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OLD A1VAA ~ OA~AAO ". Burgess.

tion," said Flip. as that tongue of
yours sticky? noticed that you seemed
to touch that insect with your tongue"
Certainly 1t is sticky. How else do
you think I could hold onto those in
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Business Luncheons.

Several mothers have written me re-
Gently and asked If would make sug-
gestions for suitable luncheons for those
who must lunch away from home. AS
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said the aide, IT have been instructed
to tell you to send your harp to the
White House Mr.. Hoover will unlock
the case and set it up for you"
But" cried the abashed harpist.
please don't do that. I wouldn't put
the President to all that trouble for
the world. I'll unlock it myself"
My dear lady" applied the aide. 1T
will be no trouble for the President.
The Hoover I refer 10 is Ike Hoover,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-01

There's at least one man to whom
the appearance Of the sheriff on the
scene with legal papers to serve means
nothing. He is DR.. Ray Lyman Wilbur,
Secretary of the Interior.
The Secretary is probably sued more
than any other man in the country. At
all times the United States marshal and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-01
Old Mr.. Toad Again.

4 Ia not wise nor is it fair
New friends With old ones to compare.
Old Mother Nature.
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ID ANDOM notes in A Washington Day
~ Book:
Mildred Dilling rated as one Of the
foremost women harpists, came down to
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03
Russian Dele
oates at Far
mer-LabOr
Temple Tues
day July 9TH

The delegates from the north
# and Pacific coast, five in
Vs. who went to Russia in
h In-I with the national delegation
n Sapt over by the organization
s sTnS as the Friends of Soviet
p 1 to attend the great May
I Nov celebration at Moscow and to
I &c and inspect the gigantic Gu
onerative farm and the huge fac
sar;es which are being erected by
.Ss workers. and farmers govern
' NJ. of Russia in the Five Year
GENERALIZATION Plan, are now on
tbeir wav home after extensive
travel in Russia. They landed in
New York a few days ago, and are
reswar dbOund in an automobile,
Thew are now in Dakota speaking,
On Tuesday, July 7th they will ar
rive in Plentywocd, and will hold
mass meeting under the auspices
Of the United Farmers League
Mother Bloor will accompany them
and will also speak.
These men, one of whom is {
Montana farmer from Hysham
fresh from the worker Socialist re
public, will tell you first hanC
what they saw in Russia: the bis
farms, the big factories, the people
at work-where there is no unem
plOyment, and no exploiters.
Every farmer in Sheridan count,
should attend this meeting.
In the evening these delegate
will speak the the Valley schoo
southeast of Froid. Every persol
in eastern Roosevelt county shoul,
come to hear these men.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03
By EDGAR /. SYVERUD

Hon. Robert Larson's letter OF
appeal in last weeks Producers
News in behalf Of the drouth
stricken farm families of south
eastern Snerid III County Is not
Overdrawn.
Irrespective OF what our politics
and social views are on other mat
tiers we can justly agree with him
in his presentation of the present
serious drouth condition. The
drouth is a fact the seriousness
of it is apparent, and the future
is very dark looking. 1t seems
almost like some hideous, heart
breaking nightmare to a great
many of US, not only in Mr.. Lar
sons immediate neighborhood but
includes practically the whole east
ern part of the county and many
spots in other parts of the county
For the past several months W.
have watched and hoped for the
crop saving rains only to expert
ence from day to day the appar
emily never ceasing dust-stOrms
first from one direction and thel
from another. What crops tina
did get start were cut away b.
the merciless sweep of the drifting
sands, pastures were parched an,
eaten bare as plowed fields. Their
is very little hope for furthe
grazing, let alone the possibilit
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03
Bannon Found Guilty at Crosby-GWen Life Term
Many Sheridan County Families
Are Now Actually In Want

