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O ML aOOIETV - OF MONTANA, Helena. \ Historical Library THE PRODUCERS NEWS liberty IS NOT HANDED down from above THE PRODUCERS NEWS GOES INTO EVERY HOME IN SHERIDAN COUNTY Published Weekly A PAPER OF THE PEOPLE. FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE PLENTYWOOD, MONTANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1929. VOLUME XI, No. 42. Sub. Rates: »« in U. 8.. 98.00 per year Entered as Second Clam Matter. October IS, 1»18, at the Post, office at Plentywood, Montana. Under the Act of Mareh 8-, 1871 pur year v Senate Ratifies Kellogg Multilat eral Treaty Pete Hendrick smei er and Bob Porter Found Guilty WILL BE SENTENCED JANUARY 22 MUCH INTEREST SHOWN IN CASE t District Court Convenes Tuesday, January 15th With Judge Paul Presiding. Raymond Men Found Guilty By Jury. Arnold Wins Civil Suit from Olson. Judge Declares Gar ner's Bonds Forfeited. Ommar Case Laid Over a Week. The regular term of District Court called by Judge Paul convened at the court room in Plentywood last Tues day morning at 9:30 o'clock, Judge Paul presiding and George Bol ster and Wm. Ator acting as bailiffs. Fifty Jurymen were called to appear for duty and were present Tuesday morning ready to try the cases which came before them. The first, and one of the most in teresting cases of the present term, that of the State of Montana vs. William Garner, J. E. Porter and Pete Hendricksmeier. The State was represented by County Attorney Grant Bakewell and Atty. L. J. Onstad while J. J. Gunther appeared fro the de with was fendants. This case was the result of an at tack upon Jack O'Grady by William Garner, J. E. Porter and Peter Hen dricksmeier in which Mr. O'Grady received a severe beating in a pool room at Raymond, were charged with assault in the sec ond degree and in the case that fol lowed, the jurymen found Hendricks meier and Porter guilty of the charge. Sentence will be pronounced by Judge Paul next Tuesday. In the meantime Porter and Hendricksmeier were re manded back to the county jail. William Gamer, one of the three charged with the assault, was unable to be found, and his bonds of $1,000 were declared forfeited Tuesday by Judge Paul. Pasku Popesku, local restaurant man, and Walter Carter, who formerly was proprietor of the Smoke House, be fore it was sold to Nig Collins. Following are the witnesses for the (Continued on page Eight) The assailants His bondsmen were Fire Department Holds Annual Election of Officers Wednesday L. E. Hein Chosen Chief and L. G. Zeidler, Assistant Chief. Other Officers Ejected. Annual Ball Will Be Given at Farmer-Labor Temple February 22nd. *--— Wednesady evening of this weekj the members of the Plentywood Fire Department met at the fire hall and held their annual election of officers, the following being chosen: Chief— L. E. Hein. Assistant Chief— L. G. Zeidler. Secertary-Treasurer—A. J. Langer. Hose Captain—Martin Nelson. Chemical Captain—Frank Fishbeck. The election of Chief Hein gives him the prestige of having filled that responsible position for the last 16 years, during which time the fire de partment has grown from a small hose cart to the present equipment which is rated amongst the best in the state for cities the size of Plentywood. The present equipment consists of a Cadillac hose cart with 1600 feet of hose, a Flint chemical machine, which carries two chemicals, two Fbamite ■ , , _ , ertmgmshers and 6 °° feet of 1% inch hooe, and other f.re fighting appar Plentywood was visited with 14 fire s the past year at which an aver age of 18 members of the department were present, attesting to the high ef ficiency of the fire fighting organiza tion under the supervsion of Captain Hein. The cost of maintaing the de partment has been but $260 for the Past year, while many thousands of dollars have been saved to property owners of the city through the effi cient work of the firemen, who hold the highest esteem of fire insurance companies and have received many high compliments because of the ®g of property which they had in sured. sav decided to Annual Dance February 22 nd At the meeting, it was u_ . hold the Annual Fireman's dance Feb ^ary 22nd, the usual date. The (Continued on Last Page) * presented by constables for making returns on warrants of arrest, when the warrants were served by the of fice of the sheriff, was carried into ef fect Thursday when Sheriff Bob Gor don was ordered by the board to make returns on all warrants served by him. "At a regular session of the board of county commissioners," reads the communication to Sheriff Gordon, "held on Jan. 10, a motion was made