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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-07-02

This is a critical time for business men
in the small cities and towns Those towns
where business men are wide awake and
use every means in their power to hold and
build up business will survive and remain
good trading centers. 1t is a time for all peo-
pie to do their trading with home merchants
instead of making expensive trips to distant
places for imagined bargains, or send to mail
order houses who never pay taxes in the
small town community, and get their mer-
chandise there. City merchants are advertis-
ing stronger than ever in order to draw more
customers. Local merchants who are con-
sistent and judicious advertisers are in a po-
sition to prove that nothing is gained by go
ing away to trade.
Advertising influences the public more
than anything else. Whether it is the choice
of a breakfast food, a new shirt, tie or auto
mobile, the idea for a certain kind Of quality
is supplied through advertising. The purch-
aser may not be aware of it at the time, but
if he would stop to analyze the elements en-
tering into his decision, would discover that
back in his ~subconscious mind there has been
built up a prejudice in favor of a certain
brand Of article by the advertising it has re-
ceived. Advertising does bring to a store,
trade that otherwise would never have found
its way to that town or inside the doors of
that certain establishment that persistently
advertised. 1t can develop new trade terri
tory, and new customers for the store. 1t
can make popular articles that would other
wise find no market. Carefully written, well
thought-out advertising. backed by good,
dependable merchandise, the right kind of
service, and modern merchandising meth
DDS, will bring business prosperity to any
merchants who employs them.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-07-02
Secretary Hyde Sends
Emissary to Northwest

day hearing at which representatives
from 10 Montana counties piled up a
mountain of impressive facts as to
the seriousness of the effects of
the drouth in 1881.
County agents, Red Cross chair
men, county nurses, county commits
~sioners, stockmen, farmers, business
men, representatives of irrigation dis
tricts, told the story Of how the third
year of unprecedented drouth had
brought the farmers Of the territory
to the place where there was not
much left but character"
Mr.. Brown further stated that he
felt that something should be done
at once towards allowing summer fall
low for the 1882 crop to proceed
He frankly presented the problem
which might confront the department
in the matter of utilizing funds ap-
propriated for relief and rehabilita-
ton following a 1880 drouth continu-
ing into 1881. He said that there were
some funds still remaining from the
s45, 100000 appropriated for 1881
seed, feed and fertilizer and some al
so remaining in the additional $780,.
O0O, 900 appropriated for rehabilita-
ton following the 1880 drouth.
eff I had the administration, I'd
pretty nearly turn my back. We have
the authority to make loans, and it
seems to me we could use it for this
blowing and feed for cows. But
don't know how they will enterpret
it. The secretary has to conform to
legal requirements and lawyers don't
always agree with farmers"
Sent last week to northwestern
North Dakota and northeastern Mon
tana to investigate drouth conditions,
Mr.. Brown stated that ut seemed to
me that it would be impossible to be
as bad as reported" Meeting Thurs
day with 500 farmers and county
representatives at Williston, N. D.,
driving Friday 200 miles from Will
lston to Minot, N. D., to confer with
Governor Schafer, and more farmers
seeing conditions personally along the
drive, " want to say that conditions
were even worse than most of the
men had described them"
Making this statement at the af-
ternoon session Saturday after he
had listened to several Montana dele
cations in the morning Mr.. Brown
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-07-02

think like two-hundred million bushels of
the old SURPRISES, there would be every rea-
son for the belief that wheat prices will adj
vance very substantially before the end of
the year. The disposition of this government
owned wheat will determine largely the
course of the market. The members OF the
federal farm board are naturally anxious to
iquidate the governments losses so far as
possible, and may set about to sell some of
its stored wheat in foreign markets, in
which event the price is likely to remain de-
pressed. 1t has been suggested that this
government wheat should be kept locked up
for a period of three years and thus afford
our growers an opportunity to regulate
their production, but it is scarcely to be ex-
pected that such a policy will be pursued.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-07-02
Writes from ARIZONA

