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The Flora
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VOLUME XIV       THK iovwaiAL, voi m     n*. m.
YOU SHOULD READ THE JOURNAL4tCCORO^ ^THE NEWSIEST NEWSPAPER IN CLAY COUNTY
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FLORA. ILLINOIS, THURSDAY. MAY 6. 1926
NUMBER 34
ILLINOIS BEAUTY SPOT
OF 1779 FOUND AGAIN
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Flora-~"The City of Flowers." on Old Vincehnes- Cahokia Trail, is Now a Prosperous City
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Gateway to Southern Ilfinds
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TRANSfOmAmn A^ CENTER
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•;>;    BY   LESTER   B.   COLBT. ' j'  ^IdoIs Chamber of Commerce [ When one gets to dlKging about in-
r' "^llo nilnoia' moaty past be la likelr to I flad tome torgotten tblnga. I have I JUat bean to Flora, Clay county. That I little Illlnoia city la on the ancient VlnMMMB-Cahokia road. Legend I vara that tbe flrat white man found I ''a thla road, a well-worn Indian trail L Aken, about 224 yaara ago. f Cahokia, waa eatabliahed, on the
^    ' Ifiaalaalppl. in  169» or 1700.    Vin- '•¦'    etnnea, on the Wabaah, it is believed f     ,ttt 1702.    From that year on white 1;   *^aMUi'a teet have    steadily    followed i   ' tkla cross-state trail. I    "     I have been brushing   dust    trom !      soma old records.    The story of Mr. 1    ' Blackbird  bobs    out.    The story ot i    '"Traneis, Son of Tobacco.    The storr ',    ""ot Oeorge Rogers    Clark,    the    Big 'f':-&ilta.    In an hoar among    ancieat •rchlyes I find antiques—in spelling; pecnllar architecture    In    sentence- bvlldlng.
Within short moments'T find    the
Wabash river referred to nnder these
apelllngs—Ouabash,  Ouabache,   Out-
batche and Wabacheea.    The spelling
of VIncennes ts even more liquid. I
find it as Post St. Vincent, Post Vln;
I       oent,  St. Vincents,  Post    VIncennes
!-      and Au Poste.    Cahokla is also re-
>   ^^Cerred to aa Cohos.