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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-08-05
FROM AROUND THE COUNTY 4
ES
Interesting bits of news gathered by live wire
correspondents In the various communities
of Sheridan County,
OUTLOOK

Lois Cosper motored to Plenty
wood Wednesday, where she shopped
and visited at the Undhjen home.
Rubin Wallan and Stella Cookery
motored to Burlington, N. OAK, to
get Mrs. r. Wallan and son, who
have been visiting in that city with
relatives.
The Misses Louise and Mary Craig
and Miss Folsom returned home on
Friday from a trip in the western
states. They visited Miss Nina Ford
and her mother at Missoula and with
Effie and Rubie Boo at Spokane.
Elmer Wallan of Redstone visited
at the Clinton Cosper home Satur-
day.
Miss Verona Goodlaxon left Sun
day for Zahl, N. Oak, where she
will visit with her sister, Mrs. Carl
Hendrickson.
Martin Homme was a supper guest
at the Clint Cosper home Sunday.
The Outlook baseball team motored
to Fortuna, N. Oak, Sunday where
they played ball with the Fortuna
team, winning 1910.
Mrs. Andrew LELAND who has been
living in town moved back to her
country residence Sunday.
Miss Lois Cosper has been visit
| ing with friends in Columbus, N.
OAK, during the past week.
Miss Velma Goodlaxon went to
Plentywood Saturday where she will
visit a few days with Edie Matkin
Earl Cosper Mrs. Clint Cosper and
her son Ransom, accompanied by
Clarence Doe, motored to Minot or
| Wednesday where Ransom will re.
ceive surgical aid and Clarence will
visit old friends. Earl Cosper anC
Mrs. Cosper returned home Thursday
stopping at Kenmare to renew ole
| friendships
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Cosper, Mar.
garet, Lois and Montana Cosper
Thelma Gilmore, Bill Weiss, Mr.. anC
] Mrs. o. B. Snuggins, Martin Homme
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Weiss motoreC
to Brush Lake Friday, where they
mencement program and attended tn
dance in the evening.
Many of the young folks from
Outlook attended the dance at Dale
view Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Emilson, MI
and Mrs. Earl Cosper, N. J. Nelson
Frank Rooster, Ray Goltz, Mr.. AM
Mrs. Bob Fitzgerald, Mr.. and Mrs
Joe Rick, Thelma Gilmore and Lois
Margaret and Montana Cosper at
tended the baseball tournament a
, Ceylon Tuesday. The Outlook tear
played Bengough, winning 2-1. Afte
this game Plentywood played Ceylor
the score ending 81 in favor o
Ceylon. The next game was betwee
! Outlook and Ceylon. The Ceylo
team won by one point. s to z.
Jimmy Symes and Stanley Took
of Raymond, visited at the Cospe
home Sunday evening.
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CARL'SDOMY
RESIGNSFOR
NEEDED REST

Carl Peterson has served notice
on the county commissioners that
after the 18th of August he will
be able to run the office alone and
his wife will be fired. Just how
Carl will be able to get along with
out Dolly, who has stood by his
side for eight long years IN the
courthouse at the rate of $137.5O
per month, is something worth
while wondering over. But Carl
belongs to the Economy League"
and had to. make some kind of a
showing before election. Election
is only two and one-half months
off, after that is over with Carl
can put his beloved wife back on
the pay roll again, but right now
something had to be done.
That Carl can get along without
a deputy now only proves that he
could have gotten along very nice
ly without one for the eight years
he has held that office. But two
can do better than one when it
comes to drawing salary. Three
thousand four hundred and fifty
dollars per year for eight years
is not to be sneezed at. BY keep
ing his wife on the payroll, altho
she was not needed, Carl has been
able to squeeze an extra thirteen
thousand dollars out of the county.
Now it is different, Carl has been
reformed, between now and elee-
ton he is for Economy" to show
how sincere he is, he is now firing
his own beloved wife, who has sat
by his side for eight long years
chewing gum and reading love
stories at the county's expense.
We have been informed that late
! ly Dolly has been working on only
half pay, and probably had to cut
down some on the chewing gum,
but otherwise the family seems to
have been getting along fairly
well.
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Only Organized Action Can
Stop Seizures By Collectors

