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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-08-08
Wheat Crop of u.
S. NOu Estimated
500, 1000 Bus.

THE WHEAT crop in the United
States for 1929 is estimated at 8OO,-
100000 bushels, according to Paul
V. Carpenter, extension agrOnomist at
Montana State College in the Montana
Agricultural Outlook Just issued. I'm
favorable growing conditions in the
great plains area Of the United States
is responsible for this decrease from
the 902 900 900 bushels of 1928.
Montana, North Dakota, South Da-
kota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma
normally produce 60 per cent O. the
United States wheat crop. Last year
this area produced 562, DOC, 900 bushels
but this year the estimate is IT'S, 0OO, 900
bushels short of this figure.
The unfavorable growing conditions
that have SO reduced the crop In the
United States has been prevalent in
western Canada. The prospects in this
region have declined fully as much as
in the United States. There still re-
mains the possibility Of late rains in
Canadian wheat territory, but Mr..
Carpenter believes that there is little
probability of a Dominion crop in ex-
cess Of 300, 900, 900 bushels. Last wear
Canada produced $50, 0O0, 900 bushels.
MI, Carpenter believes the European
wheat situation to be quite generally
favorable. This is an important factor
to consider in forecasting the world
wheat situation as every bushel grown
there replaces one that would come
from the United States, Canada, or
any other country having wheat to ex-
port.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-08-08

The ghost of the original New
Rockford cutoff planned many years
ago by the Great Northern railway
and abandoned after much agitation
and new surveys, doomed again when
h road filed application with the
interstate commission for
permission to build a 32-mile extern
sion to its line now terminating at
Richey in eastern Montana.
Frank O'Hare, general agent, was ad-
vlsed that this branch will extend
westerly from Richey through parts Of
Dawson n McCone counties, lying
about rs miles south of the main line
OF the Great Northern. 1t will tap
a rich agricultural region not now
adequately served by any railroad, ac-
cordlng to George r. Martin, vice
president of the Great Northern, who
made the announcement Of the filing
OF the application. On account of the
distance from a railroad, the trans
portation costs are high. The building
Of the proposed line would materially
reduce the cost to the farmers of haul
ing grain to market and would stimu-
late the growth in population by at
tracing farmers from the more thickly
settled portions Of the country.
Decision of the Great Northern to
build this Richey extension followed
repeated requests from the farmers and
business interests of eastern Montana
to aid in opening a comparatively new
agricultural field. This land is valu-
able as a grain-producing region, but
its development has been hindered
through the lack of railway facilities.
Farmers have had to use teams and
trucks in hauling their produce to
market at an almost prohibitive cost,
Mr. Martin pynloinpd
The new line would tap several thou
sand acres OF tillable soil and would
encourage the establishment of new
towns along the route.
The line is part Of the So-called New
Rockford cutoff, planned by James j.
Hill many years ago as an auxiliary
to the Great Northern's main line
to be available when traffic conditions
warranted. That line, surveys of which
were made SO long ago, was to extend
from New Rockford, N. D., across east
ern Montana to LeWistoWn and give
Montana a cross-state railroad through
to Great Falls via Lewistown,
This line, if built, will be the third
important project undertaken by the
Great Northern in Montana since the
World war. In 1925, the Scobey-Op-
helm branch, so miles long, was con-
structed at a cost of 81 SOC, 900. The
other was the construction of the Saco-
Turner branch, 70 miles long, completed
last year. These two lines have opened
vast sources of agricultural land hither-
to handicapped through lack of trans
portation facilities and have proved
satisfactory to the Great Northern and
to the communities served. They not
only have reduced the transportation
costs to the farmers, but they have
attracted additional settlers to the
state.
In its application, the Great Northern
asks that if the commission deems it
necessary to hold a hearing, it also
simultaneously hold one on the recent
application of the Northern Pacific
Railway company to extend its Glen
line to Bloomfield, Mont.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-08-08
Deaths Increase In
Montana the 1928
Records Reveal

