January 1, 1895 - Tuesday.  Rainy.  Howard Graham came down in the morning  and Mrs Blaikie went up with him for her New Years.  Morrison and Charles Proven were working at the school house all the afternoon.  The Congregational Meeting was to have been tonight, but it was too rainy.  Had the tooth-ache.

January 2, 1895 - Wednesday.  Fine day.  Colder.  We put the clothes out again.  H.H. Ogilvie here to dinner.  Had the tooth-ache all day.  They went up to the school-house again tonight but there wasn't any meeting.

January 3 , 1895- Thursday.  A fine day.  Had the tooth-ache again today.  The Annual Congregational Meeting was tonight.  D.M. and Bub were there.  Minnie Deyarmond and G. Fraser were married today. 

January 4, 1895 - Friday.  Snowing most of the day.  John Brown here to dinner.  Dan Bentley had a grist here too.  We baked bread and fried twist-cakes today.

January 5, 1895 - Saturday.  A little snow and a good lot of cold.  Woodbury and How Graham called this morning.  Howard went after Bessie this afternoon.  We baked pies this afternoon, cleared the front room this forenoon.

January 6, 1895 - Sabbath.  Rather cloudy.  Quite a lot of snow on the ground.  No preaching or Sabbath School.  Bessie came back in the afternoon.  How came too.  He had brought her over last night.

January 7 , 1895- Monday.  Soft and wet underfoot.  We didn't wash as the clothes wouldn't dry.  Baked some cakes.  Mrs A. Johnson and Almon were down to spend the evening.  Almon came home last Friday.

January 8, 1895 - Tuesday. Something like yesterday.  We didn't wash today either.  Mrs B.'s back troubled her.  Mr and Mrs S.G. Tupper and two children of New Glasgow and E. Laws were here to dinner.  Wood Graham here to spend the evening.  T. Deyarmond brought up a grist, also a bundle of dry goods for me. 

January 9, 1895 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  D.M. took Bessie up to school, and Aunt Anne and Eva came back with him.  Eva got the pung to go to the Village.  Aunt Anne stayed and worked at Mrs B.'s dress.  When Eva came back , she brought us some things we had sent for.  Cy brought the teacher home.  I drove Eva up.  John Deyarmond began to work here.

January 10, 1895 - Thursday.  Quite fine.  We washed.  Washed the kitchen and pantry today.  Smith Fulton here to dinner.

January 11, 1895 - Friday.  Rather soft.  Raining tonight.  I took Bessie up this morning;  took Alden too.  Emily, (Mrs T. Blanchard), was here to spend the afternoon. Uncle Sam, who had been down attending Session, had tea here too. 

January 12, 1895 - Saturday.  Soft.  Rather drizzly tonight.  Bessie washed this forenoon.  Mrs B. was up to W.F.M.S. this afternoon.  I fried some doughnuts.  J.W., Allen, Emma, Berta and Ethel  Deyarmond were here this evening; also W. Wilson and P.S. Hamilton.

January 13, 1895 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine but not sunshine.  Preaching in the afternoon.  D.M., Alden, Glenn, Mrs B., and I at home.  The sleighing is almost done.

January 14, 1895 - Monday.  Pretty fine today.  Thunder and lightning last night, also some pretty heavy showers.  We didn't wash today.  I baked a stirred cake, and finished , or rather fixed over , Roy's pants.  They (the men folk) built a water-closet and cleaned out the hen house.  Roy began school again today.  Bessie is over to Ned's tonight.

January 15, 1895 - Tuesday.  Dark, but warm for the time of year.  Colder tonight.  We did not wash today either.  Made a pair of pants for Alden.

January 16, 1895 - Wednesday.  Rather a fine day.  John went home.  We washed today.  Had a late dinner.  D.M. away all day.  Dora Fulton called.  Ira Dean got the drag-saw today. Bessie is down to P.S. Hamilton's tonight.   Cy, Angus, Olin Graham, and C. Proven here this evening.  James McCaffrey died this morning - paralysis.

January 17, 1895 - Thursday.  Rather a soft day.  Roy's sixth birthday.  Bub went to Truro today.  John set him up to the mile range.   Roy didn't go to school.  Guess he will stop.

January 18, 1895 - Friday.  Pretty fine.  After dinner John started after Bub but they didn't get home until after eleven at night. Bub did not come up on the noon train.  He got his business fixed satisfactorily, I guess.

January 19, 1895 - Saturday.  Colder, but quite fine.  We were late getting up this morning, and late all day.  John was here working.  We baked bread this afternoon and doughnuts tonight.  Quite a crowd here this evening; Alice Proven and Mrs Samuel Deyarmond among them.

January 20, 1895 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  No preaching or Sabbath School.  Fos came home last night.

January 21, 1895 - Monday.  Another fine day.  We washed, and I washed the pantry and all the rest.

January 22, 1895 - Tuesday.  Not so fine as yesterday.  We churned and ironed today.  I finished my night-dress today.  Doctor Cox called and fixed Bessie's ankle tonight.   Morrison was down to the Village this forenoon.  P.S. Hamilton here this evening.

January 23, 1895 - Wednesday.  Rather soft today.  Rain and hail last night.  Not much going on.  Lew Fulton, James Graham, and Enoch Fulton hauling logs to the mill.  Baked ginger snaps this afternoon.  I drove up after Bessie tonight  - also baked.

January 24, 1895 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Made a bed-valance today.  Also we washed a few articles and baked bread.  Mr Vans, the evangilist, was at the school-house this afternoon at three o'clock.  Mrs B., Bub and John were up.  Bessie was at school, of course.  P.S. Hamilton brought us a bushel of turnips today.

January 25, 1895 - Friday.  Colder than common but pretty fine.   Finished making my drawers today.   Ezra Miller here to dinner.  Howard Graham. Geordie MacKay, and Liss Graham were here this evening.  Liss is staying all night. 

January 26, 1895 - Saturday.  Quite stormy.  Drifting and rough at night.  Johnnie Deyarmond drove Liss and Bessie up to Mr C. Graham's this morning.  We ironed and baked doughnuts today.

January 27, 1895 - Sabbath.  Some snow squalls.  Mr Vans was up to preaching with Mr Fraser.  Mrs B., Bub  and Roy were up.  Bessie came back with them.  . 

January 28, 1895 - Monday. Snow squalls.  Some sunshine.  We washed this forenoon; Bub and D.M. carried the water.  John was not here today.Herb Higgins and How Graham here tonight.

