January 1, 1931 - Thursday.  A warm day for the time of year.  Snow and a little rain fell, but did not amount to anything.  Harry and Ralph came out from Truro, and had dinner.  Walter went back with them.  I called at Roy's and conversed a while.  Philip and Parker Cox spent the evening here.  We always enjoy their visits.  Ad Laffin is still here.  He does not seem well.

January 2, 1931 - January 5, 1931 - no entries

January 6, 1931 - Doctor Cox died.  Aged 89 years, 3 months.

January 7, 1931 - no entry

January 8, 1931 - Dr Cox's funeral in Upper Stewiacke church.  Rev's MacInnes, MacDonald and Blanchard all present.

January 9, 1931 - Lovely day.  WMS met here.  Ladies Aid, at Mrs Roy Blaikie's.

January 10, 1931 - Saturday.  Dark this a.m. then sonw and wind persisted through the day.  Hail tonight.  Preparatory service this afternoon.  Rev H.H. Blanchard preached from  1 Cor. 11.  "Let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that flesh and drink of that blood".  Alice, Laurie and Uncle Harris at home.  Mrs George Bentley brought her membership certificate from the Middle Stewiacke congregation and, Eva and Edith Fulton, Jean MacKenzie, Jennie Smith, and Mrs Charles Graham united with the church.  Doris Blanche Fulton, daughter of Mr and Mrs Martin Fulton was baptized.

January 11, 1931 - Sabbath.  A drifting storm in the night prevented the meetings today.  No church services.  Wilmer Hamilton and Wallace Miller came here; both stayed to dinner, and Wallace to tea and spent the evening.

January 12, 1931 - Monday.  A nice fine day.  No water for Alice to wash so she just washed a few things for the children.  The annual meeting of the Aid was held in the hall this p.m.  $100.00 was to be laid aside or given to the deficit in the congregation.

January 13, 1931 - A rainy day.  It is colder with quite a high wind tonight.  The men went to the Weir lot this a.m. , but returned about 2 o'clock; bringing a load of logs.  Alice and Glenn are at Warren Butcher's etc tonight.  The Congregational Meeting which was to have been held in the hall tonight is put off until tomorrow night.

January 14, 1931 - Wednesday.  A nice sunshiny day.  Alice had Y.L.C. this p.m.  Mrs Putnam Fulton and little Kenneth, Miss Eva Fulton, Mrs G.R. Deyarmond, Miss Lola Henderson, Mrs Clyde Reynolds and baby David, Mrs MacDonald, Mrs Ross Johnson, Miss Pearle Cox, Mrs W.D. Kennedy, Mrs C.C. Cox, Mrs Waren Butcher and little Joan, and Mrs Bernie Allen were present.

January 15, 1931 - Thursday.  Pretty fair.  Went to help Mrs D.B. Bentley Was there until Saturday p.m., January 17.  Roy's birthday.  Did not see him.

January 16, 1931 - January 17, 1931 - no entries

January 18, 1931 - Sabbath.  Fine.  Lovely day.  Communion Sabbath.  The text was "I will be to them a god, and they shall be to me, a people". 

January 19, 1931 - Monday.  Quite fine but snow turning to soft weather at night.  Wrote to Edith Boomer.  Alice washed only a few things. She was at her mother's in the p.m.  Mr Frank Reynolds in, in the evening with Glenn.

January 20, 1931 - Tuesday.  Fine, soft.  Men at the woods.  Was at Mrs Margeson's this p.m.

January 21, 1931 - Wednesday.  A lovely fine day.  Mrs S.A. Fulton and I were at Mr Alex Fulton's;  on the way home we went up and called at Mr Martin Fulton's to see Eva, who plans to go to USA tomorrow.  We had a nice visit at Mr Alex's and enjoyed our call at Mrs Martin Fulton's too.

January 22, 1931 - Thursday.  Quite fine.  The men went to the woods (Weir lot)  Sent my last summer's dress to Flossie.  Mrs Margeson called in the p.m.  Mr and Mrs Martin Fulton spent the evening with us.  Had a letter from Jean Peppard.

January 23, 1931 - Friday.  A cold day.  12 degrees below zero this a.m.  We have colds, and mostly in our heads.  Morris is quite bad tonight but he worked in the mill all day.  Baked bread and rolls.  Glenn had a sore mouth.

January 24, 1931 - Saturday.  A cold day.  Fine though.  Mrs Henry's 80th birthday.  Mrs David Bentley came and had tea with her.  I was in Mr Margeson's this p.m.  Glenn and Alice are abroad tonight.  We had "Danny Boy" sung bu Colin O'More on the gramophone, and Morris played it on the organ.

January 25, 1931 - Sabbath.  A fine rather cold day.  Alice, Morris, Shirley and I were at church.  Mr MacDonald preached on our sins - personal - jealousy, strife, hatred etc.  Love will overcome all, and love is the fulfilling of the Law.  Harry and Nellie, Ralph and June were here to dinner and at Roy's to tea.  Went home before dark.  Morris was at Y.P.S.C.E.

June 26, 1931 - Monday.  Quite fine.  Thermometer around zero this a.m.; but warmer tonight.  The funeral of the late Herman Murray of Bible Hill , Truro, was held today.  He was killed by being crushed under a truck which he had been driving, near Antigonish, I think.  The men here, except Uncle Harris (Bub) were in the woods.

January 27, 1931 - Tuesday.  A nice day - like March.  Alice washed a little for herself and the children.  She was at Mrs G.R. Deyarmond's after dinner a little while.  The men were in the woods.  Edna and Ruth were up a short time.  I had a letter from Flossie.  Glenn is away tonight.  Roy was in a little while. Sedley Graham and Hilda Day married in Natick, Mass.

January 28, 1931 - Wednesday.  A little snow fell.  Not very cold through the day, but colder tonight.  The mill was running today.  The men did not go to the woods.  We put a quilt in the frames and quilted some at it.  Mr and Mrs A. Putnam Fulton spent the evening with us. 

January 29, 1931 - Thursday.  Quite a fair day.  Cold this a.m. and an easterly wind tonight.  We finished quilting our quilt this p.m.  Edna was up and brought the mail.  Letters from Edith and Flossie were in it.  They worked in the mill - the men I mean.

January 30, 1931 - Friday.  A soft warm morning; but the wind rose and rain, sleet and snow came, and it is quite cold tonight.  The rain was heavy enough to make the water for washing the clothes; so Alice did the week's wash this a.m.  They did not work in the mill this forenoon, but did in the p.m.  Morris got a pair of lumberman's rubbers.  Glenn and Alice visiting at Roy Patterson's this evening.

January 31, 1931 - Saturday.  A snowy day. Good sledding.  Bread I baked not good.  Mrs Alex Fulton and I called at Mrs D.B. Bentley's and Mrs Henry Cox's;  and then Mrs Alex stayed with us to tea.  Alice and Glenn were at the store a short time.

February 1, 1931 - Sabbath.  Cold this a.m.  Not very cold tonight.  Lovely moonlight.  We were at church - all except Uncle Harris and Laurie.  Morris and I were at Y.P.S.C.E.  Glenn took me down to the hall and Ross Johnson took Mrs Martin Fulton, Mrs George Bentley, and me up.  Roy and Edna were up a while this p.m.  It is nice to have them.  They don't get up together very often.

February 2, 1931 - Monday.  A nice fine day.  I baked.  Was at Mrs Margeson's and Roy's in the p.m.  ,the bread having got baked by 1 o'clock p.m.  Wrote to Flossie and Edith.

February 3, 1931 - Tuesday.  Another fine day - but cold night.  14 degrees below zero this morning.  Alice spent the day at Mr Hamilton's.  I was busy.  Alda was up a little while this evening.  Glenn and Alice got home between 9 and 10 p.m.

February 4, 1931 - Wednesday.  Alice and Glenn, Roy and Morris attended prayer meeting.  Edna got her new blue poplin dress.  Ethel made it for her.  Mr George Flemming came to Roy's - Edna's father - for a little visit.

February 5, 1931 - Fine.   A nice day. Ladies Aid at Mrs Eben Fulton's.  Mrs Alex Fulton and I walked down together, and made some calls: at Mrs Henry Foster's, Mrs Ashmore Miller's and at Will Cox's.  Then we were at Ladies Aid.  Mrs B.N. Foster, Mrs Alex Fulton, Mrs Roy Blaikie, Mrs D.B. Bentley, Mrs H.T. Fulton, Mrs J.A. Reynolds, Mrs Edson Cox, Miss Henderson, Mrs Selina Miller, Mrs A.T. MacDonald, Mrs S.A. Fulton, Mrs A.L. Margeson, Mrs Edmund Hamilton, Misses Alice and Alma Coulter, Mrs Neil Archibald (who assisted her mother, Mrs Eben Fulton) and myself.  We had a nice Aid.  Roy came for Edna and me.

February 6, 1931 - Friday.  A nice fine day, but the thermometer was 4 or 5 degrees below zero this morning.  Misses Alice and Alma Coulter and Edith Fulton and Edwin were here this evening, playing a game of cards.

February 7, 1931 - Saturday.  A clear cold day.  Zero this a.m.  Baked bread.  Alice baked cookies, biscuit etc.  She and Glenn were at H.T. Fulton's store.  Putnam Fulton brought us some potatoes tonight.  I finished binding the new quilt.

February 8, 1931 - Sabbath.  Very cold this a.m.  22 degrees below zero.  Nina, Shirley, Uncle Harris , Morris and I at church.  Mr MacDonald preached on Psalm 32:1 .  A nice sermon on "the reality of sin"  .  Next sabbath,  (D.V.) he expects to preach on "the blessedness of forgiveness".  Roy took Mr Flemming, Edna's father,  home this p.m.  Edwin, George, and Alda accompanied them.  Morris was at Y.P.S.C.E.

February 9, 1931 - Monday.  Quite a mild day.  Alice did not wash, as there was no water.  She and Glenn took Nina and Shirley to Warren Butcher's to get their hair cut tonight.  Mrs Margeson over a little while.  I was at Roy's a while.

February 10, 1931 - Tuesday.  Rain and hail today.  Alice washed, having caught rain water.  In the p.m. she attended the Y.L.C. at Mrs Wm. Kennedy's.  Glenn went in the evening.  Roy was up a while tnight.  They were discussing ways and means of getting logs to fill a considerable order for lumber for J.N, Kenny, Truro.  Alice got her shoes from Eatons today.

February 11, 1931 - Wednesday.  A cloudy day, with a chilly wind.  We had a meat pie for dinner.  I was at Mrs D. Bentley's most of the p.m.  Mrs Bentley is sick and Ethel had to go to get her shoes fixed, so I went and stayed with her mother.   Called at Mrs Henry Cox's on my way home.  Alice and Glenn are at Roy's tonight.  Blair Fulton, Gordon C. Miller, Edwin Blaikie and Morris were playing cards.

February 12, 1931 - Thursday.  A stormy day.  Hail and snow.  Baked bread and rolls.  They worked in the mill through the storm.

February 13, 1931 - Friday.  A cold night not abnormally cold - but a lovely fine day.  The trees are covered with the beautiful icing and made a lovely appearance in the sunlight.  I was down with Mrs David Bentley today.  She is very sick.  Dr Stewart thinks she has flu.  Mr and Mrs Fred Graham, Musquodoboit, had a son born this a.m. It is the first baby.  They have been married six years.  My throat is sore.

February 14, 1931 - Saturday.  A rainy windy day.   I got up this a.m., and went back to bed about 9:30 or 10.  My back and throat are sore. Had a letter from Aunt Edith.

February 15, 1931 - Sabbath.  Glenn took Mr and Mrs Martin Fulton and Graham to Mr R. Fraser's.  Mr Samuel Dickie, Mrs Fulton's father, died about 11 a.m. The roads were very bad and Glenn could not get the car all the way.  They stopped at Mr Fraser's, brother of Mrs Dickie, Mrs Fulton's mother.  The Fraser's took Mrs Fulton to her father's, but he had died some hours before she got there.

February 16, 1931 - Monday.  Mrs Martin Smith underwent an operation for inward trouble, at the V.G. Hospital, Halifax.

February 17, 1931 - February 18, 1931 - no entries

February 19, 1931 - Thursday.  Cold wind, but a pretty good day.  Mrs Alex Fulton called.  She had been up to see Mrs Martin Fulton, who has returned from attending her father's funeral, and is in bed just now with an abscess on her leg.

February 20, 1931 - Friday.  Cloudy with light snow flying.  World Day of Prayer.  The meeting was at Mrs Edson Cox's.  Mrs George Bentley called on her way to the meeting.

February 21, 1931 - Saturday.  Not very cold.  Rather cloudy.  I got up today.  Feel better.  Still feel echoes of rheumatism.  Laurie has this fell disease.  Mr and Mrs H.S. Brown had a son born today.

February 22, 1931 - Sabbath.  Cloudy.  Glenn, Alice, Shirley, and Morris at church.

February 23, 1931 - Monday.  A nasty, stormy drifty day.  Bob Deyarmond not working today.  Had a letter from Flossie.  Little Laurie not much better, but Dr Stewart said he had no fever.  But it is painful for him to walk.

February 24. 1931 - Tuesday.  A day much like yesterday.  Alice was at a party at Mrs H.T. Fulton's this p.m.   Little Laurie is about the same.  We heard that Mr A.R. Higgins of Liverpool Road, Halifax, died yesterday (February 23), aged 84 years, 3 months.  Another dear friend gone.  Also Mrs Henderson of Truro, mother of Miss Lola Henderson, who clerks at H.T. Fulton's, died this a.m.   Dr Stewart called to see Laurie.  Bob Deyarmond is still sick.

February 25, 1931 - Wednesday.  Not cold, but cloudy and windy.  G.R. (Bob) Deyarmond came back today.  Mrs Margeson was over this p.m.  Laurie seemed some better but is not very well yet.   Earle Archibald and Sadie E. Mackay were married tonight.  They will live at Cross Roads on the Will Logan place, which Earle had purchased some time ago.

February 26, 1931 - Thursday.  Very mild but cloudy.  Halley S. Brown here to dinner.  Mrs Edmund Hamilton and Mrs Alex Fulton called.  Glenn and Alice away this evening.  Wallace Miller here a short time this evening.

February 27, 1931 - Friday.  Not cold, but soft snow fell all day at times.  Mr Clarie Dickie dined here.  Mrs George Bentley called.  Glenn, Alice and Morris were at the Community Club.

February 28, 1931 - Saturday.  About as fine as any day of this week.  We got the clothes ironed; they were not very dry, but if we had left them on the line until the p.m., they would have dried.  Mrs Margeson was in an hour or so in the p.m.  Laurie not better yet.  He looks so pale!  Poor little fellow!  Bub is not very well.  Alice and Glenn were at H.T. Fulton's store.  Morris went to Truro with Ross Johnson.

