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From the "Rossville Times:" Last week, A.L. Stalker weighed 50 ears of corn for William McGuire and 50 for J.M. Parr. They weighed 74 and 78 pounds, respectively, an average of a little better than one and one-half pounds each. They were plucked in…

During the last day of June, Samuel Oldfield, Rossville, planted 18 acres of corn on land from which he had already taken a crop of wheat. He said the land was well-fertilized for the first crop, and the second took to growing lustily. A good stand…

This picture is from the 1971 Rossville Centennial Booklet, page 54.

THE GRASSHOPPER YEAR - taken from Rossville Reporter July 2, 1936
Despite the lurid tales which are creeping into news reports of the hordes of grasshoppers sweeping like tornadoes over and through some of the plains states, there are plenty of men…

Earl Mitchell of Rural Delia escape serious injury Friday afternoon when his tractor fell from the Soldier Creek bridge throwing him clear. Mitchell suffered only broken ribs. The front wheels of the tractor fell into a plank crack on the bridge and…

Not only being honored by his Masonic brethren (sic) on 50 years of membership in Hesperian Lodge, Ed Patterson, also is the owner of a farm on the Reservation, five acres of which produced 119 (sic) bushels of corn to the acre. It was the second…

THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1955
TOWN TOPICS
The Kaw Dehydrating Plant started up this week for the alfalfa season and is throwing a smog over Rossville like California’s smog would be coming out of one stack.

The Rossville Reporter THURSDAY,…

A big corn crib and grainery on the Mulvane Ranch west of Rossville burned to the ground early Monday morning.

Francis Davis, manager of the ranch for the owner, David Hughes of California, discovered the large building in flames about 4:50 a.m.…

Announcement was made this week of the removal of the Rossville Dehydrating plant from Rossville to Platte, Nebr.

Work has been started to tear down the Plant and so soon as the machinery can be ready will be loaded out and taken to…