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55 [degrees] Cloudy Rain & Clearing S.E. & N.W.
Ther. SUN. MAR. 19, 1899 Wind
This has been an extremely
changable day. Rain this
morning. Afternoon the wind
blew hard from N.W. & cleared
off. Much colder. Edwd
& I went to meeting. Willie
and Alice Peirce came &
brought the baby before
dinner, going back soon
after. Chas Adams sent
a colored man after me
& I refused to go. I went
to the toll house & called
at F. Leizear's.

32 [degrees] Clear, High Wind N.W.
Ther. MON. MAR. 20th, 1899 Wind
Wind blew with violence from N.W.
all last night, & continued all day
today. We had quite a scare this morning
from our chimney taking fire; it
took fire around the throat of the
Franklin stove in the dining room &
burned fiercely, going as high as to the
stove pipe in our room above, where it
set fire to the pipe of the wood stove
we have been nurning there since the
coal gave out. The anthracite coal we
have burned there all winter kept
the chimney free from soot from there
up to the top. So that it only burned up
to that point. Mrs Robinson was in at
the time of the scare. I walked down to
Ashton & back & bought groceries etc. and
Wallace Bond brought them up as he went
to dinner. Afternoon C [?] Porter called
at the office door. I went to the
P.O. & to Fairall's Office.
Harlibans (the baker) trimmed the
grape vine over the well, & planted
some cuttings in Edwd's garden.
I went to Henderson's for the papers.
After supper Edwd went to the "Choiral
Class" at "Mt Airy.