Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-03-21
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WIllISTON BAND EVENT TO BE HELD JUNE 4
Committees in charge Of arrangements for the an.
nual Upper Missouri band tournament held at Willis
ton have set June 4 for the date. The wnliston
Chamber Of Commerce sponsors the event. More than
500 musicians representing a dozen bands In north.
western North Dakota and northeastern Montana at
tended last years tournament and it is expected fully
as many will attend this year.
WHEELER WOMAN is DIoNNE's COUSIN
In tracing her family history. Mrs. David Norm OF
Wheeler. discovered that the famed Dtonne Quintup-
lets are her cousins. Mrs NORM remembering that
her mothers maiden name was Sarah Dionne Of On
tario, Canada, wrote to her mother and received an
answer stating that her mother is a sister TO Orvila
Dionne's father, grandfather to the Quintuplets.
HORSE SELLS FOR 1oc A PoUUND-At an
auction sale at the Oscar Berard farm near Sioux Pass
a horse was sold at ten cents a pound. The horse
weighed 1900 pounds and brought the owner $3.50. At
the same sale q sixmonths odd calf sold for SIS. A
cow brought out to be sold at the sale broke away and
the auctioneer got a satisfactory bid on her Just as
she was disappearing over a hill a half mile away.
WILLIsToN COMPANY E VETS REUNION
A reunion Of the World War veterans who served In
Wiliston's company E will be held there April s.
Company E left Wfniston in August, 1917 going to
Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. c.; thence to Camp Mills,
New York and to Camp Merritt, New Jersey. They ar
toned in southern France.
scoBEY A IN PECULIAR ACCIDENT
While enroute to town from his home near Scobey
last week Seraphin Laperre suffered a painful injury
when a small stone crashed through the windshield,
senLing a splinter of glass into his eye. The eye
ball was destroyed. Mr.. Lapierre drove his car on to
Scobey, from where ne was rushed to Minot to have
the injured eyeball removed.
STEPHENS MURDER CASE SET TO OPEN
With all the evidence pointing to one of the longest
murder trials in Valley county's history. The case Of
the state against Paulina Stephens, who is charged
with the murder OF her husband, James R Stephens.
more than three years ago, opened in district court at
Glasgow Monday.
PATHE NEWS REEL MAN TAKES PICTURES
Shots Of every phase Of activity at the Fort Peck
project were obtained last week by J. r. Olson Of Salt
Lake City. Pathe representative. Mr.. Olson arrived in
Glasgow Sunday. He went to the project and spent
Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning making news
reel pictures at the dam.
ELECTRIC SIGNAL is lNsTALLED-The work
OF installing a Griswold electric signal at the west
railroad crossing at Wolf Point Is about completed.
The work has been done under the supervision OF
Great Northern force. The signal Is so arranged that
when a train passes a certain point 1t automatically
sets the alarm
COUNTY OFFERS UNBIASED LAND TO Gov
ERNMENT-A decision to offer the United States
government an option on all Phillips county tax title
land not sold or leased by April has been announced
by the board of county commissioners Of that county.
The total amount OF county land is approximately
100000 acres.
AWARDED IA FROM coAcH COMPANY
The case Of Mrs. Mae Wig against the Great Falls
Coach Lines Company. in which Mrs. Wig took iudg-
ment against the company after the death OF her hus-
band was settled out Of court last week at Glasgow
when Mrs. Wig accepted a settlement of $500. Mr..
Wig was killed In a bus accident near Glasgow.
AL REMoDELED At CHINoOk-The women's
ward In the Blaine county Jail has been remodeled to
provide additional space and better ventilation The
cell was formerly a dark inside room. The first wo
man prisoner .or several months will begin serving a
n5 day sentence at the Jail.