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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03

Plentywcod, Montana,
August, 30, 1926.
Editor of Producers News,
Plentywood, Montana.
Dear Sir:
Mr.. Hamilton says my criticisms Of
the junior senator of Montana are
based on assumptions" and contin-
ues, cit will be manifestly impossi-
BILE for me to answer all of the
charges made by Mr.. McElroy in the
space which l desire to consume, as
one person can make more charges
in a paragraph than three can an
swer in a column" and so Mr.. Hamil-
ton said that he would content himself
by refuting the principal charges"
which he failed then to seriously un-
dertake to dc, but answered what he
designated as assumptions" by the
most obvious speculations and hypo-
thetical explanations surely unrelated
to realism and then by way of diver
sion resorts to the tricks of sophis-
try unworthy of the fine logic and
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03

1t appears that Russell had been
hopping himself up" on some kind of
stimulant for several days. He en-
tered the Mint earlier in the evening
and borrowed some money from Bill
GOttlieb and some others. He came
back later and demanded some mere
when Gottlieb refused and told him
that he twas no Santa Claus" Rus
sell is reported to have gotten peeved
at this and told the Mint proprietor
that he "cculd get his own money"
and would show him he could do it.
He soon after pulled a sawed off
pistol grip shot gun and told Gcttlieb
and the other people present to stick
up their hands.
Fred Bromberg was slow in doing
this and Russell hit him on the head
with his gun to show that he meant
business. Blood streamed down the
face of Bromberg as he put up his
hands. The Japanese laundryman Of
PlentywOod known as "Washie" was
also hit ON the side of the face by
the desperate before he put his hands
in the position required by Russell.
While all this was taking place and
the others had their hands. pointed to
the ceiling, George Borley Of Medi-
cine Lake, was retreating though the
back door.
SHOOTS AT BORLEY
Russell, seeing this, shot at Borley
but missed him by a wide margin.
Borley afterwards stated that he had
$3.50 in currency on him at the time.
This is as much as the robber get
from the rest of the people he had
forced to deliver under threat OF
death. When the incidents mentioned
had followed each other in rapid Sc
uuence, Russell ordered the crowd to
turn their faces to the wall while he
ordered another man, evidently an
accomplice, to search the people
whom he held in terror. This was
done and Russell pocketed the money
which was estimated to be between
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Indignation i'm Helena

Indignation in Helena
There is much Indignation amongst
the depOsitors of the closed bank here,
and fears We're expressed, by respons-
lble authorities, that the defaulting
cashier might meet with personal in
jury. The sheriff has instructions to
guard closely the person of the prison
er and to admit no one to his pres
ence unless he has a permit from
the county attorney. The robbery of
the people by the bankers is re-
freshed in the minds of the people of
Helena, who lost in the failure of the
Banking corporation. They are now
talking about how the Bankers asso-
citation killed off the Bank Guaran-
tee law that would have saved the
depositors of this bank their money
and many have decided to boycott
the banks and patrOnize the post
office IN the future.
State Fair Loses $4,000
Indignation became general when 1T
was discovered that $4,000 collected
from people who were in favor of a
State Fair, was lost in the bank. Good
yer was one. of the directors of the
State Fair and insisted on this money
being deposited in his bank. He
"shot" it with other money on the
stock exchange. While this will not
cripple the Fair it will put the big
event of the year in the Capital city
at a serious disadvantage. 1t is ex-
pected, however, that the public spirit
ed citizens of Helena and the state
will make up the money so willfully
stolen by the crooked banker.
That ''Tall Stranger"
In an interview with the Record
Herald reporter today, Goodyer link
ed the failure of the l.. B. Scott brok-
erage house with his own peculations.
He identified the mysterious "L. H.
Campbell account as his own. Scott
of the failed bucket shop, where Good
yer alleges he dropped most of the de-
positors' money, also talked to the re
porters. He told about the mysteri-
ols stranger previously referred to by
"Tall Stranger" Says Scott
J. S. Scott's account f the cotton
deal which was responsible for his IL
nancial difficulties was that tall,
dark stranger came to him with
$4,000 in Liberty bonds to put up as
margin on cotton purchases. Things
CONTINUED on page Twelve)
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Gunman Sticks Up Mint Cigar Store
Boxing at Raymond

