EDGOOSE, Elizabeth

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• Name	EDGOOSE, Elizabeth
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  Person ID	I4283	Edgoose
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  EDGOOSE, Elizabeth (1852-1944) DEPARTURE "Miss E. EDGOOSE departs this morning for England where she intends to remain during the fall and winter." (Wed. Oct. 10, 1888 Aberdeen Daily News (Aberdeen S.D.) Volume 3: Issue 65 Page 3 accessed on 04 November 2022 via genealogybank.com) "SOME NEW MACHINERY Elizabeth EDGOOSE, proprietress of the C. O. D. steam laundry on Main street south, has lately added a new Cambridge washer and Sinclair ironer to her facilities and now has every thing in excellent condition for first classs work and for doing it with dispatch. There is no better machinery in the world for the purposes for which it was made than that mentioned above. It has been secured at considerable expense, but is expected to do the work so much better and quicker that its purchase will prove economy in the long run. The C. O. D. laundry has always had the reputation of doing superior work, and now that it has enlarged its means and made provision for prompt delivery it will steadily gain and hold friernds. Other improvement are comtemplated and will be made from time to time If you are as regular patron of this laundry you are already sastisfied. If you are not it stands you in hand to place your custom where the closest care aided by costly machinery will lay out to please you." (Wed, Nov 13, 1889 Aberdeen Daily News (Aberdeen, SD) Volume 4 Issue 84 Page 8, accessed on 03 November 2022 via genealogybank.com.) PLANTS AND FLOWERS Miss EDGOOSE has partitioned off one corner of thr front room in the laundry and will exhibit some of her rarest plants and flowers, now preserved from the vulgar gaze of the public at the hot house. The enterprise should and doubtless will be rewarded." (Thu, Feb, 1891 Aberdeen Daily News (Aberdeen, SD) Volume: V Issue 179 Page 4 accessed on 4 November 2022 via genealogy bank.com) LETTER TO HARRIET A letter to her sister Harriet dated 29 January 1892 on the letterheading of the C.O.D. Steam Laundry 412 Main Street South, Aberdeen, South Dakota, USA: "My Dear Sister, I know you have been looking for a letter from me for weeks it is wicked of me to treat you in this way after all you have don for me it as been for weeks as if I was not to have a little time to my self to day is Sunday and I am in the dry room at the Laundry it seems to be the only quite place I Could get. I recived youre very welcome letter on X mas day I was very pleased you were all well and happy I feel the remorse every day that I have kept you without a letter so long I thoughght right a long that things would be in shape soon so that I could give you a very good accounte of things wel now I will give you the best idea I can so that you can see Just as I stand there is a time in the near futer with me that I must have my busness all aranged acording to law and this is one thing that as kept me so long from writing to you you will see from the paper if you recived it that the laundry has been under the management of an experienced laundry man he is a very cleaver man but he gets big wages for a small Town like this I had to pay his expences here that was over 30 dollars then 15 dollas per week untill the fitting up was don then as soon as the laundry was running succesfuly he run one machine and managed the Place then I had to pay him 20 per week he is a very clever man (2) and I could not have Got the Laundry fitted up in the good shape it is now without an expert of this kind we wroght to the different Laundry Machine Company for there price for a man from them thay were all about the same in price 35 dollars per week and all expences paid so Mr COLLISON was Much Cheaper for me but now if I could be here my self I could do without him as it is so easy and convenient now it is a Marvle to see the Wonderful Machinery for this work if I had these things years ago I could have been independently rich today the yearaars I have been at it all though the plant that I have here is only a small speck to one of the large one Mr COLLISON said he could put in one as good as this for 12oo twelve dollars, I do not count the value of the machinery and its fixtures its worth I count the years it has been kept going and at a big expence saying nothing of the Caire of getting help these past 3 years for there had been many places in this surounding country almost depopulated, last yeas big crops brought hundrede of people back some to thair old homes many hundreds thousands I might say have gone into the hands of others but those that have been able to stay are the ones to rep the beniffit any branch of busness as been crowded not withstanding the exceedingly low prices paid for all kinds of grain and stock except hogs , one would think from these low prices that every thing would be very dull and diprest but that is not so, for my part I have not been able to do one half af the busness that as come to me for the past sumer we could only take work up to Tuesday af each the other 4 days must be refused I did not have the convenience for getting it out all I could do was 1.50 to 1.75 per week I could get out 3.50 hundred and fifty with 20 dollars more help not counting the manager and with 2 pices of machinery principly the Centerfugal Extractor I send you a catalouge so that you can have a picture it is the one marked , I have one gas generating machine these 2 machines wwith a new laundry stove and belting (in all cost 240 18cts freight and Cartage paid 29 dollars) paid to the L.M.Co (thay were shipeld(?)) 