Tomppert finding himself out-voted at every turn by the Bentz family, sold out to them for what he could get and gracefully retired from the Company.

He at once planned to established a rival paper, and in August, 1912, bought out the Garden County News which Mr. Warner had been running for two or three years at Lewellen, bought a new press and linotype, and proceeded to make the old News the biggest and best paper in the county. 1300 copies of the Nezvs is now printed each week.

At this time the Bentz Company were publishing three papers in the county. The Oshkosh Herald, at Oshkosh, The Lcivcllen Gazette at Lewellen and the Lisco Tribune at Lisco. They did most of the printing at the Herald office. In 1913, they sold the Tribune to Mr. Cary of Lisco, The Herald and Gazette were run by different members of the Bentz family until May, 1919, when they discontinued both papers and moved to Florida.

This leaves just one newspaper in Oshkosh, one in Lewellen and one in Lisco.

In 1919, Mr. David J. Colyer bought the Lisco Tribune from Mr. Cary. He is rapidly improving it, building up the circulation and making a real newspaper out of it.

Mr. John B. Barton established the Lewellen Optimist on March 22, 1917. Each year, it is steadily increasing in quality and circulation and it is loyally supported especially in the eastern part of the county.

The Bench and the Bar Garden county has no resident district judge. When first organized in the year 1910, this county was in the thirteenth judicial districl of Nebraska, presided over by Judge H. M. Grimes of North Platte.