(It is
unclear in
Thurs. Jan. 1: "I went to north
argyle with glenroy he went for a barrel of flour I done the choirs all alone
at night and helped to do them in the morning they was no school and I ditten
go"
Fri. Jan. 2: "I went to school
and knew all my lessens very well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
very well and I went to prayer meeting at night verry soft and mild weather to
day John armstrong was chairman down to prayer meeting"
Sat. Jan. 3: "very soft and
mild weather miss flack was burryed to day at night I played a game of lotto
with orrie I beat her once and I help to do the choirs night and morning"
Sun. Jan. 4: "I went to meeting
and went in to sabbath school and the text was first
corinthians 16 chapter and the 13 verce very soft and mild weather I helped to
do the choirs night and morning"
Mon. Jan. 5: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography and my speling lesson
I ditten no them verry well and I went at night down to singing school and I
helped to do the night and morning"
Tues. Jan. 6: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten no it
verry well at night I played at night a game of lotto with orrie I beat her
once and she beat me once I helped to do them the morning and night"
Wed. Jan. 7: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well verry soft and mild weather raining I
helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do them in the morning
and at night I played a game of lotto with orrie I beat her once"
Thur. Jan. 8: "I went up to the
woods with father and glenroy verry soft and mild weather raining some not much
though. at
night I played a game of lotto with father orrie emma and marry Jane I beat
twice I helped to do the choirs at night and ditten help to do them in the
morning they was no school"
Fri. Jan. 9: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well I helped to do the choirs at night and I
ditten help to do them in the morning at night I went down to prayer meeting
and frank Mceachron was cheerman"
Sat. Jan. 10: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my selling lesson I ditten no it
verry well I helped to do the choirs at morning and night verry soft and mild
weather snowing some at night I played a game of lotto with orrie I beat
once"
Sun. Jan. 11: "I sayed at home
and helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do them in the
morning pretty cold weather to day I red thirty three chapters in the Bible to
day"
Mon. Jan. 12: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and ditten help to do them in
the morning and at night I went down to singing chool and I had a gay time
pretty cold weather to day"
Tues. Jan. 13: "I went to chool
to day and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten
no it verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do
them in the morning pretty cold weather to day and at night I played a game of
dominenoes with orrie and I beat her once"
Wed. Jan. 14: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well pretty cold weather to day morning and at
night I went out to the barn with father glenroy and levi to help to clean up
oats and at night I helped to do the choirs and at morning I ditten help to
them"
Thur. Jan. 15: "I went to chool
and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson. I ditten no
verry well and I helped to do the choirs
at morning and night pretty cold weather to day snowing some in the morning not
much though"
Fri. Jan 16: "I went to chool
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography and spelling lessons
I ditten no them verry well offle cold weather to day and I helped to do the
choirs at night and morning and at night I went down to prayer meeting and
father was cheerman"
Sat. Jan. 17: "I went to uncle
alexanders a visiting with father eliza emma orrie and
annie and it is pretty cold weather to day and I helped to do the choirs at
night and morning and I got a new knife to day and it cost fifty cents"
Sun. Jan. 18: "I went to curch
and I went in to sabbath chool and I helped to do the
choirs at night and I ditten help to do them in the morning and it is pretty
cold weather to day"
Mon. Jan. 19: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night
and morning and it is verry soft and mild weather to day raning cosiderable to
and I ditten go down to singing school at night"
Tues. Jan. 20: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons very well except my arithmetic I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at morning and night and it is pretty
cold weather to day and at night I poped some pop corn and at school george Mc
eachron got pretty wet"
Wed. Jan. 21: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten no it
verry well and it is pretty cold weather to day snowing some and I helped to do
the choirs at night and morning and at night I showed emma and orrie to do some
examples"
Thur. Jan. 22: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well except my arithmetic and spelling
lesson I ditten no them very well and it is very soft and mild weather to day
and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do them in the
morning and I went down to prayer meeting at night"
Fri. Jan. 23: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my speling lesson I ditten do it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at morning and I ditten help to do
them at night and it is verry soft and mild weather to day raining some and at
night I went to Mr
fishers donation and had a nice time so I did"
Sat. Jan. 24: "I went over to
grandpas with father eliza emma orrie and annie and father bought 20 bushels of
shelled corn at 80 cents a bushel and I helped to do the choirs at night and
morning and it is pretty cold weather to day and it is moderating some for a
storm"
Sun. Jan. 25: "I stayed at home
to day with emma and father eliza orrie and annie went
to curch and in the forenoon the text was philippians 4 -19 and in the afternoon
the text was mathew
14 - 22,
23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 30, 31 and 32 and I helped to do the choirs at night
and I ditten help do them in the morning and it is pretty cold weather to
day"
Mon. Jan. 26: "I went to school
to day and I ditten no any of my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I
knowed it pretty well and at night I went down to singing school and had a nice
time and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it is pretty cold
weather to day so it is"
Tues. Jan. 27: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons very well except my spelling lesson I ditten
no it very well and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do
the choirs at morning and it is pretty cold weather to day and it is
moderrating some and toward night after dark i mean it snowed some"
Wed. Jan. 28: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well and it is pretty cold weather and at
night I went to prayer meeting and John armstrong was chairman and I made a
mistake instead of putting this down friday I put it down wednesday"
Thur. Jan. 29: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten
no it verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help do
them at morning and it is pretty cold weather to day"
Fri. Jan. 30: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my arithemetic lesson I ditten no
it verry well and it is very soft and mild weather to day and I helped to do
the choirs at night and I ditten help to do them at morning and grand pa
brought over the corn to day and I mad a mistake and in place putting this down
wednesday I put it down friday"
Sat. Jan. 31: "I sayed at home
to day but still I went over to the barn with father and glenroy to help to clean
up oats and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do them at
morning and it is pretty cold weather to day and it snowed about all day and
miss beattie came up toward night and peat reynolds sold his farm to day"
Sun. Feb. 1: "I went to curch
to day with father orrie emma and Johns went with us
and the text was luke 15-18 and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten
help to do them at morning and it is pretty cold weather to day"
Mon. Feb. 2: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my arithmetic lesson I ditten no
it verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do
the at morning and it is pretty cold weather to day and at night I went down to
singing school and had a nice time"
Tues. Feb. 3: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my arithmetic lesson I ditten no
it verry well and it snowed most all day pretty cold though to day and I helped
to do the choirs at night and I ditten to do them at morning and hugh emma and mary and her baby to day
and emma stayed all night"
Wed. Feb. 4: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do them in
the morning and emma went down to tom Mc millens to day and it is nice pleasent
day to day pretty cold though and I hert my finger to day some"
Thur. Feb. 5: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my arithmetic lessons I ditten no
it verry well and I done the choirs alone at night and I helped to do them at
morning and it is a nice pleasent day to day pretty cold though and I have got
a pretty sore finger to day."
Fri. Feb. 6: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my arithmetic lessons I ditten no
it verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do
them in the morning and it is pretty cold to day moderrateing some though for a
storm and at night I went down to prayer meeting"
Sat. Feb. 7: "father and I went
up to John fobrons woods to draw rafters down home and I ditten help to do the
choirs at night nor morning and at night I went over to grandfathers with
father and it is pretty cold weather and at morning some it snowed some not
much though and I have got a sore finger"
Sun. Feb. 8: "I stayed at home
with orrie and father eliza emma and annie went to church and the text was
proverbs 23-26 and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do
them in the morning and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold though"
Mon. Feb. 9: "father and I went
to the slate quarry to get a load of slate and I helped to do the choirs at
night and morning and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold though and they was
no school and I ditten go and at night I went down to singing school and had a
nice time"
Tues. Feb. 10: "glenroy and I
went after a load of slate and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning
and it is a nice pleasant day pretty cold though at night and morning and they was
no chool and I ditten go and about night father and I took the cattle over to
the little hay barn"
Wed. Feb. 11: "I went up to the
woods with father and glenroy to cut and draw out timber and I helped to do the
choirs at night and morning and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold weather
though and at morning it snowed some not much though and they was no school and
I ditten go"
Thur. Feb. 12: "I went up to
the woods with father and glenroy to help to draw timber to the mill and I
helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it is a nice pleasent day
pretty cold though and they was no school and I ditten go"
Fri. Feb. 13: "I went down to
the woods with father and glenroy to cut and draw up wood to the house in the
forenoon and in the afternoon I went down to north argle with father and emma
and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it is verry soft and
mild weather and about night it rained some and they was no school and I ditten
go"
Sat. Feb. 14: "I helped to pile
the bords up on the scarfold and I helped to pile the slate over again and I
cut some wood at the house and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning
and it is a nice pleasent day verry soft and mild though and at night it got it
got pretty cold and at night I went down to prayer meeting"
Sun. Feb. 15: "I stayed at home
with eliza orrie and annie and father emma and emma
McDougall and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it is a verry
pleasent day pretty cold though"
Mon. Feb. 16: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it is a nice
pleasent day pretty cold though and after school was out I cut some wood and at
night I went down to singing school and I had a nice time so I did"
Tues. Feb. 17: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten
no it verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do
them in the morning and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold though and I cut
some wood at morning and night at the house and Jennie fergeuson died at
morning."
Wed. Feb. 18: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons very well except my spelling lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do them
in the morning and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold though and at night I
played marbles and at morning I helped to cut some wood"
Thur. Feb. 19: "I went to
Jennie fergeusons furnal in the forenoon and I helped to do the choirs at night
and morning and it is a moderratering some for a storm pretty cold though and
at night & played marbles with emma and they was no school and I ditten go
and about night I helped father to pile some barrels over again"
Fri. Feb. 20: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it is verry
soft and mild thawing some and at night I played marbles with orrie emma and Annie"
Sat. Feb. 21: "I went up to Wm
Davit McDougalls and I went down to miss McDougalls and I went over to Jory
boyds and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it is verry soft
and mild and it is a raining pretty hard in the forenoon and in the afternoon
some not much though and at night I went down to prayer meeting"
Sun. Feb. 22: "I stayed at home
and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it is pretty cold and it
rained in the afternoon but it frose as it came and I read fifty one psalms in
the Bible excepting six chapters I read in the testament"
Mon. Feb. 23: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it is a
thawing some in the midle of the day and toard night it got colder and at night
I went down to singing school and had a nice time"
Tues. Feb. 24: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well except my arithmetic lesson I
ditten no it verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and
it is a verry pleasent day pretty cold though at night morning and I played
chaquers with at night and in the morning I scated some with Albert"
Wed. Feb. 25: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my arithmetic lesson I ditten no
it verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it snowed
in the afternoon most all the time pretty hard and in the morning pretty cold
and at night I done some examples in orries arithmetic"
Thur. Feb. 26: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I
ditten no it very well and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help
to do them in the morning and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold though at
night and morning"
Fri. Feb. 27: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my arithmetic lesson I ditten no
it verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do
the choirs at morning and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold though and at
night I played chequars with orrie and I beat her twice"
Sat. Feb. 28: "I went to Argyle
and north Argyle with eliza and emma and I went to argyle to get the horse
shawd and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do them in
the morning and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold though in the morning and
at night I went to prayer meeting and Jim Beattie was cheerman"
Sun. Mar. 1: "I stayed at home
with orrie and annie and father eliza and emma went to
church and the text was Deuteronomy 1-11 and I helped to do the choirs at night
and morning and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold though at night and
morning"
Mon. Mar. 2: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my arithmetic lesson I ditten no
it verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do
them in the morning and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold though at night
and morning and mag Mc eachron was burried and at night I went down to singing
school"
Tues. Mar. 3: "I went to school
in the afternoon and learned all my lessons verry well and in the forenoon I
stayed at home and Charley albert and norman came up and we had a nice time and
I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do them in the morning
and it is nice warm day verry soft and mild to and it is pretty cold in the
morning"
Wed. Mar. 4: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons very well except my spelling lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do them
in the morning and it rained most all forenoon and it is very wet and mild
weather clearing of some in the afternoon and at night I played marbles with
orrie and Annie"
Thur. Mar. 5: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do them
in the morning and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold though at night and
morning and at night I poped some pop corn and peat reynolds vander" (?)
