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Producers News
Official Organ of Fanners Holiday Association of Montana
Plentywood, Sheridan County, Montana, Friday, June 12,1936
XIX. NO. 12.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
volume
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flüNDATIONS LAID FOR NATIONAL F-L PARTY
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iflOttGO MEETING
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MES PLANS FOR
ifiniE BUILDING
N« Prudential Candidate
for 1936, But Congres
sional and Senatorial Can
didates Will Be Supported
by Local Parties
NATL. PARTY FOR 1940
CHICAGO) — Preliminary or
ganization tor a national Farmer
Ubor Party was set up at a vig
orous but harmonious 2-day con
((■ (twice in Chicago over the Mem
Horial day week-end. No presiden
■tial ticket will be named this year
congres ional, state and local
gHcndid&tCo in agreement with *he
■move against the old parties and
■for the declaration of* principles
(■dll be supported.
I Tlie Minnesota Farmer-Labor
■ Assn, committee which sponsored
^■the conference was empowered to
■ till a national convention to build
■ ï national party, assisted by an
■advisory committee of 25 elected
the conference. Attempts to
I struct the committee to call the
^■convention within a specified time
of passage. It is possible
I ;rat Minnesota, engrossed in the
iB® 11 » to put Gov. Olson into
■ in' ^ Senate and Sen. Elmer
■ i.^nson into the governor's
T W1 ^ not bave the time, re
rI Wees or enthusiasm to attend to
™ÏÏ nal affairs unti * a ^ter the No
? «nber 8 election.
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taxpayers have paid for
FOR COURT HOUSE. IN LAST 22
YEARS YET DONT HAVE ONE
Court House Rent Alone Has Cost $33,314—Operation
and Maintenance $77,392.22 More; Average
Annual Cost $4,896
Since SheriHan
Suited in iqio count y w ? s
; c school hmi an< L? e * up * n the
bs c °st thp * at plen tywood, it
Jtoy, in f act x P^yors a pretty
ne w court v, ractlca ^y tho P r i ce
5*P and court < l Use ' * or rent : up '
1JJ to« 22 VP .r * se operations,
W-toJune%a S f/S? March 19,
W* *ad repair* 1 Ü^'SS* 22,
dation auri < ' 392 *? 2,
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hoi q \ C0Unty now uses
^^ $1880 S Tv as ^ een a W> r oxi
he average cost
PH
BOND PAYMENT !
MADE IN COUNTY
The Treasurer of Sheridan coun
ty, acting under the orders of the
Board of County Commissioners,
called in $38,000 of outstanding
Sheridan county bonds last Wed
nesday night. The bonds were of
the new refunding issue for June
1, 1935.
Numbers representing the num
bers on the bonds of that issue
were placed in a box and 38 were
drawn which were duly designated
for payment.
The method is used because
of the agreement made when
the refunding bonds were issued
last year, because of the fact that
all bonds were issued in only one
series.
The bonds called are in the de
nomination of $1,000 each, eight
thousand are being paid from
funds becoming availble from the
spring taxpaying period and thirty
thousand from previous payments
which has been in the banks since
those payments. These payments
reduce the county interest charges
considerably.
Marriage Licenses
The following marriage licenses
were issued at the office of Clerk
of Court this week;
Lloyd E. Zimmerman, Poplar,
and Alma Gilbertson of Verendrye,
N. Dak.
Russell Mitchell and Alpha An
holt of Westby, Montana.
Dan Whitcomb of Zortman and
Margaret Cosper of Outlook, Mon
tana.
year for operation and main
Itenance, which involves janitors
salary, electric lights, coal, water,
insurance, and additional building
and improvements, has averaged
*3»516 per year, or an average of
$4,896 annually for all purposes.
The cost of heating the ceiled
building, the old Plentywood school
house, plus the part built on by
the county, is very high. Janitor
Dionne reports that during cold
weather it requires three and
m °re tons of coal per day to heat
the building, three or four times
as much as it would cost to heat
a good building, a nd then the place
is not warm, because it is im
possible to keep it warm on cold
days. The shack being a fire trap
the insurance rates are very higju
#rhe c08t of lights in a properly
constructed building will p\ao be
much less. It is estigîâted that
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Callahan Injunction
Hearing Date Advanced
The hearing of the petition for
a permanent injunction, asked
for by the attorneys of the
Union Central Life Insurance
Company of Cincinatti, restrain
ing Callahan from tresspass up
on his own farm and entry into
his own home, set for Monday,
June 22, has been vacated, and
reset for Monday, July 6.
The reason for the continuance
is the absence of Judge Paul,
attending the reunion of his law
class at the University of Min
nesota.
Rev. Clifford Off For
Cong'l Convention at
Mt. Holyoke College
Rev. Earle A. Clifford, pastor of
the First Congregational church of
Plentywood, left Tuesday for
Massachusetts, where he is a dele
gate at the general conference of
the Congregational and Christian
churches at Mt. Holyoke college,
in the Berkshire Hills, in the old
Bay state.
Rev. Clifford is a delegate from
the Northeastern Association of
Congregational churches in Mon
tana.
While in the east, Rev. Clifford
will take advantage of the oppor
tunity to spend a few weeks with
his parents and relatives in his
native state of Maine.
Services at the Congregational
church here will be resumed upon
the pastor's return as advertised in
announcements.
