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OCTOBER 1 Sunday good day all day, all to church, in morning, all of us down to Point lookout + to St Mary City. saw, Ann fanance. Thom & Edna Bourne come while we were gone. I went up to see Adina Mae when we got back. got home 10 oclock: Kent Rawlings and Wallace Robey come when we were gone. OCTOBER 2 Monday good day all day Robert & I to school. Pappa & insurance man came to collect. Brooks came & got hay. Rabbit Tayman brought corn over here before school. cut corn all day. Mary, Adina Mae, Mr & Mrs Via & Bob & I went to movies at night. saw "Summer Stock" (good) got home 10:30 [[footnote]] October 1--1892--Chicago University first opened. 1908--Two-cent postage between U.S> and England begun. 1938--German troops began occupation of Sudetenland. October 2--1870--Papal States voted to unite with Italy. 1901--Lipton's "Shamrock II" defeated by U.S. yacht. 1919--King and Queen of Belgium arrived in N.Y. [[/footnote]] OCTOBER 3 Tuesday good day all day, Robert & I stayed home. I hauled out manure in the morning & cut corn. Robert & Norris gathered apples down to Aunt Maggies, cut corn in afternoon. Mr & Mrs Swan. I called Adina Mae up at night & she ask me to go to fair at Frederick with her on Thursday. Then i went up to see Peggy. OCTOBER 4 Wednesday fair day rainy sometime. Robert & I to school saw Adina Mae at school & went up there at night. Men cut corn & stored up tobacco. I did not stay out late at night because I have to get up & go with Adina & them to the fair. [[footnote]] October 3--1691--Limerick fell, placing Ireland under British rule. 1811--First newspaper in Buffalo N.Y., Issued. 1862--Battle of Corinth, Miss., fought. October 4--1824--Mexico proclaimed as a federal republic. 1909--"Luisitania" crossed the Atlantic in 4 days, 16 hours. 1915--Russia declared war on Bulgaria. [[/footnote]]