Goepper - 1915 page 4
Photographer's11 and "Farmyard Imitations by a Quartette."
Three "furious-looking" young men here hunting Elmer Kellam, foreman at NF.
Mary Ross, a girl raised at the WF, writes to Elder Josiah and Eldress
Annie thru her lawyer, for $50 for services given Eldress Rachel McDonald
in her last days. She claims Rachel sent for her in NY and, by coming,
she lost $50 she would have earned.
May Winegarten-Miller's case is still in the hands of the lawyers.
6 Sept May King, a former girl, is now Mrs. Wolf. Stella Gallon, now Mrs. Dewey.
9 Sept Elder Josiah bought a new carriage for SF at Ballston Fair for $90.
12 Sept Mr. Bruce and son Freddie came from NYC to visit his daughter Pauline.
Ministry at New Lebanon have a car driven by Alexander Pettiff, a young
brother.
13 Sept Eldress Annie bought a second-hand engine (original price $1000) for $650
to use for filling silo, sawing wood, etc.
14 Sept New Lebanon North Family got a new carriage and gave old one to Watervliet
SF, who now plan to give their oldest carriage to Wvlt NF who need one
badly.
16 Sept Usually have 25 for dinner, including hired hands. Today have additional
14 threshers working on oats, then on rye (had 576 bu. rye). It was very
hot and when the men finished their work in the evening, they would run
to the pond and throw themselves in.
"Ella Myer's health seems to be gradually failing. Every little while she
has a bad spell with her stomach and she is nothing but skin and bones and
a complete nervous wreck."
24 Sept Harry Howard, nephew of Isabella Graves, raised by Shakers, now a doctor
practicing in Albany, was married last week to a Miss Jones, a nurse.
Dr. Lothridge came to see Marie who has a lump under her knee that gives
her great pain at times and he has been trying to cure it.
27 Sept AG moved to brethren's shop to sleep and stay while her room is painted
and papered. Nice and quiet there.
29 Sept Maggie bought Victrola record - Harry Lauder's "Breakfast in Bed on Sunday
Morning." "It is great*"
Winegarden case will go to court soon. May and her husband are asking
$30 a month for 6 months, "it is a mean, unjust piece of work, a scheme
to get some needed cash, that is all.... Why didn t they bring suit long
ago when Elder Isaac was living. He_ would have made things hot for them.
May has had a go4od deal of money, $66 already, and a great lot of furni-
ture from the WF as part payment in the past. !
2 Oct Ella Myer came out of the cookroom"to rest, up a while and, I may add, to
give the rest of us a rest and a change from her abomination cooking and
nerves, as she calls it, but everybody else terms it a mean disposition
and temper."
8 Oct Drs. Lothridge and Hacker put MARIE in bed, strap her leg from hip down
with adhesive, raise the foot of her bed on large blocks, put pulley and
weights and large bag of sand on each side of her leg to keep it still.
They say the trouble is TB of the hip but they have taken it in time.
Marie comes from a consumptive family.
11 Oct Dog Laddie bit one of the plumbers very &adly on the arm and Hugo shot it.
12 Oct Plumber had wound dressed by his doctor but says it is not bad and is
sorry dog was shot.
13 Oct "The Catholics call on their usual rounds, our folks always donate something."
14 Oct George Dahm's wife Sarah here to try and get Eldress Annie to take a girl
but she did not but sent her to the NF where she thought they might give
the girl a trial of two weeks. (The girl ran away the second day she was
there. Placing her at the Shakers was an attempt to get her off the
streets and frequenting the movie houses.)