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over and visited with John Wess McBride who while cultivating corn was taking things as coolly as possible. Some men were there putting on a new roof on his barn and he wasn't at all satisfied with it. We finished mowing about noon. When we got to the house we found Huby there with a horse and buggy out ekectioneering. This was rthe day, they voted on the. by law ti fix the canning factory's taxes. but every body had forgotten about it, even the canners themselves. Vyse told them he had forgotten and had been thinking it was the twelfth, and tellingpeople that was the date.

Hiby stayed to dinner and Dad. & Aunty drove down afterwards with Joe, while Huby went after Uncle Ward & others. Win came ober with him but went home with Edith who also came over as she pretended to be scared of the horse which ran away several times so Huny said. Mrs. McBride came this moning to ppaer our room and Frank has been helping her all day. It rained all the afternoon so I didn't do ay thing much. Dad. cleane dout the cellar and I helped a little break the sprouts of some apples potatoes. Mrs. McBride and Frank fimished the room to-night all but one border on one side which they didn';t have enough of