"was to day"
Fri. Mar. 6: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do them in
the morning and it is pretty cold weather but it is a moderrateing though for a
storm and in the morning I helped father to draw 2 loads of wood & at night
I prayer meeting and father was cheerman"
Sat. Mar. 7: "I helped father
to draw up three loads of wood from the woods & I helped to choirs at night
& I ditten help to do them in the morning & it is nice & warm in
the forenoon but in the afternoon it got some colder & I went down to uncle
Davits and had a nice time with the boys and at night I helped orrie how to do
some examples and at night it rained some"
Sun. Mar. 8: "I stayed at home
with all the folks and I helped to do the choirs it at night and I ditten help
to do them in the morning and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold though at
night and morning"
Mon. Mar. 9: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons very well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do them
in the morning and it is pretty cold weather and in the morning I
helped father to cut some wood at the house and at night I went down to singing
school and had a nice time"
Tues. Mar. 10: "I went to
school and learned all lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten no
it verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do
them in the morning and it is pretty cold weather and in the morning I helped
father to cut some wood at the house and at night I whittled some stiks for my
popgun"
Wed. Mar. 11: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well geography lesson I ditten no it verry
well and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do them in the
morning and it snowed most all day pretty cold though and at night father cut
my hare and at night I went down to glenroys with father and at night I
whittled some sticks for my popgun"
Thur. Mar. 12: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lessons I
ditten know it verry well and i helped to do the choirs at knight and i ditten
help to do the choirs in the morning and it was a nice pleasent day but it is
verry cold and it is vary windy and i warnt veary Well and emma Williamson rote
this except 2 lines about"
Fri. Mar. 13: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
very well and it was the last day of school and I had a nice time and I got
some candy and a card and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help
to do them in the morning and it is pretty cold weather moderrateing some for a
storm and I hent verry well"
Sat. Mar. 14: "I stayed at home
and normy came up in the forenoon and we went down to the woods wher father
glenroy and uncle dave was cutting and drawing out timber and I helped to do the
choirs at night
and I ditten help to do them in the morning and it is a nice pleasent day
pretty cold though at night and morning and in the afternoon father and glenroy
snaked out 2 sills to"
Sun. Mar. 15: "I went down to
glenroys and Miss McDougall with father and I helped to do the choirs at night
and I ditten help to do them in the morning and it is a nice pleasent day
pretty cold though at night and morning and they was no meeting at church"
Mon. Mar. 16: "I stayed at home
and father and I taped four trees and they run pretty good and I carryed some
sap mistake and I helped father to saw
and split some wood and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it
is a nice pleasent day and at night I went down to singing school"
Tues. Mar. 17: "I went down to
uncle daves in the forenoon and had a nice time with the boys and I fulled up
eight barrels of corn and carried some sap and I helped father to saw and split
some wood and I helped to do the choirs at night and noon and I ditten help to
do them in the morning and it rained some and it is pretty moddy and
nasty"
Wed. Mar. 18: "I stayed at home
and I helped father to saw and split some wood and I carried considerable sap
and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and I done them all at noon
and it is pretty muddy and nasty verry soft and mild weather cloudy in the
forenoon but in the afternoon cleared off some and Miss armstrong came up"
Thur. Mar. 19: "I went over to
peat Reynolds with father to draw home some slate in the forenoon and in the
afternoon I went down to bedlam with father and emma and orrie went with ous
and comming back we brought back some slate and I helped to do the choirs at
night and morning and I ditten help to them at noon and I carried some sap and
it is pretty
muddy and nasty"
Fri. Mar. 20: "I went to Jay
Barkleys mill with father and we took down three logs and drawed in logs to the
mill in the forenoon and in the afternoon I helped father to saw some wood and
carry sap not much though and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten
help to do them in the morning nor noon and it is a nice pleasent day and I
went down to prayer meeting"
Sat. Mar. 21: "I went down to
the woods with father to help to snake out timber and wood in the forenoon and
in the afternoon I went down to bedlam to get emma and orrie and I carried some
sap and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and I ditten help to do
them at noon and it is a nice pleasent day and the wind blowed some and it is
some cloudy"
Sun. Mar. 22: "I went to curch
with father and orrie and went in to sabbath school
and the text was ezekile 34-26 and I helped to do the choirs at night and
morning and I ditten help to them at
Mon. Mar. 23: "I went down to
the meadow with father glenroy and uncle tom H. and dave came up to help to
score out timber and I went down to uncle daves and I helped to do the choirs
at night and morning and I ditten help to do them at noon and it is pretty cold
weather and pretty windy pretty cold winds to"
Tues. Mar. 24: "I went down to
uncle daves and I had a nice time with the boys and the men hewed and scored
out timber down back of the hog pen and I helped to do the choirs at night and
morning and I ditten help to do them at noon and it is pretty windy pretty cold
winds to and albert and norman came up in the forenoon and John S.
Williamson."
Wed. Mar. 25: "I went down to
uncle Daves in the forenoon and they was a going away and we had to come back
again emma and orrie went to and I carried some corn and oats over to the barn
and aunt kate came up and stayed all night and I helped to do the choirs at
night and I ditten help to do them in the morning and I done them all alone at
noon nice pleasent day"
Thur. Mar. 26: "I sayed at home
in the forenoon and in the afternoon I went down to Argyle to take down eliza
and in the forenoon the men hewed and scored out timber and in the Afternoon
they hewed and scored out the sills and I helped to do the choirs at night
morning and noon and it is
nice and warm moderrateing some though and at night we played
blindfold and I carrie some sap"
Fri. Mar. 27: "I sayed at home
and I helped the men to score and hew the rafters and in the afternoon they
hewed and scored out some sleppers and I cut some wood and I carried some sap
and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do them in the
morning nor noon and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold though at night and
morning and I ditten go down to prayer meeting"
Sat. Mar. 28: "I stayed at home
in the forenoon and in the afternoon I took emma orrie and Annie in the buggy
and father came over after dark and we ditten get back till about eleven
o'clock and I carried some sap and I cut some wood and I helped to do the choirs
in the morning and I ditten help to do them at night and it is a nice pleasent
day pretty cold though at night and morning"
Sun. Mar. 29: "I stayed at home
and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten helped to do them in the
morning and I done them all alone at noon and it is a nice pleasent day pretty
windy though but it is pretty cool at night and morning to and orrie rote all
of this"
Mon. Mar. 30: "I stayed at home
and I helped the men to hew and score the rafters and they got pretty near
through in the forenoon and in the afternoon they hewed and scored out some
sleepers and I carried some sap and I helped to do the choirs at night and noon
and I ditten help to do them in the morning and it is a nice pleasent day mistake above here"
Tues. Mar. 31: "I stayed at
home and I cut some wood and I carried some sap and father went out to fort
edward and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and I done the choirs
all a lone at noon and it is a nice pleasent day pretty windy though and it is
pretty cold though at night and morning and I went down to singing school last
night"
Wed. Apr. 1: "I rode charley
horse down to Mr wiggens in the forenoon and in the afternoon I went down to
bedlam with father and carried some sap and I helped to do the choirs at night
morning and noon and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold though at night and
morning and in the forenoon father went down to Argyle to bring eliza up"
Thur. Apr. 2: " I went down to
Argyle with father to help to move Jonney D in the forenoon and in the
Afternoon I went with father and glenroy over to pick stone over in that field
where the little hay barn is and I carried some sap and I helped to do the
choirs at night and morning and I ditten help to do them at noon and it is a
nice pleasent day pretty cold though at night and morning and Mr. Kinney
Died"
Fri. Apr. 3: "I went up in that
field by the woods to help father to cut and draw wood down home in the
forenoon and in the afternoon I stayed at home but I helped to on load a load
of wood and I carried some sap and I helped to do the choirs at night and
morning and I ditten help to do them at noon and it is a nice pleasent day
pretty cold though at night and at night I ditten go down to prayer
meeting"
Sat. Apr. 4: "I stayed at home
and I ditten help to do the choirs at night morning nor
Sun. Apr. 5: "I stayed at home
With orrie and annie Father Emma and Eliza Went to church and the text Was
matthew the 12 and I ditten help to do the choirs at night morning nor noon and
it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold though at night and morning pretty Windy
to and I Warent verry Well all day and Emma and orrie rote this"
Mon. Apr. 6: "I stayed at home
and I ditten help to do the choirs at night morning nor
Tues. Apr. 7: "I stayed at home
and I ditten help to do the choirs at night morning nor noon and I Warent very
Well all day and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold though at night and
morning and I Went out some not much though and orrie rote all of this"
Wed. Apr. 8: "I Went down to
glenroys in the forenoon and in the afternoon I stayed at home but I cut some
Wood and I am getting better and I helped to do the choirs at night and noon
and I ditten helped to do them in the morning and it is a moderateing some for
a storm and it is a very soft and mild and orrie rote all of this"
Thur. Apr. 9: "I stayed at home
and I helped Father to pile some Wood up in the Wood shead and I read some in
the childs commentator
and I carred some sap and at night I read some in my history and
I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do then in the morning
nor noon and it is cloudy and it is very soft and mild to and it is a little
bit cold in the morning and orrie rote all of this"
Fri. Apr. 10: "I stayed at home
in the forenoon and in the afternoon I went down to the meadow with father to
help to draw sleepers up home and I carried some sap and I helped to do the
choirs at night and noon and I ditten help to do them in the morning and in the
forenoon I helped father to work and greece the harness and it snowed and I
read some in the childs commentator at night"
Sat. Apr. 11: "I Went Down to
the meadow With Father to help to draw sleepers in the Forenoon and in the
afternoon I helped glenroy to draw stones and grampa and Jennie came over in
the afternoon and I carried some sap I helped to do the choirs at morning night and
noon and it is pretty cold and it snowed some and I read some in the child
commentator and orrie rote all of this"
Sun. Apr. 12: "I went to curch
with father emma and orrie and the text was revelation 1 -17 18 and communion
sabbath and we went to church in a slay and I read some in the childs
commentator and I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do them
in the morning nor noon and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold though at
night and morning"
Mon. Apr. 13: "I went down to J
Barkleys mill with father to take some short postes down in the forenoon and in
the afternoon I rode old charley up to frank Mc eachrons and back again and I carried
some sap and I helped to do the choirs at night morning and noon and it is a
nice pleasent day pretty cold though at morning and night I went down to
glenroys"
Tues. Apr. 14: "I stayed at
home but I helped father to draw out manure out in the Afternoon and in the
morning to little lambs come and I carried some sap and I helped to do the
choirs at night morning and noon and I read some in the childs commentator and
it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold though at night and morning"
Wed. Apr. 15: "I Went down to
glenroys and in the morning one more little lam came and I helped to do the
choirs at night morning and noon and I carried some sap and I helped father to
pile some Wood and I filled up eight barls of corn in the forenoon and it is a
nice warm day but it rained some though and at night I read some in the childs
commentator and at night one more little lamb come"
Thur. Apr. 16: "I stayed at
home but I piled some wood and I helped to do the choirs at night morning and
noon and uncle tom S. came over and four little lambs came and it is a nice
pleasent day and it is nice and warm to and glenroy begun a plowing and I
carried some sap not much though and I brought up the things that was in under
the pails"
Fri. Apr. 17: "I helped father
to pick some stone over in that field where the little hay barn is in the
forenoon and in the afternoon I helped father to shoe make and one more little lamb
come and I helped to do the choirs at night morning and noon and I helped father
to pile some wood up in the woodshed and it rained most of all afternoon and
emma and orrie went over to grampas and I ditten go down to prayer
meeting"
Sat. Apr. 18: "I stayed at home
in the forenoon and in the afternoon I helped father to pick stone over in that
field by where the little hay barn is and I carried some sap and at night I
went down to Miss McDougalls with father and I helped to do the choirs at night morning and
noon and it is a nice warm day and went down to argyle in the forenoon and
coming back he broke down"
Sun. Apr. 19: "I went to church
with father and the text was hebrews 6-12 and I read some in the childs
commentator and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning but I ditten
help to do them at noon and to more little lambs come and it is a nice pleasent
day and Mr fisher and John S. stoped for dinner and Mr fisher preached to
argyle in the town hall"
Mon. Apr. 20: "I helped father
to cut some potatoes in the forenoon and three more little lambs come and to of
them was mine and I helped to do the choirs at night morning and noon and it
rained and at night we had a thunder storm and in the morning old white cora
had a calf and in the afternoon I helped father to shoe make and father mended
my boots in the afternoon"
Tues. Apr. 21: "I went down to
miss McDougalls and I went down to glenroys and I hert my leg and I helped
father to pile some wood and I helped to do the choirs at night morning and
noon and old yellow cora had a calf and to more little lambs come but one was dead
when it come I gess"
Wed. Apr. 22: "I helped father
to draw some stone and some old stumps over in that feild wher the little hay
barn is in the forenoon and in the Afternoon I helped father to draw some
manure and I helped father to set up the leach and I helped to do the choirs at
night morning and noon and it is a nice pleasent day"
Thur. Apr. 23: "I draged one
acre and a half and father eewed at in the forenoon and in the Afternoon I went
over to kinneys vender with father and I had a nice time and I helped father to
do the choirs at night morning and noon and it rained and snowed together most
all Afternoon and part of the forenoon and I cut some wood at home"
Fri. Apr. 24: "I helped to plow
and scrape for the horefarm in the forenoon and in the After-noon I went down
to bedlam with father and one more little lamb come and I helped to fill up six
barrles of corn and I helped to do the choirs at night morning and noon and it
is a nice pleasent day and at night I went down to prayer meeting with father"
Sat. Apr. 25: "I helped father
to pick stone over in the garden spot is in the Afternoon I went over to peat
Reynolds with father to get some potatoes and three more little lambs came and
one of them was mine and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and
noon and it snowed most all Afternoon pretty cold though I thought"
Sun. Apr. 26: "I stayed at home
but I helped to do the choirs at night morning and
Mon. Apr. 27: "I went down to
uncle Daves with father to get the sled to draw stone in the forenoon and in
the afternoon I helped father to plow and scrape dirt for the area horse barn
and I helped father to draw manure and three more lambs came and I helped to do
the choirs at night morning and noon and I cut some wood and it is a nice
pleasent day and it is some warm"
Tues. Apr. 28: "I stayed at
home but I helped to do the choirs at night morning and noon and I helped
father and glenroy to plow and scrape dirt in the Afternoon and to more little
lambs came and it is a moderrateing for a storm but it is pretty cold though at
night and morning and at night I helped father to cut some potatoes"
Wed. Apr. 29: "I stayed at home
but I helped to do the choirs at night morning and noon and it snowed most all
day pretty cold though at night and morning and at night I helped father to cut
some potatoes and I mended fathers mitten and I mended my mittens and I made a
pocket in my coat and uncle dave came up and to more little lambs came."
