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 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 381 tion as given by the census of 1910 is 274 but now the citizens claim a population of 1,200. The town has recently made a number of public improvements including over five miles of granitoid sidewalks. Como, on Como lake, is a village in New Madrid county on the St. Louis Southwest- ern. It has timber interests and is in the midst of what is destined to be a fine farming country. Canalou is on the Gulf branch of the Frisco. It was settled as a sawmill town when the Houck road was constructed in 1902. It has extensive timber interests, a saw mill, store, and several minor business interests. Hyman, Mathews, and Riseo are other villages in New Madrid county. Morehouse Morehouse, in the extreme northwest corner of New Madrid county, had its origin in the location here of large saw mills when the Cairo branch of the Iron Mountain made possible the handling of the vast quantities of timber found about the town and surrounding coun- try. For many years the place was merely a saw-mill town. It is on the bank of Little River which overflows most of the place. The surrounding country was almost wholly tim- bered, and much of it not capable of being cultivated without being di-ained. With the building of the Gulf Railroad, the clearing away of the timber, the drainage and subse- quent cultivation of the lands, and the protec- tion of the town from overflow by the build- ing of levees along the course of Little River, the place began to develop. It is now a thriv- ing and prosperous town of 1,700 people, with good streets, sidewalks, well built business blocks, churches, a good brick school building, a superior hotel, and one of the largest saw- mill plants in the state. In this mill, which is owned by the Himmelberger-Harrison Lum- ber Company are cut vast quantities of cy- press and gum lumber. The town bids fair to grow and to become even more prosperous as more of the land is subjected to cultivation as it is of unsurpassed fertility. Hayti At the junction of the main line of the Frisco with the Caruthersville and Kennett branch, six miles from Caruthersville, is the town of Hayti, Pemiscot county. It began to be a town at the time of the building of the railroad from Kennett to. Caruthersville and has had a rapid growth since. It now has a population of 1,057. Its business interests consist of a number of general stores, two banks and several manufacturing establish- ments devoted to wood working principall.y. It has a good system of public schools, several churches and a city hall which is above the average for towns of this size. There is one paper, the Hayti Herald, which is edited by William York. Pascola Pascola, an unincorporated village in Pemis- cot county, is situated on the Frisco Railroad between Kennett and Ilayti. It began to be a town on the building of the railroad from Kennett to Caruthersville in 1894 but pre- vious to that time there had been settlers liv- ing in the immediate vicinity of tlie town since 1879. The earliest of these were Tim In- gram and Mrs. Sarah Brown. The town was incorporated in 1899, the first maj^or being A. Russell. The merchants in the early period were John Swails and Edward Harrison. There are now three general stores and one stave factory. The town is largely dependent upon the agricultural community around.