Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-09-17
NEWS OF OUR NEICHBORS


CONVICT GIVES SELF UP AT GLASGOW
I'm a fugitive from Justice. l guess you can do the rest"
said Harry Thompson, 3s, to Deputy Sheriff Taylor of
Valley county last week. A telegram to the Minnesota
state penitentiary at Saltwater quickly confirmed his
declaration. Officials there said Thompson is wanted for
violation of parole after being released after a sentence
for check alteration. Everybody in Glasgow has flat
feet" said Thompson. Every time l heard a step outside
my hotel door l thought it was an officer"
OFFICERS SEARCH FOR FIT. PECK ASSAILANT
Valley county authorities are seeking a mysterious as
sailant who attacked j. J. Sutton, Fort Peck employee,
near the Sutton home at Fort Peck last week. Sutton is
in a Glasgow hospital recovering from injuries sus-
tanned when the mysterious assailant beat him about the
head, slightly fracturing his skull. Officers said Sutton
was struck on the side of the head with a blunt instrum-
ent, possibly a gun barrel.
OMA FOUND DEA IN BED
Mrs. Otto Lund, pioneer resident of Brockton, was found
dead in her bed at the family home last Saturday. She
was AZ years Of age. Mrs. Lund worked the night shift
at the Lund filling station and following her usual Gus
tom she retired at 10 am. She had been using chloroform
to induce sleep and it is h believed she died from an over
dose of the potion. A coroners jury brought in a verdict
of accidental death.
POPLAR BOYS INJURED IN AUTO SMASHUP-
Internal injuries of a serious nature were suffered by
George and Bob Kapinos of Poplar when their car left
The highway nine miles west oil Poplar thursday When
they were returning to Fort Peck. Because of their con-
dition, the young men were unable to give a clear a-
count of the accident. Their car, a new model, was badly
wrecked.
CULBERTSON AUDITORIUM DIGGING BEGINS
Workers have been excavating at Culbertson on the
site of the projected community hall and gymnasium,
which will be constructed as a federal aid project. The
Culbertson school district voters will ballot to decide
whether to authorize levying of taxes to provide $500 of
the $4,000 cost of the structure. The building will be
constructed just north of the city Jail.
POsTOFFICE ROBBERY ATTEMPT FAILS
An attempt to rob the Nashua postoffice last Monday
went awry when the safety lock failed to break. The
robbers forced open the lock on the door by using a leaf
from a car spring. Valley county authorities investigated
the following day and took fngerprints. 1t is believed
the attempt was made by a novice.
SIDNE WINS LEAGU BASEBALL TITLE
Sidney last week won the Lower Yellowstone League
baseball championship in a playoff gme with Glendive, ID
to 2. The teams were tied at the end of the league sched-
ule, each having won s and lost 3. Don Quick, Sidney
pitcher, famed IL Glendive baters in the five frames he
worked.
& PARACHUTE JUMPER SIxGHT INJURED
Quad Turner, employed at radio station KICK at Wolf
Point, suffered a sprained ankle last week in making a
parachute jump from Ed Canfeld's plane during the air
show there. His chute failed to open until he had fallen
1900 feet, 500 feet from the earth. 1t was his fourth Jump.
SHOT IN LEG IN ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY
George Murray, so, is recovering in the Valley county
hospital from gunshot wounds in the leg received when
frustrated in the robbery of an Oswego store. The prop
rietors accosted him as he left with the loot and when
he failed to heed their call to stop, one of them fired.
SCOBEY FOOTBALL CANDIDATES NUMBER 18
-18 football candidates reported for practice under
Coach Glenn Hansen at Scobey last week. Only one let
terman from last years squad is back in the lineup. The
Scobey teams first game is next Saturday, Sept. 10,
against Antelope on the Scobey field.
ANNUAL GLENDIvE HELD
Willard Peterson of Scobey was runnerup to Waly Taft
of Minneapolis in the annual Labor Day golf tourna-
met at Glendive. Claire Peterson, another Scobey repre-
sentative and a brother Of the runnerup, won the first
flight.
WORKER KILLED IN FALL AT SIDNEY
Tom King, 31-year-old Denver construction worker, was
instantly killed last Tuesday when he fell 40 feet to a
concrete floor while working on a new storage bin at the
plant of the Holly Sugar corporation at Sidney.
REACH NEW HIGH IN GLASGOW SCHOOLS
Increased enrolment over last years figures necessitat-
ed hiring of two new teachers at the Glasgow schools last
week. 1277 children are now attending the Glasgow
schools, 81 more than last year.
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