A foot ball match to describe in rhetoric.
Feb 1st. A wintry day. School. After 4 p.m. squads I. II & III organised under the
leadership of Misses Jean Ferguson, Miss Lila Neilly. Miss Lougheed. Miss Grose, Miss
L. Evans & Miss M
c
Beth.
Feb. 2nd. School - Called on Miss Menagh.
Feb. 3rd. Saturday - Study. Hurt my finger with the window sash. Called on Miss Alice
Graham and Mr. Ferguson about the subject for League.
Feb 4th. Sunday - Quarterly Meeting in C. M church services conducted by Rev. J. J.
Ferguson. Text. Jacob wrestling with God. In the afternoon went to hear Mr. Odery, who
preached in the Presbyterian Church. Went to Wm. Goodfellow's for tea. Miss Hayes,
Miss Kate and Mr. Will Faris, also uncle John King. In the evening heard MDr Dixon of
Galt.
Feb 5th. School. Extra lesson in Chemistry after four. Went to tea - meeting in the
basement of the new church with uncle and aunt King. Had a very pleasant time, good
tea and good programme. Singing by the Choir, Solo's by Mrs. Waugh and Mrs. Hunter.
Addresses by Revs. Carswell, Bell, Ferguson, Chillicott, Col. Tyrwhitt and Dr. Dixon. Dr.
Dixon took for his subject Habit.
Feb 6th. Rose at 7 a.m. Birthday, Rather a dull day, tea at "Driffil Castle". Florence,
Lou, & Edna came in, in the evening and had a few minutes fun presenting the address,
the squirrel and the gum heart. Had oja. Lou and I got our pictures taken.
Feb 7th. Wednesday. School. Nellie came in, in the evening to do rhetoric.
Feb 8th. Received our pictures, dandies of course. School - new time table. In my
study.
Feb 9th. School - Went home with Mr. Sawyer and Clara. Found mother had gone to
aunty King's.
Feb 10th. Saturday - Studied.
�Feb 11th. Went to Sunday School. Called on Mrs. Bennett. Went to church to hear Rev.
J. J. Ferguson. Came home with him.
Feb 12th Monday - A beautiful morning. School.
" 13th. School -
" 14th. School. Received a Valentine, went to social at Mrs. W. Campbell's.
" 15th. School. Received another Valentine.
" 16th. School. The night of a grand concert in Gilford. Gertie Baker called on me.
" 17th. Saturday. Studied.
" 18th. Heard Rev. J. Ferguson preach morning and evening - Subject - Even {Evening}
One of the roads from Bradford {to Hell, in}
" 19th. School - Read an essay on Jotham King of Judah at League.
Feb. 20th. Tuesday. School.
Wed. 21st. School. Study in History Canadian.
Thur. 22nd A new Miss M
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Leod. School. Frank Whitelock very ill.
23rd. School. Libbie came down. Spent a pleasant evening playing word game
24th. Saturday. Studied part of the time got our pictures taken in the afternoon called on
Mrs. Kneeshaw, and Mrs. Garrett. In the evening Libbie went to rink.
25th. Sunday - Went to church in the morning, services conducted by Rev. Ferguson.
Went to Sabbath School in the afternoon. Went to Mrs. K's for tea. In the evening
listened to an able discourse delivered by Rev. Ferguson on games which are
demoralizing.
26th. Monday. Exam on Ancient Geography describing Hannibal's route &c. Libbie still
here. Called on Mrs Wilson & then took tea with Miss. C Driffil & Miss Alma Strong.
Libbie went to League
27th. Libbie went home and I to school a wee bit lonesome
�28. 29.3 School.
1st of March. School
2nd. " " Went home with Ed. called & seen Frank Whitelock, He was very low and very
short of breath, but conscious knowing all those who stood around him. Went home
found all well
3rd March Saturday Received word that Frank had died about nine o'clock this
morning. Uncle King's came out. Went to see Mrs. D. M
c
Leod and Baby. Found them
progressing favorably. Baby a pretty little thing. Maggie M
c
Leod and I went to Gilford
and sent to Barrie for a wreath for funeral. In the afternoon Mr and Mrs. John Magee
(bride and groom) came along with Mrs. George Magee. A number of young people
came to practice. Libbie's & Douglas' Party
March 4. Went to Sunday School and then to Mrs. Blain's for tea. Mr. Toye preached a
very appropriate sermon in the evening and spoke so favorably of the deceased, who
had done so much to make everyone happy in this life and who had used his many
talents so well.
March 5th. Monday. Worked Arithmetic in the morning along with uncle Davidson -
Went to Mrs. Bennetts on my way to the funeral. A lovely day but the roads were in a
very bad state. A very large crowd. At the house the hymn page {blank} was sung and
the organ played {"Tune"} "Dennis". Went Ferguson made a lov very impressive prayer
and Mr. Sanderson gave out the hymn. The Forresters and the Temperance Societies
were there all wore regalias and badges. At the church - Both Gilford and Ebenezers
choir sang as he was a member of both. Voluntary - "We are pilgrims looking home" -
Mr. Ferguson preached from the text "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto
my fath path." as this was the one he selected before dying. Three burial services were
read at the grave. The Church service read by Revs. Ferguson and Sanderson.
Forresters service, read by Paul West and Earnest Bennett. Temperance Service read
by Charlie Mattenley, Mr. Neilly and Ed. Rothwell. Came back to Bradford from funeral.
M. 6. 7. 8. School.
9. Lizzie married a year ago to-day. Dr. Evans and Jenny Cerswell married yesterday.
Mrs. {Yuit} and Mr. S. West married yesterday also Fred Lynne and a miss above Barrie
�March 10th. Saturday at uncle Kings. There over Sunday came back Monday morning,
the roads good - a fine morning exam - Euclid - After school called to see Sadie.
" 13th. Writing an essay on the Vth Canto of the Lady of the Lake
14.15.16. School - On Friday night the 16th went to High School concert. Mr. Waugh
chairman, Kleiser elocutionist. Mrs. Hamer, Mrs. Modson, Miss E. Edmanson singers,
Quintette and choral societies. Miss V. Broughton & Miss Potts instrumentals. Club
Swinging - Song - The man behind the plough - Hockridge. Went to Mr. James Faris
after concert spent a very nice time. Came back Sunday night. Heard Mr. Patterson a
lawyer from the city speak an able discourse in the Presbyterian Church.
March 19th. School
" 232 " Run away. Fruit festival in temperance hall.
March 23. Good Friday. Miss M. Todd here.
" 24. Called at Sawyers, went to see Miss Grace Lukes - called at Whitelocks
March 25th. Went to Wm. Nesbitt's with Ed and from there went with Minnie to
Coulsons. Ed went to Ebenezer with Tom.
March 26th Monday - washed went to Doolittle's.
Tuesday Mrs. Neilly helped with rug.
Wednesday - a rag bee at uncle Jo's party at night - good fun a boisterous time. stayed
all night.
Thursday - Went to lodge with Maggie in the evening. Harry Coulson and Bella were
initiated. Reading of the Expositor.
" 30th. At home. Went to Mrs. Bennetts for tea. Libbie making a print dress for Tena
" 31st. Saturday. Mr. Sanderson preached Mrs. Huff's funeral sermon. Went to see Mrs.
and Albert Gibbons who were both poorly.
Feb. 21st 1895.
�Going to H.S. after spending a term at model. Miss Joe Grose is rooming with me also
my brother Ed. Had a very severe storm and very cold weather during the past week or
more, a little over a week ago. I am at present at "Aldersyde" the home of Miss C Driffill.
A lovely home beautiful flowers blooming in the conservatory, plenty of sunshine and
fresh air. Jo is a present with her nieces at the concert in the Town Hall. Sim Fax is to
be there. Gersham Howard and Adolphous Hamer room at Aldersyde too. Allan boared
or rather roomed in the fall but is a present attending Newmarket H.S. Alma is in the
City attending the millinery openings. Miss Driffil is out to quilting bees this week. Mr.
Shine takes the chemistry now in place of Mr. Maudson and Mr. Somerville in place of
Miss Potts. Ida has been out visiting at Mr. J. Kneeshaw's. The last book I read was
Maitland of Laurieston I am at present reading Westward Ho. Read lately Stepping
Heavenward (a good book). Literature for this year is some of Tennyson's poems. For
to-morrow we have "The Voyage" Composition is on Cowper. Goldwin Smith's life of
Cowper. Miss Lou Driffil called this evening after the carnival (butterfly).
Saturday March 9th. Twilight
Ed went home last night and Jo Thursday night. Plenty of snow. Went to Mrs. Wilson's
and stayed all night. Spent a pleasant evening came home in morning and after a short
talk with Miss Driffil entered my study. Edna called. Mrs. Mary Kneeshaw's funeral on
March 7th. Cantata at Gilford. Concert on March 1st The Webling Sisters very good
Libbie spent last Sunday with me, went to Garretts for tea on Saturday night. Books
read lately "Maitland of Laurieston", "Nelly Nowlan's Experience", and "John Stallibrass,
by Rev. Jackson Wray. The darkies (Ball Family) to be here to-morrow, Methodist
Church. Lively discussions lately on Cowper. Alma and Myra coming up the walk and
Miss Driffil buttering toast.
April Fool's Day.
Books read lately "Quinnabassett Girls" and Mistaken. Home two weeks ago. Mrs
Arabuckle at our place. Libbie and Ida doing a little painting. Tenie's sister Mrs Gracie,
died in Toronto of Consumption. Mother spent a couple of weeks at uncle King's lately
with Douglas. Fred Neilly just getting well after a severe illness. Up to Dan Neilly's last
Friday evening. Spent two weeks ago Sunday with Mrs Bennett while Tenie was in
Toronto. A week ago Sunday I was at Miss Lou Driffill's. Her birthday is tomorrow. Mr.
Ferguson preached a sermon last night on one of way's to Heaven, "Honesty". Miss
�Alice Adelia Hultz died recently only 21 years of age. Miss Jo is busy writing a letter. It
will soon be Easter and I am very glad.
The Social Glass.
Oh I do like the social Glass
So do I So do I
It makes the hours so pleasantly pass
And fills the day with pleasure
I like to join the merry throng
With the story joke & laugh & song
But you'll get into a fix.
If the liquors you mix.
O I never do that Nor I. Nor I.
Chorus.
Oh I do like the social glass
But it must be cold water
The sparkling well is free to all
To every son and daughter.
O I do like the social glass
So do I So do I
It reddens the cheek of every lass
And makes the face look brighter
But you musn'nt drink, whiskey beer or wine
Or else you'll soon begin to pine
And instead of it being your cheek that glows
You'll have a red spot on the end of your nose
Chorus.
Our Boys
Who is the boy with rosy lips
And eyes of so rich a hue
Who never thinks it at all amiss
�To follow the wren through the dew.
"Tis Jonathan.
Who is the boy who toothless goes
Since the gate flew back and hit his nose
Who always intends to climb the fence
And never more tare his pants
'Tis Hart.
Who is the boy across the way
Whose filled with new ideas
Who never has very much to say
Except at tea-meetings
"Tis Hermann
Who is the boy whose love's so true
Whether the skies be black or blue
Whether the skies be gloomy above
His thoughts are always thoughts of love
"Tis Tom.
Who is the boy who bot the sweets
And only gave a few a treat
And made the chum set up the cash
While he prepared to make a mash
'Tis Charlie.
A boy I know is troubled so
And threatens to never come back
But once more goes on his knees
And make all clear the track
'Tis Willie
Who is the boy who pines and pines
And feels so dull all day
But at night takes a dose of turpentine
And his pains at once vanish away.
'Tis Earnie.
Who is the one who roving goes
And sometimes gets quite gone
But thinks he will be a great beau
�When he reaches Oregon
'Tis Henry.
Who is the one who wears the broad smile
And always feels so happy
And thinks there's nothing under the sun
Like being called Daddy.
'Tis Dave.
Who is the boy who lonely feels
On the valley by the hill
And very often steals away
And comes home oh so ill.
'Tis Will.
Who is the great big boy so tall
Who goes about doing good to all
But who walks the road so well
And only once in the culvert fell
Why Paul.
Who is it that is always so nice
And from his elders seek advice
And when the shafts his brother breaks
He then appears on the scene too late.
J. Hughes.
Who is it that goes to school
And ever always obeys the rule
And gets his lessons all so well
Then up the track he lies for fun
Fred
Written by {M} M
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L. & A.C. R.
In the Morning
I. Ise going away by the light of the moon
Want all the children for to follow me.
I hope I'll meet you darkies soon.
Halle Halle Halle Hallelujah.
�Chorus.
In the morning
In the morning boys by the bright light
When Gabriel sounds his trumpet in the morning
II. We'll have beef steak and spare rib stew
And nice boiled onions dipped in dew
For no one has to pay no fare
So don't forget to curl your hair.
_____________________________
Initiation into C. Q. F.
Officers and Brethern
We are about to initiate a candidate into the secrets and mysteries of our Order, Let
nothing jar the harmony of the ceremony. Everybody take out their tobacco quids and
{quit} smoking. No shuffling of feet on the floor. No talking politics or growling about the
poor crops and low prices. No snarling about books, buckets or lost charters on this
serious occasion, and if any man whistles the woodwards will please throw him out of
the window. Everybody sit up straight, throw your shoulders back, no squinting, pull
down your vest, and wipe off your chin. The guide will introduce the candidate.
Guide
Chief Ranger. Allow me to introduce this candidate who wishes to be initiated into the
mysteries of our Order. Place your right hand on the south side of your heart.
The Agricultural Irish Girl
Dedicated to Miss J. M
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G.
1. Oh I'm the rollicking jumping Agricultural Irish Girl.
I'm laughing, smiling, skipping, shouting, dancing all day long.
Oh I wash and iron sweep and scrub and churn the cream.
And keep everything, rattling, banging crashing with my song.
Oh I'm happy all the day no matter what they say,
They can tease me all they like for all I care.
I have fellows by the score, and they meet me at the door
And they hug me and they drive me everywhere.
�2. Oh I help them on the farm and I think there is no harm,
In milking cows and slopping pigs and sawing wood.
I can pitch a load of hay or I can pack the eggs away,
And I wouldn't sew or crotchet if I could.
I like to scrub the floor and sell butter at the store.
To study makes my brain go in a whirl
I will marry a farmer's boy, and my heart will jump with joy
For I'm the rollicking Agricultural Irish Girl.
O I do like the social glass
So do I, So do I.
It gives health and wealth to very lass
And a conscience free from sorrow,
It makes us honest pure and true
As the bright and sparkling evening dew
But you must drink it free from Rye
Oh I always do that
And I. And I
___________________________________
Song
Oh What a Difference in the Morning
1. There's a sweet little girl and her maiden name it is Josie.
At night. At night.
She's a daisy little girl and a gay little posey.
At night At night.
She has a young man His name's Henry West
She pretend's she doesn't like him and that he's a pest.
But just all the same she thinks he's the best.
At night At night.
Chorus
But Oh what a difference in the morning
Her Henry would'nt know her in the morning
�He took her to the stack and he gave her such a smack
That her mouth it was all blistered in the morning.
2.
He comes round to see her all covered with smiles. At night. At night.
And she's all nice graces and sweet little wiles.
Her hair is combed back and dress colored blue.
And she so awfully sweet and too utterly too too.
And they laugh and they giggle and pet thick as glue.
Chorus
But oh what a difference in the morning
You'd never think 'twas Josie in the morning
Her clothes are patched and sad
And her hair has all gone mad.
And she never smiles at nothing in the morning.
2.
Oh they coo like 2. 40 and the're both the same age. At night. At night.
They both hug each other and they've each got a prize
They talk about love and they giggle and laugh
And she calls it taffy and he calls it chaff.
And the people they say they're too foolish by half.
At night. At night.
Cho.
But oh what a difference in the morning
You'd think he was her father in the morning
For she is not sixteen and just a little green
And he's a gray old bachelor in the morning.
Canada must be free
"Air John Brown's body"
Oh dear friends and fellow citizens,
I'm glad to see you here.
�We've a meeting here for business,
And we need your help and cheer.
We're preparing for a battle,
And our battle cry shall be,
That Canada must be free.
Chorus.
Glory, glory hallelujah
Glory, glory hallelujah
Glory, glory hallelujah,
Oh Canada must be free.
There's a monster in this country,
Prowling 'round both night and day,
He is snatching up our brightest sons,
and hurrying them away;
While the mother's, wives and daughters
Cry aloud on bended knee,
Oh Canada must be Free,
He's the ruin of this nation,
The cause of crime and poverty,
He brings death and desolation,
To the homes once full of glee,
We'll drive him from our borders,
And heaven will smile to see,
That Canada must be free
Then rise ye men of Cardwell
Gird your armour firm and strong
Right is right and sure to conquer
Soon we'll sing the victor's song
We will mark our New Year's ballots
With a cross for liberty
For Canada must be free.
Written by F.C.W Suitable to be sung at prohibition meetings
�Gilford Oct. 1893.
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My Pledge
Many years gone by, when but a youth
And fresh from my mother's knees,
In earnest prayer I was taught to say
"Wine is a hollow mockery."
Years roll on I seek the world
Its pleasures to taste and see,
But still the sentence rings in my ear
Wine is a hollow mockery.
In horror I behold insane with drink
Young men who once chummed with me
Then I realize the terrible truth
Wine is a hollow mockery.
A weeping widow with children in rags,
Without home, food, or money is she.
She knows too well, the pitiful tale,
Wine is a hollow mockery.
My Pledge.
An empty brain and a troubled mind,
A heart of remorse and iniquity.
While the soul pants forth in gasping groans,
Wine is a hollow mockery.
From the fiendish demon may I ever shrink
As I would from perdition flee,
Neither touch, taste, nor handle, the cursed stuff;
Wine is a hollow mockery.
�Nov. 6th 1887.
The Country School
At the age of six, a little lad,
With a mind scarce a minute long
An imagination craving for work
I humbly toddled along.
I did so because it was the rule,
At that age to start to the country school.
My A.B.C's were first drilled in
By a man with muscle strong
Who depended much on the correcting rod
To help the boys along
With an iron drill and a wooden rule
He belabored us boys in that country school.
I memorized the first two books,
And of course was promoted on,
I then was allowed a pencil and slate
And punishment for pictures drawn
At times I felt as stubborn as a mule
As I was knocked about in that country school.
Time rolled on new branches taken,
A new teacher the sceptre waved,
I raised in size and increased in sense
And of course was better behaved,
Then I thought I once had been a fool
For so rashly judging the country school.
An Entrance Candidate I was sent away,
And with credit the exam I passed.
To the High School then, I directed my course
�And to hard study buckled fast,
But an outburst of sorrow, was hard to keep cool
As I bid Adieu to that country school.
But time flew past and so did my funds
While attending the B.C.I.
But a year and a half gave me a 2nd "A"
Then the Model term soon flew by,
And now pray believe it, I sway the rule
The absolute monarch of a country school
Nov. 7th '87 Nov. 1st '95.
The Dimple in her Chin
'Twas at the Model School
I met my charmer fair,
'Mid charming belles and blushing sufells
The prettiest daisy there;
I watched her while the master talked
Of Browning and Baldwin,
I fell in love - no not with her,
But the Dimple in her Chin.
Chorus' ________
Oh the Dimple in her Chin,
My heart did beat like sin,
There's not a girl in all the school
That I would sooner win.
I watched her up the stair,
While we to classes went,
Upon that dimple in her chin,
My eyes were full intent.
I asked her to the Vic that night,
I told "Ed" and "Mag" to be in,
�And there we sang our little song
Of the Dimple in her Chin.
The Model term will soon be o'er,
And then we all must part.
And each one in the country go,
To do a teacher's part.
But then I know I'll ne'er forget
The times we did put in,
When we need to laugh and joke about
The Dimple in her Chin.
A Picnic Escapade
On a beautiful morning in the month of June
Four pedagogues light hearted,
With roses adorned and canes in hand
To a brother's pic-nic started.
They moved along for about a league,
When to a house they came
Where angelic forms, and heavenly smiles
And dazzling beauty reign.
Here they spent a happy hour
Entertained as if young Kings
Aloyisia their hostess appearing to all
Like an angel bereft of wings.
Once more their faces to the west
When suddenly from afar,
Appears two figures of sweeter form
Than Ellen of Lochinvar.
Oh how they try to induce them back
But all without avail
�Then they all sorrowfully bid adieu
And continue on their trail.
At Hillsdale they secure a guide
Who shows a way much nearer,
Each rugged path and steep hillside
Renders their goal the dearer.
At last the grounds they do espy
And to the tables with a rush,
While "pilot John" drags off his form,
In the shade of a cooling bush.
Swings, Croquet, and Football too
Amuse those reckless swains,
Maidens fair, with golden hair
Dash love-darts at their veins
The day advanced cool night steals on
All merriment now must end,
The parting wish forced forth from all
To again picnic with their friend.
The Rustic Pedagogue
Behind a desk o'erspread with books
The rural teacher sat.
With features stern and piercing eye,
Forbidding friendly chat.
His shiny coat and chalk-white hands
His meditative looks
Reveals the thought, his busy mind,
Is centered all on books.
The noisy urchins, on the floor
�Repeatedly tap their feet.
They flop about and twist around
And fall most off their seat.
Their constant hum like swarming bees
Resounds the school room o'er
Just broken by the loud report
As a slate descends the floor.
The school room large and dusty is
The walls with grates of lath,
The ink bespattered desk-tops are
The most cheering sights he hath.
The stove is cracked, the pipes are bent
The windows patched and sad
From a nail above the master's seat
Suspends the old beech gad.
The rod is now but little used,
The teacher tries instead
To reason, and in gentle words
The pupils right are led.
They tell him all their small complaints
He's judge and jury both
Decides the case and verdict gives
Unwanting useless oath.
His pupils occupy his mind
His thoughts from morn till night.
To elevate their minds and thoughts
To cipher read and write.
His work seems light when viewed by those
Who labor all for grain,
�But his reward counts not in gold
Nor his work in muscle's strain.
He sees the crop he daily sows,
'Tis budding every day
And soon the fruit will ripen forth
And then he gets his pay.
When men look back to school boy days
And before the world proclaim
That their aspiration seeds were sown
Not by works of men of fame.
But by their early youthful guide
Their school room demagogue,
Then bliss will crown the closing day
Of the Rustic Pedagogue.
Richview '85
In Memoriam
Lines dedicated to the memory of George Sterling Wittet, who died at Schomberg Ont,
of Diptheria, Feb 8th 1888 Aged {3 years & 7 mts}.
Like the blossoms of early spring time
They blossom but to die
So like our fair young Georgie
So soon he bade Goodbye.
His merry prattle ended,
His rosy lips now cold,
A lamb from the earth is taken
To live in the upper fold.
He always seemed so happy,
�And so much enjoyed his play
How he loved to hear a 'tory',
As he often used to say.
How he loved his baby brother,
And when fever flushed his face,
He wished him at his bedside,
And longed him to embrace.
He loved his little mission box
And yet I see him run
To tell "he had most a thousand cents"
~One hundred and fifty-one"
He always loved the flowers,
And this thought now gives me joy
In paradise they never fade,
But blossom for our boy.
Our hope of thee was lofty
But have we cause to grieve
Oh could our finest proudest wish,
A grander fate conceive.
We never can forget you
Nor will we ever try
But hope ere long to meet you
In yon mansions in the sky.
Where you a little messenger
Can read the book of fate
And tenderly watch over us
And for our coming wait.
Why wonder why you left us.
Sorrow is not sent in vain
�The Great Physician maims to pave
He gives no useless pain.
Our God to call us homeward
His only Son sent down.
And now to tempt our hearts still more
Has taken up our own.
You'll never hear his voice again throughout the long long day.
His poor tender now with no living child is blest,
For the two that God had given now in the churchyard rest,
And when old age shall bow them down and they are called to go,
We hope in better hands they'll meet where sorrows they'll not know.
For Autographs.
Every friend we meet with here,
Makes our lives to us more dear,
In sympathetic love like minds entwine
Linking their thoughts in a sweet design
Yet a stronger link connects the heart
Contained by those who love, impart.
Our Boys
Who is it that feels that life's worth living,
And this year a new life enjoys
Thorough the benefits of the Gilford Tempp (lodge
Why the boys.
Who is it that sings in two church choirs,
And loves the ladies all,
But still prefers the bachelor's side,
Why Paul.
Who is that has the nice new buggy
And drives so slick and smart
�And opens three gates to get to her house
Why Hart.
Who is it that always beams with smiles
'Cause he launched on the matrimonial wave
And goes to bed now at 8 o'clock
Why Dave.
Who is it that crowned himself with success
And his Edna the list did head
Ten out of eleven his record stood
Why Fred.
Who is it that forgets the road he came
And goes home by the town line generally
Then he and the Chief walk across the fields
Why Henry.
Who is that drives to Aurora sometimes
With his niece and the lady beyaunt
And kept very mum but smiled all the while
Why Johnt.
Who is it plays the Irishman
And his part always takes the best
And would like to trade homes with Emerson
Why Earnest.
Who is it that goes to Cookstown no more
Came home hungry and went down cellar and drank
A pan of new milk, and ate a whole loaf of bread
Why Frank.
Who is it lives on the Penetang road
And whose rig is a perfect dilly
And who wishes somebody had stayed in the N.W.
Why Willie.
Who is that went to Alliston
And in the foot race won some money
But thought Gilford holidays too long
Why Johnny.
Who is it feels quite satisfied
Because their names were missed
�And nothing was said about them
Why all the rest.
Written by F.C.W. Gilford Aug./ 93
Song
Far-ra-ra-boom-de-ay
I'm going to sing, you a little song
Just listen for, 'twont take me long
Its about Gilford lodge, and those who belong
And why we're such a happy throng
We started our lodge, the first of May,
We found that drinking did not pay
We signed the pledge, and from that day,
If asked to drink, we smile and say,
Cho. Far - ra - ra,boom de ay
We meet each week, on Thursday night,
Our thoughts are pure, our hearts are light,
We're brothers and sisters for the right,
For prohibition, we mean to fight,
Our goal which is our boast our pride,
At every meeting, is untied,
And some new member, gets a ride,
And joins the ranks of those inside.
Cho. Far - ra - ra,
Our program's always, interesting,
We read recite, and play and sing,
We learn something out of everything
And sorrow far away, we fling
We have had one, first class debate,
About marrying the woman, that you hate
�And awful stories, they did relate,
While speaking on that first debate.
