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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-02-11
ocobey Man Sells Interest
In The Opheim Pharmacy

Opheim.-The interest of Lester
Woodland Of Scobey in the Opheim
Drug company was bought this week
by DR.. M. b. Sherrad and A. T. Oh
son, cashier of the First State Bank.
A new company has been formed, re-
tanning the old firm name, with Har-
~ Thompson, M. b. Sherrard and A.
I. Olson as stockholders.
Along with the formation of the
new company it is announced that lot
Z, in block 8, has been purchased and
on this choice location a brick store
building will be built in the near fut-
ure.
Mr.. Thompson, who is the present
manager, came to Opheim last fall
after buying out DIR. IL. S. Holmes
and has built up business in a man.
near which augurs well for the new
concern.
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doors and robbed several hundred
persons out of the savings of a life
time. Mckee behind the wicket of
a bank will long be remembered in
Sheridan County and he has very
few friends here now
Make Monkey Out of IversOn
People all over town are laughing
at the way the girls made a monkey
out Of Ed lverson, who is known as
Frank French's bird dog. When "
erson entered the back end Of the
public building in which the embat-
tied women were holding the fort, he
announced pompously: 81 am the
chairman Of the County Commission
ers." One Of the girls gave him a
whitening stare which caused Ed TO
tumble in his pockets for a while be
fore he finally fished out a receipt
for a months rent which Mckee had
paid the County Treasurer, without
first taking the precaution Of having
the County Commissioners officially
go on record as renting it to him.
Mrs. Marie Hansen, who is referred
to around town as the Joan Of Are
Of the Library episode, walked over
to lverson, looked him between the
eyes and said: you can use that a.
you do your old Sears Roebuck cata
logues." Ed wilted and retreate,
from the building with his talfeath
ers dragging in the mud.
Women are Popular
The ladies holding the Library wer
commended on all sides for their &C
in showing that two County Commits
sioners cannot flout the public opin
ion Of the county by keeping an OLD
noXious character in a public build
ing when the people think that i
should be used by the mothers o
Sheridan County as a public res
room. Flowers, candy and eatable
of ali kinds were sent Co them b,
the people of the town while the
"were holding the fort" On Frida,
morning when the news of the Incl
dent spread, telephone calls from al
over eastern Montana congratulatin
them on their action began to come
Mckee C0habits With Wagner Now
Mckee, Lard S. Olson and LANCE
were busy wheeling chairs, typewrit
er desks and carrying adding ma
chimes and papers into the office o
! Attorney Wagner yesterday and Ia
day. They first tried TO get into AZ
tomey Babcock's office but that ger
tleman was Of the opinion tina
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-02-11
DISTRICT LEGION
MEETING is SUCCESS

Poplar.-ln spite Of the fact that
representatives could not convenient
~ get here from posts on the branch
lines, still the Legion District Mem
bership Banquet held at the Gateway
Hotel last Saturday evening, was a
success. J. Ward Crosby, State Mem
bership Director, and Herb KILLER.
state Vice-Commander, were in
charge Of the meeting. Scott Hart
acted as toastmaster. Mayor Lee
Tinker, who was a guest of the Le-
gionnaires on that night, gave the
guests the freedom Of the city IN
the opening talk Of the evening. The
commanders Of the Wolf Point Post
and the Poplar Post spoke briefly
The main addresses were by the state
officers present. Comrade Killer
spoke of the aims Of the executive
committee and the needs within the
department. Crosby explained the
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THE SCHOOL DISTRICT
GRAFT

