| mon. Jan. 1 | Mr. and Mrs. R. Chipperfield and daughters Anna and Sadie, also son Willie and Kearney Fitzpatrick Jr. were our guest to New Years dinner. Very cold all day. |
| Thur. Jan. 4 | Rev. and Mrs. H.D. Cheney, were our guest to supper and spent the evening with us. Son Willie ate with us. It was a very cold day and night. |
| Fri. Jan. 5 | Mrs. Emma Deal of Owosso, after an illness of only two days passed a way to her reward. Death came from a stroke of paralysis. The stroke came while she was preparing to attend a meeting of the Womans relief confer. She was a woman of a sweet lovable character. |
| Sun. Jan. 7 | Bright sun-shine. Bad very cold wind. Not very many at church. Next day the 8th snowed all day. |
| Wen. Jan. 10 | Occurred the marriage of Miss Minnie Williams to LaVerne Beamish. The weather had moderated some. |
| Ther. Jan. 11 | Rev. William Waterman passed away to his reward for which he had long lived and labored. The old man quite frequently would visit us two and three days at a time. He seemed to take comfort in being where it was quiet and home-like. He was once our pastor. |
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| | Full many years he labored
In the service of the Lord;
But now the Father has called him
To go to his reward.
His lamp was trimmed and burning,
Ready and waiting to go,
He had laid up treasure in heaven,
While he labored here below. |
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| Fri. Jan. 12 | Our 102nd missionary meeting was entertained at the parsonage. A large crowd was pleasantly received by Rev. and Mrs. Cheney. Though quite cold it was a beautiful day, and nice sleighing. Quilting was did. |
| Sun. Jan. 14 | Mrs. Gertrude Spinning was buried. Funneral was held at the west Haven church. A very cold day. |
| Mon.,Tues. Jan. 15-16 | Although extreamly cold, Willie drew beets to the Creek weigh-station. The 17, a little warmer. |
| Fri. Jan. 19 | Lester, litter son of Mr. and Mrs. Edd. Cheney, was buried. Funeral was held at the M.E. Church at Henderson. Rev. J. D. Young afficiated. It was a very cold day. |
| Sun. Jan. 21 | Husband went to church. Only a few out to services. |
| Wen. Jan. 24 | My sisty-third birth-day, Miss Marie Holtzhausen and Roy Smith were united in marriage. A fine winter day. Also, Miss Anna Jones and Levi Conklin had the nuptial knot tied. Rev. H.D. Cheney afficiated. |
| Sun. Jan. 28 | Extreamly cold. We did not go to church. |
| Mon. Jan. 29 | Alice wife of Miles Linsey died at her home in Owosso, after an illness of six weeks. Weather was very cold. |
| Tues. Jan. 30 | Willie Shantz 33 years old, while in the woods felling a tree, A large limb came down striking him on the head rendering him unconscious. He lived until wensday evening. |
| Sun. Jan. 28 | Extreamly cold. We did not go to church. |
| Mon. Jan. 29 | Alice wife of Miles Linsey died at her home in Owosso, after an illness of six weeks. Weather was very cold. |
| Tues. Jan. 30 | Willie Shantz 33 years old, while in the woods felling a tree, A large limb came down striking him on the head rendering him unconscious. He lived until wensday evening. |
| Sun. Jan. 28 | Extreamly cold. We did not go to church. |
| Mon. Jan. 29 | Alice wife of Miles Linsey died at her home in Owosso, after an illness of six weeks. Weather was very cold. |
| Tues. Jan. 30 | Willie Shantz 33 years old, while in the woods felling a tree, A large limb came down striking him on the head rendering him unconscious. He lived until Wensday evening. |
| Sat. Feb. 3 | Husband and I attended the funeral of Willie Shantz which was held at the Disciple church of Easton. Rev. Kelly of the Free Methodist Church officiated, assisted by Rev. Deming of Easton, and Rev. Cheney of Wesleyan Methodist church. Poor Will! He left a wife and four small children. Bitter cold day. |
