The Journals of
Elmira Blaikie
1870-1945
1929
Entries for 1929 were not made every
day. They are typed as written, with no notation of days when no entries
were made. JM
January 1, 1929
- Tuesday. A lovely fine day. Harry Blaikie came from Truro on Sabbath
p.m., bringing Walter, his eldest child; they returned to their home
today. We had a nice visit together. Tom is pretty sick. Dr Stewart
was in to see him this a.m. Then the Dr went to Halifax to be at home
for his New Years dinner. Glenn is bringing him home tonight. Philip
and Parker Cox spent the evening here.
January 2, 1929
- Wednesday. Quite fine. Warm too. Dr Stewart was in to see Tom
tonight. Roy, Glenn and Morris were out to Chilland's mill this p.m.
Preparatory Service in the church tonight.
January 3, 1929
- Thursday. Rather cloudy and chilly. We took Tom to the Col. Co.
Hospital, Truro. Dr Stewart was with us - Roy, Glenn and I.
January 10, 1929
- Margaret E. Creelman died at Cambridge, Mass, USA. Was brought home
January 13th, exactly a month since she left her home in Upper Stewiacke
until her remains were brought back.
January 20, 1929
- Thomas Blaikie came home from the Col. Co. Hospital. Truro.
January 23, 1929
- Kenneth Stewart Fulton, son of A. Putnam and Lola B. Fulton, born.
Florence M. Allen, daughter of Ada and Bernie Allen, born January 15,
1929.
February 9, 1929
- Mrs Clarence Chaplin died in the C.C. Hospital. She was Jessie S.
Smith before her marriage. This winter is exceptionally fine. No
sledding yet - Feb.11th.
February 12, 1929
- Tuesday. Quite fine. No snow. Roy, Glenn and Dr Stewart accompanied
Thomas Blaikie to the Colchester County Hospital at Truro, to have his
eye examined and operated on. Harry Blaikie was out from Truro, and
sold Martin S. Fulton a Whippet car - it is like Roy Blaikie's car.
February 13, 1929
- Wednesday. Cold and fine with north wind. The men folk were out at
the Weir lot, logging.
February 14, 1929
- Thursday. Fine. Not so cold and windy as yesterday. Men still
logging. Alice's limbs and neck sore. Dr Stewart was in to see her.
February 18, 1929
- Monday. Dark. Mrs Laffin and Orilla, her daughter, here, helping
us. They washed and scrubbed.
February 20, 1929
- Wednesday. Sledding came.
February 23, 1929
- Pretty fine. Logs coming into the mill yard. Alice's neck - a
carbuncle - broke yesterday. She has had a hard time with it. Tom is
still in Colchester County Hospital. We hope he gets better. Mrs Alex
and Annie Fulton are visiting in North River this week. Jean Peppard
left Put Fulton's on Thursday. We expect her on Monday.
March 6, 1929
- Wednesday. Rain, sleet and wind. The sledding went some days ago.
Tom came home from C.C. Hospital on March 3rd. - Sabbath. Roy, Glenn
and Morris brought him in Roy's car. Jean Peppard came to help us,
Monday Febraury 25.
March 7, 1929
- Thursday. About the same kind of day as yesterday, except perhaps a
bit warmer. Mr Margeson and Mr and Mrs S. Fulton called this p.m. Dr
Stewart here this evening. Tom pretty ill.
March 8, 1929
- Snow fell during the night, making sledding. Logs coming in fast.
Our team hauling for Putnam Fulton. Tom suffered a lot today. We are
very anxious about him.
March 9, 1929
- Saturday. Snowing a little. Pretty good sledding. Dr Stewart was in
to Truro.
March 10, 1929
- Sabbath. Quite cold, but Harry and Nellie and Walter Blaikie came
from Truro.
March 18, 1929
- Monday. Windy and raw. Dr Stewart took the cast off Alice's broken
arm. Broken on February 2nd.
March 19, 1929
- Tuesday. Fine. Somewhat windy. Harry out from Truro. Dr Stewart
lanced the abcess on the top of Tom's head. It has been very painful.
He, Dr Stewart, was to Middle Musquodoboit and Truro today.
March 20, 1929
- Wednesday. Fine with westerly winds. Saw the first robins this
morning. Jean Peppard's tonsils are bothering her. Alex Fulton and Roy
Blaikie in to see Tom, also Edna and Alda.