March 1, 1931 - Sabbath.  The same as yesterday.  Morris, Nina, Shirley and I at church.  Laurie pretty sick.  Dr Stewart in to see him. Alda and I were in Mr Margeson's a short time.

March 2, 1931 - Monday.  warm as common.  A few pickles of snow flying tonight.  Laurie very sick today.  Dr Stewart got Glenn to take him (Dr Stewart) to Musquodoboit today - in the a.m. - a young son arrived at Mr and Mrs Andrew Brown's.  They had to telephone for Dr Stewart to come to see Laurie tonight.  He has rheumatic fever, and is unconscious.  Roy and Morris were at Mr Hewson's.

March 3, 1931 - Tuesday.  Very like yesterday, except the wind was colder.  Our dear little Laurie left us this morning ablut half past ten.  The rheumatism went to his heart.  He was very sick last night and Dr Stewart gave him a Hypodermic; and he slept through the night - but he never became conscious.   Dr Stewart was here when he died, and for some time after - he was so sympathetic.  Mrs Hamilton was up and Hattie Fulton baked a big batch of cookies.  Our friends were in through the p.m. and evening.

March 4, 1931 - Wednesday.  A cold windy day.  Mr MacDonald and Glenn went up to the cemetery and chose a lot - a spot in which to lay the body of our Dear Little Laurie.  The little girls were home.  Put Fulton and J.W. Benvie, Edith and Graham Fulton, were in this evening.  It is dark and windy tonight.

March 5, 1931 - Thursday.  Very squally and windy, until near noon; then it was soft, a slight moisture - rain - in the air.  Mr Pearson started for the little casket for Laurie, with the car; but could not get through by Dean.  So, came back and took his team across the mountain, and got it.  It came from Halifax on the train to Musquodoboit last night.  Little Laurie looked so sweet in his white casket - he had a white geranium in his dear little hand.  The pall-bearers were G.R. Deyarmond, Wilmer Hamilton, Graham Fulton, and Morris Blaikie.  Mr MacDonald spoke from the words of Jesus "Suffer the little children to come unto Me".  The hymns sung were "When He Cometh" and "Safe In The Arms of Jesus". Many hearts were touched, and tears shed for the little fellow who was known to so many by his being such a child for open air, and very active, with his little carts and sleds out of doors.  He was laid to rest in the Riverside Cemetery.  Charlie and Bessie Blaikie, Nellie and Harry Blaikie, and Percy Goodwin, Fred Woodworth, and Irving Whitman came from Truro and Stewiacke to attend the funeral.

March 6, 1931 - Friday.  Cloudy and windy.  Ladies Aid met at the Manse.  Mrs Alex Fulton, Mrs A.L. Margeson, Mrs Roy Blaikie, Mrs Eben Fulton, Mrs H.T. Fulton, Mrs R.H. Foster, Mrs Edson Cox, Mrs J.D. Cox, Mrs C.P. Macmillan, Mrs S.A. Fulton, and Mrs Suther Gedded and I were present.  Edwin tok us down and Roy came for us.  We were pleased to have Allen Deyarmond to dinner.

March 7, 1931 - Saturday.  Warmer and a little sunshine.  The men-folk went to the woods.  Shirley and Nina had their dinner up in the pasture.  Mrs H.T. Fulton called this evening.   Also Mrs Warren Butcher, Mrs C.C. Cox and  Reta.  Alice and Glenn were at the store.

March 8, 1931 - Sabbath.  Cold, chilly wind - cloudy.  A lot of cloudy weather with easterly wind these days.  All of us attended church except Uncle Harris. Mr MacDonald preached on the comfort or soothing qualities of friends - or friends who produce these feelings in us and others.  In the p.m., Glenn, Alice, Shirley, Nina and I went to the cemetery to see the flowers on Little Laurie's grave.  Then Alda and I were at Mr Margeson's an hour or so.  Then I was at Roy's until tea time.  Morris was at Y.P.S.C.E.

March 9, 1931 - Monday.  Stormy with wind.  It got so bad in the p.m. that the men came in from the woods. Mr D.  Hewson (sic) called at Roy's to get some lumber.  Alice was at the Post office, store and Ethel Deyarmond's.  We churned.  Alice and Glenn at Warren Butcher's tonight.  Alda up a while.

March 10, 1931 - Tuesday.  Some squalls.  Cloudy and windy.  Alice washed.  Men did not go to the woods.  A little hauling of logs, from Otter Brook Road.  A dance at Bob Cox's tonight.

March 11, 1931 - Wednesday.  Still cloudy.  Alice was at Mrs G.R. Deyarmond's getting her to help make a coat for Shirley.  The men sawed,  and killed the pig.  Mrs Margeson and Mrs Edson Cox called in the afternoon.  Pearle Cox, in the evening.  The pig weighed over 160 pounds.

March 12, 1931 - Thursday.  Still cloudy with a little snow falling.  Men at the Weir lot.  I was at the Missionary Meeting at Mrs Eben Fulton's.  Mr and Mrs W.D. Kennedy here this evening; also the two Miss Coulters.

March 13, 1931 - Friday.  Still cloudy with snow melting as it falls.  Men in the woods at the weir lot.  Stayed in bed with rheumatism.  Thelma was up a while after school.

March 14, 1931 - Saturday.  Like yesterday.  Men sawing in the mill.  I am in bed today too. Alice is finishing Shirley's coat, made from an old one of Olive's.  Roy and Edna in a little while to see me.

March 15, 1931 - March 23, 1931 - no entries

March 24, 1931 - Tuesday.  A nice warm day - not so sunshiny as Sabbath and yesterday.  Got up a little while on Sabbath; then was up for my dinner yesterday.   Had some nice visits from friends while I was in bed.  Mrs Martin Fulton, Mrs Margeson, Mrs Alex Fulton, Mrs H.T. Fulton, Mrs Eben Fulton, Roy, Edna, Alda, George and Thelma etc.  Glenn and Morris went to Truro in one of the biggest snowstorms of this winter, last Wednesday, March 18.  They got home in good time, thanks to Mr Samuel Bezanson and his team.  Roy, Edwin, Alda; Mr and Mrs G.R. Deyarmond and Mr Thomas D. Graham were in town yesterday.

March 25, 1931 - Wednesday.  Fine again.  Quite warm.  Alice at Mrs Martin Fulton's this p.m.  Ladies Aid (Cross Roads) at Mrs Robert Cox's.  H. Chalmers Fleck here to dinner.

March 26, 1931 - March 29, 1931 - no entries

March 30, 1931 - Monday.  There has been quite a rain.  Last night the rain came and fell all the forenoon, steadily.  Alice was at Mrs Martin Fulton's two more p.m.'s.  Mr and Mrs Richard Barrett had a son born March 27, and it died today.  Thelma had a touch of pleurisy and was in bed all day Sabbath.  Dr Stewart was in to see her, but she was better and at school today.  Mr MacDonald preached on the text "in the place where He was crucufied, there was a garden".  It was a sermon that seemed to stay with me.  Always there is a garden, where we crucify something in our nature that keeps us from Jesus, is the thought which has helped me.  I was at Mr Margeson's to tea Saturday night and to Roy's, Sabbath night.  Mrs MacDonald called here and at Mr Margeson's on Saturday p.m.  Morris and the Misses Coulter were in Truro Saturday night.  Glenn was over to Mr Margeson's Sabbath afternoon.  They are at Mr Hamilton's tonight.  Morris got his hair cut and got Dr Stewart to examine him for Life Insurance.  He and Alda are doing arithmetic now.

March 31, 1931 - Tuesday.  Cold and windy this a.m.  But the sun shone out and it was warmer in the afternoon.  Alice put the wash on the line; clothes dried and we ironed them.  Alice and Glenn are up to Mr Martin Fulton's this evening.  Mr and Mrs Richard Barrett's little boy baby  was buried today in the Riverside Cemetery, Upper Stewiacke.

April 1, 1931 - Wednesday.  A pretty rainy day, from the late forenoon until tonight.  Alice was down to Mrs G.R. Deyarmond's, the store (H.T. Fulton's) and C.P. MacMillan's Shop.  Glenn is away tonight.  There is no prayer meeting.

April 2, 1931 - Thursday.  Rained last night.  Roads bad.  Alice at the Post Office, store and at Mrs G.R. Deyarmond's this a.m.Ladies Aid was at Mrs C.P. MacMillan's.  Mrs W.D. Kennedy, Mrs S.A. Fulton,  Mrs Rev A.T. Macdonald,  Mrs J.D. Cox, Mrs Edson Cox, Mrs H.T. Fulton, Mrs Eben Fulton, Mrs Alex Fulton, Mrs Roy Blaikie, Misses Alma and Alice Coulter, Mrs H.R. Foster and myself were present.  Glenn took Dr Stewart to Mr Burton Fisher's tonight.  Mr and Mrs George Bentley had a daughter (stillborn) this a.m.

April 3, 1931 - Friday.  Dark this forenoon, but finer in the afternoon.  This was Good Friday - a holiday.  Alda was visiting at Mr Alex Fulton's this afternoon, and Edwin and Morris walked out  this a.m.  Alice swept the church this afternoon.

April 4, 1931 - Saturday.  A wet day.  Percy R. Goodwin came up in the mail.  We are glad to have him. Alice and Glenn down to H.T. Fulton's store tonight.

April 5, 1931 - Sabbath.  Easter.  A lovely fine day.  The roads are very bad though.  We were all at church.  Mr MacDonald preached a Ressurection sermon.  Matthew 28:6  "He is not here, for He is risen. Come see the place where the Lord lay".  It told of the power and love of God to us poor sinning mortals.  The hope set before us - of our future and abiding home in the land of love.  Glenn and Percy were at Henry Cox's to tea.  Morris was at Y.P.S.C.E.

April 6, 1931 - Monday.  A nice fine day.  Alice washed.  The clothes dried and we brought them in.  No school today.  Percy Goodwin at Roy's to dinner.  Edna was in.  Miss Merle MacKenzie came  to clerk at H.T. Fulton's;  Miss Lola Henderson went to Musquodoboit to be in H.T.'s store there.

April 7, 1931 - Tuesday.  Stormy.  Not working in the mill.  We ironed.

April 8, 1931 - Wednesday.  Quite fine, but there were hail and snow on the ground this morning.  Alice was at Mrs Hamilton's in the p.m.  I was at Roy's in the p.m. a while.  Edna and Ruth were up a little while.  A little daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Raymond Hodge, at the C.C. Hospital this morning.  The teachers are here tonight.

April 9, 1931 - Thursday. A lovely fine day.  They went to the Weir lot to cut posts today.   The Missionary Meeting was at Mrs Edson Cox's this p.m.  I called to see Mrs Bentley who is slowly getting better, we think.  Glenn and Alice went down to Warren Butcher's tonight.  Shirley is sick at her stomach tonight and this afternoon.

April 10, 1931 - Friday.  A bright sunny day, but chilly wind.  Glenn and Morris cutting fence posts at the Weir lot.  Roy, Uncle Harris, J.W. Benvie, Edwin and George went to Shubenacadie to try to get  some money, but to no avail.  There is a dance at Ad Fulton's tonight.  Mrs Put Fulton and little Kenneth were here an hour  or so this p.m.; and Mr and Mrs Alex were to see Mrs Graham Gammell who is very ill.  The Fulton's horse died today - the gray one.  It has been sick a week or so.

April 11, 1931 - Saturday.  Dark with a little rain; and a high wind which fell away in the late p.m.  Glenn and Morris were cutting fence posts;  Robert Deyarmond hauling them, from the Weir lot. Glenn and Alice at the store etc.

April 12, 1931 - Sabbath.  A nice sunshiny day.  Windy too.  All at church but myself.  Alice and Glenn and Shirley and Nina went to Truro this p.m.  Alda here to tea.

April 13, 1931 - Monday.  Windy, chilly, a little hail and rain and sunshine.  Alice  washed and the clothes dried.   Glenn took me to see Mrs Gammell at noon.  She seems far down the Valley.  We heard of Ashmore Creelman and Marjorie Fisher's marriage.  Also that Gordon Johnson was home for Pearle Cox.

April 14, 1931 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  Was in Mrs  Margeson's a little while this a.m.  She is not well.  Alice went to Y.L. Club at Mrs Edson Cox's. She, Mrs Cox, and Mrs Clyde Reynolds are having Club together. We had the announcement of Gordon Ralph Johnson and Jessie Pearle Cox's marriage on April 11th, Saturday,  today.  Mr Fraser Geddes was scraping this road today.

April 15, 1931 - Wednesday.  A snowy windy day.  Nothing of importance occurred.  Glenn is away tonight.

April 16, 1931 - Thursday.  Snowy and windy.  Was in bed today.  Rheumatism.  Mrs W.P. Miller and Mr and Mrs J.W. Benvie and Alda were in. Edna was sick and Alda was at home.

April 17, 1931 - Friday.  A lovely fine day.  Not much wind.  Alice cleaned Uncle Harris' bedroom and went to see the Margeson's a while.  Morris sent to London, Ontario for a shirt; or rather he took the order to the Post Office tonight.   I have not felt very well today; but got up.

April 18, 1931 - Saturday.  Cloudy with some rain and a glint of sunshine once.  I was up, but rheumatism bothered me.

April 19, 1931 - Sabbath.  A nice day.  I was not at church - I was in bed.  All Charlie's and all Harry's families were here and at Roy's in the p.m.  We were glad to see them.  Bobbie Sill went up to his uncle, C. Grant's.

April 20, 1931 - Monday.  A nice fine day.  Uncle Harris, Roy and Glenn went to Truro.  Morris and Bob, fencing.  Dr. Stewart was in this p.m.  Esson Brown's little boy died today.  Morris and Alice were down - Alice to see  her mother - and Morris to get some medicine for me.  P.W. Graham and G.F. Graham called on me.

April 21, 1931 - Tuesday.  A lovely fine day.  They put on the new or different whistle.  Roy, Edwin, George, Uncle Harris and Morris were out to Mr Hewson's (sic) mill this p.m.  Mr George Cox, South Branch, was here to dinner;  He came up to see me - Glenn brought him up.  He seems like a friendly man.  Alda was in.  Feel better tonight.

April 22, 1931 - Wednesday.  Quite fine.  Some cloudy.  Alice cleaned Morris' bedroom today.  Mr and Mrs Artie Kennedy here; Mrs Artie with Alice while Glenn and Artie went to a Trustees (School) meeting at C.C. Cox's.   I went to bed early.  Alda here a while.

April 23, 1931 - Thursday.  Cloudy, but no rain.  Windy.  Roy and Glenn took a truck load of hardwood lumber to Truro this a.m.  Bob and Morris sawed shingles.   Mrs Margeson was in a while this p.m.  Alice cleaned my bedroom.

April 24, 1931 - Friday.  Dark, with a little rain and a little sunshine.  Alice cleaned her bedroom today: in the a.m.   She was at H.T. Fulton's store, and at Mrs Henry Cox's in the p.m., and at Club this evening.  Morris got his "Helena" shirt - from London, Ontario, and is wearing it tonight.  Glenn and Arthur Kennedy are over engaging - or trying to engage - Miss Grace M. Dean to teach the advanced Dept. in the Upper Stewiacke Village School.

