The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-14

repairs. but the Vlolln class anu the
agricultural class were held as usual at
the school house.
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Saturday, Oct. 9. - A fine big rain
yesterday and last night caused 4
change in work. Wood-cuttins and
wood-hauling were the big jobs for
the farmers and teamsters excepting
those who joined the brick-making
crew. All the other engines were clos
ed down in order TO give the mud eater
all the steam she needed. Did / ever
tell you how we make brickp Well, I'll
do ii, anyway. Asbig plow is run thru
the clay bank the evening before in
order 10 loosen the clay to receive wa
Ter, SO that the scrapers can gather it
up next day. After the blowing is done
the ground is well saturated with wa
ter and it is allowed to soak III thru
out the night. 1t is then scraped up
with slip scrapers and hauled BY two
teams onto platform, where it is show
eled upon carrier belt and dropped
into the pug mill, which is about 10
feet long; here it is plugged and fore
ed forward to the brick machine, where
lit is forced out thru hole just the
size Of brick. This string of hard
clay runs on belt up to an automo-
matte cutter, where il is cut into the
Lengths of brick, dropped onto another
belt and carried to two men who lift
them off the belt by hand and put
them on pallets made to hold them
Isl brick are stacked loosely but un-
|iformly on the pallet. After it is fill
ed, specialIy-made truck, operated by
one man, picks it up and wheels it
away to be set aside to dry sufficiently
TO make it ready for the kiln where it
lis burned. After the bricks have dried
enough TO make them solid. they are
run down trough with small rollers
forming the bottom, the rollers carry
ing the brick down to the kiln. where
the arches are made and the kiln fill
ed. The fires are started and burned
very slowly until all the water is out
of every brick, when the hot blast is
started and kept up until the brick are
burned to white heat. The fires are
then closed up. Every opportunity for
draft is shut off and the top of the
kiln covered up. After they are cool
ed, the kiln is opened and we sell brick
to our neighbors and use them to build
our own buildings. As soon as the pre-
sent kiln is burned we shall finish our
machinery building, start our school
house and our permanent homes. The
top story of our roof garden is built
of Colony brick and Colony lumber.
We have not finished laying the floor.
This job is laid away as a rainy-day
one. During the first rainy spell, we
shall finish the floor; and then our
gymnasium work and our dances will
be held here. Tonight the dancing
school and the dance were held as
usual at the hotel. Owing to the rain.
the crowd was not large enough to
over-crowd the floor-a condition that
makes us long for the roof garden ev-
cry Saturday night.
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Sunday, Oct. s. The great mass
Of people want a Sunday sermon
preached to them and it is generally
believed that people should go to a
school to learn how to preach these
sermons. 1t doesn't make much diff
ference what one breaches, he can get
an audience to listen to him-provided
he says one or two things that will per-
init the listener to justify his worldly ac-
tons towards his brothers. The great
est robbers of mankind are told they
can gat to heaven in a certain way. re-
CARELESS of the starving little folks that
are permitted to live only few years.
because their bodies are denied suffi-
cient food to properly nourish them,
because of system of profit gather
ing. Men are shown way TO get to
heaven tho they may drive young girls
to prostitution for an opportunity to
eat or have some of the so-called plea
sures Of life. The gates Of heaven are
pictured as opening to those who vii
pay the cost of the preachers hire
Iwho will refrain from telling the truth
Of the suffering Of mems brothers and
sisters" here on earth. IF there is a
just. loving father looking on oul
actions from day to day, what must he
think Of his sons and daughters-some
living in modern palaces. never turn
ling their hands TO useful toll, yet tax
ing from the toiling. masses so much
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