74 10 1856 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/51c1c1039b5384a73044e0e37e43adfc.jpeg a32cfb57727ccbdc4126b59daf43e739 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Delia Businesses, Delia, Kansas Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1927 Delia Clothing Store Advertisement, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource Another Week of the Big Clearance Sale On account of rain and muddy roads, many people were unable to attend the sale. We have decided to run the sale another week ending Saturday, April 23rd. Clothing and furnishings for men and boys at bargain prices. Come to this sale. Buy now and save money. Delia Clothing Store John F. Misum, Prop. Delia, Kansas Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. 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Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seth Cormack's Balloon, 1909, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource From the March 5, 1909, Rossville Reporter: Mr. [Seth] Cormack, the balloonist, made a most successfully ascension with his balloon last Saturday evening. The feat was viewed by many and all said it was one of the best they had ever seen. In the early part of the afternoon an attempt was made to fill the balloon with gas but without success owing to the wind. It was just about sundown after most of the crowd had gone home that another effort was made and shortly after the big bag sailed away to the clouds with Cormack hanging to the parachute. It reached a height of nearly 2,000 feet before he cut the rope and dropped with the parachute and alighted gently in Conley's corn field. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 5, 1909 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0277 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/6d0bbcf0f0bd6610beaa950c761bcaf6.jpeg 82741875f809bc627a7812f72f1ea8a6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Notable Fires, Rossville, Kansas Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1917 Fire Destroys Old Landmarks, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource Number 7 Old Landmarks Burned Hartzell Drug Store, Feed Store, Shoe Stop and a Harness Shop Gutted By Flames. Aye’s Stock Carried to Safety. An early afternoon fire Monday burned the D. Hartzell drug store building and contents, E.D. Hartzell’s poultry and feed store the building occupied by Hower’s shoe shop and the building occupied by Wm. Aye’s harness shop. Practically all the Aye stock was saved. Mr. Hower saved all his tools and his bed. The entire contents of the drug store and feed store was burned. The fire was discovered about 12:45 on the roof of the building occupied by the shoe shop, and is supposed to have started from a defective flue or burning soot igniting the roof. Although the engine and hose were promptly on the job, the whole block of wooden buildings was burning fiercely before a stream could be turned on the flames. The engine wouldn’t work—carburetor out of whack, dome had frozen and cracked and pressure therefor cut down. After it was started and run twenty minutes it was found no water was circulating through the cylinders, and possibly a few more minor defects, if we had thought to catalog them all. In the meantime the Aye stock was carried to safety. Only a light breeze was blowing from due south, and the firemen stationed themselves in its path on Dr. Pratt’s office and held it in check and confined to the wooden buildings. Men on the buildings farther north watched the roofs for incipient blazes. By 3 o’clock the buildings were burned to the foundations. An effort was made and succeeded in keeping the fire out of the drug store cellar where some potatoes were stored. The floor is still over the cellar. The buildings burned were landmarks of Rossville’s infancy. The two rooms owned by D. Hartzell were built in the early eighties; the shoe shop and harness building owned by the Oldfield estate were nearly as old. As if in defiance of all fires, the charred joists of the south partition of the drug store remained standing after the balance of the building was gone, as once before the building was saved and the Fritz building burned instead. The only insurance carried was by Mr. Aye, and most of his stock was saved. E.D. Hartzell’s loss on stock was $300 or $400 and the buildings and drug stock loss was about $2500. Mr. Aye had rented and housed his stock in the fireproof Howerton building before the fire had finished burning his old stand. The loss of these buildings leaves a big gap on the west side of Main street, but some of the most desirable building sites in the business part of town. In giving thanks to the many generous citizens who helped in saving property and subduing the flames, let us not forget to thank the Lord the wind was not in the west. [February 15, 1917] Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 15, 1917 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper article Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0561 