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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-04-05
OUTLOOK

Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood House and
son Harry spent Easter with the
parents of Hrs. House in Canada.
H. G. Nelson came down from SEQ
hey to pass the week end with his
family here.
DR.. Harlin r. Larson, who has BEEN
practicing in Hardin, Montana, for
the last two years, returned nome
Tuesday and is visiting his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. Larson.
Wm,, Ruegsegger returned Tuesday
from Washington to look after buSI-
ness interests here. Mr.. RuegseggCr
! has been in every southwestern state
since leaving here in December. He
reports that the roads from the coast
arc except Jnally good for this time
of year.
OUTLOOK II. S. NOTES
On Monday of this week the follow
ing students were awarded letters in
basketball: Gordon Fawcett, Clair
johnson, Clarence Doe, Clair Nau,
Einar Klofstad and Ferril Reed. In
order TO win a Letter in basketball it
is necessary for the student to COM
ply with the eligibility standards set
by the state athletic association and
to have actually played in 25@0 of the
total number of quarters played this
year. The letter is not to be worn
, by students who have not earned it.
t, 1t is an honor to be allowed to wear
. the school letter and we are proud of
our boys who have won the distinc-
ton.
: The Seniors are hard at work on
: the class play, "The Path Across the
HILL" The play will be presented on
t April 10Th. Watch for later announce
5 ments.
Plans are well under way for the
Junior-Senior banquet which will take
place on Saturday, May 18th. This
will be the most elaborate affair Of
! the year. The plan for the banquet
is being worked out in keeping with
the motto for the Senior class: Grow
: ing, Not Drifting"
4 The Seniors have decided to have
Class night as a part of Commence
ment week. Committees are now a
work on the various features of thu
] program.
The Citizenship class will make {
survey of vocatlons during the las
: six weeks of the semester. A shor
5 time at the last of the semester will
; be spent in summarizing and review
= : ing the work of the semester. Baum
gartner's Choosing Your Life Work
! will be the main source of informa
\ ton for the work on vocations.
. End Grade-The End and 3B people
+ won number race, with the girl
last week.
t The Agricultural class has beer
s making several field trips in connec
ton with their study of animal hus
bandry. These trips have includes
trips to the johnson Dairy and t.
Andrew Ueland's farm. These trip
are very instructive and worth Will
as a means of making the cours
practical.
H. Why not make the attendance per
II feet? Our highest percentage o
J. monthly attendance so far has bee
h, 99.47. Every time a student MISE
e. day of school he not only injure
himself but he lowers the standing o
l. the school with the state department
the school loses its apportionmen
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-04-05
Editorial
SELF CONTROL, AND COOPERA
TION
Bv Verna Smith

DN 6IIld
In school as in all walks of life it
is necessary that we exercise self
control and practice cooperation. Our
actions in the view of others present
should always reveal utmost consider
atoc and helpfulness. Ii order to do
this 81 must control his desires to
the event that he subd !es his wishes
to those of others. 1t may be a con-
dition too ideal to achieve, but it is
worth striving for. Lack of harmony
in school is nearly always due to lack
of cooperation. Think twice before
speaking once would lessen a great
deal of the misery that hasty words
bring in their wake. Considering
first, then acting will often prevent
those things which we may regret
all through life. Nothing is greater
handicap in life than an uncontrolled
violent temper. 1t loses friends fol
one and makes ones general DISPOSE
tiOn disagreeable.
In school it is essential that there
be cooperation and self control on the
part of both teachers and pupils
There can be no school spirit without
cooperation, and no cooperation with
out self control. High ideals are mo-
to be laughed at. We may not al
ways achieve them but ga mans
reach must exceed his grasp, or what
a heaven for" There need be no dis
cipline where pupils control them
selves. Freedom in movement woult
be allowed if teachers were assure,
that pupils exercised self-control t,
the point where they helped Great
the proper atmosphere for good work
Let us remember our duties first an
then our rights.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-04-05
LAST WEEKS NOTES

First Grade-All the pupils in M
first grade received 1000 in spelling
Tuesday. The boys in the A-claS
have a butterfly in their room that
they find very interesting. It was
Matched from a Chrysalis that Ia,
been kept in the room since last fall
9Th Grade-The language class has
just completed making booklets Oh
Etiquette"
The Agriculture class has beg
studying "Dry Farming" Much dis
cussion has come up over the vaht
of stubble burning.
A part of the Ayres spelling tes
was given the first part of the wed
to determine how the pupils rank b
accordance with standardized tests.
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THORSTENSON

