January 2, 1898 - Sabbath.  A lovely fine day.  Bessie MacKenzie here to dinner.  Mrs. B., Charlie and Bub were allhere a while in the forenoon.  It is Bub's birthday.  No service up here.

January 3, 1898 - Monday.  Snowy, but fine tonight.   I washed this forenoon.  Had the line about full.  Fos went to Belmont.  How Higgins took him to Riversdale.  I baked biscuits and ginger snaps.  I feel tired and just a little bit lonesome tonight.  "The friends we loved in early youth - Fond memory brings them back again"   I never, or scarcely ever, see any of them - Yes, there is One that is ever with me, and I need not falter or fear.  But my weaker nature often craves "the friends of other days" - But I am  "a episodin" as Mrs. Josiah Allen says, so here goes to bed.

January 4 - January 6, 1898 - no entries

January 7, 1898 - Friday.  A very rainy day.  Not cold.  Uncle John here all night last night.  He slept in the bedroom down stairs.  Nothing going on.  D.M. put up a mantle-piece, and Uncle John made a mouse-trap.  Mr. Samuel Johnson (Pembroke Elder) died yesterday morning about eight o'clock.  He was buried today.  Charlie, Harris and Herb Higgins were here this evening. I sewed up a pair of facings for Bub's mittens.   They were looking at the magic lantern.

January 8 - January 25, 1898 - no entries

January 26, 1898 - Wednesday.  Pretty fine.  Mary E. Hamilton here to help me.  Was sick on Monday night.  Cold pretty bad.  Am some better but not strong yet.  Baby Harry troublesome.  Sadie Gerard here a while this afternoon.  Joseph Chaplin here to dinner.  Uncle John. Mike, Johnnie Crockett and Bub getting wood today.  D.M. grinding and smashing all day.  He has cold too.

January 27 - January 31, 1898 - no entries

February 1, 1898 - Tuesday.  Quite a wild storm last night;  roads drifted up.  They were breaking them out today.  Mary Ellen Hamilton was up and helped me wash yesterday.  It was a very cold night Sabbath night.  26 degrees below zero.  I sewed a little today.  Baby somewhat troublesome, but he is good tonight.  It is windy tonight.

February 2, 1898 - Wednesday.  Squally.  Not very cold.  Got the clothes dried.  Mrs. B. came over and helped put them out; also to help bring them in.  Mr. English was here to tea.  He, How Higgins, Bub and Uncle John are getting in a supply of hardwood.  How was here on Friday, Monday and today.  We heard that Mr. Charles Fulton's Johnnie, shot himself this afternoon; but heard no particulars.

February 3, 1898 - Thursday.  A snowy day.  Didn't get much done this forenoon except the work.  I churned and ironed in the afternoon.  Mr. English and How Higgins both working here today - getting, or cross-cutting wood, out in the woods.  John A. Graham here to tea.  How Higgins and Ira, also Joseph Archibald here this evening.  The youngsters almost tore How to pieces.  Baby Harry pretty good today.  Had a letter from Esther Brown (Mrs. James A. Graham) tonight.

February 4, 1898 - Friday.  A fine day.  The children hauled quite a lot of water.  I swept some upstairs.  How Higgins was helping with the wood.  Mr. English was getting wood at home so wasn't here.  Angus and Maxwell Graham were here this evening.  Alden and Glenn were over to their Grandmother's to tea.  I made emptyings tonight.

February 5, 1898 - Saturday.  Not very fine.  A gray day.  Appears soft.  Mrs. B. in this morning.  Mrs. P.S. Hamilton and S.A. Logan here to dinner.  Howard and Ira Higgins here this afternoon, working at cross-cutting wood.  Mr. English was not working.  Bella and I partly made a pair of pants for Roy.  Robert Graham called tonight.  I gave the children a bath tonight. It is Saturday night once more, and I am glad.

February 6, 1898 - Sabbath.  A rainy day.  Sacrament sabbath.  Not many down, I guess.  We read some, talked to the children, asked them questions etc.  Howard and Dennie Graham called in the evening.

February 7, 1898 - Monday.  Rather foggy this morning, but it cleared off and was a fine afternoon.  I washed the cotton clothes, colored my cloud, some yarn etc.  Mrs. B. was over tonight, or rather this afternoon a while.  Bill Graham called.  Uncle Charlie was here to tea.  Mr. English was working here.  How and Ira Higgins were sawing wood this afternoon - out at the woods.  Uncle Sam got our horse and Charlie's sleigh to go down to the church tomorrow.   He and Adam Johnson are at variance and it is to try to settle it.

February 8, 1898 - Tuesday.  Quite a fine day.  I ironed this forenoon.  Didn't do much this afternoon, as Baby Harry was not very good natured.  Julia, Annabel, Amanda and Cora May Graham called.  Roy was engaged skating most of the day.  Harris and How Higgins went out to Angus MacKenzie's camp this afternoon. Howard  Graham called tonight.  My front teeth bothered me, aching all day.  Herbert H. Ogilvie also called this evening.

February 9, 1898 - Wednesday.  A nice day.  Mrs. Blaikie came over and helped me get the floor washed this forenoon.  The Burnside Auxillary of the W.F.M.S. met here this afternoon. Mrs. Alex MacKay, Mrs. W. Crockett and Miss Annie Crockett, Mrs. English, Mrs. Charles Graham, Mrs. J.A.,  and C.E. Graham, Miss Mary Deyarmond,  Miss Alice Proven, Mrs. P.S. Hamilton, Mrs. A.R. Higgins, Mrs. Blaikie and myself.   Mrs. Janet and Miss Annie Brown and Miss Amy Higgins were also present.  We had a good meeting.  The next is to be at Mrs. Mary Hamilton's.  Mr. English was here today.  They were not hauling wood.

February 10, 1898 - Thursday.  Not cold, but foggy.  Roy, Alden and Glenn over to Aunt Ann's today.  I churned this forenoon.  Uncle John here to dinner.  Mrs. Blaikie came over and Baby Harry, Flossie and I went over there this afternoon.  Ezra Miller here to tea.  My teeth bothered me quite a lot.

February 11, 1898 - Friday.  Rather gray.  Looks like snow.  I washed.  Charlie came home from Greenfield.  Lucy, Amanda, Cora May, Annabel and Becky Graham here.  Alice and Will Creelman called.  Lucy Graham helped me a lot.  She is a very handy girl.

February 12, 1898 - Saturday.  Dark looking but no storm yet.  Charlie went to fire A. MacKenzie's engine, on the night shift - yesterday afternoon.  Mary E. Hamilton here today.  I was doing some stitching for her and she helped me.  Was baking.  Mr. English here.  D.M. was down to Cross Roads etc.  Mrs. B. was in this afternoon.  We had soup for dinner.

February 13, 1898 - Sabbath.  A nice fine day.  Rain last night.  Florence, Glenn and I went up to church with Mrs. B. and Harris.  Mr. Thompson of Musquodoboit preached from "the opening of the eyes of blind Bartimeus" .  Quite a number of people not belonging to Burnside were present.

February 14, 1898 - Monday.  A beautifully fine day again.  I washed.  Uncle John carried the water. I got the clothes out before dinner.  Didn't do much this afternoon - baked a corn cake, made the beds etc.  Alden doesn't seem very well tonight; he is hot. 

February 15, 1898 - Tuesday.  Some powdery snow fell this forenoon but it was a lovely afternoon.  Aunt Ann called this morning - She and Minnie and Chester went out to the woods and Duncan stayed here.  Jessie Crockett was here visiting.  Mrs. English was here to tea.  I borrowed fifty cents from Bub to pay Aunt Ann to send for Sabbath reading.  D.M. was down to the Village, Cross Roads, etc and got a half barrel of oat-meal, a rocking chair etc.

February 16, 1898 - Wednesday.  A rainy day.  Roy went up to Aunt Anne's to dinner. We sent him up with a note.  Eva was here.  Mr. English here this forenoon, but he went home after dinner.  P.S. Hamilton called.  Morrison has the cold.  My throat is slightly sore.  Baby Harry is somewhat fussy.  I faced D.M.'s pants.

February 17, 1898 - Thursday.  Cloudy, a little snow and a little sun.  Harry was troublesome and my teeth bothered me.  P.S. Hamilton killed a pig this afternoon.  Mrs. P.S. Hamilton was here a while this afternoon getting a waist stitched.   I had a letter from Mrs. J. Walter.  I churned.  Had a good roll of butter.  Our pig weighed 170 pounds.

February 18, 1898 - Friday.  Not very fine.  Not stormy though.  Mr. English here only half a day.  Mr. J. Chaplin here tonight.  Bub and Mrs. Blaikie were down to the Corner, Village etc today.  Janet Grant and Melissa Graham called this afternoon.

February 19, 1898 - Saturday.  A little gray but quite a lot of sun.  I washed the clothes this forenoon; also swept the sitting room and hall.  Mr. English was not here today.  Baked a ginger cake this afternoon; also got a sample of the Rate Roll made out.

February 20, 1898 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  No service here.  Saw Geordie MacKay and Ruby E. Graham go up.  Read aloud out of "The Bonnie Briar Bush" several chapters.  Asked the children their catechism etc, and read to them.   Johnnie Herbert, Dennie and Maxwell Graham here to tea.  They were going out to the woods and stopped to tea here.  Charlie was home.

February 21, 1898 - Monday.  Not very fine but not stormy.  I washed.  Hadn't a very large washing as I had done one on Saturday.  Brought the clothes in at night.  Charlie did not go back to the woods today, he went to the Village this afternoon.  Mrs. B. over today.  She was making her blanket, and she took mine over to make too.  This is Edith's twenty-sixth birthday.

February 22, 1898  - Tuesday.  Looks like soft weather tonight.  Has been cloudy and dull looking all day.   I baked and ironed and sewed at Harry's dresses etc today.  Mr. Wm. Fulton of Meadowvale here to dinner.  Eva called at Mrs. Blaikie's and I saw her a little while when I went to milk.

February 23, 1898 - Wednesday.  Grey and windy.  Rain and sleet falling tonight.  Sewed, what time I could get.   Harry has cold.  Was troublesome.  Annabel and Amanda Graham, Annie May and John Crockett called or rather made  short visits.  Roy subscribed for "Northern Messenger" with Annabel.

February 24, 1898 - Thursday.  Not fine; not stormy; but foggy.  It hailed and rained some last night.  I churned today.  Made some doughnuts etc.  Had a letter from Ede.  Didn't get any sewed at all.

February 25, 1898 - Friday.  Quite fine this forenoon; looks like a storm tonight.  I washed clothes this forenoon.  Got them dried and in tonight.  Amy Higgins was here today.  Mr. and Mrs. Higgins were up to Mr. S. Johnson's.  Put in a small mat this afternoon.  Feel tired tonight.  Bub wasn't well today.  He was over this afternoon a while.  Mrs. English called tonight.

February 26, 1898 - Saturday.  Dark and foggy.  It rained some last night.  Mr. English was not here this forenoon, but came after dinner.  I was patching and darning most of my spare time.  Also , I baked some oat-meal cookies.  D.M. had a card from Fred Woodworth.

February 27, 1898 - Sabbath.  Quite snowy.  The snow helps the sledding.  D.M., Roy, Glenn and Flossie at church.  Rev Eben W. Johnson preached.  Ira Higgins called on his way up to church.

February 28, 1898 - Monday.  Some squally.  The sun shone out sometimes.  I washed this forenoon.  Uncle John carried the water.  Mr. English here today.  They were sawing a big log for James Crockett;  a late tea tonight. It is Mrs. H. Hamilton's eighty-third birthday, and the people, or rather the W.F.M.S. met there.  Each one took a lunch or a plate of cakes;  Mrs. Blaikie was there, but I couldn't go.  Mrs. Abram Bentley gave birth to a daughter.

March 1, 1898 - Tuesday.  Colder this morning; but not a cold day.  Appears like a storm tonight.  I mixed up the bread this morning, and Mrs. B. baked it, for in the afternoon all of us went out to James Graham's logging premise.  We took Julia along out across the Long Lake to the end of the logging road, where Herbert Higgins was chopping logs.  It was quite a drive.  I enjoyed it,  not with the zest of younger days, but about as much as - well as could be expected now.  Uncle John had kept house for us.

March 2, 1898 - Wednesday.  Stormy last night - two or three inches of snow fell.  It was drifting this forenoon, but nice and fine this afternoon.  I hooked a square in my mat this forenoon.  Didn't get very much of anything done this afternoon.  Baby was troublesome, a little.  Mrs. James A. Graham called; also Annabel, also Ida, Mrs. Warman and A. Grant.

March 3, 1898 - Thursday.  Fine this morning but quite a fall of soft white snow this afternoon.  Mrs. J.W. Deyarmond and Baby Charlie at Mrs. B's to dinner and over here the afternoon.    Lyman Dartt, who was to have been hanged today for the murder of an Armenian peddlar (Asshard Dhramor Deron), on September 25, 1897, was pardoned on account of his confessing the shooting to have been accidental.     D.M. painted the hall floor.

