FAITH AND FINANCIAL FACTS SEN. JOHN SCHNITZLER mm r's *w>r g: : : ; ■ •X . Says ho is Chasing Snakes Under the above head Sen. John Schnitzler, of Froid, the owner of the Schnitzler Cor poration, Froid State Bank, and the Culbertson State Bank, in an ad published some hope dope, and a tirade against some body as follows: '"nie scandal monger and calamity howler is persistent and grows bolder in his resist less attitude, and we are forc ed to set the Heel of Truth up on the Viper's bead and crush him into silence." These ads were published in all of the papers in Roose velt and Sheridan counties except The Prolckicers News, the only paper with a circu lation, It was a nice piece f business for these fortunate papers. A Plentywood paper stated which the owns grease .-. 93.07 Roy E. Keller, road work .... 20.00 E. W. Black, rd. wk. 64.90 M. H. McKenzie, road work 54.25 E. W. Hannah, road work... 190.60 C. B. Loutzenhiser, repairs.. 21.00 Sam Walkden, road work... 92.00 Arnold Overland,r oad work 61.20 Ole Barsness, road work.— 60.30 James Barsness, road work 56.70 Albert Hanson, road work.. 65.00 Ambrose Schumaker.rd wk 88.00 Everett Meilby, road work- 56.70 Ben Tax, road work. 10.00 Ray C. Christensen, road Clifton McKenzie, road wk 125.00 28.80 Clarence Myers, road work 106.00 114.00 Andy Maxwell, road work. .. 22.00 Monarch Lbr. Co., road ma terial .-.. 30.40 Nels P. Miller, road repairs 42.35 Continental Oil Co., gas, oil 86.59 Maurice Barsness, road wk 160.00 COMMISSIONERS' PROCEEDINGS (Continued from Page Three) ROAD FUND Andrew Misslin, culverts. Outlook Lbr. Co. lumber. L. G, Ziedler, repairs . Farmers Oil Co., gas and 55.60 22.45 12.55 work Ole Johnson, road work Ray Hallquist, road work... 60.00 Olaf Nordby .repairs..... 15.36 O. M. Donaldson, repairs. 12.00 Hardy Olson, repairs. 18.75 5; P ; J mpl - °". rei ?n o?o no Westland Oil Co., gas & oil 212.09 Robt. L. Wheeler, road msp. 41.60 Niels Madsen, petty cash ... 11.99 Henry' Fransen, repairing. .. 29.35 E. V. Hurst, witness fees, road construction . Peter Groskurth, repairs .... 17.10 E. J. Olness, road work. 50.00 Edw. Crouse, road work.. 36.00 Melvin Torgerson, road wk. 72.00 -'Ana ; PROFESSIONAL — __ _ - nIDI wood FULKERSON-NELSON MORTUARY MaAXJOOMI tod: ■TAKER! Day Sc Nl*ht Service FI. K NTT WOOD Pbona 191 in an editorial that Schnitz ler, who seems to be worried about our institutions, had the Producers News in mind when he vomited up his venom. But that paper often goes off half cocked. A couple of other papers to the ad, but mentioned names. John, who signed the statev John W. Schnitzler, had vitrolic references no M ment as matMàger**hlJ presMentî** saidc in big black type; _ "THE FIRST STATE BANK OF FROID CAN AND WILL WHEN CALLED UPON PAY EVERY DEPOSITOR IN FULL. UPON.. TEN DAYS' NOTICE, CAN THERE BE GREATER SECURITY?" This is interesting and re assuring. We have read the statement and will say that it all de pends on John—whether he protects the public or himself: The bank's cash .reserves don't quite equal the Schnitzler Cor poration deposits—if he should £et shaky himself, but forbid the thought! John organized the Schnitzler corporation just to protect the people. If things are as John says. and he is able ; will and can do what he says, why all the big noise? Why not just demon strate and let it go at that . That would be a knockout to the "Viper." The money in the Schnitzler Corporation, and the cash m the bank we take it, is the same .money. We wonder if John can borrow money on farm land and machinery notes. We know a number of peo ple who can't. TTiis may be pertinent and personal hut John raised the issue. We will discuss the mat ter further if he feels talka tive. E. J. Olness, road work. 25.00 May Adams, road work.. 57.60 Jesse Adams, road work.... 36.00 Jack Ceartin, road work .... 36.00 GeGo. Smith, road dragging 8.00 L. F. GoGodale, const, and maintenance . Charlie Strubeck, const, and maintenance —. Buchwald & Lobdell, rep. Adolph Stephan, rep. and labor .-. 14.90 Peter Jerde, road work. 129.60 Carl Dahlgaard, road work 7.20 Lloyd Adams, road work ... 64.80 Clifford Jerde, road work ... 