Continued from page one)
money The District simply refused.
to pay and brought the case into
court.
1t is interesting to see how some
people are playing politics regard
less Of right or wrong.
Miss Crone wrote a letter TO Miss
Trumper, our State Superintendent
of Schools, asking her opinion. The
only stand Miss Trumper could take
at the time was TO admit that Pen-
tywood had grabbed thousands Of
dollars to which it had no right BY
taking that stand Miss Irumper
would get on the outs with Plenty.
wood School Board, that she did not
like. She simply did not answer
Miss Crones letter.
IL is different now. Miss Crone
was defeated at the last election and
has left the State. Then Mn. 0nstad
was sent to Helena, the result was
that Miss Trumper now comes oaI
and tells the world that Miss Croae
was wrong and orders the money paidI
back to Plentywood District That's
politics for you.
1t might be that Miss Crone did n0.I
go through the proper legal hocus
pocus, but she had a learned lawyer
from Scobey to advise her, and bel
was we'll paid for his service. IheI
fact remains that Plentywood School
District robbed the rest of the coua-I
ty out of several thousand dollars
and Miss Trumper puts her o. (. C
the transaction.
People throughout the county
might think that Plentywood District
consists of one big bunch Of robbers
However, this is not so. Most OF te
people in Plentywood are good peoI
pie, with some bad ones here anal
there. The big majority Of PLENTY
wood people are not backing up ltI
School Board in this graft, but woas
like TO see the money paid back VI
the districts where il belongs.
IL will be interesting TO see RlaI
stand our new School Superintende'
will take in this case. Will she p9Rl
tect the rights Of the people IN u
country, or will she line up WIN /
little bunch Of grafters? The VINO
county is interested in finding OUT
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neys, the two commissioners adopted
a carefully prepared resolution dis
pensing with the services of Attor-
ney Harlow Pease of Butte as spe-
cial attorney for the county on cases
which affected the corporation of
Commissioner French. Soon there
after resolution was adopted APP
pointing Attorney Paul Babcock to
assist the County Attorney in the
collection of the claim Of 100000
which the County has against the
National Surety Company of New
York. County Attorney Erickson
states that he did not request the
County Commissioners TO appoint this
extra attorney and for that reason
some taxpayers may bring suit Ia
enjoin the Commissioners from pay.
ing Babcock the fee that he may ASK
for his services. lt is understood
that the Attorney General was "a
supply an assistant to help Erickson
IN this matter. but the Commissioners
appointed Babcock after Clausen, at.
torney for the National Surety Com.
pany, had spent over three weeks lob.
bying for a condition Of affairs wher,
his company would be 'let down
easy.
County Has Good Claim
The best legal opinion in the stat,
is that the County has a good claim
against the Surety company and an,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-02-11
SHERIFF Is FOUND
GUILTY OF PEONACE
Charged With Forcing YOUNG t.,
ers to Work in Cotton Fioi i.a'Of'
TeXas-Other Officers Found 1u I'm IN
ty. u 'ull'

Corpus Christi, Tex. Five
including Sheriff Raymond Teno meA
Willacy county, were found on ;it, o.
peonage by a jury in federal co. "
here Saturday night. >'u'
The peonage charges were b.
chiefly on testimony of several vo asel
men that they had been arrested Y
RaymondWlle, Tex. ON vaor.. ~
charges but that instead Of my
tried, they We're taken To the cot.S
field near by and forced TO ,yort ' y.
der an armed guard Their afines
were deducted from their paw ALAN.
with 70 cents a day for meals 6 a
said. According to the story nv.
told in court, they were taken 70 \,
Jail for on night, but after that tbo'
were compelled to sleep in q hay.
They were unable to get officials :,
say what they were being held for "
The case was tried in the tlnit.l
States district court and attornor,
for the government alleged that WA
lacy county has been made into O..
slave market during the cotton pic'
ing season"
They contend that the county wo,
overrun with a lawless element N.
ported for cotton picking.
In addition to Sheriff Raymond
Teller, those found guilty were In.'
tice Of the Peace Floyd Dodd. fome,
Deputy Sheriff Frank Brandt. fome,
Deputy Sheriff Carl Brandt and |. K
Stockwell, a planter.
G. S. Stockwell, county attorney r
+. Robinson, II. G. Reisdorps, a farm
err, and Lloyd Burnett, another farm
er, were acquitted.
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PROMINENT MON
TANAN SEEKS TO DIS
SOLVE MARITAL TIES


