Hobart was the first district judge from Scotts Bluff county, he being appointed in 1911 to till the vacancy caused by the creation of a new district composed of Banner, Garden, Arthur, Morrill, and Scotts Bluff counties. He has been re-chosen three times at subsequent elections and still presides over the judicial destinies of the county and district.

A. B. McCoskey was appointed assistant state engineer at the time when Akers gave up the position for that as receiver in the United States land office at Alliance. McCoskey is at present county surveyor of Scotts Bluff county.

The editor-in-chief was elected Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings for the state in 1916. He adopted a new policy of making an inventory of the state school lands and property, and raising the valuations toward the point where they should be. The result was an increase of ten thousand dollars a month in the revenues to help support the schools. The policy has been followed by his successor in the office.

During his period in the state house he wrote, and the legislature passed, a state mineral statute which has already been a source of revenue to the extent of many thousand dollars from potash production. With the prospective discovery of oil it will mean a much greater income for the schools. Irrigation College

He also wrote, and the legislature passed, the bill providing for the state irrigation college. This is an initiation of one of the greatest institutions in the land, if proper polices are inaugurated and carried out. It is the only irrigation college in the world, and the world is hungering for a knowledge of this scientific method of farming. The state regents and chancellor of the university should call together a number of the best heads known to practical irrigation and adopt a curriculum that will meet the crying public need.