Note: No Journal for 1896

February 18, 1897 - Thursday.  Not very cold.  two grists came - John J.G. Rutherford and Samuel Pyke.  J. Rutherford stopped to dinner.  Aunt Ann and Janet Graham called twice.   They were over to see J. Brown and Annie.

February 19, 1897 - Friday.  Something like yesterday.  Mr Higgins called this forenoon.  Liss and Robert Graham called this afternoon.   Dennie Graham cut his foot this afternoon.  He remained here to tea, and Charlie took him home.

February 20, 1897 - Saturday.  Fine.  Colder.  Harris not well - cold in his face.  Fos came home this forenoon.  Cyrus Graham came with him.  Fos is making the frame for the trimmer at Kent's mill. Ida sick too.  She had two fits last night. D.M. hauling .....?... this afternoon.  We baked bread. Had soup for dinner.

February 21, 1897 - Sabbath.  rather snowy.  Edith's twenty-fifth birthday.  The cow calved today.  She was all right.  Flossie had the asthma and cold pretty badly.  Had our little Sabbath School.  The lesson was on the Christian martyr - Stephen.

February 22, 1897 - Monday . Fine.  Wind rather cold.  Fos was making, or rather finishing the trimmer frame for Kent's mill.  He went up this afternooon.   I washed the linen clothes.  Mrs B. brought them in at bed-time.   Eva, Angus and Annie were here to tea.   There is an appearance of snow.

February 23, 1897 - Tuesday.  Snowy.  Quite rough.  D.M. went up to school after Roy, and Melissa came down too, and stayed all night. Uncle Sam, and Smith Johnson were here to dinner.  Roy got head in his class.  I didn't do much today, only knit.

February 24, 1897 - Wednesday.  Quite fine.  D.M. took Liss and Roy up to school Glenn went too, for a ride.  Mrs B. washed some.  Herb Higgins and Bert Deyarmond called.  I finished reading "Ten Nights in a Bar-Room"  Dennie, Ned and Jim Graham were logging.

February 25, 1897 - Thursday.  Fine.  D.M. took Roy up to school.  He had an errand up to Mr English's.  Harris began hauling manure out to Lowery Brook Field.  He hauled two loads.  Herbert Ogilvie brought a grist of wheat.  H.G. Gammell here to dinner.  Mrs Charles Creelman died ths morning.

February 26, 1897 - Friday.  Snowed at night, but pretty fine today.    D.M. took Roy and Frank up to school, also Ernie.   Graham Gamell here today.  He brought a basket of apples for the youngsters.  Quite a lot of traffic here today.   Mrs Ned Graham called at dinner time.  Charlie started to Truro.

February 27, 1897 - Saturday.  Cloudy this morning.  Fine in the afternoon.  Quite snowy tonight.  We washed some clothes this forenoon, and the floors this afternoon.  H.G. Gammell here to dinner, also Alfred Teas and Samuel Pyke.  Mr and Mrs Adam Johnson called.  Edith and Joe came up tonight. - also baby Flora.  Sent a letter to Nettie tonight with Alfred Teas.  Fos came home.  Charlie Graham's crowd came out of the woods. 

February , 1897 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine, also windy.  Mrs B., Bub and I went to preaching.   Fos went, and went to the woods.  Mr Smith (Rev Edwin) preached on Noah.   Joe went up to Bill's in the morning and came home at night.  Alden slept with Edith and her baby tonight.   Mrs Fulton went to James Graham's.

March 1, 1897 - Monday.  Cold and windy, but the sun shone.  Mrs Hamilton had her birthday party today.  None of us went, it was so cold.  Herb and How Higgins called in the afternoon.  Joe Woodworth went up to Willie MacKay's camp in the afternoon.

March 2, 1897 - Tuesday.  Rather dark, but not so cold.  Rained a little.  Edith washed some things and dried them in the house.  H.G. Gammell and Robt. Graham here to dinner.  Jim Graham didn't log.  Joe came back this evening.  Libbie, How and Minnie Graham, also How and Herb Higgins called in the evening.

March 3, 1897 - Wednesday.  Began snowing lightly this morning but began to rain a little after noon and rained quite a lot.  James Graham was logging.  Edith and Joe and Flora went this morning. I was sorry to see her go, but we cannot be together here now.  We hope to be in the "after-time".  Mrs B. "made-over" John Tupper's butter.   Adam Johnson went to Riversdale after freight for Morrison.  He was wet when he got home.   Morrison fixed up a pair of larrigans for Glenn.

March 4, 1897 - Thursday.  It rained most of the night last night.  Cold this afternoon.  Freezing tonight.   We baked beans for dinner. Corn cake for supper. Charlie came home.  Mr C. Graham called.  Alden, Glenn and Flossie have the cold.  We baked bread today.  Flossie is quite sick with the cold. Henry was here to dinner.  Rather a trying day to one's nerves;  but we are strengthened for each day's burdens.

March 5, 1897 - Friday.  A fine day.  I washed and brought in the clothes.  Charlie and Harris went down to hear Nessie Cox play.

March 6, 1897 - Saturday.  Fine.  Soft too.  Mrs B. went up to the W.F.M.S. in Burnside.  Charlie and Charles Proven went up to Kent's mill.  Mrs B. went up to the school house with them, and came back with Mrs Higgins and Herb. There were only eight there.  Mrs MacKay is sick.  Fos came back with Charlie.

March 7, 1897 - Sabbath.  Fine.  No preaching in Burnside.  Charlie took Fos up to the mill tonight.  Two travellers called and stayed all night.  They didn't give much account of themselves.

March 8, 1897 - Monday.  Fine.  The travellers departed.  They thanked us for their lodgings.  We didn't get much done this forenoon.  Mrs B., Ida and Glenn went up to Uncle Sam's.  Mary E. Hamilton and Johnnie D. Graham called.  Flossie was not very well.

March 9, 1897 - Tuesday.  Soft.  Sloppy underfoot.  We didn't get much done, only bake.  Baked twelve loaves.  Flossie was troublesome all day.  Mrs B. nursed her most of the time.   Two peddlars called.  We got some spoons, a bedspread etc from them.

March 10, 1897 - Wednesday.  Wet - rainy.  Just did the "had-to-be-dones" today.    Mr Higgins, Henry and Dennie Graham and Bert Deyarmond are here this afternoon.  The youngsters are pretty cantankerous.  Bert is talking to Glenn.  Charlie is barbering.

March 11, 1897 - Thursday.  Fine.  I washed some.  The clothes got dry.  Mr English came back to work.  Janie and Nettie came up about six o'clock tonight.  Charlie went down to the Creamery to fix up the engine. The geese went in the brook tonight.  I did not get to Prayer Meeting.  My picture came from the "American Woman".

March 12, 1897 - Friday.  Fine.  Thawing a lot.  Nettie has cold pretty badly.  She didn't feel very fine this afternoon.  Janie, Mrs B. and I cleaned the pantry this afternoon.  Janie saw lots of dirt.  It was a dirty job.  Mrs B. churned.  I made a roller towel and an apron for Janie.

March 13, 1897 - Saturday.  Fine.  Freezing tonight.  Fos and Charlie both home tonight.  The Kent Mill was taken up today.  Ruby Graham was here this morning.  Libbie for tea.  D.M. packed a barrel of eggs.  Mrs B. has cold pretty badly. 

March 14, 1897 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine.  Wind rather cold toward evening.  Mr Fraser preached in the school house this afternoon.  His discourse was on "leprosy".  It was very good.  D.M., Glenn and Florence at home.   We had the pung (old) up.  Mr Fraser went to Middle Stewiacke.

March 15, 1897 - Monday.  A snow storm.  Over a foot of snow.  Rather cold tonight.  Graham Gammell and A. Henry (Musquodoboit) here to dinner.  We put in the log-cabin quilt.  Emma and Willie MacKay here to tea.  There was a wood-hauling at Mrs Fulton's this afternoon.  D.M. was at Cross Roads this forenoon.  Mr Higgins here this afternoon.

