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[Caption: Emil Kovar escaped serious injury after Union Pacific train hit his car last week. The car sustained major damage. Photo by Lisa Rosenow]

Kovar Suffers Rib Injury in Car-Train Mishap
Emil Kovar, 82, Rossville, escaped serious injury…

[Caption: The Datsun wagon in which five girls were injured was extensively damaged.]

Five Rossville Girls Injured in Car Accident
At approximately 3:30 p.m. Wed¬nesday, May 16, an accident occurred on a country road near Rossville which resulted…

The Shawnee County Reporter
Thursday, June 22, 1961
Volume LXII Number 33
Mrs. Flo Emert of Rural Rossville escaped injury Wednesday of last week when she jumped from her car that stalled on the railroad crossing in Rossville. Her 1960 Pontiac was…

The Shawnee County Reporter
Thursday, June 22, 1961
Volume LXII Number 33
Mrs. Flo Emert of Rural Rossville escaped injury Wednesday of last week when she jumped from her car that stalled on the railroad crossing in Rossville. Her 1960 Pontiac was…

Southeast of Rossville, Kansas, (between Rossville and Silver Lake) stood the town of Kingsville which Andrew Wilson built and erected at his own expense: a depot (pictured), hotel, store, blacksmith shop, cattle yard, scales, and a stone school…

Mrs. Grace Eversole Hartzell and Mrs. Edna Hartzell Salley travelled in a one-horse open buggy together.

The first gravel pit in Rossville, Kansas, was at the L. P. Hartzell farm in 1910. The gravel was used for roads.

Great Smith Comes Home
At last, the day had arrived! The beautiful bright red and black 1910 Great Smith which Harold Irwin, Rossville, purchased in Dallas was transported to Rossville by a specially-built van constructed to handle antique cars. Mr.…

A horse and buggy was the way of transportation in the early Rossville, Kansas, days.

John and Edith (Boop) Scheidegger in their covered wagon in Rossville, Kansas.