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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13
$4,000

In this case the consumer paid
fourteen times the price the farmer
received"
These figures, according to YOakum,
do not consider the question whether
freight charges are equitable. But
they do show clearly the extent. to
which parasite cOmmercialism devel-
oped by the lust for profits is over
whelming producers by fattening on
their products. AS pointed out by
YOakum:
"After a careful and complete in
vestigatiOn / have heretofore pointed
out there are 10 million food dealer
population to 80 1-2 million farm pop
ulation-too great a burden for any
industry to carry"
This means that A persons are sup
ported by dealing in food to every 7
persons supported reproducing food.
AS there are only IL million farms
in the United States this means that
there are approximately 3 persons
supported by trading in food for each
farm.
Transportation of agricultural pro-
ducts costs about half a billion dollars
chAAAcAAAy3 aSCOIQlAlS W IOdkuul. lnC
labor cost does not amount to so per
cent of the total transportation cost,
or maximum of a quarter of a bill
lion. But distribution costs, profits,
commissions, etc, at the consumers
end of the line run into billions of dol
lars a year.
"This absorption" he points out,
through the long list of commissions,
profits and traffic in foodstuffs repre-
sents the loss that is forcing thous-
ands of farmers into bankruptcy.
] He proposed a constructive law
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Farmers Tribute to CommerciaZisnl
By LELAND OLDS
Federated Press Industrial Editor)

Railroad wOge costs are falsely pic
tured as a cause of the present diff
culties of farmers. This is a fair de-
duction from figures cited by B. F.
YOakum, chairman of the st. Louis
San Francisco railroad, in an open let
ter to the New York Times.
Profits of merchants, commission
houses, wholesale and retail dealers
are pillOried by this letter, which
shows that these takings of CONNER
cialism absorb from seven to ten times
as much Of the retail price of farm
products as do all the railroad work
ers engaged in transporting these
products to the market. Mr.. Yoakum's
letter says in part:
"Ihe market commissioner of New
York was reported last summer as
saying that on watermelOns for which
the southern farmer received an aver
age of 6 cents per melon the railroad
charged Is cents and the consumer
paid from SIPS to $1.5O per melon.
That the railroad charge was three
times the price paid to the farmer is
not an equitable way to put it, as the
railroad charge was only about Is per
cent of the price paid by the consumer.
The commissioner was correct in his
facts, but wrong in his conclusions.
The division on $1,24 melon would
be as follows:
To farmer per melon. .06
To transportation cost, per
melon ------------------------------ 10
To local distribution, COM
missions, profits, etc..$1.0O
Cost to consumer--.............$1.24
"The Railway Age Investigated anC
published the facts concerning cab
bage shipped from the lower Rio
Grande valley, Texas to Chicago
where the consumer paid retail at the
rate of $40 per ton.
The farmer was paid per
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PROFTTEERS Enjoy LAn.

of
pennary Illinois
Warden Biddie
Wolf with his selling
Unlike the
government to
to
the ps
The Wolf enjoyed thirds
has been a
But prison also the VOLTS comparatively free The elder though
health the hospital did
his four months convict He had private with writing desk and
of spending provided him with fruit and extras all times
thing out O. the
When
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ALIAS SUMMONS

