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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-01
PIONEER
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Stewart of jackson, California,
Richard Ator of Selah, Washing
ton, Lewis Ator Of McCleary,
Washington, Mrs. Emma Chap
man of Plentywood, Tom Ator of
Selah, Wash, George Ator of Wy
oming, Lena Mcmillan of Plenty
wood, Fred Ator of Antelope, Mon
tana. His wife preceded him in
death at Great Falls in the year
1898. Two sisters also survive
him, being Add and Sara of Mis-
souri,.
Mr.. Ator was also a pioneer of
the state of Montana, coming
across the plains from Missouri to
Butte, in 1882. Since coming to
Plentywood In 1889 he has made
his home in this community, where
he was highly respected and the
loss of this pioneer is regretted by
the whole community who extend
condolences to the bereaved family
IN the passing of another of the
pioneers who have gone Through
the hardships of pioneer days to
make this state what it is today.
The funeral was held Tuesday
afternoon at the Evangelical
church in this city and intermeni
was IN the local cemetery.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-01
RAPSCH WAS MILD
WHEN SOBER But
TOUGH WHEN OILED

Great Falls, Mont, Oct. &c.
(UP)-A dOcile appearing husband
in court at least-was pictured
by his wife, Mrs. Herman Rapsch,
in the role of DR.. Jekyl and Mr..
Hyde.
No man could be a better hus-
band when sober, Mrs. Rapsch told
the court, nor could any man be
more diabolical when inebriated.
His latest alcoholic escapade, the
woman continued, was going on a
rampage with a nife and threaten
ing to "carve up" the whole fani-
". Herman interposed an Dbjec-
ton at this point. He denied he
was armed with a knife and add
ed the trouble was not liquor but
with his spouse's three sons by q
former marriage.
Judge Enlow declined to act as
family mediator but warned Her
man that swift punishment would
follow in the wake of any further
alcoholic excuses.
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sible employees Of the company
around here should not be empow-
cred to engage help in emergencies
like this without having to wait
for instructions. They also say
that the rate of wages paid by the
company to emergency workers
fifty cents an hours too low,
They believe that the high rates
charged by the company for power
should enable it to pay at least one
dollar an hour for help in weather
such as hit this area this week.
There is considerable dissatisfac-
tion with the high rate charged by
the company compared to that
charged by similar companies
There is some talk of getting ur
a petition for a lower rate.
It's an i'll storm, however, that
blows nobody good and this was
not an i'll storm. The thirsty sol
is now soaking up moisture and
farmers who had hitherto beer
pessimistic about the possibility Of
a good crop next year, feel bet
ter. The old sun is shining anC
the snow is melting rapidly.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-01

Can Honor's voice provoke the
silent dust,
Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull,
cold ear of death?
Judge Gordon does not get over
to Plentywood often, but when he
does, he always finds time to call
at the News office.
81 am giving you a check to re-
enter my name on the subscription
list of the Producers News.
thought l could get along without
it, but l find / can't. When il
didn't come last week, was lone
some until l hunted up a copy anC
read it: don't think l am in har
mony with the ideas of the paper,
am not: but l can't get along with
out it, so be sure l get the New
this week"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-01
A DRY RUMOR Is
FLOATING AROUND

Believe it or not, but 1t is
= reported around here that DIR.
: James Doran, whose task is to
= enforce the prohibition law,
E has decided that Plentywood
3 is too wet for its own good.
E Apparently being of the opln-
= ion that the efforts of Corpor-
: al Winters, Oscar Collins and
= Sheriff Madsen have been
= without avail in enforcing the
= "NOble Experiment" it is ru-
= mored that one George john
= son of Scobey, former police
= officer, has been picked for
= the job Of cleaning up" Plen-
tywood.
= Gossip has it that Mr.. John
son unlike Corporal Winters
is to reside here permanently
or until his presence is no
longer required. Of course
we do not guarantee the au-
thenticity of the reports con-
corning this matter that have
reached our ears. Sometimes
a rumor turns out to be we'll
founded.
. We have not heard whether
= Mr.. johnson is coming-if he
is coming-as a result of an
= invitation extended thru DIR.
= Doran by Messrs. Collins and
Madsen. In fact we do not
know whether those officers
will welcome Mr.. Johnson with
the cordiality that should exist
between pillars of the law. As
for ourselves, while we believe
that the prohibition law is a
rotten and corruption-breeding
law, we regard any officer
making his living by working
at it in the same light that we
regard any other law enforce
ment officer. If the prohibi-
ton law must be enforced,
we say, it should be enforced
impartially and not partially
as we fear it has been around
here within the past year.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-01
Antelope All Club Achieve
ment Day November LIST

