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The Keota news., 1916-09-01
NOTICE

NOTICE
TO THE VOTERS OF WELD COUN-
TY, COLORADO:
desire to announce that am can
didate for nomination on the Republican
ticket for the Office Of County, Clerk
and Recorder, TO be voted upon 1T the
Primary Election to be held on Tuesday.
September IL, 1916.
If nominated and elected, l believe
that my experience has been such that
I can conduct the Office upon strict busi-
ness principals and with satisfaction to
al.
Respectfully submitting my candida-
cy and asking your favorable considera-
ton, I am
Yours very truly
A. J. ALLEN.
The Keota news., 1916-09-01
LOCALS AND PERSONALS
Items of Interest to the People Of
KeOta and Vicinity

Mrs. George Ridgeway and two little
sons Of Pocatello. Idaho, arrived Tues
day for . five days visit with her aunt.
Mrs. w. E. Scott.
Five transient horses on the Johnston
ranch northwest Of Keota we're killed
by lightning during the storm Of last
Saturday.
Charles Daniels. who has been en-
ployed At the News Office for about
month. left Monday for Colorado
Springs.
Lost: Long-yearling shorthorn heif-
or. branded slanting bar s. Notify
Peter Hoakeman, Keota.
Henry O'Daugherty. Of Bedford.
Iowa, visited with the Stewart family
last week.
Mrs. Carl Haworth entertained the
Heip-one-another Club at her home on
Thursday.
J. E. Scott returned Thursday from
taking two car loads Of cattle to
Omaha.
w. r. Stewart made Ford trip to
Cheyenne and return Thursday.
]. r. Jones purchased r. A. Martin
sons Ford roadster this week.
For Sale-A few young horses. Priced
to sell. C. D. Dinsmoor. 1876
George 8. Adams Candidate for County
Connissioaer
George 8. Adams, one Of our most
prominent ranchsrs. having been desig-
mated by the Republican county
assembly - one Of the four candidates
for the nomination for county COM
missioner from this district will make
the race at the primaries.
Mr.. Adams Is one Of Weld county's
bsst known citizens, having been
resident therein for more than thirty
five years, . part Of which time he
has been identified with the Union
National Bank Of Greeley - cashier;
and for two terms he held the oflice
Of county treasurer, which position
he filed with much credit to himself
and advantage to tho county.
His fairness and broad policy in
this capacity won him hundreds Of
friends.
His experience ~ . farmer and
rancher and III financial matters
should At him for the position Of
commissioner and enable him to handle
the business Of the county in IN un-
usually competent and business-like
manner.
1t should be extremely gratifying to
the people of the northern and eastern
end Of the county that Mr.. Adams 10
- well versed in the needs Of this ~
well - in those Of the irrigated section
of this district. However If . popular
choice is to be made, it behooves every
Republican voter in the county to
turn out to the primaries and support
their candidate with their entire
strength.
NOTICE
The Keota news., 1916-09-01
TO THE VOTERS OF WELD COUNTY

am candidate Republican nomination for County
Clerk and Recorder of Weld county.
have year.
have candidate for eec
ton to this Office faerng it is
had believe that would opposition for the
nomination pledge delegates the
bly,
assembly stepped asks
become beneficiary regards this
Office which believe efforts have largely helped create thus
compelling to make primary contest for the nomination
In spite Of having specifically
for the the assembly
simply having done favorable atmosphere for
the nominee and simply announcing that candidate
given majority assembly The delegates the
assembly expressed their Of candidacy and OF
methods by . substantial majority.
have before candidate for elective office
member Of City Council Greeley which
place was elected by . satisfactory
Neither nor member Of family member OF
business which connected have
asked anything the hands Of the Republicans of Weld
have been active since first
in 1886 the which business Affairs
required live n
Az editor and Publisher Of The Greeley Sun for
active Republican principles and Republican
candidates.
Since The consolidation the papers Greeley which time
sold interests have time inter-
real Weld county which
and in which induced Of friends to invest
largely.
would County Weld county
believe ability. training and my
ence equip for the place.
would heartily appreciate the election this Office by
the people Of Weld whom lived and worked
for these years.
have before asked anything Of party but if
Of life and doing business approval
most earnestly the nomination for County
Clerk and Recorder the Republican ticket the primary cleo
b held September IL the election the Office
the general election T. be held November l.
T. T. WILSON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-26