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
THE TWENTIETH JUDICIAL DlS-
TRICT OF THE STATE OF Nun
TANA, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY
OF SHERIDAN.
EDWARD r. WILLIAMS, PlalntlH'
NELS P. MOE, a single man, y; n d
HELLEKSON, THE FIRST Ma
TIONAL BANK OF PLENI Y
WOOD, MONTANA, a corporation,
NELS P. MOE, HACKETT-GATES-
HURRY COMPANY, a corporation,
THE TFu' STATE OF MONTANA
SENDS GREETINGS 10 The LIE
FAROVE NAMED DEFENDANTS
AND TO EACH OF THEM:
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED
to answer the complaint in this action
Switch is filedin the Office of the Clerk
of this Court, a copy of which is here
with served upon you and to tlle your
answer and serve a copy thereof upon
plaintiffs attorney within twenty
DAYS after service of this summons eX-
elusive of the day of service, and IN
case of your failure to appear or ans
wer, Judgment will be taken against
you by default for the relief demand
ed in the complaint.
That the nature, purpose and oOJecC
of the above entitled action is to lore
closure and determine the lien OF
certain mortgage, dated the End day
of January, 1918, made, executed, ac-
knowledged and delivered by Nels +.
Moe, a single man, mOrtgagOr, to The
Dakota-Montana Mortgage Company,
a corporation, mortgage and record
ed in the office of the County Clerk
and Recorder of Sheridan County,
Montana, on the Bird day OF January,
1918, at 400 o'clock P. M, in Book
161 of Mortgages, Pages 24-25, and
of which mortgage the plalntl1t Is
now the owner, also to bar and fore
close to each and all defendants, and
all persona claiming by, through or
under them or any of them, all right,
title, interest, lien or equity Of re-
demption, of, in and to the hereinaf-
ter described premises and real es-
tate lying and being in the County OF
Sheridan, State of Montana, tO-wit:
The Northeast Quarter (NEH)
Of Section Thirty (30), Town
ship Thirty-five (35) North of
Range F'ifty-three (53) East Mon
! tana Meridian, containing 100
acres more or less, according to
/ Government, Survey thereof, to-
gether with all Entertainments and
appurtenances thereunto belong
ing or in anywise appertaining,
! and for the further purpose Of obtain
ling a judgment against the defend
! ant. Nels P. Moe. a single man, for
the sum of One Thousand and No-10O
Dollars (S1000.00), and for the sum
of Sixty and No-f00 Dollars ($6000)
/ and for the sum of Sixty and No-100
I Dollars (S60.00) and for the sum OF
Sixty and no-100 Dollars (S6000), TO-
/ gether with int est on all of said
sums as mentioned in the complaint
in said action and for the further pay
ment of reasonable attorneys fee
for the foreclosure of said mortgages
and for the cost Of securing an alb
stract of title to said premises anC
for the plaintiffs costs and disburse.
ments in connection Herewith, all Of
which more fully appears from the
complaint on file herein, to which ref
erence is hereby made.
WITNESS my hand and the sea
of said Court this 7th day of July
1923.
r (Seal) G. B. PETERSON,
Clerk of the District Court
HARRISON BROWN,
Malta, Montana,
Attorney for Plaintiff. 14-t.
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the Outlook hospital should be treat
ed as kindly as the Plentywood hos
pital. Upon motion, however, the
Board voted two to one to give all of
the gift money to Plentywood.
Saturday a delegation of farmers
and business men from Outlook ap-
peared before the board to ask for a
gift for the Outlook Hospital and
to protest the giving of all of the tax
payers money to PlentywoOd. Tyler
and Ibsen heard the delegation with
the utmost Indifference and informed
the delegation that the matter was
were concerned. Lundeen protested
but to no avail and Joe Kavon APP
peared with a contract which was
signed by Chairman Tyler for the
Board and the transaction was closed.
The taxpayers will donate S216O to
the Sheridan County Memorial Hos
pital during the ensuing year.
DOLIN CLAIMS AGAIN
Joe Dolin had eseveral claims up
before the Board for consideration
padded as usual. Deputy Quinn had
figured out and noted on the same
the amounts actually due, but TYLER
and Ibsen were set upon allowing Do
lin the entire sum. Lundeen pro-
tested and called attention to Dolin's
contract. Finally Dolin was 4 called
i before the Board and after some ar
gument admitted that the claims were
padded and accepted in settlements
about half the amount he had filed
claims for, explaining that he had
! figured his bill under the new con-
tract instead of the contract he was
working under when the printing was
ordered. Dolin gets about twice as
much for work under this years con-
tract as he did under last years, in
spite of the fact that the Commission
ers claim that his contract was the
lowest submitted this year.
JOE WANTS TO PRINT TAX LIST
Dolin appeared before the Board
and wanted that body to order Asses
sor Aspelund to have the Assessment
List printed as Aspelund had contem-
plated when he inaugurated the So
called Honor System" Mr.. Dolin
thought that it is an outrage not to
print the list and furnish each and
every taxpayer with a copy as Asses
sor Aspelund had promised and show
ed that it would only cost abouN four.
teen or fifteen hundred dollars to dC
this providing that Joe did not make
up his mind to charge more after the
work was done. Assessor AspelunC
objected to this undertaking because
of the cost which is so great an6
Deputy L. S. Olson was called in tt
talk the matter over, and he inform.
ed the Board that it was impossible
to now get the list compiled anC
printed and distributed in time to do
any good before the board OF. Hquali
zation met in the latter part of July
Tyler and Ibsen had been in session
it is reported the night befoxe will
Dolin's lawyer, Paul BabcOck, anC
were set to go, but it seems that f;
certain banker saw Ibsen and talkeC
J him out of the notion, so the matte,
! was finally dropped for good, much t,
: Joe's chagrin.
Several other matters of minor i'm
portance came before the Board anC
were disposed of and the Board ad
) journed subject to call for a specia
meeting, Saturday afternoon.
The Commissioners proceedings viii
, be found on page eight.
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LOCAL MARKETS
TERRIFIC STORM KILLS
TWO IN NORTH DAKOTA

