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Fhe Wolf Point Herald r I THIS 60 ABOVE WEATHER j Trill make those California to | Montana Excursions more pop ular than ever. SAY,FRIEND, IF YOU Receive a sample copy of this take it home, read ijt paper through, then SUBSCRIBE; I AND CONTINUATION OF THE WOLF POINT PROMOTER WOLF POINT, MONTANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1931 PROMOTER— VOL. XIII. NUMBER FORTY-FOUR HERALD— VOL. XIX. NUMBER FORTY-FIVE MONTANANS' MANAGER SPREADS PHILOSOPHY OF SOUND SENSE ROBBER TRIO GET 15 YEARS IN PEN BURGLARS CAUGHT AT MINOT GIVEN STIFF SENTENCE AT CHINOOK u Roosevelt county will not be call ed on to try, for several years at least, James Burke, Ray Murray and Blwin Williams, the three men who broke into the Lien Mercan tile Company store and the Mon arch Lumber office at Brockton These men were suspected of a series of robberies along the high line of the Great Northern and, since court was in session atChin ook and Havre this month. Sheriff Lowe, when he brought the men back from Minot where they had been apprehended by Dakota of ficials, decided to let them stand trial in Blaine and Hill counties first. about three weeks ago. They were convicted in Blaine county of burglarizing the J. C. Penney store at Harlem, and were sentenced by Judge C. B. El well to serve 15 years each in the state penitentiary. It was wearing overcoats from which the Penney tags had not been removed, that caused them to be suspected at Wheelock, N. Dak. and assisted in bringing about their arrest. ii* NIX WANTED AT ARKANSAS PEN FINGER PRINTS IDENTIFY ES , , , „ Roy Nix, who was taken off a freight and arrested a roc on the evening of November 23 proves to be Raymond Cole, a much wan-1 ted prisoner who escaped in 1927 from the Arkansas pern en iary where he had been six years. He was serving a term for rs egree murder. In the ligit of eve op ments, Deputy Monroe, who had desperate struggle with Nix the darkness, got a lucky break to take his man an d get out whole himself. GAPED LIFER; LIVED AT MED. LAKE > a in "Nix" was arrested for holding up or hi-jacking a joint in Wolf Point. We had a gun and was crazy drunk and made them dance and dig. Luck was with him, and j he caught a moving through freight. ! But the train stopped for water at ; Brockton and Monroe got the tip J at Poplar and reached Brockton in time to search the train. "Nix" has been living at Medicine Lake for several years and has a wife and a two year old daughter. Sheriff Lowe communicated with the authorities at Little Rock and identified his charge to a certainty. Officers are exxpected from there tonight. Cole, alias Nix, is a well built man of 32, 5 feet six, fair skin, blue eyes and dark brown hair. When interviewed at the county jail by a reporter he indicated he was ready to go back to Arkansas rather than stand trial on the hi- : jacking charge. He was not in- : clined to talk freely and what he said was conflicting in some par ticulars. He is of the sort that is rather well pleased with himself i and seemingly a bit proud of his ! ! record. » A Correction - j In reporting court proceedings last week mention was made of the divorce action of Eunice Nel son against Charles Nelson. This was a preliminary hearing and will come up for trial at a later ; And 'smore Court ! date. Matters taken up before the judge Friday included a demur. rer in the case of David Bros, a gainst Edward Nichol, The demur rer was overruled and Nichol was given 10 days in which to answer. Several claims in connection with the estate of W. A. Rogers were approved. : 1 MRS. KELLY'S NEW SHOP Mrs. Tom Kelly has opened a new place of business—a ready-to eat shop, next door east of the post office, where the new door way was cut in the Kelly building recently. She will have on sale a cooked, ready to eat food for tired, supply of home-cooked pastry, meats, salads, and will take ord ers for whatever is wanted. It is predicted that Mrs. Kelly's idea will prove mighty popular—home busy, hungry people. GUY EMORY GIVES INSPIRING TALK ON LIVE TOPICt> OF THE HOUR Guy G. Emory, Billings, secretary and manager of Montanans, Incor porated, was in Wolf Point Wed nesday and spoke at the court house Wednesday evening, courtroom was well filled with an The appreciative audience. Mr. Emory is on a good will tour through northern Montana, explaining