Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-09-23
THE COLONY DIARY
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deal was closed, showed him around
the place, and after seeing how we CO.
operated in making syrup, hauling
cane and pulp, and finely ground the
refuse up in the silo, he said, "it seems
to me all we farmers should go to-
gether and own our own mills and
machinery and work them together on.
your plan" He sees the light; that is
just what they should do, and. we are
here to point the way. Farmers, we
want you to get the idea, own your
own tools, and use them too, Do it
comparatively as we are doing, Or CO.
operate with us. DeBoer and Caron
must have SO many shoes they cannot
bring them home; they haven't come
lback from Fullerton yet. AL Satnan
is some busy man these days. He
mends Fords, does the bIacksmithing,
is the plumber, runs the hotel pump,
and takes care Of the steam boiler,
and runs the engines that are connect
ed with the steam boiler. Dad Thorn
as is on his old job at the laundry and
manages to keep his sore fingers out
of bad places. The usual Sat. even
ing dance was enjoyed by the colon
lists and by considerable crowd of
outsiders. Mr.. Ed. Gleason of Lees
vile, who used to be at the head of
the engineering department in the col
ony, visited us yesterday and return
ed the colony surveying instruments
that he has had in his possession for
several months, using them at Lees
vile and other places.
g * = s.
Sunday, Sept. l9th-Yours truly
had another work-rest day. Drove 80
miles in my Lizzie" and walked over
10 acres of land, which | expect to
sell at once. Also showed a visitor
to the Colony beautiful part of Lou
lsiana. While on this trip, invested
in the beginning of an alligator farm.
loo bad A A. Stewart is not here to
feed the animals. Bot four small
gator" and the kiddies sure enjoyed
the new pets that are now located in
swimming pool of their own near the
school club house.
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Monday. Sept. 2lst-Everybodv on
the big jobs we are now doing. Some
sawed wood to keep the two boilers
running,-Dad Thomas at the laundry
boiler and AL Satnan at the big boiler.
that is running the cane mill. Pete
Kemp and Van Nuland finished haul
ing the new silo material to its new
home at the dairy. We are building
a brick foundation for it. Four men
are cutting cane. Several persons, in
Guiding the school children, are head
ing the cane and running it through
the mill, and three men are running
the evaporatoE making syrup. Lind
sey and three other men and three
boys are finishing the filling of silo no.
2. Dad Crawford is busy hauling
brick to the dairy after he has deIiv-
cred the bread to Leesville. Comrade
Schad has gone into the bakery to
learn the trade and help Comrade
Schoettle. Fred Herman is now in.
the farm crew, where he has wished
to be for many weeks.
Tuesday. Sept. 2lst-The silo no.
2 was finished yesterday and the en-
silage cutter is being repaired at the
machine shop, while the new silo is
being built. The cane cutting and
hauling was interrupted by rain this
afternoon. and the cane on hand was
all ground up by evening. Will Tim
norman has been off his job couple
of days, and Baldwin has gone back
to his old job Of doing three mems
work until relief is offered. We have
'conscripted many Of our workers from
the store, offices, schools, print shop,
etc, in order to rush the syrup-mak-
ing; because the brick crew has sew
eral large orders for brick, and are anx
ious to get thru with the syrup in or
der to fill the brick orders. We are
filing many local orders for brick. We
just received an order for brooms from
Powell Bros. and filled same. People
are patronizing local manufacturers
when using things made at the colony,
and helping to bring many new people
into the community as we'll Comrade
Roedemeister, who recently arrived,
is first class harness maker; and as
soon as our crop rush is over he will
start a harness repair shop. AS these
is no other one near here, he should
get all the work he can handle. The
usual card party was held at the hotel
and in spite of the rain those attending
report a dandy good time. We are
looking forward to the big movie"
show Wednesday night.