46.00 P. A. Beveridge, road wk... 8.00 St. Anthony and Dak. Elev. Co. material .—. 13.00 O. Grantham, road work...... 39.20 Niels Paulsen, road work.... 132.60 Max Heuth, roa clock p> m> the board ad . journed until 0 » clock a m Dec j At 10 o'clock a. m., Dec. 3, 1930 t he board resumed pursuant to ad journment made French, ^ the cIerk present Mrs. Le na McMillan appeared Inc., 44.86 plies Mae Grawe, library work. .. 19.00 ! ity of Pwood, water for lib. i Julius Stoen, coal £pr lib. ;Mt. St. Tel. and Tel. Co. telephone service .. PROTESTED TAX FUND Refunds 9.99 4.40 13.41 4.00 2.00 poor .... 4.00 2.00 the 3. Iverson before the board ^ ask £[ transportation to Sumner, Wash., and the board agreed to furnish such transportation to her and child on condition that the county would be reimbursed for the a mount At { 2 o'clock noon the board re cessed unt n 2 o'clock p m At 2.00 o'clock p. m. the board resumed pursuant to recess taken, French, Iverson and the clerk pres ent. REGARDING COUNTY MONEYS r „ ... . T . he f ? ,lo T5 re . so j utlon was "" tr ^," d a "^ ted! . WHEREAS, there is considera ble county money in the different banks in Sheridan county, Montana at this time, and that such banks have only been paying one-half per cent interest for the use of such money, and the county com misskmers, feeling that the inter es ^ should be raised to two per cen * b er annum, BE IT RESOLWED, by the b oar d of county commissioners of Sheridan county, Montana, that ?ft*r January 1, 1931, all banks * n county having the use of county money, deposited by the county treasurer, shall pay to Sheridan County, Montana, inter es l at the rate of two per cent per amy%n. Old Ag«n Pension Allowed— On motion the application for 01d A ? en Pension of H. N. Potter, of Redstone, was approved in the amount of $10.00 per month. On. motion the minutes of the meetings of the board for the months of October and November, 1930, were read and approved read. On motion Com. French granted a leave of absence from the state for a period of 20 days, beginning December 4, 1930. On motion, at 5 o'clock p. m. the board adjourned. for as was PRANK FRENCH, Chairman. Niels Madsen Clerk. COUNTY AGENT (Coptlnnod fro m First Pace) suited in many farmers who had never vaccinated for this disease before adopting this practice. Blood samples were taken from two poultry flocks in this county and sent to the veterinary depart ment at Bozeman to detect Bacil lary White Diarrhea. All reactors were disposed of and the flocks are now free from this disease. Wheat marketing information was presented at different meet ings of farmers and elevator men regarding the marketing of grains through the National Grain Cor puration. Results of th e Agricul tural Economic Conference which "as held late in the fall of 1929 were mimeographed and mailed to , ail the farmers in this county. Two hundred farmers received Farm Account Books through this office during the early part of 1930. The adoption of the practice of keeping Farm Accounts has. been gradually increasing the past three years. Farmers are realizing more and more the necessity of keeping a systematic system of records, which is a very important point in the management of the farming business. Eight carloads of cotton seed cake were ordered through this of fice and distributed to farmers during the winter of 1929 and 1930 There was a 60% increase in 4-H Club boys enrolled in 1930. Two club members of Sheridan county will attend the National Livestock Show and 4-H Club con gress in Chicago. Two club members and one 4-H club leader attended the state club camp at Bozeman. The largest 4-H Club camp in Montana was held at Brush Lake during the month of July. The to tal enrollment consisted of 147 £irls, 44 boys and 16 local leaders. LEWIS SAYS MUCH OF AMERICA IS YET TO BE DISCOVERED Gothenburg, Dec. 22. Another chapter in the long distance de bate between Sinclair Lewis and Prof, Van Dyke came today when the Nobel Prize winner ad dressed the Anglo-Swedish society on "The Scandinavian Boyhood of America." Lewis sharply replied to his cri ica' contention that the author of "Main Street' had not truly repre sented America in