A. also became active and the drive of November, 1917, went fifty per cent over the quota for Deuel county, which was alloted fifteen hundred dollars and subscribed two thousand, two hundred and ninety seven dollars.

Among the "four minute men," speakers for the Liberty Bond drives and other war movements were Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Busse, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Betts, Mrs. Retta Brown, and other prominent people who took an active part in the prosecution of the work for the government during the war. An organization was also effected in Deuel county for the enrollment of student nurses. Captain L. O. Pfeiffer and Lieutenants Libby and McConaughey made a vital institution out of the Home Guards, who did good work. In February, 1918, the guards were organized with seventy members and finally the number increased to more than a hundred, with the following list of officers besides the captain and lieutenants: H. D. Betts, first sergeant: }. W. Knox. K. W. Wildman, H. B. Linch. and F. E. Weldon, plain sergeants; F. L. Smith, quartermaster; T. M. John, color bearer; G. G. Laselle, L. A. Bersee. O. O. McPheeters, Arthur Rfeibe, A. W. Robbins. J. R. Hill, Fred Sudman and J. M. Miller, corporals.

In the main corrider of the court house hangs the service flag of Deuel county. Of the one hundred and twenty-three names thereon nine shine with golden stars, and those who gave their lives for democracy are : Hilmer E. Jeppson, Clinton McAuliff, Frank Deutscher, Glen Harmon, Claude Remington, Edward H. Johnson, Roy Arms, Daniel Downley, and William McEvoy.