DIARIES OF ALBERT FONZO COPE 1894-1913 FROM HIS FARM NEAR WALKER, VERNON COUNTY MISSOURI NOTE FROM TRANSLATER: This is typed as near as possible as it was written. I did not correct spelling although I did add periods at end of sentences and commas or dashes which were not in the original diaries. Words that I could not figure out what they were, were spelled as they were written or put in dashes or question marks. Many sentences were not completed. Loretta May 1899 January 1899 1. Sunday clear an cold wind ice about inches thick some clouds abaoaut 9 bud disper later. 2. Clear wind SW an high but plesant. i went to Walker got sack flour at Kinkades 85 shugar $1 at Dunn soda 25 coffee 40 owe Dunn for shugar. Chitwood boys 2 of them chuckin corn for Jas, brok ther wagon wheel. 3. Cloudy wind high SW but pleasant. Chitwood boys shuckin corn. 4. raned some Son then the wend went N and gort culer grond thoud out an vary mudy. Viney an Richerd here. 5. Cloudy a part of the day wind NE and cold. Richard and Viney Starler back to OK. Jas went to Mr. Cobbs. Mr. Swangan here. Jas an Lesley went to Harwood. 6. Clear an cold wind NW. Jas shucking corn. 7. Clear wind SW but cul thawing vary litle. Chitwood boys helfing shick got my pant out. 8. Sunday cloudy a fue sprinkle of rane and snow mised wind SE grond frozen. 9. Clear grond thawing plesant. Jas lacks 3 rose getin dun shucking. 10. Dark and cloudy a litle mist. Jas taken a lode of corn to Walker. the grond mudy. Jas had 26 bushels 10 lbs got 25 cts bushel. i went to Walker got a sack flour an a dollar in coffee. Drue $30.00 out of the Walker Bank yet in the bank $170.00. Jas got dun shuckin. 11. vary dark an a litle mist faling. Jas gon to Harwood. Marten Dun shucen, corn very mudy. 12. Vary cloudy an warm wind SW mud fring some in plases. Jas went for wood. i went to Stills, Mrs. Still sick. i then went to Roses came by Chitwoods. 13. Cloudy a litle mist an dark til about 4 then rane til in the night. i to Mithels no beter. 14. Cler a litle wind SW lots of mud. i went to J.J. Mitchel he is not beter. i went on to Walker. Harvy came at 3. Mrs. Still sick. 15. Sunday cloudy but plesant wind SE. Harvy here, mud deep. 16. Clear an warm wind SW mud deep. John Mitchel worse. i finished hanging the meat. Harvey go to Bills, Lily at Bills. 17. Cloudy an cold wind N grond froze. John Mitchel dide at 9 oclock of the 16th. Cleve up, i went to Mitchels. 18. Partely clear ground froze still and pleasant. cleard up nise an plesant. i went to J. J. Mitchels the furnel put off til the 19th to wat for Ed to com. John Sharp here. 19. Cloudy but plesant grond thawing. a litle sun came out a while. I an Lily an Jas went to Mitchels furnel grond vary ruf. Jenson Preched. 20. Some clouds wind SE but still an plesant. Jas gon to help Bill butcher. 21. Som scater clouds wind SW pleasant. Jas gon for wood. i rote and sent $5 to Jim and $5 to Sus. i went to Harwood taken eggs an buter 1/2 bushel of onions come to 207 c. got thread matches dress (something) an honey. 22. Sunday cleair wind SW plesant. i Sarah an Albert went to Stills then i went to Sharps, the Mitchels. Lily wint to Jonathans. Marthy came with her. 23. Cloudy wind N an NE camenst snowing about 11. i went to Walker taken 1/2 bushes of onions got 30 c, got flour 85 coffee $1. Marthy here. Jas went for wood. i went to get Harris to prech next Sunday memorel. 24. Clear an nise wind SW pleasant. Snow about 3 inches it like a spring day. Martha an Liley went in the bugy to se Faney Mithel. Snow melting fast. i haled 3 sled lods maneuer in the garden. 25. Som clouds banished away wind SW. Marthay gon home, Jas gon to Harwood. i haled 3 lodes maneuer in the garden. snow melting making mush. 26. Cloudy a litle sprinkle of snow wind N and cold grond frozen. Jas gone to Walker. 27. Clear cule but plesant wind all a round. S. Mount came to se a bout memorial, stad for diner. Emey came at night to go to the debate. 28. Cloudy wind S but cul grond frozen. Emery here, Emery went home wind change to the north, a snow blizard at 2. 29. Sunday. partly cloudy wind S but cold grund froze hard all day. Precher Haves came. i an Haves went to Harwood, Memoral put of. Lewis Cobb here. Elmer came in the evening. 30. Cloudy wind NE high and cold camenst snowing at 8. Snde an blowed all day an vary cold. 31. Some cloud erly disapered later cold wind changed from NE to SE then to SW got plesant an nise. Jas gon to Walker to send Abbie’s glases got a leter from Sus. February 1899 1. Wendsday of Febuay 1899 mostly clear wind SE then SW more cloudy but plesant. Jas went to Browns. 2. Cloudy and cold all day not thawing eney wind NE. Jas and Bill gon for wood. a litle mist of sleat in the after noon. Chitwood here. 3. Cloudy a mist of sleat and more lik frost wind NE an cold an darry. Jas gon to Walker. spit snow all day. 4. Som clouds wind NE an cold more clouds later in the day. Jas gon to Harwood, Jack here. not thawing. 5. Sunday, mostly cloudy wind NE an cold not thawing, ice a bout 6 inches. 6. Snowing wind NE an cold cleard up a bit 10 but cold. Bill came got the rale, rodes cler. 7. Clear wind all a round nise but cold. Jas gon to the timber, Albert fon to school, mist 2 weeks, i went to Walker got Albert a par of shoes, a sack flour, a dolar in coffee, a brum an a dress at ...... 8. Mostly cloudy wind NE an vary cold. Jas gon to the timber - a sprinkle of snow got more plesant in the afternoon. 9. Clear an cold the coldst morning the moniter 14 below wind NE. i went to Mrs. Cramptons, Jas to Jonathans. 10. Friday, cloudy wind E and cold some snow still on the grond about 8 inche, not thawing. Jas gon to Walker, camenst snowing at 5 pm and vary cold. Jas went to Martens at night. 11. Clear and cold the coldest morning wind N, snow drifting bad the grond coverd with snow. Jas gon to Brown, themoiter don to 15 below. 12. Sunday clear wind N coldist morning thermomiter down to 30, snow is drifted in plases nee deep. Jas went to Martens then to Browns. Bill came we had a hog frese cold stand. 