CONTINUED from page One)
ner minute. Mr.. Thorstenson return
ed to brentwood by train via Los
VEGAS. Salt Lake and Butte over the
San Pedro road and from Butte 10
brentwood via the Great Northern;
leaving Los Angeles on March 2Itn
and arriving at Plentywood, April
first.
Reaches Mother Before Death
Mr.. Thorstenson arrived in Los An
geles on March 9th, in time to be with
his aged mother several days before
her death, which occurred on March
18th from paralysis induced by OLD
age, at the home of her son. The
funeral was held at the Norwegian
Lutheran church on March 18th and
interment was made at Inglewooo
cemetery. Mrs. Thorstenson was sur
rounded by nearly all of her family
when she died.
People of Plentywood we'll remem.
Der Mrs. Thorstenson, who resided
here a numbre of years with her sons
going from here to Los Angeles II
the early spring of 1925, going there
to reside with her sons.
OBITUARY
SIGRID B. THORSTENSON
Sigrid B. Thorstenson, nee bangs
tveit, was born in Kvitsied, Tillomor
ken, Norway in 1847, where she grew
to young womanhood and became the
bride of Bjorn Thorstenson of The
same place in 1874. She came tt
America with her husband and chill
dren in 1881 and settled in Ottertai
county, Minnesota, where BjOrn tool
homestead. She came to Sheridan
then Valley county, Montana, in 1906
and settled on a homestead about fou1
miles east of Plentywood, where sh,
resided with her family until 191:
when the family moved into Plenty
wood. Her husband died at Plenty
wood in 1921 and is buried in tn,
Plentywood cemetery. Early in 1922
she went to Los Angeles where sh,
resided until her death. The funera
was held at the Norwegian Lutheran
Church of Los Angeles and intermen
was made at the Inglewood cemetery
There were born to Sigrid and he
husband Bjorn Thorstenson, eigh
children, two of which, daughters
proceeded her to the Great Beyond
dying of the flu at Detroit, Michiga,
in the fall of 1918 and early summe
of 1919: two daughters, Mrs. T. c
Scott of Great Falls, Montana, an
Mrs. George McKenstry of Fargo
N. D., and four sons, T. B., A. M. an
Onon Thorstenson of Los Angeles an
Thor Thorstenson of Plentywoo
mourn her death.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-04-05
sSPLINTERS'
FROM THE FLEETWOOD SCHOOLS

There is a robin in our tree
l think that he is singing to me;
There is no song he cannot sing
In the spring.
Five eggs in the nest over the door
Pussy is waiting down on the floor,
When the little brides hatch
She will try to make a catch.
Griffith Collins.
The pupils of the sixth grade have
made booklets on early inventions
The spelling class has chosen sides
called the Indians and the Pioneers.
A graph is being made of the rec
ords in spelling. So far the Indians
are ahead,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-04-05
Staff:
Staff:
Jeanne Falxa
Verna Smith
Leland McNultV

