This village, at the time the county seat was located there, consisted of two general stores, a blacksmith shop, two livery barns, one bank, one newspaper, two hardware stores, a harness shop, one law office, one feed store, lumber yard and agricultural implement depot combined. Nonpareil ceased to exist soon after ili'- removal of tin- county seat to Hemingford in 1891, There is nothing left to mark its site frame school house which yet stands

five miles south and one mile west of Hemingford.

The village of Hemingford was founded and was named by several natives of Canada, among whom were R. McLeod, J. W. Roberts, J. S. Paradis, J. K. Green, Joseph Hare and others. The name Hemingford was adopted because of old associations with a town of that name in Canada. The postoffice was called Carlyle, and was located four miles due east of the present site of Hemingford, and F. W. Milek was the first postmaster. This postoffice, with the consent of the postal department, was transferred to Hemingford, but still retained its name Carlyle for a year af-^ terward.

There was another yillage and postoffice fourteen miles due east of Hemingford, called Box Butte postoffice, but it never boasted but one store, postoffice, a blacksmith shop, a notary public, and real estate office. Like most villages, it had what was then well known as a Locator's office, a term now obsolete. The business of this functionary was to secure government plats from the land office of the district in which he was located, showing the govtrnment land unfiled upon, and which for a fee of ten to twenty-five dollars he would show to the prospective homesteader, prepare his filing papers and locate him upon the vacant quarter section which he selected.