Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-04-21

place with pure bred chickens, ducks,
geese, and turkeys. They intend to
build another residence and other
buildings, Neutrality-suspicious., and do the
thing on a big scale at their own ex-
Ipense. Well, now, that is some CO.
operative spirit! Ell! What! The reg
ular weekly dancing class and dance
were held this evening and the latter
was made the occasion of double cell
Iebration-that of the fortieth anniver-
sary Of the marriage of Comrades Mr..
and Mrs. Crawford to each other; and
the seventh anniversary of the marri-
age of Comrade Hartman to the Llano
Colony. Refreshments were served
and the occasion much enjoyed by ali.
Sunday, April I7-WeII, this was a
real big day, and might easily have
trimmed us down to a little of nothing.
| was awakened by the fire bell and
at once saw big fire at the brick
plant; hustling into my clothes, and
down to the kiln, | found all the spare
wood and some of our Buildings on
fire. But by quick action and good
organization of men, women, and chill
dren, the fire was soon subdued by the
volunteer fire brigade. Practically no
loss was sustained outside of some
wood and parts of buildings, but it
wa narrow and lucky ecape. Next
time we want our brick burners to
keep their fire inside, even if the wind
does steal their flame. Comrades Hair
riman, Synoground, Deutsch, Pitman,
and drove down into the country a.
bout 5 miles, and while they specu-
lated how to save the world, sold
80 acres of land to two of our neigh
bors. Many of the people were out at
the swimming pool for a swim. Com
rade Rooney and wife returned to Pa.
to get their affairs arranged to come
back and become poultry raisers. |
do hope Rooney and Linn can do bet
ter at raising poultry than they can at
catching fish. Mental Science class
was held at $50 and lasted until 8 p.
M, after which we went to the hotel
to hear a musical program conducted
by Comrade George Thomas. Every
body enjoyed the entertainment, espec-
tally as most Of it was given by the
children.
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Monday, April l8-Back on the lob
again after the fire. The greatest loss
sustained from the fire was by the
laundry. Some one ran off with new
wash tub. | have since learned some
one got excited and left the tub in the
sweet potato kiln, after trying to res
cue two car loads of spuds in it by
hand. Satnan is hauling logs from the
east field to the saw mill and the stump
crew is back on their job making
real cleanup. Kemp. Van Nuland,
and Scharrer are farming with their
teams. while Oemman, Carlson. and
.MerreI are hauling wood to the big
boiler. Roede and Ole are repairing
the brick machine, getting ready to
make brick. They expect 10 start up.
about Wednesday. CantreIl and |
were in Leesville getting ads and ma
terial for the special number Of the
paper for May Day issue. Watch for
it; it will be dandy. Comrade Kaas
and Quero have broken ground for
new brick kiln and will soon have it
ready for the next run of brick. The
Esperanto classes were held in the
school house and afterwards Comrade
Hartman made talk at the hotel, I'm
Gle Jake giving up his evening for the
occasion.
y $3.50
Tuesday-The stump puller had bad
luck to-day; thru an accident they
crippled a mule so badly that it had TO
be killed. But that is the first acc;-
dent Of its kind in three years. Our
sweet potatoes have all been bedded
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