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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-08-13
HEAVY rain FRIDAY
EVENING LARGEST
in HISTORY OF CO..
Damages Roads and Bridges
Benefits Pastures and
Forage Crops

The rain storm last Friday ev-
ening appears to have been the
heaviest shower that has ever Wis
tied this county. 1t started about
sever o'clock here in PlentywOOd
and in twenty minutes time the
ground was completely covered
with water. We have lived in
PlentywO0d since 1912 but it Is
the first time it has become nee
essary for us to prevent our base
ment from flooding. In fact most
of the P~lentywood residents
doing valient work digging trench
es through their lawns at the
hour which brought two inches of
water here.
The rain was very general through
out northeastern Montana and was
heavier throughout most Of the coun-
ty than in this vicinitf. In the Dag
mar country about 3h inches of rain
fell in less than thirty minutes. In
the territorf adjacent to Reserve it
is claimed exceeded four inches but
that it continued raining there for
three hours or more.
The terrific downpour filled every
coulee and low spot. 1t is estimatct
that it will cost Sheridan county at
least ten thousand dollars to replace
bridges anil building up washed out
road grades. These washouts were
general all over the county, and we
are inclined to believe that the above
estimate will be far below the final
cost.
This rain did wonders to the late
crops, and millet, corr and other late
sowings for forage will now make
crops. Potatoes and garden track
were also benefited greatly. Farm
ers who were complaining they coulo
not pillow before, are now busy in the
fields, although in most instances the
surface was so muddy ami soaked
that many did not venture into the
fields until Tuesday.
Cool weather followed, and it is
claimed that the mercury dropped
very near to the freezing point Sun
day night.
Culverts Wash Out
1t is sail that one six foot culvert
near Brush Lape was washed out OF
the grade and carried a considerable
distance away from the road. A big
wash occurred in the high grade south
of Reserve which necessitated con-
siderable repairing and traffic had to
detour to the new State road east
The railroad grAle was also weaken
ed considerably south Of Reserve and
necessitated much work by section
crews before trains could pass there
on Saturday.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-08-13
Crops in Dakotas so Percent
Normal Where Good Yields
Were Expected

st. ~Paul-Grain crops have
gone backward the past week and
large acreages Of wheat, partic-
ularly in the Dakotas and Mon
tana, have been cut for hay, the
Farmers Union Terminal associa-
ton says in its weekly crop re-
view.
1.-THE volume Of wheat that will be
available for marketing will be mucn
under government estimates of pro-
duction," the review says, "as much ,.l
the standing grain has been cut for
hay and feed purposes. The holdings
in country mills and elevators are
only about 6,000,0 900 yushels for Min
nesota, the Dakotas and Montana
combined, as a year ago, SO that ship
ments from hold-over grain will be
much less than normal.
From Minot west to Havre, there
is virtually no wheat, with the excep-
tons of a few fields in scattered ar
cas-. From devils Lake west the crop
situation is serious, with about a half
crop in prospect in the Devils Lake
territory.
"The Red River valley is the one
bright spot in the wheat territory of
the spring wheat section. Good crops
still are in prospect in Grand Forks,
Trail, Pembina and Walsh counties.
Corn is also good, in fact, the best in
years in this area.
"Rains have been quite general
throughout the Northwest the past
week and have improved the soil con-
dition and pastures, but the moisture
was too late to benefit any crops ex-
cept corn, potatoes and sugar beets.
"In the territory from Forbes, For.
man, Hankinson and Glendale north
to Valley City and Casselton, where
there were prospects for a bumper
crop a month ago, indications are tina
there will be only fair yields of from
six to ten bushels per acre of wheat
Corn has gone backward and will dc
well to make a half crop.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-08-13
right LEG AMPUTA.
TED LAST sunday

