we got 65 gallons of cider made. We took Huby one 10 gallon jug and Aunty 15 gallons and we brought the 40 gallon barrell home. We got home a little after one. Dad. didn't plow this morning as we had the team and this afer noon it was such a lovely day. he thought we had better get up the mangels so we went out and got part of the ones out of the old garden but didn't get them all, we had about a waggon load. Aunty and Aunty Alice came over to tea. It froze very hard last night but lovely day.

Thursday November 7th

Frank and I went up to Mat. Wilson's this morning first thing and got 10 apple barrells as we found out yester day we could get them there. We saw Ham. and he said he would be down one day this week to help us pack. we saw one of Johnson's men yester day on the road and he told us that their cars were odered for Dover and that they would probably be shipping next week. We took Joe and Queen and I could hardly hold them. When we got back we helped Dad. un load the mangels in to the cellar and went out and got what was left in the old garden as well as the carrots and beets. We un loaded them right after dinner and Frank and Dad. went back to the corn field to get what good ones there were out there they were out all the after noon but didn't get them all. We have all been in quite a state of excitement this after noon and to-night. It began by an air plane flying over the town at noon. We were having dinner and heard what we thought was a car stuck some place near. Frank went out and saw the air plane and called us all out to see it. Soon after we got started to unload our mangels we heard first one then another whistle begin to blow in the direction of Sim coe. They kept it up so long that we were sure some great news had come. Then Jim came with the mail and we saw by the paper that a German delegation had come across to the French lines under a white flag to meet {?} and hear the armistice terms. Soon after this the Dover whistles began to blow and the fire bell to ring so we knew that word must have come that the armistice had been signed. when we got the load off I went over to Jack Martin's and down to {?} to find out more particulars but all I could find out was that the German delegation had signed the armistice. We don't know just what the terms are but we know that if the Germans agree to them peace will inevitably

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