seconded and carried 'that the sheriff be ordered to make returns on all war rants served by him.' You are there fore ordered that you make returns (Continued on Last Page) WARRANT CLAIMS RULING IS MADE BY COMMISSION Cascade County Commissioners Rule Papers Served by Sheriff Must Be Returned By Him. Great Falls. -A previously an nounced decision of the board of coun ty commissioners to disallow claims Local Tonsorial Artist Sprains Arm and Wrist Frank Smith, well known barber at the Hilyard Tonsorial Parlor, had the misfortune to slip on a step. Monday night, resulting in a fall which sprain ed his right arm and wrist. Smith was able to be around Tuesday, but will be unable to wield the razor for several days, so he took a few days off to visit a sister at Rugby, North Dakota. Mr. *--— HOMER ROGERS DIES AT PRIEST RIVER, IDA Well Known Plentywood Pioneer Far mer Dies Following Operation Sat urday, January 5th. The following article narrating the death of one of Plentywood's old-tim ers was taken from the Priest River Times sent to this office through the courtesy of Mrs. Alfred Hardy: Funeral services for Homer Rogers were held from the Catholic church at Priest River Saturday morning, Janu a . . . „ , a ; y 5tk ' at 10 0 dock ' Father C y of l 1 ," 8 * . .. . Mt «„ r ' S ers » w ° a _ a , , er ° r e pas year ' a ! undergone an operatiou at Spo kane passed away at Ms home m the Blue Lake district on Tuesday, Janu a( 1:00 0>clock of canccr , The defeased had lived fa thi , coun . try for the past six years, coming from Montana to Priest River, and resided on the John Amblie ranch, to the north of town. Mr. Rogers was born at Bridge continued on Last Page) LITTLE MALCOLM BOY VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA Clifford Malcolm, 3 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Malcolm, who live four miles southwest of this city, passed away Wednesday night at 10:30, of pneumonia, following illness of seven days' duration. The little fellow is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm, his twin brother having died at [bereaved parents have the sympathy an birth. The __ _ of all fa the death of their little son. Funeral services will be held in Plentywood Saturday. Many Farmers Visit Machinery Special ' --— W. A. CLARK, JR., BUYS STOCK IN PACKING CO. Butte, Jan. 14.—W. A. Clark, Jr., has purchased the stock of the Han sen Packing company of Butte not owned by the president, Walter G. Hansen. Formal announcement of Mr. Clark's investment and the fact that he would become chairman of the board of directors was made by Mr. Hansen Saturday. The stock purchased by Mr. Clark was owned by Charles J. Kelly, chair man of the board of directors of the Metals bank, together with other smaller lots. The Hansen Packing company does a large business and has several hund red employes on the payroll. RED HOT GAME AT TEMPLE WEDNESDAY/ A good crowd of fans were out to see the Ambrose-Colgan Twins basket ball team of North Dakota win over the local Vagabonds by a score of 45 to 30. It was easily the best gamè of the season and while the North Dakota boys won, the local quintent had them going their best all the time. The North Dakota team claims the cham pionship of North Dakota by reason of defeating some of the best teams in that state. The boys made a very creditable showing against such an efficient aggregation, considering the short time which they have been play ing together and the fans got a big kick out of the contest. SEVEN MEN KILLED IN PLANE SMASHUP Big Army Fokker Airplane Crashes To Ground Soon After Taking Off —Forceti Landing. Middletown, Pa., Jan. 12.—The big army transport plane C-2 carried sev en men to death when it was smashed to pieces in a desperate attempt at a forced landing a few minutes after ta king off from the army air field here. Only one man of the 8 soldiers from Bolling field, Washington, who started on the return flight to their base, escaped with his life. He is Sgt. Patrick Conroy of New York City, who Friday night was uncon scious and in a critical condition in a Harrisburgh hospital suffering from a fractured skull. The dead are: Lieut. Henry R. Angell, Birming ham, Alabama. Staff Sgt. Henry Cronan, Washing ton, D. C. Staff Sgt. Rudolph J. Lehutta, Washington, D. C. Master Sergt. Joseph B. McCarthy, Washington, D. C. Private Samuel P. Jones, Bellbuckle, Tenn. Private Mike D. Kelly, Minersville, Pa. Private Clarence E. Birch, Chicago. The great tri-motored Fokker, of the same type as the famous Ques tion Mark and the ship used by Com mander Richard E. Byrd in his flight to the north pole, was a twisted mass of wreckage on a vacant lot within 50 feet of two Royalton houses which it narrowly missed in its mad descent. Because it was so completely smashed, Capt. F. F. Christine, acting mander of the local airport, said that the cause of the accident might never be known. The plane had traveled less than a mile when the few persons who wit nessed the disaster saw it glide help lessly over a row of hous*-. crash through a tree and drop, a .