NATIONAL HONOR ROLL MEMORIAL TREES 



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Theodore Roosevelt, by the Opportunity Farm School 



William Carter and Carl Koblinsky, by Mt. Airy 



School Walter Hawk, William Bailey Gentry, by the 



Mt. Lookout Business Men's Club Jacob Waechter, 



Alvin F. Zorb, F. A. Benzinger, W. H. Sohn, and Herman 



Koenig, by Vine School Albert Bauer, Robert Bauni, 



Edward Sauer, William Strietelmeyer, William Ritter, 

 Chester Price, William Painer, William Bierhorst, Will- 

 iam W'agner, by Washington School Walter Volkert, 



William Nippert, Theodore Roosevelt, by Winton Place 

 School. 



Goshen, Ohio — Louis Griffith, Edgar Cole, Guy Felter, 

 Lewis Irwin, Floyd Waite, Clayton Fox, by Goshen Cen- 

 tralized School. 



Marion, Ohio — Mrs. Mary A. Ruehrmund, Frederick 

 Herman Harzer, Miss Elizabeth S. Ruehrmund, Mrs. 

 Renata Ruehrmund Hinds, by Clara Ruehrmund. 



Berwyn, Pennsylvania — Lieut. Thomas L. Bolster, by 

 Mrs. Thomas L. Bolster. 



Boalsburg, Pennsylvania — Alfred Calvin Witmer, by 



I. O. O. F.^ William F. Taylor, by the Red Cross 



Guyer Eugene Durst, by the Civic Club. 



Huntington, Pennsylvania — Corp. F. D. McEwen, 

 Oscar P. Beck, Frank Palmer Hormmon, William Lister, 

 William P. Spyks, Robert Bruce Houstine, W. Preston 

 Kurtz, Howard Wise, Clair L. Hicks, Joseph F. Robison, 

 Clarence E. Focht, Antonio Mardelli, by Ladies' Civic 

 Club. 



Middleburg, Pennsylvania — Joseph Covert, Jackson 

 U. Fessler, John H. Gundrum, William D. Hackenburg. 

 John A. Hartman, William J. Hartman, Corp. E. H. Hot- 

 tenstein, Samuel O. Lauver, Erman E. Lepley, Corp. 

 John H. Miller, Roy A. Musser, Corp. George L. Mul- 

 liner, Walter Page, Lieut. Wendell J. Phillips, Miles A. 

 Renninger, Samuel M. Rine, Sherman L Rowe, Sgt. 

 Brewster C. Schoch, Grover Sholl, Hiram C. Steffen, Jr., 

 Lieut. John W. Stepp, Ernest E. Stine, Ralph C. Spaid. 

 Henry H. Sprenkle, Charles Treaster, Boyd M. Warner. 

 Theodore Roosevelt, by Sharrjbach and Wagenseller. 



St. Davids, Pennsylvania — Lieut. Wm. H. Sayen 

 Schultz. One tree each by Emilie Sayen Schultz, Wayne 

 Presbyterian Sunday School, Civic Club on Philadelphia 

 Parkway. 



Brownsville, Tennessee — Soldiers and Sailors of Hay- 

 wood County, by Brownsville Civic League. 



Nashville, Tennessee — Lieut. James Simmons Tim- 

 othy, by Catholic Women Lieut. John W. Overton, 



by Robertson Academy. 



Cherrydale, Virginia — Frederick Wallis Schutt, by 

 Ellen S. Wallis. 



Appleton, Wisconsin — William Hageman, August Zu- 

 leger, Raymond Neuenfeldt, Raymond Kluess, by Zion 

 Lutheran School. 



THE WISHING TREE. 



By J. R. Simmons. 



This photograph shows the possibilities of the Ameri- 

 can or white elm as a memorial tree. The man who 

 "constructed" this tree as an entrance to his home was 

 laughed at for his pains, but time has demonstrated that 



his faith was not misplaced. He took four sapling elms 

 and planted them in a group, binding them together 

 about twelve or fifteen feet from the ground. 



In time the trunks grew together, giving the appear- 

 ance of a single tree "on stilts." It is known as the 

 "wishing tree," and small boys and girls in the locality 

 believe that by walking in and out among the four legs 

 of the trunk, a wish made in the process will come true. 



The tree stands near the state highway in the town of 

 Bridgewater, Massachusetts. 



T^HE OLDEST tree on earth, at least as far as anyone 

 -*- knows, is the Boo tree in the sacred city of Amara- 

 poorah, Burmah. It was planted, the record says, in the 

 year 288 B. C, and is, therefore, about 2200 years old. Its 

 great age is proved by historic documents, says Sir James 

 Emerson, who adds: "To it kings have dedicated their 

 kingdoms in testimony of a belief that it is a branch of 

 the identical fig tree under which Buddah reclined at Uoa, 

 when he was undergoing his apotheosis." Its leaves are 

 carried away by pilgrims as relics, but, as it is too sacred 

 to be touched, even with a knife, they can only be gather- 

 ed after they have fallen. — New York Commercial Ad- 

 vertiser. 