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/fca52dc02eb3a74933083a8592b5dfd5.jpeg 7266115761ebd197e0da473f2e23cae3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Transportation and Accidents History Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Union Pacific Highway, 1923, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource July 19, 1923 L. E. Gomery, of Hays, Kansas representing the U. P. highway which passes thru Rossville over the same route as marked by both the Midland and Victory routes, was in the city Tuesday trying to get the local business men to give $100 as a donation to the U. P. highway association to be used in the expense of propaganda, map booklets, roadmarkers, etc. Mayor VanOrsdol got out a few business men to me§t Mr. Gomery in the afternoon in the directors’ room of the Rossville State Bank. No action was taken at this meeting. At the Council meeting Tuesday night, the matter was discussed again without action being taken. It is generally felt here that since Rossville is on three of the trails, any financial aid that is given by the people of the com¬munity should be divided up be¬tween the three and this prob¬ably is what will be done in the future. A representative of the Auto¬mobile Club, of Kansas City was here Monday trying to raise money for his organization, but according to Mr. Gomery, this Club has neither reason nor right in asking for funds, since all the maps and information the Club’s tourist bureau can use in direct¬ing tourists over the various trails is furnished by these highway as¬sociations, and the Club should be entirely neutral in giving in¬formation about the routes. Farther west the three highways use different routes and the com¬petition between towns on these routes is becoming very keen in bidding for the tourist traffic. The U. P. highway with white markers claims better night driv¬ing on its route in addition to a route 14 miles shorter than all others between Kansas City and Denyer.[sic] July 19, 1923 The latter part of August the U. P. highway association will have a speed car make the run from Kansas City to Denver un¬der conditions as the run made yesterday by the ‘‘Gray Goose” which made the run over the Vic¬tory highway , in an effort to low¬er the record set yesterday. Rossville is fortunate in being on all three trails and from a sel¬fish standpoint could sit back and refuse to dig up for any of them but such is not the attitude the business men want to take, be¬cause if the traffic is worth any¬thing to the town, the town in re¬turn should help bear the expense of trying to route tourists thru this part of the state instead of having them take the trails to the north or south of us. August 1, 1923 Mr. Hazelbaker, manager of the Midland Trail between St. Louis and Denver, will run a race against the time of the Rock Is¬land train between Kansas- City and Denver, Thursday August 10 He will use a Buick stock car and will endeavor to show that the trail is in such condition that a car can leave Kansas City and beat the Rock Island train into Denver. Practically all towns along the route have pledged Mr. Hazel baker their support in hav¬ing the road in readiness across their respective counties. City officials have promised to co¬operate to the extent of keeping the streets clear of cars until he passes through their city. Roads will be patrolled the entire dis¬tance. It is believed that this will be one of the best advertise- ments that the Midland Trail can possibly get. He will leave Kan¬sas City at 2a.m. on the morning of August 16, and expects to reach Denver at 9 p.m. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 19, 1923 August 1, 1923 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource copies of newspaper clippings Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0566 Union Pacific Railroad http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/9966c36165d33d091417e897b216582a.jpg d6b42eeae95f47101f2b4e10adcc5d02 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Update, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource <p>January 13, 1955<br /><br /> "Progress of the Grades"<br /> Rossville Grade School<br /><br /> FIRST GRADE<br /> We are happy to be back in school after our nice, long vacation. Most of us stayed home and had lots of fun playing with our toys Santa Claus left us.<br /><br /> All of us would like to express our thanks to Mrs. Wehner, Mrs. Parr, Mrs. Foresman and Mrs. Simecka for the lovely refreshments they served after our Christmas Program. We also appreciated the nice attendance at our program.<br /><br /> Visitors in our room since our last news are the following: Mrs. Lorraine Bailey, Mrs. Frank Dolezilek, Mrs. Francis Pardee, Mrs. Nadeau and Mr. Simpson. Please come again!<br /><br /> Alex Sieck and June Murray have returned their pink dental cards.<br /><br /> We are working hard on our letters, sounds and spelling words. We made little Snowmen Books to write our spelling lessons in.