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Monday 14 Jan 1890 A stormy day snowing and blowing all day to day & all last night drifting into cattle and horses stay in stables. Mr Woodman's driving their cattle through the blinding storm to the river to water. Will D has no coal for their stove. Would like to have grandmother over if she could get here. Grace sewing a quilt. I sew and cut carpet rags.
Tuesday 15 Jan 1895 A stormy day snowing and blowing. Very doubtful if OBrien goes for the mail. Ought to write a letter but not get time, cannot wash no soap. Voltie went in evening to Mr Niles for tobaco. Mart folowed [sic] him under pretence of going to post office. OBrien drove down on ice with mail (or Soban) J OBrien gone to a weding. Miss Dee married to a Brown. Snowed all day; cold medium. Morgan's boys at J Niles; played cards
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Wednesday 16 Jan A fine day, light wind S.W. Charles Woodman drove up on the ice to Kingston. V & Mart drew three loads of hay from old barn or stock after dinner. V went over and brought his grandmother here, first time she been here since last April. No kerosine. V went to Mr Niles to borrow kerosine after dark. Mart rigged out again for Horns; going with Wallace. Wallace didn't care to go with Mart. A J Niles young people gone visiting to George Ranous instead. Mart disapointed again.
Thursday 17 Jan 1895 A fine day wind S.W., swing around to North towards eve. V and Mart drew straw and after dinner went to River view for kerosine; drew it over on Mr JN's sled. Said crossing good enough for horse. Will Dixon went up the Island canvasing for trees; came back at evening time. Wells started to go to special school meeting at 10 A.M. but learned it was appointed at one P.M. so called at Samy's and made a visit; came home to dinner and then went to school meeting and adjusted their school affairs all right. Bamford going to turn the benches around for a dollar; glad he's got a job. No teacher yet; V brought news that Norman Petrie and Jesse Reid has a lawsuit. Reid won the suit.
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Friday 18 Jan 1895 A cold freezing morning preceded a frozen night. Not much wind, dark clouds lying off Southward, dark blue. A cloudy sky. Wells Sr gone to the school house with a market basket of tools to work at his cash job, didn't get through till 4 O'clock. Voltie and Mart sawed the maple logs for stove wood. Wellie here to dinner. Voltie carried W.G. Woodman's letter to Geo Niles chosen friends meet this eve at G.W.W.'s. Will canvassing the foot of Island for apples trees & taters. Charlie Dixon came and brought me pies.
Jan 19 January 1895 A cold morning freezing hard. Wind West. Voltie bushed a road across the river just forming & the house came back after dark. Will went to Carlton Island and the Bay for oil. Rachel came home with ]]Grandmother Dixon]] here came last Wednesday. Rachel ate supper here then Will came and he went over home with him.
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Jan 20 Sunday A mild day Wind S. Wells Sr, Maud and I went over to Belle's in sleigh found roads very good. Had a fine visit only the children went out playing in the snow and came in covered with snow from head to foot. Came home again just at dark, found R here. Grandmother did not go home, found her here too. Voltie and Charley Woodman|Chas Woodman]] drove to corners saw Buchanan about lung complaint. Dont believe any thing ails either of them. A cloudy day, looks like a thaw. Wellington Smith here - gone home now away across the ice & away, away, away.
Jan 21st 1895 Monday A mild soft cloudy day. Voltie gone with Rachel to Carleton Island. Will D and Charley over here came for their oil. GD gave young C a reprimand for striking his sister Flora. Well tis 20 minutes past 11 AM, supose I will have to look around about the dinner. Heard this day that Frank Woodman has got the best head and most brains of any shote on the Island. So his brother Charles says. Supose his brother Charles knocked some sence [sic: sense] into him when when he got him out in the field and laugh when he used to give him a pounding every day so as to make an M.D. of Frankie by swan going to rain.
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Jan 22nd Tuesday 1895 Rained all night but frozen. Go to Kingston but a blinding blizzard of a snow storm set in from S.E. so they unhitched the horses from the sleigh and posponed [sic] going. Woodmans went, J Niles went. Storming all day but not cold. Voltie working in shop all day. Wells Sr covering an old umbrella. Mail; the White, Yankee, letters from Miss Healey, John Bamford, Voltie potatoe outfit & a letter for me from Dick Brown. Mart lost Wellies paper, Kingston News - coming home.
Jan 23rd Wednesday 1896 A beautiful bright day. Wind South West. Wellie and Will gone to Kingston, Ed Bates came over stoped at Wellie's awhile then came up here and stayed till Wellie & Will came home from Kingston. Duneau Juire drove down inviting to a dance at Will Dixon's to be given Friday evening. Frank Woodman here. Will D, Frank W & J.D.B. went to Griffens River View to a dance walked across the ice. Martin gone over to stay all night with Jen and the children. Henry Halliday & Matilda Niles married this morning
