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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15
Junior-Senior Banquet Was
Held Last Saturday Night

The Annual Junior-Senior Banquet
held at the Catholic church par
lors last Saturday evening was en-
joyed greatly by those attending. The
idea of searching for the worth
while things in life was carried out
by using Treasure Island as a back
ground. The table decorations, cos
tunes of the mattresses and the
toasts all were reminders of the
characters in Stevenson's famous
book, Treasure Island" who also
searched altho for different things.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15
THATCHER TO REPRESENT CO-OPS
AT WORLDS WHEAT CONFERENCE

vited TO send delegates and will
represent the Farmers National
Grain Corporation. of which he
is a director and a member of
the executive committee. The
Farmers Union Terminal AssOci-
alton of St. Paul is the largest
regional grain cooperative mark
citing association in the United
States.
After attending the London
conference he plans to visit many
European countries to study the
wheat and grain situation and to
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15

Chicago, May 15.-M. w. That
cher, general manager of the
Farmers Union Terminal AssOci-
alton Uf st. Paul has been APP
pointed by the Farmers National
Grain Corporation of Chicago as
its representative at the Interna-
tiOnal Wheat Conference to start
May IS in London, England.
He will be one of three repre-
sentatives from the United States
to attend the conference to which
all important wheat producing
naiOns of the world have been in
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15
Hot Weather In Frisco

San Francisco, May o. Today
was the hottest day of the year in
San Francisco. The mercury went
up to SO degrees at 2 p. m. and
then began to drop.
In 1887 the mercury reached 81
IN May. Today's figure was one
seldom excelled, however.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15
COMMENCEMENT AT
COMERTOWN HIGH

The commencement exercises of
the Comertown High School will
be held in the school building on
Friday evening, May 21st at eight
o'clock. Another fine class of grad
yates will be sent out into the
world. The Comertown High School
has a wonderful record; and 1T is
not at all uncommon for the young
men and women who graduate
therefrom to finish neck and neck,
just a few points below perfect
grades. The program is as follows:
Professional ---.-----------------.-- Piano
Dung 1AOc O1eAS
Invocation .-...-.. Rev. S. A. Almlie.
OSl6cLlOn ae'iiN'
Commencement Address
Tomorrow Burdens"
Howard M. Lewis.
Presentation of Glass. H. o. Raaen.
Presentation of Diplomas
Peder Bruvold.
Benediction $1,000 Rev. S. A. Annie
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15

San Francisco, May 14.-Drouth
conditions in northern California
are the most severe in so years,
the state railroad commission an
nounced today as result of a
statewide survey.
The water run-off in the Sacra-
menta river district is but 10 per
cent of the normal for the 5O-year
period, the report said, while in
the San Joaquin river region the
run-off is but 20 per cent of the
normal for the given period.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15
Special to The Producers News
g; By Jess H. Stevens Attorney, Great Falls

By Jess H. Stevens Attorney, Great Falls
Great Falls, May ! 1.-The following paragraph was
clipped from the Great Falls Leader partly owned by O.
5 Warden, chairman of the state hg hway commission
from its issue of May A. evening before debenture cleo
ton:
Great Falls will benefit greatly from approx
al of Referendum No. 35. There are many
miles of highways to be built on the following
roads coming into Great Falls: The Central
Montana highway from MissouIa via CABOT
Pass, Augusta, Great Falls Stanford, Lewis
town, Winnett, Jordan, Glendive and Sidney
This will be the shortest route thru Montana"
Qook at your map of Montana) This will divert tour
list business away from the Roosevelt Highway entirely
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15
Attack the Monarchist
FaCtiOns---3O Catholic
Institutions DESTROYED
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Uprising Starts Sunday Afternoon in Madrid with Attack
on MOnarchst Party Headquarters and Continues
Monday with Destruction of Jesuit Institutions and
Catholic Churches Tuesday and Wednesday Spread
to Other Spanish Cities = Martial Law Declared =
Priests Fleeing and Monarchists Emigrate in HOrdes.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15

San Francisco, May IL One
large chain grocery store cut the
price of bread to a cents today and
a second chain countered with an
announcement of drop to 81
cents in San Francisco and the PEN
insula tomorrow.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15
d TROUBLE CAUSED BY GOVERNMENT VASCHA-
TON TOWARD LANDHOLDING CHURCH
g AND LANDHOLDING NOBILITY

The Associated Press dispatches from Madrid Spain,
Sunday evening, May 10TH reported the first
ing in the Spanish Republic when staunch repubh-
attacked and beat up group of monarchists Ma
drd and attempted to burn the office of the powerful
conservative newspaper, the "A B c."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15
Scheme to Blow Debenture
Millions on Central Highway
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Conspiracy of o. S. Warden, Chairman of Highwa,
Commission, and MIR. Coffee President of Montana
Automobile Association to Build Most Costly High
way from Missoula over Mountains to Great Falls,
Lewistown and Sidney Disclosed in Election
Evening Article in Great Falls Leader
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15
Highway Commission Plans New Scenic Trail
NOTICE!

