January 5-12, 1908 - Week of Prayer.  Mr Toombs introduced envelope system of giving lately.

January 6, 1908 - Birthday party at Erle Kennedy's.  Lockhart's and Blaikie's and Jimmie Pearson invited.

January 9, 1908 - Mrs P.W. and Mrs C.E. Graham here.

January 13, 1908 - Arthur Lockhart at the mill.

January 17, 1908 - Roy's 19th birthday.

January 18, 1908 - Roy missed Division last evening.  Bub ill.

January 19, 1908 - Mr Toombs preached in the Hall.  Doctor Cox to see Harris (Bub).  Samuel T. Ellis' daughter , Isabel, died about 9 o'clock p.m.

January 20, 1908 - 12 below zero.  Colin Grant died at the V.G. Hospital.

January 21, 1908 - D.M. and I invited to a party at H.G. Gammell's.  Had a nice time.

January 23, 1908 - Commissioners for Manse met at Mr Toombs'  tonight.

January 24, 1908 - Party at C.A. Fulton's.  Mixed amusements.  Roy and Alden among the guests.

January 25, 1908 - A year since moving here.  Viz Roy, Mrs B., Edith, Glenn and Harry.

January 26, 1908 - Preaching in the Hall.  Roy, Glenn, Florence, Olive and I there.  Mr Lockhart here to tea.  Mr Bentley in a while.

January 27, 1908 - Rainy this afternoon.

July 1, 1908 - Wednesday.  It has been a very fine time.  Grain needs rain.  No rain for quite a while.  Mrs Blaikie and Flossie went to Truro with Uncle Jim and Aunt Janet yesterday.  Mrs J.W. Johnson (Melissa Graham) , Minnie Graham, Alden and Dorothy Johnson were here to tea.   They came up from Brookfield with Samuel Graham.  Minnie was not well.  Glenn took them up to Pembroke after tea.   In the evening, James W. Deyarmond and wife came down.  We sat up late.  About twelve o'clock when I got to bed.  Harold and Edwin Lockhart and Roy  were in swimming after tea.   This is a holiday today.   George Graham to dinner.

July 2, 1908 - Thursday.  Fine and dry.  We had a call from Mrs David Dickie, (nee   Lizzie Cox) this morning.  Just after she left, Mr and Mrs Benvie came.  They stayed to dinner.  Went away about three o'clock.   Sabbath School convention in the Presbyterian Church this afternoon.  None of us there at the afternoon session.  Alden , Glenn and I there in the evening.  Mrs Reid and Inez Power called before the meeting, and I went to the meeting with them.  Quite a number there.

July 3, 1908 - Friday.  fine and dry.  Heavy dew.  Mrs Gourley and son Fred Wright here to dinner.  Was baking bread and sewing.  James A. Graham here to tea.  B.N. Foster called.  Mrs Bentley called.  Mrs McFetridge came home.  She and her brother Grant Cox went past the place to night.  Aid meeting at Mrs C.C. Cox's this afternoon.

July 4, 1908 - Saturday.  Fine and warm.  Geordie Graham here to dinner.  We had a letter from Flossie today.

July 5, 1908 - Sabbath.  Fine this forenoon but a nice rain this afternoon and evening.  Sabbath School in the morning.  Roy, Glenn, Harry , Edith and Olive at it.  We had a cold dinner.  Mr Toombs had no substitute today (He is still away) and the Elders did not have service.

July 6, 1908 - Monday.  We had a fine day.  I washed clothes in the forenoon and a while in the afternoon.  Martin Johnson here to dinner.  Scrubbed D.M.'s room.  Sent a letter to Flossie.

July 7, 1908 - Tuesday.  A hot day.  I ironed in the forenoon.  We had beans for dinner.  Willie MacKay got his hand hurt with a pick, and was down to the Doctor to get it dressed.  Here to tea.  Mrs Bentley and Amy Archibald here to stay a while.

July 8, 1908 - Wednesday.  Fine and hot, but cooler.  D.H. Fulton and Georgina Dickie married today.   Churned this forenoon.  Davie Brown, (Eastville) here to dinner.  Edna Lockhart called a while this afternoon.  W.F.M.S. held their local Union in Burnside today.  Alden and Glenn at Prayer-Meeting.  Albert Davis drowned.

