However he had failed to take into consideration the sagging of the wire, and as he left one building he moved one foot to take the first step the other hook began to slide. He slid some distance from the building, and becoming panicky was unable to get the other hook over the wire. There he hung waving the disengaged foot in vain effort, and calling for help, while the crowd yelled in delirious joy at the comical gyrations of the swinging leg.

Mr. Westervelt induced a number of boys to run a wagon underneath Lee and with the aid of step ladders he was brought down from his precarious position. After a suitable amount of hilarious dispute the fee was paid, even though Lee had failed to complete his journey across the street. Dozier resides in Scottsbluff, and probably looks back at the attempt to walk a wire with as much amusement, as he then served to the spectators in old Gering.

The County Fair

While Cheyenne county had been in existence for nearly twenty years before Gering was started, there was no county agricultural society. Gering proceeded to organize, and was recognized as the Cheyenne County Fair Association bv the state association, Robert

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

F. Furnas, secretary, on August 5. 18S7. James Westervelt was president, and C. W. Johnson, secretary. Sidney woke up and organized an association also, but was a little too late.

This peculiar attribute later followed for after county division had set the Gering association outside of Cheyenne county, Bayard organized and was recognized as the home of the county fair of Cheyenne county until it too was set off into Morrill county.