Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-04-14
THE COLONY DIARY
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the wicked. | wish Fred Waters would
get change of shift on the brick burn
ing, he interferes with my night work
by making regular calls between mid
night and the small hours of the morn
ing. guess I'll have to trade jobs with
him or move my private reading equip
ment down for his use. The physical
culture class was held tonight and well
attended, the topic discussed being the
lungs and proper breathing, after
which all took a trial at the exercises.
$3.50
Saturday.-Kemp has been planting
sorghum seed for mule feed in the gar
den near the mule barn. Van Nuland
is still blowing, Scharrer is hauling
fence material and Merrell is hauling
wood. Heyme is helping move a shed
over the brick-feed in order to store
clay so that the weather will not in
terfere with brickmaking. The saw mill
is still turning out hardwood lumber of
different kinds. The girls at the steno-
graph office went on strike and |
struck with them. So we joined the
rest of the kids and went down the
country about two miles on a hike to
pick mulberries and we came back
at noon with several gallons. now see
several nice juicy pies Gin my mind).
Our kiddoos enjoy these jaunts and so
do |. No country is more beautiful
than this one, and nature furnishes a
wonderful variety of interesting things
to study. In the afternoon the self
government league met and opened
the eyes of several visitors as to the
children's method of conducting their
own business and their understanding
of the new system of education thru
action. Stump pulling was resumed !
to-day and Comrade Gallo was unfor-
tunate enough to have his leg broken
by cable. But Maurriss is an opti- /
mist, takes his misfortune well and
will soon be driving his mules again.
to-day and looked quite natural at the
open window. Valek and Schad are
taking their day of rest and are poster
ing around George Thomas at the but
cher shop. Lots of new pupils attend
ed the dancing school tonight and |
stayed for the dance later in the even
ing.
1888
Sunday, April 1O-Nearly every
body took day off. We are all work.
ing hard every day in the week in or
der to get in our crops, get logs to the
saw mill and wood to the brick burn
ing; SO were glad to see the day of
,est arrive. Some went fishing, others
.ook long walks into the country, and
others were looking over the ranch to
get acquainted with what is going on.
Yes, it is a fact we are ali so busy
that we hardly know just what is 90
ing on in other departments. There
have been so many social functions
at this place the last week that | re-
fuse to mention any of them, or you
would think | was writing a Ladies
Home Journal, or the chronicles of
ladies' aid society The butterfly life
has been in full swing-nuff said!
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Monday, April ll-Comrades Sat-
nan and Lindsey and the tractor are
back en- the blowing job. Kemp and
Van INLAND are doing the same kind
of land busting. Kemp with the disc.
Lloyd, Atkins, Shut and Horne are
now hoeing the sugar cane in the field
south of the store. The boys started
the hot fire in the brick kiln to-day
and the wood proposition is our next
consideration. Did you ever hear a
fish story? Do you always believe it
all? Well. now this is fish story and
you can swallow it, hook, sinker, and
all if you wish, or you can salt it down
its up to you. Today the Linns and
Rooneys engaged the hotel dining room
in order to treat the whole Colony to
fish dinner. Elaborate preparations
were made and special setting of the
scenery placed to stage the greatest