Tyro Telegram from Tyro, Kansas • 1

Toro Telegram. VOLUME I--NO. 16 TYRO, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, KANSAS, DECEMBER 30. 1909 $1.00 PER YEAR Our town enjoyed a merry Xmas withstanding the sleet, snow and ice. The Xmas program at the M.

E. church was quite a success The praise and adoration drill by Mrs. Arthur Holland's class especially was something of interest. Miss Ora Lamberson of Oolagah is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

M. K. Patrick this week. Arthur Holland, wife and Miss Millie Holmes spent Xmas with Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Lowrey. Rev. Higgins was kicked by a horse and broke his right leg. Mrs. Dr.

Fatman returned Thursday night from a few weeks visit with her father. Mr. and Mrs. K. Patrick was in Bartlesville shopping Thursday.

Mrs. L. Read returned Sunday from Webster City, Mo. where she spent Xruas with her mother. Grant Hall is home from Kansas City Medical school to spend vacation with his parents.

Emmet Dowel returned Friday from the orphans school at Tahlequah to spend vacation his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs Higgins. A fine boy at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Starr.

Bro. Hobbs will begin a revival in the Myses building, Jan. 7th. Good Schools The patrons of our city schools have more than ordinary reasons to be proud of the schools being conducted in our city this winter. If there is a city in the state that has a better, more energetic corps of teachers, we would like to hear of it.

The results they are getting are the basis for this statement. As the scriptures say 'by their fruits shall ye know them'. Especially do we feel proud of the way Prof. Dunbar is conducting the high school, he has all the work he can do, and is doing it in the very best manner and is enthusing his pupils to do a class of work perhaps never before done in the schools here. The above taken from the Mound Valley Journal is a most excellent recommend of Prof.

Dunbar and shows that he is a most efficient yonng man and doing good work among his scholars. He is a son of Mrs. J. W. Scovel, who lives north of town.

Prof. Dunbar is also a member of the Dunbar Brothers Real Estate Firm here. For Congress For Congress I bereby announce my candidacy for the Republican nomination for Congress from this District at the primaries next August, on an antiCannon- Aldrich platform. I stand for a downward revision of the tariff on the necessaries of life and on trust controlled articles as sugar and lumber, and for a revision of the rules of the House of Representatives, and for Republican pol icies according to Western ideas of fairness. ARTHUR CRANSTON, Parsons, Kansas.

Member Legislature, 1909. Mr. and Mrs. E. E.

Love of Peru spent Christmas at the home of Mr. and Mrs Geo. Park. Mr. Love informs us that the portioning of Peru which was burned recently will be rebuilt as soon as possible.

Personal Mention And Other Items of Interest in the City and Vicinty L. E. Gray left Thursday for Arroll, Mo. Mrs. H.

C. Defenbaugh has returned from her visit. E. A. Denny was a business caller in Caney yesterday.

C. Oliver of Peru was a visitor i in town Saturday. W. Lester has been on the sick list for the past week. Herold Lester spent a few days last week with his parents.

Mrs. R. L. Teegarden was a caller in Independence Wednesday. O.

E. Winkler was a Christmas visitor at the home of his parents. Dr. Gamble, the dentist will be at Tyro, Saturday, January 1, 1910 Mrs, W. A.

Bunton of Coffey. ville spent Xmas at the Denny home. Earl Dabney and brother, Chas. were visitors in town the first of the week. Miss Stella Black and brother, Harry were visitors in Coffeyville Saturday.

Dr. C. B. Core of Iola was in town in the interests of the W. O.

W. Mouday. George Moran of Dewey, Okla, was a Christmas visitor at the D. Deloe home. D.

A. Dabney of Independence was a business caller in town Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. R. A.

Lockridge who has been ill for the past four weeks is able to be out again. The turkey shoot was held Fri day but owing to the bad weather not very many came out. Rev. J. W.

Meyers, an evanglist will begin a series of meetings in the Union church Sunday night. The Caristmas trees and enter. tainments were very good and everybody reports a very nice time Mr. and Mts. A.

L. Deuel of Mullinsville are spending the holidays in town with friends and tives. B. Gregg deputy State manager for the Homsteaders is in town on bus ness in the interests of the order, Mr. and Mrs.

