The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-03-25
THE COL0NT DIARY
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! ! car Of the "Czarina. as ii is soon t
make long trip south on an explorin'
"trip for new equipment for the powe
plant Kapotsy was cutting pipe anc
later was met at the club house an
! kindergarten finishing up the plumbing
for the new kitchen. Wobler was max
ing the woodwork for the sink, Var
Nuland, Sanders. jacques. Loutrell anc
Belohradsky were saving lumber anc
wood. Later caught sight of Beloh-
radsky off this job puttig in a galvan-
lied iron lining to the sink that Woblel
made. Reeves, Downs, Beavers and
Nash were met at the new houses just
west of the shops. building brick chin
neys, while Roede, the harness-maker,
surprised off his job, lacking shingles
on one Of the new houses. Also Gault
was there and Matt was laying new
Ioak floor in it. Oak floors! Some
class. eh2 AT the boiler, Landrum was
firing, Scharrer and Merrel were I'M
loading wood at the boiler, and Hink-
ley was using the one man wood saw
to good advantage. Williams, Lee,
Rechsteiner. Langridge and Walter L.
were on the roof Of the big building.
finishing the setting of the lower raft
tiers. From the roof garden | saw De-
Boer and Coleman loading fertilizer at
the new compost pile, and later mel
them distributing the same at the gar
den. Smock and Jones each were load
ing fertilizer at other places and haul
ing to the dairy, and they will bring
back load of fuel in the evening after
the days work is done, spent in clean
ing land. went to the laundry where
Ole was plugging up the old boiler
and Beavers was getting ready to fire
up. Mrs. Beavers, Kemp, Cox, Nc
Cornell were busy mending and look
ing after the newly-laundered clothes.
In the print shop Newman, Buck, Glee-
ser, Cantrell, Rose BeIohradsky and
Mrs. Cantrell were busy getting out
the Colonist for the mail. Back over
to the planning mill | surprised H. Bell
planning down some peanuts for peanut
butter-well, can't swear to this part
of it; but know he was using ma
chine where peanuts went in and la
ter came out as butter. passed thru
the hotel and found Mother Crowford,
Mrs. Ferree, Mrs. Babb and Mrs. Syn
oground busy in the kitchen, Dad
Broughton splitting wood and Mrs Mer-
rel just coming down stairs from doing
the chamber work. Over at the school
the two Martins were busy with the
kiddoos, imparting knowledge to our
young hopefuls. At the garden Dad
thurman was taking up some more
cabbage plants to reset down with the
large field Of cabbage already growing. |
Babb and Benton were planting egg
plant and pepper seeds at the hot bed
while Dad Shut was digging out big
root that was in the way of the thing |
ditch: On crossing the garden towards |
the barn, | walked past onions, colIard.
mustard, Strawberries Gin bIoom), cab |
bage. carrots. beets. lettuce, turnips, |
and rutabagas and more cabbages. |
Near the barn | saw Turnidge blowing
a piece of ground where he and Cole !
man think Irish potatoes will grow in
great quantities without having to go
to the trouble of even planting seed! |
At least they both say it's natural
place TOR potatoes to grow and what
naturally grows ought not to have to
be planted. John Brostrom was putting
IN floor in stall for one of the mules
but ! don't think it was oak. Up at |
the granary Patton was sorting peanut
seed. Over at the kindergarten | ran
on to Kapotsy again and found Myrtle
Kemp with her large family of kiddoos
who always hail me, some calling me
BY one name, others by other names
Of course none of them are bad names
-:then back to the big shed. Vernon
and Siemens were unloading logs haul
ID in by a Fordson. Lindsey getting
started with the other Fordson TO plow
put at the Ford place and VaIek lust
putting the bread car in from his Lees |
vile trip. At the store | met Baldwin |
who had returned from Leesville, where
1e had delivered the milk, and Dad
crawford driving his ''hay motors .
lack and Rufus. was loaded with bar /
els and water pipe. Of course. | col
called down for running off nv lob /
and was forced to dictate letters for
he rest of the day and go to algebra
md agriculture classes, where I nod
led off to sleep as all dull students
Will. That's why the cocks are now
rowing while | write this at 4 am.
md am going to sleep. They say
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