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The girls came home early in time
to get supper for they could find nothing
there to eat. Ate it all up for dinner.
Well after supper and dishes washed, Miss Langley,
Louis's nurse Olive Jones, Miss Spence, Ed Maloney
and a Palmer fellow from over the way, Joe and
Samy, Will Niles and two Maloneys Ed & Sheridan.
V played mouth organ for them to dance, went home
at midnight "The witching hour of night, when
ghosts troop home to church yards"

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Thursday 28 June 1917
Another fine day breezy, Hope there may be no
drought for every thing is growing so finely now.
Voltie, Wm N, Maurice and Will Gillespie are working at the
barn.

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Friday 29 June 1917
A day of rain and
wind commenced raining sometime in night and
continued nearly all day. A dance at Arthur Hendersons.
Joes takes Emma. Maurice goes over
to Hallidays for Edith Bates. Samy takes Miss Langley.
Voltie milks nearly all the cows
alone this p.m.