January 29, 1895 - Tuesday.  Quite a fine day.  John Deyarmond here today.  We were making clothes for Glenn and Darby today.  C. Proven and Bessie had a Musical tonight.  How Graham went to North River.  Herbt. Higgins was getting school-wood.

January 30, 1895 - Wednesday.  Some snow flying and some sunshine.  We ironed the clothes this forenoon.  There was a meeting at the school house at half past two.  Mr Vans was there.  Mrs B., Bub and Alden went.  Also John.  I baked a little cake, and stewed some apples.  Mrs B. is making pillow cases.  She sent down to the Village with Aunt Anne. 

January 31, 1895 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Mrs B. took Bessie up to school.  There was service in the school house at half past two.  Roy and Mrs B. were there.

February 1, 1895 - Friday.  Another fine day.  Mrs B. and Alden took Bessie to school.  We baked doughnuts today, also sewed at Ida's chemise.  George Tupper here to dinner.  P.S. Hamilton called tonight.

February 2, 1895 - Saturday.  Fine.  Not very cold.  Baby was born this morning about seven o'clock.  Aunt Anne was here all day.  Libbie Graham came at night.

February 3, 1895 - Sabbath.  Another fine day.  Was service in the school house.  Mr Vans was up with Mr Fraser.

February 4, 1895 - Monday.  Fine.  Bub went to Riversdale with Bessie.  Bub got home about four o'clock.  Was pretty frosty this morning but got warmer towards night.  Looks like snow.

February 5, 1895 - Tuesday.  Quite a snow storm last night.  Still snowing tonight.  James A. Graham and P.S. Hamilton were in this afternoon. for a while.

February 6, 1895 - Wednesday.  Still snowing.  They sawed a little.

February 7, 1895 - Thursday.  Pretty fine.  Libbie washed.  Had a big wash.  They were breaking out the roads.  Herb Higgins came home.  Laura stayed in Musquodoboit, it was so stormy.

February 8, 1895 - Friday.  Stormy again.  They brought in the clothes and Lib ironed today.

February 9, 1895 - Saturday.  Rather stormy.  Had a letter from A.M.A.  James W. Deyarmond here this evening.  He got some pork.

February 10, 1895 - Sabbath.  Not very fine.  There was to have been service in the school-house today, but as it was so stormy, of course, there wasn't any.

February 11, 1895 - Monday.  Still snowy and drifting.  Herb Higgins waded down this forenoon.  They intended breaking out the roads, but didn't as it wasn't any use on account of the drifting and snowing.  I got up today but they wouldn't let me go down stairs.  I sewed some and knit some.  Morrison was up to C. Proven's after some tea.  He had quite a wade in the snow banks.

February 12, 1895 - Tuesday.  A lovely fine day.  D.M. and Bub were at J.W. Deyarmond's for dinner, as they were breaking out roads.  The roads were pretty badly drifted.  I went down stairs for my dinner today.  Knit quite a lot of lace.

February 13, 1895 - Wednesday.  Rather fine until toward night when it began to storm.  Dennie and Duncan here to dinner.  Libbie and Mrs B. put down the mats in the front room.

February 14, 1895 - Thursday.  Pretty fine.  D.M. was down along - at the Corner etc.  Colin Johnson and Mr Higgins here to dinner.  J.W. Deyarmond, C. Proven, Cy and Max Graham here a little while.  Libbie washed Bub's and our bedroom.

February 15, 1895 - Friday.  Squally with glints of sunshine.  Libbie and Mrs B. washed and put out the clothes.

February 16, 1895 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Libbie ironed and swept.  Lyman Johnson and Wilbert Fulton called.  Wrote to Fos, Ede and Miss Nelson.  Rate Rolls put up.

February 17, 1895 - Sabbath.  Another fine day.  Sacrament put off until first Sabbath in March.   Roads too bad to admit of many going down to church.

February 18, 1895 - Monday.  Still fine.  P.S. Hamilton and J.W. Deyarmond called this morning.  Ernie Higgins in after tea to get the loan of the wash-board.  Libbie swept the chamber and front room.  I fixed my old woolen dress and patched D.M.'s large socks.

February 19, 1895 - Tuesday.  Rather dark and a little snowy.  Libbie washed the floor this forenoon.  Eva and Olin were here in the afternoon. Mr and Mrs Higgins were here this evening and to tea.  I about finished my lampmat.

February 20, 1895 - Wednesday.  Pretty stormy, especially this afternoon.  Aunt Sarah and Lucy were down to the Village, and they called here and got their dinner.

February 21, 1895 - Thursday.  Pretty fine.  They, or rather Libbie, washed today.  Alice Proven, Annie Crockett and Jennie Crockett called this afternoon.  Mr Robert Creelman,  H.H. Ogilvie and F.F. Creelman here with grists.  There was Y.S.C.E. Convention down at the church today, but none of us were there.  Bub out to Lowery Brook.

February 22, 1895 - Friday.  Stormy; but about over tonight. D.M. away trying to collect some money for school.  Bub hauled two loads of manure out to Lowery Brook.  Baby had the colic badly tonight.  Made a cap for her today.

February 23, 1895- Saturday.  Cold, but a fineday.  Libbie went home tonight.

February 24, 1895- Sabbath.  Fine but cold.  All went to preaching except Mr B., Glenn, Baby and I.  Not many teams there on account of bad roads.

February 25, 1895- Monday.  A fine day.  Herb Higgins called this forenoon.  Bub hauling manure out to Lowery Brook.  Not much of anything doing.

February 26, 1895 - Tuesday.  Soft.  Snowing and blowing tonight.  P.S. Hamilton here to dinner.   He is rigging up to go to Brookfield for our stuff tomorrow. 

February 27, 1895 - Wednesday.  Pretty fine and not much sunshine.  Libbie came down to wash today.  She and I washed in the afternoon but did not put the white clothes out.   Uncle Charlie was here to dinner.  We baked a frosted cake for Mrs Hamilton's birthday party tomorrow.

February 28, 1895 - Thursday.  A fine day, but cold.  P.S. Hamilton went last night to Brookfield after Bessie.  Mrs B. went down to the Birthday party at Mrs Hamilton's.  She is eighty.  Mr and Mrs C. Graham, Mrs C.E. Graham and Freddie, Mrs James A. Graham and Lois, Mrs Crockett, Miss Alice Proven, Mrs S. Deyarmond, Mrs MacKay and Hugh  and Mrs Blaikie.

March 1, 1895 - Friday.  A pretty fine day.  Little Becky called.

March 2, 1895 - Saturday.  Rather soft.  Snowing tonight.  None of us at church.  Herb Higgins called this morning.

