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 Note: Many day’s entries were not written. January 1912 1. a fue scatrin clouds sun shined through the clouds nise an warm a nuf for winter, wind SE then nerly S thoe still an plesant. Mrs. Brown came also Bill an Mary, Suse an Jack went by Bills, Lillie came home from Bill Thompsons, fetched a pare shus. 2. Cloudy an still a litle fine snow in fore noon sunshined a bout noon the cloud a gane. Boss found a calf arund where where ice was cut to get water. Albert sold his Fonzo horse to Purck Shirse for $110.00. Albert went for a lode wood. 3. Cloudy sun shined though the clouds a litle thin shut up spit a spit of snow vary still, wind NW an colde. 4. Cleair wind NW a steady shiver an cold. Lilllie went to Buchanan to pay for the fethers. Jasper an Albert went to Walker then Jas went to Bills. Albert is feding for Ompha while gon to Denver to see Wiley. 5. Cleair nise an cold wind SW then NE an still cold. 6. Snowed last night a inch snode more this morning, drifted, wind NW an cold, cleard up at noon, nite cold. Art Goodman mind unbalenced. 8 below zero. 7. Sunday, cloudy tolerbel still 12 below zero so reported. some snow fresh plowed land bloed off, wind SE. 8. Snowing sum fine snow came by shours till a 11 sun shined on by 12, was cleair wind NW an cold then NW not so cold not high. 9. Mostly cleair som fling high thin clouds wind S an SW not qite so cold, snow melted a litle. Sarah had a chil at 3 pm. 10. Som clouds all day sun shined some, not qite so cold in for noon, a litle culer after noon. Mrs. Swangan an Lillie came. 11. Cloudy, camenst snowing a bout 9 fine snow wind NE hie. a bliserd by 2, the worst day so far. 12. Cleair still cold an nise wind NW (holes in paper) last night the coldest ever and snow an drifts, a litle more plesant to day. 13. Cloudy wind S an SE cold all day tho vary still, snow not melting. 14. Sunday, cloudy still not vary cold, snow melting a litle. 15. Cleair still an cold wind N Then NE, the bigest sun dogs i ever saw 2 on each side of sun like rainbos. 16. Some clouds all day sun shine som wind S snow melting. 17. Cloudy snow melting all off but the drifts vary still. 18. a fue clouds soon cleard up later nise, snow driftsmelting, wind NW not high. Albert went to Walker for grosersy (groceries) 19.Cleair in fore noon som clouds later vary still all day nise. Mr. an Mrs. Cobbs came, thoud some but a litle cule. 20. Cleair still an nise a litle cule thoe. snow drifts meltling. 21. Sunday, cleair still nise an plesant. snow drifts nerly all gon, ground frozen, thoing on tope rapperating as fast as it melts. 22. Cleair still an nise, snow drifts all gon, some mud. Sarah sick, i fixed a cuver over the meete. 23. Cleair still warm for January, thoung ground mudy on tope. Mary, Lillie and Bill here, Mrs. Anderson an Hermas wife Franky here, a nise day. 24. Cleair still warm a nuf for January an nise, a big frost. 25. Cloudy still an fogy til after noon the fog went off warm cloudy. 26. Clear an a big fog, vary still warm a nuf an nise for January. 27. Coud some fog down toward the timber, wind NE damp an cule. 28. Sunday, cloudy and fogy towards the timber, wind NW chiley. Albert started to Kansas at bout 12, Jasper got back from Thompson yesterday. 29. Cloudy still a nuf wind NW a litle cule spit of snow a bout 5 pm. Mr. Cuningham an Lisey came. 30. Som clouds broke a way later, wind NW a litle cold. A man from Rich Hill stoped seling chicking food, Jordan name. 31. Som clouds sun onse an a while wind SW an NW an cule, not vary hight, grund frozen thauing a litle when wind dont hit. February 1912 1. Jasper went for wood. Cloudy a spit of snow, cold an blustry in fore noon, cleard up in after noon, wind NW high an cold. 2. Cleair til late in after noon then thin cloud west, vary still, what wind was NW then Se vary nise day. 3. Sunday, snow, the frond a but cuverd wind N vary cold, sun shine at times every thing frose soled. 