The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-11-25

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Thursday. Nov. 10. - Can you
beat ftp Such an easy bunch 10 dodge
as they are! Now let US 'hit'' for the
shoe shop and harness factory. That's
Kretchmer and Roede. Yah, they
make shoes. repair shoes, make harness
and repair harness and-.oh gee! what
next Here they are, making little
mattresses out of big mattresses! These
In undertaking the work, ire Friends
ebrating the arrival of baby boy.
two fellows can be depended upon to
do almost any old thingl Even to
peach on me for being off the job!
SO let's get out. Now. here is Belche-,
working on this tractor engine; his
partner, Jacques. is still in the cane
patch on emergency call, and King is
at the rice farm. Over here is Schus-
ter, the blacksmith. Just look at all
the work he has to do? You see, we
are now doing lots of work for our
neighbors, and here is Won Scio and
Wusfer in the wagon shop. These
three make wagons from our own trees
and the iron we have to buy. These
are our own homemade neck-yokes,
single-trees. double-trees, hubs for wa
CONS. wagon tongues, and-well, just
anything that any wagon maker and
blacksmith can make. Yes. Matt shoes
horses and mules, toe. Over here is
our stove maker, tin smith, and handy
man; his name is Belohradsky-and he
Jest makes everything" Now, here
in the saw mill is a bad bunch of school
kids, saving up gum. pine, hickory,
oak, ash, magnolia, and any other var
iety Of tree that arrives. That's Burt
Busick unloading those pine logs on
the skid-way, and that is Carl Hoover,
Dover Cryer, and Lottie Braun, rolling
the logs down to the saw. Carl runs
the saw, Dover rides the carriage I'll
guess he is too tired to walk back and
forth, so rides). Lottie and Ralph Gels
roll the log on those long lines of roll
ers to the place where it is to be piled
or to the cutoff saw. Comrade Mars
and Comrade Fischer are the ''huskies"
who run the stuff thru the planners and
then pile it up. Over here is Linn
Sanders and David Lindsey, running
crate material thru these two machines.
i is ''Zipp, and it is all over; so one
must be careful not to invest finger,
for these saws cut fingers as we'll as
wood. In the afternoon, Denver Cryer
and Geo. Jensen come into the game ,
and work en- these different machines. |
Here is Matt and Goldman making
Colony beds out of Colony hardwood. |
Yes, rush order; for there is bunch |
here who are going to leave the hotel
to take rooms elsewhere, thereby re-
lievins the hotel and making room for
visitors. Yes, we shall soon be max
ing chairs. tables, and other furniture.
Now here is long Fred" yes, just
PLAIN Fred-he is another all-arounder
to rounding wagon spokes, and
hubs and axe handles, hammer ham
dies, anei any old thing you may want
turned out. He is even accused of
rounding round nights when he can
get into a good game of cards. Yes,
here is Ole, filing saws and getting
them into shape to saw out a bunch of
lumber for several buildings soon; al
so for new houses. machine shop,
school house, and girls dormitory.
Don't ask me what will be next, or in
between these jobs! No one can tell
what will be on next. down here! Just
outside here, is Dad Crawford, who
drives the roust-about team and never
has to be given job. He always
knows how to find one. rain or shine.
Bill Gilbert is that blond fellow at the
boiler house, and he burns all the
wood the boys can haul to him. | Fell
is the other portly gent who is cutting
and splitting wood for Bill to burn
Over here BY the laundry, is Dad Shut
saving oak wood on the old cutoff
saw, for Brostrom to burn in the swee,
potato kiln. There is John, sorting anc
storing the sweet-spuds now. You sec
how nice and clean the kiln is kept
Well, we shall be eating potatoes from
there until next fall. Over here, II
this other part of the big concrete
building is the broom factory; this i
where Walt Fread makes brooms OF
rainv days. Ball and Strauss help hin
al times. They are also making whlsi
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