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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
OUTLOOK

Miss Margaret Deck and Carl
Shebo drove to Grenora Friday.
The Misses Esther and Mar
garet Johnson entertained Morris
Ray and Raymond Homme, Ken
meth. William and Clarence Doe
and Mr.. Short at dinner Wednes-
day evening.
The Armistice dance given in
the Claude Mills hall last Satur-
day night was we'll attended and
an ENJOYABLE evening is reported.
Ole Selvig is recovering nicely
from his illness.
Mrs. Ole Garrick visited with her
parents last week end.
John Becker and family moved
onto the Ole Anderson farm which
they will occupy the coming sea-
son.
Carl Sheba is visiting friends in
Outlook.
Chris Lund who has been i'll at
his, home is now able to be up and
around.
Ray Stoner and family returned
Friday from Iowa where they have
been visiting his parents, Johr
Stoner. His sister, Mrs. Sunstrom
and family will stay there for the
winter.
Tom Clawsonl and family. VIM
Weiss and family. Mrs. Beulat
Anderson and Andrew Andersons
surprised Mr.. and Mrs. John Ladd
Jr.. last Thursday at a house
warming party.
Grandma Kelm has moved to the
Wolders home for the winter. Ray
Morris will move into her house
for the school term.
Mrs. Alexander has been on thu
sick list the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Wunderlicl
who have been caring for the VIM
Rags home while they we're ava!
have returned to their home il
Outlook.
Mrs. Allen. an old pioneer nurs,
is staying at the home of Eli
Hurst.
Matt Kohler and family left fo
Minneapolis Saturday by car. The
will locate there for tie coming
winter.
Arnold and Alvin Reed are stav
ing at the town home of Johl
Emielson lduring the basketba
season.
Earnie and Lyle Garrick ant
Mrs. Emma House were Plenty
wood callers Saturday.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
ARCHER

Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Shaw re-
turned from Lubland, S. D. Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Logan, the
newlywedS, moved onto the Eddie
Becker farm Sunday.
Harry Whitish and Leo Kazeck
are hauling coal from the Black
Deck mine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Kazeck, son
Buddy, and Clarence Whitish were
dinner guests at the Charley Dress
Jr., homo Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Boelens and
little Gordon were in Plentywood
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Whitish
are the parents of a nine-pound
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Shaw were
pleasant callers at the Art Kazeck
home Sunday evening.
Harold, Delbert and Divonne
Whitish called on Bob Cook Sun
day.
Mrs. Nele Thompson who under
went a minor operation at the
Mercy hospital of Williston, We'd
nesday is getting along nicely.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
ALLOTMENT COMMITTEE AND
CLERKS BUSY CHECKING Up

The County Wheat Allotment
Committee and a clerical force of
nine are busily engaged checking
applications and preparing con-
tracts for each applicant. During
the past two days the clerical
force have mailed over five hun
dred applications to landlords for
their signatures and hundreds of
applications have had to be re-
turned for slight correction. Every
correction that can possibly be
made at the central office is taken
care of there. Nearly two thou
sand duplicate maps have been
copied.
The Allotment Committee are
endeavoring to accomplish the stu
pendous task of allocating to each
applicant his or her just share OF
the county's allotment of approx
mately $360,000 and decide what
shall be each applicants acreage il
1884 and 1885. The most diff.
cult task is that of reconciling the
difference between the farmer,
stated acreage and the official es
Inmates during the base period
Taking the non-cooperators' acre
age into consideration the over ru1
amounts to nearly "a per cent.
! This. while much below adjacent
counties, is, nevertheless, a prob
lem that confronts the committee
1t is hoped that a flat cut othe,
than possibly for roads NAV no
be necessary. Some adjustments
are being made where applicants
have indicated recently that fla,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
STILL LIVING IN
HOPES

Only 45 per cent of our county
taxes were paid this year. Last
year it was little better, with so
per cent paid in 1892. But our
county commissioners are still liv-
ing In great hopes. By next spring
everything will be rosy. They are
even talking "cash basis. Not
right now, but a little later on.
They hired the two doctors, Hall
and Storkan, for another year and
gave them 10 per cent extra, be-
cause the county warrants were
not so good right at this time. And
lO per cent on ton of the six per
cent only makes it 16 per cent. afei
They also wrote the governor a
letter and told him to be sure and
Tx 1t so that we would not have
to pay this years taxes until we
received our Allotment. They also
told him to wipe all penalty off
our old taxes.
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AROUND SHERIDAN COUNTY

