Dec 2: fine cool: home chore: Pay taxes to L. Taylor $21.08. Sell Potatoes sell coal: help put lumber in Elevator: Bradly unload engine. to Floyds after tea got Hair cut & shave 30 cts pd: fine night.

3:X: cloudy cool: home chore: read sleep: for walk around pond. Stranger Preach at 7. Hause Lyons drive him around.

4: cloudy mild: home chore: change mail for Wm Lyons: rain at night. Brampton Bunch here in Hall Show Pictures: children out.

5: fine mild: home chore: change mail for Wm Lyons, {chore?}

6: cloudy mild windy: home chore: weigh stock. Jas Gilmore ship 2 cars today: make about 4.00 today, Elgin Patterson and Edith Lundy Married today.

7: cloudy snow mild: home chore: help Wm Hamilton unload Middlings & Russell help: chore. windy at night:

8: cloudy mild rain at night: home chore: help Wm Hamilton and Russell finish unload car Bran at noon: sell coal: at home afternoon make out Bills: gave Conductor Small 1. Bag of Potatoes and Jas Gilmore 1. Bag for services done. Rain

9: cloudy Blustry cold: home chore: John Hazzard & G. Jackson go North today in car with 1. cow. 2. horses. 8. pigs & hay & Etc. cold. got shave at Floyds at night 10 cts pd: Kill 2 roosters for Sunday. My 57th birthday: to Bed at 11.oclock.

10:X: clear cold: home in Bed till noon: had 2 roosters for Dinner at 2.oclock: tea at 5. Children to Church at 7. Mr. Bainsborough Preach & Play no choir:

11: cloudy cold: home chore: to seale repair rack. and Russell split wood: got letter from J.H.C. from England. Mabel & Pearl to Parsonage at night practice for xmas: snow. Mr Norton from Brampton call here. he was at G. Burns.

12: cloudy snow all day cold: home chore: sell coal. cold

13: cloudy cold: home chore: weigh stock Jas Gilmore ship 1 1/2 car today: got in 24 Bags potatoes into Bank cellar at 1.70 41.35

14: cloudy cold: home chore: telephone "Weaver Coal Co." for a car of Nut coal for immediate delivery: at $9.25 F.O.B.

15: clear cold: home chore: help Russell haul wood home from Elevator in wagon: help Wm Hamilton at Elevator. cold

16: clear cold: home chore: pay Wm Hamiltons Telephone Bill $3.30 in Bank to Elevator chat: Russell at Wm Bibles thrashing: to Floyds at night got shave {"10" inserted above}

17:X: clear cold: home chore: children to Church at 10:30 Rev. {Quaife?} preach at 10:30 & 7 at night: S.S. Anniversary sermons: W.J. Faulkner here for tea.

18: clear cold: home chore: Wm. Bible finish thrash: Jas Lavery help us haul straw from Wm. Bibles for Bedding: sell coal.

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