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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
IS TO OPEN NEW OIL FIELDS,
BILLINGS OIL A TELLS HERALD

In the city this week was E. A.
Beeler of Billings, who for the past
ten years has been interested in oil
development projects.
Mr.. Beeler was accompanied to
Plentywood by Chas. Grant of Out
look and Clarence Precise. former
oil driller at the Archer well.
Mr.. Beeler was here rocking over
the Archer contours and told The
Herald that the Archer project was
a very interesting proposition and
was on a large scale.
The Billings man, who has spent
a portion of his time in the Texas
and California oil areas, said that
present indications point to financial
aid from big oil companies in the
promotion of drilling operations in
new fields. He said that in Texas,
drilling is now being done ION the
outskirts of production and in view
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
BIGGEST rain IN
TEN YEARS COMES
TO THIS SECTION
Farmers Say Biggest Fall Rain
Since 1927; 1.76 Inches
Recorded Here

Smiles broadened over eastern
Montana and western North Dakota
this week as for the second time in
ten days rain came to drench
parched sub-soil.
Following last weeks soaker
which brought SO of an inch pre-
cipitation here and over this entire
area. the skies again opened up
Monday and poured forth a drench-
ing soaker that continued for more
than 16 hours.
At Plentywood a heavy downpour
shortly after noon Monday brought
.27 of an inch and the slow drizzle
which continued throughout the day
and night swelled the total precip-
itation to LIE inches.
Farmers of Sheridan county to-
day hailed the moisture as 1.-The
greatest fall rain in ten years"
Fields in all parts of the county
were wet down to sub-soil depths
varying from 8 to 20 inches.
Reports reaching here revealed
that the precipitation was equally
heavy in all portion of the area. At
Williston the weather station re-
corded LAS inches. At Outlook $50
inches of moisture "a recorded by
the weather bureau and at other
county towns where no Of
fetal data is compiled, the average
is reported to be about the same.
At Plentywood the total moisture
since last week is 2.62 inches. Snow
and sleet fell in some areas.
Fall Rains Again
1.-THE best since 1927" was the
general description of the drenching.
Although crop study supervisors
have indicated in recent reports that
fall rains are not essential to sue
cess of crops, Sheridan county far
mers who have farmed steadily in
this county from 10 10 25 years and
admittedly know their own land,
say, 1--WE need fall rains for a sue
cessful crop next year."
Cloudy Weather
Cloudy weather continues to hold
over this are and generally indi-
cations point to near freezing wea-
Their.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
BUILDING JOB IS
CONTINUING HERE
THIRTY MEN EMPLOYED on
COURT HOUSE SHIFT IN
CITY

Work on the new Sheridan coun-
ty court house continued this week
with construction of forms for the
concrete work rapidly nearing COM
pletion.
Harry Schier, construction fore
man, said Wednesday that work was
temporarily Slowed down" howev-
er, due to a lumber shortage. When
the lumber arrives, forms will be
completed and concrete work will
get under way.
This week there are 30 men en-
ployed and constitutes those work
ing on the first shaft. Work was
shut down Monday with workmen
completed their allotted
number of hours.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
Plentywood Meat-E Eaters
Pay But Little for Food
Compared to Harlemites

Maybe Plentywood folk can't eat
all the meat they want, but pity the
poor New Workers.
P%lentywood butchers are not bash
full in weighing their hands along
with the cuts, but compared to New
York they are liberal.
Cuts here for choicest steaks are
around 25 cents a pound. Harlem
ties must pay 81 cents for similar
steaks.
Sirloins here range around the
two-bit mark while in New York
they are SO cents.
A chuck-roast in Gotham hits the
scale, thumbs and all, at As cents a
pound. while in Plentywood it's Is
cents.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
DEFECTS FOUND IN
HEALTH SURVEY OF
COUNTY SCHOOLS
Health Nurse Issues Report of
Findings in 20 Rural
Schools

OF 207 Sheridan county children
so far inspected in 20 rural schools,
6S have been referred for medical
Or dental attention, according to
Emma Pfaff, county health nurse
who is conducting an inspection.
In the examinations given at the
90 schools, Miss Pfaff has found %
students with abnormal eyes and
vision. two with impigned hearing.
"a with abnormal teeth and gums,
and q with nose and throat de-
fects.
Nervous 81 mptoms We're detected
in II children, 81 were underweight
and Z had incorrect posture.
AS our health depends to a great
extent upon our surroundings and
those of Il neighbors," Miss Pfaff
said, ''some attention was given to
the cleanliness of the school bull
ding and the available facilities for
keeping it clean"
we were soLheW nat dihdAeu ina
some school boards would allow the
school term to open without having
made arrangements for a supply of
drinking water, for soap and towels
for handwashing, for paper in the
toilets and for a system of ventila-
ton which would eliminate flies and
drafts. These things should have
Continued on page 81
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
RAYMOND MATRON is
BURIED WEDNESDAY

