grapes but Sam Morell had gone to Simcoe and Jimmy Leamy hasn't had any oranges for quite awhile as the price is so high, so we went back and then back to Monteith's and read "The Old Curiosity Shop". I had tea and Aunty's and she Aunty Alice and I went to church to-night. They had a meeting after church and Miss Martin & Marj. informed me that I had been put on a committee with Jack martin to can vass the hill for subscriptions to Victory Bonds which the Sunday school wants to buy to put in an Endowment Fund for {?} Missions and also to get a shield with maple leaves on it to in scribe the names of all the boys from the Sunday school who have died or been killed at the Front. Every sunday school that buys a Victory Bond gets one. H.W. Ansley gave them the price of the Bond so they wanted to get another. Pat had a bulletin board out to-day with the announce ment that the Kaiser has abdicated and the Crown Prince renounced his right to succession and that Germany is in control of the Socialists.

Monday November 11th

Dad. and Frank hayed up a grist this morning and while they were at it I went over to Jack Martin's to tell him about the canvassing the hill. and to ask him for a man to help cut corn this after noon as he promised us time in return for helping him fill silo. He told me that the Armistice was signed according to official announcement cement and the paper to-day says that the Kaiser, Crown Prince and the rest of the crew have all escaped to Holland. Frank and I took the grist to the mills and then went up to the mill Tige McBride's and got Mrs. Jolley's potatoes. No one was home up there but we would have taken Joe Smith's too but we found some rotten ones so thought we had better leave them to be spread out. We went on down town with Ray's barrell of apples and left it at the station to be shipped. All the town was decorated with flags and a half holiday proclaimed for this after noon to celebrate the "dawn of peace" Jack Martin gave all his men a holiday and as Frank had to go over to Pickford's to thrash and Dad. went back to plow this after noon I went down town as I didn't feel like cutting corn alone. Enah and the baby also went down and while I was waiting for them to get ready to drive down I went around my beat and they all said they would give some thing. Later I got a dollar each from the Quanbury's & Karl Coleman. I saw Pickford this morning but he thought he wouldn't subscribe as he is peeved at the preachers for talking politics and prohibition in church. I drove

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