March 3, 1895 - Sabbath.  Quite fine.  Mrs Blaikie, Bub, and Bessie down to church.  Baby was fussy some.

March 4, 1895 - Monday.  A fine day, only cold wind.  Bessie began school.  Herb Higgins went out to see Howard at R. Johnson's.   Cy. Tom and Charlie Graham here this evening.

March 5, 1895 - Tuesday.  Some squally.  But not a bad day.  We washed some this  forenoon but did not put the clothes out until after dinner.  Wood Graham called this afternoon.

March 6, 1895 - Wednesday.  Quite a fine day.  A chilly wind.  Wood and Minnie moved back to their own house today.  They stopped here to dinner.  Bub found a nest of mice in the manure pile.  He is still hauling out to Lowery Brook.  Mr Higgins, How Graham and Bradford Hamilton here this evening.  How just came home from North River today.

March 7, 1895 - Thursday.  Snowed almost all day.  Soft tonight.  Mrs B., Bub and Bessie up to Prayer Meeting.  Had a letter form Maggie Cox tonight.

March 8, 1895 - Friday.  A rainy day.  We didn't do much of anything today; only just the work.  Baked a stirred cake.  Geordie Graham called.

March 9, 1895 - Saturday.  Another wet day.  Still raining tonight.  Washed a little.  D.M. went down to the Village this afternoon.  William Cox (Baptist) was buried today.  Funeral in the Baptist church in Stewiacke Village.  Bessie Nelson up to Alice Proven's this forenoon.   Alice Proven and Bessie Deyarmond were here to call this morning.  We baked bread.  H.G.G. here tonight.

March 10, 1895 - Sabbath.  Quite a fine day.  Preaching in the school-house at seven in the evening.  Mr Fraser was sick and not able to be up.  Deacons Deyarmond and Johnson were up.  Mrs B., Bub and Bessie were there. An eclipse of the moon tonight.

March 11, 1895 - Monday.  A fine day, only a cold wind.  We put in a mat today.  Didn't get much done.  Wm. Guild here tonight.  Also Ira Higgins.

March 12, 1895 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  Bessie not home tonight.  She went up to Martha's.  We hooked some and Mrs B. baked some cupcakes.

March 13, 1895 - Wednesday.  Another fine day.  How cut his horses' foot tonight.  He spent the evening here.

March 14, 1895 - Thursday.  Rather wet.  John here.  We baked bread today.  No prayer meeting as it is too rainy.

March 15, 1895 - Friday.  A little blustery . John here.  We hooked some.  Not much going on in the house.  Lyman Fulton called.

March 16, 1895 - Saturday.  Snowing about all day.  Bessie washed some.  Fos came home.  We didn't get much of anything done.  C.A. Fulton and A. Logan were here.

March 17, 1895 - Sabbath.  Quite a squally day.  Nothing going on.  Howard, Liss and Bessie were down to church.  Mr Gunn preached.

March 18, 1895 - Monday.  Still squally.  We washed but did not put the clothes out.

March 19, 1895 - Tuesday.  Stormy almost all day.  Fos went to Truro.  Bub took him up a piece.  I didn't do much of anything.  Glenn very troublesome.

March 20, 1895 - Wednesday.  Pretty fine.  Did not feel very well.

March 21, 1895 - Thursday.  Not quite so fine.  Mrs B. put some clothes out.  They dried pretty well.  Had a letter from Edith.

March 22, 1895 - Friday.  A fine day.  Libbie here.  Quite a few here tonight.  D.M. down to the Village this forenoon.   He got flour etc.  Larrigans for the boys. 

March 23, 1895 - Saturday.  A nice fine day.  How and Freeman here this forenoon.  In the afternoon, Howard and Bessie went over after Nellie.  They all got back just at tea time.  Quite a crowd here.  Papa and Johnnie came just as we were ready for bed.  We got them to bed in our bedroom - on the floor.  Libbie went home.

March 24, 1895 - Sabbath.  Another fine day.   Felt a little better today.  Papa and Johnnie here until about three; then they went home.  Mrs B., Bessie and Nellie, Fos and Charlie went to church.

March 25, 1895 - Monday.  Quite fine; thawing.  We didn't wash today.  Nellie didn't go to school with Bessie, but went up in the afternoon.  They are invited up to Alex MacKay's tonight.

March 26, 1895 - Tuesday.  Another fine day.  S.A. Logan and C.A. Fulton were here again today.  Mrs J.A. Graham and Jessie Lois, and Mrs C.E. Graham and Freddie were here to tea.  Aunt Anne called in the evening.

March 27, 1895 - Wednesday.  Pretty fine.  Baby pretty poorly.  Alice Proven and Aunt Mary here in the afternoon.  Allan brought Aunt Mary on a load of hay.   D.M. went up to J.A. Graham's etc.

March 28, 1895 - Thursday.  Fine, or pretty fine in the forenoon.  Stormy at night.  Quite a storm.  D.M. went down to see Doctor Cox about Baby.  He sent her a bottle of medicine.  Mrs Smith Johnson was buried today.

March 29, 1895 - Friday.  The roads pretty badly filled up with snow.  The teacher didn't go to school at all this morning.  Laura B. Higgins and Lewis Fulton were married this afternoon at two o'clock.  Edwin Brown and Howard Graham were here to tea.  Baby is rather better.

March 30, 1895, - Saturday.  Quite a fine day.  The folks went up to the school house, but no lecturer came.  Mrs B. was called down to R.S. Deyarmond's just at dinner time.  She got home about eight at night.  Mrs G. Fraser has a daughter.  Bessie and Nellie went over to Mr C. Graham's this afternoon.  Bessie and I made some candy.

March 31, 1895 - Sabbath.  Fine.  No preaching up here.  Bessie came home this afternoon.  Nellie did not.

April 1, 1895 - Monday.  Still fine.  We didn't wash.  They had their social tonight.  Fos and Bub there.  They took the organ up.  Mr and Mrs Higgins there.

April 2, 1895 - Tuesday.  Quite a nice day.  We washed this afternoon a little.  I'm tired tonight.   "How many days will it be I wonder, and how will the long hours pass"....   They made $21.50 and cleared over $19.00 at the social.

April 4 - Thursday.  Looks fine.  Mr Proven, and J.W. Deyarmond and William Graham here.  No mail for me tonight.  Fos and Bub and Nellie up to Prayer Meeting.

April 5,1895- Friday.  A fine day.  They finished hewing the sticks today.  Abner Smith here to dinner and tea.  Nellie  went up to school with Bessie today.