March 16, 1897 - Tuesday.  Pretty fine, but rather cold and windy.  Fos went to Truro, Earltown, etc today.  Charlie took him over a piece of the way.  Cy and Bill Graham and Frank MacKay went to Truro too.  Mr English was here this afternoon.  Davie Brown and Graham Gammell and Rupert Miller here to dinner.  We got the log-cabin quilt out.  Libbie called.  James Graham moved Mrs Fulton over to her own place today.

March 17, 1897 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  Jessie Crockett called.  Charlie and Fos up to Mr C. Graham's this evening.  Doctor MacKay up to see Mrs MacKay.

March 18, 1897 - Thursday.  Fine.  A nice day.  Mr and Mrs Edgar Creelman called.  Mr C. at the mill; Mrs C. at the house.  Mr Higgins came home from New Glasgow.  Also George Deyarmond.  Mr and Mrs Higgins took me up to Prayer Meeting.  It was a nice meeting.   "Strength from the pledge" being the topic.  Mr. E. and David B. went home early. 

March 19, 1897 - Friday.  Fine this forenoon.  Rainy this afternoon.  I washed this forenoon.   Aunt Anne called.  We were baking.  D.M. got Charlie to cut his hair.  The geese laid. Allen Deyarmond came after his load of deal, before breakfast this morning.  Fos and D.M. sawed some for him.  He brought Mr Higgins' cloth over from Riversdale.

March 20, 1897 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Charlie, Foster and Harris went fishing but got no trout.  How Higgins went too.  Adam Johnson was here to dinner.  Uncle Charlie and Duncan here to tea.   Mrs James A. Graham, Julia, Anna Bell, Amanda, and Cora May called.

March 21, 1897 - Sabbath.  Fine again.  Mrs Deyarmond and Allen called to see Darby.  He is very sick. Alice Proven called too.  We had our little Sabbath School in the afternoon.

March 22, 1897 - Monday.  A fine day.  D.M. carried water for me to wash.  Got done before dinner.  There is a lecture on "Corea" tonight.  Charlie, Foster and Harris are there.  Walter Fulton was here to tea.  Eva , Lucy and Nelsie were here  a little while.  Roy and Ernie went up to school this morning, but there was no school.

March 23, 1897- Tuesday.  Soft and snowy.  Rainy tonight.  Thawed most all day.  D.M. went to Cross Roads this afternoon.  Robert Graham had some logs here.  Darby rather better.  Mrs B. washed this afternoon.  The little goose laid again.  I baked and ironed.  Bert Deyarmond here to tea.   We heard of the death of James Dunlap.

March 24, 1897 - Wednesday.  Rather a cold , grey day.  The wind is blowing tonight and it looks like snow.  Papa, Bert Creelman and Andrew Dickie here to dinner.  Papa had taken Nettie to Mr Fraser's to stay a month.   John MacKay, musician and shoe-maker, here tonight.

March 25, 1897 - Thursday.  Pretty fine but no sunshine.  Not much going on today.  J. MacKay still here.  We had quite a concert last evening singing "The Irish School-boy" etc.  Bub and I were up to Prayer Meeting.  It was consecration night.  Mr Fraser was there.  There was a meeting of the trustees of the church, and a congregational meeting appointed for Monday evening, April 5, 1897.

March 26, 1897 - Friday.  Dark and squally.  Wind blowing tonight.  Aunt Ann and Duncan here today, also J.T. Hamilton.  Uncle Charlie here a short time.  Aunt Ann is staying tonight, as Darby is very sick.  Ida is sick with fits.  D.M. was down to the Village today.  He got leather, etc.

March 27, 1897 - Saturday.  Charlie went to Greenfield, Truro etc.  Fos took him up a piece and went up to James Johnson's etc.  Aunt Ann went home when they went away.  Uncle Adam Johnson and Homer here to dinner.  I washed,  and washed the floor.  Mrs English here tonight to sit up.

March 28, 1897 - Sabbath.  Not very fine.  Mrs B., Mr B., Alden and Mr MacKay stayed home from preaching.  Mr Fraser preached a temperance sermon.  "And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things."

March 29, 1897 - Monday.  A  fine day.  I washed this forenoon.  Mr MacKay finished the children's boots today, that is, Roy's and Alden's.  I baked a stirred cake, also spice balls.  Was tired tonight.  Fred and Joe Woodworth came up this afternoon, they got here about two o'clock.  Charlie got home.  Quite a company here tonight.

March 30, 1897 - Tuesday.  Another fine day.  I was up to see Alice Proven a few minutes this forenoon, and when I came back, Johnnie Webster was here.  He was up to see Nettie and me, as he intends going to the USA tomorrow.   Uncle Adam and Harriet Johnson were here a little while tonight.  Liss Graham is here too.   Harris was up to Uncle James Johnson's, and Joe Woodworth did not begin work today, but went up along, so he and Bub got home together.  I washed my feet.

March 31, 1897 - Wednesday.  A fine day, but rather cold.  Alden went to school today. Foster went to Truro this afternoon.  He took the horse to Riversdale.  Joe Woodworth began work here today.  Uncle Sam and Martin here tonight.  Johnnie intended starting for USA.

April 1, 1897 - Thursday.  Another fine day.  Mrs English was down a few minutes this morning and Glenn went home with her.   I went up to see Mrs higgins.  Mr and Mrs David Kennedy and baby Arthur were there.  We spent quite a pleasant day.  When I got home, Glenn had come home with the children from school.  I went to Prayer Meeting with Mr and Mrs J.A. Graham.  It was Quarterly Missionary Meeting Night, the united collections amounted to $8.60.  Fos got back from Truro.  Joe went to a dance at Ed Brown's. 

April 2, 1897 - Friday.  A cold, raw, disagreeable day - snow flying too.  Mr MacKay busily preparing for a concert tonight.  Roy, Alden, D.M., Fos, Charlie, Bub and Joe went.

April 3, 1897 - Saturday.  Still rather cold, but finer.  Fos went to Truro.  J. MacKay went too.  Fos leaves Truro for Margaret's Bay on the six o'clock train Monday morning.  Ira Higgins sick.  I was up to the W.F.M.S. this afternoon.

April 4, 1897 - Sabbath.  Quite a fine day.  No preaching in the school house.  None of us down to church.  Mrs B. went up to see Ira Higgins.  He has pleurisy.  Doctor Cox was up to see him.

April 5, 1897 - Monday.  Not very fine.  Dark looking.   Charlie and D.M. did not go to Truro today. I washed but it wasn't a good day. It rained so tonight that not many went to the Congregational meeting.  Mr Fraser was up. 

April 6, 1897 - Tuesday.  Still dark and misty, but Charlie and Morrison went to Truro this afternoon.  Eva and Roddie here to dinner.  Eva, Roddie and I drove up to Mrs Higgins' to see Ira this afternoon.  Flossie is not very well these days.  We tried to bathe her tonight.

April 7, 1897 - Wednesday.  Dark but not rainy.  Mrs B. found the young goose's nest.  Bub burnt some plaster.  Morrison and Charlie got home about two-thirty.  Morrison went to see Janie at Mrs James Birrell's.  He is very much pleased with her place.  Liss Graham was down to tea.  Made maple wax tonight.

April 8, 1897 - Thursday.  Cold and dark with a little snow falling.  Joe and Morrison working over at the new place.  Bub took Charlie to Riversdale this afternoon.  Will Logan had a grist here.  Got the first number of the "Woman's World and  Jenness (sic) Miller Monthly" tonight.

April 9, 1897 - Friday.  Snowing nearly all day.  We just exist these dreary days.  They are days  so "dark and dreary"  So dirty and wet underfoot, and so cloudy and stormy overhead.

April 10, 1897 - Saturday.  The same as the other days of this week.  Very nasty weather.  They began the flue today, but gave it up.  Wood Graham called.  Mrs B. washed the cook-room.  We baked.  Emma called a minute.  Got "Beside the Bonny Briar Bush" tonight.

April 11, 1897 - Sabbath.  Dark, with quite a fall of snow tonight.  Mrs Blaikie was called over to C.E. Graham's this morning, but came back shortly after dinner.   Mrs Graham has a daughter.  Bub, Joe, Mrs B., and I were at preaching.  The sermon was on "The conversion of Cornelius". - the way in which God's spirit works, making one's heart ready to receive what another has to offer.  Preparing the messages sent to the receiver, to be accepted, etc.  Howard Graham called after some Minard's Linament in the evening.

April 12, 1897 - Monday.  Quite a lot of snow on the ground.  Herbert and Howard Higgins went to USA this morning.  Lewis took them over.  I took Roy, Alden and Ernie up to school this morning, stayed a little while there.  Had a very pleasant time.  I love to be in school.  It makes me think of the times I used to be in school myself.  Bert Creelman called this afternoon.  Bub and D.M. went to Congregational Meeting tonight.

April 13, 1897 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  But the wind was cold.  Uncle J. Johnson building the porch flue.  Ira Higgins here to dinner.  He is better.  Had pleurisy.

April 14, 1897 - Wednesday.  Cloudy this morning, showery all day.  I washed this forenoon and Mrs B. did this afternoon.  Mr Higgins here to dinner.  Mr English working here today.  Alice Proven called.  A lousy old fellow was here all night.  We got ten lice in the bed.

April 15, 1897 - Thursday.  Still dark with some showers.  Felt miserable.   The weather is very depressing.  Fos wrote to D.M.tonight.  Was over to J.A. Graham's to get some pork.  Hooked some while there.   Joe and Bub to prayer meeting.

April 16, 1897 - Friday.  Dark this morning but pretty fine the remainder of the day.  The clothes dried.  We set the geese this morning.  Mr English was not here.  Mr Higgins called.  It was a holiday - Good Friday.  We made two jars of maple molasses.

April 17, 1897 - Saturday.  Not very fine.  We washed the lousy bedclothes this forenoon.  Roy and Alden up to see Mr English.  He is sick.  J. Rutherford's teamster here to dinner.  Joe was up to Bill Graham's tonight.

April 18, 1897 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  No preaching up here.  Mrs B. went up to see Mr English.  He is better now.  Mr and Mrs Higgins down this afternoon.  Joe up to John R. Graham's.

April 19, 1897 - Monday.  A fine day, but windy.  D.M., Glenn and I were down to Dr Cox's, the Corner etc.  Doctor Cox gave me two bottles of medicine to take.  Joe away to P.W. Graham's tonight.

April 20, 1897 - Tuesday.  Cold and windy.  Some snow fell.  Election Day.  Alfred Dickie, F.A. Lawrence - Liberals;  and T.A. McMullen and D.H. Muir, Conservatives. Local.     Dimock and MacLure for the Dominion.   Not much doing at the mill.  D.M. was in to see Nettie at Mr Fraser's.

April 21, 1897 - Wednesday.  Fine, but a cold wind.  The successful candidates for Election honors are: F. MacLure for the Dominion:  Lawrence   (Liberal), and T.A. McMullen (Conservative) for the Local.  J. Fleck was here to dinner.  He had wheat.  Bill and Eva called tonight.  Joe and Mr English were digging the cellar today.

April 22, 1897 - Thursday.  A fine windy day.  I washed.  J. Crockett and G. Gammell were here to dinner.

April 23 - April 30, 1897 - no entries

May 1, 1897- Saturday.  Quite a fine day. Wind rather cold.  I have been sick with rheumatism etc lately and have neglected writing.  Libbie Graham was here scrubbing, etc today.  Mrs B. was up to W.F.M.S. Auxillary in the afternoon.  Mrs Ruth Hollingsworth here to tea.  D.M. away collecting.  Joe Woodworth left.

May 2, 1897 - Sabbath.  Fine.  Sabbath School began.  D.M., Roy and Alden went to Sabbath School.  Mrs B., Bub and Glenn went to church.  Mr Faulkner of Pictou preached.

May 3, 1897 - Monday.  Dark and rainy this afternoon.  D.M. intended going to Truro, Brookfield etc., but the weather was too wet.  D.R. Creelman and J.McG. Johnson here to dinner. Uncle John, who arrived last Wednesday, went back on his way to Pictou County.

May 4, 1897 - Tuesday.  Dark, but no rain.  Mr W. Power here hewing timber; also P.W., William and Robert Graham, Mike English, and Dan MacKenzie and son Edward here.  D.M. went to Brookfield, etc. this morning.  Messrs Martin Johnson and Lewis Fulton took their teams too.  They intend hauling the planer etc. from Brookfield.  Becky Graham was to have come tonight, but has not done so.

May 5, 1897 - Wednesday.  Still dark-looking.

May 6-May 11, 1897 - no entries

May 12, 1897 - Started the planer.

May 13 - June3, 1897 - no entries

June 4, 1897 - Friday.  Rainy and dark this morning, but it turned out to be a nice fine day.  Bub and I started for Lower Stewiacke this morning.  Got to John Dickie's about 11:30.  Mr Dickie was to Truro; but we were entertained by his wife and sons until about two o'clock, when we again resumed our journey to Lower Stewiacke, whence we arrived about five o'clock.  Fred and Joe were chopping but soon came in to supper.

June 5, 1897 - Saturday.  Dark this morning, but did not rain until late in the afternoon.  Quite wet tonight.  Wonder what they are doing at home!  It is Saturday night, and I like best to be at home Saturday night.  Joe intended going out to Mr Lyttle's, but it is too wet.

June 6, 1897 - Sabbath.  Dark and cloudy.  Joe went over to R. Cox's and spent the night last night, returning about eleven o'clock this forenoon.  I kept Ralph and Flora for Fred and Edith to go to church.  It was Sacrament Sabbath.  Nita and Beryl Cox called.  Fred was at Mr Cox's.  Joe went to Lyttle's and returned about dusk.  Edith and I had a pleasant walk.

June 7, 1897 - Monday.  Cloudy this morning but turned out to be a fine day.  Edith churned and made pigs feed.  I sewed a little and put on my gorgeous dress.  Mrs Ben Etter here to tea.  Mr and Mrs Cox spent the evening.

June 8, 1897 - Tuesday.  Another fine day.  Also warm.  Edith washed this forenoon.  Joe and Fred working at their pasture this morning.  We were invited over to Mr Cox's to tea.  Had a fine time.  Edith, Mrs Cox and I had a nice walk, and gathered some greens.  The moon is beginning to shine.

June 9, 1897 - Wednesday.  Fine again today.  Hot too.  We ironed this forenoon.  Bessie Cox called this forenoon.   We had greens for dinner - "goose-tongue".  Mrs Mumford called this afternoon, and she and Edith  went to call on Mrs Cox.  Mr and Mrs Cox and their son Russell, Edith , Fred and Joe are going to spend the evening at Mr. Amasa Bigelow's! Miss Annie Mumford is coming to spend the evening with me.  I wonder what she is like!  Have never seen her.  Am looking for a letter from Morrison tomorrow.   Nita Cox and Annie Mumford spent the evening with me.  Fred and Edith got home somewhere about eleven o'clock.  Nita went home with Mr and Mrs Cox (who were at Mr Bigelow's) and Fred took Annie home.

June 10, 1897- Thursday.  Dark looking, but quite a good farming day.  I went up to Mr Mumford's after some bitter yeast this morning;  when I got there, I was marched into the cosy little parlor and put to rest on the sofa, where I fell asleep; and while I was sleeping, Mrs Mumford sent Annie down to Edith with the yeast and told her that I was to stay all day.  Spent a very pleasant day with leisure to roam through the house where I wanted to go.  Edith went after my letter from D.M.  It was very much appreciated, to say the least.  Mrs Mumford had started to come part of the way home with me but we met Edith going up to the Village, and I went back and remained until she returned.  Mrs Custans called too.  Mrs Mumford is a grand woman.