13. Clear wind S very chiley. Jas went to Browns, i turned the catle in the stalks east of barn. 14. Clear wind SE snow melting fast in the afternoon. Jas went for wood got the last out. i went to Walker taken a bushel of onins and 9 doz of eggs to KinKades, eggs 15, onins 60, got flour 100 lbs, soda 25c. Mrs. Still an Mrs. Chitwood here. Jas went to Browns. 15. Clear wind SE rods frozen an dusty thawed today mud in som plases bad. I went to se Sharp, nerly all sick. 16. Som clouds but thawing wind SE. Jas gon with Jack to Nevada then to Harwood. 17. Som cloud wind SW but vary still thawing geting qite mudy in fields. Estel Sharp got the seder. 18. Clear wind SW ground frozin but thawed considirbel. Jas went to Harwood to Browns. i went to Harwood got 10 lbs honey an a pare of boots $2.50, fetched Martha out home. Chitwoods got the mesels, 3 of them. 19. Sunday a fue clouds at sunrise but disapere then clear wind SW frost an frozen erly but thawing later. 20. Som clouds but disaperen wind SW froze a litle crust plesant vary warm for Febary. Jas helpen Jack cover his corn. i fel hert my nee. Alis went to Bills. Mary sick, Chitwoods got the mesels. 21. Ranig a sprinkle wind N plesant, partly clered up. Jack helped saw wood, ground drying, Jas went to Browns. 22. Clear wind N plesant an still. Jas went to see how many is ... Lily went to Jonathans get Martha to sew som. i hald some manuer. 23. Jas went to Browns to Bills se ho Mary was, then to Harwood. turn vary cold snowed a sprinkle wind blewed hard from N. 24. Cloudy looks like snowing wind SE an cold not thawing. Jas gon to Harwood, Harva come an Allis. 25. Camenst to rane a sprinkel be for day quit til about 10 then set in rand hard til late in day. We hald one lode of hay wind SE. Harvy an Allis here, thundered. 26. Sunday snowing at day l ight snode til 10 the clouds broke away son cam out at spells snow about gone wind NW but plesant. Lots of mud. Harvy an Allis here, Alas went home, Mary came. 27. Clear wind SE grond frozen hard but thawing mud geten deep. Harvy gon home, Mary here. Jas gon to St. Clear, Sarah gon to Bills. l 28. Som clouds wind SW no freze lots of mud. March 1899 1. Som fue clouds disapered later wind NE then SW nise an very warm in the afternoon. Mary a Lilia went to Mrs. Browns. Sarah came from Bills. Jas came from St. Clair. Albert got the measels, i burnt the draw west. 2. Clear wind E a litle frost but still and plesant. Mary here, Jas go to Walker. i burnt fence out road then to Martens. i burnt fence roses. 3. Mostle clear wind changen to NE vary dark loking N. still. Jas halling hay. Mr. Swargan here. i went to Walker. Mr. Pine an Sharp pade for a subciption to the Globe. i got $1.53 in coffee, Albert a tablet, taken buter an eggs 8 doz 1.63 in all. 4. Snowing wind NE snode til 1 oclock. Snow was about 4 inches. Jasper went to Harwood. i sent for the Globe. 5. Som clouds a big frost an tolerbel cold. Sunday wind shiftin all round but vary still, snowd again at 1 oclock. Jonathan here, Jas went to Martens then to Bills and Browns. 6. Vary cold clear wind W snow drifted cold all day. Jas went to Browns. 7. Cloudy wind SE an cold Jas gon to Browns. i wrote to Crabor Ched for salts an to J.E. Yong. Jas went to Martens at nite. 8. Some clouds disaperde later wind SW and warm. Snow going fast all gon but a fue drifts. Jas went to Browns then somewhere elce. Lots of water an mud. Smith here colecting taxws, stade all night. 9. Fue cloud sun drove them a way clear an warm wind SW. Jas went to Browns. Snow all gon lot of mud drying fast. 10. Som clouds wind SW an high ground drying fast. i had a weak spell til 11. 11. Cloudy wind SE then SW som thunder at times, camenst ranig about 10 broke a way between 11 am 12. half past 12 wind from SW blew a haarican. Jas went to Martens they have the mesels, then to Browns. 12. Sunday clear an cold grond frozen wind W cul grond a bout thawd. Jas went to Harwood then some where elce. Faney an Jessey Means here. 13. Clear grond frozen a litle wind NE. Jas rented grond camenst work. grond drying fast all thowed out. Martha here to se about going to Walker, Bill cam an fixed hay stack. 14. Cloudy raned in the night a mist, this morning wind SE and vary damp an chili. 15. Cler wind W then N an cule, grond frosen but thawing. S.lS. Dun here to have a notra pubican Bond made. Still an Jas haled maneur and drove post til diner and maneuer after. I went to Martens, tha have the mesels. 16. Clear an plesant wind SW. Still haled manuer, Jas help Bill. 17. Clear but dark. i an Arther went to Eldorado to mill. Raned hard before we got to the mill with about one, got 200 lbs flour for Mrs. Brown and 200 for my self. Marten cam for Sarah, the childe was vary sick. raned hard an som hale at 11. i went to Martens with Sarah, the daws all over ever thing. 18. A litle mist erly turning cold wind N. Jas gon to Walker. Sarah came from Martens. Ros got 2 lbs of buter. 19. Sunday Clear wind SW and cold grond frozen hard. Jas went to Martens. Jas went to Jonathans, Bill cam went to see Allie about going to Franks. Mrs. Brown here. 20. Clear a white frost wind E an cule. Jas went to Harwood. 21. Som clouds wind N a dry day. i an Jas went to Walker got wire for garden 150 feet cost $2.75. Stefels 25. i burnt the paster off in afternoon. 22. Cloudy wind NE an cule. i set out goos berys in the paster. Jas went to Browns. 23. Som clouds a bit frost grond frozen had wind E. Jas drug don some stalk run a fue feros. Mr. Still went a ......., i went to Harwood taken buter an eggs, got die stuff an coffe, potatos an shugar. got honey, onions, tee of Hureston. 24. Som clouds a litel froze an frost wind SW. Mr. Still brake stalks then ploud, Jas braken stalks. i haled maneur from the hen hose, Jasper camenst to plough for flax. 25. Som clouds warm wind NE. Jas ploughing. Mr. Still plowing, i sod chaf then haled maneur in the garden, haled a birel of water. 26. Sunday a litle rane sleat an snow, cule wind NE. Sarah nerly down with rumatis. 