I'M Searles at this time had begun to bring land seekers from Ogallala to the Chappell locality to buy railroad land. It was geni rally -"Id at about seven dollars an acre, one tenth of the purchase price being in cash. Searles, who later became state auditor of Nebraska, inspired both Morgan and Yensen in the future of Chappell and the surrounding country. Yensen's primary object was to get into the real estate business, into which he soon graduated.

Guy C. Newman was born on his father's ranch south of Lodgepole, March 16, 1885, the first white boy born in that community. It was not his fault that the politicians later put him over the edge in Cheyenne county. He has, however, spent the greater part of his life in Deuel county, as he has lived on the Newman ranch southeast of Chappell many years. For a number of years he was at the helm of the Chappell Register, serving most admirably the community and the county as an editor of the paper. Mr. Newman also had charge of the implement department of the farmers collective enterprises at Chappell and showed good business ability.

Seven years ago, H. A. Talbott came from Clay county to Chappell to work on the Register, and eventually he bought the paper which he now manages with the able assistance of his wife. Harvey Talbott was born in Clay county thirty years ago and after brief schooling in the high school there, began to work as a compositor there at the age of fourteen, on the Clay County Patriot. He was married to Miss Emiline A. "Gillette, March 17, 1914. Dyer Gillette, Mrs. Talbott's father, left Oberlin College to enlist in the army during the Civil War and afterwards served as clerk of the district court in Clay county.