for hay for winter feeding. In
fact many are herding their mich
COWS on the remnants of their
field crops as a means of getting
by until something should turn up.
The price of cattle is too low to
bring returns enough in many cas-
as even to pay the freight. And to
ship to other localities for feeding
would not work out very well ex-
cept in the case of feeder cattle for
market. But the families that
have to depend wholly on their
mich cows for living must stay
here and their cows must be kept
here, so it seems that the feed
must be provided in some way. The
situation is alarming not alone
for the present but for what's In
store for the next fifteen months
There are many cases right now
of real distress. Outside help il
urgently needed.
AS a starter, our board of cOun
commissioner on Saturday Las
complied with request for $40C
with which to purchase Millet seec
for those not in a position to BIZ!
otherwise. This was in order q
help make a last effort TO rails
some hay for a few mich COW
that are the sole dependence o
many families. On Monday Cow
! ty Agent Ferguson and Niels Mad
sen, deeming this amount not nea
. enough to supply all those in neeC
. appealed to the board for an in
crease which was given, q total o
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03
BOLSTER TIES CAM
TO DEPUTY CHRIST

County Assessor Bolster last
Tuesday. June Both, discharged
Christ Christensen, who has served
as deputy assessor for the past sew
eral years, and who understood he
was to have a job during the ten
ure of Assessor Bolster, especially
during the present term. Christen-
sen is reported to have been dis
charged with only a few hours no
tice.
AS Christensen is understood to
be a very efficient and capable Of
flee hand, his dismissal came as a
surprise to his many friends. II
was understood at first that Chris
tensen's dismissal was an economy
move as there is very little work
in the assessors office at this time
of the year, and that Assessor
Bolster would get along with only
his clerk until after the first of the
year. But Wednesday morning
Carter Phelps of Homestead ap
peared on the scene and was ap
pointed as deputy to take Christen
sens place.
It is reported that R. G. lyle
and Mr.. Phelps fatherin-law, Mr.
Olness, together with Com. Frencl
waited upon Assessor Bolster ant
insisted that Christensen be dis
charged and Carter Phelps ap
pointed in his place, which Bolste
did.
This is another instance of tn
power of the Medicine Lake crow
at the court house. Mrs. Phelp
is postmistress at Homestead.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03
RELIEF COMMITTEE
SHOULD Be FORMED

Steps should be taken at once
to build I'D a relief committee by
the farmers to hook after their
interests and protect them dur
ing the coming year. There is
great need for such a committee
if the experiences of Arkansas
last winter are not be repeated.
There has been an application
made b ythe authorities for $4,000
per month relief appropriation
for Sheridan county. This is only
a drop in the bucket of what will
be needed. The Red Cross usu-
ally buys it's supplies from the
local merchants at local retail
prices for the relief so as to af-
ford a rake off to these men on
the money that goes for the re-
lief of human misery. If the Red
Cross appropriation of $4,000 is
made, the relief committee should
see to it that the groceries furn-
ished are purchased wholesale
where they can be bought the
cheapest and distributed free t.
the needy, and that not one cent
goes for the profit of peddlers
And that committee should also
see to it that all further Door re
lief is supplied the same way by
means of county store. This Civ
ing merchants the poor reliel
money is indefensible and shOuiC
be stopped at once.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03

10000 pounds of millet 10 be pur-
chased for distribution. Tuesday
morning the whole office force got
busy getting out notices so that
those in need might receive quick
attention.
In the rush of the emergency
commendable work has been done
in setting up the machinery of re-
lief, but this will be just a start
er compared to what may have to
be done later.
The Red Cross is expected to
have a representative here in a
week or so and it would seem that
it would be we'll for us to have
some sort of organization set up
as soon as possible thru which he
could work and the relief could
function more Systematically.
A county director of relief, one
who is acquainted with the country
the people and the many local con-
ditionS should be selected.
While the scattered rains of the
past week or so have been bene-
ficial yet they will not insure &
crop of either hay or grain under
the existing condition and at this
late date. Pastures and the blown
out fields are beginning to get
green, a lot of this is Russian
thistle that will be too thick fol
any good, but the season is too fal
advanced for much hope. Between
the hot winds and the grasshop
pers the light showers will have /;
poor show of doing much good.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03
RIDENOURS RETURN
FROM CALIFORNIA