ALL MATERIAL FOR PUB
LEGATION IN THE PRODUC-
ERS NEWS MUST REACH
THIS OFFICE NOT LATER
THAN WEDNESDAY NOON
TO INSURE ITS PUBLICA-
TION THAT WEEK. IN THE
FUTURE THIS PAPER WILL
BE PRINTED IN TIME TO
GET IN THE MAIL FRIDAY
so THAT OUR RURAL SUB
SCRIBERS MAY HAVE THE
PAPER THE WEEK 1T is
PUBLISHED.
REMEMBER!
Wednesday Noon
Is the Deadline!
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15

And here is another letter from
Mrs. Dinkerspiel. Alonzo SAYS
Okey. She says a mouthful every
time she chatters, think the squir-
relS.
Plentywood, Mont,
Mr.. A. Mutt,
Plentywood, Montana.
MY Dear A1onzo:
Mind Your Own Businessl
wouldn't this be wonderful
world if all its inhabitants would
use Mind your own business" az
their motor
would just like to know what
per cent of the people do. I am a.
1raid there is a very very small
per oentage. Just In and around
Plentywood I don't believe there is
30 Of the people who strictly tend
70 their own affairs. The other
$50 are always looking for their
enance to NEEDLE in their neigh
nors affairs. DO you think people
Of LIEF
I know of certain family where
the mother of seven children Is al
business, but when it comes down
70 her own she knows very little
about that. She is always telling
her neighbors how perfect hel
grown up boys ara, and how many
1au1ts her neighbours boys and
girls have. When 1t really come:
aown to brass tacks her children
nave just as many fault as any
ones.
She says they don't drink o,
smoke. It would be fine If the!
didn't but they dol When the,
nave turned their backs to thei
parents, they smoke. and as 70
orinking-they get all the win
they want right in their owl
home. Sometimes they even be
come intoxicated.
Why doesn't this certain lad,
Keep her mouth shut about anyon
else when she has more than sh
can handle with her own7 mol Sh
mas to run her neighbours bushes
Iirst then probably when it's 60
late she'll see that she should bel
Ter have looked after her own.
am using this as an exampl
70 show how easy It is to jude
others and still think that you al
perfect and everyone else is not1
ing but low down cur to be tan
Cd about and kicked around.
Look into your own household
It might not be so perfect eithe
Mind your own business and
your neighbor do likewise.
Pind your own faults before yc
IND everybody else's.
Yours truly,
Allegretta, you are right. S
many people spend so much tin
watching others they never hay
Time to even take a peek at then
selves. The world is chuck full
these hypocrites. Old Mutt know
OF on business man in Plentywot
VINO has been awful friendly wi
number of girls of tender yea
IN one family he takes then
Just as soon as they come Ia
g,etter. This swine was sure so
about "Nig" Collins tho he is So
70 have been out with the "dove
even before "Nig" and his frien
were. Yes, he's married, too, al
Just an ordinary burglar also. ]
i strong for God, country and o
sacred institutions: makes 500
front on everything he sells.
ISnlnks he's better than "Nig." T
"ngs 70 LODGES and travels arou
Ssncng our hest people eyeing
.neir dau0hter and laying
wait Tor a chance to seduce them
On Sunday he goes to chur
VContinued on Page Two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15
Three Criminal and SS Civil Cases
On DOcket-Several Gases Were
Filed Back in 1918 and are w
for DispOsaI-S5 Jurymen Drawn
to consider Cases.

