Superintendent Stark's record of certificates issued is missing so that the record begins February 15, 1890, when 1. C. Gvger was issued a certificate. On March 8, following, Fred L. Gilliard, Eva M. Gilliard, and Mollie Hilber were issued certificates. District No. 1, was organized March 4, 1889, upon petition of George Shirley, John Enslow and others, and was located in 14-42. District No. 2, organized at Big Springs, when a part of Cheyenne county, by E. M. Day, who sent notice to E. W. Ormsby, "a taxable inhabitant," at that time comprised all of Deuel and Garden county territory. Big Springs is now in District No. 19, No. 2 being north thereof. District No. 3 was in 15-45 and district No. 4 was organized originally by Julia Sheldon, wife

the territory was a part of Cheyenne county, in March, 1887. It was on the west line of the present county, west of Chappell.

On March 7, 1885, Leslie Stevens created school district No. 7, which included the town of Chappell, then in Cheyenne county.

In the present Deuel county, since Garden county was cut from the territory, there are thirty districts, forty-five teachers and a thousand and seventeen pupils, with one parochial school at Big Springs, conducted by the German Lutheran church. There are no consolidated schools except in the northwestern corner, a Garden county unit. There are eleven grades at Big Springs, which has a fine modern brick school building, while Chappell also has an excellent building with fine equipment and accredited high school.