A former Plentywood man writes
us from Arizona, that he believes
Plentywood would be a pretty good
place to live in again, when compar-
ing news and advertising in The Her.
aid with what appears in newspapers
from other parts Of this country.
He sent us a clipping from a local
paper, with the following reference
to it: GLOW does this rate as being
the latest thing in MAIL ORDER
business? About all it takes is the
800 pesos. Pm not in the business
however, so please don't quote me as
the advertiser"
"By Mutual consent, Nancy
Carroll, Paramount film star, and
her husband John M. Kirkland,
both of New York, filed a petit
ton for divorce in Nogales, Son.
ora, Wednesday.
No complaint was filed in the
action, it was announced by M.
C. Little, attorney, representing
both parties.
"Mr Little said that neither
the actress nor her husband
would probably comes to Nogales,
the decree to be forwarded them
by mail"
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-07-02
Legal Notices
CALL O BIDS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
that the Board of School Trustees of
School District No. 33 of Sheridan
County, Montana, will on the 18th
day of July 1881, at Dooley, Monta-
ma, award a contract to the lowest
bidder, for the erection Of a one
story frame school building, contain
ing four rooms, SO feet wide and 60
feet long, with an annex 16 feet wide
and 20 feet long, with full basement,
according to the plans and speciti-
cations now on file at the Clerks Of
flee, which may be secured by any
prospective bidder.
That said contract will not include
the excavation of the basement, which
will be completed before the common
cement of said contract, and the school
district will furnish all sand, gravel
and stone required for said contract,
and will deliver all lumber and build
ing material from the depot or local
lumber yard at Dooley, Montana, on
the grounds, free of charge to the
successful bidder.
The successful bidder will be re-
quired to enter into a contract with
the school board Immediately and
furnish a good and substantial bond.
Said contract to be completed on or
before the Is day of September 1881.
All bids shall be addressed to the
undersigned, Clerk Of said school dis
trict. rlSW
The board Of Trustees reserves the
right to reject any and all bids.
Dated July End, 1881.
By order of the School Board.
M. w. MARKUSON,
School Clerk.
Pub. 44-3t.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-07-02
JULY 4TH-

July 4th is firecracker day, picnic day
and legal holiday. 1t is also independence
Day. And therefore an appropriate time
for mothers and wives to show that this is
the land of the free for home-makers as
well as home-wreckers.
Business men and women are allotted
a vacation on the fourth; even those who
are SO fortunate as to maintain servants lets
these workers take a holiday. The desk and
the typewriter get a rest. Why not, them a
holiday for the home-manager, a vacation
for the stove and the sink Let Mother eel
citrate independence Day by doing what she
likes this one day Of the year. Instead OF a
big dinner or a sumptuous picnic lunch, let
her take her ease; instead of planning the
family's outing, let them plan hers.
If the future home-makers of this ma
ton will show their independence and the
future home-makers will let mother take her
ease on this day, it will be a real holiday in
stead of a red mark on the calendar.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-07-02

Mrs. William Hanish's mother died
at her home in Clear Lake, Iowa on
June 9Th. Mrs. Hanisch arrived there
shortly before her mother passed
away. The obituary copied from a
Mason City newspaper follows:
CLEAR LAKE, June 10.-Funer-
al services for Mrs. K. O. Brager, 81,
were held Tuesday at the home of
her son, Oliver Brager, 204 East
Main street. The Rev. H. 0. Urness,
pastor of the Zion Lutheran church,
the Rev. S. M. Stenby, pastor Of the
Bethlehem Lutheran church, and the
Rev. Mr.. Halvorson, pastor of the
Ellington Prairie church, officiated at
the services.
Mrs. Brager died Saturday after
noon. She vas born in Valders, Nor
way. She was a former member of
the Women's Relief Corps and the
Daughters of Union Veterans.
Burial was made in the cemetery of
her old home, Ellington Center. Pail
bearers we're Ed Harding, T. B. Ait
Gibson, Matt Olson, Charles Eliason,
P. 0. Halvorson and Henry Paulson.
She was married Jan. %, 1865 to
X. O. Brager, at Vermont church,
near Black Earth. They continued to
live there until the spring Of 1875
when they moved to Clear Lake, locat-
ing on a farm in Ellington. They re-
sided there until 1879 when they
moved into Clear Lake to spend their
remaining days.
Mrs. Brager was n Of the organ
izers of the church at Ellington and
when they moved here united with
the Zion Lutheran church. She took
an active interest in all activities of
tie church and other organizations, the
influence of which was for the bet
terment of the community.
Out Of town relatives at the funer-
al included Mrs. William Hanisch,
Billy Hanisch, Mrs. Mia Robinson
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-07-02

and son, Gene, all of Plentywood
Montana; Myron Brager, Sioux
City, and Clara Anderson, Cedar
Falls.
Others from out-of-t town were: Mr..
and Mrs. Claire Brager. Northwood,
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Brager, earn
er; Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Brager, FL
lington Center; Mr.. and Mrs. John
Osmondson, Thompson; Mr.. and Mrs.
A. N. Anderson. Donald and Maxine,
Sheffield, and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Peterson, Hartland MINI.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-07-02

