Albertson and Edward McGill followed in turn, and in September, nineteen twenty. Reverend Clare L. Yan Metre arrived and he has splendidly followed up the work. The church now has a membership of about one hundred and the Sunday school an enrollment of one hundred seventy-two. A new and modern church edifice is contemplated in the near future.

Harrison's other church is the Catholic's. When the town was new. Father Carroll

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used to come from Crawford and hold services. The Catholic church at Harrison was built about nineteen eleven, and Father Mc- Mann, the resident priest of Crawford, holds services here once each week, alternating between Saturdays and Sundays. The membership is about seventy. There is also a

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Catholic organization at Montrose which is served by a priest from Ardmore.

Lutherans have an organization at Harrison, and Reverend H. Sagehorn comes from Crawford once every three weeks, and holds service.

The young people of Harrison are taking active interest in church work, and through

their splendid service, the future of the churches here will be an excellent part in the building of the character of the community and the county. Ladies' organizations auxiliary to church endeavor is here particularly active, especially the Ladies' Aid, which is all that the name implies.

BANKING AND FINANCE -- FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS -- INDUSTRIES

The story of the banks in Sioux county tells the story of its material progress only in part, because many of Sioux county people do their banking in adjoining counties : Lusk and Torrington, Wyoming ; Ardmore, South Dakota; Crawford, Hemingford, Marsland, Alliance, Henry, Morrill, Mitchell, Scottsbluff, and Minatare, all the latter named in Nebraska, each have some of the finances of Sioux county people to look after and handle.