4. Cleair cold brite an nise wind NW not high. 5. Cloudy still a litle cul but plesant wind NW not high, snow melted a litle. Jasper went for wood. 6. Cloudy in fore noon nerly cleair in after noon wind NW then SW, not high, not so very cold. 7. Cleair all for noon an nise, some cloud, shining in north in after noon. Jasper went for wood then for cole, got 27 1/2 bushels of cole (3 loads) 8. Cloudy sun shined vary litle wind NE cold an chiley. Jasper went for a lode of wood, (4 loads) Sarah sick chilled. 9. Som cloud sun shined som, wind NE vary chiley. Leney came, Mr. Buchanan came, Mrs. Denes came, Dr. Davis came, bill $3.00 10. Some clouds fore noon cleair later wind SE not high nise. Sarah a litle beter. Mary an Lillie came, Jasper went for wood (5 loads) 11. Sunday, mostly cleair wind SW not high, a nise day. Harvay came, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Means and Elsey Jack an Family, Jonathan, Mary, Lillie an Boide, Mr. an Mrs. Sharpe was here. 12. Mostly cleair still an nise, Jasper went for wood makes 7 loads. 13. Cloudy camenst a bout 12 slow rane still an dark. Jasper an Lillie went to Walker. 14. Cloudy a litle spit of snow a but day mist, froze but soon melted auful still. 15. Cloudy an dark an still all fore noon sun shine som after noon, warm an nise, grond thauing on top, ground frose deep. 16. Cloudy vary dark in fore noon, still an nise in after noon. 17. Som cloud a drop of rane in fore noon cleard up in after noon, still an nise after noon. Lilly got 2 pigs of Fonzo wade 42 an 54. 18. Sunday, some cloud all day wind SW but still an nise day, a frost erly, grond thawin. Sarah sick had a chill, vary litle mud. 19. Partly cloudy all day wind NE an cule. Jasper went after Bart, Elsey came to meak som aprens. 20. Cloudy camenst snowing at 8 got harder, snode all day wind NE. Sarah was worse, Dr. Davis came, she is ezen a litle this is the 2nd trip. 21. Cloudy sun shines som, some thunder, then snow flures, wind NW, cold. 22. Cleair fore noon som thin clouds later wind SW snow melting some, vaprating up as fast as it melts. 23. Mostly cloudy all day, wind SW, snow melting all day. 24. Raning a slow drisely rane til a bout 10 then darkness give way, see the sun a litle, snow all gon but drifts still no wind. 25. Sunday, cloudy snow melted all night camense raning at 8, raned the balence of the day, some thunder, wind NE a litle high. Bill Thompson came jest after the hale. 26. Snowed a litle scift wind NW an cold, sun came out a bout 3. Bill Thompson an Jasper went to Bills. 27. Cleair wind SW chiley, Bill Thompson gon home. 28. Cloudy wind NE a frost camenst snowing at a 11, cept it up til night. 29. Cleair still an aful nise day, wind N a litle E nerly still, snow a bout 5 in, nerly level, melting rite smart. Mr. Finly came to Gasper a bout his corn. Mr. Denes came a while. So out goes February, we are all up now. March 1912 1. Cloudy, wind NE damp an cule, wind not high. 2. Cloudy wind NE then SE, camenst snowing a bout 9. a fine snow got harder by 10 an a 11, snode about 6 in. 3. Sunday, cloudy sun shined out a bout 9 throu the clouds, wind NE not high, snow a bout 6 in a melting some. 4. Cloudy wind NE then SE not vary high, camest snow a but 9, snde hard til night, a bout 5 in nerly level. 5. Cloudy some litle spits of snow sun shined a litle thru clouds, snow a milting vary litle, wind NE, not high, a litle cule. Finley got a lode of Jaspers corn. 6. Cloudy still still an mild a big frost sun shined vary litle dim thaud some. Jasper hald corn to Finley, Albert Porter halp got 70c 7. Cloudy a litle mist or rane fogy loking vary still all day. Jasper finished halling his corn, had 150 1/2 got 70c 8. Cloudy a mist with a spit of fine snow freezing a litle, some litle snow all day, wind NE cold no melting today. 9. Cleair wind NE not high sun shines nise but damp an chiley, som fue white cloud a bout noon, snow melting some, plases getting slopy. 10. Sunday, cloudy snow floures til after 1 then rane, snow a melting som, wind SE vary disagreeabel. Lillie gon to Means. 