Jan 1916

28: cloudy cold: home chore: had cold: Sell coal. chore:

29: cloudy cold: home chore: Send 3 Bags Potatoes to Wme Cowan Willoe on Express this am: Sell coal: Pay Ej McClelland $6.00 Red Cross. to Floyds at night got hair cut & Shave 30 cts Pd: cold cloudy:

30:X: cloudy rain mild: home chore: read Sleep: Myra & Wallace here for tea at 5. oclock. No Church tonight: Olive to Duffys after tea

31: Cloudy misty mild: home chore: on G. J. train to Everett try to Buy Potatoes Dinner at Jos Jinks 35 cts Pd: chat to Hiram Walwin: wait for 530 train home at 7. turn colder: Eliza Watson in chat. J. H. C. go to Brampton this a.m. G. J.: Russell sell coal. car Nut coal cause

Feb 1: cloudy cold: home chore: start unload car Nut coal: Wm Lyons I Jos Lavoy help Russell: sell coal: Phone about Potatoes:

2: cloudy cold: home chore: weigh Stock Jos Gilmore load 1 car: finish unload car Nut coal. Deliver around town: Jos Lavery help Russell.

3: cloudy Blustry cold: home chore: Sell coal: load car. 15.12036 G. J. lined (10) got in 272 Bags at $1.50: Jos Lavery help us: Ship car to L. Shulman I Go 57 Siding Bathurst St Toronto: at $1.70 Per 90 lbs here Russell go with car to fire it at 930 cold night: Mother here for tea. Olive leave her to R. J. Laverys. Roy in Play Piano

4: cold clear: home chore: Sell coal weigh. Hey: Russell came home G. J. at 620 cold: Martin McNamara Buried today at Albion R. C. Church

5: cloudy cold squaly snow: home chore: Sell coal: got $222.40 Cheque cashed Old Mrs Keenahan Buried today: to Floyds got Shave 10 cts Paid chore.

6:X: Cloudy Mild home chore: W J Faulkner here for tea had white Horse in Buggy: Children to Church at 7. Mr Coish Preach: Mild night.

7: Squaly Snowstorm: home chore: Sell coal: got Oats at Elevator Paid $3.80 for them: cold night: Roy Lavery & Elize Watson in Chat

8: fine cold Squaly snow: home chore: got Cheque 467.50 Shulman & Co cashed: Sell coal: snow: Jos & Russell Broke King Bolt in Wagon

9: Squaly Snow cold: home chore: got King Bolt welded 10 Pd Sell Coal got in 7 Bags Potatoes into Bank Cellar at 150

10: squaly snow cold: home chore: Sell coal: got 93 Bags Potatoes into Bank cellar at 1.50 Per 90 lbs. Telephone L. Shulman our car to Penelang this week Russell leave Olive to C. P. R. Cedar Mills at 5: She went to Toronto. Old Man A. Dodds corpse came of here G. J. Buried at Bolton today.

11: Cloudy snow cold: home chore: sell coal: got 40. Bags Potatoes into Bank Cellar at 1.50: Olive in Toronto. I mind Roy. children at school

12: Cloudy squaly snow cold: home chore: got in 50 Bags Potatoes into Bank cellar at 1.50: to Floyds got Shave 10 Pd:

13:X: clear very cold: home chore: read Sleep: Mother here: Olive in Toronto. Church at 7. Rev St John Preach

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