The department of commerce an
nounces that the number of deaths in
Montana during 1928 was $3.50, as COM
pared with 5,342 in 1927. Owing to
the unsatisfactory estimate Of popula-
ton for the state, 40 rates are shown,
Increases in the number of deaths
from those Of the preceding year were
from the following principal causes:
Cerebral hemOrrhage and sOftening, 313
to 345; cancer, Ala to 449; diabetes mel
illus, II to 81, and diseases Of the
heart, 815 to 1854. Increases were
shown also for influenza. lat to 1886;
pneumonia, all forms, 372 to 458;
whooping cough, Is to 40, and acute
anterior poliomyelitis, 4 to 10.
The number of deaths from all acci-
dental causes increased from sos to
568, the individual types of accidents
showing the greatest increases being
automobile accidents, excluding COLI
sion with railroad train and street cars,
q to 1l8, and machinery accidents,
IL to Is.
Among decreases in deaths from 1927
to 1928 were those from measles, 80
to 8; scarlet fever, 80 to 10, and con-
genital malformations and diseases of
early infancy, $50 to 321. There was
a decrease in the number Of deaths
from drowning and from mine acct
dents, each from 60 to Al.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-08-08
NOu
Charged With
Care of Indians

MISS Mary Stewart, who has been
selected by Secretary Wilbur to
lead American Indians into the UNI
familiar but nourishing field of voca-
tlonal education, hopes in her new job
TO teach them to give society value
returned by meeting environmental
conditions adequately and thus attain
ing the good life
She is not particularly concerned
about the amount of so-called civ
lllzation' the red man takes on; she
desires TO provide education, which in
lts broaqest is the way of all
progress"
Recommended to Secretary Wilbur
because OF previous work in new phases
OF education, she is the first person
to hold the title of assistant director
OF education in the bureau of Indian
affairs. For her the situation is a
familiar one, since she has been pio-
neerlng IN various fields of education
since the beginning of her career.
Her flrst job after she left college
was that of principal of a high school
IN which all of the faculty members
were men. Later, while she was teach
ing Latin at the State university of
Montana, she was made dean of women,
a post then distinctly a novelty in CO.
educational institutions.
She was one of the organizers of
the National Business and Professional
Women'S club, and as assistant director
general of employment in the depart
ment Of labor she had a finger on the
pulse of young America at a time
when the idea of finding the individu-
ais right place in the world was Just
beginning to be applied.
Pauslng in the process of selecting
space in the interior department in
which to set up her office, Miss Stewart
surveyed possibilities in her new field
and decided that what she liked best
was the opportunity for more pioneer
ing.
That" she said, "is why I was glad
TO accept the appointment. The work
is too new yet to say much of definite
plans but certainly I want to provide
the Indian with an education which
will fit him for the environment he
must live ill.,"
How far that education leads the
Indian away from his original state
need not be determined, she believes,
the important thing being that it pro-
vides for him the good life"
Born in Ohio, she spent her child
hood in Colorado. She returned to
that states university two years ago
receive an honorary degree. With
went % others selected from gradu-
ates Of SO years and she was the only
among them.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-08-08
All Freighting i'm EARLY Days
Was by Slow-M lowing OK
Over Vast Reaches

While they were hunted and brought
back, 1t was possible for some of the
cflyers to rest, hunt, do their laundry
work or sewing.
Then, standing guard over camp and
cattle were other duties to be dis
charged. In the days of which l write,
there was constant danger of attacks
gE indians. AT night and early morning
inc corraled wagons acted as a barri-
cade within which they could fight,
but a sudden attack in the DAYTIME
would find them with no such pro-
lection, for time was required to form
the corral. OF the insects they COM
Datted, buffalo gnats and mosquitoes
were the worst.
Bridges and ferries rarely existed.
ana rivers and smaller streams were
Iofded, often through dangerous quick
sands. l have seen it stated that some
times tWenty-one oXe were attached
70 one wagon to draw it safely to land.
Ihere was a similar difficulty to be
s~urmounted in taking the wagons up
very steep hills.
Many men engaged in freighting in
Montana, from Fort Union or Fort
Benton While there were no outfits
here ~rivaling those of Creighton, there
were several large ones. The late w.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-08-08
Body of Veteran,
Buried 50 Years,
Is Disinterred

