Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-11-25
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GAS TEST UNSUCCESSFUL Al POPLAR-Test-
ing for gas at Poplar was concluded unsuccessfully.
Drilling was stopped at 1850 in formation which gave
no announcement for going further it is stated.
Other tests are planned in the Poplar area.
WOLVES BEAT FORSYTH % TITLE+Wolf
Point high schools Wolves defeated Forsyth 20 to
6 to annex the intersection class B football title.
Wolf Point came from behind with a powerful drive
to score three touchdowns in the second half.
INDOOR BASEBALL FEATURE AT DNEY-
Baseball indoors has a start at Sidney with eight
teams going to bat in the new gym. Tennis will also
be featured during the winter months. An athletic
club will plan rounds of play and promote the games.
DEGENERATE Is SOUGHT At wILIIsTON =
Charged with making indecent proposals to Williston
school children, a small dark man, driving a new
gun-metal colored sedan with a Wyoming license was
sought all over North Dakota and Montana by police
officials and citizens.
COURT HOUSE EXCAVATION UNDER WAY
Steady progress has been made with the excavating
for the basement floor of the Roosevelt county court
house at Wolf Point. \ tractor. fresno and a WPA
crew of pick and shovel men comprises the excava-
ton crew.
-FOUR ROBBETIES IN ONE NIGHT AT MALTA
sheriff Ray Campbell and his force are busy
a. Malta mNtsllSdlnS 81 series OF TODDerleS Wnlcn
occurred at various intervals last Tuesday night. The
thieves were successful in securing small items only
in each of the four e~scapades.
VALLEY BEET GROWER GET PAYMENTS
Checks totalling $40, 900 representing the first pay
ments to Valley county sugar beet growers for their
1897 crop have been mailed from the Chinook plant
of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company. The first payment
was made on the basis of SIS a ton.
Complain asking a total of s35, 600 for damages
as the result of injuries he suffered in the Fort Peck
emergency shaft buildings has been filed by Paul
Schroeder who states he suffered a fractured vertebra
when he fell from a poorly constructed scaffold.
ODE LIONS 70 SPONSOR FEST The
Scobey Lions club is sponsoring the annual Christ
mas tree festival. They will also have charged of pur-
chasing trees for the city streets and other decora-
tons. Last year 500 Christmas packages were pre-
pared and given to children.
TAKES STRYCHNINE AND DIES Frank
Longee 25, well known young man of the Poplar
community died at a hospital seven hours after he
had swallowed strychnine. 1t is believed by friends
that he took the poison accidentally. He had pur-
chased the s~trychnine the day previous, stating that
he was going to poison coyotes.
SHIP 1000 HORSES FROM DANIELS COUNTY
Fred Thietje, horse buyer from Omaha, Nebraska
who has his business headquarters in Scobey while
in that area reports that he has purchased 1888 horses
in the Scobey community this year. In 1885 he ship
ped out $40 horses from that community and last
year he raised the figure to $50. All OF the horses
went to the Omaha market.
A IN THEATRE.
c. Snyder, owner Of the Grand Theatre at Williston
is keeping up with the demand for modern theatre
equipment He has just installed so-called hard of
hearing sets in the theatre. These sets may be OBJ
tanned from the box office. Ushers assist the patron
in plugging special sockets in the chair. The sets
are perfectly synchronized and may be tuned by vol
ume control.
DIVERSION DAMS PLANNED In DANIELS
More than 10000 acres Of Daniels county land will
be under irrigation by spring, according to A. L.
Brunei, WPA general foreman in that county. The
projects vary in size from the largest at East Fork
of the Poplar river, having 1000 cubic yards Of dirt
fill and Is miles of ditch to the smallest at Skunk
coulee, with 271 cubic yards of dirt fill and approx
mately / 200 feet of bitches.