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. Generally speaking, this particular locality has been free from liquor consumption, and the people of Deuel county consider John Barleycorn as dead as slavery.

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In the early days after Chappell's first settlement was made, the town needed a newspaper, not alone for the community, but to urge settlers to come to the county, and also for the fewranchers who ought to be given the news of general world affairs. The question arose as to where the subscribers were to come from. Ira Brashears became the man of the hour. He became the moving spirit in the establishment

of the newspaper, and the Chappell Rustler came into existence. It was printed on a job press and published without regard to regular sequence for a time. Mr. Brashears was an old soldier, and as has been recounted, though a layman, he preached in Chappell and the country for some years. He was a man of excellent character and just the man needed in the formative years of Chappell's development. Volume