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Yol. XVII. No. 45
PLENTYWOOD, SHERIDAN
COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1935
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Emergency D
ht Relief Conference Is
or
Called
SB '5;
Death of 14 at Bam
Caused by Terrible
Conditions of Bunks
Pneumonia Is Rampant: Flu and Spinal Meningitis
Spread; Individual Complaints of Workers Are
Not Recognized; Organization Lacking
»
The hospitals around the Fort Peck dam are overcrowd
ed at i ht present time with pneumonia cases, 14 of which
died last week at Glasgow, it is reported by men who have
just returned from the dam. Flu is rampant and a number
of cases of spinal meningitis have occurred.
Much unrest is created through the growing sick list,
but complaints have no results. The terrible death toll
caused by pneumonia is not made public and is kept under
cover as much as possible.
Tin 1 workers maintain that the large number of
pneu
monia and flu cases is caused by the improper heating and
ventilating conditions of the bunkhouses. The conditions in
these houses, which serve as living as well as sleeping quar
ter^. are below all human dignity. %
There is no ventilation, although
there an 24 men quartered in each
burkhoupe. To "economize" on la
bor, the contractors employ only
one janitor to take care of
whole row of houses. A? a re
sult. the h ating system is in the
«ost miserable condition and is
worse than no heating system at
a
all.
"Ore time you come into the
barrack? and you roast because the
temp' rature is about 100; the next
time you come in it is about 20
and you freeze to death," the men
exrhin.
This i? considered the chief
causr of the pneumonia enidemic
but nothing is done to better
dit ? o«c. r rmplart? receive no at
tention and the workers cannot
che-k out of the hunks because
ther i- no place for them to
Th« hnotirtrp jc ^ 0 pe by natural
gas and regulation of the heat is
«^jr.r- r . r .j f 0 >, 0 automaticallv con
trol« ' ^
(j'n nuL
wo'k. and neither contractors
th" »nv« Tir^ept pnrog if |Ke men
pet c ick and di^
result.
em miartered in roverrment bunk
heu-'c?. i<? that it is difficult for
tlvm to get any sleep. There are
men elmv>ipg to three different
shi.ts in each hunkhoiuse. When
are chiff tries to sleep, the men
are d.?t U rK e d several times for
Jioum hv the incoming and outgo
^ y, 1 ,? another feature
which the workers point out as be
ir~ errtri' u t„ r v to sickness of all
km-'"
con
co
thermostats.
However.
control does not
rcr
like flies as a
R ? ecp Made Impossible
Another complaint of the work- '
!
1nf, k cf sleep. Despite fre
<jucrt complaints, nothing is done
to T e - np f p. tKo situation, although
th«- i s simply a matter of
Ogrcm-raMon. putting only mep of
ope -IvfT into me hunkhonse.
T'-ioip i e ptfip or yjo s ipirnc<s<5 a
trm'T fKo foremen and officers.
The"
rooms, nroperlv heated
Who the dickens
ouarigred. of course, in
it)d'V ; dnol
and ventilated.
Mont. Power Co. Ordered to
Drop $1.25 Monthly Charge
*
comrany was ordered last week by
ttp Montana railroad and public
servi re commission to Zl!
abandon its
Similar Action Demanded
Against Montana-Dakota
Power Company
HELENA.—The Montana Power
monthly initial rate charge of $1.25
Î a H cities where ga s is served
by the
company.
order of the commission
point? out that numerous com
P amts have been made against the
c nt-ip which is variously desig
. as "ready to serve charge."
rervip e charge
Wonthly charge." The nower com
pacy ' s oommanded ti eliminate the
Aanm Kv Feb. 1 0 r show cau.e
", a ^ nW 'c hearing on Jan. 25
r v . th,c should not be done. The
continue from dav to
• tv ' COTTITY, i' :R ion states, until a
In 1>ve rtiPation is made of
ule* ra * e * ! ' ^ C ^ S ' c ^ arpes JL nd sched
and
Initial
«
e order 0 f th e commission and
f ° tv reate*ed irvectio-ation should
JT T** Pvprv user of power in
^nar cDiintv, A similar "in
it"' 1 ^oritblv rharo-e" like the one
° v n * nA '' v '*'n,iAT 1 o^ v, prft being
r 8 " ' , ' r ' «V »».„„.„.Dakota
P»-. a „
f 'n fbic!
