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A PAPER OF THE PEOPLE. FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE
PLENTYWOOD, MONT ANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1928.
XI, No. 1°*
Foreign, »3.76 per year
Id U. 8., $3.00 per year
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Entered as Second Class Matter, October 18, 191$, at the Post*
office at Plentywood. Montana. Under the Act of March Si 1870.
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IN THE
W fnd^Perttne n t
^nd Small
Concern■
ïîen& of the Re P" bhcan
ÿ "Vatic Parties at Kansas
3^=rJSS
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^ t at the conventions it will
pducational move. They
? hark home and tell their
ent® 1 "« ^ ac t *J he representatives
fKeate^t basic industry of the
-noH nn the doors of the
5 «.e rulers Of the country ;
■** 01 ^ for bread and were
stone" Let us hope that
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dirtsto P 61- * * «
JaM A jf0 saM of Belgrade has an
^tnSnc^of 'the ^Prod^ers
t Trhe old fakers throughout
totale did not like our declaiartion
•l policy because it upsets their ap
■ f Äuib ^"Va lot Of things
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'flu! they a -'
people up here and their in
fiaence throughout tu« state hi 4 is
Botte Burns says: "The best laid
■ E^ltaifttm'onThlfHam
9ndEg£* mouse is whining down in
I Belgrade. He finds himself in an
H j«ful fix this year. After opposing
H A1 Smith and supporting Reed and
■ Walsh this mossback democrat with
I,Ku Klux complex may have to
■ I« allow Smith, "nullification", "whis
H kv" and fish on Friday. After all
■ «e have to extend our sympathies to
fl old Hair, and Sum. He is in one
■ beilava boat.
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I DR. PARKES CA DM AN, answ ering
■ u inquirer about the age of Me
fl thnselah says that "prehistoric man
■ titled time by the moon, in which
■ rt-e the venerable patriarch descends
■ from 969 "moon" years to the cred
■ ftle age of seventy-nine true years.
■ Tk variable number of days in our
■ present months was arranged by the
■ Romans to suit their purposes; hence
H the inconvenience which continues
■ Btil non.' The above is the ans
9 wet bt ' ^ a( I man which is ridicu
■ lous according to the following
|9 farb: In order to arrive at the true
■ !«rs the 969 years are 'evidently di
fl vW by 12 and a fraction, the quu
■ tout kiun 79 years. For the sake
fl «f brevity we will now divide by 12.
■ Ike age of Methuselah is found in
■ Genesis v. 27. Now go back to toe
■ 21st verse, and you read: "And Enoch
■ sixty and five years, and begat
H Melhusealh."
■ kiKnocn was Methuselah's father.
■ Ho» 'till was Enoch when he became
fathu of Methuselah? Well by
■ w. Cadnun's reasoning. Enoch was
■ b "moon'' years old. We divide the
H 6 b 12. and we get a result of live
H Jfurs and live months. So, when Mc
■ Jnusaleh «as born, his tather was a
II httle over five years of age. He w T as
I failli) some dad, wasn't he? When
I w. L'adiuan again tries to teii us
■ «bout the age of Methuselah he
I •muH icix some simple scientific
I Mithmetk with his Bibiical know
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I THE FOREIGN backers of the '
«•lure of Chief "Baer Shirt"
! 'L T iearns of propaganda thiu
j ^ ma 'h in his behalf. They evi
I f w regard the benighted residents
I * Montana as (he English do the
E ncans *ho come under their rule.
I »Y w »be up some morning to
IC ourselves called "Natives" by
ack Hat" Keating, Mercer John
][*• Senator Ashurst of Arizona and
uuny Neely" of West Virginia.
e *ould miMly suggest that these
i a distance lecturers of the voters
■lontana would come into the
' and express themselves by word
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inn. iv " Rle,r e ffusions. We as
M 'hat there will
« tS:? marke . t f ?r rotten eggs up
I »f in' r a , rnvak hike the wise man
- e . they should follow their
"rolH f lnto the west bearing gifts of
enL rt ncense aud myrrh." Oth
BiarL f ," d * not hear the ear
tl). Prohpets for be it sail! that
aWrtln of . this state do a lot of
I .*i a " d thinking for them
I *orkinl n f 11 "ill take some miracle
I f# r th P S nl°r Sh T t,,em that f 'ghting
vi«i» natlV f. h ai *kerg of Nicaragua
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and
the tillers and toilers
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tank ^ LAKE overflowed
*r*l fan» ood ' n K the lands of sev
*ii»i 0n f L gs , and Putting out of com
Tk* « 1 lumber mills at Somers.
