P. Rooney, moved to Chadron. Business changes during the next decade brought into the circle, O. J. Schweiger & Co., Burns Bros, meat market ; F. J. Seabury, implements ; Stanton Shoe Co.; First National Bank retained as officers, C. F. Coffee, president, F. W. Clarke, vice president, B. L. Scovel, cashier and H. E. Reische, assistant cashier. The Citizens State Bank was managed by W. A. Carmean, president, J. T. May, vice president, E. K. Reikman, cashier and C. W. Mitchell, assistant cashier.

Chadron Hardware Co., Nichols & Fisher, West End Market ; A. E. Phillips opened a new flour and feed store in 1912; Lenington Bros., groceries. New concerns that showed up in the next few years numbered Andrews & McNees, Red Cross Drug Store; Ed. E. Morey, jewelry; Walsh Grocery Co.; Grantham Bros., Chadron Mercantile Co., Thos. Staarup. jeweler ; Ormeher Bros., meats.

Business Interests in Craweord

At the end of the decade of the Nineties, business interests flourishing in Crawford, showed among others, Commercial State Bank, with Leroy Hall, president, O. K. Eastman, cashier, and H. O. Eastman, assistant cashier. Bank of Crawford with Harry S. Clarke, president and C. A. Minick, cashier. Palace Saloon, James L. Hogle, prop., G. H. Dietrich, saloon ; H. C. Rineker. meat market. Red Light Saloon, Cleland & Co., furniture ; Crawford Mercantile Co., John Bruer's saloon ; Reade & Shorey, saloon ; In a short time B. F. Johnson became president of the Bank of Crawford.

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA