"Grandpa" and "Grandma" Hall are gone to their rewards, both being devout Methodists. John E. Evans, his wife, and son Everett, are still at North Platte, and John E., as usual, is doing official duty.

He served in the legislature at the time Millard and Diederick were elected United States senators, after the all winter deadlock. It will be remembered that D. E. Thompson of Lincoln desired one of the places, and his railroad influences were hard at work. Tohn £.

Evans was one of the "Lily White" Republicans that refused to be led into the railroad camp. And for that little band of courageous Republicans, withstanding the castigation of the party whip, there will be some day a suitable testimonial in the hall of fame. There will come a time when the descendants of such people will be proud of their ancestry, as the world will be proud of its truly great and courageous men.

Let us give a word of credit to a living woman, Mrs. W. C. Ritner, now living at North Platte, (1919) for her faith in the dairy of western Nebraska. This resource is yet in its infancy, but thirty-five years ago, Mrs. Helen Randall, widow of Ex-Governor Randall, now Mrs. Ritner, had about five hundred head of cattle, principally dairy stock, upon her ranch, on the north side of the North Platte river, between White Horse creek and the Birdwood.

BIG RANCHES ROUND ABOUT -- FIRST DRY FARMING AT BIG SPRINGS --

OTHER RANCHES ON LODGEPOLE -- NEWMAN LEADS THE TURKS --