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           Anna  Goepper   - <b>1916</b>
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<b>19 Nov</b>      AG   goes back  in bakeroom which   has been completely  done over  - new floor varnished
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                       new windows, walls kalsomined and woodwork painted.        Grace  has woven 2 new rugs for
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                       floor;  new oilcloth for tables, new apple  parer, new stove board.
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<b>20 Nov</b>      Albert Stroebel  quit.
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<b>22 Nov</b>      Expect to realize about  $<b>2000</b> on oats and rye, when sold.
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                       "Three cities, Albany, Troy   & Schenectady, are talking of buying    the West Family for a
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                       Capital  Park, no liquors to be used on the grounds."
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<b>25 Nov</b>      Albert  S. came right after breakfast for his clothes which I had packed up and were locked
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                       up  inGrace's shop.   Took 2 valises but stillhas one left;  could not take all.    "Mr.
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                       Denison,  our grocer, took them in his auto and saved carrying   them that way."
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<b>27 Nov</b>      AG   busy allday from 4 a.m.    Made   17 apple pies, 10 loaves bread;  picked and cleaned
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                       7 chickens;   stewed pumpkin  for pies, mashed and prepared    it.
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<b>28 Nov</b>      Made the starch and had it   over to the wash house before the bell  rang to get up; washed
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                       and  ironed; made bread and pumpkin    pies;  after dinner cleaned and   drawed 3 turkeys.
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                       Elder Josiah spent afternoon  and had supper at  SF, gave them Thanksgiving record    for
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                       phonograph.
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                       Meeting at  NF.   No one   went  from CF but  Elder Josiah.  All from SF went   but Deborah,
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                       Maggie   & Joanna.   All spoke<ur sung.  Jennie Wells and girls had a Thanksgiving   song.
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                       James  Tribley came after  Elder Mary's spinning wheel  that she left here a long time ago
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                       to be sold.  She has found sale for  it.
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                       A Mr.  Webster had 36 of our largest  and best chestnut  trees cut down without  permission.
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                       Elder Josiah and Eldress Anna  got after him and he finally settled by paying  Eldress Anna
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                       $100.   He said Elder Isaac gave him permission when he was living.
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<b>5 Dec</b>        Mary is giving Maggie electricity treatments an hour every    morning and night for  her arm
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                       and back.
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<b>9 Dec</b>       Hugo took   "Ozias Bogart's bureau, full  of things, to be sent to his daughter, Hattie."
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<b>11 Dec</b>      Hired a new man,   Charles Angelin, to take Albert's place   - have five regular  hired hands.
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<b>19 Dec</b>      Hugo,   George  and men killed and cleaned three   large fat hogs for home use*
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<b>20 Dec</b>      AG   cut up allthe fat and tried itout - was busy all  day, never stopped for dinner, finished
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                       at 4:30 more dead than alive.    Had 22 gal.  of pure white lard,
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                       Hugo took hams and bacon to West Albany to be cured and smoked.
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                       School  entertainment  in p.m.  George   Willey played  on his violin, Victoria spoke 2 pieces,
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                       children had a Christmas tree full of gifts.
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<b>25 Dec</b>      "Presents, candy, nuts and music galore   this a.m.   Had presents of 13 or 14 new records,
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           Xmas        two very  nice ones from  Hugo and Julia.   Ozias1 daughter,   Hattie Blanchard^and her two
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                       children and her brother  Henry came to spend Xmas.     Dinner was scalloped  oysters, oyster
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                       stew, celery, mashed potatoes,   Xmas plum pudding with    lemon sauce (made by    Eldress Anna
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                       & Mary   Dahm), 3 oranges each and a basket of fruit from Mrs.    Archie Dedrick  in Loudon-
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                       ville.  At 2 p.m.  had entertainment  for SF, Npand CF folks and about     20 outsiders,  which
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                       lasted 2 hr. 40 min. and concluded with a Xmas ship, girls all    dressed in sailor garb, dis-
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                       tributing presents from the ship - everyone got something.
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                       Maggie has been having a lame back.      AG   now says "It is Maggie and  Dr.  Stillman's judg-
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                       ment to have  her go to the Homeopathic   Hospital  in Albany for a while  in a private ward
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                       at $23 per week.   So Hugo took   her in auto ... and Eldress Anna went with her to see    her
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                       Settled.   Itis a kind of general breakdown with her.    And thus it has been with her,  poor
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                       child,  ... her life long."
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<b>6 Jan</b>       "Dr.  Stillman thinks of using the Violet rays' upon Maggie.    This is some new electrical
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                       treatment."
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                       Eva Larkin's brother,  Ernest, visits. "Lives in Hughsonville,  NY   & is a professor in the schoo
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