District number three at Hay Springs, on October 28. 1885. Three other districts came to life upon this same date : Number four, the Pawnee City settlement, north of Clinton ; Number five, north of Hay Springs ; Number six at the state line north of Gordon. Seven other districts were organized before the close of 1885. By June, 1886, there were nine additional dis- • tricts, so that the first county levy was for

B. Biddle, number two ; and Bertha Loving, number three. In November four was issued to Carrie M. Goodykoonts, number five to Katie Dulin, and in December P. H. Shepard received number six and F. J. Gaily number seven. Only the seven certificates to teach were issued in 1885.

In 1886, there wrere issued seventy-one certificates, and, in 1887, forty. The broad acres of Sheridan county were then populated as they never were before or since. In July, 1886, the county received its first state apportionment of school funds amounting to $591.12. Twentythree districts participated in the distribution

that number of schools. The different districts had levies as shown below :

First Levies

No. 1. eight mills; No. 2, twelve mills; No. 3, fifteen mills; No. 4, none; No. 5, fifteen mills ; No. 6, twenty-five mills ; No. 7, fifteen mills; No. 8, fifteen mills; No. 9, none; No. 10, fifteen mills; Nos. 11 and 12, none; No. 13, twenty-five mills.

There seems to have been a break in the numbering of districts at this time for several numerals are missing. Of the remaining districts, No. 26, had seventeen and one-half mills ; No. 24, had twenty mills ; Nos. 14 and 25 had twenty-two mills; and Nos. 13, 15, 21, 22, 27 and 31 had twenty-five mills.