Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-06-17
IMPORTANT NOTICE.

All members OF Equality colony have
changed their address from Edison to quality
Skagit county, Wash. Remember this when
you write.
The carpenters are at work shingling the
mill.
Equality Cereal Coffee can't be beat. Trial
package by mail only l0c.
Comrades Berthold and VIM. Aust on bust
ness bent go forth for brief time into the
outer world.
Our California friends are informed that J.
NJ Moore 30S-310 Davis ST., San Francisco,
handles our Ce. cal Coffee.
These wagon loads of lumber and shingles
which our neighbors are hauling from the
mill these days is no unwelcome sight.
Commonwealth, reform journal of great
merit ISL year, and Industrial Freedom go
cents) both for 81 for short slime.
Mrs. Long and. Miss Edith Burgess will fill
the vacancy by Mr.. and Mrs Eddy's depar-
ture and teach the school the rest of the
term.
Seven Of our people took the big boat Sat
urday afternoon and rowed six miles over to
Samish Island, spent the night on the beach
and came back next morning.
The musicians would give graceful ex-
preston to the gratitude they feel tow
ard Comrade f. f. Burnett of Steamboat
Springs, Colo, for an Alto and Fleugel
horn.
About 20 of our members responded to the
call posted on the bulletin board for volun-
teers and spent Saturday afternoon working
on the county road, for the public good with
out pay.
Geo. Datch, Butte, Mont, appears on the
secretary's register. George visited the col
ony year ago and is now fortified in his
opinion that cooperation overcometh all
things.
Bro. Gunnison has the Progress up on the
blocks and is scraping the barnacles off her
bottom in preparation for her spring coat of
paint. Tho Progress is one of the fastest
sailing vessels on the Sound, designed solely
for speed We appreciate utility more than
speed however, and Bro. Young is making
alterations calculated to make her into a beast
of burden
Bro. Glass and family leave us this week
for Monroe. Oregon. They hope to join the
Christian colony there. He is devout man.
an ardent worker for the Master and his pie
ty is of the vital sort Tears came to his eyes
when he made his adieus. Bro. Glass can be
contented among cooperators anywhere. The
best we could wish him would fall far short
of his just deserts, and we trust the family
viii find things to their liking in the new To-
cation.
The boys in the trenches are now trough
with this character of work for this season.
Since the big ditch was completed. they hare
been busy digging and have completed about
200 rods of smaller lateral bitches. This work
is put in blind, that is, the ditch consists of
a wooden conductor which is laid in the ex-
cavation and covered over 1t means some
economy in lanG and great improvement in
appearance over the open ditch, considera-
tiOns which are held to be essential in Equal
ity.
Bro. Lee reports THE bovine species are
propagating fast He means by that, that
the number of certain creatures which have
the remarkable ability to take raw material
in the shape Of grass into their internal
economy and there convert it by means of a
chemical process peculiar to their natures
Il the finished article whichwe call milk
is increased this week by five. Five more
hands in the milk factory. Bossy Lewis is
responsible for two-fiths Of this effect but
this is fashion Of hers Year before last
also she did likewise.
1t now commences TO look a. though we
were going TO get al the land we have slash
ed over in shape for the pillow before the next
slashing is burnt: an achievement that did
not seem possible 70 me after | had spent two
weeks in the clearing business and there
learned by experience how slow was
the task An infinite patience coupled with
indomitable will and combined with the mus
Gle. the action and the example Of Bro. Young
before the weaker others of us. and we can
show you a little one-horse marvel already.
We may never present the spectacle of the
band wagon and six in hand leading the
procession Of progress, but will endeavor and
do expect 10 hold a position Of honor in the
line just now on either side OF the trail
which crosses the clearing seven giant and
seventeen dwarf piles of logs and stumps can
he seem they make an imposing. albiet. an
Interchangeable monument to our ingenuity