The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-28


4 day. Maxine is only Is. / think, |
but she certainly can set type faster
than that. We have time TO spare
sometimes. so send US your printing
thus let US help the colony grow. Re-
member that finger-mark on your
printing is just the trade mark Of the
Llano educational system syrnbal
of duty performed in the course Of
getting an education. There's won
derful chance to get an education al
Llano. Take the print-shop we must
learn English. spelling, punctuation.
etc, and we get that in the school
house and put it into practice at the
shop. If we come across a big word
we have not seen before. we hunt its
meaning in the dictionary. And it is
50 easy to study English and spelling
when one is interested in the printing
works. Well. Pm not writing much
diary am | And I'm sure my space
is all taken up. But I've got another
day to write tomorrow.
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Saturday, October Today is
brick-making day. Instead Of using
the steam at the saw mill. and other
industries through the electric plant,
all the steam is used at the brick yard.
The big 85-horse engine uses all the
steam the boiler can make. About
10000 bricks have now been made
and are drying under the shed. waiting
ito go into the kiln. The kiln at pres
ent is under fire, with about 100000
bricks in it. AS soon as that is fin
ished and emptied, these bricks we are
now making will go into the kiln and
we can start to make another batch.
We have been running this mill every
Saturday. In the mornings the high
school boys help. driving the scraper
teams and shoveling mud into the hop
per. 1t gives deal of satisfaction
to us to see the bricks running out on
the belt at rapid rate, and to remem-
Der that they are OUR bricks, that
they may go into our new homes, or
hotel, or buildings. Each brick is a
part Of. the necessary material to con-
struct our cooperative commonwealth.
five had to depend on money to buy
brick wouldn't that be terribly slow
work? And wouldn't we have TO con
tribute to some profit-taking individ-
uaI? When we look at our roof gar
den building and our printshop sec
ond story, and the commencement of
our new garage and mechanical build
ing, and see the bricks planted there
in. we feel kind of proud Of our pos
ition. Just think, we can construct
our new hotel dormitory of 81 rooms
and roof garden, and the only cash
lcost will be the plumbing, hardware,
lime. glass and wiring. All the brick,
lumber and the labor-by far the most
Expensive items in construction are
here. We have several hundred dol
lars in this hotel fund, and will begin
work on this as soon as we can get the
brick men to lay the brick. We sell
Ia lot of our brick, too, in order to
Eget the cash to provide the necessary
machinery for other industries, and to
meet current expenses. Besides the
brick industry, the crate shed is busy
place too. Here, most of our old men
are found mailing crates, bundline
them ready for shipment, etc. All the
cutting is done at the mill, and all
these workers do is to assemble them
Some make ends and others sides anc
ltops. Several carloads have been sole
this year already, and the season i:
mot yet half over. The laundry is {
quiet place on Saturdays. Usually tht
sorting and wrapping occupies thu
forenoon. 1t is quite a puzzle to
printers devil to see all the clothes
get mixed up in the fore part of th'
week and all finally work out right
each into their own bundle on Satur
days. OF course. sometimes gar
ment will get into the wrong package
but seldom is it lost, because it come
right back Monday. The print shoI
towel never gets lost because it ha
} a color all its own. It was SO dirt,
Ione time that the corters thought
was a black board-it was so hard
S Comrades Mr.. and Mrs. Beavers rul
: the laundry, aided by Mesdames Gold
j man. Kemp. Wurfer. Chappell, an
' Fischer. and sometimes other wome
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