Aug 17 1881 Wednesday This was the hottest day that I ever remember of up to date. The thermometer ranged from 100 degrees to 110 in the shade. The first numbers were recorded in the interior of a brick building where the temperature was somewhat modified by the building. The air felt like that coming from a furnace where it had been baked. But little work was done anywhere. Aug 23 1881 Tuesday We went down to visit my relatives in DeKalb. Owing to the dry hot weather, we started about two o'clock in the morning. and arrived at my mother's about 10 o'clock. As the weather was so disagreeable, we did not visit any among former acquaintances. On Sept. 1st we came home. Sept 5 1881 Monday Commenced my fourteenth term of school, having secured my old school near home for five months at $40 00/100 per month. As the school house was only 25 rods from our house, I boarded at home. Sept. 16 1881 Friday About noon snow began to fall and for two hours the air was filled with it, reminded one of a midwinter snowstorm. At first the snow was damp and fell straight but soon the flakes became finer and lazily took a zigzag course to the ground. By sundown it was nearly all melted but for a while the ground was covered over an inch with it. The storm did not extend over twenty miles east or south, but west and north. It took in parts of the neighboring states. I never saw snow in this latitude and in this region in September before. ++++++++++++