January 1, 1935 - Tuesday.  A very stormy day, as the night was too.  Snowing and drifting.  The men were in the mill.  Sent a letter to F.J.B., Mirror, Alberta.

January 2, 1935 - Wednesday.  A dark day - some drifting snow.  This was Harris' birthday (76).  Glenn and Alice had a letter from John and Bertha Webster - a nice letter.

January 3, 1935 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Cold wind.  Nina and I called on Mr and Mrs Margeson this p.m.  Was not at Roy's today.  Morris is spending the evening with Parker Cox.  Parker's father is very ill.  Glenn is abroad.

January 4, 1935 - Friday.  Cold with wind and snowing most of the day.  Alice's 38th birthday.  We made doughnuts.  I was in Roy's this p.m.  Another case of Scarlet Fever - it is in Pembroke - a boy of Fred Bentley's.

January 5, 1935 - Saturday.  A fine day.  The thermometer was 18 degrees below zero this a.m.  Dr Stewart innoculated the three girls, Nina, Shirley and Freda this p.m.  Had a letter from Grace A. Nichols yesterday, and a calendar today.

January 4, 1935 - Sabbath.  Cloudy.  Not cold.  Glenn, Shirley, Nina, Morris and I were at church.  The sermon was from Matthew 23:8-10.  "Be ye not called Rabbi" etc.  John Girdwood was here, in the p.m.  I was at Roy's a while.  Ethel Deyarmond called here and at Roy's.  Shirley, Nina and Morris and Tom Fulton at Y.P.S.C.E.

January 5, 1935 - Monday.  Soft.  Thawed today.  Mrs Alex Fulton called.  Glenn and Alice called at Dr Stewart's and Mrs Hamilton's tonight.

January 8, 1935 - Tuesday.  Foggy and warm.  We heard of a case of Scarlet Fever in Burnside.  Gladys Deyarmond has it.  The schools in Pembroke, Burnside and Cross Roads are closed.  Morris is down spending the evening at the Post Office.  John Girdwood spent the evening here.

January 9, 1935 - Wednesday.  Wet.  Rain and sleet at night.  The Y.L.Club did not meet as the River was high.  Glenn took Alice over but she did not stay.

January 10, 1935 - Thursday.  Rainy.  A lovely silver thaw this a.m.  Was at Mrs Edson Cox's to dinner,  and the Missionary Meeting was held there in the p.m.  Alice at Mrs Pearson's st Y.L. Club after I came home. Tom Fulton and Morris were at Grant Cox's to tea.  Miss Ella Johnson very ill at Mrs Ella Hodges' in Truro.

January 11, 1935 - Friday.  Very rainy in the night.  A large freshet - no getting over the intervales today.  The gully bridge over by Gordon Stewart's is gone.  The one by F.A. Reynolds' is very unsafe; and one in Pembroke between Beveridge Graham's and Thomas Graham's is washed out.  The Gerneral Meeting of the Aids was held in the hall today; and Edna had her Aid right after the meeting.  The President and Secretary-Treasurer were re-elected.  Mrs Alex Fulton, Mrs Girdwood,(Village), Mrs Grant Cox, Mrs Adam K. Fulton (Otter Brook), Mrs W.P. Miller, Mrs J.W. Benvie (Cross Roads); Mrs Rufus Taylor and Mrs Percy Johnson (Meadowvale).  South Side Ladies were not present on account of the water.  Mrs Grant Cox called on her way to Division.

January 12, 1935 - Saturday. Rather dark and cloudy.  Preparatory Service at 2:30.  We hear of Louis Graham having Scarlet Fever.

January 13, 1935 - Sabbath.  A fine day with cold wind.  It was Sacrament Sabbath.  The text of Mr Girdwood's sermon was Col.1:14, also Eph 1:7.  "In  whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace."  I was very impressed with the sermon, but it is a grief to me not to remember it.  A sermon for sinners - showing the forgiving love of Christ, and helping us in our great need.  The Communion Service was very impressive too.  Such a sweet time as it was; surely Jesus was present!  If we could only feel His presence near, more in our everyday life, and speak of holy heavenly things more frequently.    John Girdwood was here to tea.

January 14, 1935 - Monday.  Dark.  Snowing and blowing tonight.  Edwin, Tom Fulton and Morris were bush-whacking in our pasture.  Louie Graham died today.  He had Scarlet Fever.  Also had fought T.B. all summer and before summer.  He leaves a young widow.

January 15, 1935 - Tuesday.  Snowed lightly, and the wind blew nearly all day.  The men did not work in the mill or chopping either.  Glenn and G.R. Deyarmond and George Bentley went up to Bev Graham's; then G.R. and George walked out to Thomas Graham's (Lewie's father) and Glenn stayed at Beveridge's.  Luther Fulton, with whom Beveridge lives, is making a stretcher for the Pall Bearers to carry Louie Graham over the foot bridge.  The official bridge having been taken away with the freshet of January 11,   this is the way to the cemetery in Pembroke.

January 16, 1935 - Wednesday.  12 degrees below zero this morning.  A fine cold day.  Was in Roy's a little while.  The funeral of the late Lewis Keith Graham was held - a short service before leaving the house - and service at the cemetery (Pembroke).  Rev H.S. Raynor.   The Annual Congregational Meeting was held tonight - in the hall.  Morris Blaikie is the new secretary.

January 17, 1935 - Thursday.  Dark and cold.  20 degrees below zero here.  Dr Stewart innoculated our girls the second time, this afternoon.  I was at Roy's to tea.  This was his birthday.  There is a party at W.D. Kennedy's tonight.

January 18, 1935 - Friday.  Stormy - snowing and drifting.  They could not work in the mill.  15 scholars at school.  No Division.

January 19, 1935 - Saturday.  Cold but fine.  Was resting today.  Got up in the a.m. but went to my room between 8 and 9 o'clock.  Shirley was at C.G.I.T.

January 20, 1935 - Sabbath.  Cold this a.m.  Pretty fine in the p.m.  Was not at any church services or anywhere.  Morris, Tom Fulton and Shirley and Nina at Y.P.S.C.E.  J.W. Girdwood here to tea.  We enjoy his company.

January 21, 1935 - Monday.  Little bits of sunshine this forenoon.  Light snow falling now and then this p.m.  Mrs Margeson and Dorothy McCoul and Alda Blaikie were our callers today.  Alice and Glenn were at H.T. Fulton's store this afternoon.  Baby Leslie very colicky most of the time today.  Sent a letter to F.J.B. and received one from her.  They have moved to Red Deer.  Mrs John Dickie, Stellarton, is dead. (nee Ella Hamilton).

January 22, 1935 - Tuesday.  Rained through the night.  Thawing today.  The mill was not running.  Morris was at Mr Girdwood's this p.m.  He and Jack and Mr G. were at the hall finishing up the place to play badminton.  Then Morris went to the Manse to tea and to fix up the minutes of the Congregational Meeting.  Alice and Glenn were away tonight.  We heard of Miss Janie Stewart's death today.

January 23, 1935 - Wednesday.  Some wind; cloudy in the late afternoon snow began to fall, and continues to fall.  The mill was operating today.  Morris went out with J.W. Girdwood to parctice Badminton.

January 24, 1935 - Thursday.  Raining quite a bit today.  We baked and churned etc.  Baby Leslie good.  Edna was in a few minutes.  F.B. Cox read the metre.  38 kilowatts.

January 25, 1935 - Friday.  Cold.  Cold wind too.  Glenn tired himself today, cutting meat.  He saw Dr Stewart at Roy's.  Joyce Deyarmond here to tea.  Sent a parcel to Mother; a letter to F.J.B., $1.00.

January 26, 1935 - Saturday.  A snowy day.  No wind.  Thermometer at zero this a.m.  Ruth Blaikie here to dinner.  Mrs Hamilton, Alice's mother, here to tea.  Glenn got me a toothbrush tonight.

January 27, 1935 - Sabbath.  Chilly today.  Cold tonight.  There were Northern Lights tonight.  Was at church this morning.  Mr Girdwood's text was from Gen 9:9 - God's covenant with Noah and his sons, "And I, behold I establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you".  Always if we trust God, he will lead us through to the end, in all the circumstances of life - was the thought left by the sermon.   Jack Girdwood was here this p.m.  I was at Roy's to tea.  Neil and J.W. Benvie were there calling.

January 28, 1935 - Monday  Cold.  24 degrees below zero this a.m.  They were sawing today.  Tom Fulton and Morris at Badminton tonight.

January 29, 1935 - Tuesday.  Light sonw most of the day.  Rain and wind tonight.  C.C. Cox is very ill - unconscious today.  Fred Bentley, Pembroke, called this afternoon.  Glenn took him part way home.  Jack Girdwood spent the evening here.  Roy and Edwin took shingles to Musquodoboit.  Parcel sent to F.J.B.

January 30, 1935 - Wednesday.  Cold, after the rain of last night.  Quite icy too.  They carried water for the cattle as they have done a number of times this winter.  The Presbyterial of the WMS met in Brookfield today.  Three sessions.  Miss Ella Johnson, who has been ill at Mrs Raymond Hodges', Truro is improving.  We are so glad!  Miss Johnson is esteemed by all who know her, I believe.  Sent a letter to E.M.B. today.

January 31, 1935 - Thursday.  Cold with some wind.  Ladies Aid at Martin Fulton's this p.m.  Mrs Margeson, Mrs Roy Blaikie and I were there and came home together.  Edwin Blaikie sick today.  Frank Cox and Alda Blaikie here this evening.  Tom Fulton at Badminton Club.

February 1, 1935 - Friday.  Fine and cold.  18 degrees below zero this morning.  Mr C. Cox still living tho' very weak.  Mr Margeson called this a.m..  Mrs Alex Fulton this afternoon.

February 2, 1935 - Saturday.  Cloudy.  Not so cold.  Was in Mr Margeson's this a.m.  Alice and Glenn were at the store (H.T. Fulton's).  Tom Fulton was to see Dr Stewart about his stomach; it is troubling him.  Put Fulton got his knee hurt by a log rolling on it. 

February 3, 1935 - Sabbath.  Quite a moderate day.  Thawing tonight.  Nina and Uncle Harris kept the "babies".  Mr Girdwood's sermon was about the man, who after the unclean spirit had gone out of him, returned to his house and took unclean spirits, who entered in and dwelt there; and his last state was worse than the first.  Harry, Nellie, Walter and Uncle Charlie were here to dine; to Roy's to sup.  Isabel Nelson and John Girdwood were here to tea.

February 4, 1935 - Monday.  A very mild day.  A little snow fell.  They were sawing.  George Bentley called a minute.  C.C. Cox, very very low.

February 5, 1935 - Tuesday.  Pretty cold.  Fine snow flying in the forenoon.  Sunshine in the afternoon.  Cold tonight.  Shirley's 13th birthday.  Dorothy McCoul here this evening.  Alda Blaikie and Margaret Miller called.  Glenn and Alice were down to see Mrs Hamilton.  James Maynard was in.

February 6, 1935 - Wednesday.  A nice fine day.  C.C. Cox died last evening at about 5 minutes to nine o'clock.  James Maynard called today again.  Left a package of pepper.  Also discoursed on cancer etc.  Glenn went to Truro this p.m.  I was at Roy's a while.  Tom Fulton and Morris are playing badminton at the Agricola Hall.

February 7, 1935 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Rather cold.  C.C.Cox was laid to rest in the church yard of the Baptist church, beside his first wife.  The funeral was at 2 o'clock. Rev Mr Barrass of Truro preached the funeral sermon.  Rev'ds A.T. MacDonald and Wm. Girdwood were present and assisted in the service.  Alice, Tom and Morris went from here.  Glenn got home before tea (from Truro).  Edwin killed his pigs.

February 8, 1935 - Friday.  A nice fine day.  Cold wind.  Thermometer 12 degrees below zero this a.m.  Ladies Aid met at the Manse.  A very nice time.  Mrs W.D. Kennedy, Miss Helen Dickie, Mrs F.L. Fulton, Mrs Roy Blaikie, Mrs D.B. Bentley, Mrs A.L. Margeson, Mrs J.D. Cox. Miss Helen Douglas, Mrs F.A Fulton, Mrs Alex Fulton, and self were present.  Glenn came for Edna (Mrs Roy Blaikie) and I and took Mrs Alex home , and I went too.

February 9, 1935 - Saturday.  Dark.  Some fine snow falling - not cold.   Dorothy McCoul called this p.m.  Glenn and Alice at the store.  Morris away.  A Social is held at South Branch.

February 10, 1935 - Sabbath.  Glenn, Shirley, Nina, Morris and I were at church.  Mr Girdwood preached from Phil.2:15-18.  A good sermon telling of those who shine as lights in the world.  Jack Girdwood was up a short time; I was at Roy's a little while.

February 11, 1935 - Monday.  A fine afternoon.  Cloudy morning.  Miss Douglas, our school teacher, got word of her sister Donalda, who is at Dalhousie, being sent to the V.G. Hospital for an operation.  For what, was not stated.  So the Misses Helen T. and Mary Douglas (teacher at Otter Brook) went to Halifax this p.m.  Margaret Miller is to teach for Miss Douglas.  Mrs Alex Fulton, Mrs J.D. Cox, Mrs Roy Blaikie and Mrs Girdwood met (representing the Village Aid) at Mrs Hazel Fulton's to see about getting up a concert at the Manse.

February 12, 1935 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  8 degrees below zero this a.m.  Alice at Young Ladies Club at Margaret Miller's this p.m.  Mrs Robinson Ellis visited us this p.m.  Also Lola Fulton called.  Morris was at M.S. Fulton's tonight.  Tom at home here.

February 13, 1935 - Wednesday.  Fine and cold.  Nina sick and home from school.  Shirley went to school but felt not very well.  Mrs Hamilton here this p.m. a little while.  Had Valentines and letter from Edith Boomer and Kaye;  Fern and Cleo sent Valentines to the girls and little Leslie.  Morris at Badminton.  Miss Douglas returned.  Her sister had an operation for appendicitis.  Mrs Margeson called.  Sent a letter to E.M.B.

February 14, 1935 - Thursday.  Fine.  Pretty cold this a.m.  Not very cold throughout the day.  WMS was held at Mrs Edson Cox's.  Will Cox has sprained his ankle, and Mrs Edson's sprained arm is still quite sore.  Saw Mrs Creight Cox and Jean Rutherford after the Missionary Meeting.

February 15, 1935 - Friday.  Rainy and dark.  Not cold.  The mill was idle.  Morris was at Division.  Gordon and Wallace Miller here tonight. 

February 16, 1935 - February 19, 1935 - no entries

February 20, 1935 - Wednesday. A fine day, but some chilly wind.  Warren Nelson of South Branch went to C.C. Hospital, Truro with appendicitis.  James Fulton, Cross Roads, went to C.C. Hospital with a rupture.

February 21, 1935 - no entry

February 22, 1935 - Friday.  Sunshiny; with cold drifting winds.  Mrs W.P. Miller here for the afternoon and tea.  Mr Miller came to walk home with her.  Warren Nelson, young son of Wm Nelson, South Branch,  had his appendicts removed at the C.C. Hospital, Truro, this week.   Letter from F.J.B. on February 21st.  One from C.D.W. today.  Wrote to F.J.B. this week.