The Busy Needle Club at Ante
lope are going to present their
clothing project work and give de-
monstrations of their work before
the Antelope P. T. A. November l.
This Club hopes to finish their
work 1000. :,
Miss Wretling, State Nurse, VIII
organize the Little Mothers Lea
que among the members of oul
club and we are looking forward u
this interesting project.
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AS WE SEE IT

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ton. At the time of writing this
they were guests of Henry Ford,
at Dearborn, Michigan. The fact
that Henry played host TO the
Communist ayiatOrs must be hard
tack for the paytriOts, who have
been making a living for years
peddhng their bunk about Red
Russia. Nothing succeeds like
success. The Soviet Government
was never stronger economically
and politically than it is today
and the capitalists must do bust
ness with Russia despite their
dislike for its form of govern
ment.
The stock market crash in Wall
Street has left hundreds of thOus-
ands of little gamblers weeping
and crashing their teeth. The
get-rich-quick rabbits got it in
the neck alright. That happens to
tuCfu every ftOW anu tftCu- Hc
big fellows believe in treatin' 'em
rough. Now the rich are max
ing their hay. Stocks are at bot
tom. Just the time to buy them
Will Rogers is no mean theOrist
at that. Listen to his comment:
"Sure must be great consolation
to the poor people who lost their
stock in the late crash to know
that it has fallen in the hands OF
Mr.. Rockefeller, who viii take
care of it and see that it has q
good home and never be allowed
to wander around unprotected
again.
There is one rule that works in
every calamity. be it pestilence
war, or famine, the rich get rich
er and the poor get poorer. The
poor even help arrange it. but it:
just as Mr.. Brisbane and / have
been constantly telling you. sDonr
gamble" Take all your savings
and buy some good stock. and
hold it till it goes up, then sell IL
IL it don't go up. don't buy it"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-01
ALCOHOLIC DEATH
RATE INCREASING
In THIS STATE

Great Falls, Mont, Oct. 3d.
(UP)-Montana's alcoholic death
rate is increasing. In fact, Unit
ed States Census Bureau figures
show that Montana's liquor NOR
tally rate exceeds all of the So
called 33 dry states.
The figures give the death rate
at 81 per cent per 100000 popu-
lation-that was in 1927 and rep
resented the apex of a gradual in
crease in recent years. Wyoming
ranks next with So per cent.
In Cascade county alone, the in
crease in eight years was reported
at 500 per cent.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-01
Numbering
IS Highways
BY DUBoIs YOUNG
President
HssP Motor Car CorporGtie@

THE proposal 10 designate all
east and west United States
roads with even numbers and 81
north and south roads with odd num-
bers is attracting the attention of
motorists everywhere.
Those who are backing this plan of
numbering argue that the system will
be of greet assistance to tourists IN
following through routes.
To avoid difficulty m following any
route that RAY be selected standard
sign has been adopted showing the
route number. Standard danger sig
nails, caiItien signs and duectional
signs have also been chosen. II is
intended that these standard signs
shall add greatly to the safety and
convenience of travel, especially as i
is proposed that there shall be nc
Change IN their character and design
as the traveller passes from one stats
into another.
II is reported chat twenty-five state.
already have their United States high
ways completely marked. Fourier
states already have the work partt
done, while sir, which as yet hav
made no start, think that by nez
season they will get the job done.
TIL. building of great tranSconti
mental highways extending from tn
Atlantic to the Pacific and from Can
ada to Mexico, making it possible I,
motor without great difficulty from
Atlanta to San Francisco and fror
Seattle to Washington, DC, an
'rom Boston to Fort Worth, is dom
much to eliminate boundaries in til
United States. 1t is good for tn
country to have the man from Massa
chusekts rub elbows with the ma
from CaliforBia. The influence Q
this great system of highways
something to ehaAeass ones imagins
ton.
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RAYMOND
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started on his trail. So far no
trace has been found of him.
Smith appeared in Plentywood
for the first time, according to re-
ports, on Saturday, October 19. He
registered at the Grandview Hotel
and carried a rifle which he left
as security for his room rent. He
gave Whitehall as his place of
residence. He had no money. he
said he was a trapper.
Said He Came From Texas
The Producers News is informed
by John Berkey of Scobey that in
the forenoon of the 10Th he was In
Flaxville, reading meters and stop
ped at local filling station where
a man answering to the descrip-
ton of Smith accosted him and
wanted to know where he could
find a man whose name Berkey die
not catch. The supposed Smith
told Berkey that he came directly
| from Texas and intended to stay
all winter with the man he was
looking for. He said he was
cowpuncher and was planning Il
set a line of traps in the vicinity
He did not look much like cow
puncher to Berkey who became In
terested however in the strange
as Berkey had a pony which M
son wanted to break in to tn
saddle. He asked the stranger
he would break in the pony and tn
alleged cowpuncher at first ar
peared pleased with the propositio
but afterwards changed his mlnC
saying he was not sure what h
was going to do but decided to g
back to Plentywood.
1t is reported from other qual
e tiers that Smith was looking fo
Logan on the morning Of the fat;
= Saturday. He is said to hav
le wanted 10 have Logan take hi
l. into Plentywood.
/ Logan was buried in Plentywoo
h last Thursday. His parents hN
It south of Flaxville. He leaves
n father, mother and three brother
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-01
SENATOR DECLARES.
CAMP TALKS
BROUGHT DISASTER