| Sun. Feb. 4 | We attended church. Congregation was small as the weather was bitter cold. Sleighing was fine. |
| Thur. Feb. 8 | Charlie and Hattie White, were married seven years. Feb. 9th was a terrible cold day and bitter cold night. |
| Sun. Feb. 11 | We went to church. The snow was very deep and more coming, quite a lot fell during the evening. |
| Wen. Feb. 14 | Our 103 missionary meeting convened at the home of Mrs. Hiram Russell. A large crowd assembled and sewed carpet rags and made quilt blocks. Quite warm and cloudy. |
| Thur. Feb. 15 | Husband and Willie went to George Dillons auction. A lovly warm day, thawed some. 16th thawed a lot. |
| Sat. Feb. 17 | A wedding took place at the W.M. parsonage, when Miss Mary Davis, and Wm. Ward were united in marriage. Rev. H.D. Cheney officiated. They went to Flint to reside. |
| Sun. Feb. 18 | Husband went to church, was real warm snow going off fast. Rained some in the afternoon. Tues. 20th was very warm seemed like spring. |
| Wen. Feb. 2 | We were visited with a terrible snow blizzard from the north east. Began sometime in the early morning, stormed until seven in the evening. It did havic with telegraph and telephone wires and railroad installing. |
| | Trains on all railroads in snow banks, making them many hours late. The town streets and rural high-ways were filled with snow drifts from three to seven feet deep. Rural-carriers could not deliver mail for days. The storm covered the whole of Michigan, and reached other states besides. Sister Olive Thomas and her husband called on the morning of the 21st. to make us a visit and could not go home until the 24th. Their home was in Owosoo. |
| Sun. Feb. 25 | Great banks of snow lay all around. Warm and thawing fast. Husband wended his way on foot to church. |
| Wen. Feb. 29 | Miss Mary Whitley of Corunna, and Oliver McKay, were united in marriage at eight o’clock in the evening. By Rev. C.E. Doty of the M.E. Church. |
| Sun. Mar. 3 | We went to church, had a good congregation, good sermon, good class-meeting, good sleighing, and very cold north east wind. Revival meetings started in the evening. |
| Wen. Mar. 6 | Husband attended Chauncey Richardson’s auction sale. Although a cold nearly two hundred people were there. Every thing sold well. |
| Sun. Mar. 9 | Our third quartly-meeting was held at the new Haven W.M. Church. Conducted by Rev. M.J. Badder. |
| Mon. Mar. 11 | Clarence Munroe died at the age of nineteen years and five months. He was a half brother of Will and Claud Mallory. |
| Thur. Mar. 14 | Mrs. Chris Hartman, mother of Mrs. George Linzey, was buried. Funeral at the Union Church. It was warm and cloudy and plenty of snow. |
| Fri. Mar. 15 | We were again visited with a bad snow-storm, it drifted and piled up. Snow banks five feet deep. Rural mail did not come for three days. |
| Sat.-Sun. Mar. 16-17 | Bright sun-shine, warm and pleasant. We did not go to church the roads were in a bad condition. |
| Wen. Mar. 20 | Turned cold and snowed during the night Thursday. |
| Mar. 21 | A real snow blizzard prevailed. Was very cold all day. |
| Wen. Mar. 20 | Our 104th missionary meeting was entertained at the home of Mrs. Zilpha Spittler. Piecing quilt blocks and making work boxes was the order of the day. A very cold day too. And a wedding at the parsonage! Miss Lena Broadsick and Ward Butcher were united in marriage by Rev. H.D. Cheney. |
| Sun. Mar. 24 | Mr. H.N. Smith of Durand Michigan spoke to us in the fournoon on local option assested by Rev. Wm. Deming of Easton. Sun-shine but, very cold north, wind. Michal Carland, age 76 years, passed away at his home in Corunna, after an illness of three days following a stroke of parylises. Mr. Carland conducted a grocery store forty-five years in Corunna. Son Fred clerked for him at one time. |
| Wen. Mar. 27 | Miss Edith Small and Roy Walworth were married at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in New Haven at noon. Rev. H.D. Cheney tied the nuptial knot. Lovly day. |
