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Show --689 24 June 1896 Wednesday'" Hoed in garden, Hauled out a load of manure and gathered up some plank rock &c for bridge across ditch on street running past my heuse Had a colt castrated by , John Til Hoed in garden, carrots beets &Cl) 25 Thursday 26 Friday Hoed cabbage and" other parts of garden in morn In afternoon rode up above Savoia with all my folks and ing!> caught some fish there Came" horne and sprouted S(11)e potatoes II 27 Saturday Helped milk cows Hoed some in corn & currants p Was up to reservoir and located where culvert shall be , Worked some on company accts, letters"&c Hoed in lot. Took a bath" 28 Sunday Attended to cOWSp Studied over Sunday school and lesson for higher class\) Visited EAj)Tietjen who management carne over yesterday At 10 apm attended SS, let JpEAshcroft conduct school j) I taught higner class Had changes in Secretary and Librarian suatatned, At 2 p,m" attended rreeting John Mil Gallagher read a programme" fer the celebration of the 4th of July" Conversed some after- meetingp At home in evening, Attended" to cows p Hoed" and watered in lot I> Met 29" Monday with Directors" fol' an hr"" and. wopked- on water distribution for an hr-, Wrote some I' Hoed some com on ten II Attended to" cows p Watered in lot" in morning, 30 Tuesday Took a walk over land and looked" at crop, Plowed and hoed corn on ten, Freddie helping, Went up to" reservoir in evening and with EA"Tietjen estimated-price on raising the grade on dam of reservoir 4 ft high ""and 10 ft wide on top, 1 July Wednesday ... Cleaned- up in corral" Got a wagon ready to go over to Bluewater, Talked with WoH,Bond and J9T9N1elson about letting contracts on raising dam at reservoir 4 :rat Helped Freddie with watering the corn, Done sene writing, Reed, the mail, letters from Mary Ellen and J ,L,Van Doren" At 3 p.m, left horne with mother. 1 team prince and mary and Bluewater wagon to Drove to spring within 1 go to Bluewater to mow the Iuceme mile of ranch and camped for the night 2 Thursday, lJp early p Drove on to over the mountain stopped for breakfast then drove to mouth of canton at Bluewater and stopped for dinner then drove on to Bluewater arriving at 3 p.m. all well" Got IOOwers "and rakes out and began getting them ready for work II Took care of horses p 3 Friday Fixing up mowers and ground mower kn1ves , and got team ready, In afternoon began cutting lucerne-with 2 mowers" EA.,Tr> cut with his mule team and I cut with my team I brought" ""'" ...,. - - ...,. - - - - , (> ... "'" 4 Saturday Oround a machine knife and fixed up 1 mower |
