Scottsbluff, and for years held the office in this building. In addition he put in a small stock of merchandise.

Kirkpatrick then went to Geo. King, who had sold him about eighty dollars worth of lumber for his store, and told him that he wanted to sell it back. He said there was not business enough for two stores in Scottsbluff. thus being the first man to express the provincialism exercised by the financial institutions of the city in the bank fight of 1919.

Immediately following, Andy McClenahan started to put up a frame store on the site of the present Bowen building at Sixteenth street and Broadway. John Emery also began the erection of the first twenty-five foot front of the Emery hotel. These began to look like real buildings.

McClenahan Sells Out When Andy McClenahan sold his corner to George King, it was thought that King paid all it was worth ; and when King sold it to Dormann the price seemed rather high, but Dormann sold to the Bowens. who built the new building, and added another lot. The entire structure was sold in 1919 to Charles R. Raymond, of the First National Bank for seventy-five thousand dollars.

The first hardware store, which soon after put in furniture, was started at the very beginning-- early in 1900 by George B. Luft and Frank A. McCreary, under the name of Luft & McCreary, at the corner of Broadway and

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

Sixteenth street. This was a one story frame twenty -five feet wide and about fifty feet long. The papers of 1901 say that they were putting in a double store stock in a single store room by hanging about half of it on the ceiling.