<br /><br /> Many of us are doing outside reading. Several of us received a set of Alice and Jerry pre-primers for Christmas. We can see much improvement in our reading.<br /><br /> Mrs. Ramey showed us three films this week which we enjoyed a lot. We plan to have films every Thursday.<br /><br /> Bobby Dolezilek came back to school proudly wearing a new pair of glasses.<br /><br /> Alex Sieck spent part of his vacation at his grandparents in Iowa.<br /><br /> Our room certainly looks nice. Mr. Dolezilek worked hard during vacation to have it nice and clean for us. We are trying to cooperate and keep it looking that way.<br /><br /> Mrs. Shortall, our school nurse, paid us a visit recently.<br /><br /> In Art, we have just completed our snowmen and Kansas sunflowers.<br /><br /> Rudy Bailey is nicely settled in his new home.<br /><br /> SECOND GRADE<br /> We were all glad to see each other after our Christmas vacation.<br /><br /> Some of us took trips during vacation. Virginia Stach went to California with her family. She told us many interesting things about her trip and brought back olives and fresh dates to treat us on her birthday.<br /><br /> Barton Larson went to Lyndon, Rebecca Zeller to Manhattan and Helen Wehner went to Sabetha. The rest of us stayed home and played with our Christmas gifts, which included bicycles, dolls, dogs, ponies, trucks and many other nice things.<br /><br /> Dwight Martinek treated us to popcorn balls a few days before Christmas. He also made the frame for our fireplace. Freda McCollough gave us our Christmas tree.<br /><br /> Gary Dick and Henry Wade treated us to candy on their birthdays.<br /><br /> Daryl Mitchell had his tonsils removed during vacation.<br /><br /> Artie Campbell ran a wire into his leg and had to have three stitches taken in it. Ronald Harmon stepped on a nail while playing at home.<br /><br /> We appreciate so many coming to see the program given by the Primary Grades before Christmas. Glad you liked it.<br /><br /> Parker and Laura VanVleck have moved to town. Parker isn't very happy about leaving the farm.<br /><br /> In Science we are watching for our winter birds and are remembering to put food and water out for them.<br /><br /> THIRD GRADE<br /> The boys and girls in the Third Grade came back to school with wonderful New Year's resolutions to work harder, help mother more, and be good boys and girls. All of them are working hard to keep their resolutions and very few of them have been broken.<br /><br /> In the present Spelling race Linda Simecka, Myrna Perry and Connie Zeller are in the lead with Douglas Kelsey, Joe Mitchell, Jimmy Fauerbach, Daniel Gee and Lillian Reser following very close.<br /><br /> We have had one birthday this month; Myrna Perry treated us with ice cream bars.<br /><br /> For Art the boys and girls in the Third Grade have decorated their room's windows with snowmen and snowflakes. Most of their pictures now will be about Kansas until after Kansas Day.<br /><br /> All but two of the students in the Third Grade have read more than the eight required library books and many of them have read more than twenty books.<br /><br /> Marilyn Simpson had her tonsils removed during Christmas vacation but she is feeling fine now although she must keep quite in her activities for awhile.<br /><br /> Since we have been studying good posture habits in health, we are starting a posture contest between two teams in the room. Through this contest we hope to eliminate all slouching and carelessness in posture.<br /><br /> FOURTH GRADE<br /> Our motto this week is, "No person is too big to be courteous, but many are too little."<br /><br /> The safety thought is Don't be a Jay, Play the safe way.<br /><br /> Last Tuesday the children each brought a Christmas game or toy and enjoyed sharing it with others during the rainy play periods. Carla Rasch came out the checkers champion.<br /><br /> We are learning the tables of sevens now in multiplication and division.<br /><br /> Those who made perfect scores in all the new lessons in regular spelling class are Anna Ent, Michael Gresser, Roger Hurley, Sharon Irwin, Judy McCollough, Carla Rasch, Virginia Rezac, Bobby Stach, Janice Vanderblomen and June Wehner.<br /><br /> In the supplementary Spelling Class perfect grades were made by Dale Dannefer, Sharon Irwin, Judy McCollough, Carla Rasch and Jean Stiles.<br /><br /> The Fourth Grade will have the assembly this month. We are planning it for Wednesday morning, January 26, at 9:15. We will welcome all of you parents who can come.</p> <p>___________</p> <p>Date: January 13, 1955</p> <p>Copyright Information: 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.</p> <p>Credit Information: <em>The Rossville Reporter</em>, Rossville, Kansas</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 13, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0282 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/c45db69d4e7ce9f5b823a920265938ee.jpg 565ea3a834d25e8c0deede230e7ef7e3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Enrollment, 1956, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource <p>From<em> The Rossville Reporter</em><br /> Thursday, May 5, 1955<br /> Nineteen Beginners Expected at R.G.S.