Pike COunty, Missouri Genealogy Trails

General News Articles

-Pike County Mo., Town Goes
Wet by a Majority of 160.
Louisiana, Mo., May 12 – This city according to the reports received by midnight, went "wet" by 160 majority. This means the continuation of the saloons here.
Quincy, Ill, May 13, 1908 [contributed by: Debra Gibson - 2008]

-A canvass of the Pike county board of supervisors resulted in the showing of nineteen members favoring Chicago and five favoring St. Louis as the site if the proposed World's Fair. Pike county, be it remembered, is the home of Congressman Wike.
Feb. 1, 1890, The Quincy Daily Herald [contributed by: Debra Gibson - 2008]

-Miss Mary Hughes, of Bowling Green, Mo., is in the city [Quincy, IL], the guest of Miss Lottie Keenan.
The Quincy Daily Herald , February 5, 1890 [contributed by: Debra Gibson - 2008]