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as President of the United States. It also marked the 

 225th anniversary of the church. 



The forestry committee of the Civic League of 

 Texarkana, Texas, of which Mrs. .C S. Hutchins is the 

 chairman, planned a ceremony for honoring the memory 

 of John C. Watts, the first Texarkana boy to die in 

 France. Every member of the Watts family resident in 

 Bowie County placed a little earth brought from the home 

 place, around the tree. Superintendent George H. Car- 

 penter dedicated the tree and Judge R. B. Levy delivered 

 the memorial address. The students formed in a semi- 

 circle around the tree, while a representative of each 



the Park Board in the parks and surrounding squares. 

 J. Cookman Boyd, president of the Board, spoke in the 

 Druid Hill Park district ; General Felix Agnus, in Clifton 

 Park and nearby squares ; Edward Hanlon, in the Hanlon 

 and Gwynns Falls Park district, and Theodore Mottu, 

 in the Carroll Park district and J. Harry Gross, former 

 engineer, to the Park Board. 



At Middletown, Delaware, tree planting exercises were 

 held on the high school campus. Mrs. H. B. McDowell, 

 chairman, had charge. The children sang "The Planting 

 Song," which was followed by an address by Superin- 

 tendent Wilbur H. Jump. The poem, "Trees," written 



Underwood & Underwood. 



MEMORIAL TREE IN HONOR OF BRITISH SOLDIERS 



Memorial trees are being planted in Great Britain. The planting of which this is a photograph was at Manchester, England, where the 

 Lord Mayor, Tom Fox, is placing a tree in memory of the boys of the Blackley Municipal Schools 



in the Great War. 



class deposited a portion of the dirt. Mrs. Hutchins 

 read the honor roll and placed a few violets in the earth. 

 The most widely observed Arbor Day in the history 

 of Maryland was that of this year. Through the keen 

 interest of the Park Board and the School Board of 

 Baltimore, approximately 80,000 public school scholars 

 went to the public parks and assisted in planting trees. 

 One hundred and fifty-eight schools had part in the 

 work. Superintendent Koch, of the city schools, pro- 

 vided that pupils reassemble, as always, at 1.30 P. M. 

 at their respective schools and go to the planting places. 

 There were addresses to the school pupils by members of 



ols who gave their lives to their country 



by Joyce Kilmer, who died in France, was recited by one 

 of the children, and "What the Trees Teach Us," by 

 fourteen children. The Rev. F. H. Moore dedicated the 

 three trees with appropriate remarks ; the linden, to J. J. 

 Hoffecker, Jr., of Company B, 9th Infantry, who was 

 killed in battle near Soissons ; the maple, to Rupert M. 

 Burstan, of the marines, who died of pneumonia six 

 weeks after reaching France ; the catalpa, to David Man- 

 love, who fought in several battles, went over the top 

 safely then, after the armistice was signed, was killed by 

 an exploding shell while engaged in reconstruction work. 

 At the conclusion of the exercises, Dr. Moore and a 