Mrs. Matilda Jenny Wilson. 60, a
resident of the north Raymond
community, died Monday following
an extended illness.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday from the Lutheran
church in Plentywood with the Rev.
Orval A. Schmidt officiating. Burial
was made in the Plentywood Luth-
eran cemetery.
Mrs. Matilda Wilson was born in
Iceland, Aug. IA, 1879 and came to
America in 1900. She was married
to Wilmot Wilson at Wheaton,
Mimi, in 1901 and came to Sheri-
dan county in 1924, locating north
of outlook.
She is survived by her husband,
three sons and three daughters. The
sons are Sam Wilson, Ellenberg,
Wash; Lyle w. Wilson, Wyolla,
Mont; Kenneth L. Wilson of Ray
mond. The daughters are Mrs. Mar
garet A. Henderson of Raymond,
Mrs. Banise La Costa, Minton, Sask.
and Mrs. Jennie Blair of Raymond.
Mrs. Richard Hass of outlook is a
sister of the deceased.
Mr.. Wilson, a Spanish-American
war veteran, has been a patient at
the Fort Harrison veterans hospital
and returned last Saturday in re-
Spouse to a message that his wife
was critically i'll.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
Scouts VIII Stage Circus
Here on November S

Plans went forward this week for
staging a Boy Scout circus in Plen-
tywood November 5.
AT the district meeting of the Boy
Scout council held at Culbertson last
week, plans were made for the
event. The circus will also be staged
at Culbertson on November 10.
Troops from this district will take
part and will present stunts in grand
circus style. The Plentywood troop
Is making extensive plans for their
part in the program.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
HE RAID COOKING
SCHOOL to- Be 3
Jays FEATURE
Sheridan County Women to
Be Guests at Orpheum
Oct. 1890

4 welcome invitation to the wise
is sufficient.
Evidently the Plentywood Herald
will not have to get out engraved
announcements for that reunion of
homemakers October IS, 10 and 20
in the Orpheum theatre.
Good news does travel fast, par
ticularly when it is news of a gala
party for the community, with gifts,
with quality entertainment. cheered
by jollity and novelty, and spiced
with knowledge-all served hospit-
ably by the Plentywood Herald.
No door cards, coupons. printed
invitations, or cash will be needed;
Just the %countersign of all alert
housekeepers. who are due to say
"Show me the latest home IDEAS
when they advance on the Orpheum
on October IS. 10 and 90.
Showing every person in every
theatre seat the triumphant new
1887 cooking school, direct from
Hollywood, will be no problem, for
motion picture ingenuity has Joined
forces with scientific homemaking to
produce an original laboratory
course that deftly combines ro-
nance. sprightly humor, originality
and profitable instruction.
All of the popular features of the
former cooking school are here: The
free recipe sheets, the atmosphere of
congenial. informality, the wise coun-
sci, the hints on clever shortcuts,
the up-to-the-minute suggestions for
entertaining, the demonstration of
delicious and nourishing dishes, the
array of modern kitchen equipment
and the distribution of daily gifts
and real surprises.
All those elements of fun and
profit have been retained. and all
are made doubly Worthwhile be-
cause every guest Of the P%lentywood
Herald will have an individual close
up of every process.
This scientific new laboratory of
ideas has graduated out of the class
where hundreds of women craned
what was happening on the stage,
or assailed the lecturer with plain
tive cries: 'Hold it up high, where
we all can see"
Now the camera will make the
course truly fascinating and valu-
able. with remarkable %close-ups of
each process in a series of model,
conveniently equipped kitchens;
real, workable kitchens, (not the
synthetic, false-front Variety where
trained homemakers will plan, mea-
sure. blend. mix and complete APP
petizing cakes, pies, salads and meat
dishes that look as though they
could be picked right out OF the pic
ture and eaten on the spot.
Keeping pace with the baking.
roasting and frying, a series of sal
ads and frozen delicacies will pa
rade in and out Of the adaptable
electric refrigerator, which will re-
veal its host of possibilities for sim
plifying labor and marketing, and
contributing to good health and good
food.
What to do with left-overs? How
to take the gloom out of laundry
day? How to save time. energy and
temper in meal preparation How to
be attractive in spite of the daily
rush? How to make the piecrust that
men love to eat? How to give first
aid to fallen cakes?
1t won't be necessary TO ask the
questions, for expert home special
lists have anticipated these very
problems. They know what bothers
many an experienced ho%usekeeper,
because it is their job to know and
Continued on page 81
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
Ducks Banding Up North
Preparatory to Flights

