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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-18
News Representative Takes Eight Opportunities to
Questions But Fails; Burleigh Promises to Make
Appointment by Phone, Breaks Promise
TOO BUSY TO INFORM FARMER
What About Feed for Farmers Without Feed Loan
What About Promise of Cooking Utensils,
Blankets and Mattresses?

The Producers News lately has received number
questions relative to certain phases of the relief and
corning certain promises made by County Administered
Buregh at the last relief meeting called by the Unit
Farmers League at the FarmerLabor Temple Eight tim
during the past week representative of the Producers Ne
has tried to contact Buregh get the answers to the
questions, in vain The chief of the relief adminstrati
cannot be contacted; he is always "busy"
Whenever we tried to meet the gentleman last we
he was not at his office. On Saturday, finally we we
lucky. We met Bureigh shortly after one O'Clock E
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-18

candidates have already proven
themselves leading farmers and
workers in stopping foreclosures
and evictions and in struggling for
relief for humans and feed for the
livestock in the drought-stricken
area.
Security of homes and relief are
The vital issues the Communist
party is struggling for. These are
the issues which the people of
North Dakota must use as a guide
when going to the polls on cleo
tien day.
Convention NOminates Candidates
On August 20, The state nomin-
ating convention was held by the
Communist party of North Dakota
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-18

ly fooled. l pay them just
same"
Advises To Eat Chickens
Tompson says that the relic.
just to keep US farmers Fl
Starving and freezing. We &C
eat our few chickens, he told
Then he went into a lect
saying that if they didn't cut d.
on relief and cut out those Z
got allotments, the governn
would go bankrupt.
That fellow thinks we are
a bunch of dumb and ipno,
farmers and have no idea al
economics. He wants to be sn
but does not know that he is
ing in the richest country in
world. He is afraid that the I
ernment will go bankrupt. but
has no objections against bill
being spent for battleships
war preparations. Smart Ale
] asked him what would he
CONTINUED On page 8
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-18
EIGHT Wear Old Lad
Injured bv Car SAT

Las Saturday afternoon the
ei0ht-vear-old son of John Frost
who lives south of Plentywood, re-
ceived minor injuries about the
head when hit bv an automobile.
The accident occurred If the
corner of the Westland Service
Station. Tho car Voc driven nv
Miss Helen Pare. T Is reported
that the Nov is already recovering.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-18

are able from the boss-controlled
rehef agencies by their mass ac-
ton.
The farmers and workers Of
North Dakota, after following
ohrdly the leadership of the Hoov-
er Republicans, the Roosevelt DEM
ocrats and the Nonpartisan Leag-
uers, are today more destitute than
ever before and are now just be-
lore election, again listening to
more fake promises, decked in rain
DOW colors, made by the same
politicians who are used by the
Tapl alist class to drive down the
nVlng standard of the masses.
The farmers and workers OF
North Dakota are fast losing con-
Iluence in these fal1irs and are
supporting the candidates of the
communist party because these
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-18

could not have the things they
needed. The allotment office on
the other hand explained to farm
ers that no checks had arrived on
Oct. and none up to the day in
question, Oct. 1S.
When one woman asked the case
worker, who had told her that she
could not have the things ordin-
arily given on orders, that farm
ers needed some other things which
they could mo- get on relief and
had to buy, this case worker most
innocently asked what other things
there were farmers needed.
She was told that there were
dentist bills, that even a farm
household needed new utensils once
in a while, that farm implements
needed repairs, etc., all things that
are not issued on relief orders.
The Roosevelt administration
seems to make it a very definite
policy not only to deduct govern
ment cattle checks from the relief
but now also the so-called benefit
payments for compliance with the
wheat destruction program are to
be deducted.
They got US coming and going
Every penny a farmer gets is be-
ing deducted from the relief so he
j.. is forced to invest it for food only
and for the other things necessary
on a farm he may look out fol
himself.
But not only do they deduct
wheat allotment money but they
even deduct it weeks and maybe
months before the farmer gets the
money in his hands. Apparently
the families of poor farmers arc
expected to starve in the mean
time.
It is becoming more outrageous
every day the way relief is ad
ministered, not only by the fed
eral administration but also in the
county.
Waiting For Weeks
Farmers are told not 10 conn
to the relief office because "thei
ORDERS will promptly be sent then
by mail" There was one woman
at the relief office Saturday VIII
was to have received her order b,
Oct. 6. More than a week ha'
rassed and she. had received moth
ing. No a thing to eat in tn
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-18

