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Rossville Has a New
Agri-Business
Representative
Dean Davis recently took over the DeKalb dealership which Curt Berkey had for many years. He will be selling corn and milo seed. Davis farms 400 acres and has an 80-head registered Hereford cattle…

Campbell Nominee for Young Farmer Award

Art L. Campbell, 32, a Rossville farmer, will be among the nominees for the Kansas Jaycees’ Outstanding Young Farmer Award to be hosted to a weekend at Emporia February 15-17, 1980. The winners in the…

Mr. Cyrus W. Higginbotham was one of the earliest settlers of Shawnee County and Rossville township and one of the founders of Rossville, Kansas.

The Kerr & Higginbotham Mercantile later became Hartzell & Tatman Drug Store, which burned in 1917.

This is a portrait of Grace Eversole in the fifth grade. Her adult portrait is RCL0078, which is reflected on the back of this picture from being stacked together.

She helped start the Home Demonstration Unit, later known as the Extension Homemakers Unit, for Rossville, Kansas.

The J. Thomas Lumber Company started in Rossville in the 1880s. James B. Hall was manager for several years and in 1909 Mr. Vawter became manager. William Hesse started work at the yard in 1925, and in 1932 bought a half interest in the business and,…

C.C. McPherson opened the McPherson Livery barn in October of 1879. In 1883, he kept three buggies, two spring wagons and nine head of horses. He expanded his business to house more in the early 1900s and had a “carry-all” which was particularly…