1.10 in cash 1.30 18 to pay this is all there is to pay on Machinery I have 3 whashers like catalouge thesese Marked sold one I had when you were here it is not in use now it as to have a new Cilinder that would cost 20 freight about 10 dollars in all 30 it would be as good as new I do not need it I have enough to get out 3.00 and more a week more it is the dull season we do not avriage more than 1.50 per week but Counting COLLISONS Wages and the piric I pay for coal there is 20 to 35 a bove Expences now I can get RICHARD to figure up the Exact amount but with Moving so late in the fall and the cold weather it makes every thing cost so much at this time I canot get a head I thaught if I did not do well soon after I moved under the Circumstances it would be better for me to sell out pay my taxes and intrest and redeem RICHARDs greenhouses that would take 1500 to clear them and stock and take care of them from the first of May to the first of September when the first Roses could be cut then Roses are very risky if a person is not an expert in this lime (sic) RICHARD is not R. is thouraugh at general stock he served his time to it in one of the best graides of places af this kind and he speaks lattin and seem to be thouroughly posted in his busness but rose growing is a great (3) industry in this Country and those that Under stand it thouroughly get 18 to 20 per week I would be afraid to sell out the Laundry and put the bigest part of it in those houses for R. to run them the Man that built those houses with Richard he was a Rose grower these houses are built for Roses and are not well adapted for any thing else R. went to Minneapolis last Easter to Make a raingments for fluers for Eastre traid also to get some one to take Care af the greenhouse up to thahat time he had done the Marking and taken Care of the greenhouse as there was not much to do in either the busness kept increcing the Old buildings from the laundry I used in building sixty foot to the greenhouse I also a lot of Cold frams readddy last winter when there was not much to do as I had most of the meteireals for these in the early summer I had a lot of stock got ready as it cost but little but time and as I thought we should make enough in the Laundry besides expences to p pu put the glass and pipes for the new part thay would have Cost 1.60oo I have some of the first pipes left over as the summer past on work crouded me and not help or room to do one half I got Mr HARTMAN to help me with the sorting and tingup he i is a German born in the Country a bout 40 I should Juge he was with Mendenhall Minneapolis 7 years it was there that R. got a quainted with him he and R. worked to gether 2 years at Mendenhall R. worked for Mendenhall 2 years before he buillt aat Medecin Lake ther he was tired of the rose houses and Came out here for a Chang we paid him 10 per week that was less than any of the men he staid until the Middle of December until we got Mooned(?) and cought up with the work he could nonot sesee that we could starte up the greenhouse as we hoped to do so he left I was sorry to see him go as I hoped to make the greenhouse paiy I have had more call for flouers this winter than ever before it seems so bad I could not keep it going Mr Hr H. thaught the Laundry a terroble drugery and said he thaught the greenhouse a ....ly busness Compaired with this he thought if we Could sell the L. and redeem these houses it would be a fairy life to this Early last sumer I Made a Contrract for a new building on Main street the old lot I had had an offer to sel out the men that thought of going into the bisnees would only give me 700 Cash I wanted a thousand thay would not pay Me More so I new I must get a More Convinient place or some one would start up (4)I knew seven hundred would not be any thing for the trouble and expence I hade had and the prospects were good the Man that agreed to build said he would have the building ready for Me to Move in by the first of September he did not have it rready by the 1 of November I moved in the windows were not in at that time we hads a snow storm before it was closed in was very cold we had a few cold nights and I got a fraid if I did not move right a way I would be a big expence if it froce up so I got eight men and 2 teams and nearly evry thing was moved in splendid condition not a single brake it took less than two days the weather was very cold for 2 week the ground has been froce since if I did not move then it would hav been momost impossible As soon as I shut down I had a chase to get after the Man to Make them finish the building I did not leave them a day until it was finished the man that had the contract had sever at others on hand on hand for ....