In 1907 one hundred and eleven different farmers in this community had holdings of 10,439 acres.

Their township usually has very few delinquent taxpayers and it promptly makes its returns to the county .-- See the _Southern Workman_, xxxvii, pp.

486-489.] [Footnote 28: Davidson and Stowe, _A Complete History of Illinois_, pp.

321, 322; and Washburn, _Edward Coles_, pp.

44 and 53.] [Footnote 29: The Negro population of this town so rapidly increased after the war that it has become a Negro town and unfortunately a bad one.