Cho. Far - ra - ra,
The boys they played, one funny play,
The Haunted House, was the name they say,
You'd laugh to see the comical way,
They frightened the Irish man in that play
With bed bugs big, and fat and strong,
And imagination, with a tale that long,
And a man in his shlape, a walking along,
And a ghost the worst, of all the throng.
Cho. Far - ra - ra,
There's some who will not join our camp,
They say the nights, are cool and damp,
And on the roads they cannot tramp,
And our laws are not, the proper stamp,
They'd like to know, what we do here,
And talk about us very queer,
If they ask for the password never fear,
Just quietly whisper, in their ear.
Cho. Far - ra - ra,
We've elected new officers as you see
But the old chief will the new one be
And the Vice so nice will smile at he
And he'll smile back again at she
Our Secretary's always in her place
We all adore our charming Grace
With her assistant smiling in her face
They're just the pair in the proper-place
�Cho. Far - ra,
Our Treasurer holds, the money tight
And the financial sits just to his right,
And the Chaplain with, his eyes so bright,
And the Past Worthy who, is not here to-night
Our Marshall who is good and true,
And his Deputy to, assist him through,
For fear they'd talk, which would not do,
We keep the Vice between the two.
Cho. Far - ra - ra,
And then there's our sentinel and guard
To watch the door, and take the word,
They're both good men we've always heard
And they'll do their duty, you can rest assured,
And now to our members one and all.
As we spread o'er this, terrestrial ball,
I hope with joy, we'll each recall,
The times spent in the Gilford Temperance Hall.
Cho. Far - ra - ra,
Written by F.C.W July 1893.
In years to come this book will show
The path our fancy once did roam
How gloom or joy would our mind's employ,
While sojourning in climes afar from home.
_______________________
Long, long shall I remember thee
When friends and all are gone
Oft will my memory wander back
To dreams of days gone by.
�________ x ________ x
{written upside down}
Books read during 1895. By Annie R.
(1) Crissy's Gift.
2 Christmas Pictures and other Tales
3 Oliver of the Mill by
4. Mistaken
Some books read in 1896.
(1) "Without a home" by E.P. Roe.
For more information on Annie Rothwell, check out the “Meet the Diarists” section under
“Discover” on our website: ruraldiaries.lib.uoguelph.ca
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19th Century, Simcoe County, Innisfil Township, Ontario
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<p>{Printed} MAJESTIC EXERCISE BOOK {Handwritten} A. Rothwell Jan. 3rd 189{-}</p>
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<p>{Printed - Advert for 'Boys Own Paper'}</p>
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<p>Diary 1894</p>
<p>Jan 1st Monday. Mother and Father went to Mr. Whitelock's for dinner and to uncle John's for tea. Visited Mrs. Huff, who is ill, Miss McLeod and Miss Coombs called in the afternoon. Ida & Ed went skating in the afternoon on the lake. Rebie went to Mary Edith's for dinner. Libbie and I called on Mrs. Bennett in the evening and then went to Miss McLeod's party. Formed many good resolutions which I hope to keep. Charlie Deering, Frank Whitelock Libbie & I Grace & Earnest & Jonathan were at this party.</p>
<p>Jan 2nd Came to Bradford with Father and Annie Nesbitt. Settled down.</p>
<p>Jan 3rd School opened in true form, all the teachers present namely Mr. Waugh, Miss Potts, and Mr. McLean. Five new scholars - Mr. Wilson, Mr. Houston, Miss Beatty and Miss Grace Rogerson, also Miss Longheed.</p>
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<p>Jan 4th Arose this morning at break of day. Went to school and was well satisfied with the lessons. Took tea with Mrs. Hill. After tea had some music and then came to my room and studied.</p>
<p>Jan 5th School, lessons in very good shape especially the classical geography. Went down street after four to look at some books for the Sunday School library. Read the Forty Thieves.</p>
<p>Jan 6th Read "Triumphs of Architecture" and studied. At 8 p.m. went to rink and thence to store then returned and studied the Conference of Pillnitz.</p>
<p>Jan 7th Went to C.M. Church in the morning and heard a sermon given by Mr. Ferguson. Went to Mrs. Kneeshaw's for dinner with Louisa Driffil. Went to Sunday School in the afternoon. After Sunday School went to Mr. E. Coombs'</p>
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<p>Mrs. D. McLeod was there also Mr. Martin. In the evening heard Mr. Chillcott preach from the 3rd chapt. of St. John. After I came home conversed for a short time and spent the rest of the evening singing.</p>
<p>Jan 8th. School, new pupils Miss Jean Ferguson, Miss King, Mr. Henry and Mr. Thompson.</p>
<p>Jan 9th. School, more new scholars Miss Brawley, R Kneeshaw, and Miss Simpson.</p>
<p>Jan 10th. School, wrote a synopsis of the III canto of the Lady of the Lake. Heard of Mrs. Short's sudden death with La Grippe had a short talk with Mrs. Kneeshaw.</p>
<p>Jan 10th. Came from school studied a short time and then called on Mr + Mrs. W. Goodfellow and then proceeded to the carnival + spent a very enjoyable time. Uncle Sam was my escort. Death of Mrs. Bannerman.</p>
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<p>Jan. 11th. School. Mr. Waugh read to us about Cato. Walked home with Miss M Beath, a part of the way.</p>
<p>Jan. 12th. School. Geography of Sicily, Euclid dividing a line into medial section. Read the Diamonds and Loads also Alladin's Lamp.</p>
<p>Jan 13th. Studied the most of the day. Went to Uncle King's in the evening. Dinner I heart with D's.</p>
<p>Jan 14th. Sunday. Came to Bradford in the evening heard Rev. Mr. Bedford preach</p>
<p>Jan. 15th. Exam on Ancient History went to E.L in the evening Mr. Martin conducted the meeting. Subject - Thoughts for the New Year</p>
<p>Jan. 16. School. Went to store and seen about library.</p>
<p>Jan 17. New scholar. Miss Jo Grose. A talk with Florence on books.</p>
<p>N.V. On Jan 12 th. Florence, Eva and Louisa came to room and presented candies and boxes.</p>
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<p>Jan. 18. School.</p>
<p>Jan 19. School. Went home Friday evening with father. Pleased to see all.</p>
<p>Jan 20. Saturday - Did a bit of work, called on Mrs. Maggee, Mrs. Mattenley and Mrs. Whitelock. May Kearns and Baby Leslie at "Grandpa" Mattenley's Vera Leslie at Mrs. Magee's. In the evening took tea with Mrs. Bennett. Libbie and Maggie McLeod were there too. Pleasant evening and a good discussion of the "Lady of the Lake"</p>
<p>Jan 21th. Went to Churchill in the morning Mrs. Ross preached and taught the Bible Class. Drove home with uncle Sam and took dinner at Uncle Eben's, went to see uncle Joe's and took tea with them. Went to Gilford church services conducted by Rev. R Foye then went to see J. McLeod who felt some better. Considered the day a very profitable and beneficial one.</p>
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<p>Jan 22 st. Rose before six o'clock a.m. and got a hustle on to come to Bradford. A fine morning and a fine drive with pa. School exam on grammar and rhetoric. In the afternoon Rev. Mr. Jennings a missionary from British Columbia addressed the school. In the evening went to missionary meeting where addresses were delivered by Mr. Jennings Hart a missionary from China and Mr. Jennings a missionary from B.C.</p>
<p>Jan 23nd. School. Miss Dack a new pupil. Mr. Waugh read to us of Julius Caesar.</p>
<p>Jan 24th School. Mr. Waugh read to us of Rome.</p>
<p>" 24 " In the evening attended Conformation services.</p>
<p>Jan 25 " Thursday - School. A cold but very bright morning. God along well to-day for I know my history. Lessons on Mithradates, King of Pontus.</p>
<p>Jan 26. School. Mr + Mrs. Wilson's marriage party. a good time spent with about twenty-five guests.</p>
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<p>Jan 27. Saturday - Study. In the afternoon went to see the new Presbyterian church. Tea with Mrs. Driffil.</p>
<p>Jan 28. Sunday, Service in the new Presbyterian Church conducted by Rev. Dr. McClaren. of Toronto. Libbie and Maggie McLeod came down to the afternoon service which was conducted by Rev. Ferguson. The evening service conducted by Rev. Dr. McClaren. A very large attendance. Was out to uncle King's.</p>
<p>Jan 39th. Monday - Mr. Maudson, the new teacher taught the chemistry.</p>
<p>Jan 30th. Tuesday morning, a fresh lot of snow. School - Emma Longheed here for tea.</p>
<p>Jan 31st. A fine morning. Rose at 7 a.m. Mr. Maudson took charge of the physics. In the evening studying. A foot ball match to describe in rhetoric.</p>
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<p>Feb 1st. A wintry day. School. After 4 p.m. squads I. II & III organised under the leadership of Misses Jean Ferguson, Miss Lila Neilly. Miss Longheed. Miss Grose, Miss L. Evans & Miss McB{eth}.</p>
<p>Feb. 2nd. School - Called on Miss Mennagh.</p>
<p>Feb. 3rd. Saturday - Study. Hurt my finger with the window sash. Called on Miss Alice Graham and Mr. Ferguson about the subject for league.</p>
<p>Feb 4th. Sunday - Quarterly Meeting in C. M church services conducted by Rev. J. J. Ferguson. Text. Jacob wrestling with God. In the afternoon went to hear Mr. Odery, who preached in the Presbyterian Church. Went to Wm. Goodfellow's for tea. Miss Hayes, Miss Kate and Mr. Will Faris, also uncle John King, In the evening heard MDr Dixon of Galt.</p>
<p>Feb 5th. School. Extra lesson in Chemistry after four. Went to tea - meeting in the basement</p>
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<p>of the newchurch with uncle and aunt King. Had a very pleasant time, good tea and good programme. Singing by the Choir, Solo's by Mrs. Waugh and Mrs. Hunter. Addresses by Revs. Carswell, Bell, Ferguson, Chillicott, Col. Tyrwhitt and Dr. Dixon. Dr. Dixon took for his subject Habit.</p>
<p>Feb 6th. Rose at 7 a.m. Birthday, Rather a dull day, tea at "Driffil Castle". Florence, Lou, & Edna came in, in the evening and had a few minutes fun presenting the address, the squirrel and the gum heart. Had oja. Lou and I got our pictures taken.</p>
<p>Feb 7th. Wednesday. School. Nellie came in, in the evening to do rhetoric.</p>
<p>Feb 8th. Received our pictures, dandies of course School - new time table. In my study.</p>
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<p>Feb 9th. School - Went home with Mr. Sawyer and Clara. Found mother had gone to Aunty King's.</p>
<p>Feb 10th. Saturday - Studied.</p>
<p>Feb 11th. Went to Sunday School. Called on Mrs. Bennett. Went to church to hear Rev. J. J. Ferguson. Came home with him.</p>
<p>Feb 12th Monday - A beautiful morning. School.</p>
<p>" 13th. School -</p>
<p>" 14th. School. Received a Valentine, went to social at Mrs. W. Campbell's.</p>
<p>" 15th. School. Received another Valentine.</p>
<p>" 16th. School. The night of a grand concert in Gilford. Gertie Baker called on me.</p>
<p>" 17th. Saturday. Studied.</p>
<p>" 18th. Heard Rev. J. Ferguson preach morning and evening - Subject - Even One of the roads from Bradford {to Hell. in?}</p>
<p>" 19th. School - Read an essay on Jotham King of Judah at League.</p>
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<p>Feb. 20th. Tuesday. School.</p>
<p>Wed. 21st. School. Study in History Canadian.</p>
<p>Thur, 22nd A new Miss McLeod. School. Frank Whitelock very ill.</p>
<p>23rd. School. Libbie came down. Spent a pleasant evening playing word game</p>
<p>24th. Saturday. Studied part of the time got our pictures taken in the afternoon called on Mrs. Kneeshaw, and Mrs. Garrett. In the evening Libbie went to rink.</p>
<p>25th. Sunday - Went to church in the morning, services conducted by Rev. Ferguson. Went to Sabbath School in the afternoon. Went to Mrs. K's for tea. In the evening listened to an able discourse delivered by Rev. Ferguson on games which are demoralizing.</p>
<p>26th. Monday. Exam on Ancient Geography describing Hannibal's route &c. Libbie still here. Called on Mrs Wilson & then took tea with Miss. C Driffil & Miss Alma Strong. Libbie went to League</p>
<p>27th - Libbie went home and I to school a wee bit lonesome</p>
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<p>28.29.3 School.</p>
<p>1st of March. - School</p>
<p>2nd. " - " . Went home with Ed. called & seen Frank Whitelock, He was very low and very short of breath, but conscious knowing all those who stood around. him. Went home found all well</p>
<p>3rd March Saturday Received word that Frank had died about nine o'clock this morning. Uncle King's came out. Went to see Mrs. D. McLeod and Baby. Found them progressing favorably. Baby a pretty little thing. Maggie McLeod and I went to Gilford and sent to Barrie for a wreath for funeral. In the afternoon Mr and Mrs. John Magee (bride and groom) came along with Mrs. George Magee. A number of young people came to practice. Libbie's & {Douglas?} Party</p>
<p>March 4. Went to Sunday School and then to Mrs. Blain's' for tea. Mr. Toye preached a very appropriate sermon in the evening</p>
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<p>and spoke so favorably of the deceased, who had done so much to make everyone happy in this life and who had used his many talents so well.</p>
<p>Monday, March 5th. Worked Arithmetic in the morning along with uncle Davidson -- Went to Mrs. Bennetts on my way to the funeral. A lovely day but the roads were in a very bad state. A very large crowd. At the house the hymn page {blank area, as if for a page number} was sung and the organ played "{Lune?}" "{Dennis?}". {Went?} Ferguson made a lov very impressive prayer and Mr. Sanderson gave out the hymn. The Forresters and the Temperance Societies were there all wore regalias and badges. At the church - Both Gilford and Ebenezerchoir sang as he was a member of both. Voluntary - "We are pilgrims looking home" - Mr. Ferguson preached from the text "Thy word</p>
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<p>is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my patlh path." as this was the one he selected before dying. Three burial services were read at the grave. The Church service read by Revs. Ferguson and Sanderson. Forresters service, read by Paul West and Earnest Bennett. Temperance Service read by Charlie Mattenley, Mr. Neilly and Ed. Rothwell. . Came back to Bradford from funeral.</p>
<p>M. 6. 7. 8. School.</p>
<p>{illegible} Lizzie married a year ago to-day. Dr. Evans and Jenny Cerswell married yesterday. Mrs. {Tuit?} and Mr. S. West married yesterday also Fred Lynne and a miss above Barrie</p>
<p>March 10th. Saturday at uncle Kings There over Sunday came back Monday morning, the roads good - a fine morning exam - Euclid - After school called to see Sadie.</p>
<p>" 13th. Writing an essay on the {Vth Canto?} of the Lady of the Lake</p>
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<p>14.15.16. School - On Friday night the 16th - went to High School concert - Mr. Waugh chairman, Kleiser elocutionist. Mrs. Hamer, Mrs. Modson, Miss E. Edmanson singers, {Quintette?} and choral societies. Miss {V?}. Broughton & Miss Potts instrumentals. Club Swinging - Song - The man behind the plough - Hockridge. Went to Mr. James Faris after concert spent a very nice time. Came back Sunday night. Heard Mr. Patterson a lawyer from the city speak an able discourse in the Presbyterian Church.</p>
<p>March 19th. School</p>
<p>" 232 " Run away. Fruit festival in termperance hall.</p>
<p>March 23 - Good Friday. Miss M. Todd here.</p>
<p>" 24 - Called at Sawyers, went to see Miss Grace Lukes - called at Whitelocks</p>
<p>March 25th Went to Wm Nesbitt's with Ed and from there went with Minnie to Coulsons</p>
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<p>Ed went to Ebenezer with Tom.</p>
<p>March 26th Monday--washed went to Doolittle's.</p>
<p>Tuesday--Mrs. Neilly helped with rug.</p>
<p>Wednesday--a rag bee at uncle Jo's party at night--good fun a boisterous time. stayed all night.</p>
<p>Thursday--Went to lodge with Maggie in the evening--Harry Coulson and Bella were initiated. Reading of the Expositor.</p>
<p>" 30th at home--Went to Mrs. Bennetts for tea. Libbie making a print dress for Lena</p>
<p>" 31st. Saturday. Mr. Sanderson preached Mrs. Huff's funeral sermon. Went to see Mrs. and Albert Gibbons who were both poorly.</p>
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<p>Feb. 21st 1895.</p>
<p>Going to H.S. after spending a term at model. Miss Joe Grose is rooming with me also my brother Ed. Had a very severe storm and very cold weather</p>
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<p>during the past week or more, a little over a week ago. I am at present at "Aldersyde" the home of Miss C Driffill. A lovely home beautiful flowers blooming in the conservatory, plenty of sunshine and fresh air. Jo is a present with her nieces at the concert in the Town Hall. Sim Fax is to be there. Gersham Howard and Adolphous Hamer room at Aldersyde too. Allan boared or rather roomed in the fall but is a present attending Newmarket H.S. Alma is in the City attending the millinery openings. Miss Driffil is out to quilting bees this week. Mr. Shine takes the chemistry now in place of Mr. Maudson and Mr. Somerville in place of Miss Potts. Ida has been out visiting at Mr. J. Kneeshaw's. The last book I read was Maitland of Laurieston I am at present reading Westward Ho. Read lately Stepping Heavenward (a good book). Literature for this year is some of Tennyson's poems. For to-morrow we have "The Voyage" Composition is on Cowper. Goldwin Smith's life of Cowper. Miss Lou Driffil called this evening after the carnival (butterfly).</p>
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<p>Saturday March 9th. Twilight</p>
<p>Ed went home last night and Jo Thursday night. Plenty of snow. Went to Mrs. Wilson's and stayed all night. Spent a pleasant evening came home in morning and after a short talk with Miss Driffil entered my study. Edna called.</p>
<p>Mrs. Mary Kneeshaw's funeral on March 7th. Cantata at Gilford. Concert on March 1st The Webling Sisters very good Libbie spent last Sunday with me, went to Garretts for tea on Saturday night. Books read lately "Maitland of Laurieston". "Nelly Nowlan's Experience", and "John Stallibrass, by Rev. Jackson Wray.</p>
<p>The darkies (Ball Family) to be here to-morrow, Methodist Church.</p>
<p>Lively discussions lately on Cowper</p>
<p>Alma and Myra coming up the walk and Miss Driffil buttering toast.</p>
<p>April Fool's Day.</p>
<p>Books read lately "Quinnabassett Girls".</p>
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<p>and Mistaken. Home two weeks ago. Mrs {Arabuckle?} at our place. Libbie and Ida doing a little painting. {Tenie's?} sister Mrs Gracie, died in Toronto of Consumption. Mother spent a couple of weeks at uncle King's lately with Douglas. Fred Neilly just getting well after a severe illness. Up to Dan Neilly's last Friday evening. Spent two weeks ago Sunday with Mrs Bennett while {Tenie?} was in Toronto. A week ago Sunday I was at Miss Lou Driffill's. Her birthday is tomorrow. Mr. Ferguson preached a sermon last night on one of way's to Heaven, "Honesty".</p>
<p>Miss Alice Adelia {Hultz?} died recently only 21 years of age. Miss Jo is busy writing a letter. It will soon be Easter and I am very glad.</p>
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<p>The Social Glass.</p>
<p>Oh I do like the social Glass</p>
<p>So do I So do I</p>
<p>It makes the hours so pleasantly pass</p>
<p>And fills the day with pleasure</p>
<p>I like to join the merry throng</p>
<p>With the story joke & laugh & song</p>
<p>But you'll get into a fix.</p>
<p>If the liquors you mix.</p>
<p>O I never do that Nor I. Nor I.</p>
<p>Chorus</p>
<p>Oh I do like the social glass</p>
<p>But it must be cold water</p>
<p>The sparkling well is free to all</p>
<p>To every son and daughter.</p>
<p>O I do like the social glass</p>
<p>So do I So do I</p>
<p>It reddens the cheek of every lass</p>
<p>And makes the face look brighter</p>
<p>But you musn'nt drink, whiskey beer or wine</p>
<p>Or else you'll soon begin to pine</p>
<p>And instead of it being your cheek that glows</p>
<p>You'll have a red spot on the end of your nose</p>
<p>Chorus.</p>
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<p>Our Boys</p>
<p>Who is the boy with rosy lips</p>
<p>And eyes of so rich a hue</p>
<p>Who never thinks it at all amiss</p>
<p>To follow the wren through the dew.</p>
<p>"Tis Jonathan.</p>
<p>Who is the boy who toothless goes</p>
<p>Since the gate flew back and hit his nose</p>
<p>Who always intends to climb the fence</p>
<p>And never more tare his pants</p>
<p>'Tis Hart.</p>
<p>Who is the boy across the way</p>
<p>Whose filled with new ideas</p>
<p>Who never has very much to say</p>
<p>Except at tea-meetings</p>
<p>"Tis Hermann</p>
<p>Who is the boy whose love's so true</p>
<p>Whether the skies be black or blue</p>
<p>Whether the skies be gloomy above</p>
<p>His thoughts are always thoughts of love</p>
<p>"Tis Tom.</p>
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<p>Who is the boy who bot the sweets</p>
<p>And only gave a few a treat</p>
<p>And made the chum set up the cash</p>
<p>While he prepared to make a mash</p>
<p>'Tis Charlie.</p>
<p>A boy I know is troubled so</p>
<p>And threatens to never come back</p>
<p>But once more goes on his knees</p>
<p>And make all clear the track</p>
<p>'Tis Willie</p>
<p>Who is the boy who pines and pines</p>
<p>And feels so dull all day</p>
<p>But at night takes a dose of turpentine</p>
<p>And his pains at once vanish away.</p>
<p>'Tis Earnie.</p>
<p>Who is the one who roving goes</p>
<p>And sometimes gets quite gone</p>
<p>But thinks he will be a great beau</p>
<p>When he reaches Oregon</p>
<p>'Tis Henry.</p>
<p>Who is the one who wears the broad smile</p>
<p>And always feels so happy</p>
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<p>And thinks there's nothing under the sun</p>
<p>Like being called Daddy.</p>
<p>'Tis Dave.</p>
<p>Who is the boy who lonely feels</p>
<p>On the valley by the hill</p>
<p>And very often steals away</p>
<p>And comes home oh so ill.</p>
<p>'Tis Will.</p>
<p>Who is the great big boy so tall</p>
<p>Who goes about doing good to all</p>
<p>But who walks the road so well</p>
<p>And only once in the culvert fell</p>
<p>Why Paul.</p>
<p>Who is it that is always so nice</p>
<p>And from his elders seek advice</p>
<p>And when the shafts his brother breaks</p>
<p>He then appears on the scene too late.</p>
<p>J. Hughes.</p>
<p>Who is it that goes to school</p>
<p>And ever always obeys the rule</p>
<p>And gets his lessons all so well</p>
<p>Then up the track he {lies?} for fun</p>
<p>Fred</p>
<p>Written by {illegible} McL. & A.C. R.</p>
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<p>In the Morning</p>
<p>= {I?} Ise going away by the light of the moon</p>
<p>Want all the children for to follow me.</p>
<p>I hope I'll meet you darkies soon.</p>
<p>Halle Halle Halle Hallelujah.</p>
<p>Chorus.</p>
<p>In the morning</p>
<p>In the morning boys by the bright Light</p>
<p>When Gabriel sounds his trumpet in the morning</p>
<p>II</p>
<p>We'll have beef steak and spare rib stew</p>
<p>And nice boiled onions dipped in dew</p>
<p>For no one has to pay no fare</p>
<p>So don't forget to curl your hair.</p>
<p>Initiation into C. Q. F.</p>
<p>Officers and Brethern</p>
<p>We are about to initiate a candidate into the secrets and mysteries of our Order, Let nothing jar the harmony of the ceremony. Everybody take out their tobacco quids and {illegible} smoking. No shuffling of feet</p>
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<p>on the floor. No talking politics or growling about the poor crops and low prices. No snarling about books, buckets or lost charters on this serious occasion, and if any man whistles the woodwards will please throw him out of the window. Everybody sit up straight, throw your shoulders back, no squinting, pull down your vest, and wipe off your chin The guide will introduce the candidate.</p>
<p>Guide</p>
<p>Chief Ranger. Allow me to introduce this candidate who wishes to be initiated into the mysteries of our Order. Place your right hand on the south side of your heart.</p>
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<p>The Agricultural Irish Girl</p>
<p>Dedicted to Mifs J. McG__</p>
<p>1. Oh I'm the rollicking jumping Agricultural Irish Girl.</p>
<p>I'm laughing, smiling, skipping, shoutin dancing all day long.</p>
<p>Oh I wash and iron sweep and scrub and churn the cream.</p>
<p>And keep everything, rattling, banging crashing with my song.</p>
<p>Oh I'm happy all the day so matter what they say,</p>
<p>They can tease me all they like for all I care.</p>
<p>I have fellows by the score, and they meet me at the door</p>
<p>And they hug me and they drive me everywhere.</p>
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<p>2. Oh I help them on the farm and I think there is no harm,</p>
<p>In milking cows and slopping pigs and sawing wood.</p>
<p>I can pitch a load of hay or I can pack the eggs away,</p>
<p>And I wouldn't sew or crotchet if I could.</p>
<p>I like to scrub the floor and sell butter at the store.</p>
<p>To study makes my brain go in a whirl</p>
<p>I will marry a farmer's boy, and my heart will jump with joy</p>
<p>For I'm the rollicking Agricultural Irish Girl.</p>
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<p>O I do like the social glass</p>
<p>So do I, So do I.</p>
<p>It gives health and wealth to very lass</p>
<p>And a conscience free from sorrow,</p>
<p>It makes us honest pure and true</p>
<p>As the bright and sparkling evening dew</p>
<p>But you must drink it free from Rye</p>
<p>Oh I always do that</p>
<p>And I And I</p>
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<p>Song Oh What a Difference in the Morning</p>
<p>1. There's a sweet little girl and her maiden name it is Josie. At night. At night.</p>