(?) Elevators hhe could not get help one of the parties sued him for not finishing his contract but he could not get work men at 3.50 per day so I do not know that he was so much to blame only he could have told me he could not finish it then I would have knownown what to do I think we could have cleared a thousand dollars beside the Extra Expence it was to get out the the work that was don, when we started the first six weeks we were shut down 12 days in that time the amount of work don was 10.63 teten h hundred and sixty three so that will ....(?) give you some idedg the a mount of work that there could have been don if we had been ready for it Early, I saw I was not going to have Money to get My Coal and Many thing that costs a great deal More to buy in small quantitys so I thaught it best to sell but R. thaught not but as time he thaught it best to sell as it seems hard to pay such a big price price with not having money on hand I ask 25 hundred for the busness and fixtures and eveery thing and every thing pertaining to the busness but not the building or lot when my neighbours hard I wanted to sell out thay were very indignient asked me if I was crasy or what was the mater that I should have worked like a slave thesese past years now to give it up for someone to reap the benefit JACKSON PERRY FOSTER nearly every busness man in the place and said if thay knew of any one that wanted to go into the busness thay would not tel them there had been several talkinng of taking it I could have sold right a way for part cash but I did not want that that there was a Mr PRATT in a grocery store had a greed to take it the first week in Jan but Mr COLLISON saw him every chance he got and finaly he decided not tto take it as soon as I hard he was not going to take it a glad feeling went over me Mr McBRIDE was in the other day and spoke to the men a bout buying it for som one he did not say who the patey was but he asked COLLISON if he bought it he would want COCOLLISON and STROHMEIER to run it for him or them I do not trust COLLISON and would not have R. mixt with money maters where COLLISON as any handling of it there is many little things very plan to me thad he dos not want it to pay for m me I do not know his reason he is a perfect gentleman in evry respect and very clever he is one of the finest machancs i ever saw and the quickest he is well liked here but there is a mistery a bout him I think I shall let him go if I could only be here my self I do not nead him or any on else with RICHARD he is so exact and his and his books are a credit to any man he is very clever with a pen and honist as the day he is to generous for his own good I tel you he is a fine specimen you would likike his good principle the only things he swears and dos not go to Church but he wants me to if I feel like it I have not been for a long time it seems as if fait was a ganst me now I it is two weeks last Sunday since I started this letter to you it seems as if I was not to finish it there as been a big change in the laundry since then Mr C. as gon and I have got a Mr ROOT from Minneapolis he seems to be a good honist (5) man but it is hard to tel who is honist these days it is the Greatest wish of my life that I might be honist I have asked for that more than any thing on Earth and it seem as if it is far from me to be that it seems as if evry year I live is harder the past has been the hardest of my life I have had a good busness all the timm my property is nearly double its value it was 18 months a go my busness a lone is worth 13 hundred dollars more than it was only a little over a year a go Since I comenced this letter to you I was offered 25oo twenty five hundred in cash since I have found out Mr COLLISON as got a way with in the neighbrood of 7.50 it would not count much for me to sell for 25 hundred so i decided to keep it and lelet RICHARDs houses go as this is a sure thing and if the first crop of Roses should be a failure I should not be able to clear my property and finish the several improvements I have aded to it the past 2 years I belive with good management I can clear more than 2000 next summer it will not be left to the manager to hav any thing to do with the cash or office work Mr C. was to smart for Either of us untill he destroyed the cash register slips that showed all cash paid out that week there was 40 forty dollars taken in no a count what it was paid out for as the slips were gon there was no one but him and RICHARD (6) that handled the Cash Register then he said in his advertisment all complants address to COLLISON manager he got some of the money from the agents in this way we have got letters addressed to Mr COLLISON Manager with the cash in them sent bby Express and many other ways he had that a person would not think of I knew there was somthing very wrong so I came to the