TI.
enmnamr h fle in^t
» . ! V ^ nhnrtep Hd «> K flT . d
r»r* t0 ^ ow Hs
h*
customers
. . ^aMvirr J, tre^en
. under the new system
• • of retes the
r '-*'
company has intro
' ~ "
care for the workers, when they
can bo replaced, faster than they
pet sick or die off?
;
Large Labor Turnover
The labor turnover at the dam
is somewhat tremendous,
paratively very few workers stay
longer than two months with any
contractor. They quit because la
bor conditions and low 'wages force
them to. For the exploiting
tractors, this large labor turnover
has a great advantage. It makes
organization cf workers extremely
difficult. With many newcomers
on the job every month, it is hard
to. develop organizations,
without organization, the workers
:
I
Com
con
And
entirely at the mercy of the
contractors. The individual com
plaints are not recognized.
Of course, there is the NRA of
fice, which is the receiving station
for workers' complaints. But no
f hirg ever comes of it. Only once
in a great wlvfc\ when too many
workers complain too frequently,!
will this office act, end th^n only
in one individual case. Never is
the whole situation taken into cor
sidération^ and never does this of
nse its power to improve con
generally. One case is
mcked out. the man is half-way
s F tisfmd. and then it is announced
all over the eountrv what splendid
work this NRA office, has done for
the Fort Peck workers.
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_ _ _ ^ _
l^GUOf rrobit ot Is
^oerj qnn ; q m u
*o5U,ÜOO in 9 Months
are
dirions
ft
nr,
The state of Montana made
S c 5O.0C0 profit with its state-own
ed liquor stor f s from April 1 to
the end of 1934.
Washington retted $2,500,000, '
Oregon $900 000. with a sumiliar ;
set-up like Montana's, and Iowa '
$500 000 in half
a year.
Since repeal, the federal gov
eminent has taker* in $400.000.000
without levying any share of state- !
owned store profits.
!
The Producers News has »^.I
ed this system and has shown that
these new ratas were nothing but
a cleverly devised scheme by which
to quieten some dissatisfaction and
avoid investigation.
A few weeks ago petitions Were
Passed by certain people demand
low er power rates and insist
ing Qn an investi?ation Nobody
ever heard of the se petitions again, '
nobody knows whether they eve^y
reached their destination. News-lpaid
papers like the Plentywood Her
aid, which favored these petitions,
had no explanations to give! They
remained silent. In their news
columns, instead of explaining the
new raten anil the trick of the
power company, they helped to
boost these rates. Were the few
ads the nower company gave these
«ovaxa«. 4 -Vxa __ * \C- ,
KtÄ e ° r 18 cbange
Tf CDO ~<- it,«* _ . . .
of \L nnhlîrh^Vi 6 inte tü eS £
SetwTr «mp h ';; hv^ tew se'r°
vile papers and individuals.
duced.
Sell-Out
_. For tbe sa ^ Tie reason that the
j TltaT1a P uV H*c c e rvice commission
dema " ds abolition of the "initial
^^^ly charge" of the Montana
^.°y er , company, with the same
rpr f ^ should ST , d TYNjct insist!
r.jT of tV ? 1.251
initial „o-tM
nate of the Mon
t^rta-DuVotn Prnnpr
that i«t
comnwnv. All
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nnessure on the rngiriccior. send
AnmDlojr te »»r/t irtatof.
tion of ehe same kind
unort pc
as now tak
en against the Montaa Power
pany.
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McFadden - Just
A Plain Crook
JOHN L. SPIVAK'S FIFTH
ARTICLE OF "PLOTTING
AMERICAN POGROMS55
STARTS TODAY
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The fifth article of the series,
Plotting the American Pog
roms," by John L. Spivak, starts
in this Week's issue of the Pro
ducers News.