February 23, 1935 - Saturday.  Cloudy.  15 or 16 degrees below zero this morning.  Was at Roy's to tea.  It was Jean's 12th birthday.  Alice and Glenn were at the store and at Mrs Hamilton's a little while.  Lola Fulton here this evening.  Put was at Roy's.  Miss Helen Douglas, our school teacher, got a summons to Halifax, as her sister, Donalda, who is a patient at the V.G. Hospital for  the removal of appendix, has developed Typhoid Fever.

February 24, 1935 - Sabbath.  Snowy, but not cold.  Snow fell last night, making roads bad for cars.  Only 20 people at church - at Upper Stewiacke.  Mr Girdwood's text was Hebrews 2:9 - "We have the light of Jesus ever before us, to help us in all trouble".  Isabel Nelson here to dinner.  Morris was at Ross Johnson's to tea.

February 25, 1935 - Monday.  Some snow - not much.  Miss Douglas not back from Halifax yet.  Margaret Miller taught school today.  Made sponge and baked bread.

February 26, 1935 - Tuesday.  Mild.  Thawing with some rain.  Mr and Mrs Fred Bentley and son Billy here to dine.  Morris to practice for a concert at the Manse.  Miss Douglas is back from Halifax; her sister slightly better but very ill yet.  Had letters from Mrs C.A. Blaikie and Eva Woodworth.

February 27, 1935 - Wednesday.  Very stormy - snowing and drifting.  The house party at the Manse was put off.  The mill did not run today.  Tom Fulton and Morris at the Hall tonight playing badminton.

February 28, 1935 - Thursday.  A fine tho' cold day.  15 degrees below zero this a.m.  The party at the Manse was a success.  Games and music; lunch too.

March 1, 1935 - Friday.  A fine day.  5 or 6 degrees below zero this a.m.  Tom Fulton away this evening - probably out home.  Morris at Division - Glenn away too.  They got a new mattress for Uncle Harris' bed.

March 2, 1935 - Saturday.  Snowy - soft snow, but not thawing much.  Mrs Alex Fulton called this p.m.  Warren Nelson was brought home from the C.C. Hospital today.  Frankie Cox went to Truro for him.  Morris was at J.D. Cox's tonight.  Alice and Glenn called at Martin Fulton's after being at the store.

March 3, 1935 - Sabbath.  Not very cold, but snowy and quite a high wind tonight.  Glenn, Uncle Harris and Shirley stayed with Freda and Leslie while the others were at church.  Was at Roy's an hour or two.   Mr Girdwood's text today was John 4:48.   Glenn and Alice at Roy's tonight.

March 4, 1935 - Monday.  Fine with cold wind.  Nothing  worthy of note occurrerd, I don't think.

March 5, 1935 - Tuesday.  Warmer and milder.  Grant Graham here to dinner.  Mrs Richie Barrett called.  I wrote or sent a letter to cousin Laura today.  Had a letter from E.M.B.  Boys home tonight.

March 6, 1935  - Wednesday.  Dark with a little snow.  Boys at Badminton tonight.  Nothing of importance happened, I don't think.

March 7, 1935 - Thursday.  Fine.  12 or 14 below zero this morning.  Alice had acute indigestion.  C.A. Blaikie and P.R. Goodwin here tonight.  They and Glenn are visiting at M.S. Fulton's this evening.  Alda was here a little while.   Rev D.C. Ross died  recently,at Elmwood, USA.  Age 68 years.

March 8, 1935 - Friday.  Cold this a.m.  20 odd below zero.  The Middle Stewiacke Division paid a Fraternal visit to Upper Stewiacke tonight.  Bad car driving.  The hill by Wilmer Hamilton's is a hard place up which to get a car.  Sent a letter and small parcel to F.J.B.

March 9, 1935 - Saturday.  Cold wind.  Frosty tonight.  Mr Girdwood walked up the road to the upper part of his congregation this p.m.  Probably to Ralph Graham's where they had a little baby born which did not live.  The Basket Social was held in the hall tonight.  $60.00 was made.  P.R. Goodwin and C.A. Blaikie here tonight.

March 10, 1935 - Sabbath.  Quite cool and cloudy.  Mr Girdwood preached from Isaiah 6:8 - on God's preparation of Isaiah.  On how we should be clean from the lips to the heart.  Jack Girdwood was here a while in the p.m.  Stanley Andrews' little Douglas Foster, aged 9 months was buried in South Branch cemetery yesterday.

March 11, 1935 - Monday.  A nice mild day.  Good sledding.  Mrs Margeson and Alda called this p.m.  Percy Goodwin went to Brookfield this p.m.  The roads are very hard to run cars on.  Percy went in the Cream Truck, which did not get up here until the p.m.  The Musquodoboit Cream Truck came not at all.  Morris at Badminton.  Tom not.  Charlie Blaikie here tonight.

March 12, 1935 - Tuesday.  A cloudy soft day.  Slight rain.  Charlie was only here to breakfast.  G.R. Deyarmond called.  We heard of Mr Matthew Hamilton and Mrs Rev A.T. MacDonald having to undergo operations at the C.C. Hospital - Mr Hamilton for rupture; Mrs MacDonald for gall stones.   Saw robins.

March 13, 1935 - Wednesday.  Soft.  Some rain fell.   Caught water.  Young Ladies Club at Mrs Edson Cox's for Martha.  Alice got to it.  Girls and I kept Leslie and Freda.  Wrote to E.M.B. this week.

March 14, 1935 -  Thursday.  Fine with cool wind.  Cloudy in the morning.  Mr and Mrs David Graham and daughter Elsie were here to dinner.  Mrs Alex Fulton and I were calling at Mr Martin Fulton's this p.m.  We were saddened by the death of our former pastor's wife in the C.C. Hospital at Truro, this afternoon.  She had passed through an operation for the removal of gall stones; then took pneumonia and could not withstand it.  Died about 6:30 p.m.

March 15, 1935 - Friday.  Fine.  Not much cold going.  Alex MacGillvrary, South Branch, here to dinner.  Mrs Hamilton and Mrs Margeson called in the p.m.  Morris at Division.  Charles Blaikie went home to Truro with F.B. Cox this p.m.  We enjoyed his visit very much.

March 16, 1935 - Saturday.  Some sunshine but clouds too.  Not cold, but there was a chilly wind.  The funeral of Mrs MacDonlad was held in the church at Valley, this p.m. at 2:30.  None of us got there; the roads are rough and bad in places.  It was not fit for Glenn to go.  I should have liked to go, as no doubt many of the congregation would too.  Mrs MacDonald's quiet, unassuming ways and gentle manner, gave her a pleasing personality which we may not forget.  No more will her sweet voice be heard in singing.  But in her home she will be missed so sorely!  May God bless and comfort the husband and children; and out of the sorrow, may some great good come to them all.

March 17, 1935 - Sabbath.  A fine warm day.  Thawing much.  Glenn and Alice were home from church with Freda and Leslie.  Uncle Harris (Bub) has not felt like going to church this winter - anyway - for some months.  The sermon was preached from John 14:2.  It was a fine sermon; telling us of the home above, which Jesus has made sure for those who believe in Him.  The many mansions - abiding places for God's people.  If there were no places, Jesus would have told us, and He has gone to prepare a place for His people, that when their time to go comes, it will be ready.  There were allusions to Mrs MacDonald and fine sweet sentences which made one weep for joy, with sadder ones to tempt it.  Mr Girdwood was the mouthpiece - the thoughts were given him by his God.  Morris was with John Girdwood at the Manse to tea, and afterwards at Y.P.S.C.E. Alda was in a while.  Ruth and Nina exchanged places at tea time.

March 18, 1935 - Monday.  A chilly windy day.  Nothing occurred today as far as I know, that is worth writing. Tom Fulton and Morris Blaikie were both at badminton.

March 19, 1935 - Tuesday.  Warmer; not quite so windy.  We got the rest of the clothes dried and ironed.  Was at Roy's a while this p.m.  Morris has rheumatism or something in the knuckle joint of his forefinger of his right hand.  I have rubbed it with Iodex two or three times - night and morning.  Alice and Glenn are down at G.R. Deyarmond's this evening.  The Scarlet Fever is at W.D. Kennedy's.  His neice, Helen Teas,  was visiting there and took it.  The clerks, Miss Helen Dickie and Harry Lester, are also quarantined with the family.  Goldie Logan of Musquodoboit, and Mrs Russell Millard are clerking now.  We hear that the measles is at Richard Barrett's.

March 20, 1935 - Wednesday.  Cloudy.  Not so cold, a little snow fell during the night.  Some falling tonight.  Mrs Amanda (Hanna) Coulter died last week at a Mr Kellough's, Cooks Brook, Halifax County.  She was 81 years old; had been a widow for years.  Glenn and Alice were at G.R. Deyarmond's tonight too.  Gordon and Wallace Miller called.  Morris and Tom were at badminton games.

March 21, 1935 - Thursday.  Fine, windy.  Not much cold.  Mrs Margeson called, also Edna. Alice and Glenn were at Mrs Hamilton's and at Dr Stewart's tonight.   Wilbert Fulton, formerly of Pembroke, died in B.C., aged 59 years, 8 months. Left a widow and 6 daughters.

March 22, 1935 - Friday.  Slight snow flurries.  Cool wind.  Ruth Blaikie was here to tea.  Had a letter from F.J.B.  Alice finished her brown and white dress; Shirley got a brown skirt - she has a pretty pea-green pullover to wear with it.  There is a break in my specs.  Morris is at Division.  Tom went out home.

March 23, 1935 - Saturday.  Fairly fine.  Windy and cool.  Mrs Margeson and Dorothy McCoul called.  Had a letter from Aunt Edith - my sister Edith.  Alice and Glenn were at the store  and called at Mr Henry Cox's in the evening.

March 24, 1935 - Sabbath.  A very stormy day.  Drifting and snowing.  No church service or meeting of any kind today.

March 25, 1935 - Monday.  Not frosty but there was a cold wind and quite a lot of sunshine., some clouds.   Graham Fulton took ten girls to school on his sled this morning. viz Miss Helen Douglas, teacher, storm-stayed from Saturday at Graham's; with Rita Logan at Mr Martin S. Fulton's; Muriel and Doris Fulton, Thelma, Jean, Ruth, Shirley and Nina Blaikie, and little Jessie Fulton.   The Y.L. Club is having their monthly evening card-party at Mrs G.R. Deyarmond's tonight.  Tom F. and Morris B. are at badminton.  Mrs Margeson and Dorothy called.  Also G.R. Deyarmond.  Wrote to E.M.B.

March 26, 1935 - Tuesday.  Fine with cold west wind.  3 or 4 below zero this morning.  Mr Margeson, Thelma and Alda called today.  Alice and Nina made Coffee Ice-cream; treated us tonight.  Very nice ice-cream.  The cream trucks had great difficulty getting from Otter Brook up here yesterday, but with the snow-plow, they made a good road.

March 27, 1935 - Wednesday.  Pretty fine.  Not very cold; some wind.  Mrs J.D. Cox called on her way up to see Mrs R.A. Cox.  Mr J.D. Cox was up to see George and called here a few minutes.  Glenn's teeth have been bothering him; they were some better today.  Mrs Eben Fulton came back from Middle Stewiacke, in the mail.  Leslie was given two feedings with a bottle.    Miss Douglas has had bad news of her sister who is in the V.G. Hospital.  She is not improving.  Takes very little food of any kind.  Edna was up a little while.

March 28, 1935 - Thursday.  A fine day - some (not cold) wind.  Was down to the store and called at Mrs   D.B. Bentley's and Mrs Eben Fulton's.  Mrs Margeson was calling on some people and came up with me.   We saw Mrs Susan Weaver's death in the News.  She was a cousin of my mother's.  (Susan Andrews was Mrs Weaver's maiden name.)  Mrs Hamilton called while I was away.

March 29, 1935 - Friday.  Snow and rain.  South-east wind.  Was in Roy's this a.m.  George gave me a ladder for my pelargonium.  Bernie Allen fixed my glasses.  Alice and Glenn were down to Wilmer's tonight.  Ruth was here to tea.  Had a letter from E.M.B.

March 30, 1935 - Saturday.  Snow, and rain squalls - some sunshine.  Mrs Margeson called this p.m.  Mrs A.P. Fulton called tonight.  Rumors of measles round.  Had a letter from Margaret Blaikie.

March 31, 1935 - Sabbath.  Quite a pleasant day.  Alice, Shirley, Morris and I were at church.  Mr Girdwood's sermon was from the text "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth."  Glenn went to Truro to get his teeth taken out in the p.m.

April 1, 1935 - Monday.  A nice fine day.  Mr and Mrs S.A. Fulton returned to their home today.  It is good to hear of folk coming back to the old Village.  Boys at badminton tonight.  Wrote to J.W.,  and Morris to E.M.B.

April 2, 1935 - Tuesday.  Snow squalls and some rain.  Dr Stewart is back from Halifax.    Glenn , accompanied by Uncle Charlie Blaikie got home from Truro about tea time.  Alda was in this p.m.  Gerald Cox has Scarlet Fever.  Wrote to F.J.B.  Mr Henry Wickwire died this morning.  Austin Wickwire's father - lived in Milford.

April 3, 1935 - Wednesday.  Snow squalls - not very cold.  Rev AT. MacDonald was in the Village today.  Edna and Roy were in a while at noon.  Charlie and Glenn are up at Martin Fulton's.   We got a bag of Royal Household Flour.  Tom Fulton at badminton; Morris at home.  Had a letter from E.M.B.

April 4, 1935 - Thursday.  Fine with cold wind.  Ladies Aid at Mrs S.A. Fulton's.  Mrs Alex Fulton, Mrs Roy Blaikie, Mrs Eben Fulton, Mrs F.A. Fulton, Mrs H.T. Fulton, Mrs Edson Cox, Mrs J.D. Cox, Mrs Girdwood, Mrs W.D. Kennedy and myself were present.  Mrs S.A. Fulton had been away for the winter, in USA,  with her family, and Mrs H.T. Fulton and Mrs Edson Cox who had also been away were the guests of honor.

April 5, 1935 - Friday.  Fine, windy and cold.  Mrs Eben Fulton called this p.m.  We are thinking that Jean and Thelma may be taking measles.  C.A. Blaikie is at Roy's this evening.  Morris at Division.

April 6, 1935 - Saturday.  Another fine cold day.  Windy.  Was at Roy's a little while this a.m.  Mrs Margeson called in the p.m.  The girls were at practice at the Manse. Mr and Mrs J.W. Benvie here this evening. Dr Stewart is being driven by Wallace Brown as chauffeur lately.  John Fulton's car is under repairs in a garage.  Alice and Glenn were at H.T. Fulton's store.

April 7, 1935 - Sabbath.  Fine with some wind.  Shirley, Nina, Morris and I were at church.  Mr Girdwood's sermon was from Matthew 6:16 - on fasting - appearing to fast, but only pretending - that is their reward.  Praise of men.   Charlie did not go to church - not being suitably garbed, as he considered , to appear at church.  Katherine Girdwood and Mrs Girdwood, with Mr Girdwood singing bass, made very good singing.  I very much enjoyed the hymn "Jesus Calls Us O'er the Tumult of the World's Wild Restless Sea".  Alda was up in the p.m.

