Schofield was selected. The council during this year passed an ordinance charging fire insurance companies doing business in Scottsbluff an annual license of five dollars for a fireman's fund. P. T. Sheffer was appointed assistant chief, and the department divided into three groups. Hose Cart No. 1 had Hill, Morrow, Edgar, Schofield and Barron, while No. 2 had Sheffer, Guernsey, Foreman, Carlisle and Cline. The hook and ladder team was Elquist, Lane, Alexander, Westervelt and Ashbaugh.

In 1911, a more thorough organization was effected. J. R. Baskins was elected president; O. W. Rhoads, chief; F. D. Schofield, secretary-treasurer; W. T. Hill was made foreman of Hose Cart No. 1 with W A. Stull as assistant ; B. T. Sheffer, foreman of No. 2 with J. J. Carlisle, assistant ; Geo. Elquist was foreman of the hook and ladder, with I. N. Wallace, assistant. This year the department put on a Fourth of July celebration which was a live one. So lively 'in fact that all of the fireworks went off at once, giving a never-to-beforgotten pyrotechnical display.

Baskins was re-elected in 1912, with Drew Rogers, chief; and W. L. Simmons, secretary-treasurer.

In 1913.' Harry Wisner was elected president, being re-elected the following year. Jack Carlisle was chief in 1913, and Bert Lynch, secretary. Geo. Bohnert was chief in 1914, and Guy Lane, secretary. In 1915, F. G. Warrick was president ;' Wash Scott', chief; and Dan Ayres, secretarv. Bert Lynch followed as president in 1915, with Wash Scott again chief, and Milo Jones secretary.