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Calumet Weekly Criterion
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Published at 217 North Harvey Street. Oklahoma City. Okla., by The Suburban Newspaper Publishing Company
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SI.(Mi I'ER YKAK.
CLARA THOMPSON,
Local Editor.
Only forty-four days until Christmas.
Did the elections suit you?
Two weeks from today is Thanks-
giving day, the 24th.
\V. A. Brooks is having a cash sale
at his store.
The merchants all have well stocked
counters and shelves now. If you are
thinking c t" buying any winter duds
look over their stocks before buying.
They can suit you and their prices are
right.
John and Will Hoyer were Calumet
visitors last Friday.
The Presbyterian minister will
preach at the church Sunday. Every-
body is invited to come.
lowe'en even for grown up folks and
a mystic influence will be felt through
ages yet to come and on one should
hi' so easily offended when things are
changed just a little once a year.
Mr. Pan Sweeney was an El Reno
visitor.
Mr. and .Mrs. Clarence Reed vis-
ited their sister, .Mrs. Orvil Lamons,
in El Reno Tuesday.
A Corner in Ancestors
By ELEANOR LEXINGTON
Downing Family
(Copyright by McClure Syndicate
Miss Ella Carnahan has been visit
ing a few days with home folks. She
left Sunday for El Reno.
.Mrs. Lackey and daughters. Alta and
Evelyn, were in Oklahoma City visit
ing from Saturday until Monday.
A party composed of Miss Marie
IHeigh, Will Hoyer, Hattie Laughlin,
and Edd Weigh, attended church at
Red Rock Sunday night.
Guy Clayton is shucking corn for P.
B. Thompson this week.
pie festival.
The band boys will give a pie social
Nov. 12 at the school house. Every-
body make it a point to be on hand
and see who can eat the most pie. A
big time is promised. Festivities will
begin at 8 o'clock.
wallace with wilson.
Mr. Roy Wallace accepted a position
in E. Wilson's store the first of the
month. He will be glad to take care of
all his friends when they need any-
thing in the store.
l. t. L. doings.
The L. T. L. program Saturday night
was well attended. Monday night the
same lodge gave their entertainment
at Bethany. All went out in a hay
rack and all enjoyed a jolly time.
Bro. Chandler, the Christian minis-
ter, delivered two fine sermons Sun-
day. Both the morning and evening
service was well attended. Rev. Chan-
dler is well liked by the local people
and they appreciate his good sermons.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Goodrich and
daughter Helen visited the latter's
parents in El Reno Sunday, Mr. and
Mrs. C. F. Goose.
Mrs. Chas. Brown and daughter
Juanita, visited the former's parents
over Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson.
Misses Jennie and Lizzie Goose,
Ruth Mahar and Mr. Ramond Mahar
tu Kciio aiienued the Halloween
party at Mr. Geo. Goodrich's Monday
evening.
Wheat is growing as nicely as
could be expected considering the dry
weather.
Chas. Smith of Minco was trading
in Union Friday.
Mrs. L. Eden and daughter Addi
were shopping in Union Saturday.
Mrs. Chas. Bay of Cogar was shop-
ping in town Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Mace of Cogar
were among our merchants Saturday.
Mr. Faunt Downey visited his sis-
ter in Union Tuesday.
Miss Addie Kilker has been attend
ing the Macabee convention in Chick-
asha.
Mrs. E. Needham and daughter
Miss Vera were northbound passen-
gers Wednesday.
Mr. Frank Wallace was in El Reno
Saturday.
Mrs. Click of Minco was visiting
friends in Union last. week.
Mrs. Pink Gillchrist of Enid was
visiting old friends in Union last
week.
The Downing family is one of
ancient and honorable lineage—
j "knightly lineage." The derivation of
name is Anglo-Saxon, from the word
dune, a hill. Dune, de Donne, le
i Downe are ancient forms. Downyngu
lis early English, also Dowtiyng.
I In that oldest and most valued rec-
ord in all England—Dowesday Book—
we find that a Ralph de Doune was
I the king's thane, and he had two
i manors in Devon. Whether de Doune
i was a Norman, and the founder of the
Downing family in Great Britain, we
! are not prepared to say in haste, lest
! upon later information we must re-
pent.
