Sunday February 27th

None of us went to church or Sunday school this morning as we didn't get up in time. I didn't do anything much all morning but got shaved and this after noon Dad. drove Dick and me down town. He had to drive through the lane a couple of times to break a track as it was filled right up. I took a couple of dozen eggs that were no good for Jack to Aunty Alice and two dozen and a half of Jack's eggs to Mr. Hobbes, he has been beggng and coaxing Dick to bring him some for the last week so I took them down and charged him a dollar for them and told him I couldn't possibly let him have any more, he gave me the dollar and thanked me very much for what I took. I spent the after noon with Marj. and had tea at Aunty's. I went alone to church to-night and they had a very slim crowd. Marj. was there and we went up and got Essie at the Methodist church and all went down to the town hall to hear Father {Nagel?} giveing a recruiting speech and he proved to be an exceptionally good speaker, he gave very strong reasons for those who could to enlist but didnt speak in a bullying or tantalizing style as most of them do. Mr. Johnson was chairman and Hammond gave a short appeal but both of them seemed very poor after hearing the priest. Poor old Lloyd I think was nervous and used foerce English none of their eloquence brought frth any recruits there but for all I know some may have been hiut as there was a good crowd there. Woodyer came home with Essie and we sat around for about an hour reading Burns and some gems of American humorists. I went into Hec's on my way home to see if I could get a lift home with Alan but he had riden down as th ee roads were so bad, so i had to walk, I thought I was goinfg to haven a bad time earache to-night as my left ear felt as if it was full of water but it didn't amount to anything. Very blizzardy and rough all the afternoon although sunny. Clear and cold to-might.

Monday February 28th