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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…

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…

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…

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…

Outstanding Farmers - District Soil Conservation Awards were presented Monday to these five outstanding farmers of the county. The awards were presented at the annual business and banquet meeting. They are (left to right) Mr. and Mrs. James Edmonds,…

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. …

Albert and Emile Martinek pulling out hedge stumps with their 1917 Mogul tractor in March 1923.

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…

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…

Charles Dunn, rural Delia, brought this interesting gourd, shaped like a giant cucumber, into the "Star" office last week. The gourd measured 27" in length and was light green with darker green spots. Charles said this is the only gourd on that vine.