Annie Way pocket diaries, 1896, 1898

Annie was teaching in 1896, a vocation she found exhausting, and she gave notice in February that she would leave after the semester ended in early June. Her date books reflect regular worship attendance, also yearly meeting in April and Women's Temperance meetings. She mentioned visiting Walter Reeve in Moorestown and other Reeves and visits from ELS (Edmund Landus Smith] who became her husband. The summer of 1896 reflects her growing involvement with the religious revival movement: She attended a week of meetings, day-long preaching in July 1896 and then continued to attend meetings almost every day through November. She mentioned the conference at Swarthmore in August and the courtship with ELS. They both attended and participated in Christian Endeavor Union meetings with great enthusiasm as well as Fishertown Particular Meetings, services at various Protestant churches (A.M.E. Presbyterian, Lutheran, etc.), and Annie also worked with the Salvation Army, on temperance, and the Christian Endeavor Union. In 1898 she was living in Lansdowne and mentioned Mary O. Reeve.