Saturday August 19th

This is the great Boughner picnic day to-day and rigs of all kinds have been flocking in along the side road all day. Dick went down early this morning and stayed till late to-night only coming back with the mail about 10 o'clock. I don't know what he did with him-self all day. He was checking parcels to-night and made fifty cents. Emery and I worked around the stable all day Emery was finishing up and flooring the stalls and I was painting window shashes and doing odd jobs for Emery.

Daddy was disking the wheat ground all day and found my old knife which I thought was gone for sure this time. Mrs. McPherson Enah's sister came over with Emery this morning and stayed awhile talking to Mrs. James whom she was very surprised to see and came back this afternoon and took the whole ging-lang except Enah and Jean who walked down to the picnic Enah, Jean and Cecil came back here to tea and the rest stayed at James's. Dad teased Cecil till he had him as mad as a wet hen and as saucy as as a sparrow. After tea Daddy and I did the chores and Emery took Enah Cecil and Jean down town and Daddy and I drove down about 9 o'clock. We intended going over to the park to watch them dance but seeing a fire in the glue room in the wide spread the same place it was before we went up and informed Mr. Denly who by the look of things was about to retire but had to jump on his wheel and go down We meet Emery and Doc. Jolley's corner and made plans for going home and executed them in short order. Emery and I {Margin note} walked out and Daddy took half the crowd and Mrs McPherson the other half out home and then Daddy drove her and Cecil down till he met Emery and then he drove her out to his fathers.We saw Mr. Denly coming back on his wheel while we were at Jolley's corner and he said there was no fire there at all when he went down. So we did not get over to the park after awhile all. Cool and pleasant to-day. nice breeze