| Sun. Mar. 31 | Rained until four o’clock p.m. then snowed hard. For about an hour. We were home all day. Son Rolla was our guest over night. |
| Mon. April 1 | Town meeting day, a cold rain all day. Roads bare and muddy while snow-banks lay along the sides and piled up in the fields and around buildings. County went dry. |
| Thur. April 4 | Little Clova Beamish was one year old. Son Willie was our guest to dinner. The roads were terrible bad. |
| Sat. April 6 | Herbert Bussell only child of Hiram and Libbie Bussell was united in marriage with Miss Ruth Morten. Rev. Carlos Hanks, of Owosso, officiating. |
| Sat. April 7 | Easter day, Dentist Bush Moore of Corunna, and Miss Florence Waldo of Owosso, were quietly married at the Episcopal Church of Owosso, at 7:30 a.m. Rev. A.J. Holland preformed the ceremony. |
| Wen. April 10 | Our 105th missionary meeting was entertained at the home of Mrs. James Butcher. Quilting was the work for the day. A beautiful warm day but very bad roads. |
| Fri. April 12 | We were visited with a thunder storm in the morning. The lightning struck a tree standing a few feet from the Wesleyan Church and stripped the bark off the whole length of one side. God protected the house of worship. |
| Sun. April 14 | We attended church. Warm, very bad roads. Thunder showers afternoon. |
| Mon. April 15 | Occurred the worst sea disaster in the history of the world when the great ship Titanic of the White Star Line, went to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean off the grand banks of Newfundland at 2:30 a.m. carry with her 1601 people. 743 were saved and brought to New York on the gunard liner Carpathic? The ships band played ‘nearer my God to thee’ until she sank beneth the waves. |
| Thur. April 18 | Rained all the forenoon and snowed in the afternoon. Was very cold for April weather, and very bad roads. |
| Sun. April 21 | We went to church. Fine warm day and good meetings. |
| Mon. April 22 | Call on Mrs. Fred Hickmott, she was quite ill. The next day I baked a large layer cake and sent it to her family. |
| Sun April 28 | We attended morning services, large audience present. Several strangers with. Cold east wind. |
| Wen. May 1 | We had the wood-sawyers. David Pratt, Jonk? Barnett, Charley White. Fred Hickmott and son Willie were here to dinner and supper. |
| Fri. May 3 | Son Willie started building our new hen-house. Idea spring day. Daughter Bertha Lemon was forty years old. |
| Sun. May 5 | We went to church, good congregation, good sermon, good class-meeting. The day was cool with light showers. |
| Wen. May 8 | Miss Bissie? Fitzpatrick and Robert Richardson, were married at the Catholic Church in Owosso, at the early hour of 7:30 a.m. nice warm day. |
| Sat. May 11 | Started raining early in the morning rained all day, thundered and lightened hard in the evening, rained all night and continued raining all day Sunday with very cold north east wind. |
| Sun. May 12 | We did not go to church on account of the steady rain, mud and water. In the afternoon it was nearly snow. |
| Wen. May 15 | Husband and I drove about ten miles to attend our 106th missionary meeting which convened at the house of Mrs. S.J. Young. Although the day was cool and rainy we had an enjoyable time. We pieced quilt blocks and was served a delicious dinner, coming home the roads were very muddy. |
| Fri. May 17 | Husband and I were the guest all day of my niece Mrs. Wm. Mallory. Their oldest daughter (Maudie) was eight years old that day. The day was little cool, but sun-shine. |
| Sun. May 19 | Cold all day. Had to keep fire to keep warm. Rained hard in the evening. C. went to church in the morning. |
| Tues. May 21 | Sarah Bowhay and little Dorathe Fitzgerald were our guest to supper. After supper we had a hard thunder storm. |
