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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29
BIG AUCTION SALE AT
MEDICINE LAKE

We call attention to the big full
page and to the auction sale beins
held by Malkolm Swanson on his farm
near Medicine Lake, Monday, Sen
tember 9th. Mr. Swanson has rentas
his big farm and is going to CanadA
to engage in the farming and cattle
business. He is offering everythin-
for sale that there is ON his splendid
ly equipped farm This is probable
one the biggest sales that will be
held this fall, and it will pay the
farmers to attend. Auctioneer Jen-
sen will handle the sale and Mr.. Full
kerson will be clerk. A free lunch
will be served at noon.
Many farmers are planning on at
lending this big sale.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29
Facts Dispute
League Attack
on J. c. Dwyel

Poplar Standard: When all +bo
1acts IN the case are known it is hard
70 understand why the Nonpartisan
League through their organ the Pro-
ducers News should claim that John
T. Dwyer, county clerk and recorde,
OF Roosevelt county, held up a peti-
tlon protesting against the special
election sent in from McCabe Thu
PRODUCERS News claimed that Dwver
held up the petition and that if was
necessary for the authorities at Hell
ena to insist that it be rushed
through. AS to any action the Hell
ena authorities may have taken this
newspaper is not advised but that the
petlt1on was not delayed is quite
clear. The real facts are these. Elev-
en- petitions were sent in on the 23rd
from McCabe. They were contained
IN letter which was registered at
McCabe on the %, and which was
received at Mondak on the 23rd. Mr..
DWyers office force got busy check
ing the petitions at once and within
matter OF forty-eight hours or by the
10Th to be exact, these eleven petit
lions had been checked over and
were on the way to Helena to the Sec
rotary of States office, all of which
goes to show that in place of being
held up the petitions were handled
With dispatch and gotten out of Mr..
1Wyer's office in record time.
The foregoing are the exact facts
n the case and it would seem now
hat it is only fair that the League
'eople come forth and clear Mr..
)Wyer and his office staff.
Inc Producers News at all times
inns to be as near fair as it is in
ne range of human possibilities to
g IN partisan politics, and it seems
nat the facts are as stated in tba
opiar Standard-and we have looked
ITO the matter thoroughly. It seems
aat the party at McCabe had de-
'yed IN sending the names to Clerk
Recorder Dryer and that Nj.
'wyer cid get the petitions out with
le utmost dispatch when placed in
s hands. The editor of the Pro-
lcers News called up Mr.. Dwyer ov-
the phone from Culbertson, after
mad received wires from Helena
"a Great Falls to the effect thai
G petitions had not arrived, and
as advised by the above gentleman
IN the utmost courtesy that the
fitio1.s had been checked and mailed
Helena. Because of the delay in
@c1ng the names in the hands of
:. DWyer and the consequent delay
the arrival of the petitions at Hell
a. was the foundation for the in
.ence at headquarters, that the pc
IONS We're being held up, as they
re actually being held in several
mites in the state.
Inc PRODUCERS News believes the
Us IN the case as nearly as it has
n able to establish them absolute
exonerates Mr.. Dwyer of any
me Tor the delay in the forwarding
tne petitions, and Mr.. Dwyer de-
YES to be placed in the right light
this matter.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29
DEVILS LAKE COUPLE
MARRIED HERE

The marriage of Henry Dixtere
Salon and Anna Marie Schille, both
Of Devils Lake, N. D., was solemnized
at the home of Father Hennessey
last Saturday at z o'clock. Mr.. and
MRS. Martin Koeing of Devils Lake.
n. D., were witnesses. No guests
were present. The two couples re-
turned to their home in Devils Lake
Tuesday.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29

