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A PAPER OF THE PEOPLE. FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE
PLENTYWOOD, MONTANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1928.
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Entered as Second Clam Matter, October 18. 1812, at tbs Poet*
office at Plentywood. Montana, Under the Art of March I, 1878.
SEVEN KILLED IN MAIL PLANE CRASH
Interest Grows as Nominations for County Princess Close
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fljp THE FREE COUPONS FOR
YOUR FAVORITE CANDIDATE
Greatest Rivalry Ever Staged in Sheridan County Is Promis
ed as Candidates Prepare to Win High Honors—Producers
News Contest Draws Bevy of Popular and Pretty Girls
Anxious to Represent This County at Montana State Fair.
a BULL WILL BE MANAGER OF CONTEST
The Sheridan County Princess Contest put on annually by the
Producers News gives indications this year of being the warmest
jnd most cioseiy contested ot any ever put on in this county.
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The Farmers & Merchants State
Bank of this city on Wednesday of
this week took a drastic step to in
sure against the blowing of the bank's
vauit by yeggs at night when the
kink installed on the door of the vault
an equipment which, should yeggs use
a torch or by other means attempt tr
open the door, they will be met with a
flow of tear gas, which, according to
G. A. Didier, of Chicago, who install-,
ed what is known as the Pro-Tex gas
system, will throw the yeggs into a
panic and en dtheir operations before
they are able to penetrate the vault,
"Thru arrangements with the gov
emment chemical warfare service, one
of Uncle Yarn's most effective war
fare weapons becomes available to
banks for the purpose of preventing
burglary of safes and safe deposit
vaults, ' Mr. tourer says.
"The particular gas used tor this
purpose is known as C N— Federal
Tear Gas-against which no gas mask
affords any relief. Only a very small
U BANK IS NOW
PROTECTED BY GAS
Vault Door of Popular Banking Es
tablishment Is Made Proof Against
Work of Bank Bandits.
quantity is necessary to render a rooip
J bank vxult untenable for many
hours. It is not poisonous or deadly
but instantly blinds whoever is ex
posed to its vapors as long as they I
remain in contact with it. It does!
not cause permanent injury as does j
mustard gas, phosgine, Lewisite, and
other poisonous gases.
"The method devised for the utili
ntion of C N for bank vault protec
tion is such as to make it entirely j
safe for everybody except the yegg- j
man who, armed with his acetylene >
torch, has heretofore found little dif- j
ficulty in cutting his way through the l
thick steel doors of vaults and money j
safes. 1
"While foremost nations seem to 1
favor the discontinuance of the use
of eas in future warfare there is no
wason why it should not be utilized
j 1 Peace time for the protection of
oar.ks against robbers who are daily
ramming more desperate and daring
® their nefarious trade. It is high
tone that some such deterrent was
b> Slop them."
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Threshing started along the Soo
Lme the first of the week and it is
expected to be in full blast by the
end of the present week.
Friends Await Details of Story
Of Mishap to Greater Rockford
r
While awaiting fuU details of^ what
Rescue is Affected by Michigan University M en Aa ? r Fll f 8
Make Long Trek-Pilots Appear Not Much the Worse for
Adventure Despite Shortage of Food Supplies.
srsts
just an ordinary Labor Day ceieo
tion.
Bickford, 111., Sept. 3.—The rescue
p Hassell and Parker Cramer,
ockiord-to-Stockholm aviators, from
e ar ctic wastes of western Green
anc * c °ntiriue d to be the chief topic of
IKK IS ON IN
SHERIDAN COUNTY
s teady chug of the threshing
pennies and combines can be heard
WeMr * >arts Sheridan county this
0U1 ~ as , tbe golden harvest is being
and hauled to bins on the
town, 01 *° elev at°rs in the different
weather is prevailing for
0 { shul K operations and thousands
»ipv 61 ® 8 bave already been cleared
** early ending of the harvest
«r H the present weath
' r continues.