On Saturday, September 4th, the
American Legion, Post No. So are
putting cn a boxing match at Ray
mond Hall. "Alkali Pete" Heinrich
meyer, weight 168 pounds of Raymond
will fight against "Slugger Marsh, /"
weight IT'S of Plentywood. Dick
Porter of Donaldson, Mimi, will be
against Oliver Dubrey of Dooley and
another in the preliminaries.
The fight will begin at 9 o'clock
sharp. Afterwards, there will be a
dance in the hall.
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ARRESTED
AT MEDICINE LAKE

L. E. Reab was arrested on a charge
of larceny at Medicine Lake this week.
He was brought before Justice Nc
Kenzie where he was released on a
bail bond of 500, pending trial. Reab
was arrested last week for operating
a place where liquor was sold in viO-
lation of the provisions of the state
prohibition act. On the motion of
County Attorney Erickson a tempo
rary abatement order was placed On
the building where Reab Opearted.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03
md. WHEAT GROWER
SHIP CAR OF WHEAT

Clair Stoner, the Montana manager
of the North Dakota Wheat Growers
Association made a trip to Homestead
Thursday where he superintended the
shiping of a large car of number one
hard wheat to the North Dakota
Wheat Growers Association, the first
car to be shipped from that station.
Mr.. Stoner reports that from pres
ent data it appears that there will be
over a million bushels of grain ship
ned from Sheridan county to the pool
This season which is a very fine pros
meet for the first year of that organi-
Eation's activities in this section.
Mr. Stoner said further that the
constant fall in the price Of wheat
during the last few days and the wide
Continued on page Twelve)
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GOLDEN RULE TO
OPEN SEPTEMBER IL

This week one page of our advertis-
ing space is devoted to an announce
ment that the Golden Rule Company
will open a branch store in Plenty
wood. This will mark a definite
county. The F. H. Jones Company,
epoch in the business life of Sheridan
which owns the Golden Rule has over
fifty chain stores in the northwest.
This places the advantage of mass
buying at the disposal of the custom
er. AS will be noticed by the adver-
tisement the store will carry nearly
Continued on page Twelve)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03

TUE WHEELER controversy new
Iln15ucted IN the columns Of this
eo1s SoDer IS attracting a lot of attention
I!sSlEogobout the state, if inquiries for
~ sli+ ;ssues by politicians, is any in
EI.atio1 p, Of public interest. The
ulS,,, ullDS1,t,,roversalists are to be cOngratu-
90 60. IN carrying on the discussion
az - sucb q high plane. Wheeler is
Sna,g On tried at the bar of Public
Gai1io1 0Sj,i on his public record and
Opi,-9 lp,biDg else. He is being ably der
eeorJed eosd bv Leverne Hamilton, who,
Ias;Jes le..I being an able writer, backs
80 y;- rords with fine record of ser
liSo M and accomplishment in the pro-
VIZ 1ossiye movement in Montana. All
sLe letters are chuck full of import
.It .- nolitical data and cannot fail to
Ne -, instructive and entertaining
p onr readers. Beginning with this
- :Osge No we are giving this controversy
t5e prominence its news value and
;.,nortarce deserves.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03

Princess Gertie, of Sheridan, who
was elected in the recent Queen Of
Montnan contest conducted by the
Producers News, as Princess Sheri-
dan, is prepared, and will depart for
Helena, Saturday afternoon, Septem-
Der 4th, where she will be met by the
Royal ChaperOne and conducted to
the Palace of the Princesses to pre-
pare for the Royal Festival, a pa
geant of the Montana State Fair, that
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03