FEBRUARY II. 1875 and probated July
25. 1877. occur these words: I give and
bequeath to my loving Wife, her three
children, the plantation that / now
live on, to my loving Wife Eliz Ma
gruder. for her lifetime and after her
decease to my Son. Alexander Magru-
der. my Son. Nathaniel Magruder. to
them and their heirs forever. The said
land doth contain by patent and con-
veyance eight Hundred Acres of Land"
Mr.. Magruder says that the immi-
grants sons. James and John. were de-
Nised Alexander and Dunb1ane, con-
tanning 900 acres of land. His son
Samuel was devised Goodluck. contain
ing 500 acres. and his daughter Eliza
beth was devised Creignight. contain
ing zoo acres; in all 2.40O acres of land
thus being devised. The will. according
to Mr. Magruder. plainly indicates that
wife Eliz Magruder' was the mother
of sons Alexander and Nathaniel and
daughter Elizabet and that James,
John and Samuel We're the issue of an
other or other marriages.
The Magruder family. like most of
the old families of Maryland, is a very
there must be tens of thousands of peo-
pie of Washington and surrounding
country who are descended collaterally
or lineally from the immigrant AleXan-
der Masruder. In the records of Prince
Georges county from 1871 to 1889 one
may find the following Magruder mar
riaSes: Dennis MaSruder to Anne Con-
tee. Eleanor TO Jhon NJ. Burgess, Sarah
Ann to Isaac Brooke. Enoch to Eliza
beth SpriSg, Cassandra to James Mac
kenzie, Edward to Elizabeth Wade
Sarah TO Bernard Stanley, Alexander
w. to Mary Conley, Harriet to Rich
ard Lyles, Francis to Barbara Williams,
Elizabeth to John Blackburn. Priscilla
to James Handling. Elizabeth to Os-
born Williams, Barbara to John II.
Lowe. Jane to John Mackall. Sarah
to John Osborne Mary to Thomas
Boyd. Rebecca to John Turnbull,
Samuel to Mary Hilleary, AleXan-
der to Mary Mackall. Nathan to Eliza
beth Bevan. John &. to Sarah Jones,
Anna to Robert Hay. Elizabeth II. to
James Somerviile. Mary to Thomas
Forster James to Milicent Beans. John
4. to Amelia Hall. William to Eliza
beth Hilleary, Harriet TO Alexander
covington, Kitty to Aderton Skinner,
Thomas to Mary Clarke. Matilda Snow
den to Daniel Mccarthy. jr.; Edward to
Anne Allen. Jane Contee to William
Marbury, ir.; Henrietta to Levin Beall,
Isaac to Ann Hill, HasWell to Ann Al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-26