<br /><br /> Nineteen boys and girls came for Pre-School Roundup last Friday. Their mothers completed an information sheet and were given a list of books needed for next fall. Those who were with the group are: Danny Avers, Linda Bush, Mary Ent, Bonnie Fauerbach, Laurel Gee, Evan Jones, Terry Lambret, Wayne Macha, Anthony Martin, Sharon Mayer, Christina McBurney, Diana Mitchell, Benjamin Mogus, David Richardson, Sharilyn Robeson, Linda Royal, Benjamin Stach, Rose Stadler, and Ronald Starkey.</p> <p> </p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 5, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0284 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/7a218b7ccbd2d60f9e9869fde794695c.jpg 244c5cfbf0087a4139e538c2f9ba8f67 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Establishment of Kindergarten, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource <p>May 19, 1955<br /><br /> Want a Kindergarten?<br /><br /> A need for a kindergarten has been called to the attention of the Grade School Board of Education. Before going through the necessary channels preliminary to such a procedure, the board would like to have the opinion of the district patrons. They would appreciate having your comments whether favorable or unfavorable mailed to the grade school.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 19, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper clipping Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0285 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/1c123d6cbf4a47f93e8181dd9c7d4e56.jpg c1c910f74b5d791f655c7f9af1e7137e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Graduation, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource <p>Rossville Grade School Graduation Excercises<br /> High School Auditorium<br /> Monday, May 23, 1955 and 8 PM<br /><br /> Processional - Procession - Kinyon<br /> Rossville Grade School Band<br /><br /> Invocation - Rev. C.W. Punter<br /><br /> Songs - Music and Nature - Karl Feye<br /> Rossville Grade School Girls Ensemble<br /><br /> Clarinet Quartet - Theme - Schubert<br /> Sharon Reser, Janet Harth, Geraldine Masters, Charles Van Vleck<br /><br /> Address - Mrs. Willard Greene<br /><br /> Vocal Trio - Janice, Karen, and Pat Casey<br /> The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise<br /> Melody of Love<br /><br /> Accordion Quartet - Rozwick School of Accordion<br /> Judy Parnell, Emily Smrha, Tom Harkins, Aldon Tichenor<br /><br /> Presentation of Class - Dana Simpson<br /><br /> Presentation of Diplomas - Fern Rogers<br /><br /> Benediction - Rev. C.W. Punter<br /><br /> Rossville<br /> Bobby Gene Atchison<br /> James Clarence Coe<br /> Patricia Jane Coffey<br /> Leroy Glen Dick<br /> Richard Eugene Jackson<br /> Douglas Frank Martinek<br /> Vincent Philip Martinek<br /> Geraldine Elaine Masters<br /> Gerald Dee Perry<br /> Sally Ann Porter<br /> Raymond Vincent Rafferty<br /> Sharon Kay Rosencutter<br /> Virginia Ann Shannon<br /> Helen Edna Stadler<br /> Clifford Edward VanVleck<br /> Sue Ann Viergever<br /> Roger Noel Zeller<br /><br /> Stone<br /> Leroy Edwin Carrell<br /> Frank Anthony Ruff<br /><br /> Willard<br /> Connie Sue Johnson<br /> Sharon Aileen Lloyd<br /> Neil Duane McKenzie<br /> Betty Arlene McMaster<br /> Marilene Fayetta Pendleton</p> <p> </p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 19, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0286 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/a74d273dd49dea205671480d276ebc32.jpg 67344d7c6d84d760af77d802cc505ec6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Update, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource <p>Progress of the Grades<br /> Rossville Grade School<br /><br /> FIRST GRADE<br /> We are happy to have Alex Sieck with us again. He told us about the schools in Florida and other interesting little events of his trip. Alex brought Mrs. Ramey some pretty salt and pepper shakes from Jacksonville, Florida.<br /><br /> Steven Pardee celebrated his seventh birthday, March 11, by having all the first graders and other little friends as his guests for a party and birthday supper at his home. Everyone reported a wonderful time. Steven received many nice gifts. Steven also treated us to candy bars at school.<br /><br /> Carolyn Gresser is the proud owner of a new dog, which she has named Peppy.<br /><br /> Since our last news the following visited our room and stayed for lunch: Mrs. Leroy Parr and Janice, Mrs. Raymond Royal and children, Mrs. Joe Reding, Mrs. John Simecka and Gary.<br /><br /> Many of us are now checking out library books for our supplementary reading. We were really surprised and pleased to find that we could read so many of them.<br /><br /> Junie Murray enjoyed eating Sunday dinner at the Senate Cafeteria in Topeka.