People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — Illinois Farmers Moving to Iowa. [ARTICLE]

Illinois Farmers Moving to Iowa.

Minonk, 111., March I.—An emigrant train was made up in the Illinois Central yards here Tuesday consisting of twenty-nine cars. There were five additional cars seat out on a regular train. Those leaving are mostly Germans bound for lowa and Nebraska, coming from Woodford, Flanagan, Pontiac, Dana, Benson, Roanoke and this place. This takes not less than 200 people from these places.