<p>She's a daisy little girl and a gay little posey.</p>
<p>At night At night.</p>
<p>She has a young man His name's Henry West</p>
<p>She pretend's she doesn't like him and that he's a pest.</p>
<p>But just all the same she thinks he's the best.</p>
<p>At night At night.</p>
<p>Chorus</p>
<p>But Oh what a difference in the morning</p>
<p>Her Henry would'nt know her in the morning</p>
<p>He took her to the stack and he gave her such a smack</p>
<p>That her mouth it was all blistered in the morning.</p>
<p>2.</p>
<p>He comes round to see her all covered with smiles. At nt. " "</p>
<p>And she's all nice graces and sweet little wiles.</p>
<p>Her hair is combed back and dress colored blue.</p>
<p>And she so awfully sweet and too utterly too too.</p>
<p>And they laugh and they giggle and pet thick as glue.</p>
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<p>But oh what a difference in the morning You'd never think twas Josie in the Morning Her clothes are patched and sad And her hair has all gone mad. And she never smiles at nothing in the morning.</p>
<p>Oh they coo like 2, 40 and the're both the same age they both has each other and they've each got a prize they talk about love and they giggle and laugh And she calls it Taffy and he calls it Chaff And the people they pay they're to foolish by half at night at night.</p>
<p>But oh what a difference in the morning You'd think he was her father in the morning. For she is not sixteen and just a little green And he's a gray old bachelor in the morning.</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">CANADA MUST BE FREE<br /></span></h2>
<p>"Air John Brown's body" Oh dear friends and fellow citizens, I am glad to see you here. We've a meeting here for business, And we need your help and cheer.</p>
<p>We're preparing for a battle, and our battle cry shall be That Canada must be free</p>
<p><br /> Glory, Glory Hallelujah<br /> Glory, Glory Hallelujah<br /> Glory, Glory Hallelujah<br /> Oh Canada must be free</p>
<p>There's a monster in this country,<br /> prowling 'round both night and day<br /> He is snatching up our brightest sons<br /> and hurrying them away;<br /> While the mothers, wives and daughters<br /> Cry aloud on bended knee,<br /> Oh Canada must be Free!</p>
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<p>He's the ruin of this nation,</p>
<p>The cause of crime and poverty,</p>
<p>He brings death and desolation,</p>
<p>To the homes once full of glee,</p>
<p>We'll drive him from our borders</p>
<p>And heaven will smile to see,</p>
<p>That Canada must be free</p>
<p>Then rise ye men of Gardwell</p>
<p>Gird your armour firm and strong</p>
<p>Right is right and pure to conquer</p>
<p>Soon we'll sing the victor's song</p>
<p>We will mark our New Year's ballots</p>
<p>With a cross for liberty</p>
<p>For Canada must be free.</p>
<p>Written by F.L.W Lintable to be sung at prohibition meetings</p>
<p>Gilford Oct. 1893</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">My Pledge</span></h2>
<p>Many years gone by, when but a youth Ana fresh from my mother's Knees. In earnest prayers I was taught to say "Wine is a hollow mockery."</p>
<p>Years roll on I seek the world It's pleasures to taste and see, But stil the sentence sings in my ear Wine is a hollow mockery.</p>
<p>In horror I behold insane withdrink Young men who once chummed with me There I realize the terrible truth Wine is a hollow mockery.</p>
<p>A weeping widow with children in rags. Without home, food, or money is she. She Knows too well, the pitiful tale, Wine is a hollow mockery.</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">My Pledge</span></h2>
<p>An empty brain and a troubled mind, A heart of remorse and iniquity. While the soul pants forth in gasping (groans?) Wine is a hollow mockery.</p>
<p>From the friendish demon may I ever think As I would from perditions flee, Neither touch, taste, nor handle, the cursed stuff, Wine is a hollow Mockery</p>
<p>Nov. 6th 1887</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">The Country School</span></h2>
<p>At the age of six, a little bad, With a mind scarce a minute long An imagination craving for work I humbly toddled along I did so because it was the rule, At that age to start to the country school</p>
<p>My A.B.C's were first drilled in By a man with muscle strong Who depended much on the correcting rod To help the boys along With an iron drill and a wooden rule He belabored us boys in that country school</p>
<p>I memorized the first two books And of course was promoted on, I then was allowed a pencil and slate And punishment for pictures drawn At times I felt as stubborn as a mule As I was knocked about in that country school.</p>
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<p>Time rolled on new branches taken, A new teacher the sceptre waved, I raised in size and increased in sense And of course was better behaved, Then I thought I once had been a fool For so rashly judging the country school</p>
<p>An Entrance Candidate I was sent away And with credit the exam I passed. To the High School then, I directed my course And {indecipherable} hard study buckled fast, But an outburst of sorrow, was hard to keep cool As I bid Adieu to that country school.</p>
<p>But time flew past and so did my funds While attending the B.C.I. But a year and a half gave me a 2nd "A" Then the Model terms soon flew by, And now pray believe it, I sway the rule The absolute monarch of a country school</p>
<p>nov. 7th '87 nov./et 195.</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">The Dimple in her Chin</span></h2>
<p>{This journal entry is a song}</p>
<p>I was at the Model School I met my charmer fair Mid charming belles and blushing sufells The prettiest daisy there; I watched her while the master Talked Of Browning and Baldwin, I fell in love- no not with her- But the Dimple in her Chin</p>
<p>Chorus' ________</p>
<p>Oh the Dimple in her Chin, My heart did beat like sin, There's not a girl in all the school That I would sooner win.</p>
<p>I watched her up the stair, While we to classes went, Upon that dimple in her chin, My eyes were full intent.</p>
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<p>I asked her to the Vic that night, I told "Ed" and "Mag" to be in. And there we sang our little song Of the Dimple in her chin.</p>
<p>The Model terme will soon be o'er And then we all must part And each one in the country go, To do a Teacher's part. But then I know I'll ne'er forget The times we did put in, When we need to laugh and joke about The Dimple in her Chin</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline"> A Picnic Escapade</span></h2>
<p>On a beautiful morning in the month June Four pedagogues light hearted, With roses adorned and canes in hand To a brother's pic-nic started</p>
<p>They moved along for about a league, When to a house they came Where (angelio?) forms and heavenly smiles And dazzling beauty reign.</p>
<p>Here they spent a happy hour Entertained as if young Kings (Aloyisia?) their hostes appearing to all Like an angel bereft of wings.</p>
<p>Once more their faces to the west When suddenly from afar,</p>
<p>Appears two figures of sweeter form Than Ellen on of Lochinvars</p>
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<p>Oh how they try to induce them back But all without avail Then they all sorrowfully bid adieu And continue on their trail.</p>
<p>At Hillsdale they secure a guide Who shows a way much nearer Each rugged path and steep hillside Renders their goal the dearer</p>
<p>At last the grounds they do espy And to the tables with a rush, While "pilot John" drags off his form In the shade of a cooling bush</p>
<p>Swings, Croquet, and Foorball too Amuse those reckless swains, Maidens fair, with golden hair Dash love darts at their veins</p>
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<p>The day advanced cool night steals on All merriment now must end, The parting wish forced forth from all To again picnic with their friend.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">The Rustic Pedagogue</span></h2>
<p>Behind a desk o'erspread with book The rural teacher sat With features stern and piercing eye Forbiddin friendly chat.</p>
<p>His shiny coat and chalk-white hands His meditative looks Reveals the thought his busy mind Is centred all on books</p>
<p>The noisy urchins, on the floor Repeatedly tap their feet. They flop about and twist around And fall most off their seat.</p>
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<p>Their constant hum like swarming bees Resounds the school room o'er Just broken by the loud repost As a slate descends the floor.</p>
<p>The school soon large and dusty is The walls wth grates of lath. The ink be pattered desk-tops are The most cheering sighto he hath.</p>
<p>The stove is cracked, the pipes are bent The windows patched and sad From a nail above the master's seat Suspends the old (beech gad?).</p>
<p>The rod is now but little used, The teacher tries instead To reason, and in gentle words The pupils sighs are led.</p>
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<p>They tell him all their small complaints He's judge and jury both Decides the case and verdict gives Unwanting useless oath.</p>
<p>His work seems light when viewed by those Who labor all for grain, But his rewarded counts not in gold Nor his work in muscle's strain.</p>
<p>He sees the crop he daily sows, Tis budding every day And soon the fruit will ripen forth And then he gets his pay.</p>
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<p>When men look back to school boy days And before the world proclaim That their aspirations seeds were sown Not by work of men of flame.</p>
<p>But by their early youthful guide Their school soon demagogue Then bliss will crown the closing day Of the Rustic Pedagogue</p>
<p>Richview '85</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">In Memoriam</span></h2>
<p>Lines dedicated to the memory of George Sterling Wittet, who died at Schomberg Ont, of Dip spheria, Feb 8th 1888 Aged 0 years &</p>
<p>Like the blossoms of early spring time They blossom but die So like our fair young Georgie So soon he lade Goodbye.</p>
<p>His merry prattle ended, His rosy lips now cold, A lamb from the earth is taken To live in the upper fold.</p>
<p>He always seemed so happy, And so much enjoyed his play How he loved to hear a tory As he often used to pay.</p>
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<p>How he loved his baby brother, And when fever flushed his face, He wished him at his bedside, And longed him to embrace</p>
<p>He loved his little mission box And yet I see him run To tell "he had most a thousand cents" ~One hundred and fifty-one"</p>
<p>He always loved the flower, And his thought now gives me joy In paradise they never fade, But blossom for our boy.</p>
<p>Our hope of thee was lofty But have we cause to grieve Oh could our finest proddest wish, A grander fate conceive.</p>
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<p>We never can forget you Nor will we ever try But hope ere long to meet you In you mansions in the sky.</p>
<p>Where you a little messenger I am read the book of fate And tenderly watch over us And for our coming wait.</p>
<p>Why wonder why you left us Sorrow is not sent in vain The Great Physician maines to part He gives no useles pain</p>
<p>Our God to call us homeward His only lon sent down And now to simpl our hearts still more Has taken up our own</p>
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<p>You'll never hear his voice again throughout the long long day</p>
<p>His poor tender now with no living child is blest, For the two that God had given now in the churchyard rest, And when old age shall bosw them down and they are called to go, We hope in better hands they'll meet where sorrow they'll not know.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">For Autographs</span></h2>
<p>Every friend we meet with here, Makes our lives to us more dear, In sympathetic love like minds enturive Linking their thoughts in a sweet design Yet a stronger link connects the heart Contained by those who love impart.</p>
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<p>== Our Boys, == {C designs surrounding the title}</p>
<p>Who is it that feels that life's worth living, And this year a new life enjoys Thorough the benefits of the Gilford Levop (lodge Why the boys Who is it that sings in two church choirs, And loves the ladies all, But still prefers the bachelor's side, Why Paul.</p>
<p>Who is that has the nice new buggy And drives so slick and smart And opens three gates to get to her house Why Hart</p>
<p>Who is it that always beams with smiles 'Cause he launched on the matrimonial vowe And goes to bed now at 8 o'clock Why Dave</p>
<p>Who is it that crowned himself with success And his Edna the list did head Ten out of eleven his record stood Why Fred.</p>
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<p>Who is it that forgets the road he came And goes home by the town line generally Then he and the Chief walk across the fields Why Henry</p>
<p>Who is that drives to Arora sometimes With his niece and the lady beyaunt And Kept very mum but smiled all the while Why Johnt</p>
<p>Who is it plays the Irishman And his part always takes the best And would like to trade homes with Emerson Why Earnest</p>
<p>Who is it that goes to Cookstown no more Came home hungry and went down cellar and drank A pan of new milk, and ate a whole loaf of bread Why Frank</p>
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<p>Who is it lives on the Penetang road And whose sig is a perfect lilly And who wishes somebody had played in the N.W Why Willie</p>
<p>Who is that went to Alliston And in the foot race won some money But thought Gilford holidays in long Why Johnny</p>
<p>Who is it feels quite satisfied Because their names were missed And nothing was paid about them why all the rest</p>
<p>Written by F.G. Gilford Aug./ 93</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">Song Far-ra-ra-boom-de-ay</span></h2>
<p>I'm going to sing, you a little song Just listen for, l' wont take me long Sto about Gilford lodge and those who belong And why we're such a happy throng We started our lodge, the first of May, We found that drinking did not pay We signed the pledge and from that day, If asked to drink, we smile and say. Cho. Far-ra ra soon</p>
<p>We meet each week on Thursday night, Our thoughts are Jure, our hearts are light, We're brothers and sisters for the right, For prohibition, we mean to fight, Our goal which is our boast our pride,, At every meeeting, is untied, And some new member, gets a side, And joins the ranks of those inside Cho Far-ra-ra</p>
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<p>Our program's always, interesting, We need recite, and play and sing, We learn something out of everything And sorrow far away, we fling We have had one, first class debate, About marrying the woman, that you hate And awful stories they did relate, While speaking on that first debate, Cho Far-ra-ra</p>
<p>The boys they played, one funny play, The Haunted House, as the name they pay, You'd laugh to see the somical way, They frightened the Irish man in that play With bed bugs big, and fat and strong, And imagination, with a tale that long, And a man in his shape, a walking along And a ghost the worst, of all the throng, Cho-Far-ra-ra</p>
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<p>There's some who will not join our camp, They pay the nights, are cool and damp, And on the roads they cannot tramp, And our laws are not the proper stamp, They'd like to know, what we do here, And talk about us very queer, If they ask for the password, never fear, Just quietly whisper in their ear, Cho-Far ra-ra</p>
<p>We've elected new offices as you see But the old chief will the new one be And the Vice u mice will smile at he And he'll smile back again at she Our Secretary's always in her place We all adore our charming Grace With her assistant smiling in her face They're just the pair in the proper-place Cho. Far. ra.</p>
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<p>Our Preasurer holds, the money tight And the financial sits just to his right, And the Chaplain with his eyes so bright And the Past Worthy who, is not here to-night Our Marshall who is good and true, And his Deputy to, assist him through, For fear they'd talk, which would not do, We keep the Vice between the two, Cho Far-ra-ra</p>
<p>And then there's our sentinel and ground To watch the door, and take the word, They're born good means we've always heard And they'll do their duty, you can rest assured, And now to our members one and all. As we spread o'er this, terrestrial ball, I hope with joy, we'll each recall, the times spent in the Gilford Temperance Hall. Cho. Far. ra-ra</p>
<p>Written by F.G.W July 1893.</p>
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<p>In years to come this book will show the path our fancy once did roam How gloom or joy would our mind's emloy. While sojourning in elines afar from home</p>
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<p>Long, long shall I remember thee When friends and all are gone Opt wll my memory wander back To dreams of days gone by.</p>
<p>{written upside down on page}</p>
<p>Books read during 1895- By Annie R. {symbol} Crissy's Sift 2 Christmas Pictures and other Tales 3 Oliver of the NO ill by 4. Mistaken Some books read in 1896 (1) "Without a home" by E.P. Roe</p>
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Annie Rutherford (1855 – 1917)
1894
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Mrs. M. Rutherford
Leith
Ont.
{Printed} - THE CANADIAN POCKET DIARY FOR 1894. TORONTO PUBLISHED BY The BROWN
BROS., Limited.
{Printed} CALENDAR.
{Printed} Dominion of Canada.
{Printed} Rates of Postage.
{Printed} Value of Foreign Coins.
{Printed} Practical Information.
{Printed} INTEREST TABLES.
{Printed} TABLE OF WAGES BY THE WEEK.
{Printed} Moon's Phases - January, 1894. February, 1894.
{Printed} Moon's Phases - March, 1894. April, 1894.
{Printed} Moon's Phases - May, 1894. June, 1894.
{Printed} Moon's Phases - July, 1894. August, 1894.
{Printed} Moon's Phases - September, 1894. October, 1894.
{Printed} Moon's Phases - November, 1894. December, 1894.
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JANUARY MONDAY 1 1894
Mac went to Annan to vote for Prohibition Thomas & I went to Mr Scotts Fine day
TUESDAY 2
Mac at Mr Gibsons Willie Bone & Jeannie here in the evening Beautiful day
WEDNESDAY 3
Ma & Tom came down. Lilian Wells & Dorothy Fraser called Beautiful day
JANUARY THURSDAY 4 1894
Louisa Thomson here for tea Snow nearly all gone Dull warm day
FRIDAY 5
The W. F. M. Annual Meeting in the church Mrs McLennan gave us a very interesting address
Mac went to see Mr Elliott Snowing
SATURDAY 6
Mac & Jessie went to see Mr Elliott Rutherford & Jessie McGregor came down John Pringle died
Snowing
JANUARY SUNDAY 7 1894
Mac went to see Mr Elliott Jessie & I went to church Mrs Thomson here Stormy
MONDAY 8
Mac went to the mill Jessie went to see Mrs Cameron, who is very ill Stormy
TUESDAY 9
Mac in O S. The two Mrs McKeen's at Mrs. R's for tea Beautiful day
�JANUARY WEDNESDAY 10 1894
Went to Leith called at Mr Veitche's & Cameron Mac bought 4 cattle from Johnsons for $125
Beautiful day
THURSDAY 11
Annual meeting in the Church. Mrs. Burr & Mary at Mrs. R's for tea Very Stormy
FRIDAY 123
Mac Thomas & I were at Mr W. Ross's Clear & cold
JANUARY SATURDAY 13 1894
Mac in O. S. Had a letter from Ellie
Lovely day
SUNDAY 14
Mac & Jessie went to church. Mr R. Juylian called in the evening
Beautiful day
MONDAY 15
Mac went to see Mr Elliott. Mr Johnson came with the cattle
Raining
JANUARY TUESDAY 16 1894
Teameeting in the church. Mac went Mrs Thomson at Mrs R's for tea Beautiful day
WEDNESDAY 17
Mac at the children's Social. Had a letter from Belle. Lovely day.
�THURSDAY 18
Wrote to Belle. Raining.
JANUARY FRIDAY 19 1894
Mac & I at Mr Thomsons, Hugh Elliott here. Weaned dear Thomas. Beautiful day.
SATURDAY 20
Mac & Andrew Waddell in O.S. with the democrat. Very windy.
SUNDAY 21
Jessie & Mac at church. Fine day.
JANUARY MONDAY 22 1894
Fine day.
TUESDAY 21
Jessie at at Mr Harkness. Wrote to Minnie & Ellie. Cold.
WEDNESDAY 24
Mrs Buzza died. Stormy.
JANUARY THURSDAY 25 1894
Special meeting of the congregation. Wrote to Tom's Minnie. Very cold.
FRIDAY 26
Mr. Carrie here for dinner. Jessie & Mac went to see Mr Elliott. Clear & cold.
SATURDAY 27
Jessie & Mac in town. Dan McDonald came. Stormy.
�JANUARY SUNDAY 28 1894
Jessie & Mac went to church Mr Anthony preached. Beautiful day.
MONDAY 29
I went to see the Dr called on Mrs. Fraser. Beautiful day.
TUESDAY 30
Mr. J. Elliott here. Fine day.
JANUARY WEDNESDAY 31 1894
Mr Elliott died. Mac Thomas & I at Mr Harkness's. Beautiful day.
FEBRUARY THURSDAY 1
Mac at Mr Waddells. Stormy.
FRIDAY 2
Mac & Jessie at Mr. Elliott's funeral Lottie Gilchrist's baby died. Cold.
FEBRUARY SATURDAY 3 1894
Mac went to town. Rutherford and Tom came down. Fine day.
SUNDAY 4
I went home with Tom. Very cold.
MONDAY 5
Lottie Gilchrist's baby buried. Ma and I went to Uncle Toms. Very cold.
FEBRUARY TUESDAY 6 1894
Ma & I went to see Uncle John, called at Bobs & Lundy's & had tea with Jeannie. Fine day.
WEDNESDAY 7
We went to Belle called at Tom's. Beautiful day.
�THURSDAY 8
Mac came up for me. Thawing.
FEBRUARY FRIDAY 9 1894
We came home from Sullivan. Very stormy.
SATURDAY 10
Mac went to see Neil Gilchrist. I had a letter from sister Minnie. Very stormy.
SUNDAY 11
Cold.
FEBRUARY MONDAY 12 1894
Mac went to Grange meeting at Annan. Wrote to Ma. Very Stormy.
TUESDAY 13
Mac in Rutherford cutting wood. Mac in OS at Presbytry meeting. Very cold.
WEDNESDAY 14
Mac & Rutherford cutting wood. Mr & Mrs. cold.
FEBRUARY THURSDAY 15 1894
I was up at Mr. Thomsons. Mr. & Miss Juylian called. Beautiful day.
FRIDAY 16
Mr. & Mrs. Thomson & Miss Mathison here in the evening. Fine day.
SATURDAY 17
Mac in Owen Sound. Stormy.
FEBRUARY SUNDAY 18 1894
I took sick in church & had to come home
�Fine day
MONDAY 19
Mac & I at Mr Elliotts
Cold
TUESDAY 20
Tea meeting at Annan Mac went
Cold
FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY 21 1894
Mr Locke here for dinner John More for tea wrote to Minnie Cold
THURSDAY 22
A congregational meeting in the church Stormy
FRIDAY 23
Mac in O.S. Mrs Juylan & Miss Pop here in the evening Very cold
FEBRUARY SATURDAY 24 1894
Mac in O.S. Brother Bob's little boy born Very cold
SUNDAY 25
Rutherford & Jessie went to Sullivan Cold
MONDAY 26
Mrs Souter & Mrs Scott called. Mrs Reid & M. Buzzy here in the evening. Fine day
FEBRUARY TUESDAY 27 1894
Tom Minnie & baby came down Beautiful day
WEDNESDAY 28
�Mac & I went to OS I called to see Mrs Howitt & Bessie Beautiful day
MARCH THURSDAY 1
Went to the W.F.M. meeting Beautiful day
MARCH FRIDAY 2 1894
Mac & I at Mr Scotts for tea Mac at Lizzie Taylors funeral Beautiful day
SATURDAY 3
Mrs Thomson here Beautiful day
SUNDAY 4
Very warm
MARCH MONDAY 5 1894
I wrote to Belle Maggie & Minnie Very warm
TUESDAY 6
Mac went to see Mr Veitch Jessie at Mr Thomsons Rained all day
WEDNESDAY 7
Very cold
MARCH THURSDAY 8 1894
Mrs Thomson Mrs T.J. Harkness & Mary Burr here. I was at Mr Thomsons for tea. Beautiful day
FRIDAY 9
Mrs P. Cameron died Mac at Mrs Sibbald funeral Assessor here Beautiful day
SATURDAY 10
Mac & Jessie at Mrs Cameron's funeral Beautiful day
�MARCH SUNDAY 11 1894
Union C.E meeting in the evening Very windy
Got Thomas his first pair of boots
MONDAY 12
Mac & Jessie in O.S. {Owen Sound} with the buggy roads as dry as summer A. Waddell
ploughing Fine day
TUESDAY 13
Mac went to Mr Henry's Snowing
MARCH WEDNESDAY 14 1894
Mac bought a steer from Mr White for $26.50 Fine day
THURSDAY 15
Mac & Rutherford in O.S. Cold
FRIDAY 16
Preaching in the church Mac sold Gertie to Mr {Wight} for $22 cold
MARCH SATURDAY 17 1894
Mac went to O.S. with Gertie Very dull
SUNDAY 18
Very warm
MONDAY 19
J called at Mrs McLeods Mary Burrs Mrs Days & Mrs Reids beautiful day
�MARCH TUESDAY 20 1894
John Gibson & Mac collecting for Manse J Gibson here for tea Beautiful day
WEDNESDAY 21
Mac went to Sullivan for oats Rained
THURSDAY 22
Mac & O? Cameron came home from Sullivan Cold
MARCH FRIDAY 23 1894
Rutherford started to plough Cold
SATURDAY 24
Rained nearly all day
SUNDAY 25
Mac & I went to the C.E. meeting in the evening Cold
MARCH MONDAY 26 1894
Mac & Rutherford drawing home wood very little snow Cold
TUESDAY 27
Mac & Rutherford drawing home wood Fine day
WEDNESDAY 28
Beautiful day
MARCH THURSDAY 29 1894
Jessie at Mr Elliotts & Mr Burr's Cold
�FRIDAY 30
Mac at Mr Cuningham & Moores Beautiful day
SATURDAY 31
Mac & O.S. I was at Mr Thomson's for tea Fine day
APRIL SUNDAY 1 1894
Rutherford went home Cold
MONDAY 2
I called at Camerons Cold
TUESDAY 3
Mac & Rutherford in O.S. bought a steer for $27.00 Cold
APRIL WEDNESDAY 4 1894
Mr Cathree here for dinner Cold
THURSDAY 5
I was at the W.F.M. meeting. Rutherford ploughing Cold
FRIDAY 6
Mrs Harkness & Mrs Waddell at Mrs B's for tea Fine day
APRIL SATURDAY 7 1894
Mac & I in O.S. saw sister Maggie got a front tooth filled Very cold
SUNDAY 8
I was sick with the cold & couldn't go to church Cold
MONDAY 9
Cold
�APRIL TUESDAY 10 1894
Snowing
WEDNESDAY 11
Mac & I went to see Mrs Cameron Cold
THURSDAY 12
Mac at Bob Linns sale Beautiful day
APRIL FRIDAY 13 1894
Rutherford at Mrs Taylor's ploughing bee Beautiful day
SATURDAY 14
Mac & Andrew Waddell went to town. Mac brought home Bob Linn's cow Fine day
SUNDAY 15
We heard of Mr P. Juylan's death Beautiful day
APRIL MONDAY 16 1894
Sowed the peas
Fine day
TUESDAY 17
Mr R. Glenn called in the evening. Capt. McLeod & Mr Black here for dinner
Beautiful day
WEDNESDAY 18
Mac went to O.S. for clover seed Beautiful day
APRIL THURSDAY 19 1894
The men sowed oats Very warm
�FRIDAY 20
Miss Mathison here for tea Sister Maggie left for B C.
Raining
SATURDAY 21
Mac in O.S.