the wor k 0 f Montanans Incorporated, an( j se nj n g Montana to Montanans, Mr. Emory said he had lived in Kansas, Utah, California and Mon tana, and sa j d b6 considered that Montana was as good as California and had many things that Califor nia bas not what many Montanans . ] ac ] {j however, is appreciation of j their own state, and the citizens ; nee( j to he Montana-conscious if they are to sell their scenery, pure a j r an< j -wide open spaces to the j rest of the world, no t sectionally. No part of Mon Sell Products at Home Montana must prosper as a whole Montana being hurt. Similarly ev er y dollar that comes Into Montana j f rom the outside, whether it be j for produce shipped out, or from ! (Turn to page 10, col. 1, please) I j j tana can be hurt without all of H. G. MacDONALD SUDDENLY CALLED (Poplar Standard) Harry MacDonald of Brockton I passed away at the Columbus hos-1 j pltal in Great Palls last Friday, j December 11. His death was quit© unexpected and word of it came as j a great shock to his many friends in and around Brockton. He was j but 48 years of age. Mr. MacDonald had been a resi j dent of Montana for the past 25 1 years. He was born in Lucknow, I Ontario, and came here at the age of 23 He had a hogt of friends i w j, 0 W ill always remember him as I a dependable Mend in nee d. He Hag wag knQwn ag a kind and lovjng husband and the entire com . | munit y ex t e nds its deepest sym pathy t(> the bereaved family . Surviving him are his wife and tbree bo y Sj j 0 e, Harry, and baby Irvjn; hJg mother _ Mrg j R 0s . b a brother Neal; and a sis . tgr Dolores j^ neral serv i ces were held at Brockton, December 14th, Rev. Johnson of the Lutheran church, ) officiating. Many relatives and frjendg from a distance were in attendance. (Mr. MacDonald was a member nf tbe Mr 0 if Point Benevolent So ciety __ Edjtor ■, College Students Are Coming Home The Wolf Point young people who have been away at college are nearly all returning home for the Christmas vacation. Evelyn planning to drive up from the Twin Cities. Wilfred Gits will not be home, having work during vaca tion. Coffey, from St. Catherine's col lege, and Hazle Chapman, from the University of Minnesota, ed Wednesday evening. Ima Her man is expected the end of the week. return Harold Shipman and his roommate and Dean Herman are Ray Inglehart and Harry Veldhuis from Bozeman, Margaret and Una Randall from Missoula, Billings, Gertrude Cusker, Loretta Geisen, Blanche Pipal and Mar garet Rygg from Dillon, are a mong those expected home Sat urday. Belle Everett is expected home from Minn. C. P. Swedberg wired asking that No. 2 be stopped here Saturday morning to let the college students off, but at the time this is written, jt is not known whether this will be done, WORLEY'S LOSE HOME H. D. Worley, who lives about a mile and a half west of Wolf Point had the misfortune to lose his house by fire last Friday. Just how it started is not known, but when it was discovered by Mrs. Worley, it had gained such head way that it was impossible to save the furniture. Mrs. Worley, how ever, got her little childlren out safely. children, four of whom are under The misfortune of The Worley's have six school age. losing their home is particularly sad. pose see Mrs. T. F. Kelly or John I THE CHRISTMAS BASKETS Amos Shrader, of Shra-der's dairy, donated a baby beet to the Red Cross and it was turned over to the committee that will prepare the Christmas baskets. Those wish ing to make donations for this pur Listerud. '"!//,"'m ' O''//,, / / J/ r SÆ ,»^\j i\ ( « & //.■ "Si %) v I k\ % A I Ï o, v\' V. s v | ! \ ! \ j i € \ V \\t s * m ! Vj V, / S A % « % ; j | j ! \ m I \ h \ * / 'V 7 / \ V 1 1 / 1 A 1 I i / - 1 pppil •'v ai V; ï Ï Wm I O Pott** ■ LOCAL B.B. TEAMS WIN TRIPLE HEADER The local high school basketball teams won all three games played Thursday night, girls won from the Nashua girls The Wolf Point on , ... ... . 