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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
CANCELLED VOUCHERS in OFFICERS HANDS

John c. O'Grady, deputy clerk &
recorder, the noted pivot of two par
ties, the right hand man ofDr. Lam
strum and GcW. Dixon in Sheridan
county, was arrested last Saturday
about noon on nine different war
rants, issued upon nine cOmpiants
signed by nine different farmers in
the FlaXville territory who have
turned over money to O'Grady to pay
county seed grain liens notes held
by the county against them and Sc
cured by liens upon their crops and
lands, in Mr.. O'Grady's capacity as
county seed grain collector, and
which money Mr. O'Grady has failed
to turn over to the county treasurer.
The receipts from this money have
not yet been issued and it looks as if
those who paid O'Grady money are
out of luck unless O'Grady can make
a raise somewhere.
O'Grady was arrested about noon
by Undersheriff Newton and was Civ
en- Until four o'clock to appear be-
fore his honor Judge Olson and plead
and file bonds in the sum of five
thousand dollars. At four he appear
ed with his attorney Paul Babcock
and waived the reading of the nine
complaints signed by the nine de-
frauded farmers and filed his bond
asking for a hearing. Ray Lang,
Leo Zeidler and Carl West signed
the bonds and the date for hear
ing was set for Tuesday April 8th.
O'Grady Immediately got in touch
with Burley Bowler his Daniel coun-
ty coworker and had him beat it to
the country to find cut what the far
mers knew about the stealing of the
seed grain money and BurIey is re-
ported to have tried to intimidate sew
eral who signed the complaints but
had hard luck and reported to o.
Grady that the "cat is out of the
bag" and that the farmers are wild
because this money has not been
turned in and the receipts sent cut.
Wednesday, upon hearing from
Bowler, O'Grady and his attorney
Paul BabcOck, appeared before Judge
Olson and waived examination,
throwing the matter into the district
court, so the complaining witnesses
we're not called in to disclose their
evidence at this time.
Continued en- page 4)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
RIBA BRINGS SWAC OF
MONEY FROM EAST
Is Able He Says to Pay OFF All of
His DepOsitOrs NOw-There Was
Some Slight Run on That Bank
When the First National Closed.

Gus Riba, the capitalist and fnan-
cier behind the Riba State Bank, re-
turned last Thursday morning a
week ago from the Twin Cities, where
he went to arrange fer little money
to carry on the spring business, with
a suit case full of the long green,
having been able to connect up where
the First National boys fell down.
When the First National put up
the death sign, Gus had piles of the
long green stacked up to liquidate
the run which took place over there
Immediately. Riba says that he can
pay off everyone of his deposits and
still have money left. He says that
all you need to get money in ST.
Paul is plenty of good security.
Gus says that the Riba State Bank
will grow up with the country and
that it may expand in the years to
come as the country requires but not
before. Gus says there is not much
money nowadays in the banking busi-
ness but what there is, is there to
stav and that it is nice to have g
bank in town in case a person should
like to cash a cream check. so he'll
| Just keep his open fer while.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
RAY LANG WRITES LITERARY
MASTERPIECE TO FIR. WILHELM
COMERTOWN FARMER
ELEVATOR BURNS
Wednesday Morning About Five o.
clOck-Fire ThOt to Have Started
From Hot Box.

The Farmers Cooperative elevator
of Comertown burned Wednesday
morning about five o'clock.
The fire caught, or is thot to have
caught, from hct box in the ma
chinery somewhere as the elevator
employees had been running the en-
CINE and elevator machinery late in
to the night loading out wheat, Tues
day afternoon and evening, but
everything seemed to have been al
right when the workers left. The
fire was discovered in the morning
shortly after it broke through the
building. 1t was developed to such
a point that it was impossible to do
anything to save the building before
it was discovered. There is not
a water system at Comertown.
There was about three Thousand
bushels of wheat, seven hundred bu-
shells of flax and three hundred
bushels of rye in the elevator. The
building and grain was adequately
covered by insurance.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
DIRECTORS OF
PLENTYWOOD ST.
BANK MEET TUES
day EVENING

