Some distance south of Gordon is Lavaca Parsonage, and there are gatherings in almost every community for services from time to time. At Antioch there are Methodists, Congregationalists and Catholics served by local ministers or from Alliance which is close at hand. The transient population built up by the potash industry also helped to build places of worship, but they did not remain to support them after the bottom fell out of the potash market.

The Press

The story of the press runs through the years. No one need tell what it is doing, for it speaks for itself. Yet it knows not how well it speaks, for while the editor in most cases thinks he is expressing his own sentiments, these sentiments have been formed by associations and environment. Some editors confine their expression of progress to the particular circle in which they are most familiar, some to the horizon of the political faith, but generally the editor knows the pulsebeat of his community, and the newspaper gives the record of the pulse. It is a wonderful record to read after years has tempered the judgment of the reader.

The Rushville Standard is the dean of the press in Sheridan county. Thirty-six years ago it was founded by Ed. L. Heath, who afterwards served the county and district in the state legislature. For many years this journal has been in the capable hands of C. L. Mayes, who delights to reproduce from the old files bits of past history, relating to pioneers living, or those who leaving an indelible impress, have "passed on."