January 1 - January 2, 1901 - no entries

January 3, 1901 - Thursday.  A keen, fine cold day.Bub, Adam Wright and James A. Graham away logging.  Some grinding came today, but not so much as yesterday.  Charlie returned on his way to Greenfield this afternoon  A.W. MacKenzie, who has been here with him since Tuesday, went back with him.

January 4, 1901 - Friday.  A fine day again.   Jimmie and Adam logging.  Mrs. English called in the afternoon.  We baked bread and cake.   Doctor Burris made us a short call tonight.  We enjoyed it too.  Wm. Patterson here to tea.

January 5, 1901 - Saturday.  Another fine cold day.   We were cooking, washing floors etc today.  Mrs. B. did the biggest share.  John Power here.

January 6 - January 10, 1901 - no entries

January 11, 1901 - Friday.  (Appears to be D.M. writing    -  j.m.)    Fine day.  Was  picking smashing stones today.  Will be ready to grind in the morning.   Henry Fisher was here to dinner.   David Bentley and Wm. Creelman was at the mill.     The boys were out to where they are logging.  Mary Ellen is in good cheer.   Has had two nights unbroken rest.  I forgot  to write for January 10.  But there was not much stir.  Mira went to Lower Stewiacke with Edith.   She came up yesterday.  They intended  stopping at Mr.  Fulton's tonight.

January 12, 1901 - Saturday.  Fine this forenoon but quite a heavy snowstorm this afternoon and evening.  Wm. Hamilton was at the mill with wheat.   Wm. Pearson and wife were here a short time today.    Joe is off up to Bill Graham's tonight.  Hope he will have a good time.

January 13, 1901 - Sabbath.  Fine this afternoon, but lots of snow.   Did not see anyone moving but one sleigh and two walkers. 

January 14, 1901 - Monday.  Fine and pretty cold this morning.  Down to zero.  Got our road broke out today.  The up-along teams were down breaking roads.    There was quite a lot of teaming on the roads today.   Harry Johnson was at the mill with a grist also took away a load of lumber.  Willie MacKay was in a while today.  Aunt Mary is getting better.  Joe is away up along looking for his trunk.  Hope he will find it and get to work so he will not be so uneasy.  Look out for Truro News this week.

[ Written beside the entry for this day, January 14, 1901, in another hand-writing is the following:"Foster Balckie married today.  Wish him much happiness"]

January 15, 1901 - Tuesday.  Another fine day.  6 below zero this morning.   Was sawing some today.   Team was out to the woods two trips.  Holmes Smith and George Fulton at the mill today.    Have not heard from Joe since yesterday.   Fixed George Dickie's sewing machine today.  Guess it will work.  M.E. is out hanging out clothes.

January 16, 1901 - Wednesday.   Fine again today, but looks like storm tonight.   Quite a run at the mill today.  Wm. Patterson was here for lumber, also a Lemon (not sour one), a Miller boy, George Dickie, and Allan Johnson from South Branch.     The mill is running yet (8:15 o'clock), and will have to run near an hour yet.  Got two loads of logs in today.  Think I will go for Ada tomorrow if fine.

January 17, 1901 - Thursday.  Quite a wet morning but finer in the afternoon.  There was not much going on at the mill today.  Julia Graham was here to dinner and tea.  She is a jolly girl.  Mary Ellen and Julia went to Prayer Meeting.  I see John Tupper's death in the News of Jan. 17, 1901.

January 18, 1901 - Friday.  A very easy day.  Charles B. and How Higgins came home last night.  There has been no stir around the mill today, so no news.  Think I will go down to Lower Stewiacke for Mira and call around and bring Ada home with us tomorrow, and come back Monday.

January 19, 1901 - Saturday.  Cold and windy this morning.  Water so bad on the road we could not get out to the woods. I went to Lower Stewiacke this morning.  Quite a lot of grinding at the mill.

January 20, and January 21, 1901 - Sabbath.  A cold day.  We, D.M. and I got our dinner at Fred's and then drove out to Wittenberg, where we remained until Monday morning, and then left for home via Musquodoboit.  We got dinner at Jim Benvie's, D.M.'s cousin.  Mrs. Benvie being sick, we could not get Ada to come home with us, as we had intended doing.  We stopped in the Village a short time , then home.  Adam Wright has asthma pretty badly.

January 22, 1901 - Tuesday.  Rainy last night but got fine and cold today.  Was sewing some.  Adam's asthma was better today.  H. Higgins here to dinner.  A peddlar here tonight.  Mary Ellen down to her father's this afternoon.  They were baking bread.  Charlie was driving the team.  Alden and Glenn were down to Uncle Charlie Graham's to dinner.  C. Proven here a while this evening. 

Note: (added later) - Queen Victoria passed away.

January 23, 1901 - Wednesday.  A fine day, but 10 degrees below zero last night.  Bub, Charlie and Jimmie working at logging today.  Adam had asthma.  J.H. Woodworth here to dinner, also ------------- Barrett and G.B. Johnson.   Jimmie broke his axe handle and they are making him one tonight.

January 24, 1901 - Thursday.  A very rainy day.  No work in the woods.   J.H. Woodworth, H.C. Higgins and James Graham here.  Charlie home yet.  Mrs. B. had a letter from Fos and one from W.M. Geddes.  Roy was taking his music lesson.  I was reading , sewing etc  and D.M. and I were enjoying each other's company a good deal of the time.

January 25, 1901 - Friday.  Not very fine.  How Higgins left and went up the Graham Hill.  I finished Alden's pants.  Bub, Charlie, Mary Ellen Hamilton and J.H. Woodworth  were up to Charles Proven's to spend the evening.

January 26, 1901 - Saturday.  Hail and rain fell today.  We put the clothes out, but had to bring them in again.  Jimmie and Bub worked all day out in the woods.  Joe Woodworth still here.  He and Charlie are up to Bill Graham's tonight.  Nellie Johnson was here this afternoon a little while.

January 27, 1901 - Sabbath.  Quite rainy.  None of us at church.  Joe Woodworth left tonight.

January 28, 1901 - Monday.  Dark but not much rain.  D.M. and I drove to the Village and I got two more teeth out.  Roy and Glenn were down to Mr.  D.R. Creelman's.  Nellie C. took a bad turn at church yesterday.  She had to be taken to Mr.  Fraser's.  She is not able to leave there yet.

January 29, 1901 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  We put the clothes that were washed Monday, a week ago, out and got them dried.  Mary E. baked 16 loaves of bread.  Mrs. Wm. Graham was here this evening.

January 30, 1901 - Wednesday.  Another fine day.  M.E. ironed.  I finished Roy's pants.   Charlie and Adam Wright went up and got Charlie's stove, and put it up in place of ours.  J. Graham is here this evening.  M.E. is down home.   Mr.  Timothy Dean is here with a grist.  Uncle John came back today.

January 31, 1901 - Thursday.  Quite a snowstorm today.  Mrs. C.E. Graham had a daughter.    Mrs. B. was there but got home early in the forenoon.  Then Mary Ellen had to go to Mr.  Graham's, so we are without anyone to help for a time.  Charlie was at the corner.  Roy did not take his music lesson today.

February 1, 1901 - Friday.  A fine day.  Mr.  J.A. Chaplin here to dinner.  Charlie went away.  Mrs. B. and Flossie drove up along with him.  I baked a short cake.   Roy and I washed some clothes.  Adam Wright has the asthma pretty badly.

February 2, 1901 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Flossie's sixth birthday.  We made her a Washington Pie and frosted it.  Doctor Burris at the mill a few minutes.  Mr.  Wm. A. Creelman here to dinner, also Allen Deyarmond.

February 3, 1901 - Sabbath.  Quite stormy.  Quite a number of people were out to church however.  Mrs. B., Roy, Alden, Harry and Edith and Adam at home.  Uncle John walked up.    We had a nice sermon on the life of our late, loved Queen Victoria. "Being dead, yet speaketh".

February 4, 1901 - Monday.  Pretty fine but misting tonight.  We washed the clothes  dried the colored ones.  Jimmie and Adam out to the woods today.

February 5, 1901 - Tuesday.  Not very fine.  Messrs Ashmore Brown, Samuel Pyke and Arthur Johnson here to dinner.  Jimmie took his dinner to the woods.    I cut out a pair of pants for Glenn  We baked bread, sent our butter and eggs to the Village and got some things.

February 6, 1901 - Wednesday.  Dark and a little snowy and misty.  Not cold.  We worked at Glenn's pants etc.  Swept upstairs.  Jimmie and Adam logging.  Aunt Mary came to visit tonight.  . It is Prayer Meeting night, but none of us can go.

February 7, 1901 - Thursday.  About like yesterday.  Aunt Mary went away after dinner.  Emma and the twins were here to dinner, also Mr.  George Campbell.  We sent Martie Fleck her money - $5.50.  Roy went down to Jessie to take his music lesson, but as she had put on Plaster-of-Paris, she could not give him his lesson.  Jimmie Graham and Adam have not returned yet, and it is 7:30 p.m.  Something must be the matter.  Had a letter from Edith tonight.