HELENA, June 20. (AP)-Re-
lief for Montana's dry land farm
er. will depend on the decision
of Secretary Hyde, when he hears
the report of his special ennis
sary to the northwest, John G.
Brown, at Kansas City, Wednes-
day, Brown told Governor Erick-
son, yesterday.
Results of Browns conferences with
representatives of II northern and
eastern counties at Glasgow Saturday
were given to the governor, Senator
Walsh and Montana agricultural ex-
perts here yesterday. Some members
of this group expressed belief gov
ernmental aid in some form will be
extended to the needy in order to en-
courage them to remain on their
farms.
Brown paid high compliments to
the character of the Montana citizens
whose stories he heard. 81 don't un-
derstand," he said chow they could
have held out SO long without COM
plant"
He gave assurance of an extremely
sympathetic attitude on the part OF
President Hoover and Secretary
Hyde.
Based both upon evidence submit
ted to him, and upon his own con-
v%iction, following personal observa-
ton, John G. Brown, personal repre-
sentative of Secretary Hyde Of the
department of agriculture, gave rep
resentatives of 10 northeastern Mon
tana counties gathered Saturday at
Glasgow assurance that he was car
rying at once to the secretary an ac-
curate picture of the seriousness of
the drouth conditions as affecting
both man and livestock, and recon-
m~endations of a drouth relief pro-
gram of a most sympathetic charac-
ter.
81 am going to do all that ! can to
make it just as easy as possible that
you get relief and can put out a crop
next year. / admire your nerve. l
can't make any promises. ! am just
going to put a picture Of this before
the people who should know. / am 60
ing to try to get them to do some
thing for the ones who cannot get
through the winter"
Thus did Mr.. Brown outline his in
tentions toward the close of an all
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-07-02

continued, II don't see how you peo-
pie have stood it as long as you have
without complaint. You must be
above the average to have stood it,
The complaints which have gone
from these territories into Washing
ton have caused this investigation to
be made / have received many
requests to go to other parts of the
state to make Investigations. / think
that is time lost, l am convinced that
conditions are deplorable. / think il
is better to go back to the powers
that be and begin work on some con-
structive program for relief"
Delegations from the counties pres
ent were heard in turn, every phase
Of the drouth problem being present.
ed through spokesman, all speaking
reluctantly but of necessity. Mr.
Brown and Mr.. Sheppard asking ad-
ditional questions.
In the ten counties represented ap-
proximately Is per cent of the farm
families will require aid for either
feed for stock, personal sustinence,
or fuel or clothing, as a result of
drouth conditions alone. This relief
for some is going on now, through
county funds or Red Cross, and for
others must start within a month,
and will become cumulative by o.
tober /.
The greater proportion of these
farmers are reputable, Woodworking
men. County after county told that
the credit Of those who need help was
exhausted, usually before the last
seed loan vas given. There will be
no cash crop this year.
Danger of setting the livestock
industry in these counties back ten
years is faced through the near ex-
haustion of feed both on the range on
cultivated. Grain crops will make no
grain, may, if some rain falls, make
hay. This hay, however, in a major
ity of cases would provide feed either
for the balance Of the summer, would
not be sufficient to furnish feed for
both periods. Possible rains may re-
vive ranges. However, the period OF
the year is fast approaching when
such rains are not usually expected.
Water holes and creeks have dried
up increasing the stock problem, wa
ter for stock being hauled in some
places. Farmers in many counties are
already ~pasturing stock on grain
which will not make crop.
Prices of cattle are 80 low that in
many cases the farmer cannot afford
to ship to possible feeding grounds
further east, and then to market, the
cost of shipping, cost of feeding
grounds, and low market price wiping
out any chance for profit. Breeding
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-07-02
WHEAT
Observation-Disclosures News)