April 8, 1935 - Monday.  Fine; cold wind.  Was in Roy's.  Jack Girdwood was there.   Nina was sick with cold and came home from school.  Charlie Blaikie at M.S. Fulton's to tea.   Wrote to E.M.B. and also J.D.W.

April 9, 1935 - Tuesday.  A lovely fine warm spring day.  The snow thawed a lot.   Charlie and Glenn finished the hatchery they were making for Alice in which to put her setting hens.  Alice and Glenn over to Mr Day's to get eggs for setting.  Jack Girdwood came up tonight but  after a while they proposed to play cards and he went to Roy's to listen on the radio. Sedley Fulton is here this evening.  Nina, Leslie, Freda and Uncle Harris have cold.

April 10, 1935 - Wednesday.  Rather cold last night.  Thawed today.  Snow is melting away.  Roy, Tom Fulton and Morris were cutting trees on Henry Cox's land.  Edwin has a cold and did not go to the woods.  Glenn took Charlie to Truro.   They were accompanied by Wallace Miller and Sedley Fulton too.  Nina is still sick with cold.

April 11, 1935 - Thursday.  Sunshine and cold wind.  Was in Roy's a little while before dinner.  Edna and Edwin have colds.  Edna is quite bad and no Doctor to attend her, as Dr Stewart  is not well himself.  The WMS met at Mrs S.A. Fulton's in the p.m.  It was a nice meeting, being the Easter meeting.  Glenn took Mrs J.W. Benvie (from here), Mrs D.B. Bentley and myself in the car.  He and Alice were at Warren Butcher's in the evening.  Our men were cutting logs  off H.P. Cox's land for the mining people at Caribou, Halifax County.  They got all they needed.

April 12, 1935 - Friday.  Cloudy.  Wind cool.  Alice set a hen.  Dr Stewart not up to see Edna yet.  She is no better.  I should go down to see her.  Mrs Margeson was in today.  Alice and Morris have colds.  Morris did not work after 3 p.m.  Tom went out home and Glenn to G.R. Deyarmond's.   Had a letter from F.J.B.  The snow is nearly all off the road and fields here; in the woods it is still deep.

April 13, 1935 - Saturday.  Dark all day.  Rain began in the p.m. about 2:30 o'clock, and it is still raining at 10:20.   Was in Roy's.  Edna is in bed.  Jean and Ruth have ear ache.  Did not see them tonight.  Alice and Glenn were at H.T. Fulton's store in the p.m.  Morris is sick with cold - in bed all day.  They did not work in the mill.  Reta Fulton (Frank's) was taken to C.C. Hospital to have appendicts removed.  Dr Stewart is better.

April 14, 1935 - Sabbath.  Cloudy.  Rain tonight.  Morris got up to his dinner. Glenn and girls at church.

April 15, 1935 - Monday.  Dark, some rain, some wind.  Alice washed.  We have colds yet.  Morris worked.  Tom went to the badminton game.  Roy was in.  Bub is not well.

April 16, 1935 - Tuesday.  Dark and rainy.  Bub no better.  Glenn has cold.  Lola Fulton was in on her way to Y.L. Club at  Mrs W.D. Kennedy's.  Alice did not go.   Dr Stewart did not come up tho' Glenn wanted him to do so.

April 17, 1935 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  Some wind, but milder.  Dr Stewart called - prescribed for Uncle Harris and Glenn.  Roy was in - also Bob Deyarmond.  Wrote to F.J.B.  I called at Mrs Margeson's - she is sick with the cold.  It is all over the country - the cold.    On April 15, a daughter was born to Mr and Mrs John McCoul; and on April 15, a daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Earle Archiblad.

April 18 - 20, 1935 - Thursday to Saturday.  These days have been dark - some rain.  A little (not much) sunshine.  The road in front of our house is very hard for cars to get over.  Mrs G.R. Deyarmond called.  I went to bed on Friday and am still in bed.  Uncle Harris has been very miserable.  Dr Stewart was in to see him last p.m.  Freda and Leslie have cold too.    Edna helped us last evening.  She was in today.  Also Mrs Alex Fulton.  Rev Girdwood made a short call yesterday.

April 21, 1935 - Easter Sabbath.  Not very cold but dark and cloudy.  Glenn and Bub and I were home from all the services.  There was an Easter Service put on by the Mission Band  and assisted by C.G.I.T. girls and others.  Mrs Girdwood was the head.  They told us it was very nice.  Morris and Jack Girdwood were  at Graham Fulton's to tea.

April 22, 1935 - Monday.  Dark and cloudy and windy; and toward night, snow flurries.  Alice got her Monday's wash dried and ironed.  This was a holiday.  Glenn seems better, I think.  Bub is, slightly too.  I am better but feel so weak! Oh, how I long for....        There is a dance at Allen Mackenzie's tonight.  Tom Fulton and Morris did not go - went to badminton instead.  The roads are in a woeful condition.  Edna was in a little while tonight.

April 23, 1935 - Tuesday.  Not very cold, but chilly wind.  Alda called tonight.  Glenn away on business.  Tom Fulton, Roy and Edna out to Mr Alex Fulton's.  Had the last of our pork for dinner.

April 24, 1935 - Wednesday.  Clouds, sunshine and chilly wind.  Alice refreshed the dining room paper today by patching the soiled places .  She set a hen.  Shirley and Nina at Roy's tonight.  The tournament at badminton is tonight in the hall.

April 25, 1935 - Thursday.  Pretty fine.  Still a chilly wind.  Alice cleaned her bedroom.  They are not running the mill.  They are putting on needful repairs.  Graham Fulton called, also Dorothy McCoul.  There is a dance at William Patterson's tonight. The young fry are at it.  Sent a letter to E.M.B., Mirror, today.

April 26, 1935 - Friday.  Shine of sun; chill of wind.  Was in Mr Margeson's this p.m.  She is better and able to be up.  We heard of the death of Adam Wright at the County Farm, aged 78 years, 11 months, 4 days.   Roy was in to see me a little while tonight.  Glenn and Alice were at Dr Stewart's and Mrs Hamilton's a short time tonight.  Tom Fulton was out to his home.  Morris, at Division.  Wrote to Edith Woodworth.

April 27, 1935 - Saturday.  The warmest spring day we have had this season.  Dorothy McCoul called. Also Thelma. Jean and Ruth.  Hughie Patterson called this evening.  Tom Fulton and Morris are up at S.G. Fulton's.  Glenn and Alice down to the store.  Shirley and Nina were down to visit their Grandma Hamilton.  Glenn and I called at R.A. Cox's.  Mrs Alex Fulton called while we were there.

April 28, 1935 - Sabbath.  Another warm - not hot - day.  Not much sunshine.   George was up - the first time since last fall.  Nina, Bub, children and I home from church.  Morris was substitute janitor at the hall and church today.  Graham Fulton and wife were going to Eastville, and John Girdwood is ill.   Mr and Mrs Harry L. Blaikie and Donald and June and Lee were out from Truro this p.m.

April 29, 1935 - Monday.  Dark this a.m.  Sun shone in the p.m.  Roy took his Whippet car to Truro and changed it for another of the same.  Edwin, Tom and Morris went too.  Was in Roy's a while.  George was up and I went down with him.  We had word via of Edith Woodworth, that Dorothy J. Sargent, my sister Mary's youngest girl died April 20 in hospital.  It must have been T.B.

April 30, 1935 - Tuesday.  Dark.  Rainy tonight.  Tom Fulton went out home tonight.  Edna called this p.m. on her way to a general Aid meeting.  Alda was here this evening.   Baby Leslie is quite troublesome and  Alice has poor rest with him at night.  She cleaned my bedroom today.  Morris and Edwin got 3 books in Truro - Grace Richmond, Martin Keith, Steele & Oppenheim were the authors.  The family of Woods , who were living in the old Francis House, have moved to Otter Brook today.

May 1, 1935 - Wednesday.  Cold and chilly.  A few drops of rain fell - not much.  Alice painted the ceiling of my bedroom.  Dorothy McCoul called this p.m.  Mr Billy Brenton and E. Goodwin called and we got some gaspereau.  The young men, Tom and Morris, are at badminton.  J.W. Girdwood has been ill and is unable to do the janitor work, so Morris is doing it for a few nights.

May 2, 1935 - Thursday.  Pretty fine; cold wind tho'.  Alice finished painting the woodwork of my room.  I was at Roy's this evening.  The boys are at the hall to hear A.A. McLeod, of the Grand Division, speak.  George Blaikie was up here a while.  Sent a letter to F.J.B.

May 3, 1935 - Friday.  Rather cold wind.  Some sunshine.   Roy, Edwin, Tom Fulton and Morris went to Stewiacke today. They got the big saw hammered.  Alice was at the store and at Ethel Deyarmond's.  John McCoul is here tonight.  Jack Girdwood is better; able to be at badminton.   Mr and Mrs Burnham Stewart  had a daughter born today.

May 4, 1935 - Saturday.  Was in bed today.  Did not feel very well.

May 5, 1935 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine.   Glenn, Uncle Harris and I and Freda and Leslie home from church.   Sabbath School began here today; but not in Meadowvale.   There were 53 present.  The same officers are continued.  Mr and Mrs G.R. Deyarmond were up  after tea, and Roy was too.  Nina was at Y.P.S.C.E. - also Tom and Morris.

May 6, 1935 - Monday.  Dark - not much rain tho'.   They are scraping the road through the Village..   I don't know how far in either direction.  This was the 25th anniversary of  King George's coming to the throne.  People having radios heard him speak to his subjects.  Mr and Mrs Foster Campbell called to see us this p.m.  They are spending the winter and a few months before or after, in Nova Scotia.  Their home is in Consort, Alberta.  Edna was up.  Had letters from F.J.B. and E.M.B.

May 7, 1935 - Tuesday.  Quite warm.  Clothes got dried.  Glenn went to Truro.  Tom and Morris fencing.  Edna was in, also Mrs D.B. Bentley and Dorothy McCoul.

May 8, 1935 - Wednesday.  Cloudy.  Not very warm, but not cold.  Ladies Aid out at Mrs Alex Fulton's.  Edwin took Edna and me out, and brought Mrs Martin S. Fulton, Mrs Eben Fulton, Edna and me home.  Ladies present were Mrs S.A. Fulton, Mrs H. Fulton (Hedley T.), Mrs Frank A. Fulton, Mrs Edson Cox, Mrs Girdwood, Mrs D.B. Bentley, Mrs Grant Cox,Mrs Roy Blaikie, Mrs Eben Fulton and myself.  Alice cleaned "the boy's" bedroom and the china closet.

May 9, 1935 - Thursday.  A fine day.   Quite a frost last night.  Leslie and Freda and Nina are all ill today.  Dr Stewart was in and prescribed for the two former, and also for me.   Glenn came home from Truro just after tea.  I did not get to the WMS meeting.  There is a musical entertainment at the hall.  Messrs McDuff and Copeland, I believe are the names.  Shirley, Tom and Morris are there.  Dr Stewart told us of the birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Boyd Hamilton, Pembroke;  and a baby to Mr and Mrs Charlie Archibald, Musquodoboit.

May 10, 1935 - Friday.  Dark with slight showers.   Baby Leslie not much better.   Glenn went to see Dr Stewart tonight.  Mrs Margeson called.  They had a good concert last night.   The McDuff's are good musicians.  $33.00 were made and half, minus the board bill, goes to the Y.L. Club.

May 11, 1935 - Saturday.  A fine warm day.  Baby some better.  Shirley at C.G.I.T. in the p.m.  Dorothy McCoul called this p.m.  , and Mr and Mrs A.P. Fulton in the evening.  Morris went to Stewiacke this p.m.

May 12, 1935 - Sabbath.  Fine.  A cold northerly wind.  Shirley, Nina and I were at church.  Meadowvale S. School began.  Roy Blaikie is the Superintendant.  Was at Roy's this p.m.

May 13, 1935 - Monday.  Rather a cold north east wind.  Cloudy.  Morris returned from Stewiacke late last night.  He had heard the Caledonia Choir - 35 male voices - from New Glasgow - in the Stewiacke church last evening.  Mr Matthew Hamilton was here to dinner. Baby was a little better today.  H.T. Fulton is enlarging his little store here, and plans building another in Caribou.

May 14, 1935 - Tuesday.  Some sunshine this a.m. but it clouded up, and rained in the late afternoon and evening.  Y.L.C. was at Mrs George Bentley's.  Mrs W.D. Kennedy called, and Glenn and Alice and her up to Georgie's.  Tom Fulton is out to his home tonight.  J.W. Girdwood spent the evening with Morris.  Wrote to F.J.B. and Mrs J.M.

May 15, 1935 - Wednesday.  Dark with showers.  North east wind.  Mrs Alex Fulton and Mrs A.L. Margeson called.  Baby Leslie some better.  Messrs Mesheau, who are supplying meat, had fish today.  Tom Fulton and Morris are at badminton.  A. Langille called.

May 16, 1935 - Thursday.  A fine day, with west wind.  Messrs Thomas and Judson Graham  dined here.  Dorothy McCoul was in.   She and Shirley and Nina went to watch the badminton game a while.  Roy was trucking lumber to Truro.  Clyde Reynolds' truck is hauling deal to Brookfield; it is to be shipped to Arklie, etc.  Mr and Mrs Harry A. Johnson has a son born last night or this morning.  Mr Girdwood took some young people to the Rally at First United Church, Truro.

May 17, 1935 - Friday.  A nice fine day.  West wind.  Roy hauling lumber to Truro.  We got beef (162 lbs) from Mesheau's this morning.    Mr Mesheau and his son from Middle Stewiacke are butchering and peddling meat.  Jean Barrett had tea with us .  Mrs George Bentley called this evening.  There is a dance at M.S. Fulton's tonight.   Morris and Jack Girdwood went to it after Division. Glenn and Alice were to Mrs Hamilton's in the evening.  Baby Leslie better today.

May 18, 1935 - Saturday.  Not cold, but windy and cloudy.  Glenn went to Musquodoboit to bring Eva Fulton home to Martin S. Fulton's.  I was down to Mrs G.R. Deyarmond's to have her make some alterations in my new coat.  Did not get it done today.  Nina was at Mrs Hamilton's to dinner and at W.D. Kennedy's to tea.  Hazel Deyarmond had tea here.  Mrs Margeson called.  Morris is away tonight - at S.G. Fulton's.

May 19, 1935  - Sabbath.  Cool - raining tonight.  Glenn took Mr and Mrs Alex Fulton, Mrs Grant Cox, Martha Cox and me up to Springside Church to a memorial service, preached by their minister, Rev H.S. Raynor, for the late Lewis Graham of Pembroke, Col. Co.  The text was "The Memory of the Just is Blessed".  J.W. Girdwood was here to tea. Edna was in in the p.m.

May 20, 1935 - Monday.  Cloudy with some sunshine and wind.  Glenn was to Caribou with some young men who wished to get work there, but failed.  Roy was to Truro with lumber.  Glenn and Morris are to a party at C.B. Reynolds' tonight.  Edna called twice.  Dr Stewart was in.

May 21, 1935 - Tuesday.  Rather cloudy, but some sun and wind.  Glenn, G.R. Deyarmond, Arthur Kennedy, and Mrs Alex Fulton went to Truro this a.m.  Edna was up once or twice.   Tom and Morris to bed early.

