Hall, David W. Hamaker, Daniel Jordan, Thos. C. Lewis, Andrew McGinley, John E. Mann, John Marking, Joseph C. Parsons, George F. Phillips, Edward F. Pontius, Tressie M. Powell, Walter C. Reed, Albert L. Schnurr, Nathan R. Tisdale, Charles H. Unitt, Francis H. Wallace, Cyrus O. Wertz, Jerman B. Wilkerson. There are sixty-seven Mason members of this order at the present time, and the officers now are: Tress M. Powell, worthy master; Jesse Gerlach, senior warden; F. H. Wallace, junior warden, and De P. Davis, secretary.

Perhaps in all the Panhandle of Nebraska there is no place where the fraternity of old timers is as strong as it is in Sioux county and Harrison. This fraternity is without lodge, dues, or officers, but those who have been in the west thirty-five or forty years, or longer, who have slept on the sod, who dwelt in the crude structures that first served as habitations, who went through the years of privation and distress together, are more firmly bound together than an oath or obligation can bind men. The old-timers are strung the length and breadth of the county, from Joe Sanford on the south to John Anderson on the north, from Scotty Henderson and Ben Swanson to the Wyoming line.

Stock Industry

Back in the beginning the buffalo ranged the pastures of Sioux county, and then came the time of the big herds of cattle. This in time passed and the smaller ranchman came to be the prosperous builder of the county.