Spivak brilliantly exposes In
this article former Congressman
Louis T. McFadden as "just a
plain crook.
first appeared in the New Mass
c s in October. McFadden was still
a member of congress.
defeated in the November elec
tion to a large nart on account
of Spivak's article,
Jchn Spivak brings document
nrv proof in this article anout
McFaddcn's cornection with the
Order of '76 and with the Sil
v er Shirts. He tells about bribes
accepted by McFadden and also
shows how the honorable con
pressman has defrauded the pub
He out of thousands of dollars
by means of a wealth-producing
oil corporation.
The picture Snivak draws of
McFadden is a splendid example
of what corrupt personalities
can be found in the country's
highest law-making body.
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When the article
He was
LIVINGSTON, Jan. 17.—In ac
■cordanoe with its program to take
so-called submarginal land out of
production ar.d to get several mil
llion farmers off their farms, the
AAA has just bought a 57,686
S % SÄ'SSi ?£&£*
und* r the joint administration of
the park and forest service.
The portion of land will be re
veiled to grazing and part of it
will be used by the Yellowstone
park elk herd. ;
Approval of the purchase was
rec(ive<1 y esterda y by E. A. Starch,
AAA economist.
Thirty-five ranches and farms
ar e included in the tract bought
the government. The price
the farmers was $6.30 per
acre, not enough to make it pos
eible for most of them to start
anew at some other place. Ac
cordirg to the report of the eco
nomist, 126 people were residing
» the area bought by the AAA.
He stated that they all will be
rehabilitated and those who were
»nable to do so themselves would
. , , .
receive 80me «rivcmment help.
Most of Them . . .
T* 1 ® states also that "most
* «« «-hers have willingly con
"Most" of the Owners Con
sented Willingly to
the Purchase
157 :
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an
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sented" to the purchase. It did
no * sa v how large a number were
forced irto the transaction and
what means were used to compel
them.
LOCAL MARKETS
Wheat
.$ .90
Dunum ....
.99
Flax .
Com .
Butter
1.12
i
Whether Yov Do, Lie Or You
Don't, io the belief Office
It Makes No Difference
relief offirp h tb qo zer , 0 ' only a few People visit the
lehef office, and the 32 people employed there have a hard
time ot it trying to make believe they are busy earning the!
money that otherwise could be spent on clothes and over
ääää zero
s™^v th f iS f r fT ' ha ™ei C tht hfart nor
n0t Ä t«
Relief Administration Refuses New Glasses Because
the Lenses On the Old Ones Are Not Yet
Broken; Care of Eyes Out of Question
By HANS RASMUSSEN
When it is 40 below
ErSäÄ»
srs™s tzFsr t
cne ones wno nave to take the
back «seat nr cr f + T-v, 0 _
who i. the meanest, the most sour
SfSEÄÄSii?
is the one 'who e-ets nromntpH Fy>
' Three promotions are interring
to look at. Somewhere near the
top we have Miss Hansen. Every
body seems to agree that she is a
holy terror and she surely looks
it. For being just what she is, she
drawing two hundred dollars per
month and ten dollars per day in
"' »*? •■ . „ „
Npxtr f k c ™<:< Mr. Pender-.
off,c, f' titlc ° f re
1 J ml î , r , v 0r - N " t J mU ' h f an
^ sa,d a«-ont him outside of that
bs is not fit for the job at all.
H- IS not much good and rot much
had. he has no guts and ne haçk
bone, and is afraid to have a mind
ot W» «=?• F f V- ,5t m . 0S T a -
rrent. Where he beion^s is be
hind a counter in a small grocery
store, counting prunes. He is a
7 m ^ n .
?JÄ
*1'- + d l n,portant ' 9 J. e sat in the
YT t0 T lo ® k bke . a , q ? 0 ^ 1 '
f^^ïi K u u fv - Plng
^ ^\ she d f alt them mise^
«" ^
sWt> in S ° me college *
. And ^ h °, sk °jJ d sl l P T?, 1
î?ü_ cha ï J*? ^
À 1 ; t ** MlSS KandalL
^ °l bwelve , workers,*
J? 1SS Ra ? da11 ^ as lo t ? ked u f n ^
pPOp f a3 ein ? t e mos snip
P J ° ) e, ln 6 ea nest one, t « most
sour looking one. the one most will
^ hand the amount
. • ™ « 1 . « Z! 1 1Ca *
" In ti X ni ^
fltted ' T .K k •
f® P J?/ no € a 6 ° a r ' s
tWct-p tKi? ?nin T »nnoa a
mornW\ LÄS? ° n
fJLT d ^ ^ mV
, ' ; , j 5 , new glasses
Jîî .w fiL 7 d °
",,T a ' „n ^ We ,
, . U L a M , urty case ' We
taka , ° f UL ""*yf ncy casM "
Miss Randall snapped.
