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Mr. LaVerne H. Spears was born on a farm near Wamego, Kansas, on September 20, 1906. He married Edna Vilven in 1927. They moved to Rossville, Kansas, in 1928. He was mayor from 1955-1965. He was elected to the Kansas State Legislature in 1964 and…

Mr. LaVerne H. Spears was born on a farm near Wamego, Kansas, on September 20, 1906. He married Edna Vilven in 1927. They moved to Rossville, Kansas, in 1928. He was mayor from 1955-1965. He was elected to the Kansas State Legislature in 1964 and…

LaVerne Spears is sitting in a stock tank fully clothed with nice shoes on after getting dunked. It was part of the Tall Corn Festival in Rossville, Kansas.

Caption from this 1950 Lawrence Journal-World picture reads:

WIN TITLE AGAIN—For the second year the Tonganoxie baseball team captured the C. C. Carl league championship. They finished the season with 15 wins against one defeat. They are (top row…

Photo from 1910

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…

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

[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…

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…

Letter from Andrew Carnegie in response to Coffeyville's request for a grant to build a library for Coffeyville's citizens. Dated January 6, 1911.

Transcription:

Andrew Carnegie, New York
January 6, 1911

Mayor George…