Caffee in charge of Chadron Dairy; Stetter Bros., then in charge of Chadron Market ; Robinson & Smith, confectionery ; Bowers & Demmon, livery stable at Birdsall's old stand; Adamson & Imel, west side livery stable, proprietors of the Chadron and Nonpareil Stage line; Weber Brothers, new stock of groceries; W. Christensen's hardware stock open alike for trade of democrats and republicans, prohibitionists, union labor men, mugwumps and all other classes of people; Myers & Boone ; and Loewenthal Bros., Palace Clothing House, since 1885.

Fraternal life in Chadron was not neglected in 1890 and the following lodges were actively engaged in their respective missions : Damascus Lodge No. 53, Knights of Pythias, Chadron Lodge No. 72, A. O. U. W., Occidental Chapter No. 48, R. A. M., Samaritan Lodge No. 158, A. F. & A. M., Pine Ridge Camp No. 745, Modern Woodmen of America, Lexington Relief Corps No. 108. and Lexington G. A. R. Post.

F. B. Carley was postmaster then. The Democrat, with C. W. Allen as editor was a competing journal to the Advocate, and the Dawes County Journal.

Illustrative that the day of effort on the part of commercial institutions of a larger city to secure the trade of smaller places, even some distance away, is the fact that in a September, 1890, edition of the Chadron Democrat can be found the following directory of Omaha, Nebraska, business houses soliciting the trade of Dawes county and western Nebraska patrons ; Mrs. J. Benson, ladies and children's furnishings; John S. Caulfield, wholesale bookseller, United States National Bank, A. H. Perrigo & Co., bicycles ; Browning, King & Co., clothing; A. L. Deane & Co., bank vaults, locks ; Dean, Armstrong & Co., wholesale cigars ; Star Land and Loan Company.