Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-10-14

was attended by an exceptionally large
crowd. both Of home folks and Of out
side visitors.
So $50
| Sunday, October l0-Was a day Of
rest. but some Of these fellows get the
idea into their heads that rest mean.
only change of activities; so / founc
about IS blacksmithes. and mechan-
les (who usually operate on the farm
or III the brick yard) resting in the
shop around the forge and machines
lall of which they had in operation
Well, sometimes think this is better
rest than sitting around, swearing, anc
telling dirty yarns, or gossiping. Of
course these latter are not necessary,
but usual. lust the same. And if some
Of our fellows play" at something
useful it is much better than not to
play at all, or at something useless.
Ole Synoground drove to Mansfield to
load the pug-mill tomorrow. Mrs.
, Wrenshall gave an entertainment at
the theater tonight. the first in sew
eral weeks. We expect to have a pro-
gram every Sunday evening from now
on.
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Monday. October 1.-THE farm
crew is still working at the dairy,
clearing land. This means pulling
stumps and brush, freeing the land of
everything that would obstruct farm
ing operations. Several men are pull
ling the ripe soy beans at "Dago Town
and putting them in a vacant house
to be threshed; also the fencing crew
is extending the hog pasture to in
clude several more acres of the soy
bean field, in order to let the hogs get
up to the water at the well. DeBoer
and Caron started for Fullerton at 6
am. to-day, end returned at 9 pm.
They report a big business and no au-
to trouble. Fine. Mr.. Stuersel is
going to go to Massachusetts,, and we
are now looking for another shoe MAX
er who is a co-operator. Comrade De-
Vine is shoe maker, and will run the
shop, assisted by Comrade DeBoer.
but we don't want DeVine to hold
down the shoe srop and brick factory
jobs both. he might get them mixed.
So shoe maker we want right away!
Mrs. Ewell has opened up the sewing
and has been doing odd
jobs for a week. but expects to start
operation in a few days in a real de-
partment She will also sew for peo-
pie outside the Colony. and teach
sewing to our school children. More
practical education. We were noti-
fled that the machinery for handle
turning has arrived in Leesville. The
bakery is doing double business the
last two weeks on account of Grand
Jury and Court weeks at LeesviIle.
Schoettle and Schad are busy men in
this department. We are gathering
material for display at the LeesvilIe
Fair. We are anxious to demonstrate
and prove the possibilities of this Par
ish. forgot to say that calf No. IL
arrived in her new home at the Colony
last Friday from Wisconsin. Com
rade Burton started his penmanship
class tonight and will give a lesson
every Monday evening from 6 to 7 p.
NJ: a large number of our colonists
are joining the class, both old and
young. The principal thing in pen
Is practice. SAYS Burton, and |
where this is strictly followed out, one
essen a week will suffice. While Ole |
S away. Satnan. Waters, and Schrier
ire slipping one over on him. You
know the saw mill and its supplements
Ire Ole's pets. While he is in Mans
ield getting the pug-mill, these other
elbows are rigging up his pets. Mad /
dad! should say not. Just a glad
Die. Roedemeister is sewing leather
'elting for the big machines. He will
Don be sewing belts Tor horses, hitting
ollars at his harness shop. Roede
.nows the harness game thru and
nd thru. and we shall be glad when
e starts his harness shop. Ma Thorn 4
5 and Rose Belohradsky are justly
iroud of the appearance of the store
ndthe stock of goods they are carry
ng. The Esperanto class was held at
Z pm, as usual Many of our colon
It's are now at the stage in Esperanto |
here they can converse in this the
lest scientific of all languages. More
over to your tonguesl This com
nunity will soon have the largest per-
ent of Esperanto-speaking people of
II communities in the United States.
3 y s. s.
Tuesday, October l2-John Bros
-om and his crew are still making
God progress at the dairy, clearing
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