Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-27
ADVERTISING BRENTWOOD

County for the past twelve years, and known
as the Producers News, is now showing its
true colors with all the spite and venomous
hatred it can muster During ! ! years OF Its
kaleidoscope regime it has been favored with
much advertising and patronage from the
public here; not because many OF the busln-
ess people cared to patronize them, but in
order to keep peace and harmony. lrue,
some years ago many did cease to patronize
that paper, and what happeneda A black
box on the front page of that libelous paper
contained the names of these business people
with a demand that the farmers should not
patronize these dealers who refused to pa
tronize the alleged farmers newspaper. Pure
blackmail. Many of these mechants and
business men finally went back to advertis-
ing with that organ in order to attract more
business to Plentywood again.
During the past year with depressed
conditions all about us; with a shortage of
money, and with that alleged newspaper los
ing all of its prestige, both locally and out
side of the county, the advertising fell off
with them, because The Herald took up the
battle for decency and also to boost Sheri-
dan county and build up what had been de-
stroyed in years past. The Herald advertis-
ing has not increased to any appreciable ex-
tent but we lave been satisfied, and at no
time have we come out and knocked our
community when something did not suit us
in a business way.
Two weeks ago that foul and sinking
underworld organ, came out and said that
every business place in Plentywood was
likely to go to the wall before spring. This
last week they insinuated that the prices of
all commodities were higher in Plentywood
than anywheres else, and that they were in
a class by themselves, when it came to char
ging for everything sold. They also insinu-
ated that our banking institutions were on
the brink of closing their doors. They in
suited our public school educators, and be-
Titled their efforts in such a way as to hold
them up to ridicule in the eyes of the school
pupils.
They claim they are a farmer owned
newspaper, and that the paper is owned by
Sheridan county farmers. To make a long
story short, Of the stockholders in that debt
ridden place, there are less than IS that are
actual bona fide farmers of this county who
lean towards that newspaper, and nearly
SO other residents, who bought stock in
that organization will nave nothing whatso-
ever to do with them anymore. The balance
of the 3l7 stockholders are now residents
Of this county. They have never, and never
will receive one cent of dividend.
Last Friday we picked up one of the
daily newspapers of this state and compar-
ed prices with the local prices. One of the
largest cities of this state, where advertising
is heavy, proved to us through these adver-
tisements, that the prices paid by the buy
ing public there to be far higher than right
here in Plentywood and where they could
obtain the goods from the commission
houses, without having to pay the extra
freight charges.
We made a survey Of many of the
leading business places in Plentywood on
Monday to ascertain the prices today as
compared with two years ago and found
that the average reduction in prices are now
q per cent from what it was two years ago,
and nearly Is per cent of what it was two
years ago.
The freight rates we have in Montana
is what causes us the most discomfort. If
these freight rates were brought back to
what they were before the war, the present
price of what we must buy would be great
ly reduced.As an example, L. C. Zeidler
told us before the world war he could pur-
chase a car load Of powder for about $3.50;
during the war with all the additional taxes
and other charges, the price was about 5000
while today he must pay over $500 for a
carload of powder. The cost of the powder
is practically what it was before the war,
but the transportation charges is what makes
the present high prices.