80 10 1892 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/9811474c37646b607ce6f0214fc2bf5a.jpg 29295226d80116e3867b5685be96ffc6 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, October 6, 1955 Progress of the Grades Rossville Grade School Grade 5 The Fifth Grade has many interesting Science Specimens. Dale Dannefer brought a praying mantis for us to see. A sample of “Fool’s Gold” was brought by Carol Adams. Michael Gresser has a sac nest which he and Davi Jones cut open. It proved to hold many baby spiders. Richard VanVleck brought a large spider and petrified clam. The spider proved to be a “Bird Spider”. Collections of rocks, shells and petrified wood were brought by Carla Rasch, Anna Ent, Jerry Giles and Virginia Rezac. Pamela Berkey has returned from a vacation trip to New Orleans. She brought back samples of sugar cane, cotton and rice stalks with her. She told about her trip and showed pictures of many interesting places she saw. We are glad she is back. Jimmy Stadler of the 7th grade loaned us a large piece of mica he found in Colorado. Grade 6 The sixth grade elected Charles Harth as citizen of the month for September. We will choose a new citizen for every month. Our choice is made on leadership, conduct and scholarship. We had a Mexican Fair October 5. All of the plans for the event were made by the boys and girls. In the room, we arranged displays of many different things that were made in Mexico. Several of the children painted pictures of life in Mexico for the bulletin board. Others arranged a miniature Mexican farm scene. After the other grades visited the Fair, we played typical Mexican games and sang Mexican songs. Grade 7 New students in the seventh grade September 6th were Florence Felps and Arletta Sage. Florence came to Rossville from Jackson county; Arletta from Dover; a third new student was Carol Lumley from Iowa who enrolled September 20th. She is returning with her family to Iowa. Those who have full attendance for September are: Dean David, Gene Davis, Charlotte Decker, Florence Felps, Bill Foresman, Dorothy Jacobson, Gary Klingenberg, Timmy Lynde, Wayne Miller, Sally Nadeau, Katherine Porter, Kenneth Porter, Jimmy Stadler, James Wamego, Jane Zickenfoose, Don Rogers and Arletta Sage. Curtis Berkey made an attractive exhibit of sugar cane, rice heads, and postal cards which he collected while visiting the deep South as far away as New Orleans. Those who spelled the fourth weeks spelling perfectly are: Curtis Berkey, Dean Davis, Gene Davis, Charlotte Decker, Bill Foresman, Dorothy Jacobsan, Tom Lacock, Timmy Lynde, Wayne Miller, Sally Nadeau, Joleen Parr, Katherine Porter, Kenneth Porter, Don Rogers, Jimmy Stadler, Jimmy Wamego, Gary Klingenberg, Jane Zickefoose, Florence Felps, Arletta Sage and J.W. Adams. (Note: This is a unanimous situation. The whole class spelled without an error.) Jimmy Stadler is making an exhibit of souvenirs he brought home from Colorado. A few of the items are: a wood cut calendar made in Japan; a beautiful golden colored key thermometer; a sea side scene in oil on a wood slab, and a silver plated horse. Each member of the class is enjoying the new books which were added to the library this fall. Timmy Lynde is reading Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle: Kenneth Porter has read The Call of the Wild by Jack London; Florence Felps just checked out Amigo, Circus Horse by Cooper, Gary Klingenberg enjoyed Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Henry; Katherine Porter recently completed The Haunted Bridge by Keene. About three weeks ago Billy Foresman and his Uncle Pete caught two good sized yellow catfish. One weighted twenty-four lbs., the other weighted eight lbs. Billy remarked, “There’s more where those came from.” When asked how he could be so sure he gave a true fisherman’s reply (you guess), “The biggest one got away.” So we said the biggest one is older, wiser, and still off the hook. Last week’s maxim, “Kindness is catching and if you go around with a thoroughly developed case of it, you neighbor will be sure to get it.” Grade 8 We have the largest room in school composed of eleven girls and fifteen boys. We are sorry that Josephine Rosencutter’s name was omitted from the enrollment list earlier published. Eight from our room are members of the band. They are Janet Harth, Kenneth Heiland, Ralph Marney, Carol Rafferty, Sharon Reser, Charles VanVleck, Diane Swenson and Laura Rose Stiles. Nida Magus leads the class of flag salute and the Lord’s Prayer. Diane Swenson has charge of the Almanac, and Mary Smith leads discussion on life adjustment. Our discussion topic for October is cooperation. Winners of the contest in multiplication and division by 10, 100 and 1000 were Sharon Reser, Mary Smith, Ralph Marney, and Kenneth Heiland. Mary Smith and Ralph Marney received the most votes for good citizens during the month of September. Diane Swenson and Wayne Rasch are kitchen helpers this week. Gene Irwin was first to return his dental card. Sharon Reser visited the dentist last Wednesday. Twenty-four of us got cards for passing health inspection. These pupils had September birthdays: Billy Fauerbach, Carol Rafferty, Danny Bahner, Charles VanVleck. Charles invited the class to his home for a party on his birthday. From the citizenship posters, we have studied the laws of health, self-control, and self reliance. Sixteen of us took sides with the Dodgers while five stuck with the old faithfuls. It is three apiece at this writing. East Indianola will bring two boys teams to Rossville this Friday to challenge us to softball. Next week the boys will play in a tournament at Gage Park. Some very good free-hand pencil drawings were turned in after our first art lesson last week. Many thanks to the Reporter Staff for a complimentary copy of the Rossville Reporter again this term. 