I’ll have to do the transcription later tonight or tomorrow. I’m on my way to New York to visit with my sister and brither-in-law and it’s getting late!
Stay tuned!
Sunday, February 15, 2013
Finally! I’ve got a few minutes to transcribe the earlier post…
Here it is:
Saturday, February 15, 1913
“Lest We Forget”
All night at stony plain we left there at 9:30 AM for Wadamum. We are at at 5 oc. 21 miles Had suppper with Mr Smith and waited for the 11:30 train for Edson got at Edson at 4:00 AM we went to bed
Love your blog…in the content of several that I read I found questions marks by words like “frashing” could it be thrashing…farmers thrashed grains to separate the seed from the straw…also you weren’t sure of the word “spreader”…pretty sure it was a manure spreader which is used to fertilize the fields. Keep up the great work and will be back often.
Grace Knowles
Darby, Montana
Another follower, Greg Lovelace, was able to find “spreader” at Wikipedia, research that I should have done, but thanks to Greg, I have the link to the article which I posted separately. A railroad spreader was used, for example, to spread gravel as the base for rail road ties and tracks. I’m not sure about “frashing” versus “thrashing” since they were building a railroad rather than farming. I’m sure someone will come up with an explanation!
Thanks for the input!