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.

Traer, a little town in Decatur county, is located in Finley township on Beaver creek and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R., 10 miles northwest of Oberlin, the county seat. It is the receiving and shipping point for a large agricultural district, has a number of grain dealers, a grain elevator, several stores, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice. The population in 1910 was 200.

Page 818 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.