| Wen. May 22 | Mr. and Mrs. R. Chippenfield and two daughters were our guest to dinner also son Willie. A nice day of sun-shine. |
| Thur. May 23 | Was very hot all day. In the evening we had a terrible electric storm which lasted all night. |
| Sun. May 26 | Our last quartly meeting for the conference year was held at Hazelton Church, Rev. H.A. Day our conference president did the preaching. He gave us good sermons, The love –feast was a feast indeed. We were favored with lovly weather all through. Husband and I ate dinner with Mr. and Mrs. James Butcher, also Mr. and Mrs. John Shantz and Mrs. Wm. Telfer. |
| Tues. May 28 | About eight o’clock in the morning thundered and lightened and rained very hard. At seven in the evening the rain just poured right down until the ground was flooded. The 29th Mrs. Whitsell and Willard Underwood were married. |
| Tues. May 30 | Husband and I attended the decaration services at the Easton Church. Rev. H.D, Cheney delivered the address after which we marched to the cemetery and put flowers on the graves. This was a delightful day of sun-shine. |
| Sun. June 2 | Rained all the forenoon. Husband and I dressed to go to church. It rained so hard we had to remain at home. |
| Wen. June 5 | Son Willie took a veal calf up to Corunna for his Pa. Got seven dollars per hundred for it. A fine warm day. |
| Sun. June 9 | We went to church. A fine day and good meeting. On being appeised of the death of Mr. Cyrus Oscer, it brought a solemnity over the meeting which caused hearts to be sad. |
| Wen. June 12 | Husband and I attended the funeral of Mr. Oscer which was held at the home of his sister Mrs. W. Doan. Rev. H.D. Cheney officiated assisted by Rev. Kelly of the Free Methodist Church. After we returned home I called on Mrs. Fred Hickmott who had been quite ill but, was much improved. |
| Fri. June 14 | Our 107th missionary meeting was entertained at the home of Mrs. Harry Smith. About eighty were in attendance and a fine time enjoyed, while we quilted, pieced patch-work and did justice to a sumptuous dinner provided by the hostest. |
| Sun. June 16 | We went to church, were favored with a lovly day. In the afternoon a temperance meeting was held on the lawn of Mrs. of Mrs. Hopson. Rev. Cheney spoke. |
| Fri. June 21 | Husband went out near Owosso and purchased a bushel of straw-berries for seven cents a quart. |
| Sun. June 23 | Very nice day. Sister Olive and her daughter Erma called in the afternoon. They were on their way home to Owosso. |
| Wen. June 26 | In the afternoon I called on Mrs. Chas. White. The carpenters were there remodling their house. Lovly day. |
| Sat. June 29 | Mrs. White and Miss Sadie Chipperfield were afternoon callers. This was a dreadful warm day. |
| Sun. June 30 | Husband was sick all day, son Willie came over and did the chores, Sarah Bowhay and Hattie White called toward evening. |
| Thur. July 4 | Husband and I went over to Rileys grove and heard Mr. Corban of Lansing speak on Prohibition. A good program was rendered and ice cream served. It was a very warm day. |
| Sun. July 7 | We went to church. Burton (only son of our Pastor, H.D. Cheney) occupied the pulpit and gave us a good sermon. His wife and two children were with us. Also Mrs. Nellie Cheney and two children. Another very warm day. |
| Tues. July 9 | Mr. Chas White took in his auto Mrs. White, Miss Sadie Chipperfield and I over to son Willie’s where we spent the evening. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mallory, Mrs. James North and Mrs. Wm. Way, were also their guest. Ice cream and cake was served. |
| Wen. July 10 | Mrs. North, Mrs. Way and two children Cleo and Kenneth were my guests to dinner. Also Miss Sadie Chipperfield. The 11, my grandson Ethelwyn Lemon, was my guest until Saturday. |
| Sun. July 14 | Husband attended morning services a very hot day. |
