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In 1882 they put an annex to their dwelling house, principally to have a large
meeting room, and on June 12 they had the wholeSociety present for meeting in their
new room.
In the fall, the remnants of the Groveland Society moved tooccupy the NF build-
ings at Watervliet, and the SF helped with the moving.
In 1889 the SF sisters were very occupied with making shirts for manufactuers
in Troy. (Dn FEbruary 15 it is remarked that they had finished off 50 dozen that
week. Ozias took them to Troy and brought home 48 doz. at $1.25 per doz. Their
machines are run by water power, but when the water fails, then they have to use
steam. Henry George was at this time in charge of finances and did not want them
ttouse their large engine because of the amount of coal it took, so they had a
smaller engine installed in their new wash house. Henry George was a problem in
other ways,apparently, as the author of VB-352 says that when Elder Daniel and
EldressAnn come from Lebanonshe "hopes they will help us out of our deacon trouble."
In August the Ministry came "to find out if we want to keep Henry George in the
family and find we do not."
24 Sept. 1889 - Freida Sipple and her sister Katie, aged 12 and 11, were brot
to the Shakers with the agreement of their father. She was the third of the last
3 Wvlt Shaker sisters in 1938.. Her father tried to get her out in 1892 but she
was not willing and the surrogate said "her father cannot lay hands on her."
In November 1892 they put storm windows on their shirt shop.
By 1894 their Christmas was celebrated much like that of the world's people.
Isabella Graves in her journal says they had oysters, cranberries, celelry, cabbage
slaw, and turkey for dinner, fruit cake for supper. There was entertainment at
the CF with all the SF young people (16) going. On New Year's Day they had plum
pudding for dinner and went to the Second Family in the evening for entertainment
and refreshments. All went except 3 sisters and 2 brethren.
In Jyuly 1895 the Ministry came to get Eldress Rosetta Hendrickson and Isabella
Graves to take care of the family business and Eva Larkin keep the books.