(.teted mass, into the rain-soaked ground. com FORMER SHERIDAN PIO NEER DIES IN MINNESOTA John Eggen, Sr., died Wednesday night at the home of his daughter Mrs. J. H. Midthun, at Winger, Minn Mr. Eggen is a former resident of Sheridan county having proved up a claim in the Archer country. He moved to Minnesota about six years on t , T -c . _ John J. Eggen and Claus Eggen of Archer are sons of the deceased. Pu neral services will be held next Wed ago. nesday at Winger, Minn. Prominent Speakers Well Re Received By Interested Audience. GUESTS HONORED BY BANQUET AT WEST'S Despite the bitter weather of last Saturday, the "Low Cost Wheat Spe cial Train" meeting was greeted by a well-packed hall at the Orpheum The ater, composed of interested farmers and business men. The special train, which is touring eastern Montana under the direction of the Montana State College Exten sion service in co-operation with the Great Northern Railway, arrived from Flaxville Friday evening, remaining in Plentywood until Monday morning when it departed for Medicine Lake. The train consists of 14 gondola cars of machinery exhibits, one automobile car containing a seed cleaning exhibit, one passenger coach containing a gen eral educational exhibit and two buf fet cars for the use of the tram staff. The train had its own engine and eat ing and sleeping facilities, provided by the Great Northern. "Wheat growing has undergone phenomenal changes during the past five years," declared M. L. Wilson, head of the department of agricul tural economics of the State College Extension Service, at the afternoon meeting held in the Orpheum theatre. "Wheat production in Mon tana has been changed by the intro duction of modeirn wer farming equipment from the old diversified farm basis to the basis of a business operating farm. Modem machinery has put wheat production on virtually the same basis as a modem manu facturing plant." Mr. Wilson explained that all studies indicate that the wheat pro ducer must expect and prepare for poor crop years and bad crop years and that the past five years during which time the greatest development of power farming has taken place were better crop years than normal. Consequently, the wheat producer, by power farming methods must take these factors into consideration and prepare for them by setting aside cash reserves during the good years to tide him over the lean years. Mr. Wilson explained that the purpose of the train and the meetings held in conjunction therewith is to discuss methods of reducing the coèts of production to enable the Montana (Continued on Last Page) RESERVE STORE TO HOLD HUGE SALE The N. B. Eidsness store at Re serve is putting on a big 10 -day Clean-up Sale, beginning Friday, January 25th. A special sales man ager will have charge and they guarantee a big saving in prices. The Eidsness store has a double page streamer in this issue of the Producers News which gives some Mea of the many sacrifices that will be made during this sale. Read it over carefully and there is no doubt that the Eidsness store will be very crowded place of business dur ing the big sale. a D. OF H. DANCE DRAWS LARGE CROWD The Degree of Honor dance held at the Farmer-Labor Temple last Satur day evening was a huge success from every viewpoint. The old-time music and old-time dances were greatly en joyed by old and young. The drawing for the prize of the evening took place at midnight, 10 numbers being drawn, Marie Harland being the lucky recipient of a $6.00 gold piece. The members of the Degree- of Honor members wsih to thank all those who made the evening such a success both financially and socially. .87 •77 •81 gg ^ .40 LOCAL MARKETS Thursday, January 17, 1929 Dark Northern Wheat, Winter Wheat ... Amber Durum .. Flax, per bu. Rye, per bu. __ Barley, per bu. Oats, per bu. Potatoes, per bu. £ r ® am ery butter, per lb. Dairy butter, per lb. — Eggs, per doz.— .. .88 2.05 .74 _ .39 .50 SLAYER OF TRIO DIES IN CHAIR Huntsville, Tex., Jan. 14.