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Producers News
Official Organ of Fanners Holiday Association of Montana
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Friday, May 1, 1936
Plentywood, Sheridan County, Montana,
SlXlX. NO. 6
Callahan Mass Meeting
Sunday Well Attended
)C „n F .c N TATIVE AUDIENCE DECLARE THAT
REPRl^m A * «7AD1UI 1UIITQT RE* PFQTnRFn
HOME AND FARM. MUjI oh Ktu 1 UKtJJ
TO DEFRAUDED FARMER
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United Front Holiday Committee Set Up
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CHARLES KING
FILES FOR SHERIFF
Another "Barkis is willing."
Charles King of Plentywood,
Saturday filed his petition for
the nomination for sheriff on the
' Democratic ticked.
This is ithe first time Mr. King
hag ever been a candidate for
office in his life.
His nominating petition carries
the slogan, "I will serve the peo
ple to the best of my ability.
Mr. King has been a resident
and a taxpayer in Sheridan
county for the past twenty-five
vears, and is a well known and
highly respected citizen, with a
host of friends in all parts of
the county, who believe that he
will be a very formidable candi
date in the shrieval campaign.
Oscar Collins filed for the
same nomination last week.
It is believed that Hans Mad
•en, the present sheriff, will file
for the same nomination.
Madsen is considered a hard
man to beat, but he has been on
the county payroll now for eight
years, and hundreds of voters
feel that he has been there long
enouf—that a fat job like the
iheriffg should be passed about,
and not become a life benth.
ERNEST DIONNE HURT
IN COAL MINE CAVE-IN
Ernest Dionne, married oldest
of Frank Dionne, janitor at
the court house, age about 30, was
^nously injured in a cave in at
the Andrew Olson coal mine Wed
ne m y afternoon *
"hen the young coal miner was
JJKyed he was rushed to the Mem
oria l hospital at Plentywood where
l Xam l nation disclosed that a leg
as broken in three places, that
s coii ar bone and three ribs were
ftetured. and that a lung was
Punctured.
The unfortunate young man's in
i'* 16 * w ? re educed by the doctor,
- he is now in a critical con
an d suffering much pain.
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Hobson, April 25.—The water
aril l 0I J street are thawed
th» L lnesSTTlen and householders
since JS**® carrying water
un:* early February are rejoicing.
DinAk 0rkmen du & down to
about three feet underground
^found them still full ice.
still full of ice.
See "NEW FIRES" Senior Class Play Tonight, Sure
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Deals With a Real Problem
HOME TALENT PLAY, That Rings the Bell
Curtains up at 8:00.
TOP NOTCH
Matinee 3:30 P. M.
Reserve Seats IS Cents Extra.
Admission 20c-35c.
A representative audience of a
hundred or more from all parts of
Sheridan, from Roosevelt and from
Daniels counties, attended the
United Front Callahan mass meet
ing at the Farmer-Labor Temple,
Sunday afternoon.
A. N. Wankie, state secretary of
the Holiday Association of Mon
tana being late in arriving, the
meeting was called to order by
Charles E. Taylor, editor of The
Producers News, the official or-,
of the Holiday Association of
Cal. Nesbit of Mineral
Roosevelt county, was
gan
Montana.
Bench,
elected chairman, and Raol Harbo
of Froid was elected secretary.
As there had been no program
prepared, a commfctee represent
ing the several groups of orga
nized farmers in the county was
elected from the floor to prepare
one, with Ed Hannah of Raymond
as chairman.
While the program committee
Was busy, F. W. Bucklin of Red
stone wag called upon to explain
the Callahan case. After Mr.
Bucklin had finished Ed Engebnt
and Art Hagan also spoke
and explained phases of the
sen
upon
case
The program committee then re
ported. after which Taylor spoke
on the case, calling attention of
the farmers that the shameful in
justice perpetrated upon Hurschel
Callahan was a threat to every
farmer in the northwest, and if
left unchallenged was an invitation
for the repetition of the outrage
whenever it served the interests of
companies. Mr.
Callahan also explained phases ot
the activities of the Union Central
Life Insurance company.
When the matter had been con
sidered, the audience voted unani
mously to support Callahan in
every possible manner, and called
all farmers and workers to
upon
rally to his support.
The action of Carl Bull m fore
closing a paid mortgage was also
sharply denounced. •
After a discussion of the case
from all angles, and full considera
tion of different actions to be
taken, in which many of. the ." el |'
gates, including the chairman, R.
E. Nesbit of Dowd, and J» 1 "®®
Craig of Brockton, spoke, a com
mittee of 21. seven members from
each of the three counties. namely,
Roosevelt, Daniels and Sheridan
counties, representing all °r
ganizations and 8 r ® u l? 9 a , ;
different sections of the counties,
with authority to "inM
the name of the mass meeting ami
the Holiday Association, and
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SENIOR CLASS PLAY
NEW FIRES
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The Senion class of Plenty
wood high school presents their
annual play, "New Fires" at the
high school auditorium on Fri
day, May 1. This three act
comedy of domestic life is a
most appealing and thoroughly
human play with a theme that
inspires a person to try to make
this old world a finer place in
which to live. The exceptionally
large cast of fifteen offers a
variety of characters from the
1 dignified author, Stephen Santry
and his eccentric family, to the
Keen wit ted Sid Sperry, the loyal
Ssää'ä'S.ä
j cinda Andrews, the coolk.
Don't miss this evening of
genuine inspirational entertain
ment.
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After Lingering Illness, Tueb
day—Burial Mad« in Spaa
j jgu \y ar Veterans Ceme
CHAUNCY JACKSON
EXPIRES AT HOT
SPRINGS, S. DAK.
