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The Rossville Community Library- A Look at Its Past, the Present, and its Future
Page 5 St. Marys Star October 5, 1993
PART I
by Dorothy N. Hoobler
When the Rossville Community Library at 407 Main was dedicated in late November
1968, no one…

The Shawnee County Reporter, Rossville, Kansas
March 15, 1962, Page 15

Shawnee County Beef Tour Scheduled

Beef cattle in Shawnee County have a value of approximately four million dollars. Anyone would agree that this is a sizable industry. …

SHAWNEE COUNTY REPORTER
Thursday, April 2, 1959, Page 9


Fighter Jess Willard’s retirement


Jess Willard who was born in St. Clere, Kansas, and is remembered by some of the old-timers here as a horse-trader and livery stable operator at…

DEATH ENDS IT

Honeymoon of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith is Over. He With Two Others Killed at Crossing. STOPS A MARRIAGE. Other Two Victims to Have Been United Sunday. Maggie Marney and Edward Smith Find Union in Death. ONLY ONE IS ALIVE. Mrs.…

Miss Lola Marie Boyles is eight months old in this portrait. She was born March 7, 1908. It is from the collection of Mabel Boyles, who was from Rossville, Kansas.

This photo of J. Laverne Zlatnik and his wife, Velma F. Zlatnik, was taken at the Kansas Day Celebration at the Delia Grade School in 2001.

John Howerton was elected as a Republican to represent the 37th district in the State Legislature in 1905. He served one term.

Mr. Howerton was born in Morgan County, Kentucky in 1838 and was reared on a Kentucky farm. He had a powerful physical…

David Millington Howard was elected to the State Legislature as Representative of the 37th District in 1890 and served two additional terms. He was a member of the Progressive Democrat Party.

Mr. Howard, a prominent citizen and successful farmer…

Adrian Cyrus (A.C.) Sherman was elected State Representative from the 37th district in 1892 and 1894 as a Republican.

He was born in 1847 at Mount Pleasant, Indiana. At the age of 15, he enlisted in Company E, 18th Indiana Infantry, and…

W.W. Ross was born in 1828 in Huron, Ohio. His parents, Sylvester and Cynthia Ross, were youthful pioneers on the Western Reserve of Ohio and were originally from the New England States. Ross was deprived of formal schooling as he grew up in the Ohio…