—Floyd Newton Byrnes, chauffeur who killed three women members of the family for which he worked at San Angelo in March, 1927, paid with his life in the electric chair at the state peni tentiary here early Friday morning. His victims were Myma Juergens ; her mother, Mrs. W. J. Juergens and Myr na Juergens; her mother, Mrs. W. J. Juergens and Myma's grandmother, Mrs. Rosa Schirr. Byrnes' defense was that he was under the influence of liquor when he mutilated the women with a hatchet. LEAVITT APPOINTS FROID YOUTH, U. S. MILITARY ACADEMY Froid, Jan. 11.—Hardin L. Ol * son of Froid has been advised by * * Congressman Scott Leavitt of his * * nomination as the principal can- * * didate for the entrance to the U. * * S. military academy at West * * Point. He is the son of Mr. and * * Mrs. A. J. Olson of Froid anti has * * Froid high school and is now in * his sophomore year at a college * * in Spokane. * resided in Froid for the past 19 * * years. He graduated from the * 67 MONTANA SCHOOLS TAKE KANSAS TESTS State Has Second Largest Enrollment in Contest Conducted This Month. Outlook and Dooley of Sheridan Among Those Taking Tests. Emporia, Kan., Jan. 16.—Sixty-sev en high schools of Montana entered the every pupil scholarship contest of the Kansas State Teachers college Emporia. Kansas entered the most schools in the contest, with 465 en tries, and Montana was second with 67. A final check of entries shows th it 825 schools of 26 states competed and that 209,640 copies of tests were or dered for use in the contest. Montana schools that competed in the contest are at Belt, Broadus, Broadview, Brockton, Cardwell, Cas cade, Chinook, Choteau, Clyde Park Coffee Creek, Columbia Falls, Con rad, Custer, Cut Bank, Darby, Dillon, Dodson, Dooley, Fort Benton, Geral dine, Gilford, Great Falls, Harlow ton, Havre, Hardin, Hingham, Hob on, Hysham, Ismay, Joliet, Jordan Kalispell, Kremlin, Lambert, Libby, Lima, Malta, Melstone, Miles City, Mildred, Moore, Nashua, Outlook, Park City, Plevna, Bower, Rosebud, Roundup, Rudyard, Sand Coulee, Sa co, Sidney, Shelby, Stanford, Stevens ville, Somers, Sweet Grass,k Terry, Thompson Palls, Twin Bridges, Vic tor, Virginia City, Windham, White fish, Whitefall, White Sulphur Springs and Worden. Subjects for the January contest were physics, first year algebra, plane geometry, constitution, American his tory» first year Latin, English and literature. The two latter subjects were each divided into four groups and paritcipants were classified ac cording to their advancement In high school. } A similar contest will be conducted April 10th and will include tests in chemistry, general science, physics, plane geometry, American history, first and second year Latin, first and second year Spanish and English clas sified for freshmen, sophomores, juni ors and seniors. HOMESTEAD QUINT TAKES CULBERTSON The fast Culbertson basketball towi team, which has made a name for it self by having victories over numerous outstanding quintets on the main line, came to Homestead, January 11 th''and there met their first defeat of the season. The Homestead team is a well-bal anced team and easily tumbled the I Culbertson boys by a 15-5 count, al though outweighed 16 pounds to the man. WISCONSIN SENATOR CASTS ONLY VOTE AGAINST BILL Action of United States Makes Record of Sixty Out of Sixty four Independent Nations of the World Who Have Approv ed of the Multilateral Treaty. Washington, Jan. 16.—America's adherance to the Kellogg mul tilateral treaty pledging the nations of the world to renounce war was voted Tuesday by the Senate 85 to 1. Applause of the women filled galleries echoed th eannouncement of the overwhelming. DAGMAR FA RM E R WINS FLAX PRIZE AT BIG MALTA SHOW Entries From Every Section of Mon tana Awarded Prizes—Competition Proves Very Keen. Malta, Jan. 11.—With the weather of the most favorable quality, clear skies and a chinook wind the State Utility Seed Show, the Northern Mon tana Poultry and Seed shows and the ! SL a to Corn show opened at Malta Thursday with interest keyed high and | entries so crowded that judging of j the Poultry was not finished until I noon and the corn judging was not I finished until aftej; 5 o'clock. *' Judges and county agents say that the quantity of the corn show is on a par with that of last year, there be ing 257 entries in the state show and 102 in the district, while the quality is said to be far above last year. Good Alfalfa Exhibits There are 360 ears entered in the bushel lots alone. The best alfalfa entries at the present show came from two districts, that from Phillips and Valley counties and that from the Miles City district being of extra qual ity. The Miles City territory claims the alfalfa king of the world, Harry B. Allen, of Volberg, Powder River county, who this year had more than 900 acres in alfalfa seed. Montana this year raised 750,000 (Continued