Raining
APRIL SUNDAY 22 1894
Beautiful day
MONDAY 23
Had a letter from Belle
Fine day
TUESDAY 24
Wrote to Belle
Beautiful day
APRIL WEDNESDAY 25 1894
I washed blankets
Beautiful day
THURSDAY 26
I went up to see the Dr. Ma & Belle came down planted onions
Beautiful day
FRIDAY 27
Mac & Belle went to town
�Beautiful day
APRIL SATURDAY 28 1894
Rained in the morning Ma & Belle went home
SUNDAY 29
Mrs Thomson here in the evening
Beautiful day
MONDAY 30
Used the first of our rhubarb
Warm
MAY TUESDAY 1 1894
Jessie commenced house cleaning
Very warm
WEDNESDAY 2
Cold
THURSDAY 3
Mac went to Mr Henry's
beautiful day
MAY FRIDAY 4 1894
Mac & Jessie went to O.S. planted potatoes in the garden
Beautiful day
SATURDAY 5
Rutherford went home
�Rained
SUNDAY 6
Mac & I went to church in the afternoon & Jessie & I to C.E. meeting in the evening
Fine day
MAY MONDAY 7 1894
Mrs Thomson here for tea
Very windy
TUESDAY 8 {no entry}
WEDNESDAY 9 {no entry}
MAY THURSDAY 10 1894
Jessie finished house cleaning
Fine day
FRIDAY 11
Mac in O.S.
Fine day
SATURDAY 12
Mac put the cattle in the front
Beautiful day
MAY SUNDAY 13 1894
Jessie & I went to church
Fine day
�MONDAY 14
Mac sold two pigs to Mr Horne for $22.75 Mac & Jessie at Mr Elliotts
Raining
TUESDAY 15
Mr Wilkinson here for dinner Minnie Tom Mrs McDonald & Ellie came down
Cold
MAY WEDNESDAY 16 1894
Mac in O.S.
Raining
THURSDAY 17
Miss Mathison here for tea
Raining
FRIDAY 18
Wrote to sister Minnie
Very wet
MAY SATURDAY 19 1894
Mac went to O.S.
Raining
SUNDAY 20
Mac Jessie & Minnie went to church
Raining
�MONDAY 21
Tom came for Minnie
Cold
MAY TUESDAY 22 1894
Minnie went home Mrs Scott here for tea
Fine day
WEDNESDAY 23
Raining
THURSDAY 24
Fine day
MAY FRIDAY 25 1894
Jessie sprained her ankle Washed the sheep
Raining
SATURDAY 26
Mac in O.S.
SUNDAY 27
Mac & I at church
Rained
MAY MONDAY 28 1894
Mac in O.S.
Snowing
�TUESDAY 29
Mrs Bone here Auntie Janet & Mary Ann came down
Cold
WEDNESDAY 30
Raining in the forenoon Auntie Janet & M.A. went home in the evening
Hard frost
MAY THURSDAY 31 1894
Mac at Mr Woods with Kate. I was at Mr Thomsons for tea. Mrs Thompson had currant pie for
dinner
Fine day
JUNE FRIDAY 1
Raining
SATURDAY 2
Mac in O.S. Miss Cameron & Ollie here in the evening
Cold
JUNE SUNDAY 3 1894
Communion at Annan Mac & Jessie went. Mac & I at C.E. meeting in the evenng
Showers
MONDAY 4
Mac & Thomas & Jessie went home
Fine day
�TUESDAY 5
Ma came down with Mac
Cold
JUNE WEDNESDAY 6 1894
Pa, Jessie & Thomas came down Mrs Thomson here for tea
Fine day
THURSDAY 7
Pa & Ma went home Jessie Gilchrist & her husband here
Fine day
FRIDAY 8
Mac Jessie & Thomas at Mr Harkness's
Raining
JUNE SATURDAY 9 1894
Planted potatoes 17 drills Rutherford went home
Very warm
SUNDAY 10
Very warm
MONDAY 11
Mac & Sid working at fence
Very warm
JUNE TUESDAY 12 1894
Mac in O.S. Mr Wilkinson & Miss Parsons called
�Very warm
WEDNESDAY 13
Mary Burr here Mr Woods here for tea
Very warm
THURSDAY 14
Sowed the first of the turnips
Very warm
JUNE FRIDAY 15 1894
Mrs McKeen & Mrs Cowper here. I wrote to Maggie & Ellie John came down on his bicycle
Very Warm
SATURDAY 16
Mac in O.S. with the wool John went home
Very Warm
SUNDAY 17
Raining
JUNE MONDAY 18 1894
Raining
TUESDAY 19
Sid finished the fence Miss Mathison called
Raining
WEDNESDAY 20
I went to Leith. Mac finished sowing turnips Jessie went to see Mrs Slone
�Beautiful day
JUNE THURSDAY 21 1894
Mr & Mrs Gould & Mrs Harkness called
Very warm
FRIDAY 22
Very warm
SATURDAY 23
Mac in O.S. brought dear Bessie out W. McArthur & Kate came down
Very warm
JUNE SUNDAY 24 1894
Mac went to O.S. for Mr. Rodger's who preached in our church at 1/2 past two o clock
Very warm
MONDAY 25
I oiled the kitchen floor Mac at Annan
Very warm
TUESDAY 26
Election day Mac at Mr Manyards for tea
Very warm
JUNE WEDNESDAY 27 1894
Mac at Mr Sutherland
Cool
�THURSDAY 28
Rutherford & Jessie planted cabbage
Very warm
FRIDAY 29
Tom & Minnie came down
Very warm
JUNE SATURDAY 30 1894
Kate McGregor came home
Very warm
JULY SUNDAY 1
Very Warm
MONDAY 2
S.S. {Sunday School} picnic at Leith Mac went to O.S. with Kate in the evening
Fine cool day
JULY TUESDAY 3 1894
Mac in O.S. with a load of hay. Mrs T here in the evening
Fine day
WEDNESDAY 4
Mac in O.S. with a load of hay Mrs. T. here in the evening
Cool
THURSDAY 5
Mac in O.S for the new mower
�Cool
JULY FRIDAY 6 1894
Men working on the road
Cool
SATURDAY 7
Finished on the road I went to Mr Thomson Rutherford went home
Cool day
SUNDAY 8
Mr Bremner preached
Cool
JULY MONDAY 9 1894
Sid Day came commenced the hay
Beautiful day
TUESDAY 10
Mac at Mr Ormstons raising
beautiful day
WEDNESDAY 11
J. Veitch here
Very warm
JULY THURSDAY 12 1894
Mac at Mr Spence's raising
Cool
�FRIDAY 13
Commenced taking in the hay. Sold 10 cattle to W. Harkness for $405.00
Very warm
SATURDAY 14
Very warm
JULY SUNDAY 15 1894
Very warm
MONDAY 16
Mac & R in O.S. with the cattle
Very warm
TUESDAY 17
Jessie went to see Mrs J. Harkness
Very warm
JULY WEDNESDAY 18 1894
Very warm
THURSDAY 19
Finished cutting the hay
Very warm
FRIDAY 20
Rained
JULY SATURDAY 21 1894
Mrs & Miss Paterson called
�Cool
SUNDAY 22
beautiful day
MONDAY 23
Finished the hay
Fine day
JULY TUESDAY 24 1894
I wrote to the two Minnie's & Belle
Very warm
WEDNESDAY 25
Mac Jessie & Thomas went to Annan in the evening
Very warm
THURSDAY 26
Lottie Gilchrist called
Very warm
JULY FRIDAY 27 1894
Very warm
SATURDAY 28
Very warm
SUNDAY 29
Very warm
�JULY MONDAY 30
Very warm
TUESDAY 31
Ma & Belle came down Mac Jessie & Thomas at Mr Maynards Mr & Mrs Fraser called
Cool
AUGUST WEDNESDAY 1
Ma & I at Mr Thomsons in the evening George Thomsons wife died
rained
AUGUST THURSDAY 2 1894
Ma & Belle went home
Beautiful cool day
FRIDAY 3
Mac in O. S Scotchmans picnic in Leith
cool
SATURDAY 4
Men pulling peas
Beautiful
AUGUST SUNDAY 5 1894
Warm
MONDAY 6
Very warm
�TUESDAY 7
Mrs Thomson here
Very warm
AUGUST WEDNESDAY 8 1894
Cool
THURSDAY 9
Garden party at Mr Scotts
Beautiful cool day
FRIDAY 10
Finished cutting the grain
Cool
AUGUST SATURDAY 11 1894
Mac & Rutherford at Mr Waddells drawing in peas, Tom & Minnie came down
Fine day
SUNDAY 12
Tom went home Mr Waits preached Mrs Scott & Amelia called
Very warm
MONDAY 13
The men at Mr W McKeen threshing. Jessie at Mrs Burrs for tea Mrs Bone called
Very warm
AUGUST TUESDAY 14 1894
Men drawing in oats
�Very warm
WEDNESDAY 15
Cool
THURSDAY 16
Finished harvesting
Beautiful day
AUGUST FRIDAY 17 1894
The men at Mr. Waddells threshing
Beautiful day
SATURDAY 18
The men at Mr Souter's threshing Minnie went home
Beautiful day
SUNDAY 19
Rutherford went home
Beautiful day
AUGUST MONDAY 20 1894
Ollie Cameron came George Scott drowned
Cool
TUESDAY 21
Mac in O. S. to see Mr Hurry Henry Thomson called Miss M. & Louisa here in the evening
WEDNESDAY 22
Marshall Scott here for dinner. Wrote to sister Belle
�Beautiful day
AUGUST THURSDAY 23 1894
Beautiful day
FRIDAY 24
Terrible fire in the broken front. George Scott buried
Very warm
SATURDAY 25
Mr Julyan here for dinner
Warm
AUGUST SUNDAY 26 1894
Warm
MONDAY 27
Very warm
TUESDAY 28
Pa & Ma came down Nellie Kemp here Mac in O.S.
Beautiful day
AUGUST WEDNESDAY 29 1894
Martha & Bessie Buzza married
Raining
THURSDAY 30
Rutherford at Mrs Taylor's threshing
Beautiful day
�FRIDAY 31
Preaching in the church. Our dear little Maggie born at half past nine P.M.
Beautiful day
SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 1 1894
Ma came down
SUNDAY 2
Communion in Leith.
Very warm
MONDAY 3
Mr Thomson's had the threshing machine
Very warm
SEPTEMBER TUESDAY 4 1894
Mac went to O.S. Mr. & Mrs. Fraser called in the evening
Rained very heavy
WEDNESDAY 5
Mac Jessie & Thomas went to R. Harknesse's Mrs Scott called
Beautiful day
THURSDAY 6
Had a letter from Belle Mrs McKeen & Jessie called
Beautiful day
�SEPTEMBER FRIDAY 7 1894
Pa came down Ma went home. Mac at Mr Julyans threshing
Beautiful day
SATURDAY 8
Mac went to O.S.
Beautiful day
SUNDAY 9
Beautiful day
SEPTEMBER MONDAY 10 1894
Beautiful day
TUESDAY 11
Mrs Day & Miss Mathison called. Mac went to O.S. with a load of oats
Cold
WEDNESDAY 12
Beautiful day
SEPTEMBER THURSDAY 13 1894
We had the threshing machine Bob & Martha here
Rained in the evening
FRIDAY 14
Beautiful day
SATURDAY 15
Mac & Jessie in O.S.
�Rained
SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 16 1894
Beautiful day
MONDAY 17
Mac in O.S. with 16 bls of fall apples. Belle & Sandy came down
Beautiful day
TUESDAY 18
Mac at the O.S. show
Beautiful day
SEPTEMBER WEDNESDAY 19 1894
Belle & Sandy went home Mrs Thomson here Uncle Malcolm came down
Beautiful day
THURSDAY 20
Mr & Mrs Fraser & Mrs McAuley called
Beautiful day
FRIDAY 21
Mac & Jessie went to Sullivan
Fine day
SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 22 1894
Mac went to O.S.
Rained
�SUNDAY 23
Very windy
MONDAY 24
Raining
SEPTEMBER TUESDAY 25 1894
Mac Jessie & Thomas at Mr Camerons Rebecca Scott & Mrs George Scott called
Beautiful day
WEDNESDAY 26
Mac & Jessie went to Meaford
Beautiful day
THURSDAY 27
Mac Jessie & Thomas went to Moores Miss E. Cameron here
Beautiful day
SEPTEMBER FRIDAY 28 1894
Ellie came down with Rutherford
Lovely day
SATURDAY 29
Mac went to O.S. Mrs Harkness & Mrs Juylian here Jessie at Mr Thomssons
Beautiful day
SUNDAY 30
Beautiful day
�OCTOBER MONDAY 3 1894
Very Windy
TUESDAY 2
Commenced digging potatoes Mary Ann here
WEDNESDAY 3
Sydenham show Mac Jessie & R went
Raining
OCTOBER THURSDAY 4 1894
I went to the F Mission meeting Rebecca Scott spoke I enjoyed it very much
Beautiful day
FRIDAY 5
Kilsyth show Jessie McNab came down Ellie went home Jessie McNab came down
Raining
SATURDAY 6
Cold
OCTOBER SUNDAY 7 1894
Mac Thomas & I went to church
Beautiful day
MONDAY 8
Mac went to O.S. with Jessie McNab
Cold
�TUESDAY 9
Jessie went to Mrs Alexander's Maggie & I went to Mr Thomsons packing winter apples
Beautiful day
OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 10 1894
Mary Burr here Ollie cleaned the dining room
Beautiful day
THURSDAY 11
I was at Miss Camerons for tea. Mac in O.S. with 4 sheep & 2 hogs
Fine day
FRIDAY 12
Mac & I at Annan Called to see Rebecca Scott Mrs Jolly Mrs Reid & Jean Gibson here for tea
Beautiful day
OCTOBER SATURDAY 13 1894
Mac in O.S. with winter apples R went home with Polly. Frank Reid died
Cold
SUNDAY 14
Cold
MONDAY 15
Mac went to Franks Reids funeral
Beautiful day
OCTOBER TUESDAY 16 1894
I was at Mr Frasers for tea
�Beautiful day
WEDNESDAY 17
Finished digging the potatoes Rebecca Scott married
Beautiful day
THURSDAY 18
Mac & I went to O.S. Mrs Gilchrist Flora & Cassie Alexander here
Fine day
OCTOBER FRIDAY 19 1894
Maggie & Fanny Harkness at Mrs R.s Ollie left
Beautiful day
SATURDAY 20
Mac in O.S.
Beautiful day
SUNDAY 21
Mac Thomas & I went to Church
Beautiful warm day
OCTOBER MONDAY 22 1894
Commenced the turnips
Fine day
TUESDAY 23
Mac bought two cattle from Mr. Cavers for $45
Raining
�WEDNESDAY 24
Wrote to sister Minnie
Fine day
OCTOBER THURSDAY 25 1894
Mac at ploughing match at Mr Ollivers
Fine day
FRIDAY 26
Jessie at Mr Gibsons & Crawfords Tom & Minnie came down
Beautiful day
SATURDAY 27
Mac & Tom went to Meaford
Beautiful day
OCTOBER SUNDAY 28 1894
Beautiful day
MONDAY 29
I spent the afternoon at Mr Thomsons
Beautiful day
TUESDAY 30
Mac went to O.S. with a load of hogs for Mr Kempt.
Raining
OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 31 1894
No Entry
�NOVEMBER THURSDAY 1
No Entry
FRIDAY 2
Mr Thomson & Thomas here working at the turnIps Wrote to Grace
Fine day
NOVEMBER SATURDAY 3 1894
Mac in O.S.
Raining
SUNDAY 4
Raining
MONDAY 5
I was laid up with sore eyes Finished the turnips
Cold
NOVEMBER TUESDAY 6 1894
Mac in O.S. for Mr Kempt
Snowing
WEDNESDAY 7
Mr William Lemon died
Cold
THURSDAY 8
Mrs Scott & Miss Mathison here
Fine day
�NOVEMBER FRIDAY 9 1894
Cold
SATURDAY 10
Mac at Mr Lemons funeral
Cold
SUNDAY 11
Mr Forrest preached
Stormy
NOVEMBER MONDAY 12 1894
Mac has a very sore hand
Stormy
TUESDAY 13
We took the children for a drive in the cutter called at Mr Thomsons
Beautiful day
WEDNESDAY 14
Cold
NOVEMBER THURSDAY 15 1894
Beautiful day
FRIDAY 16
{No Entry}
SATURDAY 17
Mrs Thomson called
�Fine day
NOVEMBER SUNDAY 18 1894
Cold
MONDAY 19
Mr Fraser called
Very cold
TUESDAY 20
Hugo Lyttle died
Cold
NOVEMBER WEDNESDAY 21 1894
Mac at Mr W McArthurs funeral. Mrs C.P. Day here
Cold
THURSDAY 22
Thanksgiving day Mac Jessie & Thomas went to church
Beautiful day
FRIDAY 23
Beautiful day
{Several Pages Missing}
NOVEMBER FRIDAY 30 1894
Mac Maggie & I went out home
Beautiful day
�DECEMBER SATURDAY 1
{No Entry}
SUNDAY 2
{No Entry}
DECEMBER SUNDAY 3 1894
Maggie took sick Rutherford & McQuigly started to cut wood
TUESDAY 4
{No Entry}
WEDNESDAY 5
{No Entry}
DECEMBER THURSDAY 6 1894
Pa took Maggie & I home from Sullivan
Beautiful day
FRIDAY 7
{No Entry}
SATURDAY 8
Raining
DECEMBER SUNDAY 9 1894
Raining
MONDAY 10
Mac & Jessie in O.S.
Beautiful
�TUESDAY 11
Miss Mathison called
Fine day
DECEMBER WEDNESDAY 12 1894
Very wet
THURSDAY 13
{No Entry}
FRIDAY 14
Preaching at Annan
Fine day
DECEMBER SATURDAY 15 1894
Kate McGregor came home
Fine day
SUNDAY 16
Communion at Annan Mac & I went
Very windy
MONDAY 17
Wrote to Ma Mac went to OS with Kate
Cold
DECEMBER TUESDAY 18 1894
I went to see Mary Scott
Fine day
�WEDNESDAY 19
Jessie at Mr John Harkness's
Fine day
THURSDAY 20
Jessie went to see Jessie Ross
Fine day
DECEMBER FRIDAY 21 1894
Rutherford went home
Fine day
SATURDAY 22
Beautiful day
SUNDAY 23
Beautiful day
DECEMBER MONDAY 24 1894
Tom & Minnie came down
Fine day
TUESDAY 25
Snowing
WEDNESDAY 26
Snowing
DECEMBER THURSDAY 27 1894
Will Ross called
�Very cold
FRIDAY 28
Uncle Tom & Belle came down with Rutherford
Cold
SATURDAY 29
Mac went to O.S. with Uncle Tom
Very cold
DECEMBER SUNDAY 30 1894
Had our little Maggie baptized
Cold
MONDAY 31
Mac & I took Thomas to see Mary Scott Mac & Jessie went to Mr. Elliotts
Cold
{No Date, probably Jan 1 1895}
Cold
MEMORANDA {No Entry}
MEMORANDA {No Entry}
NOTES AND BILLS RECEIVABLE
DATE NAME DOLLS CTS
16th May {Marked Paid across
May entries}
in
�16 Cream 9
18 " 2 3/4
21 " 9 1/4
23 " 6 1/2
25 " 7 3/4
28 " 9 1/4
30 " 4
June
1 cream 4 1/4
4 " 5 3/4
6 " 4 1/2
8 " 5 3/4
11 " 9
13 " 5 1/4
15 " 5
�18 " 9 1/4
20 " 5 1/4
22 " 5 3/4
8 3/4
NOTES AND BILLS RECEIVABLE
DATE NAME DOLLS CTS
No Entries
NOTES AND BILLS RECEIVABLE
DATE
No Entries
NAME DOLLS CTS
CASH ACCOUNT - FEBRUARY
Date
No Entries
Received Paid
CASH ACCOUNT - FEBRUARY
Date
No Entries
Received Paid
�CASH ACCOUNT - JUNE
Date Received Paid
T Alexander & Christie
{Address written across the
table}
64 South Castle Street
Liverpool
England
{Inside back cover used to tally columns of figures but no specifics as to what they are for.}
For more information on Annie Rutherford, check out the “Meet the Diarists” section under
“Discover” on our website: ruraldiaries.lib.uoguelph.ca
�
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<p>Mrs. M. Rutherford</p>
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<p>{Printed} - THE CANADIAN POCKET DIARY FOR 1894. TORONTO PUBLISHED BY The BROWN BROS., Limited.</p>
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<p>{Printed} CALENDAR.</p>
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<p>{Printed} Dominion of Canada.</p>
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<p>{Printed} Rates of Postage.</p>
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<p>{Printed} Value of Foreign Coins.</p>
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<p>{Printed} Practical Information.</p>
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<p>{Printed} INTEREST TABLES.</p>
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<p>{Printed} TABLE OF WAGES BY THE WEEK.</p>
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<p>{Printed} Moon's Phases - January, 1894. February, 1894.</p>
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<p>{Printed} Moon's Phases - March, 1894. April, 1894.</p>
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<p>{Printed} Moon's Phases - May, 1894. June, 1894.</p>
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<p>{Printed} Moon's Phases - July, 1894. August, 1894.</p>
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<p>{Printed} Moon's Phases - September, 1894. October, 1894.</p>
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<p>{Printed} Moon's Phases - November, 1894. December, 1894.</p>
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<p>JANUARY MONDAY 1 1894 Mac went to Annan to vote for Prohibition Thomas & I went to Mr Scotts Fine day</p>
<p>TUESDAY 2 Mac at Mr Gibsons Willie Bone & Jeannie here in the evening Beautiful day</p>
<p>WEDNESDAY 3 Ma & Tom came down. Lilian Wells & Dorothy Fraser called Beautiful day</p>
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<p>JANUARY THURSDAY 4 1894</p>
<p>Louisa Thomson here for tea Snow nearly all gone Dull warm day</p>
<p>FRIDAY 5</p>
<p>The W. F. M. Annual Meeting in the church Mrs McLennan gave us a very interesting address Mac went to see Mr Elliott Snowing</p>
<p>SATURDAY 6</p>
<p>Mac & Jessie went to see Mr Elliott Rutherford & Jessie McGregor came down John Pringle died Snowing</p>
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<p>JANUARY SUNDAY 7 1894</p>
<p>Mac went to see Mr Elliott Jessie & I went to church Mrs Thomson here Stormy</p>
<p>MONDAY 8</p>
<p>Mac went to the mill Jessie went to see Mrs Cameron, who is very ill Stormy</p>
<p>TUESDAY 9</p>
<p>Mac in O S. The two Mrs McKeen's at Mrs. B's for tea Beautiful day</p>
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<p>JANUARY WEDNESDAY 10 1894</p>
<p>Went to Leith called at Mr Vectche's{?} & Cameron Mac bought 4 cattle from Johnsons for $125 Beautiful day</p>
<p>THURSDAY 11</p>
<p>Annual meeting in the Church. Mrs. Burr & Mary at Mrs. B's for tea Very Stormy</p>
<p>FRIDAY 123</p>
<p>Mac Thomas & I were at Mr W. Boss's Clear & cold</p>
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<p>JANUARY SATURDAY 13 1894</p>
<p>Mac in O. S. Had a letter from Ellie</p>
<p>Lovely day</p>
<p>SUNDAY 14</p>
<p>Mac & Jessie went to church. Mr B. Juylian called in the evening</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<p>MONDAY 15</p>
<p>Mac went to see Mr Elliott. Mr Johnson came with the cattle</p>
<p>Raining</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">January TUESDAY 16 1894</span></h2>
<p>Teameeting in the church. mac went Mrs Thomson at Mrs B's for tea Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 17</span></h2>
<p>Mae at the children's Social. Had a letter from Belle. Lovely day.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 18</span></h2>
<p>Wrote to Belle. Raining.</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JANUARY FRIDAY 19 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac & I at Mr Thomsons, Hugh Elliott here. Weaned dear Thomas. Beautiful day.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 20</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Andrew Waddell in O.S. with the democrat. Very windy.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 21</span></h2>
<p>Jessie & Mac at church. Fine day.</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JANUARY MONDAY 22 1894</span></h2>
<p>Fine day.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY</span></h2>
<p>Jessie at at Mr Harkness. Wrote to Minnie & Ellie. Cold.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 24</span></h2>
<p>Mrs {Uncertain name: Buzza?} died. Stormy. {Buzza?}</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JANUARY THURSDAY 25 1894</span></h2>
<p>Special meeting of the congregation. Wrote to Tom's Minnie. Very cold.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 26</span></h2>
<p>Mr. Carrie here for dinner. Jessie & Mac went to see Mr Elliott. Clear & cold.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 27</span></h2>
<p>Jessie & Mac in town. Dan McDonald came. Stormy.</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">January SUNDAY 28 1894</span></h2>
<p>Jessie & Mac went to church {Uncertain name: Mr Cuthoy?} preached. Beautiful day.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 29</span></h2>
<p>I went to see the Dr called on Mrs. Fraser. Beautiful day.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 30</span></h2>
<p>Mr. J. Elliott here. Fine day.</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JANUARY WEDNESDAY 31 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mr Elliott died. Mac Thomas & I at Mr Harkness's. Beautiful day.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FEBRUARY THURSDAY 1</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Mr Waddells. Stormy.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 2</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Jessie at Mr. Elliott's funeral Lottie Gilchrist's baby died. Cold.</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">FEBRUARY SATURDAY 3</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to town. Rutherford and Tom came down. Fine day.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 4</span></h2>
<p>I went home with Tom. Very cold.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 5</span></h2>
<p>Lottie Gilchrist's baby buried. Ma and I went to Uncle Toms. Very cold.</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">FEBRUARY TUESDAY 6</span></h2>
<p>Ma & I went to see Uncle. John called at Bobs & Lindy's & had tea with Jeannie. Fine day.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 7</span></h2>
<p>We went to Belle called at Tom's. Beautiful day.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 8</span></h2>
<p>Mac came up for me. Thawing.</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">FEBRUARY FRIDAY 9 1894</span></h2>
<p>We came home from Sullivan. Very stormy.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 10</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to see Neil Gilchrist. I had a letter from sister Minnie. Very stormy.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 11</span></h2>
<p>Cold.</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">FEBRUARY MONDAY 12</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to Grange meeting at Annan. Wrote to Ma. Very Stormy.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 13</span></h2>
<p>Mac in Rutherford cutting wood. Mac in OS at Presbytry meeting. Very cold.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 14</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Rutherford cutting wood. Mr & Mrs. cold.</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">FEBRUARY THURSDAY 15</span></h2>
<p>I was up at Mr. Thomsons. Mr. & Miss Juylian called. Beautiful day.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 16</span></h2>
<p>Mr. & Mrs. Thomson & Miss Mathison here in the evening. Fine day.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 17</span></h2>
<p>Mac in Owen Sound. Stormy.</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">FEBRUARY SUNDAY 18 1894</span></h2>
<p>I took sick in church & had to come home</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 19</span></h2>
<p>Mac & I at Mr Elliotts</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 20</span></h2>
<p>Tea meeting at Annan Mac went</p>
<p>Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY 21 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mr Locke here for dinner John More for tea wrote to Minnie Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 22</span></h2>
<p>A congregational meeting in the church Stormy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 23</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. Mrs Juylan & Miss Pop here in the evening Very cold</p>
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<p>{}== FEBRUARY SATURDAY 24 1894 ==</p>
<p>Mac in O.S. Brother Bob's little boy born Very cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 25</span></h2>
<p>Rutherford & Jessie went to Sullivan Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 26</span></h2>
<p>Mrs Souter & Mrs Scott called. Mrs Reid & M. Buzzy here in the evening. Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">FEBRUARY TUESDAY 27 1894</span></h2>
<p>Tom Minnie & baby came down Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 28</span></h2>
<p>Mac & I went to OS I called to see Mrs Howitt & Bessie Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MARCH THURSDAY 1</span></h2>
<p>Went to the W.F.M. meeting Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MARCH FRIDAY 2 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac & I at Mr Scotts for tea Mac at Lizzie Taylors funeral Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 3</span></h2>
<p>Mrs Thomson here Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 4</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MARCH MONDAY 5 1894</span></h2>
<p>I wrote to Belle Maggie & Minnie Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 6</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to see Mr Veitch Jessie at Mr Thomsons Rained all day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Wednesday 7</span></h2>
<p>Very cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MARCH THURSDAY 8 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mrs Thomson Mrs T.J. Harkness & Mary Burr here. I was at the Thomsons for tea. Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 9</span></h2>
<p>Mrs P. Cameron died Mac at Mrs Sibbold funeral Assessor here Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 10</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Jessie at Mrs Cameron's funeral Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MARCH SUNDAY 11 1894</span></h2>
<p>Union C.E meeting in the evening Very windy</p>
<p>Got Thomas his first pair of boots</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 12</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Jessie in O.S. {Owen Sound} with the buggy roads as dry as summer A. Waddell ploughing Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 13</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to Mr Henry's Snowing</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MARCH WEDNESDAY 14 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac bought a steer from Mr White for $26.50 Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 15</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Rutherford in O.S. {Owen Sound} Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 16</span></h2>
<p>Preaching in the church Mac sold Gertie to Mr {Wyle?} for $22 cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MARCH SATURDAY 17 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to O.S. {Owen Sound} with Gertie Very dull</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 18</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 19</span></h2>
<p>J called at Mrs McLeods Mary Burrs Mrs Days & Mrs Reids beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MARCH TUESDAY 20 1894</span></h2>
<p>John Gibson & Mac collecting for manse J Gibson here for tea Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 21</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to Sullivan for oats Rained</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 22</span></h2>
<p>Mac & O Cameron came home from Sullivan Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MARCH FRIDAY 23 1894</span></h2>
<p>Rutherford started to plough Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 24</span></h2>
<p>Rained nearly all day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 25</span></h2>
<p>Mac & I went to the C.E. meeting in the evening Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MARCH MONDAY 26 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Rutherford drawing home wood very little snow Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 27</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Rutherford drawing home wood Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 28</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MARCH THURSDAY 29 1894</span></h2>
<p>Jessie at Mr Elliotts & Mr Burr's Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 30</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Mr Cunningham & Moores Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 31</span></h2>
<p>Mac & O.S. {Owen Sound} I was at Mr Thomson's for tea Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">APRIL SUNDAY 1 1894</span></h2>
<p>Rutherford went home Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 2</span></h2>
<p>I called at Camerons Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 3</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Rutherford in O.S. {Owen Sound} bought a steer for $27.00 Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">APRIL WEDNESDAY 4 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mr Cathree here for dinner Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 5</span></h2>
<p>I was at the W.Y.M. meeting. Rutherford ploughing Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 6</span></h2>
<p>Mrs Harkness & Mrs Waddell at Mrs B's for tea Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">APRIL SATURDAY 7 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac & I in O.S. {Owen Sound} saw sister Maggie got a front tooth filled Very cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 8</span></h2>
<p>I was sick with the cold & couldn't go to church Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 9</span></h2>
<p>Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">APRIL TUESDAY 10 1894</span></h2>
<p>Snowing</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 11</span></h2>
<p>Mac & I went to see Mrs Cameron Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 12</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Bob {Linns?} sale Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">APRIL FRIDAY 13 1894</span></h2>
<p>Rutherford at Mrs Taylor's ploughing bee Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 14</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Andrew Waddell went to town. Mac brought home Bob {Linn's?} cow Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 15</span></h2>
<p>We heard of Mr P. Juylan's death Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">APRIL MONDAY 16 1894</span></h2>
<p>Sowed the peas</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 17</span></h2>
<p>Mr B. Glenn called in the evening. Capt. McLeod & Mr Black here for dinner Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 18</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to O.S. {Owen Sound} for clover seed Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">APRIL THURSDAY 19 1894</span></h2>
<p>The men sowed oats Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 20</span></h2>
<p>Miss Mathison here for tea Sister Maggie left for BC Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 21</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. {Owen Sound} Raining</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">APRIL SUNDAY 22 1894</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 23</span></h2>
<p>Had a letter from Belle Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 24</span></h2>
<p>Wrote to Belle Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">APRIL WEDNESDAY 25 1894</span></h2>
<p>I washed blankets Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 26</span></h2>
<p>I went up to see the Dr. Ma & Belle came down planted onions Beautiful day</p>
<h1><span></span><span class="mw-headline">{town}= FRIDAY 27 =</span></h1>
<p>Mac & Belle went to town Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">APRIL SATURDAY 28 1894</span></h2>
<p>Rained in the morning Ma & Belle went home</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 29</span></h2>
<p>Mrs Thomson here in the evening Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 30</span></h2>
<p>Used the first of our rhubarb Warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MAY TUESDAY 1 1894</span></h2>
<p>Jessie commenced house cleaning Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 2</span></h2>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 3</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to Mr Henry's beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MAY FRIDAY 4 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Jessie went to O.S. {Owen Sound} planted potatoes in the garden Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 5</span></h2>
<p>Rutherford went home Rained</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 6</span></h2>
<p>Mac & I went to church in the afternoon & Jessie & I to C.E. meeting in the evening Fine day</p>
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<h1><span></span><span class="mw-headline">{tea}= MAY MONDAY 7 1894 =</span></h1>
<p>Mrs Thomson here for tes Very windy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 8</span></h2>
<p>{no entry}</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 9</span></h2>
<p>{no entry}</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MAY THURSDAY 10 1894</span></h2>
<p>Jessie finished house cleaning Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 11</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. {Owen Sound} Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 12</span></h2>
<p>Mac put the cattle in the front Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MAY SUNDAY 13 1894</span></h2>
<p>Jessie & I went to church Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 14</span></h2>
<p>Mac sold two pigs to Mr Horne for $22.75 Mac & Jessie at Mr Elliotts Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 15</span></h2>
<p>Mr Wilkinson here for dinner Minnie Tom Mrs McDonald & Ellie came down Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MAY WEDNESDAY 16 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. {Owen Sound} Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 17</span></h2>
<p>Miss Mathison here for tea Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 18</span></h2>
<p>Wrote to sister Minnie Very wet</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MAY SATURDAY 19 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to O.S. {Owen Sound} Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 20</span></h2>
<p>Mac Jessie & Minnie went to church Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 21</span></h2>
<p>Tom came for Minnie Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MAY TUESDAY 22 1894</span></h2>
<p>Minnie went home Mrs Scott here for tea Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 23</span></h2>
<p>Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 24</span></h2>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MAY FRIDAY 25 1894</span></h2>
<p>Jessie sprained her ankle Washed the sheep Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 26</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. {Owen Sound}</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 27</span></h2>
<p>Mac & I at church Rained</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MAY MONDAY 28 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. {Owen Sound} Snowing</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 29</span></h2>
<p>Mrs Bone here Auntie Janet & Mary Ann came down Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 30</span></h2>
<p>Raining in the forenoon Auntie Janet & M.A. went home in the evening Hard frost</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MAY THURSDAY 31 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Mr Woods with Kate. I was at Mr Thomsons for tea. Mrs Thompson had currant pie for dinner Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">JUNE FRIDAY 1</span></h2>
<p>Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 2</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. {Owen Sound} Miss Cameron & Ollie here in the evening Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JUNE SUNDAY 3 1894</span></h2>
