a miserable day I stayed home. I thought likely too that Sam's store would be closed on account of his mother's funeral and I found afterwards that it was closed both yesterday & to-day. Jim Birdsel's funeral went by here about two o'clock. I didnt do much all day, sorted over the potatoes this morning and made a birdhouse this afternoon. The really big event of the day took place a little before midnight and was only a preliminary to Sunday's happenings. Marj. and I went to bed about half past eleven. Marj. had been feeling fine all day, but just as she got into bed she began to feel frightened and thought she should go down town. I persuaded her to wait and make sure and finally she went to sleep.

Sunday March 15th

Marj. was only asleep a few minutes when she woke up again and was very nervous, however it was such a nasty night and the roads were so bad we hated to take any chances so we waited awhile longer and I went to sleep for a short time, but somewhere around two o'clock she woked me and said we must go at once so we both hopped out and got dressed and I went out and hooked up. Marj came out and got in the buggy before I got Queen out of the stable and was feeling pretty miserable and of course was terribly nervous & frightened. The wind had gone down and was bright moonlight and as we were both too excited to be cold but the roads were very rough as it had frozen hard enough to make them bumpy but not hard enough to hold the buggy up when we got on the side. We had to drive very cautiously as too much bumping hurt Marj. When we arrived at Mrs. Lawson's we pounded several times on the door before she came but had no difficulty in waking the dog up and he made a terrible racket. Poor Mrs. Lawson came to the door fagged out and exclaimed "For the love of Mike" when she saw us, she had two babies there then and didn't want any more. It was just half past two when we got there. I went up directly from there and woke the doctor. He was dubious about coming as he said it wasn't time yet, but when I told him the symtoms he said he would be right down I then put Queen in the Auntys barn and waited around till the doctor came. I walked up to Main St. and watched till he came out of the house and then walked down with him