Feb 1949
flurry at night and turned colder.
1 Beacher Court is sawing ice on the pond and of course the men are all hauling. Cars & trucks and sleighs on roads.
2 2B. A bright sunny morning. Very cold. The men finished the ice. It’s grand and clear, all ice. Dad not feeling very good these days.
6 A lovely day and Pauline & Heber and small boys got out before dinner and left for home after 4 PM.
7 Another lovely day and I did a good big washing and some cleaning up in Kitchen. Cold again at night. Ernest pretty good to-day.
8 Ironed and wrote to Marion & Lorraine. Not cold to-day. More like March weather.
9 Blowing hard, wind south, S. West and it thawed quite a lot. Will spoil what has been a perfectly good sleigh and car road. Letters from Anita and Aunt Jen & Waine.
19 Its been very changeable weather all winter, two or three days cold and then mild again. There was a parlor social at the Manse last night. Mrs Goff broke a small bone in her wrist on Thursday. Gertrude Lamont has been at Freds most of week. Dad has been some better this week. Anita is going to take a new job as cook at Willard Hall.
Feb 1949
16th Arch Wedlock died in Churchville Ont
Feb 27 Fulton Brown died suddenly at Kensington
19 Lottie Brown died in Prince County Hospital this morning.
21 The roads not very good and the snow plough came down from Kensington and plough it to the cemetery for the funeral at Stanley Church. A very large funeral Fred said.
22 Tuesday 22 I went up to Grants with Reggie and walked home, called at Unas for eggs. Had almost 20 pounds to carry.
26 We had more snow and a big storm on Saturday.
27 Started to blow at night and stormed all day Sunday and no church services but the radio was good and Fred and Stirling were in for a while in afternoon.
Fulton Brown
28 Snowed most of day. Walking bad to Freds but I got milk. Shovelled snow. Ed Graham operated on for goiter.
March 1st Stormed again all day and piled up in drifts. Roads blocked all over Island and still snowing all day and wind 35 miles an hour.
2 Not very cold but no one travelling at this end of Cavendish. Ira & Dora had to take their little boy Allen to Town. Alfred, George, and John McNeill went along with them. They operated for appendicitis this afternoon.
3 Men were breaking roads. Fulton Browns funeral postphoned until Thursday. Quite warm at south of house and I caught a boiler of soft water. Mike Doyle suffering terribly.
4th A perfectly lovely day and I put out quite a washing. Fred went to Town this morning
5 Ironed this morning and scrubbed this afternoon and all in to-night.
