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Christina McLennan Diary, 1897-1905
Christina McLennan 1897-1905 Diary 41.pdf
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| − | <td>I was working up stairs. Murdy cleaned the furnace pipes. Jimie Brown & James Junr came about 3 P.M. Skating since Tuesday</td> | + | <td>I was working up stairs. Murdy cleaned the furnace pipes. Jimie Brown & James Clark Junr came about 3 P.M. Skating since Tuesday</td> |
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November 1899
| 1 | Wednesday. Just after Marion and I got home last night, about 5:30, it began to rain, rained all night, and all today until about 4 P.M. To 2 1/3 lb butter 54 cts;sugar 36; chocolate 10; 1 gall and lamp wick 25 | 90 35 |
| 2 | Fine bright day. Cold wind, freezing all day in the shade. W.F.M.S. {Womens Foreign Mission Society} met there today present 13 with Birdie and myself my off | 25 |
| 3. | Fine cold day. To 8 lb beef 63. | |
| 4. | To 3 lbs butter 75. 2 lbs cheese 28. 2 lb raisins 18 5 Rev. McKey of Toronto preached in Afternoon Jimie McLennan. spent noon & evening with us. | 1.21 |
| 5 | Fine bright day. Made a washing. | |
| 6 | To 1 pan bread 20 cts Minnie D. B. was here for a short time. 1 spool thread 4 | 4 |
| 8 | Very fine day. Uncle Donald sent us two little black pigs (8 week old)yesterday. Angus McLellan S.B. {South Branch} was buried today, he died after 2 hour illness Monday 1. A.M. To 1/2 gall molasses 25 cts 1 lb currants, 9 - 9 yds gray cotton 4 cts 36.. Pa was fixing fence on 2d Con farm | 34 36 |
| 9 | Fine, Prue was digging our garden
Sarah McDonald, South Branch (Charley) was buried today. Pa paid the acc. at McCrimmons, sugar, yest codfish oatmeal to 3 bunches butter 24, silk thread 14 |
1.47 38 |
| 10. | Murdy and Pa put up the porch. And gave a coat of paint. Birdie & J.C. went to Apple Hill. It is very cold. | |
| 11 | Fine bright day. turned cold in afternoon and began to snow about 2:30 P.M. Pa went for the helfers, could not drive them they are wild. To 1 lb tea 25 2 lb .14 oz butter 72. at John C's | 97 |
| 12. | Sunday. Fine and bright, the ground is covered by snow. No service in our church. Birdie & Murdy went to Hephzibeth {Hephzibah} | |
| 13 | Fine day. Fixed the pig pen, set a latch | |
| 14 | Another fine day. Murdy went North early. To 2 lbs.sausages 20 cts. Bot of McCrimmon 1/2 hog 86 lbs at 7 cts 6'02. Got some logs sawn yesterday. Lavallette drew the lumber today. Charged 1.00 for four loads, Stewart Farquherson took 6 bush of wheat to Martintown and got it ground for us. Charged 30 | 20
6 - 2 50 |
| 15 | Fine day. gave Alick Stoof 25 By little Joe, for 3 hours’ work at the saw mill | 25 |
| 16. | I was working up stairs. Murdy cleaned the furnace pipes. Jimie Brown & James Clark Junr came about 3 P.M. Skating since Tuesday | |
| 17. | To 3 lbs steak 30. 4 1/2 sugar 25 cts | 53 |
| 18 18 | Fine day, thawing. There was a boy drowned in Martintown last evening. skating.
To 4 1/2 lb sugar 25. 2 lb raisins 20. 1/2 Cream tartar 1 lb butter 23. 2 spools silk thread. Murdy got home the helfers on Wednesday the 16th. The war in Transvaill is not progressing as favorably as the British would desire Fine day. some people ploughing, So Uncle Donald was saying. To 3 lbs butter 23. {pr lb?} 4 1/2 sugar 25. |
69 25 |
| 19 | Sunday. Very fine day. James Clark left for home. Birdie went with Apple Hill. Rev. McLeod preached a Union Sermon in the Afternoon in St. Andrew's on the Centenary fund Collect 5 | 5 |
| 20 | Very bright in the morning, turned cloudy. Papa has not been well for more than a week. | |
| 21 | Mild day. Pa no worse. Making a small pot of soap. To 1 gall coal oil 20, oat meal 25, salts 5 | 50 |