May 22, 1935 - Wednesday.  Pretty fine; slight showers, some sunshine; quite a frost last night.  Was in Roy's today.  Edna and Alice are both cleaning house.   Edna papered the room where George was ill.  It looks nicely.  Roy has been trucking to Truro.  Glenn got home yesterday p.m.   Got his lower false teeth.   Tom Fulton was out home tonight.  Morris went to Division but has not got home yet.  Probably went to Eastville after.  Had letters from E.M.B. and F.J.B. this week.

May 23, 1935 - May 24, 1935 - no entries

May 25, 1935 - Saturday.  Cloudy with some showers and hail.  Glenn took me to Aunt Martha Fleck's, calling on Mr and Mrs W.T. Nelson and family on the way.  Mrs John McCulloch spent the p.m. with Aunt Martha.  Raymond Fleck is home and has high blood pressure and enlargement of the heart.

May 26, 1935 - Sabbath.  Fine, nice day.  Was at Aunt Martha's until between 2 and 3 p.m.  Morris came for me and we drove to Stewiacke to Aunt Edith Woodworth's (my sister Edith) and left there for home about 10 p.m.  arriving home ablut 11:45.  Mrs Thomas Ryan (Aunt Martha's daughter Edna ) and baby Raymond werer at Aunt Martha's today.

May 27, 1935 - Monday.  Fine, warm day.  Some wind.  Alice washed the week's wash, and then painted in the pantry.  Was in Roy's tonight.  Roy and Edwin were to Truro with lumber.  This was Edwin's 21st birthday.  Lilian Purdy called this p.m.  Boys, Tom and Morris, were at badminton games.

May 28, 1935 - Tuesday.  Another fine day.  They finished hauling ashes etc to the oat ground, and Tom was harrowing it.  Glenn was up at Burnside and Pembroke.  Roy did not go to Truro.  Alice was painting the pantry.  John Girdwood and Edwin Blaikie went for a swim.  Alda was up.

May 29, 1935 - Wednesday.  A warm wet day.  Good for growth.  Alice finsined cleaning and painting and papering the pantry.  I felt rheumatism and went to bed before supper.  Badminton closes tonight.

May 30, 1935 - Thursday.  A nice fine warm day.  Roy had lumber to Truro.  Edwin and Sidney Cox took the young cattle out to pasture at A. Putnam Fulton's tonight.  John Girdwood was here this evening.   We got some potatoes from .....today.    Ours lasted until now.  Uncle Harris went fishing at Alex Fulton's brook.  Caught 9.  Wrote to F.J.B.

May 31, 1935 - Friday.  Another fine day.  Glenn and Shirley went to Truro to get  glasses for Shirley's eyes.   They intend remaining over night.   Roy took lumber to Truro.   I was in Mrs Margeson's an hour or so.  She gave me a nice lunch.  The boys (young men) cleaned the seed oats.  Had a letter from E.M.B.

June 1, 1935 - Saturday.  Dark with a few drops of rain.  Roy took lumber to Truro, and Alda and Thelma went in the truck with him.  I did only common chores today.  Earle Kennedy sold Alice some rhubarb tonight.

June 2, 1935 - Sabbath.  Fine with rather cool wind.  Shirley, Nina and Morris were at S. School and church; and I was at church. Mr Girdwood preached from the 33rd Psalm, 12th verse. "Blessed is  the nation whose God is the Lord, and the people whom he hath chosen for His own inheritance."   he left no doubt in our minds that he firmly believed that the nation and people who served God, would be blessed and all should be well with them.   Morris had tea with the Girdwood's.  Jack was up here, and he went with him.  In the evening, Mr and Mrs Wm. Stewart, Mr and Mrs Percy R. Goodwin, Miss Charlotte Pollock, and James and Henry Stewart (sons of Mr and Mrs W. Stewart) made us a call.

June 3, 1935 - Monday.  Fine and warm.  Sowed some grain.  Very busy in the mill.  H.T. Fulton's store getting along slowly, but surely.  This was King George V's birthday and a holiday.   Nina was at Mrs George Bentley's to tea.   She repeated her Scripture Memory Verses.   Miss Florence A. Fields is visiting her friends and relatives.  Is at Grant Cox's now.  Ball games started tonight.  Mrs Margeson called.

June 4, 1935 - Tuesday.  Another lovely day.  The seeding is going on all round.  Putnam Fulton sowed our oats today.  The gardens are about ready to plant.   I had Freda and Leslie down to Edna's this p.m.  They are very busy at the mill now.  There is a rush for lumber, it seems.   The girls were in the river to swim this p.m.

June 5, 1935 - Wednesday.  Cloudy with warm rain in the afternoon and evening.    Harry and Nellie Blaikie were "up the river" , Eastville way, fishing today.   They were here a minute.   They planted the potatoes and Uncle Harris put a few peas in, but the rain stopped him.  Morris went to Truro tonight.  Edna went with Harry and Nellie.  Sent a letter to E.M.B.

June 6, 1935 - Thursday.  Fine and warm.  Uncle Harris was putting in the garden.  Ladies Aid was at Mrs Edson Cox's.  Mrs W.D. Kennedy, Mrs S.A. Fulton, Mrs Roy Trask, Mrs C.P. MacMillan, Mrs J.D. Cox, Mrs Girdwood, Mrs Eben Fulton, Mrs Walter Ross, Mrs D.B. Bentley, Mrs Alex Fulton, Miss Helen Douglas, Miss Helen Dickie, and Miss Martha S. Cox and myself were present.  Was at the play "It Pays to Advertise" in the evening.  Saw a lot of friends there.

June 7, 1935 - Friday.  Pretty warm.  Good growing weather.  Miss Jean Cox and Miss Florence Fields came in this morning.  Jean went to visit her friend, Mrs Byron Johnson at Mrs W.D. Kennedy's and Flo stayed with us.  We had a nice visit only not long enough.  Mr and Mrs Johnson, baby boy and Mrs Kennedy came and took them to Mr Alex Fulton's.  Then, after tea, Glenn motored me out to the same place.  Mr Fulton is at the Maritime Conference, Sackville, NB.

June 8, 1935 - Saturday.  Dark and pretty warm.  Spent the day at Mrs Fulton's.  Came home after tea.  Had a nice visit.  Mr Fulton came home this p.m.    Mr and Mrs Glenn Blaikie and Mr and Mrs Putnam Fulton drove to W.T. Nelson's tonight  and the latter got some incubator chickens.   Morris B. and Tom F. are out to E. Grant Cox's tonight.

June 9, 1935 - Sabbath.  A nice warm cloudy day.   Mr Raynor, Springside minister, preached here.  His sermon was on the parable of the sower.  Alice and Glenn and Uncle Harris were not at church.  Edna was ill in church and Roy and she went home.   Mr and Mrs C.A. Blaikie and Mr and Mrs Lloyd Blaikie were out this p.m. and Jack Girdwood was up - tho' he did not stay to tea.   Glenn and Alice are away for a drive.

June 10, 1935 - Monday.  Dark and cloudy.  Looks rainy tonight.  Alice, Morris and the girls carried water to wash.  Was over to A.L. Margeson's twice - not in the house.  Tom and Morris took Martha and Jean Cox, and Flo Fields to Brookfield tonight.   Roy and Edwin were hauling logs.  Sent a letter to F.J.B.  Was at Roy's this evening.

June 11, 1935 - Tuesday.  A day of showers - just what was wanted.  Y.L.C. met at Mrs A. Putnam Fulton's this p.m.  Alice went.  Mrs Girdwood called to see about getting eggs from Alice.  Mrs Hamilton and Wilmer (her son) went to J.W. Benvie's tonight to visit.

June 12, 1935 - Wednesday.  A nice fine day.  High wind some of the time.  A.R. Langille, Insurance Agent, here to tea.  Tom Fulton was out home this evening.  Morris at a card party at G.R. Deyarmond's.  Alice and Alda baked the cakes for the party.

June 13, 1935 - Thursday.  Fine some of the time.  Cloudy too.  WMS met at Mrs Martin Smith's, Otter Brook.  Glenn took Mrs Alex Fulton, Mrs Edson Cox and me.

June 14, 1935 - Friday.  Thunder and lightning.  Rain and hail.  Rain came in showers. Hail stones quite large and thick.  Alice cleaned the cellarway.  I was at Mrs Graham Fulton's to tea.  Mrs Ellis, Mrs Fulton's mother, was there visiting.  There is a dance at Roy Patterson's tonight. Had a letter from E.M.B.

June 15, 1935 - Saturday.  Dark with showers.  They did not work in the p.m. - I mean Tom and Morris.  Dr Stewart was in.  Insurance Agent, A.R. Langille called.  Also Thelma.  Glenn is away with Mr Langille.   Mrs C.C. Cox has gone toTruro to live.  She has her own house there.   Reta is still at Philip Cox's.

June 16, 1935 - Sabbath.  Cloudy with some sunshine.   Was at church.  The sermon was preached from the text I Cor 3:9.  "Ye are co-laborers with God.  Ye are God's husbandry. Ye are God's building." In the p.m. I was at Roy's.   John Grant, his wife, Florence, Gordon, Donald and Doris were there.  After I came home, Morris, who had been there, and Jack Girdwood (also there) came up and spent the p.m.  We had also as guests Mrs Melrose Scott, Mrs John Webster (jr), and little girl Barbara.   My brother John Webster Sr. his wife Bertha, and two grand-daughters, Jewell and Evelyn went to Mr Alex Fulton's.   Tom Fulton, Jack Girdwood and Morris were in my room a little while tonight. I like to have company.  Jack had a headache.

june 17, 1935 - Monday.  Rainy - in showers - sometimes.  Roy brought a load of furnace wood up here.  Glenn was at Arthur Kennedy's to tea; and he and Alice were at Mrs Hamilton's and G.R. Deyarmond's this evening.  School exams started today.

June 18, 1935 - Tuesday.  Clouds and sunshine.  Cold wind.  Uncle Harris (Bub) was piling furnace wood.  Alice and Glenn were over to Musquodoboit a short time this p.m.  Charlie Blaikie and William Cochrane  were at Roy's to tea.  There was a birthday party at Mrs S.A. Fulton's this afternoon.  Mrs G.S. Thompson called for me, but I could not go.

June 19, 1935 - Wednesday.  Cool with some sunshine.  Baby Leslie pretty well.  I carried him up on the hill by the apple trees this p.m.

June 20, 1935 - Thursday.  Cool and dark.  Was in bed with rheumatism.  Morris got me some "aspirin" from Dr Stewart.    Rev E. Gordon was inducted into the Brookfield -  Middle Stewiacke charge tonight. The induction taking place in Middle Stewiacke.  There was a dance at J.W. Benvie's tonight.

June 21, 1935 - Friday.  Cool and rainy this a.m.  School closed.  Alda's 19th birthday.  I have not seen her yet.  Edna called to see me.  In the p.m., Alda, Thelma and Jean  spent a little time with me in my room.  I do enjoy these visits.

June 22, 1935 - Saturday.  Cool wind.  Clouds and sunshine.  Damp tonight.  Got up this forenoon.  Mrs Alex Fulton called this p.m.  Glenn and Alice were at the store tonight.  Most of G.R. Deyarmond's family are ill.  Glenn went down after he and Alice came home.   Tom Fulton and Morris are spending the evening at Mr William Patterson's.   Born to Mr and Mrs Wilfred Pearson at the Maternity Home (Miss Bessie Creelman's)  , Newton Mills, a daughter.

June 23, 1935 - Sabbath.  Quite fine.  All of us except Harris, and I and Freda and Leslie at church.   They said the sermon preached by Mr Girdwood on the text "What think ye of Christ?" was very helpful.   "He preached a sermon!" was what Morris said, and Glenn reiterated it.    In the p.m. Glenn , Alice and family went for a drive down to Middle Stewiacke and home via the Branch.  Morris and J.W. Girdwood spent most of the p.m. in Morris' room.

June 24, 1935 - Monday.  A fine day.  Wind warm too.  Edna , Katherine Girdwood and Mrs Margeson called this p.m.  The girls - Shirley and Nina went swimmiing with Roy's three girls - Thelma, Jean and Ruth.  J.W. Girdwood amd Morris spent the evening at Roy's.  It was School-Meeting night.  Only Glenn went from here.  Had letters from E.M.B. and F.M.G.   Roy and Edwin were after logs.  Roy was at the School Meeting.  Tom Fulton helped Edna set out her tomatoes.

June 25, 1935 - Tuesday.  Another nice day.  Alice and Freda and Leslie spent the day with her mother, Mrs Edmund Hamilton.  Shirley, Nina and I did some baking.  Roy's girls were up.  J.W. Girdwood and Morris B. went to Truro after tea - taking Glenn's car .  They got home about 11 p.m.

June 26, 1935 - Wednesday.  A nice fine day.   The Meadowvale, Otter Brook and Village Ladies Aids  cleaned the church today.  I did not go to help.  Alda went in place of Edna.  They finished cleaning soon after dinner.  Roy took lumber to Truro  for Mr H. Hayman.  There is a concert in Springside tonight.  Mr and Mrs Ross Johnson, Katherine and John Girdwood and Morris Blaikie went in one car.

June 27, 1935 - Thursday.  Fine.  Windy.  Was at Roy's a while, with Freda.   Mr and Mrs Suther Geddes here this p.m.  Also Mrs Margeson and J.W. Girdwood.   Heard of Monroe Johnson and Viola Brown's marriage.  Provincial Exams finished today. Mrs R. Millard was Deputy Examiner.

June 28, 1935 - Friday.  Fine and pretty warm.  Not much to write.  Mrs Alex Fulton called.   Edna put the silver polish on the pipe at the church this p.m. I was there with her.  We had strawberry shortcake for tea.  Had it once before this week.  Glenn and Alice away this evening to Mr Guy Perrin's, Musquodoboit.

June 29, 1935 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Cloudy this a.m. annd a few sprinkles of rain toward night.  Edna and girls, Katherine Girdwood, and Mrs Margeson were callers today.  Saw Mrs Alfred Johnson.  She and Alfred were going to Truro to bring Homer, their son, home from the C.C. Hospital; he having had his appendicts removed.  Tom Fulton went home tonight.  Glenn and Alice were at the store.  Sent a letter to M.E.B.

June 30, 1935 - Sabbath.  A dark day with a little rain.  Glenn, Morris, Shirley, Nina and I went to church from here.  Mr Girdwood preached from the text "This is the day which the Lord hath made. We will rejoice and be glad in it".  John Girdwood came up and Morris went back with him to tea.  I was in Roy's to see Mr  Margeson this p.m.  Alda, Ruth and Jean were up - also George.  Wilfred,  Graham and Florence Fulton ,and Doris and Muriel Fulton were to the Valley today.  Roy was up tonight.  I went to bed before he went home.

July 1, 1935 - Monday.  A lovely fine day.  Some wind.  This a.m. Misses Marion and Jessie Stewart, Mr James Stewart, Fred and Eva Woodworth and Morris went on a trip to Pictou County.  They had a nice time and got back here early.  Ralph Woodworth had come with them and stayed here for the day.  Tonight Parker and Philip Cox spent the evening with us.   We enjoyed their visit as we always do.  Other callers were Mrs Margeson, J.W. Girdwood, Edna and girls and George.

