The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-07-25
SQUIRREL FOOD
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n by listening at the keyhole on
campaign committee meetings.
The old eavesdropper just had to
he bought off for he had some
iope. His price was the office of
Justice of the peace. Bolster was
and he agreed to re-
SIGN for fifty dollars and the good
of Plentywood. Lard borrowed
the fifty from a friend and George
resigned and Lard was duly APP
pointed Justice, his mouth closed
and the city saved. He is said to
have used this Office as an oil well |
for some time and on many oc-
casions decisions going to the best |
bidder. At one time he arranged |
a tip-off system with the bootleg
gers for $25 per month. He got
caught red-handed. Any of the
old booticians will tell you about
it. Then he took a fling at steal
ing the fine money, got caught,
had to disgorge, and saved him.
self from a trip by resigning. Ole
Aspelund kicked him out of the
office of deputy assessor because
he had habit of working the as
sessments for a price and his dis
position TO feel over the women
working in that office, which la
dies got so annoyed with the ven
ereal old ape that they felt COM
PEELED to complain to the sheriff
and beg for protection.
Yes, everybody knows that he
sold to the company cheap with
out his taking so much pains to
proclaim the fact to the world in
the columns of his own paper.
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And speaking of Harry Polk:
he is having his own tribulations.
He has the Plentywood Herald on
his hands and can't get rid of The
sinking thing. He turned it over
to Lou Onstad last spring to make
the most of it during the primary
campaign. Onstad installed LarC
Olson as a sort of a spittoon clean.
er and general scavenger, extra.
ordinary. He assured Harry thai
he would put the thing over: thai
he would pick up the county at
torney's office Just like falling of
a log, when he would attend Il
Ed Iverson and Victor Anker-or
in fact he would nominate some
one favorable to himself and tn,
Herald to take VERSIONS place
50 next June the Herald would ge
the printing contract for tw
years: he already had Hans Mad
sen on the hip, and could delive
all that patronage of the sheriff
office to the Herald instead o
splitting three ways as now, an
with control of the Board Their
! were ways of attending TO Can
/ Peterson and lining up the cler
of courts patronage entirely fo
the Herald. And L. J. no douh
told Harry about his own plans {
!; putting in his son, Chester q
I deputy county attorney in plaC
of Monkey Inspector Wagner an
] his daughter for stenographer an
4 get his office rent from the couI
4 ty, so Harry would finally get thu
!, If he would be patient and conf
j dent. And then he told him ths
!, the Producers News was on Il
i last legs and could not last muC
Z longer, when the Herald would
s. the only county seat paper: Il
q Redstone Review could be bougl
Il after fall election and maybe Il
. Wave after Joe lost the count
q printing, thus making the Hera
81 the only paper in the county. Tt
81 accomplished, the Herald would
81 money maker instead of Il
q sink hole that it is. Onstad won
i be boss of Sheridan county al
= from the county attorneys off
q would elevate himself into {
- judgeship in '32. 1t was a glol
= Gus dream in splendid and perfe
< relief. 1t sounded good to Harl
<: who is having the devils own tin
> with the Havre Promoter and
81 not doing so we'll with the Will
81 ton Herald either. Lard had
q sions of grandeur as the dog q
u der the table. But the pipe we
q out primary day. Onstad is {
81 flated, 1verson was nominated a
z; Lard hastens TO save a washi
81 machine out of the wreck. L
e says he wishes he were out of {
IS damn country. His collapse
81 complete. The people in spite
~ his conniving did not nomins
- him county attorney. In fact til
81 handed him the grapefruit in I
= way of a poor third place-tho
81 got twice the vote anyone expe
81 ed him to get. He now comm
=: hends that his day is done: Il
. ne never will be Judge nor COVE
q or nor United States Senator I
IS chief justice of the supreme col
% nor king of Norway. He will i
ri keep singing in the choir aio
- with Harry Polk or chanting o,
*; to the big red apple over at q
y ena, wined up and in the mood.
81 iIiilil
3 And, by the way, we did
q hear so much this campaign alb,
81 that college o "hard knock
20 Why? We wonderl
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81 And while talking of the pri
~ ing contract: it was a blow 10
Isl Burley Bowler-Harry Polk-I
81 Onstad outfit when Ed Iveri
ri was nominated. Ed Iverson
% Frank French's little Chinese o
Is die on a string. If elected he ,
81 probably help move the cou,
~ III seat to Medicine Lake. Dolin ,
(@ get the printing contract n
issss1 June for two years more. !
E5 Herald outfit is in just as uni
s:s tunate a situation If Judd M
81 kins gets in again for he Is
81 for the Herald crowd either