Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-11-18
THE COLONY DIARY
Continued from page One

Ibles, the railroad calls it) the COM
rade had disagreeable walk from,
Leesville. This is the last day of the
Cincinnati convention and many minds
here are conferred on our. Representa-
tive there, Comrade George Pickett,
that his trip may be beneficial to the
whole cooperative movement. We be-
lieve that we have solved huge prob
lem when we can say that the coop
erative colony movement is the next
step in the evolution of the co-opera-
tive commonwealth. Because of the
mean weather, the usual Sunday even
ling entertainment was not held, but
the mental scientists met as usual and
a very satisfactory study period was
reported. Marcus DEFINE came back
on the afternoon train, having left Ole
and his car few miles up the road
with car trouble. Comrade DeVine
says it was a cold TRIP, and there was
no argument about it.
Monday, November I5-A crew was
put to work this morning making more
crates for storing sweet potatoes. This
crew consisted Of Comrades Van Scio,
L. A. Caron, on the machines, All Sat
nan on the engine and boiler. Com
rades Van NuIand end Scharrer with
their teams were hauling wood all day.
The laundry has been busy to-day,
and Daddy Thomas has Clarence
Shut tending fire and engine at that
place. Comrades Roede and De Vine
are back in the shoe shop again this
morning, and find plenty to do Dad
dy Crawford has been hauling freight
and express from Leesville to-day and
had to go after the mail again in the
! afternoon as the post office has not
sent the mail down. The regular car
rier has sickness in the family. In the
farm department, the crew was put to
finishing cutting the vines off the
sweet potatoes. and in the cane fields
Comrades Buhre and Horne covered
4 the cane which had been stacked for
burial. and were assisted by Comrade
II. Caron. Comrades Kemp and Efeym
finished the burying Of the seed cane
by covering the bed with dirt by means
Of scrapers. The fires were set in the
curing house this morning, and the
Colony now has one thousand bushels
of sweet potatoes in the. process of e.
Vaporation, The balance of the cron
will be harvested as the weather offers
the opportunity The penmanship
lass was held tonight and quite an
interesting group is taking up this
subject. Comrade Burton is teaching
this class.
Tuesday, November, l6-lauIing
and storing of sweet potatoes was re-
sumed again this morning. with Gem
Trade Kemp hauling. The Weather is
bright and bracing when the sun
comes up. Comrades Caron, Won Scio
IRoedemeister, and Synoground ae
running the mill making sweet potato
crates. Van Nuland, Scharrer, and
l1eym are hauling wood for the en-
lgines and the potato evaporator. The
shoe shop is running again with Com
trade DeBoer on the shoe car. He
went on his rounds to-day and will
probably return with full load Of
old shoes for repair. We need an
other shoe repair man. Our United
States Demonstration Manager, w. A.
Dougherty, is in charge of the potato
evaporator as he was last season; and
his experience along this line will IN
sure a good cure. Temperature of be-
tween so and 95 degrees must be kept
up for about ten days in order to ef-
feet cure. and then a temperature
Of about so must be maintained until
spring. The American Express repre-
sentatiyes arrived this afternoon fol
the purpose of installing the Express
office at the Colony. This will be a
great convenience to us and may pave
the way for a freight agency. which
we need badly. Because of the poor
postal service lately. we are going af-
ter our own post office again. The
card party was held tonight and was
of more than ordinary interest; as a
pair Of lady's hose, which was won al
a recent party BY bachelor posing
as lady. were put up for contest
Mrs. George E. Cantrell was the hor-
tunate lady. and George now brags OF