oct Oct the 3 1986

3...finished geting in Buckwheat on Haskin place

9...Sowed 8 quarts of fall wheat on Haskins place got the wheat from {Name?}. Beaton that's the eureklen wheat

12...finished diging & geting getin in potatoes on Haskin place.

17 a flurry of Snow at night

23 W. West & P.H. Shook on a Squirrell hunt killed 13 Black Squirrell

28 P.H. Shook. & John. Shook {illegible}. W. Benway. & W. West. & Joe. Thearbold. on a Squirrel hunt killed 38 Black Squirrel in one day

28 heavy thunder Storm at night

31 fine weather to day

31 killed a Streaked Snake

31 Saw lots of frogs to day

31 W. G. Shook & P.H. Shook on a hunt killed two patrige

Nov the 3 1896

3 Benway & P.H. Shook went to westsport.

7 killed a pig weighed 1.87 lbs.

16 Seting out grape vines on the old Shook farm

17 Got in Mrs. Adlines. Shook

17 potatoes = hurd frogs croaking

17 Saw a number of dandelines

17 in blossom

17 it has been very fine and {scored out} weather for severl days

December the 31 1896

31 John. Shook & P. H. Shook helping dig in Adline Shook. well.

January the 1 1897

1 John. Shook. & P.H. Shook

1 cuting cedar in the Haskins

1 Swamp very fine weather

2 fine & warm weather & a little

2 rain thawing. Snow nearly all gon of.

2 repairing old Stable floor

4 drawing Straw from the

4 Haskin place to the old Shook place

4 roads very muddy

4 Snow all gon of

4 a heavy Shower of rain

4 at night, & a little

4 flurry of Snow near morning

5 fine weather to day illegible

5 & thawing a little to day

19 bare ground no Slaying yet

19 clear to day but very cold

20 heavy Storm at night

20 Eaton & Brown law Suit

20 in Delta

21 Snowing a little in fore noon

mar March the 1 1897

1 heavy South wind & Snow

1 Sun dog up over up the Sun in the morning &

1 a South east wind denotes

1 heavy wind & Snow

1 halling cedar from the

1 Haskin. Swamp

11 went to Gananoque with lumber

11 roads very Bad

12 heavy South east snow

12 Storm in fore noon

12 went to Gananoque with

12 lumber heavy Shower of

12 rain with thunder, thawing

12 very fast water very high

12 across the roads

11 recived for lumber $17.54

12 recived for lumber $3.78

20 recived one tun of hay from Norton. Shook.

20 heavy thunder in the

20 South & north west

20 and heavy rain

March the 19. 1897

19 comenced to tap the Suggar bush

20 W

20 John. Willson catching fish

20 in Gripen lake out let

22 Xorton Shook moved from

22 the old Shook place to

22 the Spring vale cheese factory

22tThey moved with the Slead

22 heavy thunder in the South

23 baught from {Name?} & bro

23. 25. tin Sap buckets at 8ct. apice

23. & 50. iron Sap Spouts at 1ct. apice Total $2.50.

23 10 one hundred of Second grad rooler flour $1.95ct

50. lbs flour $1.18ct

15. lbs flour 48ct

march 1897. paid to W.J. Burns. for Black fence wire $4.20ct.

1897

April. John. Shook. & Hiram. Shook

12. Building Shead fence for P.H. Shook

13 John & Hiram building Shead fence

14 John. & Hiram. building Shead fence

13. gathered 45. pails of Sap to day

13. Frank. Brown yong pigs

April Boried oats from

10 Robert. Brown 9.72 lbs whitch makes {2?}28. bushels and 20 lbs. due to Brown in the fall 34 bushels

{paper torn badly at the top and left hand side and some writing is obscured throughout this page}

a hukle Bog

cuting wild hag

Philip. Wing mare

cuting fall wheat Haskin. place

Gineys cow.

finished harvest on Haskin place.

H G Philip Shook

August the 1 189{3}

W.J. Hicock. & P.H. Shook went a black Berrying to The. Larose place

took a load to kingston

of bags to kingston

that ware {goging?} to Hamitohn

took W. B. Shook {back?}

to Gananoque on the

way home to york

{writing obscured}

{paper torn badly at the top and left hand side and some writing is obscured throughout this page}

Will. Brown funarel

Mrs. Frank. thursten funarel went to mill with {pevender?}

comenced to fat hogs

148 Lyndhurst fair

baught a pair of lace boots for George from Burns $1.20ct

Tom. Merill Soad his fall wheat

baught a pig from W. Hutcheon paid $1.00

prety heavy rain Storm

west wind

South west wind

Tom. Merrill had thrashing machine Chapman

finished geting on in on Haskin place

finished cuting Buck wheat on Haskin

heavy rain & wind

1897

April the 17.