Henry Phillips. Mary \ TO Z. Carter
Dunlap. Dennis TO Ellen r. Mullikin.
Caleb Clarke TO Mary Sprigg Belt.
Louisa to William Wilson. John Il to
Mary Ann Hin, Alexander l. !. to Cath
crime Johnson. Isaac G. To Margaret f..
I'M, Mary 10 William Magruder and
Jane to Thomas BcalI.
The records of Montgomery county
show long record of Magruder mar
riages as Prince Georges county u
should be remembered that the records
for Prince Georges county include only
the years from ll11 to 1888. and that
the Magruders had been settled in
Maryland more than century before
the beginning of that record. A list Of
the MaGruders in Montgomery county
prepared for the Clan Gregor Society
shows that between 1898 and 1913 the
following were united in marriage with
lneal descendants of the immigrant:
otho Z. Muncaster. James L. lyddaur VII
liam Z. Muncaster. Zachsriah Muncaster, Cors
l.. Weaver. Ella V. Wilmington, Mary A. Mil
burn Anna II. Prettyman. Laura Beatty. Eliza
beth Luthcum. Eleanor HARDWOOD. Elizabeth 4.
can. James W Boswell. BESSIE '. Roberts. vii
liam NJ Griffith: Sophronia ]. Bean, Mary Linthi-
ton. Martha ]. Griffith. Caroline NJ. BRADLEY.
II. Singleton Bazel worthington Waters. Will
eta Beal S H. Coleman. Susan Grady Basil
Barry. Claiborne n Mannar Thomas baking
H n sriftifh Gus 70 Red dem Thomas W Wstars
Henry Stoffer. John W. Anderson. Philip Stone.
Baker Waters. William Otis Lumsdon. William
Wilson. Ebert Perry. Alexander Winsor Zadok
NJ. Cook Robert q. Davidson. Catherine ohuit.
Chloe Ann Howser. Lavina e. Ball. Mary La
vinia Higgins. America Prichard. Catherine Vie
toria Welsh. Eleanor Wallace. Harriet Beacraft.
Rebecca Lansdale. Eleanor Childs. Eleanor War
rem. Elizabeth Worthington. Martha Riley. Euls
II. Petty. Pierre Christie Stevens, George P.
Castleman. Zschariah NJ. Waters. BENJAMIN G.
Hughes. Robert Hasylup. Martha V. Ofntt.
Thomas j. Owen, William Riley Landon. Marr
Chlds. Eliza A. White Mimic Quackenbush.
Clara T.. Walker. Carrie Willis Case, Harriet
Holmes. Annie Renshaw, Ann Minerva Hardesty.
mond. Elizabeth W. Gather. Margaret n.
Brooks Susan +. Jones. Mary NJ. Stewart. Cath
crime +. Baker. Leanna Benton Alice f. Duyall
Belle Warfeld and Rachel Cook.
There must have been large number
of Magruders living in Montgomery
county at the time of the organization OF
that county in 1875. because among those
who took the patriots oath were Sam
uel Magruder. Sd; Zadok, John Beall
Magruder: Nathan, Isaac Joseph.
Levin, Nathaniel Magruder of Ninian:
Elias. Zachariah, William Beall Ma
gruder: Josiah. William Offutt Ma
gruder: Nathaniel Magruder of Alex
ander. Norman Bruce Magruder. Sam
ue1 Brewer Magruder. Enoch, Ninian.
Samuel Beall Magruder. Edward. John,
Richard. Ninian Beall Magruder: Heze-
kiah. Archibald, Walter, Samuel Wade
Magruder; James, Basil and Nathaniel
Magruder.
The record of Magruder marriages in
the District of Columbia for the last
JIG years would make a long list.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-26
Period Furnishing.
MA RBU RY.

MISS ELIZABETH MARBuRY. a
GV0 dramatic agent. was talking at
the Colony club about period" furni-
ture.
Period furnishing is splendid when
intelligently done she said. "A re-
gence drawing room. an empire dining
room. a Charles II library-a house so
furnished is delightful.
But you must buy your period things
from dealers who know their business
Some dealers don't. / once heard a
lady say to dealer:
This chair is Louis XVI. but my
drawing room. you know. is Louis XIV
Would the chair go in il. then?
Sure madam. sure" said the deal
err. Louis XIV and Louis XVI ALWAYS
go together You see, there's only two
years between en-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-26
Fair Nourishment.

DORT COLLECTOR DUDLEY FIELD
MALONE said to New York re-
porter:
I'VE exported billion dollars worth
of food last year. No starvation there.
Ell? No such growl coming there as the
wounded soldier made.
"A wounded soldier in a French hos
pital developed fever. and every lit
tie while his nurse put thermometer
in his mouth to register his tempera-
true.
Presently the doctor came to see him.
well, how are you getting on? the
doctor asked.
Parrish. sir, said the soldier
Have you had any nourishment:'
"A fair amount, sir-a fair amount
what did you have?'
"A lady gimme a piece of glass TO
suck, sir. "
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lied that its flowers of FIVE white.
deeply cleft petals have forgotten that
they ever grew on the eastern side of
the Atlantic. In wet places, even where
there was ice, the Rambler saw that
brilliant green plant, with it's she'll
like spathe above the ground and its
pollen ripe. which botaniSts call
SymplocarpuS foetidus-a strange
thing which people familiar with its
peculiar breath appropriately call
skunk cabbage" Here and there one
might find the hepatica, a single
flower at the end of long, fuzzy
scape. the flower about an inch broad
with pale purple. or lilac sepals. on
the south slope of hillsides. under the
shelter of dry, wind-blown sedge.
might he found bluets, pleasant little
members of the madden family, which
some folk call Innocence" and some
folk with loftier brows. and it may be
greater affectation, call Houstonia
caerulea Another sign that spring
was on the eve of changing the earth's
dun mantle TO one of green was the
activity OF the birds. some of them
migrants and some those which stay
with us all the year. one could hear
the loud clear whistle of the cardinal
the canarNliEe measures OF the song
sparrow. the metallic chip-chip of the
pine woods sparrow. the "cheerily-
cheerup' of the American robin. and
the long continued MARBLE of the blue
bird.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-26

