Clearing snow from railroad tracks
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description: Union Pacific train plowing through snow on tracks near Sylvan Grove, KS
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Sylvan Grove Railroad Water Tank
description: Union Pacific Railroad steam engine filling water tanks at Sylvan Grove, Kansas
date: 1949
format: 9.5" x 7"

Sylvan Grove Depot
description: Early photo (1890-1905?) of Sylvan Grove Depot showing train arriving from the west. Signage: Large sign - Salina 47 miles, Oakley 178 miles. Small sign on south side - Western Union Telegraph ? Cable Office.
type: Image

Program and Souvenir Second Annual Basketball Tournament March 3-4, 1922 Bonner Springs High School Bonner Springs, KS
subject: Souvenir program from the March 3-4, 1922 second annual basketball tournament held at the Bonner Springs High School, Bonner Springs, KS
description: The program belonged to Archer Ruby, a member of the Bonner Springs High School boys basketball team. The program lists the names of both the boys and girls team members as well as the cities where they attended high school. Also listed are the officials, donors and local business advertisements.
creator: Bonner Springs City Library
publisher: Bonner Springs City Library
date: March 2-3, 1922
contributor: Archer Ruby
format: 12 page 6" x 9" paper program

Bess Divine Baird, Rossville, Kansas
description: Personalities You Should Know People who have come and gone from Rossville in the past 31 years probably have had opportunity of meeting Bess Divine Baird. Bess has operated the Divine Cafe at the same location these entire 31 years. Mrs. Jake Baird came to Rossville in the year 1919 from Kansas City. Mo. After arriving here she worked for about a year at the Golden Belt Cafe which some old-timers can remember. Later she opened up a dry cleaners and laundry in the building now housing the cafe. A short time later she changed the laundry business to the cafe she has operated ever since. Good-natured Bess has met every kind of person you could think of in her cafe. Bess says she has dished out about everything and has taken about everything. She has the record of being the third longest in business in Rossville. C. E. Gresser has been in business here the longest at the Peoples State Bank, she said, and William Hesse of Hesse Lumber Co is the second, having been in business just about a week before she was. The Divine Cafe has long been the “old faithful” on Main street. For many years it has been the coffee break stop for businessmen and the heaping plates of home-cooked food for the workers. Mrs. Baird is a member of the Royal Neighbors and the Silver Lake American Legion Auxiliary.
creator: Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas
publisher: Rossville Community Library
date: March 15, 1956
rights: This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties.
format: newspaper article

1962 Kool-Aid Stand, Rossville, Kansas
description: Little Billie Rogers (pouring) and Mike Rogers (seated), sons of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rogers will have to close their business this week with the opening of school Friday. They say business is a little slow anyway. Here Billy Whitlock and Earl Queen were a couple of customers for a cool glass of Kool-Aid for two cents a glass.
creator: Shawnee County Reporter, Rossville, Kansas
publisher: Rossville Community Library
date: August 20, 1962
rights: This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties.
format: newspaper

1967 Soil Conservation Awards, Rossville, Kansas
description: 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, Mr. and Mrs. James McHenry accepting the award for Mrs. Lena Schenck, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Reser, Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Handley and Mr. and Mrs. T.G. Kingsley.
creator: Shawnee County Reporter, Rossville, Kansas
publisher: Rossville Community Library
date: 1967
rights: This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties.
format: newspaper

1967 Flood, Aerial View, Rossville, Kansas
description: Another View of Rossville - This northeast corner of Rossville got a soaking as muddy Cross Creek filled yards and basements in the area.
creator: Shawnee County Reporter, Rossville, Kansas
publisher: Rossville Community Library
date: June 15, 1967
rights: This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties.
format: newspaper clipping

Dr. Robert S. Gabbey Memoirs, 1892, Rossville, Kansas
description: FOREWORD This collection of interesting stories are the recollections of an early day Rossville physician and the trip he and his family made to the Montana goldfields in 1864, These chapters were discovered by Mrs. Virginia Gentry while doing research on the early history of Rossville. They were originally published in nineteen installments in the Rossville Times in 1892, The adventures and hardships as well as humorous incidents that happened are told by the good doctor in a very interesting and well written manner. Nothing has been changed. The members of the Historical committee felt this story should be shared with others interested in early day history. This booklet is being published by the board of the Rossville Community Library and any profits derived from it's sale will be used for worthwhile projects in the library. DR. ROBERT S, GABBEY, 1833-1900 Robert S. Gabbey, pioneer doctor and Inventor was born May 3, 1833 in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania. Little is known of his parents but they were of Scotch ancestry. He attended the local schools and then entered Jefferson College, graduating in 1852. In 1854, he was married to Annie Welton of Columbus, Ohio. After his marriage, he returned to Jefferson Medical College and graduated in 1855. In 1857, President Buchanan appointed him to the position of Government Physician to the Pottawotami Indians living on the reservation in the St. Marys and Rossville area. He served in this capacity for several years, living at St. Marys and later moving to Rossville o In 1864, Dr. and Mrs. Gabbey joined a wagon train going to the Montana go'ldflelds. Net finding Montana Territory to their liking, they returned to Rossville where he resumed the practice of medicine. He also purchased a farm east of the new town. In addition to his other duties, Dr. Gab- bey found time to perfect a new type of cultivator which was manufactured locally under the unlikely name of "Gabbey Go-Devil". During the 1890's he experimented with the theori…
creator: Dr. Robert S. Gabbey Originally published in the Rossville Times, Rossville, Kansas
publisher: Rossville Community Library
date: 1892
rights: Public domain
format: manuscript

Red Parr, 1974 President of KSU Agricultural Council
description: 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
creator: St. Marys Star, St. Marys, Kansas
publisher: Rossville Community Library
date: December 1974
rights: This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties.
format: Newspaper clipping