17 traded a lumber wagon with Philip. King for one acer of timber in King. Swamp

19. dived the line fence betewen

19 divided the line fence betwen P.H. Shook & Adelyn. Mustard Mustard takes the East end of fence & Shook. the west end

19 cold wind freezing hard at night.

20. cold winds freezing hard at night

21 divided the line fence between P.H. Shook & Francis. Brown, Brown takes the South end & Shook the north end

1897

April 19 = heavy, cold a north west

19 wind = froze hard at nigh

19 a litte flurry of Snow at night u

April

26 heavy cold north west

26 wind froze some at nigh

26 a litte flurry of snow

26 at night.

27 Gathered in the sap buckets

28 hurd a whiper will.

21 baught of P. Tompson 28 lbs of black wire at $2.25ct per hundred 63cts

29 took two head of yong cattle down to Albert of Leadbeter pasture $3.50cts. for the season

May

5. Edward. Coalman. was drounded

1897

May the 13. Mrs. Frank. Brown. died

16.. Will. Shook. died.

19.. Sowing 2. bushel peas on flats

22.. sowing 10.. bushels oats on flats

22. planting corn up next to Sap Bush

21 heavy frost at night

25 baught 3 pigs from Frank. Brown at $1.75cts

25 per head. $5.25cts.

27 Sowing 6 bushel of

27 white Benanza oats on the flats

27 had Frank. Brown

27 teem 1/2 .. days working on the flats

June

2. moved Mrs. Frank. Brown from the vault to the Babtis cimitary

June 1897

2. finished planting field potatoes. and Beans

7. dowing road work A. mustard on flats path {illegible} 15 of buckwheat

15 Sowing 2. bushels cow com

16 harrowing field potatoes

18 picnic in Wales. Hicock Grove.

19. Sowing millet & buck wheat on flats

19 charlstown picnic

26 lent Hamet. Lillie 2.16. feet hernlock plank

Nov

30 received 1.17 feet of plank lumber all paid

July 1897

1 went to Kingston

1 went to Kingston

6 Eatons comenced hazing on their lower place

aug 9 traded Sheep with J.W. Hicock.

9 weading turnips on flats

August the 11

11 went to Kingston for

11 to meet Levi. Shook

11 on his way home from Michigan.

12 Levi. Shook came home from Michigan by the way of Gananoque

17 Sam and Joe. Shook started for Manitoba

21 finished cuting oats on the flats

28 got furzt calf from W. Holister. a heffer calf

Sep 1897

4 4 had steam thrasher W. Menrow. machine

7 Levi. Shook & familey Startes for to Michigan to there hon home in Saginaw paid W. Menrow for thrashing with Steamer $3.50cts.

Sep

13 & 14 Lyndhurst fair

20 north west wind Quite cool and cloudy

21 north west wind

22 east wind and Some

22 rain in fore noon

23 Some cloudy with

23 north east wind

Oct 1897

12 .. Thebold & Bibey Helmer

13 .. to P.H. Shook on a Squirrel hunt

14.. Benway helping to dig potatoes

21.. finished diging and geting in potatoes

25 & 26 fine weather for severl days to smoothy Smokey & Sun shine

25 & 26. John. Theabold & Charley. Clobrige on a Squirrell hunt and Went in {company with the hunt

30 went to Gananoque with fowl

Sep the 21. 1897 no lbs flour

21 comenced to bake 60

for Frank. Brown 36

                                     1.00

                                     50

1898 H. Brown.

Jan flower 50

14 1898 50

april the 25

21 Balence to 3 71

Frank. Brown 27

on Settlement

47 cent 3 98

{Some sums are scattered across the page}

1897

November

1 raining a little all day

4 boried 47 lbs poark from Antwine. Deng.

9 rain till in after noon then turns to snow we had about 1 1/2 inch of Snow

6. 50. lbs flour from rooler mill Lyndhurst

15 recived one pair long Boots from Will. Hallister price of. boots $3.50ct

15 & 16 working at cellar wall

17 paid Wm. Jamerson one bag of boried oats

Nov the 11

received one crait of chickens from Saginaw Michigan

19 Snowing a little nearly all day

Dec

3 50 lbs flour from roller mill

Dec 1897

2 killed hogs one weighed 2.51 lbs and one weighed 1.55 lbs

11 Lyndhurst turkey fair Sold five turkeys at the fair for 8 1/2 cts per lb came to $4.42cts.

12 Saw a frog out on dry ground on Meardles flats.

12 heavy rain to day roads very mudy

18 ploughing to day

21 A. Mustard. & {illegible} P.H. Shook went to Gananoque with the Slay

1898

March the 27. ice all out of griphen lake

27 saw a flock of black ducks

28 heard leslie lived

27 w.w. hienack

   Sets a hen for p.to Shook on pleneth rock hen eSSS

27 aden longs up in lap buok

April

1988 19 best time of sale 
11 finished making sugar
12 W.G. Bennvag started for Manitoba
14 & 15 & 16 Sowing peas and oats on the flats 7. Bushel
18 Sowing a sack of cloves seed on the flats.

