Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-06-17
NEWS OF OUR NEICHBORS

NJ CONVENE AT FRoID-The farmers
Union county convention was held on Thursday. June
10. with delegates, members and visitors attending.
sCOBEY TO lave NEW SCHOOL GYMNa-
SiUM-Work on the new school gymnasium at Scobey
VIII begin as soon as the plans have been completed
and the project has been authorized by a federal
works administration, as a result of the bond issue
for $4,000 which was voted last week.
GLASGOW BAND TO GO ON TOUR-The Glas-
gov high school band of rs pieces left last Sunday
on a tour that will include concerts at Havre. Great
fais' Helena, Fort Harrison and Butte. They will
broadcast over KFBB at Great Falls. possiblv over =
national hook-up over the Columbia network.
FAiRvLEw RE-oPENs SWIMMING rooI-
With the approach of hot weather. the Fairview
swimming pool is to reopen under the sponsorshin
OF BOY Scout troop number of Fairview, as In other
years. The pool, which is now being cleaned and i'm
proved, will be open to the general public.
FORT PECK DAY MAKE DAM
RECOtD-When the army engineers at Fort Peck
moved 238,540 cubic yards of material in "a hours.
they broke all daily dredging records, the best mark
for last year being set at 236. 100 yards. Records OF
work done over a period of four years shows a de-
cided increase in operating efficiency on the project.
CCC AMP 1T lake HAS vIsITOR-Maio p.
G. Marshall of the fourth infantry visited the Medi-
cine Lake CCC camp on Thursday, June 3. Major
Marshall, who is executive officer of the North Da-
kota CCC district, expressed approval of the new
way in which the temporary camp is running and
Inspected the erection of the barracks.
DIVIDE COUNTY PIoNEER DIES AT NooNAN
Henry Rasmusson of Noonan, a first settler of Di-
vide county, died suddenly of a heart attack on Tues
day, June 8, while talking to a friend who had Just
started his car for him. Mr.. Rasmussen had been a
resident of Divide county since 1904, when he moved
there from Minnesota.
IMPROVEMENT IN MALTA TER
new RCA motion picture sound reproducing system.
recently perfected in the RCA laboratories, is to be
Installed Immediately in the Palace theater at Malta.
The new equipment. which marks a great advance
ment in sound recording, is expected to greatly i'm
prove the auditory facilities in theaters where it is
in use.
WHEELER TALKS 10 FARMERS AT WOLF
surrounding counties gathered at Wolf Point last
week to report on the drouth conditions of their ter
ritories to Senator Wheeler, at a conference held in
the Lions room of the Sherman hotel. The senator
answered the delegations that he would bring pres
sure to bear in Washington for immediate attention
to the peoples needs.
OFFICIALS WIN IN salary
Frank P. Leiper who presided in the
mandamous actions filed against the Roosevelt Coun-
ty board of commissioners, handed down the decision
that sixth class salaries must be paid to county Off
Gals in Roosevelt county even since it has changed
status from a six class county to a seventh. The de-
PENDANTS have announced their intentions to appeal
the case to the supreme court.
DROUTH RELIEF AT OBE
A mass meeting for the purpose of drawing up reso-
lutions to send to department heads and official rep
resentatives of the Montana people was held in the
Rex theater at Scobey on June 10, the courthouse
being unable to accommodate the crowd. State Sen
ator Don Chapman was appointed to act as delegate
from northeastern Montana counties to Washington
to emphasize the need of some form of immediate
relief to the drouth-stricken farmers of this terri
tory.