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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-05-23
WORK ON CITY WATER
MAINS GOING RAPIDLY
More Than 700 Feet Of New Pipe
Renewed In Week; Payroll
Is $50 Per Day

Work is progressing rapidly on
Plentywood's water main replacing
project, which employs "a men and
one team for 80 hours a week. More
than 700 feet of water main has been
replaced during the past seven days,
according to Robert Rookie, city
water superintendent, who h S
charge of the installation.
Old steel water pipe is being re-
placed by new cast iron pipe, which
is better suited for the purpose.
P1entywood's project was made
possible through the PWA and is the
only one in the state where day la
Dor Is used. Other cities, fortunate
enough to secure a similar project,
are using machinery on the work.
approximately so days will be re
quired to finish the job. Mr.. Rookie
told The Herald. A payroll Of $50
per day is distributed on the pro
ject.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-05-23
MARKET REPORT


The following proclamation has been issued by Mayor Neville
urging a concerted effort Of the people In the Cleanup program.
Whereas, the City Of Plentywood has heretofore set aside q GER,
tain day OF week of each year known a Cleanup Day o. week, au
Whereas, refuse and rubbish of all kinda during the winter
months gathered in the streets and alleys and on vacant and private
property OF the city and while many citizens take pride IN the o'ean-
iiness Of their premises, a united and concerted effort is required TO
bring about a proper result and
Whereas. the health and general appearance of this city and COM
munItv re dependent upo the removal Of all rubbish and refuse at
once;
Therefore, l. p. G. Neville, Mayor Of the City Of Plentywood do
berrbv declare and set aside the week beginning May n, 1895 az
Cleanup Week" for the City Of Pienty~ood, and earnestly request
the cooperation of all citizens of the city In cleaning up all streets
and alleys, vacant lots and all private property to the end that the
City Of PIentywood may be generally recognized - the cieaness CITY
In the State Of Montana.
In case whore property owners don't comply. the city VIII .
move rubbish At owners expense. - NEVILLE Mayor
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-05-23
Farmers Receive Much
AS Result of AAA

Agricultural adjustment programs
have resulted in the distribution OF
S678, 1926 in rental and benefit
payments to more than 5000 900 Co
operating farmers, the Agricultural
Adjustment administration advises
the Montana Extension service.
Processing taxes collected up to
April /, 1885, have amounted to
s777,540,S94. These proceeds have
been equal to rental and benefit
payments distributed to farmers, and
also to expenditures in financing Ger.
tain programs for purchase OF sur
plus agricultural commodities for
distribution to families on relief, as
we'll as administrative costs OF the
program.
The processing tax. collected from
professors, Is designated to fill In
the gap that exists between parity,
of fair exchange value for farm pro
ducts. and the farm market prices.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-05-23
Precipitation For May
Is Far Above Normal

Precipitation thus far this month
in the Plentywood district, exceeds
that recorded in the banner crop
years Of 1926, '27 and '2S, according
to George Wheeler, local weather
observer.
From May / to May 81, 2.28 inches
CT moisture fell in and around Plen-
tywood. Farmers, however, from
Dagmar and Outlook districts, report
that less rain fell in their neighbor-
hoods than did in Plentywcod.
Generally speaking, the county
over. there seems to be ample mois-
ture In the soil to insure a good
start for an excellent crop, and far
mers tell us that all that is needed
now Is a few good rains during the
summer, to grow a big harvest.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-05-23
AUXILIARY
plan fine PROGRAM

Memorial Day, May 80, will be fit
tingly observed in Plentywood this
year, according to announcement Of
the American Legion and Auxiliary.
The service organizations have ar
ranged a splendid program, and in
vite the general public as well as
veterans of all wars, campaigns and
expeditions, to join with them in OBJ
serving this day and paying tribute
to the soldier dead.
The program, given below, will get
under way at 1000 o'clock Thursday
morning at the high school auditor
ium The audience is requested, ac-
cording to the program, not to ap-
plaud.
The Program
Band Selections ........H 5. Band
Commanders Announcement
Invocation -. Rev. O. M. Simundson
Readings ....... Mrs. w. e. Stegner
His Gift" and Khaki, Blue and
Gray"
Selections ......... Male Qnartette
Address Atty. Howard M. Lewis
Tribute to the Dead
Thirty seconds silence.
Star Spangled Banner Assembly
At the conclusion Of the program
at the auditorium, a short ceremony
will he held at the cemetery, where
soldiers graves will he decorated,
and prayers said by Rev. ]. d. Lind
ley.
Plentywood business houses will
remain closed all day.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-05-23
TAX PAYMENTS FOR
over $4,000

