The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-12-19

1nc CCuulY OOiIlHiiSolOulC1o AlCS AA
adjourned regular session at the
Court House last Monday, December
18th, to take up two particularly I'M
portant matters.
| The first, to consider whether they
would sign the County Farm Bureau
budget and provide for the maintain
ling OF a County Agent and his Of
fee, and
| Second, to attend to details in ref
ernce to the administration OF the
seed grain bond, providing that they
carry, and to make arrangements
with the County Farm Bureau look
ling to the securing of the support of
1.-THE farmers for the contemplated seed
lgrain bond.
In the first case nothing was ac-
Ecomplished. Commissioner Timmons
got yellow and did not attend the
Injecting although he had promised
Ibis neigabors TO attend and had also
lpromised the business men of Scobey
Itl1at he would be present, so the
Iboard was composed of Matkins and
ITyler and their votes just offset each
Eother, Jud. Matkins displaying his
usual stupidity, ignorance and in
competence which has come to make
Sheridan county the laughing stock
of the state, and has made the said
Mr.. Matkins famous all over. eastern
Montana as want-wit.
Mr.. Matkins simply refused to do
lanything In reference to maintaining
1.-THE office of County Agent unless Mr..
Anderson was gotten rid of. He, Mr..
Matkins, personally, does not like
A Tn,
of Mr. Matkin, Mr. Anderson is not
: Matkin he is wrong, clear wrong, and
. insists, that because in some way or
toffendeded that Mr.. Anderson will
+ lhave to go, and what Mr. Matkins
says must be, for Mr.. Timmons
" the meetings of the board does moth
ing more than parrot the vote OF Mr.
: Matkins, even though sometimes il
!. of Satrap Matkins has him under
: does not like County Agent Ander
!. agents Office will be closed, this il
=. | SDllC Oh tI1G VIII Vi OFGI q lI4OuSoliAI
: farmers in Sheridan county.
And what is the reason?
: The Satrap does not like the wa,
= County Agent Anderson acted in re
- gard to the handling of the Gophe.
< Poison Fund. He keeps track O
things. He was not willing to o. K
: delivery weight for the friends o
= Messrs. Tirnmons, Matkin and Vein
y rich for oats that were never deliv
y cred, and he kept some track of wher
!. the surplus grain went to and it seem
that some Of this went to Mr. Mat
= kin's hired man, Mr.. Chandler
i, That is what is eating Mr.. Matkin:
;. So Mr. Matl1ns insists that Mr.. Ar
Iderson is a bad, bad man and he doe
not like him, and that as he is it 6
= the present time, chat there will
i. no County Agent, unless new lager
: is secured and that the county wi
not cooperate with the Farm Bl
:" reau unless the present officials {
x the Farm Bureau resign and allo-
* Satrap Matkins to appoint them, NAL
J: ing Looney Lundberg the president
:. And there is another. reason thu
Mr.. Anderson must go. That reaso
= is the Drouth Relief Bonds. The pes
I pie insist that the Fund MUST
X handled by the Farm Bureau. II
~ = people remember that the last see
grain fund is still $4,000 short ar
!. unaccounted for, though Mess,s. Ma
y kins, Weinrich, Redmond and Alto
y ney Ellery made a trip to Mianeap
J. lis to make a settlement, and tt
expenses of the trip were paid fo
but up to date no report of the sc
: tlement has ever been filed thoue
nine months has passed by, ande
. seems that the twenty thousal
dollars were probably stolen
some one, AMI Messrs. Matkins al
Timmons now contemplate the hanc
II ing of another 500, 900 sum, provi
nm ing the people win vote it, and TIN
~ NJ just don't want to have Mr. Anders'
~ ~ supervising the administration of t
ri fund.
There were, two days of merry TO
The farmers were out in a squad, a
ltEe officers of the Farm Bureau we
re- present Bankers and business m
lis. from Scobey were present. The
,th was hot teIk and fireworks. Mr. Ms
k;ns Threatened To knock Carl petf