Sellers & Griswold were the first to thus engage in merchandising. Anderson & Company opened the first drug store at the same time. Both were east of the depot as it is new located.

The first permanent building in the town for merchandising purposes was the Ranch Supply store, which building is now occupied by the Marstellers who are engaged in general merchandise trade.

The census of nineteen twenty gives Bowen precinct, including the village of Harrison, a population of six hundred twenty-one.

POSTOFFICES AND POSTMASTERS

About eighteen eighty-one War Bonnet post-office was established at the Emmons & Brewster ranch, with B. E. Brewster as post-master. This was the first post-office in the county outside of Fort Robinson.

The offices at Agate and Bodarc followed, the latter being about eighteen eighty-five. When the new railroad town sprang up, Ed Satterlee was appointed post-master of the place. Will H. Davis was the second to have charge of Harrison's post-office, then came Mr Huff, and in the nineties J. !•*.. Marsteller. Mrs. Leah P. Rice is the present occupant of the office.

The Court l [01 si The question O county-seat location lay between Harrison and Bodarc, but the contest was short li\i'd. Bi wen and llat creek precincts, Harrison being located in the former, agreed to and did. in eighteen eighty-eight, build the presenl courthouse. The architects were Whitney & Murphy.

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

The brick used were burned on Sowbelly creek. George Klein burned a kiln or two of brick on Spring creek, which he expected to sell to the builders of the courthouse, but they could not agree on price, so they burned their own. And this ended the brick industry in Sioux county.