Thur. Apr. 30: "I helped father
to cut some potatoes in the forenoon and in the Afternoon I helped father to
shell some corn and I helped father to pile some wood and I helped father to do
the choirs at night morning and noon and it is pretty windy and pretty cold weather to and I
sewed a pocket in my vest and in my coat small ones"
Fri. May 1: "I went down to
bedlam with father in the forenoon and in the Afternoon I helped father to
split rails and cut some wood up in that field by the woods and I helped father
to cut some potatoes and I helped to do the choirs at night morning and noon
and it is a nice pleasent day pretty windy and cold and at night I went down to prayer meeting"
Sat. May 2: "I went up to the
woods with father to help to make out rail timber and cut some to in the
forenoon and in the Afternoon I went down to Argyle with father and I got a hoe
and it cost sixty cents and at night I helped father to cut some potatoes and I
helped to do the choirs at night morning and noon and it is a nice pleasent day
pretty cold though"
Sun. May 3: "I went to curch
with father and emma and the text was hebrews 2-17 and it is a nice pleasent
day and it is nice and warm to and it is a thawing to and I helped to do the
choirs at night and morning and I ditten help to do them at noon and I read
some in the childs commentator and they is some snowbanks about three feet deep
some places I guess"
Mon. May 4: "I went down to the
woods with father to help to split some rails and cut some rail timber in the
forenoon and in the Afternoon I helped glenroy to plant some potatoes and I
planted some potatoes over in the garden spot over by the shed and I helped to
do the choirs at night morning and noon and it is a nice warm day and I helped
father and glenroy to cut some potatoes"
Tues. May 5: "I planted
potatoes for glenroy about all day and father helped to and I helped to do the
choirs at night morning and noon and it is a nice pleasent day pretty hazzy
though and red heifer had a calf in the forenoon and I went up and shareer the
sheepp in the afternoon"
Wed. May 6: "I Watched Father
and glenroy a ploughing about all day I Helped father to draw some manure in
under the shed by the little hay barn and I went over to peat Reynolds in the
Afternoon and I helped to do the choirs at night morning and noon and it is a
nice pleasent day pretty chilly though and orrie rote part of this upper part
of the page though"
Thur. May 7: "I watched father
and glenroy a ploughing in the forenoon and at night I went down to bedlam with
father and I piled up some wood in the wood shed and white heifer had a calf
and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and I ditten help to do them
at noon and it is a nice pleasent day pretty chilly Though at night and
morning"
Fri. May 8: "I helped father to
plow up on the hill part of the day and I helped to do the choirs at night
morning and noon and I piled some wood up in the woodshed and I cut and sawed
some wood and it is a nice pleasent day and it is nice and warm to in the
Afternoon"
Sat. May 9: "I dragged about
all day and I dragged about five acres and I helped to do the choirs at night
morning and noon and it is a nice warm day and it rained some though not much
though pretty cloudy to in the Afternoon and at night I went down to prayer
meeting with father emma orrie and annie and John Reynolds was cheermen"
Sun. May 10: "I stayed at home
but I went down to Miss McDougalls with father in the Afternoon and I helped to
do the choirs at night and morning and I ditten help to do them at noon and it
is a nice pleasent day and it is nice and warm to and I read some in the childs
commentator and thay is a little bit of rain some places I beleave"
Mon. May 11: "I helped father
to plow part of the day and I cut and sawed some wood and one more little lamb
came and I helped to do the choirs at night morning and noon and it is a nice
pleasent day and it is nice and warm to and glenroy smashed his finger and I
helped father do a few load of stone up in the feild above the house"
Tues. May 12: "I helped father
to plow part of the day and spoted heifer had a calf and old black sheep had a
lamb and it was black to and I helped to do the choirs at night morning and
noon and it is a nice pleasent day and it is nice and warm and I cut and sawed
some wood and I helped father and glenroy to cut some potatoes"
Thur. May 14: "I went down to
bedlam with emma and orrie in the forenoon and in the Afternoon I went down to
billy irvins to see if I could get him to help father to plant potatoes and I
helped to do the choirs at night morning and noon and it is a nice pleasent
dand pretty warm though and I helped father and glenroy to cut some potatoes at
noonspell"
Fri. May 15: "I helped father
to plant potatoes about all day and billy Irvin helped to and I went down to
uncle Daves to take the his marker down and I helped to do the choirs at night
morning and noon and I carried out potatoes for father glenroy and billy at
noonspell and it is a nice pleasent day and it is a nice and warm to"
Sat. May 16: "I helped father
to pland potatoes most all day and I carried out some potatoes for father and
glenroy at noon and I helped to do the choirs at night morning and noon and it
rained about noon some and at night I went down to prayer meeting father emma
and orrie and John armstrong was cheerman pretty cloudy to"
Sun. May 17: "I went to curch
with father and emma and I went in to sabbath school and the text was first
timothy 2-11 and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and I ditten
help to do them at noon and I read some in the childs paper and it is a nice
pleasent day pretty warm though to and spoted cow had a calf yesterday"
Mon. May 18: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well and it was the first day of school and I
helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it rained most of the day
pretty cloudy to and at night I help father to sort over some potatoes"
Tues. May 19: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons very well and after school was out I helped father
to scatter some manure and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and
they is 18 eggs layed and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cloudy though part
of the day and it rained some not much though and we all had a nice time at
school"
Wed. May 20: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons very well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it is nice
and pleasent in the forenoon and in the Afternoon it rained and after school
was out I helped father to shell some seed corn"
Thur. May 21: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it rained
part of the day and father went down to bedlam and got me a straw hat in the
forenoon and in the Afternoon father went down to Argyle"
Fri. May 22: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well and in the morning father and I took a
cow up to John Reynolds to get bulled and I helped to do the choirs at night
and morning and it rained part of the day and we cleaned out the school house
in the Afternoon and I set one hen at night"
Sat. May 23: "I dropped potatoes
for glenroy about all day and and fred did to and I helped to do the choirs at
night and morning and noon and it is a nice pleasent day and at night I went
down to prayer meeting and father was cheerman and father plowed about all
day"
Sun. May 24: "I went to curch
with father and emma and the text was exidous 20-2 and I went in to sabbath
school and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and I ditten help to
do them at noon and I read some in the childs commentator and it is a nice
pleasent day and it is nice and warm to"
Mon. May 25: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it rained all
of the Afternoon and part of the forenoon and it is pretty cloudy all day"
Tues. May 26: "I helped father
to plant corn and potatoes About all day and I ditten go to school and at night
I went fishing down to the little lake with albert and I helped to do the
choirs at morning and I ditten help to do them at night and it it rained some
not much though pretty cloudy to most of the day hen"
Wed. May 27: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons very well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and at night I
went up to frank Mc eachrons with father and had a nice time with the boys and
it is a nice pleasent day"
Thur. May 28: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it is a nice pleasent
day pretty hot to and I went went up to the woods to get to fish poles after
school was out and father went down to get emma McDougall"
Fri. May 29: "I went to school and
learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and it is a nice pleasent day pretty hot though to and helped to do
the choirs at night and morning and After school was I helped glenroy to plant
corn and all of us have got through planting"
Sat. May 30: "I helped father
to draw manure in the forenoon and in the Afternoon I went down to Argyle with
father and I helped to do the choirs at night morning and noon and it is a nice
pleasent day pretty hot though and eliza and orrie went over to grand pas and
at night emma went home and at night I went down to prayer metting"
Sun. May 31: "I stayed at home
but I helped to do the choirs at night and I ditten help to do them in the
morning and I read some in the childs commentator and I read some in the
testiment and father went over to grandpas after eliza and orrie in the
Afternoon and it is nice and pleasent in the forenoon and in the Afternoon it
rained a little bit"
Mon. Jun. 1: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography I ditten no it verry
well and I helped to do the choirs at night & morning and after school was
out I helped father to pick stone down in the little meadow and it rained a
little bit at night pretty cloudy to most all day and eliza has got a sore
finger"
Tues. Jun. 2: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons very well except my arithmetic and geography lesson
I ditten no them verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning
and it is is a nice pleasent day pretty warm to and after school was out I went
down to uncle Davits and had a nice time with the boys"
Wed. Jun. 3: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons very well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and it is a pretty warm day pretty though about all day and I helped
to do the choirs at night and morning and after school was out I went down to
bedlam with father and I got a new suit of clothes to wear to church"
Thur. Jun. 4: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons very well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and it rained some in the morning pretty cloudy to all day pretty
warm though about all day and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning
and I filled the cider barrel at night and morning with water and elizas finger
is no better"
Fri. Jun. 5: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and it is pretty warm day pretty cloudy though most of the day and I
helped to do the choirs at night and morning and John S sent up my fine boots
last night with glenroy and at night we had a thundershower and I helped father
to scrape for the horse barn"
Sat. Jun. 6: "I planted some
corn and potatoes and I went down with uncle Dave albert and norman to wash
sheep down to bill Mc auleys all of this was done in the forenoon and father
went down to arygle in the forenoon to take a lode of hay down and father and I
went down to uncle Daves in the afternoon and I helped to do the choirs at
night and morning pretty warm and at night I went down to prayer meeting"
Sun. Jun. 7: "I went to church
with father and emma and the text was John 15-17 and Mr. fisher has left us and
it was his last sermon and it rained some pretty warm though most all day and I helped
to do the choirs at night and morning and at night we had a thunder shower and
I ditten go into sabbath school and elizas sore finger is not much better"
Mon. Jun. 8: "I helped to do
the choirs at night and morning and I helped glenroy to plaster corn in the
forenoon and in the Afternoon I went down to help to wash sheep with father and
glenroy and I ditten go to school and After supper I hoed potatoes in the
garden and father cultivated them out and it is nice and warm and both old sows
had pigs one had six and the other had nine and at night father orrie and annie
went over to grandpas"
Tues. Jun. 9: "I went to school
and and learned all my lessons very well except my arithmetic lesson I ditten
no it verry well and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm to pretty cloudy
though and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and this day is my
birth day and I ditten get a licken and I am twelve years old and in the
afternoon father went down to bedlam and glenroy commenced a hoeing"
Wed. Jun. 10: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten no it
verry well and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm to though and I helped to
do the choirs at night and morning and after school was out I went down to Jay Barkleys
lake a fishing with father and we ditten catch any and elizas finger is no
better not much"
Thur. Jun. 11: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten
no it verry well and it rained some in the afternoon pretty cloudy about all
day and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and after school was out
I helped father to shell some corn for the hen and I helped him to alter five
