Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-04-17
The PlentywOOd Herald
The PlentywOOd Herald, Inc.
Publishers
Published every Thursday at PlentywOod, Mon
tana, where it IL entered In the United States
Postoffice as second-class mail matter.
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winter we can recall was that of 1916 which compared
with the one just passed. However; people here had
a harder time Of it this winter than that one in 1916.
We had little or no crops last year; there was very
little feed laid away for the stock to winter over on,
and prices of everything we raised here dropped to
little or nothing. The financial panic that hit the ma
ton last fall also affected we Sheridan County resi-
dents as we'll, and many wonder how we were able to
pull through the winter at all.
And now that spring is here, with birds sing
ing from daylight to dark, the green grass and crocus
blossoms commencing to cover the hills and Valleys
we also find that the political skunk has come out of
his den at last, and the traps that were set for him
during the cold winter months have closed on him with
a snap, and like every other skunk, when caught in a
trap he polutes the air with aroma which has given
him such unenviable notoriety.
But this political skunk is not the common or
garden variety type, as he has a wolverine complex.
He defles everything that is clean and pure and decent.
He reaches out with his stencil and deflement much
farther than any other skunk ever did, with apologies
to the common skunk. Just see what he did in his
last issue of the Producers Noose-he proceeded to
knife the rnan who has backed him from the first year
he was in Sheridan County. The man who befriended
him and who helped the Producers Moose and who
made it possible for him to continue in Sheridan Coun-
ty year after year-who helped him when money was
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lets-that man is now the person he picks on above all
others to defle with his stencil and poison. Many
things that are told in that voluminous article may be
true, and have been known to this political skunk for
years but he has apparently held it up from the pub
lie until he got in a mighty tight jam, when he
filings the whole mass of de6lement onto this man and
this family who has stood stauhchly behind him for
many years.
Oh yes, lest we forget about it, this same animal
proceeds - defle Scobey a little bit too-queer about
it that copies of the Producers Moose did not reach
the Scobey readers until they had to come to Plenty
wood and gather up a few, isn't it? Now just what
was the reason for this? Do you suppose Uncle Sans
postal system was to blame, or was it possibly an over
sight by the Moose mailing force to send copies there,
or were they out of paper stock? That wonderful
awakening Of the political skunk led him to spray his
scent so that would-be readers in Scobey might be led
to think that he had an understudy there when he re-
ferred to the editor of the Leader as the head Of the
Scobey gansters. Well, Charlie ought to know, as be
tween that stencil sprayer and Salisbury and Mig Col
Inns, they keep q pretty close check on their helpers
and understudies, but he sure made a mis-step that
time.
And he does not forget the Herald, Franc Muir
ray, Oscar Collins, Grant Blackwell, Ted Winters, Col
onel Sheridan and a few others in his deflement. He
lambasts the living and the dead, which is only what
can be expected Of a political polecat with a wolver-
inc complex. Isn't he a sweet little animal to have
in our midst?
And then he does not forget to mention politics.
He says that these alleged hi-jackers must be cleaned
out Of office. He even says that Plentywood has gotten
a nasty reputation during the past year or two.
Well, Well! Talking about reputation, years
ago when Rodney was the big toad in the political
puddle in Sheridan County, the United States Depart
ment of Justice sent a few undercover men here and
oftor N l;<Ala Nyh;1o ,vov< ;vvooftpof;rr ~ p,r mr.
serves us correct, they picked up no less than 6S stolen
automobiles from the streets of Pentywood. Those
same officials told us that Pentywood had the same
colorful notoriety as Herrin, Illinois had, and that
these two towns, when compared with other spots in
the United States for pure cussedness and ~racketeer-
ing, stood out into space like sore thumbs. If the rep
utation' of this community had been splotched up 80
badly since the last administration anne into power,
why then is it now possible for the banks of the Coun-
ty to get burglary and hold-up insurance without any
trouble? The bonding companies did not look upon
Sheridan County in that light during the last admins
tration of the "reds" that way. They did not want to
take chances on insuring our financial institutions
against burglary and hold-ups. And why? Oh, just
on account Of the reputation this territory had at that
time.
And what about the political racket that the
political skunk is trying to use rs a spray to cover up
some other deflements? Mig Collins is claiming that
he intends to stay out of jail long enough to see that
several Of our County officials are defeated for Office
this fall. Yes, he will fix up a ticket to the mutual
liking Of Charles f. Taylor, Rodney Salisbury and him.
self, and then sniff the sweet odor that will be waited
out over this county against our present Office holders,
and see how fast the voters will reach for their gas
masks. 1t will be some swell ticket for the tax payers
Of Sheridan County to support. We shall look forward
to the day when the Mig Collins Salisbury Taylor can
didates throw their hats into the ring, but we shall
also have our gas masks ready, and also possibly a
bomb prof shelter equipped with stencil proof per-
iscopes, as the underworld gang will be on the job.
And going back to those traps we set during the