*tanlî s H ve h® 611 high in many in
one J and,the crop promises to be
ShenM«" 16 bir Kest ever harvested in
* na an county.
county are
coming in nominations for the honor
.of Princess of Sheridan. People have
awakened to the fact that this trip
is an honor conferred upon one of the
many beautiful daughters of Sheridan
county that really means something
to the winner, that it is an experience
that can come to but few and that it
is one that the winner will never dur
ing her life forget, and as every
muiiity has a lady which it would like
to s^ e Princess of Sheridan, they
girding on their armor and getting
ready fpr the campaign. It appears
a t this time that the contest this
y ear i g attracting the greatest inter
es t on the part of the general public
ever given to the election of Prints
an( i th p re promise® be an exciting
campaign before the name of the for
lunate lady is announced.
A Wonderful Time
The young lady elected Princess will
have a wonderful time. She will have
ber ^ ar c and all expenses paid to and
from the capital of the state where
state fair and the Princess Pa
gcant are held. She will travel de
luxe on the finest Pullman, dine in
tbe diners, stop at the very best ho
tels» he entertained at one of the fin
mansion s in He lena., whpr a..
com
me
adorned with beautiful gowns fumish
new , the eat stores every day,
. t ' he be fi es :0 f the state balls
* their honor, will attend the
Jf .. iven bv tbe officialdom at
r CC D * - .v t
^J^sion gTvenforherand hlr
er ^^ ian ^" n ^ U
colleagues, will receive
i _ __ auto rides and
I excursions, and Jpj^ter *mf**at-1
w here she _
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of
q» be
g acb ow and dri
"T .oa-mner Lena'
VERN SACHOW TRUCK
DOES RUNAWAY ACT
Ford truck belonging to Vern
by him staged a
Vern was
anven
Leaping Lena" act as
near the Shippee farm Saturday on
b j g way to town with a load of wheal,
j oW gear slipped out as the ma
cb i ne was going slowly down the l 11 "!
and the breaking power of the trucx
was g0 ne. ^ The machine sta ^f d v^rnl
wd d race down the hill with
bang ing to the wheel.At the tu
at the foot of the hill tb ^, dr ^ p !5 * îê
! Sred that discretion was the, better of
1 va l or a nd left the machine as it wild
ly careened Into.the up in |
Vern was , not i n1 * U red other
the jump but was not mj Q eck
wise. The truck was a total wreew.
had happened since
the plane Greater '
Cd '^arandTnharmef was" suffi
dent bo arouse Rockford to the ç r ' ^
est pitch of ® xclt S^ e ^nded the
seen since the armistice end
were
ràfffîSÂïfifSt
over |f a ^ C X d fSîf the
southern Greenland, a P ? Univers
Greenland expedition 0 ^ a ft er
ity of Michigan found the fliers air
following a « JthCT
8l5f nor" » appeared moch
the worse for their advenhane. m
They were taken to the • .
Evans but what they ^ v p - d their
has not been learned. They ?aia
I>a*t IW>
on
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STOLEN SPEEDER IS
WRECKED BY TRAIN
John Wells >and Harry M. Pence of
Homestead Arrested for Interfer
ing With Railroad Property.
A Great Northern railroad speeder
was smashed to smithereens last Sat
urday evening when an engine and ca
boose shock the machine which had
been stolen from the Homestead sec
tion house by John Wells and Harry
M. Pence,
The speeder was traevling to Medi
cine Lake when the collision occurred ;
and when the engine hove in sight on
the Medicine Lake flat both men tried
to get the machine from the track
but because of a reported intoxicated
condition were unable ao do so. When
the men saw that they could not
SÄ "?n £
safety and the locomotive hurled the
speeder off the track, nearly derailing
the engine an caboose. '
The engineer immediately stopped
his tram and upon investigation the
traincrew found Well, who apparent
t9 , lea , Ve Ä scene be '
cause of an overload of liquor, near
S®, 1tra , ck - Pence however had sud
denly disappeared and could not be
caboose
caboose and carried to Homestead
traip 6 he WaS a ° Wed t0 leave the
Mondav ,T R __ • ,
agent for the Speclal
?n Iden? S w„ h6 d and together wRh To"
re
cal officers located Pence and had •
"4a?; 0r " ° Ut Ä5.. his
rested at ÄÄtÄu '
Ätfs Äon " * he C0Unty iail
Northern having been released from
the employ of the company July 1st
of this year on account of druhken- !
