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

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.

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

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

A group of people, mostly children, gathered in front the old Rossville Presbyterian Church in the winter of 1914. The old Presbyterian church was built around 1883. It was made of red bricks which were made at a brick kiln located at the east edge…

Mrs. C.C. McPherson was elected Rossville, Kansas, councilwoman in 1889 on an all-woman ticket.

Mr. William Cyrus Baylis was the first Rossville, Kansas, rural route mail carrier.

Bill Murray and his wife, Betty, purchased the Rossville Reporter in March of 1953, after the Navarres retired. The name was changed to The Shawnee County Reporter. The Murrays sold the paper in 1967 to the Pictorial Times, a Topeka paper. Their…