Westervelt as editor and proprietor ; he is still guiding its destinies. The second paper was started by E. F. Moon and called the Herald, being established about two years later. In 1907, Peter J. Barron established the Star. The two latter have been consolidated under the name of Star-Herald, which is managed by H. J. Wisner, and owned by Wisner and A. B. Wood. C. C. Cross is one of its vigorous editorial writers.

The first barber shop was that of Sherman Miller, on the site of the present American State Bank. The second opened was that of Ed Vandenburg on the present location. For awhile Ed lived in the back part of the shop, and here his second daughter was born May 31, 1903. When she was but a few days old, the fire occurred that burned his shop with other buildings, and the mother and baby had to be carried out in the night. It was after midnight and raining.

The first stock of millinery was carried in the Fair store, and Mrs. Luft in charge. Mrs. M. E. Marsh was the first dressmaker. She had her own building on Broadway, near the intersection of Fifteenth street.

The First Church The first church was that of the Presbyterians, built in 1900. Rev. J. B. Currens first put up a tent in what was then a cornfield, and went out to Jacobus' to stay all night. In the morning Jacobus' daughter looked out the

First Church, Scottsbluff

window of the soddy, and exclaimed; "Mr. Currens, the tent is down." During the night there had been quite a gale, which not only blew down the the tent, but damaged it so that it could not be put up again without repairs.