After the Oliver log school house was built, the Sunday school was held there.

A little later another Sunday school was organized in the residence of A. B. (Briley) Randleman near Table mountain in the Big Horn valley. Active in the work were Mr. and Mrs. Randleman, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Deaton, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Cashier, Grant Allen and others. They named the historian as superintendent. Grant Allen was the originator of the idea that developed into a Sunday School picnic held in Hackberry canyon. Probably this was the first of its kind in all the Panhandle of Nebraska. It was held in June, 1888, and from far and near the settlers assembled in the beautiful grove of hackberry and ash by Hendrick's beautiful spring. Many vehicles were decorated. Allen rolled up the side curtains of his covered wagon and decorated the bows, top, wheels, box, and harness artistically. I

do not know where he found the decorations ; he must have brought them with him when he came. Six of us young people rode the twelve or fifteen miles, and entered the grove in triumph, for ours was easily the prize taker.

The rocks about Hackberry canyon never before re-echoed to the sounds that came out of the grove. There were many musical selections, and John Muhr gave us a temperance lecture which was undoubtedly the pioneer dry address of western Nebraska.

Old district number ten was the first school in this part of the west and as heretofore stated the first teacher was Lora Sirpless. With the coming of the grangers there were numerous schools established almost simultaneously. Over one hundred were organized in 1887 and 1888, many of which were in the present limits of Banner county. In the Hackberry community, Samuel Oliver and John Muhr were among the organizers of a school in 1887.