4 MAN who was killed in the Indian
n war in 1877, the Nez Perez rebel
- lion, led bv that willy old military
strategist, Chief Joseph, in the Yellow
stone park, has been diSinterred by his
son, DR.. O. A. Kenck, Augusta physi-
clan, and DR.. Arthur Jordan, of Helena,
The body had laid in the old Catholic
cemetery at Helena for So years. It
was re-buried at F%orestvale. The dis
interment was done for two reasons,
to make a change in the place of burial
and to make sure that the body was
where it was recorded as buried.
Mr.. Kenck was slain by some OF
Chief Joseph's marauding braves while
they were passing through the park on
the long trek from the western part
of the state n~ortheastward to a point
near the Canadian border. called by
competent military tacticians as one
of the outstanding military exploits
carried out in the west. The young
braves killed other white people.
The body of MI. Kenck was carried
on a packhorse from aside the park
for so miles to Mammoth, and the
feat is said to have been accomplished
in n day. There were no roads OF
consequence in the park in those days,
merely faint trails and blazed outlines
timber.
The body was buried In an old fash
toned iron casket, and it and the re-
mains were in a good state of preserva-
ton. The casket Is probably good for
a hundred years more. There had
been a rumor that The body had not
been buried at all, and that was dis
proved by disinterment. The date of
death was August 20, 1877.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-08-08
(By Mrs. Nj. E. PLASSMANN)

IT REQUIRES a vivid imagination tc
visualize conditions in Montana be-
fore the advent of the railroad
Everything brought into the territory
then came by freight either from Sail
Lake or some further point. Aside
from the products Utah could furnish
like vegetables or fruit, everything
crossed the plains in the great outfits
which passed back and forth from
Omaha to Salt Lake.
Fortunes were made in this business
by the men who undertook it in a large
way. Among the names of the princi-
pal freighters, that of Creighton was
most familiar. His trains were con
stantly on the road, and often their
nelghborhoOd was q protection TO
smaller trains. Once, when we camped
near an Indian village, and its in
habitants appeared to be in an ugly
mood, hearing that one of Creighton's
trains was a little further on, the oxen
were driven in and yoked, while we
sang, and did whatever we thought
indicated we did not fear this small
number Of Sioux, but when all was in
readiness our little company of wagons
moved Slowly on past the Indian vii
lage, until a half mile or so beyond,
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-08-08
REAPPRAISING $4,000
ACRES OF STATE LAND

The task Of re-appraising nearly
$50, 900 acres Of State-owned land in
Custer. Rosebud and Powder River
counties is under way by the state land
department and it will be completed
before the winter sets in.
Under present plans, work of placing
new valuations on $685. 900 acres Of
state lands in adjoining counties in
southeastern Montana will be started
early next spring.
The re-appraising is being carried on
by H. G. Biering, j. M. Masterson and
w. P. Pilgrim. Acreage to be re-
valued in Custer county is 125, 1880, in
Rosebud 160.544 and Powder River S.
592. According to Biering, the land is
used for grazing.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-08-08
STATES FIRE LOSS
WAS $1,655,7O2
1928 SHOWS HELENA is
LARGEST LOSER

Montana's fire loss was S1,655, 702
during the year ending June 80, 1929.
the annual report Of State Fire Mar
shall w. G. Brooks shows.
There were 633 blazes reported, most
OF which were in dwelling houses. Loss
es were heaviest at Helena, where a
group Of business houses were destroyed
a year ago this month. The fire mar
shals estimate Of 1924 1882 on buildings
and contents covers the 1913 fires in
the capital city during the year.
Butte was second in number of fires,
with 100; Great Falls, third, with 81.
Miles City had 26 and Billings and
MissOula, % each. The loss at Great
Falls, $136, 230, was second to that at
Helena. Butte was third, with ISL 1856.
Contents of the buildings affected
provided the greater proportion of the
total loss. Damage to buildings was
estimated at $780, 1888 and contents at
$685., 919.
Leading causes Of fires were adjoin-
ing fires, overheated stoves, cigarets,
defective wiring, sparks from chimneys.
spontaneous combustion and cleaning
OF clothes with gasoline.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-08-08

A.. Clarke had one, and another was
the Diamond r. The foundation Of
many a princely fortune was laid in
the freighting business, and without it
Montana would have been far more
sparsely peopled in the beginning.
How many Of our pioneers came here
as drivers of OK teams who could not
have come otherwise, it is difficult to
determine, but it may be safely af-
firmed that M in every three seized
this opportunity of reaching Montana.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-08-08
nAs NA~<@%o<@o>o AT~>>~1 Was First Gmn to Idaho and Colorado X
W. NlOllI6ll6 y lV6Ille Nmrovy Missed Being called Idaho Mis- MS
soMa Historian Declares In Trnwh the w
q OrmT Names OF Western States; Gives EUOLuOnf Of Poetic Sound OOn