Sheridan county tax receipts for
the month of April showed a total
of $9,856.72, according to figures re
vealed at the county ~treasurer's
office.
OF this amount $1,299.41 is penalty
and interest and has been set aside
in a special fund to he returned to
taxpayers. To secure this refund,
those entitled to lit will have to file
a claim with the county commission
ers.
Auto licenses collected during the
month of April totaled ~$3,114.00.
Following are the real estate and
personal taxes for the various years,
Daid during AOril.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-05-23
Plentywood Plans To
Celebrate The Fourth

At a meeting OF the P1entywood
commercial club last week at the
Lutheran church parlors, it was
voted almost unanimously to have a
fourth of July celebration here. Ar
rangements were referred to various
committees, whose members are now
working ON plans for the event.
Last year lPlentywood sponsored a
celebration ON Independence Day
which met with no little success,
and this year 1t Is planned TO go
even farther in observance OF the
national holiday.
At the meeting a donation Of 500
was voted for the bands trip 10
Great Falls to play at the Fair this
fall.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-05-23
1000 LOAN CHECKS

Approximately 1000 federal seed
loan checks have arrived In Plenty
wood and been distributed through
the office of Niels Madsen, clerk and
recorder. Checks are arriving daily
and. through the fine cooperation nj
the local FERA office. as little delay
az possible Is encountered IL procur-
ing loans.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-05-23

During the mont OF April war
rants were paid in the sun OF $685.
1877 .63. Interest coupons were paid
amounting to $531.25 for county and
$4,000 for school district indebted
ness.
The county also retired sS,963.22
worth of registered warrants invest
ed in the Sinking Fund. This amount
was credited back to the Sinking
fund.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-05-23

Harry E. Polk, publisher OF The
Herald, who has had tho misfortune
TO be confined In a Minneapolis hos
phal the past month. writes that he
Is much improved and hopes to soon
be pounding the heads IN his Brass
Tacks" column again.
Smyrna times., 1935-02-07
More Rain in Wooded Lands

European scientists declare that
rain falling in wooded land is %
per cent greater than that in open
nreas
Smyrna times., 1935-02-07
Prophecy of Inventor
of Airship Comes True

Salt Lake City.-The prophecy of
her father, who constructed an air.
ship In 1894, that his children and
grandchildren would fly in large air
liners came true here when Mrs.
Lizette Pierce Dibble arrived on
one of United Air Lines coast-to-
coast transports from her home in
Boise. Mrs. Dibble described her
first airplane flight as simply
grand" She is the widow Of a
Blackhawk Indian war veteran and
daughter of James Madison
Pierce. early Utah inventor.
Her father constructed an "air-
ship" shaped like boat and pow
cred with a small motor, nine years
before the famous Wright brothers
made their first successful flight in
Kitty Hawk, N. O., in 1908. He had
firm faith in aviation. Lack of
funds caused the inventor to give
up his experiments on flying ma
chine"
Smyrna times., 1935-02-07
Soviet to Make Gasoline
From Peat on Big Scale

Observation-Disclosures Of gaso-
line from peat under conditions that
make large-scale production prac-
teal was announced recently. Such
gasoline has just been used in an
automobile test run from Leningrad
to Moscow and return.
Experts say the new fuel gave
more power than ordinary gasoline,
made no smoke, caused engines to
run more smoothly and cost only
half as much to produce as gaso-
line from petroleum.
The process was recently devel-
oped at the Leningrad Industrial
Institute by a large research staff
headed by Professor Yakovlev. En-
gineers foresee a great future for
this fuel as there are beds contain
ing 2,OOO,OOO,O0O tons of peat in the
Leningrad district.
The commissariat for heavy in
dustry has allotted funds for an ex-
perimental refinery.
Smyrna times., 1935-02-07
DELAWARE FIRE
CHIEFS MEET
25 Companies Represented At
Laurel Meeting; To Hold
Past Masters Meet
FAVOR STATE MARSHAL