April 6, 1895 - Saturday.  Another fine day.  Fos took Nellie over to Riversdale and brought the stove over, and Mr C. Graham, Mr Wm. Graham, and Morrison set it up.  Mr D. Fisher here to dinner.  Bessie washed, ironed, swept, dusted etc all day.

April 7, 1895 - Sabbath.  A nice fine day.  Thawing a lot.  Preaching at the school house.  All there but Mr B., Alden, Glenn and I and Baby Florence.  The bride and groom , Mr and Mrs Lewis Fulton, "appeared".

April 8, 1895 - Monday.  Not very fine.  Rather dark.  We didn't wash much.  Mr and Mrs Higgins were over to George Deyarmond's and got back about dusk. Bill and Charles Graham were here framing today.  Bessie Smith died at half past ten o'clock tonight.

April 9, 1895 - Tuesday.  Drizzling a little all day.  Bill here.  C. Proven here this afternoon.  John Deyarmond and I drove over to George Deyarmond's to see Bessie.  Bessie Nelson did not come home tonight, yet, but it is probable that she will.

April 10, 1895 - Wednesday.  Rather wet.  Bessie Smith was buried today.  The funeral was at ten o'clock.  There was no school.  Bill and Uncle C. Graham here in the afternoon, but they couldn't work much on account of the rain.

April 11, 1895 - Thursday.  Squally.  We sewed what time we got;  were baking.  Uncle C. Graham here this forenoon.  Bessie and Fos, Bub amd John were at Prayer Meeting.

April 12, 1895 - Good Friday.  A lovely fine day.  Uncle C. Graham here this forenoon.  Bill here all day.  They finished the frame of Creamery.  Bessie and I washed.  Bessie ironed and I washed floors.  Mrs B. kept Flossie most all day, and she was pretty fussy.

April 13, 1895 - Saturday.  Pretty fine.  A little windy.  The managers of the Butter and Cheese factory came up after the frame this forenoon.  Five teams.  Lois Graham came after Bessie this afternoon, and took her up to Uncle C. Graham's.  Mrs Blaikie washed the hearth and out-place and I washed the cook-room and pantry.  The baby was very troublesome today.  John went away tonight. Wrote to Aunt Sis today.

April 14, 1895 - Sabbath.  Not very fine;not very otherwise.  There was Prayer Meeting at the school house in the afternoon.  D.M. kept the children for me to go.  Mrs Higgins and a Miss Maggie Hilchey were there.  Their team and ours were the only ones there.

April 15, 1895 - Monday.  Quite a stormy day.  Hail, snow and rain all fell. Fos drove bessie up to school but they didn't stay long, as there wewre only six scholars and it was so stormy.  Two teams were up after the rest, or part of the rest of the Creamery stuff - Fred Archibald and David Johnson.  Mrs B. is down to P.S. Hamilton's tonight.

April 16, 1895 - Tuesday.  A nice fine day.  We washed the clothes.  Got done about three.  Fos began his music lessons tonight.  George MacKay here this evening.

April 17, 1895 - Wednesday.  Snowing all day.  Bub took Bessie up to school and went after her at night.  We made some maple wax tonight.

April 18, 1895 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Morrison went down along and came back about two o'clock.  They didn't frame the Creamery because of the Auction today.  A peddlar called.  We ironed.  Mrs B. was down to S. Deyarmond's.  Luther Fulton was working here today.  Had a letter form Edith tonight.

April 19, 1895 - Friday.  Another nice fine day.  D.M. down and helped raise the Creamery today.  Went down to see Mrs Samuel Deyarmond this afternoon.  Just called.  Left Baby with Mrs B.  Bessie didn't come home to tea.  Luther Fulton here this afternoon, but not to tea.

April 20, 1895 - Saturday.  Another fine day.  We washed quite a washing this forenoon.  Mrs Deyarmond and Eunice here to dinner.  Emma drove over after them, and Bessie went home with them.  She had been at Turner's all night.  Mrs B. was down to see Maggie Deyarmond.  She is quite poorly.

April 21, 1895 - Sabbath.  A fine day again.  No preaching or anything.  Bessie came back this afternoon with Emma and Bert.  Emma was going down with Maggie Deyarmond, or rather to wait on her tonight.  Mrs B. was down all day.

April 22, 1895 - Monday.  Fine.  Mrs Higgins and Amy were here to dinner.  Johnnie Willie and George A. Graham and Allen Deyarmond here this evening.  They put up the lamps.

April 23, 1895 - Tuesday.  A wet day.  Charles Graham called.  We baked.  Set a hen; and fussed with Florence.  She wasn't well.  We got two bottles of maple molasses made.

April 24, 1895 - Wednesday.  Not very fine this morning but cleared off in the afternoon.  We washed and Mrs B. baked cupcakes.  Bub was down after a barrel of flour, oil etc.  Bertie Deyarmond here this evening.

April 25, 1895 - Thursday.  Pretty fine.  Mrs Blaikie, Ida and Glenn over to George Deyarmond's.  I ironed, blacked the stove etc.  Emma Deyarmond called on her way up to Prayer Meeting, and she went with Fos.

April 26, 1895 - Friday.  A fine day.  Mrs B., Ida and Glenn up to see Mrs Higgins this afternoon.  Mrs B. and I churned.  I made some candy.  Martha Johnson came down with Bessie to stay all night.  Rackets, candy rackets.

April 27, 1895 - Saturday.  Rather cloudy.  Made Alden a pair of pants.  Bessie was busily engaged sweeping, dusting etc.  After noon, D.M. and Alden went to the Village and I and Baby Flossie went down to Samuel Deyarmond's.  We intended going to J.W. Deyarmond's but they weren't home, so we came back to Minnie's.  Dora Fulton was there.   Bessie and Martha were over to Robert Graham's.

April 28, 1895 - Sabbath.  Another fine day.  D.M., Roy, Alden, Glenn and I were up to Bessie D. Smith's grave this forenoon.  Mrs B., Roy, Bub, Fos and Bessie were up to preaching.  Herb Higgins was here a while.  Aunt Sarah Johnson called.  She was at Sammie's sitting up with Maggie last night.

April 29, 1895 - Monday.  Fine again.  Roy began going to school.  We washed and colored rags today.  Mrs B. baked cookies.  Fos and Bessie away tonight.

April 30, 1895 - Tuesday.  Quite fine.  A little cloudy.  We didn't do much of anything but the work.  J.R. Smith came from New Glasgow to see Bessie.  Aunt Ann and Uncle Charlie here to tea.   They had been over to David Fulton's funeral.  He was buried in Pembroke.