Leland McNulty
The Declamatory contestants are
practicing for the contest to be held
the latter part of April.
The Gam intruding" cast had a
party at the school house last We'd
nesday evening.
Mr.. Henry from the Billings Poly
technic Institute spoke to the Assem-
bly, on Wednesday afternoon. He told
about his adventures while travelling
in Europe in very interesting man.
ner. Not all speakers have the power
of personality that Mr.. Henry has.
The high school students wish that
Mr.. Henry might visit again.
The Seniors have chosen "The Co.
Getter" as their Senior class play to
be given May 8. The play has a
Spanish setting and deals with the
very modern question of oil wells, but
this one doesn't fail. There arc hum
orous complications arising every min
ute.
Do not forget The high school oper-
eta on Friday evening, April 9Th.
The Gypsy Rover r0ved until he found
what he wanted and then took it. The
music in this opere.ta is light and
melodious.
A literary map Of the British Isles
has been bought and is now on dis
play on the bulletin board in room s..
The map is very interesting showing
the locations of The settings of many
of the pieces of literature that are
studied in high school.
Grade Notes
First grade: Number stories were
told about Easter eggs one day. AIRY
liss had surprise for the first grade
on Thursday. She brought a rabbit
cookie for each one in her grade
Carol brought Easter eggs as hel
treat.
Second grade: Susan Francisco is
a new pupil in our grade.
An original Easter story by Frank
Wigmore was voted the best:
envy Easter Surprise"
A pig was with me. We were go
ing to town. The old pig slid down
in the mud. He got me all black like
the negro boy, Osmon. When I got
home my mother gave me- an Easter
surprise-a very hard padding.
The third grade hygiene class have
started work on little health pla.
called, "The Hobby-Horse Parade"
The fourth graders have been writ
ing spring poems. The class vote,
this one the best:
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those scoring from 900 to 1000 re-
c ct a gold seal charter and a Al Il
c cinb banner with a pin for the All
club leader.
Fourth club members may EXHIBIT
+boir Climb work at the county fair and
also also at the state fair at Helena and
the Billings fair.
This is the season for ORGANIZING
All clubs. The county extension
agents and local leaders are putting
forth effort to "re-enroll" the old ci9r
members first, and re-organilz!e ole
clubs and start the organization OF
new clubs.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-04-05
Court House Committee
Meets at Babcock's Office

The new court house committee
of which DIR. w. D. Roy is chairman
met Wednesday evening at the office
of Atty. Paul Babcock and formulated
plans for carrying on the work Of
securing a new court house for Sheri.
dan county as soon as possible. The
plans will be submitted to the Com
mercial Club at its next banquet
which takes place some time this
month.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-04-05
LUTHERAN CHURCH
A. M. Egge. Pastor

Sunday school at II a. m.
Services at Dooley at II a. m.
Services at Raymond at 2:30 p. M
The Plentywood Luther League will
hold their regular devotional and So
cial program Wednesday, April 10TH
at o'clock p. m. Everybody welcome
Sunday, April 18th
Divine worship at IL a. m. at Plen-
tywood and at Outlook at 2:30 p. m.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-04-05

The Board of County Commission
ers convened Monday morning, April
1st, in the regular April session and
continued in session until Wednesday
afternoon when it adjourned. Chair
man French and Commissioners Iver-
son and Anker and Clerk Madsen
we're in attendance.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-04-05

and Grace Wilson. 9th Grade: Mam.
johnson, Esther Grove, Viola Gc1.
laxon, Glenn Peterson and Lucille BOs
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-04-05
SHERIDAN COUNTY
All CLUB WORK REC
OGNIZED BY STATE

Miss Inger Olson of Dooley who
was a member of the Dooley All
Sewing Club during the year 1928 has
been awarded scholarship in recogni-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-03-28

John Steichen, of Kimball, spent
Saturday with his brother Paul IN
this city.
Mark lMadland is building sec
ond story porch, glass enclosed, on
his apartment building at the cor
ner of Oak and Fourth streets
this week.
Mrs. Victor Burleson, of Min
neapolis, arrived Thursday after
noon and visited until Sunday with
her mother, Mrs. S. J. Huey and
other relatives and friends.
Mrs. C. R. Gray went to Little
Falls Monday morning, called there
by the serious illness of her broth
er-in-law, J. H. Love. Mr.. Love
is not expected to live at this writ
ing.
Mrs. Alice Rose, who has been
spending the past several months
with relatives in Minneapolis, and
also in Missouri, returned to hel
home in this city the first of the
week.
Charles Parker, of Wadena, who
visited the past week with his
mother, Mrs. E. H. Cooley ane
sister, Mrs. V. l.. Burgess, at the
latter's home, returned to his
home Monday.
Anthony and Robert Schoenhoff
who attend the University of Min.
nesota, arrived home Sunday at
ternoon for a weeks visit witt
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. B
Schoenhoff.
Francis Strauss, of Harvey, N
D., who spent the winter at Belle
Chester, Mimi, stopped here Fri.
day and visited until Saturday with
his cousin, Geo. Strauss. He was
on his way to his home at Harvey
Mr.. and Mrs. Gunther Hitler
I'D left Saturday night for Chicago
ILL.,, to attend the funeral of Mrs
Hillerud's mother, Mrs. Christen
sen. The funeral was held Mon
day. Mrs. Christensen, who wa.
81 years old, died last week Fri
day.
| Miss Winnifred Benson, o.
Crosby-Ironton, and Miss Rutl
Benson, who attends the STATE
Teachers College at st. Cloud, ar
rived home Saturday to spend th'
Easter vacation with their parents
Mr.. and MRS. Alex Benson.
! Paul and Harry Palmer arriv
ed home Saturday to spend thu
Easter vacation with their parents
Mr.. and Mrs. C. G. Palmer. Th'
former teaches at Excelsior, while
Harry attends the University O
Minnesota.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-03-28

