January 1, 1904 - February 1, 1904 - no entries

February 2, 1904 - Tuesday.   Cold and blustering.  Flossie's ninth birthday.   This has been a cold winter so far.  The thermometer registered 32 degrees below zero down in Pembroke one morning either in December or January.  Mrs. Mary Creelman died very suddenly of heart failure on January 26.  She had had pleurisy or pneumonia or something of that nature and her heart was not strong enough to stand the strain.  A Mr. Robinson of Sailsbury, New Brunswick, died at Mr. Wm. Crockett's on January 27.  He had nearly the same thing ailing him.  His body was sent home to a wife and seven children.

February 3, 1904 - February 4, 1904 - no entries

February 5, 1904 - Friday.  This has been a cold week.  The thermometer is 18 below zero tonight.  D.M. took the children to school every morning except Tuesday;  they didn't go to school that day at all.  We killed our cow on Wednesday, February 3rd.  She was pretty fat.  A.A. Grant and Miss Minnie MacKenzie  were married February 3rd.  They had a large wedding.  James W. Deyarmond wasn't here today.   His children are sick - three of them.  Mr. Robert Graham took sick January 28 with La Grippe.  He is pretty seriously ill.  We baked bread today, also swept, ironed and were getting the fat put away.

February 6, 1904 - February 9, 1904 - no entries

February 10, 1904 - Wednesday.  A fine cold day.  All the days are cold now.  All the nights below zero.   Last night it was 10 below zero.  Some places it has been 32 below.  Mr. Robert Graham died February 5.  The funeral was in Stiles Church on Monday, February 8th  at 10 o'clock a.m.    Rev J.B. MacLean of Upper Stewiacke preached the formal sermon.  Mrs. Blaikie took sick on Sabbath, February 7.  She had pleurisy, but it is better now.   How much sickness there is this winter.  It seems as if there is a lot about here.   James W. Deyarmond's children have been ill.  Bertha is quite seriously so.   None of us got to the Anniversary at Mr. George Deyarmond's.  They had quite a nice time, I believe.  Mrs. English was down today and assisted me with the work.  Only P.S. Hamilton's children and ours were at school today.

February 11, 1904 - February 18, 1904 - no entries

February 19, 1904 - Friday.  A fine day.  How the days fly!  None of the children have been at school since Monday.   Mrs. B. is getting better.  She got up Wednesday afternoon, February 17, and was up 2 hours.  And yeaterday was up from 2:30 until after tea.   William Dunlap came last night about tea time.  He is here yet.  The thermometer was 10 below zero this morning.  James Harris went up along yesterday afternoon.

February 20, 1904 - February 21, 1904 - no entries

February 22, 1904 - Monday.  A wet day.  Sabbath morning the thermometer registered 18 degrees below zero; but the weather got warmer through the day.  Quite warm and rainy this morning.  Mrs. B. got up last Wednesday, in the afternoon.  She has been up every day since.  But she does not get better very fast.   I had three letters, or rather four, on Saturday.  from Edith (Mrs. Fred Woodworth), Bessie (Mrs. C.A. Blaikie),  and Janie and Nettie Webster.  I love to get letters.  They cheer one so much.  Yesterday, Sabbath, Mr. Quinn, or Mr. MacQuinn, preached.  His text was "Unto you who believe, He is precious".  It was a good sermon.  Mr. Quinn said that it might be  that none of us would meet him again in this world, but that he hoped we would meet "Up Yonder"  where we would get well acquainted.  That is a nice thought.  In Heaven we shall get to know those whose company we desire now.   Often we long for some companionship that is impossible for us to have here. But in that Better Land, we shall be satisfied.    Today I washed some clothes, but did not get them dried.  Alden, Glenn and Flossie went to school.  They and Nessie, Cassie and Bert Hamilton were all that were at school, as usual these days.   The Chaplin boys, John and Joe, had a grist here today; also, James Hamilton, Eastville.

February 23, 1904 - March 8, 1904 - no entries

March 9, 1904 - Wednesday.   Foggy and damp and dark.  Foster and Maggie have been making us a visit.  D.M. and Bub went to Truro last Wednesday, and Maggie and D.M. came back home Thursday afternoon.   Bub and Foster came home via Riversdale on Friday.  He and Maggie returned via Riversdale on Monday, March 7.  How the days fly by!   Mrs. B. has not been very well lately.  Aunt Mary Johnson and Homer visited us on Monday afternoon.  We are keeping Alden at home to help us in the house now.  He began staying home, March 2nd.   J.W. Deyarmond's children have whooping cough.

March 10, 1904 - April 17, 1904 - no entries

April 18, 1904 - Monday.  March has gone and April has crept up on us now.  We had quite a cold March.   On the 18th, Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Deyarmond  lost their baby James Francis.  He had bronchitis etc.   On April 8th, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Taylor's little  month-old daughter died of whooping cough and on the 12th  Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ellis lost their little son, aged 5 weeks.  So death has been busy among the little ones.   On April 14th, Chester Graham died.  He had been up to Johnnie Robert Graham's and was not feeling well the day before.  However, he was at school.  But in the night he was hot and short of breath.  In the morning, he got up but did not stay up long; and on going to bed, soon passed away.  It is hard for them all.