of September o 10 ~
Several New Teachers
The teachers in the grade school
are Miss Heyerdahl, 1st grade; MISS
Ellen Olson, End grade; Miss Hem
1th Grade; Miss Mabel Nordgren, Stn oI
Grade: ira Miss Hannah Nordgren, 6tn
SSrade: Helen Cavanaugh, 7th graoe'
Mrs Grandstrande, 8th grade,
In In the high school the following 9
instructors have been secured 14r tne s.
Coming ll1ICi NO year: Miss Grace Scott 9r Tor
FSlerS Tngiisb and History; Minnie Pys3g5e
for Ilye biology and Latin; Miss a Della
CToot 6 for mathematics and ,saIiSS7 scleHcSS
nd onJ Mrs w. Opgrande for EngnSsn Sa
,11lT Tr;ncinaI of the high school.
Mr. 8. Glorvick, the new superdll, e.o,,,
+ondent ndf1 of schools has come from from
North Dakota where he has nao sun SO,Ie
years YEA Of experience in similar Two WORT II
YIN The n mast four years he has been .sn a.
Dravton. N. D. where ne naJ II. Ond end
lDJlnssrnt,endent Dr%s int, of grade schools anG ~
sSpGIiier5 sSp bi15 school. He is graduSaIT;e SI;,9 %
Ct CT Olaf's College, NOrthfleld' MILL
Continued on page Twelve)
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=
John L. NeeIey of COIfax,
Washington stopped off at Great
Falls on the way to the wheat
fields of Eastern Montana. He
was driving an Essex touring car
and happened to meet one Fred
Brunelle on the streets of the
Electric city. After some cOnver-
satiOn Brunelle found that the
old Washington farmer was driv-
ing east. He prOfusely gave his
= expression to his desire to leave
the streets of the city and go to
work in the wide open spaces if
= he could only get a ride there.
= Neely acted the part of Good Sa-
maritan and gave him a ride to
> PlentywOOd. Nicely then found a
= Job ON John KOllman's rig and
Brunelle asked him if he could
CONTINUED on page Twelve)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03

uuF FARM CENSUS for Montana
iaet issued by the department OF
! 55ommprce at Washington, contains
80 1eferesting information. 1t
-5ows that the farm population de-
sod from 225,000 in 1920 to 1872
~ n 1925 while at the same time
lEs ratio Of mortgage debt to- the
raIue of farms increased from 32.4
1er cent in 1920 80 44.7 per cent in
iq25. During the same period the
rsI1e of farm implements and ma
,5;nery has decreased from $685.
00i212 to S3O,632,871. The number
Il farms in the state in 1920 was
s-677. the number today is 46,9O5.
This condition in the state was not
brought about by revolution, famine
or nIague. 1t did not take place un-
der : government set up by what the
loo percenters call the 'BOlsheviks."
# ali happened under the perfectly
normal republican and democratic
national. state and county admins
frafions operating under the guild
inc hands of Successful business
interests" And then they say that
the radicals would wreck the hOm'
and ruin the state! Paste these fig
ures from government sources in
YOUR hat and show them to the first
ROtarian who thinks he has God
given mission to sQuelch the radicals
and save the status quo.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03
DECLARES MONROE DOCTRINE" OF BALTIC

Paris Sept 2The League Of Nations got stunning blow
today when Spain served notice that would withdraw from
that body Some time ago Spain demanded the per-
council The council has yet decided and the
Withdrawal of Spain before decision rendered caused
CONSERVATION in League circles
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03

the capitol where a week of Joy
awaits her.
Princess Gertie, who is blonde,
looks very beautiful in her new Tom
boy travelling suit and she will be a
credit to Sheridan County. We all
congratulate her upon her election
and wish her the best time in the
world.
Princess Gertie will tell of her ex-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03
PlentywOOd Schools Will
Open Monday, Sept. l3
Under Charge of New Superintendent City Schools VIII Get
Under Wav With Several New Teachers. County
Schools VIII Employ 141 Teachers This Fall.

The Plentywood City schools will meet in regular session
-, Monday September 3 at 900 A. M. M. O. Glorvick
The new SUPERINTENDENT Of city schools states that the enroll
et this year is expected to be much larger than heretofore
about $50 pupils All the pupils expecting to attend high
- bool house for preliminary registration. The hours
f ibis examination will be from 200 P NJ during the week
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03

The residents of Plenywood treated regular wild
west holdup last Sunday evening $50 NJ when
Pacy Russell entered the Mint pooha and forced several
stckup their hands while they looked into the barrel
of wicked looking gum and accompce rfed their pock
cts and relieved them of their cash.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03

lhe Wheeler controversy politicians
write for copies of the Producers News which appear
tiers from Leverne Hamilton and John McEroy A new con
oversas appears this week who charges that not only the
copper press but that sturdy Anaconda Bourbon Bruce
Kremer supported Wheeler in 1922 He further states that
Wheeler never crossed the trail of the A. C. NJ since 1920
The letters are as follows:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03
STATE FAIR SET BACK $4,000 BY FAILURE

1elena-Decaring he shot the money of the deposi-
tors IN the Farmers and Mechanics State Bank on cotton
wheat and other stock market transactions W. S. Goodyer
cashier OF the failed bank made confession of his pecutons
IN the county Jail here today. Goodyer was brought back
from Butte where he after the bank examiner started
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03
Wheeler Controversy Attracts
State Wide Attention