<br /><br /> We are working hard on our Assembly Play, which we will give in April. You will be hearing more about it.<br /><br /> Carl Farley's cousin, Sonnie Kovar, visited our room. Sonnie is a first grader at Quincy School in Topeka.<br /><br /> Jane Parr and Rudy Bailey were among the many Rossville fans at the Grade School Tournament.<br /><br /> We were pleasantly surprised to have Junie Murray's mother and Rudy Bailey's mother come for a visit last week. Steven Pardee's mother was also our guest.<br /><br /> Several of us have been enjoying roller skating at the St. Marys Skating Rink. Bobby Dolezilek, Johnnie Simecka and Larry Wehner were recent skaters there.<br /><br /> SECOND GRADE<br /> Signs of Spring decorate our walls and bulletin boards.<br /><br /> This is a month of many birthdays for us. Connie Bahner, Sandra Heiland, Amy Jones, Charles Meade and Diane Cowan are all eight years old now.<br /><br /> Sandra Heiland invited the girls in her class to a birthday party last Thursday after school.<br /><br /> It is also new shoe month. The fortunate ones to have new shoes are: Amy Jones, Charles Meade, Barton Larson, Laura and Parker VanVleck, Donald and Ronald Harmon, Bruce Shannon and Connie Bahner.<br /><br /> The Cub Scouts watched Peter Pan on TV at Artie Campbell's home on March 7.<br /><br /> We appreciate very much the wonderful cooperation of the mothers making such pretty clown suits for our part in the Operetta.<br /><br /> Virginia Stach's mother visited our room one day last week and stayed for lunch. Mrs. Raymond Royal and Mrs. Joe Reding also stopped in for a short while.<br /><br /> Henry Wade was absent one day last week to have his eyes tested by Dr. H.W. Powers. His new glasses are a great help to him.<br /><br /> We are watching for signs of spring. Over the week end several reported flying kites and raking yards.<br /><br /> Vauncille Avers, Amy Jones and Bruce Shannon have perfect attendance for the year.<br /><br /> Dwight Martinek's mother made cakes for the basketball team and one for us. Thank you, Mrs. Martinek, it was so good and such a nice surprise.<br /><br /> Our assembly program will be next Tuesday afternoon, March 22, at 2:35. Everyone is invited. Our program will consist of special numbers, The Cowboys Serenade, and a one-act Operetta "Going to the Fair."<br /><br /> THIRD GRADE<br /> The month of March so far has been a very busy one for the boys and girls in the Third Grade. The Third Grade presented their "February Assembly" March 2nd after having to postpone it because of illness and then last Friday sang several numbers before the Operetta.<br /><br /> Linda Simecka went to the hospital last Thursday to have her tonsils removed. Everyone misses her and we're all hoping she'll be back by this Thursday.<br /><br /> We have only one birthday during the month of March. Rose Marie Jacobson has a birthday March 16th.<br /><br /> In art last Wednesday we tried drawing some models. One person would model as a person batting, running, boxing, etc., while the rest of the class drew this model. Everyone enjoyed this art lesson and have also enjoyed coloring pictures of St. Patrick and shamrocks for the month of March.<br /><br /> FOURTH GRADE<br /> Since our last news writing, we have lost one of our class members. We miss Henry Martin since he has moved to McPherson, Kansas, with his parents.<br /><br /> Our March birthdays all come next week. Sharon Irwin observes hers on the first day of spring, Dale Dannefer the day following and Janice Vanderblomen on the 26th.<br /><br /> Judy McCollough and Dale Dannefer have made recent trips to the dentist.<br /><br /> Kent Paine, Roger Hurley, David Parr and Michael Gresser passed programs at the Operetta Friday night.<br /><br /> Illness has caused Carol Adams, Pamela Berkey, Dale Dannefer, Kent Paine, David Parr, Richard VanVleck, and Virginia Rezac to miss a day or more of school this past three weeks.<br /><br /> Our goal this week is to have everyone in the class make a hundred in the final lesson.<br /><br /> Our motto is - Lost time is never found again.<br /><br /> The safety thought is to avoid being hit by a softball, keep your eyes on the ball.</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 17, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0287 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/0fd7e450ef63a2ee7f5dc199bb2ae413.jpg a0b172746a84cded0d30513245d2e917 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Update, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource <p>Thursday, March 24, 1955<br />Progress of the Grades<br /> Rossville Grade School<br /><br /> FIFTH GRADE<br /> The fifth grade have been making product maps for the Middle Atlantic States and the Central States.<br /><br /> We will finish our Reader Text tomorrow then we will take Supplementary Readers and History.