27. Snowing ground geting at 5 days snode til 2 about 5 inches wind NE. Jas went to Browns. 28. Clear wind west snow melting fast. Lily came from Bills. Bill an Mary sick, the boy an Jas went to take Alis to the trane to go to Franks. Alas started on the noon. 29. Partly cloud ice about 1 1/2 inch think wind SW snow melting fast nerle all gon. Jas gon to Bills, Bill an Mary sick. 30. Cloud a sprinkle of rane at 7 wind SE snow all gon, mud deep. 31. Clear an cold grond frozen wind NE. i sold Mr. Finley my hogs, they wade 1145 lbs $37.00. i an Jasper went to Walker. i drew at $50.00 out of the Walker Bank, got 18 bushels flax sede of MacCrada, pade $19.80 got 2 bushels timothy seed of Buck $3.00 got a milk bucket 15c. April 1899 1. Mostly clear wind N an cul, ice a half inch thick grond frozen hard. i went to Harwood for some linament for Sarah has rhumatis. i deposit in the Harwood bank $37.20. i taken 22 an 5 eggs to Sharp and Dale taken a due bill for $2.02. 2. Sunda cloudy a fue drops of rane a bout noon wind SE smky all day. i an Albert went to Bills, Mary sick, i went to Jonathans got a can of black beres for Mary, Sarah a litle beter. 3. Cloudy wind SE then went to the NE camenst raning about 9 a good big rane. Sarah a litle beter. night camenst snowing at one snowed til 6. 4. Clear an cold grond coverd with snow frozen hard not a green leaf yet the backardst spring i ever saw. Mary vary sick. i sent an order for som brandy an coffee an shugar. i taken Mrs. Carington to Bills, Harva cam down, Mary a litle beter. 5. Cloudy looks like rane. i went to Bills for Mrs. Carington. the rods drying in high plases. Mary a litle beter. Sarah a litle beter, Harva here. i put wire up on North sid garden. 6. raned a slow rane all night vary dark wind NE. 7. Partly cloudy an cul wind NW. Davis here. i taken Mrs. Cobb to Bills, Mary a litle beter, Sarah a litle beter. 8. Mostly clear a big frost wind N. 9. Sunday, clear wind SW a big frost grond froze a hard crust on everything, as dry looking as the midle of winter, warm after the morning the latest spring i ever saw. Mrs & Mrs. Cobb here. fetched off the first yong chickens. 10. Clear wind Sw warm. i an Lesley Brown went to Eldorado to mill. i got 300 ponds of flour, Lesley 200. Mr. Still plowing, Jas plowing. 11. Cloudy wind SW. i have a sore throte and all have a bade cold. Sarah beter of rhumatism. i got a gug of brand stuf of Quinnin, got a one horse plow of Buck cost $3.75. i am sick. 12. Mostly cleain wind SW the wether warm. Plous all a going. i am down with cold headache, a sore throat. got a fish of childes, plumer cald in. 13. Som cloud sun brok out at intervels and war wind SW an high. i am yet down with cold or grip. planted som potatos the first thing planted in garden. S.S. Dun caledl in to se me. raned a litle at 5. 14. Cloudy wind N an E pleasant. i am up. Lesley sode flax sed til 2 then Jas sode gessun?? camenst plowing half past 2. Lilley an Mrs. Brown went to Walker. i am a litle beter, got my flasc sede sode, i saw the first spring floures. 15. Nerly a litle cul wind N an a litle E. we finished sowing grass on the 15 acres. i finished pang still for plowing, Grisum plowed til noon. 16. Clear cul and nice wind SW. Sunday a white frost but no ice. 17. Cleair an plesant wind SE and W an bight. i taken Sarah to Mrs. Browns. i went to Harwood got the harwor tech??? sharpten, got 5 lbs of sweet potatos, one an a half bushels Timothy sed the two Dildine boys came to work. Frank Moss dide. 18. Raned in night hard grond to wet to work vary dark this morning son a coming at 8 everything groin. 19. Mostly cleair wind SW warm cloud came up drops of rane. plowed in garden with litle plow. Jas soing flas sed the 2 Tildline boys a work for me, we planted onions an sede. 20. A big rane brok of at noon wind NW cul. The Deldine left the flas all sode. Part of Jas not hand, gras not sowed. 21. Cloudy camenst raig at 8 wind NE an cul, Idis can sed = Mary was wors Lily got a leter from Abbie. 22. Raned all night ranig yet up to 9 wind NE a litle cul lots of water. 23. Raning som shower all day lots of mud. i went to Walker got lime an carpet worp. 80 cts in coffee and a tablet. Wind NE a litle cule, got a leter from Sus that had moved to Hads plase. no plowing for corn yet won’t for som days yet the grond is so ful of water. 23. Som clouds wind SE but vary still and plesant ground full of water, dothing done for corn yet about 15 acres of gras to so yet in the NW 20. i taken Sarah to Bills, Mary a little beter. 24. Partly cloudy wind NE an a litle cul. Sarah is at Bills. I have a awful sore throat and headache. i beded out sweet potatoes, the ground is vary wet. 25. mostly clear wind SE an warm. Sam Mount came, i am vary sick with headach sore throat an hert all over. finish soing gass sede. 26. Som cloud an warm wind SE. Mr. Chitwood came on the 25, Mrs. Brown came. i am no beter, Bill taken hogs off. 27. Cloudy a litle sprinkle of rane, wind SW. i am a litle beter. Mr. Chitwood came stad a litle while. Mr. an Mrs. Dun cam at 3 stade til 5. 28. Clear an plesant wind SW, (someone) came, i am some beter. Jas got Mr. Mans dist haror. Mrs. Brown an Lily went to Walker, got 50 in beef, 25 lemons, 10 orgens, got the coffee and sugar from Guinn at Cansas City 25. 29. Some fue clouds warm wind SE. I am a litle beter Sarah nerly down with rhumatism, Jas gon to help plow for flasc, Mrs. Brown got dase to go to Walker, the children haled off bush. i helped a litle, i was so weak i can’t hardly go. 30. Cloudy but plesant wind SE the ground geting dry enuf to work, i am barly up today, Sarah nerly down with rumatism. Aney Chitwood here, went with Lily to Sundy Shool this is the first day of the Sundy School. Mr. Cobb caled to se me, the wind is high, raned a fue drops about noon. May 1899 1. Cleare an plesant wind SW, rods dry and harde grond got dry. i taken 10 chickens to Sharps and dals wade 45 lbs, came to $2.36, got a botle volcanic linament 25, a botle of tonic 50c for Sarah rhimitism. we planted one bushel of potatos, sweat corn and some pole beens, finished the anig seeds. 