\LSWAoNONA
Drouth in large sections of the Dako-
tas, Montana and Canada threatens to re-
duce the normal production of spring wheat
in those areas by from two hundred to three
hundred millions bushels. The exact situa-
ton in Canada is not definitely known, but
reports have it that the total yield there may
not exceed one hundred million bushels.
This reduction reduces by one-half the usual
exportable surplus of the two countries. In
other words, of the new crop, the United
States and her northern neighbor will have
not to exceed two hundred fifty million bu-
shells, and the amount may be much less.
From Russia come seemingly reliable re-
ports that the crop will be no greater and
probably less than that of last year. One of
the largest wheatgrowing sections of Rus
sia is suffering from the same unfavorable
conditions that afflict the spring wheat areas
of North America. But for the fact hat the
American government has in storage some
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-07-02
Magdalene Fitzgerald
To Become a Nun

Miss Magdalene Fitzgerald, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Fitzger-
aid Of Outlook will don the veil and
become a nun ON July 16, and will
enter the Mother house at Garrison,
North Dakota. That day being Recep-
ton day at that place.
Miss Fitzgerald, who is now 81
years of age, was a former Plenty
wood girl, while her parents resided
here, and is well known to those of
u younger generation who lived
here previous to 1920.
She was recently operated on for
appendicitis at the Memorial hospital
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-07-02

and her parents were here Monday to
bring her to her home in Outlook,
where she will remain until she takes
her sacred vows to enter the sister
hood.
The Washington times., 1931-10-30
SHAT 7
SITE SOUGHT

The National Park and plan.
ming Commission will be asked
at it's next meeting to donate
land on Hains Point on which
to erect a shaft as a memorial
to the late Thomas A. Edison. It
is planned to put a powerful elec-
trical beaSon on the shaft
Plans for the construction were
discussed with Lieut.. Col. U. S.
Grant, director of Public Buildings
and Public Parks, by commit
tee composed of DR.. Alexander
Wetmore. assistant secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution, rep
resenting science; C. Melvin
Sharpe, electrical businesses; Capt.
Frederick Hellweg. superintendent
of the Naval Observatory, naviga-
ton; Isaac Cans, commerce; Stod-
dard Taylor, the stage, and Fair
fax Naulty, aviation and engineer
ing.
No subscriptions are being asked
from the public or the Govern
ment for the proposed memorial.
The cost of the memorial will be
borne by a group of scientists
and business men.
The Washington times., 1931-10-30
8 HELD IN BLAST
FATAL To 8

NEW YORK, Oct. 80 CU.S).
When Edward P. Mulrooney was
head of the detective bureau, %
months ago, three children were
killed by a bomb in Brooklyn
while they were dressing to go
to mass.
Branding the crime fiendish,
Mulrooney took personal charge
of the search for the assassins.
In the long list of dead and
wounded in gang and bomb out
RACES, the deaths of Mary, IA,
Philip, 13, and Rose Falzone. 5,
were forgotten by most police
men-but the inspector in COM
mand of the detective bureau
never forgot it a minute, even
when he was made head of the
whole department.
And it was with satisfaction
that Police Commissioner Null
rooney announced today that the
mystery was solved and three men
under arrest charged with homi'
eide.
He named Frank Scimone, %;
Harry Ruisi, "a, and Savere Pi'
rori. so, as principal and accom-
plices in the treble tragedy.
The Washington times., 1931-10-30
6-Hour Day Backed
BV Cornell Dean

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Oct. 80
GNSD The proposal for a six
hor day in industry today had the
backing of DR.. Dexter Kimball,
dean of the college of engineering
at Cornell University. Addressing
a Y. M. c. A. meeting here, Dean
Kimball declared:
"ShOrter working hours is the
answer to the problem Of over
production, and we will unques-
tionabIy come to it soon. One
of the primary causes Of the
present depression, OverprOduc-
ton, must be controlled in flu
ture periods of normal business
through the shortening Of the
working day, in proportion to
the efficiency Of new ma
chinery."
The Washington times., 1931-10-30
SUICIDES WIFE
RECOVERING