March 27, 1929
- Mrs Stanley Chaplin has a new baby born March 27. Had a letter from
Mrs Laura Graham. Mrs L.C. Fulmer (Jennie Webster), died February 28,
and Mrs Harry Hall (Jean Graham), died March 9 - Laura's sister and
daughter. They are in the west. Mrs Fulmer was in Seattle Washington,
USA. Just a year yesterday since Morris had his operation for rupture
in the C.C. Hospital.
March 29, 1929 -
We have had a fine spell of weather. Edna
and Alice were invited to Alex Fulton's to tea on Tuesday or Wednesday
of this week. Both of Roy's and Glenn's cows have new bossies. We are
vealing ours, and Roy is keeping theirs. Shirley and Nina spent
yesterday with their Grandma Hamilton. We got a box of prunes from M.S.
Fulton
April 3, 1929 -
Wednesday. Quite fine. Cold north-west
wind. Had a thunder storm Monday night. Mr George Reid, Musquodoboit,
here to tea. Dr Stewart left the Village on Friday, March 29, and has
not returned yet. Tom is very ill. Also Wallace Miller. Annie Fulton
went to USA this week. Easter lilies were sent from Bermuda by Mrs H.T.
Fulton to decorate the church and afterward to be given to shut-ins.
Jean Peppard went home Monday evening.
April 4, 1929
- Thursday. Pretty fine. Cold wind. Mr MacDonald in to see Tom - also
Mr and Mrs Martin Johnson. Tom not so well. Dr Stewart not returned.
April 5, 1929
- Friday. Fine. Cool wind. Tom suffered a lot last evening and
through the night. We gave him 4, 1/4 grain codine tablets at two
different times. Edna was in this a.m.
April 10, 1929
- We have had warm spring weather lately. Tom is gradually growing
weaker. No word of Dr Stewart yet. Aunt Martha came in from South
Branch yesterday. She sat with Tom last night. Dr Stewart came to
Middle Stewiacke on Thursday, April 11. Tom is suffering so much!
April 16, 1929
- Tuesday. Quite warm. Some cold east wind. Our dear Tom died
Saturday, April 13 at 9:30 a.m. He was totally unconscious from
Thursday p.m. Died very peacefully after his long conflict - from last
fall - took seriously ill November 12, 1928 - but had not been well
through the fall. He has suffered every day since. But is released
now. The funeral was held in the church on Sabbath at 2 p.m. Burial in
Riverside Cemetery - in our lot there. Sermon - "He that overcometh
shall inherit all things". Aunt Martha went home with Mr MacDonald on
Sabbath evening.
April 20, 1929
- Saturday. Three days of drizzly weather. Mr Clyde Watson died, after
a short illness, on Thursday a.m. about 3 o'clock. Funeral Friday.
April 21, 1929
- Sabbath. Cool, some wind. Alice and children home from church. Rev
MacDonald preached from the text "They that be whole need not a
physician, but they that are sick." He pictured a medical Doctor as a
type of divine physician, going about doing good - in healing and
helping poor suffering fellowmen. In the p.m., Alda and I took Thelma,
Shirley, Jean, Nina, Ruth and George for a look for mayflowers. George
found one partly open, but none of the others found any. Roy has a sick
cow. Mr Henry Cox was up to see her. No Y.P.S.C.E. tonight. Hall in a
state of partial repair.
April 22, 1929
- Monday. Fairly warm. Easterly wind. Mrs Alex and Mr and Mrs Put
Fulton spent the evening with us.
April 23, 1929
- Tuesday. Snow last night. Did not all go today. Was in to Roy's and
Mr Margeson's. Sylvester Webster, my brother, died at sister Nettie's,
Southbridge, Mass., USA
April 24, 1929
- Wednesday. Fine, but cool wind. Am in bed today. Indigestion, I
guess. Got up in the p.m. Got word of my brother Sylvester Webster's
death, April 22.
April 25, 1929
- Thursday. A fine day. I was at the P.O. and H.T. Fulton's store, and
called at Mrs Dr. Cox's. Had a nice call. Mrs Dr Creelman, sister of
Mrs Cox, is there. Dr and Mrs Cox are growing feeble.