Mrs. Margaret Donaldson, in
spite of all hopes to the contrary
lost her right leg on Sunday when
she had to undergo another am
putation in a desperate attempt
to save her life, and from pres
ent reports It'll S believed that she
will survive this second amputa-
ton.
This case is, undoubtedly the sau-
dest one that has ever occurred in
Sheridan county. The suffering she
has undergone coupled with the loss
of both limbs will go down in the an
nails Of this county as the worst trag-
Ally that has ever befallen anyone
here. The loss of her husband thru
this same tragedy coupled with the
loss Of her limbs which will leave her
a cripple the rest of her life is a sit
uation where only the history of mar
tyrs of old could compare. Mrs. DON
aldson says that it is only for the
sake of her baby that she has uncom-
plainingly stool up under the terrif-
ic bodily and mental suffering.
The baby is rapidly growing strong
err and the bereavel woman will find
her consolation through this child.
The sympathy Of the entire com
munity gees out to this brave mother,
and it is our sincere hope and wish
that she will now regain her strength
and we hope that she will be able to
obtain artificial limbs which will en-
able her to walk again.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-08-13
Change May
Be Made In
Stock Loans
Is Told Present Loan is of
Little Value to Dairy and
Stockmen

MALTA, Aug. 8. (AP)-As-
surance that he will do all in his
power to aid in rehabilitation of
drought stricken areas of Mon
tana was given by Arthur M.
Hyde secretary of agriculture to
Governor Erickson here last
night.
The federal official conferred here
with the governor and others who
have been investigating the needs of
northern and eastern Montana COM
munities.
Mr.. Hyde explained that the fed
eral government cannot lend money
without security; suggested that some
method might be worked out whereby
bankers and businessmen can shale
security with the government.
He said that, after a further exam
ination of conditions in this state and
in North Dakota, he will be able to
give furher consideration to provis.
ions of the recent livestock loan plans
which, he was told, is in its present
form, of no value to this section.
Unless some aid is secured, the sec
rotary was advised, the industry is
faced with the extinction in north
easern Montana where conditions
normally are essentially adapted to
stock raising.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-08-13
THREE BURGLARIES
ON TUESDAY night

Three burglaries occurred in
Sheridan County on Tuesday
night. Sparling's Hardware store
at Medicine Lake was entered by
jimmying the front door. At this
place $85 was taken. There was
SIS in the safe which was not
locked, and another $40 in change
was removed from the till. Moth
ing else was touched according
to the check up which was made
Wednesday morning.
Rorvig's pool hall was entered at
Reserve, presumably through a win
dow and over 500 in cigarettes and
tobacco taken from there. Apparent
ly these thieves knew just what they
were after and did not attempt to take
anything but tobacco either there or
at Antelope where the hanson Pool
Hall was entered through a rear win
dow and where over 1000 cigarettes
and the stock of tobacco was stolen.
Little or no clues have been obtain
ed by the Sheriff. Late Tuesday night
an pen car containing six strangers
drove into the town of Medicine Lake.
This morning no trace has been
found Of these parties, and it is pre-
sumed this may have been the par
ties who committed these burglar.
les.
1t is approaching the season when
burglaries become common in the
northwest and arrangements are be-
ing made in Plentywood for someone
to remain in many business places
each night for the next month.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-08-13
STOCK BUYER GIVES
BUM CHECKS HERE

Two weeks ago today we wrote
an editorial attacking cattle buy
r coming here trying to buy
cattle for a very small price.
One of these blusterers came to
this office with a chip on his
g%houlder, but it had no effect on
us, excepting to write another ed
itOrial lashing these ''kike" stock
buyers O than ever, as well
as some news items relative to a
cattle buyer in Roosevelt county
having landed in Jail for issuing
worthless checks to the farmers
there.
1t now transpires this cattle
buyer who worked in this county
is in just about the same boat.
The expense checks he issued in
PlentywoOd for lodging, board,
gasoline and for cash, are coming
Continued on Last Page)
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-08-13
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given, that all
Claims against Sheridan County, must
be presented to the Clerks of this
Board not later than three days be-
fore the first Monday of each Month,
otherwise Claims will be laid over I'M
til the following Month. Claims for
Road and Bridge Work must show the
exactl location of where work was
done or they will not be approved. All
Claims must have proper vouchers
attached.
THIS RULE WILL BE STRICT
LY ENFORCED.
Board of County Commissioners
Pub. SOFT.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-08-13

TAXPAYERS ASSOC. TO MEET
A business meeting of the Sheridan
County Taxpayers Association will be
held at Antelope on Saturday after
noon, August 22nd.
Anyone interested in keeping this
organization cling is urged ia attend.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-08-13
WOULD DISCONTINUE
rs STATIONS ON 500