But again he was busy, "on
way out of town." Patiently
tried again on Monday. For
eighth time we came face to f;
with the relief administrator. j
sure enough, he was "too bu;
and could no! spare even five m
utes. He had not even time
fix an appointment.
We told him thct we needed
answers to questions regal
the feed situation, &c. by Tue
night and that else we woul
/ forced to draw our own conc
sions. Burleigh promised to PHI
us for an appointment. But
never did because he is still I"
busy" to inform farmers W.
happened 10 all his promises.
The Producers News wanted
ask the county relief director
Following queStlonS:
What About Feed?
Farmers who were refu
feed loans because they did
have enough cattle were suppo
to get feed directly, hay and {
grain. According to Burleigh's {
estimation, made public at the
F. L. meeting on Sept. 4, z,
tons Of hay nd 100000 pounds
grain were necessary to take {
of the farms or which there
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-18
Election Campaign Of
No Dakota Communist
Party Is in Full Swing
Pat Barrett Is Candidate Cor Governor, Arvo Husa for
u. S. Senator J. Haaland and Effe Kjorstad
for Representatives In Congress
(By a Farmer Correspondent

Years of crisis created conditions which becoming
more and mbearable for the workers and farmers
The vast majority of the impoverished farmers slowly
being squeezed off the land The Roosevelt administrations
crop destruction program, aided by severe drought is
lending speed to the movement Where dc the workers find
to maintain decent standard of living? Few, very few.
The workers today find themselves in the critical
dtOn the farmers getting only much relief they
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-18

MONT. COMMUNIST
CANDDATESSTA
ACTIVE CAMPAIGN
Raymond Gray For u. S.
Senate, G. Salisbury
For Congress

Raymond F. Gray, Communist
candidate for U. S. senator. and
George ]. Salisbury, Communist
candidate for congress, have start
ed on their campaign tour and
will speak at a number of meet
ings in western Montana.
Both candidates were nominated
at the recent state convention of
the Communist party held at Hell
ena. They have filed their NOM
mating petitions with the secretary
of state.
The following meetings have
been arranged where both candi-
dates and oiher speakers will APP
pear together:
Oct. 0-Anaconda.
Oct. 21-Philipsburg.
Oct. 22-Deer Lodge.
Oct. 23-Trout Creek.
Oct. 24-Thompson Falls.
Oct. 25-Missoula.
Oct. 26-Hamilton.
Oct. 27-Helena.
Raymond Gray, worker from
Helena and candidate for U. S.
senator, will speak alone at meet
ings in Red Lodge, Billings, Round
up and Livingston from Oct. 20
to Nov. 2. Geroge Salisbury, a
Butte worker, will speak at meet
ings in Bozeman, Whitehall and
towns near Butte from Oct. % to
Nov. 1.
On Nov. A or (exact date is
yet to be named) the Communist
party will hold a big election rally
at Butte.
Both candidates are we'll known
in the western part of Montana
where they have been active and
have taken leading parts in the
struggles of the workers. This
and their present energetic cam
paign will assure them a large
number of votes. Although lack
of finances makes it impossible fol
them to appear in Sheridan coun-
ty, they are bound to receive q
large percentage of Sheridan coun-
ty votes because they are Com
munist candidates and therefore
known as sincere and honest fight
ers for the rights of workers and
farmers. Their program is the
same as that of the Sheridan coun.
! ty Communist candidates or thai
of other Communists who are car.
rying on their campaign all over
the country.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-18
Case Worker Comes 10 RigI
Address; Granthan Tells Hi
Farmers To Be Cut OFF
Relief for Cooperating
With Roosevelt

In the following, Otto Granth-
am, Communist candidate for as
SCISSOR, describes his conversation
with a case worker who had de-
manded that allotment and cattle
checks cannot be used for paving
debts or any way the farmer sees
III, but must be used for food and
clothing in place of relief orders
SOLITARY mass action is what we
need" says Grantham.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-18
Allotment Checks Deducted
From Relief Orders Even
Before Money Arrives Here
On Saturday Orders Were Refused by Relief Office
Because They Were "Out of Blanks; Friday Farm
ers Find Sign, CLOSED, Legal Holiday
(By a Farmer Correspondent