While Leverne Hamilton Cevery Defends Record of Junior
Senator, ContrOversasts Say He Is Covered With the
Slime of the Anaconda. Thompson Says Wheeler Always
Substitutes Word "Stoopigeon for Argument but Insn-
yates that Senator Is One Himself.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03

the charming Outlook lady who wen
the 500 in gold as the second prize.
will start Monday and continue all the
week
During the past few days Princess
Gertie has beer in Plentywood get
ting ready for the Royal Voyage to
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03
ESCAPES WITH $3.50
TAKEN FROM CROWD

Pac1y Russell and AccompIces Pull Regular Wild West
Stunt Astonshed Patrons of Gotebs Store, Sunday
Evening. Escapes in Scobey Car While He Holds Gun to
Drivers Ribs. Kills Farmers Cows in Collision. Holdup
Man Has Criminal Record.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03

ability of the man from Musselshell.
Mr.. Hamilton in his discourse in
dulged in pleasantries, in order no
doubt to divert attention from the
hOpelessness of his defence Of Wheel
er's records, and he will not be offend
ed when / remark that the lightning
experience which he referred to, and
CONTINUED on Page Eight
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PRINCESS GERTIE
of Dagmar, who leaves Saturday for
Helena as Princess Sheridan, one of
the bellies of the "ueen of Montana"
pageant.
periences as Princess of Sheridan
during her stay in Helena in the col
umns of the Producers News.
CONTINUED on page Twelve)
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LEAGUE WEAKENS AS SPAIN WTTHDRAWS
Helena Cashier Loses Dposors Money Playing the Market
Princess Gertie, of Sheridan,
LeqOeS for Helena Saturday

VIII Arrive in State at Helena Sunday Afternoon Where
She VIII Be Met by the Royal Chaperone and WhisIed
Away to the Royal Palace to Prepare for the Queen Of
Montana Festival.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03
FOLLOWS LEAD OF BRAZIL
OUT OF SUPER GOVERNMENT

VIII Not Wait Council Decision on Permanent Place in Tn
bunal. American Reservations World Court Discussed
by Assembly Russia Tells Powers to Keep "Hands OFF,
Adjoining Countries
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ness.
Moe & Moore, the firm composed Of
Ashton J. Moore and Ole A. Moe,
have decided dissolve the partner
ship under which they have been car
rying on the mercantile business for
the past year and a half and as a
result, in order to pay creditors and
liquidate Mr.. Moore's interest, they
are in this issue, in a two page ad,
advertising a gigantic liquidation
SALE.
This sale is under the supervision
of the Kelly Sales Company OF the
Twin Cities, expert sales managers,
and the prices have been cut to the
quick in order to move the goods rap
idly. 1t is probably the biggest thing
in the sales line that has ever been
advertised in PlentywcOd and it will
pay the farmers of Sheridan county
and adjoining counties to read the ad
in this issue and attend this sale.
Besides the advertising appearing
in the paper the company is sending
out five thousand circulars to the res
idents Of this and adjoining counties.
The sale starts Wednesday, Sep
tember 8th and viii continue for ten
days. A dozen extra clerks will be
put on to attend to the crowds Of Gus
toners.
Mr.. Moore will retire from the bus
mess which will be continued by Mr..
Moe under a different arrangement
CContinued on page Twelve)
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TELLS WHY CAPITAL CITY
BANK WENT TO THE WALL

Dropped Over 100000 of the Peoples Money in Cotton
and Other Stock Deals Head of Defunc Brokerage House
ellis OF GOodyers Wild Punges. The Mysterious MIR.
Campbell" Identified. Officers Guard Prisoner from
Anger of Losers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03

