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DIARY 1921

T.B. Barrett. Port Dover. Ontario

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From April 16th 1921 to December 31st 1921

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April 16th, 1921

...over this morning to help Pickford build...it started to rain soon after he left and ...all day so they couldn't work at the cellar...stayed over till afternoon visiting. We...thing over here but chores but sat...most of the time. To-night I went...boys meeting and then down to the train...The train was in at 9.30 and Marj & I...to stay all night as the walking was...turning colder to-night.

{April} 17th

...before Sunday school this morning...I went straight there and to church...Bishop's secretary was preaching in Mr. ...as Marj knew him having made his...last summer at Lake Couchiching, we...him over to Jack Martin's where he...Jack's mother is sick again so...Frank stayed down at Aunty's to...I spent most of the after noon doing

chores. Mark was in for a few minutes on his way down town and we had quite a heated discussion on prohibition Tomorrow, Ontario is to decide whether or not she will allow the importation of liquor and we all have our own ideas about it. Mark and I stick up for the rights of the individual on principle while the others are more practical and think the welfare of the state should be considered first. I'm no friend of booze but I feel that prohibition is more of a Prussian ideal than it is British but as most people think the other way I don't care. Dad. went down to night to see Aunt Ida who has been quite sick. It has been a miserable day, Snowed three or four inches last night and has been raw & rotten to-day.

Monday April 18th

Frank went down to Pickfords this morning and they finished building the cellar. I took some eggs over to Jack Martin and Dad took Tid. to school and brought Jack Walker back with him. Jack is canvassing the congregation to increase the revenue of the Church and is doing very well. This after noon Marj. and Enah drove down town and Marj. stayed down to tea and went to the Girl's auxillary to-night. I went down to band practice to-night and we came home to-gether. Aunt Ida was sitting up to-night but looks very sick. Elgitha dropped a roan heifer sometime during the night. Dad is going to try to milk her but she is pretty wild I have to stand and scratch her all the time Dad is working at her as she kicks with great force and no warning. Lovely day, sunny & mild but muddy.

Tuesday, April 19th

We bagged up some oats first thing this morning and Frank took them to the mill. Marj. and I pruned raspberry bushes till noon. This after noon Frank & I went down and got a load of sawdust to put in the ice house. Frank also got a couple of boards to make a little closet in our room. I saw Aunty down town and she says Aunt Ida is worse again. Dad went down to see her to-night and Enah went over to Uncle Ward's to see Ada who is improving. Dad had a letter from Dick to-day saying that he has been ordered to report at Montreal, but doesn't know what they intend doing with him there. The returns of the polling are not all in yet but so far there is over 100,000 majority for non-importation so I guess the drys have it. Dover went 150 maj. for it

Wednesday April 20th

We were all greatly surprised before breakfast this morning to see Dick coming through the field. We didn't think he would be able to pay us a visit on his way to Montreal but he landed in last night late and turned in at Aunty's. He came over early to tell us that Aunt Ida had died about five o'clock this morning. Aunty was alone with her. We were all shocked as we had no idea she was so far gone, the doctor was sure she would be around again. Dad went down with Dick right after breakfast and has been down all day. Enah went down this after noon. Dick didn't come back to-night. I spent the day doing chores and helping Marj. house clean our room. I made the closet thing for her but didn't get it put up. Charlie Blake came in at noon to borrow my brooder and his car got stuck in a mud puddle in the lane as he didn't have chains on and we were about an hour getting it out so didn't have dinner till late. Then Karl & Fred Coleman came in and were here quite awhile, they took the two year old ram for 8 cts a lb. and I sold them Oliver for 5 cts or fifty five dollars. It seems like giving him away as he is actually worth $150.00 for breeding, but no one wants him apparently. To-night I took a little stroll down to the pond but didn't stay long, very pretty moon & clouds. Warm all day & fine.

Thursday April 21st

Dad drove Tid down to school this morning and went on down town to get his hair cut and make final arrangements for Aunt Ida's funeral. He came back about eleven and brought Dick home with him for dinner. They drove down again about three and Dick left on the five car for Montreal. Frank and I spent the day doing chores and ploughing around in the mud. It has rained more or less all day. I finished fixing the clothes closet for Marj. Arthur & Bobbie Pickford came over to-night and bought Tid's pet lamb for a quarter. It was one of a pair whose mother wouldn't own it. Maple Hill Nellie had a nice roan bull calf arrive to-day, a fine one.

Friday April 22nd

We all went down early this morning to attend the service at Aunty's before they started for Port Rowan with Aunt Ida. Mr. Ward came down with the Bowlby's from St. John and had a prayer at 9 o'clock. Then Dad, Huby, Doc & {Name?} Bowlby went with the body to Port Rowan. They had Faulkner's team and double

carraige. They had at first figured on going by motor but yesterday's rain put a stop to that plan. They had an awful trip especially after they struck the Port Rowan clay. They got back to town about nine o'clock to-night but Dad. didn't get home here till about 10.30 and was very stiff. Frank and I just did chores. It was a fine morning but rained most of the after noon and the mud is worse than ever Frank and I went down in the waggon at noon and got the bookcase that Mr. Bagley made for Marj. It was a dandy. This after noon Frank took the old waggon wheel out to John Evans to have a new tire put on. Mark was over and brough Enah a setting of eggs to put under her little black hen that is sitting out in the barn, but when I went to put them under I found she had one chicken hatched out.

Saturday April 23rd

It rained hard again during the night and has been very muddy and sloppy to-day. The barnyard is impassable. Dad. let Nellie out this morning and we shifted the calves arund put Bill in where she was and Martin's calf where Bill was after first castrating Bill & the white calf. Frank went down in the waggon to get some waste strips at the Widespread for kindling and Marj. went down town with him. Dad. & I just did chores. Wilbur Ryerse was in for awhile to see if he could borrow the dipping tank. To-night Dad. Enah and I went down town. They went to "Pinafore" practice and I went to the Tuxis boy's meeting and then up to Harry Dyer's & got my hair cut.

Sunday April 24th

Marj. Frank, Tid & I went down to sunday school & church Aunty & Aunty Alice came over here with us after church and stayed for the after noon and then after tea Dad. & Enah went down with them to church. Mr. Doherty was here again to-day Mr. Barwell gave Marj. & me the church books and all the money to count up and look after to-day and we spent most of the afternoon and evening working at them but Marj. got them all squared or balanced up properly. Beautiful day.

Monday April 25th

Frank and I finished shearing the sheep to-day. He got a new comb for the machine and it worked better but seemed to cut the sheep more. Some of them were very sticky and we were all day shearing the six of them. We were late getting started this morning as we were delayed

Wilbur Ryerse came in and offered me six cents a pound for Oliver if I would take him out to-morrow morning. I told him Karl had bought him for five but I would see him to-night and ask him if he would let me off. However Karl came after him while Wilbur was here and took him. It seemed a shame to see him going for that price as he looked nice when we took him out, but there was certainly no money in feeding him any longer. Marj. went down this after-noon and stayed to tea at Aunty's and then went up to the Girl's auxillary meeting. I went down to band practice. Hot.

Tuesday April 26th

Dad. took Tid. down to school this morning and then went down to Aunty's to give them a half a day in the garden. He got home about three o'clock. Frank and I docked the rest of the lambs and then helped Marj. & Enah take up the parlor carpet and beat it. We also took some pictures of house cleaning operations. Frank and I packed the wool before dinner and didn't have much trouble. This after noon Frank went over and sheared Tom's & Mark's sheep for them and I started to cut the lawn but didn't get much done. Arthur Preston was over this morning and he and I started to have a nice little discussion on the lack of data to prove the theory of evolution, which for a wonder neither of us believe in but Marj. cut it short by yelling at me to help house clean. Arthur said he had been at the same job himself. To-night Dad. & Enah went down to "Pinafore" practice and Marj. Frank and I put the books back in the bookcases. Our bookcase looks fine with all of Marj's books in it. It has been very hot to-day and feels very rainy.

Wednesday April 27th

I finished cutting the front lawn this side of the ditch this morning and started to rake up the willow twigs on the other side but it started to rain about noon and kept it up more or less heavily all the after noon so I didn't do any thing outside but chores after dinner except help Dad. doctor Nellie's calf's horns. Frank took the wool down this morning and shipped it and got another load of kindling at the Widespread. Dad. cleaned out the cellar. Dad. drove Enah down town this after noon and brought Tid. home. He helped me do chores and then drove down and met Enah at the Barwell's where they had tea and afterwards went to Pinafore practice. Rain cleared off to-night & cooler.

Thursday April 28th

We put the rack on the waggon this morning and Frank and I went over to Tom's & Mark's and got a small jag of straw. Dad. went over to John Wess's this morning and visited him till after noon. Frank and I put off the straw after dinner and then I finished raking up the lawn. Dad. helped me. To-night Marj. Frank and I went down to a Sunday school meeting to give Sam Morris who is going to act as superintendant some information Marj. and I then went to the concert which the Simcoe musical club put on for the benefit of the Y.M.C.A. work. I had to play in the band during intermission and before the show started. There was a very small crowd but the concert was good especially Zeitha's & Murray Dillon's performances It has been a lovely day.

Friday April 29th

I have felt very tough all day with a bad cold and haven't done any thing but help Dad. milk all day It was cold & rainy most of the day anyway. Dad. & Frank clipped Mexico this morning. Neff. Telfer and a Scotchman came down this morning and castrated 10 lambs. Dad & Enah went down to Pinafore practice to-night. Frank went down to Pickfords to see Irene and the rest of us went to bed.

Saturday April 30th

I haven't felt much better to-day and Dad. has felt about all in too with the same kind of cold and Enah stayed in bed till noon. Frank and I hauled over a small jag of hay in the waggon box to the barn & horse stable and we bagged up six bags of oats which Frank took down for a grist. They are going to close the mill down Monday for six weeks for repairs so they say. Frank went down town this after noon and got some clothes to rig Dad. out for "Pinafore". Oliver Mann & Nanny came through this after noon with a dandy coon which Nanny's dog had killed out in Shand's woods. They were here about an hour robbing all the sparrow's nests they could find. Tid. has had a great string of visitors to-day. Two Forrests & a Mertland were over this morning to catch rabbits but failed. Oral Misener was here for dinner and two of Ben Ivey's kids were over this after noon. Rus. Lampkins was in to look at the pump and Charlie Munroe came to ask Dad. about a sick horse. Frank went down to run the Tuxis boy's to-night as I felt to tough. Cool & Cloudy.

Sunday May 1st

I didn't go to Sunday school this morning as my cold still feels rotten. Marj. Frank & Tid went down and I went over to see Jack Martin's deer which he got the other day to adorn the hillside at Mrs. Battersby's place. I took a walk around by the mill before I came home. Marj. & I spent most of the after noon counting the morning collection and trying to make the books balance. Cecil & Winnie came over about four o'clock and stayed to tea and spent the evening. Cecil is a {comical card all right?}. Frank went down on his wheel to-night and {got the?} evening collection after church and Marj. & I {worked?} at it till late and then I don't {words very faded...} came out {word faded}. We seemed to have 10 cts more money than we had {illegible}. Cloudy cold and threatening all day.

