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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…

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…

VALLEY HO!
ST. MARYS [KANSAS] STAR
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1975
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Shelter House Serves as Temporary Church
Since early in July, Mass has been celebrated in the shelter house in the city park of Rossville, and sometimes under a large tree in…

Thursday, February 16, 1978

Farmers Meet with Legislators
AREA FARMERS met with representatives February 8, at the Mainstreeter Restaurant in Rossville. The purpose of the meeting was to update farmers on the two bills coming up for passage by…

Photo by Belinda Driscoll
Joe and Doris Fairbanks, Rossville, show off their peony blossoms this spring. Finally, after four or five years, the small bushes have produced the most beautiful bright pink flowers. The blooms are unusual because of…

Caption 1: Don Rogers and his son, Jared, are inside the new Balderson hog house recently set up on his farm just south of Rossville. The Rogers, in conjunction with Balderson Construction Company in Beatrice, Nebr. will hold an open house Thursday…

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.