April 19, 1904 - April 30, 1904 - no entries

May 1, 1904 - Sabbath.  Cold wind.  All of us at church except Olive, Edith and I.   A Mr. Hamilton preached - a scotchman.

May 2, 1904 - Monday.  Fine.  Alden and I washed the clothes, and got them dried.  Uncle George Deyarmond and Charles Proven called in the afternoon.

May 3, 1904 - Tuesday.  Another fine day.  Mrs. B. was not well today.  She did not get up until nearly dinner time.  Her head troubled her, and she had pains.  James W. Deyarmond was not here today.   He thought he would go to Truro, but did not go.  D.M. and J.H. were hauling wood.

May 4, 1904 - Wednesday.  Fine.  There are frosts these nights.   Ethel Deyarmond intended starting for Springhill today.  She went to Truro with her father and Allen Deyarmond.

May 5, 1904 - Thursday.  Pretty fine.  Alden and I washed clothes.  There were a few spatters of rain but it did not amount to very much.  Not so much going on at the mill these days.   People are getting their land prepared and putting in the crops.

May 6, 1904 - Friday.  Fine, but rather cold.   We removed the paper from the walls of the hall today.  It was quite a job.   Alden went down to Uncle Charlie Graham's this afternoon.

May 7, 1904 - Saturday.   A nice warm fine day.   Washed the floor of the kitchen and also the stairs this forenoon.  Two of the men belonging to the mill that sawed for James Graham and Jack Graham were at the mill and here to dinner.  Al (?) and Edwin Brown.  Mrs. J. William Johnson of Stewiacke Village was buried today.  She had gone to the V.G. Hospital at Halifax to undergo an operation, but it resulted in her death, although she underwent the operation successfully.

May 8, 1904 - May 13, 1904 - no entries

May 14, 1904 - Saturday.  A fine nice day.  How the days go by!   Our new minister, Rev. W.P. Archibald, was inducted on May 12.  Mrs. Blaikie, J.H., Roy, Alden and Glenn were down to Springside to the induction.   On May 10, Alfred Johnson invited us to a House-Cleaning, but we were unable to go.  D.M. and I papered the hall May 10.   James W. Deyarmond wasn't here at all this week, except to help cut a big stick one day.    Friday was Arbor day.  We washed 3 quilts and 4 blankets today.   Roy got a new suit May 10.   D.M. got it at H.T. Fulton's.

May 15, 1904 - July 21, 1904 - no entries

July 22, 1904 - Friday.  A fine day.  We have had a very dry summer, and May was a dry month.  Only two rains this summer so far.  Water is scarce.  Our tank is very low.  D.M. and Flossie were down to Lower Stewiacke to the  "Orange Walk".  Mother, sister Dot and brother Walter were up July 15 - 16.

July 23, 1904 - September 26, 1904 - no entries

September 27, 1904 - Tuesday.  A fine autumn day.  How the days pass away!  It is over two months since my last writing.   Mrs. B. went to Truro July 28.  She had a nice visit returning August 27.   D.M. and Roy, Alden and Glenn went for 3 or 4 days after Mrs. B.  The boys had a great time.  I got some nice birthday presents - a water sett, cup and saucer, paper and envelopes, writing desk, a book from Alden etc.   On September 14, Harry, Baby and I were taken, by D.M., down to Lower Stewiacke.  We visited at Edith's ( D.M. returned home on Friday, September 16.  ), until Tuesday September 20.  Fred took me out to Wittenberg to father's.  D.M. came for me on Wednesday evening and we went home the next day.

September 28, 1904 - October 27, 1904 - no entries

October 28, 1904 - A fine day.  The days go by swiftly.  Time is so precious that my writing is not done.  Maxwell Graham and Martha Brown were married October 25, also  Mr. Bert Potter and Mrs. Myra Eaton, the same day.

October 29, 1904 - November 1, 1904 - no entries

November 2, 1904 - Quire a fine day.  All the talk is Election.  November 3rd is the day.  Mrs. B. went up to Eastville on Sabbath.  She will try to come home tomorrow.    [Following this are several names, with no explanation - they are as follows. J.M.]

Frank Henry    Two boys, Brown and Steward.  Fred Jeffers, Robert Rutherford

November 3, 1904 - November 25, 1904 - no entries

November 26, 1904 - Saturday night.   This has been a coldish wet week.  No sunshine except a little on Wednesday afternoon.   Mr. Stinson Deyarmond died early the morning of November 22.  He took sick in July 1903, and though he was able to be about, and even to do some work this summer and autumn, yet he never fully recovered.  But he never kept his bed wholly, being on his feet three or four hours before he died.     Only two of his nine children were present at the funeral, held at his own house on Wednesday, November 23.   Mrs. Elizabeth Bentley of Pembroke is also seriously ill at the present time.   Allen Deyarmond is not at all well.  He has put up some blood, but we have not heard any particulars.  How the duties of the days multiply.  Time is ever on the wing.  And we must patiently play our part until we "awake where  the morn is shining"   Alex Fulton of Otter Brook was here today.  We like to see him coming.  He is a nice sociable man!

November 27, 1904 - December 31, 1904 - no entries