A petition has been filed with
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion by the Minneapolis, st. Paul
and Sault st. Marie Railroad Co.,
(Soo Line) asking for the dis
continuance of rs stations along
their roads west of Minneapolis.
We understand the stations spec
%ifically mentioned on the White
tail FlaxtOn branch as being slat-
ed to become freight billing sta
tons are Kermit, Colgan, Aka
DO, McElroy, Comertown and Ray
mOnd.
BY making these changes they
would be able to discontinue the SER
vices of the express, freight, tele-
graph and ticket agents at these sta
1t is also reported that instead of
there being a regular passenger and
freight train service over the White
tail-Flaxton branch that it will be
changed to a mixed train service.
Make Mail Service Unsatisfactory
Residents of the Raymond territory
are not much pleased about such
prospective service. 1t will make the
mail service very unsatisfactory, and
there is already a movement on foot
to have a Rural mail route from Plen-
tywood to the Canadian boundary line
created and discontinue the Raymond
postoffice, as the service over the
rural route out of Plentywood will
be far more satisfactory than it would
be with a mixed train bringing the
mail occasionally.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-08-13

Confined to Bed
Carl West has been confined to his
home the past week suffering from
bronchitis.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-08-13
Infested Areas Should be Re.
ported to Co. Agent for
Eradication

BOHEMIAN, August 10th -
Thousands of acres of crops ruin
ed, shelterbelts stripped of leaves
and farmers facing the coming
winter without any feed for their
livestock, partly tells the story Of
the devastation wrought by grass
hoppers in infested areas of the
DakOtas Iowa and Nebraska, de-
clares DR.. j. X. Parker of the
U. S. Bureau of Entomology at
BOzeman, in a caution to MOnta-
ma farmers.
There are three facts very signif-
icant to Montana in the grasshopper
scourge striking the neighborhood
states. One of these is that the Da-
kota grasshoppers which are doing
the damage are of the same species
found here in Montana now. The 9TH
err fact is that the numbers there in
1880 is approximately the same as are
here in Montana now. The other fact is
that the numbers there in 1880 is ap-
proximately the same as are here in
Montana, in some places this year in
the Dakotas is due to previous dry
years and lack Of concerted effort to
keep the ~grasshopper numbers down
by poisoning.
Montana may experience the same
crop loss next year if the infested
areas are not located in advance and
the hoppers poisoned next spring
while they are still young" warns
DR.. Parker. Just how terrible the
scourge may become is aptly illustra-
ted by the etomologist's description
of a 1,600-acre farm in South Dako-
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-08-13

A Want AID Pays
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-08-13

home, during her declining years.
She is also survived by four brothers
to mourn her loss.
Mrs. Fawcett had been a lifelong
member Of the Methodist church.
The services were conducted by
Rev. E. j. Bott at the Outlook hall.
She was laid to rest in the Outlook
cemetery.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-08-13
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our sincere
thanks to the many friends who were
so kind to US, during our recent sor-
row and for the beautiful floral Of
ferings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ephraim Fawcett and
Family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Fawcett and
Family.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17
About Underworld

Little Caesar" the title of the
attraction now playing at War.
ner Brothers Earle Theater, has
nothing at all to do with, the
famous Roman hero.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17
Ed W Y N N S
LAUGHS In
MOVIES

"The Perfect Fool" who has
made millions laugh in a score
of hilarious Broadway stage sue
cesses, the most recents of which,
Simple Simon" had Washing
ton bowling with delight several
weeks ago, brings his fooling
again to Washington in his first
talking picture, Follow the
Leader"
Ed Wynn won the title of the
Perfect Fool" from his own
stage production of that name.
The self-imposed name fitted him
so well that even after the show
closed the name stuck. And in
Follow the Leader" now cur
rent at Loew's Palace Theater,
he is reported as being at his
rib-tickling b'es st, supported by
two well-known and widely loved
screen juveniles, Ginger Rogers
and Stanley Smith.
Follow the Leader" is based
on the Broadway stage hit, Man
haitian Mary" It was one of
Wynn's own greatest successes
of the stage when produced by
George White at the Apollo The
ater in New York. The vehicle
was the joint production of De-
sylvia, Henderson and Brown,
William Wells and George White.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17
Lucille La Verne NOW
First Fame on STAGE