2. raned through the night, rode ful of water wind SW, plesant. i an Albert went to Walker, taken 8 chickens to Frits, wade 40 lbs, got 6 1/2 c, got Albert a pare shous hat Liley a dres 15 yard of muslin, got som penuts returned the gug of brande to Guinn. 3. raned a shower wind blode at 3 am wind SW then NW. we plated penuts. Jas camenst plating corn, Bill an Odos helped camenst at 2pm. clerd up in the afternoon. 4. Clear an a litle cule wind NE. Bill disten odous haroing, Jasper planting corn, i worked in the garden. 5. Cloudy an cule wind E. i planted 7 cucumber hils, Bill and Odos got dun cuting an haring the fall braken at 10, Jasper got dun planting the fall braking, i went to Walker got a dres for Sarah, vinagar and thread. 6. Cloudy a fue drop of rane. cule wind SE. i planted water melons, muskmellon and soya beens at the potato path. i went to Harwood, got the carpet. 7. Sunday raned last night an thunder til after 12 cloudy this morning looks vary much like rane wind SE plesant. 8. raned a fue drops thundered some clouds wind NW plesant. i sode cabbig seeds, Dun here Jasper taken stalks by stills, i sode a letice bed. 9. Cloudy we planted 4 rose of potatoes, made 2 cabidg rose, handed the iras potatoes. Jas camenst baken the pese nest to Stills. a rane at ten and then at 12. Set out cabbige plants 172, raned at night. 10. Thundred an raned thrugh the night cloudy all day wind SE. Lily an Sarah white washed to selen mad carpet, Blue found a calf. 11. Cloudy wind SE plesant. i an Albert went to McCormacks and Shorts to se a bout som hogs. Jas went to plow for Bill, Sarah made a pot of soap. 12. Cloudy a fue drops of rane wind SE. We hode peas ground wet. i went to Walker, got some sugar, rise, and dride appples 13. Mostly clear wind NE an cule. i repard paster fence then worked in garden, Jas braken ground nex to stills. 14. Sunday clear wind SE then SW an high. i an Mr. Still went to see old man Warts, he was beter, rodes very riff, i came home with headach. 15. Mostly clear wind SW an high warm. i an Albert fixt some fence, haled a birel of water, finished braken the garden, i stuck the peas, Jas braken ground next to Stills. 16. Som clouds wind Sw and high. i went to Walker, went by Bills to se a bout the planter, i got one bushel of potatos at Dunns, cost 80c got flue caps at Buck’s, Jas got dun bracan ground. 17. raned in the night cloudy windy SW then NW.. Jas harowing, i planted 1/2 bushel potatoes, set out tomatos. 18. Clear an cule but plesant wind NE. Jasper will get dun planting corn, Sarah will finish making sope. 19. Cloud wind SE plesant. i went to Walker, it stanled?? $5 to Becky, Sus, John, Abbia an Jim then gave $5 to Sarah, Jasper, Lilia an Albert. Set out 60 sweat potatoes slips, raned at night. i dew $50 out of Walker bank. 20. Cloudy an still raned a litle at noon then at 4. i an Shaf went to Mores funeral at Flat Rock, came back by Harwood, stoped at Mounts out of a rane. 21. Sunday cloudy wind SE plesant, i an Albert went to Jonathan’s to se to get some one to stay, got Any Chitwood. 22. Cloudy an fogy dark til nerly noon sun came out. i went to Mrs Brown Any Chitwood came to help do the work put down carpet in N rume, i set out 150 tatos slips, Jas broken for ....... corn. 23. Raned a big rane at 1 am, looks lik raning a gane cul wind SE. Anay Chitwood here, sone one heifer to Finly at 4 1/2c. 24. Cleare an plesant wind SW, Anay Chitwood here helped put down carpet. i an Albert taken some hefer to Finly, wade 9.75, came to $40.00, Jasper camenst coltivating corn the first time. 25. Cloudy wind SE raned a fue droops at 2, i went to Chitwoods about 2, Shorts for $3.30 a hundred wad 114 + 104, pade $7.20. Harvey came honed, $3.00 to pay in trust on plase, Anay Chitwood here, will go home tonite. 26. Cloudy wind SW fue drops of rane. i an Lily, Mrs. Chitwood and Aney went to Nevada. I a par of pants two dolars, i galan whisky $2.00 27. Clear wind SW an high raned at 10 at night a good rane. i went to Kiten Creek got nuts and bank (bark?) for fiters? then to Harwood, cashed a chek from Finly for $41. 28. Mostly clear wind SW an high. Sunday raned at 10 at night. Bills came, i albert an Lily went with Bill to memorial, i came back with Pine. 29. Clear wind SW plesant, Jasper gon to plow for Bill, abig rane hale and wind at 7, hale as big as bird eggs. Clay Brown here,, nerly ruen garden. 30. Cloudy vary threatnig all day, i an Sharpe went to Betheny and decerarated the grave, an i an Lily and Albert went to Harwood to decarate, got back at 4. 31. Cloudy an threting wind SW, raned at 10 then all night. June 1899 1. Thursday, some clouds grond very wet. Jonathan & Becky here, Jack here, Mrs. Nordane an Mary came. 2. Some clouds wind SE. i went to Walker taken eggs 14 dosen, got 9c, taken buter got sugar. Bill got potato slips $1.10. 3. Nerly clear wind SW. i an Albert taken 8 chickens to Frits got 7 ct got a due bill for 244 cts. Bill came an helped trip a shote. 4. Sunday, some clouds a litle sprinkle or rane wind SW an high. Lilia went with Mrs. Brown to Harwood and old spectle man came a long, Aney Chitwood came to go to Sunday School. Mary, Martha an Emery stoped in it raned a hard rane at 6. Dave an ............ stopped at the ..... 5. Raned a showr in the night, cloudy wind SW plesant. i planted a row in the north side of old medow. 6. Som clouds broke away in the day wind SW. I plowed in the garden, Aney Chitwood picken goos bery, Jas cultivating. 7. Cloudy the greter part of the day, a litle shower wind SW. i taken 8 hens to Frits wad 41 lb got 7c, Jonathan baled hay, got Albert a par over alls shirt, pants. 8. Raned a big rane at 8 raned at 9, corn geting vary weedy, Dickens at noon stade all night, raned thrugh the night a big rane. 9. Raned til 8 then broke off, Dickenson left for home, daws ful of water roberson high, i went to Walker taken 9 doz eggs got 7 cts. 10. Clear in fore noon som clouds later in the day a litle cule but still. i an Albert went to Farhaven to a fish frye got back at 5, had bin nerly a water spout at Fairhaven. 