Transcribed from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Lebanon, the second largest town in Smith county, is located in Oak township on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R. 13 miles east of Smith Center, the county seat. It has 2 newspapers (the Times and the Argus), and a monthly publication (the Gospel Herald). There are 2 banks, an opera house, a score of well stocked retail establishments, telegraph and express offices and an international money order postoffice with five rural routes. The population in 1910 was 731.

Page 128 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.