. He has a wife and four children
living at Homestead. Harry Pence ir
a transient who has been working for
a short time around Homestead.
ITD^A/I FK \C\Jl AI? FARMER
FROM DAGMAR FAKMLK
, x « - ma
A Pontiac Sedan, ab °^^ y ® ar
was stolen from the gaiag m ;i es
home of Chris R. Jensen, thiee mile^
Ümth of Dagmar Wedavsday mghk
The theft was not discovered until
- -x clock Thursday, when jmes cut
the fence allowed . sto p ck
the cause brought forth the discoxery
that the car had been sto |® n * ,
The robbers are though^o have
taken the r °ad oas
the stolon macbl ' . w the track
Officers are ^ g00 d start
of the r + ? bb ^ f 7 ba a b dis coîered. Mr.
before the „„„pp
Jensen had no theft msura .
ness.
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! n the fence <
(into the yaid
five o'
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Former Governor Joseph M. Dixon Discusses
pâtirai Usues of Day to rergus rair i nrong
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TVlla of Farm Problems — IVlC
i eUS ot r a Bal __ Recor d
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of Party and His Quail tica
fions for Senatorial Toga,
tions I
Discusses Question ot lax
ation.
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Sing political issues of the day as
he AfteTexplessing his appreciation j
of the fair management's invitation,
his pleasure at being present and ex-,
tenuating at length on the agricultur
al resources of Fergus county and j
central Montana, the speaker läunch ,
ed into a real political talk which,
«teemed to meet with the approval of
the big crowd as denoted by the ap
plause accorded. . 1
y Governor Dixon's speech in part
^ ^ have bee n an invited
«nest at the Central Montana Fair
fnd see the products of the great Ju
dith Basin country at the flood tune
^During the 37 years of my life in
the state, Thave seen it slowly evolve
from tbe era 0 f its mining camps and
cattle ranges to its present proud po
sition as one of the great agricultural
states of the Union. ,
While today wheat undoubtedly
holds first place in the list, dairy
products, sugarbeets, wool, cattle,
hog, flax, hay and poultry are slowly
forging ahead in revenue returns to
the land owners of the state.
As in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minneso
ta, Iowa and the Dakotas, the wheat
fields of the past have gradually giv
to the more intensified and
en way ■
diversified farming as represented by
dairying, poultry end livestock, so
will the story soon be told of the
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NOMINEES FOR
PR1N6ESS
OF SHERIDAN COUNTY
.
Thursday. September 6, 1928
WESTBY
Carrol Hoeqjc
500
REDSTONE
| JED FOLK DIES OF
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KLALK DIP I Hr KIA
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Woiti has just been received that
Ted Folk ' who lives on the r€serva -
tion west of Medicine Lake, had
died very suddenly this (Thursday)
morning at 8:00 o'clock from black
f iptheria a ?' er a brief He
leaves a wife and one son, Elmer
i to T"™ his , M , r- F M k
°!f V'",! OD T* 1 f? f hotel at Medl -
cn, *, Lal !. e ""<> ah » 1 S' a year ago was
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Signe Benson
500
MEDICINE LAKE
Helen Reuter
500
PLENTYWOOD
Glow Krebsbach
Marie Hareland
500
500
OUTLOOK
Margaret Gosper
500
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C" Soaked in Whiskey When Offi
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Scobey.—William Hoenck and Jack
McIntyre of Scobey were arrested and
arraigned before Ü. S. Commissioner
Paul Crum ThorW.ay morning, Aug.
30, and bound over to appear at the
next term of the federal court in
Grgftt ÇôU§
nesdav evening about nine o'clock by
t j wSs, customs patrol inspec-;
w and George Johnson, night po-1
Wman. The nair were driving toward
Scobey on the west highway and
hailed to stop refused to
when ha.led to op re.us ^
piy.rne t hey were seen to take
to town ^ begin break .
, inff something in their machine.; two
halted by gun fi re the car was
found to be drenched in moonshine
found^to taken was then
retraced and the abandoned a r 4l o ep
found to be two sacks, each contain
ing the broken croçkery of one-g
Ion jugs and saturated with contra
i band liquor.
