IMH 74:4 362

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

Monday, December 27th.

It snowed in flurries occasionally during the forenoon and
continued gray and cloudy till night when it cleared. A piercing
wind set in this morning and by night the thermometer stood
at only 12° above zero. The weather report will make the most
of to-day's record. Alvin squizzed more or less through the day.
I fooled around not doing much of anything. Father wrote a
statement of the dates, indorsements, etc. on Mrs Garrison's
now Mrs Riley Nesler's note of Nov. 18 1876 and went over in
that neighborhood to take it to her. He visited at Kivett's and I
know not where else before he got back which was about two
o'clock.

As mentioned before, the activity of Alvin's "squizzing" is unknown and can only be speculated. The term is not commonly used.
The "note" was referring to an indebtedness of one party to another.