workers safe guards the interest
of the workers.
We farmers know that the aver
age crop will not anymore than
pay the Irvine and thresh bill. We
used to pay as much for threshing
per bushel as grain is now worth,
The machine companies are charg-
ing more for machinery and re-
pairs than they did then. At pres
ent price it would take $500 bush
els of wheat to pay for a $500
combine that could have been
bought for 1900 bushels of wheat
was a dollar a bushel. We could
bought for 1900 bushels when wheat
was worth a dollar for the same
number of bushels we can buy one
combine for now. Wonderful sys-
tenn isn't it. Yes for the capital
iSt class.
We cannot hold our crops as in
dividuals against gigantic organi-
cations of capital.
We members of the u. F. -.
must stand solidly together to pro-
tect our interest, or our children
will be barefooted this winter.
Each and every member of the
U. F. L. must realize their re-
sponsibility in this matter.
Let "Shoes and bread for the
kids before collections for corpora
tions." be our slogan.
Comradely,
UNITED FARMERS LEAGUE,
] Rodney Salisbury, Sec.
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RESERVE

Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Larsen, Mr..
and Mrs. Eric Lyngas and Mr.. and
Mrs. Rorvig left for the Regina fair
Tuesday evening.
Mrs. N. ]. Evensen entertained a
number of ladies at bridge Thursday
afternoon.
Nearly everyone in town drove to
Brush Lake Sunday.
A Liberty party meeting is billed
for this Friday evening at 8 o'clock
in the school house. Prof. luck, a
former high school teacher, will be
one of the speakers.
The Wakea club met at the home
of Mrs. F. w. Carpenter last Thurs
day afternoon.
Wheat combining has started in
this district and a much likhter yield
is being found than at first was es-
timated.
The regular meeting Of the Com
mercial club Tuesday night attracted
only a few members and no business
was transacted.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-08-05
MINNEAPOLIS BANK
REPORTS NEW LOW
LEVELS IN CRISIS

All important farm product price
in the Ninth Federal Reserve Dis
trict minnesota and surrounding
territory was lower during June
than a year ago, according to the
summary of business conditions
made public by the Federal Re-
serve Bank at Minneapolis. The
freight car loadings were 48 per
cent less than year ago. The
country check index was &c per
cent lower than in June 1881. The
farmers cash income from seven
important products was AZ per cent
smaller in June than in the same
month of last year. There were
also decreases in electric power
consumption, building permits and
contracts, flour shipments, linseed
products shipments, copper and
iron ore output, grain marketings
livestock marketing, and depart
ment store sales.
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Comrade Farmers:

win cAOO 81 AhOAOs
Oscar Johnson and other govern
ment stool pigeons connected with
the feed and seed loan department
are making a drive to force col
lections of seed and feed loans. At
the present prices of grain we can
not pay these loans. And it is the
aim of the U. F. L. to protest our
selves against all crop grabbers
regardless of whom they represent.
The government field agents are
posing as having more authority
than other collectors. They have
the same status as ]. w. Mckee,
or Lard Olson when they come on
to your farm to grab your crop
and should be treated the same. A
chattel mortgage is chattel mort
gage and seed lien is a seed lien,
regardless of by whom it is held.
A collector whether he be hard
boiled or pleasant has but one OBJ
ject and that is to collect whether
it takes the: bread from chlldrens'
mouths or otherwise. The farmers
were allotted by ire government,
two and one-half per cent of the
two billions appropriation, the rest
was turned over to the bankers.
Are there any field agents out
spying on the. bankers who got the
81 and one-half per cent Of the
two billions? No and there never
will be as long as capitalism pre-
walls. Only a government of the
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WESLEY

Alvin Skramstad of Alkabo trans
acted business in Westby Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Helseth and
family spent Monday visiting with
friends and relatives in Columbus,
N. Oak.
Mrs. Luther Hultgren is ENJOYING
a visit with her brother and sister
from Minot, N. D., for a few days.
Miss Martha Gunderson is visit
ing at the Pete Norby home in Al
kabo this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Domenick of
Coalridge transacted business in
Westby on Wednesday.
Mrs. Negaard and son Irwin of
Comertown visited and shopped in
Westby Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Weller and
son of Daneville Visited friends in
Westby on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Helseth and
son Wallace called at the Peter Mel
son home in Alkabo Monday evening.
Rev. Lohal of Noonan held a meet
ing in the Pentecostal mission We'd
nesday evening.
Miss Edna Helseth Of Columbus,
N. Oak, spent last week visiting at
the Oscar Helseth home.
Mrs. Art Hetland and children,
Alice Helseth and Arthur HELM
were in Ambrose Saturday morning.
-. Il. George left tuesday morn
ing for Sweet Grass, Mont, where
he was transferred. His family will
join him later.
Ralph DeJardin, Harvey belong,
Barrett Roorem and Duke Christen-
sen of Alkabo. were Westby callers
Wednesday.
The Alkabo baseball team played
the Westby team at Westby Wed.
nesday evening. The Alkabo boys
were defeated, the score being 1874
Mrs. Hamilton anddaughter Doro.
thy called on Mrs. Walter Erickson
Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Earl Chaffee and Miss Nil.
dred Lyon of A1kabo were Westby
visitors Wednesday evening.
The Auxiliary met at the Arthur
Hetland home Thursday evening.
Miss Marjorie Enger returned {,
her home on Saturday night afte
spending a week visiting Huldi
Hougen.
Irma and Astrid Norby or Alkab
visited with Clara and Martha Gun
derson Saturday afternoon.
Chas. E. Taylor Of Plentywoo6
. held a meeting at the Orpheum OF
Thursday evening.
Roy Stagberg motored to Forum
on business Friday morning.
Mrs. Elmer Hultgren and RUBY
Hultgren spent Thursday evenin
! visiting Mr.. and Mrs. August Hult
: gren on the farm.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-08-05
POLITICIANS OF
BANKERS HERE
ON SEED

