127.

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1878
23 July Ministry come to Wvlt.

25 July Elders of WF and SF visit. "Much trouble because of the
want of members of ability & faithfulness to bear the bur-
dens of the day, either spiritual or temporal. No deacon
at SF. No appropriate Elder Bro at NF.

27 July Sweet green corn fit for table, as are cucumbers.

28 (Sun) Public meeting, an immense concourse of spectators, shold
think twice as many as house would hold. Meeting lasted
about 2 hours, GA Lomas speaker.
"A time of much tribulation in the CF. Some young people
living a worldly sensual life. One mal^e & one female
recently gone $out, more in a condition to go out, as they
do not live to Gospel -principles."

29 July An astronomer calls & lectures in the evening in the music
hall in the CF Sisters Stone Shop.

31 July Julia McNally goes to world.

1 Aug Giles sees Br. Albert about the Shaker paper, "he wishes to
have the publication of it in the name of G. B,.Avery."

5 Aug Elder Daniel takes SF eldresses to West Troy to see a woman
& her 15 year old daughter who want to enter. Find the
girl deformed, body & mind.

6 Aug Stanton Buckingham & C. Copley go to Lebanon to get a
machine for cutting corn.
Elder Daniel works in shoe shop as there is no shoemaker.

10 Aug Gardeners gathering early tomatoes for sale at $2/bu.
Farmers getting sweet corn; Elder Daniel & Chas. Brackett
mending shoes; Giles repairing sister;s clock in Meeting
House & making a rack for medicine bottles for Office
sisters.

12 Aug Giles goes to Albany to see 0shorn, the roofer, for South
Union, about putting on 3 large slate roofs at So. Union.

14 Aug Go to SF to see elders about trying Theodore Wicks again.
"We sympathize with the poor man, very much indeed. "
15 Aug Giles making 3 drawers for Jennett Angus & a frame for a
rack to cook tomatoes & corn.
Second cabbage law suit is still unsettled; plaintiffs offer
to settle for $8500.
21 Aug Ministry return to Lebanon.

9 Oct (NL) "Once more, for the 8th time, poor Theodore R. Wicks
calls on us for some privilege or charitable consideration.
Well, we write for him a letter of introduction to Elder
Robert Aikins of Enfield, Ct. & give him $2.25 for his
expenses" to get there, having given him dinner, supper &
breakfast & took him to Shaker Depot.