Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1912 — Why Not Call It Spaghetti? [ARTICLE]

Why Not Call It Spaghetti?

i. A new town has been platted northeast of Morocco in sections 10, 11 and 12, where 1,400 acres of the Ogden ranoh has been laid off into 10 acre tracts, except the townsite, which is in % acre lots. The town has been given the name of Tripoli, and it is the Intention to colonize it with Italians and Greeks. The Piilarella Italian colonization Co. of Chicago has charge of the new enterprise, says the Morocco Courier, and there are now four families there, viz: those of <N, Boozenberg, J. Faraco, S. Narks and V. Piilarella. The whole tract will be plowed up this fall and made ready for the gardening to be dbne next year when it is expected that 50 to 100 families will be located there. Cottages will be erected either on the ten acre tracts or on the town lots to house these people.