little pigs"
Fri. Jun. 12: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography and spelling lesson I
ditten no them verry well and it rained part of the day pretty cloudy though
all day about and father and eliza went over to grandpas and I helped to do the
choirs at night and morning and after school was out I helped father to fix
fence and set a pare of porbosts out up to the cornfield"
Sat. Jun. 13: "I hoed corn in
the forenoon and after supper I hoed corn and in the afternoon I went to the
congreation meeting with father and it is a nice cool day for work pretty
cloudy though most of the day and I helped to do the choirs at night and
morning and emma and orrie went over to grandpas to see Jennie and at night I
went down to prayer meeting with father"
Sun. Jun. 14: "I went over to
grandpas with father in the forenoon to get emma and orrie and to see Jennie
and she has got the hooping cough and it is nice and pleasent in the forenoon
and it rained a little but in the afternoon pretty cloudy though part of the
day and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and John S stopped here
when he was a goeing to bedlam store"
Mon. Jun. 15: "I went to school
and ditten no any of my lessons and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm
though all day and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and in the
morning I helped father to hoe corn and after chool was out I helped father to
hoe potatoes and the carmmenters came to frame timber for the horse barn"
Tues. Jun. 16: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten
no it verry well and it is well and it is pleasent part of the day and other
part pretty cloudy and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and after
school was out I helped father to hoe potatoes and hank irvin cut my hair at
night"
Wed. Jun. 17: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling and geography lesson I
ditten no them verry well and it rained part of the day pretty cloudy though
most of the day and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and about
noon we had a thunder shower and elizas sore finger is not much better"
Thur. Jun. 18: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten
no it verry well and it is a nice cool day pretty cloudy cloudy though most all
day and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and after school was out
I helped father to hoe potatoes and at night and morning it rained some"
Fri. Jun. 19: "I helped father
to hoe potatoes about all day and it rained a little bit in the morning pretty
cloudy though about all day and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning
and in the morning father went over to grandpas to see Jennie and hent expet to
live and at night father went over to grandmas to see Jennie to"
Sat. Jun. 20: "I helped father
to hoe potatoes about all day and it is nice and cool in the forenoon but in
the afternoon pretty warm most of the time pretty cloudy though to part of the
day and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and and at night eliza
went over to grandpas to see Jennie and she went a foot to stay all night and
at night the carnpters went home and at night we all went down to prayer
meeting"
Sun. Jun. 21: "I went down to
uncle Daves in the forenoon and it is a nice pleasent day and it is nice and
warm to pretty windy though to part of the and a little bit cloudy not much and
I read some in the childs commentator and I helped to do the choirs at night
and morning and at night emma and I went over to grandpas to see Jennie and to
get eliza and father went over with Doc madison in the forenoon to see
Jennie"
Mon. Jun. 22: "I helped father
to hoe potatoes part of the day and I hoed potatoes all alone part of the day
and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm to most of the day and I helped to do
the choirs at night and morning and at night father and orrie went over to
grandpas to see Jennie and I ditten go to school and at night I went down to
glenroys with hank Irvin"
Tues. Jun. 23: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography and spelling
lessons I ditten no them verry well and it is nice and pleasent in the forenoon
and in the afternoon it is pretty cloudy part of the day and it rained some at
night and we had a thunder shower in the afternoon and I helped to do the
choirs at night and morning"
Wed. Jun. 24: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten no it
verry well and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cool to part of the day little
bit of wind to and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and at night and morning
I hilled my potatoes and at night I went over to grandpas with father to see
Jennie and mary Jane went over to "
Thur. Jun. 25: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten
no it verry well and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cloudy though part of the
day and pretty warm to part of the day and I helped to do the choirs at night
and morning and after chool was out I ploughed out some potatoes and at night
father went over to grandpas to see Jennie"
Fri. Jun. 26: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
very well and it rained most all afternoon pretty cloudy to all day and I
helped to do the choirs at night and morning and in the forenoon father went
down to bedlam to old charley shawd and he got me to bunches of fire crackers
and I helped father to
salad some letuice"
Sat. Jun. 27: "I helped father
to scrape out the sellar for the horse barn and I helped the carpenters to
frame rafters about one half of the day and they have got through frameing
timber for the horse barn and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm though and
I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and I went down to glenroys with
orrie and annie awhile father went over to grandpas to fech home mary
Jane"
Sun. Jun. 28: "I went over to
grandpas with orrie to see Jennie at night and she is a getting some better and
went over to fetch eliza over home and in the forenoon father went over with
Doctor madison to see Jennie and elizas sore finger is a getting better and it
is a nice pleasent day pretty warm thought and I helped to do the choirs at
night and morning"
Mon. Jun. 29: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my arithmetic and spelling lesson
I ditten no them verry well and it a nice warm day some cloudy though and I
helped to do the choirs at night and morning and at night we had a thunder
shower and at night I went down to salem with father to take down three calfs
and we got six cents a pound for them"
Tues. Jun. 30: "Amb McDougall
came over to shear our sheep and he got them all shore and they was thirty two
and I helped him some and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm to and I helped
to do the choirs at night and morning and at night John padison came down and I
ditten go to school and elizas sore finger is a getting some better"
Wed. Jul. 1: "I helped father
to hill potatoes all day and at night I went over to grandpas with father to
see Jennie and she is getting some better and it is a nice pleasent day pretty
warm though and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and I ditten go
to school and elizas sore finger is getting some better and father and I fired
off some firecrackers at noon"
Thur. Jul. 2: "I helped father
to hill potatoes in the forenoon and part of the afternoon and in the afternoon
we had a thunder shower and pretty cloudy though about all day and I helped to
do the choirs at night and morning and at night father and orrie went over to
grandpas to see Jennie and she took a fit to of them and she died and father
brought home emma"
Fri. Jul. 3: "I went over to
grandpas to take eliza over and we see little Jennie and their she laid Dead
and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm though little bit cloudy to and I
ditten go to school and I helped to do the choirs in the morning and I ditten
help to do them at night and at night I helped father to hoe out the cumbers
and beans"
Sat. Jul. 4: "We all went over
to little Jennies furnal and their poor little Jennie lay in the corps dead and
she had a large funal for her and we went to the gravesyard and it rained in
the afternoon pretty cloudy though about all day pretty warm though part of the
day and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning"
Sun. Jul. 5: "I went down to
church down to arygle with father and eliza and it is a nice cool day pretty
cloudy though about all day and rained a little bit not much though and I
helped to do the choirs at night and morning and elizas sore finger is a
getting some better and I read some in the testiment"
Mon. Jul. 6: "I helped father
to hill potatoes about all day and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cloudy part
of the day pretty warm to and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning
and I ditten go to school and elizas sore finger is a
getting some better"
Tues. Jul. 7 :"I
helped father to hill corn and potatoes about all day and at night we had a
thunder shower and it is pretty warm though pretty cloudy to part of the day
and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and one fellar came and got
four little pigs and eliza emma and annie went a burring and they warent no
school and I ditten go"
Wed. Jul. 8: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons very well except my arithmetic lesson I ditten no
that verry well and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm though some cloudy
part of the day to and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and
father went out to fort edward to get a barrell of flour and some coarse salt and
at night I went a berring in the fallow with emma and annie"
Thur. Jul. 9: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten no it
verry well and father helped glenroy to hill corn and I helped father to hill a
little bit of corn and have all got through hilling and hoeing and it is a nice
pleasent day pretty warm though and I helped to do the choirs at night and
morning and at night and morning I went a burring"
Fri. Jul. 10: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and it is pretty warm about all day and it rained in the afternoon
pretty cloudy though all day about and Jimmy crosier came to dich a dich for the horse barn and I helped
to do the choirs at night and Morning and at night father went down to bedlam
and took Jemmy and Me down a fishing down to barkleys lake"
Sat. Jul. 11: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons very well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and uncle Davit mowed some for us with a machine and it is a warm
day pretty cloudy part of the most all day though and it rained some and I
helped to do the choirs at night and morning and at night I helped father to
scrape what Jimmy ditched and at night I went down to prayer meeting"
Sun. Jul. 12: "I went to church
with glenoy and John S down to argyle and it rained most off three day pretty
cloudy thought to most of the day pretty cool though to part off the day and
pretty bad hay weather to and I read the childs paper pretty nearly though too
and I read some in the testiment to and I helped to do the choirs at night and
morning and elizas sore finger is a getting some better
"
Mon. Jul 13: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons very well except my geography and arithmetic lesson
I ditten no them verry well and it is a nice warm day some cloudy though to and
at night and morning I went a burring and orrie came home and I helped to do
the choirs at night and morning and it rained a lot in the afternoon"
Tues. Jul. 14: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I
ditten no it verry well and it is a nice pleasent day pretty hot though and I
helped to do the choirs at night and morning and Jimmy crosier has got though
ditching for the horse barn and after school was out I helped father to rake
and cock hay"
Wed. Jul 15: "I went down to
uncle Daves in the morning to see if I could mow some for us with his machine
in the forenoon down in the little meadow and he came and in the afternoon I
helped father to rake and cock hay and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm
though and glenroy helped us all day and after supper we drawed in glenroys hay
and I helped to
do the choirs at night and morning and I ditten go to school"
Thur. Jul. 16: "I helped father
to shake rake and cock hay in the forenoon and in the afternoon I helped father
to draw in hay in the little hay barn and we drawed one load up out of the
little meadow and put it in the shed and glenroy helped us all day and I ditten
go to school and it is a nice warm day pretty cloudy though most off the day
and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning"
Fri. Jul. 17: "I shook some hay
up in the little meadow and father and glenroy mowed it in the forenoon and in
the afternoon I helped father to rake and cock hay down in meadow and after
supper we went up to the little meadow to turn over the hay and glenroy helped
in the forenoon and it is a nice pleasend day day pretty warm though and I helped to
do the choirs at night and morning"
Sat. Jul. 18: "I helped to draw
in and rake hay and mow away in the forenoon and we drawed in four loads and in
the afternoon I helped father to rake and cock hay up to the little meadow and
we brought home a load of hay and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm to and
I helped to do the choirs at night and morning fine hay weather and at night I
went down to prayer meeting."