11. Sunday, mostly cloudy all day wind SE Lily went to Means, Albert to take Stills paper. 12. Some clouds wind SE ground weat Jasper helped Shingel on the School house, i fixed screne, Dave had a bee swarm, Aney Chitwood picking goos berys. 13. Some clouds in fore noon, brok of in after noon wind SW. Cultivaters going ever where, i ploud some in garden, planted some navy beens, seser a round. 14. Som clouds wind SW an high, raned a litle at 11 and a hard shower at 1 the sun came out. i an Albert planted navy beens. 15. Cloudy raned a big rane at 4, Clay Brown here. 16. Mostly clear, i an Albert went to Walker got 4 yard of coten to make pants and oil cloth, i deposed $36 in the bank. 17. Clear an nise, grond dry, i went to Harwood taken eggs. 18. Clear an plesant, i an Sarah went to Harwood to Church, stoped at Mounts, i an Mount went on herd the duck preach. Wind SW a litle high grund dryin. 19. Fue clouds erly but clear by 11 wind SW a litle high. Jasper cultivating the old medow the first time, lots of corn not ploud yet come to plant yet. 20. Clear wind SW an high, i taken the clock to Charly Crigler to fix, got a paper of cabbige seeds. 21. Clear an warm wind SW an high, i planted some corn an beens in potato pach, planted cabbige seede 5 rose, Lucy Nance came at 1 o’clock. 22. Clear an hot wind SW high. Bill sick i went over thare, went to Walker for Bill, Lucy Nance here for Bill, sick, i went to Walker. 23. Clear wind Sw an high warm 24. Sadurdy, Clear an hot in fore noon wind SE. i an Albert went to Eldorado to a picknick, went to Al Andrews for diner, stoped at Portia, out of the rane, a big rane at home with wind and raned at 5. 25. Clear an a litle warm som clouds. Later on Mrs. Brown here, Lily, Elsey and Aney gone to Chitwoods, Bill Cope beter, raned a shower at 3, Mr. and Mrs Still came. 26. Som clods still and hot. I an Albert went to Kings to se about geting flax cut, then to Jonathans to se about geting gras cut, we planted sweat corn in potato pach. 27. Cloudy an warm an still raned a shour at 11, grond mostly wet to work, Maty Mils to se a bout cuting flax, Chitwood here a bit. 28. Clear an hot, i went with Plumb to Nevada to be examsand. 29. Son fue clouds warm, i and Pine fixen rake. 30. Clear an plesant wind NE and SE. i drove post at the draw to fence betwene the corn an outfeld. Albert mowed round the hay stack, i an Albert shocked it, Jas cultivating corn. July 1899 1. Saturday, clear wind NE plesant. Curby baled hay, Jasper still and John Chitwood haled the hay to Harwood 4700 pound got a cheack for $13.00 pade Curby $2.95. Still Jas an Chitwood fifty cts a peas for haling, got a washing moshene an ringer cam to $4.50. 2. Sunday som clouds a sprinkle, Bertha came to Bills. 3. Som clouds, Bill got the refused hay, i stuck buter beens, raned a bit rane at 7 pm then raned all night. 4. Raning wind SW plesant raned the bigest rane at 4 am wind from NW. 5. Some clouds clared up a bout 10 still an hot. Bertha an Bill here, Chitwoods turned 5 head of horses in the paster, Sare went home with Mary. 6. Raning at 6, Sarah at Jonathans, Erney here, some wind from NE, i taken Emery home brought Sarah home, raned a big rane at 6. 7. Cloudy, i an Albert went to Walker, i got a check cashed for $13 depit it. i got vinegar, 10 ponds coffee, shugar, an rise, grond very wet, rods muddy. 8. Mostly clear an still wind NE an plesant. i mode the onion patch , Bill fetched the childern here, went to Harwood to precher. 9. Clear an plesant, Bills children here an bunthey? Sunday, still an nise. 10. Monday, clear an still, Mana Mils cuting flax, Jack Dalton moing still, Jasper, Bill and Harve Fox raked an shocked 2 hors, the rake brok, i an Bill mended it, som clods later. 11. Clear an warm an still. Mane got my flax dun at 7 camenst an Jasper, Bill Vox an Still shocken an raken. 12. Some cloud still an warm, Maney Mils got dun cuting glax at 11. Mr. Still Bill other an Jas stacken. Mrs. Marten helpen get diner, i Mrs. Brown have $17.50 to send to Sarah. 13. Som clouds, Bill an Mr. Still finished haling the hay, Bill got to lod Mr. Still a gag, wind SW. 14. Cloudy wind SW warm. Jasper helping Cuningham thrash, Mr. Swargan here to borow $15. (dates mixed up??) 13. Cloudy an hot, clouds broke a way at times, Bill an Mr. Still haled a gag of hay to the barn. Mr. Still taken a gag home, Bill taken a lode home. 14. Cloudy wind SW, Mr. Swag...., here, i loned him $15 dolars, i went to Walker drue out of the Walker bank $19.00, raned of an on all the evening. Jas helped Cuningham thras flax. 15. Raning at 6 wind SW warm. Jasper gon to cultivate, raned of an on all the afternoon, Jas an Albert went to Duns for Cole to thrash with, i went to Harwood. 16. Sunday, raning a slow rane every thing afful wet wind SW. I went to Crafffords to se a bout trasher. 17. Clear an nise. i an Albert went to Esles to se Dicks a bout thrashing, i gone in afternoon 18. Tuesday, mostly clear wind NE. Mr. Chitwood cut the lane gras then the orcherd gras, Jas helped Marten to stack hay, i went to Walker got socks, got a wash pan, coffee pot an tin cup, a litle rane at 6. 20. Vary cloudy a fue drops of rane, raned of an all day. Mrs. Cavington got the bugy to go down home, i mo... the corn from over the stalls in the crib. 2.1 vary cloudy an still. i went to Bills, Fonso sick, i an Albert went on to town, Jasper got don cultivating corn. 22. Sunday, som clouds, i was sick, went for Mary to help to cuck for thrasher. 24. Monday, the trahsers came at mon, thrashed out my flax 76 1/2 25. finished thrashen, Jas flax had 121 1/2 bushes, Sarah at Bills, i taken Mary Dalton home, clear an hot wind NE, clear an hot an still. 26. i camenst haling flas sede to McCrada. i haled 2 lodes, Lesley 1 lode, John Chitwood l lode, clear still an hot the hots day. 27. Clear, still an hot wind NE. i hald 1 lode of flax for Bill, Sarah at Bills, i went for Sarah. 