Laundry and staid there all the time the enginneere slept there night so I let him sleep home and it did not take me lonong to find out some of his smart way of managing this thing for him self he pertended to be sick and did not work much after I went down to stay he was determand to close up the place so that I could not go on after he found we were on his tracaracack he seemed to be just as obliging and polished as ever but he was the last one to leave the Laundry this evening it was 40 below zero I kept the fires late then beded them down as the place is heated by steam I thought it best to keep fires h he left before 9 a bout ten I went to look at the boiler fire I found the boyler empty I had seen an our before it was fild he had opened a small valve that was sill leaking or I might not have noticed it I was so glad that for days I felt thannk god that I did not stay five minutes longer or I might not have seen it was empty I should have fixt the fire and left it at the time to put water in or let her take water would be a bout 4 hours without water the boiler would have been ruuined as the crown sheet would have been burned out , this made me determand to get his money and let him go at one I did so this little accurance gave me new currage for a time I had felt deprest RICHARD seemed half sick he said the cast did not cocome out right he had no ida that COLLISON was not what he seemed to be the books showed a profit of from ten to 40 per week and there was three weeks wages coming to all the help 2,900 two hundred and 9 dollars he said he could not tell wheere i it was going and he thaught we had better sell out and redeem his greenhouses he thaught this a hard busness and as he did not understand it as he did his own it was best to go out of it at that time these Pa.t.s(?) would only give me 2,000 thay have since ofered me 2,500 but it was only 4 days before this Mr ROOT came and he seems to be a good square man but he will have no chance and comning as he did I belive it is all for the best of the times keep on as the prospects are grow I can sell for 3,000 later in the summer if I should live and if not I want to have evry thing sittled before (7)the middle of April I do not exacly know how my life insurance is payable to you and if I should not live there is some things you would have to pay that is a gainst this property the intrest and taxes and the late bulding I hav paid betweeen 3 and 4 hundred dollars on it including some things inside If thay had finshed it when thay a greed it would have been nearly all paid by this time in the early summer I could have got a good man to run it for me RICHARD as always wanted me to have a manager he said I have worked hard long enough and there is good men to be got but I had to have a sutable bulding as no experienced man would try to do the work in the old buldings the one I did the work in the past year is a large hoouse and if it was fixed up would rent for ten to 12 dollars pre month I shall fix it as soon as I can where I have lived the past summer is a very pretty place the boys JIM and ALFRED have enjoyed it very much last fall and the Early part of thhe winter but the past few weeks as been very different as I could not afford to keep it going a bout the middle of december the Laundry was all in good running order Mr C. seemed to be one of the best of men for his place so I thaught I would go up to the house and have a rest I felt I needed it I had only been home a few days when Mrs TORREY was taken sick his son and his wife had gon to Chicago for 3 weeks she (8) was very sick with Billous fever the boys were real kind to her and sat up nights to give her medicen for a few nights she got along nicly in 4 weeks she was able to go to her sons thay are very kind to but she likes to work so she came back 2 weeks a go the boys would have staid with her at the house if evry thing had gon an all right at the L. but things are all changed I am going a way for some tim as soon as I can I should have liked to have left Mrs T. and JIM and ALFRED there until spring as I did not want to desturbe any thing for a time would have liked it out there next summer although it is to far from the laundry to be convenient but it was so nice on Sunday to be a way from it. Now about RICHARD and myself the 10 day of February 1892 we a greed to be one and from that date we have lived as we ever expect to do at this time we signed a paper to that efect that would be good in case of sudden death on either side we have the weding rings of that R. brrother is a Manufacturing Juller Mine is engraved from RICHARD to ELIZABETH and R. is from ELIZABETH to RICHARD 1892 we thaught from the first it was best to not let it be known on a count of my property as TOMAS B. had a mortage at that time you know how I stood, he had afferred to clear my property give me a home that I need not do my own work if I chused not for he was well able to take the best of care of me, then KUNEY and BILOLPH for years have shown thair willingness to take care of me especily Mr K a man I had not the least respect