July 2, 1935 - Tuesday.  A nice day.  Quite a breeze.  A very pleasant day.  The WMS Rally met at Selma today.  There were two sessions.  Mr and Mrs Girdwood, Mrs W.D. Kennedy, Katherine Girdwood, and I went in Mr G's car.  Percy Johnson took their car.  Mrs Edson Cox, and Mrs J.D. Cox were with them.  The meetings were very interesting, and I trust, helpful.  There were different lady speakers.  Mrs (Rev) J.K. McInnes is the very efficient president.  The last thought she left with us was about sharing - in everything we may share, making all lives with whom we come in contact, richer and fuller.  Rev Penwarden closed the meeting with a benediction.  We had a very pleasant drive home, except that Mrs Girdwood was sick and had headache.

July 3, 1935 - Wednesday.  Another lovely day.  We were getting ready for Ladies Aid.  The girls picked berries for eating today.  Glenn took Mrs Henry Cox and me up to Mrs P.W. Graham's after tea.  Mrs Graham is going to USA and we wished to see her before she went.  We enjoyed the call much.

July 4, 1935 - Thursday.  Fine, with a warm wind.  We had Ladies Aid this p.m.  Ladies present were Mrs Martin S. and Mrs S. Graham Fulton, Mrs Roy Blaikie, Mrs D.B. Bentley, Mrs Eben Fulton, Mrs Edson Cox, Mrs Girdwood, Mrs S.A. Fulton, Mrs Charles A. Fulton.   Moris spent the evening at Mr Girdwod's.  Dr Stewart is leaving us for Camp Hill Hospital, we hear.  Glenn and Alice and Nina and Alda and Margaret Miller were to Truro for fittings for the Manse drain.

July 5, 1935 - Friday.  Some thunder showers this morning, and thunder through the day.  Alice and girls were at Mrs G.R. Deyarmond's getting dresses cut out for the girls tonight.   There was a meeting of the "Aida" at the hall.  Glenn was out round the Branch today.  Mrs Frank A. Fulton and girls  went to Hopewell today with Rev A.T. MacDonald.

July 6, 1935 - Saturday.  Rather cool.  Cold wind.   Was at Mrs W.D. Kennedy's to dinner.  Called at the P.O. , Mrs Edson Cox's and Mrs Eben Fulton's.  Roy, Edwin and Sid Cox and Tom Fulton, Morris and Uncle Harris went to Sheet Harbor today.  Morris and Tom are not back yet.  Glenn and Alice were at the store and up to M.S. Fulton's.

July 7, 1935 - Sabbath.  Another cool day.  Was at church.  The text of Mr Girdwood's sermon was "Behold, I have set before thee an open door."  Rev.3, part of verse 8.  It was very good.  Jack Girdwood was up in the afternoon.  Mr and Mrs Charles Blaikie and Gail,also Wm. Cochrane had tea with us. They had attended the funeral of Mrs Henry Christie,Mrs C. Blaikie's aunt, of Greenfield, before coming here.

July 8, 1935 - Monday.  Cool and windy.  Shirley and Nina spent the day at their Grandma Hamilton's.  I called at the P.O. to see Mrs Harry Johnson's baby boy, James Arthur.  He is a nice baby.  I also saw their very nice flowers.  They always have nice ones - flowers - which are uncommon, or common ones which are lovely.  Was in Roy's.  Alda went to C. Peppard's to pick strawberries.  Letters from E.M.B. and F.J.B.

July 9, 1935 - Tuesday.  Cloudy and warm.  Glenn went to Truro.  Alice got a crate of strawberries from C. Peppard.  She preserved most of them.  There was a ball game tonight.

July 10, 1035 - Wednesday.  A very warm day.  Glenn got home at tea time.  Edna and others were fixing at the hall this a.m.  There is a picnic in Musquodoboit - at the Plaster Rock today.  Tom Fulton and Sid Cox went tonight.  G.R. Deyarmond was soliciting money to present to Dr Stewart ere his going away.

July 11, 1935 - Thursday.  Thunder showers this a.m. but finer in the p.m.,  and it was a nice time for the Ice Cream Social which was held tonight. They also presented Dr Stewart with a sum of money.  He was addressed by Mr Girdwood, and made a suitable and kindly reply to the friends who thus showed their appreciation of his services for nearly ten years.  Aunt Ellie Graham is here for the night and a little visit which we appreciate very much.

July 12, 1935 - Friday.  A fine warm day.  Windy.  Aunt Alice (Ellie) Graham  went home with Glenn and the girls taking her up to Pembroke. I was at WMS at Mrs Edson Cox's.  We had a nice meeting.  Morris was at the ball game tonight.  Jack Girdwood was here with Morris and came back with him from the ball game.  Wrote to Mrs Russell Boomer.

July 13, 1935 - Saturday.  Fine except for some thunder showers early in the a.m., and in the late p.m.  This was the day for Preparatory Service for Communion on the morrow.  5 children were baptized.  Barbara Irene, daughter of Mr and Mrs A.P. Fulton; Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of Mr and Mrs J.W. Benvie;  Elizabeth Dryden, daughter of Mr and Mrs Raymond Deyarmond;  and Freda Mary and Ronald Leslie, children of Mr and Mrs W. Glenn Blaikie.  Rev W. Girdwood baptrized these children.  The sermon was from the text "He loved me and gave himself for me".  Glenn and Alice were at the store and at J.W. Benvie's tonight.

July 14, 1935 - Sabbath.  Fine and warm.  Sacrament Sabbath.  The sermon was from the words of Jesus calling Matthew from the receipt of  custom, saying "Follow me".  Mr Girdwood seemed to be "in the spirit" today.  Was in Roy's and also Mr Margeson's.  Glenn and Alice were at G.R. Deyarmond's listening to the radio to Seth Parker singing etc.

July 15, 1935 - Monday.  Dark and warm.  Was at Mrs H.P. Cox's a while. Also in Mrs Margeson's.  Glenn was to Truro.  David Fulton was here.  Glenn and Tom took J. Harris Blaikie up to Burnside tonight.  Morris was up to Newton Mills to a ball game.

July 17, 1935 - Tuesday.  Dark with slight showers.  Glenn took Mr and Mrs David Fulton and their son, Bobby in to Truro to have the latter x-rayed in the C.C. Hospital .  Shirley and I picked some strawberries.  The government is widening and otherwise repairing the Otter Brook (back) Road.

July 17, 1935 - Wednesday.  Dark in the a.m.  , but turned out fine after a slight shower or two.  Glenn, Shirley and Nina came down to my sister Edith's with me (Mrs F. Woodworth).  They returned home in the p.m.  I am staying.

July 18, 1935 - Thursday.  Fine - hot.  Visited and talked.  Had a sleep in the p.m.  A poor fellow, who was without work, called and they fed him and sent him on his way to Shubenacadie.  Fred was up to Stewiacke tonight and Burnham Cox, Edith (Fred's mother) and I went too.

July 19, 1935 - Friday.  A hot fine day.  Bernard Rogers came to work at Fred Woodworth's.  Mrs Alice Ellis here to tea.

July 20, 1935 - Saturday.  Fine and hot as yesterday was.  We were getting ready for Sabbath.  Cooking, washing up etc.  Bernard Rogers went home.  Alda and Edwin Blaikie came down in the late p.m. - after tea.

July 21, 1935 - Sabbath.  Lovely and fine.  Alda and I slept together last night.  Had a nice talk with her - and slept well afterwards.  We were at church - my sister Edith and I, this a.m., and in the evening too.  Alda and Edwin went home.  Harry, June, Don, Lee , and Lloyd Flemming called and Bernard Rogers came back.  Eva came home for two weeks.

July 22, 1935 - Monday.  Cloudy but warm and breezy.  Fred Woodworth began haying.  Eva attended health clinic this morning.  It was held in Stewiacke.   Edith washed and they ironed in the p.m.  Fred brought me in to brother Walter Webster's this evening.   Am in the room getting ready for bed.  Little Lee Balikie's 5th birthday.

July 23, 1935 - Tuesday.   Damp and dark.  Wrote to F.J.B.  Walter, Dot and I drove out to John's this afternoon.  Just saw Bertha.  We only stayed a few minutes. Walked over to the mail box and got the paper tonight after tea.

July 24, 1935 - Wednesday.  Dark and rainy.  Thunder and lightning.  Had a letter from Morris.   Percy Goodwin came for me tonight and we went to a shower at E.G. Campbell's, for their daughter Kathleen, and James Morton.  Had a nice  pleasant time.  Saw some friends whom I knew.

July 25, 1935 - Thursday.  Cloudy with a little rain.  Miss Kathleen Campbell and James Morton were married in Halifax by Rev Clark at 8 o'clock this evening.

July 26, 1935 - Friday.  A pretty good hay day - especially in the p.m.  Flora and I were at Mrs Goerge Miller's helping with a quilt for Mrs J. Morton this p.m.  The other ladies there were Mrs B. Morton, Mrs Hannah McIntosh, Mrs E.G. Campbell and Mrs Miller.  We called to see Mrs Jennie Miller at her son Andrew's.  She is nearing the end of her journey on earth, and will be glad to leave.  Morris tried to get me on the phone, being at Mrs F. Woodworth's; but did not succeed.  Flora (Mrs P. Goodwin) and I had a drive, a short piece, with Mr Ray Fage of Amherst, who trucks logs for R.E. Dickie.  Found he was a nephew of my late uncle and aunt Nelson Fage of Amherst.

July 27, 1935 - Saturday.  A very good hay day.  We were down town tonight.  Called at Mrs J. Bigelow's - had a nice time.  Met Mr and Mrs J. Callahan and a Mrs Power.  Talked to sister Edith on the phone two or three times today.

July 28, 1935 - Sabbath.  A nice fine day.

July 29, 1935 - August 4, 1935 - no entries

August 5, 1935 - Monday.  Rather dark, but no rain.  Roy took a truck load of lumber to Truro today in the p.m.  They finished mowing.  My teeth, which were being repaired by V.D. Crowe, Dentist, Truro, came by mail today.  Alice was at Mission Circle at Roy's tonight.  Had a letter from E.M.B.

August 6, 1935 - Tuesday.  Dark with slight showers.  Thunder and lightning tonight.  Not much yet tho' - 10:20 p.m.  This was my birthday - my dear ones were very kind to me, giving me so many nice presents.  Roy, Alda and Jean were to Truro with lumber.  Glenn and Alice were to Gordon Stewart's tonight.  Had a letter from sister Edith and card from C.B. and G.    Sent letters to F.J.B. and F.A.F.

August 7, 1935 - Wednesday.  Dark.  No hay day.  Roy was to Truro with lumber.  I was at H.T. Fulton's new store, the P.O., C.P. Macmillan's shop (with my shoes to get repaired), and at Mrs D. Bentley's, and home by 10:30 a.m.   Glenn and Alice went to Shortt's Lake in the p.m.  To Mr and Mrs Murray Dickie, Eastville, was born - a son.

August 8, 1935 - Thursday.  A very good hay day, especially this afternoon.  We finished haying.  Was at WMS at Mrs Abram Bentley's this p.m.  Glenn and Mr Girdwood took women  of the society down.  Jack Girdwood called tonight.   Had a card from Mary Sargent and stationery from F.J.B.

August 9, 1935 - Friday.  A nice fine day.  Roy went to Truro with lumber.  He and Edwin were down to  Caleb Fisher's for logs, also he and Morris were up to Dryden Power's after tea tonight.  I finished the quilt cover I was making for Shirley.  Mary E. Graham came home from Truro for two weeks vacation tonight.  Nellie, her sister, and   Miss Blois and Homer Johnson were with her.  They called here.  I was at Mrs Margeson's this p.m.  Mrs McCoul , her mother, is there.  Wrote to L.W.G.  H.T. Fulton is ill.

August 10, 1935 - Saturday.  Another good hay day.  Roy to Truro with lumber.  Shirley and I went over the river on the logs which are piled in the river, and called at Mr Pearson's this p.m.  Was in Roy's tonight.  Glenn and Alice are away to the store etc.  Tom and Morris are up at J.W. Benvie's.  Dr Stewart plans to leave the Village soon.

August 11, 1935 - Sabbath.  A nice fine day.  Morris, Alice, Shirley, Nina and I were at church.  Mr Girdwood's sermon was on Faith - "O ye of little faith".  It reminded us that if we try to do God's will, and keep his commandments, "seek ye first the kingdom of God", all earthly things which we need, shall be added unto us.  The great end of this life is to be looking forward to, and living for the life that is to come.   Mr and Mrs Percy Goodwin and Edith were up.  Percy and Flora were at Roy's to dinner and here to tea.  Edith was here to dinner and at Roy's to tea.  Morris was not at Y.P.S.C.E.

August 12, 1935 - Monday.  A dark day - not much rain.  After dinner, Morris took Shirley and me down to Wilmer's to pick blueberries.  Freda went and came back with Morris.  Had a box from E.M.B.  Wrote to E.M.B. and J.W.   Glenn's eye is very sore; he did not sleep at all last night.   Dr Stewart was up this a.m.,  and left him tablets to induce sleep  and he slept part of the a.m..   Is better but not well tonight.  Morris and Tom Fulton went to Burnside taking Cyrus Graham, who had his tea here.  Roy went to Truro with lumber.

August 13, 1935 - Tuesday.  Fine.  Quite a wind.  Looked dark this a.m.  Roy went to Truro with lumber.  Uncle Harris went too - to visit - not intending to come home for a few days.  Nina went to R. Barrett's and got raspberries enough to make preserves.   Mr Margeson's relatives are visiting with them.  Alda, Thelma and Jean were in - also Ruth.

August 14, 1935 - Wednesday.  Cloudy.  Very warm.  A few drops of rain tonight.  Roy went two trips to Truro - one early (about 4 a.m.), and the other in the p.m.  They broke some part of the planer and got Gerald Rutherford to bring it from Halifax for them.  Gerald goes to Halifax on Wednesday's with farm produce.  Alice was at Y.L.C. at Mrs Gordon Stewart's this p.m.  Glenn's eye seems slowly to get better; but he is weak.  Mrs Jennie Stewart's son Eddie, is making her a 4 day visit.

August 15, 1935 - Thursday. Fine and hot.  Roy went to Truro.  After dinner the girls went to the Mitchell Holman place to pick berries - raspberries.  Alda, Thelma. Ruth, Shirley and Nina.  Glenn brought them home.  I called at Mrs Henry Cox's tonight and she gave me  50 cents for the last batt for our three Missionary Quilts.  Mrs Alex Fulton called.

August 16, 1935 - Friday.  A hot day.  A breeze tonight.  Shirley and Nina were down to Mrs Hamilton's.  Roy went to Truro.  Nothing of note occurred.  Edna was up several times on errands.

August 17, 1935 - Saturday.  A very hot day.  95 or 97 degrees.  Roy took lumber to Truro.  Glenn, Alice and G.R. Deyarmond went to Truro to see a Specialist about Glenn's eye.  It has four abscesses in it.  They got home, accompanied by Harris, in the early evening.  The girls, Shirley and Nina, and I kept the two little ones - Freda and Leslie.  Will Rogers - airman - was killed.

