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and variety to supply one small family
of four beside the canning, pickling &
preserving of fruit not to mention
groceries, spices of all kinds etc. etc. etc. etc.
15 more bags in cellar which makes 37.
R came over. Ethel ate dinner at Frank Woodmans.
Evening visitors Frank &
Emma, Laura, Tom, Will & Harold Dignum
also Ileen Coil. Dancing after phonograph
music. A letter from Rev Lancaster.
Maude took up the parlor carpet.

Wednesday 16th September 1908
No rain. A cool morning wind North. No rain.
Ethel staid all night, went over to
R's after breakfast. I wash a lot of
colored clothes. Maud gathers Oldenburghs
for market. V & dad pull beans,
awful smoky. Heard the woods are
on fire and burning between Charmont &
Depauville. Evening R has company. The
Dignum Bros (Will & Harold), Stella & Ethel by
a pre arainged [sic: prearranged] plan meet the Dignum's
at Rachels.