1934

Year 1934

Jan 1st. Monday. Rained nearly all last night but turning colder this a.m. Had a goose for dinner John. Edgar Jean Y Baly was up for dinner. Donald had a big head. was out all night so had to sleep all day ggrandma did not come to stormy Ignis and we asked Aunt and Da but she has a cold; went out to Vole for filman and Scott. Very cold tonight will be few

Jan 2 Very cold again Res Filman was elected {Reeus?} but Lew Scott was defeated 29 votes

Jan 3rd. Cold and snowing all day from the north east

Jan 4th Cloudy and getting milder looks like rain was down to see about my lottery. they say it is not worth little over a year

Jan 5th Rained last night and cloudy and mild all day. little snow about all gone again.

Jan 6th mild and cloudy all day the snow all gone and most of the ice gone off the road our road was very bad the children were skating on it. Charlotte skated down to Uncle Johns on wednesday

Jan 7th Sunday still mild and cloudy raining in the afternoon had stan and Harry for supper

Jan 8th mild and cloudy havent had any sun shine for some time

Jan 9th still mild and cloudy

Jan 10th still cloudy a little coller just below freezing

Jan 11th cloudy again the Globe says there has only been a little over 5 hours of suntime since the new year went to Hamelton Jams

9th. {sat motn Lieeme?} for ear {noL?} 5034 cost $700 and $100 for daweis Lemmit.

Jan 12th still mild and cloudy looks very much like rain. wood has borrowed $6.00 and brown $10.00 up to now.

Jan 13th mild and cloudy snowed nearly all day but thawing tonight

Jan 14th Sunday not very cold. froze at nightbut thawing during the day and still cloudy

Jan 15th Thawing some again todaya few snow flurfries. cloudy and a little cooler tonight

Jan 16th nearly few this morning a few minutes suntime today very cloudy

Jan 17th, cold tonight and all today {illegible} the girls to a party at Bushes

Jan 18th must have been below zero this a.m. cloudy and a little milder tonight

Jan 19th clear and bright most of the day and not vvery cold

Jan 20th. cloudy and cold some light shower. my 49th birthday

Jan 21st cold and cloudy like every Sunday nearly so far this year

Jan 22 cool and cloudy all a.m. has a cold

Jan 23rd mild snow all gone again wind turnning westernly tonight and frozen up solid again

Jan 24th cold this am but mild this after-noon. and bright sunshine for a change

Jan 25th cloudy and mild rained in the night wind changing to north west this after-noon. and atarting to freeze hard

Jan 26th cloudy and moderately cold. Dois had a party for her 12th Birthday 10 was asked 7 came 3 sick

Jan 27 milder and cloudy a little soft snow. Toronto globe says only 5.3. hours sun this year until Jan 17th and 24 hours to Jan 27th total 29 hours while the avrage is 79 hours.

Jan 28 Rained last night and this morning. turned very cold this afternoon. will be below zero tonight

Jan 29th very cold 10 below zero with strong north-west wind.

Jan 30th about zero again this morning

Jan 31st nearly zero again this morning with a little west gale blowwing. getting milder all day but blowwing hard

Feby 1st rain and moderately colder tonight

Feby 2nd Very cold again 4 below zero. Bright sunshine and guess the ground hog saw his shadow O.K.

Feby 3rd Very cold night 6 to 10 below zero they say clear this afternoon but cloudy this afternoon snowing hard tonight showed Kens car to aldershop would not start

Feby 4th must be about 6 inches snowthis morning. weather clear and bright not so cold got a nail in my toe at Filmans {Cumne?} the children had to walk to sunday school.

Feby 5th cold again this morning about zero

feb 6 decidely cold this morning the baker said it was 14 below zero. having a real winter this year.

Feby 8th extremly cold today. some where between 25 and 30 below zero. coldest day in Hamilton in 20 years. Toronto reports 21 below officially and outside of the city as low as 30 and 34 below at Now Marked and 35 at Dundas and they say 14 below this afternoon the average for Toronto for the 24 hours was 17 below zero the coldest in the hhistory and guess

Feby 9th some time starting the car this am too drive them to scholl colder than ever this morning the fellow at