Devonshire has always been one
stronghold of the family, and Axmin
ster, a town where they have lived
from time commonly called iiuniemo-
Union City News.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Brown and Mrs.
legsio Robinson were Kl Reno visitors
Saturday
Miss Kale Tabor visited lier sister,
Miss Annie, in El Reno Kriday.
Mr. Foster of Kl Reno visited at
the Zimmerman home Sunday.
Miss Hertlia Lamons returned home
Monday after a three weeks stay in
Kl Reno.
Miss Ruby Hadley. who lias just
recently returned from different
points in Colorado, visited friends in
I'nion Monday. She says Colorado
is all ri^ht but Oklahoma suits her
the best.
Mr. 1 .in! Phillips was ill I'nion Sun
day
Mr Everett Needham visited home
folks Sunday from Oklahoma City.
Miss Inez Kilnore of near Okarche
\ isiied with home folks Saturday and
Sunday
Miss Donna ('.raves visited parents
in Okarche Sunday, ivuiriiitiR •in-
Monday
Mr John Well, who is working in
Kl Reno, spent Sunday with his fain
ily in I'nion
Mr anil Mrs. Harry Anderson nit!
son were ill Kl Reno this week
Mr Wilbur Clarrett and Miss Alma
Mancolt of I'ocassett visited the foi
tiler's home Saturday evening, return,
inp Sunday
Mrs. Kd Benton was in Kl Reno
Saturday
Mr R. A. Lamons is in Kl Reno
this week taking care of her dauuli
ter-ln-law, Mrs. Orvll Lamona. who
lias the typhoid fever at her home oil
Oiresham St.
Rev. Phelps, Baptist minister
among the Indians of Caddo Springs,
uave a very interesting lecture at the
school house Sunday morning which
was thoroughly enjoyed by all who
heard him.
Mr and Mrs. Owen «'• Uavis .it
Cereal were trading in I'nion Saint
day
Little Miss Dot Hadlej is improi
iug slowly after nearly live weeks of
typhoid fever
scores of young people out
for innocent enjoyment.
Scores of ghosts and goblins, bit;
and little, were stalkltiu the streets
,.f l nion Hallowe'en night. Lots oi
little folks were out and a merr>
evening was spent. Quite a number
of tilings were moved and several
exchanges were made. There is
wealth of meaning in tlie word II
Mr. Obe Hadley and sister Miss
Ruby were among old friends and
acquaintances in Union Saturday.
Father Sehafl.r was in Minco last
week looking after some needed re-
pairs on the Catholic church there.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Robinson and
little son and the former's sister Miss
Blanche Robinson went to Chickasha
Saturday, returning home Monday.
Dr. I). P. Richardson and Mr. Will
Dixon were in El Reno Saturday.
Mrs. M. E. Downey of Pocassett
visited her daughter, Miss Kit tie, a
few days'this week.
Mrs. \V. \V. Jackman was an El
Reno visitor Friday.
Miss Fannie McMahan, who is at-
tending school in El Reno, visited
with home folks Saturday and Sun
day.
Mr. C. R. Brown was a business vis
itor in El Reno Friday.
Mr. Cyrus Abbot of Chiekasha vis-
ited friends in lTnion Sunday.
The Misses Ruth Reams. Orphia
and Freddie Cooper and Bessie La-
mons and Mr Cy Greenwood v. ere in
El Rem) Saturday evening
Mr. Otis Lacy passed through tin
ion lasi week going to his home west
of Minco.
HALLOWE'EN PARTY
The climax of the Hallow en gai
lies was reached Mondax evening at
one of the most attractive and enjoy
able parties of the season given by
Misses Florence Zimmerman and
Avis Hay worth at the former's beau
1 iI'n 1 home southeast of Union. As
the guests arrived they were greeted
by a ghost before entering into the
spacious parlors which were ;i bower
of flowers and mistletoe The fore
part of the evening was spent in lis
tening to several beautiful selections
of music from the Union City band,
after which, numbers and one sub
jet t to each gentleman was given out
for a progressive game. At the tap
of the bell each gentleman progressed
one to the right and kept right on
talking on the same subject, after
which each one learned their fate by
the mourning of a fortune teller. Sev
eral selections of music were render-
ed bv the orchestra before entering
into the big dining room where lun lt-
eon of oyster soup, coffee and apples
was served to the following guests .
Misses Odessa Garrett, Dixie Carl,
Bertha and nessie Lamons, Orphia '
and Freddie Cooper, Elsia Krohn.