H b >Kher tk Lake totday are not
I CLT the levels Which the
" *l*n they IIVa f Um ? any P ro Posed
dL ske ?. f ® r tbe käse of the
h a\R«.if' McCormack, Jellison
I f ttt horltiei i!°w ted i.. thi8 out to the
9 " u asbin K ton last win
I Gators f P( f a Netted by the two
I îf**t »as uU ^ onta na, the power
trough ' \- e to ß et its measure
j. . ow „5.000 acres are
the SÄ- , B . utk * ba * been in
5*3 lately, at the
an ,i ,* ederal Power com
winV ays that a corps of
. tW «^strict î!î have to ^ sent into
? B <htion s aid !î V ! 8 i lRate the flood
thé® to ha L tt wdl ta be a y ear
After all the
Îk .'head git J not Ret the valuable
senatorial T !°° n as tbe y and
^ «onaUools expected.
S s of uJH^be public spirited cit
ofThe ta i e r ho have the »
«raittiSy 1 * at heart bave
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RANKIN FILES FOR GOVERNOR
iPlentywood Will Celebrate Nation's Birthday Anniversay
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EAGLE WILL SCREAM AND FLAP
fflS WINGS TUESDAY, JULY 3RD
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Committee Meets Tuesday Evening and Decides to Have Blglu.
Doings In This City July 3 With Races, Speaking, Parade, !
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Bal1 Game and Dancing on the Program. ;
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PLENTYWOOD - SCOBEY GAME BIG FEATOE
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Last Tuesda y a numbe l' of the business men of Plentywood met
at the Council rooms and decided to hold a celebration in this city
July 3, under the auspices of the local post of the American
Legion together with the business men of Plentywood. In an in
}terview with members of the committee, they report that an elab
orate program is being arranged*^
which will include speaking,
races of all kinds, ball game,
band concert, dancing, and all
The lestlVltlCS in common With
that big day of celebration.
Committee Appointed
The follwing committee was ap
pointed to have charge of the Fourth
of July arrangements; Jack Bennett,!
Clarence Undhjem, Leland Kitzenberg, I
Pasku Popesku, Lou Hein, County!
Agent Ferguson and Carl Bull.
One of the features of the day will
be a ball game between Scobey and
Plentywood, who will be strengthened
up to win with players of national
reputation.
Children under twelve will be ad
mitted to the baseball grounds free
of charge on that day.
Coffee and Lemonade Free
To those who bring lunch coftee and
lemonade will be served free of
charge.
Liberal prizes will be given in the
races, which will be announced later.
Further announcements will be
given to the public later as the com
mittee completes arrangements i.or a
huge celebration in Plent< T wood, en
tirely free to the public with the ex
ception of the baseball game and pri
vate enterprises.
All roads will lead to Plentywood
July 3rd
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Moosejaw and Scobey Play
Plentywood, Here, June 10-11
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Sunday and Monday Will Be Two Big Days for Base Ball
Fans of Northeastern Montana. Moose Jaw is Coming
Down Loaded for Bear and Scobey With Its New Team Is
After Revenge. All Nations Coming June 16th and 17th.
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From all indications it appears that the fans of Plentywood and
Northeastern Montana are going to see more baseball Sunday and
Monday than has been seen in this neck of the woods for many a
day, when the Moose Jaw team with its celebrated battery comes
down from Canada to trime the Yankees who have been crowing
so loudly, and Scobey comes down with the famed Indian pitcher,
Chief ' Seeley to get the scalp of the Plentywood players in re
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venge for recent defeats.
From all indications it appears that
the fans of Plentywood and North
eastern Montana are going to see
more baseball Sunday and Monday
than has been seen in this neck of the
when the
w'oods for many a day,
Moose Jaw team with its celebrated
battery comes down from Canada to
trim the Yankees who have been blow
ing so much and Scobey comes down
with the famed Indian pitcher "Chief"
Seeley to get the scalp of the Plenty
wood team in avenge for recent de
feats.