Monday May 2nd

Dad. went out down with Tid. this morning and cut the lawns down at Aunty's for them. Frank and I went over to Ivey's and put on what we thought to be half a ton of hay and put most of it off in the horse stable and the rest in the barn. It is very thistly but it will tide us over as we are right out. There are five or six loads of it over there and Landon told Frank to take what he wanted of it and give them what he thought was right. After dinner I went back to the woods and got a bass wood hop-pole Marj. was just starting down town to bank the church money when I got back and as her corn was hurting her I drove her down with Queen. Frank cleared a lot of the bush out of the orchard this after noon and burned it. I helped him when I got back. Dad. worked at the Income Tax Report all the after noon. Marj. stayed down to tea and went to the Girl's auxillary and after tea Dad. Enah & I went down to the "Pinafore" first dress rehearsal. Dad. wanted me to paint him up a little, and they all thought he was a horrible sight. Marj. came up to the hall and we watched them for awhile. They are all in a state of terrible anxiety as Ralph Rackstraw was at practice about half jagged and didn't know his part nor couldn't sing and they are afraid he will be full to the neck by to-morrow night. He & Lou. Dixon really did get married Saturday night. We all had doubts at the bottom of our hearts that she would ever hold him down to it but I guess she has him now for sure. Joe & Johnnie were married the same day.

Tuesday May 3rd

I havent done a great deal of any thing to-day except chores and odd jobs. Dad. has felt pretty tough all day and had to rest up for "Pinafore" to-night. Marj. has felt miserable all day. Frank went down town and got our tickets to "Pinafore" changed from to-night till to-morrow as we figured Marj. wouldn't feel like going to-night. He finished cleaning the brush out of the orchard this after noon and I helped him a little. To-night all but Marj. & me went to the concert and we went for a walk down to the pond and saw Jack's deer, the buck came up and licked Marj's hand. Frank took Irene Pickford down. Tid. went down to Aunty's from school and was to have gone to the show from there but he was sick all the afternoon in school and was too sick to go to-night. They brought him home with them and he has quite a fever. Pinafore went off fine. Ralph was in good shape and Dick Deadeye's horrible looks were very impressive. He won his bet with the Captain which was that he could make him laugh He accomplised the feat by hesitating in his dialogue with Capt. Corcoran to take an imaginary cud out of his mouth walk to the gunwale and toss it over board.

Wednesday May 4th

Frank disked on the field back of the barn all day to-day and says it went pretty well. Dad. disked, not Frank in the morning with Harry & Billy but they got Pommers in at noon and Frank took them. Dad. & Enah still feel pretty miserable with bad colds and are tired out. Tid doesn't seem any better and has pains in various parts of his anatomy. I spent most of the day raking up and cutting the grass back of the house and across the ditch. Marj. helped me this morning a little. I had a bad pain in my eyes all after noon but they were better to night. Frank stayed with Tim. to-night and the rest of us went to the show. They had another full house and it all went off fine. Marj. & Enah drove Mexico down and Dad. & Enah drove home. Marj. & I walked home as they stayed down to a supper which the I.O.D.E. promised for the officers & crew of "Pinafore" Fair & warm.

Thursday May 5th

Frank disked all day with Harry & Pommers and I harrowed with Joe & Queen and we are getting this field into pretty good shape although it doesn't work up

as nicely as it would have if it had not had so many pounding rains on it and the grass had not got such a start. Billy Mills brought the broadcast seeder back this after noon and visited with Dad. for an hour or so. Walker & Wyat Waddle were in for awhile trying to sell Dad. some lightning rod. To-night Marj. and I went down to the teacher's meeting but were late and then I went to band practice and called for Marj. at Aunty's. Tid is still pretty sick and has quite a fever. Fine but nice cool breeze

Friday May 6th

Frank disked all morning and this after noon drilled the field. Dad. & I treated the seed oats with formalin and then Dad. started to harrow after the disks, and I was going to mow the lawn before dinner but Billy Mills came over and wanted the cultivator teeth changed to the hoes on the old drill so Frank did that for him and I harrowed while Dad. took his turn. I harrowed after dinner till I finished the field and then I cut the lawn. Frank drilled with the old drill. He had intend using the disk drill but as he would have had to wait till I got through harrowing to use Queen for the third horse. Fine day and quite hot.

Saturday May 7th

Frank started in disking the old corn stubble first thing this morning and I sowed clover seed on the field we finished yesterday and Dad. harrowed after me. When I finished sowing I went with Marj. over to Mrs. Battersby's to get some rhubarb and have a look at the deer. The buck has shed his horns. I then went out and uncovered two rows of the strawberrys before dinner. After dinner Dad. & Frank ran the ditches in the field back of the barn and I finished harrowing it from where Dad. left off and then went out and harrowed over the corn stubble. Frank finished disking it soon after they got the ditches run and then hooked on to Jack Martins spring tooth and got pretty well over it with it. It worked up pretty hard & lumpy in places and the grass is bad in a few spots but I guess we can make a fair seed bed out of it and it has never been ploughed. I went down to the Tuxis boys meeting to night & Marj. went with me down town, Zeitha was over for a few minutes this morning Fine & cooler

Sunday May 8th

Marj. Frank & I went down to sunday school and

church this morning. Mr. Anderson of Huron College preached. Aunty, Aunty Alice & Quint came over with us for dinner and Quint went back about five but Aunty & Aunty Alice stayed to tea. Dad. & Enah went down to Church with Aunty Alice and Aunty stayed with us in case Tid wanted her till Enah got home from church & then she drove her down with Mexico. Mark was in this evening for awhile. Tid was up to-day but looks & feels pretty peaky yet. Frank was visiting various maidens all day.

Monday May 9th

Frank finished the field with the spring tooth this morning and then I took the roller out with the little team and smashed up some of the worst lumps. Frank followed me again with the spring tooth and this after noon Dad. took Billy & Harry out and disked, we think we will have it in shape to sow to-morrow after noon. Frank and I cleaned up some more seed oats this after noon. To-night Marj. & I went down town, she went to the Girls' auxillary and I went with the Band up to Doc. Lemmons. We took him up a wicker chair and spent a very nice evening. We played several pieces then he & Lou. sang & we all sang & had cake & coffee. Hot & dry wind.

Tuesday May 10th

Dad. finished disking this morning with Harry & Billy and Frank and I cleaned up some more seed and heated it and then took the little team and went over to Ivey's where we got another jag of hay. This after noon I harrowed over the field and Frank followed me with the drill and finished sowing by six. To-night Enah went down to a meeting of mason's wives to help figure out ways & means of entertaining 250 masonic visitors who are coming next week. Fine with dry wind.

Wednesday May 11th

Frank started disking the big field east of the old garden this morning and worked till noon. Then Dad. & he ran out the ditches in the corn stubble as it looked a little rainy and Dad went on disking this after noon with Harry & Billy. He came up at five to do chores but Frank took the team till six but didn't quite get over it, he has been getting good long days in lately, he gets his own breakfast and is out with his team by seven. Dad. and I cleaned ditches in the field back of the barn this a.m. and I finished this after noon. Marj. & I got some narcissus bulbs to-night down in the road by Mrs. Battersby's. Cold wind all day

Thursday May 12th

Frank has worked all day on the land and this after noon Dad. took Billy & Harry out and worked with him I set out the narcissus bulbs we got last night and when I got started I spent the remainder of the fore noon working at the flower border, dug up around some of the plants where it was very hard and planted some gladioli. Rus. Lampkins came down this morning and he & Dad. were all morning putting the new head on the pump at the house. Rus was here to dinner. This after noon I set three more hens and then went and cleaned the ditches in the corn stubble. To-night I went down to the Sunday school meeting and to band practice. Marj. had a cold so stayed home. Cold wind, threatening rain.

Friday May 13th

Dad. and Frank worked on the land this morning and Dad disked all the after noon. They are getting the big field in pretty fair shape. Frank put the little team on Jack's spring tooth this morning but didn't keep them at it very long. It was pretty heavy for them. I sowed the clover seed on the corn stubble this morning and Frank harrowed it in with out crossing the ditches that I cleaned out. He left a couple of places in the field across the ditches with out harrowing to see if there would be any difference in the catch, some claim that harrowing covers the seed too deeply. This after noon Frank and I cleaned up oats enough to sow the big field. We got Marj. to come out to the barn and mend bags for us, much to her annoyance as she wanted to make garments for the heathen. Enah & Tid. went down town. Frank went out at five and took the team and Dad. brought the cows up. It has looked very rainy all day but it didn't.

Saturday May 14th

Dad. disked crossways all morning on the big field and Frank and I treated the seed. I went out and harrowed for about an hour and then came up and helped Frank bag up the seed and we took it out to the field before dinner. Frank felt pretty tough this morning with a pain in his face which he thought was from a tooth but he felt quite sick at dinner and to-night we have decided he has the mumps which are very prevalent just now, he has been in bed all after noon and feels very miserable. Dad. drilled in as

much of the field as we had ready this after noon which was about as far up as the mouth of the big ditch. I harrowed ahead of the drill till I got up that far and then I went up and started at the chores. Dad. didn't get up till pretty late and I had the milking nearly done. I didn't get down town till nine o'clock to-night and then Marj. who was waiting for me at Aunty's told me that she had told the boys I would be late so I didn't go up to the meeting at all. Very dry with a cold wind but sunny

Sunday May 13th

Marj. and I went down to Sunday school but didn't stay to church. Enah came went down and we came home to mind Frank who has developed a beautiful case of mumps and looks like a cartoon of a pork-packer. We drove Mexico home from Sunday school and Dad. & Tid drove him down again and they all stayed at Aunty's for dinner. Marj. and I had dinner by ourselves and then I did chores. I read for a little while & Marj. played and then we both went back after the cows. Dad. let them in the back field this morning so we had to go back to the woods after them and Marj. got a lovely bunch of wild phlox. Dad. & Tid came back before we got out of the field with them as they didn't know we were back there Marj. and I went down to church to-night. Mr. Edmonds from London preached and they had a male choir. Tom. Butler was here when we got home, we did up the books to-night. Quite cool.

Monday May 16th

Dad. and I worked on the land all day but couldn't get in such long hours as the chores take a long time with Frank laid off. Dad. drilled in the east side of the ditch and I harrowed ahead of him and finished harrowing what he drilled in on Saturday. Marj. went down town this afternoon and stayed to tea at Aunty's. I went down to band practice to-night. Charlie Blake brought us home in his car. He has to come around this way on account of the swing bridge being down. Joe Steele was in at noon with Wild Mayo the thoroughbred stallion of Sir Adam Beck's which Ed. Eaid is keeping this year. Froze last night. Cold wind & very dry all day

Tuesday May 17th

Dad. finished seeding to-day. He disked the little piece west of the ditch this morning and I harrowed it and

he got started to drill it before dinner and finished soon after and then ran out the ditches. I harrowed after the drill but spent most of the day doing chores. Neff went by to-night. He says he has to go to Leeds County and is very sorry to leave Norfolk. Aunty & Aunty Alice were over for tea to-night and Enah drove them home and was going to see Miss Newell for her birthday. Froze harder last night did some damage

Wednesday May 18th

Dad. and Tid have been down at Aunty's nearly all day fixing up the paths and Tid. cut all the lawn. I was most of the morning doing chores but got in about an hour before dinner cleaning ditches and spent a couple or so at the job this afternoon and got quite a lot done. Marj. drove Mexico down town this afternoon and took some self seeded lettuce plants down to Miss McQueen. To-night she and I drove up to George Duncan's with Queen and I returned his hens We came back to town by the Radical road and picked up Miss McQueen and took her for a little drive through Doan's Hollow. Beautiful night, has looked rainy to-day. Miss McQueen gave Marj. a lovely plant of buttercup the large kind to-day and Dad. brought home some dahlias

Thursday May 19th

Dad. and I finished cleaning out the ditches this morning but were delayed doing chores and talking to Charlie Butler who was in to have Dad look at his mare's hock. We didn't finish the ditches till noon. We spent most of the after noon cleaning up the garden and burning the rubbish. We had hoped to start hauling manure on it but there was so much stuff that wouldn't flow under that Dad. thought we had better clean it up first, he trimmed the old blackcurrant bushes and they're in fine shape. To-night Marj. and I went down to the teacher's meeting and after that I went to band practice. Mr. Lawrie was up there I called at Aunty's for Marj. and Charlie Blake drove us home. Hot all day and looks dry again. Lovely night.

