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[This was an alumni display in 2013.]

1863- First school established. Fifteen white and Indian students attended a small log cabin school near the creek at Main and Marion Streets. Students taught by Mrs. Metty. The school was called a…

Back inscription: Lillie Bland Keller
Abner Bland
256-722

From the "Rossville Times:" Last week, A.L. Stalker weighed 50 ears of corn for William McGuire and 50 for J.M. Parr. They weighed 74 and 78 pounds, respectively, an average of a little better than one and one-half pounds each. They were plucked in…

Front cover: Souvenir, Pleasant View School, District Number 81, Kansas

October 1, 1900 - March 22, 1901

Presented By Cora Simpson, Teacher

School Officers- J.L. Day, Treasurer; A.L. Loofbourrow, Clerk; H.C. Larkins, Director

Pupils-…

The Box Social given by the M.E. Sunday School last Saturday evening in the Fritz Hall was a pleasant affair and netted nearly $20 for the piano fund. Master Paul Stewart purchased the box that won the prize which proved to be the one prepared by…

Pictured on the right side of the photo is the Rossville Methodist Church during the 1903 flood.

Paul Patell is standing in his boat with other men after the 1903 flood. Several men are standing in the flood waters which are to, or above, their knees.

A group of people are standing in flood water outside a business on the east side of Main Street in Rossville, Kansas, after the 1903 flood.

People in Rossville, Kansas, at the south end of Main Street after the 1903 flood use horses, buggies, or boats to move about town.

THE SHAWNEE COUNTY NEWS
An Independent Newspaper Published Every Friday at Rossville, Shawnee County Kansas.

V. G. STEWART. Editor.

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