Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-20
BUT little FOOD
OF Proper Kind Is En-
joyed by Sandfordites.
Potatoes and Cattle Beels
Said to Be Chief Supply.
The coIonists Are Reported to Be
In Pitiable Condition.

Portland, Me-, July 19.-There is
much to convince observers that af-
| fairs at Shiloh are. in very bad shape.
| There is little if any doubt about this,
if one may believe reports. A repre-
sentative of the Express Advertiser
was told this by man who was at
| one time prominent at Shiloh. but who
broke away after a few years expert
ence. This man has seen number of
people from Shiloh within a short time.
also others who keep themselves in
formed how things are going on the
hill, and it is claimed by him that not
since Sanford with his spade and
wheelbarroW began work preparatory
to building the temple have the mem
bers of the Holy Ghost and Us. colony
been SO discouraged and without re-
sources as they are at the present
time. People are reported to be leav
ing continually and it is further stat
ed that some of the leaders would
leave if they had the courage or had
some other place to which they could
go.
g
tiser representative was told had left are
Mrs. Adamson and her family of five
children. They have taken a small farm
and will try to get a living from it with
out the husband and father, who would
not leave.
That the people are discouraged is evil
denced in various ways. They did no ex-
tensive planting on any of the farms this
spring, cultivatng only small gardens
The informant stated that all of the cows
and oxen have been sold. and only a few
old horses. kept for driving purposes, re-
main. This man was told within a short
time that the only food the followers of
Sanford on the hill had were potatoes
and cattle beets Only a short time ago
a meat dealer called Shiloh by telephone
and told them he could give them a good
trade in meat, but in reply was told that
there was not cent in the safe when it
was opened that morning.
The informant stated that soon after
the Kingdom arrived at South Freeport
from Palestine that Mr. Sanford was
in great need of money and wanted $500.
When he asked how this was raised he
was told that the town of Durham had
just paid the Shiloh school teachers, and
this money went to Sanford. The post
masters salary. he was told. also went
the same way. The town of Durham is in
the hands of Sandford The man claims
that they elect officers who will hire
teachers from Shiloh and their salaries
go to support Sanford. The postoffice at
Shiloh is in a farm house near the Hill
top temple, and the people in that part
of Durham have their mail sent there
The office is run as any fourth-class
postoffice, but all the income is said to
go to Sanford, for the postmaster is a
member of the Shiloh colony
The report is current that Holland.
styled moses" by Sanford, is still at
Shiloh. but that he has been deposed
by the head of the movement, elijah"
and other men are in charge. The con-
diticn without money and with the
glazing prospect of no crops is said to
have struck terror to. the hearts of
MANY in the colony. The people are
evidently losing their courage and
even getting dstrustful of Sanford
This man predicts the fall of Shiloh
within d short time, unless Sanford
gets money very soon, and it is not ap-
parent where he is to get it. 1t looks
to him as though the self-styled Eli
jah'' had gotten to the end of his rope.