Friday May 20th

I spent most of the morning doing chores. Dad. had to be with Frank who begins to show slight signs of recovery but is very weak yet. About eleven Dad. & I went over to Ivey's and got a very small jag of hay which we put off in the horse stable and the barn after dinner and then got the spreader out and hauled out three loads of

manure on the garden. Jack Walker was over at noon & wanted Enah to go down and play for George Law's funeral at two o'clock so she went and then came home and did a lot of cooking for the Mason's big banquet to-night and took it down at six. Dad. went down about eight to come home with her. Lloyd Ryerse was in to-night to see Frank. Tid. and I went over to Ivey's and dug up a couple of paeony roots. Very hot all day. Getting very dry.

Saturday April May 21st

Dad. and I hauled manure all day and got the garden covered and the strip of mangle ground that Frank and I didn't finish. I spent most of the time between loads doing chores. Marj. & Tid. drove Mexico down town this after noon. I went down to the boys meeting to-night but didn't get there till eight and they had all gone. I saw several of them later & they told me they had been there. I went up street and talked to Mark for about an hour and then went over to Dyer's and got my hair cut. Mark went over there and waited for me and we walked home to-gether Tom & their new house-keeper were down at the show

Sunday May 22nd

Marj. & I went down to Sunday school and church and Enah went down to church and went to her mother's for dinner as Elva & Brant were down. They brought her home soon after dinner. We had a sick looking student take the service to-day. Just after dinner Ade Millman & his wife & her sister and brother in law drove in.They were headed for the beach hut it was looking like a bad thunder storm so they took shelter here. They went in the house but the minute they heard Frank had the mumps they fled as if the lions would bite them. Each family had a little girl and they were so afraid they would catch the mumps. It rained a little shower but soon dried off and they went on down town. Later Mr. Pickford, Irene & Mandie walked over and stayed till it was time to do chores. To-night Marj. wanted to go down and get the church money but it looked so rainy just as we were ready to start we didn't go and a great thunder storm set in.

Monday May 23rd

It rained very hard and for a long time during the

night and it was too wet to do any thing in the garden this morning. Dad. opened some ditches in the oats that had been filled with the harrows or had not been deepened enough but said the fields were all drained very well. I spent most of the morning doing chores and planting some dahlias that Aunty sent over. This afternoon Dad started to plough the garden and I tried to cut the lawn I didn't finish and it was a hard job as it has been let get too long. Frank was out to-day wandering around a little he looks pretty peaked and has lost 15 lbs. Marj. went down town to see Glad. Law this after noon and stayed there to tea. I went down to band practice to-night and Charlie Blake drove us both home. Dad's back is lame

Tuesday May 24th

We didn't do any thing to celebrate to-day but there have been a great many cars going past all day carrying extra loads in the shape of fish poles & picnic baskets and to-night I heard fire-crackers popping It has not been a nice day for an outing at all, cloudy & a cold east breeze. Dad. finished plowing what was dry enough of the garden and this after noon we disked and harrowed it although it was too wet to work nicely. Marj. & I went down after breakfast and got the Early Rose seed potatoes at Aunty Alice's. Then I cut some more of the lawn when I got back. Frank went drove Joe down town and went to interview the doctor this afternoon, he got some pills and now feels happier. Aunty was over for a few minutes this after noon to tell us that Miss Minty who has been up at the Bowlby's and who was a great freind of Dad's in early days and who was to have come down here to spend the day to-morrow is not going to be able to come. Dad's back has been very lame

Wednesday May 25th

We didn't do any thing much this morning but cut a little wood. Jack McBride was in visiting for a long time and Dad's back was very lame this morning but is quite a lot better tonight. I went back about ten o'clock to bring Belle up to the orchard as she seemed a little uneasy this morning when I was after the cows, but when I got back there I found she had a fine big sorrel colt with her

he was all right and had evidently been born for some time. He got up when I went near and is very strong on his legs. This after noon Dad. Tid & I went back and fixed the fence up a little between the pasture & the wheat. We also put Iveys cattle all back and fixed the fence above the creek where they had walked under. Frank & Tid. drove Mexico down town this morning and Aunty & Aunty Alice invited Frank down there for a few days to recuperate, so this after noon Marj. drove him down and left him there. Rained in the night. Cloudy but warm to-day

Thursday May 26th

Dad. finished working up the garden this morning and got some of the potato furrows run out. He finished them right after dinner. I did chores most of the morning and treated the seed potatoes we got from Aunty Alice. This after noon Marj. & I cut them up and she & I planted them we had more than enough to plant the furrows Dad ran. Enah planted seeds all the after noon. Some Mr. Johnson was in this morning to talk up Wild Mayo, Sir Adam Beck's throughbred, and wants to get all the good typey mares for him they can as he says the saddle horse trade is becoming very brisk but the stock is hard to find. Col. McEwen was also in to look at Wilkins. Douglas had told him about him, he thought he was a nice bull but too thin for what he wanted. Marj. & I went down town to-night but were pretty late for the bible class. I went to band practice and Marj. went down to Aunty's where all of Huby's & Cecil were playing cards with Frank, who is being slowly won back to health. There was great excitement for a few minutes to-night when the fire bell rang and all half the town ran down to the lake where Hank Misener's cork house was on fire The fire brigade got it out with out much damage being done. Hank losing his corks. Cloudy but milder

Friday May 27th

Dad. and I went over to Ivey's this morning and got another little jag of hay to last us for awhile. This after noon Dad. harrowed down the garden & started to plough the mangle patch. Enah worked over in the garden most of the day. I chored around, moved 15 little chickens down out of the loft, planted the rest

of the potatoes that were cut and Marj. and I took a walk around by Ivey's lane & woods when I went after the cows. I finished one of my final examination show card texts to-night. Nice day, cloudy but warm

Saturday May 28th

I did chores and odd jobs this morning one of which was to go out and level down the mound of earth that covered the turnip pit. Dad. is plowing the patch again for roots and the hole where the pit was & the mound had never been levelled. Dad plowed all day and nearly finished the piece. Ham Thompson was over for the wool-box but had to go on over to Tom's for it. Tom was in here at noon so stayed to dinner. I spent the after noon painting my show card examination over again but didn't get it to suit me quite as well as the first one. I went back after the cows about five o'clock and got caught in a terriffic downpour. It has felt like a thunder storm all day and it came. Dad. & I both got soaked. Enah was down town and got a little wet too. Frank was to have come home to-day but he decided it was too wet I went down to the Tuxis boys meeting to-night and was in at Aunty's for awhile. Hot & sultry all day

Sunday May 29th

Marj. has been under the weather to-day so Tid. & I went alone to Sunday school & I went to church. Quint hailed me on my way home to look at a game he is making to run this summer and he wants me to paint letters on it for him. I spent the after noon reading to Marj. who didn't get up till tea time and then went back to bed again right after. She helped me count the church money to-night in bed. Hot and heavy thunder showers all the afternoon

Monday May 30th

Yesterday's & last night's rain had every thing so soaked this morning that there was very little we could do. Dad. drove Tid. down to school and did odd jobs during the forenoon and this afternoon opened some ditches I went back to pull cockle in the wheat and got over four loads. I had a sort of grumbling stomach-ache all morning and it was worse after dinner so I didn't go back very early. I went up one load & then went over to John Wess's. A heavy thunder storm came up while I was there so I didn't leave till about five John Wess lent me an old overcoat to come home

in and as I had my canvass shoes on I took them off and walked home bare footed. I met Dad. in the gully after the cows. We did chores up after tea and then Marj. and I worked till after eleven at the church books. She feels to-night as if she were getting the mumps. Very sultry.

Tuesday May 31st

I went back after the cows this morning and found the whole herd except Betsy & Agnes in the wheat, so I had to tramp through after them and as the wheat was laden with dew and a heavy mist that was just rising my trip was more like wading in the lake than any thing else I am sure I poured a pint of water out of each gumboot after I came out. The cows tramped the wheat and nipped of quite a lot of it. They had broken a wire in the old fence between it and the other back field. Dad. drove Tid. to school after breakfast and brought Frank home, he feels better but the doctor told him not to try to do any thing this week. Dad. & I went back before dinner and patched up the fence where the cows broke in and put in a couple of post and this after noon got a couple of rolls of wire to put along its border We got one roll from Jack McBride & one from old Walker the same kind of wire "Peerless". Jack McBride was in here at noon and brought the sheep clippers back. Marj. has been in bed all day and feels miserable. Her right jaw is slightly swelled and sore so we think it must be the mumps. Very hot & sultry but no rain.

Wednesday June 1st

Dad. & I have spent most of the day stringing up the new fencing along the old barbed wire fence. We couldn't make a very neat job of it stretching it with our hands but it will keep the cattle out of the wheat for the present. We have to go around the gully side of the field and do a little fixing yet. Aunty & Aunty Alice were over for tea to-night. Tid. seems quite delighted that Marj. has the mumps. They wont let him go to school and she can't give him lessons at home. Fair & cold north east wind. Looks clear.

Thursday June 2nd

Dad and I went back to finish patching the fence between the gully & the wheat and got started to burn

the brush in the bush. It wouldn't burn very well so we didn't finish either job before dinner. After dinner Dad took the dining room carpet up for Enah and it was pretty late when we got back but we managed to finish the fence and got a hole burned in one side of the nearest brush pile which will let us get into the woods with the waggon to haul up the rest of our poles. Frank went to Simcoe this morning with Jack Martin to the Sunday school convention and was gone all day. Lila was over this after noon for awhile. Mark was in to-night for a few minutes and said he & Tom were coming over to give us a day plowing corn ground when we wanted them. He said Tom & the housekeeper had gone off driving and he never saw a happier looking pair. He wanted Dad to take him on a bet that they would be married by fall. Hot.

Friday June 3rd

I spent the fore noon cutting the lawn and didn't finish. It has got long again so is a hard job. Dad. sharpened the scythe, cut a lot of grass around the lane and went out and topped some of the thistles in the oats. This after noon he put the dining room carpet down. It started to rain soon after dinner and looked like a bad storm so I started at another show card and worked at it all the afternoon althought the storm didn't ammount to much and soon cleared off. Tom. was in this after noon and told them that he was pretty sure of marrying the housekeeper, he hasn't asked her yet but he doesn't think he will be turned down. Marj. got up this after noon. Very hot and sultry all morning but high wind & cold to-night.

Saturday June 4th

We put some seed potatoes in to heat for scab this morning as soon as we got up and then started to cut them right after breakfast, Frank and I cut them. Dad. went back to catch the horses but couldn't do it alone as Billy wouldn't let Pommers follow the others, so I went back with him and caught them. He went out and got about an hour's work in on the potato ground before noon. This after noon he furrowed it out and I planted five rows it was all I had time for. The boys were supposed to come over here for a picnic in the gully to-night but only two of them showed up. Marj. feels miserable again. She is afraid she got up too soon. Sunny but cold raw wind all day

Sunday June 5th

Frank and I drove down to Sunday school and Tid rode his wheel down. Frank stayed down at Aunty's to dinner and Dad. & Enah drove down this after noon and he drove home with Enah. Dad. walked back. I spent the afternoon reading "As you like it" to Marj. who feels very sick. She says she never was so sick in her life before. I am going to sleep on the sofa in the hall to-night. Sunny but cold wind. looks fair.

Monday June 6th

As we were completely out of wood Dad. & I had to go back this morning with the waggon and haul up a small load. We didn't get started very early and it spoiled the whole morning for us as it took quite a while going all the way back opening gates & fences getting around in the woods loading & unloading This after noon I planted the rest of the potatoes and Dad. harrowed them in and plowed in the furrows. He also worked down the rest of the patch for mangles. I went down to band practice to-night and went & saw Dr. Cook for Marj., she still feels miserable, but better than she did.