April 1898

26. Shook later to hisam. Shook for work

26. one day with teem driving seeds $ 4

                                    1.25

May on the flats

19 one day sorting potatoes and drawing out marmalade

28 1/2 day planting corn 
31 1/2 day building fences 
   around little field

June

25 from oeleok 
   till misht       60

July

 5 1/2 day sowing   35

August

19. helping to thrash  30

Oct

17 from 9 october
   Tile diging
   potatoes            50 

Nov the 1 one day from 9 o clock

         till with teem       1.00 

Taken of this book and that on the other books

1858 Mrs.Penway Sep moved to J.H 12 P.Shook 13 comeneed to bard on the 13. no of meals below

Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon

         to Mors Benmas

Sep 23 1g corn $4
       1g cash 75

Octo 1 1 pair boots 1.16 Octo By cash 2.00

1898 october 25 give mortgage

1898 October

21 finished digging potatoes 25 H. bibie & J. Theabold on a Robot hunt at P. Shook

Nov. 2

2 Bought a cow from George Conees 
  paid $14.02

3 Bork Brown ploughing for R.11, Shook

3 rains in the lake yet 2 Bob. Brown takes his calves away

Nov

10 heavy sleet and snow Storm 11 got a heffer from Bob Brown 12 went to gromantrue with 12 line bowls 12 Bought a pair long boots in gorvernolue from tompson store paid $3.00 14 helped A. Moustard berteken his boss 15 Frank Brown comeneed to bring his milk over to be churned.

1898

Nov 15 James Eaton shot a blue crane at Shook's brook

14 Janol grant lbustared on drawing milk $1.00

16 & 19 Fine warm weather

18 fine and warm with a little rain

25 killed hoss Jan.Clambent T hiram. Shook helped

25 killed 4 loss

26 snowing a little today 16

27 & 28 & 29 fine warm weather

29 carried 2.34 feet of pine lumber from Frank. Brown

1898 December

Dece 1 went to Gananoue

      for a load of corn

2 bought one pair of 2 hen turkeys from 2 John. Gain pond $1.60 1&2 fine weather 2 bought a pair of geese from W.J.olleknely

 paid $2.00 for them

6 Lymndburst turkey bars

 sold 16 turkeys weight
 of turkeys 1.43 lbs
 Sold at $1 per lb
 came to $12.57

16 one most in favour of Norton Shook Decem

8 G.W. Benway came home from Manitoba

20 bought of Lam. olbeelament

  8 8 chickens and 1 turkey paid 
  $1.75 for the lot. also 
  three hass turnips for
  50. the 50. pays for the 
  three bags of turnips

P.H. Shook Deton to 1898 Norton. Shook for work

Nove 16. from eight o clock till

        three o clock working on hen house

17 one half day working on hen house 21 from 3 o clock till night

  working on hen house 

22 1 day working on hen

  house

23 one day working on

  hen house 

28 1 day working on hen

  house

28 from 9 o clock till

  night working on an
  hen house

Dece 1898

 1  one day working at 
    hen house
 2  a little
 2 working a little
   while on after 

1899 noon at hen house July 15 patching Shingles on barn

1899

Jan 17 P.H. Shook Sold to

      From. Shenwood house
      Cows for the sum of $75.00

Febuary Febuary the 2

 2 Fine Sunshine all day 
   a little wind south
 2 now laying yet

march

17 cutting black oak tree
   in the road by Eatons
   place

18 heavy snow storm 20 drawing logs for

  A.Mustard to
  Signolhurst

21 drawing logs for

  A. olbuoptard  

22 & 23 & 24& 25 & 26 & 27

   very good slaying

28 drawing oak logs m to lynshurst

June 17 Sowing purple top

  Turnips seed

1899

April 25 Took one sew away

28 Sowing spring wheat

May 25 finished sowing oats

   on flats

27 planted black egeel

  flint corn

29 traded calfs with

  Mrs. Airs

31 finished planting June field corns 3 went to gananoune

 with blue oak plank

17 sowing turnips 21 Sowing millet 23 Sowing Buckwheat

  on flats

July 11 domeneed

 11 someneed haying
 10 Moustards and Shooks 
    oven and berving down
    to the black nalits
 20 Heavy thunderstorm
    nearly all night

Sept 1899

16. Sowing fall wheat on the San Bueh field

16 A. olbustard. Sowing his fall wheat

August 1900 20. finished oat harvest

   on the flats on the old farm

Sep

21 Sowing 1/2 bushed fall wheat of on the little field up back of mudlands

Oct

10 had stem tharashes
   paid W.Ilbenson
   $5.00 for thrashing 
   2.40. , bushels of grain

15 went out to the lyndhurst housing

  with a load of cheese