April 25, 1931 - Saturday.  Cloudy this forenoon.  This afternoon most of the time was fine.  Shirley and Nina were out to play with Kenneth Fulton this p.m.   Glenn, Morris and I were out for them in the car after tea.  Glenn and Alice are away, as is usual Saturday evening; also Morris is at Roy's or somewhere.  I was at Roy's this a.m. a while.

April 26, 1931 - Sabbath.  A lovely fine day. All, in this house, at church.  Mr MacDonald preached from..........

Roy's family all went to Musquodoboit - to Edna's sister's, Mrs John A. Grant's; and I spent the p.m. with Mrs Henry. Mr and Mrs Margeson called a while.  Glenn and family drove to Guy Perrin's to call.

April 27, 1931 - Monday.  Very windy in the night.  Rain and wind this a.m. but cleared off in the p.m.  Alice did not wash, but began to renovate the spare bedroom.  Tore off the paper etc.

April 28, 1931 - Tuesday.  Fine, but a high wind.  Alice washed this a.m.  Painted the spare bedroom, one coat this p.m.  I was at Mr Margeson's a little while tonight.  Glenn away.

April 29, 1931 - Wednesday.  Cloudy this a.m. and rainy and windy tonight.  Alice was painting the spare room today.  Mrs Eben Fulton called in the p.m.  No prayer meeting.  Alfred Johnson, Burnside, here to dinner.   Irving Whitman, Fire Ranger, has been deposed from office and a petition is being circulated to have him reinstated.  Henry Harrison has been substituted in place of Whitman.

April 30, 1931 - Thursday.  Not very fine; windy and cloudy.  Not cold.  Alice was down to see her mother this afternoon.  Douglas Graham was here to dinner.  J.W. Deyarmond called this p.m.  Was at Roy's a short time this p.m.  Ruth was here to tea.

May 1, 1931 - Friday.  Cold wind - a few flakes of snow.  Alice papered the spare bedroom and painted the floor.  I was up at Mrs George Bentley's to a meeting of the executive committee of the Ladies Aid.  Mrs Percy W. Johnson, President; Mrs Suther Geddes, Mrs William Pearson, Mrs Arthur Kennedy, Mrs Charles Peppard, Mrs Adam K. Fulton, Mrs Robert A. Cox, Mrs Martin S. Fulton, Mrs Edson Cox and I were present.  Mrs Hugh Johnson was not present, and Mrs Martin Fulton was late. Other Aid members present were Mrs Stanley Wright, Mrs James Fulton, Mrs Rev A.T. MacDonald.  Martha Cox and Mrs S Wright were waiters.  Glenn and Roy were to Truro with lumber.  Mr Robert Cox is in hospital.

May 2, 1931 - Saturday.  Quite fine but windy.  Was at Roy's a short time this forenoon.  Roy and Glenn went to Truro in the p.m.   Shirley and Nina spent the day at Mr Hamilton's - their Grandparents.  Ethel Deyarmond (Mrs G.R.), came and took me down there about three o'clock, and I was there to tea.  Roy and Glenn have not returned from Truro yet.

May 3, 1931 - Sabbath.  Quite rainy and chilly.  Windy.  Communion Sabbath at South Branch.  None of us except Roy were out.  In the morning, Harry, Nellie, Don and June came and were here to dinner.  Then went to Musquodoboit to Mr Flemming's to get Mrs Flemming, Nellie's mother, and take her to Truro for a visit.  We all attended church in the evening.  Mr MacDonald preached about perfume to the boys and girls - it was a very nice sermonette.  The sermon was from Psalm ......, I forget, but it was good, telling of the sweet and patient endurance of pain, mental and physical, if God is round about us.   Mr D. Holmes Smith died  about 9:30 this morning.  Age 85 years, 1 month and 8 days.  Alice and Glenn up at Martin Fulton's after church.

May 4, 1931 - Monday.  Fine, windy.  Chilly this a.m. 

May 5, 1931 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  Pretty warm too.  Alice was down to Mrs W.D. Kennedy's all day.  Mrs K. was sick.  Mrs Margeson and Mr and Mrs Burnham Stewart were here for short calls.  A hen was hatching.  Glenn and Morris to Truro.

May 6, 1931 - Wednesday.  Fine as usual.  Mrs Henry went to Mrs Albert Cooper's.

May 7, 1931 - Thursday.  A lovely fine day.   Ladies Aid at Mrs Alex Fulton's.  Edwin took Mrs Margeson, Mrs M.S. Fulton, Edna and I out.  Morris came for us.  Mrs Hamilton, Alice's mother, took tea with Alice and family.  There was a little fire scare; the people put out a fire that got started back of  H.T. Fulton's. 

May 8, 1931 - Friday.  Fine again.  The men were hauling lumber to Brookfield to load a car.  Alice cleaned the sitting room.  Mrs H.G. Gammell is very ill.

May 9, 1931 - Saturday.  Dark with some rain.  Alice and Glenn and Shirley were down to H.T. Fulton's and got Shirley a pair of footwear.  Then Glenn took me up to see Georgie Bently a little while.  In the p.m. I was to call on Mrs D.B. Bentley.  Mrs A.P. Fulton was here to tea.  She and Alice went to a Club meeting afterwards.  Mrs H.G. Gammell died today.  She has been a patient sufferer for long.  They (our men) finished hauling lumber to Brookfield to load a car today.

May 10, 1931 - Sabbath.  Cloudy with a cold wind.  All at church.  Mr MacDonald was relieved of preaching today, by Rev H.R. Grant, the Temperance Man.  Mr Grant gave us a fine discourse.  In the p.m., Alice, Glenn and children went up to Pembroke and Burnside.  Nellie, Walter, Ralph and Mrs Flemming, Nellie's mother, came out from Truro.  Mrs Flemming was going home - she had been having a little visit with Nellie.

May 11, 1931 - Monday.  Dark and somewhat rainy.  Alice washed.  Clothes did not dry.  Roy, Alda and I were at the funeral of Mrs H.G. Gammell, which was held at her home this p.m.   Rev Richie Bell of Truro officiated, our Mr MacDonald assisted.  It was a large gathering.  The text from which Mr Bell spoke was "Wherefore comfort one another with these words".  The Hymns were "The Lord Is My Shepherd", "Rock of Ages", and "The Sands of Time Are Sinking".  Mr and Mrs W.F. Rutherford sang "I Shall Know Him By The Prints of The Nails In His Hands".  Roy and Glenn are to Truro with a truck wheel.

May 12, 1931 - Tuesday.  Dark.  Chilly wind.  Some rain.  Alice cleaned the parlor today.  The Sunday School Convention was today; two meetings.  Roy was at each.  He and Edna and Alice are down tonight.  Glenn and Morris took some lumber over to Musquodoboit for William Geddes, Dr Stewart's chauffeur; and brought back a load of logs from John Dunlap's.

May 13, 1931 - Wednesday.  Dark with rain toward night.  The Stewiacke Players presented their play "Cat O' Nine Tails" in the hall tonight.  $44.00 was the Young Ladies Club"s part.  The play was to raise money.  All here attended except Uncle Harris (Bub) and I.  Lola called.

May 14, 1931 - Thursday.  Dark with some rain.  Missionary Meeting met here.

May 15, 1931 - Friday.  dark.  Not much rain.  Glenn took me to see Mrs C.D. Creelman.  This is her birthday.  Mr Creelman is very ill.  I feel anxious about him.  Morris came for me at noon as Aunt Edith Woodworth and Fred and Eva had come up for the day.  I was so glad to see them.  But the visit was all too short.  Eva remained until some of us go own with her.  Morris came from Musquodoboit late at night.   Mrs John Fulton (Philippa Young) is dead.

May 16, 1931 - Saturday.  Dark with some rain.  The men are trucking lumber these days - to Brookfield and Truro.  Roy, Edwin and Frank Cox, Otter Brook, were to Truro this p.m.  Alice and Glenn were up to Mr Martin Fulton's  after being at the store tonight.    Mrs Bessie Millen is dead, and Mrs Mary Ann Graham is just alive, we hear.  So many are being called away!  I was at Mrs D.B. Bentley's a short time.  Eva is at Roy's tonight.

May 17, 1931 - Sabbath.  Cool wind, but quite fine.  Quite a good attendance at church.  All Charlie's family were out, and at service.  The sermon was as usual, good.  The funeral of Mrs John Fulton, Cross Roads, was held at their home; the burial was in Riverside Cemetery.  Glenn, Alice, Shirley and Nina went to Stewiacke this p.m. with Eva Woodworth.  Charlie Blaikie and family returned to Truro in the evening.

May 18, 1931 - Monday.  Pretty fine.  A high wind.  Was down to call on Mrs David Bentley this morning.  It was her birthday - 71 years old.  Alice was at her mother's in the p.m.  Glenn went down at night and Alice and he went to call at F. Reynolds'.  Ruth Blaikie was here to tea.

May 19, 1931 - Tuesday.  Fine, but a high wind.  Alice and Glenn went to Truro today.  Charlie Joseph called, and Morris bought two pairs of drawers, a necktie and a cap.  Mrs Margeson called a while.

May 20, 1931 -  Wednesday.  A fine hot day.   It was this day, twenty-four years ago, that our Tom was born.  His life was short.  Robert Deyarmond was harrowing our land all day.  The road-machine was working on the road by here, widening it and tearing out spouts etc.  Mrs Margeson was over - twice, just a few minutes this a.m. Glenn and Morris put on their summer undergarments - it was so hot.

May 21, 1931 - Thursday.  Fine but windy.  Was down at Roy's this a.m. a short time.  Saw Mrs Alex Fulton and her daughter, Mrs F.H. Ratcliffe; just met on the road.  Mrs Mary Ann Graham is dead.  Miss Maggie Smith has had a paralytic stroke.  Mr C.D. Creelman is very ill.

May 22, 1931 - Friday.  Dark with some slight showers.  Roy, Edna and Edith Fulton motored to Truro.  G.R. Deyarmond and wife, Mr and Mrs George Bentley and I attended the funeral of Mrs (John) Mary Ann Graham in the p.m.   It was held at her home.   The hymns sung were  - Psalm 23; "Rock of Ages"; and "Safe In The Arms of Jesus".  Also a hymn while the last duties were being carried on.  The chief singers were Mr and Mrs G.B. Hamilton, Messrs Lewis and Luther Fulton, Mrs H.D. MacKay and daughter Mona and Mrs Wallace MacKay.

May 23, 1931 - Saturday.  Quite a fine day.  Went to keep house for Mrs C.C. Cox.  She and C.C. are going to the closing of Acadia College.  It is nice and quiet here.

May 24, 1931 - Sabbath.  Wet.  Rained in the night.  All of the household of C.C. Cox's at church except Murdoch Henry - he went to his home at South Village. Some of the Springside Congregation were down, as their minister, Mr Blanchard, is away.   Mr MacDonald preached a good sermon from the text" And thou, Solomon, my son, know the God of thy father and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind" 1 Chronicles, 28:9.  I went back to Mr Cox's with Philip and Reta.  Reta Fulton was there too.

May 25, 1931 - Monday.  Showery.  The men of the two families went fishing.  Harry and Nellie came out from Truro last night, and the boys Walter and Ralph with them.  George , Walter and Ralph went fishing out to Otter Brook.  Harry, Roy and Edwin were up at the old mill and East Branch, Burnside.  Uncle Harris, Glenn and Morris were up at Alfred Johnson's. Philip Cox and Reta brought me home in time to see Harry, Nellie and family before they returned to Truro.

May 26, 1931 - Tuesday.  Windy with showers.  Alice and Glenn and Edna and Roy over to Musquodoboit to purchase a molder from Mr Ernest Chaplin.  Glenn and Alice are down to Mr Hamilton's tonight. 

May 27, 1931 - Wednesday.  A fine windy day.  Alice was making Shirley a dress.  She set out flowers.  Roy and Glenn got a planer and brought it home today.  I was at Mrs Margeson's a little while.  Bob and Morris and Uncle Harris were putting in potatoes today.

May 28, 1931 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Alice was down to Mrs Hamilton's this p.m.  Glenn, Nina and Shirley went in the car for her after tea.  I got weighed - 125 lbs was my weight.  Glenn and Alice were at George Bentley's this evening.

May 29, 1931 - Friday.  A very hot day.  Was at Mission Band in the p.m.  It was an interesting meeting.  Mrs MacDonald is the leader. After the meeting she, Jean MacDonald and I went up and looked at Mrs H.T. Fulton's flowers; then I went to see Mrs S.A. Fulton who has been ill.  Was there to tea.  Morris came for me.  Glenn and Alice were at Put Fulton's to spend the evening. Will Cox got his face cut a little by his car running into a ditch.

May 30, 1931 - Saturday.  cooler.  Roy and Glenn were taking a truck load of lumber to Truro this p.m.  I was to call on Mrs D.B. Bentley.   Was at roy's until 10:30 this evening.

May 31, 1931 - Sabbath.  It was dark and cloudy.  We were all at church.  I sat in Roy's pew.  Mr MacDonald preached from Psalm 119:59 - "I thought on my ways and turned my feet unto thy testimonies".  Harry, Nellie, Donald, June and Lee came out from Truro in the p.m., leaving Louise Flemming, who was also with them, to visit at Edna's for a short time.  They then went on to Musquodoboit to see Mr and Mrs Flemming.  Glenn and Alice and family were up at Elwood Graham's to tea.  Roy called to see Mrs C.D. Creelman and Mr Creelman, who are very ill.  Colin Chute, Middle Stewiacke, is dead.

June 1, 1931 - Monday.  A wet day.  Glenn took me over to Mr Creelman's to spend the p.m.  Both Mr and Mrs Creelman are in bed - he is entering the dark valley.  Mr MacDonald called to see Mr and Mrs Creelman.  Dr Stewart was there too. Mrs George Fisher is doing the work, and Mr Joseph Day is helping Willie Creelman.  Mr William Redmond is dead - age 93 years.

June 2, 1931 - Tuesday.  Dark and wet tho' not so rainy as yesterday.  Alice and Glenn were at the store at noon and they are away to Mr Hamilton's etc. tonight.  The road, where it is cast up and left without gravel, is very bad.

June 3, 1931 - Wednesday.  Sunshine and clouds.  Mr Charlie D. Creelman died tonight.   Gordon R. Miller, Upper Stewiacke Village, and Esther Brown Johnson were married at the bride's father's this afternoon.  Also Roland Brown, Woodside was married to Vesta Streatch, Meager's Grant.

