days in bed. Cecil brought him a {sand?} dumping machine Sunday which he has had a lot of fun from. Mrs. Cornish has been very ill all week and for a day or two they were very anxious about her but I think she is doing nicely now. Now that the federal elections are over, interest here is very keen over the next municipal council. Jack Martin is going to run for reeve in order to give the faction in town that wants to see progress a chance, he seems confident of success and surely ought to get in as his opponent is none other than Andrew Innes, who is making a general canvas of the town and whose only promise seems to be that he won't spend any money. Taylor seems to have dropped out of the scrap and will work for Andrew everyone supposes. Pickford was in this after noon and tells us that Bobbie has been expelled & Pickford is going to the next school board meeting to have it out with Mr. Watson. It seems Watson accused Bob. of laughing the other day and called him up to strap him Bob. said he was not guilty so instead of taking the strap walked out of the room & naturally was expelled but Pickford thinks he has a grievance so is taking the matter before the board. He said that when Bob. went back to get his books on Monday that he told Mr. Watson that he would leave it to the rest of the school whether or not he was laughing and Ralph Fisher said he hadn't seen him laugh when Mr. Watson questioned so Bob said something to Mr. Watson which ammounted to caling him a liar, before he went home. Pickford however went back and made Bob apologize for that

Wednesday December 14th

It was frozen up pretty solid this morning so after Dad and I got the chores done up we hooked Joe and Harry to the waggon and hauled up a small jag of corn stalks. We got it from the far end of the field and found the mice had cut about half the bands on the sheaves, I suppose to make nests of We just put on about three shocks and unloaded them before dinner piling them around back of Moonshine This after noon we went out and got a much bigger load and piled them on more carefully. There were not so many cut bands on them whether that was because there were not so many ears left on them or not I don't know. We did not unload it. Enah went down to a party at Mrs. Holden's this after noon