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Sunday June 29th

We got up fairly early this morning and Dad drove Aunty up to the cemetry with some flowers before Sunday School. None of us went down to church except Frank. Hubert & Edith Lawrie came over with Aunty after church for the afternoon.

I left at half past one as this was decoration day for the odd fellows - and the band furnishes them with music for them. We had to march from the Dominion Hotel to the School house - and as it was the first march for me I didn't enjoy it much, what made it triply hard for me, I had no music harp for my horn so had to hold the music with half of one hand, play with half of the other and hold the horn with half of each so I couldn't do any thing properly. Then I got out of step about half a dozen times in every block and every body suggested hobbles or some other contrivance to keep my length of step at about a foot & a half instead of three feet. We rode up to the back from the cemetry on Val. Lany's dray with Johnnie Walker's team. We played a few old hymns up there and marched back from the school house to Harry Graham's store to "Auld Lang Syne". There is a great change for the better in the appearance of the cemetry since Munroe has been looking after it.

When I got home I found Mr. Blaikie nhere, his arm is badly crippled wkth rheumatism, he just came i=up for the first, was going to Alfred's to spend the night, and to Simcoe to-morrow. There was great excitement up the Radical road last night, as Art Williams was going home after midnight he saw Geordie Waldick's barn opposire Cory's place on fire, geordie wasn;t home so alarmed Stu=inger's. They just nicley got it out when they sa w a fire at Chart Wooley's so they goinf gpover there. they saved the barn but the straw stack was burned. Next thing a blaze was noticed over at John King's, who being more unlucky than the other two lost his barn and all his implements. It was evident that this was the work of some man, and for some reason I think they tracked him they suspect the fellow who lives at Cory's. I forget his name any wau they had the huse watched, but as Dad. & Enah told were going to church to-night they were very much surprised to meet the dame man walking lesid=surely alongthe road in front of this place. Dad. informaed Art Qhanbury - and this led to Hugn McQueen and Fa=ulkner in Al's automobile starting in pursuit