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Official Organ of Fanners Holiday Association of Montana
Plentywood, Sheridan County, Montana, Friday, February 7, 1936
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
. NO. 46
XVIL
The Robbery of the Callahans
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Hiring at Fort Peck Speeding Up
SIARTS 30 DAYS
y£AD SCHEDULE
Workers Get 70 Cents per
Hour — Will Stick to
Federal Union
, ,, „ , 0 rj
Fort P** k > Mont. Feb. 2 *
ing on the dam seems to be pro
««ding at a wpl f ^f®.®' t ]?L
means that unemployed meetings
and union organizing ® a ™ pal&n '' ;
have put men to Vmrk about a ;
säHS
"Âràfî
St ÄS f
gin about Feb. 15 or later do
Sr^m»°thtoe tT a Commissioner
£S* * ^mmis mger
d jf hag not been >;x .
v warm down here 1 in fact it
Urt, below Unemployed meet
SÜ, "" ***•
Ky JL a b. proewding ..
afjvsr 1 :
ht uremployed meetings by mak
tag think he is going to
weryon*
feet a joo tomorrow. Hence rumors
are much more plentiful than ac
tual jobs. "So and so told me they
are going to hire a thousand men
next week." "Mr— says Addison
Miller is going to take on a full
set of men by Tuesday." Actually
s few hundred men, perhaps not
more than three hundred, have
been put to work.
Jan. 20 the McCone City Local
of the League for Defense of the
American Standard of Living vot
od to have everyone in McCone
City and the other towns call on
Verkin a body and send in a
«legation to ask that work work
on the dam be speeded up. The
jjrt afternoon word came over to
McCone City that a hundred men
»ould be hired from McCone coun
7 *rthin forty-eight hours. And
*^7 were actually hired in this
mos t of them from McCone
City.
Jn New Deal a petition was cir
as ^ n ^ th® government to
-? p work on ti 16 d a m, and a
^^Uridn appointed to present it
return to work take
L, out of Fort Peck work
answer is, "No." A man
pmÎ* kack to work at seventy
ti*!* an - 1 ^ our knows that he wil
lÆ less or debt when he
4am. The Federal Un
»o*T sge wa ' e something the
W * TO are prepared to fight for.
RT .
Pût«? ^ r !: k*. C. Peterson of
a!?* 8 ?? Company Hardware,'
urI Mrs. C. G. Christianson
ON BUYING TRIP
Mr,
Mr.
of th* t ^ unnstianson
Mr. g \f Wa ^ son Company and
in, kelson of Fulkerson-Nel
-aç-î" ^ kl " :
North Wl S? * rom parts of the
Cities a ^ em ^e in the Twin
.Annual Market
^ arrangements
W j? , for their convei
tki üühiS^tertâlnment
Of Fulkerson-Nel
athSf' 1 ?^ lere the men
Market Week
MU
convenience in
while
(County Clerk & Recorder
Starts Tax Foreclosures
Notices Sent by Registered
Mail to 27 Poor Home
Owners 1
Sheridan county, by its board,
«nnntv /»oTYimiRcioripra Com
Y /^ om Hunter' Com
Olson «« Com Hunter, Com.
Califomfa have initiated tax'
in ^Ufomi^ nave inmateu tax
(X il mrnber poor people in'
sf'ected ™ rab ® pl p r< ^
A rmam T" d
b/STÏSSS SÜTJSS
As?ociat i on that it has contracted
with KFBB at Great Falls for n
special broadcast from 8:30 to 9
P- Standard°.
th«- tlllr d Monday of each month.
Montana
A » ta SÄÄu"„Ä
SK»*
larjÄiTÄ
the best authorities and speak
e?s
Inflationists Drop Bonus
Throw Support to Frazier
Lemke Farm Mortgage Bill
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LEMKE PETITION
SHORT 3 NAMES;
VOTE IS CERTAIN
Leaders Wjonicd at Show of
Strength of the New
Money Bloc
Patman Withdraws Forces;
Has Indicated Readiness
to Aid Farm Group
sid
er^iÄ 01 the ^igSoooSl
calling for-issuanc® of
s 8
(Continued on Pa*e 7 )
WASINGTON, Feb. 4 .-~In a
sudden shift of plans congression
al inflationists Monday concentrât
ed their currency «xpwjMcn
forts behind the
Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage
• program. _ i.-.,.
a tacit agreement amongjKmu
and farm measure inflationists op
and farm measure
en ed the way for prompt P^ssag®
0 f the $2,237,000,000 hr""" aDDr0
CSMÄ &»■
1 ÄI namS
0 f the $ 2 , 237 , 000,000 bon^appro
i*|
Farmer-Labor Temple.
