She left some excellent records of the first schools under the new county administration. In 1892 Mrs. S. C. German became superintendent, and she in turn was succeeded by Allen Chamberlain, in 1894. Mr. Chamberlain was later presiding elder of this

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district for the Methodist church. He was united in marriage with Miss Catherine Williams of Scottsbluff. After his service as presiding elder, Mr. Chamberlain went to Ord, in charge of the church at that place.

In 1896, Rosa Dodds was recalled to duty as county superintendent and was reelected in 1898. Two years later, in 1900, Robert F. Mc- Grale became superintendent, being reelected in 1902, serving two terms. Mrs. L. M. Bernhard, a school mate of the writer, many years ago. at New Windsor, Illinois, was elected supbeing one of the first settlers of Deuel county, as he came here in 1884, locating in that part of Deuel county which later was formed as Garden county. D. C. Hooper died in 1920, while the mother still lives with Mrs. Brown in Chappell.

The first school held within the present limits of Deuel county was in district No. 2, of Cheyenne county, at Big Springs, the early history of the district as before stated, being related in the story of Cheyenne county. The next school was organized in the Chappell diserintendent in 1904, being twice reelected, thereby serving six years. The health of her mother, Mrs. Coe. required Mrs. Bernhard's complete attention thereafter and she did not run for office. She atttended the mother to the old home in Illinois, then to the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota and then back to Deuel county, where Mrs. Coe passed away in 1918, at the home of Mrs. Coe's sister, Mrs. J. H. Brown.