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 October 6, 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 RCL0315 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/a0e7373db7fda33ea69213da5452ce73.jpg cd5afb47944f5d2cf9f7722b3230d997 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, December 8, 1955 Progress of the grades The Rossville Grade school has started a Pep Club for boys and girls of the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Mrs. Catt is our sponsor. We have elected officers, who are: Nida Mogus, President; Charlotte Decker, Vice-President; Jane Zickefoose, Secretary; Sharon Viergever, Treasurer, and a reporter from each room – Josephine Rosencutter from the eighth, Arleeta Sage from the seventh, and Judy Huston from the sixth grade. We have 32 members and four cheerleaders who are Janet Harth, Sharon Reser, Carol Rafferty, and Diane Swenson. The members are: Nida Mogus, Jane Zickefoose, Norma Klingenberg, Florence Felps, Arleeta Sage, Charlotte Decker, Judy Huston, Marie Stiles, Mary Besta, Sharon Viergever, Janet Hause, Wanda Harmon, Lynda Allen, Dorothy Jacobon, Sally Nadeau, Joleen Parr, Katherine Porter, Carol Tuller, Linda Kelsey, Judy Fauerbach, Charlene Perry, Mary Smith, Janet Kurtz, Josephine Rosencutter, Laura Stiles, Sharon Davis, Zora Wade, Joyce Swenson, Joan Dolezilek, Buddy Mogus, Larry Kurtz, John Vanderblomen, and James Wamego. We have ordered R’s and hats. The hats are going to be two colors. Our cheerleaders have blue corduroy farmerettes and gold cotton baby doll blouses with white collard. Their gold R’s, for Rossville, will go on the bib of the farmerette. Thank you, Mrs. Catt, for helping us. FIRST GRADE NEWS Those having perfect attendance for the second six weeks were Daniel Avers, Linda Bush, Mary Ent, Audery Felps, Laurel Gee, Evan Jones, Wayne Macha, Anthony Martin, Sharon Mayer, Diana Mitchell, Benjamin Mogus, Linda Parks, David Richardson, Cheryl Robinson, Linda Royal, Benjamin Stach, Rosie Stadler, Ronald Starkey, Gary Myers, Jerryl Lauber, and Cynthia Ingram. Bonnie Fauerbach, Gary Myers, and Sharon Mayer have birthdays this month. We welcome Cynthia Ingram into the first grade class. Christine McBurney has returned from Idaho so our enrollment now is 25. Visitors in our room since our last reporting have been Mrs. Andy Mogus and A.J., Yvonne Craig, H.A.W. Kesler, county superintendent, Dr. C. Henry Murphy, and Melvin Lynch. We are getting in the Christmas spirit, although our tree is not yet lit. We have a make-believe fireplace, with stockings hanging by it. We are painting Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer, and we hope that we will all hear His merry bells on Santa’s sleigh coming from far and near. We have Santa Claus wearing a bright suit and each foot is warm in a big black boot. We really have a lot to do, but we wish a very Merry Christmas to you. SECOND GRADE NEWS Those who had perfect attendance for the second six weeks are: Kathleen Becker, Robert Dolezilek, Carl Farley, Tom Foresman, Linda Gardner, Carolyn Gresser, Allen Jackson, Henry Kurtz, June Murray, Susan Nadeau, Steven Pardee, Clyde Parr, Jane Parr, Laird Reding, John Simecka, Dale Stiles, Bonnie Tuller, and Larry Wehner. In music we are practicing our songs for the Christmas program. Recent visitors in our room have been Mrs. Stiles County Superintendent, H.A.W. Kesler, Dr. C. Henry Murphy, and Melvin Lynch. Kathleen Becker, Robert Dolezilek, Carl Farley, Tom Foresman, Linda Gardner, Carolyn Gresser, Allen Jackson, Henry Kurtz, June Murray, Susan Nadeau, Steven Pardee, Jane Parr, Laird Reding, John Simecka, Dale Stiles, and Bonnie Tulller received perfect spelling lessons last Friday. We have enjoyed working on Christmas decorations and pictures for our room. Carolyn Gresser read the story of Cinderella to us last week. NEWS FROM THE 28 THIRDS Yes, we’ve added another to our class and we’re just real happy to have done so. He is Billy Streit from St. Marys. The children came back to school from the Thanksgiving vacation with many exciting events to share. We decided there were an abundance of things for which to be thankful. Now, we’re in the midst of planning the coming Christmas events. We are looking forward to a Christmas party and program and of course always the unexpected excitement. If you should come