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U.R. Zeller of Rossville was recently named the county sorghum yield champion at a banquet held in Topeka where county sorghum yield champions were honored. Zeller's yield of 6036.35 pounds per acre topped Shawnee County in the dryland division of…

Union catalog located at the Southeast Kansas Library System headquarters containing holdings from the SEK core libraries.

Dave Hartzell, Dr. Gabbey's dog, Emma Nailer, Rebecca Vorhies, Dollie Lillard, Mr. and Mrs. Vorhies, Dave Yocum, and Bradley (traveling man) stand outside the Union Hotel in Rossville, Kansas. On the corner of Pearl and Perry streets, A.C. Sherman…

West traveling train pulling into Silver Lake. The buildings on the left would have been where the Cowboy's Western Store was and Silver Lake Library are now. The dark building in the foreground would have been where the Shear Impressions shop was.

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…

Union Pacific Windmill 1/2 miles west of Sylvan Grove, KS. Torn down in 1950.

Union Pacific train plowing through a snowdrift near Sylvan Grove, KS

Pictured left to right are Elmer Olson and F.E. Zickefoose. Mr. Zickefoose was the water tower pumper.

The United Brethren Church was the first church building built in Rossville, Kansas. It was built about 1877. The old landmark, five miles north of Rossville, was torn down about 1952.