Mrs. Margaret Loveless, g.
year-old Veterans Bureau employe,
was recovering at Emergency
Hospital today from a beating at
the hands of her husband. Al
bert, IS, who committed suicide in
an alley near her home following
the assault.
Loveless went to see his wife
yesterday at 1915 Tenth st. N. W.
to effect a reconciliation.
Failing to persuade his wife TO
return with him, Loveless severely
beat her with a blunt instrument.
The woman suffered a broken jaw
and multiple wounds on her body.
LoveleSS then ran from the apart
ment building into an alley near
by and fired one shot into his
mouth from a pistol.
The Washington times., 1931-10-30
TRACKS To STAY
ON HIGHWAY
Photo

Officials Of the Department Of
Public Roads have ruled the two
railway grade crossings and the
trolley car crossing which bisect
the new $7,oOO,OoO Mt. Vernon
George Washington Memorial
Boulevard in Alexandria, Va, are
not a menace to traffic and no ef-
forts will be made to have them
removed.
One of the railway crossings is
part of the main freight line of
the Washington and Old Domin-
ion Railway, while the other is a
spur line of the Southern Railway.
The roads officials said traffic
over the lines is not sufficiently
heavy to warrant the expenditure
required for grade separations at
those points.
The Washington times., 1931-10-30
F|RESTONET TREE
BEARS RUBBER
.Internationa Photo

NEW YORK, Oct. 80 GN.SJ -.
While Thomas A. Edison was
completing his synthetic rubber
experiments in Florida, his close
friend, Harvey S. Firestone,
caused a new species Of tree to
be discovered through his rub
Der plant growing in Liberia, it
was disclosed today.
Firestone had ordered a mil
lion acres cleared from a vast
Liberian forest to make room for
rubber trees when Rudolf Block,
widely known as Bruno Lessing,
the writer, suggested that the
West African trees be examined in
the interest of forestry science.
A graduate of the Yale Uni
versity Forestry School was re-
tanned to study the specimens.
He reported that the trees be-
longed to a species which had
been hitherto unknown to sci
ence. The Latin name Gas
sipourea Firestoneana" has been
given to the species to honor the
rubber manufacturer.
The wood of the Liberian tree
is very durable and is used by
natives in the construction of
houses and canoe paddles.
The Washington times., 1931-10-30
TIUO SurUiUOrs Wait
In StygiGn Cavern
For Rescue Or-Dedth

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Oct. 80
IN.SD.-Six grimy mine work
ers in a subterranean chamber.
picks, shovels and jack-hammers
cutting away at shiny anthracite,
500 feet below the earth's surface.
Laughter, jokes and low con-
verSation interspersed with the
steady drip-drip of water from
the chambers roof.
Then-a roaring explosion rocks
the interior. A sheet of soaring
flame leaps toward the six men.
Smoke Swirls through the coal
bounded room. Faint, gasping
cries come from where the men
were working. That was last Sat
urday.
The smoke clears slowly. AS it
diSSolveS, a tragedy Ct stark real
ism is revealed. Two of the men
lay silent on the floor. Horny,
toilworn hands still grip their
tools. Both are dead, killed in
Stantly in the blast.
Two Men Are Dead
They are Jacob Tinus, As, and
Henry Ceglarski, 20. The sur.
vivOrS examine the bodies, feel
of heart and pulse. Then the
silence is brOken-wOrds of thank
fulnesS, of fear and hope, snatches
of prayer come from these mems
lips.
At least they have escaped
the sudden death that was the
fate Of their two comrades. Spec
ulation enSues as to the next
step. Two of the men, John
Molitoris, IS, and Paul Novak,
40, argue it is fatal to remain
here, waitin gfor a slow death.
They urge the other men, John
Tomashunis, 40, and Joseph Mot
Zoni, %, to accompany them in
an attempt to break out of the
chamber where they are trapped.
Pleas of No Avail
Tomashunis and Motzoni at
tempt to dissuade their venture
some companions. It is 1900
feet from the chamber, up the
inclined tunnel, to the main
shaft.
The first obstacle is a huge
fall blocking the chamber almost
to the roof. MOlitOris and NOvak
Chamber up the pile of debris and
reach the top.
TOmashunis and MOtzOni spring
forward. Too late. .MOlitOris and
NOvak have inhaled the deadly
black damp fumes. Both are
dead. Only MOlitOris and NOvak
remain.
There is no drama in the situa-
ton to them. The primitive urge
to survive, to live, alone remains.
Four miners lunch boxes lay
among the shattered rock and
coal. Feverishly the men examine
the contents, sandwiches, a bit of