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. The fanners also coopertae in the purchase and handling of farm machinery. This elevator has a capacity of five thousand four hundred bushels an hour, though for delivery to cars and shipment about twenty thousand

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bushels a day is what can be handled. About six hundred thousand bushels is the record for wheat in a season.

Chappell owns its own water and electric plant which is giving fine service to the town. Cement sidewalks cover practically the entire town and the streets are some of the best in the Panhandle. A fine brick school building was erected in 1911 at a cost of fifteen thousand dollars and is a twelve grade, approved school and high school. The Chappell Commercial Club is one of the live oraginzations of its kind and has done much for the development of the town and county.

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The Chappell State Bank is doing much for the town and county, the First National Bank, the oldest in the county is an institution that from the first has been of influence in the upbuilding of the town, while the Deuel County Bank is doing a fine business.