Fargo, N. Oak, July l3.-At least
two persons were killed and damage
estimated at $1,500,OOO was done by
a terrific wind storm, accompanied by
hail and rain in the north central and
northeastern parts of North Dakota,
late yesterday, according to reports
here.
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GRANDVIEW HOTEL
WILL BE MOVED
Excavation for the Basement Started
This Week-Building Will Be hov-
ed As Soon AS Basement Is Ready.

The Grand View Hotel, owned and
operated by Phil Bourassa for a num-
Der of years, will be moved from its
present location to lot on Main
Street adjoining Big Johns pool hall
Just north of the railroad crossing
just as soon as the excavation for he
basement which was started last Nom
day and the. basement walls are COM
pileted which work will probably lie
about a month. ,e -.
House mover John Lee of ,Freid
will move the hotel to- it's new location.
Mr.. Burassa feels that when the
hotel is in its new location that it
will have enough heavier patronage to
justify the expense of moving It.
M NJ. Reintertson has the contract
to excavate and wall up the basement
for the hotel. The basement and lot
on which the hotel now stands is for
sale.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13
HAS THE hurley COOPERATIVE PAID

Tobacco of the BUey District received S26O00OO0O0 their
the Burley
$378OOOOOO0
grown afteI he cooperative organized
when all Of S sold
the Association GIT members in 1921 81734
1923 evidence of the fact that the the district intelligent
know the the increased their tobacco
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WHY NOT

notice how well daily and magazine editors and lot of
Of PRICE Setting Free Play Free Trade Tariff Credit Too
alwth knowledge surprising
omon these writer's dole out information It generally ends with telling
what and what the with
to
OF machinery require that socalize
unable
20 do
As "dverfcaOn"
be
eno
eses Disseminated against They seemingly modest
share of advice So may he and chvaric
call attention their shortcomings They
Carl Berg, Polk Nnn-Nothwest
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lST NATIONAL BANK
Charter No. 1O438 Reserve Dist. 9
Report of Condition of The
FIRST NATIONAL RANK

No. 1O438 Reserve Dist. 9
Report of Condition of The
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
at Plentywood, Montana, in the State
of Montana, at the close of business
on June Both, 1928.
RESOURCES
Loans and dis
counts, includ-
ing rediscounts,
acceptances of
other banks,
a nd foreign
bills of ex-
change or drafts
sold with in
dOrsement of
this bank ..S314, 827.30 314,S27.3
OverdraftS, unsecured-...-. 2,473.64
U. S. Government al.
securities owned: iits 80.
Deposited to se-a sss 49,
cure circulation
(U. S. bonds
par value) IS Ii 6,250.O0
All other United g.
States Govern
ment securities
including pre-
MUM, if any, 10000 7,75O.OC
Other bonds, stocks, Sc
curities, etc: -..-..-,..,,,---.,.- 11,743.5g
Banking House, S7,236.66;
Furniture and fixtures
$6,OS6.56 ------.---.,.,..----. 1S,279.2l
Real estate owned other
than banking house,, 62,11S.5t
Lawful reserve with Fed
erals Reserve Bank 1884. 21
Cash in vault and amount
due from national banks. 7.S35.SC
Amount due from State
banks, bankers, and trust
companies in the United
States (other than in
Guided in above 2 items. 6.O84. 81
Total Of above
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13
PARAGUYAN REVOLUTION
THREATENS ASUNCION

