Irene Dixon Bamford

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Tuesday 30 Jan 1894 Snow piled up very deep this morning. Voltie wallowed through the snow this morning to the river for a pail of water, snow above his knees and still snowing fast and steady. So once more the Marysville Ball is a failure and disapointment, but V & G do not care. Maud will have to stay home from school to day and the turkeys will have to lay in the market basket till the storm is over and the roads are plowed. Lill Niles has a quilting party the PM and V drove with Grace to the quilting, this party is in honor of Lill's birth day. Well after V got back from the quilting we heard Will Gillespie's child is dead. So they have no evening party at J Niles. Jim Obrien went for the sprail and stand is the box

Jan 31 Wednesday. A fine bright day, rather cold. Wind W. Wellie came up to pull the fish net and draw hay, and then drove to foot to get fish and I go down to Eveline's on the sleigh and stay all day. Wellie got 2 sturgeon from the lower nets, snow on the ice is very deep as well as every where else in the evening. V & G & M go to Mission meeting. V goes home with Lill. Mart comes home very noisy and smoking around

Saturday 17 February 1906 A warm cloudy morning 20 deg above zero, Wind South & looks like rain. Whitmarsh up dressed and whistling. Grandad up dressed in the kitchen swearing very low about that "d-d whistling fool" Whitmarsh puts himself inside his fur lined over coat and goes down on the ice where V & Jack Niles are getting out to fill the ice house and awaits his oppertunity to catch a ride with some one enroute for the villiage and soon hops on Will Gillespie's conveyance and goes off up to the villiage. Jack N here to dinner. Maud makes doughnuts and I fry. They got the ice all in before dinner. 30 big cake

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Wednesday 30 March 1904 Snow to day disapearing rappidly [sic:rapidly]] somewhat cloudy. Will Gillespie drove here for Plymouth rock eggs, wants 7 doz, 2 baked bread. Maud ironed and after dinner walked up to see Shell found the walking very slushy. Sr brought in 2 pails of sap. I wrote a long letter to Grace. Wells Sr reads all evening. Voltie read all the evening.

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Thursday 7 April 1904 A very fine day a white frost this morning. V commenced plowing, mother calf at the barn. Will Gillespie here for eggs. 7 doz at .18 per doz. River clear of ice.

Saturday 9th April 1904 Charley Woodman plowed for Voltie to day, ground very wet. Charlie is owing Voltie 7 dollars for carpenter work &c

Sunday 10 April A very dirty day raw cold windy. Voltie set a hen on 14 eggs. R's old hen. Maude had a terrible tooth ache. Wallace made us a short visit, all dressed right and dandy. Henderson made us an evening visit.

Thursday 14 No one went to town from here to day. In pm V & Maurice planted in garden

Friday 15 Will Gillespie came up this morning to frame the barn so now there are two men here beside V to cook for. Maurice & Will Gillespie.

Saturday 16 Wm Gillespie here again to day. Same work going on as yesterday. After supper Maurice dresses up very fine & shares powders, brushes and shines his boots, and goes over to Hallidays courting, Edith Bates. Samy and Miss Langley go to Kingston. I guess they are courting too. Louise's girl here. Laura Babcock. Emma papers the dining room

Sunday 17 June 1917 Sunday a very fine day. I write and send a letter to Belle. No one here except Madaline and Myrabelle pm when Emma, Edith, Madaline, Myrabelle go down to Annie Kehoes to see the baby; they return to supper then go home. Emma. V found the old sick cow dead so he had to draw her out and bury her. Another new milker and the last for this year. The holstein a big bull calf wich [sic] V is raising from a fine cow.