July 9, 1908 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Harry and I down to H.T. Fulton's to make some purchases.  Edith and Olive did up the work.  Miss Amy Archibald and Edna Lockhart called.  Doctor Cox called.

July 10, 1908 - Friday.  Another fine day.  W.F.M.S. met at Mrs C.A. Fulton's.  Mr and Mrs Fred Woodworth and baby George came up after dark.

July 11, 1908 - Saturday.  Not so warm, but fine.  Edith helped me to wash, iron and etc.  Mrs Bentley called, also Mrs Lockhart here.

July 12, 1908 - Sabbath.  Warm and fine.  Edith and Fred and baby George went away home this morning. Harry, Glenn, Edith (B), and Olive at sabbath School.  Roy's eyes were sore and he stayed at home.  And Alden went up to Pembroke with Chester Graham last night.  Glenn, Bub and Edith attended the evening service in the church.  A Frenchman spoke in the interest of French Evangelization.

July 13, 1908 - Monday.  Fine and warm.  Did not wash.  Water scarce.  The little Lockhart's here.

July 14, 1908 - Tuesday.  Warm again.  Picnics at Eastville and South Branch.  None of us attended.  Some of Mr Lockhart's up to Eastville.  Harry, Olive, Edith, Leonard, Maud, Agnes and Greta went to pick strawberries this afternoon.  Went back in the pasture.  They have been plenty, but are drying up.  We got enough for tea.  D.M. is pretty well these days - pretty well for him.   Lewis W. Hamilton got a deed written here today.  Charlie Blaikie is here.  He is not very well - got hurt and is resting.  Came out with Laurie MacKenzie.  Laurie stopped at Ed MacKenzie's and Charlie came down here.  D.M. was down at Mr Eben Fulton's a little while this forenoon.  Mrs Bentley was in a while tonight.  I swept the three bedrooms upstairs.  Edith had Tom up to Mr Lockhart's.

July 15, 1908 - Wednesday.  A wet day.  Began to rain in the night and after a good soaking in the forenoon it came out fine, then we had thunder showers in the afternoon and evening.  Fine for the crops. Laurie MacKenzie here to dinner.  Charlie did not go back with Laurie; he intends going home on Saturday.  Geordie Bentley hauling bridge plank for the Eben Fulton Bridge.  They finished sawing it today.  Mr and Mrs James M. Hamilton called.  We baked bread today.  Baby Tom not quite so well today.

July 16, 1908 - Thursday.  A fine day, but not so hot.  Mrs Henry Miller here to help wash.  We had a day of washing.  Wrote to Grandma and Flossie.  Morrison put up a little more blood.

July 17, 1908 - Friday.  Fine but cooler.  Had quite a lot of callers. Mrs C.D. Creelman, Mr and Mrs James M. Hamilton, Mr and Mrs S.A. Fulton,  Mrs Bentley.  Ironed a little, sewed a very little.  Had a letter from Edith Woodworth.  Charlie over to Mr Bentley's to dinner.  He and Roy were driving out South Village tonight.

July 18, 1908 - Saturday.  A rainy day.  Bub and Charlie intended going to Truro today, but it was too rainy.  I pottered about all day at this and that but there don't seem to be much to show for it after all.  The boys (Glenn, Harry and Moore and Herb Lockhart)  were picking over a couple of bushels of potatoes tonight.   Got them from us.

July 19, 1908 - Sabbath.  Rather dark, but did not rain.  Bub and Charlie went to Truro this p.m.   Mr Toombs was home to preach himself today.

July 20, 1908 - Monday.  A rainy day.  The boys picked over the potatoes.

July 21, 1908 - Tuesday.  Fine.  Bub, Flossie and Mrs B. got home about dusk.  Mrs Lockhart called.

July 22, 1908 - July 30, 1908 - no entries

July 31, 1908 - I neglected writing this long time and don't remember all the things that took place.  We think Flossie is rather better.  D.M. is not better, but is no worse.  Dan Hamilton and P.S. Hamilton were here to dinner yesterday.

