pastor. This church is sometimes referred to as the "Holy Rollers," but by its pastor is called "The Assembly of God Church."

A membership organization of the Christian church was effected at Chappell in 1920, but no minister has yet been assigned. A minister comes from Sidney or some other town occasionally, also visiting ministers who held services for the people of this congregation. Regular meetings are held for the present in the court house.

The success and progress of church work are dependent usually upon the auxiliaries, where the women of the church meet, work and plan for the benefit of the congregations. The Ladies Aid is no small factor in the important part the Methodist church has performed for the spiritual welfare of Deuel county. The women's organizations of the other churches are doing a like work for them.

The following county churches complete the history of this important part of Deuel county development. In 1819, the Methodists built a church at Froid, to serve the north central part of the county and the Froid community. Six miles northeast of Chappell, the Mennonites have a church, as that part of the tableland was largely settled by that denomination. Fourteen miles northeast of Chappell there is a Swedish settlement and a Swedish church has been organized and church building erected to serve that corner of the county. In the settlement about the old Day postoffice, there was a Methodist church organized many years ago. To a large extent, the country people come into Chappell and Big Springs and Julesburg to church, when they live within a distance that