Transcribed from volume II 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.

Waldo, a little town in Russell county, is located in the township of the same name on the Union Pacific R. R., 18 miles north of Russell, the county seat. It has a weekly newspaper (the Advocate), a bank, a number of retail establishments, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population in 1910 was 250. It has a large tributary agricultural district for which it is the receiving and shipping point.

Page 859 from volume II 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 July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.