Mr.. and Mrs. L. C. Ridenour and
daughters, Ellen and Alice, arriv-
ed in Plentywood Wednesday after
noon from Los Angeles, California
where they have sojourned since
last November. They Travelled to
and from California by car, spend
ing ten days on the return trip,
coming north thru California to
Oregon, and across that state and
Washington to Seattle an east thru
Idaho, and the Glacier National
Park, visiting at divers points of
interest along the way. Mr.. Ride
nour said they took their time and
enjoyed themselves as they figured
it would be long before they could
make the trip again, and that they
had come home prepared to dig a
bare living out of the soil of north
eastern Montana for some time to
come. He reports that times are
terrible on the coast, and that
while there has been more rain tt
the west the drouth is general
over the western part of the Unit
ed States, and that in California
and Western Oregon and Washing
ton and Montana there are M
crops except on the irrigated land
and that water IN many places i
short for that.
The Ridenours say that in spit,
of everything they enjoyed thei
sOjourn on the southwest Pacifi
coast. After the harvest they will
return to their farm southwest o
Plentywood where they will again
take charge of the farming of thei
lands.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03
BUTTE CITY In SAME
BOAT WITH CHICAGO
BOTH ARE. "BROKE"

Butte, June 26.-Butte, like Chi
cago, is "broke" and the problem
of finances is one of the most i'm
portant facing the new admins
stration.
AS long as the banks continue TO
refuse to cash city warrants, May
or Archie McTaggart has a none
to-contented city households; in fact
it's a bad time for new mayor
when police and firemen cannot
cash their salary warrants.
Meanwhile, the city council, anx-
ious 10 right the sitautiOn which
was foreshadowed more than 9
year ago when the legal debt limit
of indebtedness was approached
as written a new tax bill.
The new tax ordinance, IT de-
clared constitutional, would license
"persons, firms, associations anC
corporations" engaging in variuo'
occupations, the license fees rang
ing from 81 to $3.50 a year.
The bill, covaring half cozel
closely typewriter pages ard list
| ing more than 200 occupations a
subiecs to Tin. tax, has been re
ferred to a judiciary Commute
, which will study the proposal.
The present situation = decreas
ing property values ami increasing
; debts-has confronted Butte TO
some time. The city-cOunty cor
solidation program defeated at
f special election recently, woul
! have prevented the critical stat
of city finances now being felt.
n. The consolidation bill would hav
1 increased the revenue from larg
5 corporations operating within tn
: city limits by $225,O0O a year
sum sufficient to decrease Butte
indebtedness.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03
McELROY CHILD HAS
EYE BADLY INJURED

a serious accident occurred We'd
nssday evening, June "a at the Curf
man home near McElroy. The three
year old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Curf-
man was playing with the spring OF
a screen door when in some manner
the spring gouged into the childs
eye tearing the eyeball across the
pupil and damaging it otherwise. AS
soon as possible after the accident
]. G. Noon took the child and his
parents to Pientywood. There the
doctor cleaned and tended the wound
but advised that the patient be talk
en- to Minot. Mr.. Noon and party
started Immediately for Minot arriv-
ing there at five o'clock Thursday
morning. There the injured eye was
given further care. Mrs. Curfman
remained with the child in Minot..
The latest report received is that
the child is doing as we'll as can be
expected and can return home soon.
1t is not known whether there will
be any permanent injury to the eye
! or not.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03
GOVERNOR ASKS FOR
PARDON OF MOONEY

sanFrancisco, June 3d. Gov.
Philin F. LaFollettc of Wisconsin
has made a strong personal appear
for clemency for "Tom" Mooney In
letter to Governor James Rolpn
The Wisconsin executive deplores
tendency to considerA the prs
oner's economic and political views
rather than the question OF ms
guilt or innocence" and states that
an examination of the facts con-
vinces him that Mooney had no
mart in the 1916 San Francisco
Preparedness Day dynamite ouV-
rage. - A.,
LaFoIlette is believed to be tne
first governor to make a direct ap'
neal for the famous prisoner
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03
2CATALOC HOUSES
MAY MERGE SOON

