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January 25, 1962: The Friendly Circle Class met with Stella Henderson January 17 for a covered dish luncheon at noon with Golda Cottle assisting. Those present were Mildred Rupin, Seba Baird, Bess Conley, Minnie Ellis, Minnie Given, Myrtle Lillard,…

U. P. AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT CAR HERE TUESDAY
Four Kansas State College faculty members will be with the agricul¬tural car of the Union Pacific rail¬road when it tours Kansas March 19 to 30. They are L.L. Compton, secretary-treasurer of the Kansas…

MRS. M. M. Hughes, Los Angeles, June 26, 1944, became sole owner of the Mulvane Ranch west of Rossville. This resulted when turned over to her in a transfer filed in the office of Homer Wright, reg-ister of deeds.
“The purpose is to keep it in the…

Pure Bred License 120
Oliver
A purebred stallion, black in color, with a fine record on past performances, will make the season of 1922 at any place west of Cross Creek in Rossville.
Terms-$10 to insure colt to stand and suck

Big Tom
Is a…

During the last day of June, Samuel Oldfield, Rossville, planted 18 acres of corn on land from which he had already taken a crop of wheat. He said the land was well-fertilized for the first crop, and the second took to growing lustily. A good stand…

W.W. Ross was born in 1828 in Huron, Ohio. His parents, Sylvester and Cynthia Ross, were youthful pioneers on the Western Reserve of Ohio and were originally from the New England States. Ross was deprived of formal schooling as he grew up in the Ohio…

Adrian Cyrus (A.C.) Sherman was elected State Representative from the 37th district in 1892 and 1894 as a Republican.

He was born in 1847 at Mount Pleasant, Indiana. At the age of 15, he enlisted in Company E, 18th Indiana Infantry, and…

David Millington Howard was elected to the State Legislature as Representative of the 37th District in 1890 and served two additional terms. He was a member of the Progressive Democrat Party.

Mr. Howard, a prominent citizen and successful farmer…

John Howerton was elected as a Republican to represent the 37th district in the State Legislature in 1905. He served one term.

Mr. Howerton was born in Morgan County, Kentucky in 1838 and was reared on a Kentucky farm. He had a powerful physical…

This photo of J. Laverne Zlatnik and his wife, Velma F. Zlatnik, was taken at the Kansas Day Celebration at the Delia Grade School in 2001.