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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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of all fa the death of their little son.
Funeral services will be held in
Plentywood Saturday.
Many Farmers Visit Machinery Special
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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