Telia and Kate Boevers. Agnes (lappa,
Ray Ricketts, Minnie Betcha, Flor
ence Zimmerman, Avis Hay north. Mr
and Mrs. Arthur Laughterdale. Mi-
ami Mrs Leo Kilker. Mr. and Mrs.
Keeley, Messrs. Geo. Garrett, Jesse
Anderson. Cy Greenwood Charle> Ar
niour, Joe Ledoux. Joe Hepler. Fran
kie Gar/. Nova Mathews, Ralph Dr>
bread. Jake Boevers. Dona Ledoux
Leo (lappa, Cecil Ricketts, Dan and
Hinll Zimmerman. Dan Swec •
Father Schaffer and Ninman Samples.
The State Federation of Women's
Clubs, of America, is in session at
I Muskogee. ,
I rial We also find the Downings in
; Sussex, Essex, Cornwall and Norfolk
i Groffrey Downing, horn 1524, in Es
sex. married a lineal descendant of
j Henry 111., Elizabeth Wingfield
I There is a connection with the no-
! hie house of Howard, and if the Down
j ings do not claim descent from a hun-
I dred earls, it is simply an oversight,
not an impossibility.
Famous Downing street London,
where ministers of the crown have
their official residence, is thus named
! because of a grant of the land from
Charles II. to Sir George Downing
\t the time Downing street was a
| "pretty, open place."
Downing college, Cambridge, was
founded by another Sir George Down
ing, who gave a munificent sum for
, the purpose He was the third baronet.
| and grandson of the first baronet
( One immigrant came from De von
shire. He was Thomas Downing, and
a member of the Society of Friends
Pennsylvania was naturally the place
he chose for a home Downlngtown is
the name of tin* town he helped to
settle, and the old Iona st« • d still
stands.
In New England we find Emanuel
Downing at Salem, Mass. in the s«-\
enteenth century He was born in
London. Benjamin Downing and wii- ,
Sarah Hunt. r, w ere li\ ng at Ilatfield
Emanuel of Salem marri< <1 Lucy,
sister of Governor Winthrop, a?rl
their daughter Ann married. f«a hei
f econd husband. Simon Brad treet, the
last colonial governor of Masstichu
setts. Ann s first consort was Captain
Gardner, killed in Philip s war. Gcor. •,
son of Emanuel, was the one to whom
Downing street was granted and he
was the first baronet Although
George was educated at Harvard, h<
returned to England, became an i n
portant personage and was knighted
Francis Downing was in Virginia in
1624, and it is supposed that it is his
descendants who settled in Maryland
and later, also in Kentucky A Fran
cis Downing made his home in Ken
tucky, with his family, in I7s>.",, one of
his sons, also called Francis was in
every Indian campaign g< ing When
: quite a boy he was sent to L< \ington.
j by his fatht r. on special business but
coming upon G *n Charles Scott and
li'a forces, he begged to join them in
their drills. His friends tried to per
suade him to transact his busin <
and return home. He appealed to the
general. Well my lift!- man ha - -
you a gun" 'Yes, sh Hav yon
money?' "Yes sir Then let the
was in ord* t of con? . that h slue ! I
lived to the ripe age of sixty, dying !n
1831, in Kentucky.
Among marriage connections of the
Downings of the south are the Hick-
mans, Lewises, Madisons, Jacksons,
Taylors, Hunleys, Crutchers, Muini
and Russells. Delilah. Ruth, Rebecca,
Yenetia, Isabella and Juliet are favor-
ite Christian names of early genera-
t ions.
The Downings have always respond*
ed promptly to any call to arms in de-
fense of their country Heitman
records Lieutenants Thomas of Massa-
chusetts and William of Pennsylvania.
Captain Daniel probably of Massa-
chusetts captain in the Revolu-
tion. lie, too, lived to a ripe old age,
dying in IM'7. His wife was Betsy
Riell.
William Downing of Maryland
served for a short time in the Revolu-
tion, afterwards removing to Ken-
tucky. Richard Downing of Maryland
was literally a boy of '7(3, and served
through the war. Samuel, also of the
Blue Grass state, was a soldier in the
Continental army. Priseilla Webb was
Samuel's wife and the\ had a family,
reet descendant of the CromwolJs of
fame.