August 1, 1908 - Saturday.  A dark day.  They did no haying.  Had the mill started.  I washed some, scrubbed the kitchen and Morrison's bedroom.  Baked two pies, preserved six quarts of gooseberries etc. today.  Mr Bentley called tonight.

August 2, 1908 - Sabbath.  A very rainy day.  Mr Coffin started up to preach for Mr Archibald but it was too rainy so he returned.  Martin Johnson's only daughter died of pneumonia induced by whooping-cough today.  Mr Toombs preached on " Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life"   Boys all remained at home this afternoon - was glad.  Finished reading "Little Foss" to Harry and Edith.

August 3, 1908 - Monday.  A fine day.  Glenn took Grandma and Edith up to the funeral; the latter intends remaining a few days.  Roy and Alden went up to meet Glenn as he came home.  They are not back yet.  Mrs Maggie Creelman and Mrs Bentley called after tea.  The wind blew one of our apple trees partly down; also tipped the water closet over yesterday.  Roy and Alden fixed it up today.  Harry and Flossie picked a cracker kettle full of blueberries in the afternoon.  Not a very hot day but nice and fine. 

August 4, 1908 - August 16, 1908 - no entries

August 17, 1908 - Monday.  Quite a while since I have written in my journal.  Mrs Blaikie and Edith came home from Burnside on Tuesday, August 11.  Uncle George Deyarmond brought them down.  Annie, Neil, Johnnie Will, and Gus Benvie came over August 11 and the boys stayed the day, and Annie is here for a week.  We have enjoyed her visit very much.  Mamma and Papa were here August 8 - 10;  also out to John W. Fulton's.  We enjoyed their visit.  Annie and Flossie were over to C.A. Fulton's to tea last Friday.

August 18, 1908 - Tuesday.  This has been a wet day.  Began to rain about nine o'clock.  Alden was going to take Annie Benvie home and Flossie was going over too;  Neil Benvie came after her but it was too rainy for them to go home, and so they are staying all night.  The boys are making the evening gay with music, and the little folk are breezing about very lively; having slept most of the afternoon.  Mrs Miller was here to wash.  She "fetched" Morrison a couple of cucumbers, which action he appreciated very highly.  Harold and Edwin Lockhart are here tonight.

August 19, 1908 - Wednesday.  Pretty fine day.  We had a mess of new potatoes (got from Lockhart's) for dinner.  After dinner, Roy and Bub went to Burnside after tar for the mill roof.  I went up to call on Mrs Lockhart but she wasn't home, so I ran into Mrs Bentley's a little while.  Alden and Glenn were at Prayer-Meeting tonight.  Heard the chirping grass-hoppers today.

August 20, 1908 - Thursday.  Quite fine but a cool wind.  Finished haying today.  They left 7 or 8 tons that they did not cut.  George Bentley and Mr Power, and Lockhart's cut some of the best of it.  Woodbury Graham and son Beveridge here to dinner.  An Organ Agent was round this morning - Mr Moore.  He did not succeed in selling us an organ.  Also an eye-doctor or Oculist or "Spec-Peddlar", I don't know what one would call him.  D.M. and Grandma got new specs.  I washed a blanket and some other clothes, and mended some.  We got meat to the amount of $1.50 today.  Had string beans for the second time this year for dinner.  Also lettuce got from Mr Bentley's vineyard.  Mr Bentley and Geordie finished getting their Otter Brook - Island hay.

August 21, 1908 - August 23, 1908 - no entries

August 24, 1908 - Has been a pretty fine day.  Alden has gone after Flossie who was over to Mr James Benvie's for a few days, and they got back this morning.   Martha and Gertie Moore and Duncan Graham were here to dinner.   The girls went away in the coach.

August 25, 1908 - Tuesday.   Pretty fine.  Bub was not very well today.  Harry, Flossie and I were picking blueberries about an hour this afternoon.  Made biscuits, two pies (one blueberry and one blackberry), and two potato cakes.  Was down to Mrs Eben Fulton's to call this evening.  Had a nice call.  D.M. drove  down to Doctor Cox's.  Began taking Peptonoids.

