As competitors Alliance, Crawford, Valentine and Scottsbluff entered the race. After a spirited fight Chadron was selected as the location and its citizens raised over $13,000.00 by popular subscription to make good her offer. So generously did they respond that a surplus donation remained and was refunded to the subscribers. In a few years the Chadron school had attained an enrollment of two hundred and fifty students in the most properous Normal School in the state.

Located in the central part of the city is a beautiful public library building of artistic design. The collection of books consists of several thousand volumes and is cared for by an efficient board of management, with Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, librarian.

The Young Men's Christian Associ ition owns and occupies a splendid three story modern brick building valued with equipments at $30,000.00. It is under the management of a board of trustees consisting of successful business men and has a large enrollment. Its members have free use of its fine bath rooms and for a small charge may enjoy the bowling alley and gymnasium.

Lots have been purchased on the corner of Main avenue and Third street and money appropriated for a government building to cost

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$110,000.00 and the structure will without doubt be completed soon.

In 1912 the magnificent Masonic Temple was erected on Main avenue. The entire building and equipment cost $18,000.00, and the same year the Mildred Block, now occupied by the Citizens State Bank, and the most pretentious building in the town, was erected at a cost of $24,000.00.