METHODIST CHURCH
In the early months of 1883 a group of Methodist friends came to settle near Arnold. They were the following families: A.H. Needham, John Houghton, Christopher Conat, William Mills, Nathan English, and Ira Mills.
Nathan English a lay preacher wrote to the superintendent of the western Nebraska mission asking that a minister be sent to them. none was available , so English was authorized to be in charge
The first chruch was organized on October 23, 1883. The official board was: William Mills-Class Leader, S.C. Tubbs, A.H. Needham, William Mills, and Ira Mills-Trustees; A.H. needham, Mrs. Christopher Conant, and S.C.Tubbs- Stewards .
In March 1885, members gathered in the sod house of William Mills and decided to build a sod church. The first service was held there on April 12, 1885. In 1888 a two room parsonage was built close to the sod church.
Frame Chruch built 1904, dedicated December 22, 1904.
Below is a list of Members in 1914
| R.E. Allen | Lovira Allen | M.S. Allen | Mrs. N.S. Allen |
| Inex Allen | Gertrude Alexander | Floyd Alexander | John Backes |
| Jennie Backes | James Bonta | Lon Bonta | Jean Bonta |
| Harvey Bonta | G.T. Bailey | Elizabeth Bailey | Mary Backes |
| James H. Bailey | Walter S. Bailey | Josephine Bailey | John Bailey |
| Susan Bailey | W.A.Brewer | Nellie Brewer | Myrtle Brummett |
| Mary Black | Eula Black | Elizabeth Babcock | Lou Boyce |
| Grace Boyce | Frieda Bennett | Everett Beardsley | Irene Breardsley |
| Anita Bonta | Lucy Copeland | Phoebe Chesley | Miriam Campbell |
| Leo Campbell | Tellie Chambers | Mary Chambers | Lulu Chaplin |
| Sadie Bailey | Leo Campbell | Tellie Chambers | Mary Chambers |
| Lulu Chapin | James Croghan | Mrs. James Croghan | Raliegh Croghan |
| Edna Croghan | Marie Croghan | J.R.Downing | Rebecca Downing |
| Lynn Downing | Lulu Downing | Gertie Downing | Albert Dailey |
| Alice Dailey | Earl Dailey | Earl Gregory | Meda Gettys |
| Harold Gettys | Edna Gettys | John Houghton | Sophia Houghton |
| P.G. Houghton | Mattie Houghton | Catherine Hoffman | Cora L. Haskell |
| Rosa Houtz | Lzzie Hoskins | Kate Imoden | Mrs W.H. Jennings |
| H.K. Kruser | Mable Kruser | John Kelly | Cora Kelly |
| I.V. Lathrop | Dora lathrop | LeRoy Lathrop | Nellie Lathrop |
| Charles Leach | Brittie Leach | Rueben Leach | Irma Leach |
| Carrie leach | Sarah Leach | Swain Leach | John Leach |
| Alice Leach | J.B. Lester | Ella Lester | J.M. Lucas |
| Myrta Lucas | Mabel Lucas | Floyd Lucas,/td> | Lucinda Mills |
| Ira P. Mills | Clara Mills | W.G. Mills | Mila Mills |
| Guy Mills | Daisy Mills | Charles Mills | Merle Mills |
| John Mills | Susie Mills | Clarence Mills | May Mills |
| Helen Mills | Floyd Mills | J.W. Maxsom | Bertha Maxsom |
| Caddy Maxsom | Rebecca Maxsom,/td> | John McGuire | Anna McGuire |
| Eddie McGuire | Mabel McGuire | Lola McGuire | Charles McGuire |
| Blance McGuire | Myrtle Magnusson | John Meads | Maud Meads |
| Hazel Meads | Eula Meads | Marshall Meads | John Meanry |
| Laurine Meanry | Bernice Menary | Delphine Meyers | Stella Meyers |
| F.E. Needham | Ruth Needham | Godfrey Nansel | Sarah Nansel |
| Sarah Nansel | Cecil Nansel | Charles Nansel | Vera Nansel |
| C.C. Parsons | Maud Parsons | Fay Parsons | Raymound Parsons |
| Emory Parsons | Gerite Parsons | P.T.Phifer | Elizabeth Phifer |
| Ray Phifer | Vera Phifer | Verneta Phifer | Amy Phillips |
| Susan Pearce | O.D. Pearce | Maud Pearce | Charles Pearce |
| Sylvia Pearce | Vera Pearce | John Pinkstone | Florence Pinkstone |
| Phronia Pinkstone | Homer Pinkstone | Samuel Pinkstone | Jennie Pinkstone |
| Mr. Peoples | Eliza Peoples | Anna Pierce | Mellie Robinson |
| Orpha Reed | Estella Root | Loveday Ransier | Warren Simms |
| Ethel Simms | W.B. Spratt | Mary J. Spratt | Ira Spratt |
| Estel Spratt | Della Spratt | John E. Shaw | Altina Shaw |
| Ella Steele | Bertha Stockall | Hattie Smith | S.C. Tubbs |
| olive Tubbs | Leota Tubbs | Cora Tubbs | Vernon Tubbs |
| Mable Tubbs | Florence Vogel | Nellie Wemple | Milla Wright |