for, and the other I could help but respect as he has been a Gentleman in evry respect been here a bout as long as I have as a busness and I never hard a wrong word spoken of him - but I would rather run the Laundry and work evry day if it is neccery with RICHARD than to have the best home thay could give me since we decided to be one untll death seprates us it seems as if I had wronged the whole world for if it not one thing it is a nother and as we have kept this to our selves untill we thought my busness was in shape that I could change my name now we think it best to go to some small Town and get leagle Marrage Writings in case these would not be good in case of deateath then I will go to a hospital or a privat place until I am able to come back you spok of a little neice on - and that is my Conditon wich I think the last of April I do not belive any one has the least Ida of it, and you are the only one thathat I have told our secerstansom I expet you will be gisgusted but I hope you will write me onc more I do not deserve it but if it is not asking to much will you wire to R. when you get this letter then I will know you hav recived it I feel succh r remorse and it will be such a relife to me. ho hom I could apreicate a little of the care and kindness that you spent on me the winter I was with you If R. could go with me I would not mind it as much but I belive evrything as taken a change for the better it seems like it when I go a way from here I shall have lots of time to write and if you care to here (9) from me after this I shall be very glad to write if there is any thng you wish me to do in regard to the property concerning your intrest say so and I will do it R. Green houses are sold on the 4 day of April it would be a good investment if you knew of any one that would like to buy one 12 hundred is the Mortage Mr. HARTMAN the Rose Grower we had out here said 3.65 would stock and pay all expences from the first of May to the first of September he said from a Moderate Crop he could cut from 8 to 9 dollars per day and there is always a demand for them there so it would pay bif intrest on the Mony invested I should like to keep the L. untill I get my debts paid then I would like to buy the houses back it would be such a nice busness to this but this is a sure thing if we have crops and I have so much in vested here and I think it is the best for me to keep the laundry for a year longer. I was glad to hear from you that MARY got a long so well I think the last picture of youre husband is much better looking picture than the first one. who knows the future my circimstances may be for me as thay have seemed to be a gainst me and I may be premmited to come and see you or you to see me, I think the difference between you and it as never been my intenton to do wrong but it seems as if my calculotions were always wrong if I live I feel sure it will not allways be so I think there is better days in store for me, you (10) want to be sure and take lots of exercise to scrub once in a wile or something of that kind is of great benifit to persons in your conditon also to walk and do hard work work is good once in a while it gives strength I wish you had a book that I have I have 2 af them if I had a little neice if one with such poor Judgement might sugest a name it would be HARRIETT for I belive our dear Father saught the Lord with all his hart many years by chance I have seen knelt by his bed side saaying his prayers and I belive the Lord granted his request that some one should be kind to you as you had been kind to them I belive the name of Father and Mother HARRIET was the sunshine of thair last days and may the name be what it may I wish it may be the sunshine of your life as yours was to them. JIM had a letter from ROB he said thay were all well and doing well Brother had worked steady at the carpenter trade since Agust 35 cts per houre and he was working at the same things KIRK was gitting 13 dollars per week JOE was at the printing trade WILLIE going to shool. JIM said when he left HARRY he had had steady work at 200 per day and most week 14 he said ANNIE did much better thay were Expecting an in creas in the family JOE was working and a much better boy thay were all well JIM is going to garden out here this Summe he comenced to get ready to day he was very sick a few days after Mrs TORREY got up he has not looked as well since I think he will feel betteter when he gets out dors to work he wrote to Brother a bout renting the farm he said he could hav it for a year if he paid the taxes so JIM is going to try it a gain. Mr and Mrs BURGETT are the same Many times ask after you and Miss S. the Mc.B.B. are all the same I very seldom see any of them. pleas do write soon and address the letter to RICHARD as I shall not be here he will send it to me we have had a lovly winter only a bout 2 weeks at 30 and 45 below zero this has been the finest winter I have seen in Dakota you will be tired of this long letter I think I have told you all hope you are all well I remain Bad BETSY as usual love to all" (revised 04.09.2026)