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Future business outlook good

Future business outlook for Shawnee County appears to be on the better side. Regardless of what the recent tele¬vision show “The Land” said about small towns in Kansas dying, those in Shawnee County…

"Now is the time when corn needs water. If the water does not come from above, it must come from below, through irrigation," Herb Bulk, Shawnee County agent said in outlining plans for the annual irrigation tour in Shawnee County.

Bulk said a…

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…

U. P. AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT CAR HERE TUESDAY
Four Kansas State College faculty members will be with the agricul¬tural car of the Union Pacific rail¬road when it tours Kansas March 19 to 30. They are L.L. Compton, secretary-treasurer of the Kansas…

MRS. M. M. Hughes, Los Angeles, June 26, 1944, became sole owner of the Mulvane Ranch west of Rossville. This resulted when turned over to her in a transfer filed in the office of Homer Wright, reg-ister of deeds.
“The purpose is to keep it in the…

Pure Bred License 120
Oliver
A purebred stallion, black in color, with a fine record on past performances, will make the season of 1922 at any place west of Cross Creek in Rossville.
Terms-$10 to insure colt to stand and suck

Big Tom
Is a…

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…

The Shawnee County Reporter, Rossville, Kansas
March 15, 1962, Page 15

Shawnee County Beef Tour Scheduled

Beef cattle in Shawnee County have a value of approximately four million dollars. Anyone would agree that this is a sizable industry. …

People in Rossville, Kansas, saw hard times in 1928. There were more than 1,000 bushels of corn on the ground. Sold it for $0.12 a bushel to pay taxes. Sold hogs for $3.50 per hundred. The man in the picture is unidentified.

Campbell Nominee for Young Farmer Award

Art L. Campbell, 32, a Rossville farmer, will be among the nominees for the Kansas Jaycees’ Outstanding Young Farmer Award to be hosted to a weekend at Emporia February 15-17, 1980. The winners in the…