The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-01
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER /, 1929
Is IT BYE, BYE OR AU REVOIR,
RIIRIEY2


We learn from reliable authority that our some
what unpopular tho interesting neighbor of SEQ
hey, Sir Burley Bowler, has been commanded by
his King to appear before the royal presence at
Sir Bowler's earliest convenience and that Uncle
Sam with almost indecent haste granted the neces-
sary diplomatic facilities to the distinguished Brit
of Daniels County, in order that he might be
able to cross the Canadian border free from the
attentions of customs officers as when he entered
Montana in 1914
1t is in order at this time to give brief biograph-
ical sketch of Sir Burley and his contribution to
the social and political development of his favorite
state, since he picked this vicinity for the scene
of his activities, some of them dubious character.
Sir Bowler heard the call of military duty when
the first note from the bugle of war rang out on
Canadian ears on that fateful day in August, 1914,
when His Majesty George something or other of
England decided that he and Burley had to put the
Kaiser out of business 1t unfortunate, how
ever, for the King, that Burley started out for
the front in his B. " DIS, took the wrong road and
instead of reaching the Western Front he ran into
the United States-which wasn't doing a thing to
John Bull, having licked him couple of times al
ready-and never looked backwards until ne pulled
into Scobey.
Burley developed into first class poker player
and a fairly good crapshooter and when not en-
gagged in playing disappearing tricks with watches,
peddled German atrocities" Burley was hard up
most of the time and we regret to say that this
misfortune has logged his steps even to this day.
Later on the farmers of Daniels County hired
Burley to edit their paper in Scobey When they
finally fired him there little left in the plant
outside of the bare wells. Not even Job ticket for
a souvenir
Finally Harry Polk, a man after BurIey in mind
Al cd 10 CHI fbn ME of
eastern Montana how to run things politically and
also TO raise the moral tone of the community.
Harry's reputation for lechery, in North Dakota
followed him around like German daschund. Like
Mary's little lamb, every place that Harry went
this ghost was sure to go. When he saw Burley
he Immediately recognized kindred spirit and in
vested some money in Burleys paper in Scobey
Later hurley and Harry bought into the Plen-
tywood Herald and decided they could two
counties as well as one.
With an eye to the printing contract, Harry and
Burley got behind Frank French and Hans Madsen
and got their men elected to office on a program
of moral reform. This was funny at the time but
much more SO now. 1t happened, however, that
Frank French who is said to be good fellow to
his friends, gave the printing contract to his pal,
Honest Joe Dolin of Medicine Lake and immedi-
ately Polk and Bowler discovered that Frank was
no better than Charley Taylor Rodney Sails
bury as an uplifting force in the community; that
Joe was not the kind of a fellow one would invite
to address the w. c. t. u and that, sad to relate
the present administration particularly the French
Blackwell group, must be exposed even if it cost
Polk his last subscriber.
Burley can stand lot from his administration
friends but his social conscience was wounded be-
yond endurance recently when Grant u Blackwell
county attorney, declined to prosecute an alleged
automobile thief, on the ground that the Kienas
Motor Co., from which the automobile was kid
naped, but afterwards recovered, refused to sigl
a complaint. From his Scobey stronghold Burle!
turned his artillery on French, charged him witt
being in cahoots with gamblers and interested il
gambling devices. He says that the County Attor
ney ordered Sheriff Madsen to keep away from
Medicine Lake, that he, Blackwell, had friend
there, and the suspicious Burley begins to wonde
If Blackwell is not also interested in gambling ma
chinery. However, Burley did not charge Franz
French or Grant U. Blackwell with responsibility
for the presence of "Nig Collins in Sheridan Coun
ty or with the fact that "Nig's' pullet-ranch
running as gayly and profitably as 1t woul
be unkind to remind Burley that a promise to de
port "Nig"-tho not necessarily to Canada wa
the main slogan of Hans Madsen when he ran fc
office.
There isn't much more to be said except to r,
greet that Burey, on the eve of his departure fl
his audience with his king finds his old friends
our local courthouse at each others threats. I'll
Producers News, always the side of peace ar
decency in political and social life, regrets
deeply as Burley that the present administration
Sheridan County has failed to establish the Utop
they promised the farmers last Fall. However v
are not as pessimistic about the situation as Blu
ley. There is another election in the offing.
AS Burnley takes up his tent and starts on
long trek to Buckingham Palace, he will not
followed TO the Canadian border by long line
farmers, grieving over his departure. If, to par
phrase the words uttered by Cardinal Wolsey VIII
he lost the grace of his King, Henry VIII, Burl
had served his farmers as faithfully as he serv
his King they would not have forsaken him in /
misfortune
Bye, Bye, Burley.