The Delaware Fire Chiefs Asso-
ciation held its regular quarterly
meeting at the Rigbie Hotel in
Laurel last week with about TWEEN
ty-five visiting chiefs from various
parts of the State present as
guests of the Laurel Volunteer Fire
Department at a turkey dinner.
William T. Bennett, chief of the
Laurel Fire Department, welcomed
the visitors and turned the meet
ing over to Thomas A. Kellam, of
Clayton, Del, president of the as
sociation, who presided at the
meeting. Special musical enter
tainment was provided by ''Katy's
Entertainers, quartet of instru-
ments. The chief address was de-
livered by Thomas Baker, first vice
president and first assistant chief
of the Robbins Hose Company Of
Dover, who gave a talk on .tSaI-
meeting, the association went on
record as favoring the plan of a
State fire marshal whose duties
will be to cooperate with the var
ious departments in the State in
the reduction of fire hazards. J.
Raymond Charles, of fredericksburg,
Md, first vice-president of the Del
marva F'iremen's Association, was
present, and the association went
on record endorsing his efforts in
printing the Volunteer F'iremen's
Bulletin, the first issue of which
will appear about April l. Hugh
lett A. Colt, of Dover, secretary
treasurer of the Chiefs Associa-
ton, was also present at the meet
ing. William T. Bennett, of the
Laurel Fire Department, is the sec
ond vice-president
Smyrna times., 1935-02-07

WITH exports Of pork and lard
W from the United States still re-
naming at low level, a large in.
crease in hog production Is not war
ranted at this time, according to Off.
cials Of the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration. Exports Of pork
from the United States showed a
slightly upward trend in 1884, but
this was Offset by a decline In ex.
ports in lard. Annual shipments
abroad remain at about three-fourths
OF a billion pounds, as compared
with nearly two billion pounds in
the early postwar period. The de-
cline during the ten years from 1928
to 1882. as indicated by the above
graph. has been equivalent to about
nine million hogs.
Great Britain, the principal mar
Smyrna times., 1935-02-07
NEW DRUG is AID
IN MALARIA FIGHT
Four Times as Powerful as
Quinine, Scientist Says.

Atlanta, Ga. Malaria, ancient
scourge of the backwoods dwellers
of the deep South. is being fought
with new and potent weapon
which researchers have reason to
believe may soon relegate the insid-
ious disease to the virtual oblivion
into which vaccination drove small
pox.
Atabrine-an amino-acridine de-
rivative with alkyl groups if you
are chemically versed-is the new
magic in medical sciences ceaseless
warfare against the deadly blood
parasite.
1t is four times, as powerful as
quinine and more palatable, though
more costly, physicians explain.
With it cures can be effected in five
days, compared to five weeks re-
quired by quinine
Amazing results have been OBJ
tained in tests. The malarial death
rate in Malacca, small Asiatic coun-
try, dropped 30 per cent after its
Introduction. Favorable results
were obtained by South American
fruit company in more than 300
cases.
While the drug Is being intro
duced In all malaria-infested south
ern states. the Tennessee valley
counties of Alabama are being used
as a gigantic testing laboratory.
DR.. J. n. Baker, director of pub
lie health in Alabama, is being aid
ed by the Tennessee valley author
ity's medical department In CON
Quoting a thorough malaria blood
survey.
The drug is being made available
to physicians through the states
public health system.
The hoped-for result is the saw
ing of hundreds of lives now listed
in the annual malarial death toll.
I'm certain and quartan malaria
atabrine destroys the parasite
promptly and permanently" Doc
tor Baker said. "In avestic-autumnal
or malignant malaria another drug,
plasmochin, is used as an adjunct
for complete control.
'"The possibilities of atabrine as
a check against this disease are
great. Its use is big forward step
toward ultimate elimination of this
ancient enemy of the South"
Smyrna times., 1935-02-07
BARBER HAS MADE RECORD
John Calhoun of Georgetown Has
Been Barbering For 45 Years

F,orty-five years of shaves and
haircuts is the record held by John
Thomas Calhoun, senior member
of the firm of Calhoun Brothers
of Georgetown. Mr. Calhoun start
ed in business As years ago last
October ON the second floor of the
Lacey Building. Except for four
years, when he was Recorder of
Deeds of Sussex county, he has
worked continuously by the side
of the chair" Even when he was
one of the court house officials, he
continued to do some tonsorial
work. Some of the customers who
visited his shop the first day he
opened As years ago are still pa
irons. Mr.. Calhoun, both in age
and point of service, is one of the
oldest BARRIERS on the Delmarva
Peninsula and still is going strong.
Smyrna times., 1935-02-07
YOUR FEDERAL INCOME TAX
Federal Income Blanks Are Issued
Who Must File Returns