Tuesday June 7th

Tom & Mark came over this morning with their teams & plows and they & Dad. got in a full day plowing corn ground over between the oats in the long field & the side road.They got a lot of ground turned over but it is hard in spots and will take a lot of work. This morning I did up the chores and then took the little team out and rolled & harrowed the potato & mangle patch and started to sow mangles. I finished this afternoon getting in fifteen rows. About four o'clock I went out and started to roll down what they had plowed. We were pretty late getting throug chores as I didn't get the cows {before nor?} they stop plowing till after six. Marj felt better this morning but her head was aching badly again to-night. Frank feels better but the doctor told him to be very careful of his heart so he can't do a thing in the shape of work. Fine day not hot, looks like more rain.

Sunday June 12th

I have not had a chance to write in this all week as we have been trying to rush the corn ground

preparation along and it has absorbed all the spare minutes. Dad. has kept the plow going steadily and Friday night had about an acre to plow but Lloyd Ryerse told him tnat Colin was coming up with the tractor to finish it for him so Dad. got in a day disking yesterday. Colin came yesterday after noon and plowed till they had to stop for a thunder shower but finished all but what Dad. would have had to plow any way. I have kept rolling and harrowing after him with the little team, and the chores have kept me busy as we are out of hay now and have to forage grass for the stuff that is in with the scythe. Marj. has recovered sufficiently to go down to Aunty's to stay for a few days. I drove her down this morning when I went to Sunday school and went down again last to-night, she is feeling much better. Frank hasn't done any thing yet but feels well and thinks he will start working this week. Roy came to stay over to-day last night. He hates Detroit but is glad to be at work. Aunty is under the weather to-day with a bad tooth and Tid is in bed with what we thought was mumps although he seems all right to-night. The little romance which has been developing since Tom & Mark. employed their young housekeeper about three weeks ago was brought suddenly to a head on Thursday when Tom. married her. Thursday morning we saw both Tom & Mark in the field with their teams and later saw Tom's team standing idle and Tom going to town with Charlie Butler, about one o'clock Tom walked through here on his way home and told us he had got in with Charlie when he went past & gone down town to buy the licence having borrowed money enough from Mark, he couldn't get one in Dover so had to go to Simcoe after it. He told me and I fancy nearly every one else he met, to keep it under my hat but he was going to marry the little girl at four o'clock that after noon. Mr. Johnson (who was back this week to gather up some of his stuff) was coming out to do the trick and Totie Smith to help Mark witness it. Totie didn't get out though and Charlie Butler & Mark were the only others present at the ceremony. About five o'clock I saw Mr. & Mrs. Tom driving to Dover on their honeymoon to get some groceries, and both teams were at work again the next morning. Charlie Butler was around

the next day warning all the neighbors out to a combined shower, "chivaree" and dance next Friday night. Dad. went down town this after noon to see Roy and I spent most of the after noon in the church books and then went down and took a walk over the back half of Flemming's place as it is for sale now separately.

Monday June 13th

Dad. has disked all day on the corn ground but didn't get a very early start as we had to go back and catch the horses. I spent most of the morning cutting the lawn and Frank and I seperated the lambs from the ewes and shut them up to starve them preparatory to dosing them for tapeworm. I rolled the corn ground this afternoon. Frank has been visiting blacksmiths trying to get one to shoe Joe. Hallam has a sore hand and can't & old John Evans won't. To-night I went down to band practice. Very windy and quite cool to-night. Tid is all right. Marj. just about well but Aunty's tooth is very bad.

Monday June 20th

Another week has rumbled along and fast and I don't seem to have had a minute's time to jot down the doings day by day so will have to lump it again. We have been very busy getting in our corn and I have been rising at half past four & five so hadn't much time in the mornings and as Marj. has been down at Aunty's all week I have spent my evenings going down to see her. Ham. Thompson came down and planted the corn for us on Thursday. Friday it rained and I spent the day painting at show cards. Dad. drove down in the after noon and brought Marj. home and to-night Friday we all went out to Tom's shower and dance where we had a great time. Frank cut half of his alfalfa and a little hay {illegible} but we have never done anything with it. Thursday night the band played in the park for the church garden party it was to have been at Jack Paine's but he is too sick to have it. Saturday I harrowed the corn ground and broke up a lot of the hard lumps which had softened with Friday's rain. Yesterday Dick came home for his holidays two weeks. Dad. stayed down yester afternoon with him and Marj. and I went for a drive. Saturday night I camped in the gully with the boys - never again! Hope

I slept through most of the night but every now and again would wake up and hear the other fellows rampaging around the fire and some time about two o'clock they all went over and raided Art Quanbury's strawberry patch, I didn't know any thing about that till morning. To-day I rolled the corn ground in the fore noon and hoed mangles this after noon. Dad. brought Belle out and we cultivated them. John Wess & Mrs. Cam. came over for a visit so Dad. went up to see them and Frank and I finished cultivating. Enah's brother and her father & Adelena were over here for tea and I rode down with them after tea and went to band practice. Marj. went down to Aunty's for tea and Chris brought us both home in his new Dodge car.

Tuesday June 21st

I rode Frank's wheel out to Lloyd Chrysler's first thing this morning to ask him about the Fleming place He gave me Ern's address and said it was still for sale. When I came back Dad. and I hauled in a couple of jags of hay on the waggon box to feed up and then we went back to the woods and got a load of wood. This after noon we hauled in Frank's alfalfa and Dad. went down to the mill with Charlie to look at Herb's horse which he thinks is foundered. Frank cut the hay on the corner field to-day. To-night I went with the band to a garden party at Lamb's {corner?} and Dad. entertained Mr. Johnson from Sir Adam Beck's place and they had a great saddle horse pow-pow.

Wednesday June 22nd

I went out right after breakfast and harrowed over the corn ground again with the big team and finished about eleven. I then cut a little lawn before dinner All the rest of the family picked strawberries this morning and got 35 boxes and Dad. got a bad attack of heartburn from bending over and felt very miserable most of the day. Dick came over for dinner and he & I walked down afterwards and I went to paint some signs for Quint, he didn't have any ready but I painted out the old one. I came home and helped milk and then Marj. & I drove Mexico down with butter eggs & cream for Aunty Alice. Frank drove Queen down to the Ward's. I went for a swim. Hot & muggy.

Thursday June 23rd

I hoed mangels this morning till nine o'clock and Frank hoed in the garden & Dad. did chores, by then the dew was off and we went out and shook up the hay where the alsike was heavy & green. Then Frank got the rake & raked the far side first and before dinner the heavy spots were fit to rake. Dad. & I cocked up for awhile before dinner and we all went at it this after noon and got it all up by to-night. Tom. Butler went by this morning with a load of pear and threw off a couple of forkfulls which were loaded. Dad. Tid & I shelled our hats full and took them up to the house for dinner and and Marj. came out with us and got two basketfulls more. To-night I went down to band practice & Marj. went with me & waited at Aunty's. Mr. & Mrs. MacElvie came to-day and are down at Aunty Alice's now. Chris gave us a ride down and all the way home in his car. Very hot.

Friday June 24th

Frank and I changed the rails and fixed up the bay over in the big barn to haul hay this morning and we moved the calves over there from the old barn. We hauled in one load of hay and pitched it off in the horse stable before dinner had an early dinner and hauled in three more this after noon, one we pitched off to feed to the bulls and the last one we left standing in the barn floor. Mrs. Walker brought Aunty Alice & the MacElvie's in for a few minutes this morning. They were just out seeing the town. Dad. & Enah went down to-night to see them and took Jack Martin down as they are both such admirers of Sir Arthur Meighen's & Mr. MacElvie has come direct from Parliament. Marj. & Frank went down to the Bible Society meeting to hear a native Chinaman Mr {Wang?} speak and Tid. & I stayed home to go to bed early. Dick was over for tea. Hot but nice breeze

Sunday July 3rd

Over a week this time without finding time to make an entry so will condense again. Saturday June 25th we finished hauling the hay that was cut and in the after noon I went to Simcoe to a Shorthorn meeting

while Dad. & Frank cultivated potatoes. Sunday was a very hot day, we all went to church & Dad stayed down and went down to the beach with Dick Marj. & I went for a drive in the evening. Sunday after noon was decoration day and the band went with the oddfellows to the cemetry. It rained a little Sunday night and Monday I went down to do some painting and got a couple of show cards to do for Ben Ivey which I worked at most of the day and sent down with Frank at night. Ben gave Frank a checque for $2.00 for them and to pay an old debt he had with Frank, he gave him at Frank's suggestion $3.00's worth of dance tickets I felt rather sick all day and went to bed early about ten o'clock we had a terriffic thunder storm which was followed by two or three more during the night. The thunder was deafening almost and a great deal of it. It drizzled nearly all Tuesday morning so I went down and with Aunty's help painted a very gaudy sign for Quint advertizing soft drinks. In the after noon I started at Ben's sign which he told me to go ahead at as he guessed Dyer didn't intend to do it. It was late when I got the scaffold fixed so I only got about an hour's work in on it. Frank cut some hay Monday after noon. Tuesday he & Dad. went up to Jack McBride's and got some fence & posts to put across the corner field to let the sheep in where the hay was taken off. Wednesday I was down town all day finished Ben's sign and got five dollars for it and got Quint's big game board all penciled out to paint. Thursday I went down and spent most of the day painting it but finished this after noon. Marj's father came in Wednesday night and she was with him most of the after noon. Dad. & Frank shocked up the hay to-day & Frank raked it. Friday was the great Dominion Day and there was a bigger crowd into Dover I think than ever before There must have been a thousand cars in town parked every where you looked and running all over, and the radial cars were packed. Frank Dad. & I cocked up the hay in the forenoon and Dad

took Aunty up to the dentist's. I was with the band all the afternoon and evening. We shifted around from Buck's to the dock and up to Powell park and in the evening played down on the end of the pier till the lake flies drove us out. The Galt Kiltie band was here too playing all after noon & evening. I didn't get a chance to hear them but Dad. thought they were fine. After we finished playing I ran across the family and later Marj. with her father, Mrs Bagley & Essie. We took a walk down to the beach and the crowd was dense in front of Ben's "Summer Garden" but the most amusing thing down there was to hear Quint & {Zeek?} and a little farther down Quint. yelling like crazy savages for people to try their luck at the games offering prizes of lucky ducks & Cupie {Kewpie} dolls and other things which really seems to prove that the world has gone "batty" for they seemed to get rid of an enormous quantity of hideous things. Dad. & I walked home and milked and I walked home at night and was glad to get here. Dad. was up at four o'clock this morning and after he helped me milk went up to help take Jack Paine's body to the station, the masons were looking after it and Charlie Ivey came after Dad. & brought him back They sent the body to Toronto on the 7.30 train.