<p>Communion at Annan Mac & Jessie went. Mac & I at C.E. meeting in the evening Showers</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 4</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Thomas & Jessie went home Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 5</span></h2>
<p>Ma came down with Mac Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JUNE WEDNESDAY 6 1894</span></h2>
<p>Pa, Jessie & Thomas came down Mrs Thomson here for tea Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 7</span></h2>
<p>Pa & Ma went home Jessie Gilchrist & her husband here Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 8</span></h2>
<p>Mac Jessie & Thomas at Mr Harkness's Raining</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JUNE SATURDAY 9 1894</span></h2>
<p>Planted potatoes 17 drills Rutherford went home Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 10</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 11</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Sid working at fence Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JUNE TUESDAY 12 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. {Owen Sound} Mr Wilkinson & Miss Parsons called Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 13</span></h2>
<p>Mary Burr here Mr Woods here for tea Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 14</span></h2>
<p>Sowed the first of the turnips Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JUNE FRIDAY 15 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mrs McKeen & Mrs Cowper here. I wrote to Maggie & Ellie John came down on his bicycle Very Warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 16</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. with the wool John went home Very Warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 17</span></h2>
<p>Raining</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JUNE MONDAY 18 1894</span></h2>
<p>Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 19</span></h2>
<p>Sid finished the fence Miss Mathison called Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 20</span></h2>
<p>I went to Leith. Mac finished sowing turnips Jessie went to see Mrs Slone Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JUNE THURSDAY 21 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mr & Mrs Gould & Mrs Harkness called Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 22</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 23</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. {Owen Sound} brought dear Bessie out W. McArthur & Kate came down Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JUNE SUNDAY 24 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to O.S. {Owen Sound} for Mr. Rodger's who preached in out church at 1/2 past five o clock Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 25</span></h2>
<p>I oiled the kitchen floor Mac at Annan Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 26</span></h2>
<p>Election day Mac at Mr Manyards for tea Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JUNE WEDNESDAY 27 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Mr Sutherlands Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 28</span></h2>
<p>Rutherford & Jessie planted cabbage Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 29</span></h2>
<p>Tom & Minnie came down Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JUNE SATURDAY 30 1894</span></h2>
<p>Kate McGregor came home Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">JULY SUNDAY 1</span></h2>
<p>Very Warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 2</span></h2>
<p>S.S. {Sunday School} picnic at Leith Mac went to O.S. {Owen Sound} with Kate in the evening Fine cool day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JULY TUESDAY 3 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. {Owen Sound} with a load of hay. Mrs Y here in the evening Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 4</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. {Owen Sound} with a load of hay Mrs. Y. here in the evening Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 5</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. {Owen Sound} for the new mower Cool</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JULY FRIDAY 6 1894</span></h2>
<p>Men working on the road Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 7</span></h2>
<p>Finished on the road I went to Mr Thomson Rutherford went home Cool day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 8</span></h2>
<p>Mr Bremner preached Cool</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JULY MONDAY 9 1894</span></h2>
<p>Sid Day came commenced the hay Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 10</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Mr Ormistons raising beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 11</span></h2>
<p>J. Veitch here Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JULY THURSDAY 12 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Mr Spences raising Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 13</span></h2>
<p>Commenced taking in the hay. Sold 10 cattle to W. Harkness for $405.00 Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 14</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JULY SUNDAY 15 1894</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 16</span></h2>
<p>Mac & R in O.S. {Owen Sound} with the cattle Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 17</span></h2>
<p>Jessie went to see Mrs J. Harkness Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">JULY WEDNESDAY 18 1894</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 19</span></h2>
<p>Finished cutting the hay Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 20</span></h2>
<p>Rained</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY July 21</span></h2>
<p>Mrs & Miss Paterson called Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 22</span></h2>
<p>beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 23</span></h2>
<p>Finished the hay Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">July TUESDAY 24 1894</span></h2>
<p>I wrote to the two Minnie's & Belle Very warm</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 25</span></h3>
<p>Mac Jessie & Thomas went to Annan in the evening Very warm</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 26</span></h3>
<p>Lottie Gilchrist called Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">July FRIDAY 27 1894</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 28</span></h3>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 29</span></h3>
<p>Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">July MONDAY 30 1894</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 31</span></h3>
<p>Ma & Belle came down Mac Jessie & Thomas at Mr Maynards Mr & Mrs Fraser called Cool</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">August WEDNESDAY 1</span></h3>
<p>Ma & I at Mr Thomsons in the evening George Thomsons wife died rained</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">August THURSDAY 2</span></h2>
<p>Ma & Belle went home Beautiful cool day</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 3</span></h3>
<p>Mac in O. S. {Owen Sound} Scotchmans picnic in Leith cool</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 4</span></h3>
<p>Men pulling peas Beautiful</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">August SUNDAY 5 1894</span></h2>
<p>Warm</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 6</span></h3>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 7</span></h3>
<p>Mrs Thomson here Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">August WEDNESDAY 8 1894</span></h2>
<p>Cool</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 9</span></h3>
<p>Garden party at Mr Scotts Beautiful cool day</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 10</span></h3>
<p>Finished cutting the grain Cool</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">August SATURDAY 11 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Rutherford at Mr Waddells drawing in peas, Tom & Minnie came down Fine day</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 12</span></h3>
<p>Tom went home Mr Waits preached Mrs Scott & Amelia called Very warm</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 13</span></h3>
<p>The men at Mr W McKeens threshing. Jessie at Mrs Burrs for tea Mrs Bone called Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">August TUESDAY 14 1894</span></h2>
<p>Men drawing in oats Very warm</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 15</span></h3>
<p>Cool</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 16</span></h3>
<p>Finished harvesting Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">August FRIDAY 17 1894</span></h2>
<p>The men at Mr. Waddells threshing Beautiful day</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 18</span></h3>
<p>The men at Mr Souter's threshing Minnie went home Beautiful day</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 19</span></h3>
<p>Rutherford went home Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">August MONDAY 20 1894</span></h2>
<p>Ollie Cameron came George Scott drowned Cool</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 21</span></h3>
<p>Mac in O. S. {Owen Sound} to see Mr Hurry Henry Thomson called Miss M. & Louisa here in the evening</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 22</span></h3>
<p>Marshall Scott here for dinner. Wrote to sister Belle Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">August THURSDAY 23 1894</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 24</span></h2>
<p>Terrible fire in the broken front. George Scott buried</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 25</span></h2>
<p>Mr Julyan here for dinner</p>
<p>Warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">August SUNDAY 26 1894</span></h2>
<p>Warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 27</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 28</span></h2>
<p>Pa & Ma came down Nellie Kemp here Mac in O.S.</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">August WEDNESDAY 29 1894</span></h2>
<p>Martha & Bessie Guzza married</p>
<p>Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 30</span></h2>
<p>Rutherford at Mrs Taylor's threshing</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 31</span></h2>
<p>Preaching in the church. Our dear little Maggie born at half past nine P.M.</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<p>SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 1 1894</p>
<p>Ma came down</p>
<p>SUNDAY 2</p>
<p>Communion in Leith.</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
<p>MONDAY 3</p>
<p>Mr Thomson's had the threshing machine</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
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<p>SEPTEMBER TUESDAY 4 1894</p>
<p>Mac went to O.S.</p>
<p>Mr. & Mrs. Fraser called in the evening</p>
<p>Rained very heavy</p>
<p>WEDNESDAY 5</p>
<p>Mac Jessie & Thomas went to R. Harknesse's</p>
<p>Mrs Scott called</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<p>THURSDAY 6</p>
<p>Had a letter from Belle Mrs McKeen + Jessie called</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">September FRIDAY 7 1894</span></h2>
<p>Pa came down Ma went home. Mac at Mr Julyans threshing</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 8</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to O.S.</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 9</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">September MONDAY 10 1894</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h1><span></span><span class="mw-headline">= TUESDAY 11</span></h1>
<p>Mrs Day & Miss Mathison called. mac went to O.S. with a load of oats</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 12</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">September THURSDAY 13 1894</span></h2>
<p>We had the threshing machine Bob & Martha here</p>
<p>Rained in the evening</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 14</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 15</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Jessie in O.S.</p>
<p>Rained</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">September SUNDAY 16 1894</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 17</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. with 16 bls of fall apples. Belle & Sandy came down</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 18</span></h2>
<p>Mac at the O.S. show</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">September WEDNESDAY 19 1894</span></h2>
<p>Belle & Sandy went home Mrs Thomson here Uncle Malcolm came down</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 20</span></h2>
<p>Mr & Mrs Fraser & Mrs McAuley called</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 21</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Jessie went to Sullivan</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">September SATURDAY 22 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to O.S.</p>
<p>Rained</p>
<p></p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY</span></h2>
<p>Very windy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY</span></h2>
<p>Raining</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">September TUESDAY 25 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac Jessie & Thomas at Mr Camerons Rebecca Scott & Mrs George Scott called</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 26</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Jessie went to Meaford</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 27</span></h2>
<p>Mac Jessie & Thomas went to Moores Miss E. Cameron here</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">September FRIDAY 28 1894</span></h2>
<p>Ellie came down with Rutherford</p>
<p>Lovely day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 29</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to O.S. Mrs harkness & Mrs Juylian here Jessie at Mr Thompsons</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 30</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">October MONDAY 1 1894</span></h2>
<p>Very Windy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 2</span></h2>
<p>Commenced digging potatoes Mary Ann here</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 3</span></h2>
<p>Sydenham show Mac Jessie & B went</p>
<p>Raining</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">October THURSDAY 4 1894</span></h2>
<p>I went to the Y Mission meeting Rebecca Took spoke I enjoyed it very much</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 5</span></h2>
<p>Kilsyth show Jessie McNab came down Ellie went home Jessie McNab came down</p>
<p>Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 6</span></h2>
<p>Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">October SUNDAY 7 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac Thomas & I went to church</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 8</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to O.S. with Jessie McNab</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY</span></h2>
<p>Jessie went to Mrs Alexander's Maggie & I ent to Mr Thomsons packing winter apples</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">October WEDNESDAY 10 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mary Burr here Ollie cleaned the dining room</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 11</span></h2>
<p>I was at Miss Camerons for tea. Mac in O.S. with 4 sheep & 2 hogs</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 12</span></h2>
<p>Mac & I at Annan Called to see Rebecca Scott Mrs Jolly mrs Reid & Jean Gibson here for tea</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">October SATURDAY 13 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. with winter apples R went home with Polly. Frank Reid died</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 14</span></h2>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 15</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to Frank Reids funeral</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">October TUESDAY 16 1894</span></h2>
<p>I was at Mr Frasers for tea</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 17</span></h2>
<p>Finished digging the potatoes Rebecca Scott married</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 18</span></h2>
<p>Mac & I went to O.S. Mrs Gilchrist Flora & Cassie Alexander here</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">October FRIDAY 19 1894</span></h2>
<p>Maggie & Fanny Harkness at Mrs B.s Ollie left</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 20</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S.</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 21</span></h2>
<p>Mac Thomas & I went to Church</p>
<p>Beautiful warm day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">October MONDAY 22 1894</span></h2>
<p>Commenced the turnips</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 23</span></h2>
<p>Mac bought two cattle from Mr. Lavers for $45</p>
<p>Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 24</span></h2>
<p>Wrote to sister Minnie</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">October THURSDAY 25 1894</span></h2>
<p>Mac at plough match at Mr Ollivers</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 26</span></h2>
<p>Jessie at Mr Gibsons & Crawfords Tom & Minnie came down</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<p></p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 27</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Tom went to Meaford</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">October SUNDAY 28 1894</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 29</span></h2>
<p>I spent the afternoon at Mr Thomsons</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 30</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to O.S. with a load of hogs for Mr Kempt.</p>
<p>Raining</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">October WEDNESDAY 31 1894</span></h2>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">November THURSDAY 1</span></h2>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 2</span></h2>
<p>Mr Thomson & Thomas here working at the turnps Wrote to Grace</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">November SATURDAY 3</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S.</p>
<p>Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 4</span></h2>
<p>Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 5</span></h2>
<p>I was laid up with sore eyes Finished the turnips</p>
<p>Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">November TUESDAY 6</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. FOR Mr Kempt</p>
<p>Snowing</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 7</span></h2>
<p>Mr William Lemon died</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 8</span></h2>
<p>Mrs Scott & Miss Mathison here</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">November FRIDAY 9</span></h2>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 10</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Mr Lemons funeral</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 11</span></h2>
<p>Mr Forrest preached</p>
<p>Stormy</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">November MONDAY 12</span></h2>
<p>Mac has a very sore hand</p>
<p>Stormy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 13</span></h2>
<p>We took the children for a drive in the cutter called at Mr Thomsons</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 14</span></h2>
<p>Cole</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">November THURSDAY 15</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 16</span></h2>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 17</span></h2>
<p>Mrs Thomson called</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">November SUNDAY 18</span></h2>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 19</span></h2>
<p>Mr Fraser called</p>
<p>Very cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 20</span></h2>
<p>Hugo Lyttle died</p>
<p>Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">November WEDNESDAY 21</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Mr W McArthurs funeral. Mrs C.P. Day here Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 22</span></h2>
<p>Thanksgiving day Mac Jessie & Thomas went to church</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 23</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">November FRIDAY 30</span></h2>
<p>Mac Maggie & I went out home</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<p></p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">December SATURDAY 1</span></h2>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 2</span></h2>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">December MONDAY 3</span></h2>
<p>Maggie took sick Rutherford & McQuigly started to cut wood</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 4</span></h2>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 5</span></h2>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">December THURSDAY 6</span></h2>
<p>Pa took Maggie & I home from Sullivan</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 7</span></h2>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 8</span></h2>
<p>Raining</p>
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<h2><span></span><span class="mw-headline">== December SUNDAY 9</span></h2>
<p>Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 10</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Jessie in O.S.</p>
<p>Beautiful</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 11</span></h2>
<p>Miss Mathison called</p>
<p>Fine day ==</p>
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<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">December WEDNESDAY 12</span></h2>
<p>Very wet</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 13</span></h2>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 14</span></h2>
<p>Preaching at Annan</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">December SATURDAY 15</span></h2>
<p>Kate McGregor came home</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 16</span></h2>
<p>Communion at Annan Mac & I went</p>
<p>Very windy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 17</span></h2>
<p>Wrote to Ma Mac went to OS with Kate</p>
<p>Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">December TUESDAY 18</span></h2>
<p>I went to see Mary Scott</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 19</span></h2>
<p>Jessie at Mr John Harkness's</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 20</span></h2>
<p>Jessie went to see Jessie Ross</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">December FRIDAY 21</span></h2>
<p>Rutherford went home</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 22</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 23</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">December MONDAY 24</span></h2>
<p>Tom & Minnie came down</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 25</span></h2>
<p>Snowing</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 26</span></h2>
<p>Snowing</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">December THURSDAY 27</span></h2>
<p>Will Ross called</p>
<p>Very cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 28</span></h2>
<p>Uncle Tom & Belle came down with Rutherford</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 29</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to O.S. with Uncle Tom</p>
<p>Very cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">December SUNDAY 30</span></h2>
<p>Had our little Maggie baptized</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 31</span></h2>
<p>Mac & I took Thomas to see Mary Scott Mac & Jessie went to Mr. Elliotts</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<p>==</p>
<p>Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MEMORANDA</span></h2>
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<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MEMORANDA</span></h2>
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<p>== NOTES AND BILLS RECEIVABLE</p>
<table><tbody><tr><td>DATE</td>
<td>NAME</td>
<td>DOLLS</td>
<td>CTS</td>
</tr><tr><td>16th</td>
<td>May{Marked Paid across May entries}</td>
<td>in</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>16</td>
<td>Cream</td>
<td>9</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>18</td>
<td>"</td>
<td>2 3/4</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>21</td>
<td>"</td>
<td>9 1/4</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>23</td>
<td>"</td>
<td>6 1/2</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>25</td>
<td>"</td>
<td>7 3/4</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>28</td>
<td>"</td>
<td>9 1/4</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>30</td>
<td>"</td>
<td>4</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>June</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>1</td>
<td>cream</td>
<td>4 1/4</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>4</td>
<td>"</td>
<td>5 3/4</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>6</td>
<td>"</td>
<td>4 1/2</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>8</td>
<td>"</td>
<td>5 3/4</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>11</td>
<td>"</td>
<td>9</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>13</td>
<td>"</td>
<td>5 1/4</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>15</td>
<td>"</td>
<td>5</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>18</td>
<td>"</td>
<td>9 1/4</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>20</td>
<td>"</td>
<td>5 1/4</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>22</td>
<td>"</td>
<td>5 3/4</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>8 3/4</td>
<td></td>
</tr></tbody></table>
==</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>== NOTES AND BILLS RECEIVABLE</p>
<table><tbody><tr><td>DATE</td>
<td>NAME</td>
<td>DOLLS</td>
<td>CTS</td>
</tr></tbody></table></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>== NOTES AND BILLS RECEIVABLE</p>
<table><tbody><tr><td>DATE</td>
<td>NAME</td>
<td>DOLLS</td>
<td>CTS</td>
</tr></tbody></table></div>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">CASH ACCOUNT - FEBRUARY</span></h2>
<table><tbody><tr><td>Date</td>
<td></td>
<td>Received</td>
<td>Paid</td>
</tr></tbody></table></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">CASH ACCOUNT - FEBRUARY</span></h2>
<table><tbody><tr><td>Date</td>
<td></td>
<td>Received</td>
<td>Paid</td>
</tr></tbody></table></div>
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<p>CAHS ACCOUNT - JUNE</p>
<table><tbody><tr><td>Date</td>
<td></td>
<td>Received</td>
<td>Paid</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>c Alexander & Christie{Address written across the table}</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>64 South Castle Street</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Liverpool</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>England</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr></tbody></table></div>
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<p>{Inner cover used to tally amounts but no specifics what they are for.}</p>
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Annie Rutherford Diary Collection
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19th Century Rural Ontario Diaries
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Annie Rutherford
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Private Collection Courtesy of David & Jock Rutherford
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1894-1895
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19th Century, Grey County, Sydenham Township, Ontario
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Annie Rutherford Diary & Transcription, 1894
Annie Rutherford Diary & Transcription, 1895
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<p>THE</p>
<p>CANADIAN</p>
<p>POCKET DIARY</p>
<p>FOR</p>
<p>1895.</p>
<ul><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li>
</ul><p>TORONTO:</p>
<p>PUBLISHED BY The BROWN BROS., Limited,</p>
<p>MANUFACTURING STATIONERS.</p>
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<p>CALENDAR</p>
<p><br /> {1895}</p>
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<p>Dominion of Canada. SEAT OF GOVERNMENT-OTTAWA. GOVERNOR-GENERAL His Excellency the Right Hon. Sir John Campbell Hamilton Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen, &c., &c. GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SECRETARY'S OFFICE (Eastern Block) Arthur J. L. Gordon, Esq., C.M.G., Secretary. Capt. B.C. Urquhart and Capt. C.P.W. Kindersley, A.D.C., R.M. Ferguson, Esq., David Erskine, and Hon. A.J. Majoribanks, extra A.D.C. Clerks,- C.J. Jones, Wm. Cambell, W.H. Walker, and A.F. Sladen.</p>
<p>CABINET MINISTERS OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA According to Precedence The Right Hon. Sir J.S.D. Thompson, K.C.M.G., Q.C., LL.D., P.C., Prime Minister of Justice. Hon. Mackenzie Bowell, Minister of Trade & Commerce. Hon. Sir A.P. Caron, K.C.M.G., Q.C., Postmaster-General. Hon. Sir John Carling, K.C.M.G., without portfolio. Hon. John Costigan, Secretary of State. Hon. Sir Frank Smith, K.C.M.G., without portfolio. Hon John Costigan, Secretary of State. Hon. Sir Frank Smith, K.C.M.G., without portfolio. Hon. Sir George E. Foster, D.C.L., Minister of Finance. Hon. Sir C.H. Tupper, K.C.M.G., LL.D., Q.C., Minister of Marine and Fisheries. Hon. J.G. Haggart, Minister of Railways and Canals. Hon. J.A. Ouimet, LL.B., Q.C., Minister of Public Works. Hon. J. C. Patterson, Minister of Militia and Defence. Hon. T.M. Daly, Q.C., Minister of Interior and Supt. General Indian Affairs. Hon. A.R. Angers, Q.C., Minister of Agriculture. Hon. W.B. Ives, Q.C., Pres. of the Queen's Privy Council.</p>
<p>CLERK OF THE QUEEN'S PRIVY COUNCIL AND DEPUTY GOVERNOR. John Joseph McGee Esq. Clerks.- S.E. St. Onge Chapleau, Clerk Crown in Chancery. Joseph Pope, Assistant Clerk of Privy Council. W.H. Lee, F.K. Bennetts and James G. Foley, Deputy Clerk of the Crown in Chancery.</p>
<p>SOLICITOR-GENERAL OF CANADA Hon. John J. Curran, Esq., Q.C., B.C.L., LL.D., M.P.</p>
<p>CONTROLLER OF INLAND REVENUE Hon. John F. Wood. Esq., Q.C., M.P.</p>
<p>CONTROLLER OF CUSTOMS Hon. N. Clarke Wallace, Esq., M.P.</p>
<p>HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR CANADA IN LONDON Hon. Sir C. Tupper, Bart., G.C.M.G., C.B., 17 Victoria St., London, S.W.</p>
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<p>Eclipses, 1895.</p>
<p>In the year 1895 there will be five eclipses, three of the sun and two of the moon.</p>
<p>I.- A total eclipse of the moon, March 10th, visible in North and South America, beginning generally at 7.57 p.m., eastern standard time. II.- A partial eclipse of the sun, March 25th, the end visible at sunrise in part of Eastern Canada and the Maritime Provinces. III.- A partial eclipse of the sun, Aug. 20th, invisible in Canada. IV.- A total eclipse of the moon, Sept. 3rd, visible in North and South America, beginning generally at 9.48 p.m., eastern standard time. V.- A partial eclipse of the sun, Sept. 18th, invisible in Canda.</p>
<p>Morning and Evening Stars, 1895.</p>
<p>VENUS is an evening star to September 18th, afterwards a morning star. MARS is an evening star to October 11th, afterwards a morning star. JUPITER is an evening star to July 10th, afterwards a morning star. SATURN is a morning star to April 24th, an evening star to November 2nd, afterwards a morning star. MERCURY is a morning star about March 24th, July 22nd, and November 10th, and an evening star about February 9th, June 4th and October 1st. VENUS is brightest August 14th and October 26th. MARS not being in opposition during 1895, the satellites will not be visible. The satellites of JUPITER are not visible from June 12th to August 8th.</p>
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<pre> === Fixed and Movable Festivals == ==
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<pre> New Years Day.............................................................................................Jan. 1
Epiphany.................................................................................................. " 6
Ash Wednesday............................................................................................. Feb.27
St. David................................................................................................. Mar.1
Quadragestima- 1st Sunday in Lent......................................................................... " 3
St. Patrick............................................................................................... " 17
Annunciation-Lady Day..................................................................................... " 25
Palm Sunday...............................................................................................April 7
Good Friday............................................................................................... " 12
Easter Sunday............................................................................................. " 14
Easter Monday............................................................................................. " 15
Low Sunday................................................................................................ " 21
St. George................................................................................................ " 23
Rogation Sunday........................................................................................... May 19
Ascension Day- Holy Thursday.............................................................................. " 23
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<p></p>
<pre> Queen Victoria's Birthday................................................................................. " 24
Pentecost-Whit Sunday..................................................................................... June 2
Trinity Sunday............................................................................................ " 9
Corpus Christi............................................................................................ " 13
Accession of Queen Victoria............................................................................... " 20
St. John Baptist- Midsummer Day........................................................................... " 24
St. Peter and St. Paul.................................................................................... " 29
Dominion Day.............................................................................................. July 1
St. Michael- Michaelmas Day............................................................................... Sep. 29
All Saints................................................................................................ Nov. 1
St. Andrew................................................................................................ " 30
1st Sunday in Advent...................................................................................... Dec. 1
Conception................................................................................................ " 8
St. Thomas................................................................................................ " 21
Christmas Day............................................................................................. " 25
</pre>
<pre> Bank Holidays
</pre>
<pre> ONTARIO,NEW BRUSWICK AND NOVA SCOTIA- New Year's Day; Good Friday; Easter Monday; Queen's Birthday; Dominion Day; Christmas Day.