Washington, Oct. 30.-President
Hoover and other prophets and
high priests of American prosperi-
ty" were blamed by Senator Rob
inson, of Arkansas, the democrat
ic leader, for the stock market
plunge and for failure to take
prompt steps to check it.
In a written statement the de-
mocratic spokesman said confid-
ence would return and stocks would
recover, but he laid the beginning
of the trouble to the repeated OPP
timistic statements of Calvin Cool
idge, Herbert Hoover and Secre-
tary Mellon in the republican pros
perity campaign.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-01
Farmers Are Having
Trouble With Bruin

Anaconda, Mont, Oct. 30.-(UP)
Bears have long since ceased to
be a curiosity or a game animal in
the eyes of hard working farmers
of various Montana agricultural
sections. The beasts have raised
havoc among sheep and cattle ne
cessitating methodical killing of
the bruins at every opportunity.
Chris Jergensen, Warm Springs
Valley rancher, reported that five
prize winning steers had been kill
ed and devoured by marauding
bears-one steer was dragged $50
feet. h
In the Castle mountains district,
it was found necessary to kill nine
bears to protect sheep from the
ravages of the predatory animals.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-01
HOSPITAL. INMATES
ALMOST EARN KEEP


Billings, Mont, Oct. 30.-(UP)
twenty-five cents of every dol
lar expended 10 maintain the
Warm Springs state hospital is
earned by the inmates.
Farming, dairying, mattress
making and other occupations have
reduced the overhead expense at
the asylum 100000, DR.. H. A
Bolton, superintendent, has an
nounced. Annual maintenance and
operation cost is 100000.
The hospital inmates attend 10 a
dairy herd of 80 head and labor
faithfully and nergetically in grow
ing potatoes, mangel beets, cab
bage, table beets and other crops
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-01
Cook Died ''Rich" But
His Heirs Live ''Poor'

Butte, Mont, Oct. 30-(UP)-
Byron H. Cook, former Butte resi-
dent, died in California recently
firm in the belief he was worth APP
proximately $4,000. He made
three cousins beneficiaries, remem-
bered a friend in China to the ex-
tent of $4,000 and left other scat
tered requests. He died happy in
the belief he had done well by his
relatives and remembered his
friends. He will never know that
his $4,000 estate was appraised IN
Butte recently at $3.50 and that his
beneficiaries will receive, at the
most, only a few dollars apiece.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-01
ROBERT Job NO7FR
LEFT WIFE | BUZZ

=, Butte. Mont, Oct. 90 -,
The sum of one dona, O-tUP)>
Mrs. Nan Cnozier bv he. was lsA
band, Robert CrOzier. nate ,@ee hOs
mining man while the ipTTOnnest
considerable estate WE WAS OQ 1l;n q d
CrOzier's dear friends,a TIaled =
Logan and Stella Logan. ''@es v.
Court records reveal tb..
suits for divorce nine ve.. Trough
and that each action was s@ a.; g
ed. vas olsniss
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JUDGE GORDON
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Judge. II have seen many hew
their way to fame and seen them
die" with just a suggestion of eft
might have been" IN his voice.
But:
Can stored urn or animated
bust
Back to its mansions call the
fleeing breath?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-01
Governor Erickson Is
On Memorial Committee

