The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-07

put the cause ahead of your dollars?
This is a mans game down here and
we need people who really want to do
mans job. The only job worth fool
ing with Your life will be success
full only as you give to society more
than you take from it. Are you Civ
ing to, or attempting to take from. this
great world movement? Come in, COM
rades. the water is fine; but you must
know how to swim!
1888
Friday. Sept. %. = Our laundry is
conducted almost altogether by the wo-
men. Comrade Beavers. ST., is the
only man on that job. The other work
ers at this important service industry
are: Mesdames Beavers, Chappelle,
Goldman, Hall, Wurfer. Kemp and Fis-
cher-also Docia Cryer puts in one
half day, going to school the other
half. There is no industry any more
to our needs than the laun-
dry, with the exception of the hotel.
where Mother Crawford, Mesdames
Babb( Voorhees,, Ferree. Jones, Green,
Geiss, and Yates, and dad"
Broughton (the man about the house,
are employed. Of course, eating is
rather necessary thing to most of us;
and most grown-ups take their meals
at the hotel. Some of us eat at the
cafeteria with the school children. Mrs.
Martin, Mrs. Cryer and Mrs. Clappa,
and the children do the work at this
place. At the kindergarten, Mesdames
Hendricks and Sutherland and Myrtle
Kemp. with the little tots themselves,
also have place Of their own. where
heir food is prepared and served. AT
he kindergarten an accurate account.
ng of the children is kept each month
their height and weight, com
pairing it with the standards set for
children of their ages. In this wayNhe
eachers know the exact physical gains
n losses. These figures will be inter-
,sting reading to you, and | shall have
t placed in the "Colonist" for you to
zee how Llano children size up with
tandard youngsters. Cess and Nash
ire shingling the mule barn. getting it
eady for the hay crop and other feed.
Kemp and Lloyd are hauling peanuts
o the granary and barn where the nuts
will be taken off and the tops used for
mule feed. Coleman has another fer
ilizer platform built up and is now pre-
pairing to furnish the gardeners and
armers with fertilizer. Oh, say! Did
,ou know CoIeman's fertilizer process
S now in pamphlet form, ready for
ale at SOC each? 1t is something ev-
Try farmer and gardener should have.
As we haven't had much rain for sew
sral weeks, the garden work is prin-
,ipally along the lines of preparation.
As soon as the rain begins to fall, Babb,
Benton, Gault. Buck, Strauss and Co.
should be very happy and so shall we;
Is most of us are becoming much adj
licted to the rabbit food, and do little
o demonstrate our cannibalism. Lots
IF fresh vegetables for a good sound,
healthy body and brain. LoutreI and
:. Shut are gradually progressing in
he electrical work, and almost every
hing on the place is now enjoying
electric power and lights. Lindsey re-
urned from the rice farm to-day with
Die, and Sanders remained in his stead
% help thresh the rice crop. Next
week we expect to send crew of
nay balers down there to bale the rice
straw for winter roughage. You peo-
pie who know what unpublished rice
really means as food should feel glad
to be able to- get it; and we suggest
that you get together and order it at
least in lO0-lb. sacks, to save freight.
Our price is 5 cents pound, fob.
here, or at Elton, La. Jacques, Vernon
Boyce, Will and c. c. West are the
other Colony members at the rice ranch
of course Mrs. West and the two
are there also. Tonight the
band practice and agriculture class at
the school house and the sex hygiene
and physical culture classes at the
club house were the regular program.
***
Saturday, Sept. 80. = The engines
that drive the electric plant and saw
mill were closed to allow the brick ma
chine full sway at the steam plant. Gill
bert and Gallo did the firing, and a
full crew of men, Lottie and school
children fed the mud eater all day,
with good results. We now have more
than half a new kiln on the drying