March 4, 1898 - Friday.  Dark but not cold. I hooked a little and washed a little  and swept etc.

March 5, 1898 - Saturday.  It rained, snowed and hailed today.  A dreary day.  But " some days must be dark and dreary"   It matters not, however, if we only "awake where the morning is shining".    Uncle Charlie Graham and Howard and Miss Lottie Grant called.  Mr. English came down but did not work.  I hooked a little, sewed a little and baked doughnuts.  D.M. had the tooth-ache.  He was very miserable.

March 6, 1898 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  No preaching.  We just talked and read to the children etc.

March 7, 1898 - Monday. Foggy this morning , but it was a fine day.  I washed the clothes; they dried and I brought them in.  Didn't get any hooked.

March 8, 1898 - Tuesday.  A day a good deal like yesterday.  How Higgins and Charlie Blaikie went to Belmont.  I ironed the clothes and baked bread, biscuits for tea, and cookies.  Mr. C.E. Johnson (Colporteur) here to dinner.  He had wheat.   Uncle John came back from South Branch. 

March 9, 1898 - Wednesday.  Fine again.  Eva spending the day over at Mrs. Blaikie's.  They were here a while this afternoon, also Mrs. Higgins and Amy, Becky Graham, and Aunt Viney and Uncle Will Andrews.  They stayed all night.  A butterfly came out yesterday.  It is a large one  and quite pretty.

Match 10, 1898 - Thursday.  Another fine day.  A nursery agent was round - Archibald from Truro.  He is here tonight. Mamma, Janie and Johnnie came up tonight.  I was glad to see them.  They were at the Cove, Otterbrook etc.

March 11, 1898 - Friday.  Fine again.  Mamma, Janie and Johnnie left for Otterbrook about 2:30.  Joe Woodworth arrived this forenoon too.  I churned.  The butter was rather soft.  Mrs. B. kept the baby for me to churn.  Mr. English took Clyde up with a load of wood.

March 12, 1898 - Saturday.  Grey.  A little fine.  I washed some white clothes.  Joe Woodworth here to dinner.  After dinner, D.M. and Bub went down to S.A. Logan's to an auction.  Mr. English made me a bake board.  I patched Alden's pants, socks etc.  Baked bread and fussed round.  Washed the children all over tonight.  James W. and Everett B. Deyarmond here this evening.

March 13, 1898 - Sabbath.  It rained last night, but it has been a clear day.  We took Harry up to church to get him christened, but were late and did not do so.  Mr. Fraser preached on "The cleansing of the lepers" - as they went, they were cleansed.

March 14, 1898 - Monday.  A fine day.  Some wind.  Ice came down some from the head of the pond.  Water flowed over ice.  Joe Woodworth up to Mrs. Crockett's.  Charlie Blaikie away with How Graham.  I just washed a few things.  School began today.  Roy and Alden both went.  Mr. English here.  Feel tired tonight.  Baby fussy tonight.  I hurt Flossie's eye on the corner of the little baking ray.

March 15, 1898 - Tuesday.  A cold wind.   Alden was not inclined to go to school this morning, but finally got off.  Mrs. English here to call.  Mr. and Mrs. P.S. Hamilton here to tea, also Miss Alice Jane Gourley.  She atayed all night.  Joe Woodworth up along and out to MacKenzie's lumber camp.  There was a dance out there.

March 16, 1898 - Wednesday.  A nice fine day.  Not so cold as yesterday.  Joe attacked the woodpile today, and split quite a lot of wood.  Mrs. James A. Graham called, also Cora May.  I blacked the stove and washed the stairs and hall; also scoured the knives etc.  How little household work one can accomplish with a small baby! And yet!  and yet!

March 17, 1898 - Thursday.  Quite a snow storm this afternoon.  It was soft.  Mr. Fraser intended being up here and at Mrs. Higgins' today, but it was too stormy for him.  Alice Gourley came down tonight, as D.M. intended going to join the I.O.F. at Cross Roads;  but as it was so stormy, he did not go.  Miss Gourley was going to stay with me.  Charlie, Harris, Joe Woodworth and Bradford Hamilton came over and spent the evening in singing, playing the fiddle etc.

March 18, 1898 - Friday.  A fine day.  Quite a nice morning for sledding.  I took Miss Gourley, Roy and Alden up to school.  Glenn went up with us too.  Joe Woodworth finished the woodpile today.  The goose laid again.  I washed a few things out.  Also churned.  Mr. English kept the baby for me to milk, as D.M. had gone to join the I.O.F. at the Corner.  Joe and Harris (Bub) spent the evening here.  Am sorter' lonesome now.  It is after ten and they have gone back home.

March 19, 1898 - Saturday.  Not very fine in the forenoon, but a big snowstorm that wasn't very long-lived.  Becky Graham called, also Jennie Crockett.  I washed the kitchen floor. 

March 20, 1898 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  We read to the children etc.  John Herbert Graham here to tea and all night.  Joe Woodworth and Charlie in a while.

March 21, 1898 - Monday.  A fine day, but cold wind.  I washed.  Had quite a washing.  A dance at P.S. Hamilton's in the evening.

March 22, 1898 - Tuesday.  Fine again.  I baked and ironed.  Ida here this afternoon and to tea.  Joe Woodworth went back to Lower Stewiacke this morning.  J.R. Graham took him as far as Otterbrook school house.  Howard and Dennie Graham ate their dinner here.  They were breaking the brow of logs. etc, etc.  A dance at Willie MacKay's.

March 23, 1898 - Wednesday.  A little rainy.  D.M. amd Charlie went down to the Village to get their medical qualification for Life Insurance in I.O.F.  James W. Deyarmond was here.  Mr. English was not.  Mr. and Mrs. W. Graham here this evening.  Also Mrs. B. and Bub. 

March 24, 1898 - Thursday.  A fine day, but cold wind.  I swept upstairs.  Got more hooked than common.  Mr. Fraser called.  Jimmie Dunbar here to dinner.  Liss Graham called, etc.etc.

March 25, 1898 - Friday.  Fine.  Quite cold this morning.  Charlie went to Truro.  How Higgins , to Valley Station.  D.R. Creelman here to dinner.  Wm. Graham called.  I was over to Mrs. B.'s a little while this afternoon.  Howard Graham here to tea.  Bub over this evening.

March 26, 1898 - Saturday.  A fine day.  I washed the clothes and the pantry floor this afternoon. Eva (Mrs. Wm.) and Jennie Graham were here.  Liss and Charlie called.  Mrs. P.W. Graham had a son today.  Mrs. Blaikie and Doctor Cox officiated at the ceremony.

March 27, 1898 - Sabbath.  Another fine day.  D.M., Roy and Glenn up to church.  J.T. Hamilton here to tea.

March 28, 1898 - Monday.  Fine.  Mr. English laid aside from work.  Baby Harry not well.  Did not wash.  Baked a little.  Mrs. B. up to C. Proven's to tea.

March 29, 1898 - Tuesday.  Quite fine this forenoon but grey looking this afternoon, particularly toward evening.  I washed and got the clothes dried.

March 30, 1898 - Wednesday.  Dark, and a little drizzly.  Baby not very well.  I ironed.

March 31, 1898 - Thursday.  Rainy.  Rained a little all day.  James H. up along and out to the woods. Hooked a little.  Baked and mended D.M.'s shirt. (I didn't bake the shirt!)

April 1, 1898 - Friday.  Snowy and sleet.  Dark all day.  Mr. English came down for a few items.  Just a commonplace ordinary day.  D.M. made Flossie a new bed stead.

April 2, 1898 - Saturday.  Fine but cold.  Didn't do much but sweep and work generally.  Baby fussy.  D.M. sleepy.

April 3, 1898 - Sabbath.  Fine but a cold wind.  No service up here.  Read to the children, asked them catechism; D.M. and I etc. 

April 4, 1898 - Monday.  Fine, windy though.  I washed this forenoon.  D.M. went to Corner; got him a mackintosh, supplies etc.  Didn't do much this afternoon.  Foster came home.  Have not seen him yet.  Hope he will stay a while now.   Am rather tired.  Max Graham is here tonight

April 5, 1898 - Tuesday.  Fine.  Pretty warm too.  Max Graham working here today.  David Kennedy here to dinner.  Baked nine loaves of bread and a pan of rolls.  Alden home from school.  He wasn't well.  Mrs. Blaikie up to Mrs. Higgins this afternoon.  Charlie over tonight.  Mrs. David Crocker had a son.

April 6, 1898 - Wednesday.  A snowy spring day.  Alden was better and went to school.  Fos went back to Belmont and Morrison went to Truro.  They missed the nine o'clock train at Riversdale.  Mr. English and Max Graham here working. Cyrus Graham here to tea.  Made Roy a dinner satchel this morning.  Baby troublesome most of the day.

April 7, 1898 - Thursday.  Snowy and disagreeable.  Mr. English did not stay today.  Max Graham and Bub were chopping poles.  D.M. came home from Truro.  Annie Brown came home too.   She had been visiting at Onslow, Truro etc.   D.M. got some little dishes for Flossie, and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" for the boys.

April 8, 1898 - Friday.  Disagreeable with some snow.  Good Friday.  Got the mat out.  Was a kind of a hurrying day.  Charlie got back from Greenfield, whither he had gone yesterday.

April 9, 1898 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Mrs. Samuel Deyarmond up here to dinner.  I churned.  D.M. tapped some trees.  Had a letter from Ede.  Charlie down to Corner etc.

April 10, 1898 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Baby not well last night, but he seems better today.  Roy and I to church.  Mr. Fraser preached a fine sermon on "The Risen Christ".  A fine Easter sermon.  It lifted one from the common everyday life up to the grand and glorious ressurection that is coming.

April 11, 1898 - Monday.  fine.  Mac came back.  D.M. had to go away this afternoon.  J.W. Deyarmond and Charlie away fishing, but they didn't get any.

April 12, 1898 - Tuesday.  Fine again.  Mrs. Blaikie, Alden and Mrs. English were down to the Corner, David Bentley's, and Mrs. B and Alden went to Doctor Cox's.    They were there for dinner.  Alden got some medicine.  Atkinson, the scaler, here.  Also the men to dinner.

April 13, 1898 - Wednesday.  Fine.  They were putting in the logs Atkinson scaled today.  Took their lunch with them.

April 14, 1898 - Thursday.  Dark. Looking like rain. Iwashed some .  Roy has been at home these two days sick with a cold or something.

April 15, 1898 - Friday.  Raining hard tonight.  Christy (Mrs. Martin Johnson) here a while this afternoon.  D. Kennedy here to dinner.

April 16, 1898 - Saturday.  A showery day.  I washed some things this forenoon, also washed the pantry and cleaned up a little.  They got a new lathe saw.  It came in the mail.  Mac did not go home tonight.  It was too rainy.  I made a couple of match boxes this afternoon.  Flossie and Roy are coughing pretty lively tonight.  My throat is sore.  I wrote to Ede tonight etc.

April 17, 1898 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Mac Graham here today.  No service.  Mac and Charlie went to Y.S.C.E. down at the church tonight.

April 18, 1898 - Monday.  A fineish day - but looks like rain tonight.  I washed and got the clothes in.  Maria J. Deyarmond here this afternoon, and to tea.  I churned this afternoon.

April 19, 1898 - Tuesday.  Dark and chilly.  They butchered the pigs this afternoon;  three of them.  168, 198 and 201 pounds.  P.S. Hamilton wass head butcherer.  Mrs. Higgins here a while.  J.H. Graham here to stay all night.  I baked.

April 20, 1898 - Wednesday.  A dark, chilly, drizzly day.  Mrs. Higgins and Wm. Creelman here to dinner. Charlie went to Musquodoboit.

April 21, 1898 - Thursday.  Pretty rainy this forenoon.  They packed the pork.  Mrs. English and Eva called. (Not together)  Blanche English went back to her Uncle George Johnson's.

April 22, 1898 - Friday.  A fine, squally, cool day.  Uncle Jim, and Alfred Johnson here ploughing.  Uncle Jim here to dinner, and Alf over to the other house.  They broke up quite a piece of ground.  I washed a little this forenoon.  A dance at Mrs. Janet Brown's tonight.

April 23, 1898 - Saturday.  pretty fine.  Baked today.  Uncle John came back.  D.M. and Glenn down to the Corner this afternoon.  I didn't get a great deal done.  They got Alden a pair of boots etc.  Am tired tonight, and glad it's Saturday night.  Uncle John is here tonight.  Mac went home.

April 24, 1898 - Sabbath.  Stormy.  They all went to church but Baby Harry and I.  it turned out quite stormy.  Mr. Fraser preached from "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it".

