Markley used to come out from Kimball and occasionally Dr. Field from Sidney. Dr. Scherer of Kimball once had a practice of some proportions in the county. Scherer hved in the county for a time. Dr. Franklin was in the northeast part of the county. Dr. Georgia A. Fix and Dr. Miller of Gering were in the county occasionally. Dr. Stalcup practiced at Freeport and Harrisburg. These were the doctors of old and but three of them were resident doctors at any time.

In the later years the county determined to have a resident doctor and prevailed upon Dr.

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

C. S. Page to locate among them. Page became county clerk as well and held the office for years. Page was once candidate for Lieutenant Governor.

Industries

Farming -- the several branches of agriculture -- ■ naturally is the leading industry of a fertile county like Banner. The progress of grain raising has developed from the days that Bill and Martin Montz ran an old horse-power thresher to the present French and Hanks combination harvesters.

This has made better roads necessary, and the old "Hogback ragtrack" that we used to follow after leaving the south hills has changed into vastly improved highways. Many of the farm homes have changed from dwellings of the old Jake Smith dugout type, to modern Delco-lighted farm houses of large dimension.

Plow and sod, or ax and timber, made the first dwellings. The Livingston grout house was the first to break away but the lime therein was hauled from Sidney. Over in Big Horn, about a mile north of the Table mountain the first lime kiln in the county came into existence as early as 1887. G. W. Bushong and sons were the owners.