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and to dinner. Emma & Maggie
after washing the dinner dishes walk
up to Jack Niles to see the baby Lois.
Found Geo & Louise there besides Old Horn
and Lizzie, Mr and Mrs Kesler.
Edith goes up to visit Maggie Magee.
She is alone. Sylvia gone to English
church. Ed, Joe & Sam gone to Howe Island
to a bass [sic] ball play. About
4 pm V motors to Micheas with
Margaret Joslin; she is working for her
granny Anne Michea, Mag Magee
came home with Edith and they go
sauntering along the shore. The
day ends in quiet peacefulness

Monday 14 Sept 1914
Another beautiful day. A brilliant
sun and a cloudless sky & warm
tho the evenings are cool. V fixing
line fence between himself and
Geo Niles. Emma washed and
hung the clothes on the line by
10 pm. Edith picked beans for
dinner. I shelled them. Then Edith
went to school; has row with the
Morgans, Madeline tore Ediths
new apron. V finished cobbling the
fence, picked lot of tomatoes for
home canning and for Joslin's
family beside a pail of cucumbers
for Weir. Edith went for the cows gone
a long time. Emma called on Sylvie
2 hours. Edith came home early. Edith
washing supper dishes. A beautiful sunset
and the river so still it reflects every color of sky.