Friday, December 12, 1919

Mild cloudy damp day. To college 8-9, 11-12 and 1:30 to 2:30 P.M. Home between classes in A.M. Candled 25 cases eggs with S.T. and H.H. [Here Stanford drew a four cell square] Bowled with church league at Morse. Took 3 games off of First Baptist. 156-123 and 158.

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If this is the First Baptist Church of Scotia, then the Clossons are well acquainted with it. Here's a little of their history taken from the church's website:

History

Scotia was a typical country hamlet in the early 1830′s when a village blacksmith by the name of John Closson invited a Schenectady Baptist minister to visit his home and preach to a group of villagers who were without a church. Reverend Abram Dunn Gillette complied and on January 19, 1832, wrote in his diary: “A Blacksmith – Clawson – invited me to preach in Scotia, a small village across the Mohawk. I went to Mr. C’s house and preached to about twenty in the rooms and fifty in the door yard.” This really was the start of the founding of our church.