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.

Rantoul, one of the larger towns of Franklin county, is situated on the Missouri Pacific R. R., 11 miles southeast of Ottawa, the county seat. It has several general stores, a public school, churches, hardware and implement houses, lumber yard, a money order postoffice, telegraph and express facilities, and in 1910 had a population of 275. It is the supply and shipping point for a rich agricultural district.

Page 549 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.