Tom. Stones at 2 o'clock last night each with a bundle of clothes for them. We went down town this after noon as Marj. had to go to the dentist's. Aunty & Aunty Alice gave us a big bundle of good things for the Dove's, which I took over to-night when we got home. I met Ina on the road on her way home from Nina's and she told me that she & Mrs. Harvey Evans had been sewing all the after noon at the things that had been sent and were getting the family pretty well clothed. Just after I got there Fred Misener & Albert Gurney came in from a collecting tour with a whole buggy load of clothes and provisions & $36.00 in cash. Tom Stone & Willie Shand had collected a lot more stuff and cash. Charlie Shand was also out and Les Mitchell & someone else on the back road. I met Bill Donald & Lloyd Ryerse who had been at a sale west of Simcoe & Bill had been telling the story up there but as they were all strangers he only got about three dollars. He is going to Simcoe to-morrow however as it is dollar day for the sole purpose of collecting.

They were not going to say anything about it to the Dove's but Fred Misener "blatted" as Nina said all out to Edward this morning and I heard him telling them all as rtheysat around. Nina's tea table to-night that he though