February 8, 1901 - Friday.  A little stormy all day.  Quite rough up on the hills, I think.   Jimmie and Adam had got into a hole last night, or rather the team did; but they got out all right.   Andrew Gammell was here to dinner.  Adam Wright was late getting to supper tonight too.

February 9, 1901 - Saturday.  A fine day.  We put out the clothes this morning.  Also I washed up the kitchen floor.  About eleven A.M., Ada, Jennie and Norman Benvie came over.  Jennie and Norman went home about 3:30, but Ada stayed.  Adam Wright went to Otter Brook this afternoon.  Ada ironed the clothes.  We baked bread.

February 10, 1901 - Sabbath.  Sort of snowy.  No one went to church down at Springside, and there wasn't any up here.   There was quite a lot of driving up and down the road - likely woodsmen returning to the woods.

February 11, 1901 - Monday.  Like yesterday.   We washed and put out the colored clothes.  Adam did not get back.  Mrs. B. has eczema pretty badly.  She cannot work much.  Roy took his music lesson.  Alden sick tonight.

February 12, 1901 - Tuesday.  Quite a lot like yesterday.  Mrs. B. nor any better.  She did not get up for breakfast.  Adam got back this forenoon and John came in the afternoon.  Alden is better today.  We put in a mat.  Ada baked ginger-snaps.  Roy and Glenn were out to the woods this afternoon.  Not much grinding coming these two days. 

February 13, 1901 - Wednesday.  Some snowy.  Joe Archibald and J.H. Chaplin here to dinner.    Mrs. Blaikie is, or has been, in bed all day.  The eczema is not much better.  We baked bread today.

February 14, 1901 - Thursday.  Snowed some, but we put out the white clothes, or rather Ada did.    Doctor Burris here to dinner, and to see Mrs. B.   Roy down to take his music lesson.  Mary Ellen and Anna Belle here this afternoon.    Allen Deyarmond and Colin Johnson here this evening.  Uncle John up along today.  Had letters from C.M. Erskine, Foster and Maggie and Mamma.

February 15, 1901 - Friday.  Dark.  Appears as if it might be soft.  Mr.  A. MacKenzie of Musquodoboit here today.   He told us of the death of George Parker.  Joe Dawson here too.   Uncle John over at Mr.  Crockett's.

February 16, 1901 - Saturday.  Dark yet.  it is gray weather.  We cleaned a good lot of the house, ironed, blacked the stove etc.  Mr.  Wm. Lays here to dinner.  Mrs. Martin Johnson called with Seymour and Douglas.  She was visiting at her father's and came down in the mail.  Jimmie and Adam finished logging today.  Wrote to Fos and Maggie.  Had a letter form Martie tonight.  She is at H.B. Dunlap's.

February 17, 1901 - Sabbath.  A good deal like the day preceeding.    D.M.,  J.H.,  Ada, Roy and Alden at church.

February 18, 1901 - Monday.  A nice fine day.  We, or rather Ada, washed this forenoon.  D.M. and I drove out to Berry Hill in the afternoon.  We had tea at Mr.  James Crockett's.   Had a nice drive and got home about seven.  R.S. Deyarmond is sick.

February 19, 1901 - Tuesday. Fine again, though not so nice as yesterday.

February 20, 1901 - Wednesday.  A nice fine day.  D,M, and Ada went to Truro.  I ironed the clothes and baked a little.  Adam still here.  The white clothes dried.  No grists.  Mr.  English here.

February 21, 1901 - Thursday.  Fine and a little squally.  We ironed the white clothes and boiled our last squash.  D.M. and Ada got home about 4:45.  M.E. Hamilton called for Ada to go to Prayer Meeting.  Had letters from Edith, Janie and Nettie; and Mr.  Rose.  Wrote to those at home and Martie.  D.M. got me Mrs. Hemans Poems.

February 22, 1901 - Friday.  A fine day.  J.H. Chaplin here to dinner.  We hooked most of the day.

February 23, 1901 - Saturday.  Another nice day.  We washed the floor, baked bread and churned.  Also sewed some.  Janet Grant called.  Also Uncle Charlie and Duncan..  Adam Wright was over to Riversdale after corn and apples.  George A. MacKay and G. Bradford Hamilton here this evening.

February 24, 1901 - Sabbath.  Quite a rough day.  Snowing and drifting.  But in the afternoon it cleared away, tho' it rained enough to soften the snow.  Nothing going on.  We stayed at home and read, talked to the children etc.

February 25, 1901 - Monday.  A fine day.  We washed the clothes and they got dried.  In the afternoon, we hooked etc.  Some grinding came.  Grandma better, some.  Roy down to take his music lesson; he walked down and up.  We had the last of our squash pies tonight.

February 26, 1901 - Tuesday.  Not much sunshine.  We baked.  After dinner, at which we had the company of Mr.  Wm. Redmond; D.M. , Roy, Alden, Glenn and I drove up to the mill which is sawing up along.  I stopped at Martin Johnson's.  The boys looked about a while and walked home.  We, D.M. and I, got our tea, and came home.  J.A. Graham was here on our return.  Alice Proven visited an hour or two.

February 27, 1901 - Wednesday.  A fine cold day.  Mrs. W. Graham and baby visiting here.  Arthur Johnson and Joseph Archibald here to dinner.   We were hooking etc.

February 28, 1901 - Thursday.  A little snowy but rather a pleasant day.  Nellie Johnson here to dinner.  D.M. and Bub better.  Ada and I got the mat out.  Ada churned.  The Auxillary of the W.F.M.S. met at Mrs. Hamilton's this afternoon.  There were regular members there and three others.  We had a letter from Fos and Maggie tonight.

March 1, 1901 - Friday.  A  fine day.  We were making the coats for Harry and Glenn.  Jimmie Dunlap was here to dinner.   I wrote to Janie and Nettie tonight.

March 2, 1901 - Saturday.  Rather dark until toward night when there was quite a squall of snow and sharp wind.  Ada washed the floor and I mixed the bread this forenoon.  After dinner, D.M. and I drove down to the Village.  We had a nice drive etc.  Ada was baking and sewing.

March 3, 1901 - Sabbath.  Quite a fine cold day.  D.M., Ada, Glenn, Flossie, Bub and I at church.  Mr.  Fraser preached a nice sermon on the attitude of preachers and audiences.   Miss Cunningham was up to church with Mr.  Fraser.

March 4, 1901 - Monday.  Stormy.  Ada and I washed the clothes, but did not put them out.  Mr.   and Mrs. P.S. Hamilton and Allen Deyarmond and Colin Johnson here to spend the evening.

March 5, 1901 - Tuesday. Dark but not cold.  We sewed.  Almon Johnson and Mr.  Andrew Dickie here to call.  Also Mr.  John F. Bentley.  Mrs. James Willie Johnson and little Paul, and Minnie Graham visited here this afternoon and evening.

March 6, 1901 - Wednesday.  It looked, and was, squally this forenoon a while; but it turned fine and we got the clothes dried.  Mr.  and Mrs. David Crocker and their two little boys were here to dinner.  They went up along in the afternoon.  Mr.  Duncan Creelman here to tea and all night.

March 7, 1901 - Thursday.  A lovely fine day.  Adam Wright took "King" down to Otter Brook and got him shod.  A little peddlar here to dinner.  James A. Gaham and Christie B. Graham were married this afternoon.  Quite a number witnessed the ceremony.  Ada went to Prayer Meeting.    Wrote to Edith and Maggie today.

March 8, 1901 - Friday.  Fine but looks soft.  I was up to see Mrs. Fulton today.  Had a nice call.  Jimmie G. down.  Mr.  Alex Redmond here to dinner.

March 9, 1901 - Saturday.  Snowy, soft and rainy.  Ada was doing the Saturday cleaning up etc.  Men were sawing.  Mrs. B. fell on the ice and sprained her wrist this morning.  Wrote to Aunt Eliza today.  Had a letter from Mr.  Rose.  Also he sent his photo to Flossie.

March 10, 1901 - Sabbath.  A nice fine day.  No church up here.  In the afternoon, D.M. and Mrs. B., drove down to see Mr.  Adam Johnson.  He has not improved much.  Bert Deyarmond called; and Ada went up to call on Mrs. Fulton.

March 11, 1901 - Monday.  Pretty fine.  Ada and I washed the clothes this forenoon.  We had Messrs James Pace, George Fulton and Daniel Graham to dinner. Ada was cleaning the cupboard this afternoon.  Mr.  C.H. Higgins and E. Roode here to tea and all night.

March 12, 1901 - Tuesday.  Pretty rainy today.  We ironed etc.  Ada and Allen Deyarmond went down to the "hop" at E.B. Deyarmond's.

March 13, 1901 - Wednesday.  Pretty cold but fine.  Mary Ellen Hamilton came back this morning.   Mr.  Samuel P. Creelman and D.M. went out to his lot of land and looked over it to see how much A. Dickie's men had taken off it.  After dinner, Ada and Flossie and I went down to Mr.  Duncan Creelman's to spend the afternoon.  We had a nice time.   Mr.  and Mrs. John A. Graham were there too.  D.M. came after us and we remained the evening.  They had some nice music.  Altogether we had a very enjoyable time.