May 1, 1895 - Wednesday.  A cold wind but a fine day.  They killed the pigs.  P.S. Hamilton helped.  Libbie and Dennie Graham were here a while tonight.  Mrs B. called to see Maggie Deyarmond.  Fos, J.R. Smith and Bessie up to Adam Johnson's tonight.  We baked bread.  Pigs weighed 295 lbs.  One - 150, the other, 145.

May 2, 1895 - Thursday.  A fine day.  We put in a mat but didn't get any hooked worthwhile.  Bessie was up at Aunt My's to tea.  J.R. Smith, Fos, Bub and Mrs B. at Prayer Meeting.

May 3, 1895 - Friday.  Cloudy.  Showery tonight.  They were shingling the school-house.  There wasn't school.  J.R. Smith returned to New Glasgow.  Bessie drove him up a piece.  Eva, Annie, and Cy here a while this afternoon.  Emma Deyarmond here tonight.

May 4, 1895 - Saturday.  A shower or two last night.  Colder tonight.  I washed a little, hooked a little and washed floors.  We were baking bread, and Mrs B., biscuits tonight.  Emma went away this forenoon when Fos went up tothe school house.  He was shingling there.  Liss is here tonight.  Eva has a son , born today.

May 5, 1895 - Sabbath.  Fine again.  Sabbath School began. Fifty-two present.  Classes a little different from last year.  A new one composed of those 25 years upwards was formed among the males.

May 6, 1895 - Monday.  A little sprinkle of rain.  R. Brown brought some potatoes.  We boiled the pig's heads and made pot-head.

May 7, 1895 - Tuesday.  Fine and hot.  Thermometer , 87 degrees.  Fos went to Eastville to fix up a mill there.  Bessie went up to school with Bill Graham who was after the harrow.  Agnes Deyarmond and Annie were here to spend the day.  We hooked some.  Bessie was fishing some tonight.  Ernie Higgins presented her with a trout.

May 8, 1895 - Wednesday.  A fine warm day.  Washed out at the brook today.   John and D.M. fixed the place.  Had a large washing.  Mrs Higgins called this forenoon.

May 9, 1895 - Thursday.  Still fine.  Ida up to Charles Proven's.  Had a letter from Edith and Aunt Clara tonight.  Hooked a little and ironed a little.

May , 1895 - Friday.  Another fine day.  We just fussed today.  Got a little hooked.  George A. Laird called with his tin-wagon this afternoon.  Mr John Bentley, Pembroke, died today.  D.M. was down to Pembroke.  We ironed this forenoon.

May 11, 1895 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Miss Nelson was up to Mrs Higgins' this forenoon and she went up to Enoch Fulton's with me when I went to W.F.M.S.   Aunt Ann came home with me.  Mrs B. and Glenn went part way home with her.  Janet Graham came down with Bessie.  Nellie Johnson and Christy J. Graham called and Christy cut D.M.'s hair.

May 12, 1895 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine.  Mrs B. and Fos were down to Mr Bentley's funeral this morning at nine o'clock.  Bessie was not very well.  She didn't go to Sabbath School or preaching.  Mrs B. kept Glenn and Flossie.

May 13, 1895 - Monday.  Rather cooler.  The wind was worse.  Hooked some this forenoon,  Mrs Higgins was down.  D.M., Baby, Alden and I went up to James Johnson's.  We got home about dusk, and Emma, Bert and Allan were here.

May 14, 1895 - Tuesday.  Rainy last night, but fine today.  We hooked what time we could get.  D.R. Creelman here to dinner.  Nothing of importance occurred today.

May 15, 1895 - Wednesday.  Rather dark and rainy tonight.  We got the mat out this afternoon.  Bessie had to go up to Billie's a while today, on account of not feeling well.  Herb Higgins is here tonight.

May 16, 1895 - Thursday.  Rather cold.  Wind blowing almost all day.  Alden, Glenn and I drove the teacher and Roy up to school this morning.   Quite a crowd for dinner: J.W. Deyarmond, J.T. Hamilton, Lyman and Mart Johnson.  Put in our second mat, or third one. Mrs B. and Fos up to Prayer Meeting.  Bessie went up to W. Crockett's.  Dora Fulton, Mary E. Hamilton and Maria J. Deyarmond here.

May 17, 1895 - Friday.  A fine day, only windy.  One of my hard days.  Did not do much today only hook a little.  Morrison went down along this afternoon.  Got stuff for Baby's dress, Roy, blouses, towels etc.

May 18, 1895 - Saturday.  Dark but not rainy until afternoon.  Bessie and Baby and I went down to the Village and out to Mr A. Fulton's to dinner and tea.  Mr and Mrs Fields came there just after we did.  We came home by Otterbrook.  Got home about half past six.

May 19, 1895 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  A little wind.  Bessie's head was very painful today and she did not get up.  D.M. kept Glenn and Florence for Mrs B., Roy, Alden, and I to go to preaching.  Mr Fraser preached on Pilate.

May 20, 1895 - Monday.  A wet day.  No school today.  Made D.M. a pair of overalls today.  Emma and Allan Deyarmond, Willie Mackay, Herbert Higgins and Ira are here tonight.  Bessie tidied up her trunk.

May 21, 1895 - Tuesday.  Quite fine.  We didn't wash.  Mrs Higgins and Amy called.  They had been up to Alice Proven's.

May 22, 1895 - Wednesday.  Dark again.  Bessie sick in bed.  Roy went up to school this morning and Martha came back with him; she attended Bessie all day, and stayed all night.  We hooked some.

May 23, 1895 - Thursday.  Quite fine.  Martha went to school and taught today.  Bessie was better but not well;  she and Fos went to New Glasgow this afternoon.

May 24, 1895 - Friday.  Showery.  Some sunshine.  Johnnie Deyarmond went to Truro this morning.  We hooked some.  Mrs B. churned.  We swept the room.  The white cow is away tonight.

May 25, 1895 - Saturday.  Dark but no rain.  We washed a large washing at the brook.  W. Dunlap was here and we got a little stuff.  Foster and Bessie got back from New Glasgow a little after six.

May 26, 1895 - Sabbath.  Dark and showery.  Sabbath School at three o'clock.  D.M., Roy, Bessie and I were there.  It rained coming home.

May 27, 1895 - Monday.  Still dark.  We hooked a little.  Mrs B. baked a cake.  D.M. went down along and out to Mulgrave Woolen Mills. We got various groceries, cloth, yarn and Mrs B's picture enlarged.  He got home about half past seven.

May 28, 1895 - Tuesday.  Not very fine.  D.M. took the teacher, Roy and Glenn up to the school-house and fixed the lock on the teacher's desk.  It was filled with dirt.  We hooked etc.  "Little Mary" Deyarmond called tonight.  We set out Bessie's slips.  She is up at Mr MacKay's tonight.  Sadie E. McKenzie died .