DOMANCE, strife and a bit of chance
are all woven into the origin of
~~the names Of three of the great
western states and the truth of the
origin is woven into a story compiled
by j. II. t. Ryman, Missoula's pioneer
banker. Mr.. Ryman's great love of
history and his exacting methods of
search for facts have given to the west
q valuable document Of the origin of
the names Oregon and Idaho. In the
following story Mr.. Ryman tells how
Colorado narrowly missed being called
Idaho and Idaho was almost named
Montana.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-08-08

This Is my first glass of beer for
six weeks
impossible"
Eyes, the six weeks start from now
on."-Lustige Koelner zeitung, Cologne.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-08-08

Fair Customer: ! want q pencil.
Assistant: Hard or soft?
Fair Customer: Soft; it's for writing
/ love letter.-Answers.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-08-08

Every man wishes that the mar
whom he fears would perish.-Ovid.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-08-08
G. N. WANTS TO
BUILD NEW LINE
REVIVAL OF NEW ROCKFORD
CUTOFF SEEN IN LAT
EST MOVE

S2-Mile Branch Proposed Would Tap
Rich Agricultural Section And Open
Millions of Acres to Better Freight
Facilities.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-04-19
How Do They Make
the Holes in MacarOni?

the doughnut of dough leaves one
kneading wheel, it is turned on edge
by guiding hands of steel so that the
next kneading wheel strikes it on
edge and SmaSheS it flat again.
The kneading expert leans closer
to tell you that these wheels give a
pressure of many hundreds of thou
sands of pounds, that they would
crush a two-by-four timber to Splin-
terS if given the chance. The dough
receives a pressure as great as
though rolled by the wheels of a
huge railway locomotive.
Why heavy pressure is used
"Why do you use so much pres
sur That's sou What aSa 0i II takes to make
macaroni and Creamettes of firm,
creamy texture" he replies. "ThiS
new type of machine cost us a lot of
money but we couldn't live up to our
policy of making only the best maca-
roni products without Them"
Evidently making good macaroni
is a very different matter from
kneading bread dough or making
fluffy pie-cruSt.
Dough for egg noodles, when cor
rectly kneaded, is finished" by a
sort of rolling-pin machine that
SqueezeS it thinner and thinner
through a series of polished steel
rollers. Macaroni dough is not
rolled but cut into huge chunks as
big as a small table top and packed
into huge cylinder that looks like
cannon. A heavy steel plunger
forces the dough towards the muzzle
of the cannon" where it comes out
of holes in a metal plate as either
macaroni or spaghetti, depending
upon the size of the hole. A house
wife Immediately thinks of her food
grinder as similar to this macaroni
Common
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-04-19

Frances Schafer and Miss Mary
Thomas have not definitely decided
where they will be next year but will
not teach here.
The new force for next year has
been elected and unless designations
occur later on, the following teach
ers will report next fall:
First Florence Fuller. Mi
not, N. D.
Second and Third Grades-Helen
Blansky, Hampden, N. D.
Four and Fifth Grades-Ruth Jor-
genson, Maubun MINI.
Sixth and Seventh Grades--Lulu
Aisfeldt, Malta, Mont.
Eighth Grade and Band-Allen D.
Bowley, Froid.
Commercial = Irene Polling, James
town, N. d.
English and Latin-Margaret Full
er, Grand Forks, N. D.
Math., Hist. and Coach-Melvin
Martinson, Ambrose, N. D.
Principal-O. Lloyd Gillespie, Froid
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-04-19

