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Photo by Belinda Driscoll
Joe and Doris Fairbanks, Rossville, show off their peony blossoms this spring. Finally, after four or five years, the small bushes have produced the most beautiful bright pink flowers. The blooms are unusual because of…

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…

VALLEY HO!
ST. MARYS [KANSAS] STAR
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1975
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Shelter House Serves as Temporary Church
Since early in July, Mass has been celebrated in the shelter house in the city park of Rossville, and sometimes under a large tree in…

A group of people, mostly children, gathered in front the old Rossville Presbyterian Church in the winter of 1914. The old Presbyterian church was built around 1883. It was made of red bricks which were made at a brick kiln located at the east edge…

The Baptists in Rossville, Kansas, built a small church on Spruce Street and dedicated this church on February 29, 1880. For a few years after that the Baptist, Christian, Presbyterian, and Methodist shared this building—each having the use of it one…

HISTORY OF ST. STANISLAUS IN ROSSVILLE
(As written by Miss Frances DeGraff)

Shortly after the holidays in 1989, I came home from K.C. where I had been sewing. I heard that Catholic services were being held in Fritz's Hall, and Catechism Classes…

Mrs. C.C. McPherson was elected Rossville, Kansas, councilwoman in 1889 on an all-woman ticket.

Mr. William Cyrus Baylis was the first Rossville, Kansas, rural route mail carrier.

Bill Murray and his wife, Betty, purchased the Rossville Reporter in March of 1953, after the Navarres retired. The name was changed to The Shawnee County Reporter. The Murrays sold the paper in 1967 to the Pictorial Times, a Topeka paper. Their…

These are the "pioneer" settlers of Rossville, Kansas, ages 20 and older. Pictured left to right are: Dr. Robert S. Gabbey, C.W. Higginbotham, Tom Cox, Richard Binns, Bennett Swearingen, Josh Harding, Paul Patell, Greg Navarre, Clark McPherson,…