LEST WE FORGET
Friday, May 16, 1913
Weather was wet and cold till 9 30
We work only thru his line
Track came in with all the tools and it stopped raining
it rained and snow of [sic] and on
all did not work work in the after noon.
Wrote 5 letters
one home to stat [-?-] Dad C. Gertrude and Ollie
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Rain...snow... Time to write some letters home![/caption]Saturday, May 17, 1913
Weather fine and warm
We did work all morning
in the afternoon we went out and got a little water for the cook for tomorrow that took us about 1 hr.
Train was 5 mins ahead of time ttonight the first since we came up here
We went out after supper and played quater [-?-] till bed time
This afternoon I wrote two letters one to Agatha and one to C B Laclair
[NOTE: Agatha was Clem's older sister. He named his first daughter, my mother, Beatrice Agatha, obviously after his older sister.]
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Better weather, more work, but still time for 2 letters![/caption]Sunday, May 18, 1913
Weather fine and warm.
I took a little walk about 2 miles in the morning
After dinner I took a walk about 4 miles
after supper we all went out a had a little sport jumping and baseball
[NOTE: The term "dinner" was specifically a reference to what we call "lunch" while "supper" is what we call either "supper" or "dinner."]
I wrote one letter to Maud [Clem's oldest sister] just in time to catch the train
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Dinner, supper, "sport jumping" and baseball[/caption]