Washington, D. c., Oct. 3d.
Goernor Erickson has accepted the
invitation of Robert Lloyd, Fin
ance Director of the George Wash
ington Memorial Association, with
headquarters in Washington, to act
as Honorary Chairman of the Mon
tana Committee of the Associa-
ton. Senator Thomas J. Walsh is
a member of the National Advis-
DRY Council and Finance Commit
tee.
The United States Government
has set 1882 as the date for the
200th anniversary celebration OF
Washington's birth, and it is the
plan of the Association to have the
building completed by that time
The foundations are finished, the
plan approved by the Fine Art:
Commission, and actual construc
ton will start very soon.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Nov. 1.-Th
Peoples State Bank closed here to
day as a result of the cashier
gambling with deposits in tn
stock market.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-01
THE STEAK WAS
GOOD But COSTLY

Deer Lodge, Mont, Oct. 30
(UP)-The beef steaks were thick,
tender, juicy and delicious.
They should have been; they cost
Pat O'Brien and Llyod Center S27
apiece. Pat and Lloyd ordered the
sumptuous repast, consumed it
with relish and then refused to pay
the check. The next morning the
Judge fined them SGT apiece.
New York, Nov. Traders were
eheered at rise in the stock mar.
ket; many leading issues jumping
seven to thirty points. The up
ward trend restored confidence in
the market and it was predicted
that the crisis Is over.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-01

Missoula, Mont Bitter Root
valley farmers have enjoyed a ma
terial prosperity not equaIled in
years, according to competent OBJ
servers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-01

bennington, Ont. Oct. "a
Eight men were rescued from the
steamer Nessen which ran aground
on Lake Erie during the worst
storm IN years.
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TERRIFIC

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The Alaska fisherman., 1929-07-15
Fast Water==A True Fishing Story
 By Russe Lord, from Farm and Firesde

and me, and while I was brought back to life with thick cups of coffee these men kept jumping around from one leg to another and exclaiming, in a manner that seemed to me highly irritat- ing and juvenile, that it would be time to come home before we got there.
 Ray snapped his fingers and said that he'd be a dot-dashed something or other boob if he hadn't clean forgotten to dig any bait
 Romaine Hogan, second of the party, Los Angeles lawyer, frothed from under his crisp, clipped mustache number of violent assertions as to the un- trustworthy memory of college professors.
 Sherman G. Phillips, Boze- man bookseller, who never sWears, contributed the mildly patient observation that we'd have to dig some worms when we got there. And ''The new man dips" ha said
 I had just enough brains to recall certain headlines, Get MT. Coolidge" I said.
 Then they all beamed upon me. For they were fly fisher men, all-and I had passed Test One.
 I do not remember much of anything else until We came to that narrowing of the Gallatin Valley where the mountains press most closely upon that swift river at the west gate of Yellowstone. Here we quit the car and unslung our tackle. Ray pointed to a deep pool slowly whirling at the verge of a great turn of the river. He advised me in an excited whisper to try that pool, withdrew, then sneak ed up to photograph me parked there peacefully on the back of my lap, angling in the eastern
The Alaska fisherman., 1929-07-15
in Bozeman before the porter discovered him.

The porter did not pause to awaken him. He simply got him off and threw his luggage after him. Dazed, dirty disheveled, with a grouch on which it would have been possible to hang things this benighted traveller stumbled around a hard cinder platform in the hard, bright light of a brand d-neW Montana morning. Gropingly he sought to collect hat, suitcase, book, briefcase, camera and typeWrit- CT. Sourly he muttered unpleas- ant observations as to life and it's manifold humiliations.
 Up breezed rugged resident, his host. "We're going fshing!" cried the rugged resident, whose name was Ray BoWden. Put these on."
 The thin, worn creature with the thin hair blinked and star ed. All life, all hope, all con- sciousness of kinship with striv- ing humankind went out of his face. Collapsing drearily amid his scattered luggage he sadly drew over his modish trousers the pair of hip boots his host forced upon him.
 Now the man of whom I have told is Of course myself. Yet not exactly so, for even I f'om tHe dullest day to it's dull tomorrow no man ever remains the same. There come, moreover, certain days at the end of which we have changed so greatly that ev- en we, dull as usually we are in such matters, recognize it and we say, as I say to you now, That day made a new man Of re-"
 This was such a day, yet the beginnings of it remain even now vague and drab in my mem ory. Two other men joined Ray
The Alaska fisherman., 1929-07-15
The stout man, minister of

