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The J. Thomas Lumber Company started in Rossville in the 1880s. James B. Hall was manager for several years and in 1909 Mr. Vawter became manager. William Hesse started work at the yard in 1925, and in 1932 bought a half interest in the business and,…

She helped start the Home Demonstration Unit, later known as the Extension Homemakers Unit, for Rossville, Kansas.

This is a portrait of Grace Eversole in the fifth grade. Her adult portrait is RCL0078, which is reflected on the back of this picture from being stacked together.

The Kerr & Higginbotham Mercantile later became Hartzell & Tatman Drug Store, which burned in 1917.

Mr. Cyrus W. Higginbotham was one of the earliest settlers of Shawnee County and Rossville township and one of the founders of Rossville, Kansas.

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…

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…