The New International Encyclopædia/Moberly

MO′BERLY. A city in Randolph County, Mo., 130 miles east by north of Kansas City; on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas and the Wabash railroads (Map: Missouri, D 2). It has the division headquarters and machine shops of the Wabash Railroad, brick yards, flouring and planing mills, foundries and machine shops, ice factory, and a large grain elevator. There are valuable deposits of coal and fire clay in the vicinity. An extensive trade is carried on in agricultural and dairy products, lumber, live stock, poultry, hides, wool, tobacco, and, of the city's manufactured products, flour and bricks. Moberly has a public library and a Y. M. C. A. building. Population, in 1890, 8215; in 1900, 8012.