Buenos Aires, July 12.-Paraguyan
revolutionists are reported to have
advanced to within approximately IA
miles of Asunction.
The capital and government author
tiles are preparing to repel a threat
ened attack. They are calling for re-
Inducements.
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1HE STATE VI MONlANA
Sends greetings to the above nam
ed defendant.
You are hereby summoned to answer
the complaint in this action which i
filed in the office of the Clerk Of this
Court, a copy of which is herewith
served upon you in the County where
in you reside, and to file your anSVei
and serve a copy thereof upon If
plaintiffs attorney within twenty days
after service of this Summons, excIa'
sive of the day of service; and ID
case of your failure to appear
answer, judgment will be taken
gainst you, by default, for the rene
demanded in the complaint lns
action is to foreclOse a mortgage E
ecuted by Karl Kristian Krlstla1sol
a single man, on the 31st day OF Vcr
Der, 1919, to plaintiff, to secure :
promissory note for S775OO, Coye y
the NJ SEA and E13 SWA Of ~ ~
tion 1, Twp. 81 n, R. 81; and als y y y
13 of Section 6, Twp. 81 ~, X . L
M. M. Plaintiff prays judgment !. ~
the principal and interest on 1sala !. wv y
together with the cost Of apstrac9 i. .
tOrneys' fees and all costs; thal ss "A
defendant be compelled to Set lOss
the nature and amount Of ms lns s 4.
in said land, and to have the saI ~, 4
Indicated herein; all as more tuHy .' Z
pears from plaintiffs verlilea - i
plant herein, to which refei references
hereby made for further partcualaGiiIo 4
Witnes my hand and the sea D.
this Court this 18th day Of july .
1923. ,urpcoN
! (Seal of the) C. B. PETERSEN
District Court
HOWARD M. LEWIS q
JAMES G. WAGNER,
Attorneys for the Plaintiff
Plentywood, Montana. ,ooQ
First Publication, July u, lS50 1929
Fourth publication, August O.
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making possible effective farm associ-
atoms and cooperative marketing or
CARNATIONS
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. who the Yalev County News saws is bow was caught

-, who the Valley County News says is boy, caught
g the store at Glasgow and Judge BortQn sent
him to the penenaTy five He fined c. j. Beeker
200 tor stealing all Of the money the Sheridan County State Bank had and
mron for aiding and abettng Bsg who belongs to the better class
cOnubne the Roosevelt County Independenudge Brn
ngantla
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13

Glasgow has modern creamery.
Hobson to get second oil well.
Blackfeet Indian farm planned.
Pablo-Flahead Oil Co. Incorporated
here to test reservation country
Producers News-$9OO a year.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13

Great Falls-HOgan-LOrenson we'll
strikes production at 1885 feet.
Livingston-Test we'll to be drilled
representative in the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13
21,64O.O2
-$119,864.71
Total

State of Montana, County of Sheri-
dan, SIS:
1, w. M. RAIDER, Cashier of the
abOve-named bank, do solmenIy swear
that the above statement is true to
the best of my knowledge and belief.
w. M. RAIDER, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 9th day of July, 1923.
H. S. JORDAN,
Notary Public for the State of Mon
tana, residing at Raymond. My Com
mission expires June 9th, 1926.
Correct-Attest:-
F. H. WENDT
HENRY A. HILL
NJ E. PAPPENFUS.
Directors.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13

Belt-State educational institutions
to get $4,000 new buildings.
Helena - Second -four mill 70
senate"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13
LEWISTOWN PIONEER ono DEAD
JUSTICE DROPS Do

LEWIsTOWN, June a.mIitats
P. Chandler, city police nn nsar b
fell dead on the sidewalk inst inst sfrI
home Wednesday afternoon, ,y,torobls
he had stepped out Of an Esa au' Susinss
his wife driving on to the had hap
district unaware Of what t tIu csus
pened. Heart failure was o. ~ Il yslp
of death. Mr.. Chandler wa 9aampsbf
Of age. a native of New i; n iifs her
and had spent nearly all M y
after graduating from coli collSBB hoard
was a member Of the flrs' coun9
commissioners of Fergus a,,nty trsess
served as state senator, eour'' WIZ
urer and held other pOsl.lOtIbe sut@
in the Legislature he was ,ssb5ich stop
Of the anti-gambling law MontsaaSs
DC licensed gambling, !. IN If the ES
He was past exalted RUE ii1ssar.in-lsF
lodge. He was a brotns'
the Hon. David Hilger
In Justice to Jusi 5,,t Just b
sJustice is blindfOldea
same She can talk" Times peep
eyes, she does sonS'
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Commissions Rent
Three Rooms

Continued from Page Onel
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ALIAS SUMMONS

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
TWENTIETH JUDICIAL DIS
TRICT OF THE STATE OF MON
TANA IN AND FOR THE C0UN.
TY OF SHERIDAN.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-16
SCIENCE IN INDUSTRIAL ERA

