Wallace - 1925

1925

January

Thursday 1

10B to 14A A fine day clear and cold

Friday 2

Cloudy and cool

Saturday 3

14 to 20A Snowed gently all day. Trucks and autos are still running also sleds and sleighs

Sunday 4

+28 to 34APartly cloudy and mild. Four inches of snow cam last night and yesterday. Still running autos.

Monday 5

24 to 36A Cloudy and mild. No wind.

Tuesday 6

24 to 34A Cloudy and some snow squalls

Wednesday 7

12B to 24A Fair. No wind. Good sledding. A few are running their autos yet.

Thursday 8

10A to 32A. Clouds and sunshine with a few snow squalls. Fred is with us again tonight.

Friday 9

20 to 24A Partly cloudy some windy. Fred stayed over today. Mrs. Peter Learned died last night. Sheridan got a load of wood.

Saturday 10

5B to 26A Clear a find day. Sheridan got another load of wood today. Has been a nice week for winter weather, very little storm on 7 or 8 inches of snow in woods.

Sunday 11

10A to 0 A clear cool day. Mrs. Learned buried today.

Monday 12

22B to 14A. Clear morning but clouded up and signs of snow tonight.

Tuesday 13

20 to 40A Cloudy. About three inches of snow fell last night and today.

Wednesday 14

10 to 18A Fair with some wind. Sheridan commenced to have out his pulp today.

Thursday 15

12B to 6A Clear but cold. Fred is with us tonight.

Friday 16

10B to 10A cloudy and snowing tonight.

Saturday 17

26 to 10A Snowed 8 inches last night. A good thing for teams in the woods. Has been a cold week with a foot of snow.

Sunday 18

0 to 10 above. Fair and cool. No wind. A nice winter day. The chores have left me quite busy the most of the day.

Monday 19

16B to 6A Clear and cold

Tuesday 20

10 to 6A A cold stormy day and snowing tonight.

Wednesday 21

12 to 20. Clear 1 foot of snow fell in last night’s storm.

Thursday 22

17B to 34A Cloudy windy and squally tonight.

Friday 23

17B to 6A. clear windy and cold. Sheridan did not go up in the woods today. Fred has been with us today.

Saturday 24

12B to 12A Clear morning but snowing tonight. We got a nice view of the eclipse on the sun this A.M. Has been another cold week with one good snowstorm.

Sunday 25

6 to 26A Cloudy but some warmer. Mr James Lohnes was buried today.

Monday 26

4 to 26ACloudy with some snow squalls.

Tuesday 27

2B to 2A Cloudy and some wind and cold.

Wednesday 28

16B to 20A A clear fine day.

Thursday 29

35B to 25A. The coolest morning for the winter I hope. Partly cloudy. Signs of snow tonight.

Friday 30

26 to 16A Cloudy and windy. About ten inches of snow fell last night. Colder tonight.

Saturday 31

4 to 20A. Clear windy morning but clouded up with signs of snow again. A hard week for business on the roads.

February

Sunday 1

28 to 14A A fine day/

Monday 2

10B to 10A Snowed all day an still at it. I hardly think the ground hog ventured out far today.

Tuesday 3

4 to 30A Clear and fine but cold tonight. 10 inches of snow in yesterday’s storm

Wednesday 4

0 to 24A Cloudy. Snowed a little.

Thursday 5

25 to 30 above Cloudy and mild seems good to have a little warmer.

Friday 6

8B top 30A Fair and mild tonight

Sunday 8

5 to 40A Fair and warm

Monday 9

18 to 50 Above. Fair and warm like an April day.

Tuesday 10

34 to 55 A Another cloudy warm day.

Wednesday 11

34 to 4A Cloudy and rained some during the day. Mrs. Grace Roberts died today.

Thursday 12

34 to 40A Rained all day causing quite a rise of water cleaning the ice out of the brooks.

Friday 13

18 to 28A Fair. Mrs. Addie Hanson died today.

