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16

February 1898

Tues. 1st
Very cold and windy

Snow drifting badly all day. Farmer's
convention postponed on account of the ex-
treme cold. Bro. C. went to Sandy Spring
to pay some insurance, and to Cousin
Joe Stabler's to dinner, where he had a
very good time. brought letter from sister
Annie and Mary - they are having a pleas-
ant time. I have been working over the
flowers and helping keep up the fires -
the pipes a little frozen but soon thawed
out. we run the fires up to full blast to
midnight. I brought some flowers into
the sitting room and burned a lamp
and stove in the conservatory. nothing
froze, though the thermometer is down to
8 (degrees) here and zero in some places.

Charles Town.

Very cold, windy and blustering. Mother
and I went to Mr. Brown's to get my
watch hand fixed. She left me and I
was to meet her at the P. O. but in my
haste I went to the wrong "Office," one of
the 13!! we called just a minute at
Cousin Fannie's, then walked up to the depot.
a bitter time. saw Hannah Howell. Miss
Letty Carey Ambler called. we talked of
books and many things. Mother and
Cousin Dellie went out. After dinner we serv-
ed till about 4. when we started out in the
wind - had a [?] time. went to Palm-
[illegible]. I bought my shirt waist - to the
China Store, and to Mr. Dave Howell's to

16

February 1898

Tues. 1st
Very cold and windy

Snow drifting badly all day. Farmer's
convention postponed on account of the ex-
treme cold. Bro. C. went to Sandy Spring
to pay some insurance, and to Cousin
Joe Stabler's to dinner, where he had a
very good time. brought letter from sister
Annie and Mary - they are having a pleas-
ant time. I have been working over the
flowers and helping keep up the fires -
the pipes a little frozen but soon thawed
out. we run the fires up to full blast to
midnight. I brought some flowers into
the sitting room and burned a lamp
and stone in the conservatory. nothing
froze, though the thermometer is down to
8 (degrees) here and zero in some places.

Charles Town.

Very cold, windy and blustering. Mother
and I went to Mr. Brown's to get my
watch hand fixed. She left me and I
was to meet her at the P. O. but in my
haste I went to the wrong "Office," one of
the 13!! we called just a minute at
Cousin Fannie's, then walked up to the depot.
a bitter time. saw Hannah Howell. Miss
Letty Carey Ambler called. we talked of
books and many things. Mother and
Cousin Dellie went out. After dinner we serv-
ed till about 4. when we started out in the
wind - had a funny time. went to Palm-
[illegible]. I bought my shirt waist - to the
China Store, and to Mr. Dave Howell's to