An Saturday afternoon, August
6, at one o'clock a meeting will
be held in Plentywood, very likely
in the court room, with the object
in view of procuring some modifi-
cation of the regulations covering
the collection of government seed
and feed loans in northeastern
Montana" a circular letter sent out
by Judge Paul states.
Present at this meeting will be
Congressman Leavitt, Senator Grit
fin, and probably others, which
night include Governor Erickson.
They are going to make a short
stop at Redstone in the morning
and at Medicine Lake and Froid in
the afteroon.
That these people are going to
tell us just what is going to be
done is more than can be expected,
but it will be well for the farm
ers to be there, ready to ask ques-
tions and ready to tell these people
just how the conditions are, so
they can report back TO the gov
eminent.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-08-05
LEGION HEADS
AGAINST BONUS
Melrose Park Post Approves
Brutal Attack on
Jobless

The rank and file in the New
York County American Legion con-
vention, as reported in the New
York Times of July Is, tumult-
uously overruled the chairman,
Commander Amy and demanded
payment of the bonus, showing it
is the American Legion misleaders
who are chiefly responsible for the
anti-worhng policy of this body of
ex-service men.
Line Up With Gangsters
But at about the same time the
misleaders are in full control in
other posts, as shown by the pub
lie declaration of the American
Legion Post in Melrose Park, Chi
cago suburb, where the shooting of
unarmed and peaceful workers on
May z aroused the working class of
the whole country. On that date
the International Labor Defense
and the Unemployed Councils had
jointly called a demonstration in
tended to protest firmly against
the breaking up of the May DAY
demonstration in that town a week
before, the American Legion clear
| ly revealed its capitalist affilia-
tiOns. The Sarlo-Sharp Post No
1868, the Melrose Park Legion post
actually had the nerve to print anC
circulate resolutions commencing
. the shooting by the police. The
resolution, which is signed by B
S. Powell, as commander, and by
Arthur w. Rieser, adjutant, state
that the Sarlo-Sharp post "do her,
|, by unanimously approve the actor
taken by our village president il
combating Communism and Com
munistic activities in Melrose Parl
: Illinois"
Against Militana Working Class
In order to show their up-to-dat
!. knowledge Of economics and socis
theory, they add that they con
; denim all Sinister influences
which are affiliated with or fun
{ thering the cause of Marxisn
Leninism, Anarchism, and Inter
a nationalism in our country" thu
offering the greatest muddle ths
the American Legion intelligence
could concoct.
The rank and file members q
the Legion, workers and sons Z
workers, should take notice no
e only of the attitude Of the leader
to the bonus expeditionary force
, but also their attitude toward o.
# ganized labor and their fascist sui
k port of the most outrageous polio
(, atrocities. The action of the D,
ID Ice at Melrose park in which the
g lined up workers against brio
wall and shot at them in cold bloc
> wounding many seriously, could
= approved" only by the most vi
IN ious enemies of the workers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-08-05
PI1IKPRINTINC
CONTRACT NOT
YETCANCELLED