August 26, 1908 - Wednesday.  Dark and rainy.  Rained this afternoon.  We had cucumbers for dinner, also pies.  Also new potatoes.   After noon, Harry and I drove over to see Mrs C.D. Creelman; had a lovely chat.  She is acting the part of Good Samaritan by making me a dress.  An organ was left here by an agent.  This is D.M.'s birthday.  He is a little bit better, I think.

August 27, 1908 - Thursday.  Was pretty dark and windy today, but did not rain any.  Grandma and the children picked some blueberries for supper.  Flossie was after the mail.  Papa got a birthday card from Bessie.  I was down to the store and got some dry goods this evening.  The little old organ was taken away this evening. Were very sorry to see it go.  Purchased the new organ.  It is lovely.

August 28, 1908 - September 25, 1908 - no entries

September 26. 1908 - Saturday night.  Quite a dry harvest.  This has been Exhibition Week - Exhibition held in Middle Musquodoboit.  None of us were over.   Harry and I were over to Mr Francis' to tea.  Morrison was not very well today.  Tired like, short of breath etc.  Flossy is not very well either.

September 27, 1908 - October 27, 1908 - no entries

October 28, 1908 - Wednesday.  Rather dark-looking this morning, but cleared off and was a fine day.  We have had a prolonged dry spell of weather.  They started the mill today.  It has been stopped for a while.  D.M. was not very well at all today.  He is not lively - sort of weak and drowsy.  Nearly all the family have colds.  J.T. Hamilton was buried yesterday - he died on Sabbath, October 25.  Age 60 years, 8 months, 23 days.     We washed a few clothes today.  Also churned.  Glenn, Alden and Roy  were at Prayer Meeting, but Roy saw sparks coming out of the mill and left to attend to it;  but it did not prove to be a fire.   Duncan Graham was here after laths for their kitchen - a new one they are building at Uncle Charlie Graham's.

October 29, 1908 - Thursday.  Quite dark this morning but turned out fine in the afternoon.  We were ironing and preparing for the thresher.   Leonard went to school today.  They were sawing at the mill etc.   Bought a new plough, also new lines for harness.  Morrison was not quite so well.  Mr and Mrs Alfred Johnson and Byron were here to dinner.

October 30, 1908 - Friday.  A wet day.  Dryden Power was threshing here.  Besides our own we had Alex Fulton, Harold Lockhart, Moore Lockhart, Angus Wright, Billie Patterson, and Dryden Power.  They were just here to dinner.  Jimmie Graham left a half barrell of herring here.  It came from "the shore".  Was over at Mrs Bentley's a while this evening. Boys all at home.  Bub not very well.  Morrison not quite as well as common.

October 31, 1908 - Saturday.  Cold, dark and windy.  Washed two bedrooms and the hall and pantry and kitchen this forenoon.  Mrs James Crockett and Elsie called.  Florence and Maude Lockhart out to Annie M. Fulton's birthday party.  Hazel Gourley, Jessie and Gladys Fulton were about, with Florence, carrying jack-o-lanterns.

November 1, 1908 - Sabbath.  Snow on the ground this morning.  A cold raw day.  Roy, Alden, Glenn, Florence, Harry, Edith and I were at church.  Mr Sealey (?) the Baptist minister, preached in the Presbyterian Church at 10:30.  Mr Toombs being over at Mr Coburn's of Upper Musquodoboit.  Mr Sealey preached on Naaman - "But he was a leper".  A good sermon. Roy and I walked over tobid farewell to Mr and Mrs Charlie Fulton  who are moving to Middle Musquodoboit on Tuesday.  We are sorry to lose them.  Glenn and Alden were at Christian Endeavour in the evening.  Morrison not feeling very well again.

November 2, 1908 - Monday.  Another cold, raw day.  Boys and Bub were sawing.  We did the daily round of domestic duties.  Edith had a cold and was at home.  Doctor Cox called to see Morrison.   He perscribed cod-liver-oil and whiskey.  Roy was making out accounts.   Glenn and Alden at the store after groceries.   Glenn down to the post office to mail a letter to Adam MacDonald of Riversdale regarding the mill in Burnside.  Must make a poultice for Flossie.