April 26, 1929
- Friday. A very rainy windy day. Last night was stormy too. Not
cold. They did not work in the mill today. Graham Fulton was home.
Was at Mrs Margeson's to tea.
April 27, 1929
- Saturday. A nice fine day. Was down to the Office (P.O.) this a.m.
and Morris and I went for the mail in the Whippet after dinner. We sent
for wallpaper for the sitting room, and Morris' bedroom. Charles
Peppard here until nearly twelve this p.m. after Alice and Glenn came
from the store. Finished sawing our own logs.
April 28, 1929
- Sabbath. Another fine day. Alice and Bub and Morris and I at
church. Mr MacDonald preached from the words "Whatsoever thy hand
findeth to do, do it with thy might". Alda and I walked over to see Mr
and Mrs C.D. Creelamn in the p.m. Alice and Glenn and children were
down to Mr Hamilton's. Morris at Y.P.S.C.E.
April 29, 1929
- Monday. Rainy. Alice washed. They are trying the new lamps at the
church tonight. Had a letter from Edith Boomer.
April 30, 1929
-Tuesday. Windy and cloudy. Alice tore
the paper off the bedroom (Morris'). Was at Mrs Henry Cox's a short
time tonight. A dance at Frank L. Fulton's. J.W. Deyarmond here to
dinner.
May 1, 1929
- Wednesday. Pretty fine. Cold wind. Alice cleaned Morris' bedroom
and gave the floor a coat of paint. Also killed, dressed and sold 3
hens. 13 3/4 pounds. I was in to Mrs Margeson's a short time tonight.
May 2, 1929
- Thursday. Still dark, and drizzly. Edna and I were at Ladies Aid at
Mrs J.D. Cox's. this p.m. Roy took us and Glenn brought us home. We
went into the church on our way home to see the new gas lamps; there
was choir practice.
May 3, 1929
- Friday. Dark and rainy. Thunder and lightning this afternoon and
evening. Roy, Glenn, Edwin and Put Fulton went to Truro after tea.
May 4, 1929
- Saturday. Dark.
May 5, 1929
- Sabbath. Rather dark with some showers. Roy, J.W. and Mrs Benvie and
Alda were at Sacrament at South Branch.
May 6, 1929
- Monday. Thunder showers in the night. Fine this p.m.
May 7, 1929
- Tuesday. Rainy - showers. Alice papered Morris' bedroom. She and
Glenn took some shrubs and flowers up to Arthur Kennedy for him to set
out in our lot in the cemetery. The roads were opened yesterday.
Morris and I had a car drive round by Cross Roads.
May 8, 1929
- Wednesday. Fine. Cool wind. Alice prepared the sitting room for
papering. Harry Blaikie was out from Truro and sold Philip Cox a car.
Morris went in to Truro to come out with Philip in his new car. Glenn
took Dr Stewart to Burnside tonight. I was over to Mr Margeson's a
little while.
May 9, 1929
- Thursday. Pretty fine but cool wind. Alice morescoed the ceiling and
painted the walls of the sitting room today. I was at WMS in the
afternoon. It met at Mrs Rupert Fulton's.
May 10, 1929 -
Friday. A fine warm day. Edna and I
fried doughnuts this a.m. for Morris and Edwin to take to Community
Club tonight. Alice papered the sitting room today. Mr and Mrs William
Graham called this p.m.
May 11, 1929
- Saturday. Pretty fine. Mr and Mrs P.W. Graham came tonight to stay
over Sabbath. They had been to Brookfield etc. This was a busy day for
us. Graham Fulton left work.
May 12, 1929
- Sabbath. A nice day. Mrs Graham and I slept together. Got up late
but went to church. It was Mother's Day and Mr MacDonald preached a
good sermon. Text was I Kings, 2nd chapter, 19th verse (last part) -
"And the king (Solomon) rose up to meet her (Bathsheba, his mother), and
bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to
be set for the king's mother". The flowers were pretty grouped about
the pulpit and organ. Mrs Graham and I had dinner at Roy's. After
dinner we had a nice walk - up the hill back of our house, and down
through Mr Martin Fulton's interval to the river, then home. After tea,
Glenn and Morris and Mrs G. and I went to the cemetery and looked on
the graves of our dear ones, then home via South Village. Then Mrs
Graham, Morris and I attended Y.P.S.C.E. in the hall. We had enjoyed
this Sabbath, and were glad to be together.