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FIRE DESTROYS THE
MOE MERC. BUILDING
Plentywood Bakery Saved by Fine
Work of Firemen—Loss Estimated
at $4,000 Partially Covered by In
surance.
Thursday morning at 4 o'clock the
citizens of Plentywood" were awaken
ed from their slumber by the shrill
blast of the fire siren to find the
building recently vacated by the Moe
Mercantile Co., on main street in
fla ^ es V . . , , ,
ned run to the scene of the fire and
three lines of hose were brought into
play but the fire had gained such
headway that the building could not
huildfngf owned" by Marhn ToftneS'
;
«dent work of the firemen, although
.considerable damage was done to the
' building and the bîkery will be unable
t0 oçerate until the damage has been
! repaired.
i The origin of the fire is a mystery
!T any dlffer f ent + conclusions were
™iced on the street the morning of
I the fire as to the probable cause. A
thorough investigation will be made
ofVJulT"
01 Jt , "T .... . ,
! lonrea this
i" "a' leased to Olé Moe two veals
1 a «d to 0,e Moe two y.ars
i" turn haS'recentf/leasid the plop!
°rty was put
^M«st\e C ä a red«"ated h insS*
«g t!,d .f about a. month ago
0 ^'!
on the 1 mlding an covere d by in
Mr * To / t ^ e P h\\ c U ffer a big loss
prance but he c w a u se of the dam
by fire and
aR „ f L done to e0 P
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r . OQ ivn TRUCKS L
AIL fî A L -
L1LL1N3L r L.
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The sheriffs office has
several complaints according to^Shei-j
iff Salisbury about cars JSr* . * L
com-)running over the county without an>
a t all or wRh the wrong ^
cense piates. The Sheriff states that
hig conditl0 n must cease and licenses
must be procured in order t « a ^° id
i that t . ru 5 ks Montana li
quired by law to ba ^® J~, H _
censes before domg CTktom hauling. 1
j ^ Blodgett organizer for the
p ' gsive F arm ers spent Sunday in
- pl ^ t d Daniels county is being
Plenty organized
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MOTHER AND CHILDREN ARE
AMONG VICTIMS OF PLUNGE
Craft Piloted by Paul Wheatley Falls on Landing Field at
Pocatello as Pilot Maneuvers to Alight at Airport to Take
on Mail Bound for Southern Terminus at Salt Lake City.
Pocatello, Ida., Sept.—Seven persons, five of them homing pas
sengers on an air mail plane, were killed Tuesday when the ma
chme crashed as it was making a landing at the airport here. Of
the other two, one was the pilot of the plane, Paul Wheatley of
Salt Lake City, and the other was W. A. McLean, traveling rep
resentative of a magazine> whose pa
re Mr S re S'wrencf "s'h 6 ? r Man f ito £ a -J!
rl hildren ' Carl >
"T,™ m0 " *« ce J e '
Le., „5,-'. h , MtS '
Vi ln Butte, Mont ,
n èwL aP er man a^Jess^^Richards'
newspaper man^and Jesse b. Richards
Commerce ^re^the^eïd Chamber ° f
^ made a holiday flight to
Q J ™ Mont and their wives
werfawïting thet return^ ^0*
den fc a ^rt whS ttiîî we InformSl
of the fatal crash *
The Diane flvine-low over the land
in K Add was àboSt 75 feet above he
S roun d when the pilot headed it into
thg win(] u banke(] ^ ,
«» right wing tipped up. Crashing I
to the ground, nose down, it rolled
PÜot SÜ
The maohiue owned by the Nation
Tuesday morning fir Äh UL
. a nd a cargo of mail,
f ix L the pilot. Airmail ser * 1
the Salt Lake-Great Falls
^ °^ a s S| rt ed only about a month
r n °" te ,
^When spectators reached the wreck
L r i nlane^thev found only two of , tbe
tLSrtVSsAlive. They were
lg ^ Wèhalbv, — — '.v-.V
Parks Airways company. Both Me
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HEDGES STOLEN IAK
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f UuINU WlUIiLüUÄI
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T , P rd Sedan belonging to
cl ^ c efHedge^o£nearSfwood !
w hich was stolen from the streets of
this city last week has been found in
a cou lee three miles west of Redstone,
i A party of linemen working on the
power line discovered the cav. and no -1
tified the sheriff's office Wednesday
and an officer left at once to look
i driven three miles west of Redstone
and run off the main road about 20
rods into a draw which hid the ma
• chine from those passing by on the
' road. The car/ was unharmed except
I that the battery had been stolen the
I coils removed and the tires axchanged
! for an older set.