The directors and several of the
heavy depositors of the defunct Plen-
VWood State Bank are reported to
have met quietly in the Offices of
that institution Tuesday evening, and
70 have carefully gone over the pro-
position to reopen that bank again
since the closing of the First Ma
a0laL Bank Of Plentywood last week.
II seems that since the closing of
me First National that a number of
Ne people formerly connected with
ae defunct Plentywood State Bank
lee that there is a splendid opening
m Plentywood for another bank and
,l5y feel that if now the State Bank
could be opened again that it might
Be able to ride.
Just what plans were formulated
nave not been disclosed. 1t is how
eyer claimed that quite a number of
nose interested in that institution
aie very jealous of the idea of al
owing Rlba to have a monopoly of
ne banking business.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
FARMER R-LABOR BALL
AT COMERTOWN WAS
A HUGE SUCCESS
Crowd Packed HaIl-Baskets Sold
High-Speeches Well Received and
Dance Lasted Till Daylight.
STRAND AND OLSON PUT
SPLENDID AFFAIR OVER

The F2rmer-Labor Ball at Conner
town Hall last Saturday was a huge
success-evreything considered, that
is the number to draw from, it was
the biggest one cf any of the pOpu-
lar Farmer-Labor socials and dances
that have been put on in Sheridan
county for the benefit of the Farm
er-LabOr party this winter. Especial
credit is due to E. E. Strand and
Eric Olson who managed. the affair
and Mrs. Strand and Mrs. John
Series who presided at the coffee
making contributed no small part to
the perfect evening.
The social and dance at Conner
town was the second event of that
kind held in that community. About
two weeks before a social occurred,
but owing to the bad roads the crowd
was small and the community want
ed another date. AT the first social
about $40 was realized and at the
social Saturday $95 was taken in.
The music was furnished by Mr..
and Mrs. Mckenzie. Mr.. Mckenzie
is a violinist Of exceptional ability
and Mrs. Mckenzie handled the
piano with skill The music was all
that could be desired.
Sen. Taylor spoke for an hour on
the "Teapot Dome" to a packed
house. Joseph Mccall, the twelve
year old son cf Dan Mccall, spoke a
piece. making a hit with the audi
ence. There was special dancing
and Miss Darlington, a school teach
er, made a hit with an interpretive
dancing exhibition. The dancing
was interspersed with readings and
singing. Gustav Espeland sang a
couple of numbers making a great
hit. Mr.. Espeland has a very re-
markable voice.
At daybreak the party broke up
everybody reporting the time of his
life, and Comertown has demonstrate
ed that that community is 100 pei
cent Farmer-Labor, and that any
community that beats COmertowr
Will have to go some.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04

ty Farmer in their last Issue, signed
by Marie King.
In this article an attempt is made
to place the blame of the Triplett
case and the subsequent expenses to
the county upon the undersigned and
our family. This is maliciously false
and the lady who wrote the article
in the Sheridan County Farmer can
not prove a single connection be-
tween the Triplett case and Letha
Reddon.
Letha contracted the smallpox
while attending school at Plentywood
and 16 days after she had first con-
tracted the disease, she was taken
nome and placed in a room by her
self dav or two after which DR..
Sells ouarantined us. The Tripletts
Continued on page 8
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
WOULD co BACK TO BEISEKER-
TIMMONS-MATKINS FIASCO
Antelope, Montana.
March 81, 1924.

l have been waiting for some time
to find an answer in the Antelope IN
dependent to my letter published in
the Producers News with reference to
the real-honest-to-God graft which
Beiseker perpetrated upon Sheridan
County from 1913 to 1920.
1 desire to state at this time that
if the Antelope Independent and its
twin brother, the Sheridan County
Farmer-THE FARMER PART OF
THE LATTER'S NAME BEING IN
MY OPINION MOSTLY STOLEN
PROPERTY-are anxious to remedy
the present government in Sheridan
County and are honest in their
Continued on Page Four)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
DTREC-
TORS HOLD ANOTH-
Err SECRET MEETING
Meet in Middle Of Night First at
Lang's Garage Then Move Over to
Ibsen's Implement She'd

