Jan 1914

13: clean very cold. 30 below zero all day & night: home chore: fine up Elevator Office: Potato car: & weigh stock: sell coal. very cold all over Ontario today: Mrs Wilmot thompson in chat: cold

14: clear cold 10 below zero: moderating snow at night: home chore sell coal a lot today: Joe help me: Pay Joe 1^00: chore {illegible} Burrell Died this morning from shock of explosion

15: cloudy mild: home chore: sell coal: load car 18. 5221 G.J. lined (8) got in 389.Bags at 65 cts: ship car to L.Shulman & Co. tonight.

16: cloudy snow mild: home chore: sell coal: got 218 Bags into Bank Cellar today at 65 cts: Willie Burrell Buried today.

17: cloudy squaly cold: home chore: sell coal: got in 50 Bags Potatoes into Bank Cellar at 65 cts: got 3 Bags oats 2^75 Paid: Deposit 100^00 in Bank today & got $226^30 cash for Shulman cheque $326^40 Pay Joe 5^00

18:X: clear cold: home chore: read sleep: Olive to Jims with W.F. Faulkner house at 6^30 Russell & Olive to Church at 7: Mr.Auglin Preach.

19: cloudy mild: home chore: weigh stock: sell coal: Potato car Back stove Pipes gone inside 4 lengths 1 elbow & 1.Damper gone: rig up car Gilmore load 2 cars Hogs & Cattle & Sheep today.

20: cloudy snowy. snow storm: home chore: load car 19.5221.G.J. lined (9) Put in 454 Bags at 65 cts: ship car to L.Shulman & Co 57 Siding Bathurst Street Toronto: I went with car at 8.oclock snow

21: cloudy cold: with car Potatoes: got to Toronto at 11. Dinner at Royal restaurant 20 cts: got shave 10 cts: see Shulman gave him the Key of car: he gave me Cheque $271^50 for last weeks car. I walk to Parkdale: ou G.J. home to Palgrave at 6^30 cold Lawrence McBride Married today in Toronto:

22: cloudy cold: home chore: snow very deep: Joe Deliver coal to Jas Burns: {illegible} McGuire & D.F. McBride: got in 45 Bags at 63 cts.

23: fine mild: home chore: Olive shovel snow of Verandah: got in 120 Bags Potatoes at 63 cts: sell coal: Pay John McClean up to Date.

24: cloudy. clear cold windy: home chore: haul snow out of yard got in 49.Bags Potatoes at 63 cts: into car 20.5221 G.J. lined 10 sell coal: Mary & I to J Matsons for Dinner at 6. {illegible}

25:X: clear very cold: home chore: fire car all day & night: chore read sleep: Children to Church at 7. Mr Sinclair Preach {illegible

26: cold clear: home chore: load car 20: 5221 G.J. lined 10. Put in 466 Bags at 63 cts: Joe & Sam hel me: ship car to L. Shulman & Co. 57 Siding Bathurst Street Toronto: I go in car left here at 11^30 got to Strachan ave at 5 oclock in morning:

27: cloudy mild: rain: see L.Shulman at 6: to Parkdale: hour on G.J. at 9. got in 5 loads at 63: Max Wolfe here Dinner & Tea: I see {illegible} Bible about lumber: Max go to Junglewood tonight rain:

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