Mar 12th 1893

for a visit and also Miss Happen's sister of the present school teacher Jim Lane was also present we spent the time enjoyably Miss Watts and I had one of our old time sings

Mon. 13. Quite cold bleak and cloudy today colder tonight Tues. 14 cold most of the day thawing a little snow mostly clear Error Wed 15. Tues. 14. Quite cold this morning clouding over very heavily and commencing to rain and continued most all day turning colder at night

Wed. 15. Cold bleak and very windy today

Thur. 16. Another cold bleak day but the wind abated at night and cleared off fine

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Mar 17th 1893

Fri. 17. This morning a very strange Phenomonen appeared on the Sun observers will long remember it it was Halos encircling the sun having the appearance of Rain Bows and remarkable for its Prismatic Splendor

Sat. 18. Very fine day quite cool but sawing a little during the middle of the day

Sun. 19. Beautiful this morning but very cold clouding over in the afternoon but not stormy

Mon. 20. Lovely today thawing some

Tues. 21. Another fine day considerable warmer than usual

Wed. 22. Fine all day but some cooler than yesterday

Thur. 23. Cloudy all day and very windy and cold

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