Z son. They have learned by this bit
ter experience that the old slip-shot
methods mean failure when the in
evitable dry season comes. A mum
Der of years of success with indiffer
ent preparation rendered them care
less and confident. They ignored
the laws of crop growing they
,gambled with the forces of nature
and lost.
"Can crop failures in che semi-arid
west be avoided by special prepare
ton Of the soil? Is it possible to
secure fair crops during years of
drouth? Thousands of farmers in
Montana who are threshing from ten
to twenty bushels of wheat per acre
viii answer yes. How? By adopt
ing a system of summer fallow by
which two years of moisture is made
available for one years crop. This
alternate system of cropping, togeth-
er with certain definite methods of
soil preparation and tillage has be-
come known the world over as the
Campbell system.
This system has proven its eff
cheney in every seni-arid section of
the world. Hardy w. Campbell, the
founder. is known in Russia. Aus
tralia and South Africa as well as
he is known in Montana. And pos
sihly better. for many do not seem
to realize that Campbell's Scientific
Farmer, the farm journal founded by
him, is published in Montana. at Bill
ing's.
'TThe Scientific Farmer for the
last ten years has been the exponent
of the Campbell system and the only
authority on dry farming. Where
ever the farmers have followed the
advice of this journal they have been
able to show crops even during this
year of drouth, but where the prin-
ciples laid down by the Campbell
system have been ignored absolute
failure has resulted.
A certain Montana publication |
announces that the Campbell system
is a failure We doubt if the writer
Knows what the Campbell system is.
We doubt if he knows the principles
IN which it is based. He possibly
loes not realize that the great agri-
cultural states west of the Missouri
liver have been developed by follow
ng the Campbell system.
1t is up to the farmers of Mon
ana to inform themselves regarding
he theory and practice of the Camp
'ell system, for it is only by adher-
ng carefully to the principles laid
own and the practices advocated !
hat the element of chance can he
aiken out of the dry farming prob. /
I'm. Readers of The New North
est may receive free sample copy ,
the Scientific Farmer by writing
} Billings f.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29
NJ atchmen, What OfThe NIGHT

Inc PRODUCERS News ran,od,,ao.
the following editorial from tba NJ
Northwest, and especially commend
Ine same to the farmers Of sbar;
dan county.
ihere are many instances this va,,,
year That demonstrates the resnlts ~
scientific dry farming.
In fact this year is the year that
furnishes the proof, for this vear :
an exceptionally disastrous year.
The ponds and holes that orc
usually filed with water are now
dried up; the creek beds that have
run water continuously for as lono
as the mind of man runneth back ara
dry; even the springs have dried nm
at their source.
This calamity does not mean that
the end of Montana's prosperity has
been marked; it does not mean any,
thing, in fact, but that a freak year
has been encountered, or a series of
freak years has been experienced.
Next year may be an extremely
wet one, and the next series of years
may and probably will bring the
country back to its own.
Every country in the history of
the west has gone through the very
same experience that Montana is
passing through now; have been
dried out, hoppered out, flooded out
and iroze out, and those who have
had faith, and the well Stick" spir-
it have lived to see the tide turn, and
have travelled to prosperity on its
flow.
What has been the history of Da-
ko-a, kansas, Iowa and Nebraska,
Will come to be the history of Mon
tana. and the sticker viii not have
stayed in vain.
Adversely, like the ugly toad, has
a beautiful jewel in its head"
Maybe it will bring about better
farming methods.
It is the rough winds that makes
the roots of the giant oak sink deep. /
The following editorial should be
of interest to every farmer in this
region:
Montana has passed through the
greatest drouth in the history of the
northwest The disaster came so
unexpectedly that our farmers were
staggered. In the language of the
prize ring the blow rendered them
"groggy.p But already they are
coming back" and the biggest crop /
IN the history OF the state will be
planted in 1920 The interest opti-
mism OF the pioneers of the plain i
viii assert itself and they will pre- {
pare their fields once more with con-
hdence and we believe with nine t
chances in ten for a bowling success. /
Most great disasters bring with y
hem some benefits. The drouth has o
aught the dry farmers needed les I
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29
PIONEER PRESS
SHOULD WORRY
Prominent Westby Farmer Tells Do
lin What He Thinks.
Westby, Montana
/. July Is, 1919.