The Board Of Directors together
with a number of boosters of that
great journal, the Farmerine. met
Tuesday evening over at the Lang
Garage, and then moved over to- Ib-
sens Implement Sheds where they
held forth for a number of hours.
1t is reported that they again
went over the financial troubles Of
the Farmerine and took steps to
relieve them. DR.. Storkan paid eff
the printer himself Saturday even
ing. but the bookkeeper is reported
to have not yet received her salt
money.
1t is said that arrangements were
made to keep Sen. March on the pay
roll with salary much reduced to
build the fires for the printer in the
front office and to clean out the
cuspidors and attend to such other
dirty work that the doctor needs to
have attended "a. He will also keep
in close touch with popbOttle Jack in
order to get the inside on any other
day dreams that Jack may give birth
to. The popbOttle affidavit did not
seem to have gotten the satisfactory
results hoped for, but Jack will
spring something new shortly along
the same line.
Mr.. O'Grady and Sen. March can
now, it is claimed, suck moonshine
through the same quill, providing
Jack can get the moonshine from
the bootlegger gratis on the repre-
Continued on Page Eight)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
SHERIDAN CO. HAD
$4,000 In lST NATL.
WHEN IT FAILED
Drafts Had Not Been HOnOred for
Three Weeks and County had Only
Deposited $1,000 During That
Time.

There have been many different
stories published by word of mouth
concerning the amount of money
County Treasurer Dan J. Olsen had
on deposit with the First National
Bank when it closed its doors. In
order that the public may be ac-
curately informed, the Treasurer has
prepared a statement of the facts.
1t seems that the First National had
not cleared any checks for nearly
three weeks before it closed its doors
and the county as other people had
out many checks which were sup
posed to have been paid. During
that time the. county had drawn
drafts for over five thousand dollars
on the county account which had
been held up and not paid, and dur
ing which time the county had made
two deposits of five hundred dollars
each, leaving a balance in the First
National according to the Treasurer's
books of S42,77980. The amount of
these held up checks amounted to
S5,526.74, making a total deposit in
that bank of S48, ,655.48, the largest
balance that has been in that bank
for many months in spite of the fact
that most of the clearing has been
done through that institution. All
of the deposits in that bank, however,
are covered by bonds, in spite cf the
fact that the deposits in the closed
bank are five or six thousand dollars
Continued on page 81
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
Farmer-Labor Basket Social
& Dance at Two Tree School
House Thursday, April 10th

There will be a Farmer-LabOr
Social and Dance at the Two
Tree School House, nine miles
west of Welliver Hall, Thursday
evening, April 10th.
There will be speaking and
singing and the usual program,
including the special dance pro-
gram.
The ladies are invited to bring
baskets. The music will be good
and there will be mostly old
time dances. Everybody is in
vited to attend and have a good
time before the spring work be-
gins. You will never regret it.
Come out one and all.
The proceeds will go to the
. Farmer-LabOr party.
4 y y = x *
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
MORCK CLAIMS HIS
RECORD is CLEAR

Gays That He is Victim of Mud
singing BY Those Who Were Op-
p'sed TO his Appointment as Re-
ceiver.
+ d. Morck, formerly cashier of
y AoN defunct Citizens State Bank
+. aIaiJetope, now receiver of that in
.-.-1on at the hands of Judge Com
q requests that the following com
--.-..-4e.adon -.-4. relative to his past rela-
slp % and activities i'm connec-
WIN Jhe above bank be publish
" q PRODUCERS News.
Antelope, Montana,
r.,...- April ?, 1924.
= "H0A TT MAY CONCERN:
mA After twelve years
BUSINESS in Antelope, Montana
nave recently had reflections
N-s' upon my honesty in the con
lOondnued on page eight)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
REVELERS WILL
REVEL AT NC ELROY

SATURDAY, APRIL 18TH, AT
THE NC ELROY SCHOOL
HOUSE-THERE WILL BE A
CELEBRATION.
The Farmer-LabOrites of Nc
ElrOy have written in for a Red
Revel date. They say they want
to celebrate and at the same
time help the Farmer-LabOr par
ty along its way to victory as
well as any other community, be-
sides they have heard about the
kind of times which all report
who have attended these enter
tainments and they want some
thing like that to stir things up
a bit before the spring work
Continued on page eight
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
SCHOOL ELECTION
MONDAY
Member of the School Board to be
Elected and Special Levy Above
the Legal ten Mills to be votes.