THE BANK FAILURE, due to the
defalcatiOns of a cashier in Helena,
is only one of the instances where
depOsitOrs did not profit by the eX-
perience of the past four years dur
inc which MOntanans were robbed
Of 100000. 600 by crooked and incOm-
Detent money changers. Like the
DeOple of Valley county the people
Of Helena thought the epidemic OF
bank wrecking (frOm the inside) had
passed and that the time had arrived
when they could again trust the
bankers. But they have learned a
costly lesson in the hard school OF
bitter experience. The farmers
should profit thereby and instead OF
placing their trust in incompetent
and dishonest bankers In small
towns who are always resOrtng TO
discreditabIe underhanded schemes
to rob the people, they should look
for safe places in which to invest
their cash. There are lots of safe
bonds on the market and then there
are the facilities afforded by Uncle
Sam through the post office. Money
put in savings accounts in the post
Office is as safe as the United States
government. Be warned in time.
Get a Post Office Certificate of De-
pOsit or even a Money Order, for
your money, instead of a bankers
slip Of paper, if you want to avoid
days of remOrse and vain regrets
in the future.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03

Moscow-Soviet Russia, through
one cf its highest government aU-
thorities, adopted an attitude toward
the Baltic states suggestive of the
protection exercised by the United
States over South American countries
through the Monroe Doctrine.
Poland's recent policy of penetras
tion in the Baltic countries and her
alleged imperialistic design in other
directions prompted the soviet for
eign office to explain Russia's precise
Continued on page Twelve)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03

The banking system is passing
through a crisis at the present tlme'
The small town realtors who are eX-
perimenting with banks must go
down with their institutions. They
were suited to the past but have no
place in the scheme of things today
Already far seeing bankers recOg-
nize this potent fact and see the
small banks supplanted by a system
of chain banks which have been IN
operation in England and other
countries for some time and are now
beginning to appear Cover the
wreckage Of small banks) in New
York and California and other parts
Of the United States. Governor Roy
Young of the Minneapolis Federal
Reserve Bank is quoted by the Mon
tana Banker as having said at the
annual convention of the Montana
Bankers Association that:
The small country banker has
many things to contend with. Many
Of his source of profit in the past
nave been eliminated and in all prob
ability these sources viii stay elimin-
Sted There are other opportunities
ior profit, however. such as l have
mentioned and the small country
banker must adopt them if he ex-
poets TO continue in business at a
profit
II the small country bankers cam
hot operate at a profit, regardless OF
uo" sound and liquid his institution
may be. he must eventually discOn-
tl.ue When he discOntinUes, some
unng must take his place. Some
yue with vision, courage and conf
aenGe IN this Northwest is going IN
~ these smaller communities and do
BUSINESS, because the business is
mere mere If not as a unit banker, he
VIII go either as a chain banker or
branch banker. From the small
IIOInhumties he will work to the
M ser ones or vice versa"
a aus means, If it means anything,
In -:&t some big banking institution
@lll 40 business alongside the present
small banks and put them out of bus
ess as the chain stores, oil stations
1Ht.. a.e .other businesses do to their COM
lT lRTS'l'ors, by giving superior service.
Iue small bank is doomed. Let the
S.lail shylOcks put that fact in their
pipes and smoke it but let the peO-
pc when dealing with small town
-. ssa.nKers, adopt the wise legal doc
''ile OF CAVEAT EMPTOR
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03
CAR STOLEN FROM
GOOD SAMARITAN

Neely Gives BrunelIe Ride From
Great Falls to PlentywOOd, where
Latter Steals His BenefactOr's Car.
Caught in North Dakota.
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League TOtters

League TOtters
Following the withdrawal of Bra
I'll the news from Spain is the most
serious received at Geneva since the
United States refused to join the
League. Spain was the biggest neu-
tral country during the war and its
delegates acted as a balance at the
meetings of the League Assembly.
1t is feared that ether nations who
object to the domination of the
League by England and France will
follow the example of Spain and
thereby cause a crisis which the
League may not survive.
u. S. Reservation Discussed
Geneva The opinion that the
United States should have the same
rights in the World Court as mem
bers of the League of Nations coun-
Gil, but no more, was voiced by many
Of the delegates at the latest session
of the international conference con-
voked to discuss the American reser-
vatiOns to membership in the Court.
If this opinion weighs in the con-
ference it may be impossible to ac-
cept the fifth American reservation,
rquiring the consent of the United
States to requests for advisory opin-
ions from the court on questions in
which she claims interest.
The reason for this is that the law
II the League of Nations is so oD-
scure that is is uncertain whether
unanimous or only majority vote is
necessary when the league council
asks the court for such opinions.
Italy and France Joined in an ap-
peal to the United States to waive
insistence upon the right of veto to
agree to sit temporarily with the lea
que council on any equal footing with
the great powers and to abide by
whatever rules may be accepted by
the great powers and the members
of the council generally.