ixteen years of age
and has been a Bible teacher forty years.

ANNA L. JANUARY.

Osawatomie claims Anna L. January, the author of "Historic Souvenir of
Osawatomie, Kansas," "John Brown Battle Grounds," "Calvin Monument," and
"Lookout and Park;" also, numerous poems.

Mrs. January is a native of Wilmington, Ohio, coming to Kansas in 1898.
She taught school three years and in 1901 married D. A. January of
Osawatomie. They have one child, a son of four years. An active worker
in the Congress of Mothers and interested in temperance and suffrage
work, Mrs. January still finds time to write many short poems.

HATTIE HORNER LOUTHAN.

Hattie Horner Louthan, a former White Water, Kansas girl, is the author
of five books and many contributions to newspapers and first class
magazines. After graduation at the Normal School, Emporia, in 1883,
Miss Horner engaged in teaching and literary work. Ten years later, she
became the wife of Overton Earl Louthan, who died in 1906.

She is editor of the Great Southwest and a member of the staff of the
Denver Republican. Her first volume of poems came out in 1885; the next
year, "Some Reasons For Our Choice." "Not At Home," a book of travels,
was published in 1889; "Collection of Kansas Poetry," in 1891; and
"Thoughts Adrift," in 1902. Her work is versatile; the rhyme easy
flowing and strong.

GEORGIANA FREEMAN McCOY. and MARY FREEMAN STARTZMAN.

Georgiana Freeman McCoy, Wichita, has taught music in Kansas longer
than any other teacher in the state and incidentally writes verse. She
remodeled Elizabeth Browning's "A Drama of Exile" and wrote the musical
setting for Simon Buchhalter, the Viennese pianist and composer. A
sister, Mary Freeman Startzman, while living in Fort Scott, wrote a
volume of poems, "Wild Flowers."

EVA MORLEY MURPHY.

Eva Morley Murphy of Goodland, recent candidate for Congress, is author
of two books: "The Miracle on the Smoky and Other Stories," and "Lois
Morton's Investment."

She is a descendant of Nathaniel Perry of Revolutionary fame, and of
Rodger Williams; an active temperance worker; and one of the women who
made equal suffrage possible in Kansas.

SALLIE F. TOLER.

Mrs. Sallie F. Toler, Wichita, has written on every subject from pigs
and pole cats to patriotism. She is the author of several plays and
three vaudeville sketches. A comedy, a racing romance, "Handicapped;"
"Thekla," a play in three acts; "On Bird'