The annual School Election will
occur at the school house in Plenty
wood, Saturday afternoon, April 5th.
A membe orr the school board to
succeed George Bolster is to be E.
lected and a special tax levy in ex-
cess of the ten mills allowed to be
levied by law, viii be voted upon.
The special levy to be voted upon is
Is mills.
The School Board nominated
George Bolster to succeed himself
and his name is the only one that
viii appear upon the ballot.
The polls will open at two o'clock.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
REGULAR MEETING OF THE
COUNTY BOARD APRIL 7TH

The regular monthly meeting
of the Board of County Com
nissioners of Sheridan County
will occur at the Commissioners
Chambers at the Court House.
Monday, April 7th. All persons
having business with the Board
will appear at that time.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
DIR. SELLS TO LEAVE
PLENTYWOOD FOR COAST

1t is reported that Dr. Sells has
sold his home to George Wright, the
pool hall man, and is now selling his
furniture preliminary to leaving for
the Pacific coast, where he will en-
gage in the practice Of medicine. It
is claimed that he will locate at
LOngview, Washington, a new city
on the Columbia river
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
EGG MARKETING MEET
ING AT ANTELOPE

A meeting will be held at Antelope
Tuesday evening, April 8th at 500
o'clock. The purpose of the meeting
will be to discuss egg marketing and
to organize an Association if thought
advisable.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
Says There Would Have Been No Ehmanntraut Scandal If
the Producers News Had Not Told People About the
Horrible Circumstances Surrounding the Death
SAYS SOCIALISM and CATHOLICISM WONT MIX
Tells Priest That Producers News Outfit are Deadbea and
Tearing Down the Community, County and State
Which Don't Set Good on Him.

FIR Jacob Wilhelm, the little Mis-
sionary priest of Bergfeldt, Sask.,
sends the Producers News the copy
of a letter which he received from
Ray Lang, the manager of the Mon
tana Motor Company. This letter is
a splendid example OF what Lang is
capable of. 1t is replete with false
hoods as many Plentywood people
know who heard Sells and Storkan
peddle their slanderous yarns about
Dr. Faucet Just as they peddled
them about DR.. Hunter. He calls the
farmers and stockholders of the Pro-
ducers News a bunch cf dead beats
and socialists and says that Catholics
and Socialists have nothing in COM
mon.
LANG'S LETTER TO THE PRIEST
Plentywood, Montana.
February %, 1924.
Rev. FIR. Jacob Wilhelm,
Bergfeldt, Sask.
Dear FIR. Wilhelm:
We have read your letter through
very carefully and we understand
just how yoC feel in regard to this
scandal as your call it relative to the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
REDDENS ANSWER SCURRILOUS at
TACK UPON THEM in FARMERlNE

,s. ~ and Mrs. s. J. Redden answer
scurrlous attack mad noedo ''''9 ,7noI1 y
sr-. e n The last issue of the Farm
telling facts about the doings
ns-a doctors in the Tripiett case
ts+s -lgaoors Of Tripletts substan-
essI ry s,9ly IN Producers News sew
doctor. - ago. 1t seems that the
thsmsel,l1 y desperation to whitewash
aybi1ae aybi.es are willing to resort to
'AlEAENT OF REDDENS
Plentywood, Mont.
lle Pro5.- March 81, 1924.
cs-sywo Mont
unicstoIP publish the following com
Which anr.lh ~ reply to an article
appears in the Sheridan Conn
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
MORCK SAYS HIS LIFE
Is AN OPEN BOOK
SpitefuI NeighbOrs Who Want His
Job Are Being Unkind to Him
Says He Is Willing to Show Any
body the Books.

F. d. Morck of Antelope. in an
other column of the Producers News
has a special communication to the
public which he would like to have
everybody read clear through. He
says that he is the victim of a num-
Der of mudslinging neighbors who
wanted to be appointed receiver of
the Antelope Bank in his place. He
says that his life for the past twelve
years is an open book and that he
will be delighted to show the books
to anyone, even the bank books, who
may ever so slightly suspect him,
if he has to do so in order to
satisfy anyone.
Mr.. Morck, however, does not deny
the rumors to the effect that he col
lected money on notes in the pos
session of the War Finance CORPORA
tion which he did net, so several
farmers state, turn over to the War
Finance Corporation in payment of
the notes and which notes the Cor
poration are now trying to collect.
Maybe Mr.. Morck will have some
thing to say about this next week.
Mr.. Morck does not state his opin-
ion about the good public policy of
appointing cashiers of defunct banks
to the receivership cf those institu-
tions. Attention is called to the
fact that the United States Govern
ment does not do this when National
Banks fail.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
POSTPONED

