Services were held irregularly for a time, and finally Reverend Ives was placed in charge with Gering, Mitchell, Bayard, Bridgeport, Minatare, and Henry. Following his advancement in church work the local church was turned over to A. Sidney Topping, a lay minister ; he was followed by Rev. W. S. J. Dumville ; and he by Rev. Frank Henry ; and now ably taken care of by Rev. A. A. Weller. The parsonage was built about four years ago.

Bishop George A. Beecher has risen to be one of Nebraska's truly great men and Scotts Bluff county takes justifiable pride in part of the formative period in the making of the splendid character. However he has given back to us by precept and example a courage and ambition for better living. So the compensations and services usually balance.

Among the well known people who assisted in the organization of this church and its maintainance in Scottsbluff, were Air. and Mrs. Chas. A. Morrill, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Bowen, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Jones, Dr. F. W. Plehn and family, Heyward G. Leavitt, Mrs. John Hall, Mrs. H. H. Ostenberg, Mrs. A. Grace Hamer, and Helen R. Eastman. Bishop Beecher had thirty-five confirmations on one trip.

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

Rev. Curren's Story

Another who has done much for the religious and moral life of the North Platte valley in all parts thereof, from Garden county to Fort Laramie, is Rev. J. B. Currens, the Presbyterian missionary who built the church at Scottsbluff.