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Clear & Cloudy
25° Ther_ MON. APRIL 4^th, 1898 S. E. Wind.

Cold & frosty. Miss Mitchell
(the public school teacher) sent
for me and I took Frank Robison
& a ladder and fixed the bell,
which had dropped its clapper.
Afternoon I went to the store
& P.O. After supper Willie and
Alice Peirce came over to the
annual meeting of the Lyceum
Company. Sally Ellicott called
to see Dora. I went to the store
& toll house after supper.
Frank Hewitt called after dark, &
I paid him 2.00 leaving a ballance
due him of .75 cents on the last
cord of oak wood he brought us.

Rain, Snow & sleet.
37° Ther_ TUES. APRIL 5^th, 1898 N.E. Wind.

It commenced Raining and
snowing & blowing before daylight
this morning making intensely
disagreeable weather, and all
the harder to bear after the lovely
spring weather we had in
March. "Dick" Matthews was here
at breakfast time for medicine
& advice for his wife ("Kate"). I went
to the mill to the P.O. before dinner.
Afternoon I walked to Ashton & back.
Old John called & H. gave him some
money Willie had left here for him.
This has been a real wintry day,
the wind changed from NE to N.W.
but still did not "clear off" & has been
extremely "raw" all day, freezing
more or less during the entire day.