He served in 1915 and 1917 with an efficiency and integrity that made him a state wide character. Recently his splendid and intelligent wife has been called Beyond. Both Mr. and Mrs. Naylor were holding two of the highest offices in the gift of the Rebekahs of the state at the time of Mrs. Naylor's departing from the field of activity.

Geo. C. Snow was representative in the legislative session of 1919. A good man, in keeping with Dawes county's high record.

Dawes county has a just reason to be proud of the galaxy' of her statesmen and other noted people that have gone forth from her borders.

TOWN OF CHADRON

In the early fall of 1884, E. E. Egan erected a log house on his claim, about a mile south of the mouth of Chadron creek, launched the Sioux County Journal and announced that it was published at Chadron. Strange as it may

seem, this was the first business venture in the county to come after range cattle, post settlers, and Indian traders, and it was recognized as a harbinger of civilization, of schools and churches, and women and children.

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

It could only be guessed that "Chadron" was somewhere in the vicinity of the creek bearing that name, for the town still "lay a bornin" in the mind of Egan.

The Journal, week after week, told of the wonderful White river valley, "the garden spot of the western Nebraska, beyond the sand hills ;" of the fertility of the soil ; the ideal climate ; the pure atmosphere, and the soft sunshine unsurpassed elsewhere, facts so familiar to the native of Dawes county today.