The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-03-11
Wednssday. Mafeh L Once again

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The baby is squawking for a dill-pick-
le, and we are forced to stop our reg
uIar program Of advancement in order
10 earn nickle to purchase said pic
kle or pay for the ones already OBJ
tained. Eh-ha, its fact. This is
The first Of the month and our regu-
aar monthly bills are due, Telephone,
gas and oil, grocery. leather, dry goods
and machinery and other outside ex-,
pense bills come every month as COM
munity expense and Uncle Fuller
has to gel the dough. Now, Uncle F.
has punched so many holes in his trou-
sers pocket that the cash dropped out
SO he intrusted it to a bank and the
bank closed Results: the saw mill
stopped saving housing material in or
der to make rail road ties. to get cash
to pay the monthly bills; loss Of time;
waste Of good material and, well, what
is the use of growing, you can't under
stand just all il means 10 our move
ment, personally; | believe if you
people would come and see the good
work we are doing; the great success
full example we are Getting in complete
cooperation. ! say again | believe you
would rob your bed of bed clothes,
take the shirt off the babies back or
steal mother-in-laws gold crown and
sell it. in order to keep us at construc-
tive work instead of producing for pro-
fit in order to pay our outside bills.
Reeves, Boyce. Jacques and Loutrel
are running the saMnill making these
ties, Ole is making window frames for
Roonsys house, Matt is making the
partitions for the hotel refrigerator and
W5bler is finishing up the tables for
The school cafeteria. Com, Goldman
returned to his home in Canada yes
terday and expects to return to us soon.
Com. Farmhouse left to-day with the.
assurance he has nothing but praise
for the colony and its people. It's his
desire to come with us and spend the
rest Of his life among us. John Rix
is building new wagon for our use
and Van Scio and Dickinson are assist
ing by making the iron parts. These
three fellows keep our farm tools in re-
pair and on the side build new equip
ment. While the rain is on, King is
going over the tractors and getting
them in first class shape for spring
work. Messenger, Patton and Lindsey
are elated over the prospects of en-
larging our orchard and the donation
of trees from the Esparto Nursery in
California will give us several kinds
of fruit to experiment with. Lam
g;ridge and son. Rechsteiner and Will
iams are again turning out more lum-
Der for the roof garden and when the
weather is fit for this job should fair
" Jump to a finish. Two new COM
rades who are making world search
for their ideal in cooperative COM
munity are here with us to try US out.
Their names are Cragleigh and Hlnck-
ley. They heard Of us in a co-opera-
tive community in England. They
ioined the wood cutters and want real
colony experience in ali kinds of work.
All right, boys, it is to be found here.
Word from a printer just came in. and,
goodness knows. we need one. Il. Buck
has been laid up and Cantrell, Gleeser,
and Newman are muchly worked
crew. Maxine Gaddis. who is learn
ing the linotype, Clarence Shut and
Victor Gaddis add greatly to the SER
vice, but Mrs. Turnidge and Mrs. Cam
trell are both off the job and well,
am afraid to go to the printshop to
find out exact conditions. Help! Let
us have ii soon and good. This indus
tpy and our office force have no time
10 suffer from unemployment. am
here 10 tell you. And the worst Of
il is, it has TO be did" on time, too.
Tonight was music night again. The
band, orchestra and choral classes all
practiced. This is one place where
those musically inclined can take the
limit.
1883
Thursday, March 2. A cold dis
agreeable wind blew part Of the day,
but the sun came Out and things are
much better. Comrade Dale Of Cali
fornia sent in another large box Of
bulbs and plants. He is evidently IN
ested in making NewlIano a flower gar
den. Well. SO am /, and i he will se-
riously take up the job here, It is open
to him. The best is none too good foT
our workers. and we want beauty and
comforts as well as the necessaries. AS
the workers produce them all, who has
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