O. M. Burk of Topeka are visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. 'and Mrs. E.

A. Denny. Prof. B. H.

Dunbar of Mound Valley is spending the holidays in town. also looking after business matters. The new telephone directories are now ready for distribution and patrons may have one by calling at the central office. Dr. Gamble, the dentist will be at Tyre, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, January 1st 3rd and 4th.

Don't forget the dates. Miss Laura Chadwick who is attendiug school in Kansas City is spending the holidays with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Chadwick. A baby was born to Mr.

and Mrs. Wm. Mason Sunday mornbut lived only a few hours The little one was buried Monday afternoon in Harrisonville etery. Dr. Gamble, the dentist at Tyro, Saturday, January 1st, 3rd and 4th.

W. V. Koger was called to Weathers, Ark. Monday by the serious illness of his brother, Dent, who has pneumonia fever. Cards ate out announcing the approaching marriage of Miss Effel May Mathis to Mr.

Chas. Wednesday, January 5th, at the home of her parents, Mr. aud Mrs. Chas. Mathis, The Homesteaders lodge will give a free oyster supper at their next regular meeting night, Jan.

11, 1910. All members have the privilege of bringing oue friend with them. The Homesteaders pay 21 accident benefits beside the old age and death benefit. You don't have to die to win. OBITUARY.

MRS. F. M. KOGER Our community was draped in deepest mourning Tuesday when the sad intelligence of the death of one of our most highly respected pioneer citizens Mrs. Thursey Jane Denney Koger was reported.

Mrs. Koger was born in Kentucky Oct. 10th 1840. She was united in marriage with F. M.

Koger, later moving to Kansas where she has lived ever since. To this union ten children were born; Three having died in infancy, seven, with their father, F. M. Koger are left to mourn her loss. The children living are W.

V. Koger, Juda Koger, Mrs Ollie Snell and Dent Koger of Tyro Nannie Cox of Cordell Oklahoma, Mary Hoyes of Dubuque Iowa and F. B. Koger of Colorado Springs; also one sister in Kentucky. Mrs.

Koger 1 was one of the most highly esteemed ladies in this community for her kindly nature and the love of her creator. Many rel.tives as well as a host of friends mourn her loss. The family have the heartfelt sympathy of all who know them. Funeral arrangements have not been definitely settled until word comes from the bedside of her son, Dent, who ill at Weathers, Ark. EXERCISE ON THE STAGE.

Nowadays, when there is so much talk of the distance run by a football player in the course of a match it may interest readers to know the distance walked by an actress on the stage in the course of a piece, says a writer in the Strand Magazine. I have taken for example the "East Lynne," and selected the well-known part of Lady Isobel and Mme. Vine, as played by Miss Warner. I marked on a chart the actual crosses made in the course of three acts out of the five in which she takes part; in the other two she is practically stationary. The distance covered amounts to 262 yards, well over an eighth of a mile, and, adding that to the distance backward and forward from the dressing room, one sees that an actress' work is not all talk, as so many people imagine.

WILL GO FOR CENTURIES. There have been many attempts to solve the secret of perpetual motion. The nearest approach to that, ideal--though its inventor makes no claim to have discovered it--is a timepiece devised by the Hon. R. J.

Strutt, Lord Raleigh's son, which consists of two leaves of aluminum, an exhausted glass tube, and a fraction of a radium. The radioactivity of the radium causes the aluminum leaves to move once 8 minute, and with a wireless coherer a bell rings at each movement. For 10,000 years at least the wonderful energy inherent in the microscopic piece of radium will, it is calculated, continue to act, and nothing whatever needs to be done to the clock once it is set Gazette. Labors Met with Poor Financiar Reward. Stephen Phillips, the English poet and playwright, has gone into bankruptcy.

His liabilities are $3,000 in excess of his assets. Mr. Phillips is the author of the best, perhaps the only genuine tragedies written in the English language for a generation or more. "Herod," which is now being played in New York, seems to be recognized as having the elevation, the essential significance, the poetic simplicity and beauty of real tragedy. Since civilization began the number of tragedies produced is few indeed.