March 14, 1901 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Mrs. Leonard Johnson here to spend the day.  D.M. drove her up to Woodberry Graham's after tea.   Ada went up to Uncle Jim's with the mail.  Mary Ellen and Bub went to Prayer Meeting, but there wasn't any.  Julia Graham called.  D.M., Alden and Glenn down to the Village etc. today.  Mrs. S.P. Creelman died this morning.

March 15, 1901 - Friday.  Pretty fine.  We baked bread.  Mr.  James Creelman here to dinner.  Mrs. Roderick Ellis called after dinner.  We sewed some.  Mary Ellen made the quilt binding.

March 16, 1901 - Saturday.  A fine Saturday.  We washed the floor and did the usual clearing up.   I went up to see Alice Proven - stopped to dinner.  Mrs. Everett Deyarmond was here.  Ada returned.  She and Mary Ellen are up to Wm. Graham's tonight.   Mr.  Wm. Hamilton here to tea.  Adam away somewhere.

March 17, 1901 - Sabbath.  A nice fine day.  Ada and Mary Ellen took a walk down to P.S. Hamilton's this forenoon.  D.M., Flossie, Harry and Edith at home.  Quite a crowd of strangers at church.  Mr.  and Mrs. Alex Fulton and Miss Jessie Brown, and Misses Jessie and Lizzie Gourley and Esther Smith of Otterbrook; Mrs. P. Grant and Miss Nellie Grant; Misses Sarah and Annie Graham, Miss Annie Brown, Mrs. M. MacCallum, Miss Hattie and Mr.  Almon Johnson etc.

March 18, 1901 - Monday.  Another fine day.  Mary Ellen and Ada washed the clothes.  I did the chores.  A Wm. Hamilton of Musquodoboit here to dinner.  After dinner, D.M. and Mrs. B., and I drove down to Uncle Ad's.  We came home via Mr.  Duncan Creelman's.  Mrs. B. stayed at Uncle Ad's for a few days.  Allen Deyarmond came after Ada tonight.  She is going there for a few weeks.  Roy took his music lesson.

March 19, 1901 - Tuesday.  Pretty fine.  We baked and ironed and churned etc.  Mary Ellen went home tonight.  She intends going to Truro tomorrow.

March 20, 1901 - Wednesday.  Fine.  I did the work alone.  Anna Belle Graham was here a little while. Flossie was up to Mrs. Fulton's a little while.  I made some candy.   We heard that Mr.  Wm. Rutherford of Eastville was dead.

March 21, 1901 - Thursday.  Dark with a little rain.  I got along pretty well today.  Adam was hauling wood etc.  Mary Ellen got back from Truro.  She got my bundle of patchwork.  I like it fine.  Roy was down to take his music lesson and he and Henry Creelman drove out to Newton Mills to Wm. Creelman's blacksmith shop.

March 22, 1901 - Friday.  Quite rainy this forenoon, but a nice fine afternoon.  We cleaned Mrs. Blaikie's bedroom out.  Also sewed some.  There was a dance tonight up at Martin Johnson's or Willie MacKay's. J.H. and Mary Ellen are there.  Edith is troublesome tonight.

March 23, 1901 - Saturday.  Another nice fine day.  Mary Ellen washed the floor this forenoon.  We baked too.  D.M. went away to the Village and after Mrs. B.  She has been up to Uncle Ad's.  Mr.  George Deyarmond's moved home.  Charlie Blaikie came home.  John W. Fulton and Mr.  Burchett here to dinner.  We cut out a shirtwaist for me and partly made it.

March 24, 1901 - Sabbath.  A nice fine day.  Mrs. B., Roy and Edith at home.  Mr.  Fraser had the review.  They answered very well.

March 25, 1901 - Monday.  Another fine day.  We washed the clothes.  Alex Redmond here to dinner.  James H. away fishing, but he got no fish.  Adam got back a little after 12 p.m. , or a.m.

March 26, 1901 - Tuesday.  Fine again.  We ironed the clothes this forenoon.  Quilted in the afternoon.  Lyman Fulton and D.R. Creelman here to dinner.  Mrs. B. went over to Uncle George's today.  She is home again tonight.  Charlie went away.  Adam took him to Riversdale.  He had made two chests to take with him.  Edie cut up a lot of mischief today.

March 27, 1901 - no entry

March 28, 1901 - Thursday.  Quite fine.  Mamma and Johnnie came this afternoon.  They are here all night.  Johnnie and Mary Ellen went to Prayer Meeting.   Letters from Edith, Janie and Nettie.

March 29, 1901 - Friday.  Pretty fine.  D.M. went to Riversdale to meet Foster and Maggie, his wife. They returned about two o'clock.   Johnnie and Mamma went home this afternoon.

March 30, 1901 - Saturday.  Quite fine.  We washed the kitchen etc.  Had a letter from Mr.  Rose.   We got our quilt out.  Mr.  and Mrs. S. Cox called.

March 31, 1901  - Sabbath.  Pretty fine.  Preaching in the evening.  Mrs. B., children and I at home.    Mr.  Sanford, Sabbath School something spoke.

April 1, 1901 - Monday.  We hadn't a very fine day but we washed the clothes and got the white ones dry.  Mr.  and Mrs. F. Blaikie  were at Mr.  G. Deyarmond's in the afternoon and at J.W. Deyarmond's in the evening.  D.M. was down to Cross Roads, Pembroke etc.  We put in a mat.  School began.

April 2, 1901 - Tuesday.  A nice fine day.  After dinner, Mr.  and Mrs. W.F. Blaikie and I drove down to Stewiacke Village.  We had a nice drive, though bad roads, returning just at tea time.   Received a letter from Martie Fleck.  We baked bread.

April 3, 1901 - Wednesday.  Fine again.  We were hooking etc.

April 4, 1901 - Thursday.  Not very fine.  We were hooking etc.  Nellie and Minnie (Mrs. P.W. Graham) called this afternoon.

April 5, 1901 - Friday.  A very rainy day.

April 6, 1901 - Saturday.  We had a fine day.  Mary E. washed the floor in the kitchen.  In the afternoon, Mrs. B., Foster and Maggie went up to Charles Proven's, and spent the evening.   Mrs. Wm. Graham and Olin and Wm. were here part of the evening.  We sat up quite late.

April 7, 1901 - Easter Sabbath.  A fine day.  No preaching.  We ate 60 eggs today.  D.M. and I went for a walk up towards the falls.

April 8, 1901 - Monday.  Very rainy.  We didn't wash the clothes; just hooked some etc.  D.M. went down along and made some purchases.  He got home about dusk.   Allen Deyarmond was here to tea.

April 9, 1901 - Tuesday.  A nice fine day.  We washed the clothes and got them dried.  Robert Rutherford here to dinner.   Maggie was sewing at Mrs. B.'s waist.  We baked bread.  Am some tired tonight.

April 10, 1901 - Wednesday.  Dark and a cold wind tonight.   Quite a lot of work to do today.  In the afternoon, Charles Proven called, and Mr.  and Mrs. Foster, and D.M. and I walked down to P.S. Hamilton's and spent the afternoon from 2:30 to 8 p.m. about. (approximately)  Edie was a little lame today.  Churned.

April 11, 1901 - Thursday.  A wettish disagreeable day.  We were quite busy this forenoon, in the afternoon we got our mat out.  Mrs. B., Maggie and Foster went down to S. Deyarmond's.  C. Proven gave us another call.  Ada Benvie called for Mary Ellen to go to Prayer Meeting.    They and J.H. went up, but there was no meeting.  Had a letter from Miss Erskine tonight.

April 12, 1901 - Friday.  Snowing all day.  Roy, Alden, Glenn and Florence at school. Adam Wright went to Otter Brook.  J.W. Deyarmond here to tea.  Maggie was making a blouse for Harry.  D.M. cut his upper lip pretty badly while turning a chopping bowl.  He did it just at dinner time.  Foster got his bowl finished.  We made some maple wax yesterday.

April 13, 1901 - Saturday.  The ground was white with snow this morning, but the sun took it all off.  We just got the work done this forenoon and the bread mixed.   Foster and Maggie were down to Uncle Charles Graham's this afternoon.    Roy was down to Mr.  Creelman's to take his last music lesson.  He came up in the mail.

April 14, 1901 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  No church up here and none of us were down to Springside.  I slept some in the afternoon.  At night I went over the Sabbath School lesson with the boys.

April 15, 1901 - Monday.  Another nice fine day.  M.E. and I washed clothes this forenoon,  and we sewed in a mat and baked some custard pies besides the work.  Maggie was making me a skirt.  Adam Wright came back.   Foster and J. Harris down to the Village to get J.H.'s tooth out.   David Brown (junior) here to dinner.

