Crooks - NEW TOWN - A new town has been started on the St Louis road just east of and about a mile from Braddyville and called Crooks, in honor of our fellow townsman, Sam M. The Braddyville folks thought they had forestalled and prevented a project of this kind when they extended the corporate limits of their town eastward to the St Louis railroad track, but the founders of the new city crossed the track and laid out their town so that its western border touches the railroad track only a few feet from the east line of Braddyville. PAGE COUNTY DEMOCRAT, May 6, 1880

Yorktown - The new town of Yorktown, at the geographical center of Page County bids fair to become a very thriving place. It is seven miles west of Clarinda, and the town company is the owner of four hundred acres of land at and adjoining the town site. The company offers the railroad company a bonus of $25,000 to locate the machine shops at Yorktown, and Clarinda would do well to "look a litte out." The H. & S. machine shops, seven miles west, would not, of course, blot Clarinda from the map, but it would give the county seat of Page quite a shaking up and give her all she could do to maintain her position as the leading town in the county. THE TAYLOR COUNTY REPUBLICAN, Bedford, Iowa, Apr 6, 1882