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Political Life of Frank Knox onicAL 11 1.4 T goose?",ptt A • THE WINIFRED TIMES VOL. 23 WINIFRED, MONTANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1936. NO. 62 In Maine. M'Isconsin, Pennsivania, ter of the Northeast quarter, the Election' General Municipal Ohio, Michigan and llIitioia A Good Showing Legal Notices southeast quarter of the Northwest Notice Political Life quarter of Section 3, Township 11 In this way Frank Knox has not The financial condition of our Notice of Sale on Foreclosure by IS HEREBY GIVEN, That ouly a eider personal acquaintence North of Range 16 East, Montana NOTICE School District No. 115 is steadi- Advertisement the General Municipal Election of the than most public men of the day but, Meridian in Montana; ly improving in spite of the de- Town of Winifred, Montana, for the of Frank Knox through his wide traiels and his news- been made WHEREAS, default has which said mortgage was made and ex- is also intimately informed purpose of electing Mayor, and one papers, he pression. in the payment of the indebtedness se- ecuted by Edward L. Martin, under of public opinion In ell sections of the for the First, Second, and There is at the present time cured by a certain mortgage dated the date of November 1, 1926, to secure Alderman country dully. This information is re- Wards, respectively, of the Town Active Party Worker and 25th day of September, 1919, executed certain promissory notes made and exe- Third enforced by n monumental personal $2,000 00 of bonded indebtedness Winifred will be held in the Town of by Axel Erlandson and Anna Erlandson, cuted by the said Edward L. Martin, to of Campaigner Since correspondence and numerous callers that the sinking fund is not suffi- Winifred, on Monday, the 6th day of husband and wife. mortgagors, to The the plaintiff, which said mortgage was, Spanish War. from all sNalks of life. cient to retire, but there is enou- April, A. D. 1936 Union Central Life Insurance Company, on the 19th day of January, 1927, filed In ten years on that job Knox voting, at said gh money in the General Fund of Cincinnati. Ohio, mortgagee, which of the Clerk and That the place for "cleaned" up one of the toughest towns for record in the office In his busy and colorful career as • in the General Municipal Election, within said In the country, helped nominate and to'pay these bonds together with mortgage was filed for record Recorder of Fergus County, Montana, newspaper editor, soldier and party Town of Winifred, Montana, will he as elect Chase Osborn, one or the first of of $60.00 and still retain office of the Clerk and Recorder of Fer- in Book 98 of Mortgages on page 560; worker, Frank Knox, candidate of the interest follows: the old progressive Republicans, as gus County, Montana, on the 4th day That the plaintiff asked judgment for Illinois Republicans for the nomina- a safe balance in this fund at the Poet-office Building governor of Michigan, and himself be- of October, 1919. at 9:00 o'clock A. M., sum of $1260.00 on four notes At the tion for president, has been one of the year. the came ehairinan of the Republican state close of this school in Book "80" of Mort- The polls for said election will be most widely traveled public men In and recorded and interest, and one note of $18.0e and committee. ln 1912 Frank Knox sup- This amount may be transfer- open from twelve (12) o'clock, noon, to the country. Not only has be been In gages, at Page 66, of the records of interest, his costs, disbursements, at- ported his old commander, Col. Theo- Aix (6) o'clock in the afternoon, of said every state in the Union, some of them red from the General Fund to the said County; and now does here declare torney fees and the usual Decree of dore Roosevelt, for President. At the many times, but his interviews with purpose, the entire debt aforesaid immediately Foreclosure. day. conclusion of that campaign he sold Sinking Fund for this A. D. the beads of governments in Europe due and payable, my hand and the seal of Dated this 12th day of March, his Michigau papei at a handsome consent of the voters of Witness last year resulted in a series of edi by the of such 1436. profit and, prompted by the urging of AND WHEREAS, because said Court, this 26th day of February, «trials in his newspapers on the trends this district. G. L. HALVERSON. Town Clerk Gov. Robert Bass, another progres- default, and pursuant to the terms of 1936. of governments at home and abroad year march 13; third pub. mar. 27. sive governor, with his old partner The levy during the past said mortgage, the said mortgagee, as MINNIE