As stated, Tom Glover moved from his old town shanty into the new store built by him at the corner of Alain and Second streets.

Others besides the people from Indiana, had their eyes upon the west. Eastern Nebraska had been built up by the pioneer spirit, and the children of those who had crossed the Alissouri

were looking with longing eyes toward the sunset. Somewhere out there was free land and the fresh air of the open country. In October,

1883, about the same time that Judge Tucker was at the Louisville exposition, a party of six was made up at Pawnee City, Nebraska, and they, too, come to the high plains region that was destined to become Sheridan county. Twelve miles northeast of the present site of Rushville appealed to them as the land they were looking for. Five of the six took claims in this section, and four of the five became citizens of the country, bringing with them many others. These six were : Bruce Hewitt, the present county treasurer ; J. C. Morrison, Louis Ertel, Geo. T. Morey, one of the first board of county commissioners ; John Hassler, editor at Pawnee City, took a tree claim but never came here to reside; and C. C. Akin, went away without filing on any land. The section had as attractions besides good land, close proximity to the pine ridges for fuel, and abundant good water at from ten to eighty feet below the surface.

North of the present site of Rushville was a community center, called "Rush Valley," in