Harry Polk has had part OF
IhaI ,a lt printing done at Willis
tbe 0uI'yt bat this is against the
ton, anu ~ the state of Montana, IS
law: .JSilsputable fact. 1t was gex7
sn nai .bot the county commission
pecteo,n 'If have cancelled the con-
ers "o ~ this weeks meeting, but
tact didn't q Altho Frank French
they eur ,n Carl Hansen that
bad l9,onId be done, Frank went
thus Us. " wv his word and is now STALL
is @SA for or more time. o .,.,..,.
ing ~ tbe hearing, held at 2 o'clock
40, =, w Harry Polk was represent
h05 ~ Howard NJ. Lewis, and Paul
"a eals " acted as legal adviser for
% BaO'V connty commissioners. Mr.:
I Iis did the best he could with
lew" lew little he had to do with, he
T .lsn,ed what a lot of trouble the
pS .,nty would get itself into by
COUNT .iIing the contract. In his
cs DS or at least he said so, there
nln.', . doubt whether Harry Polk
s sai Violated any laws or not. Say
i ,nr things they don't believe them
u lives is what lawyers are getting
paid for ~ H., Nh.
united before the county com-
~issioners, that he at that time
Vas, working on a county job al
W;ilist0n. At this hearing Niels
Wadsen wanted to come to his
, , and told the commissioners
that the job was not a county job
Everybody present knew that Niels
was living and did it to save his
friend and supporter Harry Polk.
Paul Babcock frankly stated a!
bs opinion that the law had beer
Violated and the commissioners haC
The right to cancel the contract
all they had to do would be to gt
ahead and do it.
County commissioners are neve,
in a hurry about things, so thi
was laid aside until Wednesday. Oh
that day Carl Hansen made tn,
motion that Harry Folks contrac
be cancelled, but could get no sec
ond to his motion from any of tn
other two. Later French an,
Anker agreed that it should b
laid over until Monday, when tn
commissioners meet again.-It is
an old saying that "Time
Money"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-08-05
BAD HAIL STORM
STRIKES COUNTY

Sunday afternoon a severe hail
storm cleaned up a lot of grain
fields between the 500 line and the
Canadian border. Half wav be-
tween Outlook and Raymond the
storm started, moving east over
past Crosby in North Dakota, leav
ing destroyed grain fields and
broken windows behind. In the
town of Comertown windows by
the score are reported broken.
For many farmers the harvest
ing of grain has been solved. How
they would be able to get enough
out of the crop to pay Irvine and
threshing bills is no more a prob
lem with which they have to
wrestle. Practically none of the
farmers had taken out hail insur-
lance.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-08-05
MRS. 7. ALLEY
INJURED IN
AUTO CRASH

The following clipping from the
Grants Pass, Oregon. Courier, will
be of interest to the many friends
OF the Alley family in this section,
Mrs. Alley being the former Rose
Fink, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Mike Fink of Outlook and Plenty
wood. The clipping follows:
The wife of Tom Alley, we'll
known coast wrestler of Seattle.
received knee and head injuries in
an automobile accident occurring
Friday evening at 6:45 o'clock on
the Redwood highway about a mile
this side of Wonder, according to
reports made Saturday by State
police who investigated the wreck.
Riding in the Alley automobile
We're Mr.. and Mrs. Alley and their
small son, enroute to Los Angeles
to attend the Olympic games, and
San Francisco, where Alley is
scheduled to wrestle Monday night.
The Alleys were travelling west
IN a Ford sedan and struck a Chew
rolet sedNl, entering from a side
road, broadside. The Chevrolet
was driven by Paul Brener and
owned by Mrs. M. o. Cash of Okla
homa. Both Bresner and Mrs.
Cash are visiting at the w. A.
Love home at Wonder.
The impact of the crash flung
Mrs. Alley into the windshield,
breaking it, and cutting her head,
The Alleys were brought back to
Grant Pass by the state police,
spending the night here. Both the
Chevrolet and Ford were consid-
erably damaged.
State police arrested Brener
with having caused the accident
ordering him to appear in justice
court in Grants Pass Saturday
afternoon.
Alley is we'll known to fight
fans in Grants Pass, having
wrestled here on numerous occa-
siOns. Neither he nor the Alley
boy were injured.
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Rocky Spring community this week.
Not much damage was done but in
Comertown and nearby quite a few
were hailed out. A great many win
dows are reported to have been
broken. There was also a light rain
on Monday.
Chris Tuition is now back home
He attended the rodeos at Wolf
Point and Sheridan, Wyo.
Mrs. Tom Aftus has been visiting
her sister, Mrs. Carl Anderson for a
few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Mikklesen are
now back after visiting friends and
relatives in Iowa. They report good
crops in the east but are in need of
rain. Harold Mikklesen's are now
living near Breckenridge, MINI.
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THE STATE OF MONTANA
Sends greetings to the above named
defendants and to each of you.
You are hereby summoned to an
swer the complaint in this action
Clerk of this Court, a copy OF which
is herewith served upon one Of you
in each County wherein any Of you
reside, and to file your answer and
serve a copy thereof upon the plain
tiffs attorney within twenty days
after service Of this Summons, ex-
elusive OF the day Of service; and
answer, judgment will be taken
against you. by default. for the re-
lief demanded in the complaint.
Action to foreclose mortgage, by
defendant. Amalgamated Sheep Com
pany, a corporation, dated December
| 1, 1880, in the sum OF 100000,
wherein said defendant, Amalgamat-
| assumed prior mortgage from Ar
thur Charlesworth and Ethel A.
Charlesworth, his wife, to Edw. 8.
Powers, dated November 10, 1920,
and sold and transferred thereafter
to plaintiff, upon the East Half Of
the Southwest Quarter (EkEWX)
and the West Half Of the Southeast
lSSOdA NCA wv " 0L1A VI ~OCCbFOAA
Seven q, in Township Thirty-twO
(32), North Of Range Fifty-six (56),
East of the Montana Meridian, in
Sheridan County, Montana; n d
plaintiff demands the principal
amount of said indebtedness, with in
terest, costs OF foreclosure, and at
torney's fees, all as is more fully
set forth in plaintiffs complaint, a
copy Of which is herewith served
upon you.
Witness my hand and the seal Of
said Court this 18th day OF July, A.
. d. 1882.
c. B. PETERSON,
Clerk
(SEAL OF THE
DISTRICT COURT)
HOWARD M. LEWIS,
: Plentywood, Montana,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
LIST. Pub. July %. last, Aug. ~
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we have been able to learn; from
some school house in that part of
the land Is cents worth of phono-
graph needles had mysteriously
disappeared, Sheriff Madsen gave
this case his personal attention and
everybody said he did remarkably
well, investigating all day long,
but somehow he never found the
needles, and the school district is
now Is cents further in the hole.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-08-05
3 Milwaukee Banks
Are Forced to Close

