Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-05-07
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Sheridan County

MRS. ANNA NELSON, educator,
pioneer homesteader and newspaper
woman, a friend OF many, an enemy to
none, this week consented to be The
Herald's honored lady in this column.
The little woman, adverse to puo-
licity typical of all newspaper men
n women for reasons unexplainable)
had to be coaxed a wee bit before she
would consent to be named in the Her
AIDS weekly posterity book. But she
consented
Early in the week we glanced at
the Herald's date line. We blinked
twice. No, we had not forgotten the
date of the papers birth-but time
travels so swiftly.
Make way, front page stories, for a
story!
A story in hat date line for any
newswriter. We were thinking of the
little lady who, with her husband,
more than % years ago, founded the
Herald.
Yes, twenty-eight years ago the first
copy of the first paper in the Big Mud
dy valley was produced from an old
Franklin hand press and with it was
established a guiding light, founded on
sound principles, for a pioneer COM
munity.
If the staunch walls of the Herald
building, now slightly weather beaten
and wrinked with age could whisper
in eulogy of the past, the pen of sue
cessors could then fttingly record the
story. Gentle winds through the creak-
ing rafters seem to often sing praises
to the founders, who built not a house
on sand. So, of Mrs. Nelson, in humble
praise we are pleased to write.
Brandon, Minnesota, is the birth
place of Mrs. Anna Nelson. Her child
hood days were spent there and it was
there that she received her early edu-
cation. Mrs. Nelson completed her ed
ucation at the st. Cloud Normal school
and taught school at Brandon, Mimi,
for eight years.
She then came west and homestead
ed heal Crosby, N. D. She was married
to Cornelius S. Nelson at Crosby July
20, 1903.
Coming to Plentywood they settled
on a homestead and came here pri-
mariy to establish a newspaper.
Mrs. Nelson recalls that at that time
but one established family was her in
Plentywood-the Bolster family. The
town grew so fast that by the time the
Nelson's had proven up their home
stead, delivery service and telephone
service was available at the homestead
shack.
For twenty years Mrs. Nelson did
much to insure the success of The
Herald. In 1927 the paper was sold to
the present publishers. Since that time
Mrs. Nelson has been internationally
connected with the Herald and at
present writes society and local news
for the publication.
Some of the old machinery which
was used in publishing the Herald
years ago is still in Mrs. Nelson's pos
session. The old slab of the Franklin
hand press was put to good use several
years ago. 1t is now used as a door
sep at the old homestead shack.
Durirg Mrs. Nelson's twenty-eight
years in Sheridan county she has been
active in community and civic work.
During the war she served as local
chairman of the American Red Cross
and did much to foster the work here.
For mary years she has been affiliated
with the Plentywood Congregational
church and has been consistently an
active church worker.
She is a past matron of the Plenty
wood o. E. S, chapter and is a charter
member of the order.
The Plentywood lady is the oldest
OF a family of 10 children. Her mother,
who is 81 years of age, lives at Mohall,
N. d.