, Mr. Hedges went out Thursday to
1 bring in the car.
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Big Preparations Are Being
Made for Sheridan Co. Fair
Exhibits from All Parts of Sheridan County Will Be On Dis
play At Show Room In Farmer-Labor Temple, October 10
11-12. Livestock Demonstration Train Will Be Here As
1 Extraordinary Attraction October 11th.
The Fair Board in conjunction with the various committees ap
pointed are going forward with an extensive program that gives
every indication of surpassing any event of its kind ever held in
this county.
Word has come into the Fair Board
that farmers are preparing their ex
hibits with unusual care and that a
fine display of grains, grasses and
vegetables will greet the visitors' eyes
as they enter the Farmer-Labor Tem
ple October 10-11-12.
County Agent Ferguson has been
using every effort to see that every
community is represented, and from
all reports his efforts will be reward
ed with one of the finest displays of
Sheridan county products ever seen
in this city.
The wonderful crops of 1928 in
this county have brought about an
enthusiasm to show their products by
the farmers in greater numbers than
has been recorded in previous fairs,
and the competition for prizes will be
keen. ' _
Pine prizes will also be the reward
of the winners in the different divi
sions of agricultural products, a list
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Pontoon of Explorer's Airplane Found
-Indications Are It Wa s Torn off
in Terrific Crash,
Oslo, Norway, Sept. l.-Much of
the mystery surrounding the disap
pearance of Roald Amundsen, Cap
tain Rene Gibaud and four others
while £lying from Tromsoe to SpiU
bergen on their mission ot mercy last
/P^e had cleared tonight.
dim" hopes some" sangle ots stfll
heWth^the^famous expiorer and his
0Jte ^x m -doats ofth^ ÿVffî.
~ romsoe on June 18. Since then arid
cince their non-appearance at Spita
gf" ^Noîwegian fishermen had
b ^n e d the se J. va mly for some clue
to the fate of their countrymen—
i ^ their search, however, being un
1 availing until the little steamer Brooa
f as tTight picked up the float. Thot
h a iz l ea Ts tn7 recog
Pl0nt0 on Identified
MITE EVIDENCE OF
AMUNDSEN'S FATE IS
FOUND OFF NORWAY
Th e Brood immediately turned a
bout and put in at Tromsoe at 3:30
this ipoming, showing the pontoon to
the French consul there, who by pho
tograpL in hi S possession and by
word from Bergen where copper
lates had beer attached to its b 9 tto, P
in the course of repairs, identified it
With the identification it appeared
certain for the first time since the
flyers' disappearance that they had
suffered the fate of other transat an
tic flyers— de a th by falling into the
sea. The float, blue ^ey in ^olo ,
|.pave evidence of having.been wroch
ed with great violence from the body
of the seaplane, probably at the mo-
(ment it crashed with the water.
0 , in ^ and
Plentywood visitors Tuesday of this
week. Mr. Lutnes brought in a gal
1 Ion of wild plums which he had grown
at the well known Lutnes nursery
' north of McElroy. The Producers
j News force sampled the plums and
pronounced them excellent. Mr. Lut
nes has taken great care to bring out
a wild plum of unusual sweetness
1 and flavor and a good bearer.
LUTNES' PLUM TREES
BEARING FINE FRUIT
BLACKSMITH SHOP
BURNS AT ANTELOPE
About 2 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing the blacksmith shop belonging to
Bill JcEwick at Antelope was disouV
i ered to be on fire and burned to th«
ground before the hungry flames
could be quenched.
The shop was up-to-date in every
respect and carried a battery charg
ing outfit. The building and equip
ment were totally destroyed.
The volunteer fire department suc
ceeded in saving a building nearby
from the flames.
Mr. Cutabal of the Outlook country
was a business guest in this city Sat
urday.