The early salaries paid teachers were not high, ranging from $22 a month to $30 per month but the schools I venture were as well taught as they are today when vou consider the equipment with wrhich

Early Schoolhouse

we had to operate. We taught the foundation studies and when one wanted "domestic science" she helped her mother at the kitchen stove ; in "scientific agriculture" we went into the fields. "Dry farming" was learned by experience and none of the old timers had time or money to take a course in the "Campbell system."

In addition to the district schools of the county there is a County High School at Harrisburg, in which the higher grades are taught.

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

HOW THE COUNTY BEGAN-- EARLY OFFICERS

In the middle eighties Cheyenne county was filling up with grangers. Seven counties are now embraced in the territory that was then one. The county division agitation began in 1887 and was originated by the towns along the railroad. Kimball and Chappell each had ambitions to become county seat towns, and they each wanted all the territory north to be tributary to them in matters administrative and judicial as well as commercially. This was not satisfactory to the people off the railroad, with the result that the proposed lines of division were rejected by the people. Next year, or in 1888, the five county proposal was submitted which was carried in all parts of the old county including Sidney, which had previously opposed any form of division.