28. Some clouds warm an still wind SE. Jas haled a lode of sed for Bill. 29. Cloudy warm an still in fore noon wind NE in afternoon litle cule. Chitwoods haled the hay out of the orched, i let Lesley have $15.00, gave Jaster $15 on flax sede. 30. Sunday, raning at 7 raned a good rane wind NW cule but plesent an still, cleared up plesant. 31. Clear an nise, wind SW son hot. Bills folks all came stade a while, i an Albert went to Cobbs in the evening. August 1899 1. Clear wind SW warm. Mr. Still got a single bed of corn. 2. Clear an warm wind SW. i an Sharp went to Nevada got some whisky, it was old Setlers reunion. 3. Clear an warn wind SW. 4. Clear an hot wind SW, i an Lilia went to Walker, i got vinegar and shurt patron. 5. Som clouds fue drops rane, turned cul in the night. i an Sharp went to Harwood, i got a sack flour $1, thundered raned a sprinkle at 6. 6. Sunday, som fue clouds hot and dry, Bills folks here, Burthy came with Bills. 7. Mostly clear some fue clouds wind NE but still an warm. i sode turnips next to the barn, Vergel an Beckey came to Bills, Vergel came over here, Chancy, Steley and Mabel came to Bills. 8. Clear an hot wind SW. I an Albert went to Conly in forenoon, Bill taken his folks, Chancy an Lily afternoon, i an Albert went to Walker, my neck herting me bad. 9. Clear an hot wind SW. Chancy an the 2 gurls went home, Becky an Walter came at 12, some scatern clouds, my neck no beter. 10. Partly cloudy fue drops of rane, cler agane an hot wind SW. Becky an Walter went home, i went to Jacks to look at a calf. 11. Clear an hot wind SW, i went to Walker got 100 coffee 100 shugar. 12. Clear an hot, a sprinkle of rane then clear the hotest day, i went to school. 13. Som clouds hard wind in the night. i went to Jonathans for Eme to go with Bills and Jasper to the reunene, i got a hog of Bill wade 142. 14. raned a litle shour still litle plesant wind NE 15. Clear an plesant wind NE, i an Albert went to Nevada to the reunion, got back at 7. 16. Clear an plesant still. 17. Clear an dry hot an dusty wind SE, i taken Lily to the runion got two dolars in Shugar. 18. Clear an still wind SW, Bills started back from the reunion, Lily got sick, toped til morning. 19. Clear an dry wind SW, vary warm. Bills Lily a litle beter, i went to Harwood got a sack of flour 1 dolar, got Mr. Still meet an lard. 20. Sunday clear an warm still hot an dry wind NE & W. i went to Bills, Lily som beter, Berthy came home with me, i went to Stills, Mrs. Still sick. 21. Clear an still an cule got vary warm an dry. 22. Hot an dry clear some warm winds NE and SE vary dry. i an Jonathan went to Nevada got some whisky 1 galon a pece. 23. Clear hot an dry, i went down in the timber lookin for wood. 24. Cloudy a litle sprinkle at 4 hot an still wind blue cul about 12 in the night warm agan. S.S. Dun got a single bed of corn. 25. Som clouds an hot wind all NW. i went to the timber fot a lode of wood of Dunawy cost 35cts. 26. raned at 4 a litle rane some clouds yet this norning a litle culer wind SW then litle rane only made the dust hevey wind wen all round. i an Bill went to Harwood got 1/2 galon of lint sed oil to run the wagen wheale in on the 26. 27. Sunday raned a good showr in the morning at 5 wind SE. Bertha here. 28. Clear an hot an stil corn wiltin bade. i went to the timber got a lode of wood of Duney, pade 15 c on the next lode. 29. Clear an warm an still. i went to Balsn to a sale. 30. Clear warm an still. i went to se a bout binder then to Harwood. 31. Thursday, some fue clouds still an plesant, cleared up be fore noon, hot an dry, so the month went out hot an dry, Bill taken Bertha home, Liley and Elme went to Minses, i fex the p...., Jasper helped Chitwood thrash. September 1899 1. Friday, clear an dry still an plesant, Lily at Bills, Bill gon to St. Clair. 2. Clear a litle plesant but vary dry wind SW, Lily came home from Bills, Chacey’s children came home with Bill. 3. Sunday, clear only a fue fling clouds wind SW but still an hot. Bills folds came, Chancey’s children came with Bill, Sarah an Lily went to Church with Bills folks. 4. Monday, Clear an warm wind SW vary dry. i an Jasper went to Mans, got apples to dry on the Halfves, Suse an the children came. 5. Clear hot an dry warm winds wind SW. i went to Walker got Albert a hat, bot lumber to make a loft, came by Mans got apples to dry, Jas burthdy and Mabel helped. 6. Clear an hot wind SW, Suse an the children here. 7. Went to Bills, a fue drops of rane but clear. i worked at the well in the meadow, hot and dry, Burthey here, Jas gon to Browns to go to the fare, i got well chane at Walker cost $1.35, got 2 lbs coffee an sack flour $1 at Duns. 8. Some culer fue clouds wind NW, a shour of rane, Suse went to Jonathans, Bertha here. 9. Some cloud plesant wind N an W. Sus came by Jacks then came here, i went to Edmonsons to a sale, Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Marten Bills came in the after noon. 10. Sunday, camenst raning at 6 raned a good rane, Suse here, Suse started home at one, cule and plesent. 11. Clear an nise, i sode turnips, makes the third time, Mr. and Mrs. Still here. 12. Cleain cule still and nise, cule at night. i an Mr. Still went to Brooks sale, i bout 2 hogs an hefer at $42.25. September 1899 13. Clear an cule. i an Jasper went to Brookers got 2 hog, i loned Mrs. Brown $15. 14. Clear cul an plesant. i went with Sharp to Harwood. Albert came from school sick. 15. Clair an plesant. Albert beter. i went for wood got a lode of som tiget cost 40. 16. Som clouds wind SW plesant. My Brooken heffier found a calf, i taken Sarah to Jonathans, Martha sick, i went to Harwood. 17. Sunday rain a good rane an cule raned all fore noon an til 1 oclock of in the nit. 18. Fogy an cule. i taken the clock to Charly Crigler to fix. camenst fixing the bugy, Martha sick. 19. Clear an cul wind NE. i finished fixing the bugy. Bills went to Jonathan to se Marthy, Lily went with them. Bill cut som gras & staf ban?? Albert sick with chills. 20. Clear cule at night still. i went and engaged Graves to work a month. 