Sun. Jul. 19: "I went to church
with father orrie and annie and the text was mark 16-16 and it is a nice pleasent
day pretty warm to though and I read some in the testiment and it is fine hay
weather and elizas sore finger is a getting some better and Mr cain preached
and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning"
Mon. Jul. 20: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography and arithmetic lesson
I ditten no them verry well and it rained a lot and it is pretty cloudy pretty
warm too though and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and at night
we had a thunder shower and at night I went a burring with emma and got catched
out in the thunder shower"
Tues. Jul. 21: "I shook hay
about all day and father and glenroy mowed the hay and I went down to uncle
Davits three times and uncle Davit mowed for us with his machine down in the
meadow and I ditten go to school and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm to
and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and elizas sore finger is a
getting some better"
Wed. Jul. 22: "I helped to
shake and turn over hay in the forenoon and in the afternoon father and glenroy
stacked the hay down in the meadow and I raked after and glenroy helped us all
day and I ditten go to school and it is a nice pleasend day pretty warm though
to and I helped to do the choirs in the morning and I ditten help to do them at
night"
Thur. 23: "I helped father to
to shake hay and father and glenroy mowed it up on the side hill in the
forenoon and in the afternoon father and glenroy stacked it down in the meadow
and I raked after and Joe went up and got the hay that was up in the swail in
the long field and I ditten to go school and glenroy helped us all day and it
is a nice pleasend day pretty warm though and I ditten help to do the
choirs"
Fri. Jul. 24: "father and
glenroy finished stacken the hay and I raked after and we drawed that hay up on
the side hill in the forenoon and in the afternoon I went down to bedlam to
take down the old mare to get shawd and father and glenroy mowed over in the
swail by the little hay barn and it is a nice pleasent day and after supper I
shook hay over in the swail and father and glenroy mowed it"
Sat. Jul. 25: "father and
glenroy mowed over in the swail over by the little hay barn and I shook after
in the forenoon and in the afternoon I helped father to rake and cock hay and
we cocked it all up and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm though and I
helped to do the choirs at night and morning and at night I went down to prayer
meeting with father emma orrie and annie"
Sun. Jul. 26: "I stayed at at
home and I read some in the testament and we had some new potatoes and it is a nice warm day pretty
cloudy to though most of the day and I helped to to do the choirs at night and
I ditten help to do them in the morning and elizas sore finger is a getting
some better and I have got a sore finger and I got it hert to or three days ago
I gess"
Mon. Jul. 27: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my arithemetic lesson I ditten no
it verry well and frank irvin come to help father to cradle rye and it is
pretty warm pretty cloudy though about all day and I helped to do the choirs at
night and morning and the men cut binded and stuped up the rye up in the long
field and glenroy helped father all day"
Tues. Jul. 28: "I ditten go to
school and the men cut the rye up on top of the hill and they was four acres on
it and I raked between the swaths in the forenoon and in the afternoon the men
raked and binded up the rye and I carried it in piles and after supper they
cradled and I raked after and henry went home and it is a nice warm day and I
helped to do the choirs at night and morning"
Wed. Jul. 29: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography and spelling lesson I
ditten no them verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and
in the afternoon father went down to arygle and father and glenroy cradled a
little bit out by the barn and it rained some pretty cloudy though about all
day"
Thur. Jul. 30: "I ditten go to
school and father and glenroy cradled over by the barn in the forenoon and I
raked after and in the afternoon they binded and I carried it up in bunches or
piles and after supper they cradled and binded some up in font of the house and
I raked after and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm though to and I helped
to do the choirs at night and morning"
Fri. Jul. 31: "I ditten go to
school and father and glenroy cradled and binded rye up that field and I raked
after in the forenoon and in the afternoon they raked and binded up the rye and
we got the field down and I carried the bunches up together and I dug some of
my potatoes to take out to fort edward tomorrow to barrels and at night we had
a thunder shower"
Sat. Aug. 1: "I went out to
fort edward with father and we took out the to barrels of potatoes and we got
.75 cents a bushel for them and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning
and it rained a lot pretty cloudy though most of the day and it is a nice and
warm most of the day to and at night I went down to prayer meeting with father
and Jory boyd was cheerman"
Sun. Aug. 2: "father annie and
eliza went to church down to argyle and last night orrie went over to grandpas
with him and they brought her home with them and emma and I went down to
glenroys and it is pretty cool and we had a thunder shower and I read the
childs paper clear though and I helped to do the choirs at night and
morning"
Mon. Aug. 3: "I ditten go to
school and father and glenroy cut and binded rye up on top of the hill and I
raked after and carried it in piles in the forenoon and in the afternoon they
mowed up on the side hill and I shook it out and after supper we drawed in rye
from the long field and it is a nice pleasent day and I helped to do the choirs
at night and morning and Jim potter came and got ten lambs"
Tues. Aug. 4: "I ditten go to
school and we drawed rye of form the top of the hill over to the little hay
barn in the forenoon and in the afternoon we drawed the hay from the swail over
by the little hay barn and we drawed it in the hay barn to and after supper we
drawed rye of from hill by the barn and it is a nice pleasent day and I helped
to do the choirs at night and morning"
Wed. Aug. 5: "I ditten go to
school and father mowed most of the swail up in the oats field and I schook the
hay out in the forenoon and in the afternoon we cocked the hay up on the side
hill and father mowed some over in the swail by the hay barn and I shook it out
and glenroy ditten
help us to day and after supper we turned over the hay that we
mowed and father finished mowing it and I shook the hay out nice day"
Thur. Aug. 6: "I ditten go to
school and father mowed some more over in that swail and I schook it out and we
drawed in the hay that was on the side hill and one load of rye in the forenoon
and in the afternoon father and glenroy drawed glenroys to most and one of ours
and I raked after and after supper father emma and I went down to bedlam and it
rained a little bit after supper and I helped to do the choirs at night and
morning"
Fri. Aug. 7: "I ditten go to
school and we drawed in rye in the feild by the barn and father cut the swail
in the oats feild up by the house and father and I cut some weeds in the
forenoon and in the afternoon we drawed some rye in the feild by the barn and
father and glenroy went over to get the hay in the swail over by the little hay
barn and I raked after and after supper we had a thunder shower and glenroy
helped us about all day"
Sat. Aug. 8: "I helped to turn
the grindstone for glen to grind his ax scythe and cradle I went down to uncle
Daves with glen and had a nice time with the boys and father went out to fort
edward in the forenoon and in the afternoon I went down to fishers rule with
father and at night I went down to prayer meeting and it rained and I helped to
do the choirs"
Sun. Aug. 9: "I went to church
with father and emma and herd a sermon by mr andrews and it is a nice warm day some cloudy though
most of the day and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and at night
they was meeting down to the school house and mr cain preached and we all went
down and elizas sore finger is a getting better"
Mon. Aug. 10: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons very well except my spelling lesson I ditten no it
verry well and glenroy cradled the back of the barn and father helped him some
and they drawed the rest of the rye and after supper I helped father to split
some rails down back of the hog pen and it is a nice warm day some cloudy
though and I helped to do the choirs"
Tues. Aug. 11: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons very well except my geography lesson I ditten
no it verry well and glenroy and uncle dave cut some oats in the afternoon up
by the house and pa drawed one load of sand and he is a drawing it from mr
gillieses down by argyle and it it is a nice warm day and I helped to do the
choirs at night and morning"
Wed. Aug. 12: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my arithemitic and spelling lesson
I ditten no them verry well and father went and got one more load of sand and
the men cradled oats at night and it is a nice warm day little bit cloudy and I
helped to do the choirs at night and morning"
Thur. Aug. 13: "I went to
school and I ditten no enny of my lessons verry well and after school was out
annie and I went down to Mr gilloises withe father to get a load of sand and
glenroy went to get a load of sand to and the men finished cutting the oats up
on the hill and father went after a load of sand in the forenoon and it is a
nice cool day and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning"
Fri. Aug. 14: "I went to school
and ditten no enny of my lessons verry well and after school was out I went
down to argyle and orrie went with me to get eliza and I helped to do the
choirs at night and morning and it is a nice cool day pretty cloudy though and
it rained a little bit and father went after one more load of sand in the
forenoon"
Sat. Aug. 15: "I helped father
and glenroy to fill up the ditch with stone in the forenoon and in the
afternoon I raked oats and uncle Dave raked awhile they took a load in and he helped
to load when they came out and we got them all in but the big hill up here and
they was 9 or 10 loads
& it is a nice pleasent day I went down to prayer meeting and
I helped to do the choirs at night and morning"
Sun. Aug. 16: "I ditten go to
church but emma father and orrie went though and I stayed at home with eliza
and annie and we went down to miss mc Dougalls and glenroys a little while and
I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it is a nice pleasent day
pretty warm though to and I read some in the testament"
Mon. Aug. 17: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry except my arithemitic lesson I ditten no it
verry well and all the men cradled up in the feild up by frank Mc easchons in
the forenoon and in the afternoon they went down uncle Daves to draw in his
oats and after shool was out I went down and helped to rake oats and played
croco with the boys and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm though all
day"
Tues. Aug. 18: "I went to
school and father went up to hartfort to get lime and uncle Dave and glenroy
finished cradelling oats and this was all done in the forenoon and in the
afternoon they men raked the big hill and drawed in to loads and after supper
the men raked and carried them in piles up by frank mc eachrons and it is a
nice pleasent day"
Wed. Aug. 19: "the men drawed
the oats of from the big hill and I helped and and we went up to feild up by
frank mc eachrons and brought down to loads of oats this was done in the
forenoon and in the afternoon we brought down three loads and after supper we
drawed to loads down and I ditten go to school and it is a nice pleasent day
and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning"
Thur. Aug. 20: "I went to
school and we finished drawing oats in the morning and in the morning I went
down to uncle Daves with glenroy to get some rye straw to top out the stack of
oats and in the afternoon father went down to bedlam to get a load of sand and
it is a nice warm day pretty cloudy though and I helped to do the choirs at
night and morning went down to glenroys"
Fri. Aug. 21: "I went to school
and it was the last day of school and we had a nice time and we got some candy
and a card and after school albert and norman and I went up to beatties with
Gramp from school to see a rooster and father and glenroy drawed big stone to
put in the road in the forenoon and in the afternoon pa went down to bedlam to
get a load of sand and it rained some and I helped to do the choirs at night
and morning"
Sat. Aug. 22: "I went over to
grandpas with orrie emma orrie annie and eliza and father took us over to pick
berries and we got 10 or 12 quarts and orrie stayed and at night father came
over after us and father slacked some lime and at night I went down to prayer
meeting with father and it is a nice pleasent day some cloudy though and I
helped to do the choirs at night and morning"
Sun. Aug. 23: "I stayed at home
with emma and father eliza and annie went to church and herd a sermon by Mr
Willy and Joe came up and it is a nice pleasent day some cloudy though to and I
helped to do the choirs at night and morning and I read some in the childs
commentator and I read some in the testament"
Mon. Aug. 24: "I went down to
bill Mc auleys with father and glenroy to get a big flat stone to put under the
sellar door and the macens came and they is three of them and I carried most of
the morter for them and glenroy mixed it and father drawed the stone and it is
a nice pleasent day and father emma and alexander went down to bedlam at night
and I helped to do the choirs"
Tues. Aug. 25: "I carried most
of the morter for them & chris and glenroy mixed it and father drawed the
stone and father and glenroy went down to bill Mc auley to get to more flat
stones and it is a nice pleasent day some cloudy though and I helped to do the
choirs at night and morning and camp meeting comenced and elizas sore finger is
a getting better but it is a thumb"
Wed. Aug. 26: "I carried most
of the morter and glenroy mixed it and father drawed the stone for the macens
and at night they went home and Jim patterson came to make the sellar door
