Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-12-22

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can be actively used in our vicinity.
The psychological meeting was held
from 7 to 9 o'clock tonight and the
whole two hours were enjoyably and
profitably spent by those who attend
ed.
$3.50
Friday. Dec. 10. = 1t rained last
night and part of to-day, but work
was kept going through these local
showers. All available men are tear
ing down the big shed between show
ers. This store of ours is busy place;
our trade has grown so much that our
workers there are busy all the time.
Comrade Gaddis, Rose BeIohradsky.
Mrs. Gaddis, Dad and Harry Bell, are
kept busy all their time now days wait
ing on customers. Joe Valek in the
bakery and Mother Shut wrapping
bread and making candy. If these peo-
pie have little spare time. they just
keep going-l5 Colony-made comfort
'ers have been made on a set of quilt
ing frames. which Mrs. Gaddis has sus-
pended from the store ceiling. There
has been more knots tied here than
most preachers do in a Lifetime. Mrs.
C. and Rose are the principal knot
tiers. Colony Christmas Crates are
still being ordered from and shipped
to every state in the Union. They are
making a great hit, and more orders
are pouring in every day. A letter
from Huddre the first one to order,
says; The goodies in the crate were
great; send one to Dad at once" And
Dad will get his in few days. We
hope all who purchase crates will get
their goods in good condition, and we
hope our CoIony's best good cheer will
be found in the contents of all of them.
We want to make good to you and
prove what co-operators can do bet
ter than in competition, even though
we are pioneers. Well, while the store
crew is busy, believe me, our office
force is not idle. Mrs. Norgard writes
letters every day from morning until
night and with few hours help from
Rosa Matt and Louise Belohradsky,
they get out letters and literature in
great quantities; but the pile on my
desk seems to grow larger and larger
every day. 1t is not their fault; and
they won't let me write because | am
such a poor scribbIer. Why, even Bur-
ton hates to have me sign the checks
for fear | might accidently forge a du-
plicate signature some time. Mrs.
Dougherty has no small job filing the
letters for the whole force, keeping the
time and making up the pay roll for
the entire ranch and assisting as book.
keeper as well as making out ali re-
ceipts for subs. to the publications
You can understand Burton is a real
parasite; all he has to do is keep the
books for the entire Colony affairs, the
lLlano Publications and Democrat books
also being handled by this bird, and
he puts in his spare time as ticket
agent for the K. c. S. and is our To-
cal express agent. do wish this Of
flee force could find something to do
As soon as Burton can find an assist
ant to keep the fires going, he expects
to make a strong pull to become oul
local freight agent and postmaster
Nov, to watch over such a shirkel
gang makes me so tired that can
stay in the office long enough to an.
swer your letters. So you muslin
blame me; it's the office gang that is
at fault. Comrade Turnidge turns ou
to be a truck gardener and farmer
well, that's just what we want. Gu
garden now contains onions, radishes
beets, carrots, mustard. spinach, swis
chard, cabbage, turnlps, ruta bagas
and lettuce. Doesn't it sound good
Yes, they are growing fine; fine wealth
err. Many of our boys and girls ar