Reports reached Plentywood to-
day that ducks in the far north are
banding together preparatory for
flights to the southland.
Heavy SHOWS and chilling wealth
er in the north has brought about
the quick c~ongregating of waterfowl
it is said, and present indications
point to an early flight from the
north. Ducks and geese were seen
passing over Plentywood Monday -
the flocks flying in a southeasterly
direction.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
Lutherans Will Attend
Will;stop Meet Sunday

Members of the Plentywood Mems
club will 20 to Williston, n. d., on
sunday for the. annual Lutheran
mems rally.
The meetings will be held at the
high school auditorium there at 3
pm. and s pm. Registrations Will
begin at 2:30.
One hundred congregations are
expected to send delegates.
A massed chorus will present a
concert In the evening.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
Hospital Dance to be
Held or Saturday Night

The annual hospital dance will be
held at the City auditorium Sa.ur-
day night.
Proceeds from this affair 90 to-
wards purchasing new equipment at
the Sheridan Memorial hospital and
each year the event is well patron
lied. An advance sale of tickets has
been conducted.
The Winn Bros. orchestra of Pop
lar has been engaged to furnish mu-
sic.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
P~lentywood Legionniares
and Auxiliary to Meeting

Members of the Plentywood
American Legion post and Auxiliary
will go to Wolf Point Monday for
the district American Legion con
vention which %convenes there that
day. A number of local post mem
bers plan to attend.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
RISIiEY RESIGNS

B. A. Risley, deputy state exam
iner for a number of years, resigned
his post under w A. Brown, state
examiner, last week.
Risley is well known in Sheridan
county, having examined the county
records umerou times in his Off
cial %canacity.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
NNUA DUCK MULLIGAN FEED WILL BE HELD
o SPORTSMEN SUNDAY AT BRUSH AXE

or send to Brush Lake all their sur
plus ducks not later than Saturday
nisht so that the kitchen force will
have time to prepare them.
The mulligan is free to all who
wish to attend.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07

Of the great depth and greater diff
ficulty to reach production, the trend
is to locate newer and untapped
fields.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07

At some announced time each day
a press conference is held In the
dining car, conducted either by
James Roosevelt, the Presidents
son or Mr.. Mcintyre, his secretary.
CONTINUED on page 81
Evening star., 1937-07-12

istration employe: two brothers here,
Clarence and Arthur; brother,
Laurence, in Middleburg, Va, and a
sister, Edna.
Marshall drowned in Queens Greek,
Mathews, Va, near New Point Com
fort, where he and his wife were
spending the day with Mr.. and Mrs.
Broaddus Sadler. He went rowing on
the creek as soon as he left the table
where he had eaten hearty dinner
Finding the heat distasteful,
Marshall took off his clothes in the
boat and jumped overheard for a
swim. Almost at once he shouted for
help. Five minutes later Sadler, his
brother Judson Sadler; Charles
Morgan and Stanley Liversay reached
him, but found him already dead.
Between 300 and $50 families in six
West Virginia communities were
driven from their homes yesterday
when two creeks overflowed, the Asso-
ciated Press reported.
Ten Bathers Shocked.
In Chicago, 10 Lake Michigan
bathers were burned and shocked
when lightning struck a tree under
which they had sought shelter during
thunderstorm. Several were knocked
unconscious and later revived by life
guards.
At Durand. Mich. windstorm last
night unroofed several buildings, up
rooted trees and damaged crops De-
troit's temperature dropped 18 degrees
in five hours after night shower 1t
reported a maximum of 81.
The death toll was mounting stead
lily. New York led "a other States
with a fatality list of 81. New Jersey
followed, with A, and Connecticut
had 38.
An Associated Press survey showed
the following deaths by other States
attributed to the heat
Pennsylvania, 81; Michigan, 27:
Illinois, 18; Massachusetts,, Is; Ohio
a. Wisconsin, H. Indiana and Rhode
Island, 10 each; Maine, s; Minnesota
and Kansas, S each; Kentuncky, Ten
nessee. Maryland, District OF Column
bis. and West Virginia, each; Vir-
ginia, Iowa and Nebraska, each;
Georgia, Missouri and South Carolina
! each.
Evening star., 1937-07-12

