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.

Norcatur, an incorporated town in Decatur county, is located near the east line on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R., 18 miles east of Oberlin, the county seat. It has 2 banks, a weekly newspaper (the Dispatch), a number of retail stores, telegraph and express offices, and an international money order postoffice with three rural routes. The population according to the census of 1910 was 482.

Page 372 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.