EDGOOSE, Elizabeth

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• Name	EDGOOSE, Elizabeth
  Gender	Female
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I4294	Edgoose
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

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  A Letter written by ELIZABETH STROHMEIER nee EDGOOSE to her sister HARRIET RIGGALL nee EDGOOSE formerly COCKER on 19 April 1892. The letterheading is that of the Aberdeen C.O.D. Laundry, 412 Main Street, Aberdeen, South Dakota. "My Dear Sister I recived your welcome letter I was glad to hear from you. also to recve the check you could not have any idea what it is unless you had been situated as I have been the money is a god send to me and the prospects are that it will double its vallue to me or you in the comming year. prospects were never so good for the past 10 years since 1882 there has not been so much Rain 7 seven and a half inches of Rain sinc the first of April we had up to that time more snow and Rain than for years before people were in exelant spirrits before the last bountiful rain it has been a time of much thankfullness it been almost impossible for any drayage on the streets Many of the Busses with 4 horses and could not Get to some Parts of the City with them Rain Coats Umberllas have been in use this spring for a tme it looked like the Old Country such a fine steady rain such as I never saw in this Part of the Country this is the 19 of April the mud is most gon people are seeding where they can the whole comunity seems to a new energy with gratitude building is comenced in several place thay say there is to be a New brick Opera House on the Oppostt side corner of the street from this lot is in the middle (2) of the Block it is to cost 24 Twenty four thousand dollars also aother (sic) Brick building in this Neighbrood this will bring property up the property is more than double its value since last fall houses that have been vacant since you were here are all Rented this spring. I feel sure all that have staid will make up what has been lost or sunk for my part my prospects were never so good I have the prospect of some good busness with some one to look after it - the money I might better say Mr. SIS a good one to get in the money and think it is good paying if the momey is well taken care of he dos the marking and bookkeeping and tends to the flowers in the Laundry for sale - we had cut flowers and pla.(?) for sale for Easter and a Paity(?) last night and sold oure 40 forty dollars worth so you can see there are some people here that have money we could have sold twice that a mont if we had them, you will see by the paper I have a man to run the Laundry I got so tired of the help in the L. that I thought it would be best to get a good man to manage it for me I moved last fall to near the greenhouse and had such a time I thought I should never get things in order again when I did I thought I would get some one that would have the responsibility(?) of getting the work out it was to much for me I got so tired of it I am called of so many times thenn I had to leave the girls to get the work out and many times tha would come and stay off just as they felt help has been very hard to get of any kind this man is a good worker and the girls do much better for him than for me but thay dont like him I think I shall go into it as soon as the busness built up a ain when I moved last fall thay cracacked the boiler on the big Engin the small one would not do the work so I was closed down 4 weeks this was a big expince and worry - there is not a nother laundry for 250 to 300 miles each way so when I could start up again most of the work came back I think I shall have a big busness this fall it is very much better the past four weeks it is not convenient to get the work done af the main street and I shall get (3) back a gain as soon as I can Now a bout the monny you have sent I recived two checks one on April 5th the second on April 13th I cashed it at the Aberdeen National Bank where I cashed the first one I deposited 900 nine hundred af it in the s same Bank as Mr A. L. WARD the Man Mr JENKINS borrowed 900 dollars from to pay my debts when I was sick there was 2 years taxes to be taken out of it this was taken out of the 900 Mr JENKINS paid them I hink (sic) thay ...(?) 1.50 ddollars ( (sic) this did not pay only a bout half most af the others I paid out of the check on April 5th first check the second I wanted to pay A. L. WARD the 900 and give him a note for the intrest for 60 days but he wanted me to have it endorsed on the mortage but I told him I could pay in in (sic) a short time and I wanted to give you a mortage on this lot and would git the money from some one in town so I left in in (sic) the Bank yesterday thay told me at the Bank that this check was a duuplicate of the first one so thay have written or telegraphed to the Bank to see a bout it I told the mayor MOODY he is the President of the Bank that you had sint it to me and I thought it was a second and not a duplicate of the first a asked D Dr McNUTT what he would do in this case as I did not wait to leave the check at the Bank. Now is you will write me as soon as you can and tel me if you have sent twice Mr WARD does not seem very anxious to take the money but I shall try to clear it from it if I had it was A L WARD I would than not hav taken it of him as he wanted me to trade this lot to him for some of his property 5 years a go so he is not very anxious to have me redeam it I will give you a clear Mortage on it and evry thing that I have this will take thirty five 35.00 hundred in all that is bsides the 3 thousand five hundred I have had I will pay the interest on this evry three months and if I should fail to paay you can fore Close and it is just as good to you as a deed for a un(?) paid Mortage is the safest and best for the Law is here in favour of the partys that loan the money then if you have a Mortage you know no one can put a lean on it as thahhay have done if I had given you a Mortage for the first Money you paid on it or let me have I should not have had anything a gainst it as people in this part when thay lend money at twelve and a half intrest thay know it is almost sure not to be redeemed and if you hold a mortage there Canot be any lean or Money borrowed on it then it could not be sold