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37^o Cloudy & Clearing Variable
DECEMBER, THURSDAY 8^th 1887.

Cloudy early this morning
but cleared off during
the day. Afternoon Friend
Lydia Thomas was here &
had a tooth extracted, Mrs
Saml Wetherald coming with
her. I went up to the shops &
had the luck to find my ^new buggy
shafts put togather and
ready for ironing. I brought
them home with me. They
are putting the weather boarding
on the new "garner" they
are building on the lot next
to us between here & the mill
It obstructs our view up the
road very much & is quite
unsightly. Jno W Johnson
"Shipley" came (after I had
retired) to have me look
over some pension papers
for him.

30^o Clear & Cloudy
DECEMBER, FRIDAY 9^th 1887.

Heavy white frost this
morning. Robt Blair sent
my shoe home (mended). I
drove to Ashton & took the
new shafts for the buggy down
to Jas Marlows shop & left
them there. Martha A Wright
was here for advice & medicine.
Rodney Buswell's little boy
"Harvy" was her to have "tooth
ache " cured. Emma Jane
Davi's brought a receipt
Book from M L Robert's for
me to copy a prescription
from it to be sent to Philad^a