John Sinclair writes in his :
syndicated column. EVERY
bOdy's Business" of the con-
templated merger of Sears
ROebuck Co. and Montgomery
Ward and Go. the two most
important mail order houses IN
the country. This merger so
long discussed is believed to be
nearer today than ever. 1t is
understood that the merger
has the tentative approval of
: the federal trade commission.
There are several other large
mail order houses IN cOmpeti-
tiOn with the two companies
I" mentioned that it is believed
that such a merger could not
: rightfully be called a monOpO-
" ly.
= a 4 4 4
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03
JURY GIVES W.PARENT BIG JUDO
MENFT AGATVST MACHINE COMP'NY
District Court Adjourned Saturday Night After Longest
Session in Many Years-CaIendar Practically Cleared
Many Old Cases Finally Disposed of.

The jury in the case of the Min
neapolis-Moline Company against
Wilfred Parent of Medicine Lake
which had lasted all the week,
starting Monday, brought in a YER
dict at $3.50 Saturday night and
was dismissed. The rest of the
Jury panel had been dismissed on
Wednesday of last week after the
case against Robert Rookie, Jr.,
for delinquency, had been set over
the term. The term was the long
est probably in the history of the
county. 1t was the first general
term of court, however, for near
ly two years, so the calendar was
large, and many cases took much
longer to try than was anticipat-
ed. Many of the cases on the cal
endar were docketed nearly fifteen
years ago, which were all disposed
of this term either by settlement
dismissal, or by default. Proba
| bly, at no time in the past has there
! been so little pending matters iT
the district court of Sheridan cOun
ty as now, and another term vii
: probably clear the docket.
: The long term exhausted TIT
! district court funds and compelled
S the board of county commissioner
: to amend the budget, which the!
did last Saturday by adding tw'
4 thousand dollars, the budget being
: overdrawn by that amount. Tn
S entire cost of the term, including
: jurymen per diem, mileage and wit
e ness per diem and mileage, bail
ifs wages and other costs vii
+ amount to about $500 according
q to Clerk of Court Carl Peterson.
r The last two terms of court prio
+ 10 this were special terms in whic
a criminal cases only were tried, viz
d in March 1880 when S. R. Collin
,e was convicted and in June whe
Wanda Hass was acquitted in tn
e sensational Hass murder tria
Re These cases cost nearly as much q
lie this long one.
"a, THE PARENT CASE
. The last case tried during tn
term was that in which the Nil
, neapolis-Moline Implement Con
j pany sued Parent, old time farm
n er, living near Medicine Lake, fl
several thousand dollars in mote
- given by him for the purchase of
= big combine. Parent admitted TIL
); he had given the notes but elaine
"A that the combine did not give sa
= isfaction and put in a count
- claim for his loss. This was g
Z, legged by him to amount to abo
=, $1,000.
tie He was unable TO prove some
he the items of damage but prov
at plenty of damages at that. Amor
he the damages which he claim
were the loss of his wheat and
Ter his own time and the time of !
in men in trying to make the comb
i+h work.
bic The implement company's
M Tense was that he had signed o
ay- of the written orders which ha
Continued on last page.)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03
w. G. Adams Is Appointed
Roosevelt Commissions

On Monday morning of last
week Judge Paul appointed w. G.
Adams of the Enterprise communl.
ty near Froid to fill the unexpired
term of Andrew Harbo, resigned
The appointment came as no sur
prise as it was expected that Mr.
Adams would be named due to the
fact that he was a great favorlte
of many of the taxpayers IN the
eastern end of the county and al
meetings held In Froid and IN the
Enterprise country.
Mr.. Adams is a pioneer farmeel
of the Enterprise community u
Roosevelt county, stands well witt
his fellowmen and should be abb
to fill the place with honor to INN
self and satisfaction to the taxpay
ers of the district and county.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03
F. U. OIL MEETING
AT WOLF POINT