QUEBEC-New Year's Day; Epiphany; Ash Wednesday; Annunciation;
Good Friday; Easter Monday; Ascension; Corpus Christi; St.Peter's and St. Paul's; All Saints; Conception; Christmas Day; Queen's
Birthday; Dominion Day.
Also, throughout the Dominion, any day appointed by Proclamation for a General Fast or Thanksgiving.
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==Practical Information WEIGHTS AVOIRDUPOIS METALS (Gravity) (Weight of a cubic ft.) 16 drams(drs).... 1 ounce Substance Lbs. Ounces 16 ounces........ 1 pound Pure silver 625 13 25 pounds........ 1 quarter Steel 487 12 4 qurs.......... 1hundr'dweight Tin 455 11 20 cwt............1 ton Cast Iron 450 7 Copper 547 4 Brass 543 12 Zinc 498 13 LIQUIDS Honey 90 10 Vinegar 67 8 Blood 65 14 Beer 64 10 Milk 64 8 Cider 63 10 Tar 63 7 Rain Water 62 8 Linseed Oil 58 12 Brandy 57 12 Ice 57 8 Alcohol 49 10</div>
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<p>INTEREST TABLES.</p>
<p>TIME $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 $10 $100 $1000</p>
<p><br /> Four Per Cent. 4 Day … 8 “ … 12 “ … 16 “ … 20 “ … 24 “ … 28 “ …</p>
<pre>1 Month
2 “
3 “
6 “
1 Year...
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<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p>0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 4</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><br /> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 8</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 3 6 12</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 3 4 8 16</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 4 5 10 20</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 0 1 1 2 2 2 2 4 6 12 24</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 0 1 1 2 2 2 3 5 7 14 28</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 0 1 2 2 2 3 3 6 8 16 32</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 6 9 18 36</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 1 2 2 2 3 3 4 7 10 20 40</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p>5 9 14 18 22 27 31 34 67 1 00 2 00 4 00</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><br /> 45 89 1 34 1 78 2 22 2 67 3 11 3 34 6 67 10 00 20 00 40 00 TIME $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 $10 $100 $1000</p>
<p><br /> Five Per Cent. 4 Day … 8 “ … 12 “ … 16 “ … 20 “ … 24 “ … 28 “ …</p>
<pre>1 Month
2 “
3 “
6 “
1 Year...
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<p></p>
<p>0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 5</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><br /> 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 5 10</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 3 4 8 15</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 0 0 1 1 3 2 2 4 5 10 20</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 0 1 1 2 2 2 2 4 6 13 25</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 0 1 2 2 2 3 3 5 7 15 30</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 6 9 18 35</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 1 2 2 2 3 3 4 7 10 20 40</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 8 11 23 45</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 1 2 2 3 4 4 4 9 13 25 50</p>
<p></p>
<p>6 11 17 22 28 34 39 42 84 1 25 2 50 5 00</p>
<p></p>
<p>56 1 11 1 67 2 22 2 28 3 34 3 39 4 17 8 34 12 50 25 00 50 00</p>
<p><br /> TIME $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 $10 $100 $1000</p>
<p><br /> Six Per Cent. 4 Day … 8 “ … 12 “ … 16 “ …</p>
<pre>1 Month
2 “
3 “
6 “
1 Year...
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<p></p>
<p>0 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 6</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 0 0 1 1 2 3 6 12</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 0 1 1 2 3 5 9 18</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 1 1 1 3 4 6 12 24</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p>0 1 1 1 3 5 8 15 30</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p>0 1 1 2 3 6 9 18 36</p>
<p></p>
<p>0 1 1 2 4 7 11 21 42</p>
<p></p>
<p>1 1 2 2 4 8 12 24 48</p>
<p></p>
<p>1 1 2 2 5 9 14 27 54</p>
<p></p>
<p>1 1 2 3 5 10 15 30 60</p>
<p></p>
<p>7 13 20 27 50 1 00 1 50 3 00 6 00</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p>67 1 33 2 00 2 67 5 00 10 00 15 00 30 00 60 00</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">TABLE OF WAGES BY THE WEEK.</span></h2>
<table><tbody><tr><td>Wage.</td>
<td>1 hr.</td>
<td>2 hrs.</td>
<td>5 hrs.</td>
<td>6 hrs.</td>
<td>9 hrs.</td>
<td>1 dy.</td>
<td>2 dys.</td>
<td>3 dys.</td>
<td>4 dys.</td>
<td>5 dys.</td>
<td>6 dys.</td>
</tr><tr><td>S3</td>
<td>.05</td>
<td>.10</td>
<td>.25</td>
<td>.30</td>
<td>.45</td>
<td>.50</td>
<td>1.00</td>
<td>1.50</td>
<td>2.00</td>
<td>2.50</td>
<td>3.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>4</td>
<td>.06 2/3</td>
<td>.13 1/3</td>
<td>.33 1/3</td>
<td>.40</td>
<td>.60</td>
<td>.66 2/3</td>
<td>1.33 1/3</td>
<td>2.00</td>
<td>2.66 2/3</td>
<td>3.33 1/3</td>
<td>4.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>5</td>
<td>.08 1/3</td>
<td>.16 2/3</td>
<td>.41 2/3</td>
<td>.50</td>
<td>.75</td>
<td>.83 1/3</td>
<td>1.66 2/3</td>
<td>2.50</td>
<td>3.33 1/3</td>
<td>4.16 2/3</td>
<td>5.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>6</td>
<td>.10</td>
<td>.20</td>
<td>.50</td>
<td>.60</td>
<td>.90</td>
<td>1.00</td>
<td>2.00</td>
<td>3.00</td>
<td>4.00</td>
<td>5.00</td>
<td>6.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>7</td>
<td>.11 2/3</td>
<td>.23 1/3</td>
<td>.58 1/3</td>
<td>.70</td>
<td>1.05</td>
<td>1.16 2/3</td>
<td>2.33 1/3</td>
<td>3.50</td>
<td>4.66 2/3</td>
<td>5.83 1/3</td>
<td>7.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>8</td>
<td>.13 1/3</td>
<td>.26 2/3</td>
<td>.66 2/3</td>
<td>.80</td>
<td>1.20</td>
<td>1.33 1/3</td>
<td>2.66 2/3</td>
<td>4.00</td>
<td>5.33 1/3</td>
<td>6.66 2/3</td>
<td>8.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>9</td>
<td>15</td>
<td>.30</td>
<td>.75</td>
<td>.90</td>
<td>1.35</td>
<td>1.50</td>
<td>3.00</td>
<td>4.50</td>
<td>6.00</td>
<td>7.50</td>
<td>9.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>10</td>
<td>16 2/3</td>
<td>.33 1/3</td>
<td>.83 1/3</td>
<td>1.00</td>
<td>1.50</td>
<td>1.66 2/3</td>
<td>3.33 1/3</td>
<td>5.00</td>
<td>6.66 2/3</td>
<td>8.33 1/3</td>
<td>10.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>11</td>
<td>.18 1/3</td>
<td>36 2/3</td>
<td>.91 2/3</td>
<td>1.10</td>
<td>1.65</td>
<td>1.83 1/3</td>
<td>3.66 2/3</td>
<td>5.50</td>
<td>7.33 1/3</td>
<td>9.16 2/3</td>
<td>11.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>12</td>
<td>.20</td>
<td>.40</td>
<td>1.00</td>
<td>1.20</td>
<td>1.80</td>
<td>2.00</td>
<td>4.00</td>
<td>6.00</td>
<td>8.00</td>
<td>10.00</td>
<td>12.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>13</td>
<td>.21 2/3</td>
<td>.43 1/3</td>
<td>1.08 1/3</td>
<td>1.30</td>
<td>1.95</td>
<td>2.16 2/3</td>
<td>4.33 1/3</td>
<td>6.50</td>
<td>8.66 2/3</td>
<td>10.83 1/3</td>
<td>13.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>14</td>
<td>.23 1/3</td>
<td>.46 2/3</td>
<td>1.16 2/3</td>
<td>1.40</td>
<td>2.10</td>
<td>2.33 1/3</td>
<td>4.66 2/3</td>
<td>7.00</td>
<td>9.33 1/3</td>
<td>11.66 2/3</td>
<td>14.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>15</td>
<td>.25</td>
<td>.50</td>
<td>1.25</td>
<td>1.50</td>
<td>2.25</td>
<td>2.50</td>
<td>5.00</td>
<td>7.50</td>
<td>10.00</td>
<td>12.50</td>
<td>15.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>16</td>
<td>.26 2/3</td>
<td>.53 1/3</td>
<td>1.33 1/3</td>
<td>1.60</td>
<td>2.40</td>
<td>2.66 2/3</td>
<td>5.33 1/3</td>
<td>8.00</td>
<td>10.66 2/3</td>
<td>13.33 1/3</td>
<td>16.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>17</td>
<td>.28 1/3</td>
<td>.56 2/3</td>
<td>1.41 2/3</td>
<td>1.70</td>
<td>2.55</td>
<td>2.83 1/3</td>
<td>5.66 2/3</td>
<td>8.50</td>
<td>11.33 1/3</td>
<td>14.16 1/3</td>
<td>17.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>18</td>
<td>.30</td>
<td>.60</td>
<td>1.50</td>
<td>1.80</td>
<td>2.70</td>
<td>3.00</td>
<td>6.00</td>
<td>9.00</td>
<td>12.00</td>
<td>15.00</td>
<td>18.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>19</td>
<td>.31 2/3</td>
<td>.63 1/3</td>
<td>1.58 1/3</td>
<td>1.90</td>
<td>2.85</td>
<td>3.16 2/3</td>
<td>6.33 1/3</td>
<td>9.50</td>
<td>12.66 2/3</td>
<td>15.83 1/3</td>
<td>19.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>20</td>
<td>.33 1/3</td>
<td>.66 2/3</td>
<td>1.66 2/3</td>
<td>2.00</td>
<td>3.00</td>
<td>3.33 1/3</td>
<td>6.66 2/3</td>
<td>10.00</td>
<td>13.33 1/3</td>
<td>16.66 2/3</td>
<td>20.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>24</td>
<td>.40</td>
<td>.80</td>
<td>2.00</td>
<td>2.40</td>
<td>3.60</td>
<td>4.00</td>
<td>8.00</td>
<td>12.00</td>
<td>16.00</td>
<td>20.00</td>
<td>24.00</td>
</tr></tbody></table>
Table is based upon the unsusual calculation of 10 hours to a day.</div>
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<p>January, 1895. February, 1895.</p>
<p>Moon's Phases D. H. M. Moon's Phases D. H. M. First Quarter.... 4 2 52 M First Quarter.... 2 7 16 E Full Moon...... 11 1 50 M Full Moon...... 9 0 23 E Last Quarter.... 17 4 55 E Last Quarter.... 16 8 9 M New Moon...... 25 4 26 E New Moon...... 24 11 44 M</p>
<p><br /> D DW SR. S.S. M. S. D DW SR. S.S. M. S.</p>
<p>-------------------------</p>
<pre> h m h m h. m. h m h m h. m.
</pre>
<p>1 T 7 52 4 52 10 24 1 F 7 35 5 29 A M 2 W 7 52 4 52 11 27 2 S 7 34 5 30 0 35 3 T 7 52 4 53 A M 3 S 7 32 5 32 1 42 4 F 7 52 4 54 0 27 4 M 7 31 5 33 2 59 5 S 7 52 4 55 1 38 5 T 7 29 5 35 4 12 6 S 7 51 4 56 2 49 6 W 7 28 5 36 5 20 7 M 7 51 4 57 4 04 7 T 7 27 5 37 6 21 8 T 7 51 4 58 5 21 8 F 7 25 5 38 7 07 9 W 7 50 5 00 6 36 9 S 7 24 5 40 Rises 10 T 7 50 5 01 7 42 10 S 7 22 5 41 7 09 11 F 7 50 5 02 Rises 11 M 7 21 5 43 8 30 12 S 7 49 5 03 6 55 12 T 7 19 5 44 9 49 13 S 7 49 5 04 8 17 13 W 7 18 5 45 11 04 14 M 7 48 5 05 9 37 14 T 7 17 5 47 A M 15 T 7 48 5 07 10 54 15 F 7 15 5 48 0 19 16 W 7 47 5 08 A M 16 S 7 14 5 50 1 33 17 T 7 47 5 09 0 10 17 S 7 12 5 51 2 43 18 F 7 46 5 11 1 21 18 M 7 11 5 53 3 47 19 S 7 46 5 12 2 33 19 T 7 09 5 54 4 41 20 S 7 45 5 13 3 43 20 W 7 08 5 55 5 27 21 M 7 45 5 15 4 50 21 T 7 07 5 56 6 03 22 T 7 44 5 16 5 51 22 F 7 06 5 57 6 30 23 W 7 44 5 18 6 43 23 S 7 04 5 59 6 53 24 T 7 43 5 19 7 26 24 S 7 03 6 00 Sets. 25 F 7 42 5 20 Sets. 25 M 7 02 6 02 7 11 26 S 7 41 5 22 6 09 26 T 7 CO 6 03 8 15 27 S 7 40 5 23 7 12 27 W 6 58 6 04 9 19 28 M 7 39 5 24 8 12 28 T 6 56 6 05 10 24 29 T 7 38 5 25 9 18 Note.-- The times of rising and setting of the Sun and Moon, and 30 W 7 37 5 26 10 21 phases of Moon are given in Standard time 31 T 7 36 5 28 11 25</p>
</div>
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<p>{Floral image}</p>
<p>March 1895 || April, 1895</p>
<p>Moon's Phases. D. H. M. || Moon's Phases D. H. M.</p>
<p>First Quarter...... 4 7 40 M || First Quarter.... 2 4 28 E</p>
<p>Full Moon...... 10 10 88 E || Full Moon ...... 9 8 43 M</p>
<p>Last Quarter.... 18 0 32 M || Last Quarter.... 16 6 22 E</p>
<p>New Moon...... 26 5 25 M || New Moon...... 24 8 11 E</p>
<p><br /> {FOR MARCH}</p>
<table><tbody><tr><td>D</td>
<td>D W</td>
<td>S.R.</td>
<td>S.S</td>
<td>M.S.</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>h m</td>
<td>h m</td>
<td>h. m.</td>
</tr><tr><td>1</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>6 54</td>
<td>6 07</td>
<td>11 35</td>
</tr><tr><td>2</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>6 53</td>
<td>6 08</td>
<td>A.M.</td>
</tr><tr><td>3</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>6 51</td>
<td>6 10</td>
<td>0 47</td>
</tr><tr><td>4</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>6 49</td>
<td>6 11</td>
<td>2 00</td>
</tr><tr><td>5</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>6 47</td>
<td>6 12</td>
<td>3 09</td>
</tr><tr><td>6</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>6 46</td>
<td>6 13</td>
<td>4 08</td>
</tr><tr><td>7</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>6 44</td>
<td>6 14</td>
<td>4 55</td>
</tr><tr><td>8</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>6 43</td>
<td>6 16</td>
<td>5 33</td>
</tr><tr><td>9</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>6 41</td>
<td>6 17</td>
<td>6 06</td>
</tr><tr><td>10</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>6 39</td>
<td>6 18</td>
<td>Rises</td>
</tr><tr><td>11</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>6 37</td>
<td>6 20</td>
<td>7 19.</td>
</tr><tr><td>12</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>6 36</td>
<td>6 21</td>
<td>8 39</td>
</tr><tr><td>13</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>6 34</td>
<td>6 22</td>
<td>9 58</td>
</tr><tr><td>14</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>6 32</td>
<td>6 23</td>
<td>11 14</td>
</tr><tr><td>15</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>6 30</td>
<td>6 24</td>
<td>A. M.</td>
</tr><tr><td>16</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>6 28</td>
<td>6 25</td>
<td>0 26</td>
</tr><tr><td>17</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>6 26</td>
<td>6 26</td>
<td>1 35</td>
</tr><tr><td>18</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>6 25</td>
<td>6 28</td>
<td>2 35</td>
</tr><tr><td>19</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>6 23</td>
<td>6 29</td>
<td>3 22</td>
</tr><tr><td>20</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>6 21</td>
<td>6 30</td>
<td>4 01</td>
</tr><tr><td>21</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>6 19</td>
<td>6 31</td>
<td>4 33</td>
</tr><tr><td>22</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>6 18</td>
<td>6 32</td>
<td>4 58</td>
</tr><tr><td>23</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>6 16</td>
<td>6 33</td>
<td>5 18</td>
</tr><tr><td>24</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>6 14</td>
<td>6 34</td>
<td>5 36</td>
</tr><tr><td>25</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>6 12</td>
<td>6 36</td>
<td>5 54</td>
</tr><tr><td>26</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>6 10</td>
<td>6 37</td>
<td>5 Sets.</td>
</tr><tr><td>27</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>6 08</td>
<td>6 38</td>
<td>8 16</td>
</tr><tr><td>28</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>6 06</td>
<td>6 39</td>
<td>9 25</td>
</tr><tr><td>29</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>6 04</td>
<td>6 40</td>
<td>10 38</td>
</tr><tr><td>30</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>6 02</td>
<td>6 41</td>
<td>11 49</td>
</tr><tr><td>31</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>6 01</td>
<td>6 42</td>
<td>A. M.</td>
</tr></tbody></table>
{FOR APRIL}
<table><tbody><tr><td>D</td>
<td>D W</td>
<td>S.R</td>
<td>S.S.</td>
<td>M. S.</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>h m</td>
<td>h m</td>
<td>h.m.</td>
</tr><tr><td>1</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>5 59</td>
<td>6 44</td>
<td>0 59</td>
</tr><tr><td>2</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 58</td>
<td>6 45</td>
<td>2 01</td>
</tr><tr><td>3</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>5 57</td>
<td>6 47</td>
<td>2 53</td>
</tr><tr><td>4</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 55</td>
<td>6 48</td>
<td>3 32</td>
</tr><tr><td>5</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>5 53</td>
<td>6 49</td>
<td>4 04</td>
</tr><tr><td>6</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 51</td>
<td>6 50</td>
<td>4 31</td>
</tr><tr><td>7</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 49</td>
<td>6 51</td>
<td>4 54</td>
</tr><tr><td>8</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>5 48</td>
<td>6 53</td>
<td>5 14</td>
</tr><tr><td>9</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 46</td>
<td>6 54</td>
<td>Rises</td>
</tr><tr><td>10</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>5 44</td>
<td>6 55</td>
<td>8 45</td>
</tr><tr><td>11</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 42</td>
<td>6 57</td>
<td>10 04</td>
</tr><tr><td>12</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>5 40</td>
<td>6 58</td>
<td>11 17</td>
</tr><tr><td>13</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 38</td>
<td>6 59</td>
<td>A.M.</td>
</tr><tr><td>14</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 37</td>
<td>7 00</td>
<td>0 22</td>
</tr><tr><td>15</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>5 35</td>
<td>7 01</td>
<td>1 16</td>
</tr><tr><td>16</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 34</td>
<td>7 02</td>
<td>2 00</td>
</tr><tr><td>17</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>5 33</td>
<td>7 03</td>
<td>2 35</td>
</tr><tr><td>18</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 31</td>
<td>7 04</td>
<td>3 01</td>
</tr><tr><td>19</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>5 30</td>
<td>7 06</td>
<td>3 23</td>
</tr><tr><td>20</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 28</td>
<td>7 07</td>
<td>3 40</td>
</tr><tr><td>21</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 26</td>
<td>7 08</td>
<td>3 57</td>
</tr><tr><td>22</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>5 24</td>
<td>7 09</td>
<td>4 13</td>
</tr><tr><td>23</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 23</td>
<td>7 10</td>
<td>4 32</td>
</tr><tr><td>24</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>5 21</td>
<td>7 11</td>
<td>Sets</td>
</tr><tr><td>25</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 20</td>
<td>7 12</td>
<td>8 26</td>
</tr><tr><td>26</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>5 18</td>
<td>7 14</td>
<td>9 37</td>
</tr><tr><td>27</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 17</td>
<td>7 15</td>
<td>10 50</td>
</tr><tr><td>28</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 15</td>
<td>7 16</td>
<td>11 56</td>
</tr><tr><td>29</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>5 13</td>
<td>7 17</td>
<td>A.M.</td>
</tr><tr><td>30</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 12</td>
<td>7 18</td>
<td>0 51</td>
</tr></tbody></table>
{Floral design}</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>{Floral print}</p>
<p>May, 1895. || June 1895</p>
<p>Moon's Phases H. M. || Moon's Phases D. H. M.</p>
<p>First Quarter.... 1 10 44 E || Full Moon ...... 7 6 0 M</p>
<p>Full Moon...... 8 6 59 E || Last Quarter.... 15 6 28 M</p>
<p>Last Quarter.... 16 0 44 E || New Moon...... 22 4 51 E</p>
<p>New Moon...... 24 7 46 M || First Quarter.... 29 9 1 M</p>
<p>First Quarter.... 31 3 48 M ||</p>
<p>{FOR MAY}</p>
<table><tbody><tr><td>D</td>
<td>DW</td>
<td>S.R</td>
<td>S.S.</td>
<td>M.S.</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>hm</td>
<td>hm</td>
<td>h.m.</td>
</tr><tr><td>1</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>5 10</td>
<td>7 20</td>
<td>1 34</td>
</tr><tr><td>2</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 08</td>
<td>7 21</td>
<td>2 07</td>
</tr><tr><td>3</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>5 07</td>
<td>7 23</td>
<td>2 34</td>
</tr><tr><td>4</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 06</td>
<td>7 24</td>
<td>2 58</td>
</tr><tr><td>5</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 04</td>
<td>7 25</td>
<td>2 18</td>
</tr><tr><td>6</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>5 03</td>
<td>7 26</td>
<td>3 37</td>
</tr><tr><td>7</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 02</td>
<td>7 27</td>
<td>3 58</td>
</tr><tr><td>8</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>5 00</td>
<td>7 28</td>
<td>Rises</td>
</tr><tr><td>9</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 59</td>
<td>7 29</td>
<td>8 54</td>
</tr><tr><td>10</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>4 57</td>
<td>7 31</td>
<td>10 03</td>
</tr><tr><td>11</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 56</td>
<td>7 32</td>
<td>11 04</td>
</tr><tr><td>12</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 55</td>
<td>7 33</td>
<td>11 53</td>
</tr><tr><td>13</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>4 54</td>
<td>7 34</td>
<td>A.M.</td>
</tr><tr><td>14</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 53</td>
<td>7 35</td>
<td>0 31</td>
</tr><tr><td>15</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>4 52</td>
<td>7 36</td>
<td>1 01</td>
</tr><tr><td>16</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 51</td>
<td>7 37</td>
<td>1 26</td>
</tr><tr><td>17</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>4 50</td>
<td>7 38</td>
<td>1 46</td>
</tr><tr><td>18</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 49</td>
<td>7 39</td>
<td>2 04</td>
</tr><tr><td>19</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 48</td>
<td>7 40</td>
<td>2 20</td>
</tr><tr><td>20</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>4 47</td>
<td>7 41</td>
<td>2 36</td>
</tr><tr><td>21</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 46</td>
<td>7 42</td>
<td>2 53</td>
</tr><tr><td>22</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>4 45</td>
<td>7 43</td>
<td>3 13</td>
</tr><tr><td>23</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 44</td>
<td>7 44</td>
<td>3 40</td>
</tr><tr><td>24</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>4 43</td>
<td>7 45</td>
<td>Sets.</td>
</tr><tr><td>25</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 42</td>
<td>7 46</td>
<td>9 44</td>
</tr><tr><td>26</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 42</td>
<td>7 47</td>
<td>10 42</td>
</tr><tr><td>27</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>4 41</td>
<td>7 48</td>
<td>11 28</td>
</tr><tr><td>28</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 41</td>
<td>7 49</td>
<td>A.M.</td>
</tr><tr><td>29</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>4 40</td>
<td>7 50</td>
<td>0 09</td>
</tr><tr><td>30</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 40</td>
<td>7 51</td>
<td>0 38</td>
</tr><tr><td>31</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>4 39</td>
<td>7 52</td>
<td>1 02</td>
</tr></tbody></table>
{FOR JUNE}
<table><tbody><tr><td>D</td>
<td>DW</td>
<td>S.R</td>
<td>S.S.</td>
<td>M. S.</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>hm</td>
<td>hm</td>
<td>h. m.</td>
</tr><tr><td>1</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 39</td>
<td>7 52</td>
<td>1 24</td>
</tr><tr><td>2</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 38</td>
<td>7 53</td>
<td>1 44</td>
</tr><tr><td>3</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>4 38</td>
<td>7 54</td>
<td>2 04</td>
</tr><tr><td>4</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 37</td>
<td>7 55</td>
<td>2 26</td>
</tr><tr><td>5</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>4 37</td>
<td>7 56</td>
<td>2 52</td>
</tr><tr><td>6</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 36</td>
<td>7 56</td>
<td>3 28</td>
</tr><tr><td>7</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>4 36</td>
<td>7 57/td></td>
<td>Rises</td>
</tr><tr><td>8</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 36</td>
<td>7 58</td>
<td>9 44</td>
</tr><tr><td>9</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 36</td>
<td>7 58</td>
<td>10 27</td>
</tr><tr><td>10</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>4 35</td>
<td>7 59</td>
<td>10 59</td>
</tr><tr><td>11</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 35</td>
<td>7 59</td>
<td>11 27</td>
</tr><tr><td>12</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>4 35</td>
<td>8 00</td>
<td>11 48</td>
</tr><tr><td>13</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 35</td>
<td>8 00</td>
<td>A.M.</td>
</tr><tr><td>14</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>4 35</td>
<td>8 00</td>
<td>0 06</td>
</tr><tr><td>15</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 35</td>
<td>8 01</td>
<td>0 23</td>
</tr><tr><td>16</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 35</td>
<td>8 01</td>
<td>0 40</td>
</tr><tr><td>17</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>4 35</td>
<td>8 02</td>
<td>0 59</td>
</tr><tr><td>18</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 35</td>
<td>8 02</td>
<td>1 18</td>
</tr><tr><td>19</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>4 35</td>
<td>8 03</td>
<td>1 41</td>
</tr><tr><td>20</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 36</td>
<td>8 03</td>
<td>2 09</td>
</tr><tr><td>21</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>4 36</td>
<td>8 03</td>
<td>2 48</td>
</tr><tr><td>22</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 36</td>
<td>8 03</td>
<td>Sets</td>
</tr><tr><td>23</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 36</td>
<td>8 03</td>
<td>9 26</td>
</tr><tr><td>24</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>4 37</td>
<td>8 04</td>
<td>10 08</td>
</tr><tr><td>25</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 37</td>
<td>8 04</td>
<td>10 39</td>
</tr><tr><td>26</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>4 37</td>
<td>8 04</td>
<td>11 05</td>
</tr><tr><td>27</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 38</td>
<td>8 03</td>
<td>11 26</td>
</tr><tr><td>28</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>4 38</td>
<td>8 03</td>
<td>11 47</td>
</tr><tr><td>29</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 39</td>
<td>8 03</td>
<td>A.M.</td>
</tr><tr><td>30</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 39</td>
<td>8 03</td>
<td>0 09</td>
</tr></tbody></table>
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<p>{Floral print}</p>
<p>July, 1895. || August, 1895.</p>
<p>Moon's Phases D. H. M. || Moon's Phases D. H. M.</p>
<p>Full Moon ...... 6 6 20 E || Full Moon ...... 5 8 51 M</p>
<p>Last Quarter.... 14 10 31 E || First Quarter.... 13 0 19 E</p>
<p>New Moon...... 22 0 32 M || New Moon...... 20 7 56 M</p>
<p>First Quarter.... 28 3 36 E || Last Quarter.... 27 0 43 M</p>
<p>{FOR JULY}</p>
<table><tbody><tr><td>D</td>
<td>DW</td>
<td>SR</td>
<td>S.S.</td>
<td>M.S.</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>hm</td>
<td>hm</td>
<td>h.m.</td>
</tr><tr><td>1</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>4 40</td>
<td>8 03</td>
<td>0 30</td>
</tr><tr><td>2</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 41</td>
<td>8 03</td>
<td>0 57</td>
</tr><tr><td>3</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>4 41</td>
<td>8 03</td>
<td>1 26</td>
</tr><tr><td>4</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 42</td>
<td>8 02</td>
<td>2 05</td>
</tr><tr><td>5</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>4 42</td>
<td>8 02</td>
<td>2 54.</td>
</tr><tr><td>6</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 43</td>
<td>8 02</td>
<td>Rises</td>
</tr><tr><td>7</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 43</td>
<td>8 02</td>
<td>9 01</td>
</tr><tr><td>8</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>4 44</td>
<td>8 01</td>
<td>9 30</td>
</tr><tr><td>9</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 44</td>
<td>8 01</td>
<td>9 52</td>
</tr><tr><td>10</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>4 45</td>
<td>8 00</td>
<td>10 12</td>
</tr><tr><td>11</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 46</td>
<td>8 00</td>
<td>10 28</td>
</tr><tr><td>12</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>4 47</td>
<td>7 59</td>
<td>10 44</td>
</tr><tr><td>13</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 48</td>
<td>7 59</td>
<td>11 00</td>
</tr><tr><td>14</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 49</td>
<td>7 58</td>
<td>11 19</td>
</tr><tr><td>15</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>4 50</td>
<td>7 58</td>
<td>11 41</td>
</tr><tr><td>16</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 50</td>
<td>7 57</td>
<td>A M</td>
</tr><tr><td>17</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>4 51</td>
<td>7 57</td>
<td>0 01</td>
</tr><tr><td>18</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 52</td>
<td>7 56</td>
<td>0 41</td>
</tr><tr><td>19</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>4 53</td>
<td>7 55</td>
<td>1 27</td>
</tr><tr><td>20</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 54</td>
<td>7 54</td>
<td>2 28</td>
</tr><tr><td>21</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>4 55</td>
<td>7 53</td>
<td>3 40</td>
</tr><tr><td>22</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>4 56</td>
<td>7 52</td>
<td>Sets</td>
</tr><tr><td>23</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 57</td>
<td>7 51</td>
<td>9 06</td>
</tr><tr><td>24</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>4 58</td>
<td>7 50</td>
<td>9 31</td>
</tr><tr><td>25</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>4 59</td>
<td>7 49</td>
<td>9 52</td>
</tr><tr><td>26</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>5 00</td>
<td>7 48</td>
<td>10 13</td>
</tr><tr><td>27</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 01</td>
<td>7 47</td>
<td>10 36</td>
</tr><tr><td>28</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 02</td>
<td>7 46</td>
<td>11 00</td>
</tr><tr><td>29</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>5 03</td>
<td>7 45</td>
<td>11 30</td>
</tr><tr><td>30</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 04</td>
<td>7 44</td>
<td>A M</td>
</tr><tr><td>31</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>5 05</td>
<td>7 43</td>
<td>0 04</td>
</tr></tbody></table>
{FOR AUGUST}
<table><tbody><tr><td>D</td>
<td>DW</td>
<td>S.R.</td>
<td>S.S.</td>
<td>M.S.</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>hm</td>
<td>hm</td>
<td>h. m.</td>
</tr><tr><td>1</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 07</td>
<td>7 42</td>
<td>0 51</td>
</tr><tr><td>2</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>5 08</td>
<td>7 41</td>
<td>1 44</td>
</tr><tr><td>3</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 09</td>
<td>7 40</td>
<td>2 45</td>
</tr><tr><td>4</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 10</td>