Lucilk La Verne, noted char
acter actress of the stage, is
prominent in the cast of Little
Caesar" the gangland epic, di-
rected by Mervyn Leroy for
First National and now showing
at Warner Brothers Earle Theater.
Miss La Verne made her great
est hit on the legitimate stage in
"Sun-up," which enjoyed long runs
wherever it played. She enactS
the role of Magdalena in Little
Caesar" which was adapted by
Francis Edward Paragon from the
popular novel by w. R. Burnett.
The cast of Little Caesar" now
includes Douglas Fairbanks, jr,
Sidney Blackmer, William Collier,
jr., Ralph Ince, Maurice Black,
Glenda Farrell, Stanley Fields,
George E. Stone, Thomas Jack
son, Ben Hendricks, jr., and many
others, with the title role played
by Edward G. Robinson, one Of
the most distinguished of the re-
cent recruits from the stage.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17
uO Neu Plays ArTiUe to Intrigue Drama DeUOtees
STARSDISPLAY
EYE-FILLING
COSTUMES

Ravishing costumes of unusual
piquancy form an eye-filling part
of THE Boudoir Diplomat" Uni.
versarS comedy of the gay affairs
of a master lover, which is now
playing at the Rialto Theater.
Betty Compson, who plays the
wife of an ambassador, is seen in
negligee costumes of the most
charming description-in her own
boudoir.
Mary Duncan, who is seen as
the wife of a war minister, wears
costumes which are considerably
more startling, though no less
beautiful-in the boudoir of the
philandering bachelor
1t is this very fact, indeed,
which arouses the jealousy of
Betty, and brings about a Situa-
ton which is the proverbial "last
word" in laughingly thrilling
scenes.
In addition to Miss Compson
and Miss Duncan, the cast of ''The
Boudoir Diplomat" includes Ian
Keith, jeanette Loft, Lawrence
Grant, Lionel Belmore and Andre
Beranger. Malcolm st. Clair di
rected.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17
LATEST TSTAGE
NEWS FROM
NEW YORK

"The Ninth Guest" produced
here early in the season, will be-
gin a road tour. next month in
Baltimore under the management
of S. M. Biddell, who was asso-
ciated with A. H. Woods in the
Broadway production.
Collision" announced for
presentation by Morris Green and
Lewis E. Gensler, has been tenn
porarily deferred. The play is
the work of Rudolf Lothar and
Emo Sebesi, and has been adapted
by John Anderson.
Leonard E. Bergman, nephew of
former Judge Mitchell Erlanger
head of the Erlanger Amusement
Enterprises, has been appointed
general manager for James w
Elliott, who is re-entering the
theatrical producing field with a
program of three plays. Mr.
Bergman was for many years as.
sociated with his late uncle, A. L.
Erlanger.
Late additions to the cast of
"The Gangs All Here" opening
Monday in Philadelphia, are
Shaw and Lee, recently seen in
Artists and Models"
The Broadway premiere of
Storm Song" in which Francine
Larrimore is starred, has been
postponed to February 9. The
tryout tour will be resumed on
January 26 at the Flatbush
Theater, Brooklyn, and include
the following week at the Wind.
sor Theater in the Bronx.
Lee Patrick, William Corbett
and Elisha Cook, jr., have been
engaged to appear in Privilege
Car" the play by Edward Foran
and Willard Keefe, for which
casting has been completed. The
play will open in washington on
February Is and be seen the fol
lowing week at Brandt's Flatbush
Brooklyn.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17
D. C.. Girl Acts
In New Farce

Lenore Sorsby in "The Best OF
Families" is a native Of Wash
ington. Her father was for many
years in the diplomatic service in
Central America as minister to
Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua
and her mother was a well-knoWn
writer under the pen name OF
Honor Merrick.
Miss Sorsby was educated at
the Holy Cross Academy and for
a time taught dramatics there.
Her first professional engagement
was with Dennis King with the
Garrick Stock Company.
She was with Ada Meade and
Tom Wise in "Three Live Ghost"
and has since played in many
successes including He Who Gets
Slapped" peer Gynt," Loose
Ankles" '"The Patsy" Gin London
and Death Takes a Holiday"
Her present role in THE Best
Of Families" at the BelaSco is her
first role in farce.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17

Read the BUSINESS SERVICE d.
RECTORY of today's Classified Ads
for dependable guide to home or
office services.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17
GUILD LEARNS
OF MODEST
COWBOYS