Great Falls.-Demand for an abso-
Lutte decree of divorce and custody OF
his young son was made Tuesday by
l.. G. Stevenson, head of the Sunburst
and Stevenson oil interests, in suit
directed against Claire S. Stevenson,
whom he accuses Of gross misconduct,
habitual intemperance and extreme
cruelty.
The Stevensons were married at
Helena in 1919, and the son, now 9
years Of age, is their only child. Mr..
Stevenson asserts that Mrs. Steven
son is not fait person to leave a
minor child in her case and asks that
the boy be placed in his custody.
Mr.. Stevenson charges that his
wife has repeatedly been guilty of
adultery, and gives dates and places
at which the offenses are alleged To
have occurred.
Names A. J. Trinastich
Andrew J. Trinastich Of Great
Falls is named in each instance as
the correspondent and the acts OF
adultery are claimed TO have con.
tinued at intervals up to a recent
date.
The wife, it is charged, has, dur
ing the last year, been most of The
time intoxicated to an extent tina
has prevented her from attending u
her duties as "A housewife or to pro
perly care for the child. The HUSBAND
says that use Of intoXicants by hi
wife is a fixed and incurable habit
He continues that she has frequente'
places Of ill-repute and thereafte
has returned to their home in a maud
line and semi-conscious condition.
Further charges also were made b.
Mr.. Stevenson in regard TO cruelt.
TO their son, etc.
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In 1922. that is as TAR as | have
gone back into the records, 1t cost
the county S5,533.9S 60 run the Sur
veyor's office, not including Office
supplies. Since that time il has cost
the county on an average Of ~, lZhVl
each year That means that ! nave
conducted my affice at the rate OF
Isl, A06.97 less each year than was
done before, or a saving TO the coun-
~ for the four years of S9,627SS.
| also want to call your attention
TO the fact that | am busy IN the
summer time and il is very little OIL
flee work | have time TO do then, so
in order TO do the work which has
taken two or more persons to do, l
have to do the biggest part OF my
office work in the winter time.
During the year over one thousand
road and bridge claims have been
paid by the county. In order to know
what the money has been spent for
and where il has been spent, 1t IS
necessary to look over each claim,
mark it down in a book, segregating
the amount in order TO show how
much has been spent for inspection
construction, maintenance, right-ot-
way, repairs, material and also how
much has been spent in each com
missioner's district.
This work also has to be done IN
order to give the yearly report to
the Federal Government which they
request for statistic purposes.
Not only the last four years has
this work been done but for years be
fore that time, so il is not an inven.
ton of mine, simply a system OF
records which has been kept foi
years.
Records must be made on maps
and cards of each bridge built during
the year, stating cost and location
These records are necessary if The
county should ever be divided.
New roads must be recorded OF
several maps and books, maps drawn
and blue prints made, road petitions
and right Of way deeds made out
otherwise people must pay some law
yer for doing this.
| also want to call your attention
TO the fact that since New Years
have collected for the county roat
fund $1,097S0. This would simpl,
not have been done If had not don
it.
Mail is coming to my office ever.
day which must be looked after an
replied to by somebody.
The Surveyors office is a publ
office, the door is open, every da
people are coming. Some want {
look over records and get informa
ton; some talk roads and mud hole
and others just come in to warm u
after a long drive, which they hav
a right to. They are all welcom,
There are lots Of days where only
small amount of actual work can b
done and for that reason ! often hav
to work part Of the night.
AT the last election 1912 peopl
voted for me, not for the purpose q
keeping me OUT Of office but wit
/ the understanding that | should sta
on the job, take care Of the work Oh
same as / have done in the past an
collect my pay for same without Il
{ ing to court about il.
, IL for any reason the commission
5 ers should decide not to pay sal
: claims, then | insist on having th
l letter printed in the commissioner
: proceedings together with the con
missioners' reason for disallowir
same.
e respectfully,
I HANS RASMUSSEN.
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entitled to every dollar for which
Sheridan was insured For this rea-
son the appointment Of an attorney
which it is said, the Surety Company
favored, is watched closely. AS q
matter of fact the whole business is
to be investigated with a view of
finding out whether a major con-
spiracy against the interest of the
county has been perpetrated. The in
terest Of the County Is being closely
watched and the commissioners may
have to answer for any stipulation
which would result in a loss to the
county and a gain to the foreign in
surance company
Hans Rasmussen Claim Laid Over
The claim of County Surveyor Hans
Rasmussen was laid over by the Com
missioners until the next meeting
The following letter from Mr. Ras.
mussen to the Commissioners was
disregarded and suppressed but is
published here in the Producer.
News for the first time.
The letter follows:
February s, 1927.
Hon. Board Of Co. Commissioners,
Plentywood, Mont.
Gentlemen:
hereby present my claims to the
county for office work done the last
two months, Dec. $4,000; January
$4,000; total, $272.00.
Your attention is hereby called &
the fact that / have conducted th,
Surveyors office the last four years
without any assistance whatsoever
Before that time there were two an,
sometimes three persons drawing
salary for doing the same amount O
work which ! have been doing al
alone.
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"Sparco" Is New Gas Name
Invented By MILESTONE

