1910 and entered the banking business. He was a more quiet and reserved type, unlike his brother Ed.

Ray was again the fun loving mischievous type. when Mr. Zuck, who was superintendent of our public school about 1907-1909, there was a boy in high school who was in the habit of reading too many wild west paper backs and Mr. Zuck one day found him carrying a pistol of which he was promptly dispossessed. Several days later, Ray came to school carrying a gun, hoping Mr. Zuck would notice it. When he did Mr. Zuck jerked Ray out of the line and Ray with a flourishing "quick draw," which he had practiced, held a child's cap gun on the professor. Mr. Zuck, though frightened for a moment, accepted the episode as a prank and got a good laugh out of it, which at the time, he sorely needed as the first and real occurrence was causing him much to worry about.

Ray graduated from the Nebraska School of Medicine and then served in the Army Medical Corps in France during World War One, where he became interested in plastic surgery. After the war he joined with a famous plastic surgeon in New York City and became quite proficient and noted in his field. He later taught his art in a Medical School in New York. Unfortunately he suffered a stroke when only thirty-nine years of age and passed away at this early age.

The daughter Mary went to New Mexico with her father and brother Willard.

This writer remembers that George Losey came back to Battle Creek for extended vacations several times, as did also Willard.

Marion Preece relates that Willard stopped in to see her father only ten or twelve years ago; and that she and Jean met Dr. Ray Losey in New York on several occasions.

When pat of the manuscript for our history was in the hands of the printer, we found an article in the Western Horseman, Colorado Springs, Colorado, a nationally distributed magazine for lovers of horses which relates an incident which happened in Battle Creek.

The article was written by C. L. Anderson, son of the late Bill Anderson, an early day cowboy, who later raised and trained race horses on his ranch near Cody, Nebraska.

Gerald Preece remembers having visited the Anderson ranch with his father, Tim Preece, and often heard his father tell this story. The story as it relates to Battle Creek citizens and the environment of that day is as follows:

"In the early days there were small bands of horse traders who traveled about the country from early spring until late fall. They ranged from the farm areas to the ranch country and small towns. They would camp close to the railroad stockyards, thus being close to holding pens and water and an ideal place

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