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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1916
Theobald Toby Barrett 1916 Diary 105.pdf
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Wednesday June 28th
Frank has been picking strawberries all day again and made $1.35, this has been his best day yet. Dad. plowed in the old garden all morning, he and the baby and he finished it and disked it this after noon. I raked up the grass he cut along the ditch this morning and went out and spread a few piles of manure which were in his road for plowing. This after noon I went down town to get some stuff. Huby saw me and wanted me to go up and look at Bill Slocomb's buggy, he wants fifty dollars for it. It looks like a good one. I went down to Aunty's to cut a ham in two for them and Aunty Alice was at a bridge up at Miss Buckwell's. This has been another beautiful day.
Thursday June 29th
I went over to Art Qunabury's this morning and got our post auger and dad and I put on a post at the gap between the two field sacross the gully and out up the bee and let the csttleinto the west field, we then went along Ivey's line in the gully but couldn't do much to it John was over in Ivey's having walked under the fence along the creek bottom. We had dinne ron time and got ready and
