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Rossville Has a New
Agri-Business
Representative
Dean Davis recently took over the DeKalb dealership which Curt Berkey had for many years. He will be selling corn and milo seed. Davis farms 400 acres and has an 80-head registered Hereford cattle…

Caption 1: Don Rogers and his son, Jared, are inside the new Balderson hog house recently set up on his farm just south of Rossville. The Rogers, in conjunction with Balderson Construction Company in Beatrice, Nebr. will hold an open house Thursday…

Photo by Belinda Driscoll
Joe and Doris Fairbanks, Rossville, show off their peony blossoms this spring. Finally, after four or five years, the small bushes have produced the most beautiful bright pink flowers. The blooms are unusual because of…

Thursday, February 16, 1978

Farmers Meet with Legislators
AREA FARMERS met with representatives February 8, at the Mainstreeter Restaurant in Rossville. The purpose of the meeting was to update farmers on the two bills coming up for passage by…

This picture shows Frances Martinek (Mrs. Albert) shocking oats on July 5, 1920.

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

Leo Dale Berry and Carl Rupin recognized the potential of irrigation and the benefits it would have to their current grain business. In 1953 they formed the Berry Irrigation Company and shipped the first carload of aluminum pipe to Kansas. In 1954…

This unidentified farmer is harvesting using his Farmall and McCormick-Deering in Rossville, Kansas.

Joe Penaz uses his Farmall 10-20 and combine to harvest wheat in Rossville, Kansas. His farm was a mile and a half north of Rossville according to Laverne Zlatnik.

An oil well located about three miles north of Rossville, Kansas. It did not hit oil.