Roger Mills County...100 years ago

            Quite a number of good looking “School Marms” and “School Misters” that are not so good looking are in town this week taking the annual examination for teachers’ certificates.  Another railroad is headed this way and it is backed by the Rock Island System. Cheyenne is bound to have a railroad sooner or later. Save your corncobs; they make fuel. Jay Moeller and son of Hamburg, O.T. has a self-feed corn sheller and will come to your crib and shell your corn. Your cobs will more than pay for the shelling. The corn must be husked. They use a gasoline engine.

             Sayre won out over Elk City in the temporary location of the county seat of the new county of Beckham. O. Short, living some three miles west of town, lost two of his children from diphtheria last week within 5 hours of each other. They were 5 and 7 years old; and were buried in one coffin and grave at the cemetery Sat. Two other small children of Mr. Short’s have been down with the same dread disease, but we are glad to say that they are improving.

            James Cauble, an old resident of Cheyenne, was instantly killed at the site of the new bridge on Sgt. Major on Tuesday last. They are building a new bridge across this creek near the Leary place and Mr. Cauble was working on the same. He was engaged at the time of the accident in digging a trench for the foundation when without warning the bank caved in, burying him under about three feet of dirt. When removed, a few minutes later, he was dead and from the condition of the body when recovered, it was thought that death was instantaneous. Mr. Cauble was an old settler of the Cheyenne country and was well known by all. He leaves a widow and three small children and hosts of friends to mourn his untimely taking away. Funeral services were held Wednesday and remains interred in the Cheyenne cemetery.

            Members of the WCTU meet the first and third Friday. Members are Mrs. Dr. Miller, Mrs. Ella Hodges, Mrs. Ruth Bonner, Mrs. S.A. Wallace, and Mrs. J.F. Sims.

            Cheyenne Public Schools close their fourth month on January 11 with total enrolment of 179. Average daily attendance 129. Pupils ranking highest in their respective grades: Tenth-Olive Pascal, Jewel Miller, Pearl Huff and Hilary Warren. Ninth-Captola Reynolds, Nannie West, Rex Curry. Eighth-Viola Pascal, Chester Tracy, Grace Blackburn. Sixth-Alice Montague, Nona Dewey, Frances Montague. Fifth-Katie Leary, Vivian Burger, Jessie Tunnard. Fourth-Margie Falconer, Eddie Tracy, Lee Reynolds. Third-Julia Tracy, Oran Hasse, Katherine Falconer. Second-Marguerite Goode, Winnie Kendall, Andrew Tunnard. First-Arthur Dunlap, Sarah Thornton, James Montague, Graham Leary. Kin-dergarten-Roy Cunningham, Lloyd Stahl, Iris Campbell.

   Cheyenne Star Jan 24, 1907