going down during the noon hour so I started to grease the waggon. I got one wheel done when Dad. & Frank came home, so we put the team in and Frank got dinner for the three of us. He had to go down to Pickford's to cut wood this afternoon. Just as I left for town it began to snow and the wind got up from the north east. Dad. lent me his mackinaw and I was glad of it before I got home. I got my coal and by the time I started home it was snowing hard and a horrible day. The snow was very wet and I got soaked. It was four o'clock before I got home and I put the team in and left my load on the waggon, and did chores up early. Art Quanbury stopped me on my way down this morning and asked me if I had heard Mrs. Tom Stone was dead. I said I knew she wasn't as no one had been after Ina. but it seems the report got around town by some one listening in on the telephone and hearing crookedly the name of Mrs. Tom. Schram. The report that Bill Lang is dead was false although he is in a very critical condition. Excitement over the family fortune is on the increase. Dad had another letter from the firm of lawyers Arnold & Henry White. They had not received his second one when they wrote. They said they had communicated