April 25 - April 27, 1898 - Rather stormy and cold.  We made pot-head on Monday.  Washed on Tuesday.  It was too stormy to work on Wednesday, so James W. Deyarmond went for a little pig.   he got us one too.  We got ours from Charlie Cox (Junior).  Max went up to visit the school.  I washed the floor.  Becky Graham called this afternoon.

April 28, 1898 - Thursday.  Rather finer.  I ironed.  Was over to Mrs. Blaikie's this afternoon.  Made a pair of moccasins for Harry, or rather partly made them.  Am tired and sleepy.  Charlie had a letter from Fos tonight.  I would have liked to have gone to Prayer Meeting tonight, but other duties intervene and I must wait.  It is Consecration night too;  Perhaps the time will come when I can go to Prayer Meeting; but if it don't - well - "I am content".  His will is best.

April 29, 1898 - Friday.  Rather showery and raw winds.  I baked bread.  Mr. English did not come until after dinner D.M. went down to F.F. Creelman's, C.D. Creelman's etc.  He got back about one o'clock.  Mrs. English called tonight.  The young people are over to George Deyarmond's practising singing. 

April 30, 1898 - Saturday.  Like yesterday, only not so showery.  Mrs. Martin Johnson gave birth to a son.  Miss Libbie Creelman of Otter Brook died today at Howard Dunlap's.

May 1, 1898 - Sabbath.  A dark rainy day.  All at church except Flossie and I.  Sabbath School opened today.  The first Sabbath School in the new church.

May 2, 1898 - Monday.  Dark again.  I didn't wash, but D.M. went down to the Corner.  Emma and Willie MacKay here to tea.  Bill and Eva Graham called and Mrs. Blaikie, and they and I went up to Charles Proven's to a 'sing'.  Mrs. B., Eva and I did not stay long.

May 3, 1898 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  I washed.  Herbert Higgins here to dinner.  Glenn went to school today.  Uncle John got the "stericks" or some such disease.

May 4, 1898 - Wednesday.  Another fine day.  I baked today.  Mrs. Blaikie is sick with a dizzy head.  A sing at Mrs. B's tonight.  J.W. Graham and Emma Logan married in Truro.

May 5, 1898 - Thursday.  Pretty fine.  Had a letter form Ede, Janie and Nettie tonight.

May 6, 1898 - Friday.  Rainy this forenoon, but a fine afternoon.  Mrs. B., Max Graham and I  went up to the Thank Offering service of the W.F.M.S. this afternoon.  It was a good service.  Mr. Fraser was there.  The meeting was at the church.    Max went home after church.

May 7, 1898 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Max got back.  He and Mosie Pratt had a set-to last night.

May 8, 1898 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  D.M., Glenn and Harry at home.  The rest of us went to Sabbath School and church too.

May 9, 1898 - Monday.  Rather cold.  I washed the white clothes.  Mrs. P.S. Hamilton called.  Mrs. B. set her hen.

May 10, 1898 - Tuesday.  Not so cold as yesterday.  My goslings came out.  I had nine.

May 11, 1898 - Wednesday.  Pretty cold.  Charlie Blaikie and Mac Graham went to Brookfield to look for a job on the rail-road.

May 12, 1898 - Thursday.  Quite fine.  Charlie and Mac got back.  They didn't get a job for certain.  Eva called tonight.  Roy was sick at his stomach and came from school.  Amy Higgins here.

May 13, 1898 - Friday.  A fine day.  They were sawing shingles.  Roy and Alden home from school.  D.M. was fishing tonight.  He made me two flower boxes last night.

May 14, 1898 - Saturday.  A rainy day.  I washed a few clothes.  Mac went home tonight.

May 15, 1898 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine, but there was a shower or two.  D.M., Roy and Alden went to Sabbath School.  Lesson was on "Watchfulness".

May 16, 1898 - Monday.  A fine day.  D.M., Florence and Harry and I went out to South Branch today.

May 17, 1898 - Tuesday.  A showery day.  I washed some.  Alice Gourley and Jessie Crockett here to tea.  I got my pig.  Mac went after it.  Got it at James Graham's.  I churned too.

May 18, 1898 - Wednesday.  Pretty fine.  Washed a little more.  Uncle James Johnson here to dinner.    He and Alfred had wheat down, and some boards getting planed.  He and D.M.  went to the Corner after dinner.  Mrs. Blaikie was over a while in the afternoon.  Baked some cakes.

May 19, 1898 - Thursday.  A fine warm day.   They were picking the stones off the field.  Mrs. Peter Grant and Miss Melissa Graham called.  I ironed and sewed some.  Baked bread. 

May 20, 1898 - Friday.  Rather rainy.  Didn't do much today.  Messrs J.F. Bentley and Charles Hogan here this afternoon.  Mr. English was not working here today; he was down along somewhere.  W.E. Gladstone, "the Grand Old Man", died.

May 21, 1898 - Saturday.  A fine day.  I washed some this forenoon.  Roy and Alden did most of the churning.  After dinner, Mrs. B. and I went to the Burnside Auxillary of the W.F.M.S.   There were eleven members present. We were settling about the entertainment and refreshments for the local Union of the Auxillary of the two congregations.   D.M., Mac, Bub, Mr. English were making garden beds etc.  It was a sort of a hard day somehow.       I felt worried with and about the children.  The dear little things!  After a while they will realize how much their little waywardnesses grieved their mother!  and how truly interested I am for them to grow up pure and holy.     D.M. and Charlie are down to I.O.F. tonight.  It is getting late and I must not stop to moralize.

May 22, 1898 - Sabbath.  A beautifully fine day.  Sabbath School and service in the church this afternoon.   D.M., Roy, Alden, Baby and I were there.    We got Baby baptized.  Mr. Fraser preached a very stirring sermon on "Our Mission in Life".  We should measure each thought, word and act by what Jesus would do if he were in our place;  and Oh!  what a difference it would make in our lives!

May 23, 1898 - Monday.  Another fine day.  They were getting in the garden etc, today.  Mr. English and Mac both here.  I began to "clean house" in earnest today.  Got the spare bedroom done.  Fos came home.  We were pleased and also somewhat surprised to see him.

May 24, 1898 - Tuesday.  Another fine day.  They sawed some.  Lucy Graham here helping me to clean house.   We cleaned the chamber out.  Fos wants to go away tomorrow morning.  D.M. and Mac are away down to the Corner again tonight.  Lucy is here all night.  Alice Proven was down this afternoon a little while. 

May 25, 1898 - Wednesday.  A fine warm day.  Lucy and I cleaned the hall sitting-room, and Lucy cleaned the kitchen and bedroom while I washed some clothes.

May 26, 1898 - Thursday.  Another fine warm day.  D.M. and James A. went to Pictou Town.  Uncle Jim and Alfred put in the potatoes.  Mac started for the Lowery Brook Field, but was called back when they came to put in the potatoes.  May English called tonight.  Had a letter from Janie and Nettie, and sent one to Edith.   

May 27, 1898 - Friday.  Another beautifully fine day.  Mr. English sick.  Mac helped us put up the ashes and Mrs. Blaikie and I began making soap.  Flossie, Glenn, Baby Harry and I were over to Mrs. B.'s for dinner.  D.M. and Bub got home tonight.  D.M. got me a new hat in New Glasgow.  Bub got his mother a potato masher.  The children got banks.  J.T. Hamilton and little Cassie called.  Charlie came home.

May 28, 1898 - Saturday.  Showery this morning but a fine afternoon.  I washed a few clothes this forenoon and washed the floor in the afternoon.  D.M. and Charlie down to Court of I.O.F.   "Mutual Aid" tonight.

May 29, 1898 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Roy, Alden and I were up to Sabbath School and church.  Rev F.S. Coffin preached.  His text was "For we are saved by grace".  Mac came back after church.  Liss, and Mr. and Mrs. Higgins and Amy were over at Grandma's to tea.  

May 30, 1898 - Monday.  Pretty fine.  Looked like rain this afternoon and it is raining tonight.  I did not wash today.  Mrs. B. put away the soap.  Mrs. Higgins was here to tea.

May 31, 1898 - Tuesday.  Rather dark and rainy this afternoon.  I washed this forenoon but did not get all the clothes out until after dinner.  I also baked six loaves of bread.  J.T. Hamilton here to dinner.  After dinner, D.M., Charlie, and Mac went up to assist them in cleaning the church.  Put in the cucumbers today.  Mr. English was not here today.

June 1, 1898 - Wednesday.  Rather dark, but not rainy.  Mr. English was not here today.  He was putting in his potatoes.  Mr. and Mrs. James Henry and Little Joe of Musquodoboit were here to call this afternoon.  The little boy was here to dinner.  I churned this afternoon.  Glenn is quite hoarse; he has cold.

June 2, 1898 - Thursday.  Rather wet, especially in the forenoon.  Mac and Henry went to Cross Roads this afternoon.  I ironed today, also swept the chamber.

June 3, 1898 - Friday.  Pretty wet this afternoon.  Mac gone away.  Mr. English is not here these days.  I starched and ironed a few things today.  Also finished Flossie's tire.  James Graham and Janet called tonight.

June 4, 1898 - Saturday.  A pretty fine day.  Amy L. Higgins, Ethel M. Deyarmond, Nettie B. Deyarmond here a while this forenoon.  Amy and Ethel were here all day.  I washed the floor and for Grandma too.  D.M. and Roy down to Cross Roads tonight.  J.W. Deyarmond here working.

June 5, 1898 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  D.M. and Roy, Alden, and Glenn up to church.  Glenn did not go to Sabbath School.

June 6, 1898 - Monday.  A fine day.  D.M. went down along - to the Village, Charles Hogan's etc. this afternoon.  I washed some clothes, churned, ironed a little and mixed bread tonight.  Alice Proven and Mrs. Higgins called.

June 7, 1898 - Tuesday.  Fine again.  We arose early this morning.  D.M. went to Truro.  I didn't do a great deal of work today.  Was over at Mrs. B.'s twice.  Liss and Dennie were washing wool at the brook.  Mrs. B. gave me some rhubarb, also a pie, which I baked.  Bill, Eva, Angus and Nelsie were here a while tonight.

June 8, 1898 - Wednesday.  Another fine day.  Mrs. B. went down to Doctor Cox's, the Village etc, this forenoon.  Liss made Harry the present of a hood.  Mrs. B. got me a piece of cotton, also a bonnet etc.  I washed some clothes - a blanket etc.   Andrew Graham, Charles W. Grant, and Frank O. Smith here to dinner.  Andy is staying all night.  Jennie Crockett called.  Alice Proven and I baked our cakes for the W.F.M.S. Local Union this afternoon.

June 9, 1898 - Thursday.  Wet this morning, but a fine afternoon.  Andy Graham went away after dinner.  I pieced my white and red quilt.  We got no word from Morrison.

June 10, 1898 - Friday.  A fine day.  Bub had to go up to help John A. Graham  get out his timber sticks this forenoon; but got back in time for us to attend theW.F.M.S.    We took Glenn, Florence Joy, and Harry  Lee. Roy and Alden were at school. The meeting was very helpful and churning.  Mrs. G. Fulton and Mrs. J.A. Graham  were elected as president and secretary  of the Local Union.  Some papers were read,  a reading, a recitation etc, singing and prayer.   Then luncheon was served, and after that the open meeting was held.  Rev.'s McLean of Great Village, MacLean of Stewiacke Village, A.L. Geggie of St Paul's Truro, and D.S. Fraser of Springside were present and each addressed the meeting.    Mr. Geggie's address was especially interesting and instructive.  I enjoyed the Local Union very much indeed and when I got home, there was Papa to see me;  so I had a day of surprises and joys.  There are always "clouds - and then sunshine".

June 11, 1898 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Mrs. Wm. Graham had a son today.  D.M. got home about one o'clock.  He had come to Riversdale last night and stayed at Mrs. MacKennie's all night, and then walked over to Uncle Sam Johnson's.  I washed the floor.  Mrs. B. was over in the afternoon and we were looking at the cloth D.M. got in Truro.

June 12, 1898 - Sabbath.  Rather dark with showers.  Glenn's fifth birthday.  Janie and Nettie sent him twenty cents from Truro, and his Grandma gave him three cents.  Harris and I went down to church at Springside;  it was Communion Day.  Mr. Geggie assisted Mr. Fraser.  He preached on Peter - his boldness and it's fall; and yet withall, he was one of  the disciples.  I saw Eddie Webster at church.  Hope he will come up.

June 13 - June 17, 1898 - Monday to Friday.  I washed on Monday.  It was pretty fine.  On Wednesday, D.M. was at the Village etc.  Had a letter from Janie and Nettie on Thursday.  Finished a blouse for Florence on Friday.  They fenced, or finished fencing the field on Thursday.  Adam Wright here to tea.  Lucy Graham called.  Bub's cow laid out.  I was over to Mrs. Blaikie's today in the afternoon.