one may see the CAPITOL and the Monu-
ment.
one of the neutrality-suspicious. societies
of the United States is the American
Clan Gregor, which was organized in
1909 in Washington, largely through the
efforts of DR.. Jesse Ewell OF Fuckers
Vile. Va. and DIR, Edward May Ma
Gruder of Charlottesville, Va. At the
time of the organzat ton of the Ameri-
can Clan Gregor the requirements for
membership We're:
Those eligible for membership are persons Of
good reputation who may be able 10 establish
TO the satisfaction of tho committe" on mem
bership their descent from an ancestor Of
Scotch origin having of the following sur
names: Gresor. MaeGrsgor: Grisor. MacGriSor.
Magruder and their derivatives. In 1910 there
was substituted for those provisions the follow
of good reputation who may he able to estab-
lish to the satisfaction of the committee
membership their descent from Alexander Ma
Sruder or from the paternal ancestor or ances-
tors of said emigrant or from a member OF Clan
Gregor of scotland
TO DR.. Edward MAY Masruder the
Rambler is indebted for the following
facts concerning Clan Gregor: The
founder of the clan was Girig, Orig or
Gregory, King of Scotland. who reiened
from SIS to $50 Subsequently the letter
y' was dropped and the clan name came
to de known as Clan Gregor or Children
of Gregor or Gregory. In the course of
time, by changes in spelling, there rose
III the clan several families of different
names, as Oregon, MacGregor. Grigor,
MacGrigor, Gregory. Gregorson. etc, all
variants or derivatives of Gregory or
Gregor the name of the founder. On
account of the lack of Clan Gregor
genealogical documents, the clan being
outiawed with prescription of its name
1t is probably impossible for the vas
majority of the MacGregors to furnish
documentary proof of descent from
heir lar, hrrt ba
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-26

For a long way the path of the Ram
bier lay along Cabin branch. whose
numerous feeders have their rise in the
rough and hilly country between the
Washington and Marlborough road and
Central avenue. and which runs into
BeaVerdam. Beaverdam is one of the
conspicuous branches of this region.
and which rises near .Ardwick. on the
Baltimore and Potomac railroad. and
flowing southwest enters the Eastern
branch west of Tuxedo Cabin branch
enters Beayerdam at Tuxedo.
When the Rambler came to that part
of his course where the Sheriff road
to Baltimore. and pursues its rough and
muddy way to Hrightseat. there p
peared on q big hin a mile to the north
ture and material. but the distance soft
ened some of the scars of its age. The
house CLEANED white in the sunlight.
dormer windows stood out on its roof
aud a porch with white columns stretched
all the way across its front. Turning
into a road through the hit of woodland
which some aNmen were destroying. even
on Sunday. the Rambler came into the
Sheriff road and following this eastward
to the main house of Union Valley.
turned north into a lane. 1t WAS lone
lane without a turn. but at last there
was the turn and a path led uphill
passed barn and courthouse, TO the house
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-26
An Uncomp|imentary Idea.
= N-SECRETARY OF

T. N-SECRETARY OF - GARRI-
10 son said in Camden Interview:
Your question is on its surface inno-
cent, but if | answered it I should he
giving myself away. Yes should be
giving myself away as lamentably as
poor old Traddles.
Mrs. Traddles said to the poor old
boy one night-he couldn't call his soul
his own. you know:
Timothy, this article says here that
those who are unlucky in love are
lucky at cards. Do you believe it,
Sounds reasonable. Jane; it sounds
reasonable Traddles answered. brisk
1y. BY the way. there's a big poker
game on at the cigar store, and If
you'll let me go out tonight I feel il in
my bones that I'll come back with
something handsome"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-26