June 4, 1931 - Thursday.  Quite fine.  Mrs Grant Cox, Mrs Roy Blaikie, and I were over to see Mrs C.D. Creelman a short time this p.m. Glenn drove us over and back to Mrs Edson Cox's, where we attended Ladies Aid.   Roy brought us home.  Those who attended Ladies Aid were Mrs A.T. MacDonald, Mrs H.T. Fulton, Mrs Frank A. Fulton, Mrs J.A. Reynolds, Mrs Clyde Reynolds, Mrs Eben Fulton, Mrs D.B. Bentley, Mrs Roy Blaikie, Mrs H.R. Foster, Misses Lola Henderson, Alice and Alma Coulter and Miss Price (H.T. Fulton's new clerk), also Mrs Grant Cox, Otter Brook Aid.

June 5, 1931 - Friday.  A fine day.  Mrs Edith Woodworth, her son Fred, her daughter Flora (Mrs Percy Goodwin), Mr Percy Goodwin,  came from Lower Stewiacke and spent the p.m. with us.  Mr Charles D. Creelman was buried this afternoon, and Glenn drove Edith and me over to the home of  Mr Creelman where the funeral was held at 2 o'clock.  Rev Hogg, Presbyterian Minister, preached the funeral sermon.  The hymns sung were "The Lord's My Shepherd", "There Is No Night In Heaven", and "Abide With Me".  Just as Mr Creelman's funeral was beginning, word came that Mr H.G. Gammell had died at Mr Samuel Ellis' in Eastville.       Mrs Margeson was over a few minutes.

June 6, 1931 - Saturday.  Cloudy this a.m. but a fine day came after a few hours.  Edna has been in bed since Thursday night.  She is weak.  Roy and Glenn went to Truro.  I baked a cake and frosted it.  Spent the evening at Roy's.  Shirley and Nina got Graham Fulton to cut their hair.

June 7, 1931 - Sabbath.  Cool and cloudy.  Rev Mr Blanchard of Springside exchanged pulpits with Mr MacDonald.  He preached from the text ""We would see Jesus".  Jesus was the theme.  Among other things he told of the young minister in the book "The Bonnie Brier Bush" , who was to preach his first sermon to his congregation.  He had prepared a learned address, but on the morning of his going to deliver the sermon, he became very much dissatisfied with it, and tore it up.  His aunt came into his study, told him of his mother's hoping he would speak a word for Jesus. His sermon was of Jesus and his hearers were very much pleased with it.  His mother was dead but he thought of her hopes for himself, and her longing for her son to tell others of the love of Jesus for poor sinful people.    Mr H. Graham Gammell's funeral was held at his late home at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.  Glenn and Alice attended.  Rev Mr Hogg was the Presbyterian preacher.  Rev Mr MacDonald offered prayer and pronounced the benediction.   Shirley, Nina and I called at George Bentley's to see Maggie Smith, who is ill there.

June 8, 1931 - Monday.  Fine with cool wind.  Alice washed clothes.  Roy and Glenn went to Truro with lumber.  Edna is still in bed.  She is weak.  Alice and I gardened some in thep.m.  Morris and Alda are at singing school.

June 9, 1931 - Tuesday.  Dark and cold.  Alice went to Y.L. Club which met at the Post Office in the p.m.  I was at Roy's to see Edna and Mrs Henry a little while, and to a business meeting of the Ladies Aid in the hall in the evening. Came home with Mr and Mrs Put Fulton's family.

June 10, 1931 - Wednesday.  Dark, damp, windy and cold.  Alice spent the day at Mrs Hamilton's - going when the children went to school, with them.  They went down to their grandparents after school.  Morris and I went down for them.  Roy and Glenn took lumber to Truro.  Mrs Margeson called.

June 11, 1931 - Thursday.  Cloudy and windy with a little rain.  Warmer than yesterday.  I was in Roy's and Mrs Margeson's this a.m.  Attended the WMS this p.m. - at Mrs Edson Cox's.  Called at Mrs Reynold's, Mrs Eben Fulton's, Mrs G.R. Deyarmond's and Mrs H.P. Cox's. Roy and Glenn took a truck load of lumber to Short's lake for Mr Howard Hayman.  Graham Fulton and Louise S. Flemming here this evening.

June 12, 1931 - Friday.  A wet day.  Glenn's 38th birthday.  The men worked in the mill today.  Fred Dickie of Middle Musquodoboit was killed while working in a clay pit.  Mrs Martin Fulton is a sister of his; and Louise Flemming is a sister of Gladys, his wife.  Edna is a half sister.  Glenn and Alice are down at Roy's tonight.  Morris is abroad.

June 13, 1931 - Saturday.  Cloudy but warm.  Windy.  Edna got up today, but she is not feeling very well.  Alice was up at Mrs Mart Fulton's baking etc for her, as she was over to Musquodoboit.  They returned about dinner time.  Alice came home in the p.m.  Her new sewing machine came today.  She and Glenn are away tonight.

June 14, 1931 - Sabbath.  Fine with cool wind.  All at church except Glenn.  Mr MacDonald preached from the text "Godliness with contentment is great gain".  It was a sermon to help people see their privileges and blessings and be content.  Harry, Nellie, Walter and Ralph were here to dinner on their way over to Musquodoboit.  They are taking Louise Flemming over and are staying for the funeral of the late Fred Dickie, which is to be held on Monday, in the Middle Musquodoboit church at 2 o'clock.   Glenn, Alice, Shirley, Nina and I and Tom Fulton had a drive up to the cemetery and on up  the river to Eastville.  Home by Cross Roads.

June 15, 1931 - Monday.  Fine and cool.  I was at Mrs G.R. Deyarmond's today.  She went to Truro with her mother.  Glenn got a gramophone record "In The Evening By The Moonlight", in Truro.   Morris and Bob Deyarmond went to Truro for Ethel and party after tea, as she could not get her car repaired today.

June 16, 1931 - Tuesday.  Dark, but warm - showers tonight.  Set out the last of the tomatoes - Alice and I - after dinner.

June 17, 1931 - Wednesday.  A dark day.  Some rain.  It rained heavily in the night last night.  Alice was working at her dress.  Morris and Glenn went to Brookfield after tea; they got back between nine and half-past.  Glenn and Alice were at Mr Hamilton's.

June 18, 1931 - Thursday.  A nice fine day.  Alice was at G.R. Deyarmond's this morning.  Scamp, the dog at Roy's bit Joyce Deyarmond this forenoon; not badly but some.  Mrs George Johnson visited us this p.m.  Roy and Glenn went, with lumber, to Truro in the p.m.  Sun Life Insurance Agents interviewed Morris.  We had strawberry shortcake for tea.

June 19, 1931 - Friday.  A lovely day.  Very fine.  Edna not much better.  Mrs and Miss Laffin working for her.  Louise Flemming is still there.  Mrs Josey (Mrs Reynold's mother) and Miss Lugrin, here to tea.  Morris is abroad, also Glenn.  Allen Graham, Newton Mills, here to dinner.

June 20, 1931 - Saturday.  Fine and hot.  Baked 65 rolls today.  Churned too.  Was at Roy's a little while to show my "toast" colored dress and new boots.  Had fish (fresh cod) for dinner.  Alice and Glenn are at H.T. Fulton's etc tonight.

June 21, 1931 - Sabbath.  Pretty warm this a.m.  Cooler and cloudy in the p.m.  We were all at church.  Mr MacDonald's sermon was from the text" My soul, wait thou only upon God".  If we can only trust all our cares and anxieties to God, nothing can move us.  Mr and Mrs John A. Grant and daughters, Florence and Doris, were at Roy's a few hours.  Glenn, Alice, Shirley and Nina were at Mrs Leonard Reid's to tea, and into Truro and thence home.   Uncle Harris was at Mr Margeson's to tea.  This is Alda's 15th birthday.

June 22, 1931 - Monday.  Cool and fine and windy.  Mr and Mrs C.A. Blaikie came from Truro this morning or near noon. In the p.m., Bessie and I motored out to South Branch to see Aunt Viney and Will Nelson's family.  We went and came via Meadowvale.  After having tea there, we went to call at Lewis Fulton's, Pembroke -  Glenn and Charlie and Bub (Uncle Harris) going too.  Morris was at singing school.  Provincial Exams began today.  Rev A.T. Macdonald, Deputy Examiner.   The hall is the place of writing.  There are 31 candidates.  A shower was held at Boyd Hamilton's for Mary L. Graham.

June 23, 1931 - Tuesday.  A cool fine windy day.  Bessie was at Roy's to dinner; also Charlie. After dinner, Bessie and I drove up to call on Mrs Ed MacKenzie.  Then Charlie and Bessie went back to their home in Truro.  Alice and I hoed the garden.

June 24, 1931 - Wednesday.  Cool and cloudy.  Alice went down to her mother's to dinner.  Mrs P. Woodbury Graham and daughter Mary, and Cyrus Graham dined with us.  Then Mrs Graham and Mary and I drove to the Post Office; then called at Mrs G.R. Deyarmond's and home.  They went home to Burnside.  Aunt Viney and Aunt Martha came in from South Branch to see us tonight.   Edna takes short drives now.  Mrs Margeson was in a few minutes.

June 25, 1931 - Thursday.  Cloudy and fine together.  Aunt Viney, Aunt Martha and I were up to Mrs Martin Fulton's to Ladies Aid.  I was down to Mrs G.R. Deyarmond's and to the store this a.m.

June 26, 1931 - Friday.  Dark with a little rain.  Glenn, Alice and children took Aunt Martha home tonight.  Roy, Edwin, Alda and George took Louise Flemming to her home in Musquodoboit.  Mr Flemming came back with them.  All our school children passed in their exams at school.

June 27, 1931 - Saturday.  Wet.  Mrs George Smith was taken to the C.C. Hospital, where on examination, it was found that her disease had gone too far to be cured.  It is cancer.   Mr Hugh Johnson is to go to the hospital for a small operation.   Osborne Henry got kicked by a horse.

June 28, 1931 - Sabbath.  Cloudy with a little rain.  All at church except Glenn.  The Communion Table, presented by the Young Ladies Club, was dedicated to God's service.  Mr MacDonald took for his text the words"She hath done what she could".  Harry, Nellie, Ralph and Donald were here in the p.m., taking Mr Flemming back to Truro with them.

June 29, 1931 - Monday.  A dark damp day.  Alice washed.  Aunt Viney spent most of today at Roy's.  Edna and Roy went to Truro.  Edna hopes to get her plate (Teeth).  Alice and I worked at my dress.  Glenn went to a school meeting.  Morris was at singing school.  Glenn was put in as school Trustee for another term of 3 years.

June 30, 1931 - Tuesday.  Fine and warm for most of the day.  Mrs Margeson was in a few minutes.  Mary L. Graham and Arthur Deyarmond were married today.  The executive of the Ladies Aid met here today, or rather tonight, in connection with the Ice Cream Social which we propose holding in the hall on Tuesday, July 7 (D.V.)

July 1, 1931 - Wednesday.  A fine hot day.  Glenn took Aunt Viney and me down the road; we were at Mrs Hamilton's to dinner, then at Mrs Margeson's to tea.

July 2, 1931 - A fine hot day.  At quite an early hour, Glenn, Mrs Suther Geddes, Mrs Alex Fulton and I started for Noel, to the Rally of the WMS, which is held there today.  We got off the track just where we left Shubenacadie, and travelled miles out of our way; however , we got back again, and enjoyed the lovely drive through woodland, valley and hills, with the Chignecto Basin seen at different times, until at last , for a long distance, we were favored by a continual widening of the waterway, until we reached our destination .  At Noel Church and Hall, as the Presbytery met in the church, our morning meeting was held in the hall.  There were many ladies present, and the program was good.  The chief speaker was Miss Louise McCully.  She and her sister, Miss Elizabeth McCully are on furlough from Korea, where she has been a Missionary for some years.  Miss Elizabeth has served 9 years less.  We ate our box lunches sitting on the grass, etc.  Between sessions, we visited the home of Guy Laffin - a close friend of our dear Alden, who was killed in the Great War, 15 years ago.  I had wished to see him for many years - and at last, the wish is granted.  I liked him very much.  His wife and her mother (Mrs Hennigar), seem very nice.  They , Guy and his wife, have 3 little girls - Lola, Phyllis and Grace.   The p.m. session of the WMS was held in the church.  The program was even better than the morning.  The best part - I thought - was Mrs Jamieson's address.  She impressed me as one who lives very near to Jesus.  Supper was served in the hall by the ladies of Noel; after which we started for home.  We could not resist calling at the Maitland Manse to see our dear Mrs McInnes, who was not able to attend the Rally.  It was a very enjoyable call; and we were privileged to go through the church.  Little Elizabeth McInnes presented me with three embryo Chesnut Trees, which I have transplanted here at home.   We went over the same road as going - to Shubenacadie, then the back road to Stewiacke - as we wished to call to see Edith, my sister, Mrs Woodworth.  Then after seeing her and her family and Aunt Jessie cooke, we came home.  "The end of a perfect day".

July 3, 1931 - Friday.  Another fine pretty warm day.   I was at the store, Mrs Rupert Fulton's and Mrs Henry Cox's this a.m.  Alice was at a cooking demonstration at the manse this p.m. Alda, Edwin and Morris were away on a drive and Glenn and Alice walked to Mr Hamilton's this evening. George Peterson here todinner.  Mrs Alexander (Sandy) Wright  was buried today.

July 4, 1931 - Saturday.  Cooler with rain tonight.  Aunt Viney went to spend the day at Robert Cox's.  I was at Mrs Bentley's (Mrs D.B.) a little while.   Roy and Glenn took lumber to Truro this p.m.

July 5, 1931 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  All of us, and Aunt Viney were at church.  The text of the sermon was "Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to Thy word."  It was good instruction given to the young from God's holy book.  Mr Spawton (sic) of Brookfield, Col. Co., sang two solos , besides assisting the choir.  In the p.m., Glenn, Alice, Shirley and Nina went to Percy Goodwin's.  Mr and Mrs Calvin Crockett, their two children Clifford and Marion,  Mr and Mrs Joe Crockett and Miss Bryden,  called on Aunt Viney a few minutes.  Charlie and Bessie and family were here to tea.

July 6, 1931 - Monday.  Cooler but windy and cloudy.  Glenn and Morris were in town tonight.  Aunt Viney went home - much to our sorrow.  A surprise party at William Pearson's.  Morris and Edwin are there. Shirley and Nina at Mr Hamilton's.  Alice was at the store and at Mrs G.R. Deyarmond's.  Alda and I were at Mr Margeson's a little while, but he is not well.  No dance at Mr Pearson's.

July 7, 1931 - Tuesday.  Rather dark, a few sprinkles of rain.  Not very hot.  The Ice Cream Social took place in the hall.  $44.15 raised - not clear of expenses.  Roy and Glenn were to Truro with lumber.   G.R. Deyarmond, Morris and Edwin were hauling and piling wood. Mr and Mrs Lewis Fisher and their niece Miss Susan Fisher called to see us.  They live in Hutchinson School Section.