May 29, 1895 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  We hooked some.  Mrs B. baked biscuit etc.  Baby pretty good these days.  D.M. had rheumatism in his back very badly.  Had a bad time getting to bed.  Alden has a bealed foot, and Glenn was bound to be up, and Oh Dear!  but I guess it's over now.  It only took a little patience and gentleness, and a call to the Sure Source to get through;  it never fails to bring relief in times of trouble.  Am a little tired tonight.  "But what will it matter, bye and bye, whether with laughing joy I went, Down through the years with a glad content, Questioning not the how and why, All will be elsewise bye and bye."

May 30, 1895 - Thursday.  A fine day.  We ironed and hooked and worked.  The men-folk were building a picket and rail fence.  Morrison's back is a little better.  We set the black hen.  Bessie stopped at the school house.  Nessie Cox and Emma Deyarmond also Allan called tonight.  Nessie gave us some music. "organic".  Mrs B., Bub abd Fos went to Prayer Meeting.  Finished Roy's blouse for him to wear to school.

May 31, 1895 - Friday.  A fine day.  They finished the fence today.  We finished the mat - hooked carpet fashion.  Bub caught some fine trout tonight.  Fos and John went down to James W. Deyarmond's to help them up with their cow.  She was cast.  We churned.  Uncle James Johnson took the calf away this afternoon.

June 1, 1895 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Sacrament Saturday.  We washed this forenoon.  Baked this afternoon.  Mrs B., Bessie and Fos were down to church.  Mrs B. came back with Colin.  Bessie and Fos went over to Pembroke.

June 2, 1895 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Only a few showers.  Mrs B., Bessie and Bub were at church.  Bessie was at Mrs Janet Brown's all night.  Uncle Sam was here to dinner. Bessie , Roy and I were up to Sabbath School.

June 3, 1895 - Monday.  A fine day.  Mrs B., Ida, Glenn and Alden went over to Turner's this afternoon.  I was up to Mrs Higgins' a few minutes in the forenoon, took up a basket of soap grease and got a kettle of soap.  Mrs H. had just come from Laura's and Laura was not well.

June 4, 1895 - Tuesday.  Fine again.  We ironed.  Bessie and I were invited up to Mrs Higgins' to tea.  We took Florence.  D.M. came after us just as tea was ready.  Annie Brown and Tom Graham were here.  Baby fussy.  John Steele here to dinner.

June 5, 1895 - Wednesday.  Another fine day.  We washed.  Washed my cotton dress.  We fried some doughnuts.

June 6, 1895 - Thursday.  Dark this forenon, and showers this afternoon.   We baked bread, sewes some, ironed and knit.  Frank Creelman here to get them to take a job of sawing a frame for a shop for him.  Higgins got some pork.

June 7, 1895 - Friday.  A fine day.  Aunt Annie's birthday.  Uncle Charlie was here moving the stairs.  Aunt Ann, Duncan and Chester came down this afternoon.  Mrs Higgins and Amy were here this afternoon too.  We were cutting Flossie's white dress.  Bert Deyarmond and Dennie Graham were here.  Bessie went over to Mrs C. Graham's.

June 8, 1895 - Saturday.  A fine day.  D.M. and Uncle Charlie finished the stairs this afternoon.  Dora Fulton called.  I was up at the W.F.M.S.  Drove up.  Janet Graham and Alice Proven came down with me.  Bessie did not come home tonight.

June 9, 1895 - Sabbath.  Another fine day.  Mr Fraser was up.  He preached a good sermon from the words"What seek ye?" John I  D.M. kept Glenn and Flossie.  Bessie came back from church.

June 10, 1895 - Monday  A fine day.  I was up at Alice proven's a few minutes this morning.  Bub put in the corn and beans.

June 11, 1895 - Tuesday.  Still fine.  Mrs B. down to Mrs Bentley's.  Mrs George Deyarmond went too.  Fos, Bub and D.M. went down to visit the Creamery.  It seems like a long day to me.  Bessie went over to Ned Graham's tonight.

June 12, 1895 - Wednesday.  Another hot day.  89 degrees Faht.  Was washing today.  Had a large washing as usual.  Bessie went up to Adam Johnson's tonight.

June 13, 1895 - Thursday.  Fine and hot.  84 degrees.  Washed some more this forenoon.  Mrs B. made the starch.  Mrs Higgins and Amy here to dinner.  Had a letter from Edith.   Sent money for Trinidad Catechism to Mrs D. Blackwood, Bland Street, Halifax.  We churned.

June 14, 1895 - Friday.  Rather cooler.  A few showers.  Looks dark tonight.  Glenn was sick in the night last night.  Had spasms.  I washed the pantry, dining-room and kitchen this forenoon.  Minnie Graham and little Allie were here, also Alfred Johnson, to tea.  Fos and Bessie were invited over to George Deyarmond's tonight.

June 15, 1895 - Saturday.  Rather cold.  Mrs B. and Bessie drove up to Uncle Jim's and back between three and four.  Then Bessie and Emma , who had come to meet her here, went down to J.W. Deyarmond's.  Libbie Graham called.  Liss and Dennie and Bert were here to spend the evening.

June 16, 1895 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  D.M., Roy, Alden, Bessie and I up to Sabbath School.  Fos and Bessie went for a walk after Sabbath School.

June 17, 1895 - Monday.  Again , fine.  We didn't wash today.  John was not here, he having left Saturday night.  Herb Higgins called.  They began road-work today.  Bessie is over to Jim Graham's tonight.

June 18, 1895 - Tuesday.  Fine and hot.  88 degrees.  Glenn sick last night, also Roy.  We were sewing today.  Blacked the stove.  Ad. Wright here to tea.   Bessie and Dennie away driving.

June 19, 1895 - Wednesday.  Another fine hot day.  88 degrees.  We didn't get much done.  I did intend to wash but didn't get at it.  Bessie was up to Uncle Sam's all night.Fos was up to Uncle Jim's.  D.M. and I drove down to E.A. Logan's, Alfred Grant's etc tonight.  We got clothes etc.

June 20, 1895 - Thursday.  Fine and hot.  D.M. and Alden went to Truro this afternoon.  It was very hot.  93 degrees.  Mrs Higgins down to get some stitching done.  Bessie did not come home until after Prayer Meeting.

June 21, 1895 - Friday.  Not quite so hot.  Quite cool toward night.  Washed this forenoon.  Bella, Nessie and baby were here this afternoon.  Mary Ellen and Cassie came up after her.  D.M. and Alden got home about six-thirty.  They had tea at Uncle Sam's.