In producing Lynn Riggs play
Green Grow the LilacS," which
will be presented at the National
Theater next week, the Theater
Guild is using plan which has
worked so successfully in the re-
cent production of Roar China!"
and "Porgy," namely, the select
ing of people who are the
thing they represent rather than
actors made up for role.
Though the plans has its
definite limitations and is often
unnecessary, it also has positive
virtues in many instances, ano
in casting cowboys for the COW.
boy roles the guild has been
brought into contact with these
gentlemen of the West for the
first time. When the Worlds
Series Rodeo closed at Madison
Square Garden recently, many OF
its participants came to the guild
offices, anxious and willing to be
in this play, which, as they hac
heard, is concerned with Okla
homa in it's Indian Territory
days.
They were eagerly accepted be
cause they could supply what nc
amount of coaching could give
your professional player-the loose
walk developed after riding horses
for years, the ability to veal
high-heeled boots with ease, the
bowed legs of the man in the
saddle and, since it is not ar
item in the Broadway curriculum
ability to handle a lariat.
Modest Cowboys
You may conceive of the COW
boy as an aggressive person
brusque, confident and some
thing of a roisterer. But Herbert
Biberman, who is directing the
play, tells us that he has never
met with a more self-contained
modest and quiet group of men.
1t was his task as director oil
the play to ask one of the COW
bows to simulate fear. The man
seemed unequal to the task. Mr.
Biberman suggested that if his
horse went wild after stepping
into a snake nest, then perhaps
he might feel some fear No, ii
seemed that he wouldn't. Wouldn't
be afraid if he we're caught in the
midst of a stampeding nerd? No
IL seems that scurrying steers
held no terrors for him. Mr.
Biberman pursued the point
Wouldn't he be afraid if the
earth opened up at his feet? Yes
it seems that might cause a
culver or so. Well, Mr.. Biberman
told him, then just act as if the
earth had opened.
They Talk Quietly
It is difficult to get these men
to talk loudly. They nate show,
offs. Their modesty compels the
most expert rQpers among them
to allow that they handle a rope
right fair" This may seem
strange when you consider that
they have all appeared in the
rodeos, but not so strange if you
understand that the rodeo as it is
shown in Madison Square Garden
is not a show, but a contest. Each
entrant pays fee, supports him
self and competes for prizes. The
prizes are good, some touching g
total of $4,000. But it is all in
contest and the cowboys them
selves will tell you that it is on
the level; and say that the only
element of chance in it is the
horses-wild ones preferred-that
they draw.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17
Guthrie McCLintic Is
Recruit From Stage

Guthrie McClintic, director of
"Once A Sinner" the Fox Movie.
tone production now proving SO
highly entertaining at the Fox
Theater, was formerly a leading
producer and director for the
New York stage.
Among his successes were "The
Dover Road" THE Green Hat, u
THE Shanghai Gesture" Dor
othy Mackaill is at her dramatic
best in the role of Diana Barry
in this daring drama of domestic,
ity written by George Middleton.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17
BROADW WAY'S
GRAND DAME
in FILMS

Louise Macintosh, the grand
dame of Broadway stage hits for
the. past 20 years, is cast by
Paramount in the role Of Mrs.
Copeland in the new Ruth Chat
terton starring vehicle, "The
Right to Love-" now in its second
week at Loew's Columbia Theater.
"The Right to Love" is based
on the Susan Gaspell book,
Brook Evans" telling Of a girl
who determines to surrender her
life to love, after seeing the un-
happiness of repressed romance.
Mrs. Macintosh made her debut
in the theater as a comed1enne
and won success in such charac-
terizations for a number Of years.
When her hair turned white, she
won new laurelS in society ma
tron roles, and has been affiliated
with A. H. Woods, David Belasco,
Henry and Gilbert Miller and
Elsie Janis in comedy-drama and
musical shows.
Mrs. Macintosh arrived in
Hollywood several months ago
to visit Elsie Janis. When film
executives discovered that she
was available, contracts were ten
dered Immediately.
THE Fight" and up the
River" were pictures completed by
Mrs. Macintosh before her selec-
ton by Paramount officials for
the role of the uncompromislng
Mrs. Copeland in THE Right to
Love-"