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THE FUTURE CITIZEN. etLL tir r Some Thing! the Bove •re Doing and Saying DEPARTMENT DOINGS Some Witty Some Wiie and Some Otherwise Sparks from the Anvil. (By Bill Erwood) VVe have been very busy in this department this week repairing and sharpening tools. We are about through with the concrete forms now, and hope to soon be ready for something new. We have been repairing shoes for the boys this week and have al ready half-soled a good many. We have been sharpening plows tor the last three or four days and we have a good supply on hand. There are three boys in the shop this week, they are ; Cicero Adams, Quincy O’steen and Bill Erwood and they all like their jobs fine. Gordon Ragsdale has been helping in this department this week after he got through with the cooking. Greens from the Garden. (By Gordon Ragsdale) We have been keeping on the job this week as regular as ever. We have been cooking mustard and collard greens every day since the last report and the boys enjoy them very much. Mr. E. B. Cochran took a squad of boys and killed two hogs last week so we had fresh meat to cook with the greens Sunday. All the collards have just about gone to seed. The boys hate to see them go for they like them fine. Gordon Ragsdale is cook boy in this department now. After he gets through cooking he helps Mr. Cochran in the workshop. BOYS WHO BEAR UNNECESSARY BURDENS (Continued from page i) on a prison board I became ac. quainted with cases of many per verted men, not a few of whom had been habitual drunkards, some had come to prison suffering from occasional fits of deleriutn tremens; I discovered that all these persons were compelled to do without any alcohol at all, from the moment they enter confinement, and that none of them ever died or was se riously injured by the deprivation —Exchange. “Pi” from the Printshop. I (By Cecil Dutton) We are about to run out of ink this week and we will have to order some before long. We took the ink fountain off the big press and gave it a good cleaning up last Saturday. The workmen are tearing the ceiling from over the shop and they are goiv»g to put a concrete floor overhead. We have moved our cases in the dining room and we are setting our type in there. We thought ic was going to rain and we had to cover up the presses and'the paper cutter. A large crowd of G. N. &. I. C. girls came out one day last week and took a look through the print shop and gave the Future Citizen many compliments. | Scraps from the Sewing Hail. I [ (By Bert Smith) We have been getting along very well since the last report and everything is going fine. We haven’t been doing any sewing in this department for a good while but hope to start sew ing soon. We have a great deal of shirts and overalls on hand that need patching and we want to get through with them as quick as we can when we start. Gordon White, one of the sew ing boys was paroled to his home Monday and we hope he will make good. He was a good worker in here and we miss him very much. We received a box of thread last week and we were glad to get it for we were about out. I - i 1 Trips by the Teamsters. | I i (By Gaston Robison) We have not been doing much hauling this week, for the mules been busy plowing. We hope they will soon catch up with their work for we all wish to go back to hauling brick. There are two carloads of brick on hand and a good deal more hauling to do as soon as we get started. The steer wagon drivers have been hauling lime from the State Farm and have a large supply on hand now. The steer wagon driv ers have also been hauling sand and rock to make concrete with. down print have Now Is The Time For All Good Men to Come to The Aid of The Future Citizen—A Hint, Etc.