Sunday September 3rd 1916

 Beautiful all day. Charles and Daisy Green and 3 children, Fred and Hannah Bartlet and Guy came all 10 a.m in auto. Went at 3 p.m. Took Sidney to Gayville to get some flour and sugar. Mr. Roguiski came and with his phonograph. Had nice time.

Monday May 22nd 1916

A light, drisly rain. Rained hard tonight. Mora staid home, other 3 went to school. {page torn, unreadable} and Chas. Runga came at 9 a.m., finished digging and went home at 4 p.m., brought his corn and potatoes.

Monday March 20, 1916

Thawing some. Sidney and Alf. finished up Chas. Munger's wood job. Both eat dinner with Mungers. Maud Potter sent a pail of buttermilk and pail of sweet milk by Sidney. He borrowed some flour off Claud Bryant.

Wednesday March 15, 1916

Cold, stormy all day. Track full. Sidney went to E.B. Potter's early a.m. Maud gave him some sweetmilk and buttermilk too. He then went to Little France, got groceries, had to wade both ways. Very tired when he got back. Chas. Beasonson asked him to eat dinner with him but he did not. Chas. gave him some crackers and cookies.

Monday November 1, 1915

Beautiful day. Sidney cut us a nice lot of wood, and this eve. went over with Mora to Bryant's and then E.B. Potter's. Got 4 small pumpkins also went to Cary's and got onions. Bell came p.m. and this eve came and brought the Post Standard so we could read Billy Sunday's services. Sarah came with her but did not come in. Mr. House visited with Sidney p.m. Saw fire eve. A baby boy at Charles Beasonson's.

Saturday October 23, 1915

Cold raw wind. I got up a 1 o'clock and drove Charles Runga's cattle out of our garden and they came right back and I drove them out again at 2. Mr. House put them in Fisher's lot and this morning they jumped over the fence and came back in our garden at noon again. {Unable to read, ripped} them as far as Johnson's, they have eaten {unable to read, ripped} cabbage, and some turnips too. Mora and Maud went over to Lettie's and also to Elmer Cottett's a.m. Blanche gave them each a pumpkin. Mr. House gave Lillian a *toque that was Hazel's. Bell came a.m. a little while. Sidney got home at 9 p.m. having walked from Brewerton. He brought some groceries from Claud Davy's.



*small brimless hat.

Saturday October 16, 1915

Fair. Mora and Maud went to Little France p.m. Took eggs, .32c/doz. Got a package of Banner oats, a sack of {unable to read, ripped}. Chas. gave them each a stick of candy.

Saturday October 9, 1915

*Rainy. Mora went up as far as Brocket's on {unable to read} hill. Getting up her soap order. Came home at 5 p.m. came home drenched. She brought a pumpkin from E.B. Po{unable to read} Mr. House called p.m. gave the children some apples. Sidney came home at 8:30, pretty wet. Charles Beasonson  had him take an umbrella. He brought a pkg. of banner {unable to read} graham and sugar.


*Last page of journal. A lot of tears and damage on this page.

Monday July 12, 1915

Warm. Sidney went to Chas. Hess's, got groceries early in the morning, called at House's eve. Harry came to see the Royal Scroll. Mr. Sypher came p.m., he and Sidney had a splendid visit judging from the noise.

Tuesday June 1, 1915

Warm again. Sidney finished his piece of potatoes a.m. Rev. Sypher and son are also planting their potatoes across the way from us. A peddler came only give 12c. for chickens, we did not sell. Sidney got a bu. potatoes from Chas. Munger p.m. F. House and Curtis called eve.

Saturday April 17, 1915

Fair. Sidney went over to Char. Munger's and sold him a scroll. I worked settling.

Saturday December 26, 1914

Very cold, can not keep warm with a good fire. Mrs. Starr, Chas. Burts mother died this morning after 2 month illness.

Monday November 30, 1914

Another lovely day. Sidney went to Chas. Courbat and ordered wood and went away at 8 a.m. Orla came with wood at 3 p.m. Agnes run in and Avis came home with the children I let them go and play a while with her. Cassie went to P.O. Memphis to Gehr's.

Friday July 10, 1914

Another very hot muggy day. Mr. Wingen's called this morning and paid Mora and Maud for picking berries. Mina 10c. Charlie Vinney's wife stopped to get her baby a drink. The children have watched the P.O. close but no word from Sidney came, a card from M. Silverman and a letter from Rev. Chas. Bowman seven p.m came for Sidney. I found a little rabbit dead p.m. Had a light shower this eve cooled the air a trifle. Mailed a letter to Sidney.

Tuesday Feb. 24, 1914

John phoned up to Guy to come and tell us Sidney was to work. A cold day 40 below zero at George Courbat's office at a.m. Sidney went up to the P.O. p.m and John Gehr wanted him to go to the bee and work for him. Charles Hoyet had a bee to draw his wood as his slieghs burned when Emery Pierce set his barn of fire early last fall. All his farm tools and five cows burned. Geo. Courbat's team went and Chars. Courbat's, Clint Mallory's and Ernie Leonards besides about eight men loading wood only took about 2 hours to load and draw out 20 cord of wood. Mora and Maud went to school this p.m, they were very cold when they came home. After supper Mora went to the P.O. to mail Sidney's letter to Mr. Green and get a qt. of vinegar, they are all out so she could not get it.

Saturday Feb. 21, 1914

Another fine day, thawed so there was a bare spot by the door, it is very cold however tonight the wind blows quite hard, it whistles and sounds terrible lonely to me. Memphis, Cassy and Lillian are all in slumberland, while Sidney, Mora and Maud are all at church. Mora went to deliver some more of her soap order and she road a ways with Henry Rudeau, he was taking Hiram West over to W. Monroe also his wife and three children. She stopped to Mrs. Fred Faustmans with her lemon ex. and tartan tar soap and Mrs. F paid her all but three cents, could not make right change. Mora told her that was near enough it was 30c she rec'd 27c, Mrs. F gave her some apples. Then she went over to Chas. Piquet's and Kate paid her 25c for her camp horated oil and paid her also for Minnie Gearsbeck's washing powder which was 10c, said she would take it up to her and save Mora a little walk. Maud carried Louise's boraxine up to her and their dog followed her home and we could not send him back untill Johnnie came along and he went with him all right. Johnnie Vinney found Cassy's rubber when he came home form F. Buttons's dance this morning. Sidney went to the mill and got some corn and brought home some groceries. Maud also went up and got a pkg. of O.G. Oats and Lewis brought a sack of golden glow flour and a sack of meal this evening. Mora and I wrote a receipt for indian bread for Lydia Boots and Memphis carried it up to her.