About The Future citizen. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1914-???? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1915)
page 8 THE FUTURE CITIZEN So m« Thiafa the Bey* ■re Doing end Saying DEPARTMENT DOINGS SoaM Witty Some Wiit and Soma Otlurwiaa Sparks from the Anvil j (By Carl Self) We are gelting along very nicely in this department now. We are now making a wagon to break our young steers. Our old one was just about played out. We are making iron wheels to go on the ox wagon, we took the axles out of a old harrow and welded them together, and they made very good axles, and the wood part is made out of hickory. The bolsters is trim^d up very nicely, we are tak ing pains with it. and it will be pretty heavy. We have keep pur drill hot drilling holes in the iron We have been making bolts and the wind was blowing so hard that the iron would get cold before we could get to the anvil. We received a new black smith hammer and we was glad to get it because our old one w»s ju9t about played out. Kicks from the Barnyard I (Rudolf Jennings) Our mules are still in the lot as it is still too wet to plow. We hope to start plowing before long so we can fihish planting our wheat before it is too late. We havn’t planted but about half of the wheat yet. All the mules are resting except the wagon mules they work to the wagon when it i» day enough. Mr. McCullough took a squad of boys Monday and shelled our corn for this week. Our cows are still in the lot as it is not dry enough to graze them but we hope to get our new pastur® fence made so that we can turn hem into it. Pi from the Printshop (By John D. Ingram.) Governor John M. Slaton and Judge R. E. Davison one of the Prison Commissioners were down to visit the institution Tuesday, and while they were down here they made a pleasant visit to the office, but before leaving Governor Slaton left his subscription to the Future Citizen for a year. All the boys of this department were more than glad to see the Governor make us a visit, and we all hope he will come again, and stay longeni next time. Mr. Cochran and one of his shop boys put in a window light in the office cabinet and it looks some what better. We have been making up a few little jobs last week and this week for the superintendent, we have almost got our post dards finished.. Our grate in the heater is.almost burnt out but it does not seem to have any thing to do about the fire burning for it sure does give the heat, all of the officers and every body that visits the printing office says that it is the warmest room on the place. Ernest Randall is a new boy in this department and he takes his position as offiice boy, he has been trying his hand in seperating pi and he seems to be learning right along. Hinton Barfield our old office boy was promoted to an apprentice and he seems to be learning right along. Our steers have not been work' ing since Christmas us the weather has been too bad. We have eight fine looking cal ves now. Tessier Reedier and Joe Jackson are our calf boys. Trips ky the Teamsters (By Wesley Blanchard.) We have not been doing muck hauling this week, but we have been hauling a few loads of coal this week. All of our mules are in the lot today except two and* they have gone to the mill to carry the corn. We have been hauling some chert to build up'our roads, and we have got them in pretty good shape. Mr Mack one of our officers has had a crowd of boys tamping the chert on the roads as the wagons hauled it. We have just received eighteen new curry-combs and they sure do come in handy. We sure do hope that it will soon get dry so we can go to plowing. We have not got much work to do now, but we keep our lots clean j and work on our roads when it is not too wet and not to cold, but we have got a job just as soon as it gets dry enough to saart to plow ing. Fig Leaves from the Clothes Room (By Paul Yarbray. It has been raining this week and it will be hard for the clothes to get dry, but we hope they will dry soon so the boys can get clean clothes Saturday, the white boys will get new shirts Saturday, we have been working on them this week, and we have got most of them on the shelves, and in a short while they all will be on the shelves ready to be given out. I am a new clothes room boy and I sure do like my job fine. It was pretty hard for me to learn the boys numbers but I have learned them. Fault is a thing anybody can find, but some quicker than others on account of intimate familiarity
