The Chadron Commercial Club has a membership of two hundred active business men, who are untiring in their efforts to make Chadron truly the metropolis of the west. A great number of Chadron citizens occupy high places in the councils of men. Among these are two college presidents, two district judges, James C. Dahlman, many times mayor of greater Omaha, the late Hon. A. W. Crites, ex-judge and ex-receiver of the United States Land Office, F. M. Dorrington and Major T. F. Powers, both deceased, and W. H. McCann register and receiver of the United States Land Office, Captain L. A. Dorrington, superintendent of government prisons in the Philippines, E. S. Ricker, historian in the Indian Department, Washigto, D. C. ; Frank Chaulk, age fifteen years, champion potato grower of the state, and Myrtle Mann, age fourteen, state champion of garden clubs; and the irrepressible John G. Maher, peerless prevaricator and proud of the achievement, and sometimes democratic candidate for Governor until 1920, when he became Republican. Of successful business men the number is very large. The city government is and nearly always has been, in the control of young men of energy and ability. Those who have occupied the position of mayo1- are D. C. Mears and C. C. Hughes, deceased, Herbert A. Cox, George L. Harner, T- I. Leas, deceased, F. M. Merritt, James C. Dahlman, H. M. (Tug) Wilson, A. W. Crites, deceased ; Charles Rust, deceased, A. M. Wright, E. D. Satterlee, Robert Hood. Allen G. Fisher, W. F. Hayward, deceased, W. H. Donahue, Duncan Mc- Millan, J. W. Finnegan and Ben Loewenthal, twenty in all. During this period there have been but six city clerks : Robert Dorr, served three and one-half terms; I. W. Smith, two; L. T- F. (Billy the Bear) Iaeger, ten and onehalf ; B.