Money received by farmers wheat allotment checks
to deducted from relief orders This is the decision
made by the county relief office and the office APPLYING
even before farmers receive their allotment checks
Wives of farmers told at the relief office last Sat-
uday that their husbands had received wheat allotment
check from the government Oct and therefore they
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-05-10
FRIESLAND

Mrs. Joe Lundblade returned home
from Minneapolis Tuesday of last
week after spending two weeks with
her sister.
Dorothy Spatgen spent last Thurs
day night at the home of Evelyn On
stead of Sandstone.
H. O'Malley mOtored to Duluth
Monday on business.
Mrs. j. e. McDermiet spent last
Thursday afternoon at the A. F. Gar
ner home.
Mrs. H. O'Malley motored to Min.
neapolis with Mrs. Frank McLaugh'
lin of Hinckley Monday. Mrs. O'Mal'
ley is one of the delegates OF the
Hinckley chapter of the Eastern Stal
at the Grand Lodge meeting at Min
neapolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Sprugue OIL
Glenwood, spent the weekend at the
H. OMalley home. Mr.. Sprugue is
brother of Mrs. O'Malley.
Mrs. Oscar Youngkrans, Mrs. Albert
Carlson, and Mrs. Melvin Carlson
spent Sunday evening at the Martin
Nelson home.
Willard and Florence Lundblad an(
Harry Nelson spent Tuesday evening
at the Carl Seabloom home.
The Ladies' Aid of Friesland. wa:
entertained at the home of Mrs. Mar
tin Nelson Wednesday afternoon.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-05-10
SANDSTONE BIBLE CHURCH

Sunday services May 13-Sunday
school, 10 a. m, all ages; morning
worship, II a. m, subject: Gods
Way and Mans Way"
Great evangelistic service, 7:45 p
M, special Mothers Day program
Three mothers will speak. Reserved
seats for mothers. Special singing
and music for this mothers service
subject: "The Worlds Need of Chris,
tian Mothers
Tuesday, 8 p m, senior c. E. mis-
sionary program
Wednesday, 8 p. m. praise and
prayer meeting.
Thursday, 2 p. m, Ladies' mission
airy club.
Friday, s p. M, choir rehearsal.
Saturday, p. m, Junior c. E.
Coming: Evangelist j. T. Larson
famous radio preacher and singer
May 27-June 10.
"In all thy ways acknowledge Him
and He shall direct thy path Pro
verbs SO.
The ladies of the Missionary clut
of the Sandstone Bible Church VII
meet for their next meeting at the
home of Mrs. A. Dietrich May II, al
2p.m m. All members and friends are
urged to be present.
REV. R. DEURSEN, Pastor.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-05-10
BASS LAKE

Miss Arlene Swanson spent Wednes-
day and Thursday of last week at the
Riel johnson home doing some sewing
for Mrs. johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Carlson and
family were dinner guests at the Ben
Carlson home Sunday.
A Large crowd attended the shower
at the Joe Kelley home Wednesday
afternoon of last week.
The Herbert Olson, Richard Swan
son, Herman, Ben, and Victor Carlson
families spent Sunday afternoon at
the A. p. Carlson home, as Mr.. Carl
son is sick with pneumonia and pleu-
risy.
A number from here attended the
sale at Gilbert Dixon's Friday.
Mrs. Victor Carlson and children
and Grandma and Grandpa Carlson
and Evelyn Swanson visited with Mr.
and Mrs. George Smith last Thursday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Ekdale anC
daughter spent Sunday at the Nels
Nelson home.
The Herbert Olson family visited
Friday evening at the Nels Nelson
home.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-05-10
OGEMA