Wireless is Of great practical i'm
portance. 1t facilitates slaughter in
war, the dissemination of journalistic
falsehood in time of peace, and the
broadcasting Of trivialties to relieve
the tedium of evening hours not de-
voted to success. But the men who
made it possible-Faraday, Maxwell
and Hertz-were none of them the
least interested in furthering this re-
markable enrichment of human life:
they were men solely interested in
trying to understand physical proc
esses, and it can hardly be said that
the existence Of industrialism helped
them even indirectly. The modern
study Of the structure of the atom
may have profound effect upon in
dustrlal processes, but those who are
engaged upon it are very little inter
ested in this possible future effect of
their work. 1t seems likely that the
utllltarianism of commercial indus
try must ultimately kill the pure de-
sire for knowledge just as it kills
the very analogous artistic impulse
In America, where the more utilita-
r1an aspects of science are keenly ap-
prec1ated, no great advance in pure
theory has been made. None of the
fundamental discoveries upon which
practical applications depend have
been made in America.-The Dial.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-16
Road Construction Shows Gain

That the construction of modern
automobile roads and paved streets
in this country is gaining in volume
year by year is shown by statistics
just announced by Highways Infor-
nation Service, New York. The
figures show also that highway con-
tracts awarded during the second
half of the year average in volume
only about Is per cent less than
that there is not a month of the
year in which large amount of con-
struction placed is not under con-
tract.
In 1920 a total of $530,S48,O00 in
new road construction swas awarded
in this country. In 1921 the amount
was $630,712,000, an increase of 500,
$4,000 over 1920 Last year con,
Of 1868, 42S,O00, an increase of $685.
10000 over 1921 and $13S,3SO,O 900
over 1920. From January to June
I, this year, a total of $3S4,774,000
was placed under contract. AT this
rate new highways for which con-
tracts will be let during 1928 will
cost approximately $794,OOO,OO0, a
gain of about $125,OOO,OOO over 1922.
About $1,25O,OOO,OOO, all told, for
federal, state, county, district town
ship and city highway construction
and maintenance will be expended
this year. The federal and state
appropriations for state highways
alone total $SOO,OOO,OOO, the city and
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-16
Increases Output

The possibility of any letup in the
production of telephone apparatus re.
dlred to continue the expansion O,
he country's communicating system
seems out of the question for years
% come, according to executives OF
the Western Electric Company. In.
stead of easing up, the demands for
Jew equipment continue to grow at
such rate that the works manage
ment is finding itself forced to ex-
treme measures to live up to it's
output schedules.
The production of telephone trans
mitters this year, it is pointed out,
will exceed 1,50O,0OO-an increase of
almost 40 per cent over the record
output of a year ago. The trans
mltter is one of the most important
parts of the subscribers telephone.
Increased deliveries in all the other
branches of telephone equipment are
also being recorded at Hawthorne.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-16

~ AIMING weight after the age
NJ of forty means decreasing the
number of years the average man
will live. Long life is race in which
the slim people have the best chance
of winning. ;,
These are the conclusions reached
by DR.. Charles H. Willis. medical
director of the Provident Mutual
Life Insurance Company of Philadel-
phia, who has just completed a sur
vey of the subject.
at is safe to gain weight slowly
up to about the age of forty but gen.
orally dangerous after that" DR..
Willis said. "The slim man, who
has passed middle age is far better
risk than the person who is over
weight. The records of cur company
and others prove this conclusively.
Intelligent eating and exercising
will prevent and reduce excess flesh
and enable people to live longer. The
average American eats far too much
sugar, especially since prohibition,
and too much fats and starches and
does not move around enough.
There is popular belief that the
heavy man is more able to withstand
disease and is consequently to be en-.
We'd. This is true for young people
only. Fat men and women are sub.
ject to diabetes, pneumonia, and dis
eases of the heart, STOMACH and kid
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-16

The active Give it to Henry"
contingents include the Ford deal
ers, bent upon handing him the
White House; the contingent that
is anxious to hand him Muscle
Shoals for nothing on the basis of
a hundred-year lease; the people
from Arkansas, Nebraska, Mime
sofa, Michigan, Wisconsin, and other
states, who want him to take over
all undeveloped water-power sites,
together with those who believe
Ford's paper money theories, if prac-
tically applied, would enable every
body to get rich without working.
All of the "Give 1t to Henry"
enthusiasts stoutly maintain that
Mr.. Ford is in no way identified
with their efforts. Even the agents
who are raising Ford campaign
funds on {. commission basis insist
they are merely volunteers actuated
by patriotic motives and desires to
give Henry Ford a free boost.