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Thursday 29 January 1908
A very cold morning but clear, thermometer
registers 22 deg below zero. Voltie and I
up at half past 4. V & I get breakfast and
wait till day light for starting for Town.
Cold increasing 24 below at sunrise.
Wells Sr got a bad cough sent for cherry
pectoral - little later 25 deg below
zero. Got lots of work to do dont
know as I can do it all. After dinner
looking away across the river, saw a
single rig coming on the ice; Ray went
to meet them. When they came it was Bob Reid.
Frank Woodman, Arthur Vincent,
Beatrice & Kathleen. I gave them
a lunch they had had no dinner. I
was glad to see them. Kathleen is
enroute for home. After a while
Art and Bee walks back over the
ice. Frank came over to exchange horses
with Charley, for a horse trot at
Depanville is coming off next week.
Weather little more moderate but cold
enough. Kathleen sleeps on the lounge
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by the warm coal fire
Beatrice phoned to her mother found them all right.