Fred Sudman thus started in the mercantile business, and later formed a combination with Eugene Fish in the Sudman-Fish Company, which became and continued an important business concern for years, with stores at Chappell, Oshkosh and Lewellen. Today the company is out of the mercantile business in which they prospered.

Isaac Woolf is one of the sturdy characters of Deuel county development, as he came here about 1884 and built the first real hotel in Chappell. It was called the Chappell hotel and Still stands just east of the First National bankcorner, although it was built more than thirty-

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

five years ago. In 1886, Isaac Woolf started the first meat market in Chappell and about the same time Mrs. Woolf started the first millinery store, which filled a much needed want as women had to go to Sidney for their hats. At that time there were no barber shops in Chappell. as Nicholas Zehr's fine parlor had not been established. As Mr. Woolf could handle a razor, he also became the first tonsorial artist. He was a man of diversified ability and talents as he also cried sales and became the first auctioneer to practice that vocation in Deuel county territory.

During twenty-eight years of the time he has lived in Chappell Isaac Woolf has been county judge, breaking all records in the Panhandle of Nebraska to hold such an office.

Business House, Chappell

The destinies of people are so interwoven that one can hardly understand it. In the years when John O'Neil was teaching school in the crude surroundings of the depot at Chappell, Allie Warner was teaching school in New York. One of her pupils was F. G. LaSelle ; something brought Miss Warner to Chappell, and when they built the frame school house and established the first real school, Allie Warner became the first teacher.