frame and ditten get quiot though and at night pa Jim and I went down to camp
meeting and it is a nice pleasent day some cloudy though and I helped to do the
choirs at night and morning"
Thur. Aug. 27: "I helped to
draw stone and grandpa came over to draw stone and glenroy helped to and father
went down to bedlam to get a load of sand this was done in the forenoon and and
in the afternoon we went down to camp meeting with father and emma but father
went down to argyle and at night we all went down and we seen orrie down to
camp meeting and it is a nice pleasent day and I helped to do the choirs at
night and morning"
Fri. Aug. 28: "I carried some
morter for the masens and glenroy carried the rest of it and mixed the morter
to and pa drawed the stone for them and at night father Jonney alexander and I
went down to camp meeting and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm though most
of the day little bit cloudy to and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning
and george hail ditten come"
Sat. Aug 29: "I carried some
morter and mixed some to and glenroy mixed and carried the rest of it and
father drawed the stone and georg hail ditten come again and it is a nice
pleasent day pretty warm though and I helped to do the choirs at night and
morning and at night the masens went home and at night we all went down to camp
meeting"
Sun. Aug. 30: "I went to church
with father and emma and ditten go into sabbath school and I helped to do the
choirs at night and morning and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm though
and it is a little bit cloudy to and at night father emma and I went down to
camp meeting and elizas sore thumb is a getting some better I believe"
Mon. Aug. 31: "I carried some
morter for the masens and father carried some and glenroy carried the rest of
it and mixed the morter to and father drawed the stone and I helped to do the
choirs at night and morning and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm though
and a little bit cloudy to and at night the men brought the machine to thrash
the oats"
Tues. Sept. 1: "I carried some
morter and mixed some and grandpa came over and he carried some and mixed some
and pa carried and mixed some morter to and pa and grandpa drawed the stone for
them and they thrashed the oats that was in the stack and what was on the barn
flore and they got though and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning
and it is a nice pleasent day"
Wed. Sept. 2: "I carried a
little bit of morter and mixed a little bit and father mixed and carried the
rest of the morter in the forenoon and in the afternoon glenroy mixed and
carried the rest of the morter and father drawed the stone and glenroy drawed
down the straw to his barn in forenoon and it is a nice pleasent day pretty
warm though and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning"
Thur. Sept. 3: "I went down to
uncle Daves to see if we could come up to help us and he mixed and carried the
morter in the forenoon and in the afternoon glenroy done the same and father
and I drawed the stone and in the forenoon glenroy took out the oats and went
up to glens falls to get 6 barrels of lime but he ditten take all of the oats
and at night about it rained some"
Fri. Sept 4: "I helped to do
the choirs at night and morning and glenroy mixed and carried the morter and
father drawed the stone but I helped him some and at noon I went went down to
Mchaffas to tell them their cattle was in our potatoes and buckwheat and I
stopped to uncles Daves when I came back and at night father and Jonney went
down to bedlam and it is a nice pleasent day"
Sat. Sept. 5: "I helped father
to draw some stone not much though and glenroy mixed and carried the morter for
the masen and I hent verry well and at night the masens went home and at night
I ditten go to prayer meeting but father went and it is a nice cool day pretty
cloudy though about all day and I helped to do the choirs at night and
morning"
Sun. Sept. 6: "I stayed at home
with emma and father eliza and annie went to church and I read some in the
testiment and it is a nice warm day pretty cloudy though part of the day and I
helped to do the choirs at night and morning but emma and I went down to
glenroys and had to come back again because the warent at home and elizas sore
thumb is a getting some better"
Mon. Sept. 7: "I mixed and
carried some morter for the masens and father mixed and carried the rest but
glenroy done some in the morning and he had to go down to bedlam to see John S
and he is verry sick and father drawed the stone and but Jonney and george came
and it is a nice pleasent day and they got through before night and they have
got the sellar though and father commenced plowing for rye at night"
Tues. Sept. 8: "I scraped some
of the sellar out and father plowed for rye about all day and at night father
and went down to bedlam to see John S and he is verry sick not expected to live
and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm and I helped to do the choirs at
night and morning and emma and I took the sheep up in that feild by franks and
see the boys"
Wed. Sept. 9: "I ditten do enny
thing hardly and father plowed in the forenoon for rye and in the afternoon
father and emma went down to bedlam to get a plow point and see John S and he
is no better and father went down to argyle to get sill and it is a nice pleasent
day and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning.
Thur. Sept. 10: "I cut some
birdocks and pa plowed part of the day and in the afternoon father and I went
down to bedlam to see John S and he died in the morning and at night I rode
frank over to grandpas to tell them that John S was dead and it is a nice
pleasent day pretty warm though and I helped to do the choirs at night and
morning and I went up to william Davits to take up his scred driver"
Fri. Sept. 11: "I helped father
to clean up the rest of the oats and father emma and I went down to the furnal
and eliza and annie went with grandpas folks and it is a nice pleasent day
pretty warm though and some cloudy to and I helped to do the choirs at night
and morning and father ditten plow enny"
Sat. Sept. 12: "I watched the
men work on the rods and I went up to bill Daves with Bordy a little while to
see the" (unreadable word) "in the forenoon and in the afternoon I
went down to bedlam with pa and father plowed part of the day for rye and it is
a nice pleasent day and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and at
night I went down to prayer meeting with father"
Sun. Sept. 13: "I went to
church with father and emma and I ditten go into
sabbath school and annie and eliza stayed at home and I read some in the the
written word. and it is a nice pleasent day. pretty cloudy, part of the day, to. and
I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and I have had a sore finger for
a week back but it is a getting some better though"
Mon. Sept. 14: "I dug some
potatoes over in the garden and I carried them all to the sellar that I dug in
the forenoon and in the afternoon I went down to bedlam to get the tire set on
the buggy and father finished plowing for rye and it is a nice pleasent day and
I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and father and glenroy trashed
some rye and glenroy dug some potatoes in the forenoon"
Tues. Sept. 15: "father sewed
the rye and I dragged about four acres of it and the carpenters came and framed
out the rest of the timber for the horse barn and at night I went over to grand
pas to tell them to come over to the rasen to morrow and I helped to do the
choirs at night and morning and it is a nice warm day and father and hank went
after the pike poles at night"
Wed. Sept. 16: "I asked rouse
to the rasin and father did to in the forenoon and they raised it in the
afternoon and I helped some to and they ditten get the rafters on to day and I
helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it rained some pretty cloudy
though all day and grandpa grandma and orrie came over and annie went over home
with them and we gave them their supper"
Thur. Sept. 17: "I went down to
uncle Dave in the morning to get him to come up to help to put up the rafters
and the boys came up and we had a nice time and father finished dragging in the
afternoon and I carried boards for the carpenters and it is a pretty cloudy
though about all day and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and
glenroy dug potatoes all day"
Fri. Sept. 18: "I carried
boards for the carpenters about all day and father went out to fort edward to
get a load of lumber and ditten get back till after dark and he left part of
his load to argyle and it rained a little bit pretty cloudy though about all
day and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and my sore finger has
got all well"
Sat. Sept. 19: "I carried
boards for the carpenters about all day and at night they went home and at
night I went down to prayer meeting with father and emma and father went down
to argyle after the rest of the boards in the afternoon and it is a little bit
warm pretty cloudy though most of the day and I helped to do the choirs at
night and mourning"
Sun. Sept. 20: "I ditten go to
church but eliza went and got a ride with grandpa to argyle and she brought
annie home and I read the childs paper through and father emma and I some a
verse about in the testiment and it rained a little bid and it is pretty cloudy
though most of the day and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning and
Mr gilchrist died"
Mon. Sept. 21: "I took the to
old grays down to bedlam to get shawd and and I carried some boards for the
carpenters and they are puting on the sheeting boards and father went to Mr
gilchrists furnal and emma went with him and it is a nice pleasent day and I
helped to do the choirs at night and morning"
Tues. Sept. 22: "I helped
father to draw stone in the forenoon and in the afternoon I helped pa to draw
boards and carry them to and the carpenters has got the sheeting boards on the
foof and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and at night I passied
some apples and it is a nice pleasent day little bit lazzey though pretty warm
to"
Wed. Sept. 23: "I finished
digging my potatoes in the garden and father went out to fort edward to get a
load of lumber and some glass and some nails to and I picked some potatoes for
glenroy and I waited some on the carpenters and I helped to do the choirs at
night and mourning and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm though"
Thur. Sept. 24: "I helped
father to carry up slate for to put on the barn and they are a slateing it and
at night I went down to bedlam with father and Jim went down with us part way
and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning and it is a nice warm day
pretty cloudy though part of the day and they got about one quarter of it done
and father and Jim bought a pair of specks"
Fri. Sept. 25: "I helped father
to carry up some slate and at night John and I went down to Miss McDougalls and
at night father and Jim went down to argyle to get some things for the doors
and Henry rode down home with them and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm
though and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning"
Sat. Sept. 26: "I helped father
to draw som boards and I helped him to carry a few slate and I helped him to
draw over some slate from the barn to the house and at night father took down
Henry home about and I went with him and we went to north argyle to get some
oil and paint and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning and it is a
nice pleasent day pretty warm though"
Sun. Sept. 27: "I stayed home
with annie and father eliza and emma went to church down to argyle and they
herd a sermon by Mr Hearis and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm though
part of the day and a little bid cloudy to and a little bit windy to and I
helped to do the choirs at night and morning and I read some in the
testament"
Mon. Sept. 28: "I helped father
to carry up a few slate and they have got the barn slated now and at night I
went up to Harvey Reynolds to get a painting brush to paint round and I went
down to uncle Daves to get our bags and at night John Henry and I went down to glenroys and
Henry cut his hair and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it is
a nice pleasent day pretty warm though"
Tues. Sept. 29: "I picked quiet
a lot of apples and emma helped me and they for the hogs and pigs and father
went out to fort edward to get a nother load of lumber and in the afternoon
grandma and orrie came over and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning
and it rained a lot pretty cloudy though all day about pretty cool to part of
the day"
Wed. Sept. 30: "I helped father
to cut his corn in the afternoon and we got it all cut and mr hail came and
done some work for pa and he got all though in the forenoon and I helped the
carpenters to lay flore up stairs and I helped to do the choirs at night and
morning and it rained quiet a lot pretty cloudy though about all day pretty
cool to and I carried most of the bick for the masen"
Thur. Oct. 1: "I helped to do
the choirs at night and morning and I helped father to level out the sellar and
henry helped to and John and Jim is a makeing window frames and it is a pretty
cold day pretty cloudy though about all day and glenroy is a digging late rare
potatoes over in that field where the little hay barn is and he has got a hired
man"
Fri. Oct. 2: "I helped father
and henry to lay some flore in the forenoon and in the afternoon we commenced
digging some potatoes and we had a thunder shower to and at night father and I
went down to bedlam and when we came back along we stopped to Jay barkleys saw mill to get a load
of saw dust and I helped to do the choirs in the morning"
Sat. Oct. 3: "I helped father
to pick and dig potatoes up on the hill in the forenoon and in the afternoon we
drawed 2 loads of earleyrare over from that feild wher the little hay barn is
and henry helped father to all day and we upset the last load and at night I
went down to prayer meeting with father and it is a nice cool day and I helped
to do the choirs at night and morning"
Sun. Oct. 4: "I went to church
with father and emma and herd a sermon by Mr wiley and eliza and annie stayed
at home and kep house and it is a nice cool day pretty cloudy though most of the
day and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and I read some in the