November 3, 1908 - Tuesday.  Snow squalls.  No kind of a day to dry clothes.  Alden went for Mrs Miller.  She washed, besides the regular washing, two quilts.  Mr and Mrs P.S. Hamilton here to dinner.  Mrs Bentley and Mrs Thomas Graham called a while.  Doctor Cox and Charles C. Cox also called; also Mrs Lockhart.  Roy took Mrs Miller home.

November 4, 1908 - Wednesday.  Some rain fell.  There was thunder and lightning too.  Bub went to Burnside but has not got home yet.  Messrs Martin Johnson, George Burchett and P. Woodberry Graham here to dinner.  Glenn was up to S.P. Creelman's helping thresh.  He went to Prayer Meeting and to the store.  Roy and Alden went to the store at night.  He was also down this forenoon.  I was down to Doctor Cox's this forenoon. Was in to H.T. Fulton's store and made some purchases.  Also called at Miss Maggie Creelman's.

November 5, 1908 - Thursday.  Cold, windy.  They began to plough.  Had Edgar H. Hamilton's mare to help the pony.  We have a new plough.  Got from E.H. Hamilton.  Boys down to the stores this evening.  Getting molasses, glass for the windows etc.  They took the pony.  Roy was after the mare today. (E.H.H.'s mare).  Glenn bought a couple of pairs of blankets from H.T. Fulton's today.  Bub got home this afternoon.

November 6, 1908 - Friday.  Snow fallen during the night; also snowing and blowing in the forenoon.  Finer in the afternoon but the roads are sticky.  Mrs Eben Fulton and Mrs Norman Taylor called here this afternoon.  Glenn went to Division.  Roy did not go.  We were baking bread.

November 7, 1908 - Saturday.  Dark, but the snow nearly all thawed off.  Roy and Glenn went to Truro this morning.  Bub and Alden were fixing the stable, sawing a little etc.  I was washing, scrubbing, baking pies etc.  Mrs Blaikie was over to Mr Bentley's to tea.  Morrison pretty well today.  The girls swept, dusted etc this forenoon.  Edith was at Mr Toomb's this afternoon, and Olive up to Mrs Lockhart's. 

"Backward, nay onward, ye swift rolling years

  Gird on thine armour and keep back thy tears

  Count not thy trials and efforts in vain

  They'll bring  thee  the light of thy childhood again."

November 8, 1908 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine.  Mrs B., Edith, Harry, Bub, Alden and I at church. Mr Toombs preached a good sermon on "perfection".  - "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect."   Harry, Florence and Alden were at Christian Endeavour.  Flossie repeated 80 questions from the Shorter Catechism.

"Safe thou shalt meet every trial and care

  If thou art clad in the armour of prayer."

November 9, 1908 - Monday.  Thanksgiving day.  Dark and dull.  Bub and Alden got Mr Eben's mare and harness and Mr Bentley's waggon (Roy and Glenn are not home yet), and went up to Burnside to meet a Mr MacDonald who is thinking of purchasing the mill up there.  They met him and he seemed to think he would buy it.  Flossie and I were down to Doctor Cox's this afternoon.  Got a bottle of medicine for her cough.  Also some black pills for Morrison.   Miss A. Olivia MacKay called this afternoon.  Mrs Blaikie, Flossie, Leonard and Harry were at Thanksgiving Service. 

"But one grand attribute I crave to aid me as I press along

  Is that I may still be brave when things go wrong."

November 10, 1908 - Tuesday.  Not very cold.  Mattie Reynolds was sewing for us today.  She came home with Roy and Glenn last night.  Mr J.D. Young  began putting in the new windows in this house.

November 11, 1908 - Wednesday.  Dark.  Rainy at night.  Mr Young finished the windows tonight.  They are much finer, or rather better.

November 12, 1908 - Thursday.  A cold raw day.  Rainy too.  They put the puncheon under the spout to catch water.  I washed a little.  We had soup for dinner.  Edith is still home from school.   There is a committee meeting here tonight  anent the manse.  Not many of the commissioners are present as it is a snowy windy night.