in to visit our class for awhile, you would see houses with snow-capped roofs and trees laden with snow. Using tempra paint and black crayon, the children very effectively made lovely winter pictures. It has been a pleasure to watch the children improve in the last six weeks. Most of them are finding cursive writing quite a pleasure and enjoy learning this “new” style. One of the biggest thrills, and there are many, of the school day is to hear the wonderful prayers of the children at the beginning of each day. It was a thrill to hear from the White House and the children wanted to share it with you- December 1, 1955. On October 2, we learned about the President’s birthday which was on October 14. Then Dwight brought some cards. We chose the one that we wanted to send to the President. It had a golf ball on it. And it said, “Hope this suits you to a tee.” Then we sent the card October 12. About two weeks later, we received a thank-you from the White House. It was a very nice note. The card from the White House read: The President and Mrs. Eisenhower are deeply grateful for your kind remembrance of them on his birthday. Your good wishes, coming at this time, have been very heartening to them. FOURTH GRADE We are busy decorating our room for Christmas. Plans have been made for each of us to make a book of “Christmas Ideas”. We plan to put choice poems, stories, pictures, and recipes in our books. Those of our class who celebrate birthdays in December are Jane McCollough, Daniel Gee, Kenneth Coleman, Ronald Avers, and Joe Mitchell. Jane and Daniel treated us with candy bars, which were enjoyed greatly. Those who made perfect grades in spelling all through the six-week’s period were James Fauerbach, Daniel Gee, Myrna Perry, and Linda Simecka. Those who received perfect scores on the six week’s test were Stephen Becker, Herman Bringle, James Fauerbach, Daniel Gee, Rose Mary Jacobson, Douglas Kelsey, Myrna Perry, Lillian Reser, Patrick Royal, Linda Simecka, and Marilyn Simpson. Winnders for the multiplication tables contests were as follows: those receiving blue ribbons for daily championship – James Fauerbach, John Giles, Jane McCollough, Sharon Decker, Lillian Reser, Linda Simecka. Those receiving red ribbons for group winners – Myrna Perry, Connie Zeller, Herman Bringle, Ronald Avers, James Fauerbach, Stephen Becker, Gary Hill, Larry Felps, Rose Mary Jacobson, Daniel Gee, Marilyn Simpson, Jane McCollough, Sharon Decker, Lillian Reser, Michael Martin, Donna Tuller, Linda Simecka. Dec 8, 1955. 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 December 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 RCL0316 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/9c9ebab33197e01313ec3531adbd61f2.jpg 839fb18203c7f4537fa5313a06a573f1 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, 1954, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource PROGRESS OF THE GRADES ROSSVILLE GRADE SCHOOL DECEMBER 9, 1954 SEVENTH GRADE We enjoyed a demonstration last week by Wayne Rasch and Ralph Marney showing how the force of gravity is partially overcome by the principle of the gyroscope. The boys pointed out that the principle of the gyroscope is used by ocean liners to steady the great ships as they plow through rough seas. Mrs. Bailey was our first visitor in December. She observed an oral reading class in Kansas History. Our group had fun celebrating with Nida Mogus her 13th birthday, December 1st. Thank you, Nida, for the candy bars. A good sized crowd was in attendance at our opening basketball game. Our boys had little difficulty winning over the small but scrappy boys from Auburn. Every boy on the squad saw action. December 1st as a red letter day for us, it seems. In addition to our joy in winning the ball game and our pleasure in celebrating Nida’s birthday, all the girls made perfect spelling lessons. For recognition of their special effort they enjoyed a brief gym period at the end of the class period. Safety: Realizing that the season of winter sport is upon us, the class discussed ice skating. The discussion pointed out that thin ice is very dangerous, how to test ice for thickness and ways to rescue should anyone ever fall through. A slogan composed by the class culminated the discussion: “Thin ice is strictly for mice. Don’t skate on thin ice.” EIGHTH GRADE Sharon Rosencutter spent Thanksgiving in Nebraska, Bobby Atchison in Illinois and Clifford VanVleck in Arkansas. We were proud to have Patty Coffey participate in the Shawnee county 4-H Bank in Chicago. School will be dismissed for the Holidays at 2:00 o’clock on December 22. We will take up the first Monday of January. We drew names for gift exchange. There will be a county teachers meeting in Topeka this Saturday. Douglas Martinek brought a sweet potato plant for the room. Dr. Murphy and Mr. Watson visited our school recently to inspect it for sanitation. The boys were very happy about the new basketball suits. They did them justice by winning our first game against Auburn last Wednesday evening. The mothers did a good job in helping the cheerleaders with