A head of a family is defined by
income tax regulations as IAN in
dividual who actually supports and
maintains in one household one or
more persons who are closely con-
nected with him by blood relation
ship, relationship by marriage, or
by adoption, and whose right to
exercise family control and provide
for these dependent individuals is
based upon some moral or legal
obligation" The exemption allow
ed a head of a family is $4,000.
The phrose ''in one household" may
be interpreted as meaning the tax
payers personal residence, an
apartment, rooms in a boarding
house, hotel, etc. Under certain
circumstances it is not necessary
that the taxpayer and his depend
ents live under one roof during the
entire taxable year IN order that
the taxpayer may claim the exem-
ton. If, the common home being
maintained, the parent is away on
business, or a child away at school
or on a visit, the exemption is al
lowed. Moreover, if a parent is
obliged to maintain his dependent
children with relatives or in a
boarding house, while he lives else
where, the exemption still applies.
If, however, without necessity, the
dependent makes his home else
where, the benefactor is not the
head of a family. The same rul-
ing applies to husband and wife
living together" If occasionally
and temporarily the husband is
away ON business or the wife on a
visit, the common home being
maintained, the $4,000 exemption
still applies. The unavoidable alb
sence of husband or wife at a
sanatorium does not preclude the
exemption. But if the husband
continually makes his home at one
place and the wife at another, they
are not living together within the
meaning of the revenue act.
Smyrna times., 1935-02-07
ys12s,,as :
N Information EstaO-
IN Washington D. C.
for Visitors
.,rU IT'S AID

,,-Establlshed by tht |,
'arcency .or' council in March
Washington visitors to
~ars Of federal agencies !
..nev units, the United
',,.nation service now an
.a.ns from far and near
seviously, inquirers re-
4 ne trial and error meth
.,.sipg Il queries to a par
,s.rtnent, they now have e
= information central"
an,b y with every depart
',.s,r sr. commission or other
'rr' ...Drv. says the New York
80 Miss Harriet NJ. Root
Y, Il wellesley, a dozen eX-
'~,,b workers, all women
|. 10 queries which come IN
II call, by telephone and
!, Not infrequently one
n rill bring in 400 letters
~rriug one or more ques-
busy day, as many as
s,,s have called at Miss
| ,sre seeking general in
L. Or assistance in contact
/. federal agency.
| ,v.r Wide Range.
rsries cover an encyclo-
|.-.s A New Jersey woman,
kr7le, having what she be-
|, Be ambergris in her pos
| ssed where she could find
Esar it was genuine. Her
/ vas referred to the bureau
lis Requests for informa-
|, iivlning rods and buried
L 20 70 the bureau Of mines.
L il New York asked for a
In federal corporations since
|a5llshment of the United
lmernment-a request that
I.ei considerable research.
i atter called for anything
4 ini On capital and labor"
Earse. a reply furnished ref
ks government publications
/ inject.
! bullet from a high-pOw-
L actually change its course
|sging water9 If it does.
lni in what directiOn?" in
EGher correspondent. Here.
Il, vas an opportunity for
b., ballistic experts, to
te query was forwarded.
| snail town came a request
.sk on the source of GER
EEnents carried in an ar
local newspaper. And a
dh potatoes to sell sought
f the service in finding
snarket for them.
|ky Personal Questions.
ri questions are numerous.
~ Of a naval man who was
pa ship went down in the
|Eia guidance in preparing
f compensation from the
|1Et Another inquirer sought
+ % how to obtain a medal
|-A who had saved a play
I'm drowning. A father
p be should go about find
fG 500 a billet in the mer-
|1lHe. And whenever for
srsary Of War Newton d.
71es % town. the informa-
RNs Invariably receives one
calls for his Washington
IS for Information on fed
-V1eS reflect the increased
% public affairs. particu-
ne work Of the New Deal
Inc national emergency
AoIlsnes q daily manual,
/ | ehanges In the federal set
10 charts showing graph
i PRESENT federal Organiza-
18th the manual and the
~ IN great demand. Uni
/ ula schools and faculty
I /, end many requests. a
I College plans to use the
i. 4''al as a textbook; a pro
!. ! mldwestern university
!, \" copies of the chart of
= government.
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Smyrna times., 1935-02-07

ket for pork products, continues to
restrict pork shipments from non
empire countries, n ding the
United States, by means of import
quotas. Germany. second ranking
buyer Of hog products, limit e d
monthly lard imports in 1884 to 40
per cent Of the volume imported
during the corresponding months
Of 1931-33. and during the latter
part of the year imposed restrictions
on conversion of German money into
foreign exchange that caused fur
ther reductions in lard imports.
The 1895 corn-hog production con.
troll program now being offered by
the Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration is designed to help farmers
keep hog numbers in line with the
current low level of pv-~ort 10
Smyrna times., 1935-02-07
.CCC BOYS BACK
ON DITCH WORK
116 Go on Job Depsite Their
Kick Over Frozen Marsh
es and Frigid Weather
II BOYS ARE DISMISSED

