1920s

1921 _{Family Photo at Harry’s Dad’s Funeral; Ellen Wedding Dress; Graham’s bedroo}_{m; Mossie Memoir}

1922 _{Sydney & Ilah wed; Keith bathing in front of the house}

1923 _{Lizzie and Ellen; Mossie Memoir}

1924 _Harry; _{Boyle Family including Charles Sr.}

1925 _{Boyle’s at Christmas; Colgate Young Peoples Club; Bessie Wedding dress}

1926 _{Bessie and Harry on their honeymoon;}_{Butters horses & pigs;}_{Keith & dog}

1927 _{Mossie, Charlie & Boys; Baby Lorraine}

1928 _{Boyle family; Butters family; Beth is born}

1929 _{Lorraine feeding the chickens, on a horse & with sister Isabelle; Keith & kittens}

1921

Grandpa Harry (Lorraine’s Dad) is standing in back row right.

These names were written on the back on the reverse of each person in the photo.

Another case of using the reverse of the photo to communicate information. (I believe this is Graham’s writing)

1921 in the Words of Mossie Boyle

My husband belonged to I.O.O.F. Lodge and enjoyed this meeting twice a month. I joined Thelma Rebekah Lodge on June 1, 1921, and now belong to Alexandrie Lodge No. 14 in Weyburn—so life was never dull for us.

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1922

1923

1923 In the Words of Mossie Boyle

The Presbyterian Church was built soon after we were married, having been begun the year before. A lovely Church inside and out, and we were very proud of it. I had always been Methodist but now since I was married to Charlie Boyle, I joined the Presbyterian Church of which he was a member. I was organist in this new church for several years, then in 1923 our beautiful church burned to the ground. We did not build again, but worshipped in the Methodist Church. We soon felt part of it, with the folk there—so we have said we probably were the first congregation to have Church Union in Saskatchewan before it became official a few years after.

We had many fine ministers over the years. I will mention especially Rev. Mr. Bray as he and his wife and family came to Colgate to live in the manse and he was our minister for several years. One of his sons whose name was “Jack” was a baby when they came and when he grew up became a minister and he and his family came to Colgate many years later and Jack was our minister for several years. We still keep in touch with them.

Going back to the farm again with my comments. We didn’t have refrigerators then, so we all learned to cure pork. Had ham and bacon and head cheese and liverwurst to be eaten first—then someone thought of a beef ring. Soon we had that organized and one of the men was chosen to be butcher, so we had fresh beef once a week. Each person belonging to this donated an animal which he had fed as best he could. The butcher cut the beef in suitable pieces and each farmer came on that certain day of the week for his share. I am not sure how the butchers were paid, but no doubt he got his share without donating the animal. Meat was not inspected then, but none of us had any bad effects. As soon as the deep freeze started up in Weyburn, we used that and the beef ring era was over but it did serve a need at the time and we had been glad to have it.

We always had a good garden thanks to my dear husband. We canned beans, peas, and corn. We also canned chicken. Our boys, to this day will tell anyone who listens, they often went to sleep with the boiler on the stove—boiling away—something was being canned. Their bedroom was off the kitchen.

I wouldn’t like my listeners to think that pioneer days were all work and no play—far from it. As well as church social events, we put on plays at least one a year. Had some real good actors and we had fun practicing to be ready for the final night when we always had a full house in Bell’s Hall. Then we had “Chautauqua” once a year for several years. They set up a large tent and gave us good entertainment and always had a large audience. The men and boys had baseball almost every Saturday afternoon all summer mostly at a ball diamond near Lomond School.

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1924

1925

Bessie and Harry Butters were married on December 25, 1925 and spent their wedding night at the hotel in Yellow Grass. They then took the train to Ontario to spend their honeymoon with Harry’s family.