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ThomasMartinDiaries_1897_021
Rainy and disagreeable Heavy rain 9pm 45 55
Friday, January 1, 1897
1201 am. Just listen to the din! whistles, pistols, horns crackers and what-not. I'll go home and go to bed (130 pm) Up again at 5 am and at office at 930 am and read the papers and began meeting Js t. Around town also and paid some taxes and also at the PO and clks office To dinner 130 till nearly 3 pm and then back to my office and there all the afternoon went to Augusts at 630 and found him closing so he closed and at 1000 & clks office and got word and good news from J about it. Home and read letters and to bed 1215 am.
ThomasMartinDiaries_1897_022
Very heavy rain during night and before dawn. Norther at 11am. 50 35
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Saturday, January 1, 1897
Awakened before day by very heavy rain from the south which made it leak over the windows went to my bed. To office 9am and read papers and then began working on my reports and collect ing rents. To dinner 145- 200 pm and back to my office via bank and bought drafts for Noyes. Bob Edwin came in PM made out partly my reports to Finks and then to Wrays office to have suit filed. Then finished either to V. and to depot and walked on back to office 645 and home to supper. Augusts
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8 - 1030 then to P.O. and got mail today and home and to bed
ThomasMartinDiaries_1897_023
Lovely day 30 50
Sunday, January 3, 1897
awoke 7 am up and outdoors 745 am and back and then bathed and dressed and to church and office at 1120 am and after church to PO and then via Capt. Loyd's but he was asleep and so I did not see him He is greatly ill with the grippe and a appendicitis. Then to Alice's and drived there with and I wen there with Mr & Mrs Frank from Nottoway County Mo. an elderly couple very pleasant people. Out to cemetery with Mame & saw Julia at 430 - 520> pm Home. tea & office at 8 pm and began my letter
ThomasMartinDiaries_1897_024
Heavy frost. Some ice. beautiful day growing colder { # / 7}
30 Monday, January 4, 1897 45
up 8 am. office 920 am. Wrote Finks and [Lednum], PO home and around town generally and to dinner at 130 - 230 pm. Then to office via 1 Nat Bank. Bob Erwin in my office this a.m. for some time. At work all the afternoon on Quiggs matters (having written my No. 7 12 pp. this am At depot 630 - 9 Quiggs and office and supper then Augusts till 10pm and club in P.O. Depot. Have slight headache Home to bed 1130
ThomasMartinDiaries_1897_025
Heavy ice. Beautiful cold day 28° 40° Read #6
Tuesday, January, 5, 1897
Had bad headache up 7 am. Office 920 and around to Conners and docket and then to P.O. and got letters and to clerk's office and read them. Met Major Jarvis at P.O. Back to my office and at work on Quiggs matter till 130 pm Home dinner and back to office 215 and worked hard until 630 then supper, Augusts 745 - 930 pm and then to my office and began no. 8, and wrote until 1115 pm and then home and to bed by 12 pm. feeling pretty badly.