They have adopted the newer standards of an ownership of acreage, instead of the open range.

There arc the first grangers also, who came and remained through the years of stress, a number of which are ye< residents after the lap e of a third of a century. Here was horn the first white boy in thai part of the county; Guy C. Newman. Here also is Col. V B. ■ and his I tardscrabble ranch. Here

two of the names that mean much to early history of the region were recently united in marriage. Not the younger generation, but the principals who were in the drama of early years. A. B. Persinger. aforesaid, was a ranchman of the seventies, while Mrs. G. H. Jewett, the bride, was the widow of the first state senator from the Panhandle of Nebraska. He it was who built the first bridge across the South Platte river at Big Springs in the early eighties.

At Lodgepole also is the veteran editor, J. V. Wolfe, who for so long, directed the destinies of the Express, recently retiring in favor of Claude Grisham, who is keeping a standard of excellence. This paper was established about 1884.

Lodgepole also had to its credit one of the state's best members of the legislature in 1917- 1919, and who in 1921 became regent of the State University, William L. Bates.

Fred Lehmkuhl is another Lodgepole name

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

that runs steadily through the progress of town, county, and community welfare, from the very beginning. J. R. Young is still another long familiar name, a pioneer in merchandising, and always forefront for the good of the town.