On Monday, May 18th Judge
Paul filed the order with the clerk
of court for a general term OF
court in and for Sheridan County
TO convene at Plentywood, Mon
day, June 1 at 10 o'clock. A jury
panel of 35 were called. which IN
Guided the name of Hans 7: Mad
sen. the sheriff, who has asked 70
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15

as your wife entertaining ILLS
SPRING"
"N0, not very
Ola Foolish Farmer Hayseed
70 this letter to AlOnzo the 9th
VIA Jav It is a stemwinder! He
s :, the Squirrels to crack a nut,
We the SQUIRRELS don't want to,
~ ~ there's nothing in it but what
t tSa worm left. Fool Farmer Hay
s .le thot he could play with the
Iees without getting stung.
ANxPLACE,
NOT LONG Ago.
1onr faymous squirrels have
.,ite a Aeputatton as devourers OF
.nts so would like to give them
+he Measure of eating another
connie of nuts. Are they aware OF
tSs fact that the fair City of P1en-
tvwood is harboring a certain In
snrance agent who is alleged to
have at one time been so-called
honest Ibanker7 at any rate his
bank WeAb bASs ~ 0S AAASb law
been honest.
well, why does this fellow enjoy
IN broadly hint to a farmer who
don't know how to be anything but
honest that said farmer is a first
class crook2 Mr.. Hayseed was so
astounded that he almost tainted.
And why does this same insurance
agent brag about that he has never
gone to court and hopes that he
never has to in order to get justice,
get so impatient about sueing MI.
Hayseed on a note that he hurrys
up and files suit against him with
ont giving him half a chance to
scratch up the money to pay the
note with? And then he forces Mr.
Hayseed to pay attorneys fees and
court costs after Hayseed has had
time to scratch up the money. Tha;
was in my opinion a dirty turn to
give Farmer Hayseed. Besides
Hayseed was caused considerable
worry and a few extra trips tC
Plentywood also. Please tell me is
this the way in which all bygone
sO-called honest bankers do bust,
ness2 If it is I wish you would
advise everybody to fight shy OF
that class of people.
AS Ever,
Foolish Farmer Hayseed
P.S.-Is this same insurance a
gent writing some kind of insur
ance for the county2 I notice tn,
honorable County Dads have beef
handing him q lot Of money lately
Questioningly,
6HAYSEEn0
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15

The kernal in the nut is: Don't
monkey with these buzz-saws if
you don't want to get hurt; should
be careful about dealing with 8
Once-waS banker = they are the
burglars they don't send to Jail.
My dear old mother Angelina Mutt
always told me not to fondle a hot
pOker-and she sure was rite as a
turnip.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15
Squirrel Food
92SSpanish Masses Are Wide nsurrection
g. 60
V1S'yS(N

as your wife entertaining this
spring." ..,,.,,n
"No, not very
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15

Liberty Is Not
Handed Down
From Above
The Washington times., 1931-06-27
SOLOMON ISLE
R D j 7 { IS
OUTLINED
Calvert and Chesapeake
Beaches Also Popular With
Wise Fishermen

If you contemplate taking a
motor trip over the weekend and
are fond of fishing, the drive to
Solomon's Island, or Chesapeake
Beach, will give you the sport
desired.
The best route recommended
by the American Automobile AS
Sociation, is as follows:
Go to Benning and follow the
main highway to Meadows, Md,
and from there to Upper Mari.
boro. Keep on the main high
way through Bristol and Dunkirk
to Chaneyville, Md, where, if you
have decided on a trip to Chesa-
peake Beach, turn left on the Mt.
Harmony Road and keep straight
ahead on the main travelled road.
If you decide to keep on to
SOlOmOn's, 90 straight ahead to
Prince Frederick, keeping to the
main thOrOughfare through the
town to st. Leonard, Lusby and
Bertha.
The roads are we'll posted and
are in excellent condition so that
the wary motoriSt need have no
fear of undertaking the trip.
Calvert Beach just outside of
st. Leonard is said to be an ideal
fishing ground and will probably
not be as crowded over the week
end as the more popular resort
at SolomonS,
The Washington times., 1931-06-27

A total of SOC were enrolled in
this years graduate school con-
Quoted by scientists and technical
experts of the Department Of
Agriculture for employees and as
sociates of the department. The
school, which is in charge Of DR..
Albert F. Woods, director Of
scientific work, has Just closed
its two-semester session.
A total Of 10 courses were
offered this year. Graduate
courses included inorganic chemiS-
try, fundamentals of chemistry,
biO-chemistry, plant geneticS, soil
genesis, population of the soil,
statistical methods, ecOnO m 1 Q
theory, history of American agri-
culture, business cycles, advanced
statistics.
Undergraduate courses included
glass blowing, bio-chemistry, eco
nomic entomology, botany, ele-
mentary statistics, agricultural
writing, scientific French, Ger
man, Spanish and Russian.
A small tuition, which barely
covers remuneration of the in
structors, who are officials of the
department, is charged. There
was a good increase in enroll
ment this year, it was stated.
The Washington times., 1931-06-27
j. s. BUILDINGS
To. BAN HEAT
WORRIES
P. o., Labor, Justice Workers
Look Forward to Time When
New Quarters Are Ready