| Wen. July 17 | Our 108 missionary meeting was entertained at the home of sister Hannah Chipperfield. We pieced quilt blocks and made work-boxes. A lovly day prevailed. |
| Fri. July 19 | Our dear Fannie, son Fred’s wife, passed from earth to her heavenly home. She was a devoted Christian, and went with the smiles of heaven on her face. |
| Sat. July 20 | Husband and I took the train at Owosso, at 9: a.m. for their home in Indianapolis, Ind. And arrived there about 9:30 p.m. sympathetic neighbors were at the home. |
| Sun. July 21 | Was a sad day for Fred and us as friends kept coming and viewing the remains which lay in state in a beautiful casket of white and gray. |
| Mon. July 22 | The funeral was held at the home, Six young ladies dressed in white were pall-bearers. She was laid to rest in Crown Hill cemetery. |
| Thur. July 25 | Husband and I left for our home at 7:30 a.m. We arrived at Owosso, at 6:30p.m. We took the street car went over to son Rolla’s and staid over night. The next day, son Willie came after us, arrived home at 4: p.m. |
| Wen. July 31 | Husband and I attended the Free Methodist camp-meeting which was held in the grove by the Goss school-house. The preaching was very spiritual, Lovly day. |
| Sun. Aug. 4 | We again attended the camp-meeting. We listened to as grand a sermon as we ever heard in the morning from Bishop Pearce and a very good one in the afternoon. |
| Mon. Aut. 5 | Rev. and Mrs. Cheney spent the evening with us. We much enjoyed a social talk with them. |
| Fri. Aug. 9 | Son Fred came from Indianapolis. His pa, went to Corunna and met him at the train. Got home about 10 p.m. I remained alone until they came then, prepared supper for them. |
| Sun. Aug. 11 | son Willie and wife came over to see Fred, and spent the evening with us. We all had supper together. |
| Tues. Aug. 13 | son Fred and I drove to Owosso, did some traiding and returned home. On our way home we called on my niece Mr.s Jessie Aselton and my sister Hannah Chipperfield. |
| Wen. Aug. 14 | Husband and I and son Fred were the guest of son Willie and wife to dinner. They came ans spent the evening with us, also sister Hannah, husband and two daughters. |
| Wen. Aug. 14 | A son was born to Mrs. Madeline Force Astor, survivor of the Titanic disaster, in which her husband was drowned. The baby was given the full name of its father, John Jacob Astor. And is direct heir to 3,000,000; He weighted 7 ˝ pounds. Pretty small for a three million baby. |
| Sat. Aug. 17 | My niece Miss Edith Wier of Detroit came to be our guest. She remained until the following Tuesday. |
| Sun. Aug. 18 | We all attended church in the morning. Mr. R. Chipperfield and daughter Anna came home with us to dinner. Son Rolla of Owosso, was also our guest to dinner. |
| Tues. Aug. 20 | William Booth, the general of the Salvation army died near London, England, age eighty-three and four months. |
| Thur. Aug. 22 | Husband took Fred to Owosso, he staid over night with son Rolla and took the train next morning for his home in Indianapolis. |
| Sun. Aug. 25 | Husband and I attended the Apostolic Holliness camp-meeting held on Gutes Hill near Owosso. A grand sermon was preached in the forenoon by Rev. Thomas Nelson. In the afternoon we listened to a very interesting talk on the slum and the rescue work by two ladies from Grand Rapids, It was a lovly day and large crowd there. |
| Sat. Aug. 31 | I went up to son Rolla’s. road up with Charley and Hattie White in their auto. Was with them three days. |
| Mon. Sept. 2 | Son Rolla and family, Tad Taphouse and family of Owosso, Ed. Drain and wife, Mrs. Sarah Banker and son George of Morris, and myself ate our dinner on the beautiful bank of Shiawassee river. It being labor day thy had hundreds of people in the park. |
| Wen. Sept. 4 | Sister Olive and I went down town. Husband met me there and we went home. It was a very hot day. |
