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annual spring bird-house competition, bird-naming contests, tramps in the 

 open, talks by members, exhibits, two of which lasted for a week at a time. 

 The first one attracted hundreds of visitors, while at the second, held in con- 

 nection with a health exhibit, 1,000 children daily opened the sessions. Mr. 

 Henry Oldys spent a week in the vicinity in 1916, speaking twice daily to 

 audiences arranged for him by the Club and doing a world of good in his own 

 inimitable style. 



Through the efforts of the Club a number of nesting-houses were made by 

 prisoners in the county jail. These were afterward erected on the grounds of 

 the West Mountain Sanitarium for Tuberculosis. During the war the birds' 

 part in food conservation was unceasingly preached, and "War" posters were 

 placed throughout the vicinity, while thousands of U. S. Government Bulletins 

 and National Audubon publications have been distributed at every opportunity, 

 In the Welcome Home Parade, June 10, the Club was represented by a small 

 pageant featuring Homing Pigeons, in recognition of their invaluable services 

 at the front. All this has been done without any campaign for funds, but by 

 the determined efforts of those in control to spread the message of the mission 

 of the birds at all times, despite all difficulties. — (Mrs.) Francis Hopkin 

 Coffin, President. 



Seattle (Wash.J Audubon Society. — Our energies for the past year have 

 been devoted to the organization and upkeep of the Junior Societies. The results 

 have been most gratifying. Surely there is nothing more w^orth-while than to 

 awaken the interest of hundreds of children in the outdoors. We now have 

 seven large Junior Societies in the branch libraries of Seattle, and plans are 

 under way to organize two more very soon. This will make one in every library 

 in the city. We have bought two Sparrow traps, and both are giving splendid 

 service. One is in constant use in the city parks, and we expect to do more work 

 on the English Sparrow question this winter. 



The cat-license ordinance, which went into effect March i of this year, is 

 showing satisfactory results, though, of course, in a city as large as Seattle, and 

 with such large areas of woods and unsettled lots within its borders, it takes a 

 long time to find all the stray cats. We have kept in touch with the Boy Scouts 

 in the interest of the birds and have responded to requests for bird-talks in 

 the city schools. 



We plan to push the establishment of Junior Audubon Societies in the 

 schools. They are now barred because of a school law against clubs which 

 collect dues. We hope to make the Bird Clubs a part of regular school- 

 work. — (Mrs.) C. N. CoMPTON, President. 



South Bend (Ind.) Humane Society. — Our Society has been in business 

 for o\cT thirt\ \ears. It has been espucially instrumental in placing thousands 



