Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-03-10
THE COLONY DIARY
Continued from page One


Saturday. March 5-The potato
planting crew are again clearing land
having finished ten acres Of spud-
planting. The brick yard is turning
out an excellent quality of brick and
running steadily every day. Joe Valek
and drove north to Anacoca and
| Hornbeck to-day and transacted some
business. 1t is the first time Joe and
II drove over this road together since
we drove in from California. Comrade
Harry Wechsler, the long-expected
bookkeeper, arrived to-day and will be
on the job Monday. Geel you should
see the smile on Burtohs face; no
wonder, either Burton has been book
keeper, station agent, express agent,
office boy, telephone girl, roust-about
1.-The trouble-shooter SO long that he for
got he was in Cooperative colony,
and thot he was wage slave again.
But the shadows are now lifting and
he can see a brighter day dawning at
the colony office, with new book
keeper on the Job. Says Wooster, if
we wish hard enough, we may get a
Chinese cook, noodles, chop-suey, etc
i l-Oh, my! don't talk about it. |
want shoemaker, broommaker, gard
ner laundryman, and more farmers,
!, Schad can make the chop-suey. Van
lIINuland, Scharrer and Merrill are haul
Y ing wood to-day and Kemp is plowing.
! Comrade Baltazore is just flying into
! the wagon repair work and has all
ready begun taking in work from our
neighbors. John Brostrom has been
busy for several days fixing up the big
stump-pullers and it won't be long be-
n fore John and crew will be extract
N ing some large and troublesome stumps
Il from our newly cleared land. This
NJ clearing crew expects to operate quite
steadily all this year. A new arrival
Y at the Scharrer home-a young colon
y list and another girl-Oh Leonard!
Buck and Gleeser are again planting
n trees with Nash and Austin. Cantrel
y put in his day hoeing strawberries
n The floor was crowded at the dancing
class tonight and good crowd en-.
ioyed the dance later in the evening
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n Sunday, March 6-This was busy
y day for some. | got struck with ar
n idea and had to call board meeting
\ to help unload it, and it took all morn.
j ing to complete the job. In the af-
y ternoon, Lindsey, Tackett, and drove
\ out to the poultry farm to look ovel
n our fences and results are that Iacket
N will begin to build new fence straight
81 west from the Powell corner until he
II meets the west line fence built ther
three years ago. Later Lindsey, Tack
4 ett and Vernon Boyce went to the hos
| ranch and inoculated some pigs. NAM
Of the kiddoos and some grown-up
were out at the swimming pool anC
report a fine swim. Spring sure an
here. Synoground and Roede. chang
| ed big pulley on the brick machin
and made other repairs necessary to al
early start tomorrow. The Menta
Science class had dandy meeting an
Il all you colonists who are not attendin
are sure missing. something good. Ou
new colonists were out in full fore
and one newcomer said this Is tn
best meeting was ever in. After th
class a full house was held at the th'
II ater, where the little tots put on PR
gram, and one man who is figuring Q
joining the colony. said. when sa
what the children are being taught,
Immediately decided to stay" Yes,
is single man, but has the right kir
of heart. and if he keeps that spil
he will make a good colonist. Ho
/ nice it is to have people come in al
II appreciate the work that we are don
and attempting to do in this big. wori
III wide movement; it gives me n,
Ill wish 10 do better and battle on
isl greater achievements. We think !
Ill lsre teaching our children the real
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