June 22, 1895 - Saturday.  Quite cool.  Bessie washed at the brook.  Also swept the room and bathed herself.  Miss Hattie Roy and James McKennie came over from Riversdale in the afternoon to see Bessie.  Mrs Adam Johnson and Martha were here.  Fos and Bessie drove up to Robert MacKay's with Miss Roy and James McKennie.

June 23, 1895 - Sabbath.  Rather cooler than lately.  D.M. kept Alden, Glenn and Flossie for us to go to preaching and Sabbath School.  Mr C. MacKay of Brookfield preached.   Our Sabbath School class presented our teacher, Mr C. Graham, with a Bible.

June 24, 1895 - Monday.  A fine day.  D.M. down to Frank Creelman's to help him raise his shop.  Mrs B. washed some.  Bessie ironed this morning and tonight.  I finished Flossie's dress, all but sewing on buttons.  School meeting tonight.  We had quite a hulabaloo among the youngsters.  Fos got strawberries for Bessie.  Bessie wondering where she'll be this time next year.

June 25, 1895 - Tuesday.  Fine.  Looks a little like rain.  We sewed most of the time today.  Bessie is at P.S. Hamilton's to tea.  Libbie Graham called tonight.  Alex Sample here for his shingles. Uncle Ad hauling shingle stuff. 

June 26, 1895 - Wednesday.  Wet.  A nice rain.  Bessie wasn't home at all today.  Everett Deyarmond took her down there.  Allen and John Deyarmond here to dinner.  Just patched today. 

June 27, 1895 - Thursday.  A fine day.  D.M. drove Alden, Flossie and I over to Uncle Charlie's this morning.  Libbie , Alden and I went over to Bub's old field and picked two bowls of berries after dinner.  Aunt Anne kept Flossie.  She was making her white dress.  D.M. up to Prayer Meeting.

June 28, 1895 - Friday.  Fine again.  Ida, Alden and I went to pick strawberries this forenoon.  Mrs B. and Ida went in the afternoon.  I churned.

June 29, 1895 - Saturday.  A fine day, but not very hot.  I washed this forenoon.  Bessie got home just at dinner time.  She was over to Robert Graham's last night.  She ironed in the afternoon.

June 30, 1895 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Sabbath School at 9 a.m.  D.M., Glenn, Bessie and I there.  Uncle C. Graham gave us an address about his Bible today.  Service in the church at 3:30 p.m.  Bessie and Dennie, Bub amd Mrs B. and Roy were down.  Mr McKinnon preached.

July 1, 1895 - Monday.  Wet.  We just chored round today.  Uncle C. Graham here to dinner, also P.S. Hamilton.

July 2, 1895 - Tuesday.  Fine again.  Was picking berries,  strawberries,  this forenoon.  Edith, Maudie, and Mr Wm. Ellis arrived this afternoon. I was glad,  more than glad,  to see her.

July 3, 1895 - Wednesday.  Fine and warm.  Edith, Maudie, Flossie and I went up to Wm. Crockett's this forenoon.  Edith and Johnnie Crockett went picking berries after dinner.  We went up to Samuel Johnson's.  Saw Lyman, and Mrs Leonard Johnson, children, etc  then drove to Aunt Ann's where we remained to tea.  Then we went home.  Ida was sick.  She hurt her eye.

July 4, 1895 - Thursday.  Again it is fine.  Edith went away this morning.  She drove down to the Creamery with Morrison.  Bessie was up at Aunt My's all night last night.  Janet Graham was down this afternoon.  Morris got boots for Glenn etc.   I washed the floor, pantry etc.  John Deyarmond was here this afternoon.

July 5, 1895 - Friday.  Fine.  Warm.  Examination day at school.  D.M., Baby Flossie and I were up, but I was at Eva's most of the time.  Mrs Nelson, Bessie's mother , came over from Riversdale. Fos went after her.  Quite a number of Examinations.  Lyman there.

July 6, 1895 - Saturday.  Fine.  Not quite so warm.  Was up at W.F.M.S.  Mrs Nelson was making me a waist that she brought over for me.   After W.F.M.S., we were all, (our Sabbath School Class) , invited to Uncle C, Graham's.  Had quite an afternoon.  A peddlar, (Turkish), here to stop until Monday.

July 7, 1895 - Sabbath.  Dark but no rain.  Sabbath School at 2:30.  Then Prayer Meeting at P.S. Hamilton's after.  Lyman Johnson here to tea.

July 8, 1895 - Monday.  Fine, hot.  Bessie and I drove down to Cross Roads to send away her return etc.  She and her mother are up at Adam Johnson's, Alex MacKay's etc. tonight.  Ida, Roy and I were away picking strawberries.

July 9, 1895 - Tuesday.  Dark and showery.  Mrs Nelson and Bessie came home shortly after dinner.  She cut out Bessie's waist.  Mrs Hingley and Clarence Rose here to dinner.  Mrs B. and Bessie drove over to George Deyarmond's after tea.

July 10, 1895 - Wednesday.  Rainy.  The young people intended going to pick berries today,.  Liss and Dennie and W. Creelman were here this forenoon.  Quite a crowd here tonight.  Allen and Bert Deyarmond, Christy, Ruby, Liss and Dennie, and  Abner Smith. Finished my blue spotted dress.

July 11, 1895 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Glenn and I drove up to Eva's with a pail for her to fill with strawberries for Mrs Nelson.  Bessie went up to Mrs Higgins'.  I picked about a pint of berries,Eva filled it up, and then came home.  Libbie and Minnie Graham were there.  Miss Maggie M. Brown applied for our school today, but did not get it.  They engaged Melissa Graham.  Lyman Johnson, Bessie Nelson, Fos, Mrs Nelson, Geordie MacKay, and Martha Johnson drove to Prayer Meeting.

July 12, 1895  -  Friday.  Fine again.  Mrs Higgins called this forenoon.  Thomas Blanchard, Aunt Ann and Chester here today to dinner.  Fos, Mrs Nelson and Bessie over to Riversdale this afternoon and didn't get back.

July 13, 1895 - Saturday.  Fine.  Fos got back this morning.  Mrs Mike English came over with him.  It was for Mrs English that he stayed.  She came to see one of her children that is sick at her father's.

July 14, 1895 - Sabbath.  Rather dark.  Mrs B., Glenn, Roy, and I to Sabbath School.  Bub, Fos, and Mrs B. to church.   Mr Millar, a brother of Mrs S. Johnson, Pembroke, preached...the discourse was on  "manna'.  Mr and Mrs S.T. Ellis were up.

