The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-28


me to come down and see him. We
went over &c his place, and he told
US that The eviction would take
place at z a. m. the next morning.
1 told Herb that he was giving US
awful short notice, that l wished
he would put it off until o'clock,
u he saiG, "No Julius, l have to
be en- deck at z o'clock; that's what
the order says" So l said to Dad,
"All right, let's go, we have lots
to do before mo.ning." Dad and /
drove all night to notify the Sec
retaries and the Committees of Ac-
ton. By the time the Sheriff got
to the Midland place some four to
five hundred farmers were there
TO receive him. Sheriff Hegna was
all smiles that morning. He pitched
out a package of cigare ties among
some of the boys, and after chat
ting a littlo with one and the other
said, "Plenty of you here to take
care of this. I bet er be going"
After this the crowd decided to go
down to Sisseton and hold mass
meeting on Main Street"
Business Men every Friendly"
TIE Sisseton meeting was a real
success. At hat time the business
men, too, just like Sheriff Hegna.
were Every friendly to the; UFL
Most of them closed their places
of business ard joined in the mass
meeting. The farmers asked me
to open the meeting. On that day
direc ed my spec oh mostly to the
businessmen of Sisseton. l ex
planned to them that if the insur.
ance companies are permitted to
run the old timers off their home
steads, then the day of doom o.
he independent business man viii
be on hand, too. Roberts county
will be turned into a slave plan
tation, with company stores, ant
you business men will be- out to
gether with US looking for a job
1 guess in the gravel pits. Severa
! of he business men spoke"
Magnus Stavig, owner of the
e biggest store in town, gave a goo
. talk. He promised the bushes
mems cooperation, and said that h
:, would call meeting of the bus
), ness men to work out some pIa
), by which the Sisse'on lawyer
t would be stopped from taking evil
Il ton cases.
a After this meeting we hear
e nothing of the Nieland case unit
t early this year On January 8
p everybody from Roberts count
was over to Brit on to take pa
l. in a Sears Roebuck sale. The L
n, ternational Harvester COmpan
II tried to take a farmers tru'
lie away, so we bid it back for sew
3 cents and gave it back to tn
, farmer who had already paid
lie good many hundred dollars for
at When we came back 20 Sisset
10 we were told that Herbert HegT
10 the Sheriff slipped it over on
II and evicted Henry Nieland viii
m we were gone and moved OIetzl
w tool of the Northwestern MUTT
rs Life Insurance Company On the
rs Nieland place. Everybody w
in sore at Hegna for double-crossi
~ US after he promised to cooper;
It's with the UFL. A meeting W
re called at the courthouse for Il
be night to decide what should
Oh done to help Nieland."
"The meeting unanimously
er- cided to go out 10 the Niela
ne farm the next day and see WI
ed could be done to reinstate Niels
Id on his old place"
ne "At one o'clock the next
IN some seven hundred people ga
ed cred at the Nieland place. A &C
Ear nit ee was elected, Bob Flaws,
Us Produce man, DIR. Powell, owner
an the Powell hospital, and 9th
pr to ask Oletzke's to move out
aIn the Nieland place. The conn
yer tee returned with the message /
ian Erwin Oletzke refused to speak
hcs them, and only said, 81 haven
I'm damn thing to say to you"
CIV guy Lets Tame 'em Out"
'o' aTha hull haadedness of Olet