== 126 == 1916

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April

16:X: fine warm rain at night: home chore: read sleep. Mary. Olive: Mable: John & Roy go to T. Faulkners for Dinner Pigs ribs: home at 5. tea. Children to Church at 7. Mr Coish Preach. rain tonight.

17: cloudy cool: home chore: weigh Stock. Jas Gilmore had 1. car got 50 Bags into Bank Cellar at 140: Russell help Watson cut wood

18: fine windy cool: home chore: take lining out of 12036 G.T. got in 62 Bags Potatoes into Bank Cellar at $140 Jas Lavery help us.

19: fine warm: home chore: Russell help me Pack up Cement sax at Elevator 175: sell Oats: got in 40 Bags Potatoes at 140

20: cloudy misley warm: home chore: ship 175 Cement sax to Port Colborne for Canada Cement Co: chore. to Bed at 930 (1)

21: cloudy mild: home chore: J.H.C. came home Per G.T.Ry at 9 Mother: W.J. Faulkner: Lorne Barry & Arely McArthur here for tea Mary set 3 Hens today: Macel Bible & Weldon Potten in for Olive

22 {diarist writes the number 565 and circles it under date}: cloudy mild: home chore: attend to Elevator: fill 6. Bags oats & I. Bag wheat for us: got 23 Bags Potatoes into car 22.17864 G T at 140: to Floyds at night got Hair cut & Shave: home to Bed at 10

23:X: Easter: cloudy mild: home chore: up at 5. oclock J.H.C. go to Toronto on C.P.R. 645 train: Mary wash me: Put on New Pants: chore: sleep. children to church at 7. Wm Steele Preach. L. Bible here for tea

24: cloudy misley mild: home chore: Russell & I fill Potatoes in Bank Cellar: Joe Lavery help Russell haul 86 Bags to car 22 17864 .G.T. had in 186 Bags tonight at 140

25: cloudy mild: home chore: fill Potatoes in Bank Cellar. haul to car finish load car 22.17864 G.T. had in 446. Bags at $740 ship car to L. Shulman & Co. 57 Siding Bathurst Street Toronto: at $155 Per 90 lbs F.O.B. Palgrave: haul 25 Bags to Station for Griffin Bros Brampton weigh 23 Bags Pay Jas Lavery up tonight $400 clean out Cellar.

26: fine warm: thunder & lightening & rain: weigh stock. Jas Gilmore load 2. cars: got in 124 Bags at 130 into Bank Cellar: ship 23 Bags Potatoes to Griffin Bros Brampton at $170 Per Bag F.O.B.

27: fine hot. then rain: home chore send 10 Bags Potatoes to J.G. Wiggins Ingewood at $165 Per Bag F.O.B. Palgrave $1650 split some wood. rain: Pile wood in: to Bed at 930 chore (1).

28: fine warm: home chore: split wood: read Sleep: to Elevator took in 10. Bags Rye from Jas Younge: help Jas Lavery and Wm Duffy cut our wood: home at 630 tea chore: to Bed at 9

29: fine hot: home chore: split wood & Pile in: got 20000 cash out of Bank lend Wm Duffy $5000 cash: to Floyds got Shave 10 Pd: to Bed at 10. (1)

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