79 10 1892 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/cbcd288a273ae733375b30284fc32156.jpg e52775ad13b3b48420ab5f92f8f71018 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/cfca96e2c26e1c20d9ba2136163ba722.jpg 8736c3947ee85592bcb3ab0aa8ccdea2 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/8f5fcf0363d4ca051e43f24c1fc75bf6.jpg add60a437fbb38c35e24334a3755e799 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Update, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource Thursday, May 19, 1955 Progress of the Grades Rossville Grade School FIRST GRADE NEWS The last six weeks of school found many of us celebrating birthdays. Allen Jackson invited the first graders to a birthday party in the Rossville Park. Delicious refreshments of ice cream and cup cakes were served. Allen's mother was assisted by Mrs. Francis Pardee. Carl Farley treated us to ice cream sandwiches and passed out balloons to celebrate his birthday. Carolyn Gresser passed out candy bars in observance of her birthday which is this summer. Alex Sieck gave us a very nice surprise by passing out prettily decorated cup cakes and party hats Monday. Junie Murray celebrated her August birthday with the class Tuesday by passing out cup cakes. Jane Parr had the following girls as her overnight guests Friday evening: Carolyn Gresser, Bonnie Tuller, Junie Murray, Susan Nadeau, and Kathleen Becker. They all reported a wonderful time. During this last six weeks of school, we have had a reading class of library books along with our regular reading groups. Jane Parr, Carolyn Gresser and Steven Pardee tied for first place in reading the most books, 22 in all. The following boys and girls will receive awards for prompt and regular attendance: Rudy Bailey, Bobbie Dolezilek, Carl Farley, Allen Jackson, Junie Murray, Jane Parr, Myles Preble, Laird Reding, and Johnnie Simecka. Visitors in our room since our last news are Mrs. John Foresman, Mrs. Royal, Marilyn and Linda, Mrs. Joe Gresser and Catherine, Mrs. Bill Murray, Mrs. Wm. Farley, Mrs. F.E. Pardee, Mrs. Albert Sieck, Mrs. John Simecka and Gary, Miss Katheryn Vandahl, Rosie Stadler, Ronnie Davis, Bennie Mogus, Evan Jones and David Richardson. Reading Awards will be presented to the following boys and girls: Rudy Bailey, Bobbie Dolezilek, Tom Foresman, Carl Farley, Carolyn Gresser, Allen Jacobson, Susan Nadeau, Jane Parr, Myles Preble, Bonnie Tuller, Johnnie Simecka, and Steven Pardee. We have nine boys and girls in our room who have never missed a spelling word this year. They are Jane Parr, Steven Pardee, Tom Foresman, Bonnie Tuller, Johnnie Simecka, Myles Preble, Carolyn Gresser, Bobbie Dolezilek and Rudy Bailey. Myles Preble has moved back to his home in the country. He has been bringing very pretty bouquets for our room. Several others have brought beautiful roses and peonies to make our room attractive. We appreciate this a lot. Alex Sieck will move to Topeka as soon as school is out. SECOND GRADE This last week of school is a very busy one for us. We are looking forward to a trip to Rebecca Zeller's farm home Monday and to Field Day Tuesday. Our best written work has to be pasted in our Book of the month scrapbook and our room put in order for the summer. In art we drew some very interesting pictures about what we want to do this vacation. We especially liked Donald and Ronald Harmon's showing them fishing; also Diane Murray's going to Nebraska to see her grandmother. The mumps have invaded our room the last few weeks. The victims were: Dwight Martinek, Diana Cowan, Connie Bahner, and now May Jones who, this week, is getting them on the other side. We hope she gets back in time for our last day dinner. Bruce Shannon treated us to ice cream bars on his birthday, May 3rd. Those who have had perfect attendance so far this year are: Vauncille Avers, Diane Murray, Helen Wehner, Sandra Heiland, Barton Larson, Bruce Shannon, Donald and Ronald Harmon, Amy Jones had not missed a day until she got the mumps last week. Awards for reading the most library books this year will be given to: Amy Jones, Marilyn Trubey, Diana Cowan, Virginia Stach, Connie Bahner, Barton Larson, Vauncille Avers, Bruce Shannon, Rebecca Zeller, Laura VanVleck and Daryl Mitchell. We plan to bring a sack lunch next Monday and eat out doors. If the weather is bad we will eat in our room. Don't forget the school dinner next Tuesday. The second grade boys played the third grade boys a good game of ball one day last week. Our score wasn't the highest but it was a fast game. We have some very good players. Mrs. Simpson was umpire. The last three weeks we have been learning to do cursive writing. The second