"Rest is not quitting the busy career

  Rest is but fitting of self to its sphere."

November 13, 1908 - Friday.  Some snow on the ground.  I ironed a little.  Mrs Bentley was over a while in the afternoon.  Roy and Glenn at Division. 

"Childhood is the bough where slumbered

  Birds and blossoms, many numbered

  Age, that bough with snows encumbered."

November 14, 1908 - Saturday.  Dark this forenoon but the afternoon was bright and sunshiny.  We swept quite a lot.  After dinner, Bub, Roy and Alden went to look over M.S. Cox's logs.  Glenn was at home.  We were baking bread etc.  Mattie Reynolds went home tonight.  Glenn took her.  The papers came in regard to the saw left at Brookfield today.   Mattie's charge for her sewing this time was $2.00.

"Now the hours of day are numbered

  And the voices of the night

  Wake the better soul that slumbered

  To a holy, calm delight".

November 15, 1908 - Sabbath.  Rainy and windy.  Sort of a dreary day.  Flossie, Olive, Bub, Roy, Alden, Glenn, Harry and I  were at church this morning.  Mr Toombs preached on "After death".  A small congregation attended church.  In the evening at C.E., only sixteen were present.  I read "Ben Hur" aloud to Morrison in the afternoon.  This was our Wedding Day , twenty-one years ago.  Rainy and windy like this, but different in many other ways.

"Backward, nay onward ye swift rolling years

  Gird on thine armor and keep back thy tears.

  Count not thy trials and efforts in vain

  They'll bring thee the light of thy childhood again"

November 16, 1908 - Monday.  Quite a fine day, but cloudy tonight.  I washed clothes today.  Grandma did most of the work.  Edith still at home.  James Creelman, Springside,  paid $5.00 today; also $11.00 from Sternes Johnson.  Boys away.  Roy and Glenn at Division practice.

November 17, 1908 - Tuesday.  Rainy, sunshine and dark weather all on hand today.  Roy went for Mrs Miller this morning.  She washed bed quilts and pants, also washed the wooden-work and floor of the dining-room.    I ironed etc.  This is Harry's eleventh birthday.  J.D. Young was here tonight.   He and Roy are practicing a piece of music for the Social.  We had a letter from Mr MacDonald anent the Burnside mill.  Glenn was over to Mr Francis'.  He and Alden down to the Village two or three times and he and Alden looked rabbit snares.

"Labor with what zeal we will

  Something still remains undone;

  Something uncompleted still

  Waits the rising of the sun."

November 18, 1908 - Wednesday.  Quite a wintry day.  Papa's 67th birthday.  Glenn and Alden at Prayer Meeting.  Edith still home.

November 19, 1908 - Thursday.  A gray looking day.  I can't remember much about this day now.  There was a big rain either last night or tonight.

November 20, 1908 - Friday.  Not cold at all.  Some snow on the ground.  Uncle Jim and Aunt Janet Johnson down.  Aunt Janet stopped at Mrs E.B. Fulton's to dinner.  They went home about three o'clock.  Doctor Cox called to see D.M.; also Edith.   Mr McLauchlin, the colporteur was in a short time.  J.D. Young and Roy practiced a song for Division. 

November 21, 1908 - Saturday.  Fine most of the day. I washed some clothes and Harry and Mrs B. churned this forenoon.  Alden mixed the bread and I baked it.  Also washed up Morrison's bedroom and the kitchen this afternoon.  Bub and Alden were fixing the cellar window.  Roy and Harry were away up to Eastville.  Flossie and Edie and Roy (at night) were to a triple party at Mrs Lockhart's this afternoon.  Morrison pretty well.  Miss Margaret E. Creelman called.

"Oh little hearts that throb and beat,

  With such impetuous feverish heat,

  Such limitless and strong desires.

  Mine, that so long has ached and burned

  With passions into ashes turned

  Now covers and conceals its fires."

November 22, 1908 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine.  Edith, Tom, Morrison and I at home from church.  Harlod Lockhart here to dinner.  In the afternoon, I was reading "Ben Hur" aloud and asked the children their catechism.

"Day of all the week the best

  Emblem of eternal rest."