June 18, 1898 - Saturday.  Fine and cool.  Frost these mornings.  Mrs. J.W. Deyarmond and her sister Anna Belle Wilson of Springhill, here this afternoon.  James William and Bessie called too.

June 19, 1898 - Sabbath.  Rather dark.  Rainy tonight.  D.M., F. Joy, Roy and Alden up to Sabbath School and church. Mrs. B. walked up today.

June 20, 1898 - Monday.  Dark this forenoon; quite a rain last night.  I washed some clothes and the floor.

June 21, 1898 - Tuesday.  Pretty fine.  It rained a little at night.  I washed a sheet, blankets etc.  Mrs. B. helped me with the blanket.  D.M. and Uncle Jim were down to Cross Roads.  Had a letter from May English.  John A. Graham here to tea.

June 22, 1898 - Wednesday.  Dark and cool;  a little drizzly tonight.  Put in Joy's quilt.  Frank O. Smith here to dinner.  Miss Alice Gourley here to tea and to stay all night.  Mr. and Mrs. James A. Graham called. We put in a quilt.

June 23, 1898 - Thursday.  A little dark this morning but turned out to be a fine day.  Charlie Miller here to dinner.  They traded "Clyde" with him for a little pony called "Lil".  Mrs. B. up to Prayer Meeting.  She called at Mrs. English's.  Mr. Fraser was up too.

June 24, 1898 - Friday.  A fine day.  I washed a few things this afternoon.  Mrs. Blaikie and I were quilting.  Lissa Graham and Mrs. Leonard Johnson of Truro called.  I baked some cookies.  Harry is troublesome these days.

June 25, 1898 - Saturday.  Rather dark and rainy.  Mrs. Blaikie and I put out the quilt, and put in a mat.   Dennie Graham and Allen Deyarmond called in the afternoon.

June 26, 1898 - Sabbath.  A fine  day.  Roy and I up to Sabbath school.  It was Review Day.   Mrs. J.T. Blanchard, and Mrs. Leonard Johnson of Truro were present.

June 27, 1898 - Monday.  Another fine day.  D.M. and Mrs. Blaikie up along.   Mrs. B. was visiting at Mrs. Willie MacKay's and Morrison, collecting school money. I washed quite a washing, also churned and baked a buttermilk cake.  Finished binding the quilt.  It is for Joy's bed.  It is school-meeting night.   It was quite a task to get the children all to bed and do the chores.  S. Wright and G. Jeffers here to dinner.  Mr. S.F. Creelman over with Harris.  He came in to see me too.  I do like Mr. Creelman's visits.  They are veritable glints of sunshine.

June 28, 1898 - Tuesday.  Fine again.  I ironed and baked.  We were hooking this afternoon.  Mrs. B. was over.  It is her mat we are hooking.  The cow has run off tonight and D.M. has gone after her with no coat on, and will have cold worse than ever.  He got home between 9 and 10.  He was down to D.R. Creelman's and brought the cow home.  Glenn went to school today.

June 29, 1898 - Wednesday.  Rather dark this morning, but finer this afternoon.  Mr. English here only in the afternoon

June 30, 1898 - Thursday.  Not very fine, rather cool.  Examination Day.    Mrs. B. and Glenn, all of us that were there.  Charles Hogan here to dinner.

 

July 1, 1898 - Friday.  Pretty fine.  Showery tonight.  Our geese went away last night.  They came home with eight goslings tonight.  Lew Fulton and Ira Higgins working here today.  David Johnson here putting on logs.  Charlie came home.

July 2, 1898 - Saturday.  A fine day.  D.M. went to the Corner etc this forenoon.  I went to W.F.M.S. in the afternon.  We had a memorable meeting.  New officers were elected;  some to satisfaction, some to dissatisfaction.  Washed.

July 3, 1898 - Sabbath.  A fine hot day.  Roy, Alden and I were at Sabbath School.  Glenn came to church with Mrs. B.  Rev Isaac Baird preached: "What is it to be a Christian"

July 4, 1898 - Monday.  Fine and hot.  I did not wash.  Aunt Anne and Lissa here a while.  Aunt Anne was washing at the brook.  Roy sick.

July 5, 1898 - Tuesday.  Not so hot.  Roy was not much better.  Mrs. P.S. Hamilton here getting sewing done.  We hooked some.

July 6, 1898 - Wednesday.  Fine.  Roy don't seem much better.  Roy, Alden and D.M. down to Doctor Cox's.  Roy has Gastric Fever.

July 7, 1898 - Thursday.  Fine.  This afternoon, Ida and I went out and picked some strawberries.  I got enough to partly fill a sealer.  Roy and Harry were with Mrs. B.  Davie Johnson and Ira Higgins were hauling logs.  We got Mrs. B.'s mat out.  Mrs. English was down.

July 8, 1898 - Friday.  A fine day.  I sewed in my mat.  Mrs. Higgins, Mrs. Hilchey, and Mrs. Lewis Fulton called this afternoon.  Roy is some better.   D.M. and Glenn were down to the Village, Corner etc.

July 9, 1898 - Saturday.  Dark;  fine a while and raining tonight.  George H. Tupper called today.   He is repairing tin pans etc.  Roy a good lot better.   Harry has cold.  I washed a large washing this forenoon.  Mrs. B. kept Harry. 

July 10, 1898 - Sabbath.  Fine; warm.   Alden and I up to Sabbath School. Roy is better but he did not go to Sabbath School.  Lesson was on "Elijah, the Prophet".  M.S. Graham taught our class.

July 11, 1898 - Monday.  Another fine warm day.  Janie's eighteenth birthday.  Aunt Ann and Liss were washing at the brook today.  They washed five or six quilts and blankets for me.  D.M. traded Daisy with F.O. Smith.  Mr. Morris of Cross Roads is dead.

July 12, 1898 - Tuesday.  Not sunshiny, but warm.  Jessie M. Crockett here to dinner.  She was down to the picnic at Springside.   Netta Blanche English was down in the afternoon.  Ida and all the children (except Harry) and I  went to pick berries after dinner.  The boys did not stay long, but Joy stayed until we came home.  Our horse went off last night  and D.M. and Bub were looking for him all the afternoon.  They got him with Charles Fulton's horses.

July 13, 1898 - Wednesday.  Quite warm, but dark with a few sprinkles of rain.  Mrs. Higgins and Amy and Mrs. H. Hilchey and Elsie Viola here to tea.  D.M. down to Cross Roads.  I washed in the forenoon.

July 14, 1898 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Didn't get much done, only fuss round today.  Hooked a little.  Florence and Roy picked a few berries.  Also , I baked bread.

July 15, 1898 - Friday.  A wet day.  We hooked some.  James A. Graham here to dinner.  Mr. English not here today.

July 16, 1898 - Saturday.  Dark this forenoon, but fine after dinner.  S. Dawson and Martin Fulton here to dinner.  I washed the floor.  We had beet-greens.  D.M. had toothache tonight.  Roy not very well.  Mrs. Blaikie and Ida were over to Aunt Annes to tea.  May English (Mrs. F. Horne) came home today.

July 17, 1898 - Sabbath.  A fine day.   Rev. C. MacKinnon preached today on "The man that had the withered hand".

July 18, 1898 - Monday.  Pretty fine.  Washed and churned.

July 19, 1898 - Tuesday.  Dark.

July 20, 1898 - Wednesday.  A little dark, but not much rain.  Mr. S.F. Creelman here to dinner.  After dinner, D.M. and I and Florence drove down to Eastville, to Miss Margaret A. Johnson's to get my dress cut etc.  We drove to Adam Johnson's to tea.  Martha was home.  Mrs. A. Johnson had headache etc.  Mrs. Blaikie kept the other children.

July 21, 1898 - Thursday.  Pretty fine.  We hooked some.  Had a letter form Edith.

July 22, 1898 - Friday.  Fine.  I washed and ironed.  May English called.

July 23, `1898 - Saturday.  Fine.  Washed the floor this forenoon.  Rob. Peterson here to dinner.  D.M. and Glenn and I were at Eastville, Cross Roads etc.  Glenn and I had tea with Miss M.A. Johnson.   D.M. had his with Mr. and Mrs. John Brown.  They tarred and sanded the porch roof.

July 24, 1898 - Sabbath.  Another pretty fine day.  A few little showers fell.  D.M. and boys at Sabbath School.  F.J., Harry and I at home.

July 25, 1898 - Monday.  Fine.  I did not wash.  Mrs. B. and I hooked some.  We had raspberries for dinner and tea.  D.M.,  Uncle C. Graham, and P.S. Hamilton up to James Johnson's tonight.

July 26, 1898 - Tuesday.  Dark and rainy.  Mrs. B. over helping me hook.

July 27, 1898 - Wednesday.  Dark this forenoon, but cleared off.

July 28, 1898 - Thursday.  About the same weather as common.   I almost forget about these days, seeing it is about a week back.

July 29, 1898 - no entry

July 30, 1898 - Saturday.  Fine.  I washed some clothes in the forenoon.  D.M. went to the Village, Corner, etc in the afternoon.  Mrs. B. and the children sent some berries to the Corner.  Mrs. B. got sugar and the children got tumblers.  I had no letter from Edith.  We had a letter form Miss Cameron of Urbania.  She cannot come to teach.

July 31, 1898 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Roy, Alden and I up to Sabbath School and church.  "Feeding the five thousand"  was the sermon.  Robert Elwood and Alden Douglas, children of P.W. Graham and J. Martin Johnson were baptized.

August 1, 1898 - Monday.  Not very fine.  I churned and washed the floor.  D.M. painted the kitchen floor tonight.

August 2, 1898 - Tuesday.  Dark.  Roy and I picked quite a lot of raspberries this forenoon.  Mrs. Higgins, Mrs. H. Hilchey and Elsie Viola were here to tea.  Robert Graham called.

August 3, 1898 - Wednesday.  A fairly fine day.  I washed clothes this forenoon;  ironed those I washed on Saturday in the afternoon;  darned a pair of socks, picked some berries etc this afternoon.

August 4, 1898 - Thursday.  A fine day.  I picked raspberries all the forenoon.  D.M., Roy and Alden were down to the Village etc this afternoon.  We sent 15 pounds of berries down.  Got sugar with it.  D.M. got me cloth for window blinds, factory cotton, cheese etc.  Mrs. W. Graham went down to the Corner and Lucy and the baby stayed here.  Mrs. Blaikie was over tonight.  Had a letter form Edith and a card from Miss M.A. Johnson.

August 5, 1898 - Friday.  Not very sunshiny, but warm.  I picked berries all my spare time today.   Got two pickle-bottles and a quart sealer full.  D.M. and Bub were doing various odds and ends, picking potato beetles etc.

August 6, 1898 - Saturday.  A fine day, except one short thunder shower.  My twenty-eighth birthday.  I got a broom, a pair of laces,  curtains for upstairs and a box of hair pins.  I am very happy.  I washed the floor,(kitchen) , in the forenoon.  Becky Graham called.  D.M. painted our bedroom.  After dinner I went to W.F.M.S.  Bella Hamilton  called and accompanied me up.  Mrs. Higgins is our new president.  Mrs. English, secretary; and Mrs. C.E. Graham, treasurer.  May English took tea with me.  Mrs. Higgins and MrsHamilton and I called at Mrs. English's.

August 7, 1898 - Sabbath.  Alden's seventh birthday.  A little dark and a cool wind, but no rain.  All of us at Sabbath School except Harry.  Mrs. B. kept him.  Quite a large Sabbath School.

August 8, 1898 - Monday.  Fine.  A nice hay day.  I washed clothes this forenoon.  D.M. carried water.  He got two loads of hay at R.S. Deyarmond's this afternoon.  I made a nghtie for Florence this afternoon.  The children and I picked some berries after tea.

August 9, 1898 - Tuesday.  Dark this forenoon, but pretty fine this afternoon.  They intended going out to Lowery Brook Field to hay, but didn't get off.  Mr. English was down today.   Mrs. English was down doing the boy's pants this afternoon.  She took them home to make.  D.M. and Glenn are down to the corner tonight. 

August 10, 1898 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  They were out to Lowery brook haying - youngsters and all.  I ironed.  They got some blueberries.  Harry very troublesome, especially tonight. 

                   "All alone , along I linger

                     Thinking of the days long past.

                      Not regretting, only hoping

                      I will hear "Well done" at last."

August 11, 1898 - Thursday.  A rainy day.  We had intended to go out to Lowery Brook Field today if all had been suitable; but "man proposes - God disposes".   No doubt the day was ordered best for His plans, and we may not question "Why".   Amanda, Cora May, Judson, and Johnnie Graham were here this  forenoon, to have a play with the children.  W. Foster Rutherford called.  Harry K. Hogan here to tea.  I sewed all my spare time.  Baby seems to be not very well.

August 12, 1898 - Friday.  Dark.  No kind of a hay day.  I washed this morning; sewed some this afternoon.  Fos came home this afternoon.  Mrs. English called, also Mr. R. Burgess.  Must bake tomorrow if nothing happens.

