Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-03-12

were fined in Justice of the Peace Chas. Councils court
last week following an accident in which the car the
men were driving crashed into a machine owned by Err
ling Hansen, Culbertson school instructor, on the Gull
bertson streets. Hughes was fined S25 and damages as
the driver of the car and Gronlie S. for contempt of
court.
NONPARTISANS INDORSE TWO FACTIONS
Political history was made in North Dakota last week
when the two factions of the Nonpartisan league split.
Efforts to affect a compromise at the Bismarck conven-
ton were unsuccessful. William LANCER and Walter We'll
ford were given the gubenatorial indorsment by the re-
spective factions.
VALLEY COUNTY POPULATION INCREASES
Valley county, of which Glasgow is the county seat, led
all other counties in the state in percentage of increase
of population in the last six years. The school census of
January l, 1886 was 1904, an increase of 34-5 per cent
since 1880. The increase is due largely to the influx of
workers to the Fort Peck project.
GROUSE FEEDS ON FRESH GR~ASSHOPPERS-
Full grown grasshoppers are apparently active in Will
liams county, N. D., although spring has not officially ar
rived. The crop of a dead grouse was opened last week
and found to contain a tea cup full Of the pests, appar-
emily consumed by the bird a few hours before its death.
YELLOWSTONE RIVER BEGINS
Ice gorges and floods in the Yellowstone valley near Sid
ney, precipitated by the breaking up of the Yellowstone
river, last week necessitated warnings to settlers to ev-
acuate their homes if the situation became critical. Two
feet of water covered the highway in sections.
wILILsTON TO ENTER STATE CLASS "A" MEET
By virtue of their 20-19 victory over the challenging
Crosby quint at Minot last Thursday night, the Willis
ton high school basketball team will enter the North Da-
kota state tournament at Bismarck March ~. They Will
meet Valley City in their first game.
RADIO BRINGS MANS ARREST
Radio broadcasts from the Wolf Point radio station,
KICK, brought quick apprehension OF Harry Boyd OF
Brockton, charged with the theft of a car owned by DIR.
f. N. Jones of Wolf Point. Boyd was confined in the city
Jail there ard on entering a plea of not guilty was bound
over to the next term of district court.
POPLAR TEAM WILL ATTEND TOURNAMENT
Members of the Poplar high school basketball team will
attend the round robin tournament at Havre next week,
as spectators. The team is composed of five seniors. Pro-
cecds Of a basketball game between the team and an in
dependent aggregation will be used to defray expenses.
ROB MAN AT HIS HOME AT ARK GROVE
Another of a long series of holdups at the Fort Peck
project towns occurred at Park Grove last week when
robbers ransacked the home of Ed Torkelson and then
held up his son, Bud, as the latter entered the house. The
thieves relieved the young man of SOS.
AMATEUR CONTEST SPONSORED AT SCOBEY
The Catholic study club at Scobey sponsored an anna
teur program last week. Prizes were awarded to Dor
othy Berry, tap dance, first; Margaret Rhodes, vocal solo,
second; Vernon Nelson, vocal solo, third.
TWO YOUNG MEN GIVEN PRISON SENTENCES
Wayne Metzger, 20, and Kirby Lindquist, l8, sentenced
to five years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted
robbery before Judge S. E. Paul, have been taken to the
state penitentiary by Sheriff Lowe of Roosevelt county.
MEDICINE LAX WILL PURCHASE
Medicine Lakes town council has put in an order Tor a
thawer to be used to thaw out frozen water pipes. 1t OPP
crates from any light socket on the premiss of the user.
Its estimated cost to the user is around a dollar or less.
LIQUOR STORE RAIDED AT WOLF POINT
Plferers made the second raid in two weeks on the Wolf
Point liquor store last week. The front door was smashed
and the thieves escaped with a small quantity OF whiskey
and gin.
RADIO STATION DENIED
Radio station KICK at Wolf Point last week was denied
a power increase and change in frequency by the federal
communications commission.