The town of Big Springs has in addition to the Farmers Store, the old Abbott & Kimball store and the newer Eagle-Tucker Mercantile Company, Peterson's Pharmacy, the LaGrange Market, Junge Brothers Implement House, McKipps & Company, Furniture ; Neilson & Brown, Autos and Tractors ; Caskey Electric Supply Store ; Phelps Motor Company ; Flora's Big Springs Lumber Company; Klindt's Cafe, and Wilbur's Cafe. There are two banks, whose history will be found under the head of finance and banks, a doctor, a lawyer, a dentist, and other professional people and places of business including a newspaper. J. W. Crannell, who for a decade engaged in various enterprises : a pool hall, cigar store, and meat market, now has retired, but is a contractor and builder at times. If Big Springs had an early organization it was abandoned. On May 15, 1917, the county commissioners created the village of Big Springs, and appointed A. Kjeldgaard, Otto Neilson. William Mack, August Gehrke, and J. R. Holcombe, village trustees. The petition asking for such creation of the village was filed April 30. These men ably represent the modern spirit of Big Springs, which stands for development and progress. Big Springs has a fine school building which would be a credit to a town many times its size. The town is the shipping and supply point for the irrigated district along the South Platte river as well as the dry farming lands nearby. It is a thriving community with every prospect of growth. For years the town has been well served by the Remington hotel for the benefit of the traveling public.