Note:  There appear to be no journals between 1913 and 1919.   During this time, several deaths occurred in the Blaikie family.   Alden Blaikie died in 1917 in Belgium, killed in action in WWI.    Mrs B., (Eunice Olive Johnson Blaikie)  died in 1918, at age 86.   Leonard Blaikie also died in 1918,  at age 14. The journal containing 1919 , obviously has pages missing at the beginning. The first writing in this journal is the end of an entry of unknown date.  It reads as follows:

....illness of Mrs Rose and their only child, Greta.  Then we sallied home.

The next entry is that of:

February 7, 1919 - Got up at 9:20 a.m. Helped Bessie a little.  Wrote to Doctor Cox and home.  At noon, Foster called for me and brought me down here.   Maggie, (Mrs Foster B.) is very busy getting ready for a dance to be held on the evening of February 12.  Mrs Leonard Johnson called up and invited me down there tomorrow p.m.

February 8, 1919 - February 11, 1919 - no entries

February 12, 1919 - Wednesday.  Well, I came home with ....... on Saturday , February 8, and was very glad to be home.   Aunt Viney Andrews and Gor...?.. Johnson were here when I came home.  We have been visiting quite a lot lately.

February 13, 1919 - June 15, 1919 - no entries

June 16, 1919 - The months have come and gone since my last writing, and much has happened.  Edith was in Truro for over a month (From March 15th to April 23rd).  Harry returned from Europe on May 17, 1919.  The Millers moved away to the other side of the river and John Fulton came in their place.    Dorothy Fulton began to clerk at H.T. Fulton's on April 15th.  They had the "flu" at H.T. Fulton's and Mary is not well yet.  They still have a trained nurse to attend her.   Harris Blaikie and Billie Deyarmond had flu too, here.  Both are better.  Doctor Reynolds moved to his new house - the "Fred Tupper Place", and Hibbert Reynolds died March 4, 1919, at Doctor Reid's in Musquodoboit.  Rev J.K. McInnis was inducted into Upper Stewiacke congregation March 4th.  His first public duty was to preach Hibbert's funeral sermon.  Aunt Hannah Kennedy died in March - or April - also Mr William Fulton of Meadowvale.  Mrs Robert Taylor, of Meadowvale died about the same time. 

June 17, 1919 - June 19, 1919 - no entries

June 20, 1919 -  Friday.  A slight rain.  The last day of school for this section.  Mrs S.J. Bentley came for a visit.  She is braiding a mat.  Edith is getting ready for going to Truro. 

June 21, 1919 - Saturday.  Fine this morning but thunder showers in the late p.m.  Glenn took Edith to Truro this afternoon.  She is going to work at W.B. Murphy's Kandy Kitchen.  Will begin Monday if all is well.  How I miss Edith!  But it is no use.  I must get accustomed to my children going away.  It is inevitable.  Strength will be given to take up life in whatever way it comes to us.  Mrs Bentley is here yet.  Perley Graham was here to tea.  He went up home with Willie Deyarmond.  Have read to Morris and Tom and they are asleep.  Am alone now.

June 22, 1919 - June 24, 1919 - no entries

June 25, 1919 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  Yesterday, Florence, Tom, Harry, Morris and I took a drive to Brookfield, Alton, Stewiacke, Wittenberg and Musquodoboit.  Had dinner at Edith's and supper at Mother's.  Home about 9 p.m.  Mrs S.J. Bentley is here yet.  She is getting on very well with her mat.  I put away the lard from the pig today.  They killed the pigs Monday.  One for Roy's and one for ourselves.  Lots of women were at Prayer Meeting tonight.

June 26, 1919 - June 29, 1919 - no entries

June 30, 1919 - Monday.  Fine.  Olive came home on Friday evening.  She has finished her teaching.  Probably she will never try it again.  Edith is in Truro - at W.B. Murphy's Candy Kitchen.  I miss her, but it is no use to do so!  Now Harry has gone away again - to Truro to work in the garage with his uncle Foster.  I hope he gets along well.  Flossie went to Truro too.  Roy and Bub went through with them.    Ada Reynolds is here with Olive tonight.  Mrs Bentley is down with Mrs Reynolds.  Am lonely, as I often am;  but  I can bear it for Jesus is always near me.

July 1, 1919 - August 15, 1919 - no entries

August 16, 1919 - Saturday.  The end of a nice late summer day.  It is a month and a half since my last writing.  Again I am alone.  But I am gradually getting accustomed to being so.  Tom and Morris are in bed now.   It is nearing eleven o'clock p.m.   On August 11, 1919, Norma and Amelia Cox, Frances Foster and Florence Blaikie left Truro for "out west".  We had two post cards and a letter from Flossie; the latter posted in Montreal.  She is probably at Laugbank, Sask. tonight.  Amelia Cox has the school there, and Florence's (Flossie's) school  does not open until August 25,  so she thought of remaining with Amelia a week or so, before going on to Nordegg, Alberta, where she has a school.   Olive is working at David Creelman's, but she has been home for a few days, and is out to Meadowvale to Mrs Fulton's tonight.

