Anna Goepper - 1916

4 July Have 3 hired hands and families living on place - Lobdell, Joe & James
Put up canopy in yard-frshowery day. About 2 p.m. went out in yard, had peanuts, candy
& lemonade and girls shot off their fire crackers and
cannon crackers and dynamite canes.
Supper at 5 - each received a plate with 4 chicken and 1 salmon sandwiches, 2 deviled
eggs on lettuce leaf, 2 nice pieces of chicken, biscuit sandwich of dried beef, lemonade,
tea, chocolate cake, chocolate and vanilla ice cream and bananas. Showers came, had
to eat on porches, etc.
17 July "The object of the Ministry's last visit
(July 6-10) in the valley was to straighten up
matters,if possible, at the Church Family - Angeline Cox, Libbie DeLong and the dog subjec
"No one can be^pt Eldress Anna along the line of knit goods of any kind or description.
She is busy every moment when she has spare time."
"Mary, Grace, Eldress Anna and girls picking cherries for canning and pies. Gave me a
. bucket full."
19 July Begin bean picking 7:300a.m. at CF. Eldress Anna, Mary, Grace and all the
girls go to pick and string for canning. Canned 100 doz. the first day. AG
made 11 cherry pies.
20 July Elder Josiah invitied__Eldress$ Anna, Freida, Mary, Grace and all the boys and
girls for a trip to "LiiriarPark," or "Lunatic Park" as some call it, near
Schenectady. Some went by trolley, some in auto. Some home at 5, some at 6,
all tired out but a happy day.
21 July Hugo took some for an auto ride after supper, "perfectly lovely, all along the
Barge Canal, St. David's Lane, the Rosendale farm and through Niskayuna."
29 July "About 3 p.m. Mamie Shaffer, Belle Orlop, Phebe Shaffer and 29 friends, ladies
Sat. young and old, girls and a few small boys came over from Niskayuna for a picnic
on the lawn." Also included Dr. and Anna Lothridge and Kate Tribley. Had
supper with Shakers, "music, games, merriment, croquet. There were 50 at
supper. Menu - potato salad, baked beans, pickles sweet and sour, deviled eggs,
lettuce & ham sandwiches, 8 kinds of cake including Shakers, and guests brought
5 gal. ice cream. Broke up and left about 9 p.m.
4 Aug Had bought bean seed from a Mr. Sherman in Albany and it turned out to be
altogether different from what it was represented. Hugo complained, Sherman
wouldn't believe until he came out to Shakers and went into field and saw the
beans. "Our folks will buy/no more seed from him, that is settled.11
(Notice: they are no longer packing seeds.)
6 Aug South Family invit|ed to New Lebanon 2d Family for an entertainment in honor
of anniversary of Mother Ann's arrival in America 142 years ago. Set up by
William Perkins and his Sunday School class, "mostly religious and historical."
Hugo took Eldress Anna, Freida, Maggie and Grace, also Ella Winship from NF,
in auto; Mary, Helen, Susan, Pauline and Eleanor were taken to power house in
wagon, there to take trolley to Albany, autobus from Albany to Pittsfield.
(Ozias, George, Joanna, Deborah, Anna Goepper, Marie, Marion and 3 Cross
children stayed at home.)
10 Aug Hamilton brought to SF a basket of cucumbers and tomatoes from NF. AG made
2 fancy layer cakes for Mary's birthday, %2 cupcakes, 6 pear pies, 2 cherry
pies, 10 loaves of bread, 'A couple of gypsies stopped here in a wagon at dinne
time and one bought a baby jacket for $3. She is to have a little one soon.
There are a lot of them camping over by the power house."
11 Aug Mary's birthday - 33 candles on cake and AG had victrola in dining room during
dinner playing Mary's favorite piece, "The message of the violet.
13 Aug Trinity Episcopal have about 40 children camping at WF; little children will
go home and older girls will come out from Albany. "They do not bother us
much and provide their own provisions." Paid $30 for the month.
15 Aug "A beautiful morning, cool, bright, grass heavy with dew. Just such a morning
as I would like to take the train or auto and go as far as South America at
the least."