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The Opera House Pharmacy was owned and operated by G.P. Pierce. The first telephone switchboard was located there. Telephone service to the public did not get started in Rossville until August 1900, when Manager McMahan of the Alma Telephone Co.…

Dave Hartzell, Dr. Gabbey's dog, Emma Nailer, Rebecca Vorhies, Dollie Lillard, Mr. and Mrs. Vorhies, Dave Yocum, and Bradley (traveling man) stand outside the Union Hotel in Rossville, Kansas. On the corner of Pearl and Perry streets, A.C. Sherman…

An unidentified man stands in front of the Rossville Clothing Store in Rossville, Kansas.

Pictured left to right are Dr. Henry Fuller Pratt, Clare Miller, Esther Pratt Parr, and Mabel Binns Bruce. Dr. Henry Fuller Pratt was born in Kossuth, Ohio, December 8, 1861. He moved to Topeka, Kansas, when he was four. He married Jennie DeVinney in…

The first trucking business in Rossville, Kansas, was Howard French (pictured on top of logs) who started in 1929 and continued operation until 1946. When he first started in business he would haul anything. His truck line later hauled principally…

Around 1925, Ira T. Hopkins started his grocery business. He sold it in 1931, later buying it back and then selling it again in 1945.Orbie Binney is in the delivery truck.

The Oliver Nursery was operated by brothers Tom and Charles Oliver. The Oliver nursery grew seedlings for root stock used for grafting and budding of different fruit varieties. They also raised general farm crops and livestock. They processed the…

E.J. Howard in front of Howard's Garage, located at the corner of Main Street and Perry, Rossville, Kansas

Employees of the Oliver Nursery are pictured left to right, back row: Frank Goodrich, Walter Patton, and John Short; middle row: Chris Lillard, Rufus Lillard, Andy Chapman, and Truman Paine; front row: Henry Martin, Ed Bixby, John Martin, and William…

Peter Navarre and his wife, Minnie, served as owners and editors of the Rossville Reporter for 40 years, purchasing it in March of 1913. Peter Navarre was born March 26, 1884, in Rossville. He worked at the Rossville News office, then owned by U.G.…