There is a connection with the
Cromwells of England, through the
marriage of William of Maryland, sol
dier, with Rebecca Cromwell. Her
father was a Maryland settler and di-
rect descendant of the Crom wells.
The Downings of New York state
were probably of the New England
family. One of the line* was Andrew
Downing of N< wburgh, N. V , to whom
New York cit\ is supposed to owe Its
beautiful Central Park lie was a
celebrated landscape gardener, and
helped lay out some of the parks and
streets of the national capital, Wash-
ington. The idea of the formation of
parks, on a large scale, is said to have
originated with him. It was in 1850
that in various published articles he
Ivocated a large park for New York.
| I lie mayor took up the suggestion,
j and in 185.', the park was set out.
The coat-of arms reproduced Is:
i harry of ten. argent and vert, a griffin
segreant, vert.
Crest: An arm embowtu, Habited in
, mail, proper, tied around the wrist
I with a ribbon, or, and holding an ar-
j row. barbed and flighted with gold.
The coat-of arms upon the walls of
• Downing college Is blazoned; harry of
! eight, argent and vert, a griffin so-
I greant, or, within a bordure, azure,
charged with eight roses, of the first,
! seeded and barbed, proper. Motto:
Quaerere Verum—seek the truth.
Thirty Miles Per Hour Rabbit's Limit.
The crew laying out the trail for
the Glidden tour In June discovered
a new sport. A repeating shotgun is
carried in the tonneau of the < ar and
: as jackrabbits pop out and sprint
I along the roadside Dai II Lewis, the
I American Automobile association
I scout, and his companions take turns
in shooting at the long eared game.
Rabbits are n pest In Kansas, hut
a jack travels at the rate of 30 miles
I an hour and to hit one from a car go-
ing at the same rate Is some trick, so
the pathfinders will not thin the ranka
to any great extent They have sev-
eral scalps to their credit, however,
and it makes the miles spin faster to
l e ou the lookout for game
Lewis Ik the authority for the speed
'.I a jack rabbit He says he has
tested them out with a car on prairie
roads, and that after the 30 miles
pace is reached they begin to lag.
His Courtship Short
\ novel and speedy method of
< hoosing a wife was adopted recently
by a Seattle engineer named George
West With matrimony in view, he
went to Paris. Ont . and applied for
a job with the Penman Woolen com-
pany. West worked for half a day,
devoting most of his attention to the
thousand girls engaged at the factory.
Along about noon he saw Miss Flor
« nee M< Mill an, one of the company'*
importation of girls from England,
and decided she'd do. Having secured
Iter address, h« called upon her the
next evening and the following day
Rev Canon Brown performed the
• erernony which made them man
and wife \\ • >r r« funded to the
<ompany the $i;o advanced for hid
•
mediately after the ceremony Mr. arid
Mrs West left for Seattle
Better Than Loafing
Doings
$T THE
Capital
^ „
Umle Sam Has New Ward, in Liberia
2
WASHINGTON An obscure chap-
ter, It has long lain unread in
American annals, In spite of the in-
terest that surrounds It But now
that the United States has come to
take an active hand in the govern-
ment of Liberia, it is natural that the
founding of that old half-American,
half African negro state should attract
our interest. Founded back In 1820
as a home for the freed slaves from
this country, Liberia became a repub-
lic in 1817. Today its population num-
bers some CO,000 Liberians along the
coast, while 11,000.000 negroes run wild
in the interior. No white man can ac-
quire citizenship or own property
I y an arrangement with bankers In
this country, France and Germany and
with the approval of Liberia and the
European powers, a loan of $2,000,000
is to be floated by our government to
the end of setting straight Liberlan
finances and assisting the country to
establish itself upon a firmer basis.
The United States will have control
of the little state's financial military
and agricultural departments and v M
administer the republic's relations.
The popular accounts of the found-
ing of Liberia credit the achievement
somewhat vaguely to the American
Colonization society, of which Henry
Clay was president. There Is a less-
known chapter of that perilous enter
prise which attributes the martyrdom
of a life in this effort to open a new
world to the slaves to Rev. Samuel
Bacon, an American minister of the
Episcopal church.
The government decided to send out
the ship of war Cyane and the trans-
port Flizaheth with mechanics and la-
borers under two agents for the pur-
pose of breaking ground for the re-
ception of liberated slaves. On .lanu-
ar> v 1S20, having previously been in
the service of the colonization society,
Bacon received from President Mon-
roe the commission making him the
head of the proposed expedition.