their regalia. We will go to St. Marys to an invitational tournament this Thursday night. Last Friday, the Henmon-Nelson Test of Mental Ability was given in our room. Eddie Besta visited in our room last Friday. The kitchen helpers this week are Sally Porter and Clifford VanVleck. Wash Monitors are Sue Viergever and Leroy Dick. Raymond Rafferty will have his tonsils removed during the Holidays. We have been using our compass to make geometric designs. In social studies we listed the colleges and universities in Kansas. We were surprised to find so many. We are reminded that work will win when wishing won’t. The safety slogan insists that we drive with caution in fair weather and with double caution in foul weather. This will be our last news before the Holidays. We extend to you all the usual season’s greetings. 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 December 9, 1954 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 RCL0317 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/0dea33ee5bb077f78a5d8d2d5ab27be4.jpg 59ed82cf4af75b051959b59deb001712 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, 1954, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource EIGHTH GRADE (Nov 18, 1954) Our individual pictures sold very well. We are all looking forward to Thanksgiving vacation which will begin at dismissal on the 24th. There will be no school on Friday following the 25th. The skating party the Mothers planned for the seventh and eighth grades was really enjoyed by everyone. Our visitors during American Education Week were Mrs. Viergever, Mrs. Coe, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Perry, Mrs. Rogers and Mrs. Shannon. The assembly program by the sixth grade was very good. Mrs. Marvin Davis told us about the history of schools in Rossville. Helen Stadler leads in spelling this six weeks. Our spelling this six weeks. Our spelling grades have improved over the last six weeks. These members have recently joined our band from our room: Roger Zeller plays a sax, Raymond Rafferty the Tuba, and Jimmy Coe the clarinet. Our band is really making progress. The cup cakes Ginger Shannon made for our Halloween Party were very good. On to Jupiter and Horizons Unlimited were shown to the upper grades last Monday. They were films from General Motors. Ralph Marney and Raymond Rafferty are our movie operators this term. Raymond Rafferty was out of school one day with a cold. The four girls from our room who will be cheerleaders for the first team are Sue Viergever, Geraldine Masters, Ginger Shannon, and Helen Stadler. Patty Coffey, Sharon Rosencutter and Salley Porter will cheer for the second team. They invited Carol Rafferty to work with them. Geraldine Masters was recently fitted with a new pair of glasses. The Good Citizen vote was given to Raymond Rafferty last week. Douglas Martinek and Leroy Dick [article cut off]. 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 November 18, 1954 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 RCL0318 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/f1429fb320ae3ad63a24485410fb040d.png 21beaf1ecd19b677954fa02a86dd0060 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, 1954, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource GRADE SCHOOL NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1954 FIRST GRADE We were pleased to have so many visitors during American Education Week. The following parents and friends came to visit our room: Mrs. Wm. Farley, Mrs. Bill Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Pardee, Mrs. H.D. Richardson and David, Mr. Frank Dolezilek, Mr. and Mrs. John Simekca, Mrs. Leroy Parr, Mrs. Albert Coleman, Mrs. A.M. Sieck, Mrs. Donic Parr, Mrs. Hope Meade, Mrs. John Foresman, Mrs. C.E. Gresser, Mrs. Oliver Tuller and Dennis, Mrs. Clyde Rogers, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Gene Reding and Doris Jean. Myles Preble and Clyde Parr celebrated their birthdays recently by passing candy bars and balloons to the boys and girls. In art we made them birthday cakes. They also had their pictures taken for their mothers. Jane Parr, Bobby Dolezilek and Carl Farley visited their dentist in St. Marys and have returned their pink dental cards. We are becoming acquainted with spelling by having one easy spelling word a week. We have a Spelling Flight Chart on which our airplanes fly if we receive 100 on our words on Friday. We are happy to say all our airplanes are in the air. After Christmas we will have harder spelling lessons. All of us have finished our second pre-primer. Some of us will finish our third one this week. Larry Wehner told us of his first bus ride to Sabetha to visit his grandparents. His sisters, Helen and June, accompanied him. Steven Pardee, Dale Stiles, Bonnie Tuller, Rudy Bailey and Bobby Dolezilek were absent because of illness this six weeks. The next three weeks will find us very busy getting ready for our Christmas program, for our mothers, making gifts, decorating our room for Christmas and writing our letters to Santa Claus. We all enjoyed our Thanksgiving vacation. Some