April 16, 1901 - Tuesday.  Fine.  M.E. was ironing, baking etc.  Maggie and I walked up to Mrs. P.W. Graham's and visited until about   3:30 p.m.   Mr.  and Mrs. James Johnson were there too.  Ada Benvie called.  Maggie and I took tea at Mr.  C.E. Graham's, then we walked home.  Foster had started to drive over after us, but we missed him.

April 17, 1901 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  Mrs. B., Maggie and Foster were up at Uncle Sam's and James Johnson's today.  We baked bread, set a hen etc.

April 18, 1901 - Thursday.  Pretty fine.  Looks dark tonight.  Mr.  English working here today.  We hooked etc today.  Got no letters from anyone.  Sent a small order to T. Eaton Co.

April 19, 1901 - Friday.  Quite fine.  We had to bake bread again today.  Also hooked a little at our mat.  Flossie was home from school today.  She had cold.  Roy went over to Uncle George's tonight.   Foster, Maggie and Mary Ellen went down to Samuel Cox's tonight.  Mr.  English was here working.  D.M. was making some flower beds and J.H. boiled some sap.  The maple time is about done.   We had a short visit from Alice Proven this afternoon.

April 20, 1901 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Mary Ellen washed the floor, blacked the stove etc.  I baked some oat-meal cookies.  After dinner, D.M., Flossie and I went down to the Village.  We got back about 7:30 p.m.  Had letters from Edith, Janie, Nettie and Martie.  Adam came tonight.

April 21, 1901 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  There was service in the Stiles Church today.  All of us were there except Edith and I.   Mr.  Coffin of Middle Stewiacke preached.

April 22, 1901 - Monday.  Fine this forenoon but rainy and drizzly in the afternoon and quite wet tonight.  We washed the clothes in the forenoon.  Mary E. churned after dinner.  She and Ada were down to P.S. Hamilton's to tea.  I hooked a little.  Maggie helped us to get the boys supper over and get ours.  Allen Deyarmond called this evening.  He stayed a while.  They had quite a lot of fun.  Sleight of hand etc.

April 23, 1901 - Tuesday.  A rainy day.  We got quite a lot hooked at the mat today.  We baked bread but it was slow and it did not rise good.  Ada baked gingersnaps and biscuits.  Lena Deyarmond called.

April 24, 1901 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  Mrs. Blaikie, Maggie and Foster were up to Willie MacKay's to dinner, and Martin Johnson's to tea.  We got our mat out.  Ada finished it.

April 25, 1901 - Thursday.  Fine.  Roy home with a sore throat.

April 26, 1901 - Friday.  Fine again.  Mrs. B., Maggie and Foster down to R.S. Deyarmond's to dinner, and to Uncle Adam Johnson's to tea.  Uncle Ad is failing fast.  They came home by Cross Roads and got the mail.  There was a letter from Mr.  Rose.  Roy at home today.

April 27, 1901 -  Saturday.  Another fine day.  Roy's throat was better.   Alfred Grant here to take the census.  Maggie finished my dress.  I got my black sateen wrapper from T.Eaton Co.  Mrs. Ned Graham called.  D.M. and Roy were down to the Corner etc.  They called to see Jessie Creelamn.  Mrs. James Dunbar is very ill.  Ada went home via Allen.

April 28, 1901 - Sabbath.  Fine and very warm.  D.M., Edith, Flossie and Glenn home from church.  Mr.  Fraser preached from Judges, chapter 1:1-3.  A good sermon.

April 29, 1901 - Monday.   Fine but cooler.  D.M. Foster and Maggie went to Truro.  We have had a very nice visit from Foster and wife.   After they all started off, Mary Ellen and I washed the clothes.  Flossie went to school.

April 30, 1901 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  D.M. came home from Truro this afternoon.   Mr.  English home at 3 or 4 o'clock.  We began to clean house today.   Got the spare bedroom and the other bedroom cleaned.  Mrs. B. was down to Everett and J.W. Deyarmond's visiting.  Andrew Gammell was here to dinner.  Edith and Harry got a doll and a top sent by Foster and Maggie.  They were very much pleased with them.

May 1, 1901 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  We cleaned the rest of the chamber and our bedroom.

May 2, 1901 - Thursday.  Fine again.  We were cleaning and papering the hall.  Did not get through.  Uncle Jim and Aunt Esther were here to dinner.  Had a letter from Martie.

May 3, 1901 - Friday.  Rainy.  We had quite a time getting Alden off to school.   He didn't get away with Roy and Glenn.   They went with Cyrus Graham.   Then when he got started, he fell in the mud and had to come back and change his clothes.  However, he got to school in time.   We churned.  We finished the hall today.  Also patched and mended some.   Juvenille T. reorganized today.

May 4, 1901 - Saturday.  The ground had quite a lot of snow on it this morning.  ; and it was squally by times all day.  We didn't do much but the work today.  In the afternoon, Mrs. B. and I  walked up to W.F.M.S at the church.  We had quite a good meeting.  10 there.  Our subject was India.  Mr.  English was not here today.   Had a letter from Ada tonight.  Mrs. English sent after the Doctor to come to see her eye; it is troubling her a lot.  We, Mrs. B. and I called to see Mrs. English on our way up to W.F.M.S.  Mrs. B. stopped to tea.  Alice Proven and I walked down.

May 5, 1901 - Sabbath.  Rather dark.  A shower and rainbow in the afternoon.  D.M. and all the children except Harry and Ede went to Sabbath School in the afternoon.  Mary E. Hamilton went home after Sabbath School.

May 6, 1901 - Monday.  Dark this forenoon and wet this afternoon.  Bert English here working in the afternoon.  Howard Dunlap here to dinner.  We washed the clothes.

May 7, 1901 - Tuesday.  Dark and rather wet this afternoon.  The clothes didn't get dry.  We cleaned the sitting-room today.  Bert English was working here.  Charlie came down tonight.   There is a meeting to decide what will be done with the funds left in the Lodge.  D.M., James W. Deyarmond and Mary Ellen Hamilton went up.  Some of our chickens out tonight.  We baked bread today.

May 8, 1901 - Wednesday.  Dark this forenoon but the weather cleared off  and it was a fine afternoon.  Mary Ellen cleaned the dish closet.  We baked custard pies, sponge cake etc.  Miss Bates was down to stay all night.    Bert English was here today. 

May 9, 1901 - Thursday.  Quite a fine day.  ary Ellen cleaned the two kitchen bedrooms - Bub's ,and Roy and Alden's.  I ironed etc.  Bert English was here.  George Johnson, his uncle, was putting in his logs and was here to dinner.  Julia Graham called tonight.  Charlie and Mary E. at Prayer Meeting.   D.M. and Bub were fixing some flowers up tonight.  D.M. made a chicken coop.

May 10, 1901 - Friday.  A nice fine day.  Bert English was working here this forenoon but went home after dinner.  D.M. and J.H. went down to Cross Roads  Village etc. this afternoon.  Mary Ellen, Adam Wright and I cleaned the cellar.  Edith got a bath by getting into the tank someway! Adam found her and brought her in.  She was soaking wet.  Charlie went away again today.  Adam drove him up to Martin Johnson's.  Harry went up for a drive too.

May 11, 1901 - Saturday.  Dark this forenoon and rainy this afternoon. Quite wet tonight.   Mary Ellen washed up the kitchen this forenoon.  We baked bread.  Bert English here.  Had a letter from Maggie.  Mr.  English went home tonight.  Set a hen.  Mrs. English sent up a gladioli bulb to set out.

May 12, 1901 - Sabbath.  Dark and showery.  All went to church except Adam Wright, Edie, Harry and I.  D.M. came down with Mr.  Fraser  and helped him fix his waggon at the mill.  Mary E. came back after church.  Lightning and thunder showers tonight.

May 13, 1901 - Monday.  Pretty fine this forenoon, but quite rainy with thunder showers this afternoon.  Heavy rain.  We washed the clothes today.   Got some of them dried.   Mr.  English working here.  Bert English went to H.C. Dunlap's.

Note:  May 14 and May 15, 1901 are written by D.M. Balikie   (J.M.)

May 14, 1901 - Tuesday.  Fine.  Was down to the Village and got the horse shod at M. Smith's.  Got home about 8 o'clock.

May 15, 1901 - Wednesday.  Fine. Bub and Myra went to Lower Stewiacke by Musquodoboit .    Robert Fisher, Middle Stewiacke, was at the mill with wheat.   Did not saw any.   Was rolling in logs and other odd jobs.

May 16, 1901 - Thursday.  A fine day.  We, Bub, Glenn and I, having got to Wittenberg last night, were there to breakfast.  We looked round a little while then started for Lower Stewiacke, where we arrived at dinner time.  Fred was home, fixing his barn.  He had three men.  In the afternoon, J.H. (Bub) walked up to Dickie's mill and home to tea.

May 17, 1901 - Friday.  A fine day.  Bub went home this morning.  I drove up to the Village (Lower Stewiacke) and got nails for Fred.  Had to go twice.  Glenn went with me once.  Mrs. J.W. Deyarmond had a son.

May 18, 1901 - Saturday.  Another fine day.  Mamma, Walter and Dot were in a few minutes today.

