The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09


da tour in the interest of the Colony.
| was gone several months and most
Of my labor in Horticulture was lost;
not because there was no one else
wanted fruit, but because no one else
was interested in taking care Of it.
Now, a great change has taken place;
we now have group Of fellows who
spend all their spare hours preparing
land for small fruit. We have fine
patch Of strawberries (the remnant Of
my lest labor); and a grape club, blue
berry club, blackberry club, and others
are formed and are working, and the
time has come when all Of these clubs
are clubbing me to ask you to send
them roots. cuttings, seeds, or any
thing that will assist them in develop
ing their clubs and fruit operations
to large proportions. Now. by all that
is good and bad. send these fellows
some Of your prize stock and still their
wrath and save my head! If you
knew how little of natures natural pro-
lection the lady reporter" had on her
head you would soften the club as
much as possible. Several acres are
now ready to plant to grapes, black
berries, and such fruit right now; and
this man Jones is after me so hot to get
some plants that his hair has turned
RED. It's fact; so save me, at least.
by satisfying his fruit greed. The
dance tonight and the dancing class
were held in the roof garden. You see
the roof garden is not all finished, as
not all the floor is laid and just half
if it is scraped, filled. and polished.
We are too busy to do all the job now;
but when the rain comes, we shall be
on the job again.
Sunday, Dec. 8. = If should spend
this days space in the diary and make
a plea to you to assist in seeing that
a group of people who are unjustly be-
ing Disseminated against are given
JUSTICE, would you do your little bit
TO help right the wrong9 Will you sit
down and write letters to U. S. Con-
gressmen and the postal authorities,
placing before them request to give
us a square deal Down here in New
llano, where a group of three hundred
people are making a worldwide repu-
tation in productive efficiency, the
best method of conservation in the
production and distribution Of the nee
essaries of life; the place where the
piney woods of the South are being
forced to yield up good crops; where
fine herds Of cattle, sheep, and goats
are being bred to take the place Of the
very poorest Of poor herds; where IS
growing industries are being success
fully operated, new buildings built, ed
ucationaI facilities provided at our own
expense; where orphan children are
being provided for and the same
care given them that our own children
get-and yet these people are denied
a POST OFFICE of their own. Foul
mail trains pass thru our town every
day, and some one at.the Colony meets
these trains every day; yet we have nc
post office. We have an express Of
flee, and railway ticket office; bu
our postal authorities do not grant IL
the postal service that hundreds o
small rural groups are given where ne
real problems of life are being demon
strated or no vital business transacted
at all. WHY DON'T we get the sans
business assistance that other corpora
tions are given2 When the mill com
pany was here they had P. 0. Their
lis no honest reason for this injustice
I'VE unanimously recommended our ex
lpress and ticket agent for the position
of postmaster, and an Inspector whc
was here about IS minutes one day
centered upon this fact as. a reasol
for suspicion. We recommended on
man and no other application wa
made for the position-no competi
ton. Now, friends, we are building u
a real farmers exchange and to-da.
at least 300 more people would ge
their mail at Newllano if a postoffic
was established here. We should b
accorded a service that would lay asid
many handicaps that We now are fore
ed to endure. What are you going
do to see that our government give
us square deal? | make this pie
to you for justice; because, SO ia
no disposition has even been shown
give us our right; no postal inspectc
has been here to see what our neec
are einca this aD,,Iic.+;op bae bee