That S. ID. Milestone needs no
sharpening and is as adept as his
father in singing the alphabet to-
gether is proven by the fact that he
won the honor of having conceived
the name "Sparco" for the winter
brand of Hi-line gasoline.
"Sparco,' the tradename chosen, is
made up Of the initials in the com
pany's name and the suggestion for
it was submitted by Stuart d. Whet-
stone, son Of Daniel Milestone, the
well known publisher Of the Cut Bank
Pioneer Press, and the young man
has been awarded a special cash
prize by the refining company.
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SCOBEY FARMERS
LIKE new OATS
Enoch Swenson Strain Produced in
Minnesota Heralded AS Big Ad-
vance I'm Dat Crop.


Scobey, Feb. S.--Enoch Swenson
oats is the name given a new variety
of oats developed at North Branch,
Mimi, which farmers here believe
bids fair TO Guido any other kind Of
that variety Of grain.
Some of the oat straws have heads
10 inches long and containing 223
kernels, says the Farmers. Dispatch.
From one seed 2,496 kernels have
matured and the grain natures much
earlier than other kinds Of oats. Seed
planted April 6 was harvested in the
middle Of July, a week earlier than
most varieties.
A. T. Olson Of Opheim has tried
out the new kind OF seed and mas
proved it TO be all that Enoch Sven
son, who discovered it, claims il Ia
be. He bought five bushels, paying
$40 per bushel for it, and sowed five
acres. He says that in spite Of late
seeding and the fact that there was
no rain for 60 days before the croI
was harvested, the oats yielded 81
bushels TO the acre.
Enoch Swenson, who first produced
the oats, said he picked about a hat
full Of oat heads from his field fiv,
years ago, selecting these becaus,
they looked to him like a different
variety from the rest Of the crop, haC
straw as large in circumference a.
lead pencil and wonderfully Ions
heads. He planted the kernels tn,
next year and for three years thresh
ed the crop by hand. When his las
crop yielded him about 1000 bushels
machine threshed it,
Mr. Olson Of Opheim, who now ha
a quantity Of the oats, Is quite Opt
mistic about the new variety.
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In THE LIMELIGHT

CONTINUED from pose one1
dages for the Governor. Pay the
Governor $4,000 per and let nm
rent his own house hire his own
servants and pay his own garage
expenses like the rest of the public.
That is common sense. And COM
mon sense is commodity that
should be used sometimes even by
such an exalted body as a Legislative
committee.
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Mckee's red face was not conducive
to legal patronage and Miss Mabel
objected to the smoke fumes from the
pipe of Lard S. "This is a respectable
office mabel is reported to have said
"And we are going to keep it that
way"
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Friday February IL, ls2,

need Of selling the Legion
The Legionnaires. He explai vyen 10
membership was SO vitali,' '' ii,d how
with The whole program Of ''' E up
gion. He then asked the re- pe,o oae lie,
those present to his en,, "0uon Of
Those that spoke We're n e as,ns
with the aims Of the speap according
ter the business session tho y Al
naires adjourned to the Baota 1egion-
ware store for the social na ,,'' 9ard-
program. Vi The
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-02-11