August 18, 1935. - Sabbath.  Fine and hot.  More breeze tonight.  Nina, Shirley, Morris and I were at church.  Mr Girdwood's sermon was from the text "With His (Christ's) stripes we are healed" - Isaiah 53, last part of 5th verse.  Thelma, Alda, Gerald Rutherford and Morris went to Shortt's Lake with Glenn's car this p.m.  Tom Fulton did the milking and carried water from Roy's tonight.  Glenn's eye troubled him a lot today.

August 19, 1935 - Monday.  Fine and hot.  Very dry weather.  The "boys", Tom Fulton, Sid Cox and Morris carried water for Alice to wash.  Tom carried the most.

August 20, 1935 - Tuesday.  Fine and hot.  Baked bread.  Reta Logan came from Truro to visit Muriel Fulton.  Mrs Alex Fulton and I had tea at Mrs C.P. MacMillan's; called at J.D. Cox's and H.P. Cox's - also talked to Bernie Allen.  Glenn's eye was so bad he went to Truro with it.  G.R. Deyarmond was his chauffeur.

August 21, 1935 - Wednesday.  Quite hot, but a good breeze.  Dr Stewart was up to see Glenn twice.  He bade them  good-bye, intending to leave Upper Stewiacke tomorrow - approximately 10 years since he came here to practice medicine.  The Y.L.C. picnic came off today.  They motored to Sheet Harbor in C.B. Reynolds' truck.  Glenn's eye a bit better tonight.  Marion Stewart and Fred Woodworth called this p.m.; also G.R. Deyarmond.

August 22, 1935 - Thursday.  Cloudy this a.m.  Rainy in the p.m. and tonight.  We have had a long dry time.  Glenn, driven by G.R. Deyarmond, went to see Dr Reid, Truro; he is treating his eye for ulceration.  Came home at tea time.  They tore down, and hauled up into the field, the old woodhouse;  Tom Fulton, Sid Cox, Edwin Blaikie, J.H. Blaikie,and Morris Blaikie engaged in the work.  It was very rotten.   Mrs Wm Pearson and her son Wilfred were here this evening.  Tom Fulton went home for the night.  Expect it was too rainy to come back tonight.

August 23, 1935 - Friday.  Rainy at times, all day.  Glenn's eye was not quite so painful, tho' he has to take tablets to keep it easy.  Was at Roy's this p.m.

August 24, 1935 - Saturday.  Cloudy; with some rain.  Alice and Shirley were down to H.T. Fulton's store this p.m.  Roy took lumber to Truro.  Was in Mr Margeson's tonight - to see Mrs McCoul.  Dr Stewart left Upper Stewiacke today.  He has practised here for 10 years, coming in August, 1925 (I think).  He has gone back to Halifax.  We hope he may prosper there.

August 25, 1935 - Sabbath.  A wet day.  The dry spell has broken.  My sister, Mrs Edith Woodworth and her son Fred came and attended church service and returned to Stewiacke about 4:30.   J.W. Girdwood, who was here a while, went down to the Manse with them, as it was raining.  

August 26, 1935 - Monday.  Dark.  No rain to speak of.  Mr and Mrs Charles A. Blaikie came tonight to make a few days visit.  Many folk called at Roy's andd they had guests at dinner and tea too.

August 27, 1935 - Tuesday.  Clearing off.  Roy and Edwin went to Amherst etc to get a balance wheel of the mill fixed.

August 28, 1935 - Wednesday.  Roy and Edwin did not get their work done yesterday, so stayed all night, going a little way into New Brunswick, and taking a tourist cabin for the night.  They got back about 7:30 p.m. Mr and Mrs C.A. Blaikie and Harris Blaikie went to Burnside - to Martin and Alfred Johnson's, remaining at Alfred Johnson's all night.

August 29, 1935 - Thursday.  Rather cloudy with slight showers this a.m. ; but the weather cleared and the p.m. was fine for the Ladies Aid picnic, an annual affair held on the grounds of the old hotel (Strathlorne), at the home of Mrs S.A. Fulton.  It was a very pleasant afternoon.  The only man present was Rev William Girdwood, our minister.  Edna and I came home with Mr Gerald Thompson, who took a number of women home.

August 30, 1935 - Friday.  Cloudy.  This p.m. Mr and Mrs C.A. Blaikie and Harris and I drove to Newton Mills; they called at A. Gammell's; I at Mrs J. Anderson's.  Mr and Mrs Glenn Blaikie and Mr and Mrs C.A. Blaikie were at M.S. Fulton's this evening.

August 31, 1935 - Saturday.  Dark with some rain.  Mr and Mrs C.A. Blaikie returned to their home in Truro this p.m.  We had a pleasant visit.

September 1, 1935 - Sabbath.  Cooler.  Pretty fine.  Was at church.  Mr Girdwood's text was 2 Thes. 3:11 - about busybodies etc.  A good sermon as always.  Morris went with Jack Girdwood to the Manse to tea.  Mr and Mrs Girdwood and Mr and Mrs Winter and Mrs Grace Nichols called this evening.  Morris and I were at Roy's to hear the Seth Parker program.  Mr and Mrs Byron Cox, South Branch, had a daughter born August 30, 1935.  Their second child.

September 2, 1935 - Monday.  Quite fine.  Pretty warm.  They, J.W. Benvie, Edward Benvie, Frank and Robert Cox (Otter Brook), Scott Fulton were putting in the cement work of the lumber house.  Katherine Girdwood called.  Had a letter from F.J.B.

September 3, 1935 - Tuesday.  Another fine day - cooler.  We sewed in a quilt and got a little quilted.  Glenn went to Stewiacke.  Roy, Alda and Thelma to Truro this afternoon.  Was at Roy's tonight.  Mr and Mrs Neil Benvie were there.

September 4, 1935 - Wednesday.  Fine again.  Still cool though.  J.W. Benvie and Edward, his son, working at the lumber house. A. Putnam Fulton reapt and bound the grain in the interval.  The ground was too wet to reap the upland.  Bessie R. Deyarmond was here to dinner.  She helped quilt some.  There is a dance at Wallace Gault's tonight.

September 5, 1935 - Thursday.  Dark and rainy.  Wrote to F.J.B.  Edward Benvie here to dine.  Miss Jean Peppard here to spend the afternoon.  Callers tonight were Mrs Isaac Rutherford, Mrs George Jeffers, Mrs Frank Whitman and son Horace. Morris went up to a bridge party at Mr and Mrs Ross Johnson's.

September 6, 1935 - Friday.  Cloudy in the morning but turned fine.  J.W. and Edward Benvie working at the lumber house.  We got our quilt out.  Alice and Glenn down to Mrs Hamilton's this evening. The girls at a lecture in the hall by .......Tufts.

September 7, 1935 - Saturday.  A fine rather cool day.  Was at H.T. Fulton's store and Mrs Edson Cox's this p.m.  Got home about 11 o'clock.  Roy was to Truro as he often is.  Edward Benvie was here half a day.  Alice and Glenn were at the store, and at M.S. Fulton's this evening.

September 8, 1935 - Sabbath.  Clouds and sunshine.  Cool.  Was at church.  The sertmon was from the text "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills".  Three mountains - Sinai, Calvary and Mt. of Olives were spoken of.  Harry, Walter and Nellie were at Roy's to tea and here a little while ere they went home.  The Y.P.S.C.E. were invited to South Branch tonight.  Tom Fulton, Edward Benvie, Miss Kennedy, Lois Barrett, and Morris went in our car.  Heard of Civilla Bryson's death, Saturday , September 7.

September 9, 1935 - Monday.   Pretty fine.  The clothes which were washed, dried.  Wrote to E.M.B.  Mr and Mrs C.A. Blaikie came to stay overnight.  Gordon Miller called this evening.  Charlie and Morris went to J.W. Benvie's in the evening. 

September 10, 1935 - Tuesday.  Quite a rain last night.  Dark with some rain today.  Rainbow toward night.  Cool tonight.  Mr and Mrs C.A. Blaikie returned to Truro. Glenn and Alice went to Mrs Hamilton's but she and Mr J. Day had not come from Glenmore, whither they had gone to be at Mrs Brison's funeral.   They then went to Charles Peppard's and got butter.  Shirley, Nina, Tom and Morris went to Copeland and McDuff's concert at the hall.  Wrote to M.E.S.

September 11, 1935 - Wednesday.  Pretty fine especially in the afternoon.  Alice had Y.L.C.    Most of the members were present.  Miss Vivian M. Johnson and Alfred Cooke were married in Halifax this late p.m.  After the club members were gone home, Glenn and Alice went to Mrs Hamilton's to see her.  She having been to Glenmore to attend the funeral of her sister, Mrs John Brison, nee Civilla Day who was stricken with a paralytic stroke and died at once on September 7.

September 12, 1935 - Thursday.  Pretty fine.  Cool.  A part of the mill broke yesterday, and Glenn took it to Truro today to get it fixed.  Gordon Miller went with him.   Was at WMS at the Manse at 2:15.  Went with Mary (Mrs Grant) Cox and Mrs Alex Fulton.  Came back with Mrs D.B. Bentley - called there.   John McCoul was here - working at the lumber house.  Jack Girdwood here this evening.  Sent to Eaton's for my nighties today.

September 13, 1935 - Friday.  Clouds and sunshine.  Cool wind.  School Fare held at Springside.  Alice and Glenn, Shirley and Nina were there. John McCoul here for all the meals today.  Glenn and Alice went to visit Mr and Mrs Roy Patterson tonight.  Tom Fulton out home.

September 14, 1935 - Saturday.  A fine drying day.  Our upland oats are still standing - the ground being too wet to bind them.  John McCoul was here for his meals today.  He is working with J.W. Benvie on the lumber house which they are building at the mill.  Roy and Edna Blaikie and George, their son, went to  Middle Musquodoboit this p.m.  Edwin has a bealing on his shin.

September 15, 1935 - Sabbath.  Dark and rainy.  Only a small number at church.  Mr Girdwood preached on the text "Men that have hazarded their lives for the Lord Jesus Christ".  We may venture all upon that love, which changeth never.   Jack Girdwood was here to tea.  We were glad to have him.  Tom and Morris took Gussie to J.D. Dunlap's - Gussie Benvie; but none of us went to Middle Stewiacke.  Our Y.P.S.C.E. were invited to be there tonight.

September 16. 1935 - Monday.  Dark and rainy.  Our oats are all out in the rain.  Cut in the interval but standing in the upland.  Glenn went to Truro this morning.  I was to Mrs Margeson's in the p.m. Tom went to a moving picture show in the hall.  J. McCoul and Edward Benvie here for meals.  They are working at the lumber house.

September 17, 1935 - Tuesday.  Dark with fog showers.    Glenn still away.  Was at Mrs Alex Fulton's to tea.  The meeting of the executive was held there in the p.m.  Mrs Girdwood, Mrs W.D. Kennedy, Mrs Edson Cox, Mrs Ross Johnson, Mrs Alex and Mrs Putnam Fulton and myself were present.  The Anniversary is planned for Thursday, October 10.

September 18, 1935 - Wednesday.  Mrs Edith Woodwprth and son Fred brought Mrs Laura Graham up to visit us tonight.  A new Doctor, Dr. John Howard Buntain has come to Upper Stewiacke.

September 19, 1935 - Thursday.  Glenn and Laura brought Miss Kate Lugrin over from Mrs William Pearson's to spend the p.m. with Mrs Graham who was her old school mate.  Laura and I went with Glenn when he took her back after tea.  Mr Pearson is very ill.  This was Freda Mary Blaikie's burthday. Two years old.

September 20, 1935 - Friday.  Very rainy - showers.  Mrs Graham spent a part of the day with Mrs Eben Fulton - another school mate.  Then she and I had tea at Roy Blaikie's.  Tom Fulton went home tonight.

September 21, 1935 - Saturday.  Dark and cloudy.  Glenn and Shirley and Nina and G.R. Deyarmond took Laura (Mrs Graham) into Truro this p.m.  She met her son-in-law, J. Bruce Moir and his wife - her daughter Mary - with whom she returned to her old home in Lower Economy.   There is a political meeting (Liberal) tonight.   Miss Edith Ruby Fulton and Frederick Douglas Smith were married in Truro today.

September 22, 1935 - Sabbath.   Quite fine in the morning - rainy in the p.m.  Grain getting very wet.  Very much is out and cut.  Was at church.  The sermon was preached from the text , "Nevertheless, when the Son of Man cometh,  shall he find faith on the earth?"  Luke 18:8.   Morris went to Stewiacke in the p.m.  , first calling on John Girdwood who has a bealed hand, and is leaving tomorrow for Mount Allison.  Harry Archibald, Musquodoboit, 54 years, died in the V.G. Hospital today. 

September 23, 1935 - Monday.  Showery, but the clothes dried between showers.  Frost at night - not severe.   Some kind of a public performance is being practiced in the hall.  Wrote to E.M.B.

September 24, 1935 - Tuesday.  Quite fine, with a good breeze.  They finished the lumber house tonight.  Richie Barrett is painting it.   Glenn's eye bothers him quite a bit.  Morris drove J. McCoul up home; I went too.  Mrs Putnam Fulton called tonight.  Mr Margeson was over.

September 25, 1935 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  Glenn and G.R. Deyarmond went to Truro this p.m. to see about Glenn's eye.  Home before tea , they were.  I was in Mr Margeson's.  Mrs Peter Archibald died yesterday.  Her son Harry died on Sabbath.

September 26, 1935 - Thursday.  Fine again.  Spent the p.m. at the Manse.  Glenn took me and Morris came for me.   Had a letter from Flossie today.  Her husband is in the hospital at Red Deer with Typhoid Fever.

September 27, 1935 - Friday.  Dark.  raining a little tonight.  Fred Power began to thresh our grain this p.m., but did not get it done.  He and Lyman Graham, Newton Mills are here tonight.  Glenn and Alice were out to C. Peppard's tonight.  Mrs Margeson was in today.

September 28, 1935 - Saturday.  A rainy day.  Our oats in the interval are out yet.  Messers Lyman Graham and Fred Power, who were here all night, went home this morning, as no threshing could be done.  No C.G.I.T..  Katherine Girdwood called.

September 29, 1935 - Sabbath.  A wet rainy day.  Small attendance at church.  Rev H.R. Grant, D.D., gave a very fine address on useful and helpful social life, and people.  The way of the Christian life is the only happy way to live.  He touched on intemperance and gambling too.  Was not at Roy's today, not were they up here except for Edwin  who separated the milk.  Morris and Tom were at Y.P.S.C.E.  Glenn went to see Dr Buntain.

September 30, 1935 - Monday.  Dark and cloudy this morning, but it turned out quite a fine day.  Mrs Margeson called.Roy took lumber to Truro.  Alda was with him.  Glenn's eye some better.  Wrote to F.J.B.  Shirley wrote to V.J.B.

October 1, 1935 - Tuesday.  Dark, but no rain yet.  Roy and Glenn went to Caribou this p.m.  Mrs G.R. Deyarmond called.  Also Edna.  Roy's and Edna's 22nd wedding day.

October 2, 1935 - Wednesday.  Pretty fine.  Quite a breeze.  Roy was to Truro with lumber.  James Maynard went with him.  Wallace Miller is home from Hospital.  We hear that he is to be encased in a plaster jacket.  His hips are affected.  Tom F. and Morris were at C.P. MacMillan's tonight and Glenn and Alice at Mrs Hamilton's.  One of Wilmer Hamilton's horses dropt  dead today.