Milwaukee, July 19.-Three sub
urban banks, the Security Bank of
Milwaukee, the Liberty State Bank
and the Layton Park State bank,
failed on July 9 and were placed
in the hands Of the State Banking
Department.
According to the June 80 state
ment, the Security had total de-
posts Of $973,133, the Layton
Park State $7O2, 639, and the Lib
erty State 81, 537, 900.
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SHERIFF MADSEN CARRYING ON
EXTENDED INVESTIGATION FOR
Is CENT PHONOCRAPH NEEDLES

Some people are under the i'm
preston that holding down sher-
iff's job is nothing but a chaii
warming proposition. People don't
understand what a constant strain
it must be for a person keeping
law and order in county.
Only last week Sheriff Madsen
spent a whole day in the Westby
country investigating. From what
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-08-05
McELROY

A heavy rain accompanied by wind
and rain struck here Sunday after
noon. The hail reached from Nc
Elroy to the Peder Solberg farm. o..
M. Lutnes, Peder Solberg, and Sell
mer copeland had some loss; Carl
Ebeling, Hilda Bspeland, Myron Tay-
Tor and Robert Mangel. had about so
per cent loss and Andrew Espen,
Nels Kronen, Morris Stoughton, and
Nels Danielson are reported to have
a total loss.
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CALL FOR BIDS

School Dist. No. 10 will receive
bids for janitor work for the coming
school term and also bids for 80
tons of coal. Coal must be free
from all slack and clay and must be
all bottom coal.
All bids must be in before 6 o'clock
August 20, 1882.
School Board has the right to re-
ject all bids.
TRUSTEE:
w. M. HESS,
WELDON RICHARDSON,
17-3t, G. e. MCLAUGHLIN.
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The Blain Robinson family re-
turned Wednesday afternoon from
Minnesota points where they have
been vacationing. Mr.. Robinson
attempted to reach here by the
time the insurance adjuster ar
rived to adjust the loss on his resi-
dence which was destroyed by fire
recently but was delayed on the
way. However it is said that he
was awarded a total loss on the
contents Of the house but only a
partial loss on the building.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-08-05
Auto Licenses Bring
In Nearly Million

Automobile licenses in Montana,
according to report brought in a
revenue of about $960,OO0. For the
first four months of the present
year Sheridan county's share of
this sum was S4,048. Daniels
county received $2,777, Roosevelt
county $7,347 and Valley county
$5,398. Silver Bow county received
the largest appropriation, S34, 565.