Sept 1914

24: cloudy cool: home chore: sell coal & cement: help Mercer Hamilton at Elevator lend him: $130^00: got horse frout shoes removed 30Pd chat to jas.B.Lawlor. 99.Sanford ave North Hamilton in Irwins

25: cool cloudy: home chore: Mary: John & I drive to Mothers (1) in stable got some Apples & Crabs: home at 12: chore. milk at 5^30 cool night

26: cloudy cool: home chore: Russell & I haul straw from bibles 4.load: fill 3.Bed ticks: help {illegible} & Mercer Hamilton Put up. their stove Pipes on roof: got 5 Bags of Oats $6^30 Paid: got 4.Bags chopped see Duffy & Irwin about Hay: Order ten ton car Hay from H.White Shelburne at $15^50 F.O.B. there: Buy John Pair shoes $160 10?s: milk: shave 10Pd

27:X: fine cool: home chore: read sleep chore: no Church tonight Olive & Russell to Euglish Church at 7. anniversary there

28: hard frost- clear cold: home chore: weigh stock: Pay to Robert Matson $6^50 Premium ou $650^00 Insurance ou coal & seale house for 12.Months to 29th of September 1915. chore Milk

29: cloudy cold. fine: to home chore: dress Dinner early: drive to Bolton in our Buggy & horse to Court of revision at 2.o.clock for 5.Minutes Robert Matson with me drive home at 3^15: BoltonFair today

30: fine mild: home chore: clean out our feed room: weigh sheep for Gilmore he load car: help Mercer Hamilton at Elevator lent him $20^00Pd: chore: to Bed at 9.oclock

Oct 1: fine day: home chore: sell last of cement: sell coal: help at Elevator lent Mercer Hamilton $7^00 Pd: help R. Matson set up J.B. Campbells Potato digger at station: milk: to Bed at 9. cool

2: fine cool: home chore: sweep out Elevator sell coal help Mercer Hamilton load car of Rye 800.Bushels. G.Irwin Joe in Mercer gave me $27^00 I lent him: milk cow: tea: to Bed at 9. Lena Barry came here from Chettenham here all night cool

3: fine warm; home chore: help Mercer. G. Irwin there: sell coal Putty North window: Mercer gave Me $86^00 & Book to Keep over sunday he went up with Miller Hamilton & G. Irwin to Ballycroy: I milk tea: got shave at Floyds: Big Frank Horan there: fine moonlight.

4:X: cold: fine warm: home chore milk: Breakfast: to Bed had cold sleep children to S.S. at 11: Mary in Bed (1) chore: milk cow. I stay home with Pearl & John: Mary. Olive Russell Mabel to Church at 7 Mr Pugsley Preach his first sermon here.

5: fine warm: home chore: weigh 1.Hog for R.Lee: fix up at Pig Pen: Russell drive man to G.Cosgrove. & Beachnut with Joe Dalon: I chore milk at 6: cloudy warm.

6: fine warm: home chore: sell coal: had cold around home: cut some wood at house: chore

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