| Sun. Sept. 8 | We attended church. Small congregation, very warm. |
| Mon. Sept. 9 | I called on Mrs. Fred Hickmott and took her a bouquet of flowers as she was very poorly. |
| Wen. Sept. 11 | Our 109th missionary meeting convened at the home of Mrs. Manie Hopson, we nearly quilted a quilt for the society. It was a very cold day. Evening call from Sadie C. |
| Sun. Sept. 15 | Rained very hard in the forenoon. Turned very cold in the afternoon and the remainder of the day |
| Wen. Sept. 18 | Mrs. Fred Kickmott and two children, Clare and Stanley were pleasant afternoon callers. Showers in the afternoon. |
| Sun. Sept. 22 | Our first guartly-meeting for the conference year was held at the Hazelton W.M. Church, Rev. A.A. Church. Rev. A.A. Alverson officiated. Sunday it rained all the forenoon. Fine afternoon. |
| Thur. Sept. 26 | I drove to Owosso, and purchased onions, tomatos, plumes and pears for canning. Fair day but very cold wind. |
| Sat. Sept. 28 | Rained a misty drizzly rain in the forenoon. Rained very hard in the afternoon and evening. |
| Sun. Sept. 29 | Husband and I went to church. Pleasant but very cool roads quite muddy. Good sermon, good meeting. |
| Wen. Oct. 2 | Husband took his lambs to Henderson, thirteen brought him fifty-one dollars. |
| Thur. Oct. 3 | My niece Mrs. Belle North of Owosso, was our guest overnight and part of the next day. Rained all day long, |
| Sun. Oct. 6 | Was very warm. Small attendance at church. |
| Thur. Oct. 10 | Our 110th missionary meeting was very pleasantly entertained at the home of Mrs. Byron Smith, Mrs. Chas. White attended and together. We tied off a comfortable and pieced patch-work. Misty rain all day. A dark day. |
| Fri. Oct. 11 | Sister Hannah Chipperfield and daughter Anna were afternoon callers. Another misty day and in the evening it thundered, lightened, rained and hailed. Very warm. |
| Sun. Oct. 13 | Pro. McDowel of Houghton, New York, gave us a talk in the interest of the Houghton seminary and its excellent work. In the evening he preached a grand sermon. The day was fair and warm. |
| Mon. Oct. 14 | Mr. and Mrs. James North was our guest overnight. Mrs. North remained with us until the 17th. Wensday the 16th was an idea day. We washed my lace curtains dried them and put them up. |
| Thur. Oct. 17 | After dinner I took Mrs. North over to her sisters Beulah Malorys. On our way we called on daughter Sarah. Another idea day. |
| Sun. Oct. 20 | Cool but pleasant, we attended church. Very small congregation, good sermon, good class-meeting. |
| Fri. Oct. 25 | son Rolla, wife and little daughter Eva of Owosso, were my guest all day. A fine day of sun-shine. Sat. 26th was an ideal day. President Roosevelt was honored by the county celebrating his birth-day. |
| Sun. Oct. 27 | Was a beautiful day of sun-shine. We attended church. |
| Tues. Oct. 29 | Little Maynard Roy, son of Herbert and Alice Underwood passed away after suffering for sometime of hoping cough and measles. |
| Thur. Oct. 31 | Began raining early in the evening rained hard the forepart of the night and snowed the latter-part. We arose in the morning to find three inches of snow on the ground. A disagreeable slush of snow and water underfoot. It turned cold and stoped beet-hauling for about for days. |
| Sun. Nov. 3 | Pleasant but cold. Roads very bad. Husband went to church. |
| Tues. Nov. 5 | Woodrow Wilson was elected president of the United States. It was a fine day but very muddy. |
| Thur. Nov. 7 | Myron Cornell prepared my kitchen. Son Willie and wife were here to supper. The next day Mr. Cornell varnished the wood-work in my kitchen. |
| Sun. Nov. 10 | Was a fine day of sunshine. Very raods not very many to church. |
| Wen. Nov. 13 | Stormed hard all day, rained and snowed and blew hard. |
| Nov. 16 | Husband and I drove to Owosso. The roads were very muddy and sloppy. I purchased me a pretty silk waist. |