Sunday July 10th

Another week gone and I have no time nor energy to write. We haven't done anything all week but work and work hard getting the hay on the field west of the lane and next the gully in. It was a very heavy piece we hauled twenty loads off it but of course it was bulky The other work is getting ahead of us. I got up at four o'clock a couple of mornings to hoe mangels but havent made much head way. The weather has been very hot and for a few days there was scarcely any wind but the last two or three days there was a very nice breeze, and Friday night & yesterday morning it rained luckily for us just after we finished our hay. Mr. Clarke has been over here most of the week but went to Nanticoke with Warrie Banfield yesterday. Cecil & Winnie were over for tea

Friday night. We let the sheep in on their new pasture yesterday after noon as Dad & Frank finished putting the fence up. Marj. & I found a cool spot down in McBain's orchard this afternoon & read "A Midsummer Night's dream"

Monday July 11th

Frank cut hay east of the lane this morning and then took the big team and cultivated corn this afternoon. Dad finished cutting the piece the width of the orchard east of the lane and then I started to rake, and got enough raked for a row of cocks around the field. I weeded mangles and dug a little in the flower bed this morning. To-night I went down to band practice. Still hot, a little breeze

Sunday July 24th

This being the 26th anniversary of the day on which I first condescended to partake of what this world had to offer in the way of a living and such a day being a fit occasion for making fresh starts and turning over new leaves, I think I will make one more try at writing this more regularly. Another factor influencing this resolution is a brand new non-leakable fountain pen which Marj. gave me this morning and which works beautifully. Another still is the fact that we are within sight of the end of haying and wheat harvest and I dont expect to be so rushed all day and tired in the evenings from now on. The week of July 11th we finished cutting all the wheat and hay and left it all in cock and shock for over Sunday. The first of the following week it rained and was cloudy & wet for two days so we didn't get any hauled but nothing was spoiled. Frank and I went back to set up the wheat shocks that were down and found that only the few that were flat had been wet through. We hauled hay Wednesday and Thursday of last week. Pickford wanted one of us to help him thrash out of the field on Saturday so he came over on Friday with his team and helped us haul wheat for the fore noon and all day we got in six loads not big ones as the wheat

was very heavy. Saturday Frank was over helping Pickford all day so Dad. and I finished hauling the hay and got one load of wheat up. We could unload the hay without mowing it as the last one put in, we put in the big barn in the empty bay. Mr. Clarke came back from Nanticoke on the 16th and came over here on the 19th. To-day Marj. Mr. Clarke & I drove down to church and we had chicken for dinner to celebrate. We three also went down this after noon and saw the deer. The buck has his horns back again now in the velvet and they look very sleek & fat. I culled out my chickens the other night and sold 17 all the white ones to Jack and Chris shipped six rocks to Toronto for me. I didn't get paid so I don't know how much I got.

Monday July 25th

To-day we finished hauling the wheat. Dad. & Frank hauled it up and while they were after loads Marj. and I weeded mangles and I helped them unload. This after noon Marj. and Enah went down to the first performance of the Chatauqua and Marj. and I went down to-night. The music was lovely.

Tuesday July 26th

Marj. and I finished weeding the mangles this morning and I drove her & her father down to catch the one o'clock car and they went to Brantford and Mr. Clarke stayed there to have Dr. Hicks examine him. I stayed down for the after noon and went to the Chautauqua and heard a man lecture on Soviet Russia, he was a prisoner there for some time and travelled over a good portion of it. I also got my hair cut and made arrangements with Ben Ivey to paint some more signs for him. George Zealand and I are to do it on Thursday if Ben gets the background painted. To night all the family but Marj. & I went to the Chautauqua to see Davis the magician which they enjoyed very much.

Wednesday July 27th

Marj. & I weeded two rows of potatoes this morning and Dad. & I we did some more this after noon Enah went to the Chautauqua and Marj. went and sat with Aunty and let Aunty

Alice go but they said the lecture was very poor and inclined to be coarse. We all went down to-night and saw the play "Contentment" by the John Qualen company the actors were very good but the play not up to much. Marj. telephoned Dr. Hicks and found out that her father will be operated on to-morrow morning. Mr. Bagley is going up.

Thursday July 28th

I went down this morning to paint Ben's sign but found out there had been a misunderstanding between Ben. & George Zealand and neither of them had painted the background so I told Ben I couldnt paint the sign, so I finished painting Quint's board instead and had dinner at Auntys I got home about five and found Dad. Enah & Tid had gone to the Chautauqua to hear the Ferguson light opera company which they enjoyed very much. Mr. Bagley came over as soon as he got home from Brantford at five o clock and told us that Mr. Clarke had come through his operation nicely but was very weak as he had been on the operating table for three hours. Marj. Enah & I went down and heard Hon. Percy Alden lecture on "The outlook in Europe, and Marj. & I thought it was fine although Enah & Frank who was there with Irene Pickford said they didn't care for him. Aunty Alice thinks Aunty is beginning to mend slightly, but she looks pretty sick.

Friday July 29th

Frank and I went over to Tom's & Mark's this morning where {plan?} was to thrash alsike out of the field and Dad went to Art Quanbury's where Sam was thrashing. Art finished before noon but we couldn't start till about eleven o'clock as the stuff was tough and it was a very cloudy & muggy morning. We thrashed till about half past two when a little shower came up and we had to quit for an hour, during that hour Tom & I went with Charlie Butler over to his place and got a jug of hard cider. We worked hard after that till about five when a real thunder shower came up and we all got pretty wet and had to quit for the day

We had tea over there and when we came home I drove down after tea and picked Marj. up, she had been at a party at Mrs. Freeman's and stayed down to telephone Dr. Hicks and found her Dad. was doing nicely.

Saturday July 30th

Frank went back to try to plow this morning but said it was very hard and the shear & coulter dull. Dad. weeded potatoes and I didn't do any thing much but clear up a little out in front of the house. Marj. went down town this after noon and stayed to tea. I drove down after tea and we went to the station and met Dorrie, the train was late and she was pretty tired. Dad. Frank and I weeded potatoes this after noon and got nearly three rows done. A little cooler lately with big winds

Sunday July 31st

The Pickford's had a family picnic down the Lake Shore to-day so of course Frank had to go along. Marj. Tim & I went to Sunday school and Enah & Dorrie drove down to church. Mr. Doherty preached. Dad. walked down to see Aunty and he, Enah & Tid went to Clair Herring's for lunch. Marj. & Dorrie took some sandwichs down and ate them at Aunty's after church & then went on the one o clock car to Brantford to see their father who is getting on as well as possibly. I came home & did chores and slept for most of the after noon. Enah stayed down to play again to-night as Mrs. Andrews is sick or something & Dad. drove Mexico home. Dad. Frank & I had tea together and then I took Mexico down so that Enah & the girls could all drive home. It gives me the willies to ride behind him he goes so slowly so I led him down as far as the Ivey's where I found Larry & Tid & Herby Zealand who jumped at the chance of driving him down. I found Marj. & Dorrie had come in on the five car, gone to the Bagley's for tea and from there to church and the Barwells were going to drive them home but Marj. was good enough to drive me home with Mexico instead of goin in the car. Cooler.

Monday August 1st

Tom came over this morning and said they would start thrashing about 10 o'clock so I counted all the church money right after breakfast and then Frank and I went over with the team. We started as soon as it was dry enough and had a steady run all day till about half past five to-night when a shower came up and we had to quit with 10 or 12 more loads in the field. We found Cecil & Winnie here when we got home and they stayed for the evening. Winnie expects to take a holiday trip to Montreal leaving to morrow. Marj. & Dorrie went back to the woods and picked a nice lot of blackberries. Dad. went down to tell Landon Ivey about the death of his cow. She died Saturday and had a piece of wire next her heart.

Tuesday August 2nd

It rained all the fore noon so we couldn't do anything outside. Dad. took some milk down to Aunty's and Frank and I sharpened the binder knives then Marj. & I finished making out the church quarterly statements and Dorris addressed envelopes for us. I also curried Elgitha while Dad. milked her, she gave her hind teat an awful scraping some way yesterday and is very touchy about having it milked. After dinner I drove Marj. & Dorrie down town. Marj. deposited the church money and then went down to sit with Aunty Alice while Aunty Alice went to a party at Miss Buckwell's. I drove her up there. I drove down again after tea and got the girls who had tea at Aunty's and we went to the picture show

Wednesday August 3rd

Frank cut the oats in the field north & west of the barnyard to-day, they feel like a very light crop and were down in a good many places. Marj. drove Dorrie down to catch the one o'clock car and she went up to see Mr. Clarke, she says he looks much better than he did on Sunday. Marj. brought Mrs. {C.G.D.?} Browne & her two kids home with her. To-night Marj. & I drove Queen down to band concert and we brought Dorrie home, she had stayed for tea at the Bagley's. Mr. Bagley treated us to ice-cream. I got {$5?} from the band to-night. Cooler.

Thursday August 4th

Frank cut the oats on the old corn stubble finishing soon after dinner and got well opened up in the long field, he also cut his alfalfa with the binder. I helped Dad. shock up this morning but this after-noon went over and helped Tom & Mark thrash. We finished up over there about five and I came home for supper. Warrie Banfield & his family and his mother came in this morning and took Marj. & Dorrie up to Brantford with them, they filled the Ford pretty well, with five grown-ups & two kids but they got back safely about six had a fine day and found Mr. Clarke looking much better. Dad. has felt miserable all day but has been working

Friday August 5th

Frank finished cutting the oats to-day and we put the binder away for another year. It took him till about five o'clock to finish. Dad & I shifted the calves around this morning and then started to shock up. This after noon old Dougherty came over and followed us out to the field and stood around and chewed the rag half the after noon so that we didn't get much done & have about half the long field to shock up yet. Marj. & Dorrie went back to the woods to pick berries this afternoon and had a picnic down by the mound They invited me and I went back as soon as we were through milking Tid & Jackie {Cape?} also went back and joined the feast. Landon Ivey was over this morning and wanted a team to help them thrash their wheat {illegible} but Dad. got Pickford to go in our place

Saturday August 6th

We went out first thing this morning and hauled in the hay out of the orchard and put it over the granary {tied?} the rails to make a bottom for the oats. We then rolled oats for the rest of the after noon, we got in three loads of the field {illegible} the barn leaving about one load out there but it started to rain at noon and rained hard for awhile so we didn't get any more done but I painted a show card lesson. The last bunch I sent down all came back severely criticized. Marj. Dorrie and I had thought of going to the Picture show to-night but it rained again about five so we stayed home

Sunday August 7th

Marj. Dorrie and I drove down to Sunday school but as there was no one in sight to open it up Frank and I took a walk and Marj. had to do the job. Mr. Cornish the new minister came in late last night and was too tired to come. We didn't hear him as Marj. Dorrie and I struck off for Nanticoke right after Sunday school and spent the after noon at Warrie's place. We left Dorrie there to pay a few day's visit and Marj. and I came home in time to do chores. Dad. went down and stayed with Aunty to-night while Aunty Alice went to hear the new minister He made a favorable impression I think and there was a very large congregation at both services judging by the collection, which was the largest since Marj. & I have had the books. We did them up to-night as Bill Barwell brought over the evening receipts. The statements of arrears which we sent out probably had something to do with it but we got a total of $94.66 for the day. Mark was in for a short visit to-night. Frank drove Joe down to the {Cave?} to-night to see the folks before he leaves for the West. Cloudy & cooler

Monday August 8th

I spent most of the forenoon working out in front of the border and before noon I drove Marj. down town She did her banking and stayed at Aunty's for dinner and then went to Brantford on the one o'clock car to see her father, she says he looks much better, she came home at five and stayed at the Bagleys for tea. Dad. and I went out to Charlie Quanbury's this morning after noon and Dad. bought the old sow Schoolgirl?} for $40.00. We then came home and shocked a few oats up with the forks. Irene Pickford was here for tea, Frank brought her over. I went down to band practice to-night, Mid kept us there till nearly eleven. I then called for Marj. who was at the McQueens.

Tuesday August 9th

We didn't do much this morning but chores and put a ring on Wilkins Micawber's nose. We had a bad job at it and it took us a long time. Dave McBride came in and gave us a hand. He expects to leave for the West to-morrow with Frank. This after noon we shocked up some more of the oats. Frank has had

a busy day getting packed and ready and saying good-bye to all the neighbors. He stayed at the Pickfords for tea and Enah drove him down to-night. He is going to stay at Aunty's to-night and leave in the early car for Galt. Marj. & I went for a little walk to-night and were overtaken by the Doughty family who were bringing Dorrie back, they had been at Brantford.

