Hooray For Borden

Friday September 22nd

Cut corn all day. Dad worked on the wheat ground all day. He took the little cart out this morning as he thought I would be working the big team but he found the ground on this side was too wet where he wanted me to disk so kept on with them till noon. Dick came home at noon with the tidings that Borden was in with 43 majority. He also had the globe which of all particulars. The Liberals were just simply skunked owing to reciprocity. If they had never got it into politics they would more than likely be in power now. Most of the cabinet ministers were defeated including Fielding, Paterson, Graham, Sir Fredrick Borden and Wm. McKenzie King. Manitoba did not send one Liberal candidate but Alberta and Saskatchewan both went Liberal. Nova Scotia New Brunswick and Quebec went Liberal and Ontario and British Columbia were Conservative by very large majority and P.E. Island was a tie two of each. There were seventeen nationalists elected in {total?}. It went very different from what we expected as we thought Alex McCall was sure to be returned and and there was no chance for Borden {illegible} very nice day. Dick told us tonight that Mrs Joe Jacques died this morning {illegible due to words missing}. Daddy does not feel very well to-night.

Canada is saved from Yankeedom.

Saturday September 23rd

We got up fairly early this morning but did not get started to work very early. Daddy and I disked all morning and got the wheat ground all gone over. He got Blakie's cultivator disk with the little team I cut corn from 2.30 till 4.00 this p.m. Mr. Blakie came over and helped Dad run out the cross ditches in the wheat field. About four o'clock Daddy came back and he and I went to separate our cattle from Watson's and fix the fence where they got in but we found they were not to-gether so we did not bother putting Watson's out as it is his fence that has to be fixed anyway Coleman's colt was in our side this aft. but we could not find where he got in but we think it was through the {back} were Jim Bannister and another fellow were down in Coleman's gully and had quite a lot of mushrooms. {Margin note} Mr. Larry came over this morning with decoy crows and a crow call but only got two. I took the gun back this afternoon. and nearly dislocumbusted my shoulder shooting at a hawk and of course missed him. If I had not it would be about the first time I ever killed with a gun. I shot a kingfisher once but he was sitting still in the corner of the {illegible}. I am not very blood thirsty. Bill Donald was in to night but says the buckwheat is not quite ready yet to cut. Blakie told us that Lambkin's sold after thrashing the blue grass hay he got from us for $50. He also says there is another gas company out leasing land. Pretty hot to-day. Looks like more rain.