May 19, 1901 - Sabbath.  Not quite so fine.  Edith (sister), Glenn, Flora and I drove to church this morning.  Mr.  Coffin preached a sermon on "Thou renewest the face of the earth".  After dinner, Edith and I took a walk to the graveyard.  We were accompanied by Glenn, Flora and Claude.

May 20, 1901 - Monday.  A fine day once more.  Edith washed her clothes.  Fred only had one man, Mr.  J.J. Gourley, today.  Edith was baking bread too.  She drove up to the wharf after fish but didn't get any.    Mrs. Cox called.   We drove to Shubenacadie tonight.

May 21, 1901 - Tuesday.  Fine again.  Edith was baking for Fred to go to Sydney.  Glenn and I were up to Mr.  Mumford's all day.  Miss Jennings was there a short time and to tea.   About dark, D.M. came down after us.  He had left shortly after dinner.

May 22, 1901 - Wednesday.  Fine again.  D.M. took Fred up to Lower Stewiacke Station, then he came back and we waited for dinner.  After that we started for home.  Had a very pleasant drive home.  Remained at Mr.  S.F. Creelman's to tea. Then we called at Mrs. Waddell's to see Dr Burris, but he was away so we came home shortly after dark.

May 23 - May 30, 1901 - We have had a week of not very fine weather.  Some of it was fine, but most days were wet with some cold.  On Sabbath, May 26, we were all at church except Bub, Adam Wright and Edith.  On Monday , Mrs. Blaikie went to visit in Pembroke.  D.M. was down to Adam Johnson's at Eastville.  On Wednesday, Mr.  and Mrs. P.W. Graham and Perley and Beveridge were here to spend the afternoon and to tea.  Mrs. C.E. Graham called, also Nellie Johnson called.  We did not get our clothes dried until the last of the week.  Bub and Adam and M.E.  Hamilton went to Prayer Meeting.  Mr.  Fraser was up.  Mr.  and Mrs. Wm. Cox of Eastville , and Lucy and Annie Graham were here Thursday afternoon.  Uncle Will for dinner.

May 31, 1901 - Friday.  Pretty fine.  Nice and warm.   They put in the potatoes and ploughed the ground over here by the house.  P.W. Graham and Adam Wright did the work, mostly.    Mary E. and I cleaned and papered Mrs. Blaikie's bedroom.  Mrs. English and Mr.  Birchett called.  Was tired tonight.

June 1, 1901 - Saturday.  A fine day.  We cleaned the floor of the porch etc.  Ironed.  Mrs. B. got home at dinner time.  After dinner, Uncle C. Graham and D.M. went to cruise in the woods up near James Johnson's.  I went up to W.F.M.S. with them.  Mrs. B. came up with Mrs. P.S. Hamilton.  We had a good meeting.  I came down with Mrs. Hamilton.   Mrs. B. stayed with Mrs. English to tea.   Uncle Sam, Martin Johnson and Willie and Geordie MacKay, came and put in Mr.  English's potatoes.  Mrs. Everett Deyarmond had a son today. Mary Ellen Hamilton went home tonight.

June 2, 1901 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Roy, Alden and Flossie at S. School.  D.M., Glenn, Harry and Edith at home  from church.  Mr.  Fraser preached from John, Chapter 1:12.  "But as many as received Him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name."

June 3, 1901 - Monday.   Fine this forenoon, but it got dark and there was a little spatter of rain just after dinner.  Then it cleared away until night, and now it is raining pretty heavily.  Arch Hamilton went to Lower Stewiacke.  Mrs. B. and I washed a small wash of clothes.   D.M. went down to the Village after tea. Julia Graham taught school today.  Miss Bates has measles.

June 4, 1901 - Tuesday.  Quite fine.  A shower in the night.  We baked and churned today.  Adam did not arrive until night.   He had been visiting Luther Graham.

June 5, 1901 - Wednesday.  A fine day.   We were sweeping and dusting today in the forenoon.   We baked 8 or 9 pies and 4 or 5 pans of cookies in the afternoon.  Mrs. B. was up to Mr.  English's a few minutes tonight.

June 6, 1901 - Thursday.  A very hot day.  We suffered with the heat.   William Graham was working at the spout over the other side of the pond.  S. Henry here to dinner.  Wm. Graham here to tea.  We wrote  to Mr.  Rose and Aunt Eliza today.  Had a letter form Foster and Maggie tonight.

June 7, 1901 - Friday.  A fine day and quite hot.  Mrs. B. and J.H. started for Musquodoboit this morning.  There was a little grist at the mill (Robert Dunlap, Meadowvale)  .  Adam Wright and D.M. were putting in garden seeds etc.  I baked bread and put away the bitter yeast.  Julia Graham was teaching this week.  Miss Bates is getting over the measles, however.   Uncle John Blaikie appeared this afternoon.

June 8, 1901 - Saturday.  Dark and cloudy this forenoon, and rainy in the afternoon.  It is Sacrament Saturday.  None of us were down to church.  Mr.  Birchett called.   Adam and D.M. and all the children went up to Charlie's place and got some strawberry plants and set them out.   Mrs. B, J.H., and Ada arrived between four and five o'clock.  Everett Deyarmond called.  Judson Graham was after the mail.  I had a letter from Edith.  Mr.  Birchett presented us with a mess of rhubarb.

June 9, 1901 - Sabbath.  A nice day.  Sacrament Sabbath.  Mrs. B , D.M. and I down at church.  Ada and Bub and Adam and children kept house.  We just read, slept etc in the afternoon.

June 10, 1901 - Monday.  Sunshine and some showers.  We washed the clothes.  Got them out in pretty good time.  Alden was not very well this morning, so he stayed at home from school.  Messrs George Campbell, Andrew Dickie and Robert Jeffers here to dinner.  Uncle John returned toward tea time.  John G. Crockett is making a call.  D.M. went to Cross Roads tonight.

June 11, 1901 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  We, or rather Ada, ironed the clothes.  Harry went to school. Mr.  Andrew Dickie and a fellow from Musquodoboit were here to dinner.  Mr.  Wm. Hamilton and his daughter Jennie called tonight.  Ada baked bread and pies.  Nobody has taken the measles yet.

June 12, 1901 - Wednesday.  Fine this forenoon, but thunder showers this afternoon.   Ada and I washed three quilts and a blanket this forenoon.  George Bentley and George B. Johnson here today - at the mill.  Uncle Ad is wearing away.   D.M. and I drove over to P.W. Graham's.  I stopped there to tea and  he went on to George Deyarmond's and stopped there.  Adam took some flour up to Mr.  English.

June 13, 1901 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Roy was home from school helping in the mill.   After tea, Adam took Mrs. Blaikie over to Eastville.  D.M. set out the tomatoes.  The road-machine is on this road.

June 14, 1901 - Friday.  A wet day.  Roy was home.  Mr.  Wm. Hamilton here to dinner.   Ada churned and blacked the stove.    Alden went down to Uncle Charlie's tonight.  He got a ride down with Mr.  Warman's hired man.  Allen Deyarmond called here a few minutes.

June 15, 1901 - Saturday.  Rain and sunshine.  Cooler.  We washed the kitchen and steps and wiped up the dust in our bedroom and hall this forenoon.  Baked bread etc this afternoon.   Alden came back in the mail.  Julia Graham called.   Adam Wright took some plank down to the men who were on the roads.   He arrived shortly after we began our dinner. 

June 16, 1901 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  D.M., Roy, Alden, Glenn, Ada and Flossie were at Sabbath School.  Adam  and J.H. went up to Charlie's place.

June 17, 1901 - Monday.  Fine.  We washed the clothes.  Got done in very good time.   James A. Graham here working today.   A peddlar here for tea and all night.   We had quite a lot of fun with him.   D.M. went to the Village and back after tea.

June 19, 1901 - Tuesday.  Fine and warmer than lately.  We ironed, swept etc.    James A. Graham here today too. They finished sawing Wm. Hamilton's barn frame today.  Mrs. Alex MacKay called.  Ada baked a marble cake.  Mr.  Burchett called this forenoon, he gave us some music, also brought us some rhubarb.

June 20, 1901 - Wednesday.  A fine hot day.  We washed bed clothes this forenoon.  Mr.  Duncan Creelman here for dinner.

June 20, 1901 - Thursday.  Another fine day.  Was down to J.W. Deyarmond's today. Had Edie with me.   Mr.  and Mrs. Jim Johnson called today, also Mrs. Deyarmond and Allen, and M.E. Hamilton.

June 21, 1901 - Friday.  Quite fine but cool.    We had three strangers to dinner.  Messrs J.F. Parker, Getchell and Libby - prospecting for gold.   We were sweeping.  Ada did most of it.   Also blacked the stove, binding a quilt etc.  W.M. Geddes is dead.  Also Mrs. Sydney Archibald of Musquodoboit.