Wednesday August 10th

It was rather late when we got the morning chores done up and then Dad. went over and got Bobbie Pickford to come & help us draw {our?} oats. We got in five loads all day and left the last one on the barn floor. There is still one load left in the corn stubble field. Marj. Dorrie and I went to band concert to-night. Fine & cool breeze.

Thursday August 11th

Bobbie came over again this morning and we started to build a stack. We got in two loads this morning and at noon Pickford and Arthur came over to help us. We got in four loads and then it started to rain and we had to quit. They weren't big loads but we could have finished I believe if it hadn't rained. Arthur Preston came over for a visit and went out with me. He & Pickford pitched on and they would pitch up about four or five sheaves at a time so all I could do was to climb on top of them and I didn't build much of a load. Arthur stayed and gave me some new points against the theory of evolution at which we both laugh. Arthurs latest find is some fellow sneering at theory by claiming that in the course of evolution all life should have disappeared from the earth during the development of the insect life as they being of a lower order than the birds which now it is claimed hold them in check would have destroyed all plant life and then starved to death thereby cutting short evolution in its earlier stages. I agreed with Arthur that that was very logical.

Friday August 12th

It rained more during the night so that we couldn't do much with the oats but Dad. & I drove down town and got the beaver-board from Reynolds to put

on the kitchen. We were down town till noon This afternoon we did up the chores and then went out and set up the last of the oats that were lying down. They weren't in bad shape either Perce Kind{--}'s boy came over to get three lambs which we promised him so we picked out the three biggest {illegible} lambs and weighed them up and the best one weighed 92 lbs. He is giving us 9 cts per lb. for them. We also caught one to kill for ourselves and Dad. got Pickford to come over to-night and do it and gave him a piece of it. It was a nice one too. Fine & cool.

Saturday August 13th

Cecil came over first thing this morning to put the beaver-board on and he and Dad. have been working at it about all day and got it all on but the kitchen is an awful looking place as it all has to be painted and papered yet. Bobbie Pickford came over about ten o'clock and he and I went out and turned out all the oats and hauled in one load before dinner and three more this after noon. He & Dad. hauled the last one and finished harvest. Dad. & Cecil helped us put the loads off. We didn't get through with the chores till long after dark. Winnie came over to tea and Mr. & Mrs. Millman came over after tea for awhile. They came up from Toronto in the car to-day. It has been fine and cool all day.

Sunday August 14th

Marj. Dorrie, Tid. and I went down to Sunday school and Dad. & Enah went down to church. Marj. Dorrie & I heard Mr. Cornish for the first time and liked him very much. The whole Millman family came in just after dinner on their way home. As soon as they left Marj. Dorrie and I went down and I went with the band and we gave the long suffering public a sacred concert in the park. Dorrie & Marj. called on Miss McQueen and then went to Aunty's for tea. I drove down and brought them home to-night.

Monday August 15th

Marj. was sick in bed all day. She & Dorrie had planned to go to Brantford this morning but and go to Miss McQueen's for tea to-night but instead

Dorrie went alone to Brantford this after noon & to Miss McQueens for tea. I drove her down to the car and brought her home to-night after band practice. Cecil has been over all day but hasn't been able to do much but paint the ceiling and put in some finishing nails as Reynolds hasn't got the stripping out yet. I havent done any thing much

Tuesday August 16th

I went down first thing this morning to get the stripping at the planing mill but it wasn't ready as Reynolds had promised it would be. Dad. and I went back before dinner and got one of the bolls of wire down and rolled that were between the wheat and pasture. This after noon Tid drove Marj. & Dorrie down and they stayed with Aunty while Aunty Alice went over to Mrs. Woodson's to play bridge. I drove down to-night and got them. Cecil has been over all day and they got the room papered and Cecil started to paint the lower part of the wall green and Enah finished it to-night after supper. I went to see Reynolds to-night and he said he would have the strips in the morning.

Wednesday August 17th

Tid. and I went down again this morning and they were at the strips when I got there so by waiting till nearly noon I got them. Marj. & Dorrie did up the church books and walked down to deposit the money and then rode home in the waggon. I spent the after noon applying filler that Cecil mixed up to the strips and Cecil at last got started putting them on, so the room commences to have a furnished appearance. I went down to band concert to-night and drove Cecil down with me. The girls had intended going down to Aunty's for tea but it rained hard all the after noon so they decided it was too wet and didn't go down at all. I found that their Uncle George had come in this morning and gone up to Brantford with Mr. Bagley this afternoon to see Mr. Clarke. and expected to see the girls to-night, but I told him they would be down in the morning. He is staying at the Bagleys. Mr. Bagley says Mr. Clarke will be able to come down to Friday and the girls are going up to come back with him. More rain to-night.

Thursday August 18th

The girls went down with Mexico first thing this morning and brought their Uncle George over and he was here for dinner and tea. Cecil came over and finished putting the stripping on the walls Dad. helping him. I started a show card this morning and worked at it off and on all day, but talked to Uncle George most of the fore noon. To-night Marj. Dorrie & Uncle George drove Joe down and I walked. Uncle George treated us all to the picture show which was very funny. We then took him up to the Bagley's where he spent the night.

Friday August 19th

I drove the girls down to the station this morning and then got Uncle George & Mr. Bagley and took them down to the station. The girls and Uncle George went to Brantford on the nine car to shop in Brantford and to bring Mr. Clarke down at five. I didn't do much all day. Cecil was over glueing up some chairs and he and Dad. & I went out and lined up the fence batten. This after noon Dad. and I went out and rolled the wire we had up to divide the sheep pasture from the oats and pulled the posts. I drove down to-night to bring Marj. & Dorrie home. Mr. Clarke was staying at the Bagley's for to-night. Mr. Bagley was to have met them at the Main St. stop with a car but went off with Mr. Bond and was eating musk melon up at {Mr.?} Dixon's where the car came in so Marj. had to go down town and get a car to go up from the garage to get here. Dad. who nearly fainted sitting up there waiting and scared poor Dorrie, but he feels pretty well to-night

Saturday August 20th

Cecil came over for awhile this morning and varnished the strips on the walls and ceiling. Dad. and I went out and put the iron posts in for the new fence. This after noon we took the waggon back and the plow to the back field and brought up the wooden posts that were there and then we hooked to the rack and hauled in Frank's alfalfa. To-night Marj. Dorrie and I went down town, they went in to see their Dad.

and then we went to get some {illegible} for sandwichs and to hunt up some body to take us to the band picnic on Monday. We went down to Ben's Summer Garden which was packed and there found Charlie Blake who had no one to take with him to the picnic and on that account had not intended going but he said he would take us, so Dorrie had a dance with him and then we came home rather late.

Sunday August 21st

Marj. Dorrie and I went to Sunday school and Dad. & Enah went down church. I walked home but Mr. Lamb drove Mr. Clarke over here after church in his car and the girls came over with him. We didn't do much but lie around this after noon except Marj. Dorrie, Tim & I went down to take a picture of Jack's deer. There was a great crowd down there looking at them. Enah went down town to tea as she had to play to day. Alan Law was in to-night to invite one of us down there to thrash to-morrow, which was rather provoking as Dad. had figured on plowing while I was at the band picnic, however I guess he will have to go to thrash

Monday August 22nd

We got every thing done up in good time this morning and Dad. started for Sam's and was down there all day Charlie Blake came along about 9.30 and picked Marj. Dorrie several baskets cameras coats my horn Marj's knitting & me and we set sail for Fisher's Glen. We called around at the town hall where the rest of the boys were congregated to see if there was any one else wanted to go with us. We found that Mrs. Doc. Lemmons had decided not to go on account of lack of accomodation so we went up there. She called the girls in to make sandwichs for her and after a great deal of flurry & fluster on their part and calm patient waiting on Charlie's & mine we got away and after a very nice drive arrived at the Glen first of all with Carl Colman hard on our trail. It was an ideal day and every body had a good time. I would have had a better time if they hadn't made me play baseball but as there was a great game scheduled between the heavy and light horns I had to take my place. We played about nine or ten innings with an indoor ball

and we got beaten 21-15. I guess I did considerably to help the light horns win but wasnt any worse than most of them. I made one home run caught a third man out when two others were on bases I was in the field . We played several times during the day so weren't left much to our own devices We had tea about five o'clock and got home by about half past six and all hands professed having had a good time. Dad. was milking but hadn't had his tea so I was on time to do my share of the chores, and every thing went fine.

Tuesday August 23rd

Dad. & I spent quite awhile doing chores this morning and then took the waggon back to the field and put on a jag of wood. We then ran out one of the ditchs back there and threw out the sods. Dad. cut it on both sides so it took quite awhile, just as we were coming out of the gully on to the road a bumblebee stung Dad. right over the eye and it has been very sore all day. We discovered they had a nest in the old gate post there. We thought we would have to go and help Pickford thrash this after noon but he came up at noon to tell us the machine would not be there till to-night, so we went back and nearly finished running out our ditchs this after noon Marj. & Dorrie went down town this afternoon and brought Glad Law over to tea with them Dorrie & I drove her home to-night. Fine & warm.

Wednesday August 14th

Dad. & I got things done up ready to go over to thrash at Pickford's this morning but could see that there was no machine there so we sawed a little wood while we were waiting for it to come and then as there was still no sign of it Dad. and Mr. Clarke drove down to see where it was Pickford said they had some tampering to do to the engine and wouldn't be up till after noon. They came at noon and Dad. and I were both over there till tea time. They finished and Pickford got about 270 bushels all told and his oats were very big. I got another show card lesson nearly done this morning while I was waiting. To-night I went

down to band concert but as the Doughty's came in just before I left the girls didnt go with me but Dick Doughty took them down later and we walked home to-gether. By. Williams drove Harry & Lizzie Langs in to-night and they are coming over here for dinner to-morrow. Fine with nice breeze.

Thursday August 25th

Dad. and I went back this morning and finished throwing out the ditchs in this side of the back field and Dad. started to plow around the whole thing. I came up about eleven and soon after I came up By Williams brought the Lang's in so I took Harry around the farm and we came up with Dad at noon. This after noon we just visited till it was time for Dorrie to go to the train then she & Marj. drove down in the cart and took Dorrie's trunk with them. Harry & I walked down and I went to the station in time to say good-bye to Dorrie. Gosh I hated to see her leave. Enah drove Lizzie down with Joe & took her up town. Marj. & I met her at Aunty's and we drove Joe home. Mr. Bagley was over to see Mr. Clarke.

Friday August 26th

Dad. has been ploughing all day and going all the way around the two fields. It is very hard and a slow job. His coulter came off this morning and he had to change at town which took him a long time as the clevers were rusted. I dug post holes around the old garden and put posts in. I would have finished to-night but I struck a stone just at five o'clock and had to leave it. After dinner I drove Mr. Clarke down and left him at Uncle Ward's and went after him this evening. Enah went down to choir practice to-night and Dad. went down to see Aunty who is ever so much better. Dr. Cook had her & Aunty Alice over here for a drive this after noon.

Saturday August 27th

Dad. and I have been all day putting up the fence between the old meadow north of the old garden and the oat stubble, and around the north & west side of the garden so that the cows can't get in although there is precious little

there for them to destroy except a beautiful crop of weeds. There will be great pasture for the cows for awhile in the piece that we are fencing off as clover has come on fine since haying although it wasn't seeded. We had to go back to the gully after dinner for one of the 30 ft. rolls back there although we only had a few yards in the fence to finish. J.C. Ross was over this morning looking at the sheep, he is going down to judge at Toronto next week. Marj. drove her Dad down with Mexico & the buggy this after noon and left him at the Bagley's for a day or so I went down to-night and got my hair cut.