of us stayed home and had family dinners. Others journeyed quite a distance to spend the day. Aex Sieck was in Council Bluffs, Iowa, visiting his Grandmother and Grandfather Sieck over the holidays. June Murray accompanied her parents and sister to Kearney, Nebraska, Thanksgiving Day, where she spent the week end with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L.W. Murray and Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Deaver. She also visited her two great-grandmothers. John Simecka and Larry Wehner ate their Thanksgiving dinner at the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Wehner in Delia. Robert Dolezilek visited in Topeka with his brother George and family. Tom Foresman and Clyde Parr ate dinner with their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Max Lemon in Topeka. Rudy Bailey was a visitor in the home of Dr. and Mrs. S.F. Zickenfoose Thanksgiving Day. Dale Stiles had as his guests over the holidays, his aunt and uncle and cousins from Akron, Colorado. Also his grandfather from Anton, Colorado, was a guest. Myles Preble and his parents ate Thanksgiving dinner with his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. J.N. Wood. Carl Farley was also in Manhattan for the day. Jane Parr spent the day with her aunts, uncles, and little cousins at her Grandmother and Grandfather Keller at Delia. The following ate Thanksgiving dinner at home with their parents and invited guests: Larry Reding, Allen Jackson, Bonnie Tuller, Susan Nadeau, Carolyn Gresser, Steven Pardee, and Mrs. Ramey. SECOND GRADE This is where we spent Thanksgiving – Carolyn Farley went to Manhattan. Vauncille Avers spent the day with her grandparents in Burlington. Bruce Shannon went to Auburn. Daryl Mitchell visited his grandparents at Paxico. Helen Wehner ate dinner with her grandparents at Delia. Rebecca Zeller went to Kansas City. Sandra Heiland went to Topeka to be with her uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. John DeGraff and family. Laura and Parker VanVleck left Wednesday noon for Fayettville, Arkansas. Freda McCollough ate dinner with her grandmother Burton in Wamego. Gary Dick went to Springfield, MO. Charles Meade spent the day with Mr. and Mr.s Max Lemon and family in Topeka. Diane Murray visited her grandparents and great-grandmother in Kearney, Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Challis ate dinner with relatives at Garrison. Those of us who stayed at home and had company were: Virginia Stach, Donald and Ronald Harmon, Amy Jones, Dwight Martinek, Barton Larson, Artie Campbell, Henry Wade, Marilyn Trubey, Connie Bahner and Diane Cowan. Diane said there were fourteen guests at her house. We are so sorry about Mr. Baker’s and Bruce’s accident. Artie Campbell has joined the Boy Scouts. Parker VanVleck is also a member. Vauncille Avers treated us to frozen chocolate turkeys on her birthday November 20th. Marilyn Trubey, Rebecca Zeller, Helen Wehner, Henry Wade and Dwight Martinek were absent because of illness the past week. Amy Jones, Charles Meade, Carolyn Farley and Connie Bahner have returned their pink dental cards since our last news. We hope to have our Christmas decorations up very soon as our room looks so bare with our turkeys and other Thanksgiving decorations gone. The First and Second Grades have started working on a Christmas program to be given before vacation. You will be hearing more about it, so plan to come. THIRD GRADE The boys and girls in the Third Grade came back from vacation with many exciting stories to tell about their vacations. Many of them took trips or had company visiting them for Thanksgiving. The “Spelling Speedway” contest closed the last day before vacation with Linda Simecka’s race car coming in first. She hasn’t missed a spelling word since school started. Finishing close behind Linda were Douglas Kelsey and Myrna Perry. They both missed getting 100 only once. The race starts again with the start of the new six weeks period and everyone plans to move his car faster this time. We had two birthdays in the Third Grade this month; Marilyn Simpson and Pat Royal. They both treated the class with candy bars. Again it is time for grade cards and there are still 19 Third Graders who haven’t missed a day of school. The honor students for this six weeks are Jimmie Fauerbach, Da Gee, Douglas Kelsey, Myrna Perry, Marilyn Simpson, Lillian Reser, Donna Tuller, and Connie Zeller. We are now starting to work on Christmas decorations and are all looking forward to the visit from Santa Claus. FOURTH GRADE In checking our clean plate chart we find that of those eating at school regularly Judy McCollough, Bobby Stach, Jean Stiles and June Wehner have had clean plates since we started keeping the record in September. Many of the children spent Thanksgiving away from home. Richard VanVleck in going to Arkansas traveled the farthest distance. All or most of the others had company come to their house. FIFTH GRADE [notated from here forward is from December 9, 1954] Christmas spirit is showing itself in all the rooms. The fifth grade have been assigned