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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1919
Theobald Toby Barrett 1919 Diary 59.pdf
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look at the cattle. After he left Frank and I went to the mill and got our chop and I went over to Tuppers when I got home. Tupper was down town when I got there but came home before I left and said he thought he could manage his chores himself from now on. I borrowed a setting hen from him. To-night I went down to band practice. Al. Faulkner has been cutting up again. He got on a tear Saturday and went up Main St. in his car about dark at 40 or 50 miles an hour, ran into Bruce McQueen and his wife who were coming down in a buggy and hurt Mrs. McQueen very badly. Cloudy and cool.
Tuesday April 29th
Frank and I went to Simcoe this morning in the waggon and got four bags of Irish Cobbler potatoes for seed, {illegible}, oil cake, bran, & feed flour from Johnson. I went in to see Neff about my Dairy Profit competition and Frank went to get some ledger plates for the mower and some stumping powder but he couldn't get any. We had Joe & Queen and as Queen hasn't been out all winter we had to let her go pretty slowly and it was about three o'clock when we got home. Dad spent the day I think helping Enah house clean. Nice day, sunny, cool breeze.
Wednesday April 30th
Frank and I gathered up most of the shingles of the loan this morning and put them in the woodshed and enough wrecked it this afternoon. Dad told off some more shingles from the north side of the dining room roof as Charlie said art would be over this afternoon and then he took the team back to her room side Hill. Art came after dinner and he and Frank's shingled all the afternoon. Dad took the team back and finished how do we move the side hill and I cleaned out the coast stables and then went back and district on top of the hill and dad came up and helped sh shingle. It doesn't work too badly but looks like more rain tonight. Neff was on for a minute or two this morning and brought us some milk preserving tablets. I went downtown tonight. Nice day and sunny but east wind.
