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.

The following pastors have served this charge: Revs. J. B. Gray, J. A. Scamahom, Asbury Collins, J. P. Suedaker, R. T- Davenport, A. R. Julian. W. M. Whitsitt, A. J. Sheesman, E. E. E. Rorick, O. S. Baker, R. G. Easley, D. J. Clark, A. E. DuBois, E. E. Hunt, S. A. Chappell, E. E. Shafer, W. W. Whitman,

tower, ten feet square, which rises from the foundation to a height of eighty-five feet and constitutes the main entrance to the building. Besides the recitation rooms and wardrobes, there are eleven large school rooms supplied with all modern school facilities and advantages, and these rooms are heated by basement furnaces and ventilated to perfection. The cost of completing and furnishing this beautiful temple of learning, which was erected in 1887 and is illustrated in these columns, was $30,000. Its halls are occupied by four hundred and thirty-four pupils, and presided over by a principal and five capable assistants.

"The citizens of Chadron are also making strenous efforts to secure a state normal school and a collegiate institution. They are pretty certain to succeed in both aims. The college which will be conducted under the auspices