August 13, 1898 - Saturday.  Dark and rainy.  Just fussed round and patched etc today.  Found out about an M. of shingles, 250x4=1000 in 4 bunches, tonight.  Fos and Liss here to tea.  Aunt Anne called.  We got some veal from her.  I washed the children all over tonight.

        Life is a struggle from day to day,

             The burden is heavy, oftimes to bear,

       But we still move on in a certain way,

             Kept by the Loving Master's care.

       Ay! That is the keynote of all our lives

             We are happy in His unending love

       So never despair, each one who strives

             Through light and shadow comes heaven above.

August 14, 1898 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine.  Not much sun however.  D.M. has cold and Roy, Alden and I went to church and Sabbath School.  Mr. Fraser preached on "Fellowship With the Father".  A very inspiring sermon.  All of Leonard Johnson's family were out from Truro.  The cows laid out.

August 15, 1898 - Monday.  Not very fine this forenoon, but a fine afternoon.  They did not go out to Lowery brook.  D.M. and Fos went down to the Corner etc this afternoon.  Also got my dress at Miss M.A. Johnson's.  I sewed at Flossie's dress what time I got a chance.  Also churned.  Every day brings its duties; some are hard and some are easy.  Morrison had the cold today, and that made him very sneezy.   We had new potatoes for dinner today.  Also veal and cucumbers etc.

August 16, 1898 - Tuesday.  Foggy this morning, but it turned out a fine breezy afternoon.  I washed the clothes and the floor this forenoon.  After dinner I made three dishes of Rhubarb preserves, picked a few raspberries, did the hundred and one things that belong to a house, and then - now I am  preparing for bed. D.M. took Fos away, or rather part of the way over to Riversdale on his way to Belmont. May and Blanche English called tonight. 

" Following bravely where He leads

They labored unweariedly night and day.

Sometimes rejoicing, sometimes sad

Through shade and through sunshine

They held their way."

August 17, 1898 - Wednesday.  Dark, and still some of the day pretty fine.  We put up our dinner - eight of us - and went out to the Lowery Brook Field this morning.  Mrs. Blaikie kept Harry.  We got quite a lot of blueberries.  Mr. English came out in the afternoon.  They finished getting in the hay.   Becky was at Mrs. Blaikie's to tea;  she called here.  Mrs. Emglish sent Glenn's pants home. 

August 18, 1898 - Thursday.  A fine day.  The best hay day we have had this long time.  Roy, Glenn, Harry and I went over to see Aunt Anne today.  We had a nice visit.

August 19, 1898 - Friday.  Pretty fine this morning but turned wet tonight.  D.M. went to meet the new teacher, Mr. J.A. Rose this afternoon, or rather, he went to the Corner this forenoon, and to meet him after dinner.  I picked some peas for dinner etc.  Baby was troublesome today.  Liss called tonight.  Uncle John is back.

August 20, 1898 - Saturday.  We had quite a rain last night.  The water is pretty high.  D.M. and Mr. Rose went up to Mr. C. Graham's and got their dinner.  He has decided to board with Mrs. Blaikie.  May and Jennie English were here to dinner and they helped me a lot.   I baked, but am not sure it is good bread.

August 21, 1898 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  We just read and studied the Sabbath School lesson in the forenoon; after dinner, all except Harry, went to Sabbath School.  The lesson was "Naaman healed".  A good lesson.  Mrs. B. kept Baby for us.  Mr. Rose went to Sabbath School.

August 22. 1898 - Monday.  Another fine day.  I churned and did the various duties that came to hand this forenoon.  Washed the clothes, hall stairs, pantry etc this afternoon; also blacked the stove.  School opened.  Roy and Alden both went to school.  It was very quiet round the mill.  Mr. English was working here.   We had a pleasant time on Mrs. B's platform.

          A common-place and quiet day

          In which the work had easy sway.

          And each of us went on his way

          Thank God for the common days

August 23, 1898 - Tuesday.  Not very fine, but no rain.  There was a thunder storm last night.  I did not seem to get much done this forenoon, only the common things.  I ironed in the afternoon.  Alex Sample was here to dinner.  Mrs. Higgins, Mrs. Hilchey, and little Elsie, also Misses Alice Proven, and Lena and Annie May Crockett, also G.A. MacKay called.    Mr. Rose was in a little while, but I guess I must have frightened him when I came downstairs after putting Harry asleep, for he went right off home.

August 24, 1898 - Wednesday.  Sort of dark this morning, but not a bad day on the whole.  Spent the forenoon doing a lot of housework etc.  Washed the kitchen floor and baked in the afternoon.  Mrs. English here helping me fix D.M.'s overalls this afternoon.  Mrs. Wm. Graham and Lucy and Annie and baby D.G. over at Mrs. B.'s to tea.  David Brown here to dinner.   I was "hurried and worried and flurried" this forenoon - a lot of care seemed to rest on me - "but now it has fallen from me, it is buried in the past, and a peace seems floating o'er me, that I hope will always last."

     Ah! vain mortal! naught is lasting

     In this fleeting world below;

     Only oft to fight life's battles

     And with joy to conquer woe.

August 25, 1898 - Thursday.  A dark day, ending in rain, heavy and wet.  We set off for Otter Brook this morning.  We went to Mr. Adam Fulton's.  Spent most of the day there.  Mrs. J.W. Fulton is still in bed.  Jessie Brown is home from USA.  We called at Alex Fulton's (Jessie and I).  D.M. and Samuel Cox went in to the Village after dinner.  We had a lot of rain on our way home; but we did not get much wet.  I did not have to milk when we got home, for Bub had done it for me.  We had quite a pleasant little time over at Mrs. Blaikie's, but it wasn't so pleasant coming home, as it was quite wet.   However, we all got over and to bed. There was quite a storm - thunder and lightning - in the night.

August 26, 1898 - Friday.  Rather dark this forenoon but pretty fine this afternoon.  Morrison's forty-second birthday.  The children and I gave him a cup and saucer.   Glenn went to school today.  After they got off to school, I picked some beets - the first we had.  Flossie, Baby and I were over at Mrs. Blaikie's to dinner.  D.M. came home and Cyrus Graham was with him.  They hadn't got their dinner, so I got to work and got it for them.  I baked two custard, and a rhubarb and buttermilk pie today.  Mr. E.A. Logan and little boy here to tea.  Julia Graham here a while.  May and Blanche English here tonight a short time.  Mr. J.A. Rose here this evening etc.

August 27, 1898 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Feels like autumn.  The air has a cooler feeling somehow, and one feels the first faint tinge of sadness that foretells the approach of the falling of the leaves.  But I must stop "a-episodin" as Mrs. Josiah Allen says and proceed with the realities of life.  I washed clothes and got dinner this forenoon.  Baked two cakes, ironed the starched clothes, helped Mrs. B. pick the crab-apples, churned etc in the afternoon.  Wrote to the folks at home today.

August 28, 1898 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  D.M. and children went to Sabbath School and church.  Baby, Flossie and I were not there.  We took a walk.  I read a little etc.

August 29, 1898 - Monday.A fine day, but cloudy at night.  Also windy; looks like rain.  I washed clothes; did many odds and ends that came to haunt, mixed the bread at night etc.

August 30, 1898 - Tuesday.  Rainy this morning but it didn't amount to much.  I ironed and washed floors and baked nine loaves of bread, got dinner etc this morning.  Partly made a dress for Harry, swept etc this afternoon.  Listened to Morrison expatiating on his smartness tonight.  He claims to be able to do anything that anybody else ever did.  I have suggested a great many things such as going over the Niagra falls, making a flying machine, making a dress for Harry, and many more wonderful things. Now he is speechifying on the absurdity od Captain Matthew Webb going over the Falls of Niagra;  also on his own (D.M.'s) ability to preach;  is capable of preaching to almost any one or ones etc.

          "A little nonsense now and then

            Is relished by the best of men"

I finished a letter to Janie.  D.M. did not go to Truro.

          Now it's Ogilvie, now its grain

          Now buckwheat stones, then  Me again;

          But now he's stopped, talked out he says

          Ah! such a man! and such his ways.

August 31, 1898 - Wednesday.  A pretty fine day.  May English wrote me that she would come and "keep house" for me to go to the Presbyterial Society of the W.F.M.S., which meets in the Village today.  Mrs. Blaikie went too.  We drove "King".  The first time "we" have driven him.  The meeting was pretty good, but I have seen better.  Mrs. Peasrson had a talk on " Balaam".  The rest gave their various reports; that is the Secretary, Mrs. George McLeod, and Treasurer, Mrs. MacKay.  Mrs. B. and I did not stay for the evening meeting, or for tea, which was served in the Hall.   Blanche English got word that she could engage the Ryan's Creek school.   May got along very well with the children, work, tea etc.  Mrs. English came up with us.   Met Mrs. Geggie.  She seems like an affinity.

September 1, 1898 - Thursday.  Pretty fine.  Morrison, Roy , Alden, Glenn and Flossy went to Truro today.  They started somewhere about six, and got home about ten o'clock at night.  They got their "profiles" taken etc.  I kept house for Mrs. B.  She and Ida went over to George Deyarmond's and Bert drove them home about four o'clock.  Then Mrs. B. kept Harry for me to go to Prayer Meeting.  I enjoyed the Prayer Meeting.  It always  helps me.

September 2, 1898 - Friday.  Quite fine.  I picked some peas for dinner.  Also boiled beets etc this forenoon.  It seemed as though I never would get through with the work, but "sometime, someway" it will all be done.   Blanche English called this forenoon.  Mr. English wasn't here today.  He was getting a team to take May and Blanche away tomorrow.  Mrs. B. and I were making our "garments" for Trinidad this afternoon.  Becky Graham called.  May and Blanche called this evening. Also Mr. Rose spent the evening. It was hard getting Harry asleep, but I had a pleasant time afterwards.

September 3, 1898 - Saturday.  Last night was a rainy night and this was a drizzly day for the most part.  I washed clothes, finished my share of the Trinidad garments, made pig's feed etc this forenoon.  In the afternoon, I blacked the stove, washed the floor, helped Roy churn, dressed the butter, baked a soda cake, swept upstairs and the kitchen and sitting room, got tea etc; and last but not least, scolded a good lot - was impatient.  The little boys are asleep now.     Mr. Rose was over a little while.  I guess I must have been so peppery that he went off home.

          "Life is mostly froth and bubble

           Two things stand like stone;

           Kindness in another's trouble,

           Courage in your own"

And when we reach that blessed land "where weary hearts with sandals loose may rest, I think that we shall say 'God knew the best' ".

September 4, 1898 - Sabbath.  Rather dark but not rainy.  Mrs. B. came over to get Morrison to go and see if Mr. Rose was sick as he had not got up.  He had a bad headache, and did not feel like getting up.  After dinner we went to Sabbath School.  There was a good Sabbath School.  Miss Lissa Graham was home from Greenfield.

September 5, 1898 - Monday.    A fine hot day.  I did not wash the clothes.  I picked green beans, boiled beets, mixed bread etc.  In the afternoon, I baked.  Mr. Rose over this evening.   He and Morrison are having quite a lot of fun.

September 6, 1898 - Tuesday.  Fine and hot like yesterday.  I washed clothes this forenoon, also cooked a "biled" dinner.  The carrots and parsnips are very good.    At least Mr. English said so.  D.M. wouldn't eat any of them.  Mrs. B. kept Harry .  After dinner I baked molasses cookies, biscuits etc and finished a dress for Harry.  D.M. went to Cross Roads to get some Mill Gear.   There is a Temperance Lecture tonight given by Mr. Fraser at "Styles" church.  None of us are there except Bub and Mr. I.A.Rose.  Mrs. B. is down to J.W. Deyarmond's to see Mrs. Deyarmond who is sick.

September 7, 1898 - Wednesday.  Fine, but not as sunshiny as the last two days have been.  Mrs. B. wasn't very well, nor Morrison either.  They are better tonight however.  In the forenoon, I went through with the usual formalities - sweeping, cooking etc.   After dinner, I starched and ironed the clothes (not all of them did I starch).   The afternoon and evening were uneventful.  The children are in bed and I am writing and talking to D.M. and scaring away a flea.

September 8, 1898 - Thursday.  Fine again.  Cut out or rather sewed at Alden's shirts today.  Made bitter yeast, made some pickles, mixed the bread etc.  Amy L. Higgins here to tea.  Had a letter from Edith.  Wrote to them at home.    It is Mr. English's, and Ivy English's, and Ira Higgins' birthdays.  There was Prayer Meeting, but none of us were there but Mr. Rose.

September 9, 1898 - Friday.  Another fine day.  Mr. Wm. Creelman had a grist here today.  The first of the year.  I helped D.M. make an elevator belt this afternoon also swept upstairs.  Am not in a writing mood tonight.  Mr. Rose was over tonight.  We enjoy his visits very much.  It is bed time now, and we must retire.  M.O.B.

