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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1925-1926
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| − | I expected to spill him at every corner but he stuck like a leech. I saw Quint up town and he said Dad. & Dick (Barrett) were down town trying to telephone Ade Millman who had called up last night and asked to talk to Dad. As they had sent to Ade to get our marriage certificate from the Toronto registry office, they supposed some thing was wrong with it. Quint was on his way to Aunty's for dinner so I drove him down and I stayed there too. Bert & Dick came along with a sleigh load of parcels and hooked to the cutter again and this time Bert undertook to do the surf board stunt but the sleigh upset in front of George Thompson's house and spilled Bert and groceries along the road for about 20 feet. Dad. and Dick. came down to Aunty's just after we arrived. They had not been able to get Ade so Dick went up right after dinner to wait for Ade to call. Dad waited some time for Enah who was up town some place but wouldn't have dinner. He thought I would be too late for me to get any oats chopped. Aunty thought I had better go up to the drugstore to wait with Dick in case Ade wanted some data on our wedding which Dick would not be able to supply. We waited there for an hour or so. Ade had put in a call before Dick got up there and after we had been there for a long time one of the switch board beauties (?) told us that it had been cancelled, so then Dick called Ade up and found that he had spent the whole fore noon in spite of being very busy at the office in trying to get some corrections made on our certificate which had been filled in all wrong, most of the names were mispelled and in the place where Dad's name should appear they had Theobald Butler Barrett. Ade had got hold of Louise, Cousin Carrie and the old minister who married us and had finally got a declaration fixed up for Dad. to make before a notary, and was mailing it so for that reason had cancelled his call. | + | I expected to spill him at every corner but he stuck like a leech. I saw Quint up town and he said Dad. & Dick (Barrett) were down town trying to telephone Ade Millman who had called up last night and asked to talk to Dad. As they had sent to Ade to get our marriage certificate from the Toronto registry office, they supposed some thing was wrong with it. Quint was on his way to Aunty's for dinner so I drove him down and I stayed there too. Bert & Dick came along with a sleigh load of parcels and hooked to the cutter again and this time Bert undertook to do the surf board stunt but the sleigh upset in front of George Thompson's house and spilled Bert and groceries along the road for about 20 feet. Dad. and Dick. came down to Aunty's just after we arrived. They had not been able to get Ade so Dick went up right after dinner to wait for Ade to call. Dad waited some time for Enah who was up town some place but wouldn't have dinner. He thought I would be too late for me to get any oats chopped. Aunty thought I had better go up to the drugstore to wait with Dick in case Ade wanted some data on our wedding which Dick would not be able to supply. We waited there for an hour or so. Ade had put in a call before Dick got up there and after we had been there for a long time one of the switch board beauties (?) told us that it had been cancelled, so then Dick called Ade up and found that he had spent the whole fore noon in spite of being very busy at the office in trying to get some corrections made on our certificate which had been filled in all wrong, most of the names were mispelled and in the place where Dad's name should appear they had Theobald Butler Barrett. Ade had got hold of Louise, Cousin Carrie and the old minister who married us and had finally got a declaration fixed up for Dad. to make before a notary, and was mailing it so for that reason had cancelled his call. Dick drove over to the farm with me as he was going to call on Imogen Ivy. Dad. had got another letter from Mr. Parks telling what happened at the court proceedings. It is not very clear to us but is evidently not what we suspected at all. He said Mr. Manning opened the case and every thing looked rosy until Gavin Simonds counsel for the right heirs got up and said that although he had nothing to say on behalf of his clients, he would like the judge to consider some matter concerning the conversion of the money into real estate, which was so technical that we couldn't understand it but it inolves Aunty Hattie in some way so that she now has to be represented in the proceedings. Mr. Parks said it |
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I expected to spill him at every corner but he stuck like a leech. I saw Quint up town and he said Dad. & Dick (Barrett) were down town trying to telephone Ade Millman who had called up last night and asked to talk to Dad. As they had sent to Ade to get our marriage certificate from the Toronto registry office, they supposed some thing was wrong with it. Quint was on his way to Aunty's for dinner so I drove him down and I stayed there too. Bert & Dick came along with a sleigh load of parcels and hooked to the cutter again and this time Bert undertook to do the surf board stunt but the sleigh upset in front of George Thompson's house and spilled Bert and groceries along the road for about 20 feet. Dad. and Dick. came down to Aunty's just after we arrived. They had not been able to get Ade so Dick went up right after dinner to wait for Ade to call. Dad waited some time for Enah who was up town some place but wouldn't have dinner. He thought I would be too late for me to get any oats chopped. Aunty thought I had better go up to the drugstore to wait with Dick in case Ade wanted some data on our wedding which Dick would not be able to supply. We waited there for an hour or so. Ade had put in a call before Dick got up there and after we had been there for a long time one of the switch board beauties (?) told us that it had been cancelled, so then Dick called Ade up and found that he had spent the whole fore noon in spite of being very busy at the office in trying to get some corrections made on our certificate which had been filled in all wrong, most of the names were mispelled and in the place where Dad's name should appear they had Theobald Butler Barrett. Ade had got hold of Louise, Cousin Carrie and the old minister who married us and had finally got a declaration fixed up for Dad. to make before a notary, and was mailing it so for that reason had cancelled his call. Dick drove over to the farm with me as he was going to call on Imogen Ivy. Dad. had got another letter from Mr. Parks telling what happened at the court proceedings. It is not very clear to us but is evidently not what we suspected at all. He said Mr. Manning opened the case and every thing looked rosy until Gavin Simonds counsel for the right heirs got up and said that although he had nothing to say on behalf of his clients, he would like the judge to consider some matter concerning the conversion of the money into real estate, which was so technical that we couldn't understand it but it inolves Aunty Hattie in some way so that she now has to be represented in the proceedings. Mr. Parks said it