«Suppose she brraks the glasses,
would it be an emergency case, and
would you take care of it?" I ask
^
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O n Mondav mommg T nnnewA
before Miss Pard*ll again. SK*
sat In her chair, hirino-bar lip«r and
trvintr to keen from fMn
O'f bardie lookin'* as 50 « r a,
T .. . J .
v • Tv0rV,T,fr / mi straight in
the eye is something she can not
It would be an emergency case,
she .answered.
"All right," I said. "Then I'll
go home ard break the glasses.
Do you want me to bring back the
pi' ce*?"
Not nece°sarilv." she answered.
Home T went, but I did not break
anv glasses.
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roe,»iWe.
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$ it,s bad —— » —
thing.
t i _i ,
said: "ï'came^'to rc ^rt to ™u
housed had an ~
ciH t n 18 morni n^* w^ 6 ac
the "or and^okeftem" 8 " °"
"Did you bring the pieces ?" she
asked.
"You told me Saturday it was
not necessary, but if you want me
to I will Vo home mvl -»
I said.
"According to what you told me!
Saturday, your case is not an em-j
ergeney case and I can't do any
1 'king for you,'''she said.
i That was all I could get out of I
her. Next I went to sec Mr Pen- !
dergast, and found he had b«n
well informed ab<>llt th ™ Deen j
i .. You didn't break thoL "asses "
h e said * 8
! "Of course I didn't,
p]y
j c(
1
was mv rp ,
T ,ny re_
come he™ nd WIjXax
. He because I am under the im-i
: pression that that is what vou want
!me to do ' and 1 a ™ willing to do
it ir- order to get a pair of glasses
for my wife."
i 1 «« lly thick Mr. Pendergast
wanted to see my wife get the
S
I " erVe to put hls fo(>t doWT1 and
(Continued on page three) 1
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charming young woman, is one of
the best brigade leadere in the Bud
yonny collective farm in the Stalin
grad re gi°n. Because of he r good
T°l\ S Y was chosen durin * the
last election to represent her fellow
workers in the Abramov village
soviet. •
Maria Saranova, besides being a
45 Farm Organizations Sig
n
Call for Confab to Be Held
In March at Sioux Falls
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ENUMERATORS OF
THE CENSUS WIN
STRIKE VICTORY
Cf-rilr#* i c C i.i j n • .1
Strike Is Settled Quicidy;
Twenty-Cent Raise
Is Gained
The nine good democrats, who
struck against their administra
tion last week, after they had been
appointed census enumerators, have
won their strike.
They had been offered 50 cents
for every farm on which the cen
sus Was taken. After they had
been appointed, they refused to
start working and demanded $1
per farm.
The census had to Ko
fa . . ~T h d t0 be
ven and the supervisor, J. R.
Raynard, was quite sure that no
other people could be found in the
cooir.ty who would break the strike
and take the iob uZ l
a taKe the J° b - it was too ex
pensive to get somebody from an
other county and besides there was
^, e dang *;! that any iren from out
d d not receive the cooper
ateon of the farmers necessary if
i a correc t census should bo taken
^ sœr;.
