Oshkosh has no museum but Miles J. Maryott has a collection of mounted birds, Indian relics, bones, coins, etc., that is worth traveling across the continent to see. Mr. Maryott is an artist and finds ready sale for his paintings. He

paints animal and landscape pictures, but his wild bird pictures take up a large part of his time. His hobby is collecting prehistoric animal bones and Indian relics. He also collects and mounts rare birds.

In his youth Mr Maryott was a professional base ball player and later spent several years as a trap shooter and expert marksman. He tied for the World's Handicap at Chicago in 1907 shooting blue Ricks. As a game shot, he has few equals in the west. Mr. Maryott war born in Burt county, Nebraska, in 1873, and has been a resident of Oshkosh since 1909. He homesteaded in 1910 in the sand hills of Garden county for the sole purpose of being closer to his life work as a naturalist and painter of western scenery.

The fanners are beginning to take a prominent part in the business of the town. They have organized two corporations, one of which handles the only grain business of tin- town, and is called the Farmers Elevator Company. In 1916 this company was chartered and bought out the elevator which had been run tor several years by the Oshkosh Lumber Company. The other farmers' corporation is the Garden Countv Supply Company which is doing a big gen-

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