September 10, 1898 - Saturday.  Fine again.  Lovely harvest weather.  I washed the clothes this forenoon.  Mr. Rose went up along this forenoon.  Mrs. R.S. Deyarmond and Mrs. English here this afternoon.

September 11, 1898 - Sabbath.  Fine as usual.  We read some and studied the Sabbath School Lesson this forenoon.  Roy, Alden and I went to Sabbath School and church.  Mr. Fraser preached a strong Temperance sermon.  Quite a lot of strangers were at church.  D.M. and Bub not very well.  Mr. Rose came back again.

September 12, 1898 - Monday.  Fine and cool.  Was getting ready to go to Lower Stewiacke all day.  Mrs. English called.  Uncle John began to dig a drain to bring the water down.  Mike went home at noon etc. 

September 13, 1898 - Tuesday.  Fine again.  J.H. and I went to Lower Stewiacke this morning.  We had our dinner at S. Flemming Creelman's.  Got to Edith's about five o'clock, where we met Janie and Mr. Geggie's (Rev.) two little girls, Jean and Alison.  Bub took them up to the station where they met Mr. Geggie and his two little boys.  They had been to the  D.J.T.A. Picnic at lower Stewiacke.  Edith was rejoiced to see us.  She said it had been a scarlet day for her.

September 14, 1898 - Wednesday.  Another fine day.  Bub went home this morning.  After dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Mumford, Edith, Flora, Babies Claude and Harry and I set out for Shubenacadie.  Edith and I and children stopped at Orechia's saloon.  Mr. Mumford and Mrs. Mumford went away to do some shopping etc. and there we sat,  (for the old photographer wasn't there).  We made speeches, laughed and walked round;  at last Edith went in to Mrs. Sharp's store.  She (Mrs. Sharp) invited us in to wait.  We waited until Mrs. Mumford appeared and then we went to the American House and waited until Mr. Mumford came along.  We were entertained by Miss J. Cox for some time.  At last we were relieved of waiting, for the children made it a little tedious, by the appearance of Mr. Mumford, and we all went back to Edith's, where, after preparing and eating supper, getting children to bed etc. We spent a very enjoyable evening.

September 15, 1898 - Thursday.  Beautiful weather.  We picked peas for dinner.  Mrs. Mumford spent the afternoon with us.  She is a fine woman.  Edith was going to the Post Office and she insisted on stopping with me, to keep the children.  We had a nice time;  but Edith did not get my letter.

September 16, 1898 - Friday.  Not quite so fine looking, but still good weather.  D.M. and Flossie came after me.  I was glad to see them; but wasn't homesick.  Mrs. Mumford and Uncle Billy kept  all the children for us to go up to Lower Stewiacke.  We had a nice evening thanks to Mrs. Mumford and Uncle Billy.

September 17, 1898 - Saturday.  Quite fine again.  We left Edith's about nine o'clock;  drove up to Dickie's mill;  then to J. Dickie's to dinner; thence home to tea.  Was glad to get home. "There's no place like home".

September 18, 1898 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Flossie, Baby and I at home.  Rev Mc Leod Harvey preached.  A good sermon they said.

September 19, 1898 - Monday.  Fine again.  I washed some.  It was a very busy day.  Mr. Rose was away up along.

September 20, 1898 - Tuesday.  Fine and showery.  A busy forenoon.  Jessie Gourley here this afternoon and evening.  Quite a company here tonight - Messrs I.Adam Rose, Cy Graham, M.Dennie Graham, G.Albert and D.Allen Deyarmond.  To say nothing of W. Foster Blaikie, who arrived this afternoon and is remaining all night.

September 21, 1898 - Wednesday.  Fine and cool.  Glenn did not go to school.  I was busy as usual.  I made Jessie help me.   The busy days are happy days though; if it does seem hard to get all the things seen to.  Fos took Jessie home and went to Cross Roads etc.  He is back now.  Mrs. English and Howie were here this afternoon.  Mrs. Higgins and Amy and Aunt Anne and Minnie here to tea; all but Minnie.  Also Miss Ellen Johnson.  Mr. Rose and Fos over tonight a short time.

September 22, 1898 - Thursday.  Fine.  Uncle John digging at the drain.  Miss Ellen Johnson here to dinner.   I have enjoyed her acquaintance very much.  It is Prayer Meeting night but I cannot go.

September 23, 1898 - Friday.  A rainy day.  Quite wet this afternoon.  I finished Alden's shirt etc.  Mr. English not here today.

September 24, 1898 - Saturday.  Rainy yet.  Mr. English not here today.  John digging at his drain yet.  It is very muddy and dirty.  I sewed some, peeled some apples.  Bub down to the Corner this afternoon.

September 25, 1898 - Sabbath.  Fine and cool.  We were over to Mrs. Blaikie's this afternoon.  Ida is not well, and Mrs. B. did not go to church.  She kept Harry and F.J.   The rest of us were there.  Mr. Fraser had the Quarterly Review.  The children answered very nicely.

September 26, 1898 - Monday.  Rather dark, with occasional drizzle.  Mrs. B. and I did our washing together on account of Ida being sick etc.  Allen Johnson of South Branch Stewiacke here to dinner.  There was quite a crowd at the mill, especially this afternoon.  I recognized Lew Fulton's voice among them.  Mrs. Bill Graham called.  Also J.W. Deyarmond this evening.  The children are all in bed.  I am all alone for a few minutes as D.M. is at the mill or over at his mother's.  Mr. Rose was over a few minutes.

September 27, 1898 - Tuesday.  Dark this forenoon, rainy this afternoon.  Seems colder tonight.  Baby was troublesome especially tonight.  D.M. is at the mill and John C. Pratt, who will probably be here all night.  I am lonesome, if that can be said.  Must write to May and Edith.  S.F. Creelman of Otter Brook and Joseph Chaplin of Woodside, Musquodoboit, here to dinner.

September 28, 1898 - Wednesday.  Some rain.  Some sunshine. Some drizzle.  John Pratt stayed here all night last night, and he left some companions in the bed where he slept.  I was provoked at him for doing so, as I had to wash bedclothes most of the afternoon.  We made the chow-chow this afternoon, or rather prepared it in the forenoon and boiled it in the afternoon.  Uncle John went up to Wm. Crockett's.  James Harris and Mr. Rose went down to the church to hear  a lecture by Miss Florence Ben Oliel, who belongs to some part of Palestine.  No doubt it will be very interesting and instructive.  Mr. English was here this afternoon.

September 29, 1898 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Temperance Election day.  D.M. down to the Polling Booth in the forenoon, and J.H. in the afternoon.  Uncle John set out for Pictou.  Aunt Anne called.  She and Minnie were going to see Libbie.  Ira Higgins was working here today.  We got a barrel of flour and one of oatmeal this afternoon. Mr. Rose was at Mrs. English's to tea.  It is Prayer Meeting tonight, I would like to have gone, but home duties come first, I consider.

September 30, 1898 - Friday.  Another fine day.  Fos came home last night.  Didn't do much this forenoon.  Was over to Mrs. B.'s this afternoon; we were baking pies etc.  Fos went over to Mr. Deyarmond's tonight.

October 1, 1898 - Saturday.  A very beautiful autumn day.  I was washing this forenoon.  Got my washing done.  Harry did not appear to be very well.  Mrs. B. kept him for me to go to the W.F.M.S. at 2 o'clock.  Mr. Rose drove me up.  He was up along a piece, to Willie MacKay's, I guess.  Mrs. P.S. Hamilton came down with us.  I think our meeting was very good, but we want "more charity" in it.  After we came home, Fos played a few tunes - "Massa's In The Cold Cold Ground", "Old Folks At Home", "Little Dog Towzer", "Auld Lang Syne" etc.   Then I came home, got tea, milked, did up the chores , got the children to bed and spent a very quiet evening all to myself, for D.M. had gone to Court I.O.F. Mutual Aid at Cross Roads.  Flossie got a blue violet yesterday.  Alden picked one about a fortnight ago too. 

       "  Spake full well in language quaint and olden

          One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine

          When he called the flowers so blue and golden

          Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine"

          "I see Thee in the beauteous rose,

           The lily speaks of Thee,

           And every fragrant flower that grows

           Breathes Jesus' name to me."

October 2, 1898 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  D.M. at home with Glenn, Flossie and Harry.  Roy, Alden and I were at church and Sabbath School.  Mr. Fraser preached form the text "Therefore, my beloved brethern,be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord;  forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord".  One of my favorite texts.  Fos, Mr. Rose, and Ira St.C. Higgins were here a short time in the evening.  Mr. Wm. Bentley was very seriously injured yesterday by falling off a load of grain.

October 3, 1898 - Monday.  Fine.  I did not do much washing.  Just fussed round all day.  "The boys" were over to George Deyarmond's tonight

October 4, 1898 - Tuesday.  Fine again.  I tried to sew a little this forenoon but the "ceaseless round" of other duties kept me from accomplishing much.  After dinner, as soon as I could convienently get away, I went up to Alice Proven's to get some butter.  Left the baby with Mrs. Blaikie.  Mrs. Higgins was there.  "The boys" are down to P.S. Hamilton's tonight.  Mr. Wm. Bentley died this morning.    His life work is over.

October 5, 1898 - Wednesday.  Rather dark looking all day.  A really rainy evening.  Think Mr. I.A. Rose and Fos will get wet if they attempt to come home in this rain.  They are down to Samuel Cox's and I don't think they will get home if it continues to rain this way.   Had a call from Mrs. John A. Graham this afternoon.  She is very sociable and kind.  Mac was with her.  The children have gone to bed.  D.M. is reading "Handy Andy".  I mixed the bread and left it to rise.

          "A woman in a quiet  home

           Hearing, like a sweet refrain,

           It's time to go to bed."

and  stop being poetical, Mira.

October 6, 1898 - Thursday.  Fine after the rain.  D.M. and Fos and Byron Johnson went "down the country" today.  D.M. was round looking for some money, which is a hard article to obtain; neither did he get it.   James Graham called.  Baby Harry, Florence and I were over and got our dinner with Mrs. Blaikie.  There was a Mr. Redmond from Musquodoboit there.  D.M. did not get back until dark.  A Mr. Fisher, of Woodside, Musquodoboit was here all night.  I could not go to Prayer Meeting.

October 7, 1898 - Friday.  Fine again.  Washed clothes this forenoon.  Sewed this afternoon until about 4:30, then Mrs. B. and I drove up to Uncle Jim's and had tea.  We were seeing if Uncle Jim could go after the flour mill.  Had a fine drive.  But it is a cold night.  Am sleepy.

October 8, 1898 - Saturday.  Dark, and a wet afternoon.  Wet tonight.  The children pulled the beets this forenoon  I ironed, got vegetables for dinner, etc.  D.M. away.  A. Dawson here to dinner.  Mary Ellen Hamilton here this afternoon, also Mrs. C.E. Graham and Amy Higgins.  Mr. Rose here this evening.  He has been up along.

October 9, 1898 - Sabbath.  Dark and rather cool.  D.M., Roy , Alden and I up to Sabbath School.  Mrs. Blaikie kept Baby, Glenn and Flossie.  We were late for Sabbath School.  Our lesson was " Jehoshaphat's Good Reign".   We retired very early - for us - at about 8:30.

October 10, 1898 - Monday.  An autumn day.  Cool, with sunshine and wind - a light wind.   D.M. went to Truro this forenoon.  I don't like his being away.  But he don't go except in cases of necessity.  Messrs James A. and Charles Graham, and James Johnson called this forenoon.  I began to wash clothes, but in consequence of so many interruptions, I didn't finish until afternoon.  Hedley V. Creelman called.   Janie Graham is here tonight to stay all night.  I thought the children, Baby especially,  were never going to get to sleep tonight.  But "all things come round to him (her) who will but wait". and at last I have a few minutes before ten o'clock.

October 11, 1898 - Tuesday.  Quite fine.  D.M. did not get home until after dark.  Mr. Rose was over this evening.

October 12, 1898 - Wednesay.  Showery and dark.  I washed some clothes this forenoon.  Willie T. Nelson here to dinner.  I was glad to see him.  Grandma Andrews is at South Branch.  Mr. John Johnson of  Truro came to help set up the new mill.  Two loads of it came today.

October 13, 1898 - Thursday.  Fine.  A typical autumn day.  Minnie (Mrs. P.W. ) Graham and three little boys here a while.  She was over at Grandma's to dinner.  I sewed a little this afternoon.  Am too indolent to write tonight.

October 14, 1898 - Friday.  A fine fall day.  Warm too.  I washed clothes this forenoon.  Did odd jobs this afternoon.

October 15, 1898 - Saturday.  Wet, windy and disagreeable generally.  Made soup for dinner.  Alex Power and George Fisher here to dinner.  Had a call from "Little Andy".