Federal employees in the pres
ent Postoffice, Justice and Labor
buildings, most of whom already
are, in modern office buildings,
are looking forward eagerly, how
ever, to their coming transfer to
the brand new office buildings,
and part of their eagerness is
due to the air-conditioning ap-
paratus which will serve these
buildings.
EVEN TEMPERATURES
The temperature, humidity and
purity of the air in these build
ingS will be uniform winter and
summer, and as hot weather in
creaseS the employees are wish
ing they could turn the calendar
ahead even now.
The Archives Building will also
have air-conditioning, but only
one-fourth of the new Commerce
Building will be thus modernized.
Meanwhile, employees in the
wooden temporary buildings over
the city are facing another hot
summer, not only without any
air-conditioning, but also without
any hope for future relief.
Workers in the Agricultural
and Treasury temporary build
ings, for instance, seem to feel
the heat more keenly when think
ing of the cool, impressive, mod
ern structures Of their head
quarters offices.
212 Hours Lost
Last summer, the heat caused
1920 Federal employees here
to lose an average Of 212
hours each, and the Govern.
ment's loss was about $780,
900 for the year, according to
the Public Buildings COmmis-
sion.
And of coure in the winter,
the discomforts and dangers to
health are just as acute, it is
pointed out.
But except for the new build
ingS now visibly rising. employees
in the Stucco structures must be
content with the official aSSur-
ance that conditions will be, i'm
proved "just as quickly as possible" )"
The Washington times., 1931-06-27
MEETING TOPIC
|SPERSONNEL

Delegates of the various Wash
ington locals of the Federal EN-
ployes' Union will meet Wednes-
day night at ITO Fourteenth st.
N. w., to take up various mat
ters affecting the local personnel.
At this and later meetings,
plans for the annual convention
of the National Federation of Fed
eral Employees at Seattle Septem-
ber 7, will be discussed.
The Washington unions are ex-
pected to take the lead in push
ing through Congress the legiSla-
ton which all Federal employees
over the country are tavoring.
The Washington times., 1931-06-27
Fingerprints NOw
Required for Civil
Service Jobs

Beginning July l, all ap-
pointees to Federal Civil Ser
vice will be fingerprinted and
these imprints will be attached
to their application papers and
be retained permanently in the
Civil Service files.
The Civil Service Commission
is sending to every local secre-
tary of the commission, in every
State, forms and fingerprinting
equipment for making records
Of every person appointed. Be
cause Of time and routine re
quired in such a sweeping mea-
sure, however: and because the
Form 1928 describing methods
Of fingerprinting applicants.
sent to all secretaries, may not
reach some right away, the
commission has ruled that no
papers are to be delayed be
cause fingerprintS do not ac-
company tSem.
The Washington times., 1931-06-27
Ne1u Agricultural Bureau
Makes Debut, July I
ISLAND TRAIL

There will be few additions to
the personnel of the division
of agricultural engineering of the
Department of Agriculture when
the division becomes a bureau
July l. The bureau is simply an
expansion of the division. S. H.
McCrory, for "a years connected
with the Department of Agricul-
ture and of late chief of the divi-
sion, will be head of the new
bureau, and is expected to retain
the present personnel intact. Nc
Crory is a past president of the
American Society of Agricultural
Engineers.
Speaking of this new expan-
sion, Secretary of Agriculture
Hyde says:
The Washington times., 1931-06-27
.PLAN DINNER.506 EMPLOYEES
.F0R DR.. HOWARD TAKE COURSES

All the members of the Cos
mos Club in Washington are ex-
pected to attend the clubs formal
farewell to DR.. Leland o. Howard
Monday night. L. A. Simon,
chairman of the house commit
tee of the club, has charge of the
reception.
DR.. Howard, former president
of the club, has been a member
As years, and is completing So
years with the chronological sec
tion of the Department og Agri-
culture. He is "a, and has been
honored by degrees and citations
from universities and many
foreign governments and socie-
ties. A list of these honors fills
two typewriter pages.
He will walk out of his office
next Tuesday for the last time,
and will shortly sail for Hawaii
as the guest of a wealthy friend
there. Later he will visit the
Orient, and wind up in Paris
where for a year or two he will
live with his daughter.
DR.. Howard has been foremost
in seeking better salaries and con-
ditions for fellow employees here.
No formal farewell is planned for
his last day, but callers are ex-
pected to fill his unpretentious
office on Seventh Street South
west, until the hour Of his de-
parture. His technical library
goes to Duke University.
The Washington times., 1931-06-27
VACATION LURE
GRIPS CLERKS