The notices were sent out by
Clerk & Recorder Neils Madsen
by registered mail with return.
card required, to those picked for
1 foreclosure. In the night some
body slipped about and put the
( property listed . The
notices of application for tax
deeds are advertised in the Plenty
wood Herald by property descrip
tion Without names of the proper
sswr«..... -
; Ä rzs 1 ä 1 .ä
SSfa.'ÄSiÄ.t
sold especially the homes^of^he
poor, then the foreclosures will
an mmm maybe all of
n! those liable for sale, and maybe
on j ust some of them, depending
^ n JbT the 0Wner May P
^* 0 » on a» first 11«
1 ~j» *g Q* **
«... »
; initiate tax foreclosure sales
' this section of Montana._;
FARMER-LABOR
PARTY SEEN BY
SOCIALIST LEADER
NEW YORK.—Development of
a Farmer-Labor Party after the
1936 presidential campaign, with
the Socialist Party participating in
the movement, was foreseen by
Director Harry W. Laidler of the
League for Industrial Demociacy
his retrun from a tnp to tne
Pacific coast.
on
"In every highly
ed country outside of the Unit
ed States not under a dictaloi -
ship," declared Laidler, he
find powerful labor and socialist
parties. Norway, Sweden and
Denmark now have labor and
social democratic premiers amd
cabinets, aUhough these P »*'® 8
are not as yet majority parties
The British labor movement has
nearly 160 members m pariia
men" and wiU find itself m of
fice again within 'he next fw
vears Only in the United States
"SS
«of in a U. S. Farmer-Labor Par
t leS;
Sä"! foÄ.of Fa r ? "
SS
sive and farm ?Ihor wS'ent in
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MANY CITIES
AFFECTED BY
NEW STRIKES
1
| _ ^
United btates, r rance, Lon
don and Chile Hit by
* , T n..
Labor Troubles
-
Building Service Workers
. ,, !, . a— «
in N. Y. Unable to Agree
With Employers
«. --ri —
suft.," "" y ^
m Vs SSJ^"
p e kin Ill—General strike in
sympathy with distillery workers
hWpers industrial city. .
Ne\v York—Strike call awaited
by 20,000 elevator operators and
'l 20®
' ,
aa
uij g '. , DoM
(Continued on Page 7)
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Northwest Operative Millers'
Convention and when
where he will purchase the
* FORMER REDSTONE BOY *
* SENTENCED TO LIFE
* FOR DAKOTA MURDER
* Fargo, N. D., Feb. 3« —Judge *
• P. M. Paulsen today sentenced *
♦ Leo Cleveland, 22, who plead- •
♦ ed guilty to slaying Mr. and *
• Mrs. Henry Biever and bum
* ing them in their store, to life *
♦ imprisonment. The charge was *
• first degree murder.
• ..Cleveland said he is a native
♦ of Redstone. He was arrested *
* las,t Saturday, and told the
• court he had robbed and slain
• the couple to obtain money so
• that he could get married.
♦ After shooting .them with a
• shot gun, he said, he threw *
* gasoline into the building and •
• touched a match to U.
Association
1 si—
ANTELOPE MILL
TO INCREASE ITS
PRODUCTION CAPACITY
The Sheridan Milling Company,
recently incorporated, under the
management of Carl Brandon will
increase their Antelope Mill's
production more than 30 per cent
to meet increasing business by the
immediate purchase and installa
tion of new machinery and equip
ment. . .
The new equipment will increase
the present daily capacity by 25
barrels. ... , ,
Mr. Brandon left last week for
Minneapolis where he will attend
the
FAR ™ WAS
MMBMil
Never Joined
Farmers' Organizations
Just Worked Hard
„. f Hu ?î| el ?*. Cal i aha ? r * . U *
wife, did not join the Nonpartisan
League 'when it was organied.
Nor did he join any other farm
organization that might be classed
as radical. While Uberal in his
general outlook, he was rather a
conservative in practice, and en
»äs a ä
-Äs 1 t.T5aü
of opportunity in the world end
especially the United States ox
-*" --* -
America, for anyone with energy,
willingness to work, and a deter
mination to get ahead in the
world. And especially did he have
confidence in the words, promises ,
and contracts of big business en
terprises. Being honest himself, a
man whose word was as good as
his bond, naturally he entertained
the same faith and confidence in
others, and so relied upon them.
CALLAHAN
HANKERS IDEAL
Callahan did not identify him
self even with the Farmer-Labor
party, nor was he ever associated
politically with the "reds" or any
other so-called "subversive
ganization. He Was not an agita
tor, nor a complainer, nor a "cal
amity howler." He did not spend
his time by the grocery store fire
saving the nation, nor in the pool
halls, nor loafing about town, nor
in going to political meetings. He
did not squander any of his mon
ey in farm organizations. Calla
han was, in the eyes of the bank
ers, and the businessmen, an ideal
citizen. When others, in the opin
ion of the bankers, were wasting
their time, Callahan was hitting
the ball, and hitting it hard, early
and late. What was still better,
he was bringing up a useful, in
dustrious, self-reliant and depend
! able brood of honest sons and
daughters bound to be an asset
and credit to the community.
In fact, Banker Carl
to point to Hurshel Callahan as
the example of thrift and industry
whom the rest of the farmers and
workers would do well to pattern
or
rmy.
Bull used
after. "There," he would say, "is
a farmer who is getting ahead in
spite of all adverse conditions."
When strangers came into the
country they Were told of the
Callahans and great community
pride was taken in their enterprise
and success, and their ability as
farmers. The Callahans were al
ways on the job attending to bus
iness. "Look at their fields, how
they are cultivated and the crops
they raise!"
CALLAHANS
DIVERSIFIED
The Callahans summer-fallowed.
The Callahans plowed deep. The
Callahans raised their own food
on the farm and so did not need
to buy much. They did not live
out of tin cans. The Callahans
kept coWs and produced their own
milk and butter for the 1
ily. The Callahans
fine pigs and sold lots of them ev
ery year; they did not depend an
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fam
tne large :
raised pigs and