August 17, 1919 - August 20, 1919 - no entries

August 21, 1919 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Olive left David Creelman's on August 14th and today  she went to work in a store - Candy Store in Truro - Carroll's is the name.   Charlie Blaikie and family have been out since Monday evening.  We enjoy them.    On August 19, twins were born to J.W. and Janie Benvie.  A boy and a girl.  The other twins are only a year old last April.  There is nothing I can do for them, tho' I have the will to do it.  They do not seem to want me to do anything.      Oh!  It is so lonesome without the girls.  Nobody is so near to one as their girls.  Mrs Rupert and S.A. Fulton called today.  I was glad to see them.  Ethel Bentley - bless her - called tonight.   Charlie's family came back tonight.  It is nice to have them.  Glenn, Charlie and Willie Deyarmond  are up to Johnnie Robert Graham's reception. 

August 22, 1919 - Friday.  Rather fine until about 7 p.m.  , when thunder and lightning showers began, and are still keeping on, tho' not so powerful as between 8 and 9 o'clock.     Charlie and family, Harris, Glenn and Morris; also Clyde Reynolds, his mother and Louis Fulton went out to Sheet Harbour Road to pick blueberries.  They took their dinners.  Not getting any berries to speak of, they came home about 5 o'clock.  Between 7 and 8 they started for Truro.  Do not know whether they reached home or not.  No letter from Flossie today.

August 23, 1919 - September 10, 1919 - no entries

September 11, 1919 - Dark but no rain.  Just a month since Flossie started for Nordegg, Alberta.  She is very pleasantly situated in a three department school.   She has the Primary, with only one grade.  We had letters from her September 10.    School started today.  It is three weeks late, almost.  The teacher is Miss Ruby Thompson of North River, Col. Co.  She is only seventeen years old - but has her "A" certificate.

September 12, 1919 - Rainy - very rainy.  Roy, Edna and family went to Musquodoboit last evening and broke the auto axle.  Roy got Mr Flemming's horse and waggon and came home near three o'clock a.m.    As early as convienent, he phoned Harry in Truro, and he brought a new axle and put it in.  I attended W.M.S. this p.m.  It met at Mrs Kate Cox's.   Mrs C.D. Creelman has been laid aside with piles.   Has undergone an operation.   Mrs S.J. Bentley is doing her work, and Miss Gladys Fulton is nursing her.  Allen Deyarmond was here to dinner.  Ethel Bentley and Life Insurance Agent, Gordon Harman, were here this evening..  Glenn is over at J.W. Fulton's.   I must get ready for bed.

September 13, 1919 - Not so dark, and toward night it cleared off and looks quite fine now.  Harry was home most of the day.  Had quite a talk with him. Did quite a lot of work; scrubbing, baking, preserving etc.  Edith and Olive think of coming out from Truro tomorrow.   Had a letter from sister Edith today.  I had not heard from her for some time.  Mrs Henry returned from her visit tonight.  I am learning to do without my girls, yet I cannot cease to long for their companionship at times.  Morris has been mounting wood, and Tom helped him some.

Sewptember 14, 1919 - September 15, 1919 - no entries

September 16, 1919 - Tuesday.  A hard frost last night.   The first we had since July 6th.  But we can look for frost now.  Oh how I miss the girls!   Their helpful ways and deeds.   They were always kind and thoughtful for me - and are yet - tho' I do not see Edith and Olive often and Florence never at all now.  Just then I saw Mrs Eva Graham and her son Cyrus' wife Emma going by!  I ran out and had a little talk with them and  when I came in I felt less lonely.  Now I must get tea.   Harris has gone on a visit to Burnside for a week or so.