and Mrs. Harvey Haubaker mo-
tored over from Peerless Monday
to spend a few days with Westby
frienls.
Ted Nordhagen moved a resi-
dence in from the south country
out to his farm Wednesday.
Mrs. Rostad entertained the
American Legion Auxiliary Thurs
day night
About six ladies turned out to
clean the Lutheran church Friday
and Mrs. Campbell served commee
to the ladies when they were thru
Confirmation and communion
services were held in the Lutheran
church Sunday. There were thir-
teen confirmed at that time.
A group of Westby friends en-.
ioyed dinner at the Bernie Ander.
son home in Pleasant Valley Sun.
day.
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DAGMAR FARMERS
PASS RESOLUTION

Dagmar, Montana
November 10, 1888
Resolution
At a mass meeting of farmers
held at Dagmar, Montana, Novem-
Der 9th, 1888, the following reso-
luton was unanimously adopted:
Whereas due to drouth and crop
failure and ruinous low prices on
farm PREDICTS, under the depression
the last four years, the farmers of
the Dagmar territory, who before
that time were prospecting, are to-
day destitute.
And whereas due to drouth and
grasshoppers our rop this year
was destroyed and we have no
feed for our stock.
And whereas Congress has ap-
propriated funds. where drouth-
stricken farmers can apply for
help.
And whereas we have made an
plications for feed loans to Farm
Credit Administration. Minneapo-
lis. Minnesota. To our great dissa-
pointment our feed loans have
been dissapproved.
And whereas we believe it is in
human and violation of the law
to- let animals starve. and poou
business, as in many cases the
Government already has a first
mortgage on the stock and by let.
ting them die, destroy their owr
securitv. And. as cur stock is ou1
onlv means. of making a living
their destruction means starvation
for US.
Be it therefore resolved. in view
of these facts. that we demand
that Mr.. L. J. Paulson. Manager
of Farm Credit Administration
Minneapolis. Minnesota. follow the
letter and spirit of the law as in
tended bv. congress, and approve
our applications for feed loans
and thereby save our stock anC
ourselves from starvation.
Resolution Committee:
James G. Lodahl,
Morris Jensen.
Paul Mouritsen.
Niels Rasmussen,
I Sigwald Haugen.
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Coffee an

After having listened to a lee
ture on astronomy the farmer ssid
81 can understand how they can
figure out the distance to the stars
but, how in the world did they
find out their Names.
And one paper says, "Thc fl
nancial exhaustion of the people
as a whole is much greater than
any newspaper dares to tell its
readero
And after the government had
ordered 10 million acres Of cotton
plowed under a farmer was re-
fused a Federal loan because he
raised no cotton"
And the Lord looked over his
creation and declared it "good.'
After that he started creating
human beings.
And Mrs. Roosevelt is writing g
book, and she says: 81 have a very
humble feeling about it"
The institute of American Meat
Packers has served notice thai
packers are not in business fol
the fun of it" and that a meat
processing tax would be passed OF
to the farmer or consumer.
And card playing depends
good deal on a good deal.
And money may be all right
but you sure can waste a lot o,
time making it.
And Bill Hagen calls himself
'The Herald's diminutive (Which il
a fancy word for 'little') business
manager, who on many occasion
demonstrates his ability to rul
more than the linotype"
And if you have a tussel witt
the dentist it generally ends IN
draw.
And some girls have gone of
the gold standard and let theil
hair get dark again.
I And the difference between
poor man and a millionaire is
; that one worries over his mex
meal and the other over his last:
And "My treatment must be do
ing you good, you look so niue
better today" said DIR. Storkan t
his lady patient. EYES," said tn
lady, ct do think my new hat
very becoming"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
WESLEY

Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Herim and
family of Pleasant Valley spent
Saturday night at the Reinert
Stubbe home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Johnson
were Crosby shoppers Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ell Iverson spent
Saturday with McElroy friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Odin Lutnes left
the last of the week for Chicago.
Gordon Stubbe was host to a
party at his home Wednesday eve
ming. A very enjoyable evening
was spent by all present.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Hultgrer
have moved in from the farm.
Ruby is now staying at her home
Oscar Helseth motored to Gre.
nora Tuesday.
Mrs. Frank Anderson, Mr.. anc
Mrs. Andrew Espen of ComertoWI
We're dinner guests at the Oscar
Helseth home Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Peele
Mrs. Edna Ryerson of ComertowT
we're dinner guests at the home Of
Mrs. Chas. Johnson Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Hass of Pleas
ant Valley shopped in Fortuna OF
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry johnson are
moving out to the farm in the neal
future where they will spend thu
winter months.
Mrs. Olive Bruce enjoyed a visi
from her niece and family, Mr.
and Mrs. j. J. Young of Washing
ton. They left Monday for st
James. Mimi, to visit relatives anC
friends.
The birthday circle met at thu
home of Mrs. Chas. johnson Wed
nesdav afternoon.
Mrs. Gust Stubbe spent thu
week end out on the farm with he,
husband.
The L. D. r. girls meet Thurs
day night at Margaret Holst's.
The W. II. D. club meets at tn
Peter Miller home Dec. 8 insteal
OF November as it is so close t
Thanksgiving. This is also thei
annual meeting of officers. so lie
all members and social member
be present at this time.
Carl and Melvin Herim an
Chas. Johnson of Pleasant Valley
spent Monday in Westby wit
Mrs. Chas. Johnson and family.
Oscar Helseth returned from
Duluth with a truckload Of bee
Saturday.
Alfred Flaskerud. Rov Stords
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
LOCAL MEN REPORT
ON Fl. PECK DAM
SITE CONDITIONS

After looking over the present
conditions at the Fort Peck dam
site, a couple of our local men re-
turned lately and are telling about
their experiences.
Along the river between 300 and
600 men are now cutting and
burning trees and brush. This has
to be done for a distance of Ito
miles. Every bush, even sage
brush. is going to be cleared away
roots and all and burned.
The men working there now are
from the adjoining counties. and
many of them can go home nights.
They work six hours a day and
five days a week, getting 90 cents
per hour, but don't know just when
they are going to get it. Some
worked with their overcoat on and
were blue in the face.
In Glasgow every shack is occu-
pied. By getting the very cheap
est meals and lodging a man can
get by there on $3.50 per day. BY
several going in one car to the
working place 20 miles distant
some get by on Is cents per day
for transportation. That means
total expense of $11.75 per week
out of the SIS wage.
One restaurant did SIS worth
of business in one day and only
took in SIS in cash.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
WORLDS FAIR WILL
Be OPEN NEXT YEAR

CHICAGO, Nov. 12-The worlds
biggest show-A Century of Prog
ress-dropped its curtain at mid
night with a bigger and better en-
core promised next June.
Opened May q the 1888 Worlds
fair won acclaim of the nation and
foreign visitors and rolled up the
largest attendance records of any
exposition in the United States.
Twenty-Five million three hundred
thousand persons flocked to the
nations second city.
The 1888 fair was staged with a
bonded Indebtedness of $10,000,-
600. Tomorrow so per cent of that
will be paid hackers of the expo
sition. If and when the fair opens
next year. estimates indicate that
when the 12,000,000th visitor en-
tiers through the turnstiles the ex-
position will have been paid for in
total.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17

A letter received from Frank f.
hayes, supervisor for Montana,
says that Sheridan county will
soon be called upon to furnish so
men for the Fort Peck dam pro-
Ject' Only ex-service men and
married men will be accepted at
this time. he says.
Mr.. Hayes also gives this ad-
wee: 1T should be advisable for
men to carry blankets and a camp
ing equipment, as the work is 20
miles from the city. I believe that
they. can find something to aid in
maxim" camp. They should ho
CROUCH money so that they can
take care of themselves for about
two months time. The pav-davs
are about two weeks apart"
Ihls advice sounds very much
like what they expect us to send
down there is bunch of high tor
boot ex-bankers, all rugged up TO-
a two months vacation.
The people we expect to senC
down there are a bunch of people
who are looking for a job because
they need a Job. Not for the
amount of exercise there is in it
Money is what they need.
How MANY of our applicants
have high-topped boots? How
many have warm clothes? How
many could take warm blankets
along without robbing the family
bed! And how many could go out
in the sticks 20 miles from no
where and establish a camp anC
live there two months while wait
In" for their paw check? People
andy for Jobs because thev reeC
those thines and like to have then
but haven't got them.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
SLEEP GOOD
EVERY NIGHT
.Make This pc Teet.

