April 1933
Dorothy Toombs has measles.
7 Fine. wind cool. Very foggy in afternoon. Ernest & I went to funeral. Roads pretty bad. Large funeral. Mrs Osborne of Clifton had charge. Play practice at night.
Robin blackbird wild geese
8 Poured rain all day. Fine mess. Ham here in evening and Geo Clark sang till midnight.
9 S. Preaching in the morning. Quiet day all day.
10 Foggy and damp. Didn’t wash. Anita put in a little stamped mat. Ernest shoveling church hill. Ham here for dinner.
11 Nellies birthday. Mabel and Clemmie here to tea. No school for a week. Tired at night. Roy & Olaf Stevenson, Geo & Jim here to practice.
Mrs Ben Houston
12 Ernest to Nellie home when he went to the station for Lorraine. Roads bad. No news.
13 Fine. Lorraine washed. Girls hooking. Play practice at night. Marion at Gertrude Lamonts.
14 Fine wind, everyway. Annie Lowther over in afternoon. Group at Manse. Ernest, PJ, and I went down to Alex in evening, wood sleigh, bad roads.
15 Thawed a lot to-day, rained at night. No news. Ernest over to see John F at night. He’s pretty miserable and fussy.
16 S. Lovely morning but mud around cool before noon. Girls have gone over to Austins. Ella and Herb Wyand came out to church but Quigley could
April 1933
16 not make it, the roads are so bad. Easter Service in United Church at night. Marion played for the boys. Both of us feeling rotten with sore throat. Reading Arm of Gold by Ralph Connor.
17 Lovely fine day but roads very bad. Marion and I pretty sick. Ernest took Lorraine to H. River in the morning.
18 Fine. Girls washed. Ernest splitting wood. Pretty sick. Nellie back again.
19 Feeling a little better. Anita baking for chicken supper at Jerrys for the Boy’s Choir and organist. Ellice over in evening.
20 Ernest set the old goose. Nellie went home to-night to stay. What a relief. Fine weather but a lot of
Play practice
21 north east wind and ice as far as one can see. No group this week because Webbs couldn’t have it.
22 Miserable day, cold, cold, wind and snow at night. Got up today but feeling pretty punk. Play practice at night.
23 Ground white this morning. United Church in afternoon. Had to go back to bed again with stiff neck. The Wyand girls and George Herb & Edward here at night. Sang and had ice cream.
24 Fine early and late. Girls washed baked bread
