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All night it snowed steadily, and all today it has continued, so there is a very heavy fall of snow, causing difficulty on the roads, weather not very severe. Mr & Mrs Shreve Badger, gone to church We had a very fine dinner today, beautifully cooked, and served, by our chinaman Jo. Shreve & Frances, gone this evening to Mrs Taylors to dinner, Letters from Lake Forest says Mr. Ballard is sick in bed from Grip, all the family are much better with their Grip. Mr. A. unclear Badger did not go out today. Rev Dr. Jewett, had a Prayer offered from Mr. John McBean, who is very ill, he lives in Chicago, he has been ill for some months, with heart troubles, his wife has always been the invalid, but strange to say, since her husbands illness, she seems to have grown strong.