21. Thursday cleain an plesant. Mr. Still and Bill helped to move the granery for a smoke house. Mr. Graves came. Mrs. Muny came to Chitwood, Mrs. Chitwood here, Park came here for . . . . 22. Some clouds cleard up in the day wind SW a litle high plesant. Mr. Still helped til noon. Bill a while, Mr. Graves camenst work ploughed 1/2. 23. Cleair wind SW plesant. Graves plowing, taken a lay of at noon. i an Albert went to Walker. i an Dun setle up for the corn, i got a sack of flour, a dolar in coffee. I pade Charly for the ??? 24. Sunday partly cloudy wind SW then NW. Mrs. Cobb an ??? here Lily got sore throt. 25. Monday Clear an plesant Graves ploud, Jas went to Roses to go to Appleton. 26. Clear a litle frost wind NW. i an Lesle went to the river for nuts. Graves ploud til noon and quit work, Ed Mitchel crafed?? in the pond about two hours, Jas went with Roses to Appleton. i pad Still an Bill $1.25 a pes for helping to move the granery. 27. A fue clouds wind SW an high. Ed Mitchel repared the pond dam. i pade Graves $1.50 for work. Jasper helped dig old man Roberts grave. 28. A litle shour of rane wind NE an a litle cule. 29. Clear an cul but plesant. i went to the timber bout a pese of timber of old man More pade $4.00 get it offin 2 years. i fetched a lode of wood. 30. Mostly cleair cule and plesant some ice reported. i went to Walker taken Mans Dride apples 36 lbs, got the clock from Charly, went to Harwood got 75 lbs flour of Sharp 1 pound coffee, sold rane (looks like could be rane/sane/or??) an black eye to Finley an Kincade for $73. October 1899 1. Sunday Cleain but dark with dust wind SW high an a litle cule. Sarah went to Chitwoods. 2. Clear an pleasant warm in the day wind SW. I taken rane and black eye to Finly i went to Harwood got the mony for rane?? an black??? in gold. Pade Lily $3.50 sold Finly some corn. 3. Clear an still. i went to Mr. Stills got 3 chickens. 4. Clear warm and dry wind NE a litle high. i haled one lode of corn to Finly 31 b 20 lb. John Chitwood one lode. 5. Clear an plesant wind NE. John Chitwood haled 4 lode of corn to Finly, camenst shingle in the smoke house. 6. Cleair and plesant dry. finish shinglen the smoke house, let a scantlen fall glanced Sarah hed, i flored part of the smoke house. Pade John Chitwood $1.95 for work. 7. Clear plesant an vary dry wind SW. i lode some flore in Smoke house, i went to Harwood taken 10 doz egge 13 cts. 8. Clear an dry an warm wind SW. Sunday Mrs. Brown and 2 of Clay children here. Elener Crampton here. 9. i an Jasper finished the smoke hous flore, wind SW an aful high aful dust. 10. Som clouds a litle mist wind SW oful high an dust. i went to Harwood got of Sharp and Dale 500 lbs of flour cost $9.00 and 50 lbs pound coffee cost $7.50 taken 4 rusters and 1 hen, the hen wade 6 lbs came to 36 cts. i an Mrs. Brown went to Walker, i let Mrs. Brown have $5.00. 11. Cloudy a litle mist jest a nuf to speck the dust wind SW an high. i finish haling the shock of hay. 12. Clear an warm wind SW. i worked on the smoke house, Jasper camenst getheren corn. Mrs. Brown an Sarah went o Saringtons. 13. Friday clear an hot wind SW. in went of Finles got check from my corn for $46 went to Harwood got ??? pade Mount $50 for 3 calfs taken Mary an Fonzo home Fonzo sick. 14. Cleain an dry wind SW i got Park Chitwood to help me an Albert to drive the calvs from Mounts home. 14. Clear an dry wind SW an high. Sunday Lily gon to Bills. 16. Raned a good rane raned slow til noon. I taken Albert to school, fetched Lil home. 17. Clear came St wening the calf, i for noon some clouds after Sarah went with Mrs. Brown to Sharps. 18. Some clouds wind SW warm an still. 19. Som clouds worm an still. 20. Cleain wind Sw an warm. i worked at the smoke house. 21. Clear an warm wind SW. i Sarah Lillia an Albert went to Walker to a reunion. i went to the first post meting. 22. Sunday cleir an warm wind SW an high. i went to Chitwoods. Anay an Biney has the fever, Lily went to Jonathans, Sarah an Albert went to Cobbs, i went to Cobbs at 11. 23. Cleain an warm wind SW an high. Jas gethen corn, i turned the calves in the medow went to Chitwoods, Anay an Biney sick with fever. Osker came. 24. Som clouds wind SW an high an dry. 25. Cloudy wind Sw an high. i sold the old wagon for $75, raned a good rane. 26. Cloudy an some rane damp 27. Raning a mist an dark and cule wind NE. Chitwoods children no beter, camenst raning a good shour at 11 raned til 2, Bill here. 28. Cleain an cule wind NE. we dug the irash potatos. 29. Sunday clear a big frost wind NE. i an Albert went to Grays. 30. Cleain a good big frost warmer in the day wind SE but still an plesant. Chitwoods children some beter. 31. Cleain a litle cule wind SE. Chitwoods children no beter. i went to Walker got col oil, sugar, flavoring an baken, taken eggs got 13 cts. November 1899 1. Som clouds wind NE an cule all most freezing. Jas shuck corn, got smoth (smath) cloud at night looks snowing, very cule. 2. Cloudy wind NE ice in the watering traft 3/8 of inch braken a way at noon. Chitwoods children no beter. 3. Clear a big frost wind NE the day vary prety. Cobbs pade the $7.50 that he borwe a fue days be fore. 4. Cleain a big frost the day nise. i an John Sharp went to Walker then to Nevada got som whisky got back at night. 5. Cleain a big frost still an nise. Lily gon with Mrs. Brown to Harwood to church. Emey came Chitwood girls a litle, Bob no beter. 6. Clear an nise an plesant wind SW. i a sale at veve??? Chitwoods girls a litle beter, Bob no beter, Lily and Eme stade all night at Chitwoods. 7. A slow rane cot the bireds nerl half ful broke a way in the day. Bob Chitwood no beter, Jas finished my corn. 8. Raning a shour thundred at 5 in the morning cleared up in the day warm still an nise. Old Man More cam to se somthing about a pesion John E. More, Frank came. 9. Cleain an warm an still. i taken Frank an Albert to Grays, Mr. Gray caled in his sale, i came home at 5. 10. Cleain an plesant wind NE. i went to Walker an high went to dafne... 