June 11, 1897 - Friday.  Rainy.  We intended going to Wittenburg today, but the rain prevented us.  Fred went and got the horse shod this forenoon.  I worked at my quilt, but it is coming  to a stop on account of want of pieces for it.  Ben Etter's horse ran off from  up to Stewiacke and caused him quite a walk in the rain  .  He had a market waggon containing five or six bushels of potatoes.  Fed and Russell Cox caught him and brought him back.

June 12, 1897 - Saturday.  Dark, but not rainy.  Fred, Edith, Ralph, Flora and I went out to Wittenburg this morning.  The road was - well - not the best that ever was.

June 13, 1897 - Sabbath.  Dark.  A little drizzly.  Nettie, Clara, Walter and I went to Sabbath School at 10 a.m.  After dinner, Nettie, Clara , Walter and May went to Prayer Meeting.  I stayed home with Papa, Mamma and Dot.

June 14, 1897 - Monday.  Still dark.  Nettie, Clara and Walter started for school at Wittenburg this morning.  I made Dot a dress.  After dinner Papa took me out to Lower Stewiacke, where we found Morrison awaiting us.  I was very glad to see him.  Papa went back the same night.

June 15, 1897 - Tuesday.  Finer this afternoon.  Raining in the morning.  In the afternoon, D.M. and I called at Mr Mumford's .  He was very much pleased with them.  Then, Edith, baby and I went down through Shubenacadie for a drive.  We had a very pleasant time. 

June 16, 1897 - Wednesday.  Another fine day, but there was thunder, and I guess quite a storm over Musquodoboit way.    D.M. and I left Fred's between eight and nine o'clock; visited the Joyce Pottery, stopped at J. Dickie's to dinner, and got home before tea.

June 17 - July 6, 1897 - no entries

July 7, 1897 - Wednesday.  Quite a time since I have written any in my Journal.  It is a hot murky day.  We had a tea-meeting yesterday at the church.   It was nothing but rush and tramp all the afternoon.  Charlie brought Bessie Mackenzie over yesterday.  I don't know what to make of her yet.  I want to like her, but she has not been here long enough to form much of an opinion of her.  They (she and Charlie) did not come home last night. They arrived this afternoon; went to Aunt Anne's to tea, and thence to Greenfield.  Emma and Willie were here to dinner, and Mrs B. went over to see Mrs Deyarmond a while.

July 8, 1897 - Thursday.  Fine and hot.  Mrs Andrew Dickie died at the Victoria General Hospital  yesterday.  Funeral tomorrow at 10 o'clock.  They are bringing the body home tonight.  She had three tumors taken out of her stomach.

July 9, 1897 - Friday.  A fine day.  Mrs B., Eva and Mrs Higgins went to the funeral of Mrs Andrew  Dickie this forenoon at ten o'clock, and that of Mrs Mary Ann Fulton at three.  The former at her home, and the latter at Springside Church.  She died at the home of her son, R.P. Fulton, Onslow; age 77.   Yesterday, Mrs William Cox (nee Jessie Dunbar) was buried in the Village graveyard.   Papa came up but did not find the calf.  He stayed until about four o'clock in the morning, then left.  Charlie Blaikie and Gordon MacKenzie arrived after we had our tea.  This was a dark and unsatisfactory night, but dear me, it will all be over some day;  and then " what will it matter, if bright - if I only am sure that the way I've trod, gloomy or saddened, leads up to God".

July 10, 1897 - Saturday.  Another nice fine day.  D.M., Glenn and I went up to Examinations this forenoon.  It was very good.  Quite a number of the scholars got prizes; Jubilee Pins.  Becky and Mrs B. washed this afternoon.

July 11, 1897 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  No preaching.  D.M. and Roy and Alden went to Sabbath School.  Glenn and I took a walk.  Charlie took Gordon MacKenzie to his Uncle Dan's this afternoon.

July 12, 1897 - no entry

July 13, 1897 - Tuesday.  Fine again.  D.M. and I went down to Frank Creelman's to dinner, and then went up to the tea-meeting at the church. We had a very nice time.  I got, or D.M. got me, a galvanized stew-kettle, and a parasol.  We had a very good time at the tea-meeting.  Got home before dark; did not stay to the dance, which was held in Fisher's blacksmith shop.

July 14, 1897- Wednesday.  Fine.  Fos came home from French Village, St Matrgaret's Bay.   Becky left us.

July 15, 1897 - no entry

July 16, 1897 - Friday.  Eva was washing down here.  It was such a fine day. 

July 17, 1897 - Saturday.  Fine as common.  Fos went to Truro.

July 18, 1897 - Sabbath.  Fine.  Roy, Glenn, Flossie and Morrison  at home from church.  The children have the chicken-pox.

July 19, 1897 - Monday. Fine and hot.  Becky came and helped us wash today.  Mrs B., Ida and Roy went to pick strawberries, but they are almost done.  Fos came back today.  They got the stuff from F.F. Creelman.  Martin Johnson brought part of it up.  He, Colin, and Charlie were down.  Mr Alex MacKenzie of Musquodoboit, fiddler, here all night.

July 20, 1897 - Tuesday.  Another hot day.  I ironed this forenoon.  Mrs P.S. Hamilton and Mrs Higgins here in the afternoon.  Mr English took sick and had to go home.  Mrs English called this forenoon.   Jean Ingelow died July 20, 1897, aged 77 years.

July 21, 1897 - Wednesday.  Fine again.  Fos preparing to leave for Newport.

July 22, 1897 - Thursday.  Dark this forenoon, but it got fine about noon, or rather, before.  Then there were thunder showers at night.  I took Charlie and Fos over part of the way to Riversdale this morning.  We started about half-past five;  I went over to see if Uncle Jim could come and build the wall under our house, but he couldn't.   Uncle John came back.

July 23, 1897 - Friday.  Dark.  Showery this forenoon.  Deacon Deyarmond came, and he and Uncle Jim were both working at it this afternoon.  Aunt Eliza, Aunt Anne, Chester here to tea.  Eunice, Janet, Miss Georgie Graham (Truro), Mary E. Hamilton and Bert and J.W. Deyarmond called.  Also Mrs Higgins and Amy.

July 24, 1897 - Saturday.  Dark this forenoon.  Mr Deyarmond working at the house wall until dinner time, then he went home.  D.M. and Ira Higgins down to the Corner.  Mrs B. took Aunt Eliza over to J.A. Graham's after tea.

July 25, 1897 - Sabbath.  Rather dark with some showers.  D.M., Roy, Alden and Glenn up to Sabbath School.

July 26, 1897 - Monday.  Fine.  Becky down and helped me to wash.  She and Mrs B. scrubbed.

July 27 - July 31, 1897 -  no entries.

August 1, 1897 - Sabbath.  Dark this forenoon, but quite a thunder storm this afternoon.  Mr Fraser was up to the school house, but none  of us were.  Looks as if the rain were not over yet.

August 2, 1897 - Monday.  Dark and showery.  Mr Deyarmond and Uncle Charles Graham here.  They were working at the house.  Nessie and Ivy Cox called tonight.  Becky Graham was here to help us wash.  They got raspberries - enough for tea.

August 3, 1897 - Tuesday.  Fine.  Nobody working at our house today.  I and the children picked some raspberries this forenoon, and I made jelly of them.  We baked bread.  Bub went to get his teeth out.  Willie and Emma Mackay called.

August 4, 1897 - Wednesday.  Dark.  Mrs George Deyarmond and Eunice were visiting here this forenoon.  Mr William Deyarmond finished building the wall of our new house.  Uncle Jim Johnson took Alden over the "Graham Hill" way this afternoon.  Bub got a load of hay at R.S. Deyarmond's.