The "mutiny" which broke out
among the young men of the CCC
camp located at Slaughter Beach,
recently, when 116 of the boys re-
volted against going to work in the
frozen marshes that day, had been
quelled by the commanding officer,
Captain Henry T. Fisher, and the
camp is now back on its regular
work routine of digging bitches in
the marshes in connection with the
States mosquito control program.
While the work was suspended
temporarily during the coldest
spell, the commanding officer
thought it mild enough for them to
resume on Tuesday of last week,
but the boys did not agree with
them. When the platoon leaders
went into the barracks to awaken
the boys at their usual early morn
ing hour, they fatty refused to go
to work. The revolt was put to an
end by Captain Fisher when he dis
charged II of the boys, believed to
have been the ring leaders, and fin
ed the remaining 1O4 one dollar
each, the equivalent of one days
pay. Captain Earle E. Ewing,
commanding officer of the CCC
camp at Lewes stated that his boys
had been allowed to go to work one
hour later when the sun was high
er. He said the boys are well
equipped with heavy clothing and
rubber boots.
Smyrna times., 1935-02-07
Drop Trout 500 Feet to
Water Without Injury

MOntreal.-A series of remarka-
bic experiments, proving that fish
can be dropped into water, or even
to the ground from attitudes up TO
1,50O feet without serious injury,
have lust been concluded by the
Quebec department of fish and
game.
The experiments were part of the
departments researches into new
and speedier methods of restocking
lakes. One of the methods under
consideration was dropping fish
from airplanes. 1t was doubtful,
however, whether the fish could sur
vive the drop. The experiments
proved beyond doubt that they
could.
A number of trout first were
taken up to height of 200 feet and
dropped into a pond. They swan
on as if nothing happened Then
fish were dropped from heights Of
1000 and 1.50O feet. The result
was Identical. The trout did not
appear to have been troubled in the
least by the fall.
Not satisfied, the research work
ers then placed trout in receptacle
with narrow openings at each end.
took it up to a height of 1000 feet
and dropped it to the ground. The
receptacle was smashed to pieces,
but the fish were unharmed, and
quickly revived when placed in
water.
Smyrna times., 1935-02-07
salnst College
Over Stone Wall

esf' Mass. "A 37S- foot s,ono
.eu oy mistake from
n, Ere rled E. Maynard, ac-
l., sui hled here.
m a'lleu - he presented an
b.. !. property to Assump-
aiding. n . new
s9rknen overlooked tbe
\, g alleged. and instead
'iI-lnportant boundary
t'a. \ Tie :, foundations Of the
~ Z !. alanard asked 10 be
~ 'he amount or s5.00o
Smyrna times., 1935-02-07
Steno Mails Dinner,
Takes Letters Home

st. Louis. s.-Postmaster Rufus
Jackson vouches for this story:
The other night a stenographer
started home with a package of
meat and pack of letters. She
mailed the meat and took the
letters home for dinner.
Discovering the drab nature
Of her dinner she telephoned the
post office. A mechanic obliging-
ly opened the mail box and saved
the meat.
Smyrna times., 1935-02-07
Beggar Starves on His
Bed Stuffed With Gold

Warsaw.-A beggar found starv-
ing in a LODI garret was taken to
a hospital. Stuffed in the straw
mattress on which he had been ly-
ing, the police found 2.S4O gold and
silver coins. After the hospital ex-
penses had been paid an account at
bank was opened for the beggar
with the rest OF the money.
Smyrna times., 1935-02-07
Some Rise

During the annual floods expert
enced in Egypt along the banks Of
the Nile. this famous river rises
abnnt 20 feet.
Smyrna times., 1935-02-07
Boomerangs

The boomerang that sails out and
returns is a plaything. while the
boomerang made in Australia for
hunting and fighting does not re-