September 17, 1919 - September 19, 1919 - no entries

September 20, 1919 - Saturday night.  We have had a tolerably fine week - but have not got all out grain in the barn yet.  We gathered the tomatoes and squash.  Had no cucumbers.   We had an extra man almost every day this week to dinner, I think.   Stanley Andrews was here one day.  Harris (Bub) has not returned yet.  Probably he is at J.W. Deyarmond's tonight.  Miss Thompson, Adam and Arthur Fulton spent the evening here last night.  We enjoyed their visit very much.   Glenn went and got Alice and took  her and Miss Thompson  and Tom and I for a short car drive.   I took Flossie's French Dictionary to Jean Smith.    It is very quiet here.  Tom and Morris are in bed, and I am alone.  Looking back through the years one can see great changes.  The little girls are grown up now.   One little boy sleeps beside his father in the Riverside cemetery.   One sleeps  "among the noble slain" in far off Belgium - at Zillebeke Bund - One girl is in Nordegg, Alberta - thousands of miles away.  She teaches in a graded school there.       Glenn is down to Londonderry with Harold Lockhart - They are down to Harold's home.  Harry is out from Truro.  He is attending on Nellie Flemming, Edna's sister,  who works at J.W. Benvie's.  She is quite a pretty little girl.   Had a postal card telling me of the safe arrival home of Aunt Maggie Fage - Amherst.   Now, I will stop writing for tonight.

September 21, 1919 - September 26, 1919 - no entries

September 27, 1919 - Saturday night.   This has been for the most part a fine week.   Foster and  Maggie and Marion were out to spend Sabbath afternoon.  We, (they, Morris, Tom and I)  went to Burnside to Allen Deyarmond's and had tea at P.W. Graham's.   Twenty-one took tea.   When we returned home, Harry had gone back to Truro, so it was very little I saw of him.  My little Harry!  What a dear little fellow he was.   But he could not stay little and my "Little"boy has learned to do without me.  Ah well!   At last we are to give up all earthly things, and one by one I am being called upon to relinquish the things of life - or rather the things of death.        I did not get the washing done until Tuesday.  On Thursday, Foster, Maggie and Marion came out to stay until Sabbath.   Foster and Maggie were at Martin Johnson's, Burnside, all night last night.  Marion was with us.    Roy sent Morris' wood collection to Shubenacadie Exhibition today.  Sent it by Jack Taylor to Brookfield ,then by train.    Flossie sent me $50.00 to get Tom seen to:  his ears discharge; and he is pretty deaf.  This added to his blindness, it's pretty hard.   Glenn and Perley Graham have gone to Truro after Edith and Olive - they will not return until the early hours of morning.   I am in the kitchen - alone to sight - yet surrounded with memories of the past.  Always, with the exception of Morris and Tom, I must feel alone.  After a while, if he lives, I suppose Morris will leave me; but poor little Tom!  He is my life charge.  It is harder for him than for me tho', and I hope God spares me to take care of him all his life.

September 28, 1919 - no entry

September 29, 1919 - Monday.  A lovely fine day.  Foster, Maggie and Marion went back to Truro last evening.   Glenn had brought Edith and Olive out from Truro on Saturday night,  and they had two Mr Coopers to take them back.  Also Harry returned.   I washed today and am trying to get ready to take Tom to  Truro to get his ears seen to.   My life is so busy and sad.   I often wonder if I have come to the end of all joy in life.   The days pass by and I am so lonely -  but I will accept it for all things work together  for good to them that love God - and I do think I try to love Him.   But my heart is so wicked and I am so selfish about my boys.  I do not know what I would want, so will try to go on from day to day, and at last peace will come.  Tears come more than aught else these days.  But "weeping may endire for a night, but joy cometh in the morning".  My poor Tom!  I am so sorry for him!  We are taking him  to Truro to see a specialist in regards to his ears.

September 30, 1919 - November 2, 1919 - no entries

November 3, 1919 - Monday.  The melancholy days have come - the saddest of the year.  Yet, November has not been bad this year.  So far it is fine and a little dark.  Tom has had adenoids removed, and tonsils cut out; yet his hearing is very little, if any, improved.  His ears still discharge; but I think his general health is improved.   Morris has cold tonight.  Roy, Glenn and Bub are putting electric lights into the mill.  Foster Blaikie and Leonard Johnson are or were out with lamps for them.  I did not see them to speak to them.  They were at Roy's.   Mr McInnes, our Minister, was married October 23rd - to Miss Christine McKinnon of Louisburg.  We had a reception for him in the hall on October 31st.  Mr and Mrs Clarence Pearson, who were married in June, and came home last Friday, are having a reception tonight.  It is late, and I must retire.

November 4, 1919 - November 17, 1919 - no entries

November 18, 1919 - Tuesday.  We have had some lovely weather this month.  This week has been fine until tonight - it is raining now.  Mr Harvey Archibald died November 14th, Friday.  Mrs Solomon Wright died shortly before.  They raised the roof of the boiler shed lately.  Messrs Joe Young, Edmund Hamilton worked a day or two - Mr David Kennedy worked at it too.  Ada Reynolds was here last Sabbath afternoon - we had a nice talk.  Mrs Henry took ill November 14.   They had Doctor Reynolds that night; he was there yesterday too.   Frances Graham came on Monday to work at Roy's.

There are no more entries for 1919.  The next entry is for February 9, 1920.