The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29
Producers News Cyped Out OF $lOO By Chautaulpna

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Con Artists Put One Over on the
Farmers Paper-Regular Stunt of
These NFourflushers" to Beat Ad-
vertising Bill.
PEBBLE .'KCPPER" PROPAGANDA
The Chautauqua circus has come
and gone.
The crowd attending was good,
thanks to the advertising campaign
in behalf of the vaudeville put on by
the Producers News. Those VINO
signed up an irenclad note to guaran-
tee this sideshow got through with
out digging up to make good guar
antee in this hard, drought season.
Everybody saved their bacon but the
Producers News, which contributed so
much to put the whole thing across
it was gyped out of $100 by this very
J high class entertainment, who be-
! lieves in spirit of get together when
their particular interest or game is
!. concerned, and a committee who be-
lieves that if there is a deficit, that
for the uplift of the community and
: Tor the benefit Of society in general
that the newspapers should stand the
: loss, in order that the rest of the
: great uplifters and community boost
ers may shift their own responsible
: ty and sponge the shortage out Of
the newspapers.
! Good, generous, uplifting Mr..
: Greer, who is vitally inter
: ested in the uplift business said as
much at a meeting in the Chautauqua,
where the people had TO stay TO listen
to him if they wanted to hear the
rest of.the show; he said that rf.ueh
.at ous IN meeting.
III. Greer has q reputation far and
~ida as co4na1nity builder. When
Iit comes to lending himself as an
inspiration to the public, he is there
On ali fours. Probably no one in
Sheridan county has contributed SC
naueh to the general good and The
general welfare. The foreclosure re-
cords in Sheridan county proves a
Of The above and more. He is always
very generous with the other felloWs
money, and he wa7,es enthusiastic
about dona.lsg 70 the public uplif'
;, and the good. Of our town, when. s2cE
donation is made at the expense o.
the Producers News and he can there
By save himself a ten spot.
Sounds nice when the facts ar'
presented, doesn't it?
A number of people, among then
tae editor of the Producers News
signed guarantee to the Ellison
White Chautauqua Association, OF
"Kopper" Propaganda Association
guaranteeing. that show outfit tht
sum of $3.50 for the privilege o
hearing a number of obscure, nlnt'
rate speakers extol the virtues o
the Anaconda Mining Company, tn
grating profteers and the baby rob
ia bers, and near those who are crying
~ out for justice denounced in the bes
= invective the poor talent that thes
!. unheard of mediocre speakers wer
:. capable of producing, and listen t.
patriotic propaganda with a made i
England trademark on it, that wa
. 90 per cent "Union Jack" and 10 pc
> cent "Old Glory
When the editor of the Producer
ss News signed the guarantee he ex
q. peted to make good on any deficit
rs there was any, just like the rest
a. the community boosters; he sol
20 what tickets he could, and boosted TO
the circus at every opportunity, an
because of the unusual conditions
expected that there would probably b
a deficit, as the Chautauqua gans
20 see to it that the contract that
signed up in the chit the sawdus
- trail and be saved style" is all Chau
tauqua. These sports never take
Z chance themselves as. any other thir
e class circus. It's a cinch game wit
them and they don't believe in lei
= ting the signers know just what sol
OF a lightning rod they are buying
ID Yet We expected to show our CON
r raunity spirit without a whine. Br
as it seems that the other signers al
Ii not built on those plans. They seer
in to believe in the motto Of; LIZ
r. George do it or rather, make him d
m it. Anyway to pass this paying e
US the community uplift along on
somebody else, and save their ow