Professor Johnson of Kimball schools resigned to take effect Saturday, January 26, 1918, to enlist in the navy ; though he was not yet twenty-one and not subject to the draft, he had hastened into the service.

By September, 1918, Treasurer George L. Vogler of the Kimball chapter of Red Cross showed a membership of 1,150 which was certainly remarkable for the population of the county. In 1910 the official census showed but 1,942. ' The financial settlement for the chapter in December, 1917, had been- 81.287.93.

The Coal and Fuel Administration had started in mid-winter of 1917 and 1918. The first coal prices officially set for this community were Rock Springs lump, $8.95; Maitland lump, $9.95 per ton ; nut coal, 50c less per ton ; where the customer takes the coal from the car. Deliveries made in town were at draymen's prices above the price set for the coal.

In March, Kimball was announced to have won a second place among the ninetythree counties in the state for having the largest per cent of membership in the Red

Cross in proportion to its population. While it did not win first place it came the next thing to it and the only count}' ahead of it w-as a well-settled eastern county. The table showing membership and per cent in relation to population is as follows :

County Population Per cent

Butler 9,230 72.5

Kimball 1,150 59.2

Grant 649 59.1

Scottsbluff 4,738 56.7

Douglas 94.424 56.0

Dundy 2.131 52.0

Morrill 2,381 51.9