to their parts for the assembly program which will be coming in the future. Further information as to time and date will be announced later. In the fifth grade, we’ve been working long division and some division in fractions. Improper fractions are still giving trouble to some. In English, we are building sentences and learning the different kinds of sentences. We have about 90% of the class this six weeks with an A average in spelling. Phonics and lots of practice are helping our spelling. We had a birthday in our room last week. We wish Buddy Mogus many more Happy Birthdays. Our Safety Motto is – Stop! Look! And Live! Maxim: Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. SIXTH GRADE The boys and girls in our room were very sorry to hear that Mr. Baker had to be hospitalized. We are studying hard and trying to do just what he would want us to do during his absence. We are very glad Mrs. McClellan is helping us, but we will be happy to have Mr. Baker back again. Mr. Baker had our room decorations for Christmas planned and nearly prepared before the Thanksgiving Holidays. We put up his decorations and fixed the room just the way we thought he would want it. We hope he can see it soon. We wrote letters to Mr. Baker for our English assignment Monday, December 6. Our reading class has continued our study of phonetic sounds. We have been studying prefixes and suffixes. Each student is keeping a list of words in his note book. Wanda Harmon and her parents spent Saturday in Topeka. J.W. Adams visited his Oculist Saturday and was glad to find that he had no ill effect from an eye injury received last summer. J.W. Adams and his father have completed an outdoor Christmas scene for their home. Gene and Dean Davis had a busy weekend. They helped their father repair the pony pen. They assisted their mother with some house work, and last but not least, enjoyed a visit from their grandmother, Mrs. E.P. Bahner. Wayne Miller reports that his parents have moved into the Bailey home and they are now comfortably settled. Curtis Berkey helped his father build fences and feed-troughs this weekend. Sally Nadeau attended the 4-H Achievement party in Topeka last Saturday. Don Rogers and his mother did their Christmas decorating last weekend. In the Spelling Contest for our grade the scores for last week’s total ran as follows: “Yankees” 100%, “Termites” 95% and “Indians” 96%. Mr. Baker will be happy to know that our room again has the highest percent in church attendance. We are very pleased about it, too. All of us are counting the days until Christmas – Are they sure the days before Christmas are the shortest – They seem like the longest days to us. 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 December 2, 1954 and December 9, 1954 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. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Community Library History 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 1951 Rossville Community Library News, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource LIBRARY NOTES Help! Hellup! We are broke! We need your financial assistance. During this month the citizens of Rossville and community will be asked to buy a library card or give a donation to help support the library. The Library Board, composed of Mrs. Bess Conley as chairman, Mrs. Ruth Hesse, Mrs. Juanita Cormack, Mrs. Millicent Renwan, librarian, and Mrs. Lydia Zickefoose, will solicit Library cards cost $1.00 per year for adult and high school students. Jane Rogers gave us three new books from her "Children's Literary Guild" book club; Juanita Cormack and Mrs. Renwan have added new selections from their book clubs. Date: October 4, 1951 LIBRARY NOTES The library board wishes to thank the Twin Rose Home Demonstration Unit for a five dollar donation to buy children's books. The year's budget for our library calls for $200.00. Last year we started out with a left over fund of $154.00. We sold 55 reading cards at $1.00 each. This year we must earn the total amount, therefore we must ask your assistance. Our library is a community project not just a Rossville library. Anyone within the county and trade area are welcome and urged to use it. Every six months we rent 50 juvenile books and 50 adult books. Change of books is due in November. You may buy your reading cards at the library or from the solicitors mentioned last week. All cards sold now will expire January, 1953, giving you two months of free reading. We wish to gratefully acknowledge the gift of a Rand McNally Road Atlas of the United States, Canada, and Mexico by Lester O. Parr, of Silver Lake. Mrs. Johnnie Simecka and new home [sic] last Thursday from St. Francis. George Wehner of Delia is staying at the home and caring for the family. Date: October 11, 1951 LIBRARY NOTES The Library Board is grateful for a one dollar contribution by the Countryside Club and the annual $5 contribution of the Rossville WSCS of the Methodist Church. All contributions not including money for reading cards, will be used to purchase books for the library. A pair of nylon gloves and a book on knitted and crocheted Afghans are at the library begging for an owner. Due to the tardiness of some people to return their traveling library books as requested, the two trunks of books could not be shipped on the freight train Monday forenoon. The return of books from Topeka will be delayed. There is a request for a poem, "The Trundle Bed", [sic] published years ago. Does anyone have the poem or can make suggestions where it may be found? A copy of "Little Women" by Louisa M. Alcott, has been requested. