Codex Lethbridge
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1906 [written in the top left corner of the page]
Our new station is completed for several weeks Augt 4 [back/right margin]
but the new track is not in position yet… a cut nine feet deep is to be made --- over 20 teams are at work. We have fine weather – warm and good rains from time to time – No apples in our garden this year – no plumbs [sic] – no cherries – only currants and strawberries.
To day Oct. 7 while a funeral was taking place at 1030 a telegram Oct. 7 [back/right margin]
from Tabor was delivered : Come at once, mother very ill.// On the road to the cemetary [sic], a rigg [sic] met us and halted : Father come at once to Staffordville a child is dying and is not baptised [sic]… With haste the funeral was terminated… half an hour later the baby was Christened… a livery team was ordered and, en route [underlined], to Tabor the new town and coal mining place between Lethbridge and Medecin Hat…. Four hours later the Viaticum was given and the extreme unxion [sic] administered to Mrs. Jos Filgas… it was half past one in the night before we reached home… a drive (and a fine one) of about Eighty miles.
Coutts [written in pencil in-between the lines] Just returned from Coutts--- there was a good 13th Oct [back/right margin] attendance at Mass there yesterday. Some young ladies from Lethbridge are there helping their friends in Coutts for a Social [underlined] in benefit of the church… which in debt for about $150°°
This social held at the Depot in a new building which was offered free of cost to the church for the occasion, was a success and brought up close to One Hundred dollars.
Our strike in the mines continues--- it is now Nov. 10 [back/right margin]
eight months…. We have a fine Fall…scarcely any frost.
Dec. 2d. Thank God our Strike is over .. and most of the miners will return to work to morrow… it was now nine months .. and every one was getting tired of it… there is an encrease [sic] of wages in favor of the
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1907 [written in the top right corner of the page]
miners.
Dec 8 [front/left margin] It is 28 below 0 this morning… and on this account we will have no feast nor procession in the church this afternoon... too cold for the children to come to church.
28 [front/left margin] No midnight mass this year…
Jan 3d. [front/left margin] Rev’ Father Levern was visiting the indian [sic] camps of (his) the Blood Reserve… when at about 22 miles from Lethbridge, his horse, having no shoes, slipped and fell … and he, having no time to extricate his foot from the stirrup had the ancle [sic] bone broken – he rode, a quickly as he could to Lethbridge – Dr. Newburn, was called in… The bone is cracked ….after two days the Dr. put it in plaster paris, as the little father wants to go home as soon as possible. He may take the Train to McLeod to morrow and from there drive to the mission.
3d [front/left margin] The was a fire in the Begin building in the city to day… it ruined the old frame building. Coutts [written in the margin in pencil]
11 [front/left margin] Just returned from Coutts … very cold and stormy.. deep snow.. no person could come from the ranches to church… 28 below 0
14 [front/left margin] This is the coldest spell I have ever seen in these parts… last night the Hermomètre [sic] went down to 45 below 0 and this morning at 830 it is actually 43 yet… Notwithstanding a good fire in the furnace there was frost in the house… Cattle are dying by the hundreds in the prairie.
24 [front/left margin] The cold weather continues, last Sunday, at 8 A.M. it was 46 = below; the coldest I ever knew in the South of Alberta
Feb: 11th [front/left margin] The chinook has arrived and the snow is disappearing fast. It was greatly time… The winter has been very severe.
23. [front/left margin] Fine warm weather. Dr. MewBurn has his hand and arm poisened [sic] by a scratch during an operation…hope it will not be serious what a loss it would be for us all!!!
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1906 [written in the top left corner of the page]
Our new station is completed for several weeks Augt 4 [back/right margin]
but the new track is not in position yet… a cut nine feet deep is to be made --- over 20 teams are at work. We have fine weather – warm and good rains from time to time – No apples in our garden this year – no plumbs [sic] – no cherries – only currants and strawberries.
To day Oct. 7 while a funeral was taking place at 1030 a telegram Oct. 7 [back/right margin]
from Tabor was delivered : Come at once, mother very ill.// On the road to the cemetary [sic], a rigg [sic] met us and halted : Father come at once to Staffordville a child is dying and is not baptised [sic]… With haste the funeral was terminated… half an hour later the baby was Christened… a livery team was ordered and, en route [underlined], to Tabor the new town and coal mining place between Lethbridge and Medecin Hat…. Four hours later the Viaticum was given and the extreme unxion [sic] administered to Mrs. Jos Filgas… it was half past one in the night before we reached home… a drive (and a fine one) of about Eighty miles.
Coutts [written in pencil in-between the lines] Just returned from Coutts--- there was a good 13th Oct [back/right margin] attendance at Mass there yesterday. Some young ladies from Lethbridge are there helping their friends in Coutts for a Social [underlined] in benefit of the church… which in debt for about $150°°
This social held at the Depot in a new building which was offered free of cost to the church for the occasion, was a success and brought up close to One Hundred dollars.
Our strike in the mines continues--- it is now Nov. 10 [back/right margin]
eight months…. We have a fine Fall…scarcely any frost.
Dec. 2d. Thank God our Strike is over .. and most of the miners will return to work to morrow… it was now nine months .. and every one was getting tired of it… there is an encrease [sic] of wages in favor of the
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[Right page]
1907 [written in the top right corner of the page]
miners.
Dec 8 [front/left margin] It is 28 below 0 this morning… and on this account we will have no feast nor procession in the church this afternoon... too cold for the children to come to church.
28 [front/left margin] No midnight mass this year…
Jan 3d. [front/left margin] Rev’ Father Levern was visiting the indian [sic] camps of (his) the Blood Reserve… when at about 22 miles from Lethbridge, his horse, having no shoes, slipped and fell … and he, having no time to extricate his foot from the stirrup had the ancle [sic] bone broken – he rode, a quickly as he could to Lethbridge – Dr. Newburn, was called in… The bone is cracked ….after two days the Dr. put it in plaster paris, as the little father wants to go home as soon as possible. He may take the Train to McLeod to morrow and from there drive to the mission.
3d [front/left margin] The was a fire in the Begin building in the city to day… it ruined the old frame building. Coutts [written in the margin in pencil]
11 [front/left margin] Just returned from Coutts … very cold and stormy.. deep snow.. no person could come from the ranches to church… 28 below 0
14 [front/left margin] This is the coldest spell I have ever seen in these parts… last night the Hermomètre [sic] went down to 45 below 0 and this morning at 830 it is actually 43 yet… Notwithstanding a good fire in the furnace there was frost in the house… Cattle are dying by the hundreds in the prairie.
24 [front/left margin] The cold weather continues, last Sunday, at 8 A.M. it was 46 = below; the coldest I ever knew in the South of Alberta
Feb: 11th [front/left margin] The chinook has arrived and the snow is disappearing fast. It was greatly time… The winter has been very severe.
23. [front/left margin] Fine warm weather. Dr. MewBurn has his hand and arm poisened [sic] by a scratch during an operation…hope it will not be serious what a loss it would be for us all!!!
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