July 8, 1931 - Wednesday.  A dark day  with mist and some rain.  I was at the hall this a.m..  There is no trace of Mrs Grant Cox's ice cream freezer which went missing last evening, from the outside of the back of the hall.   We got a half crate of strawberries from Mrs Charles Peppard.  Ella, his daughter, was with him.  I was at Mr Margeson's and Roy's a while tonight.  Mr Margeson is not much better.  Eva Fulton and Mrs Fred Dickie were at Roy's.  Alice and Glenn are at Mr Hamilton's etc.  Mrs M. Smith was brought from the C.C. Hospial to Mrs Edson Cox's, her sister's, this p.m.

July 9 ,1931 - Thursday.  Quite fine, but a little cloudy and very warm.  I churned for ourselves and for Roy's folks this a.m.  Ethel took her mother, Mrs Eben, and me to the WMS meeting at Mrs Abram Bentley's, Otter Brook,  and brought us back.  Mrs J. Day and her daughter, Mrs J. Jennings and little son Elven, spent the p.m. with us.  Willie MacKay and Ivan Hamilton of Burnside, had tea; and Margaret Miller called this evening.  Alice and Glenn took the Day's home.

July 10, 1931 - Friday.  Glenn and Alice went to Stewiacke and brought Aunt Jessie (Mrs J. Cooke) up for a visit.  She is very frail.

July 11, 1931 - Saturday.  Rev Mr McInnes preached the Preparatory sermon this p.m. He drove from Maitland - his present Charge.

July 12, 1931 - Sabbath.  Dark with rain.  All at Communion except Shirley and Nina.  Mr MacDonald preached a good sermon. "He brought me into his banqueting house, and his banner over me was love".  Aunt Jessie attended church with us, and on our return, Mrs Edith Woodworth, and Fred and Eva (her son and daughter), and Mrs Percy Goodwin and Edith (her daughter),  and Dear Aunt Viney Andrews were here!   It was nice to have them.  Edith and I called on Mrs Edson Cox, to see her sister, Mrs Mary Smith,  who is very ill at Mrs Cox's.  Also her son, William E. Smith - from Timmins , Ontario.

July 13, 1931 - Monday.  Quite fine.  We washed, or Alice did.  Mrs Burnett washed for Edna.

July 14, 1931 - Tuesday.  Dark with a few sprinkles of rain.  Aunt Jessie spent the day at Roy's , coming home in the car when Alice and Glenn called for her on their return from Mr Hamilton's. I attended a meeting of the executive of the Ladies Aid at the hall tonight, arriving home near ten o'clock.

July 15, 1931 - Wednesday.  Quite fine.  Mrs C.A. Blaikie, Gail, and Miss Frances Salter came to make us a visit.  Morris and the girls and Alda drove in to Truro tonight.

July 16, 1931 - Thursday.  Dark and wet.  Bessie, Alice and children, and Gail and Frances had a drive up around Springside this a.m.  In the p.m., Bessie and Gail and Frances, Aunt Jessie and I took a drive through Musquodoboit as far as Stanley Andrews'.  We called at Eben Benvie's on the way.  It rained very heavily during our drive home. We got back just at tea time.

July 17, 1931 - Friday.  Dark and cloudy.  Bessie, Gail and Frances went to C.P. MacMillan's this a.m. for a social call.  Then after dinner they went to Truro, their home.  Aunt Jessie too, went to South Branch to visit Aunt Martha Fleck.  They, Aunt Jessie Cooke and Aunt Martha Fleck, are the only ones left in my dear mother's family, and I miss Aunt Jessie sorely tonight.  Glenn took her to South Branch and Shirley and Nina and I went with him.  Mrs George Bentley held her lawn party. 

July 18, 1931 - Saturday.  Dark and cloudy.  Mrs Reuben Dean and her daughter, Mrs J.W. Benvie here to dinner.  I pieced patchwork a little while in the p.m.  Wrote to the girls in Blades, Alberta today.  Roy and Glenn took a load of lumber to Brookfield this afternoon.   Mr Margeson's son, Clyde and family of Mass., came to make a visit to Mr Margeson.

July 19, 1931 - Sabbath.  A lovely fine day.  All of us were at church.  Mr MacDonald preached a good sermon as he always does.  I was at Sabbath School in place of Mrs Edson Cox.  Tom Fulton dined with us.  Glenn and Alice and children had a drive to the Riverside Cemetery., and at night they went to see Jennie Miller of Dean who is home from USA.  Robert G. Sill called in the evening.

July 20, 1931 - Monday.  Fine.  Quite a good hay day.  Our folks began haying today.  Mrs Martin S. Fulton and Miss Fulton called tonight.  Mrs George S. Smith died this late afternoon, at Mrs Edson Cox's.  The girls went bathing.

July 21, 1931 - Tuesday.  Wet and rainy.  Was at Edna's this a.m. a while.   Mrs Burnett washed for her.  I called to see Mrs Edson Cox and Willie Smith, her nephew.  Also called at Mrs Rupert Fulton's.  Mrs Smith's funeral is tomorrow.

July 22, 1931 - Wednesday.  Dark, drizzly and muggy.  The funeral of the late Mrs Mary Cox Smith was held at the home of her sister, Mrs Edson Cox, at 2 o'clock this afternoon.  Mr MacDonald took as his text "Unto whom should we go but unto thee: thou hast the words of eternal life".  The hymns sung were "The Lord's My Shepherd", "The Sands of Time are Sinking", and "All The Way My Savior Leads Me".  I was the only one from here who attended the funeral service.  Glenn and Alice were at Bob Deyarmond's and Glenn at Clyde Reynolds' tonight.  Alda was up a while this evening.

July 23, 1931 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Roy and Edna went to Truro.  The men shook out the hay which was mowed on Monday.   J.W. Deyarmond had tea with us.  Morris and I were at Roy's a little while tonight.   Philip and Parker Cox called for Morris to go for a drive.  A son was born to Rev and Mrs McInnes, at Maitland Manse.

July 24, 1931 - Friday.  Fine until toward night. Then some rain fell.  They put in some hay.  Alice got some mackerel.   Alda and I picked blueberries this p.m.  Glenn and Alice are down to Henry P. Cox's this evening.  I was at Roy's a while.

July 25, 1931 - Saturday.  Dark this morning, but it was quite a good time for haying in the p.m.  Mrs Eben called this afternoon.   Edna was up a while - I like her calls.  Morris is at the store tonight.  Glenn and Alice are at the store etc.  We purchased a pig from William Patterson tonight.

July 26, 1931 - Sabbath.  A nice fine day - nice breeze.  We were all at church except Glenn - who had a headache.  Mr MacDonald preached from the text 11Chronicles, 31:21 - "and in every work that he began......he did it with all his heart and prospered".    Mr MacDonald proposes taking his vacation beginning this week.  Mr Blanchard of Springside will supply for him during his absence.   After dinner, all of us except Morris, drove up to the cemetery, then home by Cross Roads.  Then Glenn and family took a drive to Pictou County via Green Hill, etc, to Truro, East Mines etc; having supper at J.W. Johnson's, East Mines.  Morris was out to a Union Meeting of Y.P.S.C.E. at South Branch hall.  Harry and Nellie had tea here.   They had left Walter and Ralph at Mr Flemming's, Elmsvale, Musquodoboit.

July 27, 1931 - Monday.  A fine hay day.  Our folks finished getting in the hay on the upland and mowed some on the intervale.  Alice did the Monday's wash.  I was down to Mrs Bentley's, Post Office etc.  Morris and Alda went to singing school.  I picked a kettle of blueberries.

July 28, 1931 - Tuesday.  A good hay day.  The men were putting in the hay on the intervale, but did not get it all in.  Alice spent the day at her mother's.  Morris was down to swim with Philip and Parker Cox tonight.  Alda called twice.  Shirley and Nina got Morris a box of stationery for his birthday. I called at Mr Margeson's and met Mr and Mrs Clyde Margeson and their son and daughter.  The men "paris greened" the potatoes this morning.

July 29, 1931 - Wednesday.  Fine hay day.  Quite hot.   They finished haying today.  Mr Clyde Margeson, wife and family, returned, or started on their return trp, to their home in Milton, Mass.   Mrs Alex called tonight.  Alice put up her hammock today.   We (Alice and I) each got a basket from a couple who were selling baskets today.  Mrs Henry went from W. Butcher's to Mrs E. Burnett's.

July 30, 1931 - Thursday. A fine hot day.  The men cut G.R. Deyarmond's hay.  Alda and I called at Mrs Eben Fulton's and at the store this p.m.  Glenn and Alice were up to the cemetery and down to Mr Hamilton's tonight.  Had a nice long letter from Flossie today.  Morris and Alda went to a singing practice in the hall.  Will Reynolds' (Musquodoboit) house is burnt.

July 31, 1931 - Friday.  A cool day with slight showers.  They did not get G.R. Deyarmond's hay in the barn, as it did not dry.   Miss Kate Lugrin spent the p.m. with us.  Glenn and Alice took her home.   I was over to Mr Margeson's this evening.  Dorothy McCoul is there.  Morris is at Roy's.  Glenn - abroad.  Had a nice letter from Laura Graham.

August 1, 1931 - Saturday.  Showery.  Some sun.  They did not finish getting G.R. Deyarmond's hay in because of the rain.  Roy and George Blaikie went to Truro this forenoon;  Glenn and Alice went tonight.  Shirley, Nina and I picked blueberries today, in the forenoon.

August 2, 1931 - Sabbath.  Dark with some showers.   Was at Sabbath School and after dinner, Morris, Shirley, Nina and I went to Burnside to church, then to P.W. Graham's to tea.  Home between 9 and 10 o'clock.  At the service in Burnside, four children were baptized - Stewart William, son of Mr and Mrs Wm. Graham; Florence Lorna - daughter of Mr and Mrs H. Beveridge Graham;  Owen Keith, son of Mr and Mrs Murray Graham; and Boyd Bradford, son of Mr and Mrs Boyd Hamilton.

August 3, 1931 - Monday.  Dark but no rain.  Mr Spotton had his music class entertain the public tonight.  It was very good.  I liked the singing of "Danny Boy" by Gwen Fulton, best , I think .   Mr and Mrs John Creelman, and Mr and Mrs Elven Gedden each had sons born today. 

August 4, 1931 - Tuesday.  Rained last night; dark this a.m.  but fine in the p.m.   Alda went to Truro today to stay a few days.  Ada Reynolds Allen  had an operation in the V.G. Hospital today.  Dr Stewart is away on a vacation.  I was at Mrs H.P. Cox's a little while this p.m.

August 5, 1931 - Wednesday.  A fine day yet there was thunder and lightning in the p.m.  Ada R. Allen is very seriously ill.  The Doctors could not operate as the disease had gone too far.   Mrs S.A. Fulton had Aid today.  There were present, Mrs Frank Fulton, Otterbrook; Mrs W.D. Kennedy, Mrs A.T. MacDonald, Mrs H.T. Fulton,  Mrs Rupert Fulton, Mrs Eben Fulton, Miss K. Lugrin,  Mrs Larry Young, Mrs Roy Blaikie, Mrs Alex Fulton, Mrs Annie Dean, Mrs D.B. Bentley, Mrs C.P. Macmillan and myself.  Edwin took us and brought us.  Charles A. Blaikie is out tonight from Truro, and he, Harris, Glenn and Alice went to J.W. Deyarmond's.

August 6, 1931 - Thursday.  A fine day.  My sixty-first birthday.  So far on in life.  May I grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Savoir, as the days pass.  The dear ones gave me nice presents, and sweet letters were written to me.

August 7, 1931 - Friday.  Another fine day.  Edith Boomer and Ada Allen's birthdays.  Dear Ada!  Her 29th birthday; it may be her last!  There is a dance at J.R. Graham's.  Morris has gone. Glenn and Alice have gone somewhere too - up to Martin S. Fulton's.

August 8, 1931 - Saturday.  Fine with cool breeze.  Alice down to C.P. MacMillan's and Ethel Deyarmond's this p.m.   She and Glenn are at H.T. Fulton's store tonight.  Uncle Harris made a seat for out-doors today.  It is down near the girls' hammock.

August 9, 1931 - Sabbath.  A nice day.  Was at Sabbath School this a.m.  Mr MacDonald is away this month; Mr Alex Fulton teaches the Bible Class.  Harry, Nellie, Donald, June and Lee with Alda were out here a while. They went to Musquodoboit to get Walter and Ralph, who have been at Mr Flemming's for two weeks.  Alda returned to Truro with them.  There was service in the evening, Mr Blanchard being the preacher.  The text of the sermon was John 21:4 - "When the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore" and another passage from Luke 5:4 "Launch out into the deep".  A picture of youth - the morning of life - with Jesus by our side, and we can undertake all our good desires if Jesus is our Guide.  Eddie Gault was here to tea.  Alice and Glenn, Shirley and Nina were up at J.W. Benvie's.

August 10, 1931 - Monday.  A little rain in the night. None today, but it was dark.  Alice washed, and visited at Mrs Alex Fulton's this p.m.  Nina went too.  I went down to the river with Thelma, Shirley, Jean and Ruth. The girls amused themselves in the water.  Mrs Margeson called tonight.

August 11, 1931 - Tuesday.  Dark and cloudy.  Was to see Mrs C.D. Creelman this p.m.  Morris took me over and brought me home.  Had a nice visit.   Mrs Creelman is frail.  Alda came from Truro tonight.   Roy and Glenn had a truck load of lumber into Truro and she came home.  Mrs Alex Fulton and Mrs William Pearson were renovating the church vestry today.

August 12, 1931 - Wednesday.  Dark.  Some small showers.  Alice visiting at Mrs Wallace Gault's this afternoon.  Jean and Ruth Blaikie here to tea.  Morris got G.R. Deyarmond to cut his hair.

August 13, 1931 - Thursday.  A hot day with some rain.  Missionary Meeting held in the hall.  Ten present.  The vestry and lobby of the church are being renovated.  Mrs Alex Fulton and Mr and Mrs Pearson are doing the work.  There is a dance at David Fulton's tonight.  Morris and Edwin are there.

August 14, 1931 - Friday.  Dark, with some sunshine.  Alice was down at Mr Hamilton's for dinner and tea.  I did not do much except the work, and bake.

August 15, 1931 - Saturday.  Fine and hot.  Roy and Glenn took a load of lumber to Truro in the afternoon.  Mrs A.P. Fulton and Kenneth here to tea.  She and Alice were putting flowers in the church tor tomorrow.  They looked pretty - cosmos and sweet peas.  Edwin and Alda and Thelma and I came down to Stewiacke in the evening.  We were stopped by a "cop", who, when he had made a few inquiries, let us drive on; not having found anything whereby he might detain us.

August 16, 1931 - Sabbath.  Dark this morning.  Heavy rain with some thunder and lightning in the p.m. All of us attended church , hearing the Rev Herman Campbell preach. The boys, Edwin, Fred and Morris, and girls, Eva, Alda and Thelma went down Shubenacadie way for a drive, then after supper , Morris, Edwin, Alda and Thelma left for home;  thought they would return via South Branch.  The rain fell heavily during some parts of the evening tonight.

