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one time seemed of great significance to the early settlers or their dusky 

 predecessors. 



The far away home of early emigrant ancestors is cherished and handed 

 on to future generations, in the name Chester; a President is honored and a 

 military school distinguished, in Fort Monroe, and a first settler's successful 

 conquest of virgin soil, in Halseyville; Isle au Chene, one of the Apostle 

 Islands in Lake Superior, pictures the impression of French pioneers when 

 they first saw this 'island of the oak,' while Kotzebue is the name of a Rus- 



FORTY FORT JUNIOR AUDUBON SOCIETY, KINGSTON, PA. 

 Fifty of the eighty-five members of the class are shown in this photograph 



sian navigator who, early in the nineteenth century, commanded expeditions 

 the object of which was to explore the Pacific Ocean. 



North Hero is one of two islands known as 'Two Heroes,' which was 

 granted to Ethan Allen, "the intention being that they should be owned only 

 by brave men warmly disposed toward the Revolution." What a thrill comes to 

 us as this sign of loyalty toward an ideal of liberty flashes out its significance 

 anew to us from the printed page! 



Oconomowoc is the Indian way of saying 'home of the beaver,' A modern 

 city rises to-day upon the site of this old beaver stronghold. What the strug- 

 gle between civilization and nature, between man and beast, may have been 

 is well pictured in one of Enos Mill's graphic essays. Ohio, a more familiar 

 word, taken from the Iroquois Indians' dialect, means 'beautiful river.' 