grade must now say, "Good-bye" for another year. It has been such a happy, interesting year. We feel we have all done our best and are proud of our progress. It is a sad time too. W are going to miss being together, but are looking forward to a pleasant summer and will all be happy to come back as third graders this fall. I, Mrs. Challis, want to express my appreciation for the wonderful cooperation and loyalty from the Rossville patrons and friends the last two years. I am truly sorry I can not be with you next year. THIRD GRADE The boys and girls in the Third Grade are rapidly finishing their books and other school work and are looking forward to a nice summer vacation with playing, trips and working at home. The students having perfect attendance for this year are: Ronald Avers, Jimmie Fauerbach, Jane McCollough, Marilyn Simpson, Connie Zeller, Lloyd Culp, and Stephen Becker. The boys and girls honored for reading more than eight library books are: Ronald Avers, Herman Bringle, Kennie Coleman, Lloyd Culp, Sharon Decker, Jimmie Fauerbach, Daniel Gee, Gary Hill, Rose Mary Jacobson, Douglas Kelsey, Michael Martin, Jane McCollough, Joe Mitchell, Myrna Perry, Ronald Pressgrove, Lillian Reser, Pat Royal, Linda Simecka, Marilyn Simpson, Donna Tuller and Connie Zeller. Those students winning prizes for not leaving the room during any class all year are: Harry Adams, Sharon Decker, Jimmie Fauerbach, Rose Mary Jacobson, Jane McCollough, Lillian Reser and Linda Simecka. Every student in the Third Grade has had his picture up on the "Star Spellers" chart for getting 100 on a Spelling test sometime during the last semester. We had one birthday in the Third Grade during the month of May: Donna Tuller who treated the class with ice cream bars. The boys and girls in the Third Grade wish you a very pleasant summer and hope to see you at the school dinner next Tuesday. [pg. 2] Every student in the Third Grade has had his picture up on the "Star Spellers" chart for getting 100 on a Spelling test sometime during the last semester. We had one birthday in the Third Grade during the month of May: Donna Tuller who treated the class with ice cream bars. The boys and girls in the Third Grade wish you a very pleasant summer and hope to see you at the school dinner next Tuesday. FOURTH GRADE Pamela Berkey has been absent the past week with the mumps. Dental cards were brought in recently by Dale Dannefer and Michael Gresser. Our May birthdays are: Michael Gresser who treated on the sixth with candy bars; Anna Ent on the twelfth with fruit salad and cake; and Carla Rasch on the fourteenth who treated Friday with candy bars. Pamela Berkey's birthday is Friday, the 20th. We have seven who have had perfect attendance this year. The award certificates will go to Anna Ent, Sharon Irwin, Judy McCollough, Carla Rasch, Bobby Stach, Jean Stiles and June Wehner. We have had our classroom prettily decorated by flowers brought in by Richard Van Vleck, Sharon Irwin, Janice Vanderblomen and Virginia Rezac. We have done a great deal of spelling this school year. The best records for perfect spelling lessons were earned by Anna Ent, Janice Vanderblomen, Judy McCollough, Bobby Stach, June Wehner, Carla Rasch, Jean Stiles and Virginia Rezac. A number of the children think the summer vacation will bring them trips to distant places. My hope is that many of you parents will give your children some summer education in travel. FIFTH GRADE The pupils this term with perfect attendance are: Mary Besta, Don Bush, Joan Dolezilek, Charles Harth, and Joyce Swenson. This is the second year of perfect attendance for Charles Harth, Mary Besta, and Joyce Swenson. We have had fifteen pupils in the 5th Grade that have read 9 or over library books this term. These have read over twenty library books this term: Carol Tuller, Linda Kelsey, Joan Dolezilek, Buddy Mogus, and Sharon Viergever. Freddy Elevier and James Turner brought some very pretty roses for our room last week. We've been having a contest on Finding Homonyms: first Linda Kelsey - 428 homonyms; second Joan Dolezilek - 217 homonyms; third Fred Davis - 141 homonyms; fourth place Sharon Viergever - 129 homonyms; 5th place Mary Besta - 121 homonyms; 6th place Carol Tuller - 118 homonyms; 7th place Judy Huston - 113 homonyms; 8th place Charles Harth - 105 homonyms. Many new words were learned as they looked for them at home, and watched in the books they studied or read. Judy Huston brought a shale rock to school for us to see that her father dug out near the Willard Bridge. At that time we were studying rocks in Science. Linda Kelsey brought a hatched egg shell of a robin's egg to school for