The church was built near the old Couch place, and was later moved to Harrisburg.

The second church, in the limits of the county as now shown, was at Hull. It was also a Methodist church and was built very soon after the Kiowa building was put up.

Then the Methodists built at Gering and the Baptists built in the Robidoux valley. Rev. John Young and wife were quite active in the building of the latter.

These early activities in church work have blossomed out into an extensive religious work up and down the valley, and nearly all the Christian religions are represented in Scotts Bluff county.

The present Bishop Beecher of the Episcopal church was here in an early day, and he made many trips through this country in his younger years, his bride accompanying him on nearly all occasions.

The Bishops Lose Their Guns The Bishop came occasionally to hunt and fish, and once when coming he brought the then Bishop Graves with him. They stopped at C. J. Carlisle's at Harrisburg overnight, and left their guns in the wagon. In the morning the guns were gone. Suspicion pointed to a roustabout that lived in the Hull neighborhood. A search warrant was gotten out by Carlisle, one of the guns was found, and the man brought back to town. Carlisle hired a local attorney. The jury found him guilty, but it was stated the hired attorney suggested that they make the value of the gun less than $35, so that it would be petit larcency and a jail sentence instead of the penitentiary. The jail at Harrisburg was more or less of a joke, but the jury followed the suggestion.