declares the educational committee
of the Minnesota State Medical As
ISOLATION in this weeks bulletin.
'1The frequency of foreign body
accidents is much greater than is
realized.
Because of the increasing num-
Der of cases arising from children
swallowing foreign objects spec
ial warning to mothers is issued by
the Association. Pictures have
been gathered by the Association
showing that operations upon chill
dren have been necessary because
they have carelessly swallowed
safety pins, coins, toys, bones,
tacks, buttons, jewelry and rings.
The number of objects taken from
the lungs, air passages and stom-
achs of children Approximate
nearly one hundred.
'sWe have dozens of tacks that
have been taken out of lungs" de-
clares the bulletin. "Most of
them are of the brassheaded type,
which seems particularly attractive
to children as plaything to put in
their mouths. Nails, screws, and
other articles of hardware are also
plentiful in our collection. OBJ
viously it is dangerous to allow
children to put such inedible ar
ticles into their mouths. !.
"But if a baby under two
years of age, and hence without
molars, gets piece of peanut in
to the mouth, he cannot masticate
it. There are only three things
he can do: spit it out; swallow it
whole; aspirate it into the lungs.
If he spits it out, well and good
if he swallows it whole, it will pass
through undigested; if he chokes
on it, as it is very likely, he will
aspirate into the lungs. In the
last case, he will, in a few days,
be dangerously sick because the
peanuts peculiarly irritating to the
lungs when aspirated into the
windpipe or bronchi. Babies car
get along without peanut candy
One of the most common ways fol
baby to get piece of peanut
kernel into his lung is from pea
nut candy. Parents often do not
realize that after the candy dis
solves there is left the nut kernel
upon which the baby is very liable
to choke. The choking is followed
| by a deep inspiration, and dowr
goes the fragment of nut kerne
into the baby's lungs. Other nu
candies are equally dangerous, blu
ARE not purchased so frequent!
J and for this reason fail to figur
prominently in the statistics.
"Small toys such jackstones
whistles, and tiny animals are wei
represented in our collection o
objects removed from the throat
stomach and lungs. Babies shout,
never be allowed to play wit
such things, and older childrel
should be taught not to put then
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-03-28
Good of Plants in House

The presence of plants in the
house often proves a guide to the
sanitary conditions existing within
the domicile. If a room is so badly
ventilated or dark that plants Will
not thrive in it, it is certainly not
a healthy room for human beings.
Plants are very sensitive and re-
act quickly to any poisonous gases
that might be in the air. The be-
gonia is regarded as a guide to
health. 1t was recently demon
strated when a begonia doing dec
orative service in dining room
was found to wilt in a few days.
Being replaced by second one,
the same thing resulted, and it was
suggested that there must be some
thing wrong, a leakage of gas per-
haps. An investigation being made,
a tiny gas leak was discovered I'M
der the floor. The volume of gas
was not sufficient to be detected
by smell, and yet it was great
enough to have an immediate &C.
ton upon the plants.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-03-28
MORE MONEY FROM HENS