Science lesson. We have been taking English Tests most of last week. We welcome Norma Klinginberg to our room this spring. SIXTH GRADE Jane Zickefoose, Sally Nadeau and Timothy Lynde have perfect attendance for this school year. As far as our students are concerned softball is most important. Our first team is amde up of Tom Lacock, catcher; James Wamego Jr., pitcher; James Stadler, first base; Gene Davis, second base; Dean Davis, shortstop; Wayne Miller, third. Several fellows shift around in the field. Don Rogers catches and fields. Curtis Berkey is an all around good player and has played several positions along with center field. Timothy Lynde is a good batter and has played right field. This team won from Rochester school in Topeka when we played their second team. We played Delia earlier in the year. We plan to play Willard Grade School this week over there. Willard won the county softball rural school championship. Our one hundred per cent spelling gang for this six weeks are as follows. Jane Zickefoose, Joleen Parr, Gene Davis, Dorothy Jacobson, Charlotte Decker, Katherine Porter, Curtis Berkey, and Bill Foresman. We have a full number of entries for field day this week. Boys and Girls events are Dashes, Softball throw, three legged race, sack race and bicycle race. First, second and third place ribbons will be given to the winners. Reading awards will be given to the following students for reading eight books or more during the school year. Sally Nadeau, Tom Lacock, Jesse Adams, Charlotte Decker, Joleen Parr, Katherine Porter, Jane Zickefoose and Don Rogers. Curtis Berkey and Bill Foresman received honors. Our class did water colors with the help of Mrs. McClelland last week. Our social studies class made charts and grafts [sic] about South America, some of which are on display in our room. Our back bulletin board says, "Take me out to the ball game." As school closes many of our boys plan to play ball all through the summer. It has been a good year for all of us who have worked hard. SEVENTH GRADE We are pleased with our efforts in composition. Some of the topics the class wrote about recently were sportsmanship, friendliness, and writing our best. In addition to his regular writing Eugene Irwin wrote a poem which we all enjoyed: THE MOCKINGBIRD The mockingbird is a bird of brown, Almost the color of the ground. He loves to mock the other fowl, But to everyone he is a pal. Some wonderful notes from him can be heard, Even that of the parrot bird. Of all the birds that can be heard, There's none like that of the mockingbird. Kenneth Heiland and Eugene Irwin had birthdays this month. In math we are finishing the term with measurement including area of various geometric figures. The song title Keep the Home Fires Burning brings to mind this weeks safety topic "Home Fuses." We learn- [SEVENTH GRADE continued; pg. 3] [We learn-] ed the importance of using the right fuse: 15 amp. excellent; 20 amp. - fair; 30 amp. - dangerous. This week's maxim: "If you should have a fight with your conscience and get licked - YOU WIN." The following students are receiving awards for outside reading: Kyle Perry, Diane Swenson, Laura Stiles, Zora Wade, Janet Harth, Carol Rafferty, Eugene Irwin, and William Ent. Attendance awards are earned by: Kenneth Heiland, Ralph Marney, Kyle Perry, Carol Rafferty, Wayne Rasch, Diane Swenson, Zora Wade, Josephine Rosencutter, Bruce Baker, Jeanene Beal, Bennie Besta, William Ent, and Janet Harth. EIGHTH GRADE As we bring another term of school to a close, we wish to thank the Reporter staff for passing on to you the news we have written and other bits of information concerning the school. We feel in the eighth grade room that we have had a most successful term of school. Everyone was so cooperative and nice to work with. The compositions about what we have learned this term were very interesting and were filed away because of their evaluation of the school in general. Bobby Atchison, Patty Coffey, Douglas Martinek, Vince Martinek, Geraldine Masters, Helen Stadler and Sue Viergever had perfect attendance for the term. There are sixty in the school who were neither absent nor tardy for the nine months. Last term there were forty-six[.] Geraldine Masters and Helen Stadler had perfect attendance for the first time. Vince Martinek has seven years without absence. Reading awards were presented to Sharon Rosencutter, Sue Viergever, Ginger Shannon, Gerald Perry, Roger Zeller, Helen Stadler, Patty Coffey and Bobby Atchison. Those doing the best job in spelling and winning pins were Ginger Shannon, Helen Stadler, Sue Viergever, Bobby Atchison, Sharon Rosencutter, and Douglas Martinek. Band pins went to Douglas Martinek, Geraldine Masters, Raymond Rafferty, Ginger Shannon and Roger Zeller. Last Friday we bought some books from the pupils which will be furnished to the pupils next term. About half the needed texts will be supplied by the school. Several of the boys and girls have received graduation gifts especially from their parents. We are looking forward to our graduation exercises Monday night. All of us plan to enter high school next fall. