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Entertainment took on many forms at the County Fair. Here spectators watch acrobats perform as the band provides music. Bands from surrounding towns each had their day to entertain, including the Fort Riley Army Band.
"Sylvan Fair" written on…

Back inscription: Ray Keller
[illegible notes]
Front of photo: Momma (is Lillie Bland Keller)

Other members are possibly the children of Herbert Milton Bailey (and cousins to Lillie Bland Keller)

Louisburg Elementary School class comes to visit the Louisburg Library

Clara Nell German and Donna Rearick pose with one of the new computers the Louisburg Library added to it's system

Mark Wirth leveling on their farm, 1964.

Leo Dale Berry and Carl Rupin recognized the potential of irrigation and the benefits it would have to their current grain business. In 1953 they formed the Berry Irrigation Company and shipped the first carload of aluminum pipe to Kansas. In 1954…

[caption] MRS. LENA REDING visited with a friend at a reception in her honor.
Photo by Belinda Driscoll
As I Look Back


by Lena Reding
Fifteen years ago on April 8, 1971, I became librarian at the Rossville Community Library. I was…

Republic County, Kansas citizens were asked to tell stories of their lives as they lived and remembered them.

On March 9, 1869 a joint resolution of Congress authorized the changing of the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division's name to the Kansas Pacific Railway Company.; Although all of the photographs published in Across the Continent on the…

Photo from 1910