20 1 »ckool boys team won ° m * he Na f hua b0 ^ s 23 the Lamherf 0 team kWrTie 6 eat ° T , a 11 U C 1 hey All Hear or Wolf Pt. Achievements The Herald received a letter thi 8 week from Greybull, Wyoming ask ing for information on the plan of Wolf Point's annual Trade Carni val. The business men there are considering trying the plan in their town. McCone county and President Ger kie of the Richland county farm era Union, attended meetings of the directors of Farmers Union de. partments at St Paul, laat week. DIRECTORS' MEETING O. B. Horsford, W. S. Good of J. B. RANDALL W. M. OF MASONIC LODGE! J. B Randall was elected Worsh ipful Master of the Blue lodge at their meeting held Thursday night. , F E Rat hert is senior warden and i W. L. Young junior warden. The tbre6 Masonic orders will have 1 joint installation early in January at which time a com P| ete List of j the officers in the various orders be Biven Nashua Editor Will Resume Publication NASHUA, Dec . 16.—H. Merle ; Priest is remodelling a nullding and will be editing the Nashua In dependent next week. Mr. Priest lost his building and machinery in a fire about three weeks ago. In addition to publishing the paper, he carries a complete line of sta tionery. He will also stock drugs, The Nashua Pharmacy burned in June, ™als dissipate CHRISTMAS CHEER Federal officers arrested Hank evening and Fombey Thursday haled him before Commissioner Stenne s on charges of possession of intoxicating liquor and main taining a nuisance. It it variously reported that they got from 15 to 50 gallons of moonshine in a gar a gg on the place occupied by Fom by. Fomby was bound over to the next term of federal court under $300 bonds. Ben Zimmerman and Howard Baracker of Poplar are the bondsmen. RICHEY BOY IS POET mas issue some verses written by John Krappman, Jr^. of Richey, Montana, Hi s productions have the ring of originality and a refresh ing touch of humor. A good letter was also received from him and will bring a reply from the edito: as soon as the holiday rush i Readers will find in this Christ over. inter community Christmas FESTIVITIES PLAN, SUCCESS - r NEIGHBORING TOWNS GIVE F ' N %o p rN°T G oripo WOLF The community Christmas tree in the middle of Wolf Point's principal business street has be come a sort of Yuletide center for this corner of the state with sev eral surrounding places accepting the invitation of Westland radio station KGCX to broadcast Christ mas programs. These are put on the air at the station studio and a radio at the tree makes them heard for a block or more around. The tree and the platform have been splendidly decorated by com mittees from the Legion Auxiliary and the Lions club. Nearly a truck load of small trees have been "planted" all around the edge of the platform. Festoons of colored decorations are looped among the many colored lights. Two fine programs, each lasting an hour and a half or more, have been put on the air. Wednesday afternoon Plentywood gave the first one. beginning at 4:30. Thurs day Medicine Lake had the air. be ginning at the same time. Excel lent talent and careful preparation made the numbers greatly enjoy ed, as shown by many responsive messages received at the station. Tonight Scobey will give a pro gram at the same hour. Monday night Culbertson's pro gram will be the attraction and Thursday turn. There will probably be no others. ■ will be Wolf Point's ÎSH0P WINDOWS GAY ! WITH CHRISTMAS CHEER in Wolf Point been more attract ively decorated than they are this year. There are inviting displays of Christmas goods, gail> decorated j and lighted Christmas trees, that J call to the attention of the passer by that the holiday season is hero, despite the balmy air and sun Never have the store windows shine. + The big Christmas tree on Main street, gaily decorated with lights and colorful Christmas ornaments, and rising above a minature for est of evergreens, is embodiment of Christmas spirit This tree is a co-operative enter prise, sponsored by the Lions club, fhe city and the Montana-Dakota Dower company. The Legion Auxi liary decorated it. A radio broad the afternoon Christmas and music in the even a cheerful pasts ■programs ing, so that people on the street may enjoy them. As one passes through the res idence streets on an evening it be noticed that many of the wreaths can homes have Christmas and Christmas candles radiating i j 1 ! cheer. Kohl Children Gassed By Light Plant Fumes three children of Mr. and The Mrs. Louis Kohl had a narrow es from asphyxiation last week cape . when they were made sick an r o v- | by fumes from the light ercome plant generator. When the child first taken violently ill ren were shortly after supper time it was thought that their condition was j caused by something they had eat Mr. and Mrs. Kohl brought them to