Woodston, an incorporated city of the third class in Rooks county, is located in Lowell township on the south fork of the Solomon river and the Missouri Pacific R. R., 10 miles east of Stockton, the county seat. It has a bank, a newspaper, a flour mill, a grain elevator, a cornet band, all lines of retail establishments, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population in 1910 was 299. It is the receiving and shipping point for a large and prosperous grain and stock raising territory.