Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-03-25
NEWS OF OUR NEICHBORS

LIONS POPLAR HOOP TEAM
The members of the 1897 Poplar high school basket
ball team were entertained by the Poplar Lions club
at a banquet last week.
SCHOOLS BEGIN TRACK. Field PRACTICE
Several high schools of this section have begun
track and field workouts. Fort Peck high school is
one of the newer schools to have a track team.
CAFE Is ENLARGED AT MEDICINE LAKE
The addition of a new kitchen. enlargement OF the
dining room and the addition Of new booths more
than doubles the capacity Of the Lodahl cafe at Med
icine Lake.
WORK STARTED ON BRIDGE AT POPLAR
Contractors last week began work on a new bridge
across the Poplar creek, west of Poplar. The span
now used over the river has for many years been a
hazard to highway motorists.
POPLAR WILL VOTE ON GAS FRANCHISE
Poplar freeholders will vote on issuing a gas fran
chise to an applicant at a meeting next week. The
Poplar Standard comments it is an indication of gas
service there in the near future.
LOVE PURNE YOUTH TRIES SUICIDE -
E. P. Antonio. 10, of Wheeler was expected to recov-
err from self-inhicted wounds when he attempted sui
eide after his love was spurned. He had been EN-
ployed at a Wheeler shoe shop.
JUDGE BUSINESSES HOLT LIBEL SUIT
80 $500 - 1900
charging John w. Nelson of Helena with criminal po-
litical libel has been dismissed. Judge S. .. McKinnon
heard the dismissal plea of the Rosebud county at
torney.
MINISTER'S MEET TO DISCUSS NEW Law
Lutheran ministers of Roosevelt, Sheridan and Dan
iels counties met at Culbertson to discuss the Joffray
liquor bill and make plans for assisting in circulation
of referendum petitions to strike the bill from the
statutes.
CAR IS sIDEswIPED ON ROAD FROM ERE
While returning from Plentywood. Rooney Borley
of Medicine Lake had his new car side-swiped by an
other on a sharp hill just north of the Connole farm
near Reserve. Romey's car was forced to the ditch
but did not overturn. No one was injured in either
car.
WuLISTON RFLEMEN WIN IN CONTEST -
For the third consecutive year the rifle team from Co.
E of Williston has won the right to represent the
North Dakota national guard in the national William
Randolph Hearst %musketry competition. The Co. E
team scored a perfect 100 in the initial shoot of con-
centration fire.
P%OSTOFFICE IL, SIDNEY PROSPECT-
DR.. B. ". Stunkard, chairman of the Richland county
democratic central committee has received a letter
from Senator Murray that a new postofice building is
a possibility for Sidney in the near future and as a
result a move has been started in the Chamber of
Commerce TO that END.
AUTOIST Is KILLED WHEN CARS COLLIDE
William Bell of the Fort Peck dam was fatally in
jured when the car he was driving collided with a
truck a mile east of Poplar last week. He suffered a
fractured skull. and his wife, who will recover, re-
ceived internal injuries. The car was demolished and
the side of the truck caved in.
ENGINEERS HAVE MISSOURI CLEARED -
BY well planned use of explosives and the utilization
of a small gasoline launch for ice breaking, the Army
engineers at Fort Peck have now cleared the main
channel of the Missouri river from ice from above the
winter harbor at the Fort Peck dam. Workmen are
now busy on the many pieces of the dredging plant.
GLASGOW KIWANIANS ACCEPT CHALLENGE
At last reports the Glasgow Kiwanis club has accept
ed the challenge Of the Fort Benton civic club to a
boat race up the Missouri river from Fort Benton to
st. Louis. Other towns are becoming interested and
may enter the race. $500 prize money has already
been subscribed for the winner, and Glasgow has Of
fered 800 In prizes for the williston-Fort Peck lap.
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