May 13, 1929
- Monday. A fine day. Just one month since our dear Tom left us! What
a happy change for him! Alice washed. Roy and Glenn took the old
truck to Truro in the p.m. Morris and I had a short drive after tea.
Margaret Ross came to work at Roy's.
May 14, 1929
- Tuesday. Quite fine. The play "A Temporary Husband" (actors from
Stewiacke Town) was put on in the hall tonight. All there except Harris
(Bub), Laurie and I. Mr William Brown called.
May 15, 1929
- Wednesday. A very rainy day. I spent the day at Mrs C.D. Creelman's
- it being her 75th birthday. Glenn, Laurie and Nina went over with me.
Morris, Shirley and Nina came for me.
May 16, 1929
- Thursday. Cloudy. Cool wind. Alice down at her mother's. Mrs
Peppard and Jean called.
May 17, 1929
- Friday. Cool wind, but there was sunshine. Had a letter from Mrs C.
Tibbits, Truro. We got a bag of sugar from Martin S. Fulton. Arbor Day
at school.
May 18, 1929
- Saturday. Cloudy with some sunshine. Morris and Edwin sawed shingles
this p.m. Roy and Glenn went to Truro to bring the truck home. Ed
MacKenzie got their new Pontiac car.
May 19, 1929
- Sabbath. Cool. Was at church. Harry and Nellie, Walter, Ralph and
Donald here to tea. No Y.P.S.C.E. - too rainy.
May 21, 1929
- Tuesday. Very wet. Alice tore off the dinning room paper and painted
the wood-work. The Life Insurance (Tom's) was paid. I was down to the
store and Post office and over to Mr Margeson's today. Aunt Viney was
with me to Mr Margeson's. Aunt Viney Andrews came on Monday night.
May 23, 1929
- Thursday. A fine day. Alice papered the dinning room. I was up to
Martin Fulton's a little while this p.m. Alice and Glenn over to
Musquodoboit tonight. Morris at a dance at David Fulton's - the first
he ever attended, I guess. Came home before twelve o'clock.
May 24, 1929
- Friday. A cold wind - but sunshine. Harry and Nellie and Walter came
early - then the four brothers, Uncle Harris (Bub), and Edwin went to
the old home haunts in Burnside to fish. They were not very successful,
but had the day. Harry took Aunt Viney and me for a drive. Glenn and
Walter went too! They are at Roy's tonight. Alda and I had a nice walk
to the Post Office; called at the School House and Mrs Ashmore
Miller's. Had a letter from M.E.B.
May 25, 1929
- Saturday. Quite fine in the a.m. Rainy toward night. Harry, Roy,
Edwin, Glenn, Bub and Morris went to Burnside to fish.
May 26, 1929
- Sabbath. A fine day. Church service was interrupted by Martin S.
Fulton's house getting afire. All the men (nearly) went up to assist
in putting out the fire which had been partially extinguished by Glenn
Blaikie and William Fulton before others arrived. Harry and Nellie
returned to Truro. Also Walter. Sunday School opened in Meadowvale.
May 27, 1929
- Monday. Dark but no rain. Aunt Viney and I spent the afternoon at
Mrs Alex Fulton's. Glenn and Alice down at Mr Hamilton's a short time.
May 28, 1929
- Tuesday. A fine warm day. Aunt Viney over at Mrs Margeson's to tea.
The bridge up by R.D. Power's built. R.D. Power was ill.
May 29, 1929
- Wednesday. A fine warm day.
May 30, 1929
- Thursday. Warm this a.m. Raining tonight. The people are having a
shower for Miss Ruth A. Fulton tonight. Glenn and Morris took a truck
load of lumber to Musquodoboit this a.m. and both are ill with flu now.
Dr Stewart was to see them today. Alice cleaned the kitchen. She is
not well either. Aunt Viney at Roy's to tea.
June 11, 1929
- Rather rainy. Sowed our oats. Mrs Dr Cox died.
June 12, 1929
- Fine. The new truck came to truro. Ruth Fulton and Gordon Grant
married. Morris took Alice and family and me to Pembroke after tea.