Producer; New
Plentywood, Montana.
.I7 I received the Plentywood Pioneer
Press and as you know we have Jos.
f. Dolin on the lead of that paper,
and think Doiin has got all he will
get from us farmers of Sheridan
county You see he worries about
them SIC that we spent. | think it
is because he thinks he ought to have
them himself, but we sure slipped
ole over on hlm that time and if he is
not careful we will slipe one more
over On him. | think you will agree
with me on that deal, Mr.. Farmer.
This is the letter / sent him for this
sample copy he sent me, and don't
think Mr.. Dolin has very many pa
pers in this vicinity because this
sample copy is the first one I've seen
sor the last year. I don't think he
would print it so I'm sending it to
,ou to print.
B. A. NERESEN.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29
MARRIAGE LICENSES

The following marriage licenses
we're issued for the week from Clerk
OF Court Girard's Office:
Sherman j. Hopewell, age 80, of
Stronghold, Sask., and Ida Pearl
Hale, age 20, of Moose Jaw, Canada.
Henry Dixtere Salon, % years, of
Devils Lake, N. D., and Anna Marie
Schille, ~ years, Devils Lake, N. d.
Frank E. Carpenter, 20 years, Earl,
Sask., Canada, and Rossette Lynch,
"a years, Rhode Island.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29

legislature, with the possible
exception of j. S. Nyqaist-and
we haven't learned whether he
voted or not-strongly opposed
the resolution for memorial to
the President and Congress, re-
questing the Fort Peck Reserva-
ton to be thrown open for home
stead fling, and all payments
returned to those open for home
stead fling, and payments re-
turned to those who had filed un-
der the old act.
It semed strange that so-called
farmer league members should
take that stand, when the move
ment was direct benefit for the
farmers, their sons and all re-
turned soldiers.
Finally the truth came out.
Under a severe verbal lashing
by some of the more honest MEM
bers one senator endorsed and
elected by the League, Mckay of
Sanders County, admitted that
he and all other league members
OF the House and Senate were
instructed by Dewey Dorman,
state superintendent of the Non
partisan League to oppose all
measures not introduced by Non
partisan leaguers and framed at
. their secret caucus, whether such
measures were direct benefit to
the farmers or not.
And there you have the whole
history of Townley, Dorman, Red
Flag Taylor an the Nonpartisan
League, as well as the more
radical socialists. They want to
grab the thunder" and be given
the opportunity to swap more of
their hot air for the farmers
cold cash.
1t has been profitable business
SO lar for a few of them. But. like
the old style politician who was
strong on promises and weak on
delivery after election, they, too,
are finding the going harder ev-
cry day, and the time is not far
distant when they will have to
conceive some new means OF ex-
tracing coin from the farmers.
In the above editorial it is claimed
at the League members were IN
ructed how to vote by Taylor and
c. Dorman. Neither Mr.. TAYLOR
II Mr.. Dorman attended the special
ssion. Mr.. Dorman was not even in
e state during the session. Mr..
lylor at all times supported, ar
ntly, the Fort Peck relief, and as
ar as we know, the Nonpartisan
'ague supported the proposition.
Just lie made up out of the whole
9TH, by those who hope to hurt the
ague. Sr
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29
Who To HI Said He Lso

Dooley Sun: We see by der Pro-
dueers News that Atty. H. M. Lewis
of Plentywood is the latest to bust
into publicity, and comes in for a
good rap. The News says she will
try anything once, if his client has
the nerve and money" and after Civ
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29
l,..z.NrYWOOD SCHOuLS
OPEN SEPTEMBER IND

The days of JOY for the small hop
will end Tuesday.
The teachers are arriving and o-
September End the school bells will
commence to ring again.
There will, it is claimed, be manu
new faces among the teaching force
the new principal coming to PLENTY
wood from Fertile, Minnesota, and
he comes very highly recommended
and will without doubt maintain the
high standard of the Plentywoo1
public schools.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29
TWO PROGRESSIVE FARMERS
ELEVATORS WILL NOT
OPEN THIS FALL.