a broom-handle and then hangs the
pole on a SclotheS-rack" on wheels.
When a rack is full of hanging maca-
roni or spaghetti, it is wheeled away
to the curing room where it is dried
several days by controlled air.
blast process. When thoroughly
cured, it is sawed to exact length
and placed in packages and cases for
delivery to your grocer.
Egg noodles are made in much the
same way as macaroni except that
the dough is rolled out in a long,
bar like a roll of butchers wrapping
paper. This roll of dough then un-
rolls into cutting rollers which slice
it in narrow strips of noodles that
are cut off automatically at proper
length and tossed into loose folds
by folding machine. They are then
dropped into Screen-bottomed trays
and sent to the curing room.
How Creamettes are made
CreametteS, the special inch.long,
elbow-Shaped macarOni made in
Minneapolis, is cut off as it SqueezeS
through the holes in the end of the
macaroni Cannon" by a rotating
knifeblade similar to the one used
on home food grinding machines.
CreametteS are then poured into
Screen-bOttOmed trays and sent to
the curing room where a special
curing process is used for several
days.
When curing is complete, Cream
cites are poured into an automatic
machine which weighs out exactly
eight ounces into each package, CLUES
and seals it. These sealed packages
are packed In shipping cases by hand
and another machine takes the cases,
CLUES them top and bottom and holds
them sealed until the glue has time
to stick.
Unusual cleanliness is everywhere
evident in this Minneapolis macaroni
factory. Employees are clad in white,
floors and tables are scrubbed daily,
oil and dust enclosures are every
where. Any portions of macaroni or
Creamettes that fall to the floor are
gathered up and sold for chicken
feed.
Five things that make macarOni
flavor
"The flavor of macaroni products
says our guide, depends upon many
things of which five are the most
important
I. Using the best semolina.
z. Correct water temperature for
mixing.
3. High pressure kneading and
rolling.
A. Terrific pressure in the maca-
roni machine.
5. Proper curing methods"
slow can a housewife be sure she
is buying good macaroni?"
"Good macaroni products are
creamy colored and not white" an
SwerS our guide. "Good macaroni
should have a smooth, even texture
with no flaws or weak spots. It
should cook up flavory, firm vet
tender1lnever Soggy, paSty or flat in
taste. Of course, macaroni should be
chilled after cooking, according to
directions on the package, if you
want to be sure of the most delicious
flavor and texture.
"After all, there is one easy way
for housewife to be sure of getting
good macaroni products each time"
the guide smiled.
sWhat is that?" we asked.
'sFind a good brand and then insist
on getting it" was his reply.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-04-19

ing with Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Patterson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Henke and
family spent Friday evening at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Christ Willum-
sen.
Mrs. C. R. Brock called on Mrs.
John Miller Friday afternoon.
Word has been received by Mr.. and
Mrs. James Rasmussen from Plaza,
N. D., of the birth of son on Mon
day April 8th, born to Mr.. and Mrs
Carl Christensen. Mrs. Christensen
will be remembered here as Miss Alice
Rasmussen. She formerly lived in
this vicinity.
Miss Dorothy Luke was a Plenty
wood visitor Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. r. Brock and Wen.
dell visited Friday evening at Chri:
Hieberg's.
Pearl Dahlstrom has been quite
sick and was absent from school fo-
few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vic Sonenberg an,
Shirley visited Sunday at Melvin
Rongstad's.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. C. lessen an
daughters, Misses Sigrid and Flor
ence, visited Sunday with Mr.. an
Mrs. Axel Olsen and helped thei
grandson celebrate his birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Hoff spent Sur
day with Mr.. Hoff's parents, Mr.. an
Mrs. Eric Hoff in North Dakota.
Miss Diana lessen visited wit
home folks over the week end, return
ing to her school duties in Plent!
wood Monday morning.
Chris Hieberg has purchased Il
Martin Kolken farm.
Leslie Willumsen is absent fro
school on account of illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Lipscomb al
family of Medicine Lake spent Sund;
with Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Lipscomh
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Hendricks
t entertained several friends Sunday e
!, ening in honor of their twin sor
t Irwin and Olga's birthday.
Franklin Sorensen has been We
e sick for a few days suffering fro
S congested lungs but is improved
this writing.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-04-19

MIR. and Mrs. Jim Kaae last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rasmus Paulsen were
guests at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Martin Larsen Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Soren Johansen and
family visited at the home OF Christ
Andersen's on Sunday.
Mrs. Mil1kel Paulsen celebrated her
birthday Tuesday, April End. A
number of relatives visited her on
that day. A delicious supper was
served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christ Johansen and
family and Otto Sorensen visited at
Mr.. and Mrs. Neils Jorgensen's home
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. w. Plambeck and
Mrs. Neils Jorgensen and daughter
went to Plentywood last Thursday to
get Mr.. Jorgensen. Everybody is
glad to hear that he is able to be
around.
The annual school meeting was held
at the Emerson school Saturday, the
sixth.
! Viggo Peterson of. PlentywOOd was
Dagmar caller at the home of his
: brother, Neils Petersen, Saturday.
Clarence Petersen was a business
: caller at Grenora Saturday.
Axel Petersen has his car home af
ter having had it overhauled.
I Mr.. and Mrs. James Johnson visit
ed Mr.. and Mrs. Severt Johansel
b Monday.
James Johnson, Lauritz Jensen
: Viggo Johansen, William johnson
and families attended the birthda
q party at Niels J. Sorensen last Sun