June 13, 1929
- Fine. Brought the New Overland truck home. Mrs Dr Cox was laid to
rest - funeral at 3 p.m.
June 15, 1929
- Saturday. Fine with some clouds. Alice over to Musquodoboit.
June 16, 1929
- Sabbath. A fine day. All at church except Glenn and Laurie. Miss
Marion Kennedy sang two solos. She and her father and a friend are
visiting in Upper Stewiacke. Harry, Nellie and family were out from
Truro for tea.
June 17, 1929
- Monday. Fine. They worked in the mill. Bob Deyarmond finished
rolling the oats. Glenn and Morris took a load of lumber to
Musquodoboit after tea.
June 18, 1929
- Tuesday. A fine day. Alice at Young ladies Club at the Manse in the
p.m. Miss Kate Lugrin spent the afternoon with me. Glenn took Laurie
when he went for Alice and they took him to Mr Warren Butcher's and got
his hair cut. Roy and Edwin went to Musquodoboit with lumber.
June 19, 1929
- Wednesday. Fine yet. Alice and Nina and Laurie spent the day at Mrs
Hamilton's. Shirley went down after school. Morris and I went down for
them after tea. Glenn and Bob Deyarmond took a truck load of lumber to
Musquodoboit. James W. Deyarmond called.
June 20, 1929 -
Thursday. A fine day. A fire in the
woods in Burnside. All our men (except Uncle Harris) and Irving Whitman
went up to Burnside in Glenn's car. Morris and Uncle Harris and I were
at the hall in the evening to hear the New Glasgow singers. A very
enjoyable evening.
June 21, 1929
- Friday. Another fine day - but three nights of frost. Was up to W.P.
Miller's this p.m. Glenn came for me before tea, and he and Alice went
to Truro. This is Alda's thirteenth birthday.
June 22, 1929
- Saturday. Fine day. George A. MacKay and Lena Dean were married by
Rev A.T. MacDonald at the Manse, Upper Stewiacke.
June 23, 1929
- Sabbath. Fine again. Mr and Mrs Charles A. Blaikie, Lloyd and Gail
and Mrs Bertha O'Brien attended church in Upper Stewiacke, and dined
here - had tea at W.P. Miller's.
June 24, 1929
- Monday. Rainy tonight - some thunder. The rain is doing a lot of
good to the crops.
June 25, 1929
- Tuesday. Hot - but cloudy. Killed the veal calf. Glenn and Uncle
Harris over to Musquodoboit with a truck load of lumber.
August 3, 1929
- Frederick H. Ratcliffe and Annie M. Fulton were married in Cleveland,
Ohio.
August 7, 1929
- Raymond Cox and Margaret Deyarmond were married in mass., USA (Both of
Upper Stewiacke)
August 10, 1929
- John Clarke of Beaverbrook, Colchester County and Annie L. Johnson of
East Mines, were married in Alberta.
August 12, 1929
- Mrs Mary Johnson (Aunt Mary) died in the V.G. Hospital, Halifax. Aged
77 years.
August 26, 1929
- Mr Neil Archibald and Mrs Lois Smith married at Mr Eben Fulton's,
Upper Stewiacke.
September 2, 1929 -
Morris at a dance at Bert Ogilvie's.
September 3 , 1929
- Mr and Mrs D.B. Bentley and Mrs Alex Fulton here to spend the p.m.
September 4, 1929
- Fine day. Miss Lugrin and I had tea at Mrs Margeson's.
September 5, 1929
- Fine. Ladies Aid at Mrs Rupert Fulton's. Glenn took me. Morris came
for me. Roy and Edna went to Truro to get Edna's teeth extracted.
September 6, 1929
- Mr Andrew O'Brien Johnson, of Middle Stewiacke and Alfred Dickie,
Halifax, died. Mr Johnson was 93 years, 11 months.
September 11, 1929
- Mr Higgins came here. Club met at Mrs G.R. Deyarmond's.
September 12, 1929
- Meeting of Aids in the hall. Missionary meeting at Mrs D.B.
Bentley's.
September 13, 1929
- Morris, Edwin and I took, or accompanied Mr Higgins to Mr Lewis
Fulton's, leaving him to visit his daughter, Mrs L. Fulton.
September 14, 1929
- A very rainy Saturday. We have had lots of fine ones.