August 17, 1931 - Monday.  A fine day.  Fred Woodworth and his mother and I were up to the town this morning.  Mrs J. Ellis was in in the p.m.

August 18, 1931 - Tuesday.  I think it was fine today.  Mr and Mrs Meadows (David) called tonight.  Also their son.

August 19, 1931 - Wednesday.  Some showers and sunshine.  Mrs Woodworth and Fred and I went to Wittenberg this a.m.  , remained to dinner and went to John Webster's in Chaswood to tea. We had a nice visit at both places.

August 20, 1931 - Thursday.  Pretty fine but some clouds.  We spent the p.m. at Mrs Morton Ellis' where Eva Woodworth is staying.  She came back in the car when we returned home. Then in the evening, she returned to Mrs Ellis'.

August 21, 1931 - no entry

August 22, 1931 - Saturday.  Quite fine.  One shower.  We all went up the road tonight.  Fred and Eva to town; Edith (Mrs Woodworth) and I for a call at Mrs J. Gourley's.

August 23, 1931 - Sabbath.  All of us attended church.  Rev Murray Preached.  The young folk were here this p.m.  Edith and I read from "The Christ of Every Road".  Eva went to church at night.

August 24, 1931 - Monday.  Cloudy but no rain.  Fred and Edith motored me up to Flora's.  Am having a nice time.

August 25, 1931 - Tuesday.  It rained hard between three and four o'clock this morning, and was wet through the forenoon, clearing off in the p.m.  Flora and I drove to the cemetery after dinner, had a wee talk with Mrs Evie Campbell, visited the quiet resting place of some of those whose task is wrought, talked to Mrs H.M. Brenton,  called on the Mrs Millers and returned home in time for Flora to get supper for seven hearty people.  Edith and Fred Woodworth came for me in the evening, and I returned to their home.

August 26, 1931 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  We had Flora, Edith, and Mrs Gaskell's little Alice to dinner.  Eva Woodworth was in in the evening.

August 27, 1931- Thursday.  Fine again.  Mrs Jimmie Ellis was over this afternoon.  She is deaf, but a nice old lady, 86 years old.

August 28, 1931 - Friday.  A lovely fine day.  Fred Woodworth and George McKillop were helping press hay at Mr Morton Ellis'.  Mrs W.M. Brenton and Mrs P.R. Goodwin had dinner with us, returning to Mrs Goodwin's in time for her to get supper for the men.

August 29, 1931 - Saturday.  Fine.  Fred and George McKillop got nearly all Fred's oats in the barn - all that were thoroughly dried. - a few stooks were not dry.  Edith (my sister, Mrs Woodworth) and I called to see Mr and Mrs Joe Cox and Mrs J. Ellis in the p.m.  After tea, Harry and Nellie, with Walter and Ralph Blaikie called for me to go into Truro with them.  They were on their way from the Halifax Exhibition.  They had been in an air plane.  Louise Flemming, Nellie's sister was keeping the other children.

August 30, 1931 - Sabbath.  Wet, showery.  Harry, Nellie and I were at church.  Rev W. McN. Matthews is the minister of First United Church, Truro.  He preached a very good sermon. "He knoweth the darkness of the heart" or some words similar to those.

August 31, 1931 - Monday.  Quite fine.  Left my upper plate of teeth at Dr Randall's to have a tooth put in.  Was at Mrs W.D. Isnor's to dinner.  Saw Robt Taylor Esq., his wife and two children.  Called at Mrs Raymond Hodges'.

September 1, 1931 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  Was at C.A. Blaikie's to dinner. Then Nellie and I drove to North River and spent the afternoon with Mrs Stanley R. Murray, and family, returning via the garage, and seeing it and Harry a short time.  Roy and Edna came in in the evening and I returned home with them.  I got my teeth at Dr Randall's - paid $2.00, which was what he charged for putting in the tooth.

September 2, 1931 - Wednesday.  Dark and rainy.  Harry A. Johnson and Norma G. Cox were married at her father's, Mr J.D. Cox's at 2:30 p.m.   The happy couple left on a short trip.  Mr McCully here to dinner.  Bub gave him $2.00 to get some asthma medicine.

September 3, 1931 - Thursday.  Dark and rainy.  The men, Bob and Morris , began to plough , or break, some more of the pasture. It is tough work.  Mrs Margeson called.  Alda was in this evening.  Alice and Glenn are at W.D. Kennedy's to a shower and dance for Ina Brenton, ere she marries.

September 4, 1931 - Friday.  Dark and rainy.  There was a dance and shower held at W.D. Kennedy's for Miss Ina F. Brenton, who is to be married shortly. (D.V.) Glenn and Alice were there.   Mrs Dickie, Mrs Mart Fulton's mother, is sick.  She is at Mrs Fulton's.

September 5, 1931 - Saturday.  A fine day.  A red letter day.  Aunt Viney and her daughter, Mrs Arthur Power and Mr Power arrived just before dinner.  We had a lovely visit with them.  After dinner, Mr and Mrs Power and I drove up to see Mr Luther Fulton.  We had a nice call; then drove across by the "Corner" bridge, and up the river as far as Newton Mills Hall, then down again.  Called at Mrs B.N. Foster's , then home.  Aunt Viney had called at Mrs Margeson's and Roy's while we were away.  Morris and Glenn are up to serenade Lloyd Johnson and bride, nee Jessie Lindsay, tonight.  They were married September 2nd, 1931.

September 6, 1931 - Sabbath.  Dark with rain tonight.  All except Glenn at church.  Mr MacDonald's text was "They need not depart; give ye them to eat".   Was at Roy's and Mr Margeson's this p.m.

September 7, 1931 - Monday.  Rather dark but some sunshine.  We had some nice callers.  Mr and Mrs McInnes and baby;  Mrs Fred Woodworth and sons and daughter (Fred and Eva and Ralph) and Miss Edith Franklin.  In the p.m., I went to the store (H.T.F's) and got a roast pan for Morris to take to Mr and Mrs H.A. Johnson's reception.  Called to see Ada Allen and Mrs Edson Cox and Mrs H.R. Foster.  Came home with Mr and Mrs David O. Graham.  Was up this morning to Mrs Martin Fulton's to see Mrs Dickie, Mrs Fulton's mother, who is sick there.

September 8, 1931 - no entry

September 9, 1931 - Wednesday.  Quite fine.  Alice went to spend the day with her mother, and Shirley and Nina went there after school.  Thelma and Ruth Blaikie were up a while.  After dinner, Mrs Margeson called; also Mrs D.B. Bentley called.  Mrs P.W. Graham was here to tea.

September 10, 1931 - Thursday.  Quite fine but raining tonight.   Jean Peppard spent the day here. The WMS was at Mrs E. Hamilton's this p.m.  Ethel Deyarmond took us down.  We called at the Manse. Mr and Mrs Charled Peppard spent the evening here.  Also Mrs Sill.  I enjoyed them all. We heard of Lloyd Blaikie's marriage to Helen Mackenzie on Saturday, September 5.

September 11, 1931 - Friday.  The sun came out, but the sky clouded over and rain fell in the p.m.  I tried three times to get Rev G.A. Logan on the telephone.  The third time was successful.  We have arranged for him to speak in the church on the 27th of September, 1931.  Glenn, Alice and children went to Truro this afternoon to get their teeth seen to etc.  Mr and Mrs Hamilton went too.  Roy, Edwin, George, Uncle Harris and Morris went to Stewiacke to see Dickie's Mill.  Mrs Henry spent the afternoon with me.

September 12, 1931 - Saturday.  A fine nice day.  I was in Roy's twice, also called at Mrs Henry Cox's; swept some, knitted some, but was idle a good deal.  Mr MacDonald called a minute.   Will Cox called tonight but Glenn and Morris were away for logs, so he did not stay long.

September 13, 1931 - Sabbath.  A lovely fine day.  All of our household were at church.  When Roy went to Meadowvale in the afternoon, I went with him as far as Mrs Charles D. Creelman's; then Roy called to see them a little while and we came home.  Then I was over to see Mr and Mrs Margeson a little while.  After tea, Morris and I attended Y.P.S.C.E.   Alice and Glenn went up to Martin Fulton's after this. 

September 14, 1931 - Monday. Another nice fine day.  Mr and Mrs C.A. Blaikie are visiting us over night.  They, Bub and I  had a drive to James Tree's, Otter Brook, then up to the Mulgrave Woolen Mills, then to Mr Rob Ellis' , Eastville, where we had tea and then came home.  Roy and Morris took some lumber into Truro, came home in the evening.  Alice went to a meeting of the Community Club.

September 15, 1931 - Tuesday.  Fine in the morning, cloudy in the p.m. and there was some rain in the night.  We had the thresher.  They threshed in the field just above Roy's house.  Fred Power's threshing machine.  Fred was here to dinner and her and Graham were here to tea.  Charlie and Bessie Blaikie went back to Truro this p.m.

September 16, 1931- Wednesday.  Some sunshine and some clouds.  Colder tonight.  Alice was helping pick apples etc. this p.m. down at Mrs Hamilton's.  Miss Kate Lugrin and Mrs Josey were here to tea.  Nina was sick - vomiting etc.  Morris is at a dance at Hugh Ellis'. Eastville.   We heard of the death of ........Swindell, of Princeport , today.

September 17, 1931 - Thursday.  Dark, but some sunshine.  Went to G.R. Deyarmond's.  Ethel went to Brookfield for two or three days.  Mrs Jane Dickie, Mrs Martin Fulton's mother, died at Martin Fulton's tonight. 

September 18, 1931 - Friday.  Fine but rainy at night.

September 19, 1931 - Saturday.  Cold with north wind.  Ethel came home in the coach this morning.  I came home in the car with her when she went to Burnside in the p.m.    Shirley and Nina were to Mr Hamilton's today.  We picked cucumbers and tomatoes today.    Harry (Sandy) Fulton of Upper Stewiacke and Winnie Watson of Musquodoboit married in Truro.

September 20, 1931 - Sabbath.  Not so cool as yesterday.  All at church.  Mr MacDonald's text was "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God  with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy mind...thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."  Matthew 22:37,39.  Much of the hard times was emphasized.  Eva and Edith, Alda and Edwin were in in the p.m.   Our Y.P.S.C.E. was invited to Middle Stewiacke this evening.  One feature of the evening was a short address by Mr Edward Johnson.  It was a splendid appeal for all to consecrate our lives to Jesus and to study our guide book - the Bible

September 21, 1931 - Monday.  Pretty fine, but chilly wind.  Glenn and Morris to serenade Harry Fulton and wife.  They invited them into the house to dance a sett or two.  Herman Deyarmond is taking G. Robert's place while Robert shingles the roof (or part of it) of his house.

September 22, 1931 - Tuesday.  Dark, cool and slight rain tonight.  Alice was sewing.  I was sewing at my Log-Cabin quilt.  Glenn and Morris are up to Burnside for logs tonight.  Harris has asthma badly.

September 23, 1931 - Wednesday.  It rained last night, and was dark and cool today.  I was setting my Log Cabin, or Store Steps quilt together.  Alice was sewing.  George and Henry Graham of Pembroke were here to dinner.  Glenn took Harris to see Dr Stewart tonight, then he and Morris went to Burnside for a truck load of logs.  I was at Roy's a little while.

September 24, 1931 - Thursday.  Dark and rainy.  Churned for us and Edna.  Was at Mrs Margeson's an hour this p.m.  Harris (Bub) not well.  Dr Stewart was in to see him.  Glenn and Alice are at Charles Peppard's, Otter Brook tonight.

September 25, 1931 - Friday.  Cold, dark and windy.  Alice spent the p.m. at Mr Hamilton's.  We heard of the death of Lieutenant Governor Frank Stanfield today.  Harris is better.  Roy spent an hour or so talking to Morris and Uncle Harris.

September 26, 1931 - Saturday.  Dark most of the day, but not so cold as yesterday.  Roy, Edna and family motored to Taylor Head, taking their lunch, seeing the pulpwood mill etc, returning at dusk.  Glenn and Uncle Harris went Pictou way and have not yet returned (9:30 p.m.)   G.R. Deyarmond and party motored to Rawdon.  Alice was at the store (H.T. Fulton's) and called at Mrs G.R. Deyarmond's.    Mrs Margeson called a few minutes.

September 27, 1931 - Sabbath.  Dark and wet.  Rally Day at Sunday School.  Had a good number of exercises for the children  of Upper Stewiacke and Meadowvale Sunday Schools. In the evening, Rev G.A. Logan of Middle Musquodoboit spoke on behalf of the WMS.  He took as a text "Because of the people that stand by, I said it". John11:42.  Those who stand by are, or he represented them as the ones who do not help to carry on Jesus work.  How they believe but do not show interest.  Some, while believing in Home, do not believe in Foreign Missions.   But Jesus said "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."       He touched on the brotherhood of man; we must feel the love of God in our hearts to all races of people.  Then he told of Belgians who had settled in Stellarton some years ago, and who had made up their minds to have nothing to do with any church.  How a lady gathered a few of the children into her home and taught them of Jesus' love; a parent would sometimes come and listen.   Slowly, at last, the Belgians consented to build a hall and gradually came to worship God as his children.    He spoke of the Indian situation; difficult tho' it is, yet the love of God is the only salvation.  China too, with its internal troubles - only this same love can make it a peaceful land.  Africa too must come under this great influence in order to teach its children to be good citizens.  The WMS was given due credit for the work it carries on through its great leader and guide.   We enjoyed the address, and the sweet face of the speaker made one think of his love to the Great teacher; such a sweet expression rests on the strong face and in the bright earnest eyes.   Roy and Edna, Jean and Ruth spent the p.m. in Truro.  Glenn and Alice and children took Mr George Reid to his home in Musquodoboit and then they attended the church and listened to the address; after the meeting they took Mr and Mrs George Bentley up home and went to Mr Martin Fulton's a while.

September 28, 1931 - Monday.  Dark and windy.  Not very cold.  Alice washed and the clothes dried.  In the p.m. she was at the store.  Edwin and Herman, Glenn and Morris, are playing cards.  Charles Blaikie and Joseph Henderson were out from Truro - Mr Henderson was here to dinner.

September 29, 1931 - Tuesday.  Dark and rainy.  Robert Deyarmond not back yet.  Herman still here.  Stanley Andrews called.  He was at Roy's to dinner.  Alice and Glenn away tonight.

September 30, 1931 - Wednesday.  A lovely fine day.  The trees are beautiful in their autumn dress, and the drive to Springside, where the school fair was held this afternoon, was wonderful.  Alice, Shirley, Nina and I were there.  The school work, vegetables, cooking and handiwork were all quite creditable.   Revd's Mr Frame (Brookfield), McInnes (Maitland), Blanchard (Springside),   and MacDonald (Upper Stewiacke) represented the clergy.  Mrs Thomas Graham, Mrs Bernie Allen, Mrs Jessie Brown, invalids, attended.  We got home about 5:30.  The Councillor was chosen tonight.  Henry P. Cox - acclamation.  Roy and Glenn had lumber to Truro.

