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Congratulations, "Red" Parr
new President of KSU Agricultural Council. Mr. Parr is also a director of the Peoples State Bank -- a Bank that has expertise in cattle loans.
Peoples State Bank
Rossville, Ks.
Ph. 584-6181

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Stan Thompson, pictured above, brought in the first load of milo to the Farmers Union Co-op in St. Marys. Thompson had about 650 bushels on the truck. He said the yield should be good this year. Thompson farms about 1,000 acres north of Rossville 400…

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Purina Tour
Back row, left to right: Leo Ronnse, Bernard Peterson, [ ] Slough, [ ] Seeley, Ed Brennan, Harry Hershey, Unknown, Alex Johnson, Laird French, Roy Florence, [unknown] Purina official

Middle row, left to right: Joe Straub, Matt…

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Rossville's Roland “Red" Parr is New KLA President
Roland “Red” Parr of Rossville became the new president of the Kansas Livestock Association December 5, 1975.
He lives southwest of Rossville, maintains a 300-head calf feeder operation, and farms…

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FEBRUARY 17, 1966, 8 PAGES
ROSSVILLE, KANSAS







Conservation Awards Presented At Annual District Meeting
Outstanding conservation awards were presented to five Shawnee County farm families at the Annual Soil Conservation meeting held…

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MR. AND MRS. JOE CAMPBELL, ROSSVILLE
MR. AND MRS. JIM REZAC, ROSSVILLE
Soil awards given
Five farmers in Shawnee County received the Kansas Bankers Association awards for soil conservation work at the annual meeting of the district held Monday…

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At 81 and still farms the old way

Tom Williams is a farmer of the old-fashioned variety, but a hard worker for his community. Besides taking care of the small farming jobs around Willard, he was Marshal of the town in 1959.

Tom Williams, an 81…

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Page 12 St. Marys Star February 5, 1980

KSU Offers Short Course for Young Farmers


Art Campbell of Rossville is par¬ticipating in the Kansas State University short course for young farmers, January 14 to March 7.
There are 56 men enrolled…

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To the Members of Our Holstein Club
We wish to thank each and every member for their help, kindness and patience shown in the distribution of our grade Hol¬stein heifers that arrived last week.
Not one complaint was made by a member that he hadn’t…
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