Owing to the shortage of grain this
season the Progressive Farmers ele-
vators at Mildly and Archer will not
be opened this fall. George Procl-
now will manage the Farmers Eles-
yator at Plentywood and handle all
grain here. The closing of these two
elevators will cut considerable ex
nense
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29
ESTRAY NOTICE

Came to my place, one black YEAR
ing mare colt and one grey three
year-old colt. Owner can have sa,,a
by proving property. d. w. KELLY.
one mile north of Raymond. 20-St
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29

The national convention of the
brotherhood of railroad firemen and
enginemen has gone on record in ia.
vor OF municipal markets and cold
storage houses.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29
Westby, Montana
July %, 1919.
JOS. Delin:

JOS. Deiln:
| received a sample copy of your
paper and I will ask you not to send
me another sample copy, because ]
don't want that paper inside of my
coors. | think the farmers of Sheri-
fla1 county have supported your pa
per long enough and | have one good
word to say about The Producers
News and that is that we know now
what the county officers have been
doing for us in the past. If the Nom
PARTISAN League don't do any more
think that $1,000 was well spent. I'm
satisfied and why should you worry
about ny affairs. Send your papers
to your friends and not to me. I
thiak The Producers News has not
Said any to much, if anything, they
haven't said enough. I will ask you
again not to worry about the $1,000
hat US farmers spent because it is
worth $1,000, and more to, for what
hey have already done for us farm
srs.
B. A. NERESEN.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29

Buying by European governments
here for their whole people emphasizes
the fact that the old market methods
should be put in the discard.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29

ing the attorney the "once over" a
couple of times, we would imagine
That he did not learn his profession
for "his health" 1t is the business
of any attorney to try a case, and
the fact that he takes the side of the
opposition, is no fact that the man is
doing wrong.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29

A few war aims lost somewhere be-
tween Washington and Paris have not
yet been found.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29

washington reports now bring out
that the government guaranteed rail.
road dividends such as the following
during the war:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-29

The Producers News-s2.oo q, year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-31
ORDER RENEWING
MAXIMUM PRICES
COMPLETED AND
SENT PRESIDENT
Battalion Composed of First
Divisions Veterans is Or
dered to Proceed Imme-
diately to Coal Fields
of West Virginia

Washington, October 30
The order re-establishing the
old maximum coal prices of the
fuel administration was COM
pleted tonight at conference
of DIR. II. A. Garfield and rail-
road administration officials.
1t was taken Immediately to the
White House for President Wilson'S
signature. but the President had gone
to sleep after his arduous day. and II
yas deemed inadsisnbie % wake him.
AccovdissssS, sElr orGes will nos become
effective until tomorrow.
DIR. Garfield said that the plans con-
that all questions for allo
eating coal would be left to Director
General Hines for settlement. The
former. as fuel administrators, win give
his authority to Mr.. Hines orders, but
will not remain in Washington to I'M
dertake supervision of the work.
DIR. Garfield said that the point had
not yet been reached necessitating cur
tailInent of industries. but if it is neces-
sary eventually the curtailment list pre-
pared by the fuel administration for
the war industrial board during the
war probably would be used. The war
industries on that list, of course, he
explained. would not get the treatment
they did during the war. and might be
cut off altogether.
Price control over anthracite, the
fuel administration emphasized would
not be exercised at this time. He
made the statement regarding anthra-
cite to correct previous assertion that
the control would cover prices of both
soft and hard coal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-31
WOMEN DEMAND AN FIGHT STARTED TO
EQUAL VOICE INNLL LABOR SECTION!
LABOR MEETING SOF GERMAN TREATY.
Secretary of War Baker is
Speaker at Congress of
Working Women
Yesterday
BY Associated Press

Washington, October S0.-Demand
that women be represented equally
with men in all future international
labor conferences called under the
treaty of Versailles was made today at
the International congress of working
men.
In the first formal motion to be pre-
scented to the congress. Mlla. Jeanne
Boder, French delegate, and also
a technical adviser to the present in
ternational labor conference, asked
that in the next world labor meeting
under the treaty six delegates be sent
by each nation.
The executive committee of the CON
gress proceed to organize tomorrow
by electing president. secretary and
three vice presidents, and resolution
and credentials committee
secretary of War Baker addressed
the congress today. and series of re-
ports were made by delegates from
sweden. Norway, Italy, France and
belgium on the status of eight-hour
DAY legislation in their countries.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-31