August 5, 1897 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Bub and Mr English mowing out at Lowery brook.  Morrison got a load of hay at R.S. Deyarmond's.  Mrs B., Ida and Roy were picking raspberries.  I made a pair of pants for Alden, and partly made one for Roy.

August 6, 1897 - Friday.  A fine day, but it looks rather dark tonight.  My twenty-seventh birthday.  I wonder if I shall see twenty-seven more?  How fast our lives flit away!  Let us try to spend them better each succeeding year.  They finished the hay out at Lowery brook today.  Mrs B. and Ida were picking berries.  I was sewing a little etc.

August 7, 1897 - Saturday.  A fine day.  D.M. and I were down to the Corner, Doctor Cox's etc.  We got home about one o'clock.  It is Alden's birthday.  I got him a pair of stockings.

August 8, 1897 - Sabbath.  Fine.  No preaching.  D.M. and children at Sabbath school.

August 9, 1897 - Monday.  Fine.  Beautiful hay weather.  Becky was down this forenoon and washed for us.  She went home after dinner.  James Graham was here getting his mower fixed.  Mrs B., and Ida were picking berries this afternoon.  Edward Logan and daughter and Miss Gammell were up picking berries too.

August 10, 1897 - Tuesday.  Fine day.  Mrs B. and Ida were picking berries this forenoon.  I picked a little while too.  Mrs B and Flossie and I went to the Corner with berries this afternoon.  We got sundry dishes.  They began to shingle the roof of the new house today.

August 11, 1897 - Wednesday.  Not so fine as common but rainy tonight.  Mrs B. and Ida were picking berries all day.  Roy was picking in the forenoon.  I picked eleven ot twelve little pints of berries tonight.  Bub was down to get a load of hay from S.F. Creelman's today.  Mr English was sick.  Alice Proven here to tea.  Jennie and Irene English called.

August 12 - August 14, 1897 - no entries

August 15, 1897 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Mrs B., Roy, Alden, Bub and I were up to preaching and Sabbath School.  Rev George F. Johnson preached.  He preached on the text - "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."  It was a nice sermon from a young minister.

August 16, 1897 - Monday.  Rather dark.  I washed some in the forenoon.  William Pearson and his little boy, Jimmie, were here to dinner.  Eva here a little while.

August 17, 1897 - Tuesday.  Rainy.  A thunder storm in the night last night.  Was making Glenn a shirt today.

August 18. 1897 - no entry

August 19, 1897 - Thursday.  Fine.  Morrison, Roy, Alden and Glenn went to Lower Stewiacke, Wittenburg etc today.  After they got away, I went to pick a few raspberries for dinner, having first got the mail off.   Bessie Ogilvie and Irene Archibald called.   While I was away,  Mr and Mrs David Crocker called on their way up to Mr C. Graham's.  Nothing very important occurred.  After dinner, at which time Ernie Higgins was present, and Flossie was asleep, I made out three accounts and then worked at my quilts a while.  Then it was mail time.  May English called, also Lib and Dave on their way back home.   P.W., Allie, and Perley Graham and Christine Pearson called at night.  After dark, Flossie and I went to bed and had a very good sleep, for the most part, until morning.

August 20, 1897 - Friday.  Rather dark, with a few showers.  The forenoon was very quiet.  Mr English and Bub were sawing shingles, etc.  After dinner Henry Johnson was at the mill, also Mr Fred Bentley.   James A. Graham and Anna Belle called and got a couple of pairs of boots - No 6 and No 1 - woman's.  May English called.  Ida went up to Mrs Fulton's.  Mrs B. went to the W.F.M.S. meeting  and stayed at Mrs English's to tea.  We had a very quiet tea - just Bub, Mr Blaikie, Flossie and I.  Bert and Jennie came after Mr English, as their grandmother was there.  Mary E. Hamilton called.  I churned and baked biscuit this afternoon, also scoured the knives.  A.R. Higgins called.

August 21, 1897 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Becky here this forenoon.  She washed floors.  D.M. and children got home about tea time.  They had quite a visit.  They were at the Cove for dinner.  Papa, Walter and  Nettie were there getting hay.  Morrison took the pony over to Dennie tonight.  He had her to Lower Stewiacke in place of "Tom"

August 22, 1897 - Sabbath.  Fine.  Mrs Blaikie and Bub down to church.  D.M., Roy, Glenn, Flossie and I were up to Sabbath School.  The lesson was on "the excellence of Christian Love".  A good lesson.  Martin Johnson's baby Seymour, has cholera, and he went down to get the Doctor to come up tonight.

August 23, 1897 - Monday.  Pretty fine.  Becky did not come today.  I washed a little - a shirt for Morrison etc.  Eva called this forenoon.  Mrs B. up to Mrs Higgins this evening.

August 24, 1897 - Tuesday.  Fine this forenoon, but looks like rain tonight.  Morrison went to New Glasgow this morning.  We made chow-chow this forenoon.  Also we baked today.  Mrs Higgins and a Miss Bridgett Newcomb here this afternoon and to tea.  I made a shirt for D.M.    Alden not very well.

August 25, 1897 - Wednesday.  Dark this forenoon but finer this afternoon.  Morrison went to New Glasgow yesterday morning and got back tonight.  We were pested with two peddlars this forenoon.

August 26, 1897 - Thursday.  Rather dark but not rainy.  Mrs Blaikie, Becky and Flossie went to seeMrs David Crocker, but she was away.  They got their dinner there and then came to Mrs William Deyarmond's to tea.  Ida was at J.W. Deyarmond's.   P.S. Hamilton and Mr C. Graham were working at our house this afternoon.  It is D.M.'s forty-first birthday.  The children gave him a shaving mug.  I made him a shirt.

August 27, 1897 - Friday.A fine day.  P.S. Hamilton here lathing today.  Becky washed this forenoon.  She went home after dinner.  I was piecing patchwork etc.

August 28, 1897 - Saturday.  Fine.  We had a busy forenoon.  I was ironing, sewing, making beds etc.  P.S. Hamilton here today.  Liss called this forenoon.   Bloksbury was here this afternoon.  A Mr Fisher had a grist here.  Eva called tonight.  Feel pretty well only tired.  I washed the little ones all over, and it is quite a job.

August 29, 1897 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  There was preaching in the school house today.  Morrison and Roy and Alden and Glenn walked up to Sabbath School.  Mrs B., Bub and Fos were at preaching too.  Fos came home last night.  He had been to Margaret's Bay the last week.

August 30, 1897 - Monday.  Fine.  Mrs B.'s sixty-fifth birthday.    Nobody here working except Mr English.  Charlie came home this afternoon.School began today.  Alice Gourley is the teacher. 

August 31. 1897 - Tuesday.  Fine.  Mrs B. baked a ginger cake.  I was down to the Corner and called at Mr Fraser's on my way home, but both Mr and Mrs Fraser were away.   P.S. Hamilton was here this afternoon.  Uncle C. Graham here all day - working at our house.

September 1, 1897 - Wednesday.  Fine.  Becky came back.  Mrs B. carding and spinning.  Mr C. Graham and P.S. Hamilton here.  A dance at Alex MacKay's.

September 2, 1897 - Thursday.  Pretty fine until tonight - it is raining.  Mrs B., Ida and Glenn over to Mr C. Graham's today.  Charlie away on his wheel.  May English called tonight.  Mr English's back pretty sore.

September 3, 1897 - Friday.  Pretty fine.  A little rain and quite a lot of wind.  Aunt Ann came down this morning and took Flossie, Glenn and I up with her.  We had a nice visit.  We had the garments to make today - those that we were making for Trinidad.  Mr Duncan Creelman,   P.S. Hamilton,  James Johnson,  and C. Graham were working at our house today.  Built part of the chimney.  D.M. came over to Uncle Charlie's after us (I and the children).

