Feb 1st 1893

Wed. 1. Snowing this morning quite moderate clearing off find the rest of the day

Thur.2. Fine winter day wild and sunny Candlemas Day the Bear must have made his appearance

Fri. 3. Very stormy today from the east shifting west at night and blowing a hurricane nearly all night drifting the roads in and almost impossible condition

Sat. 4. Fine but cold beautiful northern lights tonight

Sun. 5. Fine but very cold

Mon. 6. Snowing very hard this for noon turning to rain in the afternoon and raining quite hard no moving today

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Feb 7th 1893

Tues. 7. Snowing very hard this forenoon clearing off at noon and turning very cold John Warner moved from Camden East to Yarker today

Wed. 8. Cold and gloomy this morning sun coming out for a while and clouding over again at night

Thur.9. Cold and gloomy most all day wind south driving with it at night a terrible snow storm drifting the roads in a terrible state

Fri. 10. Raining this morning settling settling the snow considerable round blowing again about noon with it a little flurry of snow fine after

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