^ ° £
rÄÜÄT,"
mstâ*îts;
wprp -„„i, i . -
were uespising such proletarian
todjuai md^eStl* T" ^
ÄÄISÄ
the only means in their hands, the
TlTy gaLd^vl t° WOrk_Strike -
a vetory,
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MPFPFH FOP TAY
CiLjmuUlAJ 1 UI\ 1 iiA
CYCMDTIAM Dill
t AElllr 1 llfn BILL
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Is Conslilutinr.nl
'constitutional Amend
ment, Senator Ang
vick Stales
VICK oldies
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N In a , lette A r *°. , the Produ ""
T™' . Angvick ' Montana sen
f tor ' ex P lalns that the Montana
^ ^ em Ptioni biH, recently intro-!
duced m the ho ^se, constitutes
amendment to the constitution and
T th f refo J e have *o be put up
Y* y €ferendu « 1 ^en if parsed by
af course, means that the
bil1 cannot become law within the
nex t two years. A referendum will
rot take ?l ac / befor e the next eL
tl0 ^.. 1 1 n f 936 ' In other words, IF
S?." 1 13 pa f s ® d b u y the hou !!;
f F .>* « by the senate IF
1 15 a P p !'° v ® d by a referendum
vote, and IF the governor signs it,,
Î, sma11 J» 0 ™» owner may have
hlS P . rope ^ y tax exempt in 1937,
^ bome
8 f u .v v vm'
. Senator Angvick thinks the bill
/ " ^ ood n ?'f^ re ' He 18 in
^ 0T °1 lt- v ^ at , 01 !J present
atives, Ehv York MidMr. Peterson
J*" 1 * Y lt( the _T r .° d H ce " Ne J®
bas not yet ascertained. The bill
^ " ? n " ted W !
have therefore not seen it and
have been unable to analyze it
What applies for the tax rxemp
tion bill is also true for House Bill
No. 1. which would provide for a
peven-hour day. This bill is also
being regarded as an amendment
to th. constitution and will have
an
^ * j
to oome up for a re eren urn if it
passes the house an senate.
In Sheridan County
Figures from the clerk and re
cerder's office reveal tha' both the
birth and death rate im-eased in
S' eridan county during the year
just passed. Fifty-sev n deaths
WPrc T ® cordpd and - 203 birthR m
1934. In th' previous year, 45
deaths ard 165 births were re
corded.
Four Times As Many
Births As Deaths
Farmers Union and Holiday Prominent Among Signers;
United Front Established on Minimum Program
of Cash Relief and Production Credits
f SIOUX FALLS, S. D.—A general drought relief con
"ZSS f ° r th f- Ç u rP° se of g et t^g more relief and more
control over relief distribution, to be held at Sioux Falls late
J? Marc h, has been called by 45 leaders of farm
tlons *
organiza
. Farmers Union, the Holiday Associat
ions, U.F.L. secretaries, United Front Relief Committees,
f, ar ^ Bureaus » Farmers Protective Associations, leaders of
a 6 . Farmers Union, Unemployment Councils and the
^ gric . ul ^ ral and Cannery Workers Industrial Union have
Slgn<îd 016 P rovlsIonal «*«•
'The economic crisis has been*
^ d0Ct<>rS
w ^° prescribed an
^°. n °* 40 million
ÎJJ2®
, . « ,
administration
acreage reduc
acres, ' the call
At the same time
same department of
P that ., We needed
mi]ll0n more acre? lf we Were
to grow enough for everyone in
™ ls c .™ n . try . to eat what he needs,
J* 1 ® w A , forgot , the danger of
ouf U f,wi thCy haV ® Wipe< !
T- ^ nd f ° rage reserves and
claim they cannot carry our stock
^r the winter,
. " Thp y havc set up relief agen
Sowly T beaming 0 the eîonomï maï
ters of our lives. Thty give us
10 to 16 cents per day per person
,n our families and this cnly if we
stä' w and
? e "' b a " < '
Tf " for 71
ürjzs,°. de s
i. j , . ,, .