11. Thunder at 3 some cloud south clear at 7 nise an plesant. Jas cut caffer corn beds. Chitwoods children beter. 12. a good frost some clouds wind SE a litle cul sundy. 13. Some clouds wind SW and high. Jas got dun shuckon corn, Frank came from Jonathans we fixed the well. Orther camenst work plowing. 14. Raned a good rane last night about 11 with lots of thunder cloudy to day wind W a litle culer. Frank an Jasper gon to Jacks. 15. Clear some frost som fog. Jasper an Orther haled the caffen shocks then Orther plowed. i an Liley went with Lesley an Mrs. Brown to the river for nuts. Lesley to fish in the lake. 16. Some clouds wind SW an high warm. Jas gone to St. Clair, Other (Arthur) plowing. 17. Raned an thundered at 5 then clear up warm wind SW. Other plowing, the pale caff got out twist. 18. Some clouds warm for the time of year wind SW. Other ploud til noon then i an Other went to Walker taken the plow to be shapened. 19. Sunday a litle mist of rane warm an still. Mrs. Brown gon to Wills for his wifes funeral. 20 Other feeding for Mrs. Brown while they gon to the funerl. 20. Cloudy camenst raning half past 10. Wind SE. Other ploud, afternoon raned a big shower at 5 then at 8. Jasper cam from St. Clair at 6. 21. Mostly cleain warm an still. Other plowing, ground a litle hevy, raned at 4 an at 7 wind blue. 22. Cloudy raned at 11 Other plowing still an warm ground hevy run a litle water in pond. 23. Other (Arthur?) ploud in fore noon, raned in after noon, Other ground the at coped som wod.????? 24. Misty an vary dark til late, Other ploud all day. 25. Cloudy an cule. Other ploued, fixen to bucher one hog, Other ploud afternoon. Cloud an cule wind NE.. Other ploud lacked a litle getmy? done i fixed fence to keep the calves in the medow. 26. Sunday cloudy an cold brok off at 10 clerd up a litle cule. Bill came got a sholder of meat. Other gon to Mrs. Browns, Sarah an Lily gon to Mrs. Cram??? 27. Cleair still an nise a big frost. Jasper finished braken the east pese next to the banne, then braken the garden. i an Sarah went to Walker. i sent a drafte to the isurence copney for $6.60, got cloth to make Albert close. 28. Clear a big frost nise an stil. i an Jas went to the timber for wood. 29. Clear nise wind SW plesant. I an Lily went to Nevada got Albert over cote, shurts and socks. 30. Cleain nise wind SW then W. i and Jasper went to the timber. the wind went NW blue hard. December 1899 1. Friday, clear nise but cule wind W. i an Jasper an Albert went an fetched a lode of wood, then i burnt the fence rode between me an ?? 2. Cleair in for noon wind SW some clouds afternoon. i went to Harwood got gun bolots $2.75, got $1.00 peper, rise and cole oil, taken eggs 16 cts. 3. Sunday mostly clear an cule wind SW and W. Mrs. Brown stoped in. 4. Cleir an cold grond frozen wind NW. We butchered 2 hogs wade 288 and 310. Bill an Harve Park Chitwood help buchered 2 wade 328 adn 190. Mrs. Chitwood here. 5. Harva came with Bill Cope. 6. Mostly cleair ground thoughing out an dry. Mrs. Brown an May taken the precher some provisions, wind NW. 7. Clear an nise warm wind SW and still. i drove Dick Crampton catle out of the stalks, fixed their fence. 8. Clear an nise wind SW but still. i and Jonathan went to Nevade. i got a pare of pants and cap and 13 yards of red flanel. 9. Raned at nite Sat rane all night got a bout 8. i an Albert haled up some hay. Lily an Albert taken Em home. 10. Raned and thundered at 9 am wind SW but vary still. Liley and Albert went for Martha 11. Mist of rane all night all fore noon mixed with snow at one. Wind W then NW and culer. Martha maken Lily a dress. Snow camenst at 1 snde hard til night got cold. 12. Cloudy a sprinkle of rane. All kinds of a day sun shine cloudy up and cleres up snow nerly gone. Martha here Aney Chitwood here. 13. Cloudy camenst snowing at 8 snode hard all day wind NE an cold. i haled a litle hay on the slead Martha here, Jas came hoom from Bill Thompsons. 14. Cleir an cold wind NE snow 8 inches deep. Martha here, i turned the calves in the stalks, Jasper taken Martha home. 15. Cleair dark and still the bigest frost i ever saw vary cold. 16. Some redish clouds east plesant. Taken buter to Frits, got a dorbil $1.60. 17. Som clouds still and plesant. i went to se Chitwood, Lily went with Mrs. Brown to Church at Harwood, thawing fast. 18. Cloud snow all gone a fue drops of rane wind changed NW turned cold, cleared up in the night. Jonathan here to get his hare cut. I, Jonathan an Jas moved the smoke house where i wanted it. 19. Cleair an cul wind N grond frozen, thoud some afternoon. 20. Clear an niser thod mostly out. i went to Walker got a birel of salt cost $1.10. 21. Nise an plesant. I an Jas haled hay to the barne. 22. Cloudy camenst snowing. About 10 big wind an -------- I bought a bull of Finley $350.. 23. Cleair for part some cloud after part shower at night. Bills came an stade all nite, Bill and Jas went to Harwood. 24. Som clouds a litle cule grond frozen a litle wind N. Bill folks gone home, i taken the bull to the medow at 6 at night, camenst snowing at 7 at night covered the ground, the wind was NE Christmas Eve. 25. Chearn an cold wind N grond barly covered with Snow. Jas gone to Jacks to hunt. Mrs. Chitwood here til in afternoon, her an Lily went Mrs. Cramptons, i an Albert went to Chitwoods. 26. Clear an cule wind E a litle S. Some litle patches os snow. Jas gone to Harwood. Mrs. Brown only and Lily gon to Jacks. 27. Nise an plesant. I went to Mrs. Cramptons thay are going to move, an Fancy Ros here. 28. Mostly cleair still an nise. i an Jas haled wood Mrs. Swwargan an Mavis here Alis here. 29. Cloudy cold but still wind NE. Lily an Mrs. Brown gon to Harwood. I an Jas went for wood. 30. it camenst snowing at 7 a litle lite snow, all blue off by noon. Jasper went to St. Clair , Alis went home. 31. sunday cloudy an vary still wind shifting all round, cold, has not thoud eny in 3 dase. Camenst snowing a bout 8 covered the ground a lite snow, quit about noon, sun came out at 3 wind NW. New Years Eve. 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