chartered over 100-square-mi gov
ernment salient thrust into insurgent
territory as the opposing planes
pounded the ground forces.
Before dawn, incendiary bombs had
traced out the ground positions for
heavy bombing. In the face of the in
surgent attack. government troops
held their gains.
Thousands Of insurgents outside
Madrid's gates for the past eight
months were threatened with disaster
by the government drive slashing into
the insurgent lines west and north
west Of the besieged capital
The government defense ministry
announced Gen. Jose Miajas bat
talions captured Villanueva del
Pardillo, Is miles west of Madrid
and took 900 prisoners, including
seven officers.
LOYALIST ADVANCE ADMITTED
Evening star., 1937-07-12

opinion the committee probably would
work out constitutional amendment.
Similar to Andrews Plan.
The suggestion made by Senator
Van Nuys is similar in most respects
to the amendment offered by Senator
Andrews, except that it does not pro-
vide for the membership of the Su-
preme Court 'fuctuating with the num-
Der of judicial circuits.
Senator Steiwer said he thought the
proposed constitutional amendment
probably would provide for compulsory
retirement of Supreme Court justices
at IS.
If such an amendment is recon-
mended by the Judiciary Committee,
opponents Of the court bill and the
compromise will seek to have the con-
stitutional amendment adopted and
the court bill sent back to the Judi
ciary Committee, thus killing that leg
islation.
When the Senate met at noon Sena-
tors Pope OF Idaho and McGill of
Kansas, Democrats, authors OF the
new "ever nomal granary" bill, sought
in vain to obtain permission to intro
duce that measure Senator King of
Utah, an opponent of the court bill,
objected.
The decree has gone forth from the
Evening star., 1937-07-12
EARHART HUNT
POPULATES ISLES
Probably Largest Number
of People on Record Go
to PhOenixeS.

Through the intensive search for
Amelia Earhart, the Phoenix group
of South Sea islands has drawn prob
on record, according to a National
Geographic Society bulletin.
The population of the whole group,
according to the society, ranges from
10 to zero.
The Phoenix group, to which the
Nays ships and planes were reported
= to have veered from HoWland Island,
the goal which the famous aviatrix
missed, numbers eight islands. Only
two, Hull and Sydney, are reported
inhabited with any permanency. On
these colonists, who come and go,
tend small coconut plantations and
prepare copra for shipment.
Three of the other islands show
signs of previous occupation by set
. tiers who worked the now exhausted
guano deposits.
One of the smaller islands, Canton,
was visited recently by the National
Geographic-Navy expedition which
photographed the total eclipse of the
SUM-
The coral islands of the Phoenix
group" said the bulletin, ARE scat
tered through region roughly five
degrees square, just south of the
Equator and east of the international
date line. The combined land sur
face OF all eight would hardly add
up to Is square miles, and it is dis
tributed over some $4,000 square miles
Of the Pacific. A dangerous coral
reef north OF the group (Winslow)
and another south Of it tCarondele)
double the extent of the Phoenix
area
only one of the islands, Mexican.
IS all dry land. Each of the others
consists of lagoon outlined by a
rim of terra firma. Canton, the larg-
est, is thin strip of land q miles
in circumference and a quarter-mile
wide, wrapped around a lagoon 9
miles in length.
"Poenix Island, one of the smallest,
is less than mile long It's very
existence was questioned until the
islands were finally identified and the
actual eight selected from a mythical
dozen reported al various times. They
are skirted by shipping lanes between
Australia and Hawaii The latter lies
1900 miles to the northeast"
Evening star., 1937-07-12
LOYALIsT ADVANCE ADMITTED
Confirmation of Reports Given by
Insurgent Sources.