testiment and at night I herd or asked the questions"
Mon. Oct. 5: "I helped father
to dig potatoes about all day and pick to and we dug about 80 bu and henry
helped pa all day to and pa and henry went over yonder and got about 29 bu of
earley rare about night and it is a nice pleasent day but it is a little bit
cloudy though and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and at night I
watched John and henry paint some winder sash"
Tues. Oct. 6: "I helped father
to dig and pick potatoes about all day and emma and annie picked up in the
afternoon and henry helped pa all day and we dug 80 bu and we got one load from
over yonder about night and it is a nice cool day pretty cloudy though most all
of the day and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and glenroy is a
digging six potatoes all of the time I
believe now"
Wed. Oct. 7: "I helped father
to dig potatoes in the afternoon and henry helped father all day and albert and
norman came up in the forenoon and we had a nice time and father and I went up
and brought down the calfs and put them in the long feild and it is pretty
cloudy and it rained some to and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning
and at night John and Jim went home"
Thur. Oct. 8: "I helped father
to dig potatoes about all day and pick to and emma helped to and annie and
henry helped pa all day and Jim and John ditten come back and we dug to loads
of potatoes up on the hill and we drawed 2 or 3 loads from over younder and I
helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it rained a little bit in the
morning and it is a nice warm day pretty cloudy though"
Fri. Oct. 9: "I helped father
to draw to loads from over yonder in the afternoon and henry went down home and
James and John ditten come back again and father and I went down to bedlam to
get a horse shawd and father and I went down to Jay barkleys to get a nother
load of saw dust and it rained a lot and I helped to do the choirs at night and
morning"
Sat. Oct. 10: "I helped father
dig and pick potatoes about all day and I helped him to draw oer one load of
potatoes from over yonder and henry helped pa all day and he painted the
sash over again and it rained quiet a lot pretty cloudy about all day and cool
to and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and John and Jim ditten
come back again"
Sun. Oct. 11: "I stayed at home
with emma and father eliza and annie went to church and at night they was
meeting down to the school house and we all went down and I read a little bit
in the testament and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it
rained a little bit some cloudy to and it is a nice cool day"
Mon. Oct. 12: "I helped father
to draw one load of laterrose from over yonder and I went oer to get two loads
of sixes and i helped to pick them up and henry ditten come back but John and
James did and and pa picked some apples and it rained some pretty cloudy most
of the day pretty cool to and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning"
Tues. Oct. 13: "I drawed over
four loads of sixes potatoes from over yonder and they was 30 bushels in a load
and I helped father to pick a few apples and pa and henry picked apples most
all day and at night we all went down to school meeting and pa got the
trusttees frpart" (?) " and it a cool day
and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning"
Wed. Oct. 14: "I and henry
picked apples about all day and we picked 61 bushels and father took out a load
of potatoes and brought back a few boards and they was one school teacher here
to see if she could get the school and I helped to do the choirs at night and
morning and it is a nice cool day pretty cloudy though most of the day and pa
brought oer one of earley rare from over yonder"
Thur. Oct. 15: "I helped to dig
and pick potatoes most of the day and and we got through up on the hill and we
dug down in the orchard a few and glenroy helped us in the afternoon and henry
helped pa all day and it is a nice pleasent day some cool and I helped to do
the choirs a night and morning and in the morning henry and I went down to
uncle daves to get the cows got out"
Fri. Oct. 16: "henry and I
picked apples about all day and I picked up of the ground 8 bushels to sell for
pie apples and henry picked 45 bushels and pa went out to fort edward and took
a load of potatoes and brought back a few boards and I helped to do the choirs
at night and morning and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm though in the
midle of the day"
Sat. Oct. 17: "I helped henry
to draw over to loads of laterose potatoes from over yonder and uncle John C
and norman came up to get a barrel of apples and at night pa payed up henry and
let him go and henry helped glenroy to draw in the buckwheat and pa and I dug a
few potatoes and picked a few apples and it is a nice warm day and I helped to
do the choirs at night and morning"
Sun. Oct. 18: "I stayed at home
with father and annie and eliza went over to the cross road and got a ride with
grandpas folks and last friday emma went over to grandpas and she came home
with eliza and I read some in the mesenger and some in the testament and I read
the childs paper through and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and
it is pretty cloudy all day"
Mon. Oct. 19: "I went down to
the school house where buch and henry was a working in the afternoon and father
took a load of potatoes out to fort edward and brought back a little load of
lumber and I put on a little of feed and it is a pretty cloudy about all day
pretty cold to and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and emma
annie and I went a chestnuting"
Tues. Oct. 20: "I helped father
to load up a load of potatoes and we had to draw over to loads from over yonder
and to parts of loads would make one big load and I went down to the school
house again to see beach and henry and pa went out to fort edward with a load
of potatoes and brought back a few plank and wiley came up to paint and it is a
nice day and I helped to do the choirs"
Wed. Oct. 21: "I helped father
to dig potatoes and pick apples in the forenoon and I helped pa to pick up the
potatoes and to draw over one load of potatoes from over yonder and one load of
pumkens and at noon I went over to Dock kinneys to tell him that his cows was
in our potatoe feild and pattersons boys came back to work and willey painted
in the afternoon and it is a nice day and I helped to do the choirs"
Thur. Oct. 22: "I dug potatoes
about all of the day and emma helped to pick up in the afternoon and I have
every fourth bushel for digging them and pa went out to fort edward with a load
of potatoes and brought back some lumber for the school house and willey
painted all day about and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm and I helped to
do the choirs at night and morning"
Fri. Oct. 23: "I finished
digging our potatoes over we have got all done digging potatoes and father and
emma went out to fort edward and took a load of potatoes and brought back part
a load of lumber and will painted about all day and he has got one coat on and
commenced the other and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it
is a nice pleasent day pretty warm though in the midle of the day"
Sat. Oct. 24: "I helped glenroy
to draw corn and stocks and pa did to in the forenoon and we drawed ours in to
and we drawed one load of husked corn and will painted about all day and Jim
and John got about through and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning
and it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm to in the midle of the day and orrie
and grandpa came over and orrie stayed over"
Sun. Oct. 25: "I went to church
with father and eliza and we herd a sermon by Mr wiley and emma orrie and annie
stayed at home and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it is a
nice pleasent day pretty warm though in the midle of the day pretty hazey to
most of the day"
Mon. Oct. 26: "I helped pa to
draw over to loads of sixes potatoes in the forenoon and in the afternoon I
helped pa to draw down the good and bad corn and we took down some hemlock
boards down to the school house and to draw over one more pile of laterose from
over yonder and John & Jim came back and finished up and it is a nice day
and I helped to do the choirs"
Tues. Oct. 27: "I husked some
pop and sweet corn and father took out a load of potatoes to the fort and
brought back some plank and will painted about all day and him and I went down
to the school house to mak some slide doors for the bin and I helped to do the
choirs at night and morning and it is a nice warm day pretty cloudy though most
of the day"
Wed. Oct. 28: "I watched will
paint part of the day and he painted about all day and father went out to fort
edward and took out a load of potatoes and brought back the oil and paint to
paint the school house inside and out side and I went down to the school house
and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and it is a nice warm
day"
Thur. Oct. 29: "I helped to
draw over to part of loads and they woulden make put a little more than one big
load and pa and annie went out to the fort and took the load of potatoes and I
went down to the school house with albert and norman to and and I helped to do
the choirs at night and morning and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cloudy and
will is a painting the school house"
Fri. Oct. 30: "I helped father
to pick apples in the forenoon and in the afternoon we picked the sider apples
and pa and I went down to the choolhouse at noon and I helped to do the choirs
at night and mourning and it is a nice cool day put it is pretty cloudy most of
the day pretty windy to most of the day"
Sat. Oct. 31: "I went down to
the school house twice and father and glenroy drawed corn stocks in the
forenoon and in the afternoon pa and I drawed to loads of pumkens down to the
house and we plowed and scraped a little and bill mc millen came after some
apples and it is pretty cold and cloudy and I helped to do the choirs"
Sun. Nov. 1: "I stayed at home
with father and annie and emma and yesterday eliza went down to argyle and she
came back with grandpas folks part way and they was all well and it is a pretty
cold day and it stromed a little bit pretty cloudy though to and I helped to do
the choirs at night and morning"
Mon. Nov. 2: "I went out to
fort edward with father and we took out a load of earley rose potatoes and I
got a pair of gloves and will came up to the chool house to paint and I helped
to do the choirs in the morning and ditten at night and it is a pretty cold day
and it is pretty cloudy to most of the day"
Tues. Nov. 3: "I helped father
to load up a load of potatoes at he came home and he went out to the fort with
a nother load of earley rose potatoes at 56 cents a bushel and I went down to
the chool house twice and will went down to argyle in the afternoon and it is a
nice pleasent day and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning"
Wed. Nov. 4: "I helped father
to load up a load of potatoes at night and I went down to the school house to
see will to paint and pa went out to the fort with a nother load of earley rose
potatoes at the same and it is a nice pleasent day and I helped to do the choirs
at night and morning"
Thur. Nov. 5: "I helped to load
up a nother load of potatoes and pa went out to the fort with a nother load of
earley rose potatoes and I went down to the school house twice to see will
paint and it is a nice pleasent day some warm to but it is a little bit hazzy
though and smokey and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning"
Fri. Nov. 6: "I went out to the
fort with pa part way and glenroy and pa took out a load of sixes and glenroy
took out a load of laterose potatoes for pa and and after pa and I came home he
went down to bedlam to get the sider and after glen came home him and I loaded
up his load and it is a windy day and I helped to do the choirs"
Sat. Nov. 7: "I helped to load
up at night and morning and they both took out a load of river and will got
though painting down to the school house and up here to and it is a nice
pleasent day pretty warm though and I helped to do the choirs at night and
morning and we boiled sider all day about I believe"
Sun. Nov. 8: "I stayed at home
and we ditten go to church and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning
and it is pretty cold and hazzey to and I read some in the comentator and I
read the childs paper through"
Mon. Nov. 9: "I went out to the
fort with father and we took out a load of sixes potatoes and it rained quiet a
lot pretty cloudy to and I helped to do the choirs at night and morning and
glenroy ditten take a load for us but he took a load for uncle tom H"
Tues. Nov. 10: "I helped to
load up in the morning the to loads and pa took laterose and glen took a load
of sixes potatoes and charley brought over his bull and we had a nice time and
it is a nice pleasent day pretty warm though part of the day and I helped to do
the choirs at night and morning"
Wed. Nov. 11: "I helped to do
the choirs at night and morning and the men killed the hogs and grandpa came
over to help and we finished husking our corn and we helped glen some and I
went down to uncle daves and it is a nice cool and windy day little cloudy and
I went down to glenroys twice"
Thur. Nov. 12: "I went out to
the fort with father and we took out the hogs and they was four of them and we
got 9½ Dollars for them and we got emma a pair of shoes and rubbers to wear
over the shoes and at night father and I went up to harve Reynolds and I helped
to do the choirs at night and mourning and it is a nice clear and windy
day"
Fri. Nov. 13: "I went out to
the fort with father and we took out a load of laterose potatoes and got 50
cents and our dinner and we got me a pair of rubbers to wear over my fine boots
and I helped to load up in the morning and glen husked and it is a pretty cold
day and cloudy and I helped to do the choirs"
Sat. Nov. 14: "I helped glenroy
to draw corn part of the day and they was about 100 bushels and I helped to
load up in the forenoon and pa went out to the fort again with a nother load of
laterose potatoes and I went up to Harves reynolds to get a book and it is a
nice day and I helped to do the choirs"
Sun. Nov. 15: "I went to church
with father and emma and we hered a sermon by Mr wiley and they are makeing out
a call for him and eliza and annie stayed at home and it is a pretty cloudy day
