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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1917

Theobald Toby Barrett 1917 Diary 59.pdf

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down town and Marj. and I went up to the Radial to meet Mrs. Bagley who has been at some missionary conference in St Cathrines for a week. Poor old Dr. Jolly died this morning. He had a stroke the night before last and got delirious and while trying to induce Mrs. Bell to let him go downstairs he fainted or had another stroke and fell backwards all the way downstairs.

Saturday May 19th

Frank went over to Evans this morning with the plow shear to have it sharpened and Dad. plowed while I was gone. When he came back he plowed and Dad. and I stretched the wore along tghe posts we put in yesterday. We just had John Wess little wire stretchers and had to pull to each post as we went along so didn't get it very tight. While we were at it a fellow came in and introduced himself as Mr. Ferguson and said he ha dour application for a rainage survey and had come to do it. So we went out woth him before dinner. This after noon he and I did. the job. We stake dout the runways first and then he took the levels. He will sen dus a blueprint when he gets back to the O.A.C. The holes at the nkirth end of the field will drain easily into the gully but we couldn't drain the ones this way without making an eight or ten feet

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