          Some days in our lives are dreary

            Sometimes we would fain forget

          Some trials that made us weary

            Some fears that made us fret.

But the children are all in bed and asleep.  The boys were hard to get to bed; boys are well annoying sometimes.

          "Boys will be boys, but not for long

            How can we bear about us

            The thoughts how very soon our boys

            Will learn to do without us;

            How soon the stern-voiced bearded men

            Will gravely call us Mother

            Or we be reaching empty hands

            From this world to the other."

October 16, 1898 - Sabbath.  Rather dark with some few showers.  Nothing of importance occurred this forenoon.  In the afternoon, Roy, Alden and I went to Sabbath School.

October 17, 1898 - Monday.  A rainy day.  I did not wash clothes, it was too rainy.   It was an uneventful day.  Angus and Olin Graham were here to tea.

October 18, 1898 - Tuesday.  Dark and showery.  I washed the clothes.  It is Nettie's sixteenth birthday.

October 19, 1898 - Wednesday.  Quite fine but wind cool.  I left Harry with Mrs. Blaikie and went out to South Branch after  Grandma.  Florence went with me.  We got out about twelve o'clock; got our dinner; got tackled up, made our calls and arrived home nearly seven o'clock (I guess).   Martin and Byron Johnson called.  Mr. Rose was over.  He often comes over.  We enjoy his company very much.  I had a letter from Janie.

October 20, 1898 - Thursday.  This day was cold and dark and dreary.  I baked and ironed, swept the chamber etc.  Grandma was piecing patchwork.  It was Prayer Meeting night.  It is not a very nice night for it, but I guess they must be having it, as Mr. Rose didn't come home.

October 21, 1898 - Friday.  A fine day.  Grandma and I washed the clothes and the floor this forenoon.  We were sewing this afternoon.  Mrs. B. and Bub are over to Mr. C. Graham's tonight.

October 22, 1898 - Saturday.  Rather dark and showery.  We swept, sewed etc this forenoon.    In the afternoon we went over to Mrs. B.'s to bake some cakes for Tuesday.  Washed the boys all over tonight.

October 23, 1898 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine.  A pleasant restful day.  Grandmother, D.M., Roy, Alden and Glenn were at church.  The waggon broke down while they were going up.  We spent a very pleasant evening.   I hope it was profitable in some ways.

October 24, 1898 - Monday.  A fine sunshiny day.   "Fain would we keep thee, fair October, tho' the  days seem all farewells" .      It is evening and the cares of the day are well nigh over (I hope).  The children are in bed, and as Morrison is reading, I suppose there is no immediate hurry about retiring.  Grandmother is knitting.  Dear old Grandma!  Maybe it is the last I shall ever see of her!   We, that , that is Grandma, washed some. I made a "tire" for F.J.   Mrs. B. and I baked six pies.  I was up to Miss Proven's for buttermilk.  Mr. Rose wasn't over long this evening.  I am almost sleepy, Good-night.

October 25, 1898 - Tuesday.  Dark in the forenoon but a nice afternoon.  Was sweeping etc this forenoon.  Grandma kept Flossie and Harry for me to go to the Local Union of the Y.P.S.C.E. this afternoon.  It was a nice meeting.  I enjoyed it very much.  There was excellent entertainment.   It was one of the bright things of life to have the privelege of enjoying an afternoon such as this.  Messrs G.H. Bates, and S.F. Creelman and Miss Stella Bates took tea with us.  I could not attend the evening session.  D.M. and Roy were there.  Fos came home.

October 26, 1898 - Wednesday.  A very nice autumn day.  Grandma returned to South Branch.   I wonder if I shall ever have another visit from her!  Mrs. B. took her away.  I went over to the other house and got dinner.  Frank Johnson was there to dinner.  Then I came home and washed some clothes.    They started the new grist mill this afternoon.  George Dickie, Eastville, was here to tea.  Mr. J.C. Johnson here tonight.

October 27, 1898 - Thursday.  One of the days that are dark and dreary.  Mr. Frank Cox, Stewiacke Village, here to dinner.  It rained quite a lot.  Nobody is in this evening.  I am alone.  I don't think there would be any Prayer Meeting.

October 28, 1898 - Friday.  A fine day.  I washed clothes this forenoon.  Deacon Andrew Cox here to dinner.  In the afternoon, I went over to Mrs. Ned Graham's.  Called at Mrs. Jim Graham's too.  Got home about 4:45.   Mrs. Higgins here to spend the evening.  Mrs. Blaikie in a while too.  I mixed up the bread this evening.

October 29, 1898 - Saturday.  Not very fine.  Not stormy - just gray.  Baked this forenoon, ironed, swept upstairs, washed the kitchen etc.    Was not up to the W.F.M.S. meeting.  Mrs. George Fulton and Miss M.A. Creelman were there from the Village Auxillary.  Mrs. George Dickie and Georgie were here to tea.

October 30, 1898 - Sabbath.  A very rainy night.  A freshet here.  Rained quite heavily this forenoon.  Roy and I went up to Sabbath School and church, but there was only a short service by the people.

October 31, 1898 - Monday.  A rather dark day.  I washed clothes this forenoon.  Mr. John Gourley here to dinner.  I hardly know what I did this afternoon; knit some, fussed around etc.  D.M. in the mill until 8:30.  The children are in bed now.

November 1, 1898 - Tuesday.  Squally.  Some flakes of snow - the first of the season.  Martin Fulton here to dinner - also Annie Deyarmond.  Mrs. George Deyarmond was visiting over at Mrs. Blaikie's  and Annie was with her.  Mr. Deyarmond was there to tea.  I was over a while this afternoon.

          Often is our life a desert

          Oft it seems so incomplete;

          But to make it bud and blossom

          We must sit at Jesus' feet.

          There we learn the blessed lesson

          Taught by that Great Heart divine

          Give thine heart unto the Master

          Learn to say "Thy will, not mine".

November 2, 1898 - Wednesday.  Rather dark.  George Smith, Cam. Whidden, and Fred'k Frame here to dinner.  Fos grinding tonight.

November 3, 1898 - Thursday.  A nice fine day.  I washed clothes and baked bread this forenoon;  went up to Ellie's and got some butter this afternoon.  Mr. Fraser, Mr. Rose and Uncle Charlie here to tea.  Uncle Charlie was clapboarding the house.

November 4, 1898 - Friday.  Fine again.  D.M. went down along this forenoon.  Geordie Bentley here to dinner. Mr. Charles Graham here clapboarding.  Mrs. J.A. Graham called.

November 5, 1898 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Mr. Rose was doing some book-keeping for D.M. this forenoon.  John Cox here to dinner.

November 6, 1898 - Sabbath.  A rainy day - especially in the forenoon.  Didn't see anyone going to church.  It is Sacrament Sabbath.  We went over the Sabbath School lesson with the children etc.  Went to bed early.

November 7, 1898 - Monday.  A fine day again.  Didn't wash this forenoon - just did a little this afternoon.  Was over to Mrs. Blaikie's helping her a little this afternoon.  Allen Deyarmond and Dennie Graham here this evening.  Also Mr. Rose.  I mixed the bread etc. - also put in a mat.

November 8, 1898 - Tuesday.  Fine.  A lovely day.  Cleaned the fromt bedroom today.  These are very busy days in the mill.  Morrison is not very well.  I think he is working too steadily.   P.S. Hamilton was here a while tonight, or rather this afternoon and to tea.  He seems like a rather nice old man.  Mr. Rose was in just a minute or two.

November 9, 1898 - Wednesday.  Quite a fine day.  D.M. went down to Cross Roads, Stk Village etc.  George A. MacKay called this forenoon.  F.J. MacKay and Jessie Brown were here a part of this afternoon and this evening.  Mrs. Blaikie and Mr. Rose were here too.

November 10, 1898 - Thursday.  Sort of dark.  I washed clothes this forenoon - hooked a little this afternoon.  H.K. Hogan here to tea.

November 11, 1898 - Friday.  Very rainy last night.  There was a fall of snow last night before the rain.  It rained quite heavily this forenoon several times.  Glenn didn't go to school.  Mr. English was not here today, only a short time this afternoon - he was killing his pigs.  J.T. Hamilton called.  Charlie Cox (Jr) here to tea.

November 12, 1898 - Saturday.  A nice fine day.  Quite a busy day too.  Bert Creelman here to dinner.  D.M. and Mr. Rose went to the Corner, Village etc.  Aunt Anne and Duncan down; Aunt Anne over at Mrs. B.'s to tea, Duncan here.

November 13, 1898 - Sabbath.  A fine day again.  Sacrament Sabbath.  Harris, Mr. Rose and I were down to church.  We had a good sermon from Mr. Fraser.  "What can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus".  After the Communion Service, the short discourse on "Aise, let us go hence" was very encouraging.

November 14, 1898 - Monday.  Wet this forenoon.  Mr. English was not down until after dinner.  I didn't wash; just ironed, hooked a little etc.  How Higgins, Colin Johnson, James A. Graham and Mr. Rose here "little whiles" this evening.  There is a dance at Martin Johnson's but we are not there.

November 15, 1898 - Tuesday.  Not very fine; I washed the clothes and hooked some.  It is the eleventh anniversary of our wedding.  Fos got home this afternoon.

November 16, 1898 - Wednesday.  A little snow fell;  It was dark, with some sunshine.  Baked cookies, ironed, mended etc.  Jennie English called.

November 17, 1898 - Thursday.  Fine this forenoon but darker this afternoon.  It was Mr. I.A. Rose, and Harry's birthday.  The former was much surprised by the appearance of all the school children  to take tea or rather lunch with him.  Each of them brought some remembrance to him.  Mr. and Mrs. Fraser also took tea with him.  Mr. Fraser intended going up to Prayer Meeting,  but Mrs. Fraser taking sick, they went home instead.

November 18, 1898 - Friday.  Quite a day.  Pretty rainy in the forenoon and dark in the afternoon.  Glenn went to school, the first day this week. 

          Little streaks of brightness in these cloudy days

          Make our gray lives brighter, feeling happy pays.

November 19, 1898 - Saturday.  Dark and showery.  Mr. and Mrs. David Crocker, and baby Graham here to spend a part of the afternoon.  They were at Grandma's to dinner.  Mr. Rose was doing some book-keeping for Morrison this forenoon.  He and D.M. were down to the Village, Corner, etc in the afternoon.  Charlie came home.  D.M. got a clock at D.R. Chutes'.  Mrs. English called tonight.    Charlie, Mr. Rose and Fos were over a little while in the evening.  Also Harris.  I went over with J.H. and Mr. Rose after milk.

November 20, 1898 - Sabbath.  Rather dark and showery.  D.M. and Roy up to church, also Flossie.  Mr. Rose came over and accompanied the two former.  We went to bed at 8:30.

November 21, 1898 - monday.  Pretty much like yesterday.  I washed clothes in the forenoon.  Rev Geddes here to dinner.  Charlie and Fos both home.   Nothing particular occurred tonight.  Read some in Handy Andy.

November 22, 1898 - Tuesday.  Muddy.  Rainy or drizzly all day.  Norman Taylor here to dinner.  Also two men from Steward Hill.  They didn't arrive until after two o'clock.  Was over to Mrs. Blaikie's a little while this afternoon.  Harry was troublesome.  How Higgins was working here.  Fos and Mr. Rose are away to Samuel Cox's tonight.  I was patching etc.  Morrison is not very well. 

So Our lives go on forever.

November 23, 1898 - Wednesday.  Rather finer than common.  Mr. and Mrs. Adams Johnson at Mrs. B.'s for dinner and over here to tea.  Mrs. J. was very anxious to see Mr. Rose, but he had not come home from school, so she missed him.  Messrs Albert Fisher, Howard Higgins, Colin Johnson, Hedley V. Creelman and a Newton boy here to dinner.  Was baking etc.

November 24, 1898 - Thursday.  It looked almost fine today, in the forenoon, but was a drizzly afternoon especially toward evening.  Howard Higgins was working here this forenoon.  Joe Chaplin Esq.  brought a grist.  Mrs. B., Bub and I up to Thanksgiving service in the afternoon.  Also Charlie, Fos and How Higgins.  Also Mr. Rose.  Mr. Fraser preached a nice sermon from I Peter, II, 9-10.  Maria J. Deyarmond stopped at Mrs. Blaikie's to tea.  I was over a little time in the evening.  It is a pleasure for me to think of how many things I have to be thankful for.  Many, many.

November 25, 1898 - Friday.  Quite dark, and some pretty heavy showers of rainfall.  Mr. Higgins here this forenoon and to dinner.  Mr. Joseph Chaplin here to dinner too.  P.S. Hamilton called.  Sidney McCabe here tonight.  Uncle John, who arrived last night, has gone up to Mr. Crockett's.  Charlie was down to Cross Roads etc.

