Transcribed from volume I of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Gem, a village of Lacey township, Thomas county, is a station on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R. 8 miles east of Colby, the county seat. It has a bank, a money order postoffice with one rural route, telegraph and express offices, telephone connections Baptist and Methodist churches, good public schools, several mercantile establishments and a branch of the Colby Mill and Elevator company. The population in 1910 was 275.

Page 727 from volume I of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed May 2002 by Carolyn Ward.