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              Goepper   - <b>1916</b>                                                                            page 9
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<b>14 Mar</b>     Eldress Annie,  Hugo,  George,   Grace  & Mary, Marie, Lillian,   Viola, Catherine,    Ella,
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                         Susan,  Eleanor, Marian and Helen went to Mrs.     Charles Orlop's about  2 p.m.  ard  returned
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                         at 11 p.m.   Had fine time  - games, piano  music and good supper.    Had mashed potatoes,
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                         porterhouse steak,  gravy, cabbage salad,   jello, nuts, oranges, bananas,   ice cream,  raised
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                         biscuits, cheese, graham bread,   lemon layer cake,   nut cake, tea  & coffee.   Home in a
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                         blizzard.
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                         Eldress Anna went  to power house twice on stormy   days to meet some   children who were
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                         coming to live at  NF and children did not come.
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<b>20 Mar</b>     Children  finally came.   They are from Arlington, Vt., given to Shakers by a Mr.     Phelps.
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                         They are Nina Cadoret, aged 9, and Louise Cadoret, aged       12.   Taken to  NF.
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<b>22 Mar</b>     Sleighride  partyof  11 people from Niskayuna   arrived at 10:30 a.m.   (Mamie Sheffer,
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                         Marcia Robinson, Anna    Onderdonk, Mrs.    Johnson,  Mrs.  Chas.  Orlop, Mrs.   Harry Tribley,
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                         Olive Orlop,   Edith Van Houten, Milton Van Houten, Mabel       Russell and Mildred Russell.
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                         They brought with them a pan full   of cookies and 6 large pies -  1 apple,  1 chocolate,
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                         2 cherry and 2 red raspberry, besides pickles, fancy   crackers and candy   forchildren.
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                         Shakers gave them dinner of   roast veal, veal cutlet, celery, peas,  lima  beans,  creamed
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                         potatoes,  cranberry sauce,  beets, sweet pepper  relish, marble cake,  cookies shaped like
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                         teddy bears and birds  (made by A.G. and taken    home as souvenirs), and vanilla   ice cream
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                         with  chocolate sauce.   They went to store and bought   some things, had singing  and piano
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                         music.   They paid for their dinners also, so Eldress Anna took  in $19 In all,
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<b>23 Mar</b>     Freida,  Grace and Helen went    to Albany and saw "Birth of a Nation. "    Their tongues
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                         ran like bell clappers from the time they got home a little after  6 pm until 10 pm, telling
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                         of their great time and the wonderful  moving  picture.  Hugo  in the family sleigh took
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                         George, Miss Leary,    Julia, Victoria, Julia's sisterEllen Sheirer and our Eleanor  Brooks
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                         about  7p.m. to see the same thing and they    got home at  1:15 a.m.
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<b>24 Mar</b>     Eldress Annie  took Susan and Pauline to Albany and,    afterPauline had a tooth pulled, they
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                         went to movies also.   Eldress Anna  gavefallthe  rest afthe family the chance to  go  if
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                         they wanted to.
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<b>26 Mar</b>     Lillian (Cross) fell on the flooryesterday in a fitin Maggie's  room.   "I stillsay the child
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                         is an epileptic and it were far better had they all been sent back right at  the startfor
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                         they are nothing extra."   Gertrude  is sick in bed, have  Dr. to see her and also Ella Myer
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                         who  is very sick.
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<b>27 Mar</b>     Dr.  Lothridgej^honed for this evening to come immediately as Ella was very bad.     Eldress
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                         Anna worked over her an hour or more and she and Maggie       stayed all night with  her.
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                         "It seems we no sooner get one person placed in the ground    till another is on the way."
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<b>29 Mar</b>     Some signs of spring -  can have windows open and do without a fire,    grass begins to peep
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                         through  and birds begin to chirp and sing.
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<b>30 Mar</b>     Ella slowly improving.   Her nourishment consists of  raw eggs, beef  and clam broth.
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<b>1 Apr</b>      James Brownell   dismissed.  Reported to Hugo by   Herbert Hall of committing a criminal
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                         act wi th one of the cows.
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<b>2 Apr</b>      A  Mr. Banker of  Gloversville,  nephew  of deceased Philip Smith, sent   Elder Josiah a large
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                         box of grapefruit from Florida and he sent half to the SF.
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              Ends this book.  During the past year (since April 5,  <b>1915</b>) had meeting   16 Sundays,  no meeting   36.
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              Out  of 5 gal. of lard she made 670 doughnuts or   10 meals for family and hired hands, at   2 each
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              and often 3 each.
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