November 26, 1898 - Saturday.  Quite a fine day.  Fos went to Truro.  Mr. Rose to Springside.  Lissa Graham and Herbert Higgins were here this forenoon.  I enjoyed their company very much.  Fred Rutherford was here to tea.   J.T. Hamilton called.  D.M., Charlie and Mr. Rose are at Cross Roads to a meeting of the I.O.F. tonight  Uncle John is here.  I have patched and mended; and read almost all the School Journal for October , 1898

       G.C. Andrews

       N.T.   N. Haven  & Hartford  R.R.

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November 27, 1898 - Sabbath.  The ground was covered with snow today; but the rain has taken it off.  There was not service up here.  Mr. Rose was here to dinner.  We went over the Sabbath School lesson with the children in the afternoon.

November 28, 1898 - Monday.  A showery muddy day.  I washed clothes this forenoon.  Uncle William and Graham Andrews here to dinner.  I had not seen the latter for fifteen or sixteen years.  He could only stay a short time however.  But I was thankful for that.  Alice Proven called in the afternoon, and E. Herbert Higgins in the evening.  Mr. Crockett is down to grind tonight.  Mr. Rose is away.  Charlie and How Higgins are away.

November 29, 1898 - Tuesday.  Still dark and drizzly.  I washed upstairs some, also cleaned the stairs and hall.  Also baked bread.  Mr. John Sample (Sr.) here to dinner.  Mr. Higgins called and brought me some books to read.  "Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush" and "God's Light on Dark Clouds" by Cuyler (sic).

November 30, 1898 - Wednesday.  Dark again and rainy too.  Howard Higgins here to dinner.  In the afternoon he and Charlie went up to Willie MacKay's to a "chopping bee".  But they had no dance as the evening was so wet and nasty.  We were reading "Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush " tonight.  We are also weaning Harry.  I got my mat out.

December 1, 1898 - Thursday.  Wet and sleety.  Sort of dreary.  Was patching etc.  Uncle Charlie called.  Was over to Mrs. Blaikie's twice tonight.

December 2, 1898 - Friday.  Still dark and rainy.  They got caught up with the grain in the mill.  Everett Deyarmond and Dora Fulton were married today.  Mr. English was here until dinner time.

December 3, 1898 - Saturday.  A finer day than we have had for a long time.  The clothes washed on Monday got dried and we ironed them. Mrs. C.E. Graham called and we went up to the W.F.M.S. together in the afternoon.  We had a very good meeting.  Eleven were present.After the meeting Cassie came down with me and helped me iron the clothes while I stitched a jacket for Bub.

December 4, 1898 - Sabbath.  Dark and drizzly.  Roads very muddy.  All of us except Glenn and Harry up to church.  Mrs. B. wasn't up.  Mr. Fraser preached on "In Christ Jesus".  It was interesting.

December 5, 1898 - Monday.  Wet and disagreeable.  I washed a few things this morning.  Didn't get much of anything done all day.  Mrs. Cameron was over to Mrs. blaikie's today.  Mrs. Higgins called, also Bill Graham.

December 6, 1898 - Tuesday.  Not much better weather than common.  Cut out a dress for Flossie.  John W. Fulton called.  Also John Tupper.  Uncle John appeared again.  Mr. Rose here a few minutes this evening.

December 7, 1898 - Wednesday.  A fine day in our dreary ones.  I cleaned the pantry this forenoon.  Sewed etc. this afternoon.  Charlie Brown here to dinner.  C.D. Creelman to tea.  Charlie, Fos and How Higgins arriving tonight.  Mr. Rose is away.

December 8, 1898 - Thursday.  Pretty fine.  Charlie and Fos over quite a lot today.  D.M. down to Cross Roads.  He got me a pair of fine boots and rubbers.  Also got oat-meal etc.  Mrs. English provoked them at Prayer Meeting  by her singing in a rude way. 

December 9, 1898 - Friday.  Light snow falling.  Mrs. Charles and Mrs.  James A. Graham here to tea. Also How and G. Graham.  Messrs J.A. and Charles S. Graham, I.A. Rose, and C.A. Blaikie here this evening.  There is a dance at George Dunlap's.  Fos is there.

December 10, 1898 - Saturday.  Pretty little flakes of snow falling all day.  I washed a little.

December 11, 1898 - Sabbath.  Quite a little snow falling.  Mr. Rose here a while this forenoon, and to dinner.  We went over the S.S. Lesson with the children etc.

December 12, 1898 - Monday.  A nice fine day.  I washed some clothes and took them in tonight.  Jessie Crockett here to tea.  I read some to D.M. and the children etc.  The plants all froze at school - from Saturday until today.

December 13, 1898 - Tuesday.  A snow storm.  The first sleighing we have had.  D.M. took Mr. Rose and Roy and Alden up to school this morning.  Mr. Higgins here to dinner.  I ironed etc this afternoon. 

"The snow had begun in the gloaming,and busily all the night

  Had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white."

December 14, 1898 - Wednesday.  A fine cold day.  One of the days it was hard to live through, but now it is over and gone, but I know that I did not make the best of it.  My patience was lost too often.  Though severly tried, yet I should not depend on myself.  How often I come short by trying to walk alone.   A Mr. Redmond of Musquodoboit was here to dinner.  Mr. English was not here this week.   Hedley Creelman here to tea.

December 15, 1898 - Thursday.  Quite a fine day.  I washed some this forenoon.  Maria J. Deyarmond here visiting.  She and Mr. Wm. Fulton of Meadowvale here to dinner.  Had a very pleasant day - quite full of sunshine it was.

December 16, 1898 - Friday.  Little flakes of snow falling all day.  We killed the pigs and geese.  Mrs. J.A. Graham and Mary E. Hamilton helping - also J.A. Graham and P.S. Hamilton.  Howard Graham here to tea.  Also Mary E. Hamilton.  Also Ralph and Sidney McCabe.  These latter are staying all night.  D.M. and Mr. I.A. Rose are down to Court Mutual Aid at Cross Roads.

December 17, 1898 - Saturday.  A nice fine day.  Not very cold.  We were not up very early this morning, and somehow it seemed as if things went amiss all day.  Especially was this the case with regard to bread.  Was scarce this morning, but it was nothing to tea time!!!!!   Messrs Michael English, Thomas D. Bates, and Wm. Fisher here to dinner.  T.D. Bates and a young Henry from Musquodoboit here to tea.  D.M. took the geese and pigs down to Cross Roads this afternoon.  He returned at tea time.  Was busy all day but see very little I have accomplished tonight.

          "When the faded flower shall freshen

            Feshen nevermore to fade;

            Where the shaded sky shall brighten

            Brighten nevermore to shade

            Where the sun blaze never scorches

            Where the star beams never chill

            Where no tempest stirs the echoes

            Of the wood or wave or hill;

            Where the moon shall wake in gladness

            And the noon of joy prolong

            Where the daylight dies in fragrance

            Mid a burst of holy song

            We shall meet and rest

            Mid the holy and the blest."

December 18, 1898 - Sabbath.  Soft and foggy.  Very bad walking.  Mr. Rose over a while this forenoon; Also Bub.  Roy and I at church.  Mr. Fraser preached a nice sermon on "This Esau despised his birthright".  It took in Patriotism and many other things.  Mr. Rose and Charlie were here this evening.

December 19, 1898 - Monday.  Rather cold.  A nasty wind.  I washed clothes, put away the lard etc.  Mr. Higgins here in the forenoon.  Uncle John had quite a time getting wood cut. It is Sylvester's birthday.  He is twenty-five.

December 20, 1898 - Tuesday.  Not very cold, not very fine.  Mr. Rose did not come from school last night. He was here a little while  "in the gloaming".  They moved, or finished moving the shop tonight.

December 21, 1898 - Wednesday.  A nice day.  Not cold.  Mrs. Blaikie and I were down to Cross Roads and got various household articles.  We had a nice drive.  "The boys" are over  to a party at Mr. George Deyarmond's tonight.  Mr. Rose was here making candy when I came home.  We had visitors - Charles Proven, and Mrs. Samuel Cox.

December 22, 1898 - Thursday.  Rather dark.  Fos and I were making candy for Mr. Rose and the scholars this forenoon.  How Higgins and Frank Tay;or here to dinner.  How. is a case!  Roy, and Olin Graham came down after the candy.  Was baking tonight.  Could not go to Prayer Meeting.  Mr. Rose and Bub called after Prayer Meeting.

December 23. 1898 - Friday.  A wet day.  Fos, Charlie and Mr. Rose started to go to Truro with Charles Proven this morning; but, as it was so wet, Charles did not go.   After dinner, Bub took Mr. Rose and Fos over to Riversdale.  Charlie did not go.  I made potted head etc.  Am tired, a little.  Eva and Angus called.

December 24, 1898 - Saturday.  Rather finer than yesterday.  Charlie went to Greenfield.  He was here to dinner.  D.M. went down to the Village, Cross Roads etc.  I got a fur cap for a Xmas present.

December 25, 1898 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine.  All at church except Alden, Baby and I. 

December 26, 1898 - Monday.  It is so long since I wrote, that I forget about these days.  I washed clothes etc.

December 27, 1898 - Tuesday.  Not very fine.  Angus skating.  The Annual Congregational Meeting this afternoon.  Morrison was up.  The salary, $100.00, was paid , and $10.00 additional.   Lucy Graham came down and she and Uncle John kept the children (all except Alden and Glenn who went over to Mrs. B.'s) for us to go to a Turkey Supper given by the I.O.F. of Court "Mutual Aid" of Cross Roads.  Besides the Foresters and their ladies, there were present,  Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tupper (Councillor for Upper Stewiacke South),  Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Logan (Councillor for Upper Stewiacke East),   Edwin Dickie,  Mr. and Mrs. George Fulton,  Mr. and Mrs. Doctor Cox,  Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Fulton, Rev and Mrs. D.S. Fraser,  Rev Clarence McKinnon and B.T. Davidson of Middle Stewiacke.   Mrs. C.W. Grant got up the supper.

The first course was tomato soup, then turkey, potatoes, turnip, cranberry sauce, pickles and beets.  Then coffee or tea, pie (apple, blueberry or cranberry), doughnuts, marble cake, fruit cake, bread.  Last, fruit - apples, oranges and grapes.    Then we had toasts and speeches.  Samuel Creelman responded to the toast to the Dominion and Local Government.  His speech was well worth hearing, and would convince anybody of the perfect unity  of the people as regards party-ism.  I have neither time nor opportunity to write all the details of the excellent speeches that followed.  They were from Fred Tupper, Rev. Fraser, Rev McKinnon, Drs Cox and MacKay, E.A. Logan, and  George Fulton Esq.    The latter gentleman was asked to represent the lawyers as there were none of that profession present;  but he declined the "honor?"

Dr MacKay's response to the toast to the Ladies was very good- especially the probable notice that he predicted would be read from the pulpit ten years from now, viz "The Rev. Miss or Mrs...will preach  at Springside or Middle Stewiacke at half-past ten on Sabbath....1909, and at Burnside or Brookfield at three p.m.   At both services a silver collection will be taken for the benefit of Retired Male Ministers Fund".

At about 11:30 the Foresters and their guests went home, well pleased with the evening.

1st table (side next stove) - Rev and Mrs. Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Logan, Mr. and Mrs. F. Tupper,  Miss Minnie MacKenzie, A.A. Grant at head of table, Sydney Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Everett B. Deyarmond, P.S. Hamilton, Mr. Will Creelman, and Miss Ruby Creelman, Mr. and Mrs. Eb. Fulton,  Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Fulton, Mr. and Mrs. Doctor Cox, Mr. and Mrs. George Fulton.

2nd table (right side of hall) Rev C. McKinnon, B.T. Davidson, D.M. and Mira Blaikie, Allan and Maria Deyarmond, Mr. Howard Higgins and Miss Nellie Johnson, Miss Laura Dickie and Dr, D.M. Mackay, Mr. Bill and Miss Libbie Creelman,  Mr. and Mrs. Sid Cruickshanks, Mr. and Mrs. G.A. Warman, Mr. Howard A. Graham and Miss Christy  Grant,  Miss Mary E. Hamilton and Mr. Edwin Dickie,  Mr. Ernest Creelman and Miss Lottie R. Grant and Samuel Creelman.

December 28, 1898 - Wednesday.  Dark.  P.S. Hamilton and Lucy Graham here to dinner.  I was sewing some for Mrs. B. this afternoon.  They got to work at the school house today.  Harry had earache.

December 29, 1898 - Thursday.  Rather dark.  D.M. down to the Village.  They didn't work at the school house today.   Was up at Y. P.S.E. Prayer Meeting.

December 30, 1898 - Friday.  They got to work at the school house again.  It is sort of a soft day.  Lyman Fulton here to dinner.

December 31, 1898 - Saturday.  Dark this forenoon, but snowing at night.  Andrew Dickie called.  Also A.R. Higgins.  It was too stormy for D.M. to go to the Forester's Court tonight.