NEW GAMBLE STORE
OPENS HERE TODAY
The Gamble store opened here
today under the new management
of Lorenz Bros., enterprising and
capable young businessmen of
Crosby, N. D., in the building for
merly occupied by West's Cafe,
redecorated and remodeled for
the purpose, who purchased the
agency formerly owned by Robert
Grasham.
The new store opens with en
tirely new fixtures and a large
new stock.
The new Gamble agency opens
today (Friday) with the new own
ers inviting the public to visit the
new store and see their splendid
stock.
Jerry Rhodes, manager of the
Gamble branch at Williston is
here assisting the Lorenz brothers
in getting established.
The annual meeting of the
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance
company of Dagmar, will occur
Thursday, June 25, at 1 o'clock, at
the Danish Brotherhood Hall, at
j) a gmar.
Secretary Svend Petersen is now
b USy mailing out the notices to the
1300. or more active members of
thjj^JrOspering and growing co
operative enterprise, all of whom
hopes will attend the annual
meeting. Secretary Petersen says
that there is very important busi
neS8 coming up that demands the
attention of the membership— so
be urges, "be sure to come/'
FARMERS MUTUAL FIRE
INSURANCE CO., DAGMAR, TO
HOLD ANNUAL MEETING,
THURSDAY, JUNE 25
THE RENEWAL OF THE CONTRACT
FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE
FLATHEAD POWER PROJECT
.
Candidate for Judgeship
Visits Plentywood Tues
The Hon. Ernest Walton of Wolf
Point, who has filed his petition
with the Secretary of State for
nomination on the non-party ballot
for Jtidge of the Fifteenth Judicial
] District was i n Plentywood in the
interest of his candidacy, Tuesday,
and while in the Sheridan county
capital took advantage of the op
portunity to make the Producers
News office a very pleasan call.
Attorney Walton is a candidate
against Judge S. E. Paul, incum
bant, who filed several v :eks ago.
Both Attorney Walton a.id Judge
Paul are life long Republicans,
Mr. Walton being quite a leading
figure in the councils of that
party for years, and four years
ago was a candidate for the Re
publican nomination for Senator.
The fight between the tv j Repub
licans promises to be a p.-otty one,
at Attorney Walton sa j ne is
going after the ermine i earnest.
GRASHAM OPENS
VARIETY STORE
IN PLENTY .VOOD
Bob. Grasham, who has operated
the local Gamble store in Plenty
wood for the past couple of years,
has given up the Gamble line and
will open a variety store in the
same building.
FARMER-LABOR CONFERENCE
BEING PREPARED FOR AT BILLINGS
BY ANNA JOLENK,
Chairman Publicity Committee
Special to Producers News.
BILLINGS.— What's doing in
Billings, in the Fanuer-Labor
groups? Well, lets tell you.
On Sunday, May 24, a t the La
bor Union Hall, Minnesota avenue,
a meeting was called to order by
H. D. Rolph, State President of
the Farmers Union for general
committee arrangements for a
State Wide Conference on farm
and labor problems, in connection
with the state convention of the
Farmer-Labor groups, to be held
Sunday and Monday, June 28-29,
in Billings.
The following committees and
their personel were appointed:
The executive committee: Ed.
Rouse, John Matheson and R.
Mourhous; Publicity Committee—
Mrs. Anna Jolenk, Chas. Hall for
Billings, and Mrs. R. M. Hansen
for outside of Billings; Program
Committee—Jerome G. Locke, G.
G. G. Davis and Alvin Tucker;
Program Ads Committee: D. T.
Owens, Prank Holtman and Mrs.
P, C. Scott; Housing Committee:
James Cox, J. R. Hartley and Paul
Krone; Committee on Halls: E. H.
Helterbran, Harold Pyle and Al
bert Laneboley; Contacting Labor,
defunctconcern
GIVEN GRANT OF
ULTRA VALUABLE
PUBLIC PROPERTY
Rocky Mountain Power Co.
New Jersey Corp., Cap
italized at $25,000, Fi
nanced by Mont. Power
Another Teapot Dome
BY W. B. SANDS
Chief Justice of Supreme Court
of the State of Montana
Special to Producers News.
The Flathead River as it leaves
the Flathead lake near Poison,
Mont., drops several hundred feet
in a very short stretch of the river
offering the greatest and cheapest
water power site in Montana and
perhaps the greatest West of the
Niagara. It is frequently called
"the Niagara of the West." The
Flathead Lake is fed by rivers
from the main range of the Rocky
Mountains. The large lake affords
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fraternal and farmer groups com
mittee: Mr. Mac Whitten, Felippe
M <£? lez ' and Mrs. Marie Johnson.
These people are well known
here for their activities in labor
and farm groups and their con
ception of the present state of
politics in Montana, and all are
urged to cooperate to make this
convention the success that it now
promises to be.
The chairman of these commit-'
tees and their associate members
on these said committees
urging all who can possibly do
to attend this convention. They
are making arrangements for your
c om f 5 your entertainment, and
all efforts will be made to make
your visit here one to be remem
bered.
Able speakers will be secured to
bring the workers a real message
regarding prescrit conditions of all
workers, of all working classes.
No high flown oratory will greet
your ears, but commogn sense
problems concerning us all with
its present issues and their pos
sible solutions, will be discussed.
We are looking forward to the
largest meeting 0 f its kind ever
held in this city, when the
vention opens on June 28, and „
«aL e , t *°.k e making history,
so let g goI And are you coming T
are
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