The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-09-02
THE COLONY DIARY
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ana the motel and cafeteria forces are
extremely grateful for them. Com
rade De Puy. from New Orleans, is up
making us visit for few days; he
is an old-timer in the movement. and
is able to assist us much at N. O. G.
Anderson. Buhre. Cryer. Shut and
are hoeing in the corn, beans
and peanuts. This will no doubt be
the last time thru on these jobs. Lee
and De Boer are cultivating the cane;
Kemp is blowing up the old potato
patch preparing to plant patch of
elephant grass. Van and Scharrer are
hauling wood from the Ford ranch dis
Itrict, but will be on shorter haul to-
morrow, as Merrel and Hinkley are
cutting wood right near town. King
and jacques are getting the Ford truck
ready to haul the self-binder to the
rice ranch Saturday or Sunday. The
railroad situation is bad down here;
we are unable to get cars to ship lum-
Der or anything else to any points. We
have had a car load of lumber ready
to ship for nearly two months, but
have not been able to get a car TO ship
in. However, we have a promise. |
guess that should help some. The saw
mill is getting out crate material and
shingles. c. Hoover, Lottie, Nash,
lBelohradsky, Chappelle and Matz are
on these jobs, while at the crate shed,
ABBY, Coleman, De Puy and W. Beav-
ers, assisted by some Of the children,
are mailing them together. We shall
soon have car load of crates for
delivery, altho some of our neighbors
are now loading and hauling away in
trucks. These days are extremely bu-
sy ones for the office force. We are
getting more inquiries regarding the
Colony than ever before. Thousands
of people would come and join US if
they had money enough to pay their
way in as members. 1t is indeed too
bad that some of us are not financially
fixed to pay for the remainder of this
land (l5,000 acres) and permit many
Of these comrades to come and put it
into use. Letters are piled upon my
desk that | have been unable to read,
as other work also takes my time; but
| shall get to them now, for have an
'nexed another stenographer to help
Mrs Norgard. Louise Belohradsky is
back in the office. Please do not get
impatient if your answers do not come
as soon as you think they should. We
shall surely answer them as soon as
possible. The psychology meeting was
a good one and the general discussion
was as to whether We should go on
and enlarge our holdings as is the pol
icy now being carried out; and there
was not one person in the hall to ex-
press himself against this policy or pro-
gram. If we were selfish we could stop
buying land and settle down to making
for no one could compete
against US in producing. But our aim
is to expand-let the luxuries Of life
go by until we can offer demonstra-
ton of producing the necessaries. | do
not see how any person protesting to
be Christian can smack his lips with
pleasure at a luxurious meal when he
knows that there are millions of un-
derfed children In the world. Yes.
believe in Christianity; but / want a
kind, one that will work and
we are demonstrating our belief.
$685.
Friday, August 25.>- Lee, Kemp !
and De Boer are still cultivating the |
crops while Van and Scharrer are haul
ing wood from a woods less than !
mile south of US. They are now at
:empting to get winters supply ahead
put that Bill Gilbert and his helpers
at the boiler seem to delight in burn
ng it up. Well, they furnish us power
Tor several important industries and
electric light at night as we'll as cleo
ric power in day times, so guess we
will not dare growl at them. You see,
our electric plant supplies power for
water here at the Colony and
At the dairy, power at the shoe shop,
he bakery, the laundry, the print-shop,
At the sash and door factory, for the
.urning lathes, for the peanut butter
factory, for the jewelers. shop, at the
garage, and any other place where
may be needed. The establishment |
If this electric plant has been red
etter day in our progress, and we hope |
hat before another year has rolled by, |
We shall have the water piped in from
he big spring west Of us and city |
water works operating. Also much |
needed plant is a cold storage and ice |