July 15, 1895 - Monday.  Pretty fine.  Charlie came home.  We picked some raspberries.  Mr Barnes (James) died of paralysis or sunstroke.  Died at Howard Rutherford's.

July 16, 1895 - Tuesday.  Not quitew so fine.  We picked some raspberries.

July 17, 1895 - Wednesday.  Rather dark, but warm.  Marjory Graham here all day.  Ida and I got a kettle of raspberries this forenoon.  Mrs B. and Ida out after dinner.  D.M. and Fos down to the Creamery.  Fos went up with Mart in the afternoon.

July 18, 1895 - Thursday.  Rainy tonight.  Dark and cloudy.  Mrs Higgins, and Mr James Dunlap, Meadowvale, here to dinner.   Frank Fulton and a crockery peddlar here.

July 19, 1895 - Friday.  Pretty fine.  We were picking raspberries.  Got a pail full.  We intend taking them down to the Village tomorrow.

July 20, 1895 - Saturday.  Fine.  We, D.M., Florence and I, went out to Uncle Will Andrews' to dinner, and took a pail of raspberries down to George Fulton's.  Got sugar etc.  Had letters fron Bessie and Aunt Clara. Called to see Mrs Fields.

July 21, 1895 - Sabbath.  Fine and warm.  Felt lazy and sleepy.  Wasn't at church or Sabbath School.  Rev A.B. Dickie preached.  Mr B. and I were home.

July 22, 1895 - Monday.  Fine and warm.  Washed this forenoon, sewed some.  Mrs B. and Ida picked raspberries this afternoon.  Fos and Den. down along.  Charlie went to Janet Brown's this forenoon.  Blacked the stove etc.

July 23, 1895 - Tuesday.  Dark this forenoon.  Thunder showers this afternoon.  Misses Maggie and Nessie Cox, Alice and Nellie Creelman and the boys here today.  Music by Nessie.  Roy and I were picking berries this forenoon. Charlie came home.  Baby not very well.  Mended Alden's and Morrison's shirts.

July 24, 1895 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  They sawed shingles for shade; also shingling it a little.

July 25, 1895 - Thursday.  Dark again.  Washed the sitting room and pantry floor.  We got dinner early for Morrison to go down to the Corner, but, as it was dark looking, he didn't go.  Eva and Maxwell and baby Nelson, were here to dinner.

July 26, 1895 - Friday.  Pretty fine until the afternoon, then there were thunder showers - thunder and lightning.  Morrison went down to Cross Roads.  He got home about tea time.  Got a barrel of flour.  I went picking berries in the forenoon.  Roy and Alden were with me.  Mrs Archibald and girls, Alida and Willana and Libbie were up in the forenoon.  Mrs B. and Ida went picking, just in the pasture after dinner.

July 27, 1895 - Saturday.  Dark this forenoon, but a fine afternoon.  Mrs B. was up to Jimmie Graham's to see their baby.  It is sick.  We baked.  I went picking berries this afternoon.  Got almost a kettle full.  Herb Higgins got our waggon to go after his mower.

July 28, 1895 - Sabbath.  Dark this forenoon.  Rainy this afternoon.  A Mr Fraser preached - up at the school House too - none of us were there but Fos - it was so wet.

July 29, 1895 - Monday.  A fine day.  We didn't wash.  I sewed this forenoon.  Mrs B. and Ida picked berries this afternoon.  I blacked the stove etc.  They put the cows into the new stable tonight.  Sawed all day.  Plenty of water.

July 30, 1895 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  They mowed the hay round the house.  I picked berries this forenoon and Mrs B. and Ida this afternoon.  Mrs B. churned.  We preserved a few berries.  Flossie pretty good.  D.M. went down along.  Glenn, Alden and Roy had a great roar this afternoon.  Roy fell off the teeter on the top of his head.

July 31, 1895 - Wednesday.  Dark.  Showers.  Uncle James Johnson and Aunt Esther here to dinner. Eliza Jane Hamilton, Maria J. Deyarmond, and Miss Alice Proven here in the afternoon.  The first two, to tea.  Charles Proven has lost a cow.  After tea, D.M., Glenn, Flossie , Fos and I went over to Uncle C. Graham's.

August 1, 1895 - Thursday.  Pretty fine day.  D.M. and Glenn down to Cross Roads this forenoon.  They got a barrel of sugar and a cheese.  Ida, Roy, Alden and I  took Bub's and Fos' dinner out to Lowery Brook Field, and then picked blueberries.  We got a kettle and a pigon about full.  D.M. came out after dinner.  Had a letter from Ede.  Roy had one too.

August 2, 1895- Friday.  Fine day.  Washed this forenoon.  Mr and Mrs John Kennedy and son Frank were up picking raspberries in the afternoon.  I went up to Alice Proven's to hear from James Graham's baby, it is very ill. 

August 3, 1895 - Saturday.  Fine.  Jessie Lois Graham, youngest daughter of James and Janet Graham died this morning about eight.  Alice Proven was down.  Mrs B. went over to James Graham's.  We preserved our blueberries.

August 4, 1895 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine, until about night, then rain.  Fos and I were down to church this morning..  The rest were up at the funeral, at the school house.  Amy and Ernie stayed with me.    We, D.M., Roy, Alden, Glenn and I,  went up to the graveyard.

August 5, 1895 - Monday.  Fine.  We had a fine rain last night.  D.M. not very well.  S.P. Creelman and E.A. Logan's wife were up here today.  Uncle Jim here to supper.   Herbert Higgins went to Truro.

August 6, 1895 - Tuesday.  Fine.  My twenty-fifth birthday. Charlie came home this morning. (He had been up at Uncle Jim's all night)    He and D.M. went down to the Corner this afternoon.  They got home about dark.  Got the children a ball apiece.  Me, a pair of boots.  Mrs B., a hat etc.  Mr Fraser was up to see Mrs Wright.  Mr Higgins called.   I washed at the brook.  Roy, Alden and Glenn ran off down to S. Deyarmond's.

August 7, 1895 - Wednesday.  Fine and warm.  Alden's fourth birthday.  We baked.  After dinner, Alden, Roy, Glenn, D.M., Ida and I went out to Lowery Brook where Fos and Bub were.  They finished haying out there.  We got a kettle of blueberries.  Angus got the waggon to bring a load of hay up from Aunt Eliza's place for them.  Charlie and Fos are down to Pembroke Prayer Meeting..  Aunt Ann called.

The next entries in Elmira's diaries, begin with February 24, 1897.  It would appear that a book is missing here.