The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-02-09

North would be Of interest to relatives
and friends, will endeaver to tell you
of our winter we are now having in Da-
kOta, it has been awful cold the past
three weeks in Dakota as we'll as the
other states, the thermometer has been
thirty six to forty below zero, l know
as | am out most every day have be-
come use to the cold, but one has to
wrap up coed, wear fur caps, fur or
sheep lined coats and heavy mittens,
and if your mittens are not very heavy
you can wear three or four pair. We
haven't had so much snow this winter,
it is drifted in places ten and twelve
feet deep; and have had one bad biz
card, one girl teaching school at a lit
tie town was lost in that blizzard and
she only had to go few rods to her
boarding house, but some way got
turned around and wandered about
three miles away and was found frozen
to death. | also know another girl
that frOze her ears driving three miles;
that was the first time eyed saw any
one frozen, her ears wer= awful to look
at and very painful to her. | hav mt
been very cold and have gone to school
every day, some mornings the fur col
lar on my coat is white with frost and
if a lock of hair is peeping from under
fhof g ,..l,iEo
tears come in my eyes l close them
and they will begin to freeze, so you
see you have to keep your eyes open in
Dakota, and what do you think of your
eye lashes being white with frost.
AS soorras the first snow falls seople
all begin to travel !nBOb- sIeds you never
see wheel vehicle out until the snow
is all gone. We drive two horses to a
sleigh to school every day, two miles
and half. 1t is fun for awhile but
one soon gets tired and longs to see
the green grass. wish you KY, boys
and girls were out here to go skating,
coasting and Sleigh-riding. My broth
er has pair of skies he has great fun
with them on the snow. | visited my
old Kentucky home about a year ago
when the people there thought they
had a cold winter, / only laughed they
never did see any cold weather You
think when it's cold enough for Sleigh
ing that is awful cold, am glad when
it gets warm enough to quit sleighing.
| came from party one night when it
was thirty below zero but strange to
say did not get cold, was we'll wrap
ped up in a fur coat and robe and it
seemed impossible that it could be that
cold but the air is so dry, We don't have
the damp climate you eastern people
have.
The coyotes wake us up these winter
nights with their yelping it isn't any
thing unusal to see three or four play
ing on the Prairies, they are so much
like shepherd day and play like two
pups, and the prairie chickens fly
around and feed on the wheat stacks,
the jack rabbits are so pretty now just
as white as the snow. 1t seems to me
when pick up home paper and read
about what cold winter you are having
if | was there | would think it was
warm. The older settlers say it has
been colder here than it has been in
eight years.
Wishing every one a happy New
Year in my Old Kentucky Home as /
think its the only place on the globe.
| will ring off.
Take me back to Old Kentucky.
To the state where was born.
Take me back to Old Kentucky.
Where the blue grass decks the hills.
Mary Clark EnglemaN
Braddock, North Oak.
January, 18th, 1912.