October 1, 1931 - Thursday.  Dark and windy.  Mr and Mrs A. Putnam Fulton had a daughter born this morning.  Mrs Frank Whitman visited here today. I was at Roy's a little while. Harris is sick.  Morris has dirt in his eye.

October 2, 1931 - Friday.  Dark and cool but not cold.  I was at the store and got print for two house dresses.  Bub (Uncle Harris) was in bed most of the day.  The Dr did not get in to see him. Morris' eye still has sawdust in it.  We drove down by Warren Butcher's where the Doctor boards, but no light illuminated his office.

October 3, 1931 - Saturday.  Another fine day.  Cool wind.  Was at Ethel Deyarmond's part of the day.  She cut out two print dresses for me.  Glenn and Alice went to Truro after tea.  Mr and Mrs Gordon Miller were here this evening.  Uncle Harris is up, tho' not OK yet.

October 4, 1931 - Sabbath.  Morris was not at church or Sunday School.  His eye is no better.  Glenn was not at church.  Mr macDonald preached on the text "For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"   He applied it more to Nation's than to individuals, tho' all were included.  In the p.m. John and Bertha Webster and three of their daughters - Evelyn, Bertha and Edith - came and stayed to tea.  It would have been Dr Cox's birthday had he been living; but  "They count not there by months and years where he has gone to dwell". Glenn and Alice and girls were up to see  Mrs M. Johnson who has pneumonia.

October 5, 1931 - Monday.  Fine and warm.  Morris and Glenn went to Truro to get Dr Patton to take a substance from Morris' eye.  They got back about 8:30 p.m.

October 6, 1931 - Tuesday.  Another fine day.  Morris and Glenn went in to town to see Dr Patton again this p.m.  Before going, Glenn took me to see Mrs Creelman who is very ill.  Roy and Edwin took some lumber to Middle Musquodoboit.

October 7, 1931 - Wednesday.  Another fine day.  Lovely October weather.  Alice spent the day at her Mother's - helping her doing some moving and cleaning.  I went to stay all night at Mrs Creelman's.  Mrs Willard Taylor was there too.

October 8, 1931 - Dark and rainy.  Glenn came for me about 9 a.m.  Am not very well - am in bed.  Glenn and Morris away.  Alda was up.

October 9, 1931 - Friday.  Cool with clouds and sunshine.  Mrs Margeson called a short time.  Mr Martin Fulton's car axle broke, and Glenn finished up his mail trip.  They dug the potatoes today.  I slept this p.m. for a while.  Roy was in a while this evening.  We hear that Mrs Creelman is no better.

October 10, 1931 - Saturday.  Another fine warmish day.  We baked bread (I did);  Alice - squash pies, cake, cookies (Yesterday), and biscuits.  Alice was sweeping at the church in the p.m.  Edna fixed my hat (winter) for me.  Roy and Morris took some lumber to Truro in the late afternoon.  Alice and Glenn were at Mr Tree's, Otter Brook, and at the store.

October 11, 1931 - Sabbath.  One of the lovliest of Autumn days!  The rich coloring of the foliage upon the hills and valleys, and the summer-like atmosphere made the Gem of the Week, a veritable queen of fall days.  All of us except Uncle Harris attended Divine Service.  Mr MacDonald preached on the text"The Lord hath been  and Miss Gail, were here a short time on their way to Burnside.  Glenn, Alice and girls went to Wittenberg and Stewiacke East.  I went over to Willie Creelman's with Roy when he went to Meadowvale Sunday School.  Mrs Creelman, Willie's mother, is very far gone in the journey of life.  She is a sweet woman - a long-time friend of mine.

October 12, 1931 - Monday.  Thanksgiving Day.  Dark and windy with a little snow.  The first this fall.  Also rain.  Harry and Nellie,and Walter were here from Truro.  In the p.m., the four Brothers Blaikie and Edwin, went hunting - but shot nothing.  Mrs Creelman died last evening.

October 13, 1931 - Tuesday.  Another fine day, tho not as cold as yesterday.  Roy and Glenn took lumber to the Musquodoboit Creamery for some building they were doing.  Alice went to visit Mrs Day and Mrs Geddes.  Morris and the girls drove over for her tonight.  She and Glenn went down to Mr Hamilton's afterwards.  Mr George Flemming came to Roy's this p.m.

October 14, 1931 - Wednesday.  Another nice autumn day.  Mrs C.D. Creelman was laid to rest today.  She sleeps in the Riverside Cemetery, beside her husband who was laid there last June.  Roy and Glenn went to Truro with lumber this p.m.  Mr McInnes (Rev.) and wife and boys were in Upper Stewiacke today.  Mr McInnes attended the funeral of the late Mrs Creelman.

October 15, 1931 - Thursday.  Dark with signs of rain tonight.  We hope for no rain.  Alice was at mr Hamilton's this p.m.  Glenn and Shirley and Nina went after her after tea. Roy and Edwin took Mr Flemming over home tonight.  Alda was here in the evening.  The men and teams are still gravelling the road up to Cross Roads.

October 16, 1931 - Friday.  Drizzly and rainy.  Roy and Glenn took a load of lumber to Ecum Secum Bridge today.  It is 60 miles away.  I churned twice.  Morris is at a dance at David Fulton's tonight.

October 17, 1931 - Saturday.  A fine day until the evening - there was a little rain.  Alda, Moris and I drove to Wittenberg via South Branch and Lanesville after dinner.  We all stopped at brother Walter's a little while; then Alda and Morris went on to Chaswood to their uncle J.D. Webster's, where they had tea, then returned to Wittenberg; then set out for home, arriving there at 11:45 or thereabouts.

October 18, 1931 - Sabbath.  A nice day.  A large congregation listened to a fine sermon preached by Rev A.T. MacDonald - but prompted by a Higher Wisdom.   The text was "We are laborers together with God".  Many spoke of the excellence of the discourse.  The Middle Stewiacke Y.P.S.C.E. visited and took part in our Y.P. meeting in the evening.  Mr and Mrs Charles Blaikie, Mr and Mrs Lloyd Blaikie and Miss Gail Blaikie here.

October 19, 1931 - Monday.  A fine day.  The truck had some bolts broken when hauling logs from Burnside today. They patched it up to do until they sent to Truro for new ones.  Harry and Nellie were here to tea.  Edna was sick, and I was helping her a little today. Was in Mr Margeson's a little while this evening.

October 20, 1931 - Tuesday.  A fine cool day.  Alice washed bedclothes this a.m.  I walked out to see Mrs Alex Fulton this p.m. and Morris came for me in the evening.  Neil Dickie here to dinner.

October 21, 1931 - Wednesday.  Dark, raining tonight.  Y.L.C. met at Mrs G.R. Deyarmond's this p.m.  Alice attended.  Alda and Edwin washed this week's wash for their mother today.  Mrs George Bentley, Mr J.D. Dunlap, Mrs R.A. Cox, and her daughter Mrs Plumer, called us today.   Misses Dean and Ellis, the teachers in Upper Stewiacke Village for this year, and G.S. Fulton spent the evening here.  Glenn and Alice drove down to see Mr Hamilton a few minutes.

October 22, 1931 - Thursday.  Dark and rainy.  Alice killed and dressed 7 roosters.  Weight thirty - six and a half pounds @ 28 cents per pound.  Roy and Glenn took some lumber to Truro this late p.m.  Thomas Alva Edison died October 18, 1931.  Aged 84 years.

October 23, 1931 - Friday.  Dark, but not much rain.  Alice visited at William P. Miller's this afternoon.  Glenn and the girls went for her and spent the evening.  Eddie Gault and Morris spent the evening at Roy's.

October 24, 1931 - Saturday.  Dark and chilly.  Mrs C.A. Blaikie, Mrs Lloyd Blaikie and Miss Gail Blaikie dined with us;  in the p.m., they motored to the Woolen Mills at Newton Mills; I went too.  They returned home early in the p.m.  Roy and Edwin took some shingles to Musquodoboit tonight.  Morris and Glenn and Alice were at the store tonight.

October 25, 1931 - Sabbath.  Dark but not cold.  Sunday School closed today - here and at Meadowvale.  Rev J.K. Mc Innes preached in Upper Stewiacke Village this a.m.  and in Brookfield in the p.m.  Rev A.T. MacDonald was in Middle Stewiacke this a.m. and then in the p.m., the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was dispensed in South Branch Church.   The Sacrament of Baptism was administered to Shirley Esther, daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank A. Fulton.  Mr Fulton is a patient at the Sanitorium, Kentville - very ill.  Alice, Morris and I were at South Branch.  Alice was at Aunt Martha's, and Morris and I were at Will Nelson's to tea.

October 27, 1931 - Monday.  Wet a lot of the day, but the sun shone out sometimes.  Alice put a few colored clothes out to dry, but they didn't dry much.  She was at Mr Margeson's this p.m., and I was at Roy's a little while.  Roy was at Earle Archibald's doing some piping or some such work for him. 

October 27, 1931 - Tuesday.  Drizzly, showery and some sunshine. The clothes dried and we ironed them.  Roy and Glenn were away to Stewiacke and Shubenacadie today; at Percy Goodwin's to tea.  I was at Mrs Margeson's for a little while.  Alice was at the store, Post Office, and made a call or two this a.m.   A Mr Plourde (sic) got some lumber from the mill.  Bob and Morris ploughed.  J. Harris put in a new bit of spout for the sink.

 

October 28, 1931 - Wednesday.  Quite fine this morning but raining some tonight.  Roy, Alda, and Edwin went to Truro this a.m., and I went with them as far as Mrs Sill's, who is very ill.  Alice and Glenn, Shirely and Nina went to town in the p.m.  to get some dentistry done on the girls' teeth.  I was at Mrs Sill's all night.  Glenn called in on his way home to see me.

October 29, 1931 - Thursday.  Dark and rainy.  Mrs Sill not much better.  Dr Stewart was in to see her in the afternoon on his way home from the C.C. Hospital.  He was accompanied by Mrs Cooke (Otter Brook), whom he had had to the Hospital for examination for inward trouble.   Mrs Sill is very frail.  I was sorry to leave her; If I were only near so that I could run in and see her! Bobby Sill brought me home in the evening.  I hope he gets someone to help them.

October 30, 1931 - Friday.  Dark and wet.  Alice painted Edna's kitchen, overhead, this p.m.  Mrs Margeson called a short time.  Glenn and Alice are abroad tonight, at Mr Hamilton's and at Roy's.

October 31, 1931 - Saturday.  Dark with some sun and some rain.  Not cold.  Mrs Alex Fulton and I were at the store and called at the Post Office and at the Manse, and Mr MacDonald brought us home.  Alice did not go to the store tonight.

November 1, 1931 - Sabbath.  Dark with showers - but warm.  Mr MacDonald's text was "Who is my neighbor?"  The subject matter of the sermon was taken from the Parable of the Good Samaritan.  Neighborliness between nations and between people is a way to peace, and the Kingdom of God upon earth.  When we came from church, Alice was ill and Uncle Harris is not well enough to go - Harry and Ralph were here.  Nellie and June had taken Nellie's mother, Mrs Flemming, to Musquodoboit for the day - they all returned to Truro tonight, and expected to take Mrs Flemming to Princeport, where she is the cook at the Swindell  House, after going in. Morris and Edwin and Roy were at the old mill in Burnside a little while.  Morris and I were at Y.P.S.C.E.  Glenn has the vomit disease tonight. All the household have had it but myself.

November 2, 1931 - Monday.  Mild with slight showers.  Edna was in tonight.  Also Roy.  Roy and Morris took some lumber to Brookfield this p.m.  Mrs Margeson called.  Glenn some better.  Artie Kennedy and Wallace Miller here to play cards with Glenn and Morris.  Mrs Henry came home.

November 3, 1931 - Tuesday.  Mild with some showers.  A rainbow pleased our eyes with its beauty this p.m.  Glenn does not feel very well.  Indigestion troubles him.  Morris and R. Deyarmond were ploughing today.  I was in Roy's this p.m.

November 4, 1931 - Wednesday.  Chilly and dark with showers.  We finished baking for Ladies Aid.  Menu is white bread, brown raisin bread, fruit cake, date cookies, date squares.  Green peas, salmon loaf and pickles for the first course.  Edna was in but did not sit. Mr and Mrs Martin S. Fulton were here for the evening. Mr Mart and Glenn won all the card games from Mrs Mart and Morris.

November 5, 1931 - Thursday.  A nice fine day.  The Ladies Aid met here.  Those present were Mrs Alex Fulton, Mrs A.L. Margeson, Mrs Roy Blaikie, Mrs D.B. Bentley, Mrs Eben Fulton, Mrs H.R. Foster, Misses Grace Dean and Florence Ellis (teachers), Mrs H.T. Fulton, Mrs Libbie Creelman, Mrs W. Nevins, Mrs J.D. Cox, Mrs C.P. MacMillan, Mrs Martin S. Fulton and ourselves.  A supper in the hall was discussed, and not much of a decision arrived at.  Miss Nettie Gammell, clerk in C.E. Bentley's store, Truro, but a native of Newton Mills is dead at the C.C. Hospital.  Miss Margaret L. Bentley is very ill in Mass., USA.

November 6, 1931 - Friday.  A storm of sleet and rain in the night.  Dark today.  Mrs D.B. Bentley, Mrs Alex Fulton, Mrs Suther Geddes, Mrs Nevins and I quilted a missionary quilt at Mrs W.D. Kennedy's today.  Glenn, Alice and children called at Mr Hamilton's tonight.  I called there during the p.m. while the quilt was being finished.

November 7, 1931 - Saturday.  Cold with cold wind.  Bob and Morris were plowing this a.m. and hauling out manure this p.m.  Lewis Fulton here to dinner.  Roy and Glenn got a load of logs in the p.m.  , also got a bag of flour from D.F. Creelman.  Glenn and Alice are at the store tonight.  Morris and I were down - I to Mrs Edson's, and Morris to the store early in the evening.

November 8, 1931 - Sabbath.  A nice day.  All at church except Uncle Harris and Glenn.  In the p.m., Alice and Glenn went to Musquodoboit and Roy and I and Edna to Wittenberg and Stewiacke East.  Jean, Ruth, Shirley, Nina and I went for a walk and called at Mr Margeson's.

November 9, 1931 - Monday.  A lovely fine day.  Bob ploughed this field round the house.  Alice was at Ethel's this p.m.  Mrs Margeson called.  I was at Roy's a little while tonight.

November 10, 1931 - Tuesday.  Another fine sunny day.  Roy and Glenn took a load of lumber to Moser River.  Bob and Morris were hauling manure and scaling it.  Alice was at Mrs C.C. Cox's at Y.L. Club.  Mr MacDonald called this p.m.  Alda was here this evening.