June 22, 1901 - Saturday.  A fine hot day.  Ada washed the kitchen floor this forenoon;  baked bread in the afternoon.   Flossie was down to J.W. Deyarmond's to spend the day.   None of us got any letters tonight.  Martin Johnson called.   Mr.  Robinson Brown brought some potatoes.

June 23, 1901 - Sabbath.  A nice fine day.  In the afternoon, Roy kept Harry and Edith for us to go to church and Sabbath School.   Mr.  Coffin of Middle Stewiacke preached.  It was a good sermon.  "He being dead, yet speaketh" was the text.   The sermon had three secrets of life as its central thoughts.  1) The true conception of life; 2)A simple faith in God; 3)A heroic devotion to duty.   The discourse was intended to show the merits of the life of Rev G.L.MacKay of Formosa, who has just passed away.    Julia Graham had tea with us.

June 24, 1901 - Monday.  Quite a showery day.  Mrs. Blaikie came home today.  Uncle Charlie brought her up.    He and D.M. went up to Uncle James Johnson's to assist in taking the roof off their house; but as it was so wet, they came back after dinner.  We, Ada and I , washed the clothes.   Messrs George Bentley and James Steele were here to dinner.  This is School-Meeting night.

June 25, 1901 - Tuesday. Dark and showery.  We did the work and sewed some today.  Samuel Deyarmond and Stanley called at dinner time.   Quite a few teams were at the mill this afternoon.   Mr.  Wm. Hamilton was here to tea.  The road machine came over from the Graham Hill to the Upper Class this afternoon.

June 26, 1901 - Wednesday.  Fine.  Hot.  The road-machine over on the road today.  Mrs. B. and Ada went to find some strawberries this afternoon, but only got a glass pitcher full.  D.M. and J.H. went down to Cross Roads after tea.   Mr.  English called in the afternoon.  Local Union.......

June 27, 1901 - Thursday.  Fine and hot.  Dark and showery tonight.  Morrison was up to Uncle Jim's helping them put a flat roof on their house.  They got it on.  Mrs. B. was down to J.W. Deyarmond's.  We ironed the clothes this forenoon, sewed in the afternoon.  Mr.  Burchett called.  Uncle Ad died.

June 28, 1901 - Friday.  Quite a warm day.  Mrs. B. went over to Eastville this morning as we heard that Adam Johnson had died about 11:30 yesterday.  D.M., Flossie and Harry were all ready to go to Truro, but they could not go as they had to go to the funeral.  It was a large funeral.  Everybody from Upper Stewiacke, almost, was there.  Messers Burchett and C. and Wm. Cox were here to dinner.  We churned.

June 29, 1901 - Saturday.  Another fine day.  We had a call from Alice Proven this forenoon.   We baked ginger-snaps and bread today.   Mrs. Blaikie was over to Uncle George's.  Ernest Chaplin was here to dinner.  D.M. and I drove over after Mrs. B.  I stopped at Mrs. P.W. Graham's for the few minutes that he was down to Mr.  Deyarmond's.  We had a letter from Maggie. 

June 30, 1901 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Mr.  Fraser being sick, there was no preaching.    All that go to Sabbath School from here were there.

July 1,1901 - Monday.  A fine day.  D.M., Flossie and Harry went to Truro.  Ada and I washed the clothes, and Ada washed the floor.   Mr.  English took sick, and they had to send for Dr Burris.  He has acute rheumatism.

July 2, 1901 - Tuesday.  Another fine day.  H.G. Gammell here to dinner.  I was up to see Alice Proven all day.   Got a mess of strawberries in their field.  D.M. and children got home tonight.

July 3, 1901 - Wednesday.  Fine.  Miss Bates here all night.   She and Ada were away for a walk.   They had some fun and saw Dr Burris and his best girl.   Edward Laws was buried today.  He died in Mass.  Mr.  and Mrs. S.G. Tupper  and Charlie were over to the funeral.  They came up here to stay all night.

July 4, 1901 - Thursday.  Fine again. Mr.  and Mrs. Tupper and Charlie went home to New Glasgow this morning.  Mary E. Hamilton called  and she and Ada went up to church to Prayer Meeting together.

July 5, 1901 - Friday.  Another fine day.  Quite a crowd at the mill this afternoon.  It was examination day at school.  Quite a number were present.  D.M. and I were late.  Mrs. Bates, Miss Bates' mother, was up.  They went home tonight.  D.M. and I went up to Uncle Jim's to dinner, and home about 2:30.  Mrs. J.W. Fulton and Miss  Jessie  Brown of Otter Brook are visiting up along. 

July 6, 1901 - Saturday.  Another fine day.  Ada washed the floor this forenoon and baked bread this afternoon.  Mrs. Blaikie and I were up to W.F.M.S.   It was the Annual Meeting.  The receipts for the year were $10.55.   New Officers - President, Mrs. Wm. Blaikie;  Vice, Miss Alice Proven;  Secretary, Miss Nellie Johnson;  Treasurer, Mrs. J.A. Graham.

July 7, 1901 - Sabbath.  Dark and a little showery.  They heard that there was service in the church at 8 p.m. and Sabbath School at 7.  Our folks went up for Sabbath School in the afternoon but had to come back.  D.M., J.H., Ada , Adam and Alden went up at night, but there was neither service or Sabbath School.  Mr.  Fraser is not much better.  They had Prayer Meeting.

July 8, 1901 - Monday.  Rather dark but we got the clothes washed and dried.  Uncle Jim and Alfred were working at our new barn.  They got it partly up.   Uncle C. Graham was here to tea.   Mrs. Wm. Pearson and two little boys called.   There is an Ice-Cream festival at Springside tonight.  None of us there.

July 9, 1901 - Tuesday.  Pretty fine.  Not much sunshine.  We baked bread and ironed the clothes today.  Martin and Alfred Johnson here working at the barn.  They got it almost boarded in.  Alex Sample here to dinner.   Mrs. Blaikie was visiting at Everett Deyarmond's today.

July 10, 1901 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  Nobody working here today.   The people of Burnside cleaned the church today.  They got done by dinner time.   Creel. Cox and David Brown junior here to dinner.  We sewed a little this afternoon.  Ad. Wright went down to the Village.

July 11, 1901 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Quite a lot going on at the mill.  Mrs. Frank Fulton called this forenoon.  Lucy Johnson in this afternoon.  Mrs. Blaikie was visiting at Mr.  Robert Graham's today.  Mrs. Fulton has returned from New Glasgow.  We had a letter from Mr.  Rose.

July 12, 1901 - Friday.  A fine hot day.    James A. Graham and P.S. Hamilton working at the barn today.  I sewed most of the time.   Ada and Flossie and Edie went for a walk.  Edie in the baby-carriage.

July 13, 1901 - Saturday.  Fine and hot.  We had to bake as usual on Saturday.  J.A. Graham and P.S. Hamilton here to work at the barn.  Mrs. Blaikie not very well.  Flossie was up to see Alice Proven this afternoon.  Had a letter from Maggie tonight.

July 14, 1901 - Sabbath.  A fine hot day.  We had no preaching as Mr.  Fraser is no better.    D..M., Ada and Roy,  Alden, Glenn and Flossie went to Sabbath School.

July 15, 1901 - Monday.  Hot.  Very refreshing thunder shower towards night.  Mr.  Geordie  Graham here to dinner,(Senior)    We washed the clothes.  The boys carried the water.    P.W. and John Graham here to tea.   D.M. and I drove down to the Village after tea.  We got a little wet.  Got some wigwams for the boys, sugar etc.   Colin Grant here for lumber; was here over night but left about 4 a.m.   Adam Wright had gone to OtterBrook on Sabbath, and he arrived this forenoon.

July 16, 1901 - Tuesday.  Not so hot.  Looks showery tonight.  We ironed today, also sewed some.   D.M. was down to P.S. Hamilton's helping him fix his mowing machine.  He was there to dinner.  Mr.  Robert Graham was here to dinner.  Not much going on at the mill today.   Adam began to hoe the potatoes yesterday, but isn't done yet.

July 17, 1901 - Wednesday.  Another fine day.  They were working at the barn today.  Not much going on at the mill.  Mr.  Burchett called.   Mrs. Blaikie and Ada and Glenn drove down to Mr.  D.R. Creelman's after a piece of meat.  Fresh.  They got some reading matter.  Eunice Deyarmond came home.

July 18, 1901 - Thursday.  Fine again.  Not quite so hot.  We baked bread; put the kitchen table into the dining room; swept and tidied the shop etc.  Also sewed some.  Had a letter from Papa.  They put the covering on the roof of the barn today.

July 19, 1901 - Friday.  A fine day.  Mrs. Blaikie went over to P.W. Graham's and down to G. Deyarmond's today.  D.M. went down to the Village, Corner etc.  He got some tapioca.  Emily Fraser called tonight.  Roy and Alden were up to Uncle James Johnson's.  Mr.  Duncan Creelman is worse than common.

July 20, 1901 - Saturday.  Fine.  Not so very hot. 