Mrs. Grace Doka from st. Paul, died
Sunday. She is the mother of Elvin
Thayer. She had visited here many
times. Sympathy from neighbors is
extended to the Thayer family.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Anderson and
sons were callers at the John West
lund home Sunday.
A large gathering at the VIM. Allan
home Sunday for picnic supper in
the yard in honor of Mr.. Aliens birth
day was enjoyed by all. His daugh-
tiers from the city came Saturday
evening, and remained till Sunday
evening.
Henry Hansen from Rush City, was
married Saturday to Miss F1ossie
Vandike. They will make their home
at Rush City.
Adam Beiderman and sons of Pine
City. went on fishing trip Sunday
to Crooked Creek and had an &C
cident. The car turned over on the
hill just east Of the John Westlund
farm on the north side of the road
Mr.. Beiderman's left arm was broken.
No one else was injured. Mr.. and
Mrs. T. ]. Ryan happened along and
took Mr.. Beiderman to Hinckley to
DR.. Stephan, who set the arm.
Mrs. Curtis Lyon and Miss Edna
Schauer were callers at the H. Nc
Cormack home Wednesday evening
of last week.
Mrs. Duxbury injured one leg and
instep quite badly last week by a
piece of falling timber.
Mrs. T. ]. Ryan called on Mrs. Nc
Cormack and Mrs. H. Kramer Monday
A shower was given at the home OF
Mrs. E. Bostrom Wednesday of last
week in honor of Mrs. C. Lyon.
Charlie Bork, Mrs. Mann, and Mrs
Frank Mclaughlin from Hinckley
spent Wednesday of last week at the
Elder Bostrom home.
Mr.. Peterson from Markville, was
shearing sheep for Mr.. Nc Cormack
Monday.
Nels Matson, president of the Mark.
vile creamery, and J. D. Beaufeaux
secretary, and R. w. Barstow of Sand
stone, were to the city on business
last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Mista from
Hinckley, were callers at the T. J
Ryan home Sunday forenoon.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-05-10
POKEGAMA

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Blanhik and
daughter, Mary, called at the Pitka
home Wednesday afternoon Of last
week.
Jim Jewell spent Friday evening
at the Paul Revier home.
Mrs. Mary Jewell and Mrs. John
Novak and son, Alois, drove to Prince
ton Wednesday of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. l.. Hedin and son,
Robert, spent Saturday evening at the
Paul Revier home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Baker and
son, Lois, spent Sunday afternoon at
the Walter Bailey home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Reed and son
spent Sunday at the Zimbrick home
in Hinckley.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Hedin and son,
Robert, visited at the L. G. Reed home
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Dorow made a
business trip to st. Paul Monday, 60
ing there with Bryan Reed.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-05-10
LAS EARTH TURNS"
AT NEW THEATRE

"As The Earth Turns" the Warner
Bros. picture based on Gladys Hasty
CAROLS romance of New England
rural life, will be the new feature
attraction at the New Theatre at
Sandstone Sunday and Monday, May
ID and IA.
The picture deals with the lives
and loves, the joys and tribulations
of small community of farmer folk
which Miss Carroll has painted so
wildly and picturesquely in her novel
which was the best selling book of
the year. Though she has dealt with
simple people living comparatively
quiet lives she has made them live
and breathe. The homely events have
been brought out with a realism that
makes them lifelike.
The picture is said to have caught
the exact spirit of the novel and to
have brought the many unusual char
acterizations to the screen with a
sincerity and adherence to reality
that makes the players seem not as
actors but as real flesh and blood
human beings, each going through his
or her part as naturally as though
they were actually living on a New
England farm.
The cast is an unusual one in that
there is not single star, although
there are at least two who give such
promise. The cast as matter oil
fact, according to Warmers. was Sc
lected strictly on the merits Of each
individual player and because the
player was most nearly representa-
tive Of the role to be portrayed that
could be found.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-05-10
KERRICK

The Presbyterian Ladies' Aid will
meet at the home of Mrs. E. j. Arm
strong Saturday, May IL, at two
o'clock. A Mothers day program has
been arranged and everyone is cordi-
ally invited to attend.
Presbyterian church services will
begin Sunday, May 10, at 9:45 a. m.
with Sunday school at 10:45 a. m.
This schedule will prevail throughout
the summer. Everyone is welcome to
attend these services at all times.
The baseball game at the Kerrick
diamond Sunday ended with the
Sportsmen's Club holding the long
end of a seven to five score. Moose
Lake met the Sportsmen for the first
time this season, and next Sunday the
club journeys to Sandstone in an eff
fort to take the Quarrymen into camp
| Kerrick has some good material this
year, and there is ample opportunity
for baseball team.
| George Bornhoft is spending week
at Askov, assisting his sister in get
ting the garden going.
D. J. Curry left Tuesday evening
for South Dakota, where he will buy
a carload of horses, if they can be
secured.
w. P. Hogan spent Tuesday at Cam
bridge, where the postmasters' dis
trict convention was in progress.
Don Hogan and Victor Johnson were
in Duluth attending the Ford dealers
service meeting this week.
The Hultgren boys are making con-
siderable change in the looks of the
farm. They are breaking up nice
piece of land, getting it in shape fol
crops.
| For the next month there will be
lot of visiting from candidates fol-
various offices. There is some very
desirable timber in some of the office
seekers. May the best man win.
| Wesley Kvasnicka and the wife
have started neat little place in the
Town of Park. When finished there
will be four nice rooms; the place is
22x26 with a full basement. They
know it will be hard starting but are
determined to make it go.
| The brushing on the range line
south from the Prall farm is an i'm
provement.
The school children are practicins
these days for the Pine county school,
play day. Arthur Larson is putting
them through their stunts daily.
School board met last Thursday
and transacted the regular business
and in addition hired the janitor fol
the coming year.
This starts out like a dry year. Il
it is, that means shortage of hay an(
the necessity for more corn. Corr
was the salvation of this territory
last year, so two to five acres more
might be well worth while planting.
The store and the bank have beer
equipped with electric lights. Fix
lures are not in at the bank as ye
but it has light. It's quite an i'm
prOvement. The plant at Victor John
sons garage has also been rebuilt ant
improved with considerable saving o
current.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-05-10
DanfOrth Township