town as quickly as possible and they remained at the Warm hrod home the following day, re covering rapidly. Upon being tak en back home they became sick home light plant ; en. shortly wa started to generate. Mr. Kohl investigated and found j that a mouse had gnawed a hole into a long box used to carry off the exhaust from the generator, and the gas was seeping out into j the house. It is fortunate that the cause of the childrens illness was j discovered in time to prevent any | It might easily serious results. have happened that the whole fam- j ily were overcome to such an ex- ; tent that they could not escape. I Owners of light plants should ! be very careful to see that there | is no chance for the exhaust to es within the house. There is cape little odor or color to the gas, and it might easily poison the air be fore it could be detected. TO COLLECT MAGAZINES People who have old magazines which they are through with and wish to give away are requested to take them to the Commercial club rooms. Judge Gordon say s he will be glad to give them out to people who want reading matter. It has been suggested that people having a number of back copies might tie them up in bundles con taining one story each. , - « Ä COMMUNITY TREE LION GIFT BAGS TO PLEASE KIDDIES WHO GET IN THE LINE As a feature of the community Christmas tree on Main street, small gift bags will be passed out to the children at two o'clock Thursday afternoon from the plat form by members of the Lions club. Children expecting to receive the little Christmas packages must gather on the SOUTH SIDE of the street and form a single line on the crosswalk that is on the WEST side of the platform and pass across the street to the NORTH SIDE. The bags will be handed out as the children pass the platform—one kind for girls, another kind for boys. Country children are especially invited. These gifts are for the younger children, and those whose home Christmas will be abundant are not expected to be allowed in the line. The supply of bags will not be inexaustable. PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS NEW GRAZING TERMS Tuesday, December 22 at one o' clock p. m., at the county court house in Wolf Point, is the time and p i ace of a public meeting, ca u ed to discuss and consider f rom a jj s jdes the stipulations of the new terms under which it is pro posed by the Indian department at Washington to lease grazing land on the Fort Peck reservation. The meeting is called through co operation of the Commercial club of Wolf Point, ranchers and farm the reservation, and Fort The meeting is for ars on Peck Indians, all who are materially interested and a representative attendance is desired. HERALD TRIES SOMETHING NEW IN COLOR PRINT Here is our 1931 Christmas is sue. Not so big in point of pages as gotten out in former years but well patronized by the merchants of the city—a response thoroughly appreciated. Some 400 extra copies will go out to families in the border-land of our field as a Christmas court esy. Shop foreman Harry Inman did BOmetbing wR h the front and back pages that had never been at tempted before in this shop. That was to do two-color register work on the Campbell, two-revolution p ress How well he and his assist ant. George Hagen, got away with it must be left to our critics. Of course a bit more of 1931 tough luck had to drop in at the busiest part of the week when a piece of picture plate "lifted", fell on a form and smashed and delay est reserves have been increasing to such an extent that the govern ment decided to kill off part of ed things. It all goes in the day's work. Buffalo Meat To Be Given Away Dec. 24th Buffalo herds in the various for the number, giving the meat to the Indians. Announcement is made that the consignment of buffalo meat shipped to the Fort Peck res ervation, will be distributed at Poplar on December 24th. how much meat there will be for Just distribution was not learned, but it is understood that 100 buffaloes were asked for, althoutÿh there little expectation that that number would be received by this was reservation. -: GOING HOME FOR VACATIONS Several of the teachers will go away for the Christmas vacation, Miss Settle will spend the holidays In Minot, Miss Wahl will go to Min. neapolis, Miss Olson to her home at Ray, N. Dak. Miss Hennum to Minneapolis and Miss Hemdrick son to Marietta, Minn.