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 19, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0290a RCL0290b RCL0290c http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/474ce5f267adbc04276d4812770d429e.jpg 365845b416d531bb2113b7f63532b508 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Board Meeting Notes, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource RGS BOARD MEETS Nearly fifty patrons were present at the annual grade school board meeting Friday evening. Mrs. Fern Rogers was re-elected as director of the board. There was some discussion about school books, hot lunches and in purchasing band uniforms. The letters and cards received by the Board of Education in response to "kindergarten?" were more opposing it than for it. It was desirous of the patrons at the meeting that kindergarten idea be dropped for the present time. It was suggested that perhaps a private kindergarten could be established for those who would be interested. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 9, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0293 Rossville School Board http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/1ba1baaef207b4e4b850567d54830deb.jpg 049b047668331bc0ea373ad6c1f95271 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville School Board News, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource Scott Kelsey was re-elected to the school board of the high school at their meeting Thursday night. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 8, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0295 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/11568742ea8e3a4f6b8338435044b409.jpeg c732a9d8007e06bf4cc2b42c10a42451 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Businesses Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource H.F. Syring Insurance Advertisement, 1949, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource A Threefold Insurance Coverage on Your Grain Insured while standing in the field Insured while being cut Insured while in buildings Can you afford to take the chance Of going without this liberal insurance protection? A fire would destroy your year's work! Protect yourself against financial loss and be safe by insuring with The Home Insurance Co. We can tell you the best plan for insuring your grain and how little it will cost Come in to see us, or phone, or drop us a card H.F. Syring Insurance of all kinds Rossville, Kansas [spelling corrections made] Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1949 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper advertisement Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0300 H.F. Syring Insurance http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/c84844877348572c025ae01776eac3d3.jpeg e813bb35d2ad4ce2dbd950b86b43f214 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Businesses Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1927 Dr. W.H. Rickel Advertisement, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource Notice Having taken over the office and practice of Dr. W.A. Young, I will be in Rossville Thursday, Friday and Saturday of each week Dr. W.H. Rickel Chiropractor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper advertisement Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0303 Rossville doctors http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/0c84b2e7825798cf44965cb8a2823903.jpeg 00c62823939933240725bc0809f439f8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Willard, Kansas Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1927 Willard Horse Sale, Willard, Kansas Description An account of the resource Horse Sale At the stockyards in At Willard, Kansas Rain or Shine, at 1 P.M. on Saturday, Aug. 20 Carload Work Horses All Kansas Bred Stock, Will be Sold at Public Auction This stock comes from the farms of Logan County, Kansas. Ages Range from 3 to 9 years old. Terms- Cash. If credit is desired make arrangements with your banker before sale day Bird J. Patterson, Owner Cain & Busenbark, Aucts I.S. Lauck, Clerk Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper advertisement Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0305 