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Donavan and Patsy of Manhattan were Sunday dinner guests at the C. K. Prater home. Date: October 25, 1951 LIBRARY NOTES November 9 is the first anniversary of our community library. Have you visited thelibrary and become acquainted with our books? In addition to the library there is a ladies' rest room and lounge available on Thursday, Friday and Saturday afternoons and Saturday night. All traveling library books are DUE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3. Two or three books were stamped November 8. Will you please return them November 3 so I can check and pack them to return to Topeka? Kenneth Olson recently added books to our growing collection. We have over 700 besides the 100 rented from Topeka. Some new ones will be added soon. Many additional readers have bot [sic] reading cards and are using the library since our drive to sell cards this Fall. Date: November 1, 1951 LIBRARY NOTES The Traveling Library books from Topeka are here for both adults and juveniles. "The Long, Long Trailer" by Clinton Twiss. This is a true and very funny story of a trailer that grew and grew. Mr. Twiss, who is known to thousands of radio listeners says "You'd have to live in a trailer to know what it means to write with the vacuum cleaner running and your wife urging you to move while she takes the pie out of the oven. Read it and have a good laugh." We have "Winter Wedding" by Martha Barnhart Harper, reviewed this week by Edith Higginbotham in her pleasing style. This companion volume to Mrs. Harper's popular "Bittersweet" is a cheerful, homey story. The heroine is a teacher who leaves her Pennsylvania home in 1865 and goes West to Iowa, lives with relatives and finds romance. Mrs. Phyllis Babicki donated this book. Date: October 18, 1951 LIBRARY NOTES To those persons owing fines or overdue library books, will you please call at the library this week end? The state and federal library reports are due in January. It takes time to make our reports to send them. We are pleased to report that Santa Claus must have heard us wish for a new calendar for the Community Center for here came a calendar from the Farmers Union, special delivery by Perry Stumbaugh. Thanks, Perry. Happy New Year to all the readers, friends and supporters of our growing Library. Date: December 27, 1951 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 October 4, 1951 October 11, 1951 October 18, 1951 October 25, 1951 November 1, 1951 December 27, 1951 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 RCL0320a RCL0320b RCL0320c RCL0320d RCL0320e RCL0320f http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/413b9c4de79f8949eb73bd78859cfee9.jpg 60062de72dd315f757ef0b3bf1d18052 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 Profiles of Local Persons, Rossville, Kansas 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 Bess Divine Baird, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource Personalities You Should Know People who have come and gone from Rossville in the past 31 years probably have had opportunity of meeting Bess Divine Baird. Bess has operated the Divine Cafe at the same location these entire 31 years. Mrs. Jake Baird came to Rossville in the year 1919 from Kansas City. Mo. After arriving here she worked for about a year at the Golden Belt Cafe which some old-timers can remember. Later she opened up a dry cleaners and laundry in the building now housing the cafe. A short time later she changed the laundry business to the cafe she has operated ever since. Good-natured Bess has met every kind of person you could think of in her cafe. Bess says she has dished out about everything and has taken about everything. She has the record of being the third longest in business in Rossville. C. E. Gresser has been in business here the longest at the Peoples State Bank, she said, and William Hesse of Hesse Lumber Co is the second, having been in business just about a week before she was. The Divine Cafe has long been the “old faithful” on Main street. For many years it has been the coffee break stop for businessmen and the heaping plates of home-cooked food for the workers. Mrs. Baird is a member of the Royal Neighbors and the Silver Lake American Legion Auxiliary. 