Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-05-20
NEWS OF OUR NEICHBORS


CASING FOR POPLAR GAS WE'LL ARRIVES
Twelve-inch casing for the first 100 feet of the gas
test hold was unloaded at Poplar and taken out to the
well. Drilling is going forward steadily and good
progress is being made daily. workers report.
sCOBEy ALI-sTARs
a team from Scobey made up of the best players
among the softball teams played a Thinning fray with
the Glasgow Sinclars which turned out to be a field
day for the Scobey team with the score 2S to /.
FROID PLACES THIRD In STATE DEBATE
The Froid high school placed third in the state de-
bate tournament at Missoula. Froid was represented
by Elaine Tschache and Kermit Midthun. Great
Falls placed first and Butte second.
WOLF POINT RMOR PRoJEOr
Word has been received that President Roosevelt
has approved the Wolf Point armory-court house
project and the matter is now in the hands of the
comptroller for final action. Work is expected to
begin as soon as final approval is received.
MANS BODY Is FOUND IN RIVER
That a man identified as Tony D. Tsapelis. about As,
whose body was found in the Milk river near Glas-
gov died as the result of suicide was the theory ex-
pressed by members of the Valley county sherif's
staff.
LOHN ELECTED HEAD OF BANK GROUP -
Dwight Lohn. cashier of the First National bank of
Wolf Point, was elected president of group 4 of Mon
tAna bankers at a convention held in Wolf Point.
r. o. Nelson. Plentywood banker, was named chair
man of the uniform practices committee
TO ARRIVE At FORT PECK IN JUNE
June s has been fixed as the arrival date at Fort
Peck for cruisers in the Missouri riverboat race, it
has been stated. The cruisers entered will leave ST.
Louis May 23 and will make a nonstop run of 400
miles to Kansas City, arriving on May "a. Race pilots
will then continue up the river.
FORT PECK CRANE OPERATOR KILLED -
Louis Ebon, 81, of McCone City, was killed at the
Fort Peck spilway when a crane he was operating
tipped as he was swinging with a load of dirt. Ebon
was crushed under machinery and was dead when it
was possible to remove him, after rapid work to right
the crane.
ALLOTMENT BASE D%IsAPPROvED DANIELS
Claiming that abnormal conditions are existant in
the county. the Daniels county agricultural conserva-
ton committee has prepared a report showing that
the base acreage set by the state allotment committee
for the county is not in satisfactory compliance with
the comparative base acreage of other counties.
FIRST sPILLwAY GATE HOIsTED AT DAM
Signalling another important step in the march of
progress on the spillway gate structure at Fort Peck
was the hosting of the first steel gate last week.
The contracting company set the massive gate with
out difficulty in four separate pieces. the heaviest of
which weighed about 20 tons.
DRIVES INTO RIVER AND MEETS
Eddie Olson, age 40, of F1ngal, N. D., lost his life in
the Missouri river last Friday night. With Larry
Naughter of st. Paul they were attempting to get onto
highway 10 at Glendive on their way home from Fort
Peck. They took the wrong road just south Of the
Wolf Point bridge and plunged into the river. The
road, an old trail, had been cut away by the rivers
current.
HIGH COURT ENDS TENfMEL SUIT
A legal battle which attracted considerable attention
throughout this section was brought to a close when
the supreme court of Montana handed down a decis-
ion sustaining the district court verdict awarding
Judgment to A. S. Hier, administrator of the estate
of Roman Temmel against the Dagmar Farmers Mu-
tual Insurance Company. The suit involved a 81, 500
insurance policy on the Temmel buildings.