Saturday 14

20 t 30A Clear a fine day. The rain and water has caused Sheridan to keep his team out of the woods four days. Has been a very warm week for the time of year.

Sunday 15

18 to 36A A fine day but signs of snow tonight.

Monday 16

8 to 36A Snowed one inch last night. Cleared off with another fine day.

Tuesday 17

18 to 8A Cloudy and some snow squalls. Melted about as fast as it came.

Wednesday 18

0to 30A Fair. Nothing new to write.

Thursday 19

4B to 30A Fair. Nice weather for business on the roads.

Friday 20

10 to 40A Clear nice day. Fred has been with us all day.

Saturday 21

10 to 40 Above. Cloudy and mild. The weather and the roads have been fine all the week. A good week for business.

Sunday 22

28 to 40A Fair and warm.

Monday 23

28 to 34A Hail and rain nearly all day. Homer drove a new car up from Rumford tonight.

Tuesday 24

34 to 40A Clear and warm. The snow is going every day. Looks as though sledding was going to play out.

Wednesday 25

18 to 44A Cloudy and mild.

Thursday 26

23 to 40A Snowed about six inches today and blowing hard tonight. The first high wind we have had for a long time.

Friday 27

To 18A. Cloudy windy and cool. Nice logging. Can take a cord of wood the first load in a new road and the hunks won’t digge.

Saturday 28

5 to 15 above. Fair a find day for business. A sevear earthquake occurred here tonight at nine twenty four P.M. A very mild week one rain storm and one snow storm. Earthquake tonight.

March

Sunday 1

10B to 28A clear morning and snowing hard tonight.

Monday 2

10B to 24A 1 foot of snow fell last night. Town meeting today. Passed off all right. Another one in two weeks.

Tuesday 3

4B to ? A A fine winter day but bad roads.

Wednesday 4

4 to 28A cloudy and snowing tonight. 52 years today I came with my parents onto this farm.

Thursday 5

10 to 40 Above and snowing again tonight. Fred came up tonight to spend the night with us. Always glad to see him.

Friday 6

35 to 55 above. Snowed 4 inches last night nearly all gone tonight. Nice and warm today.

Saturday 7

10 to 40A Fair Sap run quite well today but we have not tapped ours yet. Another mild week. It certainly looks like an early spring now.

Sunday 8

26 to 36A Cloudy and mild

Monday 9

26 to 36A Fair with a cool wind.

Tuesday 10

26 to 36A Cloudy raining tonight

Wednesday 11

32 to 50A Cloudy with some rain this A.M. Sunshine and warm in the afternoon.

Thursday 12

30 to 25A Clear with a cool wind.

Friday 13

10 to 40 Above A fine day. The teams all very busy trying to get their sledding done.

Saturday 14

28 to 34A Eight inches of snow fell last night and today so it looks like more winter. The weather has been mild all this week.

Sunday 15

12 to 26 above. Clear cool day.

Monday 16

20B to 40A A fine day but signs of storm tonight.

Tuesday 17

5 to 40 above. Cloudy and blowing tonight

Wednesday 18

34 to42A. Cloudy and warm. Sheridan got the last load of wood home today.

Thursday 19

28 to 36A Cloudy and stormy all day.

Friday 20

30 to 40 above. A fine spring day. Good sledding. Campbell has been sawing our wood today 18 cords.

Saturday 21

10 to 45 above. A nice warm day. Sheridan finished his pulp job today. I have been splitting wood and doing chores as usual. Rather a stormy week with some sunshine and two cold nights.

Sunday 22

26 to 36 A. Fair and some wind.

Monday 23

20 to 34A. Clear with a cold wind. Snow going slowly.

Tuesday 24

18 to 40A A fine day.

Wednesday 25

24 to 40A Cloudy and squally.

Thursday 26

20 to 40 A A fine day. Sheridan got his last load home from the woods today.