Make This 25c Test
Don't wake up for bladder relief.
Physic the bladder as you would
the bowels. Drive out impurities
and excessive acids which cause
the irritation resulting in wakefuI
nights, leg pains, backache, burn
ing and frequent desire. BUKETS
the bladder physic, made from
buchu, juniper oil, etc., works eff
fectively on the bladder as castor
oil on the bowels. Get a regular
25c box and after four days if not
relieved of getting up nights your
druggist will return your money.
Make this test. You are bound to
feel better after this cleansing and
you get your regular sleep.
E. l. MILLER, Druggist, says
BUKETS is a best seller.
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or some other crop was grown
during one Or more years on the
acreage previously stated as seed
ed to wheat.
The Committee believes that
there NAV have been some error
In official acre estimates, particu-
larly for 1881. In an effort to sub
stantiate their claims a survey of
100 farms has been undertaken to
determine how accurate the appli-
cants' 1888 stated wheat acreages
are. The communities reporting
to-date seem to indicate a fairly
close check. No community has
indicated more than an average of
seven per cent over run on the
1888 wheat fields.
The Committee have decided to
extend another week or ten DAYS
the period for correcting applica-
tions before the contracts will be
ready for signatures and the GER
titled list of applicants forwarded
to the Wheat Section at Washing
ton. D. C.
This will also give those appli-
cants whose acreages NAV have
been reduced by the Allotment
Committee an opportunity to ap-
pear before them and submit evil
dence that their stated acreages in
application were correct for the
base period. While this NAV delav
the receipt Of the checks, it win
give the Allotment Committee fur
Their time to adjust the differences
between the Individual farms of
the county.
This will also give the State and
Federal Board of Review an CD
portunity to check their own esti-
mates against the stated acreages
in the applications. Our own COM
mittee will also have further time
to present their evidence in sup.
port of their claims.
Not all counties in the state are
over in acres. Some of the Cen.
trail Montana Counties reported
less or approximately the same
number of acres as the Bureau oil
Crop Estimates. Hence the diff
culties confronting the Board o.
Review in adjusting the differ
ences between counties.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
EMPLOYMENT OFFICE FOR PUBLIC
WORKS JOBS Is OPENED FRIDAY

An office where people in Sheri-
dan county can now go and regis
ter for public jobs has been opened
In Plentywood.
The county commissioners at
their last meeting appointed S. 7.
Clovestad as manager at a salary
of $25 per month. An employment
board consisting of Leo Zeidler,
VIM. Erickson and Hans Rasmus-
sen. were also appointed. The
office is located two doors west OF
the Riba bank building, and will
be OPEN week days between 10 a.
m. and 8 p. m.
At this time more than 800 have
registered for jobs of various
kinds. and more is coming right
along.
According to rules laid down for
this kind of work. ex-seuVice men
with dependents come first, next
come married men with depend
ents and unmarried ex-service men
IN the same class. last come all
other single men.
If called upon to go, each one
must appear at the Plentywood
office. and must be examined by
one of the Plentywood doctors fol-
four things, rupture, heart trouble
varicose veins and venerial disease
For each examination the doctor
Is paid so cents, which is to be
paid by the government.
1t is up to each applicant to get
to the place of work the best way
they know how. But there is y
provision in the regulations say.
ing that the relief committee may
furnish transportation for those
who are on the relief.
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listen to the talk on our our
L you lls'ea and read what tine tne
gsip street f Herald and do 9ta net
y'T EsSs to say, you might iGll,5,6 get
y oppression aoest '- bunch Of crooks
ii ever ny llTsu and reported their
3 f' abo Sss the governments s''i
n...svelt county it is much en-
b EOS Soroe saw it over runs o. /,
Tss .,+ ' others claim it is around
Z % mark .u-,
Isn't seem to enter any
1 do end that the government
sd n'1 Oh. no! A government
sart s. me NE we have now could I'D
5s the . T,' a mistake. Il is all
a''It .I TlsGs fault and couldn't be
y 5s U' the farmers would dix like
VIZ VIA IS: How did the govern
q Know 10 4bo;r fiO11reS. They
at taA s. list. because thew are
s''. .saro' Thev could pick a few
u li'' from those who apply to1
5 p loans, but that WOULDN'T
f7 4s.9 also Al send cut letters here
in. .s.Ts asking the farmer to
d ., ' iS a report report, but very few lew
. a. Is do it. Then there is the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
MN K RIGHT OR WRONG ON
~ The ALLOTMENT SITUATION?

