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advertised for a cop. They got fifty something applicants some all the way from Calgary. They engaged a man from Hamilton who has been on duty before. Good man for the job. big, Scotch & total abstainer. He came to this morning. Now he is in bed at the Dominion sleeping off a drunk-fired. We're still Dover. It froze a little again last night and there has been a raw breeze to-day but it is much milder and looks rainy

Monday Tuesday May 13th

Dad went over to Martin's this morning to try to telephone to Krompart and find out why he hasn't come down but Charlie wasn't home so he didn't go in, he then went over to Quanbury's and as John was in better health than when I went to interview him Dad found out that he wanted about half a ton of any kind of hay. We pitched on a load for Jonas, (he bought all that was left of the thrashed bluegrass) before dinner.

Dick rode home at noon as he had got about half an hour's leave of absence to tell us that the station agent wanted our manure spreader unloaded as it was holding the car so Dad. & I had to go down after dinner. Dad understood the agent to say that we were to let Krompart in Simcoe know as soon as the spreader arrived and he would come down and set it up at the station and we could haul it home from there, so he was naturally pretty hot at them for not coming. The men at the station were also getting into a state of rightful indignation as their car had to be sent back tomorrow. As we were in our farm uniform we didn;t want t go up town so Dad. went up to Norfolk House and telephoned Kompart Wyatt Waddle was there and he told Dad that they understood Dad was going totake the thing off the car and they were to come to the farm and to set it up, and they wouldbe down in a day or two. Dad. went for obee the phone but of cours ethat wsn't much satisfaction. We went home and took Jonas' ay down and put it off and then went dowen to the station with the rack to get the spreader as it was too wide for the waggon,with the aid of Truman Roadhouse and a couple opf fishermen we got it loaded all right and were home soon after six

To-night Dick and I went down to the dance but I got a headache from some uncertain cause and had to come homeat twelve. Nice day but with rather a cold wind looks as if it might possibly rain to-night or sooner.