11. Cloudy misting an sleat a big sleat some trees broke, sleet, all of timber, som on ground, som snow an lots of water. 12. Snowing som difting some a bout 1 in if level, wind NW, sun came out snow melted some and not so cold. 13. Som clouds all day sun shined dim, snow melting, mostly gon but drifts still. Jasper an Lillie went to Walker. 14. Cloudy a fue drops of rane wind SE still, snow melting. 15. Som clouds a litle snow last night, sun came out the lite snow, soon went some drifts here yet but going fast, wind NW, cule plesant after noon. 16. Clear only a fue high white clouds wind SE a litle lhigh, snow a bout gon, dry fast. 17. Sunday, some fue clouds erly then clear an nise some wind, got still, wind S then NW. Albert came at 2 pm. 18. Cleair a white frost soon went off, a nise day, warm. 19. Cleair still nise an warm ground dring fast. Albert started back to Kanses, drove the Poney started at 1 pm. Lillie has sick head ach, ground setling fast. 20. Some rane, some thunder, dark all day. 21. Cloudy wind NE an cold, it raned on thunder last night at 7. 22. Cloudy all day, wind NE, damp an chiley. Mr. Anderson came, it camenst snowing a bout 5 pm, snode all night. 24. Sunday, snowing, it snowed til a bout 11 then clerd up. Snow an sleet melting fast, lots of water plases neced. 25. Cleair a nise day, plenty of mud an water, wind SW, snow nerly all gon, wind not vary high. 26. Som clouds warm a nuf in fore part, culer later. Sun shined some. Finley shet up, wind SW then NW but still. 27. Cloudy raned in the night then camenst a bout 9 cept it all day aful dark cloudy, only litle while at noon, still. 28. Cloudy an raning all day, wind NE and W cule still. Aful cite of water, seler fluded, every thing ful. 29. Som clouds a fue drops of rane, cleaird up warm an nise an still, wind SE but still, grund setlen fast. 31. Sunday, fue clouds, clouds in creased, a drop of rane, sun shined at times a litle still all day, hardly wind a nuf to tel which way, warm an nise. Bill an Omph came so the month went out. April 1912 1. Raned yesterd at 6 pm. Cloudy som mist an rane the day vary dark most of the day, wind NE then NW a litle cule. 2. Some clouds raned in the night a litle snow an sleat, cleared up later, ground setle fast, lot sof water. 3. Cleair still warm an nise grund steling fast. 4. Cloudy sun shined some all day, wind SW a litle high, felds mudy, vegtation aful backward. Jasper an Lilie went to Walker got potatos for seed, trees looks ded as winter, nothing done. 5. Some clouds sun shines som til late but part of the time dim, warm a nuf wind SW an high. i set out turnips. 6. Some clouds a fue drops of rane sun shined some, wind SW then NW got cule. i set out turnips, planted a roe of pees, sode som leltis. 7. Sunday, cleair still an nise a litle cule, groud drying fast. Bills folks here. 8. Cleair still an nise. grund drying fast, wind S. i finish seding out turnips. Jasper haled maneuer on the garden. 9. Cloudy, wind SW not high. i sode tobaco an cabbage. 10. Mostley clear still an nise, i planted a roe of pees and set out the big onions. 11. Cloudy still an warm enuf, we set out sets, planted potatos. 12. Som cloud a sprinkl of ran thenclere an still. Mrs. Finly dide a bout noon. 13. Som fue clouds soon give way, cleair wind SW an litle high. Jasper finish planting potatos 1 1/2 in all. 14. Sunday, sun shined all day but aful dust on smkey or sothing dark towards the timber. Mrs. Finley bered, a big persesion 32 bugies. 15. Mostly cleair som thin clouds still. Jasper camenst cultivat up for corn, Bill’s Lillie here. 16. Cloudy raned a fine cold rane good part of the day. 17. Cloudy wind NE not high, cule a litle rane last night. 18. Som clouds wind NE not high, cule. i sode onion sede, cabbage seed. 19, Cloudy a litle sprinkle of rane wind SE cule not high. 20. Some clouds till.- i planted 18 hils of water milens an mush melens. an one roe of pees, it raned some, thunder an hale at night. 