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[[left-hand page]] [[top margin note]] Annual meeting at Mauch Chunk - [[/top margin note]] [[preprinted]] February, WEDNESDAY, 17. 1897. [[/preprinted]] Temps + 38[[degree symbol]] and Barometer 28.28 @ 7 [[superscript]] 3 [[/superscript]]/a " [[Ditto for: Temps]] +36[[degree symbol]] " " [[Dittos for: and Barometer]] 28.16 @ 6 pm Beautiful day - Snow melting fast - Very poor sleighing- Ground covered with "slush" - Both Collieries idle, R.R. Co. run cars but we had plenty of coal in breakers to load them - R.R.Co. will not run cars until Tuesday next - General squad working at both Collieries fixing up here and there - [[underline]] "Annual Meeting" [[/underline]] at Mauch Chunk today - Mr Jones & Delano at Mauh Chunk " " [[Ditto for: today]] Everything quiet - nothing of any great importance to note - Whole [[underline]] Democratic [[/underline]] ticket was elected in this township yesterday - [[underline]] Poleander [[underline]] Chief Burgess at Shenandoah - A Citizens ticket exists in this township - Run muddling good, considering short time organized - [[end page]] [[start page]] [[preprinted]] February, THURSDAY, 18. 1897. [[/preprinted]] Temps + 40[[degree symbol]] and Barometer 28.26 @ 7 [[superscript]] 3 [[/superscript]]/a " [[Ditto for: Temps]] + 38[[degree symbol]] " " [[Dittos for: and Barometer]] 28.33 @ 6 PM Pleasant all day - Patches of snow cover the ground - This was a "spring" morning - Both Collieries idle - squads working inside and out general repairing - Everything quiet - Mr. Jones taking up the matter of unclaimed wages and curtailing work at the collieries while collieries are idle, as much as possible - Mr Delano left Mauch Chunk yesterday afternoon for home - We have men here cleaning out the old Carpenter shop, Mr Jones intends to convert this building into a lumber house, where all the shingles etc, can be stocked, and delivered to any of our collieries by our own teams, - It is much cheaper to buy in a car load of shingles, etc, and deliver them with our teams; than to buy in small lots -