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<hr>           <b>1918</b><br>
<b>30 July</b>        Picked  13 barrels beans
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                          Picked 20 barrels beans
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                          Eld. Anna's niece/  Edna Frank/  comes for v i s i t .
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                          Finish up bean harvest  foryear.
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                          A  man from Cuba aged 71 years arrived here this p.m.    to buy the Shaker West Farm.
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                          Eld. Anna  and Eld.  Josiah had a long talk with him.   "George Duncan/    drunk/  has made
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                          an ass of selffor past two weeks. "
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<b>23  Aug.</b>       Hottest day this year.  Hugo  takes Eld. Anna/  Eld.  Josiah, Deborah  Knight and May
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                          Slater to Mt. Lebanon to get ministry's signatures to sell West Family.   Geo.   Duncan
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                          stilldrunk so Eld. Anna  had Judge send   constable to arrest him. Found him at   Powell's
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                          Hotel about dinner time.   "He used such awful   foul language  to the sisters,itcouldn't
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                          be borne with any longer. "
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<b>24  Aug.</b>       I made  12 large loaves bread/  10 loaves raisin cake.  Mary cleaned   13 broilers for
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                          tomorrow  and fried them.   Edna Frank  returned to Rochester,
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                          West  Family sold to Mr.  Bailey/ man from Cuba,   for $25/000,  $15,OCOto be paid   down.
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<b>25  Aug.</b>       Hugo  took 15 in truck to Pittsfield Shakers.  Took their lunch, but left enough of the
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           Sunday         fried chicken home for  those that didn't go.  Home at  10  p.m.
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<b>26  Aug.</b>       Picked  83 bushels tomatoes.
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<b>27  Aug.</b>       George  Duncan had hearing before Judge Brown.       Eld. Anna, Maggie and    Hugo attended.
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                          Judge  1 ectured him kindly.   George was sorry,   owing to drink didn't know  one thing he
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                          had said or done.   All came home.    He didn't want to come to  supper so Anna   fixed
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                          supper for him and took  itto him.
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<b>28  Aug.</b>       "Bedbugs got thick  in Deborah's bed and Grace    has been cleaning  all day, moving out
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                          beds and putting  up others.  A sweet and heavenly   job. " Men picked   175 bu . tomatoes,
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<b>31  Aug.</b>       "Folks to Church  F. to can tomatoes,  peeled  175 bushels for us and 35 bushels for  C.F.
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           Sat.           I have made this week   21 pies, 36 loaves bread and  11 doz.  cookies.  Maggie   & Eleanor
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                          made  100 glasses of crabapple  jelly."
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<b>3 Sept.</b>        Men picked   300 bu . tomatoes to can.
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<b>4 Sept.</b>        Our  flour costs $108.40 a year;  1 use 49 Ibs. every week at  $3.30.
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                          North  Family buys bread at  $8 per week,  total $416 a year.
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<b>9 Sept.</b>        Hugo  took  Eld. Josiah, Eld. Anna  and Anna   Goepper  to Cooperstown,   leaving 7 a . m . ,
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                          arriving there 1 p.m., home   8p.m.    Visited "palatiarl home of J . F. Cooper, grandson
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                          of J. F. Cooper.   20-room   residence, farm,  imported cattle, barns,  milk houses,
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                          tennis court, Italian flower gardens with statues and fountains--a paradise.    Special invi-
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                          tation to Eld. Josiah.  Busch  estate inCooperstown has been seized by    government as
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                          widow   is German subject,  but she is allowed to live there.  Coopers gave  them  sumptuous
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                          meal  and tour of estate .
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