<td>7 38</td>
<td>3 51</td>
</tr><tr><td>5</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>5 11</td>
<td>7 37</td>
<td>Rises</td>
</tr><tr><td>6</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 12</td>
<td>7 36</td>
<td>8 17</td>
</tr><tr><td>7</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>5 13</td>
<td>7 34</td>
<td>8 35</td>
</tr><tr><td>8</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 14</td>
<td>7 33</td>
<td>8 52</td>
</tr><tr><td>9</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>5 15</td>
<td>7 31</td>
<td>9 09</td>
</tr><tr><td>10</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 17</td>
<td>7 30</td>
<td>9 26</td>
</tr><tr><td>11</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 18</td>
<td>7 29</td>
<td>9 44</td>
</tr><tr><td>12</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>5 19</td>
<td>7 27</td>
<td>10 07</td>
</tr><tr><td>13</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 20</td>
<td>7 26</td>
<td>10 37</td>
</tr><tr><td>14</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>5 21</td>
<td>7 24</td>
<td>11 17</td>
</tr><tr><td>15</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 22</td>
<td>7 22</td>
<td>A M</td>
</tr><tr><td>16</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>5 23</td>
<td>7 21</td>
<td>0 06</td>
</tr><tr><td>17</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 24</td>
<td>7 19</td>
<td>1 14</td>
</tr><tr><td>18</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 26</td>
<td>7 18</td>
<td>2 32</td>
</tr><tr><td>19</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>5 27</td>
<td>7 16</td>
<td>3 56</td>
</tr><tr><td>20</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 28</td>
<td>7 14</td>
<td>Sets</td>
</tr><tr><td>21</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>5 29</td>
<td>7 12</td>
<td>7 54</td>
</tr><tr><td>22</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 30</td>
<td>7 11</td>
<td>8 14</td>
</tr><tr><td>23</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>5 31</td>
<td>7 09</td>
<td>8 38</td>
</tr><tr><td>24</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 32</td>
<td>7 08</td>
<td>9 02</td>
</tr><tr><td>25</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 33</td>
<td>7 06</td>
<td>9 31</td>
</tr><tr><td>26</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>5 34</td>
<td>7 05</td>
<td>10 05</td>
</tr><tr><td>27</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 35</td>
<td>7 03</td>
<td>10 47</td>
</tr><tr><td>28</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>5 36</td>
<td>7 01</td>
<td>11 39</td>
</tr><tr><td>29</td>
<td>T</td>
<td>5 37</td>
<td>6 59</td>
<td>A M</td>
</tr><tr><td>30</td>
<td>F</td>
<td>5 38</td>
<td>6 57</td>
<td>0 38</td>
</tr><tr><td>31</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>5 39</td>
<td>6 56</td>
<td>1 42</td>
</tr></tbody></table>
{Floral print}</div>
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<p>MEMORANDUM FROM 1894</p>
<p>{??st} summer Flowers wile go to Lehi{?}</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">MEMORANDUM FROM 1894</span></h2>
<p>Walter Veitch Leith</p>
<p>Wm Ross Leith</p>
<p>C. W. Cameron</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">January Tuesday 1 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mr Thomson here in the evening</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Wednesday 2</span></h2>
<p>{scribble centred on this section}</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Thursday 3</span></h2>
<p>Mrs Harkness & Mrs Julian here</p>
<p>Stormy</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">January Friday 4 1895</span></h2>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Saturday 5</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. {Owen Sound}</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Sunday 6</span></h2>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">January Monday 7 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac Thomas & I at Mr Crawfords</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Tuesday 8</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S Mrs Thomson there beautiful day</p>
<p></p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Wednesday 9</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Mr W.McKeens in the evening. Men drawing wood.</p>
<p>beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">Janurary THURSDAY 10 1895</span></h2>
<p>Congregational meeting in the church Mac & M went Wrote to Grace Minnie & Belle</p>
<p>Stormy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 11</span></h2>
<p>I went to Leith in the morning Mac & M finished drawing home the wood</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 12</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. Belle at Mr. Thomson</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">Januarary SUNDAY 13 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Mr Rutherford at church</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 14</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. at F. I. meeting. bought 3 cattle from J. Moore for {52.00 smudged}</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 15</span></h2>
<p>Jessie went to see Mary Scott in the forenoon & she Thomas & Mac went to Mr W. Ross's in the afternoon</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">January WEDNESDAY 16 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. with a load of hay. I was at the W. F Ins meeting at Annan</p>
<p>Stormy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 17</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. with a load of hay I was at Mr Thomson for Tea</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Friday 18</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O. S. with hay</p>
<p>Stormy</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">January SATURDAY 19 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Jessie in O. S.</p>
<p>Lovely day</p>
<p>== SUNDAY 20</p>
<p>Mac Jessie Bell R. & Thomas at church</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 21</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Mr Frasers</p>
<p>Raining</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">January TUESDAY 22 1895</span></h2>
<p>Very Stormy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 23</span></h2>
<p>Mac & I at {Lottie} Nixons wedding</p>
<p>Stormy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 24</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Mr Elliotts</p>
<p>Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">January FRIDAY 25 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S.</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Saturday 26</span></h2>
<p>Very Stormy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 27</span></h2>
<p>No preaching</p>
<p>Very Stormy</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">January MONDAY 28 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mr Thomson called</p>
<p>Very Stormy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 29</span></h2>
<p>I wrote to Ellie</p>
<p>Stormy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 30</span></h2>
<p>W. Harkness here for dinner</p>
<p>Stormy</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">January THURSDAY 31 1895</span></h2>
<p>Put short clothes on Maggie. Mac went up to see Jessie Harkness Thomas & I went to see Mary Scott G. Brizza's little girl buried</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">February FRIDAY 1</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. with hay G. Brizza's little girl buried</p>
<p>Stormy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 2</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S.</p>
<p>Stormy</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">February SUNDAY 3 1895</span></h2>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 4</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S.</p>
<p>Very cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 5</span></h2>
<p>Very cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">February WEDNESDAY 6 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. with lambs. Jessie at Mr Thomsons</p>
<p>Very cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 7</span></h2>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 8</span></h2>
<p>Very cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">February SATURDAY 9 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S.</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 10</span></h2>
<p>Jessie Harkness died</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 11</span></h2>
<p>Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">February TUESDAY 12 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac helping to move the Bone's Jessie Harkness buried</p>
<p>Mild</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 13</span></h2>
<p>Ollie Cameron here</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Thursday 14</span></h2>
<p>Mrs Thomson here</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">Feburary FRIDAY 15 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac away with W Elliott</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Saturday 16</span></h2>
<p>Mrs Earlie here Uncle Tom & Uncle Malcolm here R & Belle went home</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 17</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">February MONDAY 18 1895</span></h2>
<p>John Hobson came Mr & Mrs Fraser called</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 19</span></h2>
<p>Mrs Veitch here John Hobson started to work</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESAY 20</span></h2>
<p>Mac Thomas & I at Mrs W. McKeens & Mr Thomson</p>
<p>Mild</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">February THURSDAY 21 1895</span></h2>
<p>Very Stormy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 22</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S.</p>
<p>Stormy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Saturday 23</span></h2>
<p>Commenced the ice</p>
<p>Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">February SUNDAY 24 1895</span></h2>
<p>{Scribbles}</p>
<p>Stormy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 25</span></h2>
<p>Men drawing home ice</p>
<p>Mild</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 23</span></h2>
<p>Mac Thomas & I at Mr Harkness's, Missionary meeting in the church in the evening</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">February WEDNESDAY 27 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Mr Hough's sale</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 28</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to O.S. for aload of saw dust Malcolm, Bob & Jessie McGregor came down</p>
<p>Thawing</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">March FRIDAY 1</span></h2>
<p>Had letters from Belle & Ellie Wrote to Ellie</p>
<p>Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">March SATURDAY 2 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. Mrs Thomson here for tea</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 3</span></h2>
<p>Stormy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Monday 4</span></h2>
<p>Stormy</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">March TUESDAY 5 1895</span></h2>
<p>Jessie at Mr Julian</p>
<p>{Scribbles}</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 6</span></h2>
<p>Mac Thomas & I at Mr Gibsons + Mr Henry's</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 7</span></h2>
<p>I was at W. F. M. Meeting Mac at M. Hornes sale</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">March FRIDAY 8 1895</span></h2>
<p>Preaching in the church Mr & Mrs H. Harkness here for tea</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 9</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S.</p>
<p>Stormy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 10</span></h2>
<p>Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">March MONDAY 11 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Woodford for sawdust at O.S. in the afternoon</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 12</span></h2>
<p>Mac at woodford with W. {Scribbles}tt</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY</span></h2>
<p>{Scribbles} Thomson {Scribbles} Sister {scribble}ries little boy born</p>
<p>Cold</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">March THURSDAY 14 1895</span></h2>
<p>Cold Scribbles</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 15</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Woodford for lumber for R Henry</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 16</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Jessie in OS Mrs Scott & Mary here Tom & Minnie came down</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">March SUNDAY 17 1895</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 18</span></h2>
<p>Tom & Minnie went home, Mac & John commenced to draw sawlogs to Mill</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 19</span></h2>
<p>Band concert</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">March WEDNESDAY 20 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Mr Coopers & Mr Maynards Mrs Thoms here</p>
<p>Clear & cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 21</span></h2>
<p>Quilting at Mrs McNeils</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 22</span></h2>
<p>John & Ma came down</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">March SATURDAY 23 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to O.S.</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 24</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful Day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 25</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to O.S. on the ice, for seed grain</p>
<p>Fine</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">March TUESDAY 26 1896</span></h2>
<p>Mr Henry called in the evening, Uncle John died</p>
<p>Snowing</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 27</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to O.S. with a load of hay Mrs Alexand came + Mrs Camero{n} here</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Thursday 28</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S with a load of hay Innis Matheson here Maggie got her first tooth</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">March FRIDAY 29 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac + I at Mr Maynards</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 30</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. Mary Burr here</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 31</span></h2>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">April MONDAY 1 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mrs Rutherford at Mr Thomsons & Mr. W. McKeens</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 2</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. with a load of hay. drove on the ice, Mr T. here in the evening</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 3</span></h2>
<p>Mac & I at Mr Thomson for tea, bought for cattle from C. Cameron for 95</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">April THURSDAY 4 1895</span></h2>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 5</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 6</span></h2>
<p>Wrote to the two Minnies + Ellie</p>
<p>Raining</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">April SUNDAY 7 1895</span></h2>
<p>Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 8</span></h2>
<p>A Ferguson came Louisa Thomson called</p>
<p>Very Wet</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 9</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to O.S. on the ice</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">April WEDNESADAY 10 1895</span></h2>
<p>Jessie at Mr Thomsons quilting</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 11</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Andrew in O.S. with 3 cattle</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 12</span></h2>
<p>John Robson went home sick</p>
<p>Raining</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">April Saturday 13 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac helping to put the organ in the church</p>
<p>Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 14</span></h2>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Monday 15</span></h2>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">April TUESDAY 16 1895</span></h2>
<p>Minnie Moore here Andrew ploughing</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 17</span></h2>
<p>Had Dick in the buggy for the first time</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 18</span></h2>
<p>Mac at John Gibson's raising</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">April FRIDAY 19 1895</span></h2>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 20</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S.</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 21</span></h2>
<p>The ice went out of the bay I went to C. E. Meeting in the first day for organ in church evening</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">April MONDAY 22 1895</span></h2>
<p>Grace came home from Africa</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 23</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Mr Days & Elliotts Maggie clapped her hands for Grandma</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Wednesday 24</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to O.S. with hogs</p>
<p>Very windy</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">April THURSDAY 25 1895</span></h2>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 26</span></h2>
<p>Thomas walked to Leith for the first time Mary Burr here</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Saturday 27</span></h2>
<p>Sowed peas H. Kennedy + son here for tea</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">April SUNDAY 28 1895</span></h2>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 29</span></h2>
<p>Had a letter from Belle</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 30</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">May WEDNESDAY 1 1895</span></h2>
<p>Susie Campbell called, Mac sold two cattle to H Kennedy for $70.00</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 2</span></h2>
<p>Mac & I in O.S.</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Friday 3</span></h2>
<p>Mr & Mrs Thomson here in the evening</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">May SATURDAY 4 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac & Jessie in O.S.</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 5</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 6</span></h2>
<p>Finished seeding Thomas & I went to Mr Thomsons in the evening</p>
<p>Very Warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">May TUESDAY 7 1895</span></h2>
<p>Maggie commenced to creep</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 8</span></h2>
<p>Plumb blossom out, Men drawing home lumber</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 9</span></h2>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">May Friday 10 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac + Andrew in O.S.</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 11</span></h2>
<p>Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 12</span></h2>
<p>Showers of snow</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">May MONDAY 13 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac & O. Cameron in O.S.</p>
<p>Hard frost</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 14</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to see Jim Ross I called at Mr Veitche's in the evening</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESADY 15</span></h2>
<p>O. Cameron commenced the pump house. frost</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 16 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac the children & I went out home</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 17</span></h2>
<p>We came home from Sullivan</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 18</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. {from Sullivan - erased}</p>
<p>Raining</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">May SUNDAY 19 1895</span></h2>
<p>A heavy shower of snow</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 20</span></h2>
<p>Hard frost</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 21</span></h2>
<p>{entry erased}</p>
<p>Fine Day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">May WEDNESDAY 22 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mrs Hugh Reid died</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 23</span></h2>
<p>Concert at Leith</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Friday 24</span></h2>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">May SATURDAY 25 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Mrs Reid's funeral. Jessie & Jim Ross called. Tom & Minnie washed the sheep came down I finished house cleaning</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 26</span></h2>
<p>Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 27</span></h2>
<p>Tom & Minnie went home</p>
<p>Wet</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">May TUESDAY 28 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Mr Henry's raising</p>
<p>beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 29</span></h2>
<p>Planted the potatoes & shore the sheep</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 30</span></h2>
<p>Mac & I in O.S. I called to see Bessie got my first ride with Dick</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">May FRIDAY 31 1895</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">June SATURDAY 1</span></h2>
<p>Jessie at Mary Burrs for tea</p>
<p>Mac in O.S.</p>
<p>Put the cattle in the front</p>
<p>Very Warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 2</span></h2>
<p>Communion at Annan Jessie went</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">June MONDAY 3 1895</span></h2>
<p>I had sick headache was in bed all forenoon</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 4</span></h2>
<p>Jessie at</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 5</span></h2>
<p>Cool</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">June THURSDAY 6 1895</span></h2>
<p>I was at the W. F. M. Meeting</p>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 7</span></h2>
<p>Mac + I in O.S.</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 8</span></h2>
<p>George {Buzza's?} raining. Mac at Moores in the evening</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">June SUNDAY 9 1895</span></h2>
<p>Very Warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 10</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Tuesday 11</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. Jessie at Mr Thomasons for Tea</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">June Wednesday 12 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac + I at Adam Morris rained in the afternoon</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 13</span></h2>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Friday 14</span></h2>
<p>Mrs Harken + him Gilyan here for tea him Mathison Minnie + Maggie called in the evening</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">June SATURDAY 15 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S.</p>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 16</span></h2>
<p>Mr Anthony preacher from the lent "I am come that ye might have Gfe + that ye might have it more about aith"</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 17</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">July FRIDAY 12 1895</span></h2>
<p>Ollie called</p>
<p>45*32 = 90 + 1350 = 1440 {equation done in long hand}</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 13</span></h2>
<p>Mr + Mrs Hunter called Mac in OS</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 14</span></h2>
<p>Anthony preached</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">July MONDAY 15 1895</span></h2>
<p>Thomas + I went to Mr Thomasons. Jake + Andrew went to Mr Woods with six cattle, sold for $276.00</p>
<p>Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Tuesday 16</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S.</p>
<p>1440*14.5 = 15840 + 720 {contines into Wednesday}</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 17</span></h2>
<p>9/16560 = 184 {16560/9=1840}</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">July THURSDAY 18 1895</span></h2>
<p>Maggie + I at Mr Thomason finished cutting the hay</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Friday 19</span></h2>
<p>Henry Thomason called</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Saturday 20</span></h2>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">July SUNDAY 21 1895</span></h2>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 22</span></h2>
<p>Bell's boy born</p>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 23</span></h2>
<p>I was at Mr Seoth</p>
<p>raining</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">July Wednesday 24 1895</span></h2>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Thursday 25</span></h2>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 26</span></h2>
<p>Mac Thomas + I went to see Walter Reid + called to see T. Gibron + his wife</p>
<p>Cool</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">July SATURDAY 27 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. Tom + Minnie came down</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 28</span></h2>
<p>Warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 29</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S.</p>
<p>Sister Grace's little boy born</p>
<p>Raining</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">July TUESDAY 30 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to Mr George Luthersons for his hogs</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 31</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to Sullivan</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">August THURSDAY 1</span></h2>
<p>Mac came home little Mac came down with him</p>
<p>Cool</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">August FRIDAY 2 1895</span></h2>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 3</span></h2>
<p>Mac + Jessie went to O.S. Mary Burr here for tea</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Sunday 4</span></h2>
<p>Rob + Martha came down</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">August MONDAY 5 1895</span></h2>
<p>Commenced to cut the barley</p>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 6</span></h2>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 7</span></h2>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">August THURSDAY 8 1895</span></h2>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 9</span></h2>
<p>{hnele?} Tom Mary Gin + {nnele?} Tom came down</p>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 10</span></h2>
<p>Maggie + I went home with {Nnele?} Tom Grace + little Mac went home</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">August SUNDAY 11 1895</span></h2>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 12</span></h2>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 13</span></h2>
<p>Commenced to cut the peas</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">August WEDNESDAY 14 1895</span></h2>
<p>We came home from Sullivan</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THRUSDAY 15</span></h2>
<p>Finished taking in the barley A Cameron + Mrs Roy here in the evening Walter Reid died</p>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 16</span></h2>
<p>{entry erased}</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">August SATURDAY 17 1895</span></h2>
<p>John Will Ranner man + Harold came down Mac at Walter Reids funeral</p>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 18</span></h2>
<p>Will here {a ehed m?} Leith church</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 19</span></h2>
<p>Will Ranner man gave a lecture in Leith church</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">August TUESDAY 20 1895</span></h2>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 21</span></h2>
<p>Wile R went home</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 22</span></h2>
<p>I called to see Andrew Seoth men finished pulling the peas</p>
<p>Cool</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">August FRIDAY 23 1895</span></h2>
<p>Commenced to cut the oats</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 24</span></h2>
<p>Tom + Ma came down</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 25</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">August MONDAY 26 1895</span></h2>
<p>Ma + I went to Mr Thomasons in the evening</p>
<p>Warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 27</span></h2>
<p>Tom + I went to O.S. Mac finished cutting the grain</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 28</span></h2>
<p>Tom + Ma went home</p>
<p>Raining</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">August THURSDAY 29 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mr McHuyie called</p>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 30</span></h2>
<p>Finished taking in the peas preaching in the Church</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAy 31</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S.</p>
<p>Cool</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">September SUNDAY 1 1895</span></h2>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 2</span></h2>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 3</span></h2>
