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Cut peaches to day.
Can 112 doz, cans corn
Can 102 doz. afins tomatoes
Can 36 doz. tomatoes and 16 doz. corn
Eldress Alvira, Rachel & Charles Pretsch go to Knowersville (present day Altamont)
Hro bring Mary Drumm. She wants to come back to live with us.
8 Oct. Elder Augustus being short of hired help asks the youth girls to help pick up
potatoes this afternoon. Mary Ann Mathews, Annie Wolf, Lucy Werner and
* Mary Drum go out and help him.
11 Oct. Peter S. takes Eldress Alvira, Rachel & 9 of the youth girls out for a ride to
Albany. Eldress was going to take night boat to N ,Y. and go on to Philadelphia.
12 Oct. 'PeterSmith got drunk yesterday, came home, left Rachel and the young folks
in Albany. One of the Eastman men from West Albany brought them home at
noon today, "
16 Oct. Pick 4 bushels barberries today.
17 Oct. " 5 "
18 Oct. " 2 "

5 Nov. Sarah Neal here from 2d Order to get pur baker to make some bread for her
out of 2d Order flour. "Some say the flour Is good, others call itpoor."
8 Nov. Th. Clarissa Shufelt here from South Family to get a couple of loaves of bread;
their oven out of repair.
9 Nov. Fri. South Family folks have their bread made and baked here.. Rachel Webb came
up and helped.
12 Nov. Mo. Efdress Rosetta and Sister Anna Case here yesterday afternoon to see about their
folks baking here, Rachel Webb came up after breakfast to assistAgnes with
the bread. Isaac brought out 8 doz, shirts today.
17 Nov. Finish the 8 doz. shirts.
19 Nov.Mon Isaac brought out 18 doz. shirts. Label over 300 doz. tomatoes.
29 Nov. Thanksgiving. Ministry here, attend meeting with us, "gave out the gift of
genera! opeing,"

2 Dec,d Sun "The day spent, as usual inseasons past, devoted to confession and repentance."
3 Dec.d Sarah Drumm returns to Knowersville, "Nelia wants to stayhere, so we keep her."
6 Dec. Send In 6 doz. shirts, brought out 10 doz. more from Albany. Hester C. and
Rachel M. go over to old Methodist burying ground to see Hester's mother's grave.
8 Dec. Send in 2 doz. shirts, brought out 4 doz.
14 Dec. Elder Augustus goes to Albany to pick up a Beatty organ sent from Washington,
and bring out Henry Smith from Oneonta to set itup.
19 Dec, Elder Augustus and Herman go to Knowersville after Sarah Drumm. "She wants
to come back here to live."
31 Dec. Wm. Johnson here from the Church Family to cut out some garments for the
brethren.

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1884
1 Jan. Tu. Elder Augustus takes the young folks to Rosendale for a pleasure drive.
6 Jan. Francis Schwetzer, a German who left here 3 years ago, returns and is taken
into the family to live again.
7 Jan. Kill 5 beef creatures. Wm. Johnson comes to help make sausage.