Beginning Monday, the vaca-
ton season of Federal employees
will start in full swing, and until
after Labor Day will take Uncle
Sans army of workers to the
seashore, mountains, and other
places for relaxation.
July, August and September
will find every department and
every office building operating
with smaller forces who will get
ocean and mountain postcards
from lucky vacationistS, with
Wish you we're here" as the
predominating sentiment.
Personnel officials report a
landslide of leave requests this
week. Many are for 80 days, and
the annual vacation is the tenor
of them all. August and Sep
tember remain the favored
months for relaxation, however.
The Washington times., 1931-06-27
Monks GARDEN
IS SHOW PLACE

One of the show places of
Washington, Mt. st. Sepulchre,
the Franciscan Monastery in
Brookland, this year has at
tracted many garden clubs of
the city and nearby Maryland
and Virginia to view the large
rock gardens cultivated by the
monks there.
Under the leadership of Father
Godfrey Schelling, o. F. NJ, who
planned the Monastery and the
gardens which have grown up
around it, the FranciScans have
now under cultivation a six-acre
tract of land.
While most of the monastery
grounds are taken up with rock
gardens and ferns, large beds of
roses have been planted in the
immediate vicinity of the build
ing. and clumps Of rare shrubs,
cover the " lls Of the Esvines.
The Washington times., 1931-06-27
HG71n1att Is Made
Market Specialist

Theodore D. Hammatt, who has
been in charge of the grain and
flour section of the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
this week took over the post of
senior marketing specialist in the
grain futures administration. He
will do statistical and analytical
work.
A graduate of williams College.
Mr.. Hammatt was president of a
Topeka milling company several
years, but has been doing public
work since 1914.
The Washington times., 1931-06-27
FIELD SERVICE
EMPLOYEST To
BENEFIT
Law Now Held Fully Defined;
Department Budgets Provide
Complete Effect for Halliday

All legal points relating to the
application of the Saturday half
holiday law to all classes Of Fed.
era employees have been disposed
of as the result of Attorney
General Mitchell's decision
yesterday.
With Navy Yard per diem
workers placed on the same foot
ing as the regular civil service en-
ployes of the Government, the act
is now so completely defined that
no further hurdles remain to pre-
vent all of the Federal workers
from receiving the full benefit
Of it.
The fieId-service employees of the
interior and other departments,
who were excepted from the prOvi-
sions of the act when passed by
Congress, have been covered under
It by executive order.
There have been points in the
field service, however, where the
officials of the Federation Of
Federal Service Employees believe
officials have abused or exceeded
their discretion in keeping en-
ployes at work on Saturday half
holidays on the ground that their
services cannot be spared"
The new 1888 departmental
budgets will make ample prov1-
sion for putting the Saturday
half-holiday into complete effect,
and, when employees cannot be
spared" at the appointed week.
end, they will be given a half
holiday during the succeeding
week, in accordance with the
precedent which has already been
asta h1iShad in most departnnentS.
The Washington times., 1931-06-27
First Bike Adventure
Brings Tumble to
Girl, FiUe

Anne Laurel, S, of 6733 Georgia
Ave-, is recovering from her first
accident of importance-one re-
sulting from the age Of speed
and youth.
The little girl was whizzing
along on her bicycle and at
Georgia Avenue and Butternut
Street something went wrong
and she was hurtled over a
hedge. In the fall a nail dug
into her leg.
She was rushed to Walter
Reed Hospital, nearby, for treat
ment. Her wound was SAID not
te be serious.
The Washington times., 1931-06-27
UNION
SHOWS GAINS

AS July / approaches, Local No.
2, Federal Employees Union, the
largest local of Government work
ers in Washington, expects to find
its goal of 5000 members by that
date more than realized.
On January /, the local had f.
967 members here. and announced
that persistent efforts would be
made to reach the 5000 mark by
midyear. Despite Withdrawals,
departures from the city, deaths,
etc., the continued gains will like
ay top this goal by two or three
hundred.
The Washington times., 1931-06-27
Brig. Gen. Carr Rose
From I'd LieUten0ncU

Col. Irving j. Carr, who has
been appointed by President
Hoover as chief of tn Signal
Corps Of the Army with rank
of brigadier general, is a ia
miliar officer in Government en-
ployee circles. He has been with
the Signal Corps since 1920, ris-
ing from a second lieutenancy in
1898.
Maj. Gen. George S. Gibbs,
his predecessor. has become vice
president of the international
Telephone and Telegraph Com
spany, of New York.