without it was reddemed from you this I belive will not be the case. I belive if you Can and will secure secure (sic) for youre Own(?) interest and prinsable by taking a Mortage for 2 or three years as you say, and at the end as I said if I fail to pay the intrest or prinsable at the end of three years it is yours as 2 years then you fore close and one yeare after date the sae sale is made, but if I do not know what may be in the future but I think I have seen the hardest part of my(?) days it will not be as long a struggle as it as been for I dont have the strength or ambiton that I had years a go, as I said beforforore I belive it will be very easy for me to pay the intrest evry three months I am sorry I am in such a state of debts and have had so much from you without paying intrest but I feel sure that by holding this property it is an independence fofor M Me and youre money is well invested there is going to be a great deal of Eastern Capitol brought in here this summer, I have not hard from Chicago for some time the Note was malised(?) from you but not any thing from any of them I know thay feel terable espicily MARY she does seem to have More than her share of sorrow I think of all those that are a Care to her and none now to be a part of the burden she has to bear she took real comfort with Mr. BAYLES he was such a good man I hope that Mother will be good to her I think Brother JOHN and MARY can get along better with Each other than with any of us thay seem to think a great deal of each other and thay are so much a like in ways (4) (5) thay had many a long chat the time she took care of me last Winter I am glad thay live near each other She will see to Brother then he will be kind to her She was so good to me I belive I should never have got up a gain as(?) for her I thinhink it is unkind of me not writing to her oftener but the time goes and I am a miserable one to write If Mr FLETCHER stays and RICHARD ....(?) in the ofice that will give me lots of time it seems strange to me to(?) have some one to Care for mme a and to take an intrest in things without pay I do not pay him any more he has his 4 ....es(?) out of the busness i shall be glad to get my busness in shape so that I can do as I want to he went to Minneapolis to make arrangements for plantnts annd flowers for the season brought many things in the way of gardning and Greenhouse Tools also a picture of his greenhouses he did not have the money from Home to pay the mortage that was on them for 12 hundred so they were sold on the 4 of Apriil when his Partner left it he borrowed from the bulding and Loan Asococion his partner had money enough to finish and run it but the Cars, the Cable Cars did not go out there as was expected so he went west and lost more than would have finished and run the busness RICHARD kept it 2 two years after he left then he had to give it up , he has the use and(?) Can rent it for nearly a year to 4 of April so he rented it a Minneapolis Parties in the Greenhouse busness for 10. in cash per month or 15 per month in plants that is as good as cash to us as there is ready sale them here and will be agood paying busness. I do not make as much on them to have them shipt in but it perks up the Trade, I will send you a picture of the g greenhouses thay stand on one Acer and a half of land this that was paid for before thay built he sittled with his partner for 5.00 to be paid in 1895 this man looses all if STROHMEIER looses if he clears(?) it is (to) be paid for his intrest in the whole of it STROHMEIER says if they would have staid together it would have been a good paying busness as thay both understood the busness they went to College to gether learnt the Trade together and if the Cars had gon out there thay would have been there yet I suppose it is all for the best ALFRED is here he seems to be very much dispirited at STROHMEIER being here he is a very odd disposicon(?) he is a strong healthy boy you would not take him to be as old as he is , he said he thought I looked much Older than I do he thought I had gray hair and was Old looking by this time but I took to him Just the same he does not like R. very well(?) R. is very perticular A. sone(?) Carless(?) and very set in his way I think he we will Imprrove in this he and I take Care of the greenhouse Mrs TORRY is with me and makes things very Comfortable ALFRED and I go to Church together it seems nice to hav him here I tel you education as an early training is a grand thing to have I am going to send Mrs TORREYs picture - thay hav just brought this note I .......(?) to you from the Mail I shall hold the Check untill I hear from you I know Mr R MOODY is a reliable Man so is the Bank but I think if it was a duplicate of the other yoyou would have told me so, it must be a mistake at the Bank in England thay have numbered them the same you will see from the inclosed this seems a great deal of Money to you I know for me to be owing but it is not much as som as theieis things are ....(?) are in good running order a fortune is soon made or lost I believe it is for me to make now - the Money is not lost that I have to pay for the Busness and .....(?) and land is worth more than I owe the building I put on ththe lot in front of the shanty I could rent it for ten dollars as soon as the laundry is ....(?) of it as soon as you have a Mortage on the Main Street lot I shall put the builing that is a nother building the ones that were on there so old Could not get the work out in it then if WARD forclosed thay take what is on the lot so I made sure of the Machinery bfore it was due he did not hav any clame on it but if it was on it at the time I could not take it off as soon as I get the fence fixed I will send you a picture of the house and greenhouse these are more than a thousand dollars worth and are all except 2 two hundred and twenty five dollars to pay on the house, the improvements on the greenhouse are paid I had a picture takaken of the greennhouse when ROB left it you will see it is improved and a bout 30 sashes for cold frames these are paid for I would rather have the gardening and greenhouse than the laundry if I understod it as well I must bring this long letter to a close hope you are all well with love to all I remain ever the same BTSY, this is a pictures was taken to send to R. S. ......(?) I am going to be taken again soon"