The ngures were given out at inter-
national headquarters of the union here
today.
1t was explained that the total was
approximate, as tire records showed
only miners who had paid their dues
for August the total of such men being
34s,120 1t was stated that about IL
per cent of the membership is de-
linquent each month through sickness,
being on strike or other excusable
causes. Such men are carried as tex
onerated" of dues. but reports on them
are not forwarded to international head
quarters
The grand total of paid-up member
ship at the end of August was 42l,
657. Some 10000 of these Were in the
anthracite fields and about $500 in
Canadian mines and will not be affect
ed by the strike order, The paid-up
membership for the bituminous districts
follows:
District Menu
No. Territory. bershtp.
2-Central Pennsylvania 49,. 3.O47
5-Western Pennsylvania $50. 36.S92
6-Ohio .,............ ....,...... 43,OS0
s--indisna black coal ..,..... Liz
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-31
Agreement to Labor Pro-
gramme Not in Interest of
World Peace, States
Senator Thomas
By Associated Press

Washington. October 3o--A fight to
strike from the peace treaty the entire
labor section, which provides establish
cation was begun in the Senate today
under the leadership of Senator LaFol-
lette, republican, Wisconsin.
Debate on the Wisconsin senator's
motion, which may last for several days,
was started by Senator Thomas, dem
ocrat, Colorado. who attacked the la
Dor section as creating IA supernation
forthe benefit of a particular class"
He called attention to clause in the
treaty declaring the well being of
wage earners to be "of supreme in
ternational Importance" and quoted
Samuel Gombers as saying the labor
provisions were written by labor men
for labor"
Agreement to such a programme,
Senator Thomas asserted. would not be
in the interest of the worlds peace.
The section not only is demonstrations
al several respects. he continued but
its proposal for uniform labor standards
is 'grotesque' and can result only in
a levelling to the standards of China
and India. He estimated that the in
ternational labor bouy would cost the
United States fully as much as the
expenses of our own government"
Senator Penrose, republican, Penn
suggested that the peace con-
ference agreed to the labor section
without understanding it and declared
Z were UNDERSTOOD now. every trade
1nion in the United States would con-
iemn it.
Senator Thomas will continue his |
speech tomorrow, and no vote is ex-
oected before next week. Several other |
senator's expect to put up a stubborn |
light for the LaFollette motion. though |
hey concede there is little hope for |
is adoptiony
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-31
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-31
TROOPS ON WAY


Louisville, Ky, October 30.--A
provisional battalion, 500 strong,
composed of veterans of the first
division, tonight had orders TO pro-
coed Immediately tn the coal fields
of West Virginia In anticipation OF
possible disorder attending the
strike of miners there. The troops
would be on their way before morn
ing, Col. G. w. Peabody, acting
chief of staff announced. and who
said the Instructions had come
from the headquarters of the cen
trail department, Chicago.
Infantry and machine gunrfers max.
up the riot battalion. il was announced
along with the necessary medical de
tachment and staff officers.
The provisional battalion's destination
was announced as Huntington, w
Va, where they were to detrain ant
scatter in various towns, according to
Col. w. r. Scott. intelligence officer
Col. w. S. Harrell commander of the
Sixteenth infantry, and acting com.
nander OF the First infantry brigade
was in command of the battalion.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-31
GERMAN DELEGATES
WILL Be. ADMITTED
TO LABOR MEETING
French Delegate Casts the
Only Negative Vote on
Question of Admitting
Huns and Austrians
BY Associated Press

Washington, October 30.-With only the
French capital delegate opposing the ac-
ton the international labor conference
today decided to admit representatives of
Germany and Austria, Immediately upon
their arrival here, to full membership in
the world labor organization.
Louis Geurin, who cast the only mega
tive vote, holding up to view the desc
lation wrought by the German military
machine in the invaded regions of his
country, declared that distinction must
be made between barbarian nations
that regard a treaty as a scrap of
paper and allied peoples who had fought
for the cause of freedom He insisted
that Germany and Austria, with whom,
he said, the allied nations are still al
war, should not be admitted until the
close of the conference. and maintained
that such was the view of the French
senate and of Leon Bourgeois. French
representative to the league of nations.
Sharp opposition to this view was ex-
pressed by Leon Jouhaux, French labor
delegate, who said that the war was at
an end. and that Germany must be ad-
mitted in the new regime"
The Belgian governmental and labor
delegates asked to be recorded as voting
favorably only because economic condi-
lions forced them to do eo