Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-12-03


Hotel Commonwealth is now open for the
accommodation of visiting colonists.
We will soon have enough cordwood cut to
load large scow for the Seattle market
The rates at the hotel for visitors are loc
per meal, and 15c for lodging; Coo per day all
told.
Burley creek. which runs through our land,
is still alive with steehead salmon, weighing
from s to 10 lbs
Comrade Burton (our printer), left his office
for about an hour yesterday, and as result
we had huckleberry pie for dinner.
We want shoemaker. Any one wishing
to Join a socialist colony SHOULD address The
Cooperative Brotherhood Olalla, Wash.
Comrade H. L. Stevens, wife and three
daughters have charge of the hotel, and it
goes without saying that all the boys are well
pleased.
The rain Wednesday was too wet to work
out in, SO the boys enjoyed themselves las
colonists only cam in the lodging house tell
ing yarns, etc.
Comrade Raedell knows how to file cross
cut saw, so l have been told. Nothing like
having your saw in good condition, when you
are saving wood.
1t is wonderful what an appetizer this land
clearing business is anyhow, and for indiges-
ton or torpid liver, there is no patent med
icine that can touch it.
Comrade Nosovitch of Equality colony is
visiting the Brotherhood colony this week.
The comrade is spending the most of his time
in the clearing with the boys
The carpenters have instructions to erect a
building for store and office purposes. This
building will probably be built of Shakes"
as we cannot wait on the saw mill.
We need four or five good milk cows Any
party having the same and wishing to join
colony, will do well to address the Cooper
ativo Brotherhood Olalla, Wash.
Comrade DeArmoud says he is cleaning
everything up as he goes along. When he
leaves a piece of ground it is ready to be
seeded in grass, or can be used for garden.
Huckleberries, did you say? Well, just
few. If there is one huckleberry in this neck
of the woods, there is one hundred barrels,
and as sauce and pie fruit, they are just my
size.
I Several of our neighbors have already sig-
fniied their desire to join us. Under our sys-
TEN it is only question of time when they
| will all come in. Let them come, we want
| them
Comrade DeArmond, our general foreman
of colony work, will put in fish trap tomor-
row, and we will salt and smoke salmon for
future USE This will not only save us money
but will give us a change of diet.
We are going to establish number of
small industries at once, and will soon have
number of articles for sale. All goods man
ufactured by the Cooperative Brotherhood
will be made and sold on honor
The arrivals at the colony this week are as
follows: Comrade H. L. Stevens and wife,
Misses .Nettie, Jenny and Edna Stevens, Cor
don Macdonald Carl Hokanson, f. j. Banded,
Cyrus Field Willard, Jas. b. Fowler.
Comrade Burton did not make the buckle
berry pies but he did pick the berries, and
sent them to the hotel where Mrs Stevens
completed the job of making them into pies.
Were they good? Well. ask Comrade
Packer.
You should send in your orders now for ci-
CARS that you intend to use to make Christmas
presents. In ordering state how many you
want and the price, as we have them at all
prices, from $40 to s75 per thousand, put up
80 in box at from soc to 81.
1t is just one month today NOV. 20), since
the first pioneers landed on the colony site
three in NUMBER Today the population is
sixteen, consisting of three young ladies' Mrs.
Stevens, one boy of twelve and eleven men,
eight of whom are single. No dead weight
here
We will build a tram road from where the
boys are piling the cord wood to the bay and
run the wood down TO the scow on car This
will facilitate matters wonderfully and will
make it possible for one horse To haul more
wood and do it easier than four horses could
haul in wagons.
We will soon need a good business man to
represent us in each county in the United
States. II you are out of employment and
have some business ability, file your applica-
ton at once for the exclusive control Of your
county. In making applications of this kind.
address Department A. The Cooperative
Rpotharhood Dlalla NVasb