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1917

June 17 X: fine warm: home chore: read Sleep: Church at 7 Rev Bainborough Preach: to Bed at 915 fine night

18: fine warm: the Big rainstorm Hail thunder & lightening home chore: write letter to J.H.C. to Canadian Convalescent Hospital Hillingdon House Uxbridge Middlesex England. chore: to Bed at 8. oclock

19: fine warm: home chore: to Elevator give 2 Bags Shorts to Tom Roe $450 Paid: home dinner: read Mary Varnish floor. upstairs I up (1) on Bed. hot

20: fine mild: home chore: weigh 30 hogs & 3 cattle for Jas Gilmore ship Part car: make $150 today to Bed {diarist writes above text in smaller writing} at 8 {diarist resumes writing on line}

21: fine warm: home chore: Mary oil floors: I Pay Robert Watson $356 Insurance Premium on house & Buildings & contents: chore: to Bed at 815 rain

22: fine warm: home chore: read Papers: cut old cellar Door for wood: Put grass at front: to Bed at 9

23: fine: rain: home chore: to Elevator. R.J. Hillock got 42 sax cement for H.H. Watson. Pay coal & scale {?} rent $500 to J.B. Campbell: home for Dinner Miss Hutchinson come on train: read Sleep. to Bed at 930

24:X: fine cool: home chore: Memorial Service in English Church at 3. oclock today by her Westney for "Albert Stronge" who was killed in France in may 21rst in action: Church at 7. Rev Bainborough Preach turn cold: to bed at 9. oclock. Sleep with John.

25: fine warm: rain at night: home chore: to Elevator Put away 1. sax cement: give John Haggard 5 sax $300 Pd: home read: to bed at 915 (1) me: rainstorm

26: cloudy rain: fine hot: home chore: read Sleep upstairs got letter from J.H.C. from England Dated June 10th Rev Bainborough got hurt: to bed at 930

27: fine warm: home chore: Mary wash I went out to Carter Place for walk across by arch up track home at. 530 write letter to J.H.C. this am

28: fine: rain cool: home chore: help mary fix Box for table: read Sleep: rain at night order car soft coal from Shoal creck coal co. Chicago: 30 or 35 ton cat at 400 at {?} in flat Bottom car: to bed at 830 cool

29: cloudy rain misley: fine cool: home chore Mable: Pearl & John to L. Marshalls Bush Picnick afternoon: S.S. & P.S. Picnick: home at 6. cool Mary churn & Bake Bread: to Bed at 930 (1)

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