R. RITCH, first pub. which attracted both national and Muebling he bought the Manchester, been 16 mills and by voting the owner and holder of said mortgage Clerk world-wide attention. has (Court Seal) N. U., Leader. This he combined with and debt secured thereby, hereby a 6-mill special levy for this year the J. E. McKENNA Ordinance No. 42 He has been a sectional or nat. .1 another local paper, and, together, Lewistown, Montana, as the elects to declare the entire debt secured Ordinance regulating auto- figure in every national political cam- they still own and operate the Union- the levy will be the same Attorney for Plaintiff. An by said mortgage to be due and pay- paign for a quarter of a century and Leader, two of the progressive news- the district will mobile traffic and prescribing pen- last year --and able, and to foreclose said mortgage First Publication February 2.8, 1936 in the past two years, In an effort to papers of New England. indebtedness 1986. for the violation of the provi- rouse Americana generally to the dan- be clear of ALL for the payment of all sums due there- Fourth Publication March 20, alties Always constructive, always looking gers he felt were in the sufficient funds for the under; sion thereof: fundamental for some way In which to make things and have ALIAS SUMMONS. "new deal" policies, Knox has made AND WHEREAS, the amount claim- better, Publisher Knox became R W VP school budget for all operating In the District Court of the Tenth Be it ordained by the City Coun- speeches in more than half the states unpaid on said State of of the difficulties in Which agriculture school year 1936- ed to be due, owing, and Judicial District of the cil of the City of Winifred: of the Union. As a resuR of thls task expenses of the County and industry were finding themselves mortgage indebtedness at the date of Montana, in and for the undertaken, for the most part, in an- It shall be unlawful for ;lily per- In the New England states. It was his 1937. this notice is the sum of Three Thou- of Fergus. swer to specific for his invitations Idea that, to protect their interests, Both of the above questions Nine Sixty-one and 88-100 Charles A. Mathews, Plaintiff, son to refuse or fail to comply services, he ends himself today pro- sand Hundred these states should act, as a unit and submitted to the voters of Dollars (I3,961.88), as follows: -vs- with any fawful order, signal or into the political limelight In will be In that end lie took a leading part In the regular school $3,397.49 principal and interest, $552.30 Gladys Mathews, Defendant. police officer. en honorable, Although personally nn- this district, apt. sends greet- direction of a forming the New Englend Council, one of The State of Montana %ought, manner., will be held, Sat- taxes and interest, and $12.00 cost defendant: It shall be unlawfuli ifor anyone of the country's outstanding examples election, which ing to the above-named Starting as a precinct party worker abstract; hereby summoned to an- of co-operation by it large group. It April 4th. You are to disobey the instruc 'tans of any in Michigan In 1808, Frank Knox urday, NOW, THEREFORE, notice is here- swer the complaint in this action has survived economic stress and suc- helped nominate and elect Chase Os- Please give these questions by given that, by virtue of the power which is filed In the office of the official, traffic sign, or signal. cessfully fought off dictetorshlp from born as governor of that state and attention, as your approval of sale contained in said mortgage, and Clerk of this Court, a copy of which All vehicles parl0d on Main Washington. your is herewith served upon you, and was state chairman of the state com- Over-age for the draft, able to com- of these questions will mean a_ duly recorded, as aforesaid, and in pur- street. between First and Second mittee In 1910. That fight was made to file your answer and serve a copy maud influence If he wanted an °fit. suance of the statute in such case made by and liberal Republi- saving of interest and a reduc- thereof upon the plaintiff's attorney avenue, must be parked in center progreeelve cer's commission or a softer berth, and provided, the said mortgage will be days after the service cans, with Osborn and Knox In the levy for 1q7, within twenty street and when driving out Frank Knox enlisted as a "buck pri- tion of the school sale of the premises exclusive of the day of lead, against that were foreclosed by a of this summons, monopones vate" hi the New Hampshire militia —Clerk of service; and in case of your failure must drive with traffic.
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