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.

Vera Yockey became superintendent in 1910, and in 1912 was reelected. In 1914 Retta Brown was elected to office as superintendent and still has charge of the office. She has been reelected three times, with seven years past service and two \< i to serve before (he present term expires which indicates a satisfactory record. Mrs. Brown was formerly Retta 1 looper. her father

trict, now District No. 7, of Deuel county. John O'Neil at an earlier date taught a small private school in the railroad station. In the summer of 1885 a frame building some twenty- four by thirty-six feet was built on the present court house block and Allie Warner, afterwards Airs. John O'Neil was the first teacher. After the organization of the county of Deuel twentyeight districts were found to be in or partly in the new county. Of these, nine had sod school houses ; ten had lumber school houses ; and one was of logs. Eight contained no report of the character of the housing facilties. The teachers at the time of the organization of the county were: William Bradlev. 1. P. Krum. Mrs. C. A. Glass, Ida Hibbs, A. D. Maxwell, Mrs. C. J. Slocum. 1. W. Mills. Mrs. Clara Graf, J. C. Gyger, Erna Pickering, C. W. Snodgrass, A.