21. Sunday, cleair an nise wind SE an high. Lillie gon to Means. 22. Some clouds in fore noon, cleair after noon wind NW an cule. Jasper having to plant corn. 23. Mostly cleair in fore noon cloudy in after part. 24. Mostly cleair in fore noon sun shined some, warm a nuf for April. Jasper camenst plating corn in after noon. 25. Cloudy camenst raing a bout 7 shourd all day, wind SW then SE high and a litle culer. 26. Mostly cleair still warm an nise wind, rane, hale, and thunder nerley all night last night frund soked. 27. Cloudy wind SE grund to wet to work. 28. Sunday. Som clouds all day wind SE a litle high, at late night it thundred, raned the bigest rane of seson, the wind blue hard, stormey all night, raing yet this moring, seler had 6 in of water. Mr. Mann dide at 4 oclock the 28th of April. 29. Cloudy wind N cule rane last nigh a fue drups today. 30. Som clouds an a litle dark, soon clellllird up later, nise. Wind SE plesant warm a nuf, ground wete thoe drying fast, so the month goes out a litle hasy. May 1912 1. Som clouds all around, sun shined all day, warm wind SW not high, ground to wet to work. Greshum cam to get recamed for rout 1.??? 2. Som clouds the sun shined warm til a bout 3 then clouded up, a shur of ran wind SW. Jasper an Lillie went to Walker. Miss Simpson came out with them to work a while. it raned an haled a big rane at 4 pm. Verfinea Simpson came here the 2nd of May stade til the 13th. i pade her $3. 3. Mostley clear warm an nise, ground wet. 4. Som clouds wind SE then SW. i an Jas went to Harwood. 5. Sunday, cleair wind NE plesant, ground drying fast today. 6. Som thin clouds in fore noon, sun shined warm cloudy in after noon, warm at noon. Lillie an boyed came, fetch 26 cabbgs plants and 23 tomato plants. 7. Som fue thin clouds all day. the 2 Lillie an Miss Simpson made garden, i hode out the onions. 8. Fue clouds sun shined warm wind SW not high. 9. Sun shined warm til al bout 5 then some clouds. i planted 18 hills of water melens. Lillie an Miss Simpson hode the potatos. Emey cam yesterday go home to day. 10. Som clouds thin to 5 then geathered made a hard rane and wind storm wind went NW got cold. 11. Raning a slow cold rane off an on all day, wind NW. 12. Sunday wind NW an cold, sun shined clear an nise. Mrs. Swergan and Amp. Bill an Mary here. 13. Som clouds wind SE still. Jas an Lillie went to Walker. Miss Simpson went to Walker, pade her $3 dollars. 14. Cleair wind NW a litle cule but plesent ground drying fast. 15. Some clouds a litle sprinkle sun shined some at 5 cloud came up raned and fine hale. 16. Som clouds sun shined some wind NW an cule, ground hevey. 17. Cleair wind SW not high fogy or dark looking or smokey. 18. Partly cleair elemest darak warm a nuf, wind SW drying. 19. Sunday, clear wind SW a litle high. Jonathan came. 20. Cleair or nerley so, wind SW high geting dry. 21. Cleair wind SW hie an dry. Suse came, Jas went to Harwood after Suse. i finished hoing potatos, Jasper camenst in his corn Suse came the 21st of May . 22. Cleair wind SW high, grund geting dry. 23. Clear wind SW high an dry. Newlen furnel. 24. Mostly cleair in fore noon wind storm in after noon a big dust storm an wind a but 4 pm wind an rane folerd a good rane had 6 days of wind. 25. Clear an warm nerly still wind SW not high. 26. Sunday, Cleair wind SW a litle high, raned last night. Suse here, i did not goe to memoral. 27. Some clouds sun shine some wind SW a litle high. 28. Mostly cleair some fue clouds, raned last night. i went with Denis to Walker, grund drying fast. 29. Mostly cleair wind SW warm. 30. Cleair an nise, i went with Mr. Finley to Mount Vernon to decarate then with Miss Oney to Harwood to the deceratin out there, Suse went with Bill an Mrs. Cobb. 31. Cleair in fore noon wind SW not high, some clouds after noon. Mr. Sharp cam an pade 50c for the Globe. June 1912 1. Som sctren clouds, sun shined all day, wind NW a litle cule but plesant. 