ANoHLlnueu from pdRe ontJ
Schlaps, who was sentenced to death
for the murder Of Mr.. and Mrs. An
ton Geisler at their farm near Home
stead, in district court last spring.
Schlaps' attorneys have appealed the
sentence to the supreme court and
hope to have it changed to something
less than the death penalty. The
case viii be Of interest throughout
the state.
Attorney Howard M. Lewis expects
to be present at the hearing to be
held at Helena, representing the de-
Tense.
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up Ed. Iverson,
who bears the same relationship to
the crop grabber that Chinese
poodle dog does to a fat mandarin,
and FoXey Frank French TO come to
town. FoXey Frank, seeming trouble,
was very busy with his place in Med
icine Lake, but the earratic old Ante
lope Commissioner came TO town and
after being talked to by the red faced
crop grabber went into the rest room
and threatened to get out a warrant
for the arrest Of the women if they
did not leave The white faced old
lverson then retreated into Paul Bah
cocks office where Mckee and others
We're holding a consultation. But
Babcock could not see any legal way
to dispossess the members of the civic
Betterment Club and advised Iverson
to call a special meeting Of the Coun-
ty Commissioners for the purpose Of
insisting to recover possession of the
twelve by twelve back room of a pub
lie owned building, and deliver il to
a private individual. lverson put in
notice for a special meeting but The
notice has to be signed by another
commissioner before it is operative
The matter rests there for the pres
ent.
Facts.
The facts of the matter are that Nc
kee rented the library for $50 per
month a year ago and secured a lease
on same. The renting Of the building
was not advertised and Mckee pot
a lease until Feb. l of this year
When the time for releasing arrived
several hundred people Of Sheridan
County petitioned the County Com.
missioners to turn the room occupied
by Mckee into a public rest room
These petitions were presented to the
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mu n 1T Y a n d
has not been
engaged in any
useful occupa
ton for a
mum b er of
years. He was
connected with
the First Ma
tional b a n k
until the time
that institution
= GO a IL {
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that he had fav-
ored Mckee in
the past but
could not favor
him now. The
women Of the
town were up IN
arms. He would
have TO see 8
glawyer and start
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AtAAN - DiAlkHr i want knob IN Lne
no Castor Oil" aoor 30 the
office from whence he often smoked
out the patrons of the Library and
saw the embattled women entrenched
within Lard S. showed the first
sign of common sense he ever showed
for number Of years when he made
a strategetic retreat to the rear and
said "Well, Possession is nine points
Of the law" Lard S. then methodi-
cally proceeded TO move McKee's
furniture, paper and assets into the
office Of Attorney Paul Babcock. But
before Lard S. made this statement
his eyes rested on a nicely labeled
bottle Of castor oil which calmly re-
posed on a table in the Crest Room.
Crop Shark Gets 'Riled Up"
Soon Mckee was down town and
beating the air. He called on Coun-
ty Attorney Erickson and asked for
criminal warrants. Erickson said
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the knob and walked in. Twelve
feminine eyes, as black as he ever
saw, peered at him, while their pos
SCISSORS never uttered a word. Lang
er. defeated, backed away mumblng
under his breath: wen see about
this" and walked rapidly towards the
City Cafe where he ordered a big
feed of bacon and eggs. He looked
exactly like a man who came in from
a bathing expedition and found his
clothes all gone. He seemed CARRIED
in the nearest barrel with both ends
knocked out.
Lard S. Arrives.
The next member OF the notorious
crop shark firm TO arrive was Lard
S. Olson who came down main Street
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putting his
pipe like the
smoke stack
of a Missouri
river steam
err approach
ing For I
Benton in the
old days. He
turned t h c
lfnoh in the
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He then look
ed at the door
to what was
once his Of
flee and no
ticed a print
ed sign which
reads Public
Rest Room"
He peered
through I h c
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Commissioners Meet and
Take Extraordinary Action

Continued from page one)
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,nely out in the cold morning air.
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Continued from page onc)
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APPEAL TO BE
HEARD PATH, HELENA

CONTINUED from page onel
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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1927-05-05
PICK Rim

Joseph Alexander and family o.
Junction City, visited over Sunday
with Arch Hambleton and daughter
of Morganville neighborhood. VIM
Harper of Buck Run moved his fam,
lily to Roseville the first of this week
.Clell Fitch of Morganville lost 6
good work horse one day last week
Mrs. Albert Carter visited her sis
ter Mrs. Alfred Glass, Sunday.
Davis Scott and wife of Portersville
visited Charles Scott and family
Sunday. . George Borden of Morgan
vile who had his ankle and arm
broken some time ago, is able to sit
up part of the time. Arthur Tor
bert and wife of GAINESVILLE are visit
ing their many friends at Morgan
Vile. Dwight Torbert aud family
of Crooksville, visited HI. V. Torbert
and family one day last week. i.
George Balding of Wolf Creek has
gone to GAINESVILLE, where he has
Mrs. w. I. Thompson
who has been on the sick list for
some time, is slightly improved.