"The lofty almost passionate desire which must come at times to those who have, if it be, but one spark of the Divine Fire, the longing to turn from evil those who are overwhelmed by it, and to save  the weak from temptation". Edna Lyall

I read the above today - taken from "Donovan"

Mrs. Alonzo MacCallum was down with the mail today.  She is better.  Myrtle was here a while too.  We baked bread, washed the kitchen etc.

July 21, 1901 - Sabbath.  Fine and hot.  Rev Alex Cameron of New Glasgow preached both at Springside and Burnside.  All of us were at church except Glenn, Edie and I.  Mrs. B. and Ada called on Mrs. Fulton toward evening.

July 22, 1901 - Monday.  Quite a thunderstorm last night.  It  sprinkled a little several times today.  But the weather is still  hot.  It is fine for growth.  Bub mowed some this afternoon.  We washed the clothes this forenoon.  Churned, sewed etc in the afternoon.

July 23, 1901 - Tuesday.  Pretty hot.  Bub was mowing some.  Adam went down to Martin Smith's, Otter Brook, to get "King" shod, the waggon fixed etc., and bring the mowing machine home.  But he did not get it.  He arrived home about 12 p.m.  Mr.  Getchell and another man dined here.  They were up looking at the gold mines.  They ate quite a dinner.  We ironed the clothes this forenoon.

July 24, 1901 - Wednesday.  Not so fine.  Raining tonight.  They put one load of hay in the barn.  D.M. was at the Village etc.   Got a bed-stead.  We sewed some.   Mr.  and Mrs. P.S. Hamilton had a son today.  Mrs. Blaikie and Mrs. MacKay were there.   We cleared out some of the rooms in the old house today.   Put the milk in the bedroom over there.

July 25, 1901 - Thursday.  Another fine day.  They were haying etc.  Uncle Charlie Graham was here to dinner.   Mr.  Robert Graham called tonight.   Alden went down to Pembroke after dinner.  He is staying all night.  Ada went to Prayer Meeting, but there was none.

July 26, 1901 - Friday.  A fine day again.  Adam Wright went to the Corner and got the mowing machine this forenoon.  We baked 14 loaves of bread.  Mrs. Blaikie and Flossie went to see if they could find some raspberries, but they couldn't find many.   Adam was working with Charles Proven in the afternoon.

July 27, 1901 - Saturday.  Fine this forenoon; a few showers in the afternoon - enough to wet the hay.  They did not get it in the barn.  Eva Graham went to meet Annie Gould today. She came to the Village in the mail.  Olin, who is working at Joe Archibald's , went home tonight.  Ada washed the kitchen floor, blacked the stove etc., today.  I let the stove lid fall on Harry's toe and hurt it pretty badly tonight.

July 28, 1901 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Mr.  Cameron was not well today.  He had a short discourse down at Springside in the forenoon, but didn't come up to Burnside.  Mr.  Johnson Logan came up.  All of us were at church except Edie and I.

July 29, 1901 - Monday.  Fine.  They were putting in hay at Charlie's place.  Ada and I got the washing out before 10 o'clock a.m.  Ada went up to Charles Proven's and borrowed some sugar this forenoon.  Mrs. Wm. Graham and sister Miss Annie Gould and baby Willie were here the afternoon and to tea.

July 30, 1901 - Tuesday.  Not so fine.  Dark, with a few spatters of rain.  We ironed the clothes.  Aunt Mary and Eunice Deyarmond were here to dinner.  D.M., Bub and Adam out in hay this forenoon; they worked at the drain after dinner.  Mrs. Blaikie, Ada and Flossie got raspberries enough for tea tonight.  D.M. has gone to the Corner and Village.

July 31, 1901 - Wednesday.  A fine hot day.  It looked dark, and drizzled a little, but turned fine.  We baked bread and churned.  They finished working at the drain today.  Put in some hay.  We killed two chickens and had them for dinner.  Ned Graham was here a few minutes this morning.  Mrs. Martin Johnson, Seymour and Douglas called a few minutes tonight.

August 1, 1901 - Thursday.  Quite a thunderstorm last night but fine today.   They did not go up to Charlie's place today.   We washed Edith's bed and bed-clothes today.  Mrs. C.E. Graham called this morning.  Mr.  and Mrs. Lon MacCallum here to tea.  Ada went down to see Mary E. Hamilton tonight.   Geordie and Frank MacKay calling here tonight.

August 2, 1901 - Friday.  Another hot day.  Alfred Johnson was here today working.  We baked some cakes.   Frank MacKay called.

August 3, 1901 - Saturday.  Fine this forenoon, but a little spatter of rain fell this afternoon.   We baked bread, washed the kitchen floor, our bedroom too.  Alfred Johnson was here today.  Flossie was down to Everett Deyarmond's today.   Bub brought down a few green apples and we stewed them.  Mr.  Birchett was here a short time.   H.G. Gammell had a small grist, which Roy ground.  His first grist - smashing.  Mrs. B. was up to W.F.M.S.  Mr.  and Mrs. Alonzo MacCallum went to Truro today.

August 4, 1901 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine.  Some dark clouds.  Adam spent last night in the new barn.  He did not show up for his breakfast.  D.M., Harry, Edith and I were home today.  A Mr.  Murray from Halifax preached.

August 5, 1901 - Monday.  Fine.  Quite a rain last night.  We washed the clothes this forenoon.  Picked some green beans this afternoon.  Mrs. B. and Ada picked raspberries for tea.   Flossie picked me a mug of blackberries.  We churned after tea.  D.M. and Roy went down to Cross Roads after  some groceries.

August 6, 1901 - Tuesday.  Another fine day.  They were haying today.   Mrs. Blaikie was up to Wm. Graham's visiting today.  Mr.  William Benvie, cloth agent, was here to dinner.  Robert Bentley, Pembroke, was over to Riversdale after his tunk, and he called.  We ironed the clothes and baked some bread today.   Had string beans for dinner.

August 7, 1901 - Wednesday.  Quite a hot day.  They finished haying today.   It is Alden's tenth and Edith's second birthday.  Mrs. Blaikie was spinning over at the old house.

August 8, 1901 - Thursday.  Rainy this forenoon, but quite fine this afternoon.  They were working at the barn.  Got the cows in it tonight.  John Crockett here a while this forenoon.  John, Judson, Amanda and Mr.  Robert Graham here tonight, or rather this afternoon.  Mr.  Birchett called with half a dozen roosters.

 Note: August 9, 1901 - September 13, 1901 - These enties appear to have been written by Ada Benvie. (J.M.)

August 9, 1901 - Friday,  Washed bedclothes this forenoon.   They killed one of the pigs this afternoon.

August 10, 1901 - Saturday.  I scrubbed the kitchen this forenoon and washed the kitchen window.   Myra made pot-head and made some dough-nuts.  We got enough raspberries for supper.

August 11, 1901 - Sabbath.  Myra took sick about 4 o'clock this morning and sent for Dr Burris.   The baby was born about 4 o'clock this afternoon.  Roy, Alden, Glenn, Bub and I were at church.  The baby is a girl.

August 12, 1901 - Monday.  I washed a big washing this forenoon and Aunt Olive did the work and got dinner.  Myra is not very well.  Is pretty weak.  D.M. went up to Mr.  Jim Johnson's this afternoon and took Harry and Flossie with him.

August 13, 1901 - Tuesday.  I ironed today and baked.  M.E. Hamilton was up a while this afternoon.  The Doctor called today to see Myra, and says she is donig fine.

August 14, 1901 - Wednesday.  Another fine day.  I cleaned the stove today.  Mrs. C.E. Graham called this evening with three children.  Also M.E. Hamilton, Maria Deyarmond and Allen Deyarmond.  They did not get the cows tonight.

August 15, 1901 - Thursday.   Bub went and got the cows this morning.  This is a very hot day.

August 16 - August 30, 1901 - no entries

August 31, 1901 - Saturday.  [written by Myra - (J.M.)] - A hot day.  Ada and M.E. Hamilton went up to Mr.  Alex MacKay's this afternoon.  Mrs. Blaikie went down to spend her birthday at Uncle Charlie's.  It was yesterday.

September 1 - September 2, 1901 - no entries

September 3, 1901 - Tuesday.  Bub took Aunt Olive to Truro today.  She intends to stay for a few weeks.

September 4, 1901 - Wednesday.  Another hot day.  The water is pretty low in the pond.  Miss Bates is down tonight and is going to stay all night.

September 5, 1901 - Thursday.  Another hot day and still there is no sign of rain.  Had Prayer Meeting tonight.  Mr.  English led it.

September 6, 1901 - Friday.  It is still fine and hot.  I washed this morning.  Quite a few people at the mill this forenoon.

September 7 - September 12, 1901 - no entries

September 13, 1901 - Friday.  Quite dark but not much rain.  This has been a very dry summer.  D.M. took Ada Benvie home September 10,  and brought Clara Webster back with him on the 11th.  Clara and I washed today.  In the afternoon, D.M. and I went over to P.W. Graham's and stayed to tea.  The first grist came on August 30, 1901.  Mr.  Alex MacKay died September 10, 1901.   The funeral was held September 11 at 2:30 p.m. Freeman MacKay was married September 4, 1901 at 8 p.m.   Miss Lucy Fisher was married September 4, 1901.