The value of these few to the human race is very great. Without attributing the highest value to Stephen Phillips' work relatively to the few great tragedies, yet the fact that his plays may be included in the category of tragedy at all gives them absolute value of a high order. As such they contribute immensely to the welfare, real knowledge and elevated happiness of mankind. Nevertheless, Stephen Phillips has gone into bankruptcy. The report is that he is absolutely ignorant of the value of money.

Many men in love with the best have no idea of the exchange value of commodities. They have no time or energy to acquire the wisdom of the world. HIS BITTER REBUKE. The dinner had not gone at all well. The waiter was slow, the food was cold, and the cooking was bad.

The guest in the German restaurant was of a naturally peevish disposition anyhow, and he complained vigorously to the head waiter, and especially complained of the waiter at his table. As he was leaving the waiter said humbly: "If you only knew vat a hardt time us vaiters hat, you would nicht be so hardt." "But," said the guest, "why be a waiter?" "Vot else couldt I do?" asked the waiter. "Well," said the guest, "up at the Metropolitan opera house they pay a man five dollars a night to play the oboe. You might try that." "Budt," said the waiter, "I don't know how to blay dot oboe." "What is the difference?" observed the guest as he turned away leaving a much mystified waiter. "You don't know how to waiter, either; you might scatter your A MUSICAL MYSTERY.

"She shall have music wherever she goes," is literally true of a 14- year-old girl who is puzzling the doctors at Brinkley, Cambridgeshire village, Eng. Although she does not wear rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, this country lap emits musical sounds, faintly resembling an orchestra, or as if she had swallowed a gramaphone. These mysterious sounds can be heard wherever the girl happens to be; if she is upstairs the music can be heard in the lower rooms, and so on. The mysteriously-gifted girl cannot explain the origin of the harmony in her interior; she is "certain she never swallowed a mouth organ." A medical theory is that she suffers from "spasmodic District No. 75 A silver medal matrons contest is to be held at West Brown's Sat.

urday night, Jan. 1, 1910. Bert Phillips had the misfortune Thursday to have his team ran away with a load of corn as he was moving in this district on the 0. Evans' place. His wagon was pretty well torn up and he was burt falling on his head and was unconcious for some time.

Chas Akers was in this district Monday to see about renting a farm. The Grandma Messersmith place where be lived was sold. Perry Fields visited his cousin, Frank Messersmith, Sunday night. Perry expects to start to school in Oklahoma soon. Miss Arvilla Preston the teacher of the West Brown school, with scholars attended our school exer.

cises Friday afternoon. Our teacher, Otto Anderson is visiting his brother. James and family in Independence during the holidays. Grandma and Grandpa Messersmith was in Coffeyville Monday and expected to start for their home in Indiana Tuesday. Sunday school was organized at the school house Sunday afternoon and is to be held at 3 o'clock.

Everyone cordially invited. State Line J. V. Tanner and Mr. Beal were buying State Line oats Monday.

A. B. Gregg, deputy State Man. ager for the Homesteader was a visitor at the Fields home. He reports eleven new members at the last meeting.

Miss Todd's Christmas program was fine. She had treats for all the pupils and half the visitors. The tree was a beauty and was well filled. Mesdames Herring, Rhinehart, Ray and Fields, Misses Ray, Rhinebart and Elfa Fields were visitors and Charles Smith furnished music. The reunion of the Ellis family was held at the fields home Xmas day.

There was a tree laden with presents for all. Twenty- four were present and all had a good time. Perry Fields enjoyed sharing the wedding dinner of his friends, Blanche Cook and Onis Reynolds. Ada Young was maid of honor at the wedding. The Ray family spent Christmas day and night with Mrs.

Ray's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bording of Caney. Misses Blanche and Jeannette Overfield are spending vacation week at home. Miss Ada Young spent Saturday night at the home of her friend, Elfa Fields and both attended Sunday school at the M.

E. church Sunday morning. Carl Rhinehart is visiting among State Line friends this week. School did not convene this week owing to the fact that Prof. cock received word that his father, Nelson Hitchcock was very seriously ill at home in Waterloo, Ia.

and had to go to his bedside. Late report states that his father is improving and that he will return in time to commence school Monday..