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advertised for a cop. They got fifty something applicants some all the way from Calgary. They engaged a man from Hamilton who has been on duty before. Good man for the job. big, Scotch & total abstainer. He came to this morning. Now he is in bed at the Dominion sleeping off a drunk-fired. We're still Dover. It froze a little again last night and there has been a raw breeze to-day but it is much milder and looks rainy

Monday Tuesday May 13th

Dad went over to Martin's this morning to try to telephone to Krompart and find out why he hasn't come down but Charlie wasn't home so he didn't go in, he then went oveer to Quanbury's asnd as John was in better health than when I went to interview him Dad found out that he wanted aboutnhalf a ton of any kind of hay. We pitche don a load for Jonas, (he bought all tnat was left of the thrashed bluegrass) beofer dinner.

Dick rode home at noon as he had got about half an hour's leave of absence to tell us that the station agent wanted our manure spreader unloaded as it was holding the car so Dad. & I had to go dowm after dinner. Dad understood the agent to say that we were to let Krompart