Wolf Point, June 81 A state
convention of the officers and sta
ton managers connected with the
OIL department of the Farmers
Union was held at Wolf Point on
Wednesday at the coliseum. About
10 people were present, including
few visitors.
Head officials attending includ-
ed I. J. Kelly, state president Of
Ie Farmers Union; c. o. Spang-
ier, head of the oil department; w,
. Good, director; L. C. Hart, dis
Ulct manager; Ralph Ingerson
general manager at st. Paul; T.
\ GllmOur, representing the Arc
SSet1llnlng Co., makers of AFRO anC
IloOe gasoline and R. D. Thomas
representing the Northland Oil Co
distributors Of Penn Union oil. 0
D. Horsford and julius Cess, coun
y union presidents were among
the speakers.
Inc program of talks and rount
t discussions covered many o
we important phases of making
SSnppmg and selling gas, oil an
grease s IN competition with othe
o ~ Reports showed tn
vi department, which is a youn
enterprise with the union to b
E ,at at a highly satisfactor
; ;%Se' The products handled, espeC
,riIy Penn-Union Oil, are popula
" "l.1 the trade and satisfactory
quality and price.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03
LARGEST BANK
IN TOLEDO CLOSES
All Banks Now Ask for Sixty
Days Notice Before Money May
Be Withdrawn.

Toledo, Ohio.-The third largest
bank in this city has closed its
doors and three other banks have
announced that go days written
notice would be required for with
drawals of savings deposits. The
Security Home Trust Co., with re-
sources alleged to exceed So mil
lion dollars, failed to open the
doors of its main office and II
branches, tying up abut SIC, 900, 0O(
in deposits.
Heavy withdrawals from Other
banks followed, and as result
the Commerce Guardian Trust anC
Savings Bank, the Ohio Savings
and Trust Co. announced that NJ
one could get any money from
them unless so days written notic'
were given.
The Security Home Trust Co. is
sued a statement saying that i
had closed its doors to conserv,
the assets and protect stockholders
creditors and depositors. With
drawals amounting to 100000 i
the last few months was said t.
have been the chief cause for tn
closing order.
| The city of Toledo had abou
81, 100000 in general revenue an
tax funds on deposit in the ban
when it closed; the Board of Edu
cation had over a million dollar
and Lucas county 5000, 900 on d.
post. All these are secured b
bonds. Other depositors, mostl
workers and small business mel
are protected by nothing.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03
BICF.U. MEETING
AT BRUSH LAKE
SUNDAY. JULY )

Members of the Farmers Union
of Sheridan county, and ali farm
ers of the county, should go to
Brush Lake Sunday to hear Secre-
tary T. E. Howard of the Colorado
Farmers Union.
There is an impending split In
the Farmers Union between those
who are supporting the Farm
Board in its agricultural betrayal
policy and those who are fighting
the Farm Board and demanding a
real farm relief policy.
The farm board is being support
ed by the st. Paul sO-called coop
erative exchange, who are borrow
ing huge sums of money from the
Farm Board and drawing salaries
Of from $4,000 to $4,000 per yea1
besides huge expense accounts
and it is being fought by the regu
lar officers of the Farmers UniO1
who not being on the farm boarC
payroll, are fighting for the farm
ers This branch of the union i
being led by Pres. John Simpson O.
the National Farmers Union. TIL
St. Paul outfit is supporting Hoov
er and the Farm Board and tn
Farmers Union Herald, owned an
controlled by the St. Paul crowC
which paper goes to all member
Of the Union in the northwest,
for the Farm Board. Sec. T. T
howard is speaking against tn
Farm Board
Howard is a powerful speaker.
Every farmer should hear hi1
Sunday afternoon at Brush Lake.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03
Chicago Building Permits
Are Reduced "a Per Cent

Chicago.-FP- One explanation
of the 20 Chicago bank crashes is
seen in the figures released by the
Illinois labor department which
shows that building permits in
Chicago for May 1881 were $40
lower than for May 1930-the pan
ic year.
For the state the drop was 75.1
per cent. The figures reached the
lowest point for May in the history
of the department.