Southern Illinois Record

              HE Southern Ilunois Record
A Good Newquqier ia a Ptower in the Horae. SoIkioI, State and Nation
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VOLUME vm.
FLORA. ILLINOIS. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 27. 1919
NUMBER 10
We Have Jnst Received a Large Lot of MILL FEED
Which we are selling at Reduced Prices.   Call oa ua before you purchase.
JAY VALBERT COMPANYe
IkmUXARYROikD •rNPsAND TRAIL
I Galalni NamaatiuB aa He nagaltnJa and h^ortaaea la Uiifciaf inf fcr tha Paapia.
Dm UldlalMl Trail Is what Ita name -^aatgaatea. It'la tbe mtddle or mid- taad trail acroaa the United Statea. It ta the moat feasible and direct «onte of fravel from Washington City 'to San FraiKlaoo. The Trail haa been logged and mapped for more than fonr years, and across the statea of Virginia and West Virginia tbe •road haa been built and Is now open for tcave). Tbe aame la true of tbat gmrtioB ot tbe road tbat croaaea tbe «tate of KeottMky, exoept perfaapa «bottt twenty milea la the violnltr "t HUlahoro. aad tbat part of the Toad la faat naaiing eompletiop. From Lagtegton l» Iioulavllla, Ky., tbe road la oampletad and ia eqoal to any road in the Uaited Btataa. From Loais- ville to WeM Baden, Indiana, it is a ooibpleted road. Tfaara ia a ^'Pt^rtioD yet to be built from Weet ta Slteals,. Ind., covering a ,of alxnit eighteen mtlee. kis to Vinoannea is a eplao. 'did road. Save for a few email atrett^aa in tbe violoity of Lawrenoe¬ ville, Olney and Kaat St. Ijoais, III., littla or nothing baa beep done to- -erarda tba bnildiiiK of a premanent Toad from Vtooenaaa to St. Lonia.
^    Tbat tbe reader may gala a tiaflntte Idea ef tbe  route of tba Hidland
.   Trail, and from  that form  a  more correct cotHslnslon of the Importance
'^%>t thia Trail  to  the commnnitles
g^farough which It passes, It would be
a- well to take a msp of the United Statea and mark the ^rall thereon. Oommenceat Washington City and •draw a line to Chsrlottesvllle, Vir¬ ginia. Alao start st Blohmond, Vir- tiinta, and draw a line to Charlottes¬ ville, the two Unea tbere converging. From Chsrlotteavllle draw a Itne to Charleston, Weet Va., from Charles- Vm te Cattlettaburg, Ky., and from Cattlettaburg to Laxlngtoa, thence to Pranlifort. thenoe to Loaisvllle, Ky.,' theooe to Near Alttgny, Ind., thence to Paola, tbeaoe/ to Weat Baden, thence to Sboala, thenoe to Vin-