Sunday August 28th

Marj. Tid and I went down to Sunday school this morning and Dad. & Enah drove down to church. Marj. and I walked around by the Bagley's after church for a few minutes to see how Mr. Clarke was, he had been to the Presbyterian church with the Bagley's as they & the Methodists are havi{ng} Union services for a few weeks. Dad. brought Aunty & Aunty Alice over for dinner and took them home just before tea. Aunty is ever so much better but pretty weak yet. The {Warrie?} Banfields and Mrs. Banfield came up and were here for the after noon. I went to bed soon after tea. Bill Fallens barn with all his this years grain and 3 or 4 hundred bushels of old grain was burned yesterday afternoon They claim it was spontaneous combustion but Dad. snorts at the idea and says no barn was ever set on fire by that, through grain heating

Monday August 29th

It started to rain soon after breakfast this morning and we had a heavy thunder storm for most of the fore noon but it came out hot & sunny this after noon I spent the morning painting my last show card lesson and Marj. posted them this afternoon. Dad. wrote letters to Frank and Dick most of the morning. This after noon we separated the ewes & lambs and put the ewes across in the little front pasture. I worked all the after noon building a fence

and bars at the corner of the drive house. Dad. went back and ploughed for awhile he said it went quite a bit better at the bottom of the hill & in the low spots but up on top was as dry as ever I went down to band practice to-night.

Tuesday August 30th

The bandit hogs, the twin marauders who being spoiled children and allowed to follow their own sweet will ever since they nestled in their fond mother's arms (as it were) must now suffer for their sins by forfeiting their freedom. They have led a life of wickedness first robbing and plundering our crops which were near at hand, pillaging the oat field back of the barn and the strawberries and corn in the garden but not content with confining their operations to the limits of this place where they are tolerated, they were finally seized with the wanderlust and like pirates have been making daily forays into Jack Martin's clover and corn and at last into Billy Mill's garden where they ruthlessly destroyed the kids pop-corn. So a warrant for their imprisonment was carried out last night yesterday morning. Dad. shut them in their pen and thought he had them solid, but they are hardened criminals and did not hesitate to add to the crime of jail breaking to the long list of their evil deeds and to-night Billy Mills chased them home and in an indignant tone recounted their guilty charges so Dad. shut them up again this time right in the pen but this morning they were free once more so once more they were shut up with Gladys, and the door barred and nailed and it seems at last as if they were safely confined, but its hard to say. Dad went back and ploughed this morning and Tid. & I went out with Art Quanbury and brought old Schoolgirl home. I went off and forgot to turn out the windmill and Dad. had to come up to turn it out. Just before dinner Marj. and I drove up to Miss McCoy's to pay her for some hay and stopped in at the mill on our way home & got some shorts for the bandit hogs and some rolled oats and bran for the lambs. This after noon I drove Aunty over here to stay for a few days. It began to rain about five o'clock and we had a heavy thunder storm.

Wednesday August 31st

It was pouring rain when I first got up this morning but cleared off and has been very hot and sultry all day. I haven't done a thing but chores all day. Dad. got a pretty good day in ploughing but the flies nearly drove the horses crazy. This after noon Marj. & I drove down town and brought Aunty Alice back with us to stay all night. I went down to band concert to-night. I got the cows up early and went down early and practiced "The Holy City" before the concert. Hal. Steele played it for cornet solo

Thursday August September 1st

This has been another very hot sultry day and has looked very rainy and thundery but did not rain. Dad. and I got all the ewes over in the colony yard this morning and milked out the ones that needed it. Art. Quanbury came in to invite us out to Charlie's to thrash this after noon. Dad. ploughed all day and I took Aunty Alice down this morning. I stayed there till noon and cut the lawn and dug some potatoes for her. This after noon I started for Charlies to thrash, but stopped at John Wesse for quite awhile as the machine wasn't at Charlie's yet. Cam. came up from the field to get a wire to poke out {the axle?} holes in his sulky plow, and invited me into the house where he treated me to a big piece of watermelon, and told me about the trials and triumphs of the Lemmon's orchestra. Mrs. Welsh has been doing her best to knock it because they wouldn't let Glen play his clarinet that he wouldnt practice on. It is going out now though to various engagements and charging so is doing fine. I got over to Charlies about the time the machine got there and we thrashed for about two hours. Charlies crop aggregated the magnificent total of 95 bushels 18 of which was good wheat the rest very poor oats & barley mixed. I drove down to-night and got Marj. who had been at Miss McQueens for tea and had gone afterwards to the Sunday school teacher's class which Mr. Cornish took and which she said she enjoyed very much as Mr. Cornish was so good.

Friday September 2nd

This ink seems to be getting redder all the time although it was blue when it was put in the pen. Dad. has ploughed all day and it has not been quite so hot. I went back this morning and ploughed a couple of rounds while he changed the coulter on the other plow. Marj. went down and had lunch with Aunty Alice and this after noon went to Simcoe to the Auxillary deanery meeting, she got home on the seven o'clock car. I went down this after to dig Aunty Alice's potatoes but as it was pretty late when I got the calves watered I didn't get many dug. I went for a swim before I came home. Quint has bought an old Ford car and is going around to the Hall fairs selling Hot Dogs. He went to Cayuga yesterday.

Saturday September 3rd

Dad. ploughed all day again and got quite a nice lot done. I spent most of the morning just doing chores. Aunty Alice came over this morning with the awful news that Cousin Loll was dead. She was as well this morning as she has been for a long time and was walking down the street with Cousin Clare who had gone over to ask her to go to Simcoe with her this after noon. They parted about opposite the Hoan's house and before Cousin Loll got to her own house, she fell. Mr. Bagley & Mr. Hoan were up at the corner and saw her lying on the grass so ran down but she was unconsious and died in a few minutes. Of course Aunty Alice and Aunty feel terribly. Enah drove Aunty down this after noon and she stayed down. Marj. & I drove Joe down and Marj. took the church money to the bank and I dug some more potatoes. At four o'clock I went for a swim with Tid.

Sunday September 4th

Marj. Tid and I went down to Sunday school & church and Dad & Enah went down to church. Dad. Enah & Tid stayed down at Aunty's for dinner and Enah stayed down for tea. Marj. & I came home and I did up the noon chores and we drove Queen down to meet the three o'clock car as Marj. expected her Dad on

it, he having gone to Waterford the other day to visit his sister. He didn't come on the three o'clock car so as it was too hot and the flies were too bad to keep Queen out till the five o'clock car came in, we came back home and read till five when we drove down and got him. We nearly had a mess up on the bridge coming home. We met Jack Walker in his car on the bridge and when I pulled Queen to the extreme edge to pass him, she caught sight of the water below or something rattled her so that she wouldn't pass the car and backed off the bridge, however she didn't do any damage and waited quietly till the car passed her. Dad. got home from town about the same time we did and Enah got a ride home after church. Very hot.

Monday September 5th

I went over to Art Quanbury's first thing this morning to thrash and as there were only five jags of oats it was only about an hour's run. Dad. ploughed all day and Tid. took Mr. Clarke down to spend the day with Uncle Ward. This after noon Marj. Tid and I went back in the waggon to get a load of wood, but as Marj. got jolted so she & Tid walked back through the gully and looked for mushrooms but didn't find any. To-night Marj. & I took some cream down to Aunty and called at Uncle Wards on our way home for Mr. Clarke. This was Labor Day and the reunion at the school house. We had intended going but didn't. Quite a sharp thunder shower at noon and hot & cloudy the rest of the day

Tuesday September 6th

Dad. ploughed all day and as it has been cooler he got quite a lot rolled over. I did up the chores this morning and then Mr. Clarke and I drove out to Art. Quanbury's to get a couple of bushels bags of old oats which Dad. bargained for this morning. We went all through Art's house which is going to be a dandy. This after noon I hadn't any thing in particular to do so I meandered down to the creek and wandered all over Flemming's place and then lay down under a tree for half an hour and wished I had money enough to buy the place. When I came back I went down to the mill to get a bag of flour for Enah

Tim started back to school this morning and was very down in the mouth about it. He didn't expect to have to go this after noon but was disappointed and it was with a great deal reluctance that he was persuaded to go, but Enah drove him down in the cart. Marj. & her Dad were down town with Mexico most of this afternoon. Marj. & I did the church books to-night.

Wednesday September 7th

Dad. didn't get much ploughed this morning as the horses all went back to the gully last night and it took me an awful long time to catch them this morning, then Mark's brother was in for a few minutes to see us, he came up from Toronto to see Mark and was going back this morning. I just did chores this morning and this after noon we all went down to Cousin Loll's funeral. Bill Barwell took us down. They had a very short service at the house and another at the church. Mr. Cornish & Mr. Robertson both officiating. Quint was at the church & Dad. Huby, Quint and I went up to the cemetery. It was a terribly sad affair. Bill Barwell brought Enah and me home and I had the milking done when Dad. got home. He waited down to take Tim down to the dock to see the dredge work. Marj. & her Dad. stayed down at the Bagleys for tea and I went down to band concert to-night and brought them home. To-night was our last band concert. It is and has been very hot.

Thursday September 8th

Dad. has ploughed all day and has got over far enough to start ploughing off the little hill on this side. I did up the chores and then hooked up the little team to the waggon and took the harrows back and brought up a load of wood. This after noon I took the rollers back and rolled all the after noon. It was very hot and the flies nearly drove the little team crazy. It seemed like a crime to work them. Evans came over at noon & borrowed the drill to sow wheat this afternoon. Marj. and her father went down to Aunty's for tea to-night. They walked down after dinner. Marj. went to the Sunday school meeting to-night and I

drove down as soon as I could after tea and Mr. Clarke and I went to the picture show which was rather funny and picked Marj up at Auntys after.

Friday September 9th

Jack Martin came over first thing this morning and told Dad. he wanted both of us to help thrash this after noon, so as Dad. thought we had better try to have them come here next in spite of the fact that we didn't get any manure out, he didn't go back to plough but spent the fore noon clearing up the barn. He asked Jack if we could have his waggon to go down and get a load of coal and Jack said that the box was on it, but when I went over I found the rack was on it and Billy wanted it to put between the two stacks to pitch into the machine from so he helped me take the rack off and put the box on and I got a load of coal but had to unload it again and take the waggon back. This after noon Dad. and I both went over but Dad. didn't have much to do and came home about four o'clock. We had a very slow run as the stuff was very tough and plugged up every little while. We didn't get both stacks quite thrashed out. Still very hot & sultry.

Saturday September 10th

I went over to thrash this morning and Dad. said he would go over as soon as they got started at the big barn. We finished the stack down at the Vyse place in about an hour and moved up to Billy's barn, but Sam got tinkering with the separator and found some thing wrong that he said would take him till noon to fix so Dad. & I came home about ten. We thought they would start up this after noon but kept waiting & watching all after noon and they didn't start so our day was wasted. Proper came over to get Dad. to look at his horse which Dad. says has lymphangitis.

Sunday September 11th

Marj. Tid and I drove down to Sunday school with

Joe this morning and Dad. Enah and Mr. Clarke drove Mexico to church at least Dad. rode as far as the corner and then walked down. It rained last night and the road was muddy. Cecil & Winnie were over for awhile this after noon and then they went with Marj. Mr. Clarke and I down to see the deer and we took a walk around Jack's place and peeked in the windows of the house to see the renovations. It looks very stylish with the hard wood floors and mahogany wood work, the dining room is all panelled in dark wood. We then wandered around the chicken yards awhile. Just as we got back Mr. Barwell drove the Tibbits in all but Dick & Molly. Little Tinker had a great time with Tid. riding on Mexico. Bill Barwell came over after tea to take Enah to church and brought her home after. Mrs. Andrew's has quit the organ so Enah had to play.

