Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-11-05

is one of a series of articles ON
Sheridan county written by John
A. Stahlberg. who was appointed
by the Federal Wri er's Project
department 10 compile a history
of Sheridan county and which will
be preserved for posterity. Each
week an installment of this inter
esting, historical and geOgraph-
ical report will be published in
The Herald. Sources Of informa-
ton for the report are mentioned
by the writer.
The report en- Sheridan county
has been considered the best in
the state by editors Of the State
Guide, now being prepared.
600. The new Congregational church
at Plentywood. built to its preserf
stage in 1929, but never completed
has the external appearance of a hal
or club rather han that of a church
and the completed portion was indee,
intended TOR use as a social room a:
soon as the church itself should be
completed. Built at a V-shaped street
intersection, II has n angle obtuse
another acute, on its front or entrance
side. Finished in stucco, it has a sur
face suggestion of Romanesque arch
es over rectangular windows and rec
tangular entrance doors opening into
a small porch. Each arch is marked in
the center with a Greek cross in white,
which is repeated, somewhat larger, at
the top center of the facade. The walls
are ~surmounted by curved and stepped
parapets (A,F,I,Q). The old Congreg-
ational church, built in 1910, is now
the Masonic Hall. There is also a Con-
gregational church at Medicine Lake,
built in 1909. There are Roman Cath
Ole churches at Plentywood (1913),
Medicine Lake (1912) and Outlook.
The Plentywood church has stained
glass Gothic windows and Gothic entr-
ance. There are Lutheran churches at
Plentywood (1913), Antelope C928),
Dooley Q915), Outlook Q915), Archer
(19l8), Raymond (1927), Comertown
and Westby. The Outlook and Ray
mond churches are unfinished, services
being conducted in rooted easements.
Plentywood has an Evangelical church,
and a tabernacle" used by a Penteco-
stal group. Congregations throughout
the county have special services al
Easter and Christmas, and Sunday and
vacation schools for their children. IT.
every case, they used homes, school
houses or other available buildings for
places OF worship until their churches
were built Oh, !, j, X.
The only laboratories in the county
are those j nthe high schools. Of these
the best is the one at Plentywood.
Some paintings lone by Mrs. Car,
Tango OF Outlook are on display at the
Sheridan County Free Library, and
many more may be seen at her home
Az miles southeast of Outlook. Mrs.
Tango has taken prizes at the Billings
fair. Her work includes portraits,
landscapes, marine and still life sket-
ches (H,M).
There are many ephemeral musical
groups, especially in the dance orches-
ira field, but the only organizations of
any degree of permanence are the hig.
school bands and glee clubs, and GER
tain church choirs. The Plentywood
High School Band is directed by Os-
car Fossum, who has composed a few
numbers of his own. It gives free
open-air Saturday night concerts in
Pkntywood during the summer
months, and may also be heard out
doors or at the High School Auditor
ium on special occasions. In 1895 the
quality of its performance won it an
invitation to play at the State Fair at
Great Falls. The best choirs are tnoso
at the Congregational and Lutheran
churches in brentwood. Mrs. Winifred
Opgrande and Dean Moore have some
local reputation as singers, and Mrs.
Opgrande is also a pianist and music
teacher. Elder Gunderson of Plenty
wood is a member of Harry Turner's
Hot-Shots, a dance orchestra broad
casting occasionally over station KFYh
at Bismarck, N. D., and Emma Cour.
ney, formerly Of Plentywood, has had
concert experience in singing (F,n,Q).
Ben James, now published by Rey-
nal and Hitchcock and various maya
zines, was a teacher at the Outlook
high school in the late nineteen
twenties, but lived in the county only
while teaching. Tom OFlaherty, a bro
Their Of Liam O'Flaherty and something
of an author in his own right, was in
Plentywood as associate editor of The
Producers News in 1880 and 1881,
leaving to found his magazine, The
Wasp, in Cleveland. He is now in Ire
land. A young st. Paul reporter, Will
liam Royal Greer, who grew up in
Plentywood, is the author Of Gems of
American Architecture" a small vol
ume of the Whiz Bang type of wit,
containing photographs of some north
eastern Montana structures. The Rev.
Marius Larsen of Dagmar translates
from English into Danish, is at present
working on some of John Galsworthy's
PLAYS. (H,L,M).
The Sheridan County Free Library
at Plentywood, founded in July, 1918,
now totals about 5000 volumes and is
housed in one of the three Or four
handsomest buildings in the county. II
contains an unusual number of books
on radical social theory, including d
nearly complete gift set Of Upton Sin
writings. It's collection of books
for teachers is very full, and it features
children's books Of all kinds, its list OF
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