Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-09-24
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References
A. Consultant: Hans Rasmussen
Former County Surveyor.
B. Niels AIadsen, County Clerk an
Recorder.
C. Theodore Gunderson. Old-tim
Rancher.
D. Robert L. Wheeler, County Sur
veyor.
E. Plentywood Herald, January 81
1916.
F. William J. Hagen. Secretary
~Plentywood Commercial Club.
G. Ten Hansen, Plentywood Flour
Mill Operator.
H. Plentywood Herald, Files for 1913;
1886.
I. L. G. zeidler, Merchant, Plenty
wood.
j. "A Short History of the Twenty
five Years of Work among the Luther
ans Of the Plentywood Parish by the
Rev. o. NJ. Simundson. 1885.
K. Walter Raess, Merchant, Plenty
wood.
L. Charles E. Taylor, Editor of The
Producers News.
NJ Ruth L. Johnson, County Lii
brarian.
N. Sodbusters' Edition, Producers
News. Unpublished.
0. DR.. j. c .Storkan, Plentywood
Physician.
P. Sheridan County Annual Finan-
cial Statements, 1~928-1935.
Q. Carl Lund, Engineer and Care
taker, P~lentywood Schools.
r. Olaf Aasheim, County Superin-
tendent of Schools.
S. A. c. Erickson, Plentywood City
Clerk.
COMMUNITIES
610. The bilingual communities at
Medicine Lake, Dagmar, Outlook and
Dooley and Archer are hilingual
chiefly in the sense that some language
other than English is used in CONVEX
sation among the older residents. The
younger people, particularly the chill
dren, are likely to be unfamiliar, in the
majority of cases, with anything but
English, since there are no longer any
foreign language schools in the county
and English is gradually %supplanting
the other languages for use in church.
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The Dagmar-C oalridge community
is outstanding for its successful coop
erative enterprises, which include a
store at Dagmar, a coal mine at Coal
ridge, and others of considerable local
Importance. The store, Incorporated in
1916 as the Equity Cooperative Asso-
citation of Dagmar, at first had great
difficulty in obtaining stock, being
boycotted by wholesalers, who ap-
peared to regard it with suspicion. At
ter years of struggle it has won ac-
ceptance as a thoroughly trustworthy
organization, and now has an excel
lent credit rating. The Acme Coal Mine
at Coalridge is by far the best mine
in the county, with at least eighty
acres of excellent Ignite which attains
a maximum thickness of Is feet. 1t is
a cooperative organized in 1918, its
stock issued in limited amounts to
persons living in the neighborhood. Its
purpose has been to furnish coal
cheaply to people in its immediate
vicinity, and the price has been o n
sistently lower than at other mines.
Despite this it paid a dividend in 1885.
The community also has its own CO.
operative telephone company, fire in
surance company and an organization
which began as a sort of death benefit
society, with each member pledged to
contribute one dollar to a fund for the
beneficiaries of any member who died,
but which had to be modified to COM
ply with state insurance laws. Some
stock in a Farmers Union oil station
at Grenora, N. D., is owned by Dag
mar people. The most unusual of the
enterprises of this group of neighbors
is a burial association open to anyone
upon payment of a two-dollar mem
bership fee, which agrees to furnish,
for S45, a coffin equal in value to any
ordinarily sold for $500. This associa-
ton also had to survive a boycott in
its first years. Its collins are made by
Nels Miller, at Dagmar. (A,B).
There are no buildings Of any ar
chitectural distinction in the county,
though two or three brentwood struc-
lures are fairly handsome. No type of
architecture is especially represented.
There are still a few Of the old log
houses and sod houses in existence,
some of them now being used as out
houses, but most of them have been
taken down. There is a sod house at
Antelope which has been remodeled
and is still used as a dwelling, and an
old ranch house built partly of logs
and partly of adobe &c. 1900 stands
on the Big Muddy fiat about two
mics southeast of Mildly. In dwellings
built since 1910. attempts at various
styles have been made, and the cot
tage. the bungalow, the colonial home