reports sent in by elevators and
banks. But what do the elevators
and banks know about the actual
wheat acreage in the county?
What wheat is shipped out of
the county is something the gov
eminent could keep pretty close
check on, and there is probably
where they get their figures. But
it must be remembered that hun
dreds of thousands. of bushels
raised In this county are shipped
from Grenora and other places
outside of the county. Other thou
sands of bushels are used for feed
and never sold.
AS far as we can see, the gov
eminent is basing their figures on
rothing but a wild guess and when
it does not correspond with the
farmers figures, the farmers are
the ones who are dishonest and
crooks.
The government figures show
that the average yield for the last
three years was close to 10 bush
els per acre. Those of US who live
here know better. We have seen
the drought, the grasshoppers and
the barren fields.
We know that the Weld per acre
for the last three years was much
less than what the govednment
figures show. The reason the gov.
eminent arrived at the high aver
age was because they did not fig.
ure in all the seeded acres.
! Now when the farmers come in
and give report on all of the
seeded acres. the mistake of "a
per cent is all blamed onto them
and people are talking about how
| crooked they are, instead of blam.
ing the biggest share of the mis-.
take on the government where il
belon~s for making their wilc
guess.
If anything ever made the farm.
ers disguised it is this Allotment
Plan. First they were going tt
get bunch of money in Septem
Der. Then they were going to get
it for a Christmas present, anC
now they are not so sure they will
ever get it. On top of it al
comes the "a per cent that no
body knows what to do with.
If the "a per cent is going to b.
deducted. this is the way it will
work for the man who reported
his wheat acreage honestly. Fo
every 100 acres he will first b,
cut down 81 per cent. leaving hin
sc acres. Then the government
steps in and cuts his Is per cen
more, leaving him only Sc acre
out of the 100. But. in Roosevelt
county it is going to be twice a
bad, if that is any consolation t.
anyone.
Reports are coming in now, tina
farmers in the corn belt are seed
ing winter wheat in their reduce,
corn acres. Soon we will be seed
ing corn in our reduced whea
acres as part of the New Deal.
One thing we must remember
right or wrong, our government
always right. and those who sa,
different are "chiseleNs."
| We cot our Allotment Commit
tee locked up in nice warm plac
with bunch of good looking girl
and they are still living in hone
of some day drawing wages TO
, it. If that ever happens the res
of us might get a little out of
too, but it looks as though it wi
be a long wav off. and mary farm
ers are losing hopes of Roosevelt
and his Allotment Plan ever gel
ting them anywhere.
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CONTINUED from Front Page)
gashes in their heads, were thrown
In the sheriff's car. The deputy
and undersheriff picked up Albert
Hardrath and hurled him head
first into the car unconscious. The
sheriff's cars started for town,
and the four farmers cars and
truck started homeward to Beaver
Town hall when the sheriff decided
to take the truckload of farmers to
Neilsville to Jail. The sheriff was
leading the caravan with two cars
ahead and two cars behind, to the
jail at Neilsville, 10 miles to the
south. At one o'clock the farmers
were in jail, finger printed, and
with bail set at $3.50 each.
On the way to Jail, the under
sheriff and sheriff fell to wrang-
ling over the incidents of the ar
rest. The sheriff said, turning to
Harvey, eff my gun had not
missed, which it never did before,
you would be dead, god damn you,
and | am sorry you are not"
At the Jail the doctor was called
and five stitches were taken in
Harvey Wits head and seven in
Elmer Wits. Harvey's skull was
fractured. Hardrath was out of
his head that day and most of the
following night and still has spells
of lapse of memory.
About four o'clock 20 farmers
were bailed out by a single farmer
with no property to amount to
anything. But the doctors refused
to allow Harvey and Elmer Wit
and Albert Hardrath to leave be.
cause Of their conditions. In fac
the sheriff was afraid to let then
go.
That afternoon the news spread
like wildfire. Car loads of farm
ers kept coming to town all night
The released farmers returned to
Beaverton Hall. Farmers scouts
came in from everywhere. It was
decided to make the march TIT
next morning to Neilsville, thou
sands strong. They went to town
and faced the machine guns. They
got the farm leaders out. forced
the officers to dismiss the case:
and then paraded home.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
Harness Thieves Active
IN Plentywood This Week

Some time during Sunday or
Monday night some unknown par
ties stole a set of harness from
Seth Taylor. A complete set and
collars was also stolen from Tom
Kelly.
Whether it was done by local
parties is not known but appears
to have been done by parties well
acquainted with the premises.
The sheriff was notified but to-
date no trace has been found Of
the goods. A week before some
parties stole a radiator from the
coal mine north of town and par
ties are known.