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1884 Sunday 21 Sept. cooler 48º Old Mrs. Quinn buried to day 22" a fearful thunder storm with hail last night 23d another fearful thunder storm big rain & flood on the 19th an earthquake in Indiana + Ohio 24th another big rain Equinoctial storm 25 48º cooler - wrote letters to Will Roberts & to A.H. Burhans 26th went to Barks Barnard paid interest 27th heavy rain all night with thunder + lightning 28 rain again - cooler now. P.M. hot again 86º 30 Digging potatoes showers rain sent letter to AHBurhans 1 Oct - finished digging potatoes - very warm sultry shower around 2d very warm + clear - Lester fall plowing - yesterday a R R wreck down the hollows 89º 3 F[inished?] thrashing 86º let Mary have $52.00 4 rain storm thunder showers very warm 5 thunder showers again - all the time 6 clear + cool 58º Frank(?) + Scott thrashing oats 7 Thunder showers - by the doz. 8 rain all last night - now NE cold rain Oh Dear. 9 40º frost in places 10 went to Peoria on a visit 13 come home 14 quite cool pleasant weather 15 quite cool 16 showery 17 clear gave 5 dollar for Minister. 50. as to LRM 18 cool folks all gone to Peoria 19th pleasant + cool 20 clear + pleasant 21 rainy daw(day?) cooler - rain all day 22 40º clear Logan in Peoria 23 4º freezing clear NWind - folks gone to Dodds 25 cool all alone let Lull have 25 dollars 26 rainy day - dismal enough 27 cool muddy roads 28 4º below freezing white frost 29 wind wouth