Friday 27

18 to 50A Tapped our sap orchard today. A good sap day.

Saturday 28

A rainy day. Sorry to loose our yesterday’s run of sap. Have been doing chores and splitting wood all the week.

Sunday 29

Warm and cloudy all day. Wet and sloppy. The first horse and wagon also an auto passed the house today.

April

Sunday 5

20 to 4 Above. Cool and windy. Clear

Monday 6

26 to 50A A clear nice sap day.

Wednesday 8

A find day. Have been working in sap orchard some today.

Sunday 19

26 to 30 above. Cool and cloudy. Snowed about 3 in. during the day.

Monday 20

26 to 40A Clear and cool. Sap rung some. 5 inches of snow on the ground this morning. My 73 birthday.

Thursday 23

A fine day. Took of 4 gallons of honey to. Turned over the buckets. Fred is with us tonight.

Thursday 30

Gathered in the sap buckets today.

May

Friday 1

Have been removing the banking from the house today.

Saturday 2

Cool and cloudy. Sheridan has been hauling out manure all week.

July

Wednesday 8

Began haying today. Mowed the orchard and highway.

Thursday 9

Sheridan commenced haying on the Hall farm today.

Saturday 11

Poor hay weather.

Saturday 18

Mr. Frank Field died suddenly this morning. Very poor hay weather.

August

Saturday 1

Another poor week for haying. A little better than last week. Bad three days. Mrs. Hastings died today. Have got in 9 loads of hay this week making 14 in all.

Saturday 8

A cloudy week but not much rain. Have got in 11 loads this week making 25 in all.

Sunday 9

Monday 10

Did not hay any today dull weather.

Tuesday 11

Hayed in fore noon rained in PM. Jess worked ½ day.

Wednesday 12

Got in 8 loads today. Jess worked today. Harold in the PM.

Thursday 13

Went to Norway today. We are with Grant Abbott tonight. Raining. Fred is with us.

Friday 14

Cloudy and some rain. Fred took us to Portland and back to Auburn tonight.

Saturday 15

A fine day. Come home today. Have had a fine time. Thanks for Fred’s kindness. Got in five loads this week making 30 in all.

Tuesday 18

Finished mowing today. Got in three loads.

Wednesday 19

Got in one load today and finished haying. Have to 39 loads this season.

September

Saturday 12

We had the worst hail storm today I ever saw. Broke out 15 window panes for us. Others faired much worse in town

Saturday 19

Bert Berry died this morning from being hit by an auto while attending the Norway fair. A very dull week. Have had oats out all the week and could not get them dry.

Thursday 24

Finished harvesting our oats today. Had over 600 Bu of them.

Friday 25

24 above. A cold cloudy day. 42 above at noon. Cold for Sept.

Saturday 26

A fine day. Have been putting wrapping paper on the thrashing shed today.

October

Saturday 10

Our first snow storm. It melted nearly as fast as it came here. More than one foot fell in Upton they claim.

Monday 19

Finished painting the East end of the barn today. Think I did well for a man past 73 years old.

Thursday 22

Sheridan finished digging his potatoes today. Had nearly 2000 Bu in all. And nearly 600 Bu of oats with a good crop.

Sunday 25

Two inches of snow fell last night. The cattle are in the barn today. Rainy.

November

Saturday 21

A fine day. Has been a good week. The cattle have been in the field the most of the time so far this fall.

Thursday 26

Another Thanksgiving day. Had Homer’s family to dinner. A fine day but cool. The fields are still bare. Good wheeling where not to ruff.

Friday 27

Has been snowing about all day. About five inches on the ground tonight and still falling.

Monday 30

A fine day cool with signs of snow again tonight.

December

Tuesday 1

Has been snowing gently all day. Ralph Thurston left her this P.M. with 40 Bu potatoes in his truck for Rumford.

Wednesday 2

Dorothy Thomas and Alton Brooks were both buried this afternoon. Sudden death from Scarlet Fever.