Smith's, groceries ; Sampson & Hall, millinery ; H. D. Mead, succeeding D. Y. Mears, harness dealer; Weber Bros. Grocery; Stetter Bros., meats ; and J. L. Paul & Co., were all still operating. The Chadron Banking Co., with A. C. Putman, president, and F. B. Carley, cashier, was in operation. D. A. Strong, lumber. J. H. Larkin, Broghamer & Weyland, and J. W. Owens were in the liquor business. J. W. Good had a clothing stock ; A. Winburger, tailor.

By 1894 the Bank of Chadron was running, with Richard C. Lake, president ; Albert W. Crites, vice-president; A. A. Record, cashier; and C. W. Dresser, L. A. Brower, Tom Moore, and Geo. P. Waller, other directors. It will be noted that both the financial, and professional roster also, and the business roster of Dawes county displays in the record of these early days many a name which has become a byword of the state and stands for statewide achievement in some line of endeavor in the years since intervening.

Other business houses of the period of the middle nineties, were : Butler & Palmers, groceries ; W. F. Hartman & Co., fresh meats ; Randall's market; A. M. Wright, west end furniture store ; J. Cerny, tailor ; J. Broghamer's Blue Ribbon Beer and other old time liquid stimulants. In 1894, A. P. Sloan became cashier of Chadron Banking Co.

An addition to the press roster of Chadron and Dawes County in 1893 was the Chadron Recorder, of which Claude T. Taylor was an early publisher. In 1895, Henry Ormesher had taken over the old Stetter's Central Meat Market; Drug stores in 1895 were conducted by Davis Bros. Windsor Drug Store; and J. M. Robinson; The Chadron Cage, E. Upstill, prop. ; John Bros., shoe dealers ; A.