Ther will be a hot time, in the old town, to night for Martha is coming back with the 6.25 and then we celebrate New Years Eve in old good German fashion. Snowing hard to day. Expect to get good Haying. Got a letter from my wife this morning. The new stove seems to be O.K. Ate fried meat & eggs to day. Martha got home at 8 o’clock. The freight train got drifted in and so we had to wait till they were dug out again. We stayed up till 15 minutes to 12, had a good old time.
Editor’s note: Their first child, my grandfather, was born nine months later.