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/c4558d95cf7d26a206bbad7932c7452d.jpeg f52ef317fcd9330ed7d90fc834edacc1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Willard, Kansas Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Willard Elevator Opening, 1927, Willard, Kansas Description An account of the resource Notice To Public The Willard Elevator Will be open for business September 15th at which time we solicit a share of your business. In addition to grain buying we shall carry feeds, seeds and coal. Bird J. Patterson Manager Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper advertisement Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0307 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/6e0f4ee85d6faef80f52a5632f8d1034.jpeg 09c97a53d1e2a1fa78eb8ba69bb9dddb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Agricultural History Subject The topic of the resource Farming/Ranching Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Community Library Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Rossville Centennial Booklet, 1971 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public Domain due to copyright expiration. Original narrative content by RCL is available for use by public. Description An account of the resource Rossville is fortunately situated in many ways—we are near a large city, Topeka, but far enough away to retain our own identity; we can be considered a bedroom community to Topeka since so many residents commute to work to the larger city; we are just north of the Kansas River and enjoy the fertile “Kaw River Valley,” which has benefited agriculture in our community since its very beginnings. From the early days, Rossville Township was blessed with fertile creek and river-bottom land, combined with the upland, which consisted of bluestem grass. The early settlers broke and cleared the bottom lands and part of the upland prairie. The settlers of the 1860-70s began farming and found the soil fertile and productive. However, the task of clearing the timberland and breaking prairie sod must have seemed insurmountable. Corn and wheat, the main crops, and cattle, hogs and other livestock-raising, became the basic agriculture of Rossville township. Many of these early farmers came to Kansas seeking land. They traveled by ox cart and wagon before the railroad went through, following the Oregon and other trails. Settlers bought land from the Santa Fe Railroad or from members of the Citizen Potawatomi Band, who were selling their allotment land. The first mention of early agriculture in Rossville comes from Dr. Gabbey’s account, written in 1886: “The Pottawatomi as a tribe never took kindly to agriculture, four or five acres in corn was a large field. Their fields were usually cleared up from the edge of the timber along the streams, as the Indian had little use for the Prairie kind.” One account gives the cost of prairie in the early days from $2.50 to $4.00 per acre. Lumber was worth from $25.00 to $39.00 dollars per thousand feet. Oxen cost $100.00 a yoke, mules from $100.00 to $200.00, horses $75.00 to $150.00, sheep $2.00 a head and chickens 25¢ each. Masons and carpenters received $2.00 to $3.00 per day in wages. Wheat was worth $1.50 per bushel and flour $4.50 per hundred pounds. From newspapers of 1877: “New corn brought in for shipment is getting 18¢ to 20¢ and corn huskers have been in demand at $1.00 per day and board; 2.5¢ per bushel thrown on the ground or 3.5¢ in the crib.” “Mr. Lambert James, a farmer living a few miles west of town has this season manufactured 1,500 gallon of sorghum molasses, which he readily disposed of at 50¢ per gallon.” But challenges persisted for early settlers. Although this was an extremely desirable area for agriculture and the raising of livestock, it was not possible for the early settlers to procure manufactured goods from the East without paying an extremely high freight bill. It was also impossible to ship their grain and produce economically. River freight was tried but the Kaw River often times did not have enough water to make shipping dependable so the answer to this problem was the railroad. Rossville’s answer came May 18, 1866, when the first train passed through the town. Corn was the main crop and early editors gave much space extolling its excellence. Corn cribs were numerous along the south side of the railroad tracks and on the east side of north Main. A water powered grist mill was located on Cross Creek north of town. Mulvane Bros. built a steam powered mill south of the railroad tracks. One of the earliest farmers was Henry Ford, who acquired 80 acres