Moose Jaw Here Sunday
The city of Moose Jaw, Canada,
with its population of 50,000, is send
ing down a team famous in that
province for its victories to clean up
the Plentywood team of which must
has been heard, even as far as that
distant city. They have had their
scouts here looking over the local
and have been
a
boys in recent games
getting the low-down on the different
little tricks of the Plentywood play
ers and reporting back home, with the
result that they are coming well in
formed and strengthened in every po
sition to try to win the victory from
the famous All-Stars of this cit>.
It is hardly necessary to inform tne
fans hereabouts that «ie local boys
are looking for a hard ffeht and hope
send the Canadian hasebaU stars
with the Union Jack flying at
to
home
half mast.
Scobey-Plentywood Gam«
of the fans who witnessed the
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Most
Plentywood Banks Will Be
Closed Monday Afternoon
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• The Farmers and Merchants
• State Bank and Riba State Bank
• of PlentywooH will close next
• Monday afternoon at 1:00 o clock.
• This action has been taken by
• both banking institutions in this
• city to enable all connected there
• with to attend the Bankers Con
• vention which will be in sessmn
• in Plentywood on that oay.
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PIANO RECITALS
The Pianoforte students, boys j
and girls, under direction of Miss
Katherine Marron, their instructor, ,
of Antelope and Plentywood will
give a recital next week to which
their relatives and friends .and the
general public are invited to at- I
tend. Admission is free.
The students at Antelope will ap
pear in recital, Monday, June 11th,
at Sons of Norway Hall, Antelope,
The program will commence at 7:45
p. m. sharp,
will participate rendering twenty
three numbers.
Fourteen students
The students at Plentywood will
appear at the Orpheum Theatre
Thursday evening, Juree 14th. The
curtain will go up at 7:45 sharp.
The recital will be participated in
by forty-seven pupils, and there will
be .fifty numbers, consisting of so
loes, duets trios and special num
bers on saxaphone and trombone.
The recital promises some very
good numbers and will be well !
worth attending.
The students are looking forward
with great Interest to tbeir oppor
tunity to show what they can do on
the piano.
The general public is invited.
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Martin Nelson, local undertaker,
and family, left last Wednesday by
car for a trip through the parks and
along the west coast. They expect to
be gone for several weeks.
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the KÖPPER KOLLAR KLOGGERS
Here the cartoonist has very cleverly pictural rtnii+iral conditions as they exist in Montana and the capital at
Washington. He pictures Senator Walsh th* Sninr and Sen. Wheeler, the junior, United States Senators from
the Treasure State, doing their stunt cloUinVtn ihe music of the Anaconda Copper Mines and the Standard
Oil Company, who sent them to the Senate tn "rw" whenever they furnished the music. Privilege is pictured
as occupying a box near stage where he k am,iwilr.tr the stunt of the Montana Cloggers. He is "tickled to
death," at the way Big Business is putting it over the voters of Montana—no wonder he smiles.
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A.O.UW. District Convention to
Be Held Here Tuesday, June 19
Large posters were issued this week
foretelling the coming of the A. 0.
W. District Convention to Plenty
wood Tuesday, June 19th.
This convention promises to be one
? f the biggest of its kind ever helc
in Northeastern Montana. In fact
outside of the secret work, the day
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present from Froid, Scobey, Westby,
Dooley and over entire Sheridan
'T^all game between Scobey and
Plentywood will be one of the features
? f the /i! ay a ?, d . wl11 draw f hu * e . cr °wds
fr ° m the outlying country ' smce the
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Progressive Farmers Organizing
South Half of Sheridan County
The organization work of the Pro
gressive Farmers of Montana goes on
apace. The organizers have been
working in that section much lately
with splendid results. When the Dag
mar, Medicine Lake and Homestead
territories are organized the counties
will be practically 100% organized.
Medicine Lake and Homestead have
recently established robust Councils
which are doing
well.
Medicine Lake Progressive Farmers
Initiate at Anderson's Barn
The Medicine Lake Council of Pro
gressive Farmers staged ».an interest
BANKERS CONVEN
TION HERE MONDAY
Large Number of Bankers Will |
Gather In Plentywood Next Mon
day for Get-Together Smoker and
to Discuss Banking Problems.—
Key to the City Will Be Turned Ov
er to Visitors.