September 4, 1897 - Saturday.  A fine day.  After dinner, D.M. went down along, and Mr Creelman went too.  Doctor Cox was up to see Mr English.  he has kidney complaint.  May English had word of a vacant school - Lindsay Lake.  She went to Cross Roads to telephone for it - went down with Doctor Cox, and back with Morrison.  P.S. Hamilton and Mr C. Graham here.

September 5, 1897 - Sabbath.  Quite rainy ths afternoon.  Roy and Alden went to Sabbath School.

September 6, 1897 - Monday.  Fine day.  May English and I went to Cross Roads this morning.  She got Lindsay Lake School.  Then we came back to David Bentley's where May waited and came up with Bert English.  This afternoon, she and Mrs English started for her school.   P.S. Hamilton and Uncle Charles here from ten o'clock.

September 7, 1897 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  Mr Duncan Creelman went home at dinner time.  P.S. Hamilton here.  Uncle J. and Aunt E. Johnson and Alice Gourley here to tea. 

September 8, 1897 - Wednesday.  Another fine day.  Just D.M. working at the house.  I swept the chamber and the little room out.  We expected them to be plastering, but they didn't come.

September 9, 1897 - Thursday.  Darker than common.  Charlie and Fos came home.   Mr and Mrs L. Fulton had a daughter born today.

September 10, 1897 - Friday.  A fine day.  I went up to see Mrs Higgins a little while this afternoon.  She came down with me.  Byron Johnson here to tea and to spend the night.   He and Charlie and Fos went down to hear Nessie Cox playing, but she was away.

September 11, 1897 - Saturday.  Fine again but not so hot as common.  Mrs B. carding and spinning.  Eva called this afternoon.  Creel. Cox, David Brown, and Wm. Fulton here to dinner.  Fos went up to see Mr Adam Johnson's folks tonight. 

September 12, 1897 - Sabbath.  A fine day with a cool wind.  Mrs B. and I took Flossie down to Doctor MacKay, and got her finger partly taken off (at the first joint).  She got it caught in the cog-wheel of the planer last Monday.  We didn't get back in time to go to preaching.  Rev Anderson Rogers of New Glasgow, preached.  Roy, Alden, Charlie, Bub and Fos went.

September 13, 1897 - Monday.  A fine day, but rain at night.  Fos took D.M. down to the Otter Brook School House this morning and then he started for Brookfield on Fos's bike.  Fos came back by Cross Roads and got flour and sugar.  The day was very quiet.  Glenn went to school with Roy and Alden.  Frank MacKay had some boards to get planed. I washed.

September 14, 1897 - Tuesday.  Rather showery and wet.  Quite a lot of grinding came in today.  James Pace from Musquodoboit had wheat.  Fos went up along or somewhere.  D.M. got home tonight.  We baked bread.

September 15, 1897 - Wednesday.  Rainy and dark.  Cooler too.  Big John Pratt here to dinner; also Ira Higgins.   Jennie English came down after school and met her mother here.  A little peddlar is stopping overnight.  Was piecing patchwork and knitting today.

September 16, 1897 - Thursday.  Dark and showery.  Looks finer tonight.  D.M. went to Cross Rads this morning.  Martin and Colin here to dinner.  Mrs Stinson Deyarmond called a little while this afternoon.  These days seem dark and dreary somehow.  The children have sores on their feet and it makes them troublesome.

September 17, 1897 - Friday.  Dark but not rainy.  Bub, Flossie and I were down to the Corner, Doctor MacKay's, etc.  We had quite a pleasant time.  Doctor Dechman was there, at Doctor MacKay's too.  Thet were just going over to see Doctor Cox.  He is sick with fever of some kind.  Had a letter from Edith.

September 18, 1897 - Saturday.  Not fine and not very stormy.  Fos went up to Uncle J. Johnson's etc tonight.

September 19, 1897 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  No preaching.  Fos at Bill's to dinner.  D.M., Roy, Alden, Glenn and I up to Sabbath School.  Lesson on Paul's address to the Ephesian Elders, Acts 25: 22-37

September 20, 1897 - Monday.  Dark this forenoon, raining this afternoon.  I washed a few clothes.  Allen Deyarmond brought the burr stones from Brookfield today.

September 21, 1897 - Tuesday.  Still dark weather.  Uncle Jim called this morning, but did not plaster any.   Eva, Lucy, Roddie and Nelsie here.

September 22, 1897 - Wednesday.  A dark day again.  D.M. down to the Corner, Village etc.  Got glass for the house etc.  I went up to Bill's and got their waggon for him to go down.

September 23, 1897 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Edson Cox brought us up a piece of beef (a quarter - 89 lbs).  Martha E. Johnson here to spend the day.  We baked bread.  Mrs B. finished spinning, doubling and twisting Aunt Ann's worsted.

September 24, 1897 - Friday.  Pretty fine.  Rainy tonight.  Mr English went down to the Corner after a barrel of sugar, salt etc.  Mrs Higgins and Mrs English and Howie here this afternoon.

September 25, 1897 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Quite a lot of grinding came today.  Mr Duncan Creelman here this afternoon working at the windows of our house.  Fos up to see the church getting cleaned out.

September 26, 1897 - Sabbath.  Fine again.  D.M., Glenn and Flossie at home.  Mr Fraser preached a beautiful sermon on Love, 1 Cor., XIII.

September 27, 1897 - Monday.  Pretty fine.  Some showers.  Ed Logan here to dinner.  Mrs B. and Ida down to J.W. Deyarmond's this afternoon.  Doctor MacKay called to see Flossie's finger and Bub's legs.

September 28, 1897 - Tuesday.  A cool day with high wind.  Mr Samuel Whidden here todinner.  Mrs Blaikie and Fos went over to Aunt Eliza's house, and got a cupboard etc that was there.  I washed some, baked, made some pot-head, ironed some etc.  Feel tired tonight. Alden is saying his paraphrase - the IV.

September 29, 1897 - Wednesday.  Pretty fine, but cold wind.  Mr Duncan Creelman working at the windows of our house.  Mrs B. finished spinning Mrs Deyarmond's worsted.  We had baked peas for dinner.  Not a great deal of grinding came today.

September 30, 1897 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Water getting scarce.  Quite a crowd here to dinner.  Uncle Will here all night.  Colin Grant here too, but not all night.  Fos went to Exhibition in Halifax.

October 1, 1897 - Friday.  Another fine day.  Aunt Esther and Nellie went down to Minnie's this afternoon.  Mr Ben Davidson died.

October 2, 1897 - Saturday.  Fine as usual.  Uncle Jim and Jack  Graham here plastering.   Quite a number here to dinner.  I was down to Mrs Hamilton's to W.F.M.S.

October 3, 1897 - Sabbath.  A lovely autumn day.  Quite a frost last night and the leaves were showering down this morning.  No preaching here.  D.M. and Roy up to Sabbath School.  Alden took a sleep.  Glenn, Flossie and I took a walk up to the grave-yard.

October 4, 1897 - Monday.  Fine again.  Uncle Jim and Jack here plastering again.  Mrs Higgins was down to get a little stitching done.  She had a fine time at the Exhibition.  Hattie M. Johnson here to stay all night. Rheumatism bothers me tonight, also heart disease.  Am rather tired, but rest is coming.

October 5, 1897 - Tuesday.  Fine as usual.  Water low, as common.  Quite a lot of grain came.  Uncle Jim and Jack plastered the remainder of the chamber today.  My ankle and foot were very sore with rheumatism.  Flossie and I were in bed at dinner time.  Mrs Fulton called this forenoon.  Mrs Blaikie was spinning worsted.  Hattie Johnson was here all night.  D.M. went to Truro today.  I don't know when he will be back.

October 6, 1897 - Wednesday.  Fine again.  Water very low.  Not much grinding came today.  Uncle Jim and Jack plastered the front room and part of the hall. Bella Hamilton here a little while this afternoon.  Mr Higgins went away on a trip.  Our cows are not home. Adam Wright here to tea.  We baked today.

