June 26th 1893

Mon. 26. Fine and cool this morning, sky mostly cloudy with heavy rains passing to the north all day at night a very heavy thunderstorm passed north and east and afterwards returned and passed over us raining quite hard most of the night spent the whole evening at Mrs Cowans she being a little frightened at the storm

Tue. 27. Fine but mostly cloudy Thunderstorm passing all around us

Wed. 28. Raining this morning but clearing off quite fine the rest of the day

Thur. 29. Another fine day very warm a very light rain tonight

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June 30th 1893

Fri. 30. Very hot day Jas. Lane brought home the necessories for the Pic-nic tonight. Born to Mrs Jos Lane, a girl

Sat. 31.

July 1st Dominion Day 1893

Sat. 1. Beautiful day but intensely hot did a good many chores for Mrs Cowan today.

Sun. 2. Fine but very hot most of the day quite cool in the evening Miss Hoppins and I were at J. Hardings for Tea and spent the there

Mon.3. Raining this morning and giving our School Pic nic Day a sick looking expression but Fortunately it cleared up at noon and we had a lovely day afternoon with the exception of the tail end of a thunderstorm which passed over the north

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