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              CM-<b>1040</b>3,    Shaker Collection of  NYS   Library
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                              SOUTH    FAMILY, WATERVLIET, ,N .      Y.
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                                RECORD    OF  EVENTS FROM     DAY   TO  DAY   KEPT BY ANNA     BELLE  GOEPPER
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                              Beginning April 5,   <b>1915</b> for Anna Case,   Eld ress and Trustee
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<hr>              <b>1915</b><br>
<b>5 Apr</b>      Ministry Sisters Elder Sarah Berger and Eldress Catherine Allen returned to Mt.    Lebanon
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                         after having come to attend Elder Isaac Anstatt's  funeral and staying" a week  to transact
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                         other business.
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                         Hugo and his brother, Albert, are spraying fruit trees;   Herbert Hall,  a hired hand, is
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                         trimming  grapevines;  Joe, another hired hand,   is cleaning up the  "garden plot";
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                         Sister Mary  Dahm and the  girls are cleaning the attic rooms;  Sister Grace  Dahm is
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                         cleaning the weave   shop.
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<b>6 Apr</b>      Sister Deborah  Knight,  72 yrs old, has had charge of  poultry for last 5 years and gets
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                         38-46 eggsaday   (Rhode  Island Reds)
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<b>7 Apr</b>      Hugo and hired   men hauling cement from Albany    for Elder Josiah's new barn  foundation
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                         at CF,  barn having been set on fire and burned with horses,   cows, etc. last  December.
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<b>8 Apr</b>      Hired new man, George Meade, to take care of       new horses.   Now have   5 hired hands
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                         besides Hugo Stroebel. ^^^t tl^/^*^^^     ^LU^^^c^- ^U^L*
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<b>10 Apr</b>     George Warner (local    grocer) here with groceries for the week.
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                         The frogs are singing their glad summer song over at   the pond.
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                                      "Uh!   Uh!   sang the little Mr. Bull Frog.
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                                      Uh!   Uh!  sang the lady froggy too
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                                      Then they  both sang  together
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                                      And their eyes went goo, goo, goo/"
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                         Do not feel  too extra.  "These colds hang on like a sock to  a sore shin."
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<b>12 Apr</b>     Get workman fo fix  their dining room wall.   "It Is a metalcomposition  or material,
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                         inexpensive,  looks w e l l
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                                                   and after itis placed and nailed on,  it is then painted any
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                         color you wish. "
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<b>13 Apr</b>     Eldress Anna  brought girl named  Helen Hubbard,    14 years old.  Sarah Neal  had  brought
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                         her to Albany from  Mt.  Lebanon as Emma    Neal wanted Eldress Anna    "totake  her and
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                         try her."
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<b>14 Apr</b>     Elder Josiah and Brother Alex Pettiff  from Mt.  Lebanon here for dinner.    "After dinner
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                         all were called  into the dining room and asked if all were  In union with  Eldress Anna
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                         being   put in as Trustee with ElderJosiah and we all  were and there   itended."
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              1 7 Apr     "A young lady  in a large auto brought  some Cathol ic sisters out for
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                                                                                               a ride and wanted
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                         some silk portieres made all  woven, which   Grace expects   to do."
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<b>20 Apr</b>     George   (Duncan) and Grace    (Dahm) whom Anna    G.  calls "Gen. Stonewall   Jackson"
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                         have put the  lastcoat  ofpaint on the  dining room w a ! l s 0
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<b>21 Apr</b>     "Two  ladies, 3 dogs and one man came    in an auto to see if they could buy some   furniture.
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<b>23 Apr</b>     "Grand Union Tea Co.     wagon with groceries  called.   Eldress Annie and Frieda bought
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                         some things of him.   The things he sells are all first class. "
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<b>24 Apr</b>     Put new oilcloth  in dining room and girls all help.  Also  put new rubber  boots on chairs
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                         and black  enamelled stovepipes.    Oil cloth, dishes and wall  paint all harmonize.
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                         Geo. Warner   came   in his new truck to deliver week's suppl ies.
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<b>25 Apr</b>     Florence  Bourne had gone   to Albany to see Dr.  Stillman on April  16th.  This day she did
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                         not go on a walk with the other girls  as she "has not been fee I Ing wellfor some time. "
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<b>26 Apr</b>     Anna  G.  is taken violently sick^/ith what she callsjacuteindigestion.  Dr.  Cbthridge seems;
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                         to think there are symptoms of typhoid  fever, comes every   day, and on May    3d thinks she/
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                         should have an R.N . fo take care of her -   cheaper than the hospital.
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