<p>Finished the Harvesting</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">September WEDNESDAY 4 1895</span></h2>
<p>Started to plough for fall wheat</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 5</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to Galt</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 6</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">September SATURDAY 7 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac came home from Galt</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 8</span></h2>
<p>Maggie has four lieth</p>
<p>Warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 9</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to Mr Cameron's for fall wheat + called to see Amelia Seoth</p>
<p>Warm</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">September TUESDAY 10 1895</span></h2>
<p>We went to Rob Harken's</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 11</span></h2>
<p>Very Warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 12</span></h2>
<p>Mac + Jessie went to O.S.</p>
<p>Raining</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">September FRIDAY 13 1895</span></h2>
<p>Jessie at Maynards Miss Mathron here for tea</p>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 14</span></h2>
<p>Jessie went to see Mary Reid</p>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 15</span></h2>
<p>Cool</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">September MONDAY 16 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. with 4 pigs Andrew sowed the fall wheat</p>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 17</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 18</span></h2>
<p>Mac at O.S. show</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">September THURSDAY 19 1895</span></h2>
<p>Ellie + Annie McDonald came, Mr Fraser here for tea</p>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 20</span></h2>
<p>We all went down to the shore Ellie went home</p>
<p>Very windy</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 21</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">September SUNDAY 22 1895</span></h2>
<p>Very warm</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 23</span></h2>
<p>Cool</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 24</span></h2>
<p>Mac + C Lemon went to Debrow show Jessie called to see Amelia Seoth Ada + Ida here on the evening</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">October TUESDAY 1 1895</span></h2>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 2</span></h2>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THRUSDAY 3</span></h2>
<p>Tom came down for Minnie</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">October FRIDAY 4 1895</span></h2>
<p>Sydenham show</p>
<p>fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 5</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S. for Rate</p>
<p>Mrs Seoth + Amelia called</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 6</span></h2>
<p>245 / 2</p>
<p>111</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">October MONDAY 7 1895</span></h2>
<p>a p e r m d</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 8</span></h2>
<p>We had the thrashing machine</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 9</span></h2>
<p>Mac at O.S.</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">October THURSDAY 10 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac at Kilsyth show Mrs Thomason went to Bay City</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 11</span></h2>
<p>Jessie + Hate at Mrs Gilchrist</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SATURDAY 12</span></h2>
<p>Mac + I in O.S. I had a front tooth crowned</p>
<p>Cold</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">October SUNDAY 13 1895</span></h2>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 14</span></h2>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">TUESDAY 15</span></h2>
<p>Fine day</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">October WEDNESDAY 16 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac got 6 pigs from g. Grady for $5.00</p>
<p>Raining</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 17</span></h2>
<p>Mac + Andrew in O.S. with his cattle</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">FRIDAY 18</span></h2>
<p>Mac in O.S.</p>
<p>Andrew finished pulling apples</p>
<p>Cold</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">October SATURDAY 19 1895</span></h2>
<p>Snowing</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">SUNDAY 20</span></h2>
<p>snow 7 inches deep</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MONDAY 21</span></h2>
<p>We moved the stoves</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">October TUESDAY 22 1895</span></h2>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEDNESDAY 23</span></h2>
<p>Mac + Andrew went to ploughing match</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">THURSDAY 24</span></h2>
<p>Commenced to pull the turnips I went to see Andrew Seoth</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>October Friday 25 1895</p>
<p>Jessie went to</p>
<p>{illegible}</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<p>Saturday 26 Mac went to O.S.</p>
<p>with Mr. Robson</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<p>Sunday 27</p>
<p>{scribbly mark}</p>
<p>{maybe initials}</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>October MONDAY 28 1895</p>
<p>Rutherford came down to keep at the turnips</p>
<p>Snowing</p>
<p>TUESDAY 29</p>
<p>Henry Thomson & his mother came home</p>
<p>Snowing</p>
<p>WEDNESDAY 30</p>
<p>I called at Mr Thomsons</p>
<p><br /> Cold</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>October THURSDAY 31 1895</p>
<p>Snowing</p>
<p>NOVEMBER FRIDAY 1</p>
<p>Thomas & I went for the mail.</p>
<p>Mary Buhr here for tea</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<p>SATURDAY 2</p>
<p><br /> Beautiful day</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>November SUNDAY 3 1895</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<p>MONDAY 4</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<p>TUESDAY 5</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>November WEDNESDAY 6 1895</p>
<p>Jake Waddell helping the men at the turnips. Mrs Thomson here in the evening</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<p>THURSDAY 7</p>
<p>Finished the turnips I started house cleaning</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<p>FRIDAY 8</p>
<p>Mac Maggie & I went home</p>
<p>Raining</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>November SATURDAY 9 1895</p>
<p>Snowing</p>
<p>SUNDAY 10</p>
<p>Amelia Scott died at half past {midnight?} P.M.</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<p>MONDAY 11</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>November TUESDAY 12 1895</p>
<p>Amelia Scott was buried</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<p>WEDNESDAY 13</p>
<p>Grace & Will left for New York</p>
<p>Brother Tom came down for apples</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<p>THURSDAY 14</p>
<p>Tom went home</p>
<p>Cold</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>November FRIDAY 15 1895</p>
<p>{there is a name McGill printed in pen above the daily entry}</p>
<p>Mac & Andrew ploughing</p>
<p>Raining</p>
<p>SATURDAY 16</p>
<p>Jessie finished house cleaning</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<p>SUNDAY 17</p>
<p>Stormy</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>November MONDAY 18 1895</p>
<p>I was at Mr. Scotts for tea</p>
<p>Mac in O.S.</p>
<p>Snowing</p>
<p>TUESDAY 19</p>
<p>Uncle Tom came down</p>
<p>Very cold</p>
<p>WEDNESDAY 20</p>
<p>Stormy</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>November THURSDAY 21 1895</p>
<p>Thanksgiving day</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<p>FRIDAY 22</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<p>SATURDAY 23</p>
<p>I finished house cleaning. Mac & Jessie in O.S.</p>
<p>Raining</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>November SUNDAY 24 1895</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<p>MONDAY 25</p>
<p>Mr. McDonald here all night</p>
<p>Stormy</p>
<p>I was at Mr Fraser for tea had a very pleasant time</p>
<p>Cold</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>November WEDNESDAY 27 1895</p>
<p>Ollie & Mary Burr here</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<p>THURSDAY 28</p>
<p>Jessie went to Mr. Waddells</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<p>FRIDAY 29</p>
<p>I called at Mr. Thomsons in the morning</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>November SATURDAY 30 1895</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<p>December SUNDAY 1</p>
<p>Snowing</p>
<p>MONDAY 2</p>
<p>Very stormy</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>December TUESDAY 3 1895</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<p>WEDNESDAY 4</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<p>THURSDAY 5</p>
<p>I was at the W.FM. Meeting Fine day</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>December FRIDAY 6 1895</p>
<p>Jessie at T Harkness Fine day</p>
<p>SATURDAY 7</p>
<p>Mac in O.S. Raining</p>
<p>SUNDAY 8</p>
<p>cold</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>December MONDAY 9 1895</p>
<p>Mac Jessie & Thomson went to Mr. Crawfords & Mr Gibsons</p>
<p>fine day</p>
<p>TUESDAY 10</p>
<p>Mr Hurry & R.B. Wilkinson here for dinner</p>
<p>We were at Mr. {illegible} in the afternoon</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<p>WEDNESDAY 11 Men drawing home wood</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>December THURSDAY 12 1895</p>
<p>Killed the pigs</p>
<p>Cold</p>
<p>FRIDAY 13</p>
<p>Tom & Minnie came down</p>
<p>beautiful day</p>
<p>SATURDAY 14</p>
<p>Mac Minnie & I went to O.S.</p>
<p>Beautiful day</p>
<p>sleighing good</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">December SUNDAY 15 1895</span></h2>
<p>Tom & Minnie went home</p>
<p>beautiful day</p>
<p>MONDAY 16</p>
<p>beautiful day</p>
<p>TUESDAY 17</p>
<p>Jessie & Mac at a party at Mr Thomsons</p>
<p>Wet</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">December WEDNESDAY 18 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to O.S.</p>
<p>Raining</p>
<p>THURSDAY 19</p>
<p>Raining</p>
<p>FRIDAY 20</p>
<p>Miss Mathison brought a bouquet of flowers for Mrs Mc</p>
<p>Very dull</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">December SATURDAY 21 1895</span></h2>
<p>Wet</p>
<p>SUNDAY 22</p>
<p>Communion at {illegible - looks like human but cd be service}</p>
<p>Wet</p>
<p>MONDAY 23</p>
<p>Raining</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">December TUESDAY 24 1895</span></h2>
<p>Mac went to O.S. Mr Thomson ploughing</p>
<p>Raining</p>
<p>WEDNESDAY 25 Beautiful bright day</p>
<p>Mr Thomson & Henry called in the evening</p>
<p>THURSDAY 26</p>
<p>Mac at school meeting</p>
<p>Was appointed trustee</p>
<p>Snowing</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">December FRIDAY 27 1895</span></h2>
<p>Fine day</p>
<p>SATURDAY 28</p>
<p>We all went to Mr Thomsons</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
<p>SUNDAY 29</p>
<p>{illegible} Duncan died</p>
<p>Fine day</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">December MONDAY 30 1895</span></h2>
<p>Thomas & I went to Mr McKeens</p>
<p>Snowing</p>
<p>TUESDAY 31</p>
<p>{scribbling on the page for Tuesday and remainder of page}</p>
<p>very stormy</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MEMORANDA</span></h2>
<p>{Nothing hand written on the page. Scribbling on the page plus an abstract shape drawn at the bottom of the page}</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">MEMORANDA</span></h2>
<p>{Nothing hand written on the page. Scribbling on the whole page}</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">WEATHER RECORD</span></h2>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">Date Remarks Therm</span></h3>
<p>{Nothing hand written on the page. One scribble line under Remarks at the upper part of the page}</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">ADDRESSES</span></h2>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">Name Residence</span></h3>
<p>{Two columns. Nothing hand written in either one. Scribbling and a line drawn through in the Name column}</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">NOTES AND BILLS PAYABLE</span></h2>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">Date Name Dolls Cts</span></h3>
<p>{Four columns. Nothing handwritten in any of them. Scribbling and abstract shape drawn in the middle of the page}</p>
</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">CASH ACCOUNT---JANUARY</span></h2>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">DATE Received Paid</span></h3>
<p></p>
<table><tbody><tr><td>Date.</td>
<td>{no heading}</td>
<td>Received</td>
<td>Paid {column split for $ and cts}</td>
</tr><tr><td>{blank}</td>
<td>bal on hand</td>
<td>{blank}</td>
<td>4.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>2nd</td>
<td>D. {illegible looks like Ross} sleigh</td>
<td>{blank}</td>
<td>25.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>5</td>
<td>6 3/4 butter</td>
<td>16 cts</td>
<td>1.08</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>Interest</td>
<td>{blank}</td>
<td>6.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>11</td>
<td>7 1/4 lbs butter</td>
<td>13 cts</td>
<td>.95</td>
</tr><tr><td>12</td>
<td>sold 10 lamb skins</td>
<td>{blank}</td>
<td>5.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>drew from bank</td>
<td>{blank}</td>
<td>20.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>14</td>
<td>drew from bank</td>
<td>{blank}</td>
<td>5.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>16</td>
<td>sold a load of hay</td>
<td>{blank}</td>
<td>9.45</td>
</tr><tr><td>17</td>
<td>"</td>
<td>{blank}</td>
<td>8.22</td>
</tr><tr><td>18</td>
<td>"</td>
<td>{blank}</td>
<td>9.65</td>
</tr><tr><td>25</td>
<td>"</td>
<td>{blank}</td>
<td>8.10</td>
</tr><tr><td>{blank.}</td>
<td>{blank}</td>
<td>{blank}</td>
<td>102.45</td>
</tr><tr><td>29th</td>
<td>Paid</td>
<td>{blank}</td>
<td>{not sure if there's something here}</td>
</tr><tr><td>29th</td>
<td>postage</td>
<td>{blank}</td>
<td>06</td>
</tr><tr><td>{blank}</td>
<td>{blank}</td>
<td>{blank}</td>
<td>73.16</td>
</tr><tr><td>{blank}</td>
<td>bal on hand</td>
<td>{blank}</td>
<td>29.29</td>
<td>$102.45</td>
</tr></tbody></table></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p> Cash Account --- January</p>
</tbody>
<table><tbody><tr><td>
<p>Date</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Received</span></p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Paid</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>$</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>cts</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>2nd</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>C Lemon bolts</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>35</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>4</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>" " shoing</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>1</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>00</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>5</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Groceries</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>1</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>08</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>"</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>boots for Thomas</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>90</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>"</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Whip</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>1</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>00</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>"</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>T. J. Harkness</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>1</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>00</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>"</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Diary pencils & candy</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>0</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>40</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>"</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Pd. for Wittners</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>0</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>60</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>6</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>baptist collection</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>0</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>05</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>8</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Mac spent</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>0</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>20</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>11</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>print</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>0</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>95</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>12</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Mac suit shirt etc</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>19</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>20</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>"</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>shoe for Lark</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>0</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>30</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>"</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>hair cut</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>0</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>15</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>"</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>dates</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>0</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>25</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>14</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>postage</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>0</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>14</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>"</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Mac in O.S. spent</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>0</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>65</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>"</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Pd. J. Moore for cattle</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>36</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>00</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>15</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>C Lemon</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>40</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>16</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>show</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>1</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>00</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>"</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>dinner, horses & weighing</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>55</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>"</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>W F Missions</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>1</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>00</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>14</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Mac spent</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>25</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>18</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>expences</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>1</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>05</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>19</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>T. ?ions {presents ex}</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>2</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>35</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>23</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>spent</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>10</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>25</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>spent</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>18</p>
</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<p>27</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>for flour</p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td>
<p>2</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>00</p>
</td>
</tr></tbody></table></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">CASH ACCOUNT-FEBRUARY</span></h2>
<p>bal on hand 29.29</p>
<table><tbody><tr><td>Date</td>
<td>Received</td>
<td>Paid</td>
</tr><tr><td>Feb 1</td>
<td>Sold a load of hay</td>
<td>9.05</td>
</tr><tr><td>2</td>
<td>" " " " "</td>
<td>9 50</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>8 lbs barley at 15 ob</td>
<td>1 20</td>
</tr><tr><td>6</td>
<td>sold 8 lambs</td>
<td>28 00</td>
</tr><tr><td>9</td>
<td>Wrew from bank</td>
<td>59 00</td>
</tr><tr><td>12</td>
<td>Sheepskin</td>
<td>50{50 cents}</td>
</tr><tr><td>14</td>
<td>12 lbs buller 15 ols</td>
<td>1 80</td>
</tr><tr><td>22</td>
<td>84 {word erased}w 16</td>
<td>1 35</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>$139 69</td>
</tr></tbody></table></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span class="mw-headline">CASH ACCOUNT-FEBRUARY</span></h2>
<p>4eb #ds</p>
<table><tbody><tr><td>Date</td>
<td>Received</td>
<td>Paid</td>
</tr><tr><td>1</td>
<td>expenses</td>
<td>.15</td>
</tr><tr><td>2</td>
<td>books for M. + G</td>
<td>2.45</td>
</tr><tr><td>2</td>
<td>socks</td>
<td>65 {cents}</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>straps + snaps</td>
<td>55 {cents}</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>sausages + en.</td>
<td>55 {cents}</td>
</tr><tr><td>4</td>
<td>Slippers, 50, rapseen 80 lob. 1-120</td>
<td>1 50</td>
</tr><tr><td>6</td>
<td>Slippers, shank + ex.</td>
<td>1 55</td>
</tr><tr><td>9</td>
<td>sugar B 1.60 bolts + oysters</td>
<td>1 55</td>
</tr><tr><td>12</td>
<td>fish + ex</td>
<td>55</td>
</tr><tr><td>14</td>
<td>Black Cameroon aet</td>
<td>2 39</td>
</tr><tr><td>15</td>
<td>Gague Halle</td>
<td>1 00</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>Cocoa wnl</td>
<td>10 {cents}</td>
</tr><tr><td>16</td>
<td>M. Rutherford</td>
<td>111.00</td>
</tr><tr><td>17</td>
<td>groceries</td>
<td>61 {cents}</td>
</tr><tr><td>21</td>
<td>2 bal l oil</td>
<td>50 {cents}</td>
</tr><tr><td>22</td>
<td>sundries</td>
<td>3 00</td>
</tr><tr><td>23</td>
<td>postage</td>
<td>.05</td>
</tr><tr><td>25</td>
<td>cuhing iee</td>
<td>1 50</td>
</tr><tr><td>26</td>
<td>for schomes</td>
<td>1 00</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>$130.43</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>bal on hand</td>
<td>9.26</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>$139.69</td>
</tr></tbody></table></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>CASH ACCOUNT—MARCH $db</p>
<table><tbody><tr><td></td>
<td>bal on hand</td>
<td>9.26</td>
</tr><tr><td>Date</td>
<td>Received</td>
<td>Paid</td>
</tr><tr><td>2nd</td>
<td>7 3/4 lbs buller W15</td>
<td>1 25</td>
</tr><tr><td>9th</td>
<td>6 1/4 " " "15</td>
<td>.94</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>5 3/4 doz eggs 18</td>
<td>1 04</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>Nardies wobe</td>
<td>16 00</td>
</tr><tr><td>15</td>
<td>8 1/2 doz eggs at 18</td>
<td>1 53</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>8 1/2 lbs 8 buller 15</td>
<td>1 27</td>
</tr><tr><td>23</td>
<td>12 3/4 " 14</td>
<td>1 78</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>8 doz. eggs 13</td>
<td>1 04</td>
</tr><tr><td>28</td>
<td>sold a load of hay</td>
<td>7 69</td>
</tr><tr><td>29</td>
<td>" " " " "</td>
<td>8 60</td>
</tr><tr><td>30</td>
<td>drew grown 8k.</td>
<td>20 00</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>in from R. Harry</td>
<td>32 00</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>12 lbs buller - 15 ol</td>
<td>1 80</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>9 1/2 doz eggs 15</td>
<td>1 42</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>105 62</td>
</tr></tbody></table></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>CASH ACCOUNT—MARCH</p>
<p>{scribbles over the page}</p>
<table><tbody><tr><td>Date</td>
<td>Received</td>
<td>Paid 14 db</td>
</tr><tr><td>2nd</td>
<td>Groceries</td>
<td>.65</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>sundries</td>
<td>.85</td>
</tr><tr><td>7</td>
<td>brember shop fees</td>
<td>.25</td>
</tr><tr><td>9</td>
<td>sausages 25 capones 35</td>
<td>.60</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>mengling collar</td>
<td>.40</td>
</tr><tr><td>11</td>
<td>rat brap yes blobs</td>
<td>.40</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>W.j Ratters on</td>
<td>10 00</td>
</tr><tr><td>13</td>
<td>Jma Remp 1000 milk rap</td>
<td>1 65</td>
</tr><tr><td>15</td>
<td>4 lbs here</td>
<td>.60</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>sausage</td>
<td>.25</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>ralbrap + godil</td>
<td>.35</td>
</tr><tr><td>20</td>
<td>L Lemon bread</td>
<td>.40</td>
</tr><tr><td>23</td>
<td>derry + flannel shok,</td>
<td>6 85</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>expenses</td>
<td>.40</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>shoe + expenses</td>
<td>.50</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>feed grain</td>
<td>28 00</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>ballen + molasses</td>
<td>1 36</td>
</tr><tr><td>28</td>
<td>shoe + ese</td>
<td>.35</td>
</tr><tr><td>29</td>
<td>hair end + dimmer</td>
<td>.35</td>
</tr><tr><td>30</td>
<td>groceries 1.65 expenses 85</td>
<td>2 50</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>hissions</td>
<td>.50</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>57 21</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>bal on hand</td>
<td>48 41</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>105 62</td>
</tr></tbody></table></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span></span><span class="mw-headline">CASH ACCOUNT—MAY</span></h2>
<table><tbody><tr><td>Date</td>
<td>Received</td>
<td>Paid</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>bal on hand</td>
<td>$</td>
</tr><tr><td>2nd</td>
<td>17 doz eggs 10</td>
<td>1 70</td>
</tr><tr><td>18</td>
<td>drew from bank</td>
<td>50 00</td>
</tr><tr><td>50</td>
<td>18 doz eggs</td>
<td>1 80</td>
</tr><tr><td>15</td>
<td>8 lbs 14 oz of buller 14</td>
<td>1 24</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Sabbath</td>
<td></td>
</tr></tbody></table>
{scribbles on the page}</div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<h2><span></span><span class="mw-headline">CASH ACCOUNT—MAY</span></h2>
<table><tbody><tr><td>Date</td>
<td>Received</td>
<td>Paid $</td>
</tr><tr><td>8 ld</td>
<td>froo hungler shats</td>
<td>1 20</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>potatoes</td>
<td>2 00</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>rake C Comb + es</td>
<td>.95</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>tea + apricots</td>
<td>.55</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>slippers + correls</td>
<td>2 25</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>dress + waist</td>
<td>8 31</td>
</tr><tr><td>4</td>
<td>Bl thob Seolt</td>
<td>1 70</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>Grass seed</td>
<td>3 67</td>
</tr><tr><td>5</td>
<td>expenses</td>
<td>.85</td>
</tr><tr><td>6</td>
<td>Pd Mr Henry for four pigs</td>
<td>8 00</td>
</tr><tr><td>"</td>
<td>Pd Mr Kemp</td>
<td>.65</td>
</tr><tr><td>18</td>
<td>Pump house ex.</td>
<td>4 20</td>
</tr><tr><td>27</td>
<td>map Alexander</td>
<td>2 50</td>
</tr><tr><td>22</td>
<td>Pd miele Jon for cable</td>
<td>41 00</td>
</tr><tr><td>30</td>
<td>Groceries</td>
<td>1 80</td>
</tr></tbody></table></div>
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Bella Green Diary Collection
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20th Century Rural Ontario Diaries
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Bella Green
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Courtesy of Archives of Ontario
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1914-1919
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20th Century, Huron County, Ashfield Township, Ontario
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Bella Green Diary, 1914-1919
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Bella Green Diary, 1914-1919
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Bella Green
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Courtesy of Archives of Ontario
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English
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20th Century, Huron County, Ashfield Township, Ontario
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1914
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Bella Green Diary Collection
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