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

allows of Sunday attendance. The motor car has made them within easy reach, when roads are good.

Temperance

Closely associated with the church is the question of temperance, as the members of all church organizations have usually sided with the work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union to eradicate this evil; and while there is no such organization in Deuel county the church people have been active in this work. Deuel county never had but one saloon in its history and has outlived that. It was run by George McCluskey in Chappell, in the days before the town was organized as a village. Before McCluskey, a man named Anderson, from Missiouri, was running a "blind pig;" he made big money for a while, but left when the law and order people began to take action against traffic in liquor.

In Big Springs in the early days, considerable liquor was sold, but without license, and bootlegging to a limited degree is practiced in Chappell and Big Springs. When the territory now included in Garden county, was a part of Deuel county, a few saloons were licensed in the North Platte river country, but for only a few years. Recently a car was seized and sold near Chappell by state law enforcement agents, as it had evidently been used for border traffic running across the line from Colorado.