| Sun. Nov. 17 | We attended church. Had a good sermon and good meeting. |
| Thur. Nov. 21 | Our 111th missionary meeting convened at the home of Mrs. Anna Hopson. It was an ideal day. We tied off two mattress covers and pieced quilt blocks. |
| Fri. Nov 22 | At one O’clock p.m. Dr. W.C. Hume of Corunna, our family physician for years passed away after a brief illness of kidney trouble. Dr. Hume had been a highly honored citizen of Corrunna for thirty years, and news of his death was received with great sorrow. He was always genial and kind and ready to serve his fellow men at any time. Age 64 |
| Sat. Nov. 23 | Mr. George Dick, father of Mrs. Anna Dick Underwood, passed away early in the morning after a three weeks illness of kidney trouble. Age 65. He resided in Owosso. |
| Sun. Nov. 24 | When we arose in the morning the ground was covered with snow. And snowed all the forenoon. |
| Mon. Nov. 25 | Willie and his pa, killed and dressed a pig. Albert Richardson was our guest to dinner. Tuesday Mr. Hursle of Owosso, The Watkins man was our guest also. |
| Thue. Nov. 28 | Thanksgiving day, husband and I spent the day with sister Hannah and family. We partook of a sumptuous dinner. The day was fair and comfortable. 30th was just like spring. |
| Sun. Dec. 1 | WE attended church. Fair audience, good sermon, good meeting, cool but pleasant. Monday rained all day. Tuesday, husband took a veal calf to Owosso. Roads dreadful bad. |
| Wen. Dec. 4 | S. J. Young sold at auction, stock, farm implements and house-hold goods. A lovly warm day of sun-shine, very bad roads. |
| Sun. Dec. 8 | Very cold all day. Roads very rough. But few at church. |
| Wen. Dec. 11 | Miss Ethel Gray, daughter of Fred Gray, and a trained nurse, was united in marriage with Mr. Ward Ferguson. Rev. H.D. Cheney officiated. |
| Thur. Dec. 12 | Our 112th missionary meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Levi Cram. It was a very cold day. |
| Fri Dec. 13 | Son Willie finished drawing our sugar-beets. Made two trips to the way-station. A very cold wind prevailed all day. |
| Sun. Dec. 15 | We attended guartly-meeting held at the New Haven W.M. Church. Rev. S.A. Manwell preached the word in the demistration of the spirit. Weather cloudy and moderate. Rained afternoon. |
| Wen. Dec. 18 | Ralph David and Miss Olive Brown wer married at the Wesleyan Methodish parsonage. The same day Ezra Hand and Lenora Perry were married. |
| Sat. Dec. 21 | Although cold and stormy Willie and Sarah went to town and did their Christmas shopping. Sunday 22, very cold. |
| Tues. Dec. 24 | Miss Mary Walworth and Shirley Jenkison were united in marriage. My little grand-daughter came to be our guest for a few days. |
| Wen. Dec. 25 | Mr. and Mrs. R. Chipperfield and two daughters, Evah Lemon and Peter Clark were our guest to dinner. We were favored with an ideal day just like spring. |
| Sun. Dec. 29 | Husband, Evah and I went to church. Small Congregation. |
| Tues. Dec. 31 | I drove to Owosso and took Evah home. Drove all the way on my home bare-handed and did not get cold. |
| | Paid to Benevolent causes | |
| | my birth-day fund | .63 |
| | To the janitor | 1.00 |
| | Missionary society fund | .50 |
| | Missionary society dues | 1.20 |
| | Home missions | .50 |
| | Foreign missions | .50 |
| | Church extension | .50 |
| | Superannuated ministers | .50 |
| | A little Danish minister in Indiana | 1.00 |
| | Sabbath school collection | .20 |
| | Rev. M.J. Badder | .25 |
| | Help to pay for compmeeting tent | .25 |
| | Rev. U.D. Day | .25 |
| | Collection for church incidentals | .10 |
| | Flower fund | .10 |
| | A needy woman | 1.00 |
| | A needy man | 1.00 |
| | Prohibition Alliance | .60 |
| | Pro. McDowel of Houghton school | .25 |
| | Salvation army | .55 |
| | Some needy people | 1.00 |
| | A needy family | 5.00 |
| | Rev. S.A. Manwell | .10 |
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