Rogers, Guy F.

Husband and wife Guy and Nell Foster Rogers were colonists at the Newllano colony (sometimes called New Llano), La., near Leesville in Vernon Parish. The Llano Colony was a socialist cooperative society which was organized in California in 1914. Some of its members migrated to Newllano, La., in 1918. Guy Rogers printed the colony's newspaper THE LLANO COLONIST. The Rogers came to Newllano from Michigan in late 1927 and left in early 1929 over what they deemed to be colony leader George T. Pickett's fraudulent dealings with the colony's property and goods. They migrated to Florida where they founded PINS, the People's Industrial System, another socialist organization. Guy Rogers edited the organization's newsletter PINS. He died in 1951. Nell Rogers became a lobbyist in Florida. She died in 1974.