October 7, 1897 - Thursday.  Cloudy with some glints of sunshine.  Mrs Higgins here to dinner, also alex redmond of Musquodoboit.  Uncle Jim and Jack finished plastering the house today.  Mr F. Bentley here for sheathing.  He had grain too.  Water very low.

October 8, 1897 - Friday.  Dark and showery.  Water somewhat better.  Allen Johnson (South Branch) amd .......Hamilton, Woodside, here to dinner.  Uncle Jim and Jack Graham went home about two o'clock.  They did not finish the chimney.   Annie Crockett here too.  D.M. and Fos not home yet.

October 9, 1897 - Saturday.  Finer than yesterday.  Not much rain.  Mr Alex MacKenzie here to dinner.  A Mr Kent here to tea.  D.M. and Fos got home about three-thirty or a little later.  They brought Flossie a chair - a rocking chair.  They also brought two heads of cabbage and some cranberries.  They are grinding tonight.  We washed the floor and churned, and washed the clothes, (Mrs B. and Ida) this afternoon.  Had a letter from Edith tonight.  Also one from the Pen Art Co., Ohio, USA.

October 10, 1897 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Preaching up here.  Mr MacMillan preached.  Flossie, Glenn and I were at home.  We had cabbage for dinner.  Alden and Roy went to Sabbath school.

October 11, 1897 - Monday.  Another fine day but quite a cold morning. Becky came back this morning.  We did not wash.   We put in a quilt to cover this afternoon.  Mrs Higgins was here a while this afternoon.  Morrison went to the Corner and got a barrel of flour for us  and one for Mr English;  also a small barrel of oat-meal.

October 12, 1897 - Tuesday.  Dark and very warm.  Looks like rain.  Mr Duncan Creelman here to dinner.   he painted the top ceiling of the hall and sitting room of our new house.  Fos and Bert Deyarmond were out at the lake.  Eva and Angus called this afternoon.  Mrs Blaikie and Glenn were up to Mrs Higgins' to tea.  We finished quilting one quilt.  Charlie came home lat night.

October 13, 1897 - Wednesday.  Rained some last night and a little this morning, but it was fine this afternoon.  Not much grinding came today.  Mrs Higgins and Amy; Mrs Allen Gould and Laura and Arthur here to tea.   "Uncle Geordie" here to dinner (Mr George Graham).  We put in another quilt to cover for Mrs Blaikie; got one side rolled.  I sewed up the lining for one for myself too.

October 14, 1897 - Thursday.  Fine but cooler.  Leander McCabe of  Greenfield here all night last night.  We were quilting today.  Aunt Anne and Minnie were here awhile this afternoon helping us.  Fos was down to Cross Roads after a cask of Kerosene oil;  and then took a barrel of eggs up to Uncle Sam's to send to Truro.  Mr English is not here these days.  He is digging his potatoes.

October 15, 1897 - Friday.  Dark looking, but occasional glints of sunshine.  Becky and I washed.  We got the other quilt covered today.  Janie Graham wsas here to spend the day.  She is great with the children.  Uncle Sam Johnson and Andrew Gammell here to dinner. Charlie was out to MacKenzie's mill.   Am tired tonight.

October 16, 1897 - Saturday.  dark and wet; but not a great deal of rain.  Uncle Jim finished the porch flue.  We took some of the flowers over there.  Becky ironed.  I made a pair of pants for Alden. Also baked bread.  Charlie did not get work at MacKenzie's.

October 17, 1897 - Sabbath.  Rather cool but fine.  No preaching.  Cy Graham came down to get Charlie to go to work at MacKenzie's.   He went out tonight.

October 18, 1897 - Monday.  A cold wind, but a fine day.  There was a skiff of snow on the ground this morning.   Mr English not here.   Fos and D.M. working at the house.  We put in a quilt today.  A Perrin boy here to dinner.

October 19, 1897 - Tuesday.  Pretty cold, but fine.  Mr Burgess working at the house.  D.M. down along.  We put out our quilt.  Alice Gourley here all night.  P.S. Hamilton helped Fos kill a pig.

October 20, 1897 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  Fos and D.M. working at the house.  Becky cleaned the pantry this forenoon.   She was down to P.S. Hamilton's to get her boots fixed this afternoon.  There was a half holiday this afternoon.  The Inspector was at school.  Mrs Higgins and Amy here this afternoon.

October 21, 1897 - Thursday.  A dark day, and rather chilly.  Becky cleaned out our chamber.  I helped her a little.  Mrs B. baked.  Ida was sick with fits.  Aunt Ann and Liss called. Wm. Redmond and son here to dinner.  I finished Eva's stockings.

October 22, 1897 - Friday.  Dark but not rainy.  Rather cool.  Becky finished cleaning the new house.  Mr English came back today.  John Power was here to dinner.  We made potted head.  Mrs Blaikie washed.

October 23, 1897 - Saturday.  A lovely fine day.  Mr English not here.  Becky washed at the new house.  I baked.  D.M. got chairs etc. at Edwin Dickie's.  Glenn was down to the Village with him.  Charlie came home.

October 24, 1897 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Fos' twenty-sixth birthday.  The last day of Sabbath School for this year.  Becky kept Flossie and the rest of us went to preaching.  D.M. and boys went to Sabbath School.  Charlie went back to MacKenzie's tonight.

October 25, 1897 - Monday.  Another lovely fine day.  We were moving all day.  Ate our supper in the new house.  They were working at the mill-stones most of the day; they could not get them to work right.   Albert Fisher and  a Miller and a Butcher boy here to dinner.

October 26, 1897 - Tuesday.  Still fine and clear.  The mill-stones not working good yet.  Becky cleaning house over at the other house.  We had moose-meat for dinner.   Mr Higgins, J. McGill Johnson, and Johnson Logan called, also Mrs English.  David B. Johnson is dead;  also James Dean, father of Henry Dean.  Morrison made shelves tonight.  He and I put up the blinds this afternoon.

October 27, 1897 - Wednesday.  Another fine day.  Also warm.   Water very scarce.  They were putting in the old stones again.  Becky and Mrs Blaikie were cleaning the front room and bedroom.  I was making a dress for Flossie etc.  Mr English made a bedstead.  Eva, Angus and Olin called tonight, also Mrs B., Bub and Fos.  James McCabe of Greenfield came with a grist.

October 28, 1897 - Thursday.  A fine day, but cooler.  This afternoon was spent at the church where they were selling the seats.  We bought two in the middle block.  Mr Fraser was very much pleased with everything.  The new church was named the "Stiles Church" in loving remembrance of Mr Fraser.

October 29, 1897 - Friday.  Rather dark.  James McCabe returned home.  Fos went out to MacKenzie's mill to work in Charlie's place.  Charlie is going to Truro tomorrow.  James and Janet Graham called this evening.  Also How Higgins.

October 30, 1897 - Saturday.  Still dark looking.  The women went up to decorate and sweep at the church.  Took flowers etc.  We baked bread biscuits etc.

October 31, 1897 - Sabbath.  Fine but chilly.  The Opening day of our Church.  A large gathering.  The church closely packed.  Service at 2:30 and again at seven p.m. in the evening.  Mr Sinclair preached the dedication sermon, and Mr MacKinnon, the evening service.  Janie Webster was up with John Fulton in the afternoon.  I was not up in the evening.  D.M. and Roy and Becky were.  Mr Duncan Creelman here to tea.  Morrison got a bad cold by going.

November 1, 1897 - Monday.  Dark and a little rainy.  Becky washed.  Mrs Blaikie was down to see Agnes Deyarmond who is not very well.  Charlie did not go away until afternoon.  Mrs B. and Becky up to Higgins' this evening.

November 2, 1897 - Tuesday.  A wet day.  The water all right now.  Mr English's wrist is sparined so that he cannot work.  Mr Higgins called this afternoon, also Little Andy.  We churned.  D.M. was not well today.  Roy and Alden did not go to school.

