1 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind in the morning. Myself and wife went up to J.W. Fulton’s to dinner in the afternoon. The wind came round to the NW very cold.
2
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Fred had a full party helping him to thrash today. Harden was thrashing his [...]
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December 1896
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November 1896
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1 Sun
Cold with a SE rain all day. We was at Robert McKelvery’s all day. Jim Fossy and wife called in.
2
Came up to R.L. Bell’s. Cold with a NE rain all day. Had a pleasant time.
3
Cold with a NW wind. Harden and Fred came down. Each of them with a load of potatoes. [...]
October 1896
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1 Thu
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Signs of rain and it commenced to rain about noon and rained most of the afternoon. Fred got home from the Mill.
2
Warm and cloudy this morning with a SE wind. Myself made a visit to Stephen Giberson’s. F.A. Blackden took a load of wood out to [...]
September 1896
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1 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. Harden and Fred cut down a good piece of buckwheat in the forenoon. Fred put our stove up in our room in the afternoon.
2
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Fred was to work at his Thrashing Machine the most of the [...]
August 1896
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1 Sat
Some clouds and very cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Mrs. F.A. Blackden was taking sick today and Fred went after Dr. Kincaid. Quite a number of women to a man to know purpose.
2
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Rained the most of the afternoon. The doctor and [...]
July 1896
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1 Wed
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. It cleared off quite warm in the afternoon. We was home all day. Fred was working among his potatoes the most of the day.
2
Some clouds with a warm kind of a morning. The wind from the NW. Fred worked at his potatoes today. Mrs. Jamison [...]
June 1896
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1 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a SW wind. We was home all day. Very stormy all day but the wind came round to the NW in the afternoon and looked like clearing off.
2
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Harden and Fred planted their beans today and put in [...]
May 1896
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1 Fri
Mostly clear and cold with a NE wind. We was home all day. Fred drove out to the bridge and back. Frank Larrabee came home with him. Adaline McKelvery here.
2
Clear and cold with a NE wind. We was home all day. C.N. Delate was here settling up his phosphate bill with Harden and [...]
April 1896
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1 Wed
Clear & Cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Fred went away this morning quite early to help Burns to get his logs in. Stella was up to Jim’s this afternoon.
2
Cloudy & cold with a SE wind all day. Signs of a storm. Fred brought us down to Richard L. [...]
March 1896
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1 Sun
Warm with a SE rain all night and all day and is still storming at bedtime and the ground is getting bare very fast. The fields will soon be bare.
2
Cool with a SE rain all night and all day till about 4 o’clock this afternoon. It held up but still looked very rainy.
3
Cool [...]
February 1896
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1 Sat
Cloudy & Cold with a SE wind. Very stormy looking. Me and Jim and Fred drove out to Mars Hill Village but hard for a sled. Part of the way bare ground.
2
Cold with a SE snow all the previous night and all day. The wind got round to the NE in the afternoon. [...]
January 1896
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1 Wed
Cloudy & Cold with a NW wind. Stella and family was up to Harden’s all day. Mrs. George Hallett was here to dinner. Perry Cox called. Fred was helping Charles McPherson making sleepers. (Sleepers was an early word for RR ties. With the new Railroad coming in, it was a new opportunity of labor [...]