southwest of Rossville in 1864. His wife was the former Mary Nadeau, who came to Rossville from Indiana in 1862. Henry Ford came to Kansas in 1863 and was a stage coach driver for the Overland Stage Company between Topeka and Manhattan. He met his wife at “Buttermilk Station” where she worked for her brother, Big Alex Nadeau. While working to clear their land of timber and build a log house, they lived in one room of a three room house, west of Cross Creek, north of the old Oregon and California trails. The other two rooms were occupied by Dr. and Mrs. R.S. Gabbey and Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Higginbotham. After the Fords moved into their log cabin, Mrs. Ford often rode horseback nine miles with her baby to the mission in St. Marys. The first flowers she had to plant by the cabin were given to her by the nuns at the Mission. Another early farmer, John DeGraff settled south of Rossville in 1865. He and his wife, the former Frances Navarre, lived in a small dugout until their house was built. The following is a list of early farmers: Name | Year to Rossville | Origin Archibald Abbott 1870 Kingston, Canada West Joseph Andrews Westmoreland County, Pa. W. Thomas Andrews 1879 McKay, Ohio Joseph Beseau 1875 Monroe County, Michigan John A. Bond 1872 Tyler County, W. Virginia William Bond 1873 Tyler County, W. Virginia John DeGraff 1865 James DeVinney 1880 Ross County, Ohio Benjamin Franklin 1869 Ross County, Ohio John Fritz 1877 Somerset County, Pa. Martin Hass 1877 Richland County, Ohio Henry Kassabaum 1877 Brookmell, Prussia T.J. Kiernan 1868 Elzey E. Kinsey 1877 Ohio Henry Lipp 1868 South Germany Isaac McCollough 1873 Holmes County, Ohio R. McCollough 1878 Holmes County, Ohio Michael O’halaron 1880 Samuel Oldfield 1878 Derbyshire, England S.J. Oliver 1876 Edward Partelow 1868 Newport, Kentucky Thomas L. Ross 1882 Cincinnati, Ohio M.M. Standley 1874 Carroll County, Indiana Bennett Swearingen 1868 Meigs County, Ohio Isaac B. Trostel 1877 Perry County, Pa. Frank Van Vleck 1878 William Wax 1878 Juniata County, Pa. Daniel Wilt 1876 York County, Pa. Henry York 1869 Zurich, Switzerland Peter H. Zickefoose 1874 Highland County, W. Virginia Samuel Beals 1867 E.S. Doud 1869 W.L. James Wm. Kirkpatrick 1871 Frank L. Sanders John Heslet Noel Graves W.W. Janes J.K. Conley 1870 Yates County, New York Startup, Ab Thomas Attebury 1877 George Hejtmanek 1880 Wisowitz, Moravia, Austria D. Hartzell 1872 Francis E. Williams 1876 New York Captain John Gutshall Col. A.S. Stanley 1880 Meigs Co., Ohio Martin Nason 1872 Jos. Van Vleck 1878 M.L. Cless 1876 B.W. Higginbotham 1861 Thomas Moss 1877 J.M. Parr Clay Co. Indiana J.A. Parr Clay Co. Indiana H.W. Lipp 1878 Illinois Samuel B. Zickefoose 1869 West Virginia Mrs. Jane Jackson 1875 Scotland Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Peoples State Bank Holstein Club, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource To the Members of Our Holstein Club We wish to thank each and every member for their help, kindness and patience shown in the distribution of our grade Hol¬stein heifers that arrived last week. Not one complaint was made by a member that he hadn’t got a fair deal and wasn’t satisfied. That makes it more of a pleasure to us to exert ourselves in a move¬ment of this kind when all the boys are good sports and willing to take their chance. These cattle were brought from the Holstein Center of Wisconsin where grading has reached its highest point. In that vicinity, land that don’t lay as well as our upland brings $300 and more an acre and large fine improvements predominate. They have better blue grass but they have little success with alfalfa so we have a good substitute. It is our hope that it will result in a Holstein movement around Rossville and then we will raise more cow feed on the upland and less grain making land less sub¬ject to wash as it did this spring for instance. And what can be done on the upland can be done on a greater scale in the bottoms. Every farm has silos in Wiscon¬sin even if it is only a hole in the ground. When Holsteins are thick enough here then it will be soon enough to co-operate towards im¬proving our market, bringing in a condensery, creamery etc. such as has been done at Mulvane and Tonganoxie, Kans. Mr. Morris Bond gave us of his time liberally and used his best judgment together with help of an expert who knew the territory and cattle and was painstaking in getting right prices and heifers only from heavy milkers. Now that they are here it is up to you to develop the cows. Be gentle with them and look after them closely. In Wisconsin they don't have any dogs because they are afraid