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Mrs Dignum visiting Rachel today Halloween

Tuesday 31st Oct 1916
A very good day. Emma went to Horns
for Lizzie to make her dress carrying the
cloth with her. Lizzie sent Emma to Rob Micheas
to exchange thread, came home
quite early snapped around went to mill &
without changing her clothes; dishes washed
early, house swept and plenished lamps
brilliant and shining, must have anticipated
something. Cheesemaker Bob Jackson
here to supper. This is all Halloween,
guess we are to have company. First came
Miss Moore then Joe and Orville & Samy Gillmore
and Miss Ducker. I retired
to my bedroom with lighted oil stove,
rocker and books, but such a racket
and noise. I couldnt stand it all so
I walked out in midst of the company
and took my accustomed seat behind the
stove and there I staid till every foreign
footstep had died away in the distance. It
was after two before they left and then
V had to say, go! for I want a little
rest before I put in a long days plowing.
The girls cant dance, not what you can
call dancing. They are as ungraceful on the
floor as a lot of cows, and the young men.
Oh Oh such stomping of feet and pushing
and hauling the girls around. If their idea
of dancing is in noise and rough motion.
Why there it is. They should take lessons
at a dancing school for it is ridiculous
and ludicrous to see them on the floor.
It rained all first of the night
which will soften the ground for plowing.
Edith went to the mail box for her coat
that Louise had sent her, a beautiful coat