Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-01-06

Sunday, January You have no
idea what a great lot of fun ] have
writing these notes each week. just
beg CantrelI to take the pleasure off
my hands. You see, believe in "di-
viding-up, but Cantrell is so wholly
unselfish that he always declines
/ was out to BaIdwin's for dinner to-
day. and | hope | get invited back a.
gain. huff said. | took occasion to
view the work that is being done at
the dairy. The new barn is finished
and the old one is having the floor
and stanchious changed. Also. hog
houses are being built. and things are
looking fine. Many new calves are
to be seen, and all of this winters of.
ferings have been heifers, except two.
We are expecting comrade to arrive
who intends to do the milking and let
Badly do the delivering of the milk
and other outside work. Comrade
Broughton is a great help to the dairy.
He seems to be real friend to the
baby calves. and they seem to know
and understand his every call. This
is beautiful day, and it wound up
with an excellent program at the the.
alter tonight. ~r.
Monday, January 3-Comrade Ben
nett and wife are doing fine work in
the school; also in the afternoon they
both do industrial work. Mr.. Bennett
goes into the garden with some of the
children and takes them into the mys-
teries of making things grow: Mrs.
Bennett has taken charge of the poul-
try and teaches the little ones WHO are
interested, to raise chickens. Atkins
finished painting the roof of the store
to-day, and know Ma Thomas has
been wonderfully improved in feeling.
She has always been worried about
leaks in the roof, for fear it would get
the goods in the store wet, or drown
her family Of cats. Satnan, Buhre.
Anderson, Bergman, are still at work
on the saw mill. P. Caron and Heuer
went to Leesville with load of apples
today. Joe Valek arrived back in
the Colony to-day. He has been gone
more than a year and half. If you
want to know who Joe is, he is our
first baker here. Most of the men are
still sorting sweet spuds. Won Scio
| is busy every day in the blacksmith
shop. Dad Thomas is back on the
Job at the laundry; and, as Dad has
been some time to think about things,
| am sure we will have some needed
changes down there. Merrill, Kemp,
Ivan Nuland, and Schrier have been
Ibusy teaming all day, hauling wood
to the boiler, feed to the stock, and
| getting ready to farm. Schad and
Thomas cleaned out the old butcher
shop, lard vat, and smoke houses, and
soon the smell of homemade ham
and bacon will flow from our break
fast tables. DeBoer and DeVine are
getting all the shoe repairing they can
handle thse days, even with the bad
weather holding Up the shoe car. -Four
COWS, two calves and pure-bred, reg
, istered Short-horn Durham bull, were
added to our herd to-day. This al
lows the breeding for beef cattle, as
: we'll as for dairy purposes. Another
shipment of fruit trees came in for us,
this making the second shipment; and
we will soon have large orchard
: planted in Dago Town.
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Tuesday, January 4-Satnan, Buh-
re and Anderson are working on the
fire-box of the big boiler, while Syn
oground and Bergman are putting up
the saw mill machinery. We will soon
be running both the saw mill and
brick factory, and the mechanics are
getting all work in good shape for a
continuous run. P. Caron and Van
INuland started for Slagle to-day with
wagon load of apples and Irish po-
tatoes: the boys have done good work
lin selling fruit and vegetables. They
furnish a source Of revenue to the Col
ony and allow the. people in this Vi
cinity to have fresh fruit and vegeta
bles. Another source of supply is nov
open to our friends. Joe Valek i