they will worry the cattle. Be careful with yours. You know a dog at the heels of a fine thorough-bred mare would make the mare very nervous so with high bred milk cows. Be careful of alfalfa for awhile. If you give them conditions similiar [sic] to those where they came from for awhile, such as shady pasture and good water they will rapidly pick up and by spring you will have some¬thing worth while. As to the sale provision in the spring, we are not sure of pulling that off. We will talk with you about it. We would like to have an exhibition if we don’t have the sale and will offer some good prizes for best looking criters [sic]. Our expense amounted to $122.80 for freight and feed en-route. Other expense including railroad fare of Bond, hotel bills, auto hire, telegrams etc. and a few expenses here amounted to $61.14 which adds to the price we paid of each cow, $5.10 on each. Let us hear whenever you are in how the heifer is doing. If these animals give satisfaction or appear to we will get several more cars in. Many have already asked to be included next time. Whether any more comes in or not depends the demand. Peoples State Bank Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Possibly 1922 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0304 Peoples State Bank http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/1b5e2b016320e7e44629767dd11e3dd6.jpg cab65703260cfb39a91f705e639bd381 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Enrollment, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource Thursday, September 8, 1955 Grades Enroll 176 Rossville Grade School enrolled 176 students on the first day of school September 6. The three largest classes are grades three, four and eight with twenty-five pupils in each of these grades. The smallest class is the second grade with seventeen students. List of students by grades is as follows: First Grade: Daniel Avers, Linda Bush, Mary Ent, Bonnie Fauerbach, Audrey Felps, Laurel Gee, Evan Jones, Terry Lambert, Wayne Macha, Anthony Martin, Sharon Mayer, Christine McBurney, Diana Mitchell, Benjamin Mogus, Linda Parks, David Richardson, Cheryl Robeson, Linda Royal, Benjamin Stach, Rose Stadler, Ronald Starkey. Second Grade: Kathleen Becker, Robert Dolezilek, Carl Farley, Thomas Foresman, Carolyn Gresser, Allen Jackson, Henry Kurtz, June Murray, Susan Nadeau, Steven Pardee, Clyde Parr, Jane Parr, Laird Reding, John Simecka, Dale Stiles, Bonnie Tuller, Larry Wehner. Third Grade: Vauncile Avers, Connie Bahner, Artie Campbell, Diane Cowan, Gary Dick, Carolyn Farley, Sandra Heiland, Amy Jones, Barton Larson, Sandra Macha, Dwight Martinek, Freda McCollough, Charles Meade, Daryl Mitchell, Diane Murray, Melvin Sage, Bruce Shannon, Virginia Stach, Shirley Taylor, Marilyn Trubey, Laura VanVleck, Parker VanVleck, henry Wade, Helen Wehner, Rebecca Zeller. Fourth Grade: Harry Adams, Ronald Avers, Steve Becker, Herman Bringle, Kenneth Coleman, Lloyd Culp, Sharon Decker, James Fauerbach, Larry Felps, Daniel Gee, John Giles, Gary Hill, Rose mary Jacobon, Douglas Kelsey, Michael Martin, Jane McCollough, Joe Mitchell, myrna Perry, Ronald Pressgrove, Lillian Reser, Patrick Royal, Linda Simecka, Marilyn Simpson, Donna Tuller, Connie Zeller. Fifth Grade: Carol Adams, Pamela Berkey, Dale Dannefer, Anna Ent, Jerry Giles, Michael Gresser, Roger Hurley, Sharon Irwin, David Jones, Judy McCollough, Kent Paine, David Parr, Carla Rasch, Virginia Rezac, Bobby Stach, Jean Stiles, Sandra Taylor, Janice Vanderblomen, Richard VanVleck, June Wehner. Sixth Grade: Mary Besta, Donald Bush, Fred Davis, Joan Dolezilek, Judy Fauerbach, Charles Harth, Janet Hause, Darby Holder, Judy Huston, Billy Jackson, Linda Kelsey, Norma Klingenberg, Janet Kurtz, William Mogus, Charlene Perry, Marie Stiles, Joyce Swenson, Dale Timmons, Carol Tuller, Jimmy Turner, Sharon Viergever, Robert Wilt. Seventh Grade: Jesse Adams, Curtis Berkey, Dean Davis, Gene Davis, Charlotte Decker, Florence Felps, William Foresman, Dorothy Jacobson, Gary Klingenberg, Thomas Lacock, Timmy Lynde, Billy Miller, Sally Nadeau, Joleen Parr, Katherine Porter, Kenneth Porter, Don Rogers, Arletta Sage, James Stadler, James Wamego, Jane Zickefoose. Eighth Grade: Lynda Allen, Danny Bahner, Joe Bahner, Bennie Besta, Thomas Bush, Sharon Davis, William Ent, Billy Fauerbach, John Felps, Janet Harth, Kenneth Heiland, Gene Irwin, Larry Kurtz, Ralph Marney, Nida Magus, Kyle Perry Carol Rafferty, Wayne Rasch, Sharon Reser, Mary Smith, Laura Stiles, Diane Swenson, John Vanderblomen, Charles VanVleck, Zora Wade. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 8, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0314