2. Sunday, cleair cule in the morning. Harvey came, Bills folks, Emey came. Mr Mrs. Sharpe came. 3. Clere hot an dry wind SW. 4. Clear dry wind SW. 5. Some clouds in fore noon a dust storm a but 5, som rane at night abut 1/8 in. 6. Cloudy in fore noon cleair after. i an Lillie went to Walker, i went on to Nevada, came back to Walker, got my pension came made out. 7. Cleair an cule wind E geting vary dry. 8. Cloudy a drop of rane a litle cule thoe plesant. 9. Sunday, raning a slow rane, cold for June, wind NE, did not rane much, cloudy all day. 10, 11, 12 - no entry 13. Cloudy a lite rane about 1/8 still, no wind. 14. Som cloud a part of the time, a drop of rane, the sun shined nerly all day, still warm a nuf. 15. Cloudy camenst raning a bout -- raned hard a bout 15 minits, cloudy an warm all day. 16. Sunday, raning a slow rent til 10, damp an still all day, som thunder an sprinkles. Suse went with Bills up home to go home tomarow Suse started home the 16th of June, pade Suse $8. 17. A slow cold rane is faling, it drisled a long all day, as cold as a cold April rane, thundred last night, raned. 18-20 - no entry. 21. Mosly cleair, Black hefer found a calf. 22. Some clouds warm a nuf an still, it looks like rane. 23-26 - no entry 27. Cleair an warm, we planted 4 rose of corn an beens. 28. Cleair an warm, i went to Nevada. 30. Sunday, some clouds raned a good rane at 4 pm. Albert Porter came a fue minutes. July 1912 Many missing entries 1. Som clouds sun shined som, it began to rane a bout 5 raned 1/2 inch of water, litngnin all nite. 2. Raning a slow rane til a bout 7. 10. Cleair part of fore noon, rane a part of after noon. Bin having some vary hot days, pepel all done cutting wheat and nerly done ther oats 13. Cleair hot an dry. i sold Finley 5 head of catle, 2 was Lillies and Albert’s cow for $145. Lillie came to $56 and Alberts to $27.50. 20. Som fue thin clouds not much sine of rane. Jasper finished plowing corn at noon, went to Walker. i sent the check by him to bank that Finley give me yesterday for catle. it was $145. dollars. 21. Sunday warm som clouds. i went to Buckham. cloudy in after noon, thunder an a litle rane, litnight burnt Sam Huffs barn an the barn on Spects Robersons plase and kild the young man that lived there. 27. a fue clouds mostly cleair. i mode a litle in the orchd. i brout back the bigist steer from Finley, pade $36.50. 28. Sunday, som clouds a fue drops of rane ever once in a while, hot needs rane. 31. Cleair still hot an dry, corn hurten bad, lots of bugs, wheat make from 12 to 27. Out goes July. August 1912 1. Nerly cleair, hot an dry. i went with Denis to Walker, Jack Porter came. i got a draft for Albert for $27.50. 11. Sunday som cloud partly cleair an dry, some hurting buts an want of rane. Harvay an family came. 17. i started to KY (Kentucky) with Fonzo, got to Louisisvill the 8 and to Johns the 19, went to Hrlan the 6th got there the 7, started for Berea the 14 got to Berea the 15, started home from Berea the 16 got home the 17 at 1 oclock. Fonzo got in at night of the 17. My RR (railroad) fair was $38.95 balence $42.80 the hole $81.70. 18. give Becky $5 send Suse $5 September 1912 15. Sunday, cleair an plesant. 26. Got a leter from Abbie thay got there 5 all right. som frost this morning, some things white, clear an still to day. Jasper finished cuting corn yesterday cut 50 shocks, plowoing to day. I gave the children $5 dolars September 1912 October 1912 1. Cule thoe warm later in the day dry an still. I got Elsey mare, went to Harwood for Suse, got a 10 gallane jar to make crout an a crout cuter one dolar each. 2. Warmer som clouds a fue drops of rane. Suse helpen to make crute. 6. Sunday, the hotst day for Oct i ever seed, cleair all fore noon some cloud after noon, a litle rane at 7 pm a litle culer. 7. Som clouds wind N a litle culer Suse here, Suse went hom the 9th. 9. Partly cleair in fore noon cloudy after part rane 1/2 in of water. Jasper 1 lode of cole. 10. The was this morning Jasper finished haling cole 88 bushles. 