on Last Page) Montana Legislators Confronted With Problem of More Revenue Senate Starts General State Survey. To Search for Economies and Means of Increasing Revenues. State Sales Tax fa Suggested By Members. Ÿ LOCAL BOV SCOUT TROOP REGISTERED On January 11 th, the names of 14 of the Plentywood boys who have passed their Scout tests were sent to the national headquarters to be regis tered as Tenderfoot Scouts. They are as follows: Lester Gunther, Patrol leader, Frank Timmerman, Patrol leader, August Ibsen, Scribe, Wilfred Gar neau, Carl Donaldson, Bobbie Farris, Donald Dahlen, Guy Campbell, Mor rison Reinertson, Randolph Lewis, Donald Moore, Archie' Bolster, Lyle Onstad, Jerry Reinertson. Although there are not enough hoys to make, two full patrols of eight each, enough others have shown their interest to fill the second troop and start the third. These are Lewin Timmerman, Eugene Timmerman, Garlin Gunderson, Harold DeSilva Roy Rue, Billy Hanisch. On January 11, as a part of the Scout athletic activities the boys play ed a preliminary game before the Williston basketball quint appearde on the floor. The Scout game ended in a tie score of 3 to 3. Afterwards all the boys were invited to the Timmer man home tor lunch. The next pub lic appearance will be Friday evening at 7:00 in the Fanner-Labor Temple before the Plentywood-Ante lope High School game. It is planned to call all registered Scouts before the Scout Committee and the Parent Teachers Association to formally sub scribe to the Scout Oath and to re ceive the Scout Badge. Wibaux—Survey made on mam street for proposed new bridge. *vote. Mumblings and some hisses from the galleries greeted the reading by the senate clerk of the name of Sen. Blaine, republican of Wisconsin, as the only one recorded in the nega tive. A vote was made possible when Chairman Borah of the foreign rela tions committee in charge of the treaty's two weeks journey through the senate, acceded to the demand for the submission of an interpretative report by his committee. He made the report with the stipulation that it was not to be considered as changing the treaty in any way or as effectua ting any reservation of it. The report reiterated the previously expressed views of Senator Borah that the treaty did not curtain Amer ica's right of self defense and that the Monroe Doctrine was a part of this country's system of national de fense. The report was laid before the senate but not acted upon. Last Minute Attacks Last minute attacks on the treaty were made by Senators Johnson, re publican, of California, and Glass, democrat,, of Virginia, who described it as "nothingness" and "not worth the price of a postage stamp, resulted in Senator Borah rising in. defense of the treaty which was sign This ed last summer at Paris by the repre sentatives of the leading powers of the world. The simply worded in strument negoitated by Secretary Kel logg has since been accepted by 60 of | the 64 independent nations of the world. 'When you come to analyze what (Continued on Last Page) Helena, Jan. 15.—Montana's senate this morning took the first step to ward solving the problem of the state indebtedness and a demand for in creased appropriations when Senator Wm. T. Cowan of Hill county inrto duced a resolution calling tor ap pointment of a committee of five members of the senate to make a gen eral investigation of affairs of the state, the necessity of decreasing state governmental activity or in creasing the revenues and to make a report which will guide committees of the senate in considering legislation, of the twenty-first session. To Seek Economies The committee is to consider advis ability of reducing or concentrating any activities or departemnts of the state government; devise and recom mend any economies if such be possi ble or reasible; ascertain if there are any sources of revenue available tor the benefit of the state government which are not at present contributing including a state sales tax on commod ities, and recommend to the senate any action which may be deemed neces^ sary to solve the financial problems brought to the attention of the as sembly in the message of Gov. John E. Erickson. The resolution was re ferred to the finance and claims com mittee. The Resolution The resolution follows: Whereas: It apepars from the gov ernor's message that the warrant In debtedness of the state remains al most statoinary in spite of the pass age of time and some additional reve nues, And whereas: The continual growth of the state apepars to justify fa creasing requests for funds from all departments of the state government, (Continued on Last Page) %