September 14, 1901 - Saturday.  Fine as usual.  We scrubbed the kitchen and part of the dining room.

September 15, 1901 - Sabbath.  Looked like rain.  All at Sabbath School except Harry, Edith, Baby Olive and I.

September 16 , 1901 - September 17, 1901 - no entries

September 18, 1901 - Wednesday.  Fine, rainy and dark.    Mr.  Charles A. Blaikie and Miss Bessie A. MacKenzie were married tonight at 8 o'clock.  Following is a list  of presents.

Libbie McCabe - Berry dish;  Mr.  and Mrs. Baxter McCabe - fruit dish;  Mr.  and Mrs. Hugh Boyd - Bracket;   Minnie McCabe - teapot;    Jean McCabe - teapot;   Mrs. Asa McCabe - fruit dish;   Bruce McKenzie - Souvenir;  Herbert Thompson - Mustard dish;  Carrie McCabe - tea set.  Em Pyke and B. Taylor - Cracker jar;   J.Taylor and J. Pyke - China Berry set;  Mr.  and Mrs. Sandy MacKenzie - Pillow cover;  Mr.  and Mrs. B. Fielding - table linen;  Mr.  and Mrs. W. Reinmuth - Toilet set;   Mr.  and Mrs. J. Hoar - Pair of towels;   Nettie McCabe - Tray cloth;   Maude McCabe - ....;    Lucy Johnson - Pickle dish;    Ed and Minnie McKenzie - pickle dish;    Nessie and Robbie Cox - half dozen knives;   Mr.  and Mrs. Yuill - half dozen teaspoons;  Mr.  and Mrs. H. Christie - half dozen forks;   Ethel and B. Christie - half dozen desert spoons;  D. McKenzie - sugar shell;  Seymour Carlyle - Bread knife;   Mr.  and Mrs. Asa Higgins - large vases;   Mrs. Janet and Angus McCabe - 2 vases;   Mr.  C.W. Johnson - china vase;   Mr.  and Mrs. E. McCabe - lemonade set;    Mr.  and Mrs. L. Young - Glass tea set;   Mr.  and Mrs. M.S. Cox - China tea set;   Mr.  and Mrs. Fenwick Annand - Card receiver;   Gordon MacKenzie - lamp;   Alex MacKenzie - Lamp;   Mr.  and Mrs. Aulden Whidden - pin cushion;   Mr.  and Mrs. Alonzo MacCallum - China Pitcher;    Mr.  and Mrs. P.W. Graham - Cheese dish;   Mr.  George Payne - cheese dish;   Mr.  and Mrs. W.E. McCabe - Butter dish;  Mr.  and Mrs. Martin Johnson - Glass pitcher;   Mr.  and Mrs. Sandy Fraser - China  Cake Plate;   Mr.  and Mrs. Foster Blaikie - China Cake Plate;  Mr.  and Mrs. Joe Ross - China Cake Plate;   George Hill - 2 China Cake Plates;  Wilkins MacKenzie - 2 China Cake Plates;   Byers Whidden - Card Plate;    Trueman Pyke - Glass plate;   Mr.  and Mrs. MacMasters - half dozen tumblers;  Lida Dickson - Cruet stand;   Mr.  and Mrs. Oscar Reid - salt and pepper shakers;   Flemming Christie - salt and pepper shakers;  Albert Johnson - salt and pepper shakers;   Annie and Perley McCabe - salt and pepper shakers;  Mrs. George Reid - salt and pepper shakers;   Edith McCabe - vinegar dish;   Dora Pyke - vinegar dish;   Annie Reid - Orange dish;   Bessie C. Hawes - Orange dish;   Mrs. Cole and Kate - Orange dish;   Minnie MacKay - Card plate;   Mr.  and Mrs. D.E. Reid - Berry set;  Thomas Hollingsworth - one dozen sauce dishes;   Mr.  and Mrs. G.H. Pyke - Berry dish;  Mrs. C.W. Johnson - Soap dish;   Mr.  and Mrs. John McCabe - Berry dish;   Agnes Thompson - Picture frame;   Ella MacKenzie - Table linen and half dozen napkins;   Mr.  and Mrs. James D. McCabe - Towel,  and sugar shell;   Nellie Johnson - white quilt;   Mr.  and Mrs. L. Johnson - Cheese dish;   Mr.  and Mrs. R. MacKenzie - Sofa pillow;   Mr.  and Mrs. J. Thompson - sofa pillow;   Janie McFetridge - $1.00 cash;  Sedley MacKenzie - $2,00 cash;  Laurence MacKenzie - photo and $5.00 cash;   Mrs. Mary Johnson - pair of towels.

September 14, 1901 - September 24, 1901 - no entries

September 25, 1901 - James McFetridge and Mary Pearson married

September 26, 1901 - October 18, 1901 - no entries

 

October 19, 1901 - Saturday.  A dark rainy day.  Roy has been home from school for a fortnight.  Charlie and Bessie came over September 20th.  They returned to Greenfield October 5.   Charlie brought the horse and carriage back October 7.    He had not been feeling well and on Tuesday, October 8, went to see Doctor Burris.  He, Charlie, had slow fever.  So he has been in bed ever since.  Bessie came back October 12.  Her brother Laurie came with  her.    Charlie took congestion of the lungs on Sabbath, October 14.   D.M. and Bessie battled it until Wednesday morning, when Doctor Burris said it was subdued.  The fever , however, still continues.   Mrs. Blaikie is sick too.  She is run down and tired out.   Bessie and I have quite a time to get our work done.   She is a great favorite with the children.   Mr.  English's folks have been sick.  He has not been here for two days.  J.T. Hamilton came here October 7.  He works with us.   Clara L. Webster went home October 11.  D.M. took her to George D. Bates', where she met Walter.  They went to Wittenberg that day.

October 20, 1901 - November 8, 1901 - no entries

November 9, 1901 - Saturday.  A lovely fine day as nearly all these days are.  This is a beautiful autumn.  Little Howard English died October 23, 1901.  Charlie is still in bed, but we get on quite well.   Roy is the hired girl!  Yesterday I had a nice drive to the Village.  D.M. and Bessie kept house.  Mrs.  W. Graham and Annie called tonight.  We sent Ada Benvie $5.00 by mail today.  Registered it.  We washed clothes and made some jelly today.   Also made a new roller-towel. 

November 10, 1901 - November 27, 1901 - no entries

November 28, 1901 - Mr.  Duncan R. Creelman died.

November 29, 1901 - no entry

November 30, 1901 - Mr.  Robert Jeffers died.

December 1, 1901 - no entry

December 2, 1901 - Lucy Graham came to work.

December 3 - December 15, 1901 - no entries

December 16, 1901 - Monday.  Dark and rainy.  Very rainy this afternoon.  Flossie went to school this morning.   Alden went up to Uncle Jim's on Saturday and came down to school this morning.   We, Lucy and I washed the clothes this forenoon, but they didn't dry much.

December 17, 1901 - Tuesday.  Quite fine today, but snowing tonight.  We baked bread, pies, cookies etc.  Charlie and Bessie took a drive up to Martin Johnson's and brought Flossie home from school.   Not much going on at the mill these days.  C. Proven had Allen Deyarmond hauling logs for him today.

December 18, 1901 - Wednesday.  Quite a fall of snow.  Sleighing pretty good.  J.H. took D.M. over to Riversdale.  He, Morrison, went to New Glasgow.  Allen Deyarmond was here to dinner.  George and Hugh MacKay spent the evening with us.

December 19, 1901 - Thursday.  Snowed a little last night.  But it is fine today so far - 12 noon.   Charlie and Bessie went up to Mr.  S. Johnson's.

December 20, 21, 22 and 23. 1901 - Entries appear to be in a  hand-writing other than Myra's.  (J.M.)

December 20, 1901 - Friday.   Fine day.  Eunice Deyarmond came down to get her waist cut and fitted.  Charlie and Bessie went down to the Village in the afternoon.   Myra went up to attend the closing of the school.

December 21, 1901 - Saturday.  J.H. went to Riversdale to meet D.M.   Returned home about 4 o'clock.  Brought  barrell of apples and several other things for xmas gifts.  A number of grists came.  Mr.  Fisher, Wm., was here to dinner.  He helped Mrs. B. bottom a chair.

December 22, 1901 - Sunday.  Fine day.  Preaching in Burnside at 2 o'clock p.m.  Mr.  Fraser gave us a good address.  Text - Matthew 16:26.   J.H., Alden, Myra, Charles and Bessie were to church.

December 23, 1901 - Monday.  Rainy.  We washed the clothes, put them out and had to bring them in again.    Mrs. B., Bessie and Charlie were over to Mr.  George Deyarmond's to spend the day.

December 24, 1901 - Tuesday.  Wet.  We, D.M., Baby and I thought to go home to Wittenberg tomorrow, but as the snow is gone, we gave it up.  Baby is not very well either.

December 25, 1901 - January 7, 1902 - no entries