11. partly cloudy 27. Cleair smoky still an nise. Bills folks came, it was Sunday. it like indin sumer, its vary dry fall thoe nise. nise wether up the 30th a litle cule as a rule, still dry an nise til night of the 30th raned a bout 1 1/2 inches of water, som wind. 31. Dark misty cloudy, still an cule. a bout 3 the wind went NW got colder, raned som, turned to snow a bout 5 pm, snode hard for a while, som big flakes, so the month went out storma. November 1912 1. Friday, Som ice, som clouds, a litle wind NW an cule, sun shining a litle at times. 5. Cloudy raned last night and some to day. i an Jasper went to the electin at Patche. i will give prises to day. Catle the tope $11.00, hogs $7.70, Sheep $4.50 22. A litle cold morning nise still dry days. Jasper finished shucken corn on the stalk, has shocks to get out yet an a bout 10 acres to plow. it has bin a nise fall. 25. Sunday, the coldist of the fall, wind NW not high, nise thoe cold. Bills folks went to Chanse yesterday taken Suse crout an apple buter. my leg is worse. 27. Som thin clouds a litle cule still an dry. Jas buring the draws off, got a leter from Bill that was sick. 28. Som thin cloud, wind SW and high, air ful of dust, rite cule. i started John $5, Jasper taken the leter to Walker, Jas ploud til noon. my leg is so bad i hardly can walk. 30. hight wind SW a litle chilie a bout 5 a litle fine mist. Corah (Cora) Porter here, Suse’s leg bad, my so i can hardly walk and it has bin a dry nise month to work. the month gose out cloudy an warm a nuf for November an dry. December 1912 1. Sunday, cloudy wind high SW warm a nuff for Decem. Coary (Cora) Porter here, Jasper gon to Walker for George and Allis Smith. it camenst raning 1/2 after 11. Bill came for Cora to go home. 2. Partly cloudy. Jasper went to Walker for Gorge an Allis Smith, got home a nerly 6 pm. 3. Cloudy still not cold. Mary an Lillie here brout som meet. 9. Cleair still an cold. Sarah sick a litle beter. Allis an George Smith here. Allis Dalton stade last night. Elsey Means here, having a hog bucher, the boyes ar bucherin our 2 hogs first wade 384 the other one 320. 11. Cleair cule thoe still an nise. The telephone man put in a telephone pade $10.00 12. Clear cule still an nise. l Jasper gon to Harwood to pay my taxis in Cleair Creek $23.64 Walker $9.69 the hole of taxis $33.83. George an Allis gon to Bills an ar going to Suses. 13. Som clouds a litle cule. Jasper gon for Wood. 14. A nise still day a litle cule. Besse Buchhanan dide. 15. Sunday, cleair an still a big frost went off with a frog. Besses furnel a big prosesens, the largest of eney. 17. Som thin clouds nerly clear at a 11 a litle frost. Jas is plowing. 18. Cloudy a litle. Fonzo taken Jas, George an Allis to Bill Thompson, starde at 12, the ground is dry. 20. Mostly cleair cule an nise. Fonzo, Jase, Georges an Allis came back from Bill Thompsons, Becky cam with them. 22. Sunday, Lillie and Allis started to Oaklehoma (Oklahoma??) 24. Frosty morning, a nise day a litle wind. George Smith, Becky here, went to Bills, wind SW a litle west. 25. Nise an clear a litly wind nerly south one bit East. Harvy came jest after 12 am, George Smith here an Becky. Mary an Boide came. warm a nuf for December. 28. a vary nise day, dry. Jasper went to Walker for Emea an Mering Stewart. 29. Sunday, som clouds an fogy or dust looking in fore noon. Maring Stewart here. Mrs. Brown came. 30. Some clouds an damp wind from the south. Jasper an Marien Stewart gon to Bills and Jacks. 31. A fue scatren clouds erly all disaperd the day was nise an still, what wind was Nwest til late then west. i was warm a nuf for December. An aful nise nerly rite still. Wind South west at 5. So out goes the year. DIARIES OF ALBERT FONZO COPE FROM HIS FARM NEAR WALKER, MO 1912 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives Loretta May (© 1997 Loretta May) USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. 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