Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-09-02

EXPECT RECORD CROWDS AT FAIR
Largest crowds in history Of the affair are expected at
the Sidney fair which opens Monday. Sept. 6.
NEW EDITOR ON DANIELS COUNTY PAPER
The Daniels County Free Press went under a new
editorship this week when L. X. Lathrop arrived
from Dutton to take over the editorial duties on the
paper. The new editor has experience on both dailies
and small town papers.
o WILL HAVE NEW GYMNASIUM -
Word has been received In Scobey from Works Prog
ress Administration officials and from Montana SEN
ators that a grant has been approved for the addition
of a new gymnasium to the Scobey school. Actual
construction will start as soon as the architects plans
have been approved by the local school board.
LAKE YOUTH CONVICTED OF LARGELY =
In pleading guilty Of breaking into Romey's Place In
Medicine Lake recently and taking both merchandise
and cash. Andrew Stack was given = suspended SON
tencs OF one year In the penitentiary. He was appre-
hended in Culbertson when he attempted to change
a quantity Of small coins into bills.
DRUNKEN DRIVER FINED AND JAILED -
As the result of an auto accident in which a truck
driven by Andrew White or Poplar crashed into a
pickup driven by Jim Byrnes. White was given a
sentence Of 80 days In jail and a as nne. when found
o0Ny ~ 100000
ence Of liquor. The pickup he hit was badly dam
aged. and the charges were made by Its driver.
BOATING, BATHING FISHING AT PROJECT
The thousand-acre lake formed at the Fort Peck
dam project by the closure Of the diversion tunnels is
a~fording a variety Of sports to the residents OF the
community. including swimming. fishing and boat
ing. The sailing Of numerous crafts is the most re-
cent pastime, and everything from cupboard motor
boats to sailboats appear on the artificial lake.
MALTA WOMAN ACCUSED OF SHOOTING -
Mrs. Ada Burwell Of Malta is being held on a charge
of the fatal shooting of her husband. The man was
shot behind the ear with a 20 rifle during his sleep.
His wife claims no knowledge of his death, averring
that when he failed to answer her summons to break
fast, she thought he had died of a heart attack, and
called in a %neighbor.
FORT PECK-NAsHUA ROAD COMPLETE SOON
Construction of the final five miles Of the Fort Peck
Nashua highway will begin within a few days. ac-
cording to state highway officials there. This stretch
of road is the connecting link between the U. S. high
way number 2 and the Fort Peck dam project. Con-
struction will be done by Valley county under the
direction of state highway officials.
RESUME ROOSEVELT COUNTY PRosEsTs -
With an additional appropriation of $100. 900 for the
work on the Wolf Point-Frazier pumpin project,
construction which has been at a virtual standstil
since June 80 because of lack of funds, has been re-
sumed. The appropriation was added to the deficiency
bill which was passed just before the adjournment of
Congress.
FARMERS INSPECT CONSERVATION r.
On a tour to inspect the water conservation practices
in the Froid area. a group of fifty carloads of far
mers from Richland county visited the scenes of soil
conservation service in Roosevelt county last week.
The tour covered approximately $4,000 acres, and
such practices as contour and buffer stripping, ter
racing. contouring, furrowing and bikes, diversion
dams and shelter belt planting were observed.