Fish & Company's drug store had not yet consolidated. W. D. Post was in the lumber business, and B. D. K. Wertz had a hardware store. McEldowney & Wertz ran a livery stable. Milliken & Swanson had by that time acquired the store started by Gordon & Chingreen. C. C. Reynolds had put in a line of farm implements, although most of the grangers brought theirs with them. A. P. Wilcox had taken up the pump and windmill line and wells were being

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put in as fast as the settlers could get time and means. Most of the well appliances were improvised windlasses or wheels with buckets and a rope. Lee & Lee and W. H. Sigler were attorneys and Hosea Hudson was the physician at Chappell. John O'Neil still maintained that he was the pioneer land agent. The Commercial National Bank was the only institution of its kind in the town, and Mrs. J. B. Laycock ran the Chappell hotel and Mr. Funk the bakery.

Great have been the changes from that day to those of 1921, and the business of Chappell

to other business and we now find Ryan's Chain Department Store. The Bostonian, Chappell Mercantile, Stephens Grocery, Airs. McAuliff, Dry Goods, Chappell Cash Grocery and other new institutions lining the business thoroughfares. Thompson's Pharmacy, modern and upto-date occupies the site of Chappell's first drug store, and "Rexall" has an active representative in H. J. Handley's Pharmacy. Chappell has a number of small hostelries and excellent rooming houses, while places to eat, restaurants, cafes, bakeries and the like are found in all