September 15, 1929
- A rainy morning. Finer this p.m. Glenn and family to Truro this
p.m. Mr and Mrs Howard Fisher here to dinner.
September 16, 1929
- Roy and Glenn finished loading a car of laths. J. Fulton sold the
Hotel to S.A. Fulton.
September 17, 1929
- School Exhibition at Springside. Rather dark and wet. Mrs C.C. Cox,
Reta, Philip and Parker here for the evening.
September 19, 1929
- Thursday. Quite a big freshet. Our potatoes in the intervale,
covered with water. We quilted the WMS quilt at Mrs Edmund Hamilton's.
Mrs Martin Smith, Mrs Abram Bentley, Mrs Alex and Mrs Eben Fulton, Mrs
D.B. Bentley, Mrs MacDonald, Mrs Reynolds and myself. Glenn and Bob
Deyarmond attended a meeting in Truro tonight.
September 20, 1929
- Friday. Roy and Edna, Glenn and Alice took a trip today. A nice fine
day after the rain. Mrs margeson over.
September 21, 1929
- Cool wind. Herbert Lockhart here tonight.
September 28, 1929
- Fairly fine weather since the freshet. We dug the potatoes - those
not washed out by the freshet - this week. Picked (24 bags) the ones
which were washed out on Sept 20. Reaped the oats on Thursday p.m. and
put those in the upper field in today. Alice down to her mother's on
September 25th. Mrs Margeson in a few minutes that day. Roy and Edna
and Mrs Henry are in Middle Stewiacke tonight , at the Anniversary of Mr
and Mrs Austin Fisher's wedding. Mrs Henry intends visiting a while.
October 6, 1929
- Springside church re-opened.
October 9, 1929
- Mabel Kennedy and George Webber married at her father's - Mr David
Kennedy.
October 10, 1929
- Local Union of WMS in the hall.
October 11, 1929
- Aunt Martha brought here to visit on October 8th and taken home
tonight.
October 12, 1929 -
Born - a son to Mr and Mrs Ross C.
Johnson.
October 13, 1929
- Sabbath. Glenn and Alice and family in to Truro in the p.m.
October 16, 1929
- Wednesday. Alice at Mrs Hamilton's on the 15th and at the hall on the
occasion of the Masonic Orchestra (Halifax) , tonight.
October 17, 1929
- Dark and sometimes rainy this week. I was up at Mr Martin Fulton's
today. Roy and Glenn were to Truro with lumber for G. Lewis.
October 24, 1929
- Samuel J. Creelman and Mabel F. Bentley married at Otter Brook.
October 30, 1929
- E. Murray Graham and Alice E. Fisher were married by Rev D.A. Frame at
Middle Stewiacke.
October 31, 1929
- Government Control passed by plebescite.
November 4th or 5th, 1929
- Thomas F. Kennedy died at his home in Fort Ellis, Lower Stewiacke -
buried in Riverside Cemnetery, Upper Stewiacke, November 6, 1929.
November 7, 1929
- Some rain, some sunshine, some clouds. Ladies Aid at Mrs H.R.
Foster's. Roy and Glenn trucking to Brookfield to load a car. Mrs Dan
G. Hamilton died in Portland Maine. The remains are being brought home.
November 8, 1929
- Coldish - but quite fine. Young Ladies Club met at Mrs H.R. Foster's.
November 9, 1929
- Snowy but cold. No snow laid long. Was at Mrs Lewis Fisher's to
spend the day. Came and went in the truck. They finished loading the
car of lumber at Brookfield.
November 26, 1929
- Mr and Mrs E, Grant Cox had a son born.
November, 1929
has been a wonderful month! We had fine warm days, cold zero weather
once or twice, rain, hail, snow (and wind) thunder and lightning, an
earthquake (Nov 18); also two new moons.
December 5, 1929
- Snow. Sledding and carring too. Edna had Ladies Aid.
December 8, 1929
- Sleety tonight. Roy and Edna down to see Dr Cox. He was wonderful
for 88 years. Glenn and Alice and family up to J.W. Benvie's to tea.
December , 1929
- Mr and Mrs Russell Millard had a daughter born.
December 1, 1929
- Mr and Mrs G. Burnham Stewart had a daughter born.
December 12, 1929
- A cold snap - sledding.
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