News of the death that day of
Chauncy W. Jackson, 75, Spanish
American war veteran and pioneer
Sheridan county settler, at the Vet
tery
erans hospital at Hot Springs, S.
D. come over the wire to relatives
in Plentywood Tuesday.
Mr. Jackson, who had been in
failing health for some time, went
to the soldiers home at Hot
Springs for treatment, in the hope
that his failing health could be
stored. Mrs. Jackson was present
when the end came.
Interment will be made at the
cemetery at Hot Springs, in the
national cemetery there among his
old comrades.
Chauncy Jackson was born iu
New York state, Sept. 14, 18dl.
When a young man he came out
west, to the Treasure state, when
the war between the United States
and Spain broke out, he enlisted
with the First Montana, and served
re
with that distinguished regiment
in the Philippine Islands.
In the days of the settlement ol
this section of Montana, Mr. Jack
son come here from the Sweet
Grass hills. He was a crack team
ster, and before the advent of the
railroad he drove the old stage
coach from Culbertson to Plenty
wood. j
When the public land was opened
for settlement he homesteaded on
Eagle Creek south of Redstone,
and about 20 miles southwest of
Plentywood, where he farmed for
many years, upon retiring- from
the bid farm in 1928, he came to
Plentywood to make his home dur
ing his declining years.
Chauncy Jackson wedded Mary
Brown at Scobey, December 19,
1916. Besides his wife, a brother
Lee Jackson, residing m New
York, survives. George Jackson
of this city is a cousin.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan McCall of
county seat caii
Comertown were
I ers Sunday.
JAMES T. SPARLLMG
WILL BE CANDIDATE
FOR CONGRESS POST
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JAMES T. SPARLING
SCOREY, April 26.—James T.
Sparling, member of fne Montana
senate from Daniels cc inty for
eight years and floor leader dur
ing the last session of t
lature, today announced •
dacy for the democratic
tion for congress from tha seconc
Montana district. He naid he
would file his nominating petition
w T ith the secretary of state at once.
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FOUR GOVERNORS
IN THE AIR C M
IN BEET F! IDS
Would Prohibit For p La
bor and Force WPA York
ers Into Fields i Peon
Pay
LISTEN TO VO -TiS
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Four Western governors are up
a tree in the sugar beet areas of
the northwest, at least thirty days
Montana Beet Workers Union
By M. N. Hanks & Felir ' Morale*
Box 1002, Billings, Mont.
prior to the beginning of actual
work in the beet fields. #
Their majesties are very much
concerned as to just who's voice
to listen to for the m 'ent. It
is evident influences a. i being
brought to bear upon the official
dom of these areas, as the indus
trial interests of the entire area
go into the annual huddle to de
termine how one of the largest in
dustries in that section shall be
dominated successfully.
ATTRACT WIDE
ATTENTION
These four governors of four
states have attracted the attention
of the country-at-large by their
attitude toward the various phases
of the sugar beet industry. They
are Gov. Frank Merriam, of Calif
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FRANK KOESTER,
BANKER, DB
HERE MONDAY
After Long Illness—Remains
Sent to Old Home at Red
Wing, Minn., for Interment
Frank Koester, 68 years old,
pioneer banker and resident of
vSheridan county, expired at his
lome here. Monday, following a
protracted illness.
For the past two years, Mr.
Koester has been slowly but
.readily failing, and since last fall
when he became confined to his
home, little hope has been enter
tained for his recovery. The end
came quietly and peacefully in the
presence of the elderly banker's
wife, and daughter, Mrs. R. O.
Nelson of this city.
The body was shipped Tuesday
to Red Wing, Minn., the youthful
home of the deceased, accompanied
by Mrs. R. 0. Nelson on the train,
while Mrs. Koester, and a. son, B.
J. Koester of Minot, N. D., left
Monday evening, via auto, for
that place.
Funeral services will occur from
the Catholic church there, and in*
terment will be made in the Red
1 Wing cemetery,
Frank Koester was born in Ger
many, December 11, 1867, and
when 14 years old come alone to
America, settling at Red Wing,
Minnesota, where he grew to man
hood, working for a number of
years as a steam engineer. He
started in the banking business as
a clerk in a bank at Ada, Minn.
In 1905, with gome backing, to
gether with his savings, he come
to western North Dakota, with a
team and wagon, seeking a bank
ing location, and located at Crosby,
then just being platted. Return
ing to Minnesota, he bought lum
ber for a building, loaded it onto
wagons and returned. On one
wagon was an iron safe which con
tained the capital for the bank, the
Citizens National Bank of which
he become the cashier.
When northern Montana was
opened for settlement, Koestei
came to Outlook, where in 1912 he
opened a bank, which business he
manager for 22 years. In 1934,
the banks at Plentywood having
gone down in the financial storm,
he moved the Security State Bank
to Plentywood, which he has op~
erated successfully since.
Frank Koester was married to
Albertina Hellmueller at Red
Wing, Minn., in 1892. He is sur
vived by his wife; one son, B. J.
Koester of Minot, N. D.; three
daughters, Mrs. C. S. Eckman of
Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. J. J. Becker,
Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. R. O.
Nelson, Plentywood; and a broth
er, W. F. Koester of Red Wing,
Minn.
BISMACK, N. D. April 25.—
Merger of the Montana-Dakota
Utilities Co. of Minneapolis and
the Montana-Dakota Power Co.
was completed today, members of
the state board of railroad com
missioners said, with granting of
permission to the former company
to issue shares of preferred stock.