October 3, 1935 - Thursday.  Quite fine.  Cool wind tonight.  The men finished threshing the oats today.  Fred Power and crew did the threshing.  Ladies Aid was held at Mrs F.L. Fulton's this afternoon.  Mrs Alex Fulton, Mrs Roy Blaikie, Mrs Stewart Hickman, Mrs F.A. Fulton, Mrs Edson Cox, Miss Clare J. Creelman, Mrs S.A. Fulton, Mrs Clyde B. Reynolds and I.  Glenn came for us; he and Alice took Mrs Alex Fulton home.  Ilene MacKay and Elwood McLellan of Brookfield are married.

October 4, 1935 - Friday.  A lovely autumn day.  The woods are very beautiful now, with their various colors.  Glenn was to see Wallace Miller and Mr Wm Pearson.  Wallace is fighting T.B. and Mr Pearson is almost at the end of life's journey -with paralysis.  There is a sort of amusement in the Hall.. A Basket Social and dance are at the end.

October 5, 1935 - Saturday.  Another nice day.  Nothing much went on.  Had a post card from L. Graham, Lower Economy.  Tom F. and Morris were at the P.O. tonight.  Glenn and Alice at the store etc.

October 6, 1935 - Sabbath.  Cloudy with some sunshine.  Was at church.  Mr Girdwood preached about Paul and Silas going into Macedonia - a lesson on perseverance in spite of difficulties.   The WMS and Mission Circle had their Thank Offering this evening. Mr (Rev) George Murray, Missionary to Trinidad - was the speaker.  He told of the mission work in Trinidad - of the missionaries, their retrenchments in money and in having to have less missionaries.

October 7, 1935 - Monday.  Dark and rainy.  Glenn and Edna went to Truro, not returning tonight. Alice and I put a quilt in the frames.

October 8, 1935 - Tuesday.  Quite fine.  Cold wind.  Edna and Glenn got back tonight.  Charles Blaikie called.  He and two other men had been picking cranberries.

October 9, 1935 - Wednesday.  Fine.  A pretty big frost last night; killed the dahlias in spite of their being covered with coats etc.  W.B. Armstrong called this early p.m.  Alice was at Y.L.C. at Mrs S.G. Fulton's.  We finished quilting the quilt.  Mr and Mrs A.P. Fulton spent the evening here.  Tom Fulton went home tonight.  He usually spends a night a week out at his home.  Roy was in this evening.

October 10, 1935 - Thursday.  A nice day; frost last night.  The flowers are going; dahlias about gone.  A very ordinary day.  A meeting of the ladies of the WMS amd Mission Circle, and all in the congregation who could come was held in the hall tonight.  We had a nice meeting.  Lunch was served.  The dear ones of our society presented me with a life membership certificate of the WMS.  So kind of them!  Mr J. William Pearson died this a.m. about 5:30.  He has passed away from the suffering and discomfort of life.

October 11, 1935 - Friday.  A nice fine day.  Mr Pearson's funeral was held at his home this p.m. at 2 o'clock.   Morris, Shirley and I were there.  Roy and Edna were there too.

October 12, 1935 - Saturday.  Dark with some rain.  Colder tonight.  Roy and Morris took the engine to Oxford today, starting about 6:30 a.m.; returning about 9 p.m.   Glenn and Mr F.A. Reynolds, who called here this forenoon, went to Truro in the p.m.  Tom Fulton has cold.  Alice got new shoes, and Nina got a brown, all wool skirt and a sweater to go with it, from Eaton's today.  Dr Buntain went away to get married.  Wrote to Edith Woodworth about Mother's illness today.  She had written to me of her (Mother's) being seriously ill, on Thursday.  Mr and Mrs Margeson came home from Truro tonight. They went there on Monday.  Alda went to Truro to stay with Nellie for 2 weeks.

October 13, 1935 - Sabbath.  A lovely autumn day.  Was at church and listened to one of the best sermons I remember to have ever heard.  I Peter 2:20-25.  How we should live, having the life of Jesus ever before us, as a shining example.  Was at Y.P.S.C.E. tonight.

October 14, 1935 - Monday. A nice fine day.  It brought to us the sad tidings that Flossie's husband, Russell Boomer, had died of typhoid fever in Red Deer Hospital on October 6, 1935, after about 3 weeks illness.  We have sad hearts, as many of the circumstances are sad, and Flossie is left with a family of seven children from twelve and a half years to one and a half years.  She carries on and trusts for strength to go forward.  Poor Russell, he suffered very much - was uncoinscuious before he died.

October 15, 1935 - Tuesday.  Dark and rainy.  Roy and Edwin went to Oxford to see about getting a new or another engine for the mill.  Alice and Freda Mary spent the day at Mrs Hamilton's. We wrote to F.J.B., sent her a little money. (The boys).  Mr Girdwood called to see us; to speak words of comfort, as he had heard of Russell's death. Mrs Girdwood, who hads been sick, sent a nice note.

October 16, 1935 - Wednesday.  A nice sunshiny day with a rather cold wind.  As there was not much to be done at the mill, Morris proposed that Mr and Mrs Alex Fulton and I should take a trip with him to Wittenburg to see my step-mother  who is seriously ill; she is nearing 85 years and is confined to her bed.   We set out right after dinner, and went via Meadowvale and Lanesville.  The drive was a lovely one. The roads being very good for the time of year; and the rich coloring of the trees on hill and low land and lining the sides of the roads along which we took our way, made scenes of rare beauty.  As we went through Wittenburg, the surrounding hills lent to the eye a very pleasing variety of shades , from golden to rich brown and yellow, mingled with the rich greens of the softwood trees.  Reaching my brother's where Mother and my youngest (sister) also live, we entered the house and were received with much kindness.  Mrs Bell and her sister, Mrs Taylor, were there, also Mrs George Sargent (Pat) and Spurgeon Taylor.   My brother Walter was away.  We had kindly intercourse for an hour or more, then left for a call at Mrs Percy Goodwin's (my niece).  Enjoyed the call there, then motored to Stewiacke and visited at my sister's, Mrs F. Woodworth.  Mr Fulton called on Mr Tupper, an old friend who used to live in Meadowvale.  Morris took a short trip up town, then came back with a companion, and we spent the evening very pleasantly.  Mr and Mrs  Percy Goodwin and C.A. Blaikie came down in the evening and we had a very enjoyable evening.  Started for home, where we arrived about 11:10.  Tom Fulton has not been as well as common , lately.  We hope he is better soon.

October 17, 1935 - Thursday.  A lovely fine day - not cold.  They are having a man from New Glasgow in fixing the boiler etc.  Had a letter from E.M.B.  Glenn and Alice are at J.W. Benvie's tonight.

October 18, 1935 - Friday.  Another beautifully fine day.  So many birthdays of people I know come today.  My sister, Nettie (Mrs F.W. Abrahamson), Russell Boomer, who died twelve days before; Mrs Suther Geddes, Mrs Roy Blaikie (Edna), and Mrs G.R. Deyarmond.  The man from New Glasgow, Mark Horton, finished his job at the mill today about 4 p.m. and left.  Had a letter from F.J.B.  Tom Fulton has a bad cold.  The Hamilton Players went to Stewiacke tonight.

October 19, 1935 - Saturday.  Cloudy with chilly wind.  Tom Fulton plowing.  Morris and Edwin went to Truro this p.m.  Allyne R. Fraser of Halifax, son of the late Rev D, Stiles Fraser; once the minister of Springside Congregation and , schoolmate of Roy and Glenn called in the afternoon.   Uncle Harris got his hair cut.  F.A. Reynolds and Glenn had a lengthy  conflab sitting in Mr Reynolds' car, at our back door. Shirley went to Brookfield with some girls of the C.G.I.T. in Mr Girdwood's car, returning tonight.  Alice and Glenn and Nina were at H.T. Fulton's store.

October 20, 1935 - Sabbath.  Fine; cool wind.  Mr Girdwood preached a thanksgiving sermon from Psalm 65, dividing it into three parts.   Roy went to Meadowvale Sunday School for the last time this summer and fall.

October 21, 1935 - Monday.  Another fine day.  Roy and Edwin went to Oxford, Cumberland County after the engine they bought for the mill.  Tom and Morris cleared up about the lumber house and hauled some stone, for a platform for it.  We heard today, of the marriage of Miss Edith R. Fulton and Frederick Smith (Otter Brook) on September 21st.   Wrote to E.M.B.

October 22, 1935 - Tuesday.  Pretty fine, but cloudy; warmer wind. Was in Roy's a little while this a.m.  The Ladies Aid had a general meeting this evening in the Hall.  Did not go, as I was busy.  Roy and "help" were working, setting up the "new' second-hand engine.  A political meeting is being held at C.P. MacMillan's tonight.

October 23, 1935 - Wednesday.  Fine.  Came into Truro with Glenn.  He went home at night.  Heard of serious illness of Foster Blaikie in Springfield, Mass.  C.A. Blaikie had a telegram.  Heavy rain tonight. 

October 24, 1935 - Thursday.  Rather dark and cool.  Thanksgiving day.  Harry went out to Upper Stewiacke this p.m.  Walter and Ralph went, too - to hunt - but got a squirrel!

October 25, 1935 - Friday.  Cold.  The first snow fell in the night.  Was up to Mrs Raymond Hodge's this p.m.  Alda and June came up for me.  Harry, Ralph and I were at Strand in the evening.  Jim Burke was the most important picture I thought, tho' Border Brigades was more exciting.  C.A. Blaikie started for Springfield today.

October 26, 1935 - Saturday.  Not so cold as yesterday - but cloudy.  Am at C.A. Blaikie's .  Later came back to Harry's.  Spent the p.m. at home with Nellie.  Alda was out and saw quite a few friends from Upper Stewiacke.

October 27, 1935 - Sabbath.  A lovely fine day.  Cold wind.  Did not go to church - wished I had gone, as S. Harbouch, a Galilean, spoke, and I should have enjoyed hearing him.  Nellie took Alda.   Walter and I up at the garage, to see the new Dodge cars, which came in last night.  Then we had a drive round the Training School buildings, creosote plant , etc.   It was nice, but "The Galilean" would have been better.    Harry, Don, June and Lee brought Alda and me home in the p.m. returning after tea.  Shirley and I called at Mr Margeson's.  Morris was to Stewiacke and heard "The Galilean".  Also heard that J. Robertson, who had an accident and was reported to have died, was still living.

October 28, 1935 - Monday.  Fine, not cold.  Glenn and Alice were at F.L. Fulton's and Morris at the hall tonight.

October 29, 1935 - Tuesday.  Lovely fine day.  Went calling with Mrs Alex Fulton this p.m.  Had a letter from F.J.B.

October 30, 1935 - Wednesday.  Fine and warm.  Glenn was up to Burnside - was at Allen Deyarmond's to dinner.  Saw Mrs P.W. , also a man taking subscriptions for the ........... .   Glenn, Tom F., and Morris are at a Halloween party at W.D. Kennedy's tonight. Wrote to F.A.F.

October 31, 1935 - Thursday.  Another fine day.  Mrs Alex Fulton called.  Glenn and G.R. Deyarmond and Ethel Deyarmond and I drove to Miss Jane Reynold's in the p.m.  Glenn was away in the evening.

November 1, 1935 - Friday.  A fine day.  Lots of fog in the morning.  Glenn and Alice went to Caribou and Musquodoboit today.  Left Freda and Leslie home.  Edna, Alda, Thelma, Jean, Ruth and George called.  Sent a letter to F.J.B.  Had letters from E.J.C. and O.J.P. and B.A.B.  Morris was to Division.

November 2, 1935 - Saturday.  Dark day and rain tonight.  Roy, George and Glenford Girdwood went to Truro this p.m.   Tom and Putnam Fulton and Morris Blaikie went to Truro tonight.  Nina was to her grandmother Hamilton's to dinner.  Jessie and Stewart Fulton went to Mr George Bentley's to board today.  Henry Cox and Wilmer Hamilton took them  from Martin S. Fulton's to George Bentley's.  Ronald Leslie Blaikie was 1 year old today.  Leonard Leroy Boomer was 11 years old today.

November 3, 1935 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Church was nice and warm.  Mr Girdwood's text was in Acts    , 1st chapter, part of verse 11.  "Why stand ye gazing up into Heaven?"  A very helpful sermon.  One thing in it was that Jesus is always with us.  As he appeared to the disciples and others after his death, on earth, so he comes to us to comfort and warm and instruct - not in our earthly sight, but in heart and mind, in these days - days of unrest and tumult.  Was at Y.P.S.C.E. and at Mrs Eben Fulton's in the p.m.  Mrs Fulton is sick and Mrs Davidson, her sister, is with her.  Tom F. and Morris Blaikie and Put Fulton went to Truro tonight and Lola (Mrs Put Fulton), came back with them.  It rained in the night.

November 4, 1935 - Monday.  Quite fine.  Cooler tonight.  Harry was to Musquodoboit to get an old truck of Roland Brown's and had dinner here.  Glenn went to Truro to Dr Archibald's to see about his eye - it is rather sore again.  J.W. Deyarmond was here to tea.  We were glad to have him; he is not often here.  Badminton began again tonight.

November 5, 1935 - Tuesday.  Dark and cloudy.  Southerly wind tonight.  Roy and Edwin went to Brookfield this late afternoon.  Mrs Eben Fulton is in her bed now.  The President of the Ladies Aid and some of the executive were arranging the hall for the supper tomorrow night.  Wrote to E.M.B.  Glenn got home about tea time.  He got glasses.  Hope his eye stays better.  Tom Fulton is out home tonight.  Alda was in.  Mrs Margeson called at noon.

November 6, 1935 - Wednesday.  Dark this a.m. with mist showers turning to rain toward evening.  The annual Congregational Supper was held in the Hall tonight.  The fees for supper amounted to $30.30.  Apron sale - $11.00 - Candy and holders - $5.65.  It was a very nice time.  Alice and Uncle Harris did not go - nor Freda and Leslie.

November 7, 1935 - Thursday.  Quite fine with cool wind.  Roy to Truro.  Mr Alex Fulton went  on a little vacation to Brookfield, Truro and North River.  A political meeting was held here tonight.    Spent the evening at Mrs Margeson's.  Alice and Mrs A.P. Fulton spent a little time at Badminton.  I was in Roy's a while this p.m.

November 8, 1935 - Friday.  Dark and rainy.  They did not work.  Ladies Aid was at Mrs J.D. Cox's this p.m.  Ladies who attended were Mrs Roy Blaikie, Mrs Alex Fulton, Mrs H.T. Fulton, Mrs Edson Cox, Miss Helen Douglas, Miss Clare Creelman, Mrs Girdwood, Miss Katherine Girdwood, Mrs S.A. Fulton, Mrs  Elizabeth Creelman (Maitland), Mrs Hazel Fulton, Mrs F.L. Fulton, Mrs Raymond Hodge and myself.  Also Miss Helen Dickie, clerk of H.T. Fulton's store.   Glenn, Tom Fulton, and Morris are at Edith Fulton's or Mrs Fred Smith's reception tonight.

November 9, 1935 - Saturday.  A fine day with chilly wind.  J.W. Benvie here building a porch on the house.  He came yesterday.  There was an "At Home" for the Doctor's wife, Mrs J.H. Buntain, at Mrs Van Wagnen's - Newton Mills.  Alda went with the Girdwood's.  Alice and Glenn were at the store.

