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7 ⁰ below 0 Clear & Cloudy N.W. & N.E. Wind
Still very cold weather this tem
perature being the same this
morning as yesterday at the
same hour. I went to the store
P.D. and left the club book at
the toll house for Walace Bond
to take to Ashton as he returned
from dinner. After
noon Edward & I brought the
wood in & piled it up in the
kitchen porch as it looked
as if we might have more snow
and (some at bedtime
to night it is snowing in good
[eas?] west again. The thermometer
is 9 [degrees] abover zero at 8 o clk
p.m. It was sad to hear of the
death of Hope Mathews she
seemed much better when we
heard las. We miss Willie and
family tonight but it was too
cold to bring the buggy out and
W. is obliged to go [watch?] his green
house fire such weather as this

6⁰ Snow N.W. Wind
It snowed at intervals all of
last night and all day today
and is still snowing tonight at
bedtime the snow is now about
two feet deep on a level which is
deeper than any had for many
years. Few [persons bussed here?]
to meeting or elsewhere. The
Brightened market wagon passed
this afternoon on its way home
from Washington with fewer
horses. {Clarence?] Gilpin sent two
powerful horses to meet it and
together with the two mules
it was all they could do to
get along through the snow.
A colored funeral passed here
burying Annie Hill [( [John?] Hill's
daughter) there were very few
attended it in consequence of the
weather & snow. I went in
next door for the papers towards
evening. I sincerely wish our son
Charley had my fur lined over
coat for such weather as this