Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-01-25
NEWS OF OUR NEICHBORS
-FOUR BATHLBss YEARS FoR TRANSIENT

FOUR YEARS FOR TRANSIENT
-Four years without a bath Is the record of a tran
silent who visited the Salvation Army substataon at
Winiston. The man who is SIS years of age Is a native
of Virginia and has spent four years in the west.
During that time he said he had never bathed. For
more than a year he had not shaved, while his hair
hung below his shoulders. He was given a bath. then
a shave and haircut.
WHEAT CHECKS BEGIN TO COME Long
waited the first batch of wheat checks flowed into
Montana Last week to enrich 443 farmers by 333,-
599. The checks. mailed since January S. were fore
runners of a tidy fortune that will be paid Montana
wheat producers for cooperating with the Agricultur-
al Adjustment Administrations crop reduction cam
paign.
MILLIONS IN CONTRACTS TO BE LET-con-
tracts involving almost $15. 900. 900 In labor and
materials for the Fort Peck project are scheduled to
be leu Within the next few months. These contr7nt.
viii be for constructing the 278-mile power line from
Great Fails to the dam, for a 1 500 foot steel bridge
across the Missouri river near the dam and for d.
version tunnels each more than 5000 feet long.
HOLD MASS MEETING A general county
mass meeting was held In Poplar last week for the
purpose of making an attempt to secure pay TO farm
ers for all wheat acreage reduction now asked by the
government over and above the Is percent as first
stipulated. A committee has been named TO go to
washington the first OF February and take the mat
ter up with Montana congressman.
sUGAR FACTORY RUN ENDs-Iast Wednes
Jay ended the most successful year thus far for the
sugar beet industry of Rdchland county. The last Of
the 10000 tons of beets OF the 1898 crop f1oated
down the sludceways into the factory at Sidney and
were sliced by the relentless knives. The entire run
AT the factory was approximately 120 dys.
J. G. Duffy, former manager OF the Farmers
Elevator at Colgan, N. OAK, was found guilty Of
emb~ezzlement and sentenced to a term Of two to five
years IN the state penitentdary. Duffy was charged
with ernbezzlement Of 81, 700 Of the elevators funds
while he was In charge OF the books. =
HIGHWAY 10 TO BE OILED Among the
many projects announced by the state highway com
mission Is the oilfng OF highway No. 10, from Glen.
uise 10 Zero, q distance OF 81 mdles. Another project
Is the building of a highway from Circle to Wolf
Point.
sTEEL o BRIDGE steel
for the Culberson bridge has been unloaded and il
being trucked to the bridge site. The actual steel
construction work has started and the work IL pm-
crossing steadily. Experienced steel men are arrfv-
Ing to work on the project.
FREAK CALF BORN-A freak calf has been
born at the ]. P. Miller farm near Froid. The animal
IS q five footed creature, two perfectly DEVELOPED
leee extend from the right front hind leg. Otherwise.
the calf is normal.
WATER ON ICE IF Observation-Disclosures
water has accumulated on the Ice OF the Missouri
river the past week. The moderate weather In the
western part OF this state together with mild weather
in northeastern Montana, have caused the condition.