A species of African fever appeared
among the members of the little band
of settlers Soon 25 of the party were
brought down with it. Breaking un-
der the labors lie had assumed Paeon
presently discovered symptoms of the
malady in himself.
Bankson and others of the party
survived The founding of the colony
went forward But on the sacrifice of
Bacon's life Liberia was built.
Soldier of Fortune May Lose Rights
i ■>
JyOuU '
) NEVER *|
.GET SUCH
jA CHANCE
a cain j
IF Capt. Jorge Nelken Y Wald
berg, erstwhile of A gentian pre
tended American typici i«ii* * i
fortune and one of the few men who j
ever succeeded in selling a gold brick '
to one of the nation's most prominent i
men, does not return to Washington
within the next sixty days, lie is likely
to lose his alleged American citizen-
ship and be denied the protection of
the American flag.
Captain Waldberg flourished in •
Washington 12 years ago, during the
Spanish American war. and a few j
years later, at the Pan American expo-
sition. The captain came to Wash-
ington with a long military record.
Having been born In Argentina, he has
lived In half a dozen South American
countries and been engaged In as
many revolutions In the cause of lib-
erty. Exiled, when unsuccessful, he
dropped Into New York one day and
organized a company of Greek fruit
venders, whom he took to Athens,
joined the Greek army and fought In
the Graeco Turkish war.
All that he got out of that contest
was a little military glory and a wife,
lie married a verv beautiful daughter
of a professor In the University of
Athens and returned to America in
tline to take up newspaper work at
Ho outbreak i'i the Spanish-American
war
Not long ago the captain turned up
in Constantinople and became Involved
in some trouble there which prompted
him to demand the protection of the
the American flag He presented his
ease at the embassy, and In endeav-
oring to establish the fact that he was
a naturalized American citizen, some
disclosures came to light regarding his
papers which h d the American charge
to refer the matter to the state de-
partment.
The department In turn made in-
quiry at the district court, with the re-
sult that an order was issued requiring
him to show cause within sixty days
why his papers should not be can-
celed.
Puzzlers for the New Customs Court
.v...
ANY
f • •
| F A HEN Is
1 pair of rublx
woolen w< aring
ti<m, Is It not"
• is, but till OI
how Uncle Sam
properly cltiBSlf:
that the eorree
ties may he lev
the above ease
the highest ens
land held that a
In which there
quantity of woo
not a bird, why Is n
ur boots an article of
apparel? Funny que-
There are many oth
ie Is enough to show
is puzzled at times to
t rate of customs do
'led and collected. In
it is simply because
totns authority of the
s the boots had linings
was an appreciable
1 thev should b« ar the
rate prescribed for woolen apparel.
That same highest authority decided
that I i ng. legs are dutiable as poul-
try
Tin customs court, a new judicial
bod- that is j i; t get tint: down to bus!-
m at Washington, already has many
<as s that will causi the public to
laugh One of tie first oiicstionB for
it t' d< < de is whether the hen Is a
hird. Ornithologists would unhesitat
in; I. declaie she Is. hut the new
court Is not composed of such men.
Kb" \\ 1 it i the odds? Wait a min-
ute, and you will see how it concerns
r\ I.mi; • i eper. II the court can
be India < d to decide that tho hen Is
a bird down will go the price of eggs,
for tie present tariff nar makes every
impoiter of edible « ug pay five cents
i doz« n for all be brings Into the
country B:r<l • . ar on the free
Due Foreign Heakn Officers
L" red it
repressive weapons into the hands of
these official so that no attempts arq
made to escape from compulsory com-
pliance and securing a clean bill of
health at tie point of departure and
ports of call. A vessel that starts
from a port with no appearance of in
feetlous diseases among her crew or
pa -engcrs and which Is again sub-
Jected to rigorous examination on her
irrh I at a?:' American port stands
I it: i. ■, i' ( bringing n \ Infected
the
htad?" He
quickly and
patched.
What
avoided
fillg'-I.
i iupts to wade them
r il In i ectors
• if measuring
his force were
• rs do not. al
nount of credit
tting care and
The y stand
entlve forces
llzes to safe*
ti whom tho
tci tban tho
>1 acknowledge
::ig th.it time 1
borne out by thu
lander it
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