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An unidentified man stands in front of the Rossville Clothing Store in Rossville, Kansas.

Members of the Rossville United Methodist Church will auction their century-old building at 10 a.m. today, as they prepare to erect a new church on the same site.

Also being sold are an educational wing added to the church in the 1950s, a house on…

Rossville Farmer Gets Jaycee Award

The Topeka Junior Chamber of Commerce has named Richard D. Kelsey of Rossville the outstanding young farmer of the year.

Kelsey, 30, has been farming for eight years. He operates a partnership project of 750…

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…

Thursday, March 24, 1955 Rossville Grade School '55 Basketball Champions [Caption to photograph](Engraving courtesy of Jim Rezac) These boys were the winners of the Class B Basketball First-Place Trophy in Shawnee county this season. Almost all of…

A photograph of the Rossville grade school on the left, and the Rossville high school on the right, at East Pottawatomie Street in 1913. The grade school consisted of four rooms.

RGS BOARD MEETS Nearly fifty patrons were present at the annual grade school board meeting Friday evening. Mrs. Fern Rogers was re-elected as director of the board. There was some discussion about school books, hot lunches and in purchasing band…

Thursday, September 8, 1955 Grades Enroll 176 Rossville Grade School enrolled 176 students on the first day of school September 6.  The three largest classes are grades three, four and eight with twenty-five pupils in each of these grades.  The…

From The Rossville Reporter Thursday, May 5, 1955 Nineteen Beginners Expected at R.G.S. 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.…