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 March 15, 1956 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 article Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0394 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/d815f51bf0305d98502fa77ff210fbaf.jpg 3e70092c31afb2fb5f1035b8b451cd72 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 Profiles of Local Persons, Rossville, 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 Bob Bixby's Alligator, 1956, Rossville, Kansas Subject The topic of the resource Pets Description An account of the resource J June 14, 1956 “SEE you LATER, ALLIGATOR…” Kansas State Sigma Nu member harbors strange mascot here When you say, “See You Later, Alligator” to Bob Bixby, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bixby of Rossville, you may be saying just what it implies. Bixby has been seen around town with a real live alligator. The alligator is the mascot of the Sigma Nu fraternity house of which Bixby is a member in Manhattan. During the summer vacation, Bixby has volunteered to take care of it. "Beauregard", as it's named, is about 3 1/2 years old and is about three feet long, from nose to tail. "It's just billfold size", Bob says. Beauregard's sex has not been determined but if he lives long enough the Sigma Nu's could have a pet that measures 12 to 14 feet in length. The ’gator became the Sigma Nil mascot when Jim Krome of Mississippi City, Mississippi, caught it in a swamp end brought it to his fraternity following the Christmas holiday. Beauregard is allowed to run free in Krome’s room at night. Part of the time the house mother has had her bathtub used to wet the ’gator which they usually do once a day. Rawlings Pint Size Super will have the alligator on dis¬play this Friday and Saturday. Bob Rawlings, proprietor of the store believed everyone would be interested in seeing Beauregard, especially the kid¬dies. Bixby is keeping Beauregard at his grandfather’s place east of town. A special pen has been ar¬ranged in order to keep him home and not scare the neighbors. He is fed meat scraps and lettuce but, being a reptile, he stores his food in his tail for a reserve and doesn’t need to eat but once every few days. [CAPTION 1:] Beauregard, mascot of Bob Bixby’s fraternity, Sigma Nu, seems to smile, a daring to get closer. When asked if Beauregard has ever bitten anyone, Bixby said, “Nobody has ever given him a chance to.” [CAPTION 2:] Bob Bixby, who handles the alligator like the ‘gator enjoyed being handled likes to show the needle sharp teeth it has. Beauregard, who is relatively untamed, would not perform for the photographer even with Bixby’s coaxing. If he could talk he would surely have said, “After while, Crocodile.” Reporter Photo 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 14, 1956 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource The Rossville Reporter has given us copyright license. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All rights reserved Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Type The nature or genre of the resource RCL0404 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/5451575414548ab48635a032a10e9c17.jpg 33a7a50b5599d5b928a937c96c8e94a1 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 Historic Farm Photos Description An account of the resource Historic farm photos taken in Republic County, Kansas. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Belleville Public Library 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 Edward and Eugenia Jacobson 50th Wedding Anniversary Subject The topic of the resource Farming Description An account of the resource Edward and Eugenia Jacobson celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary in front of original farmstead, 1 1/2 miles south and 1 1/2 miles east of Norway, Kansas, circa 1880-1890. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Russell Jacobsen, Jr. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Belleville Public Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Circa 1880-1890 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elaine Jacobson Plowman Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All rights reserved Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpg. Type The nature or genre of the resource Photo Farmhouses Farming Republic County http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/7f6f43fc53e41f882f8e70b15e0469c7.jpg 2a0c02e51aff9b8fe0d27b94e55ef769 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 Historic Farm Photos Description An account of the resource Historic farm photos taken in Republic County, Kansas. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Belleville Public Library 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 Jacobson Farmhouse Subject The topic of the resource Farming Description An account of the resource Boy and goat in front of Jacobson farmhouse, 1 ½ miles south and 1 ½ miles east of Norway, Kansas. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Russell Jacobson, Jr. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Belleville Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elaine Jacobson Plowman Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All rights reserved Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpg. Type The nature or genre of the resource Photo Children Farming Livestock Republic County