his writings. '.'I know that my books contain little of the great complex called America," Lewis said, "but is there any single author who can claim to have represented it? "It is necessary to read 20 au thors to get a true picture of the United States, bles Sweden more than it does the southern states. San Francisco and St. Louis differ more from each other than do Stockholm and Rome. Minnesota resem "Some authors have portrayed parts of the country but much is stil undiscovered. N r* BANK CRASH (Continue* from Pint Pago) Company at Yazoo City and the Bolivar County Bank at Rosedale. The First Bank and Trust Com pany at Attica, Indiana with than $100,000 in deposits was clos more ed. THREE MORE SUCCUMB Chicago, Dec. 19.— Three banks in three midwest states with total deposits of nearly $1,900,000 were closed today for the protection of depositors. They were the Security State Ban kf Madison, S. IL ? ; Jefferson State Bank of M<_ VeVmon, Illinois, and the Central State Bank of Whiting, Indiana. the ount TWELVE BANKS GO BROKE WEDN'SDAY Little Rock, Ark., Dec. 18.—The Peoples Bank at Berryville and the Farmers and Merchants Bank and the First National Bank at Green Forest closed today. A. T. Hudspeth, Little Rock fin ancier, who had interest in 12 oth er banks in northwest Arkansas which closed yesterday because of heavy withdrawals was a director of the American Exchange Trust Company of Little Rock which closed last month. State banking department officials said his nection with the institutions ed the runs on the banks closing yesterday and today. con caus gan of Harry Polk and Burley Bowler, two notorious rues, did not publish the axaminers report but did publish articles and editorials containing wantonly Kbelous ma terial about Editor Taylor, The Producers News and S. R. "Nig" Collins, and attacking the report of the examiner as of being influ enced by Sen. Taylor ann the wrapper; mild and bland as it -ast.es. But its gentle action soothes » youngster more surely than a more powerful medicine. That's the beauty of this special children's remedy! It may be given :he tiniest infant—as often as there s need. In cases of colic, diarrhea or similar disturbance, it is invaluable. \ coated tongue calls for just a few drops to ward off constipation; so does any suggestion of bad breath. Whenever children don't eat well, I don't rest well, or have any little apset—this pure vegetable prepara tion is usually all that's needed. 0, Restless CHILDREN no - IMP be explained before anything is said about the public examiner or his report, which by the way was read and okeyed by Mr. Hawkins, before it was sent out, and which was also signed by him. The at torney general is in the same building, and no doubt was consult ed by Mr. Hawkins. "In order that the people of Sheridan county may know what the law in regard to the publica tion of the state examiner's port is, I herewith quote from it for them: re LAW "Chapter 81, Session Laws of the Twentieth Legislative Session, A. D. 1927. "Section 1. Upon the receipt of the état« examiner's report covering the examination of the affairs of any county, it shall be the dluty of the board of county commissioners of such county, to have such re port entered and made a part of the minutes of the next regular meeting of such boadd; provided such report shall not be published by the board of county commissioners as a part of the minuates of its proceedings. Provided, fur ther, that the state examin er shall* at th etime such ne port of examination is for warded to the county com missioners, send a like copy to the official newspaper of the . county for publication. Such publication shall be had once in the official forthwith, and shall be a charge against the county at the same rate as provided for in the contract for county printing for proceedings of the county commissioners. newspaper "The law is specific. It does not provide for any delay or holding up for a revised report or anything else. "I am told, the officials and their defenders say that there will be a revised report. October, No vember and December have elapsed and there is none yet, and it is my opinion