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The idea of a public library took shape in 1941 when several members of the Round Table Club thought it would be a fine project for their group to promote. A committee was formed to investigate the library needs of the high school and grade school…

Click on File Metadata to view picture of Main St, Silver Lake, KS

THE GRASSHOPPER YEAR - taken from Rossville Reporter July 2, 1936
Despite the lurid tales which are creeping into news reports of the hordes of grasshoppers sweeping like tornadoes over and through some of the plains states, there are plenty of men…

The "Old Academy" - The Congregational Academy was located east of Walnut on North 7th Street. It was a 2 1/2- story building constructed of native stone and brick. Completed in 1889, it was intended as a college preparatory school. The economic…

A 5" x 7" black and white photograph copied from a glass negative of the Portland Cement Company office. Information on the front of the photograph states: Office of the cement plant - 1907

Left to right Grant Sickles, Martha (Clark) Sickles and Bill Sickles. Tessie Barnes

TGS G8 1952-53

Row 1 (L-R): Viola Reichart-Prin., Marriel Ferrell-Teacher, Larry Leonard, Mary Smith, Ed Slawson, Judy Taggart, Douglas Guinn, Beth Cline, Gary Shilling

Row 2: Clifford Matthews, Mary Kissinger, Ronnie Henak, Karen Carter,…

Photo of girls team taken on school steps
Names: Betty Clark, Dorothy Everett, Marjorie Bunds, Betty Bird, Marjorie Bunds. Back Row: Doris Combs, Reba Meredith, Betty O'Neill, Madonna Stevens & Dorothy Combs

A team of horses, 1933

Pictured at the Rossville, Kansas, Teachers Reception in September 1960 (left to right) are Don Jones; Mrs. Anna Lemon, head cook; and Mrs. Challis, third grade.