In keeping with the common desig
nation of Plentywood as the ideal
Convention city, the Annual Meeting
of Group Four of the Montana Bank
ers Association will be held in this
city next Monday, June 11th.
Arrangements have been completed
for entertaining over 200 guests on
that day and the bankers of Sheridan
county have been active in seeing that
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DANES HOLD CELEBRA
TION AT DAGMAR HALL
The Danish citizens of Dagmar
and surrounding country held a big
celebration at the Brotherhood Hall
near Dagmar Tuesday of this week
in honor of the Danish Independence
Day. A large crowd was present and
sports of all kinds were held, together
with singing and dancing.
The celebration was greatly enjoy
ed by everyone and brought back the
traditions of the mother country to
many of the residents of the Dagmar
country who have come to the United
States to make their homes, but who
still have a fond feeling for the land
of their birth.
Scobey team has changed its lineup
and is one of the best teams in the i
west at the present time.
In the evening the spacious Farmer
Labor Temple will be the scene of a
merry throng enjoying the smooth
floor and excellent music. At this
time the new Whippet Coach will be
given away free to the holder of the
lucky number. The local organiza
tion is giving a chance on the car
with every dance ticket purchased, and j
some lucky person will take home the
car as well as enjoy an evening of
merry dancing.
The full details of the A. O. U. W.
conventions will be given in next
week's issue of the Producers News.
ing initiation in Wm. Anderson's barn,
9 miles southeast of Reserve, Mont.,
Tuesday evening. The Medicine Lake
council has heretofore been meeting
in the school houses and at various
houses of the membership in that dis
trict, but on account of the growth of
the membership, the former meeting
places are inadequate. Therefore, it
was necessary to find larger quarters
and Mr. Anderson volunteered the use
of his barn, which was packed to
overcrowding. Much enthusiasm and
interest is displayed in the southern
part of the county at this time.
Eleven candidates were initiated.
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OSCAR COLLINS HAS
HELLUVA TIME
Old Oscar Collins is having another
spell. He has got a job again, and _
usual with Oscar, "he had to blow up.
One can always depend on Oscar to
"blow up" as soon as the butcher and
baker gets visions of a possible col
lection.
Last Sunday morning, Oscar had
one of his usual spells—his face was
red and his nose was rosy, and though
he could not walk in a straight line,
he felt as big as all out doors, and
in his condition was looking for
trouble.
It seems that Oscar has accumulated
an awful spite against Judge McElroy,
and has been aching for a long time
to vent it in some way. Well the op
portunity occurred Sunday morning.
Judge McElroy was going into the
City Cafe for breakfast about 6:30.
The down-town streets were quite
vacant. The Judge was just en
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DOMINICK HOPKINS'
CAR TURNS OVER
Last Sunday while Dominick Hop
kins was driving his Overland car
up the McIntosh hill south of this
city the front wheels jack-knifed sud
denly causing the car to turn turtle.
Several people were in the car when
the accident occurred but none were
injured with the exception of Domin
ick, who was slightly cut. The car
was almost a total wreck.
WILL SEEK itEPUBUCAN
PRIMARY NOMINATION
May Trumper Files for Superintendent of Public Instruction,
Republican—Maury Files for Chief Justice of Supreme
Court, Democratic—Stevens Files for Railroad and Ware
house Commissioner, Republican.
DIXON REPORTS ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTIONS
Special to Producers News.
Helena, Montana, Thursday, June 7.—United States District
Attorney, Wellington D. Rankin, former Attorney General and
former member of the Supreme Court of Montana, yesterday filed
with the Secretary of State at the capital building, his petition to
become Governor of the Treasure state, and his name will appear
on the Republican ballot at the ensuing primaries; After his name
appears the following slogan, "For Independent State Govern
ment; Greater Recognition of Agriculture, Labor and Individual
Enterprise."
Filing Comes as Bombshell
The filing of District Attorney Ran
ikin came as a bombshell in the poli
tical battle now going on in the state,
taking the other candidates entirely
by surprise, as it was generally un
derstood that Rankin had decided not
to file.
tion in the camps of several of the
candidates. It is said that Rankin
was at last persuaded by numbers of
his friends who were not satisfied
with any of the other candidates, to
stand for the nomination at the pri
maries.
