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<b>9  Nov.</b>       Eld. Anna paid $338 school   tax;  Eld. Josiah $436.   Eld. Anna  "felt really unfair and unjust
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                         taxation. "
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<b>16   Nov.</b>     Eld. Anna  has peeled  every vegetable, done all  the fryings of every kind in the kitchen
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                         from April until November,   besides all her other burdens. "
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<b>17   Nov.</b>    "Eld. Anna  got a new winter  coal(which she needed badly)     paid for by Eld. Caroline.  ($19)
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<b>25  Nov.</b>      Ella Benedict and Adelaide (from Church Family) spent    p.m.  here and stayed to  supper,
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           Tksgiving     also Elder Josiah.  Ella Winship,  Jennie Wells and girls from North Family and    Hamilton
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                         DeGraw   for song entertainment.   Also Mr.  &Mrs.   Bathrick from Schenectady for supper^*^1
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                         and evening;   JoeMoultrom, wife and 2 children;     Mr.  &Mrs.   Lobdell  and daughter    /
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                         Eff[e_i Hujao, Julia. & VictoriaStrnhelj_ lames Gilbert  & foreman r wife  & child of North
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                         pa  Announcement   at supper table that Eldress Caroline & Sister Lucy had given to the family
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           <b>1918</b>             a $100 check for a new centrifugal wringer    in wash house."
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<b>26 Jan.</b>       Sleigh-riding party from  Niskayuna  came at  12,  left at 4. Dinner served:  tomato bisque,
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                         roast beef, dressing, gravy,  creamed potatoes,  tomatoes,  string beans, cabbage   slaw;
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                         pickled onions, applesauce,   junket, cherry,  mince  & apple  pie;chocolate  cream cake;
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                         orange marmalade cake,    ejelly roll, tea, coffee and milk.   Girls and Mary had music   &
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                         speaking for them after dinner.   Party consisted of Mamie  Shaffer, Belle Orlop,   Cora
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                         Orlop,  Nellie  Orlop, Mrs.  Onderdonk, Mrs.    Manning, Mrs.    Otting, Mabel   Russell,
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                         Mrs.  Jackson,  Mrs. Sabey, Mrs.   Clute,  Edith Van Houten,   Edith -- , Mrs. --- , and
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                         Mrs.  --- . Including family, there were 45 for dinner.    Paid in all$35.50$ each for
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                         dinner and purchases in store.   (A Mr.  & Mrs. Arthur Anderson were also there    & Included
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                         in count.)
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<b>30 Jan.</b>       Eld. Anna  is making 7 everyday dresses for  Maggie and new dresses for   allthe girls with
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                         Paul ine's help.
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<b>4 Feb.</b>       "Mottle  Forbes is not a verypeaceable member,    she does not seem to  get along with
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                         anyone.   Everything she says and does  is right and everything the rest say or do is wrong.
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                         The whole family are  disgusted with her and her conduct   generally.  1 think she will be
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                         asked to go in springtime.   Eld. Anna  is about worn out with her, and I'm sure all the
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                         rest are."   Anna  Goeppers sent  to KNICKERBOCKER PRESS this item, which        was printed:
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                         "Sister Deborah  Knight, 75 years old,  who  is living atthe small colony  ofShakers, South
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                         Family,  Watervliet,  has knit and completed  156 washcloths, 29 pairs mittens, 3 scrafs,
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                         3 caps,  3 pairs socks, besides ribbing for6 soldiers'sweaters since March   <b>1917</b>.  She
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                         was brought among the   Shakers when 9 years old  and has passed her entire  life in the
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                         Society. "  It pleased her, says A.G.
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                         A  man here to see Eld. Anna offering to  sell West Farm for her.   She gave him  liberty
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                         to go ahead.   "Mattie  Forbes packing her trunks but she tells nobody  what  she intends
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                         to do."  Eldress Anna  has helped make   15 dresses forthe older girls, 7 new dresses for
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                         Grace,   3 forElla and fixed over 6 for Deborah,   several forJoanna, 4 fine   Sunday
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                         dresses forFreida -- 2 ofsilk. We all  got a gray silk dress for meeting.
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<b>9 March</b>        "Mattie acts very strange,  don't speak or have anything  to do with one of us."
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<b>13 March</b>       Hugo took  Mattie to Stop 25 where she took   car for Troy, from there she goes to Albany.
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                          No  one knows what she intends to do;   as she didn't even tell Eld. Anna.
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