Kyser--Lewis Wedding

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Howard Courant
November 16, 1911

KYSER--LEWIS

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Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Lewis, Clay Center, Ks., announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Myrtle Lewis to J. Lewis Kyser of Howard, on Tuesday, November 14, 1911.  Mr. and Mrs. Kyser will be at home in Howard after December 15.

The bride has lived in Howard the greater part of her life and is an accomplished and popular young woman.  Mr. Kyser is Register of Deeds of Elk County and a prosperous young farmer and stockman of Greenfield township.

This entire community joins the Courant in wishing Mr. and Mrs. Kyser a long happy and useful wedded life.

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Howard Courant
November 23, 1911

From the Clay Center Dispatch:  At 9:30 this morning, at the residence of Dr. M. W. Harner, Miss Myrtle Lewis, daughter of Mr.and Mrs. S. D. Lewis, who make their home with Dr. Harner and J. Lewis Kyser of Howard, Elk County, were united in marriage.  Rev. J. W. Bayles of the First Baptist church performed the wedding service, following which there was an elaborate breakfast served the assembled guests.

Then, the congratulations all extended and the good-byes worded, the bridal couple entered the doctor's automobile for transportation to the Rock Island depot, the intention being to board the 11:15 train for Topeka and Kansas City, but things went wrong to an extent truly surprising.  The doctor for the first time in his life lost his way in broad daylight and the train was missed.  But the couple missed other things, too, for the depot platform had been liberally strewn by some kind friend wth bills announcing the event that had just occurred, giving details and a short historical sketch of the bride and groom and other little matters along this line had been well attended to. Their auto had been duly decorated also, rather gaudily for such a staid, quiet, well behaved machine.

The impromtu parade having been concluded and the display properly applauded by an appreciative populace , it was up to the doctor as to the one to be blamed for their defeated effort to board a train here to see that they caught up, so away they sped for Manhattan.  They were to catch a train, any old train, moving in any old direction.  It was the doctor's day off and he didn't care where they landed and neither did the newly wedded couple in his charge, so the last Clay saw of them was a bright streak stretching southeastward.

Seriously, Mr. and Mrs Kyser are a fine young couple. The bride, a sister-in-law of Dr. Harner, is an accomplished musician, a graduated nurse, and a young lady of grace and sweetness.  The groom, a lifelong friend of the doctor, is Register of Deeds of Elk County, an official so popular among his people that he has twice turned an adverse party majority of about four hundred in to a personal majority of about three hundred.  Besides that, he is a large land owner and cattle raiser, as fine a business man and gentleman as they make.