Dr. C. L. Bates and Dr. L. Quast are dentists.

At Gordon there are Doctors Edward H. Dwyer, James Q. Elmore, Loren Jones, S. E. Overmass and Geo. F. Bartholomew. In dentistry there are Tim Woolm and G. R. Brownfield".

At Hay Springs, Doctors Anderson, A. N. Sheffner, Stanley Clements, and Albert J. Molgalm are the more recent administers to public health.

county bar: with O'Brien and Broome, in the south part of the county.

Medical Profession

The first doctor in the vicinity of Rushville was Doctor J. R. C. Davis, who had a homestead four miles northeast of the present site of Rushville before the town had come into existence.

Dr. W. N. Nanney is said to have been the first doctor in Rushville. Doctors E. T. Julian and T. B. Rankin were early day physicians and surgeons.

The fraternity has always been well represented in all lines, although the health of the high plains is usually of the best.

Among the doctors of the county there are several at Rushville, namely : Z. T. Daniels,

Besides the doctors from Alliance who attend the wants of the people of south Sheridan county, Dr. Edward C. Cowles is at Antioch, and Dr. F. J. Peterson is an osteopath. Dr. Moore attends the sick of southern Sheridan county also, and for awhile Dr. E. L. Emerson, whose main occupation was ranching, was nevertheless called upon as occasion required.

The Churches

The story of the church has been partly told. Rev. J. A. Scamahorn on the second Sunday in May, 1884, organized the first Methodist church west of Valentine, in the north part of the state. This was also the first church of any kind. Rev. B. F. Diffenbacher, for the Congregationalists Was early on the ground at