and it snowed a little bit not much though and I helped to do the choirs at
night and morning
Harvey
Williamsons Book"
Mon. Nov. 16: "I helped to load
up in the morning and father went with a nother load of laterose potatoes and I
went down to glenroys to help him put up a shed for his cow and hens and he
helped us load up and it it is a nice pleasent day and at night I rote a school
bill and I helped to do choirs at night and mourning:
Tues. Nov. 17: "I helped to do
the choirs at night and mourning and I helped pa to sort some apples to take
away and I went down to bedlam with father and it is a pretty cloudy day and
warm and it rained a little bit not much though and I went down to glenroys to
help him but his stocks up in the barn"
Wed. Nov. 18: "I Helped to load
up in the mourning and I went out to the fort with pa and we took out A load of
apples and glen took out a load of potatoes and I am a little sick and at night
they was school meeting and I ditten go but pa went and it is a pretty cool day
and I helped to do the choirs"
Thur. Nov. 19: "I helped to
load up in the mourning to loads pas load and glenroys load to and I ditten go
to the fort with them and uncle Daves folks came and I had a nice time with the
boys and I am about well and am a getting over my cold and it is a pretty cool
day and I helped to do the choirs at night"
Fri. Nov. 20: "I Helped to do
the choirs at night and mourning and I helped to load up in the mourning and pa
went with one load of sixes potatoes and I went down to glenroys to help to
move the stove in to the seting room and Jennie Beattie came up and it snowed 4
or 5 inches deep and it is pretty cloudy all day and glenroy helped to load
up"
Sat. Nov. 21: "I helped father
to draw apples on the handslay down in to the new sellar in the forenoon and in
the Afternoon I went down to bedlam with pa and we took down a little grist
down to the mill and it is some cloudy and it is some warm and some chilley to
and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning"
Sun. Nov. 22: "I stayed at home
with emma and father eliza and annie went to church with a slay and frank horse
and they herd a sermon by Mr cain and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cloudy
though part of the day and some cold to and I helped to do the choirs at night
and mourning and the snow stays on yet"
Mon. Nov. 23: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons very well and it was the first day of school and
orrie came over and we all went to school and grandpa brought her over and I helped
to do the choirs at night and mourning and it rained quiet a lot and it snowed
some in the morning and it is a pretty cloudy day"
Tues. Nov. 24: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well and it is petty cold and windy to
and it snowed a little bit not much though and I helped to do the choirs at
night and mourning and pa and glenroy plowed and scraped some and filled up so
or we could drive in"
Wed. Nov. 25: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well and father went down to bedlam to get a
horse shawd and he got me a suit of clothes to wear to church and I helped to
do the choirs at night and mourning and it is a pretty cloudy day and it snowed
a little bit and a little bit cold to"
Thur. Nov. 26: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well and uncle alex came and aunt kate
came up and they stayed after night and we all came for our dinners and pa and
glenroy drawed the rest of the in to the horse barn in the forenoon and I went
down to glenroys and it is a nice pleasent day and I helped to do the
choirs"
Fri. Nov. 27: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten no it
verry well and pa went over to grandpas to help to kill pigs and in the
afternoon pa went down to argyle and he got a geography and it it a nice
pleasent day thawing and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning"
Sat. Nov. 28: "I stayed at home
with orrie and annie in the afternoon and pa eliza and emma went to church and
I helped pa to draw down a barrel of apples to mr wiggens and we drawed it on
the handslay and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning and it is a
nice warm day thawing to and it is some cloudy part of the day"
Sun. Nov. 29: "I went to church
with father and eliza orrie emma and annie stayed at home and it was sakament
sabbath and I read some in the tesiment and I helped to do the choirs at night
and mourning and it rained in the mourning and took the snow about all off and
in a little while after noon more snow came on and it pretty cloudy day"
Mon. Nov. 30: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson and pa went
down to uncle Daves to help to kill a hog and a bull in the forenoon and in the
afternoon pa went down to argyle and got a bell for the school house and orrie
hent verry well and it is a
pretty cold day and I helped to do the choirs"
Tues. Dec. 1: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten no it
verry well and father went down to bedlam to livery shawd and it is pretty cloudy part of
the day and it snowed some and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning
and glenroy trashed part of the day oats"
Wed. Dec. 2: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons very well and father went out to the fourt with a
load of apples at to Dollars a barrel and at night I went down to uncle Daves
with pa to get some beef and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning
and it is a nice warm day thawing some"
Thur. Dec. 3: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten no it
verry well and glenroy and pa drove the little cream colt for the first and
drove it down to bedlam and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning and
it is a thawing and it pretty cloudy to most all day"
Fri. Dec. 4: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well and I came home at noon and uncle John C
came up and the folks to and fred came to and we had a lot of fun and uncle
John C and pa hitched up and they went down to argyle in the forenoon and I
helped to do the the choirs at night and mourning it is a nice cool day"
Sat. Dec. 5: "I went down to
argyle and I took down eliza and annie and annie came back with and eliza
ditten and I took a small grist and I helped pa to bank the house and I helped
to do the choirs at night and mourning and it is a pretty cool day and it is pretty
cloudy most of the day and pa orrie and emma stayed at home"
Sun. Dec. 6: "I stayed at home
with emma and father orrie and annie went to church and they herd a sermon by
Mr wiley and eliza came home and I helped to do the choirs at night and
mourning and I read some in the childs paper and I read some in the testiment
and it snowed some and it is pretty cloudy about all day"
Mon. Dec. 7: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten no it
verry well and cut some apple trees in the orchard and I helped to do the
choirs at night and mourning and it is pretty cloudy cloudy and it is pretty foggy to most of the day
and it soft and mild"
Tues. Dec. 8: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons very well except my spelling lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning and it is a
pretty cloudy day and it snowed some and it is some cold and mr wiley came here
and stayed a little while and pa helped to kill glens hogs and bull"
Wed. Dec. 9: "I helped to do
the choirs at night and mourning and I went to school and learned all my
lessons verry well and father went down to argyle and took a little grist and
the clock and glenroy thrashed rye most of the day for pa and it is pretty cool
day and it is pretty cloudy to"
Thur. Dec. 10: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons very well except my spelling lesson I ditten
no it verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning and glenroy trashed
all day rye and it is a nice cool day and it is pretty cloudy most of the day
and at night I done some examples"
Fri. Dec. 11: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and uncle tom H came over and the folks to and charley and I had a
lot of fun and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning and it is a nice
cool day pretty cloudy most of the day glenroy trashed in the forenoon"
Sat. Dec. 12: "I went out to
fort edward with father and we took out 8 barls of apples and 3 of peachblow
potatoes and and we ditten get back till after dark and glenroy trashed rye all
day and I helped to do the choirs in the mourning and I ditten helped to do
them at night and it is a pretty cloudy day and cool"
Sun. Dec. 13: "I went to church
with father and emma and we heard a sermon by Mr wiley and I went in to sabbath
school and eliza orrie and annie stayed at home and I read some in the Bible
and it is a pretty cloudy day and it snowed a little bit all day bout and it is
a little bit cold and I helped to do the choirs at night mourning"
Mon. Dec. 14: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning and pa went down
to bedlam in the afternoon and it is a windy and cold day and it snowed a
little and it is a drifting quiet a lot"
Tues. Dec. 15: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I
ditten no it very well and pa he helped glenroy to clean up the rye and they
was 57 or 58 bus and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning and it is
a nice pleasent day and at night I went down to singing school"
Wed. Dec. 16: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night
and mourning and it is a nice pleasent day and warm in the midle of the day and
pa went down to bedlam to get a horse shawd and at night father and I helped
glenroy to clean up 8 bus of buckwheat"
Thur. Dec. 17: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I
ditten no it verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning and
it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold and it snowed some and pa and emma went
down to argyle and pa took a grist and emma got earrings and pa got a
monnenter"
Fri. Dec. 18: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning and it is a nice
pleasent day and some cold and pa went over to grandpas in the forenoon and at
night I went down to prayer meeting with father emma and orrie"
Sat. Dec. 19: "I helped father
to cut some wood in the forenoon and in the afternoon I went down to bedlam
with father and I got a rule and a pair of slippers to wear nights and helped
to cut some wood to and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning and it
is a nice warm day pretty cloudy though and it is moderating"
Sun. Dec. 20: "I stayed at home
with emma and father eliza annie and orrie went to church and they herd a
sermon by mr wiley and I read some in the testiment and I helped to do the
choirs at night and mourning and it is a nice warm day and it is a little bit
cloudy and it is a moderrateing some for a storm"
Mon. Dec. 21: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning and it is a nice
pleasent day pretty cool though most of the day and glenroy thrashed oats all
day and Harry Beattie traded heifer with frank auley"
Tues. Dec. 22: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well and father went down to argyle and
he took down a small grist and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning
and it is a pretty cloudy most all day and it snowed some and at night I went
down to singing school and they warent none"
Wed. Dec. 23: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten no it
verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning and father went
out to fort edward and it is a nice pleasent day and pretty warm to and emma
McDougall came up at night and the teacher to"
Thur. Dec. 24: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten
no it very well and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning and it is a
nice and pleasent part of the day and pretty cold to part of the day and pa
took emma and martha lib home in the afternoon"
Fri. Dec. 25: "I went over to
grand pas with father annie orrie and eliza and we had a turkey for dinner and
we had a nice dinner and uncle John was over to and we had a nice time and I
helped to do the choirs at night and mourning and it is a nice pleasent day
pretty cool to most of the day and at night I went down to prayer meeting with
father"
Sat. Dec. 26: "I helped father
to draw some wood in the forenoon and in the afternoon I helped him to cut some
wood and at night I helped to do the choirs and mourning to and at night I
helped father and glenroy to clean up some oats 62 bus and yesterday mourning
we got a quiet a lot of presents and it is a nice day pretty cloudy
though"
Sun. Dec. 27: "I went to church
with father and orrie and annie and eliza stayed at home and kep house we herd
a sermon by Mr Mc kenzey and I read some in the testiment and it is a nice
pleasent day and it is a thawing to considerable and it is warm and I helped to
do the choirs at night and mourning"
Mon. Dec. 28: "I went to school
and learned all my lessons verry well except my geography and spelling lessons
I ditten no them verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning
and it rained quiet a lot and it is verry soft and mild thawing warm to and in
the afternoon pa came down to school"
Tues. Dec. 29: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten
no it very well and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning and pa
killed the pigs and the old cow and uncle Dave and glenroy helped to and it is
a pretty windy and cloudy day and icey and orrie stayed at home"
Wed. Dec. 30: "I went to school
and learned al my lessons verry well except my geography and spelling lesson I
ditten no them verry well and I helped to do the choirs at night and mourning
and father went out to the fort and took out one pig and glenroy trashed oats
all day and it is pretty windy and cold day and cloudy to some"
Thur. Dec. 31: "I went to
school and learned all my lessons verry well except my spelling lesson I ditten
no it verry well and it is a nice pleasent day pretty cold though and at night
I went down to uncle Daves and stayed all night and I helped to do the choirs
at mourning and ditten at night and glenroy trashed oats al day"
MEMORANDA:
"
Mr alexander beveridge died june the 2 my sister Jennie Williamson Died July 2
Augest the
11 1874 Mr curthpart Died sept 9th
1874 my cousin John S Williamson died
sept 20th 1874 Mr gilchirst died"