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operated the Star Clothing House which for a time rivalled the Oberfelder store. P. J. Cohn was the original senior member. His nephews operated the store. Louis and Mike Cohn were cousins and Louis later became sole owner. Mike sold his interest for $40,000, took it to Chicago, and lost it. William France had a hardware store here in 1876, and among the grocers were Henry Gantz & Son, wholesale merchants ; W. I. McDonald, G. W. Dudley and H. T. Clarke. C. A. Morian and Dennis Carrigan each ran a combined dry goods and grocery store while an exclusive dry goods house was owned by Stevens & Wilcox and another by A. S. Brown. Dewey & Stone ran a furni-

The first doctor to locate in Sidney who served the town and a large part of Cheyenne county, was Dr. Boggs, and Dr. J. G. Ivy, physician and surgeon, came in the autumn of 1876. The only dental office in the town was run by the Urmy Brothers.

N. Grant and John Carrier were the first men to run barber shops, the called "fashionable barbers," soon followed by J. H. Surles and Charles M. Rouse.

Pratt and Ferris, well known as the "P F" were the early freighters, doing an extensive business in Cheyenne county and the Black Hills, while G. W. Dudley advertised "Dear's Stage Line to the Black Hills." The main

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

stage line was run by Stevenson and the Dears line was not long in operation.