HENDAYE. Franco-Spanish From
tier. July II (P.-Oficial insurgent
sources today admitted the govern
ment offensive west of Madrid had
made the first changes in battle lines
there since February by carving out
strategic slice Of insurgent territory
south Of Escorial
The admission came in a statement
by insurgents: I'VE have established a
poWerfu line of fire against the en-
emy drive"
Positions in the new line were given
at Villaneuva del Pardillo, Villafranca
del Castillo, Villanueva de Ia Canada,
and Brunette, which are in govern
ment hands.
The insurgents declared the govern
ment had lost more than 10000 dead
and wounded in the offensive, aimed
to break the siege of Madrid.
Yesterdays fighting appeared to be
the turning point in the campaign,
the lnsurgent sources said since gov
ernment action was limited to an at
tack against <le insurent position near
Villanueva del Pardillo.
Evening star., 1937-07-12

House of Commons today that Great
Britain has protested to Italy against
Italian press charges that British in
tervened in Spain in behalf of the
Spanish central government.
Representations, he said were made
through the British Ambassador to
Rome. who was instructed to make it
clear that these allega tions were en-.
tirely without foundation"
Meanwhile, Great Britain's foreign
Office worked against time to find =
way Of restarting the stalled ma
chinery of Spanish non-intervention
before an irreparable breakdown
throws Spanish frontiers wide open.
Foreign Office officials spent long
hours at their desks considering pro-
grams which might enable Britain to
fulfill the mandate given her by 26
nations to find workable non-inter-
vention plan to keep the civil war iso-
lated.
Evening star., 1937-07-12

court bill opposition that there is
to be no business transacted as long
as the administration leaders insist
on keeping the Senates Legislative
day" in continuance in an effort to
limit debate. Both Pope and McGill
made statements to the Senate about
their farm bill and the need Of it.
Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New
York, made an attempt to get some
action on a conference report on the
War Department non-military ap-
preparation bill.
Senator Robinson asked unanimous
consent that the conference report be
considered and voted on not later than
pm. today. To this request Senator
O'Mahoney promptly objected. The
appropriations carried in the War De-
partment bill will soon be seriously
needed, it was said.
Evening star., 1937-07-12
NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER
OFF FOR MORE TESTS
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va, July 12.-
The u. S. S. Yorktown, newest of the
Nations aircraft carriers. steamed out
OF Hampton Roads today for official
Navy Department trials in the Allan
tic off Rockland, Me
In command was Capt Joseph
Kemp, former Boston Harbor master
who put the 20,000-ton floating air.
drome through two builders trials for
the Newport News Shipbuilding &
Dry Dock Co.
A Navy Department Board OF In
spection, headed by Rear Admiral H
l.. Brisner was on board along with
other naval and shipyard officials
The ship was manned by crew OF
yard Workmen.
Evening star., 1937-07-12

| By the Associated Press.
VALENCIA, July 12.-The toll Of
human lives in Spain's 5l-week-old
civil war was estimated today as
nearly 100000 although government
officials are unable to set any definite
figures for either deaths or property
loss.
| The death toll for the first five
months of the war was given as 700.-
900 in figures published three months
ago by the government propaganda
office.
| The number of soldiers killed at the
front recently has been set at more
than 100000 for both the government
and the insurgents. Government
sources believe insurgent losses now
outnumber their own because OF the
great cost in lives of the lnsurgent
capture of Bilbao.
| Wounded have been computed AS at
least double the number killed These
figures are admittedly a rough esti-
mate 7he government is doing its
best TO compile casualty lists, but the
| WI 40 otiti AL pAo5i1oo oiiu AoA tAiS
most part unpublished. 1t is believed
no very reliable list for the early days
of the war, before the government
forces were well organized, will ever
be available.
Three Spanish government war
ships waged two-hour battle with
the insurgent cruiser Baleares today
after the cruiser attacked the empty
oil tanker Campilu which spectators
said was flying a French flag.
The combat took place short dis
tance offshore, 20 miles south of
Valencia. Shore witnesses said none
of the vessels appeared to have been
hit.
Lloyd's register lists a tanker Cam
pilo as a Spanish vessel registered at
Seville.
Tanker Near Beach.
The tanker, fleeing from the cruiser,
came to within 200 yards Of the beach,
when the government vessels suddenly
appeared from behind nearby point
and opened fire on the insurgent ship.
forth between the cruiser and the
government ships the tanker escaped
to Valencia
Just as the government vessels ar
rived on the scene the insurgent ship
was beginning to fire on the freighter.
One shell falling only few yards
short of the mark.
During the battle, several projec-
tiles from the insurgent cruiser landed
on shore. Two fell near the Summer
home Of the British Embassy staff
which the occupants evacuated dur
ing the engagement.
The firing could be heard plainly
in Valencia, temporary seat of the
Spanish government, and a battle
; alarm was sounded.
LOYALIST PLANES ATTACK.