ers who produce the foodstuffs of
y™™, are 'Pf™ 11 ™' our ^
w^d'tn.^f^aiS
certain loss of our farm business
tak ! back thc
nghts that have been stolen from
i U
Differences Don't Conn*
The members of the so vastly
j different organizations state fur
tber: <<We wbo sign this cîdl know
that there are great differences in;
°' ,ini " r ' as * (> policies
''v™',' 1 "'" f ? r ' he ''"V"'" 11 5 eas in
which we find ourselves. For ex
I î mP ' "kT ^ ^ î ü Î*
i fam pr ° blem Can b€ t ?, 0, '' e 1 t by
currency expansion, while others
. are l Ce , rt .T 't>st B, g Business can
^
a
, ,
ro matter hefw much currency may
issued; then there are some
who ma v believe that refinancing
° f ferm " ort ^ cs is s so,,ltio "'
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250 Celebrate Gold and Silver
Wedding at Brotherhood Hall
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In Honor of Nels Sampsen
: an< J Martin Larsen
Connies
tuples
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One of the prettiest social func
tions ever witnessed i n the Danish
Brotherhood hall in Dagmar was
staged there last Friday evening
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thermometers stood at 30 below
zero, over 2o0 people from Dagmai
and Reserve commumties gathered
around tables loaded with all kinds
ot good eats for a 7 o'clock din
ner honoring the golden wedding
anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Nels
Sampsen and the silver wedding
anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Mar
tin Larsen. At the conclusion of
dinner, Toastmaster Chris Johan
sen called upon Pastor Larsen who
delivered a short address, and C.
Jensen who spoke very high
l y 0 f t h e Sampsen family. Mr.
j Plumbeck, Thomas and Erik Sund
stad and Svend Peters* n spoke
briefly on the many good quali
ties of the two honored families.!
The assembly then rose and gave'
two very appropriate songs. J. J.
Gibbons of Reserve thanked the
committee for the kindness shown
the at>cd Reserve couple, and Mrs.
Christen spoke of the unfailing
neighborliress of both families,
Mr. Sampsen, taken completely by
surnrise thanked the people of
both communities and stated that
hr had never found truer friends,
^ ° thers
are convinced that
farm debts, like foreign debts, can
never be paid, and should be can
celled immediately.
"This conference," the call an
nounces, "is not called to settle
the?e differences. This conferee
is called to take action on a pro
gram over which there is no dif
ference of opinion amongst the
farmers and workers of the coun
try_the program which all the Gr
^anizations and persons signing
this call support.
fient for a good standard of
llvm ^ to a11 families who
are in need, and relief feed
fo inamtam our livestock in
**% « . ^
läÄh^TvesS
for inÄ prodS^
"iÄtt SÄ
** « « prorerts ^
which force us out of commercial
._
us into subsistence farms, a peas
»t .eve. the sixers ef
tKpv utp-a "all Wrldno- farm
ers dispossessed farmers.'and farm
or ^ niz 7 tions t0 send delegations
to the conference to help plan the
course of action,
take action," the call points out,
"the reduction« program will be
continued at our expense."
The conference is endorsed by
, the following individuals:
George Adler, president Mirer
1 County Holiday Association, South
Dakota; Homer Ayres, Sooth Da
kota state Committee for Action;
D p. Brinli
Two Points
1. Cash relief suffi
a
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» «
If we don't
45 Signers
eastern district scc
, rctary, Farmers Union, South Da
kota; Brule Countv Mfl5g Meeting
for Relief; South Dakota; Davison
(Continued on page 3)
and expressed a wish that he could
repay the kindess> feelill g deeply
indebted to his many frknds, both
in Dagmar and Reserve. Martin
Lars en spoke feelingly of his grat
itude to his many friends for their
kindness. Mr. and Mrs. Sampsen
were the ^pierts of many beau
tiful presents, including a loving
<«p bearing suitable inscriptions
and filled to the brim with shining
coins. Mr. and Mrs. Larsen
ceived some useful and timely pre
sen ts, among them a pair of arm
chairs< Mr. and Mrs. Beck Larsen
'who left here in 1929, drove in by
car from their present home in
Iowa just in time to attend the
party. Beck made a short address,
After the formalities were over,
dancing started on the fine new
floor of the hall with music by
the Johansen orchestra, the Peter
sen orchestra and assisted by Aage
Jacobsen and Mrs. Madsen. At
midnight a lunch with hot coffee
was provided for the crowd, «iter
which dancing was resumed and
enjoyed until a late hour.
WASHINGTON, D. C—(FP)—
Consumers paid 11 prr cent more
on their food hills (or ate less) in
the two-weeks period ending Dec.
18, 1934, than in the correspond
ing period of 1933, according to
the department of labor figures
retail /cod prices. Prices were 11
per cent higher than a vear ago
ard about 16 per cent higher than
in December, 1932.
THREE CHEERS FOR F.D.R.
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