The w. c. T. U. meet, Tuesday,
April 8th. Announcements of the
next meeting will be made later
MRS. M. 0. SIEWERT,
President
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
III. S. NC GRAW APP
POINTED RECEIVER

of First National Bank of Plenty
wood - Former Superintendent of
Banks Under the Administration
of Gov. Stewart Will Arrive in
PlentywOOd Saturday.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
ANTELOPE FARMER
WANTS FARMERINE
TO CALL GRAND JURY

Bernau Wants Complete Investiga-
ton of Graft in Sheridan County
In Order to Place Graft Charges
Where They BelOng-Thinks Sheri-
dan County Farmer Should Show
Sincerity By Demanding Grand
Jury.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04

METAL MINE TAX LAW is PUT UP TO CITIZENS

Signed By Nine Farmers in the Flazvie Country Whose
Money Was Stolen Hearing Set for April 9Th But
OGrady Waived Examination Under $4,000
Bond Signed By Lang, ZeidIer and West
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-15
LOSE TOURISTS?
Redmond Mayor Wants Paw
ina to Route Them This Way

Seattle is ioslng much Of tho auto
tourls, travel from the East because
there Ia no paved highway from Fan
City 20 connect with tho paving
around tho north end Of the lake.
declares william Brown. Of Redmond,
candidate for the republican nomina'
ton for county commissioner from
tho North district. in a statement Of
his road program in which he advo'
Gates paving by the state Of Wash.
|ington OF the Redmond.Fall City
road.
Fully one.third Of the Eastern
cars. following the Sunset highway,
go TO Tacoma and on south. passing
up Seattle, according TO q traffic
check made by the chamber OF com.
msrce. Brown says. This diversion
OF traffic can be stopped only by
paving the strip OF read between Red.
mond and Fail City, 40 rs TO give
tourists u direct paved highway 10
follow into Seattle.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-15

"WheVl I'm glad that's ouer" said Paul v Knudsen,
general manager Of the Seattle Merchants exposition Fri
day. he oped off his bro aud prepared TO don boiled
shirt again He's been ooring hard down at the Bell st.
dock herG the exposition going TO open Monday getting
things in shape
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-15
ROTTEN SUMMER
FOR DOCTORS
But It's Good for the Rest
OF Us, Report Shows

WASHINGTON. Aug. it.-fta a
poor summer for doctors. according
to the u. S. Public Health service,
The country has been unusually
healthy.
The 525 cases OF smallpox reported
for the week ending July Il has
now decreased 10 sps cases for tho
week ended August :. California,
Minnesota, Michigan particularly
Dctroit--aud certain other states in
the central section OF the United
States have been tho chief suffer.
crs.
There IS a little moro scarlet
fever than usual. however,. EOS
cases reported for the week ending
August ?, as compared TO 1901
cases last year.
Typhoid fever Is running abou,
the same MS last year There are
fewer cases OF measles than the
country has experienced in some
years. Influenza has taken very
little toll. but Is, OF course, cold
weather disease.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-15

dynamite. Foods,uffs. building ma.
teriaih. house furnishings and all tho
rest wlll be shown.
Seattle a. "A purchasing center Of
the world will also DO viAuaiixcd at
tho exposition. Exhibits OF goods
made elsewhere. but carried In stock
by branch houses and jobbcrs IN Sc
attic. Will also be shown.
These products viii come. not only
from 40 states OF our own country,
but from Canada. Mexico. Central
America. Alaska. Hawaii and tho
Philippines. Leaving tho territory OF
the American fiag. We find repre-.
scented, tho products that would be
seen in globe-oiroiing trip. with
goods from distant Australia. New
Zealand. China. Japan. Manehufia
and Europe.
The Merchants exposition will be
the largest that Seattle has ever had.
aud one Of the largest Of is kind in
the country. II Will be something
we'll worth a visit from every Seat.
tie citizen. in company with the
Thousands that are coming 10 see u
from all parts Of tho Pacific North.
west and many more distant places.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-15

Headquarters for kyanire yRrnishes and Enamsls
Minnesota Pure LInseed OH Paint.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-15
Halifax Largest
1t Has Ever Been

HALIFAX. y. s.. Aug. i5.--Groat.
er Halifax has today the largest per
manen, population In SIS history. nc.
eording 10 figures given out follow.
ing a careful check for directory pur.
poses. Tho total population OF Hail.
fax, Dartmouth and suburbs is 10.
600. Halifax city alone having &c..
SIS and Dartmouth. 7.sl7.