that there will not be any such report Examiner's Pay "These men, offended at the re port of the state examiner expos ing the rottenness in Sheridan county try to make it appear that the examiner draws fabulous fees from the county and cities for ex amination. This is another act of confusing by insinuation and is false entirely. The state law pro vides what each county according to classification, and each munici pality must pay into the public ex aminers' fund to defray the ex pense of examination. The exam iner does not get the mony. He is hired at a regular annual salary and is allowed an expense account while on the road in the perform ance of his duty. This fee goes to the support of the examiners de partment. It does not make any difference whether it takes a day, a "week or a month to make the examination, the fees are set and the same: they are paid to the state treasurer and not to the ex aminer. The examiner's fee was another red; herring dragged across the trail of a bunch of cor rupt officials and is made up of the same tissue as the rest of the defense. "Again, the Sheridan county of ficials are indicted by officials of their own party; officials who are A V w m w ■ ■ 4^ s A / A <• s % -A / fi'f GIFT that GIVES A GIFT four times f a year: k à à A Imagine a gift-giving gift « » a gift that actually 9* vcs another gift to its recipient every three months! That s what Minnesota Northern Power Comply 7% Preferred Stock will do. Give one or more shares of this sound stock as a Christmas present and it will bring four welcome dividend checks i year to its Fortunate owner. (Incidentally, it carries with it, in the form of a Common Stock Puren a*« Warrant, an interesting possibility of addition« future profit.) What gift could be more thoughtful or iJ* or< a ??ropriate for wife, father, mother, : Jn, daughter, or other relative to whom yoLJ*d like to something of real and lasting value? . • • . us to tell you all about this unusually attractive sîocîîl MONTANA-DA'tOTA TOWER CO. Dcccmbe r 2 &. 1930 to. mm 1 fi JJERE'SA WISH we could write in a hundred' and still it would > 9 jOSfcd: r* ways, mean— id! » h MERRY CHRISTMAS — HAPPY NEW YEARi MILLER'S PHARMACY U ? f* e not in sympathy with the Farmer Labor party and who no doubt would and did stretch point in favor of the present ty officials, but who found condi tions so vile that they were Relied to call attention to the facts in no uncertain terms. "They did their duty and are en titled to credit for it. many a coun com "There has been a lot said about lawlessness in Sheridan county; more about gang rule and corrup tion. The people of Sheridan ty should be able now to see plain ly who are the lawless ones—who are the burglars. "It would seem to me, that the less Frank French and Joe Dolin said about the examiner's report the better their case would coun ap pear. Farmers Attend Meeting Today, Friday, the board of commissioners are in special ses sion, the last session before Carl Hansen takes office in the place of Ed. Iverson. A large number of I prominent tax payers from the Dagmar-Coalridge country are in Low Cost Trips MINOT, N.D. m AND RETURN . J 7 85 c That's the day rate for a telephone call when you do not ask for a particular person at the other telephone. It's a round trip at a con siderable saving. «»TES « WÂ \ m Hp TELEPHONE « meeting with the board to ZT to any explanation which th."** missroners or county officials to offer, preliminary to positive steps toward con?®? conditions existing in the ^ They are talking of mu; Jj' the attorney general Plentywood and take control^.? fairs in person, and bring , essary actions to correct here, knowing that nothing Ä expected from Countv a *7 " Bakewell, realizing as thev foE total incapacity for doing ' if he would. ar.jthinj Suppress Tax Payers Co m . m unication The Tax Payers Association sent several ta ... u communications f # , publication to the Polk-Bowler per here, but they have not at peared in its columns yet TV er a r N ™" ^ ers «ews, the farmers' nai*r which is published for the tonS "^ruction of the pJJ while the other papers in the ty are operated only for person gain. »