All the party men wanted to pick out their man to-day or at least not accept H.P. Innes's resignation and got to the Grits and tell them to pick out their man or else consent to the Torie's man but the fellows who wanted to be square opposed that proposition as what they are afraid of is that we will have two Union candidates one Grit and one Tory opposing each other and then a Laurier Liberal will work in as a farmer's man or some thing else and win the election, which of course would not be what Norfolk wants as Laurier still stands by his referendum scheme and his first act should he be elected would be to stop the working of the Military Service Act. John Wess was over this morning to ask Dad. & Frank to help him thrash to-morrow as there is another machine on the back road and he can't get hands. Dad. & Frank finished harvesting the potato crop to-day and pulled a few more mangels. Lovely day.

Wednesday November 7th

I have done nothing in the shape of work all day. Dad. & Frank went over to John Wesses to help him thrash this morning and Frank has been over all day but Dad. came home right after dinner. He didn't feel very well for awhile after he got back but feels all right to-night. He did chores and pulled a couple of more rows of mangels. I went down town this after noon and showed the doctor my arm which he said was doing well. I stayed to tea and spent the evening at Aunty's. Dad. came down after tea with a basket of the biggest of our potatoes (and there are some huge ones) for Aunty Alice to take down to show Roy on Saturday. He also brought down their milk as we are letting them have milk now three times a week. There was considerable excitement created to-day but the appearance of an aeroplane, the first one I think ever seen in this neighbourhood. Dad. told us about him first at noon as they had seen him over at John Wesses flying quite low. Then I saw him again this after noon but a long way off flying north east evidently for Toronto. It seems the aviator was a French-Canadian from Camp Borden and had got lost in a fog up around Lake Simcoe coming down here instead of Toronto & mistaking Lake Erie for Ontario. He almost landed in the school yard at noon or near noon and they let all the kids out to see him. He couldn't land

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