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Show 'MONUMENTS TO MARK ROADS USED BY LINCOLN SPK1NGF1EL.D. 111. Nov 27. 'Monumental posts are soon to be I erected In eighteen counties in central Illinois to mark the road traveled by Abraham Lincoln in IS 17 when he was most actively engaged in the pfae- 1 1 ice oc law. In those days Lincoln and other lawyers of the vicinity traveled with the court, then Judge David Davjs. over what was known as the eighth Judicial circuit Horses and buggies ! were used, it taking sometimes more than a day to travel from one court ; house to another The monuments will be erected on Ithe county lines and boulder markers jwlll also be erected In each county seat where Judge Davis held court The work h.is been promoted by an, I Organisation formed for tho purpose' called the Lincoln Circuit Marking as- jsoclation. |