The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-12-03
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Bv CHARLES E. TAYLOR
THE SOD BUSTERS EDITION

THE SOD BUSTERS EDITION
The Produces News has planned for some
time a special edition-a booster edition If
Won pIease-that will describe this section |
Of the nation and its resources by word ana
picture.
It desires to create more than an ordin-
arv special edition usually gotten out by
the newspapers-it wants to get out some
thing artistic, original and instructive:
something that the people Of this section
Of the state will keep among their books
and cherished things, during their lives and
will take pride in handing on down to their
children and their children'S children.
The special edition is to be called 'The
Ranchers and Sod Busters Edition" sup
plement to the Producers News. A special
drawing depicting the several epochs IN the
development of this country from wilder
ness of prairies, the home of the roaming
savages to the building of the big red
barns; from the days of the prairie chOOner
to the days Of graveled roads and Buick
Sedans; from the days Of the scattered
rancher and his wandering herds and the
pioneer homestead dry farmer, "hOnyOker"
to the miles and miles of waving hard
wheat, the best in the world, and beautiful
farm homes-the 'honyOker's legacy"
The Edition will be replete with pictures
and photographs, setting out the great ma
tiOnal resources of this section of the Treas
ure State. Every resource will be dealt
with exhaustively, leaving nothing to be
desired.
The Edition will sparkle with special ar
ticles by men qualified to deal with the
subjects assigned to them. There will be
a carefully written history of Sheridan
County; also of PlentywOOd and all of the
other villages and cities in the county.
There will be a WTiteup on every business
institution of every kind in the county, CIV
ing it's history and accomplishments: there
will be biographies of all Of the pioneer
ranchers and their families and of as many
as possible of the "sod busters" especially
those who have been active enough to be-
come outstanding in their communities.
In years to come, people can turn to the
leaves Of this book and get data, and facts
concerning the people who reside in this
county who children will compose the So
ciety of the future
The Producers News hopes to make this
edition thing of which every citizen OF
this county will be proud which he will
want to keep and which he will want to
send to friends and relatives in distant
places.
To get out an addition of this kind costs
a lot Of mOney-it requires an immense
amount of work. collecting and sorting data
and writing the articles. The project is
only possible with the whOle-hearted sup
port of the entire communicate every
body.
The money to pay for the edition mus
be derived from advertising, for specia
articles, and by sale of copies 1t is plan
ned to publish a minimum of 10000: bu
more will be printed if the demand for tn
edition jUstifies it.
The success of this venture depends UP
on the support it receives. The amount Q
money available is limited of course. TIL
undertaking is prompted by a desire to pre-
mote the further development of the cOuT
ty and to bring about better understand
ing of what we possess here. 1t is not an
cannot be a money-maker from the yer
nature of things
The Producers News has been approach
ed many time by forward-lOOking Poop
and urged to undertake this cOnstructi0
work We now have done it.
The "Ranchers and Sod Busters" editic
will be just what the people of Sherids
county and envirOns make it.
The putting of the project over is {
undertaking worthy of the team work
every man in the county and we belle
that it will receive such support. Evel
business man should buy space every pc
son should contribute for special sketch
and contract for extra copies.
This is a chance for the people of til
county to show that they can work toget
er for the common good.