Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-03-31
THE COLONY DIARY
Continued from page One

are most honorable. Learn to do tn
useful things in life, and your powe
will increase under the new and san
cooperative system. The psychologi
cal meeting had a big attendance an,
was very interesting. These meeting
are the place where we learn to under
stand one another, thing necessar,
Itor complete cooperation. Orami
Will, commonly known as Collie ar
rived this evening for a visit to tn,
Colony.
Friday. March 25-The usual earl,
trip with Morrissey and Haynes to tn,
woods where they are telling trees. Til,
stump-pulling and land clearing crew.
are as active as ever. 1t was as great
sight to see these fellows in action
last evening as | have seen for a Ions
time. The sun was will down in the
west and shone upon the east back
ground of the field, which is now all
shades of green, where many kinds of
trees and bushes grow thickly along
the Casio Creek. This greenery ex-
tends around the north, east, and south
sides of the field and makes a wonder
fully beautiful picture. Here | found
Donaldson, Lloyd, and Horne pulling
stumps of all sizes with the machine
and mule team. Herman and Atkins
were burning brush and Millard, as
sisted by Daddy Shut, was plowing
on the east side of the place. Com
rade England has taken some photo
graphs of this field with the stumps
on it; later he will take others showing
1t all cleared and planted. dare say
this is the prettiest field in Vernon Par
lsh. The brick kiln is now finished
and the clamp is being built by Kaas
and Quero, two brick masons. Com
rade Mollard has started work and re-
allies great change in the climate
he came from Canada. Kemp and
Van Nuland are plowing at the Or
chard forty, and expect to plant cow
peas, clover, lespedeza, and carpet
grass; these will make a fine crop.
The saw mill is running to-day, and
Comrade Nash has joined this crew.
lhe laundry crew is small, but are do
ing big work. Dad Thomas is en-
glneer, fireman. and washer woman.
Mrs. Synoground and Mrs. Kemp do
the rest of the work for all the colon
lists and some outside people. These
people deserve lots of credit for al
ways being on the job and never count.
ing the hours; they have their work to
do and often work overtime to finish
it. Needless to say. the coIonists ap-
preciate that these people are doing
some of our most necessary hard work.
Our hats are off to them and we hope
some new colonist will arrive to as
sist in this department. Comrade John
son is making a farmer of himself half
the day and teaches school the other
half. Farmers we need, and there is
no work in the world that takes so
much real knowledge as that of the
farmer. You must be an all around
man to be an intelligent farmer. The
physical culture class held an outdoor
meeting tonight at the children's club
house.
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Saturday, March 26-Several more
changes were made today in crews.
Haynes and Morrisey are still cutting
timber on the Cooper place and had !
to pilot Millard, Robertson and Don
aldson to the same place where they
5kidded logs all day across a shakey
bridge and then brought home a load
of logs at the end of the day. This
hauling must all be done by April 10th. |
Baldwin is doing two trips a day with |
milk these warm days and reports sale |
for all his surplus products. Kemp and |
VanNuland are still blowing by mule |
power at the orchard forty, this whole ,
field will be sowed to COW peas for
pasture and hay. The clearing and
'tump-puling crews continued to clear
he field east of the tracks. Trix Ew-
ell is now working at the printshop |
part of her time. We are getting out
lots of new printed matter and it takes
extra help to fold and prepare it for
the mail. Now if we slight you and |
do not send you any of this literature
please call our attention to it; we want |
you to get them Please read. ponder
and act at once. Mrs. Robertson and |
Mother Crawford continue to be the |
early cooks at the hotel and they don't |
stop at eight hours; they put in a full !
day and just little over, too. Our
hotel needs help as we'll as the laundry. |
Are you willing. Once more Cantrell
reminds me of the May Day celebra-
tion and the special edition of his