In making inuqiry of J. W. Good and other members we learn that he was the man who furnished and hauled the sand which was used in the construction of the present building and that was in 1887. It was remodeled in 1910 at a cost of $5,000.00 and only part of this paid at that time. The pastor who undertook the rebuilding was Rev. Whitman and he being removed by conference left a part of this debt

O. R. Beebe, R. Elrod, S. E. Grant, J. C. Dillon, Clinton Senneff, pastor in 1921.

The Public Schools

In 1889 a little booklet gotten out by enterprising people of Dawes county and called, "The Great Northwest" is interesting, containing the following:

"In nearly all Nebraska towns a visitor will find that educational matters are regarded as of first and higbest importance. It is pre-eminently so with Cbadron. Other enterprises have in nowise interfered with the city's public school interests. One of the finest school buildings in the state is found in this city. It is a massive two-story and basement building, 72x 79 feet in dimensions, constructed wholly of brick and stone. In the front is a commanding

Methoiust Church. Chadron

unpaid. Rev. Beebe followed him but did nothing towards raising it, feeling it was not his debt. He stayed a year and a half and suddenly took his departure to another conference. A supply in the person of Rev. Elrod finished out the conference year of Rev. Beebe. At the 1912 conference, held at Atkinson, Bishop McConnell appointed Rev. S. E. Grant to this charge and he served one year and was removed by the conference and the present pastor was appointed by Bishop Bristol at the Valentine conference, 1913.