"A plain ordinary box and a
cheap pail can very easily be made
into the two most important pieces
of furniture in the hen house, says
the Blue Valley Creamery 1nsti-
tute. The box can be made into
a home made mash hopper to hold
a constant supply of good, egg
making dry mash and the pail, fit
ted with wooden float to protect
the fowls wattles from getting wet
and freezing, can be used to pro-
vide a constant supply OF skim
milk the year around.
An ordinary store box about
3Ox15x12 inches as shown in the
illustration and made substantial
enough to last can be made into
mash box or hopper by merely
making a frame work aninch short
er and an inch less in width 29x14
inches, covering it with poultry
netting or fencing, and putting the
finished frame into the box after
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-03-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank O'Gara,
Mrs. George O'Gara and son,
James, motored to Minneapolis
Saturday where the former trans
acted business, while the ladies
visited relatives. Incidentally
Frank and Jim attended the State
Champion high school basket ball
tournament.
Ben Morgan and E. McTaggart
went to the Cities where they
attended the final game Of the
State High School basketball tour
nament, which was held Saturday
night. Moorhead and Red Wing
were the contenders in this game,
the former winning the state
championship.
Great Northern station men,
trainmen and department fore
men were ordered to appear in st.
Cloud Sunday to take the special
book of rules examination. Those
from this city attending were:
Agent Sylvester Dickinson, Paul
M. Kuefler, Harold Dickinson, Leo
il. Beste, C. w. Rotert, Harry
Kirk, Henry Krick, Clarence MIC
Harg, VIM. Steege, Clarence Bent
ley, Fred Langton and H. E. Nick
ey. This examination was given
for the entire division and was
compulsory. Those not attending
are not permitted to work until
they have taken the test. The
time taken for this work was six
hours, which was given over to
block system and safety first
work.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-03-28

it has been filled with mash. The
wire-covered frame, resting di-
rectly on the dry mash, prevents
the fowls from scratching it out of
the box. When they want mash
the hens will jump up on the sides
of the box and then jump down on
the wire frame. AS the mash is
eaten, the frame work settles with
the mash.
A round wooden float, an ich or
two smaller than the inside meas
urement of the pail, serves to keep
the skimmilk fed clean and pre-
vents the tender wattles of the hens
becoming wet and then being frost
bitten or frozen as often happens
when the wattles of both males and
females become wet. Large holes
in the float offer a place for the
hens to dip their 'beaks into the
milk. Skimmilk is the most valu-
able protein feed for laying hens
that can be produced on the farm.
It should be kept before them in
sour form at all times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-03-28
Commuter Would Like
Help in His Dilemma

His breakfast hadn't agreed with
him, he had lost at bridge the
might before and he had to run
for the :O5. AS he hadn't finished
his usual cigarette on the way to
the station, he stood on the plat
i form to finish it. The train started
and just as it was gaining speed,
girl tried to hop to the last step.
She missed the step and was hang
ing on, when the commuter grabbed
her and pulled her up to the step.
He expected, after the girl COM
posed herself, smile of gratitude
or at least few words OF thanks.
He did not expect the torrent OF
abuse which she hurled at his head.
'If 1t hadn't been for you," she
raved, 81 would have pulled myself
up and wouldn't have lost my new
opera pump"
The commuter, stunned, found
his way to a seat and hasn't made
up his mind yet whether to help
women in distress or let them
help themselves.-New York Sun.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-03-28
Toys are Serious Menace
to Young Boys and Girls
Minnesota State Medical Associa-
ton Issues Warning to Parents
Peanut Candy Bad

st. Paul, March 27-Peanut
candy is often fatal to babies.
Safety pins have killed more ba-
bies than have firearms.
Small toys are fraught with dan
ger to small boys and to small
girls.
A button box is dangerous
plaything for children; so is q
string of beads.
''There is not a hospital in Min
nesota that has not an exhibit, OF
cases on record, illustrating the
danger that comes by allowing ba-
ibies to play with pins and toys, >
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-03-28
Paper Old and New

Modern paper receives its share
of criticism, perhaps not unjustly.
1t is asserted that present-day pa
per is perishable and that books
printed upon it will not last, and
comparisons unfavorable to the pa
per of today are drawn between
the old-fashioned article and the
new.
Much that has been said on this
subject is undoubtedly true, but the
inference must not be drawn that
all old paper was lasting. The
investigations go to show that the
paper of past days was often very
poor stuff. The history of pa
per making in Europe from the time
of its introduction into Spain by
the MoOrs in the Eleventh century
shows that from it's earliest use pa.
per was deemed fit only for passing
documents, and that when it was
first used In bound books it was
thought necessary to bind alternate
leaves of parchment and paper, as
paper was deemed too brittle to
stand the strain.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-03-28

broken, and this piece remain
ed dangling by a thread. All toys
should be inspected for loose parts
before they are given to young
children"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-03-28

in their mouths. We have also in
the collection small parts de-
tached from large toys. For in
stance, we have half a glass eye
from teddy bear; the eye had