In fact there is constema
The filing of District Attorney
Rankin for the nomination for govern
or puts four active candidate for the
office into the field, viz., Sen. Paul
of Deer Lodge county; J. W. Walker,
formerly chairman of the tax com
mission, of Flathead county; Lee Den
nis, member of the Board of Railroad
and Warehouse Commission, of Great
Falls, Cascade county, and Wellington
D. Rankin, native of Missoula and
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Rains Break Drouth Along
Northern Montana-Border
Eleven of Thirty-five Counties of Montana Report Sufficient
Local Showers to Definitely Relieve Dry Weather Condi
tions—Sheridan County AJong Border Gets Soaker—More
Rain Promised.
It has been dry in the north half of Montana for the past
month. Were it not for the large amount of moisture in the
ground when it froze up last fall, conditions would have been seri
ous. But Monday afternoon heavy dark clouds appeared in all
horizons, and about five it started to rain which continued off and
on until Tuesday morning.
Rains Favor Some Sections
In some sections it rained more
than in others. Along the Soo line
in Sheridan county the precipitation
was copious, accompanied with consid
erable hail. In and about Plentywood,
it was not so heavy, but still enough
to soak the surface and spruot late
crops. What seems best of all, how
ever, is that the drought seems to
have been broken. Wednesday night
it rained some more and the outlook i
for more rain is promising. A couple
of good soaking rains will insure a
bumper crop again this season.
To the east in North and South
Dakota there has been considerable
rain fall. The rains about the state
seem to be general as discolsed by
following reports sent out from Hel
ena:
Helena.—Eleven counties of the 351
reporting to the state publicity divi-1
sion for the week ending June 3 noted !
sufficient moisture in form of local
showers to definitely relieve the dry
weather situation and an equal num
her reported no moisture or so little
as to be of doubtful benefit. The
week was characterized generally by
warm dry weather the first part of
the week and scattered showers with
cooler weather and night frosts the
second half.
The driest area of the state is now T
made up of the northern border coun
ties from Hill westward to Glacier
and an irregular area embracing most
of northeastern and east central Mon
tana excluding Sheridan and Dawson
counties. Extreme southwestern Mon
tana and a small area in west cen
tral Montana are also very badly in
need of a general soaking rain. Big
Horn county in the south çentral part
of the state, had .67 inches of rain
fall on May 27 accompanied by hail
in a strip about one and one-half
miles wide.
Spring planted grains especially on
summer fallowed land are standing
up well under drying conditions. Chou
teau county reports spring wheat
showing good growth where rains fell
and holding its own in areas where
moisture is low. The last week saw
material improvement in spring wheat
conditions over spotted areas in such
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TRI-COUNTY POETRY
MARKETING ASSN.
TO HOLD PICNIC
Fine Program of Speaking, Races,
Ball Game and Dancing With Picnic
Lunch and Free Coffee to Be Given
at Wolf Creek Hall, Saturday, June
16th.
Announcements of a big picnic to
be held at the Wolf Creek hall south
of Redstone Saturday, June 16t'^ has
been made. The picnis is under the
auspices of the Tri-County Poultry
Marketing Association and is free to
the public which is cordially invited
to attend.
The committee in charge has a
fine program arranged, consisting of
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PROGRESSIVE FARMERS
COMPLETE PLANS TO
PUT IN OIL STATION
* The first unit will likely *
* be built in Plentywood. The
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... temporary officers and the
'' Board or Directors have *
* been selected, and money is *
* now being subscribed for *
:: this new enterprise, and *
* from the reports of those *
* in charge of this project the *
* actual construction of the *
oil station will begin in the *
* very near future. *
* The plan of organization *
appeals to the membership *
* as every member gas user *
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can take advantage of the *
savings whether he be a *
* tractor owner or just a car *
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The members are very en- *
* thusiastic over this new en- *
terprise as the committee in *
* charge stated the other day *
* that this cannot be other *
than a very profitable con- *
* cern on account of the large *
* membership that this or- *
ganization has throughout *
* northeastern Montana.
* The organization will hold *
* a state convention in Plen- *
* tywood the 11th and 12th *
* of June at which time a ♦
* plan will be submitted for *
* the construction of eight *
* main gas stations to be ♦
* erected in Sheridan, Daniels •
* Roosevelt and Valley coun- *
* ties.
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George Cowley and Edward Belinda
motored to Flaxville Monday to get a
refrigerator. The return trip
a "slip and slide" affair.
was