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Niles helping and here to dinner.
Briceland here to. We expected him
to dinner. He bought the the bare faced
calf $1,50. Evening Voltie, Robert &
Irene went to Mr Niles for an evening visit
returned at 10,30 pm. A stormy night.
I read Lalla Rooch a wild improbable story
by Moore. Sr reading Ivanhoe.

Tuesday 1st March 1904
The stormiest and most blustering
day of all the winter. Wind blowing, snow flying.
A trememdous growth of snow banks every where
what were big banks before are monstors now.
snow six feet on level between house and river, the
same by the barn. Voltie working on a new set
of bob sleighs. I washed a few things. Bob
in evening went to post office expecting