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Jan 21 Sunday 1894
Wind S.E. Blowing a gale
and raining hard. Ground
bare. Not any snow for a long time.
A very bad winter so far. Ice badly
cracked. Sunday PM clears up and a
very fine day. No one called on us to day,
not even Wellie. Wells, Voltie & Mart are sitting
side by side in a row with elbows on their knees
reading; Walls the Whig, Voltie the News and
Mart the Yankee Blade.

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Jan 22 Monday 1894. A very fine
day. Wind west not very cold cold.
Charley Woodman, McNeely & Voltie
go to Millens Bay on Wellies ice boat,
went at 11 Oclock AM, going to be gone
one hour but gone till half past three.
Then Voltie goes to help Wellie run sturgeon
net at foot of Island & got a sturgeon.
Grace & E Bates out skating in evening.
Mart skating too. Maud commenced going to
school this morning. Lill Niles here in evening
to get subscribing for Newspaper started to go
home but came back again with Grace and Maud
till 1/2 9 Oclock eve. V goes home with her after
they all have played and danced two hours.
No snow, ground bare. Will gone again on
his commissionor to Howe Island. Grace done
big washing.