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.

As before stated, the county has no consolidated schools with the exception of one, a Garden county unit, which includes the northwest corner of Deuel county.

The Chappell high school has twelve grades ; Frank L. Smith is superintendent and Miss Nellie Vail is principal ; while twelve teachers constitute the faculty. At Big Springs four teachers are employed. The superintendent is Lorin 1). Root, with Gertrude Houston, principal. Ordinarily there are twelve grades, but this year there are only eleven as but one pupil regi m red for the twelfth grade.

The educational advantages of Deuel county are equal to any in the state. All over the county the schools are good, using modern methods and equipment, and provided with excellent teachers, which give the children of the county every advantage and of which the people may he proud.

THE CHURCH IN DEUEL COUNTY

Like the rest of the history of Deuel county, the earliest religious activities of the county were in Cheyenne county, of which it was a part for many years. The first meetings were of necessity held in private houses as there were no church buildings in the early days and when a visiting missionary, elder or priest was known to lie coming the people would gather in some sod house in the earliest days and later