<br /><br /> Marie Stiles has nearly completed the Bobbs Merrill Reading Circle Library Books, a series of twenty-nine books, this term. Carol Tuller has read all the Bobbsey Twins Series in our Library and others to make a total of twenty-eight books. Linda Kelsey has read thirty-seven books from our School Library.<br /><br /> Judy Fauerbach has read 12 books, Judy Huston has read 15 books, Buddy Mogus has read 17 books, Joan Dolezilek has read 25 books, and Sharon Viergever has read 16 books.<br /><br /> The nice weather last week created the fever for Softball.<br /><br /> Miss Duncan of Lyman School visited in our school last week.<br /><br /> Several of our music pupils in chorus work are doing some very nice two part singing in their class.<br /><br /> Our Spelling 100% Club is climbing.<br /><br /> Carol Tuller was in Topeka last week to have her eyes tested.<br /><br /> SIXTH GRADE<br /> The sixth grade has played sides in softball on the days they could go outside. Gene and Dean Davis were captains one week and James Stadler and J.W. Adams were captains this past week.<br /><br /> Our class figured the Arithmetic involved in the building of a swimming pool made in a series of eleven problems. We have made picture graphs and bar graphs.<br /><br /> We used water colors in our art period this last week. Our bulletin board is decorated with water colors and Easter eggs and bunnies.<br /><br /> Curtis Berkey went to Kansas City on Sunday. Katherine and Kenneth Porter went back to Iowa over the week end.<br /><br /> Those having 100% in spelling for this six weeks are: Dean Davis, Don Rogers, Katherine Porter, Gene Davis, Bills Foresman, Dorothy Jacobson, Sally Nadeau and Joleen Parr.<br /><br /> Timothy Lynde had a birthday on Saturday.<br /><br /> Charlotte Decker has her writing  displayed on our good work board along with Jane Zickefoose.<br /><br /> We have asked the students to rate themselves on this question. Are you a good listener? Because those who are good listeners do better, make and keep the most friends.<br /><br /> Our Week's Maxim - Look for the good in people. Then you shall grow better yourself. Some of our boys are getting ready for the Boy Scout Circus.<br /><br /> We are studying about coal and its uses in social studies.<br /><br /> We wrote English Compositions on how to be good citizens last week. Some of the papers were very well done.<br /><br /> We have been having a word pronouncing contest in connection with our reading lessons. We are going back and reviewing our words that were new to us this year. The sixth grade has had a good year so far and we hope that the rest of the year will be as good as the first part.<br /><br /> SEVENTH GRADE<br /> The members of our class certainly enjoyed playing their various roles in the operetta, Treasure Island. We take pride in the fact that our class furnished not only supporting roles but also two accompanists, Diane Swenson and Janet Harth and two soloists, Wayne Rasch and Ralph Marney.<br /><br /> Although the eighth grade defeated us in softball last week we are happy to congratulate them on the good game they played. We know they are happy to regain the trophy which our class won from them last fall.<br /><br /> The spring season is an inspiration to the art class. Every one tried his hand with water colors. A number of good bird pictures was completed.<br /><br /> Those who have birthdays this month are planning a little party Friday. They are Janet Harth, Jeanene Beal, and Ralph Marney.<br /><br /> In language our attention is centered on letter writing and sentence diagraming. We find our early experiences in sentence diagraming encouraging, partially due to the time and effort already spent on parts of speech and sentence structure.<br /><br /> The quotation for last week: "Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable."<br /><br /> EIGHTH GRADE<br /> Now that spring is here and snow on the ground, we have been forced indoors to play volleyball. We won the ten-inning game of softball from the seventh graders with a bonus of one point per inning.<br /><br /> Miss Scholtz and Mr. Frey from the State Department were in our school last week taking pictures of the way the milk program is handled.<br /><br /> Ginger Shannon will represent our school in the Spelling Bee which will be held again this spring.<br /><br /> Two months of school remain. Most of us agree it has been a speedy term.<br /><br /> Douglas Martinek will be gone two Fridays when the band plays away from here.<br /><br /> No school will be held on April 8 and 11.<br /><br /> Fifteen of us were able to work four cube root problems last Friday in our contest. States and capitals will be used for the contest this week.<br /><br /> Douglas Martinek and Clifford Van Vleck are kitchen helpers this week. Patty Coffey and Jimmy Coe are wash monitors.<br /><br /> A film on Gossip was shown this week. Bennie Martinek sent us a film on Driving which we enjoyed.<br /><br /> A clean hanky has been keeping [remainder missing]</p> <p> </p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 24, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0288