Jack Crowe had a drug store at Lodgepole at the time Chappell was started and within a short time built quite a pretentious store building in Chappell about 1884. It cost six hundred dollars or more and he put in a stock of drugs with his brother in charge. Eugene Fish started the first pool hall in Chappell, but did not have much business. In 1888, he and a Mr. Lazerus put in a stock of drugs ; then they bought the

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to go with it." The man of the house brightened up. He rapped on the inner door and called to his wife to get up and she replied she would not, then he said, "Listen, old woman, these men want some supper, and he has gone out to get a quart of whiskey." When Johnson returned the woman was up and doing and she helped "deflate" the quart. The old man sliced some meat as there was a part of a beef hanging outside and they soon had a good hot meal to eat. At this time John O'Neil and a man named Short, were trying to get Chappell started and they urged Johnson to buy a lot, as they could advertise that more people were coming and buying lots. Johnson and his friend were out in the country and looked over some railroad land, where a tract that suited Johnson was found and he bought it. When they came back to the station, O'Neil and Short tried again to get him to buy a lot in the town site. Mr. Johnson looked about and asked what they would take for a certain corner of three lots. They said to start it, "four dollars a lot. or twelve dollars for the three." Johnson bought them.