128.

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1878
29 Oct Ministry come to Wvlt.
30 Oct "Poor aged bro Chauncey Copley is confined at the infirmary
with a broken thigh."
31 Oct "Multitudes of troubles, both social, spiritual & financial."
1 Nov "A man from Toledo, Ohio, by name of D.M. Mifford is sell-
ing them a patent for drying apples or any fruit without
changing its color, so that they are perfectly white when
dried & dry in a very short time. The WF is purchasing
the right for the Town of Watervliet" at a cost of $250.
SF elders visit Ministry. "Ther^e is much need of help
there to lead & protect the family spiritually & temporally."
2 Nov Getting in cabbage & making cider the main business.
"They simply scald or boil the cider enough to throw off
all the scum & dirt, then bung up in barrels while boiling
hot,"
5 Nov Nicholas Briggs & Marcia Hillsgrove arrive from Canterbury,
the latter to give lessons in singing & playing on the organ.

11 Nov Hired men making cider, teams taking cider, popcorn etc.
to market; Elder Daniel doing chores; Giles writing letters;
Sister Marcia going from family to family teaching singing
& music.
18 Nov Giles goes to NF to see Albert about the SHAKER MANIFESTO
arranging for coming 1879 volume.

21 Nov Giles went to Niskayuna to take r.r. to Troy but an accident
last evening destroyed many cars & damaged 2 engines & so
stopped all trains for the day.
29 Nov Elder Daniel making basket stuff; Giles making 12 small
drawers for Eldress Polly 1 s work desk.
Henry George cut down water poplar south of washhouse which
measured 5 f t. in diameter & had limbs 3 ft. through.
5 Dec Giles proof reads January issue of SHAKER MANIFESTO.

8 Dec Elder Daniel & Giles to to NF to see Elder Nathaniel, Bro
Albert, Geo Price & Thomas Beale together "relative to their
treatment of each other in business matters & social rela-
tions . "
12 Dec Ministry return to Lebanon. Could not cross the river at
Albany because of high water (Dye St. 7 ft. under water),
had to go to Troy & street by Arsenal had water about 2 ft.
deep.
18 Dec Marcia Hillsgrove goes to Lebanon from Wvlt.
23 Dec (NL) "Numbers are not increasing in the families generally,
but rather decreasing gradually, notwithstanding some few
come in, but they appear, generally, to be of a very
transient & inferior class."