November 3, 1897 - Wednesday.  Dark with occasional showers.  Roy and Alden went to school.  Mrs Blaikie put in a quilt to cover.  I sewed at my night-dresses.  Morrison's cold was better.   P.W. Graham in tonight.

November 4, 1897 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Charlie Miller here to dinner.  Mrs B. has the cold.  Edith, Fred and Ralph came tonight just as we finished our tea.  Mrs English and Blanche called.  Eva and children were over at the other house.  Edith and I were over a little while.

November 5, 1897 - Friday.  Not so fine as yesterday, but not a bad day.  Edith , Ralph and Fred went home right after dinner. We had three little boys to dinner - Samuel Miller, Lyman and Edson Steward.  We got a pig.  He got out of his pen tonight, but they found him and put him in again.  Becky is over with Mrs B.  She is not altogether well yet.

November 6, 1897 - Saturday.  A little rainy and dark.  D.M. grinding all day.  Charlie came in from the woods.  Mrs Blaikie quite sick.  Fos went for Doctor Cox.  She has pleurisy.  We were up until after two o'clock.  The Doctor came over and slept here until morning, when Fos took him down.

November 7, 1897 - Sabbath.  Dark and showery.  Was sleepy and dull.  Mrs B. doing pretty well.  All of us except D.M. and Roy had a sleep in the afternoon.  Glenn not very well.

November  8, 1897 - Monday.  Chilly.  Some snow squalls.  Becky took some of my washing over and did it.  D.M. not very well these days.  Max Graham working here 3/4 day.  Doctor Cox up to see mrs B.  I churned and blacked the stove.

November 9, 1897 - Tuesday.  Pretty fine today, but rainy tonight.   Lissa Graham here to dinner.  I just fussed round and didn't do much of anything except the work.  Mrs Blaikie not much better.  Mrs English called.

November 10, 1897 - Wednesday.  Very rainy last night, and showery all day.  Uncle Jim and P.W. Graham here finishing the chimney. I was darning and patching all my spare time.  We got a barrel of flour up from the mill - an oat-meal barrel.  Flossie very wakeful tonight, in consequence of having had a nap in the afternoon.

November 11, 1897 - Thursday.  Dark.  I washed some clothes in the forenoon.  Mr McLeod called.   Lucy B. Johnson here to dinner.  Sewed some this afternoon.  A young Pike here all night.

November 12, 1897 - Friday.  A wet day.  Roy and Alden did not go to school, for Roy had not been very well last night.  David Haley of North River, and Geordie Bentley of Stewiacke Village here to dinner.  Mr Haley bought one of the pigs.  Aunt Mary Deyarmond called tonight.  D.M. made a bedstead, and I made a bed tick.  Glenn troublesome tonight.

November 13, 1897 - Saturday.  A dark rainy sleety day, like yesterday.  I churned the churn and baked a little.  Roy was not very well and I didn't feel very smart myself.  My feet ached and my teeth too.  Nobody here to dinner.

November 14, 1897 - Sabbath.  Dark but not stormy. None of us up to church except Roy.  Charlie went back to the woods.

November 15, 1897 - Monday.  a pretty fine day.  I washed this forenoon.  Mr Mc Leod here to dinner.  Mrs P.S. Hamilton called in the afternoon.  I blacked the stove.  Mrs Crockett and Alice Proven called this evening.

November 16, 1897 - Tuesday.  Rainy and dark.  Fos and Morrison finished the bay window and front room.  I was sewing, etc.  Baking bread too.  Abe. Bentley called this forenoon.  Glenn bumped his cheek this afternoon.  Fos here this evening.

November 17 - November 30, 1897 - no entries

December 1, 1897 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  froze hard last night.  Baby a fortnight old today.  Born November 17, 1897. [Harry]     Morrison and Jimmie Graham were out looking over a logging lot today.  Maria Deyarmond here with me.  It is a week since she came. We were quilting.  Mrs Blaikie over this afternoon.  Eva Graham called, also Mrs English.  We had a call from Messrs Bert and Warren  Creelman tonight.

December 2, 1897 - Thursday.  Snowy this morning, but turned out fine.  We quilted some.   Ralph McCabe Jr. and son Harry here tonight.  Mary E. Hamilton here to tea.  She and Maria went to Prayer Meeting.   We sat up talking to Mr McCabe until eleven o'clock.

December 3, 1897 - Friday.  Pretty fine.  We washed diapers.  I had a bad tooth-ache and ear-ache this forenoon.  We quilted some.  Sarah Graham and Libbie Crocker called.  Alice Gourley here to tea and to stay all night.  Bub over this evening.  Fos and How Higgins went out to the MacKenzie Mill.

December 4 - December 7, 1897 - no entries

December 8, 1897 - Wednesday.  Dark.  A little sunshine.  Skating on the pond.  A fortnight since Maria Deyarmond came.  Charlie got his hand cut yesterday.  It was cut on the trimmer at MacKenzie's mill out back of James Johnson's.  Alfred Johnson brought him home and Fos took him down to Dr Cox's.  Maria is skating tonight.  We churned today.  Baby took quite a sleep this forenoon.  Mr R. Creelman over to the other house to dinner.  He called here too.  My teeth, ear and head ached last night, but Morrison doctored them up with carbolic acid.

December  9, 1897 - no entry

December 10, 1897 - Friday.  Quite warm.  Flossie, Glenn, Baby  Harry and I  over to Grandma's for a while.  I stayed to dinner.  Finished a shirt for Roy this afternoon.  My teeth are better.  Maria and I got the quilt out yesterday.   D.M., Mr Orsley, P.S. Hamilton and Fos out to the woods running lines.  We put up their dinner.  Mr English took Charlie down to the Doctor with his sore hand.

December 11 - December 12, 1897 - no entries

December 13, 1897 - Monday.  Not very fine.  Snow and rain.  The sun shone occasionally.  We did not wash.  D.M. was at the Corner with our geese.   M.E. Hamilton and Mrs English helped kill them  Saturday.  Alice Gourley here tonight.  She, Maria and Fos up to Mr Higgins' to spend the evening.  D.M. made a stand tonight.  We picked over a mess of peas.

December 14 - December 21, 1897 - no entries

December 22, 1897 - Wednesday.  A lovely fine day.  All this week has been fine.  Maria was up helping me wash.  Baby was quite troublesome today.  The colic bothered him.  Flossie was not very well either.  Mr English hurt his arm on the slabs this morning, and had to go home.  Mrs English and Jen were here this evening; also Becky; also Jack Graham.  Lyman Fulton here to dinner.

December 23 - December 24, 1897 - no entries

December 25, 1897 - Saturday.  Christmas day.  A lovely fine day.  Good skating.  We had Mr and Mrs James A. Graham here to dinner. Also Cora May.  Also Andy Graham.  We had a very pleasant and sociable day.  Maria J. Deyarmond came up to spend the afternoon and she, Bessie MacKenzie and Charlie here to tea.  Roy got a pair of skates for a present;  Alden and Glenn got jack knives, and Flossie got a doll.  There was a shooting in the afternoon.   I had a note from Jennie Fulmer, also Christmas cards.

December 26, 1897 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine.  D.M., Roy, Glenn and Flossie up at service.  Mr Fraser preached a good sermon.

December 27, 1897 - Monday.  Some sleet fell, but it is a fine night.  I washed some clothes and put them out.  Fos went to Halifax.  They took the sewing-machine over for Bessie MacKenzie to sew Mrs Blaikie's dress on.  The Congregational Meeting was held tonight.  Bub and D.M. were up.  Uncle John and Charlie over this evening.

December 28, 1897 - Tuesday.  A lovely fine day.  I didn't do much but fuss round today.  Churned this forenoon.  Had nice butter.  Howard Graham and Howard Higgins called tonight.  Charlie was in.

December 29 - December 31, 1897 - no entries