Harry Hendricks is making the an
nual rounds of sheep shearing in the
community this week.
liner Carlson of Sand Creek, did
some tractor blowing for Louis Lar
son Friday of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Peterson of Lake
Eleven, were visitors at the w. H.
Colloton home Sunday.
Mrs. Floyd Nelson of Sand Creek.
visited all last week with her sister,
Mrs. Edner Erickson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Swanson of
Sandstone. were Sunday afternoon
visitors at the Gerda Wheeler home
Chris Ingemansen Of Bear Creek,
was caller in the community Sun
day.
c. M. Dreher, who spent the past
ten days at his farm here, returned
to his home at Nora Springs, Iowa
Thursday of last week.
liner Carlson of Sand Creek, trucked
horse up from Minneapolis for Rob.
ert White on Tuesday of last week.
Albert Swanson and Percy Moore at
tended a meeting in Sandstone Tues
day evening in connection with farm.
ers relief of grain. They were chosen
as investigators Of this township anG
began their duty Wednesday morning
to investigate the farmers pertaining
to relief feed.
This community was visited with &
nice rain Thursday evening and show
ers again Tuesday night which were
| very welcome.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-05-10
EAST OF BRUNO

The E. j. Miller family visited at
the John Wahlstrom home Friday eve
ming,
Dorothy Southerton stayed with her
friend, Irene Charpentier, Sunday eve
ming and Monday. Monday they to-
gether with Clifford Charpentier went
to Sandstone to have some dental
work done and also to do some shop
ping.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Miller and chill
dren called on Mrs. Billman Sunday
evening. Mrs. Billman is not very
we'll, and little Bobby Billman was
sick all last week, but is better again
and back to school.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. ]. Miller and FAM
lily visited at the Ed Charpentier home
Sunday evening.
Grandpa Fogelquist was sick for a
few days last week, but is better and
able to be around again.
Mrs. Nettie Laying and Carlton Stat
ford of Bruno. were callers at the
Billman home Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Putnam, Eu-
gene and Shirley, spent Saturday eve
ming at the e. ]. Miller home.
Mrs. Leslie Darling visited with her
folks Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs Leroy Miller were cal
lers at the Esmond home Sunday.
The fire warden, Mr.. Barber, has
been busy these days taking care Of
fires. Monday he was calling for
helpers to take care of fire near the
July home.
Hjalmar Petersen Of Askov, has cast
his hat in the political ring again.
This time Mr.. Petersen is running for
lieutenant governor, and his many
friends wish him the best of luck,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-05-10
CHURCH NOTICES
18th of NAV Festival.

The Little Moose Lutheran church
will conduct its annual 18th of May
festival this year as in previous years.
The program will be rendered Thurs
day evening, May II, at $3.50 o'clock.
The festival is arranged not only to
remember the national and racial
heritage but to strengthen and fur
Their the community and civic spirit
and life, and a cordial invitation is
extended to all who wish to come.
After the program there will be a
social hour, and refreshments will be
served.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-05-10
(From Another Correspondent

Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Pearson and
sons took Mrs. Carl Johnson and Mar
garet and Mrs. Pete Peterson and son.
Jimmy, to Floodwood, a week ago, to
see their daughter and sister, Mrs.
Henry Hansen, who recently under
went an operation at the Cloquet hos
pital for gallstones and appendicitis.
They report she is up and around, but
will be unable to work for about four
months.
Mrs. Maurice Lende spent Saturday
afternoon at the home of her sister,
Mrs. Ludwig Peterson.