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MORE TREES TO HONOR OUR HERO DEAD 



cultural teacher in the grade school, to supervise planting. 

 "The high school science classes were put to work on a 

 study of forestry and especially on trees adapted to low 

 ground. Surveys were made and plans drawn of the 

 ground, then the placing of the trees worked out. County 

 Agricultural Agent H. S. Benson was called in and 

 gave some valuable suggestions. The plot was then 

 staked off, the ground divided and apportioned 



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SECRETARY BAKER SPEAKS IN MEMORY OF THE HEROES 



To every war mother in the land comes the opportunity to have a great 



Cart in the memorial resting places that will be established in France 

 1 the War Memorials Council The Secretary of War, shown speaking 

 at the dedication of the amphitheater at Arlington, has just appointed 

 the Council which will have charge of this great work. In these 

 "Arlington! In France," the mothers of the land will find a fitting 

 resting place provided for their sons. 



to the various grades. All the boys of the high school and 

 in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades participated in 

 wielding the spade. The classes both at the grade and 

 high school went to the woods and secured trees. About 

 two hundred trees were planted, selections being made 

 from the local forest trees. Among those used were 

 soft and hard maple, oaks, walnut, beech, ash and syca- 

 more. Many good specimens were brought in. The 

 high school agricultural class has since gone over the 

 field trimming and replacing." 



The American Forestry Association congratulates 

 Jackson township and her citizens who have enlisted in 

 such a worthy cause; a cause in which an abandoned 

 coal mine site has been put to work. Who knows the 



Photograph by Murray Studio 



145 ROADSIDE TREES PLANTED 

 The Lodi California Women's Club claims the honor of having started 

 the hrst Road of Remembrance in California. Mrs. May Crocker, a 

 member of the American 1-orestry Association, and chairman of the 

 Conservation Committee of the Alameda District of the California 

 federation of Women's Clubs, reports that the planting has just been 

 completed with the placing of 145 trees for one mile and a half out of Lodi. 



value of such work? Only time can tell. The tree planter 

 reaps a reward now despite what some folks may say. 

 His reward is satisfaction in having made the world a 

 better place to live in for those who come after him. 



BROOKLYN HEROES HONORED 



Four memorial trees have been dedicated by the Lexington Council 

 No. 293, of the Knights of Columbus of Brooklyn, in honor of the heroes 

 of that organization. The members of Leyhanack Post, of the American 

 Legion, attended the ceremony, at which Father William B. Collins. 

 of St. Anthony's Church, blessed the trees. The trees stand in honor of 

 John Christopher Sheehan, George Alphonsus Black. Francis James 

 Foley and Thomas Raymond Nulty. In St. Anthonv's Hall. Dorothy 

 Nulty unveiled a tablet to the four heroes. Riirht Reverend Monsignor 

 O'Hare, Joseph J. Hollowell. Samuel J. Toomey. Grand Knight, and Judge 

 J. Gratton McMahon were the speakers at the impressive ceremony. 



