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Rollie and Alice McCaffery with children, Chuck and Bob McEnulty. This photo was taken in the McEnulty front yard at 300 E. Third St. The Grade School and High School can be seen in the background.

(L-R): Johnny Bartlett and Charles "Hack" McEnulty, Sr. in the McEnulty backyard at 300 East Third St.. In the shadow of the iconic Tonganoxie water tower. Bartlett owned grocery stores in Tonganoxie and McLouth. McEnulty was the manager of the…

The Baptists in Rossville, Kansas, built a small church on Spruce Street and dedicated this church on February 29, 1880. For a few years after that the Baptist, Christian, Presbyterian, and Methodist shared this building—each having the use of it one…

Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

W.M. Oaks
Holton, Kas.

Back: W.M. Oaks, Photo. Artist, Holton, Kansas.

Back inscription: H.M. Bailey
[other illegible notes]

W.R. Ireland, Holton, Kans.

[If the children of Herbert Bailey, then most likely these three are Elsie, Myrtle, and Arthur]

Dr. Robert S. Gabbey was born May 4, 1833, in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, and married Annie Welton in 1854. He was appointed the Rossville, Kansas, government physician in 1861 and was the first justice of the peace appointed in 1867. He applied…

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Future business outlook good

Future business outlook for Shawnee County appears to be on the better side. Regardless of what the recent tele¬vision show “The Land” said about small towns in Kansas dying, those in Shawnee County…

"Now is the time when corn needs water. If the water does not come from above, it must come from below, through irrigation," Herb Bulk, Shawnee County agent said in outlining plans for the annual irrigation tour in Shawnee County.

Bulk said a…