Trouble with you, you've nev- CT really f1shed! When you get into the Yellowstone, tell you what you do: Get some real good fisherman to take you into fast water. Let one of those big rainbow trout strike at your line. Then you'll know what it means to be alive with a fight on your hands,"
 This to a thin man with thin hair, writer, who had just re- marked that fishing was stupid, and cruel, and who now with rather elaborate gestures of non- chalance lighted a pipe and said
 "Humph! You weigh some two hundred pounds and with both feet braced on shore. Out there in slippery water, thresh- ing around, a miserable little creature weighing two, four, maybe six, pounds. You with an intelligence that is the product of a million years of ceaseless evolution and four years more at the Yale Divinity School. At the other end of the line, a poor fish. What a battle!"
 The two sat there until the club car was darkened and de- serted. They sat there arguing on one subject and another, un- til half past two in the morning.
 The reverend went to bed. The writer yawned over a book. He was leaving the train in two hours at Bozeman, Mont., and in some quiet corner at Boze- man he counted with yearning on finding a white, soft, deep ho- tel bed upon which to sleep the day out. For more than week he had been travelling day and night. He was brain, nerve and bone tired. He fell asleep in his chair and the train had come to the end of it's ten-minute stop
The Washington times., 1929-07-05

is there to dress up for in
this DUMPf" Gladys de-
manded.
"0h, just for fun ~
Nancy laughed. But the
Porter sisters were not re-
sponsiye. Neither were the
elder Porters when they all
marched solemnly into the
dining room.
Essie and Gladys picked at
their food. Mrs. Porter said
at intervals, Just think, we
could have stayed at the
Awahnee. / wouldn say
anything, only / had my
mouth all set for a Saturday
night dinner. Mrs. Watson
described the sweetbreds they
had, in cases. And avocado
cocktail. -
''But roast beef is much
better for us!' Nancy MUIR
INJURED, passing the baked po-
tatoes.
Mrs. Porter said nothing.
From his place at the
other end of the long room
Roger Decatur watched the
Porters and their guest with
uneasy absorption. To the
eager questions Of the nice
school teachers at his table,
he had the most unintelligent
answers. No, he wasn't a.
guide /" !" no he had Gov
ernment business here > : =
really couldn t recommend
a nice trip sorry, but
he couldn't let anyone ac-
company him on his inspec-
The Washington times., 1929-07-05
Read How Nancy Tempted
Fate to Win Romance

And to Lou, and Jack. Jack
will be worried. sss i
shouldn't have let SO much
time go by without writing
es -
"Oh, Nancy" ]" Mrs. Por-
ter was trying to be casual
and friendly and looking ex-
cited and yindictive instead.
Nancy, the climate here
don't seem to agree much
with Mr.. Porter. 1t ism t a
very nice crowd either, for
the girls. / won't let them
have anything to do with
the guides and rangers nat
urally y (oh, how she
rolled her long pink tongue
over that!) 80 we are
going on to Tahoe In a
couple hours
Nancy reused herself with
a real effort. Tahoe! Wen
like it much better, I'm
sure. Everyone says the
hotels are marvellous, and
the lake is"
Mrs. Porter s broad ex-
panse Of bosom heaved. She
flushed a darker shade Of
The Washington times., 1929-07-05

purplish red, but she inter
rupted firmly: 80 as lone
as we don't know how lone
wen stay on account Of MI
Porter's health and all, and
dear Mrs. Watson waiting
for you at the Awahnee, wes
won't ask you to come With
us. The stage leaves at-
noon, so you'll only have a
couple hours here alone.
You'll have nice ride, and, !,
Mr.. Porter will tip the
driver we'll" J
"You are very kind. !"
Nancy said. She smiled on
them all dazzingly. Howl
can / ever thank you foa,a
this WONDERFUL TRIP ~
Mr.. Porter weakened. He
looked at his wife for per-
mission to speak, but she
settled THAT quickly. " You
can tell the man to put
some Of the suitcases in the
back sent, Herman
ont Miss Hollenbeck Ia
there we II have more
room.
To Be Continued