Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-05-13
NEWS OF OUR NEICHBORS
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CuLBERTsoN MEN OFF no NORWAY

CuLBERTsON MEN + TO NORWAY
X. L. Brujord. retired Culbertson merchant. and S. S.
Moen. merchant and farmer of the Culberts3n COM
munity for thirty years, will leave May 26 for their
old home, Norway. They will sail from New York.
WOLF POINT BAND GOES TO CANADA -
Instead of going to Havre for the music festival the
Wolf Point high school band this week is in Canada.
They will give a concert at Moose Jaw and too part in
the coronation celebration at Regina Wednesday.
DRUNKEN DRIVER GETS $50 FINE
j. T. Fetterly. 35, truck driver, pleaded guilty to OPP
Grating a motor vehicle under the influence of liquor
AT Wheeler. He was fined $50. He was arrested by L.
V. Conwell, highway patrolman on the Fort Peck
highway.
CONTRACT LET ON ROAD =
Albert Lalonde. Sidney, was awarded the contract for
the construction of the Al miles of road to be built
out of Sidney on the Sidney-Culbertso highway prof.
ect in the letting by the state highway commission.
Two bids were submitted.
EIGHTEEN BANDS ENTER FESTIVAL -
Eighteen bands. including ten from Montana. will
participate in Williston's tenth annual band festival
which will be held May 90. Approximately $50 mu-
aicians will make up the personnel of the various
bands that will be in Williston.
sPnLWAY WORK NOW IN FULL SWING =
Contractors operations at the Fort Peck spillway are
now in full swing. A long stretch of the wall has been
prepared on the east side of the lower end. The firm
of Addison-Miler and Fielding and Shepley have also
resumed full-scale operations.
CASARAS RIA SLATED FOR THIS MONTH
Pedro Casaras, who was under sentence to hang in
Richland county, and later granted a new trial, will
be tried May "a. The trial date was set by Judge Lei
per when Casaras was arraigned and pleaded not gull
ty to the charge. Casaras is charged with shooting his
son-in-law in a Richland county beet field last sum-
mer.
MAIN LINE ARMORY GOING III
Work on the armory and community building at Gull
.bertson is progressing rapidly with the coming of
warm weather and better working conditions. Work
on the project, which is financed jointly by the school
district and federal funds started last September.
When completed, the new building will cost approx
imately 100000.
CAR DEMOLISHED, MAN HURT IN UPSET
Although the car he was driving was virtually de-
stroyed. Ambrose Hatch of Glasgow, %, Spilway
Builders employe. suffered only a broken collarbone
and minor injuries in an upset near the Mite Owl on
the Fort Peck road. The cars tracks ran along the
edge of the road some distance. The car flew through
the air for more than 40 feet.
CROSBY HAS PARKING LOT FOR ARMER
For the benefit of farmers, the city of Crosby has
prepared a parking lot for automobiles. During the
summer months. and especially on Saturdays" Mayor
A. Ingwalson says, 1.-The streets become very ~congested
with automobiles and often visiting traders find 1t ne
cessary to carry their merchandise long distances"
The parking lot has been centrally located.
NASHUA MAN CATCHES BIC
While catching minnows in the shallow water near
the Milk river bridge two Nashua men saw what
they thought was the tail of a beaver. Getting be-
tween it and the deep water they drove 1t up on the
gravel and found it was a fve-foot shovel-bill stur-
geon weighing 221a pounds that had evidently found
its way up the Milk river from the Missouri and be-
came stranded in the shallow water near the bridge.