Jordan then followed for two terms, and Thos. S: Boyd succeeded him for two terms. In nineteen seventeen the present treasurer. Fred W. Meyer, was elected. He was re-elected in nineteen nineteen, and the change in the law gives him additional service for two years. Mr. Meyer has proven an excellent official, and has for his deputy, Jess Anderson, and is up to the standard of capableness and courtesy for which the office has been conspicuous.

County Superintendents The first superintendent of schools in Sioux county was Benjamin F. Thomas, who settled in the Hat creek country in the early eighties. Thomas was an educator, and his two daughters, Minnie and Lorena,

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were teaching- school in the first years of Sioux county history. They were very young girls at the time, but their excellent work is remembered by man}- of the present people of the county. Thomas was followed by S. W. Cox, who served until eighteen ninety, when A. Southworth was elected, he serving two terms.

W. H. Davis was the fourth superintendent, and he served two terms, being- followed by Elsie Merriam, and she by Julius B. Burke. Burke served a little over three years, and after retiring from the office in March, nineteen hundred three, Conrad Parsons was appointed to complete the term. John Barky was elected in nineteen four, and Arthur F. Becker in nineteen eight. Mary J. Fenske was chosen in nineteen twelve and served five years.

In nineteen seventeen Miss Vinnie Newell was superintendent, and re-elected two years later. In January of the present year, nineteen twenty-one, she began her third term, but under a different name. One of the romances of Sioux county occurred under the dome of the courthouse. Miss Vinnie Newell became Mrs. Fred Meyers, the wife of the county treasurer.