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.

Luray, an incorporated town in Russell county, is located in the township of the same name on the Union Pacific R. R. 16 miles northeast of Russell, the county seat. It has a bank, a weekly newspaper (the Herald), churches, public schools, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with two rural routes. The population, according to the census of 1910, was 341. It is the principal trading and shipping point for the northern part of the county.

Page 193 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.