Irene Dixon Bamford

[seal: R Date 1896 Sealed with Gulfwax]

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#kes his leave, going to call on Yonger #lks & from thence to uncle Sammy's. Tonight we would be alone this eve #t not so evening visitors Frank Woodman, Ed Weaver. Leather land #yed pedro till eleven P.M. Leather # all night.

Thursday 6 Dec 1896 Cloudy wind #South 7 Oclock this morning # I call Devolson. Leatherland # stays till 12 noon day and after a # cordial hand shaking all round # leave again for Kingston # at uncle Sammy's for his # 'sack instead went to Niles to # his dinner and thence to Geo Gillespie # evening we are alone quietly G poped # full of corn

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Thursday 27 Aug 96 A fine day. Grace & Maud Harry & Fred & Marjorie all go to Kingston leaving Voltie and I at home alone. Didnt send any butter to market this morning, butter too soft.

Friday 28 Aug 96

Wednesday 16 December 1896 A clear cold day, ground bare and hard frozen. Samy butchering. Ed Weaver here for butcher knife. Wellie called on his way to get his pay of Niles for carpenter work. Got nothing. Niles going to pay him some tomorrow. W Sr fixing over an old bedstead. Wellie and Voltie cleaning a grist for milk to send to Kingston tomorrow. I got to churn and make out a little butter for market. Jesse Reid came back with the other fisher from

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Tuesday 6th October 1896 A cloudy spotted kind of a day over head. Wind North, moderately cold or weather medium or merly [sic] straddle of the fence. Voltie drawing manure all day. Maud at school. Irene churned, skimmed milk, strained milk, washing milk pans & made jelly. Grace sewed. In evening Voltie went to J Niles and played poker till 10 p.m. Ed Weaver called for V this evening to go tomorrow to Marysville to play baseball but he will not be such a dunce.

Wednesday 7th October 1896 Wind North changing to west. A rainy morning and rainy cheerless chilly day. The woods are turning crimson golden scarlet and a sunset brown, and bronze green, most beautiful. Churned and made thirty two lbs of butter for market. Jesse Reid and Will Dixon here Ethel brought home the butter print. The pasture is green as June. Grace

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Friday 9th Oct 1896 A very fine October dewy & Wind N V and W Jr thresh for Geo Gillespie. Jesse and Wall here. John McDonel here for bags. Maud and Grace go for hickory nuts after dinner. Irene makes chow chow. A letter from Bamford he is not very well. A letter from Mrs Naylor Brown. Ed Weaver here a few minutes this eve. McGlynn came down to see Wall & Jesse Reid about fishing. Go to bed early and have a most refreshing sleep all night.

Saturday 10 October 1896 Another beautiful day, Wind N. V gone to thresh for Geo Rattray Leatherland gave us a call this morning. Jesse came for them to draw their nets home from Breakey Bay obliged to haul them out the river easily.

Continued - Wallace and Geo Farr gone to the back woods and lakes of Canada fishing, carried with them a barrel of fish nets, guns, ammunition &c &c

Friday 20 Nov 1896 A quite pleasant Nov day. Grace cooking all fore noon for a surprise party at Bells this eve. We get dinner early, and Grace fills her "basket with apples, pie & cake and goes aross the fields to Uncle Sammy's, and goes up with the mail as far as Berry's Corners, and walks the rest of the way carrying the basket which must have been very heavy. I think it must have been a surprize to Belle and the children when they saw her come in so unexpectedly, the company were not many only V, and G, & Shell, Frank, Ed Weaver, Geo Morgan & Alice F, Hank & Dick Halliday, Lewis & Dick Lerush and Hanks' lad Jim Hunter. Rachel came over awhile. Maud and I alone all the evening and all night. Maud at school. A letter from Wells Sr