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

is illustrative of the progress of Deuel county. The old frame structures have largely passed out of existence here and new brick buildings of the most substantial order and the best quality are in evidence in the business district. Naturally garages to care for the expanding automobile business are on every hand and service stations greet the eyes on the Lincoln highway at the town approaches. Distributing houses for tractors and implements for bonanza farming are of importance. One of the largest institutions of its kind is the Chappell Lumber & Hardware Company ; the Western Hardware Company is also a concern of importance.

In the older days the Sudman & Fish Company and LaSelle Brothers and those still earlier were prominent in commercial industry and mercantile lines. Todav thev have taken

parts of the business section. Bracken's Undertaking and Furniture establishment is a comparatively new and up-to-date establishment which meets with the needs of the town and surrounding territory. Land and investment firms have prospered amazingly with the rise of land values and more settlement in Deuel county. Distinctively as an example of progressive cooperation, the Farmers Elevator Company, managed by Mr. Morrison, stands preeminently out in the town and county. Handling vast quantities of grain and milling products, it is a shining example of organized farmer's success.