Monday November 5th

I had breakfast at Aunty's this morning and came home right after, but in accordance with the doctor's advice and the feeling of my arm have done no manual labor all day. I soaked my arm for an hour this morning and again to-night and Enah wrapped it up the way Dr. Cook did. This after noon I rode down to the mill with Tom. and paid Charlie Ivey 57 dollars on the account but was surprised to find that there is still over 73 dollars to pay. Chris came over this morning and picked out all the pullets and old hens that were any good and Jack paid me 17 dollars for them 18 pullets & 3 old hens. The government tractor a "Bull" is plowing over at Ben Ivey's to-day but is doing awful work. Frank plowed all morning and he and Dad. have been digging potatoes this after noon. They got them all in that they have dug to-night and were very agreeably surprised at the quantity as well as quality and size of the potatoes, very few were damaged with the frost. There are still four rows to be dug. To-night Dad. and Enah went down to Aunty's to celebrate Aunty Alice's birthday. Huby and Aunty Maude were there as well as the John Shand's. Froze hard. Lovely day.

Tuesday November 6th

I soaked my arm again this morning and then went down town to show it to the doctor. He didn't lance the sore's tis time as I expected but sterilized each one of them by poking a wire with cotton balling soaked with full sytrength carbolic acid into the heads of them and working it around. It made me squirm somewhat as the carbolic burned. I stayed at Aunty'sto dinner and left on the one o'clock car for Simcoe. I went up and collecte dour prize money, eight dfollars, and tool Frank's and my own shoes to be half soled. I then went ovewr to the Court House to what was supposed to be ameeting of unionists to sselect a Union Candidate for the Union Government but I found it composed pretty largely of good or at least dyed-in-the-wool tories with a sprinkling of Grits. About all tney did and under the circumstanced I guess it ewaas the best they coulsd was to pass a resolution authorizing the executive of the Conservite party to Norfolk to select twelve men prepresenting differnent parts of the county to meet twelve men selected in the sam eway by the Liberal's and between themthey are to arrange a convention of delegates representing each party equally and they are to select a Unuojn candidate