Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-01-07
NEWS OF OUR NEICHBORS


FAIRyIEW CIVIC CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS
C. NJ. Noyes was elected president of the Fairview
commercial club at the last meeting of the organiza-
ton.
Bids ASKED FOR GATES
The federal government has asked for sealed bids for
construction of 16 huge spillway gates at the Fort :
Peck dam. Each gate will weigh about 10 tons when
completely set in place.
BROCKTON RESIDENT DIES SUDDENLY
A. J. Magnan, about SIS. of Brockton died from a
heart attack while driving some cattle north of that
town late last week. Mr.. Magnan was a pioneer resi-
dent of Roosevelt county.
LAKE SCHOOL ARD
Medicine Lake high school trustees at a meeting last
week awarded contracts in the amount of $67 900 for
construction of the new high school, which will be
built as a federal aid project.
SENTENCED FOR HORSE STEALING
Frank Wallette of Poplar was sentenced to five years
in the state penitentiary in district court at Wolf
Point late last week. Wallette was one of several
convicted in district court on larceny charges.
FIRST 81 BABY AT WHLISTON is A GIRL
The first New Year baby born in Williston greeted the
world just % minutes after the beginning of 1887.
The child, a girl. was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Leon
ard of Bainville at the Good Samaritan hospital.
INDIAN WOMAN DIES FROM EXPOSURE
Mrs. Duck Head, S2-year-old Poplar Indian woman,
was found dead from exposure near an Indian home
near that town last week. She had left a friends home
and apparently became lost in a storm and her body
was not found until the following day.
RAY, N. D.. PIONEER KILLED BY AUTO
While returning from mass early Christmas morning.
d. O'Connel, Ray. N. D., pioneer was instantly killed
when struck down by a car driven by Sidney Gron-
seth, also of Ray. The victim had just stepped from a
oar which had driven him home and WAS crossing the
street when he met death. He was so years old.
WOLF POINT HURT BY FALLS
Clarence Severson, manager of the Liberty theatre at
Wolf Point. suffered a fractured limb when he fell on
an icy sidewalk there. e. l.. Walton, candidate for
district judge in the general election last fall, also
was confined to his home with injuries sustained
when he fell and sprained his hip on any icy street.
SIDNEY SCHOOL BOY INJURED BY CAR
Edsel simard, 15-year-old son of Sam Simard of Sid
ney, was seriously injured Monday night when he col
lided with a car as he crossed the road after getting
out of the school bus on the highway near his home
south of Sidney. The youth was brought to the Sid
ney hospital in a semi-conscious condition but he was
expected to recover.
PROJECT BEER LICENSE Is REVOKED
The license of the Bark beer parlor, resort near Fort
Peck, was revoked by the state beer board last
week pending outcome of charges of gambling and
selling intoxicating liquor on the premises which
were placed against four women and two men en-
ployed there, after they were arrestd in a raid by Val
ley county authorities.
.SOOBEY-WOLF POINT BUS OVERTURNS-
Two accidents occurred on the Wolf Point-Scobey
highway last week. A passenger car, being used in the
place of the regular bus which operates between the
two towns, overturned on the highway although no
one was injured. No damage resulted to either pas
sengers or the auto when a state highway department
car upset south of Scobey.
FOUR INJURED AS HOIST BUCKE DROPS
Morris Weinrich, 90, of Culbertson and Arthur Han
sen, 80, of Scobey were two of four men injured when
a hoist bucket in which they were riding dropped from
a considerable height in a shaft at the Fort Peck dam
last week. 1t is believed the cause of the accident was
due to some defect in the hosting machinery. Hansen
was the least injured of the four but Weinrich sus-
taind an injured back.