credit and banking, foreign exchange
and customs tariffs. f. A. Brand. as
sistant chief of the bureau, is in charge
of the branch on practical exporting.
The worlds commerce branch of the
commercial geography section is in
charge of Or. Frank X. Rutter. second
assistant chief of the bureau. GuStavus
A. Weber. head of the cost of produc-
ton bureau. is in charge of the course
on the industrial side of commercial
geography. The section on interna-
ttonal commercial policies is under the
direction of Louis Domeratzky, foreign
tariff expert. and the section dealing
with the industrial history of the Unit
ed States is in charge of Mr.. Brand.
The lecture course is an important
feature of the work of the school. Gov
eminent officials and others, experts in
their various lines. are invited from
time to time to lecture to the classes
on various subjects having to do with
the commercial expansion work.
DR.. e. E. Pratt, chief of the bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce, has
lectured to the class finance an
essential to the understanding of inter-
national exchange and foreign invest
ments. DR.. II. Parker Willis. secretary
of the federal reserve board and a stu
dent of commerce and finance, recently
explained the functions of his board.
and the operation of the United States
mint was the subject of talk by Di
rector Robert w. Wooley.
great many people labor under the
impression that most of the time of the
United States conSuls abroad is avail
able for writing reports on commerce
and industry. AS matter of fact, the
writing of commercial reports is only
one of many duties assigned to these
officers. The consular officers keep the
Department of Agriculture posted on
crop matters; the public health service
on matters relating to quarantine and
kindred subjects; the immigration
service on certain phases of it's work
abroad: the bureau of navigation for
information in connection with ship
ping and seamen, and the Treasury and
other departments rely these Off
GERS for certain services
To explain in detail the functions of
this service William J. Carr, director of
the consular service, lectured to the
class. Secretary Redfield. who. before
he came into the cabinet, was a large
manufacturer and a big exporter. gave
the class lecture on his experience in
foreign trade getting.
There has been considerable discus
sion of late among business mon about
developing trade in China, but there is
a general lack of Information with re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-26
DINNER BELL At OLD ORCHARD.

spect TO the factors of trade in that
country. More should be known about
the operations of the big American.
British and German import houses. The
functions of the compradore, who is the
general intermediary between the big
import houses and the local dealers, d
sort of jobber collecting commissions
from both ends. is not well under
stood Again. the operations of the
various trade guilds of China are so
connected with the business life of the
republic that their operation should be
thoroughly understood by students of
commerce.
Another interesting subject to one
studying the trade OF this far eastern
country is the granting of concessions
for the nstallation of pubic utiiltieS
and the exploitation of natural re-
sources. All of these important sub
jects were explained 10 the class by
E. T Williams. chief of the far eastern
division of the State Department. VINO,
through long years of service in China,
has become thoroughly familiar with
every phase of Chinese life and
Joseph E. Davies. chairman of the
federal trade commission, the new
trade regulating body of the United
States government. recently explained
the work Of the new commission and
gave much light on certain important
features of the Sherman antitrust law.
together with notifications made in it
by the organic act of the federal trade
commission.
PROT. Philip Is. kenneuy. commercial
attache at Melbourne. Australia, told
the students of the free ports of Ham
burg and Copenhagen and other foreign
ports. Prof Kennedy is leading au-
thority on the subject of free ports.
On the program of the class are lee
lures by authorities on Latin America.
Australasia and Russia, which coun-
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regarded as the potential markets of
the future for products of the factories
of the United States.
No phase of foreign trade promo
ton work is overlooked in the course.
The lectures are interspersed with the
regular routine for the purpose of hav-
ing the experts straighten out the va
rious points which amy not be under
stood by the students as well as to
points which are only
briefly touched upon in the text book
course
In addition to filling the mind of the
student with a great fund of informa-
ton which will be useful in making
him an important factor in foreign
pose of the school to acquaint him with
a storehouse of data which is at his
disposal and which will be useful to
him along foreign trade promotion
lines. but which he could not hope to
carry in his head" Thus it is the
idea to make his mind literally card
index to every bit of information hav-
ing to do with this important subject
For instance. there will come up such
problems as marketing goods in for
eign countries, the maintenance of an
export trade department. the conduct
Of foreign trade credits. the sending of
travelling statesmen abroad, the adver-
Using problem, the functions of export
houses, foreign sales and
houses, preparation of
goods for shipment to foreign countries
md the preparation of various docu-
nents connected with it, to lay nothing
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len. Samuel to Ann Hilleary. Thomas to
Polly Beanes Bowie, Elizabeth to lanes
Truman Magruder. Denis to Elizabeth
G. Contee. Clarissa Harlow to James
Webb, Margaret S to lgnatius Wheeler.
Martha to Williaon NJ. Bowie. Edward
to Tracy Barron. Emma &. to Brook
NJ Berry. Dennis to Frances Fitzger-
aid. Jane +. to John Waring. John Read
to Eliza beth Warine. Dennis to Mary
Ann Beard. Rebecca u. to Pealy Brown
Richard y. G. TO Emily c. Bowie. So
phia to Philip Hin, Rebecca to George
Washington Hilleary. Eliza beth to
Samuel r. Harper, Susannah h. to