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MARY FREEMAN STARTZMAN.


Georgiana Freeman McCoy, Wichita, has
taught music in Kansas longer than any other
teacher in the state and incidently 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.''

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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.