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              CM-<b>1040</b>3, Shaker Collection of     NYS Library
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                              SOUTH FAMILY, WATERVLIET,         N.  Y.
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                                RECORD    OF  EVENTS FROM DAY       TO  DAY   KEPT BY ANNA     BELLE  GOEPPER
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                              Beiginning April 5,  <b>1915</b> for Anna Case,   Eld ress and Trustee
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<hr>              <b>1915</b><br>
<b>5 Apr</b>      Ministry Sisters Elder Sarah Berger and Eldress Catherine Allen returned to Mt.    Lebanon
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                         after having come to attend Elder Isaac  Anstatt's funeral and staying a week to transact
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                         other business.
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                         Hugo and his brother, Albert, are spraying fruit trees;   Herbert Hall, a hired hand, is
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                         trimming  grapevines;  Joe, another  hired hand,  is cleaning up the  "garden plot";
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                         Sister Mary  Dahm and the girls are cleaning  the attic rooms;  Sister Grace  Dahm is
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                         cleaning  the weave shop.
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<b>6 Apr</b>      Sister Deborah  Knight,  72 yrs old, has had charge of poultry for last 5 years and gets
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                         38-46 eggsaday   (Rhode  Island Reds)
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<b>7 Apr</b>      Hugo and hired men hauling cement     from Albany for  Elder Josiah's new barn foundation
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                         at CF,  barn having been set on fire and burned with horses,   cows, etc.  last December.
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<b>8 Apr</b>      Hired new man, George Meade, to take care of       new horses.   Now  have 5 hired hands
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                         besides Hugo  Stroebel . yu#***fL z^Arm* MM*;}****'     &*t,i
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<b>10 Apr</b>     George \Warner
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                                                grocer)       C
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                                                        here with iL     I
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                                                                   groceries torthe week.
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                         The frogs are singing their glad summer song over at  the pond.
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                                      "Uh!   Uh!  sang the little Mr. Bull Frog.
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                                      Uh I Uh!   sang the lady  froggy too
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                                      Then they  both sang together
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                                      And their eyes went  goo,  goo, goo."
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                         Do not feel too extra.   "These colds hang on like a sock  to a sore shin."
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<b>12 Apr</b>     Get workman b fix   their dining room wall .  "Itis a metal composition or material,
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                         inexpensive,  looks well and after it is placed and nailed on,  itis then painted any
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                         color you wish. "
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<b>13 Apr</b>     Eldress Anna brought  girlnamed   Helen Hubbard,   14 years old.  Sarah  Neal  had brought
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                         her to Albany  from Mt.  Lebanon as Emma    Neal wanted Eldress Anna   "to take  her and
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                         try her."
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<b>14 Apr</b>     Elder Josiah and Brother Alex Pettiff  from Mt.  Lebanon here for dinner.    "After dinner
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                         all were called  into the dining room and asked  if allwere  in union with Eldress Anna
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                         being  put in as Trustee with Elder Josiah and we all  were and there  it ended."
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<b>17 Apr</b>     "A young lady in a large auto brought some Catholic sisters out for   a ride and wanted
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                         some silk portieres made all woven, which    Grace expects to  do."
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<b>20 Apr</b>     George   (Duncan) and Grace   (Dahm) whom Anna     G.  calls "Gen.  Stonewall  Jackson"
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                         have put the  last coat of paint on the dining room walls*
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<b>21 Apr</b>      "Two  ladies, 3 dogs and one man came    in an auto to see ifthey could buy   some furniture."
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<b>23 Apr</b>     "Grand Union    Tea Co.  wagon with groceries called.    Eldress Annie and Frieda  bought
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                         some things of him.   The things he sells are allfirst class. "
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<b>24 Apr</b>     Put new oilcloth  in dining room and girls all help.  Also put new rubber   boots on chairs
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                         and black  enamelled stovepipes.    Oil cloth, dishes and wall  paint all harmonize.
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                         Geo. Warner came    in his new truck  to deliverweek's  supplies.
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<b>25 Apr</b>     Florence Bourne had gone to Albany    to see Dr.  Stlllman on April  16th.  This day she did
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                         not go on a walk with the other girls as she "has not been feeling well   for some time."
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<b>26 Apr</b>     Anna  G,  is taken violently sick^vith what she callsjccuteind/gest/on.  Dr.  Cbthridge seems
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                         to think there are symptoms of typhoid fever, comes every day,     and on May   3d thinks she
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                         should have an R.N. to take care    of her - cheaper  than the hospital.
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