November 11, 1931 - Wednesday.  A lovely fine day.  The Remembrance Day Service was a fitting tribute to our dear ones who have long since laid down their lives in the Great War of 1914 - 1918.  Harry and Walter Blaikie were here from Truro.

November 12, 1931 - Thursday.  Another fine day.  Alice killed and dressed 8 roosters this a.m. and took them to H.T. Fulton's after dinner.  I was at the W.M.S. at Mrs David B. Bentley's this p.m. after which Mrs Alex Fulton and I went over and called on Mrs Frank Fulton and  Mrs Aitken, her mother.  Roy and Glenn took some lumber to the Brookfield Hall.  Mr and Mrs W.D. Kennedy, Mr and Mrs Arthur Kennedy and Mr Milton McMillan spent the evening here.

November 13, 1931 - Friday.  Rainy.  Hailstones fell among the rain in one shower.  Alice spent the day with her mother.  Shirley and Nina going down afteer school and after tea, Glenn went and brought them home; and he and Alice went out to Put Fulton's to spend the evening.  Edna was up a few minutes today.

November 14, 1931 - Saturday. Quite a nice day. I went down to the P.O. in the p.m. and called at Mrs Ashmore Miller's, Mrs Reynolds', to see Ada (Mrs Bernie Allen), and at Mrs Rupert Fulton's, Mrs Eben Fulton's, and at Mrs G.R. Deyarmond's. Ada was suffering with her back and is in bed - but she is trustful and patient.  Mrs "Rupe' Fulton is just middling well.  Mrs Eben looks about as usual, but is going the western road and may not be any better in this world.  Flora and Edith Goodwin and Fred Woodworth came while I was away, and are staying overnight.

November 15, 1931 - Sabbath.  Nice and fine but cold.  All of us attended church service.  The text of Mr MacDonald's sermon was Ezra      3:13. "The people could not discern the noise of the shouts of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people".   Morris, Fred, Edwin attended Y.P.S.C.E.  Flora's back troubled her.  They left for home about eleven p.m.

November 16, 1931 - Monday.  A lovely fine day.  Alice washed and sewed.  Glenn and Morris are down at Clyde's tonight.  I wish they did not go.

November 17, 1931 -Tuesday.  Dark this morning but it was a fine afternoon. Roy and Glenn went to Halifax to find what could be done in the lumber trade.  I was at Mrs G.R. Deyarmond's a while this p.m.  Mrs Margeson was in a short time.  Jennie Miller came this evening.  I was at an Executive meeting this evening. The Managers and executive of the Ladies Aid met at Mrs Edson Cox's, to consider the financial situation in our congregation.  It was decided to have a supper on November 27.

November 18, 1931 - Wednesday.  A nice autumn day.  Jennie Miller came last evening and went away today.  Glenn and Alice up to Artie Kennedy's this evening.

November 19, 1931 - Thursday.  Dark but not cold.  Spent the day at Aunt Martha Fleck's.  Had a nice visit.  Morris took me out to South Branch and came for me at night.

November 20, 1931 - Friday.  Dark but warm.  James A. Graham, Burnside, was in a short time this p.m.  I went to Mrs W.D. Kennedy's to help quilt. We made another quilt for the Mission Box.  M. Lillian Lockhart here for the week-end.

November 21, 1931 - Saturday. Still warm with clouds and some sunshine.  A quiet day.  Morris, Edwin and Alda went to Mr Wallace Gault's to play cards tonight.  Alice and Glenn and Lillian were down to the store.  No letters from "the girls" this week.

November 22, 1931 - Sabbath. A lovely day.  Quite a lot of people at church.  The text was "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His rightousness, and all these things shall be added unto you".  In this very earnest sermon, preached by Mr macDonald.  May we all be the better for it, through God's grace.  Morris was at Y.P.S.C.E.  He was leader.   Glenn and Alice took Lillian back to Musquodoboit.  Roy, Edna, Thelma and George went to Truro.

November 23, 1931 - Monday.  Another fine warm day.  Alice washed clothes this a.m. and was at Ethel Deyarmond's, H.T. Fulton's store and Mrs Rupe Fulton's in the p.m.  Rheumatism bothered me some.  A Mr Whalen was buried today - in the Riverside Cemetery.

November 24, 1931 - Tuesday.  Another fine day.  Roy and Glenn were in Truro with the truck; it needs repairs and they left it at Blaikie's Garage.  I was in to see Mrs Edson Cox this evening., also at Roy's to see Mrs Arthur Woodin and children, Russell and Faye.  Morris is at a card party at Mrs H.R. Foster's.  Mr Eben Fulton had a bad turn this p.m.  I was in to see Mr and Mrs Margeson this p.m.

November 25, 1931 - Wednesday.  Not very fine, some showers, but the day was nice and warm.  Roy went to Truro for the truck; Morris went to get his teeth fixed.  He got 2 books - Cody and Keith.   Shirley and I went to Prayer Meeting which began again tonight.  Alice is not very well today.  A Mr Langille, Insurance agent for the Great West Co. spent the evening with Glenn.  Hedley Lemon accidently shot himself today.

November 26, 1931 - Thursday.  Fine and cool.  Alice not very smart.

November 27, 1931 - Friday.  Fine with cold wind and snow tonight.  Supper by the Congregation was served at the hall tonight.  Mrs W.D. Isnor and Mrs Ferris were from Truro.

November 28, 1931 - Saturday.  Quite a cold night last night.  Just 6 degrees above zero.  A skiff of snow fell.  Lelia Miller was here part of the day cleaning up.   Roy and Edwin were to Truro with the Moulder. I don't know much more.

November 29, 1931 - Sabbath.  Dark and rainy  tonight.  Morris and the girls and I at church.   Mrs Hamilton came to dinner.  Alice not very well.  Mr MacDonald preached on the text "The stone which the builders refused, the same has become the head of the croner".  God sends good thoughts into our Minister's mind to give to his people day by day.  One of the ideas given to us was that experts can be mistaken, and from the rejected and despised ones, often there comes some high and nobel thing.    I was in to see the Margeson's a while.

November 30, 1931 - Monday.  Dark and rainy.  Lelia came and did the washing and cleaned up the sitting room, dining room and kitchen.  Then she went home to go to Raymond Wright's.  I was at Roy's a while.

December 1, 1931 - Tuesday.  Dark with a few showers and snow in the p.m.  Snow did not lay long.  Nothing of any account occurred.  Morris and Roy were at Alton with some lumber.  Alice was abed.  Glenn and Morris are up to Martin Fulton's.  Alda was here a few minutes and the Watkins Man called.

December 2, 1931 - Wednesday.  Rather cold and windy.  Roy, Alda, George and Reta Logan were to Truro.  Mrs Tree was washing at Roy's.  Dr Stewart was here tonight to see Alice.  Tom Fulton,Morris and Edwin playing cards.  Mrs Margeson was in.

December 3, 1931 - Thursday.  Sunshine and cold wind.  Alice is still in bed.  Dr Stewart was in. There are cases of Scarlet Fever in Dean and Woodside. Mrs Margeson called.  Edna was at Ladies Aid at Mrs H.R. Foster's.

December 4, 1931 - Friday.  A nice mild day with rain tonight.  Glenn and Morris went to Burnside this evening. Mrs Margeson called, also Dr Stewart.  Sydney, Cape Breton, has been visited by fire.

December 5, 1931 - Saturday.  Stormy and cold - snowy.  Glenn and Roy were with a party who were running lines for various wood lots.  Mr Fenwick Kent being the surveyor. They were home early.  Nothing of importance occurred.

December 6, 1931 - Sabbath.  Cloudy.  Alice and Shirley and I were at home.  Mrs Martin Fulton and Edna were here in the p.m.  Tom Fulton and Glenn  were up until a late hour.  Frank A. Fulton died in the San. at Kentville today.

December 7, 1931 - Monday.  Cold with wind.

December 8, 1931 - Tuesday.  Cold and windy.  Alice got up.  Dr Stewart called to see her.  Mrs Alex Fulton called.  Mary Graham came tonight.  Her mother came with her.  I hope she likes it here.  Mrs Annie Dean, Mrs Alex Fulton's mother has had a paralytic stroke.  The funeral of the late Frank A. Fulton was held in Upper Stewiacke church this p.m. at 2 o'clock.  His burial was at Riverside Cemetery.

December 9, 1931 - Wednesday.  Quite a nice day.  Mary washed the clothes.  We went to Prayer Meeting - Alda, Mary, Shirley, Nina, Morris, Edwin and I.

December 10, 1931 - Thursday. Snowy and soft.  Mrs Hamilton came up with me from WMS which was held at Mrs Bentley's and stayed to tea.  Mrs MacDonald was called to the bedside of her mother who is dangeroulsy ill at her home in Scotsburn.

December 11, 1931 - Friday.  Not very cold - slight snow on the ground.  Mission Band entertainment at the Hall.

December 12, 1921 - Saturday.  Quite icy - not very cold.  Alice and Glenn at the store.  Mrs Henry not well.  I was at Roy's tonight while they were at H.T. Fulton's store.

December 13, 1931 - Sabbath.  Freezing but not very cold.  Alice and Glenn at home from church.  Mr MacDonald's sermon was "The field is the world".  Matthew 13.  A sermon on brotherhood.  Harry, Walter and June came from Truro this p.m. and I came in with them.

December 14, 1931 - Monday.  Nasty and dark.  Was at Harry's all day.  Muriel Flemming here tonight.

December 15, 1931 - Tuesday.  Snowy, but no sleighing, only a few flurries.  Mrs Flemming came from Princeport to see her girls, Mrs Gladys Dickie, Isabel Flemming, Muriel Flemming and Mrs Harry Blaikie.  Mrs Roy Brown and Messrs Lewis Higgins and Eldridge Butcher came from Musquodoboit with the crowd.   Nellie and Muriel drove Mrs Flemming back to Princeport - also Isabel who stayed there too.

December 16, 1931 - Wednesday.  Pretty fine until toward night.  Then it snowed some.  Roy and Edna and Morris came into town and I came home with them.  My knee muscles were sore.

December 17, 1931 - Thursday.  Quite fine with clouds too.  A Christmas tree in the Union Hall, Meadowvale.

December 18, 1931 - Friday.  Rather cold, but fairly fine.  The School Christmas Tree and entertainment in the hall.  All of us attended except Uncle Harris.

December 19, 1931 - no entry

December 20, 1931 - Sabbath.  Quite fine.  Cold tonight.  All at church.  The Christmas sermon was nice; but it is gone from my memory, largely.

December 21, 1931 - Monday.  A fine day.  Windy tonight.  Glenn and Roy were to Truro this p.m.  I was at Mrs Margeson's an hour tonight.

December 22, 1931 - Tuesday.  A lovely fine day.  Glenn and Roy and Morris hauled logs this a.m. from Bert Ogilvie's.  Glenn and Alice at H.T. Fulton's store, and at Mr Hamilton's tonight.

December 23, 1931 - Wednesday.  Rainy.  Roy and Edwin, Glenn and Morris went to Burnside to move the old shingle machine, this a.m.   Mrs Margeson was over.  Roy and Edwin and Alda went to Truro this p.m.  Mary Graham went home with her brother Beveridge and Edgar Fulton.  Glenn and Morris are at Mr Mart Fulton's this evening.

December 24, 1931 - Thursday.  A lovely mild day.  Lucy (Mrs David Graham), called this p.m. and Mr and Mrs Gordon Miller called tonight.  We rolled up the presents.

December 25, 1931 - Friday.  Christmas day.  A very wet day.  Rain fell nearly all the day.  Alice and Glenn and little girls were at Mr Edmund Hamilton's to dinner; and Alice was there to tea.  Glenn and Shirley and Nina were home to tea.  They went for Alice in the evvening.  Then Glenn and Alice went to Mr Margeson's a while in the evening.  Roy, Edwin, George and Morris were up to Burnside - at the Old Mill.  The house and the mill are being torn down to be used in building a house for Boyd Hamilton, whose house was burned a few weeks ago.  Morris and Edwin finished the book cases.

December 26, 1931 - Saturday.  Stormy.  Snowed and blew all day.  Blowing tonight.  They hauled (or trucked) the shingle machine from the old place in Burnside, now owned by Bradford, to our mill here.  The turkeys came from Edith and Flossie in the west, yesterday.

December 27, 1931 - Sabbath.  Stormy, but not any sledding, as what snow fell was blown off the roads.  There is plenty in Burnside however.  Morris was up toP.W. Graham's this a.m. and Mary came back with him in the p.m.   Then he went to C.C. Cox's to tea and to spend the evening, not attending Y.P.S.C.E.  Mary and Alda went.  The sermon this morning was from the text "In quietness and confidence shall be thy strength"  It was a very helpful discourse.

December 28, 1931 - Monday.  A pretty good day.  Clothes dried pretty well.  Miss Mary Johnson, sister of Mrs J.D. Cox at the Post Office, is very critically ill.  Addison Laffin, Graham Fulton, Edward and Allan MacKenzie were in this evening.

December 29, 1931 - Tuesday.  Cloudy with a few snowflurries.  Mary Graham and Alda Blaikie were at Mr David Fulton's to call this p.m.  Also Edwin and Morris and Mary drove to Hugh Murphy's thinking there was a dance, but there was not.  Harry and Nellie brought Mr Flemming and Lloyd, his son, out from Truro; they dined at Roy's; all except Harry; he was here.  After dinner they took Mr Flemming  and Lloyd to their home in Musquodoboit.  Were back to tea - Nellie here, Harry at Roy's.  They left for Truro after nine. Glenn is gathering money for a present for Mr Abram Bentley,for  his faitful attention to the Choir for many years.    Mrs Margeson called.

December 30, 1931 - Wednesday. Snow fell very lightly most of the day.  The atmosphere was quite warm.  Nellie and Shirley and Nina were up the road. Alda was here twice.  I was at Roy's this a.m.  Philip and Parker Cox spent a short time with us tonight.  Roy and Glenn were to Truro,.

December 31, 1931 - Thursday.  The last day of the old year!  Snow softly fell, yet the wheeling is good from here to Truro.  Glenn and Bob (G.R. Deyarmond)  took lumber to Brookfield this a.m.  The hall there is being repaired.  In the p.m., Glenn and Roy took lumber to Truro.  Bob, Edwin and Morris were planing; they made a mistake with the planer which caused the damaging of quite a bit of lumber.  Clarence Dickie's folk are having a dance tonight.  Mary Graham is there.  Morris is not there.  Guess he got no bid, but he does not mind.  Ashmore Miller and family moved from the "brown house" to Meadowvale today.  Miss Mary Johnson, sister of Mrs J.D. Cox, was buried today - funeral in Middle Stewiacke Church.  I was at Mr Margeson's his p.m.  Nina and Mary at the store and Post Office and Shirley spent the day with her Grandma Hamilton.