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[stamp] Some 1902 & 1903 R
Wednesday 7th Jan 1903 A January day. I helped get dinner. Voltie working on sleighs. Walace came towards evening. A dance at Frank W's. Voltie, Maud, Irene, Wallace, Lennie all go down to F's after dark. Len fell in rock hole going down
Thursday 2nd April 1903 Arise and call Voltie at 4 sharp. It looks like a storm and I think I will stay home and not go to Belles. Voltie starts at six a.m. He borrowed Charleys old buggy and drove double. The wind rising a blows a half gale all day. Maud whitewashed and cleaned the kitchen. Maud and I are tired and look in vain for Volties comming till long after dark. Dark heavy clouds lying off in the west. Sharp lightning and heavy thunder and Prince comes whining at the door to get in, he is afraid of thunder, we let him in and he cralls [sic] away in the corner behind the stove, the old fool! The supper is kept warm in the oven for Voltie. At last we hear a prolonged whistle and we know Voltie has arrived amid thunder & lightning and now prince goes to the door to get out and Sr, lantern in hand, and Prince goes to the barn and beling the stacks to pilot Volty around the corner and throughs the bars and soon he comes in ladened with baskets and
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Thursday 8 Jan 1803
A very good day. I dont feel very well yet but helped get dinner. Voltie and the girls got the breakfast after being out to the dance till midnight at Frank W's. Rachel came over to stay she slept with Irene & Maud slept with me.
bundles accompanied by Albert Joy the great electrician. I supposed he was going to stay all night but after tea and raspberries, and helping V water the horses, he concluded he would go home and he went, forgeting his over coat. Well I wash dishes and mix the biscuits all ready to bake in the morning and Maud pares the potatoes, and finally we are settled and gone to the land of nod and dreams, wishing we could stay there a long time. O Lord!
Friday 3rd of April 1903 I slept like a top all night with the wind roaring around the house from the South. Awoke this morning to find queer looking clouds piled fold upon fold a strange weird looking morning which finaly consolidates into fog and rain which comes pouring.