Monday September 12th

Mr. Clarke left for home to-day He intends making the trip in easy stages and get there the end of the week. Dad and I thrashed all day at Jack Martin's and finished up there a little after six o'clock. We were stopped quite often as the barley stack was very wet, but Sam got mad at Charlie who was feeding and gave him a calling down eventually and then Charlie was more careful but very peeved and never helped Sam move to night. Arthur Pickford and I carried away and had a very easy time all morning, but had to work a little harder this after noon when the burrs began to fill up. I got some hickory nuts this morning and we spent most of our time eating them and drawing pictures in the granary. Dad. came home at noon and did up the chores and we both came home before supper to-night as we wanted to get the milking done before Sam. moved over here. He came in just as we were finishing and by the time he got in the barn and left, it was about half past eight and we had to have our tea after that. Marj. went down town this after noon, stayed at Aunty's for tea and went to a girl's meeting to-night. I went down to come home with her. I intended to go to band practice to see what they decided about practising from now on, but it was so late when I got down that I didn't go, but heard since that we are going to take a rest for a week or so.

Tuesday September 13th

We had a very steady run to-day, didn't have to stop at all except to change the table from one side to the other and once we had to wait for Alan to bring a tank of water. We finished up soon after dinner Arthur Pickford and I carried away and got 450 bushels of light oats which was all we looked for but the wheat was rather a disappointment as we only got 156 bushels. It looked like such a fine crop before it was cut that we thought it should have been good for at least 200 but there seemed to be a lot of shrunken wheat in it. We finished up about three o'clock and Dad. & I put the little jag of alfalfa that was on the rack in the barn. Sam. left the engine & machine here for a day or so as he wants to go home & put his wheat in.

Wednesday September 14th

Dad. ploughed all day, he didn't get started very early as it looked like rain but it didn't amount to anything. I took Tim. down to school this morning and went on down to Aunty's with some cream, she got me to go over to Uncle Ward's and get a couple of baskets of grapes for her. I spent most of the rest of the day moving in loose straw from around the stack into the barn and got quite a lot in. It was a beautiful moonlight night to night and Marj. & I went for a walk down to Mrs Battersby's place and sat around for awhile down there on the bank overlooking the pond.

Thursday September 15th

I drove Tim to school this morning took some cream to Aunty Alice and went around to the canning factory to show them an ear of our corn and find out if it was ready to pull. Woodyer hardly looked at it but said it was all right. I picked some ears last night and again this morning and was greatly distressed to find every ear had a kind of worm in them eating around the top of the ear. I asked Woodyer about them but he only said "You've got em too" so I guess they can them along with the corn. As soon as I got home I walked over to Charlie Butler's through Tom's & Mark's place and borrowed his waggon & corn

rack, he said if I would bring our waggon over for him to use he could have his as long as we needed it. After dinner Dad. & I took the rack all but the bed piece off the waggon and then I went out and cut a couple of roads through the corn field Marj. had gone out right after dinner and started to pull ears, and Enah went out later, and they pulled about a load and left it in piles while I took the little team over to Charlie's to get the rack. I got back and started to load about four o'clock and quit soon after five although I didn't have quite a load on nor all that was pulled but it was getting fairly heavy for the little team to pull and so late I went with it. I found I had 1620 lbs of a load, and when I got to the factory I had to wait for three or four others to unload who were in ahead of me. Willard Butler came in after I did with a big load of over 2 tons. It was after dark when I got home but Dad had the milking done. He ploughed all the after noon,

Friday September 16th

They wouldn't let me haul any corn to the factory to-day as they are so filled up down there. Mr. Bond told me at first not to bring any down till Monday but when he saw that it was in nice shape to pull, he said Saturday. Dad ploughed all day and I did up the chores and then took the little team back and rolled what was ploughed except on the side hill. The flies were very bad and as I couldn't change the doubletree from the roller to the harrows, it being too thick for the clevice to go over it, I came up early and did up the chores. I had an awful scare to-night and Dad. had a narrow escape from being killed. He was milking Cnocfierna who with next to Bobbie stands next to the far wall of the cow stable. Bobbie's pin had come out of her stantion while I was milking her and she was standing loose. I had finished milking and was halfway across the barnyard when I heard a terrible commotion in the stable and Bobbie & Cnocfierna rushed out. Then I heard Dad. groaning terribly and I thought he was terribly hurt, but when I got to him he was leaning against the wall and covered with mud from head to foot. What

had happened was that Bobbie had got frightened we suppose of Tim & young Charles Aikens who were playing up above in the loft, and backed out suddenly upsetting Dad. & his milk right back of Cnocfierna's heels and stepping on him as she went out. All that racket of course scared Cnocfierna and she surged back and broke her stancion and backed out right on top of poor Dad. I had been washing off their bag so the floor behind them was awfully mucky so that he was a terrible sight but fortunately not seriously hurt but pretty badly bruised. I stayed scared for a long time and when I saw Mr. Charles Aikens I told him to get off the place and stay off.

Saturday September 17th

It rained hard this morning so we didn't go to get a load of corn. It came out very hot after the rain and Dad. and I just did chores and odd jobs, one of which was to get the lambs in and trim them up. We took the team & waggon out to the corn field and got a lot of the stalks and picked up most of the piles of corn that were out there and brought them up here to feed. The bulls seemed to relish the stalks very much. Alan & Sam were up here most of the day tinkering at their seperator.

Sunday September 18th

We had quite an exciting time this morning by the woodshed chimney catching fire. I was getting ready for Sunday school when Marj came in and said the chimney smelt as if it was on fire but when she told the others they didn't pay any attention to her but in a few minutes Enah came in and called me in a very excited voice and I rushed out to find the woodshed black with smoke. I went upstairs and found every thing was all right up there. Enah put some salt on the fire and in a few minutes it died down and no damage was done. Marj. Tim and I went to Sunday school and Dad. & Enah drove down to church Dad. drove Aunty up to church, the first time she has been all summer but she was pretty tired afterwards. Marj.

and I stayed down at Aunty's for dinner and all the after noon. We came home about five and I helped do chores and Marj. got tea as Enah went down to play to-night. Quite a cold breeze all day.

Saturday September 24th

We have been so rushed this last week that I haven't had time or have been too tired to keep the old diary written up so will have to lump the weeks doings and by so doing can just about condense it to "Hauled corn". We have been at it every day but to-day and they wouldn't let us haul to-day as it would mean too big a pile to leave unhusked over Sunday There were two days when we only got down one load a day on account of rain but have hauled two every other day. Enah. Marj & I have been at it pretty steadily picking. Marj. has helped pick every load so far. Aunty Alice came over two days and helped us and got pretty tired. Win came over for a visit one day and we pressed her into the service & Dad picked quite a lot, but has been trying to get as much work as possible on the wheat ground. He finished ploughing the piece west of the little gully and isn't going to try to get any more than that in. I found I couldn't pull a big load out of the field with the little team as Queen wouldn't get down to it and pull like Joe, so I have them been hauling with Harry & Joe & Dad. has been disking & harrowing with Pommers and Queen and once or twice in order to get a real load we put Pommers and Harry on the waggon to haul the load up to the road and then changed Pommers for Joe to haul it to the factory and in spite of the fact that Charlie Butler told me the capacity of the waggon springs was 3000 lbs but that we couldn't overload them with that box we put on 3110 one load but we generally hauled about 2200 and two loads were as small as 1590 and 1640. The corn was coming in to the factory in great quantitys the early part of the week but not nearly so much to-day, and they hope to finish up Tuesday. The weather has been fine except for a couple of showers. No frost yet.

Sunday September 25th

It rained quite hard this morning for a short time so Marj. Tid. and I drove down to Sunday school in the buggy. Enah & Dad. drove Mexico down to church and Dad. drove Aunty up to church. Marj. and I didnt go to church but took Mexico home. We drove up to the Laws as Marj. wanted to see Essie and we went down to Auntys for awhile Aunty Alice was there getting dinner ready as Dad. Enah and Tid stayed there for dinner. I got all I could stand of riding in the cart with Mexico when we got across the bridge so I got out and walked home. Marj. and I had dinner by ourselves and just got through with it when Huby & Lila came over Huby was hungry after the walk so he had something to eat. After I got the bulls & calves watered we all went back to the gully to look for mushrooms and see the cattle & colts. We didnt find any mushrooms that were any good as someone had been there before us. Huby was greatly taken wih the colts. He & Lila just left before Dad. & Tid. got home and they of course were very disappointed to have missed him Tid especially. Enah didn't come home to tea but stayed at her mother's and played to-night in church. The Barwells brought her home afterwards Marj and I worked at the church books to night. We have to get the statements out this week so wanted to get every thing ready. Huby said he and Lila went to church this morning and Lila is very strict with him and gets mad if he doesn't behave himself but she started the talking this morning. They sang "For those in peril on the sea," and Lila asked Huby for whose benefit it was. Huby said "I don't know. The Harding girls were having a little sale yesterday. I guess its on that account." The Hardings did have a sale at which Enah bought half a dozen nice dining room chairs for 10 cts a piece. The Hardings have sold the place to Chart Wooley who is going to establish a dairy plant there and they are going out West to keep house for Harry. The cause of the hymn this morning was the Hobbs' departure for England yesterday. Fine, cool wind

Monday September 26th

Dad. Enah. Marj. and I all went out to put on a big load this morning and took out Harry & Pommers. Marj. didn't feel at all well and had to quit before we got it on. We hauled it up to the drive house with the big team and then I hauled it down to the factory with Queen and Joe and Dad. went back to fill in his ditches with Harry & Pommers. He finished them and didn't get up till half past twelve for dinner. This after noon Marj. didn't go out to pick but Dad. Enah and I put on a big load, 3100. I was pretty late getting it unloaded and then I went up to the Hardings and got the chairs Enah bought at their sale, so I was quite late getting home. Marj. went down with me on the load and stayed at Aunty's for tea as she had to go to a girl's meeting to-night. I drove down after her to-night. Huby and Ada. were there at Aunty's so we stayed for quite awhile and talked or rather listened to Huby talk, and then we brought Ada as far as her place with us. Beautiful day.

Tuesday September 27th

We all four got out in the field this morning to pull corn as this was to be the last day they were going to take it at the factory and we wanted to haul as much as possible. Marj. felt better and wanted to be in on the finish. We put on what we thought was a good big load and hauled it out with Harry & Pommers and down town with Harry and Joe, but when I got down I found I didn't have on quite a ton and a half. Winnie came over for dinner and she helped pull this afternoon and we put on all that we could possibly stick for the last load and we nearly skinned the field all but a few hundred lbs at the far end and the crows had it pretty badly stripped. Marj. went down with me and saw Woodyer weigh it and it came to 3200, the biggest load of all making an aggregate of 16 tons 700 lbs. Marj. went up town to get a registered letter from Dorrie and I picked her up at Aunty's. Win. and Enah drove down in the cart and picked TId up. We are all glad the corn picking is done and think it did well.

Wednesday September 28th

Dad disked crossways all day on the wheat ground but didn't get all over it. He wants to harrow and roll it again before it is drilled I took the little team and Charlie Butler's waggon out and gathered up all the corn stalks that were cut along the roadways so that Bill wouldn't have to drive over them with the corn binder. I piled them along the fence between the corner field and the one the corn is in. This after noon I took the waggon back to Charlie & Marj. went with me to call on Mrs. Butler Charlie wasn't home when we got there but came while I was waiting for Marj. He talked to me for quite awhile and then had me tie the team up and go down to the flats where the corn field was and get some pumpkins to take home. When we came up he was bound I should sit down and hear a few records on the Victrola so we heard Humoresque which Charlie had bought on Mr. Tibbit's recomendation and which he didn't care for at all when he got it, but was getting to like it more the oftener he heard it. Cory said she liked it, she gets so tired of their silly pieces but she could never get tired of that one, then Charlie played one of his silly ones and then Nellie Gray sung by Alma Gluck.

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