November 10, 1935 - Sabbath.  A fine day with chilly wind.   Was at church.  Mr Girdwood's sermon was from Isaiah 43:2 - "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee, thou shalt walk through the fire, and thou shalt not be burned, neither shall any flame kindle upon thee".  A very fine helpful sermon.  Was at Roy's in the p.m., listened to a program in aid of the colored children from Halifax.  Only Roy, Alda and George were home; the others had gone to Middle Musquodoboit.  Was at Y.P.S.C.E. in the evening.

November 11, 1935 - Monday.  Cloudy.  Was at the service in the church; Remembrance Day Service.  Glenn and Alice were at A.P. Fulton's this evening.  Tom F. and Morris at Badminton.

November 12, 1935 - Tuesday.  Dark and chilly.  Mr and Mrs Percy Goodwin were here to tea.  Tom is out to his home tonight.  J.W. Benvie here working.

November 13, 1935 - Wednesday.  Dark but not much rain.  J.W. Benvie working at the out place.  Homer Johnson dined here.  Glenn away most of the day.  Roy was to Truro with lumber.  Alda went with him.  Sent "notes" for the "United Churchman" to Mrs K.N. Tait.  Tom and Morris are over to visit Wallace Miller who is sick, tonight.

November 14, 1935 - Thursday.  Dark and chilly and moist.  Alice put the new linoleum down, in the kitchen.  The WMS was held at Mrs Edson Cox's this p.m.  Mrs Roy Blaikie, associate helper, and Mrs Dr. Creelman attended.  We were glad to have them.  Glenn and Alice were at G.R. Deyarmond's tonight.  Tom Fulton at Badminton and Morris at Truro.  Mrs Eben Fulton still continues ill.

November 15, 1935 - Friday.  Cloudy.  J.W. Benvie made a corner closet in my bedroom.  He is through here now; finished at noon, and went to Roy's to fix the woodwork about their sink.

November 16, 1935 - Saturday.  Dark, misty with a slight shower or two.  Also a cold wind.  Was down to the Post Office, store and called at Mrs Edson Cox's, and went in to see Mrs Eben Fulton, who is very sick.  She was bright however, and talked some.   Glenn and Alice are at the store etc tonight.  Robert Cox is married, we hear.

November 17, 1935 - Sabbath.  Cold wind.  Cloudy.  Was at church.  The sermon was from Deut.30:11, 12 &13 verses.  Very sincere, with stress laid on prayer.  We heard, this morning of the death of Mrs Eben Fulton last evening.  The Village Y.P.S.C.E. accepted an invitation to Springside tonight.

November 18, 1935 - Monday.  A cool dark wet day.  Wallace gault dined with us.  Edna was up to Robert A. Cox's this p.m.

November 19, 1935 - Tuesday.  Dark with slight showers.  The funeral of the late Mrs Eben Fulton was held in the church at 2 o'clock p.m.  The text of Mr Girdwood's sermon was Psalm 90:17.   "And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it".   Nearer my God to thee.  A large number of friends and relatives assembled to pay their last respects to one who was esteemed as a friend and neighbor.  She was buried in Riverside Cemetery.  Mr and Mrs A.P. Fulton spent the evening here.  Morris and Tom were up to J.W. Benvie's to a dance.   Hymns of the funeral were "Nearer My God To Thee",  "The Sands of Time are Sinking", and "Abide With Me".

November 20, 1935 - Wednesday.  Dark and cloudy.  Moisture in the air.  Club at Mrs Ross Johnson's this p.m.  Alice attended it, and she and Glenn spent the p.m. at Mr J. Day's.

November 21, 1935 - Thursday.  Rainy this a.m.; finer in the p.m.  In the afternoon, Mrs Alex Fulton and I were calling - first at Mrs Eben's home, where she was not - but her sister, Mrs Jennie Davidson, her (Mrs Eben's) daughter, Mrs Neil Archibald, and Mrs Eben Fulton's grand daughter, Mrs Harry Hall were there.  We had a nice call there.  then we called on Mrs (Dr. ) Creelman, Will Cox's aunt who is visiting him, a very pleasant call; also met Mrs Creelman's two neices - Misses Alice and Lois Rutherford.  Another very enjoyable call was at Mrs Charlie MacMillan's, after a very nice one at the manse, equally pleasurable.  We had a telephone call from brother Walter Webster, Wittenburg, telling us that Mother was gone - had passed away this morning.

November 22, 1935 - Friday.  Dark and cloudy.  Glenn's eye was sore and he went to Truro in the lumber truck with Roy.  Nina has been home for 3 days, sick.

November 23, 1935 - Saturday.  Rainy all day.   Morris, Uncle Harris and Tom and Mary Cox and I went to Mother's funeral held in the house at Wittenburg.  We had dinner at Percy Goodwin's.  Rev H.E. Campbell, minister at Stewiacke, preached the sermon.  It was from Psalm 116:8.  Hymns sung were "What A Friend We Have In Jesus",  "In the Sweet Bye and Bye". and "Abide With Me".  Mother was laid beside Father in the cemetery at Wittenburg.  A pretty spot.  We returned by Musquodoboit, getting home about 7 p.m.  Baby Leslie is walking now.

November 24, 1935 - Sabbath.  Dark with cold wind.  Was at church.  Mr Girdwood's sermon was about Jesus, and his perfect life, from Luke 4:1-37.   Was at Roy's to tea.  Edwin, Alda and Thelma were down to Milford, visiting Mrs Austin R. Wickwire.

November 25, 1935 - Monday.  Quite a snow storm.  They did not run the mill - so the boys had a holiday and played badminton a while in the p.m.  Glenn went to Truro.

November 26, 1935 - Tuesday.  Rather fine.  Snowy and slushy.  Glenn came home and C.A. Blaikie was with him.  Roy and Edwin were to Stewiacke. 

November 27, 1935 - Wednesday.  Some sunshine, but bad roads.  Was in Mrs H.P. Cox's a little while this p.m.  Charlie Blaikie and Glenn spent most of the evening at M.S. Fulton's.  There was a birthday card party at A.P. Fulton's.  Only Tom Fulton was there from this house.   G. Bradford Hamilton here to dinner.

November 28, 1935 - Thursday.  Thawed and rained some.  Roy and George went to Truro with lumber.  Charles returned home with them.  Edwin and Morris went to Truro this late p.m.  Tom Fulton at badminton.  Sent a letter to F.J.B.

November 29, 1935 - Friday.  Wet - southwest wind.  Snow all gone.  Arthur Kennedy here this p.m.  Bub feeling ill.  Has cough.  Edna was in a short time.

November 30, 1935 - Saturday.  Dark, but very little rain.  Colder tonight.  Glenn took Mr David Kennedy and Dorothy Kennedy, Muriel Fulton and Arthur Kennedy to Truro today.  Back tonight.  Jennie Miller came this p.m.  Had letters from E.M.B. and C.A.M.M.

December 1, 1935 - Sabbath.  Quite fine; not cold.  Alice was not at church.  The text of Mr Girdwood's sermon was "Why cumbereth it the ground" or on the barren fig tree.  Harry, Ralph and Lee were here to tea.  It was nice to have them.  Uncle Harris is feeling pretty ill.

December 2, 1935 - Monday.  Snowing and melting right off.  Not cold.  Alice washed but it was no use to put the clothes out to dry.  Jennie Miller visited at Mrs Hamilton's this afternoon.  Tom and Morris are at badminton.  Was over to Mrs Margeson's a while in the p.m.

December 3, 1935 - Tuesday.  Snowy, but soft.  Not cold for December.  Jennie Miller went to Meadowvale this p.m.  Roy took lumber to Truro.  The Inspector was at school.  Morris is at the P.O. tonight.

December 4, 1935 - Wednesday.  Cloudy with a little wind.  Clothes dried.  A little snow is falling this evening.   Alice killed, picked and sold her  roosters.  Nothing of note occurred.   Glenn drove Martin Fulton on his trip with the mail.

December 5, 1935 - Thursday.  Fairly cold tonight.  Ladies Aid at Mrs Roy Blaikie's. Mrs S.A. Fulton, Mrs Girdwood, Mrs J.D. and Mrs Edson Cox, Miss Douglas, Mrs C.C. Cox, Mrs H.T. Fulton, Mrs Alex Fulton, Mrs D.M. Blaikie were there.  Sent a letter to E.M.B.  Glenn and Alice down to Wilmer's.

December 6, 1935 - Friday.  Snowed a little.  Not very cold.  Edna was in a little while.   Glenn and Alice down to G.R. Deyarmond's tonight.

December 7, 1935 - Saturday.  A nice day.  Quite a lot of sunshine.  Morris and I went to Stewiacke.  Was at Edith Woodworth's.  Got there about 4 p.m.  Had letters from F.F. and M.F.

December 8, 1935 - Sabbath.  Something like yesterday.  Fred and Eva and Morris were at church.  Morris and I came home before tea.  Stopped at Aunt Martha Fleck's and had tea. Home about 8 p.m.

December 9, 1935 - Monday.  Another quite nice day.  Clothes dried.  Edna went to Milford with Mr and Mrs Girdwood.  Nina home with sore throat.  Shirley and Alice have it.   Boys - Morris and Tom - at badminton.  Wrote to J.M.   Mrs Margeson called.

December 10, 1935 - Tuesday.  Windy and soft.  No snow now.  Rain last evening.  Had a letter from F.J.B.  Wrote to Dot and Walter.  Alice and Glenn away.  Glenn trucked some wood - furnace wood.

December 11, 1935 - Wednesday.  Dark.  Not very cold.  Young Ladies Club met at Mrs G.R. Deyarmond's.  Robert A. Cox dined with us today. Had a letter from E.M.B.

December 12, 1935 - Thursday.  A wet day.  Snow and rain falling.  WMS (Annual meeting) met at Mrs Edson Cox's today.  Glenn took me to and from the meeting. 

December 13, 1935 - Friday. Snow squalls and cold wind.  Slushy.  Sent letters and a parcel to F.J.B.  Glenn took me to the store this p.m.  He is away with M.S. Fulton tonight.  The mill was not running.  Tom and Morris were hunting.

December 14, 1935 - Saturday.  A squally windy day.  Soft underfoot.  Edwin and Roy took lumber to Brookfield this a.m.  Graham Fulton helped kill and dress our pigs.  Morris was at Roy's this evening.  The Miss Nelson's are spending the night with Alda.  Sent a letter to J.W.

December 15, 1935 -  Sabbath.  Dark most of the time.  A little sunshine.  No snow; ground not frozen.  Morris, Shirley, Nina and I were at church.  Mr Girdwood's sermon was from matthew 5:54.  "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth".  A sermon on humility.  Was at Roy's with Leslie and Shirley.

December 16, 1935 - Monday.  Wet.  Snow and rain tonight.  Was at Roy's all day.  They went to Truro.  All but Thelma, Jean and Ruth.  Edwin to Stewiacke.  Sent a letter to E.M.B.

December 17, 1935 - Tuesday.  Snow squalls but no frost.  Alice and Glenn up to Elwood Graham's to tea and to G.R. Deyarmond's a little while this evening.

December 18, 1935  - Wednesday. Some snow squalls.  They cut up the pigs - Alice and Glenn.  and Uncle Harris cut up the head and put it to soak.  G.R. Deyarmond was in in the evening.  Mr and Mrs Alex Fulton and I were up to Mr Robt. A. Cox's this p.m.

December 19, 1935 - Thursday.  Not very cold.  Wind east or southeast.  Edwin came home from Stewiacke, had a nice visit.  Came home in the mail.    Alda was in this p.m.  I fell down stairs tonight.  Sent a letter to M.E.B.

December 20, 1935 - Friday.  Quite a nice day, but snowing tonight.  They took Freda to the scholars Christmas tree today.  Elwood Graham dined with us.  Glenn and Alice were at the store,  Mrs Hamilton's,  and G.R. Deyarmond's tonight.  We made potted head today.

December 21, 1935 - Saturday.  A snowy day.  Sledding for the first time this year.  Glenn, Tom, Frank, Sid and Morris went to town.  J. Peppard came home for Christmas.

December 22, 1935 - Sabbath.  Rather raw; cold tonight.  Text of Mr Girdwood's sermon - "Fear not, on earth, peace, good will toward men."    John Girdwood here to tea.  Roy and Ruth here this evening.  Also Thomas Fulton and Frank Cox (Otter Brook).

December 23, 1935 - Monday.  A grey day.  Wind rather cold.  Not working in the mill.  Killed the beef at S.G. Fulton's.  Jack Girdwood and Tom Fulton called  Glenn and Alice were at the store and Mrs Hamilton's.   Sent letters to Mrs McCoul, Mrs Annie Miller and Edith Woodworth.  A box of stationery came from F.J.B. - a Christmas gift.

December 24, 1935 - Tuesday.  Colder with slight flurries of snow.  Not much work at the mill.  Bub's back is sore.  Getting presents ready for Christmas and receiving letters and cards etc.

December 25, 1935 - Wednesday.  Christmas.  A nice day; not much sunshine.  Mrs Hamilton, Wilmer, and Mrs Wm. Lemon here to dine.  Mrs H. for tea.  Shirley and Nina went with Wilmer in the p.m.  Heard King George speak for 5 minutes.  Morris, Jack Girdwood and I called at Mrs Sill's.  Also Mrs Hamilton and I called at Mr Margeson's.

December 26, 1935 - Thursday. Dark.  Stormy tonight.  Roy and Edna went to Percy Goodwin's.  Too stormy to return.

December 27, 1935 - Friday.  Stormy.  Greatest storm of the season.  Roy and Edna are not likely to get home until the first of the week.  Had  a letter from E.M.B. Hedley Burnett and Gertrude Butcher have recently been married. 

December 28, 1935 - Saturday.  Some sunshine.  Clothes washed on Monday, dried today.  Alice and Glenn were at the store and M.S. Fulton's tonight.  Mr and Mrs A.P. Fulton called.  Morris and Tom at S.G. Fulton's tonight.

December 29, 1935 - Sabbath.  A fine cold day.  Wind cold.  Morris, Shirley, Nina and I were at church.  Attendance small.  The text of the sermon was Gal. 3:28.  "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female".  Jack Girdwood here to tea.  Tom Fulton came back.

December 30, 1935 - Monday.  Cold.  12 - 14 degrees below zero this a.m.  Roy and Edna returned from Percy Goodwin's this p.m. , having been storm-stayed since Friday.  Heard of Oscar Higgins and Mabel Wright being married.  Glenn took J.W. Benvie to Truro to get teeth out, see about an abscess etc.  Miss Eva Fulton and G.R. Deyarmond went too.   Born to Mr and Mrs H.L. Blaikie, Truro - a daughter - 12 pounds weight.  Sent a letter to E.M.B.  Had a latter and Christmas card from F.J.B.,  A.G.A. and A.T.M.

December 31, 1935 - Tuesday.  A nice day.  Not very cold.  The Mission Band had their Christmas celebration in the hall.  The girls, Shirley and I were there.  Sent a letter to M.E.S.

At the end of this book, the following:

Got my black tree-bark coat May , 1935.  Sent for $8.95 one.  Eatons substituted and sent a $12.98 one.