It has seemed to the laymen that the fraternal spirit has run riot in the county to such an extent that all one needs to do is to propose to organize something and immediately the something will be organized. Some have been inclined to intimate that this is because we have so many "easy marks" but I am inclined to think that it is because the generous spirit of Scotts Bluff county people is looking for an outlet at all times.

The old Scotts Bluff lodge of Masons at Gering goes back to early days and the Knights of Pythias were early at Minatare. The Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias are the three most vital organizations of fraternal orders in the county. They each have large memberships, several lodges and are alive to the principles for which their lodges were created. I think that Victor Fuehring, the present master of Robert W. Furnas lodge A. F. & A. M., at Scottsbluff, is one of the most consistent and industrious Masons that I have ever met. He was raised in the lodge of which

he is now master and has always been a faith- I ful member and attendant.

W'hile the editor was the first chancellor in I the Knights of Pythias at Scottsbluff all will agree that the most active member and the one I who is most consistent in attendance and in pre- j cept and example, is George L. Wilcox.

Val Kirkman, F. H. Koenig and W. L. Sim- 1 mons and Frank Scofield are among the active Odd Fellows.