November 23, 1908 - Monday.  Quite warm and mild for the time of year.  Bub, Roy and Alden started to cruise the Reynolds lot, but gave it up and came home before dinner.   I patched some.  Mr Henry Creelman called in the afternoon; also Mr Ned Graham was to tea.  We enjoyed his visit.   I was down at Mrs Eben Fulton's this afternoon for a call.

November 24, 1908 - Tuesday.  A lovely fine day.   Morrison had a sweat last night and did not feel so well today; better tonight.  J.H. went to Burnside for a load of grain.  Boys were up at Mr Laurence's looking for logs.  I washed a little.  Uncle Jim here to dinner.   Mrs Bentley and I walked out to John and Alex Fulton's this afternoon.  We had a nice call at each place.   Edward Lloyd Webster died today.

"But as the depths of heaven in some clear lake reflected

  So Thy love mirrored in our hearts shall make us like to Thee."

November 25, 1908 - Wednesday.  A beautiful fine day.  Amanda J. Graham and Allister C. Hutchinson were married at James A. Graham's today at 3 p.m.  We saw the groom's party go up the road about one o'clock.  Bub, Roy and Glenn went to cruise the Wm. Reynolds lot today.  Alden was digging out post holes etc.  William Reynolds called this forenoon.  Edith was pretty sick today.  Morrison was rather better than yesterday.  We were baking bread, ginger cake etc.

"And so we go hastening toward the end

  Where time and eternity meet and blend."

November 26, 1908 - Thursday.  A fine day.  We were making Flossie's "Social Basket" tonight. Pink and blue.

November 27, 1908 - Friday.  Dark day, but a fine evening.  Was making the "filling" for Flossie's basket.  The little Lockhart girls called on their way down to the Social at night.  Roy, Alden, Glenn, Flossie and Harry attended the Anniversary of Agricola Division No. 911.   They had a fine time - entertainment was excellent.  Sold shadows instead of baskets - not a very popular way.  Proceeds amounted to over $50.00.  Mr H.G. Gammell got Flossie's basket.  Roy got Laura Lockhart's; Alden got Annie Francis'  ; Glenn got Hazel Lockhart's;  Harry got lots of free lunch!

November 28, 1908 - Saturday.  Pretty fine.  Cold wind.  Bub and Roy went to "shank it" over the Reynolds Forest lot.  We didn't have to borrow bread for them.  Washed the dining room floor before breakfast.  Had a call from Mrs Alex Fulton today.  We enjoyed it very much.  Olive visited at Mr Lockharts this afternoon.  Mr and Mrs Bentley called this evening. John W. Fulton left a piece of pork tonight.  Roy tried to shave his father but gave it up, and he tried it himself.

"Bear through sorrow, wrong and ruth'

  In thy heart the dew of youth,

  On thy lips the smile of truth."

November 29, 1908 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Was at church; Flossie, Bub, Roy, Alden, Glenn and Harry.  It was the "World Temperance Sunday".  Mr Toombs preached a good sermon.  This afternoon I finished reading "Ben Hur" to D.M.

November 30, 1908 - MOnday.  A pretty fine day.  Took Mrs B,'s rocking chair over to Mr Bentley's shop.  W. Foster Rutherford called. paid his account and left $2.00 for   Thank Offering.   Mr and Mrs C.C. Cox had a son born tonight.

December 1, 1908 - Tuesday.  A little rain fell but not enough to hurt.  Mrs Miller washed.  Glenn went for her and took her home.   Mr Fred K. Tupper called and presented Morrison with a dozen eggs.  Glenn and I drove down to H.T. Fulton's in the evening and invested in a pair of boots for Leonard.   We also got the stair carpet.  James W. Deyarmond was here when we returned. 

December 2, 1908 - Wednesday.  A cold windy day.  Ironed the clothes.  Boys and Bub tore the laths and plaster off the kitchen chamber today.  They also sawed some.  Doctor Cox called.  Also Mr and Mrs H.G. Gammell.  Edith is far from well.  She is very pale and has not much appetite.  We had a nice call from Mr and Mrs Gammell.

December 3 , 1908 - June 9, 1910 - no entries