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put up beef suet and different grains. Assisted by Mrs. Steinmetz, she obtained 

 45 pledges aggregating 5,700 acres for bird sanctuaries. 



One school day these workers met at least fifty school teachers to whom 

 they distributed the literature you sent us and obtained their promise to 



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EXHIBIT OF EAST TENNESSEE AUDUBON SOCIETY, KNOXVILLE, OCTOBER, 1919 



organize Junior Audubon Societies. Mr. Steinmetz had printed 300 posters 

 which were given to the farmers who would post their land. — (Miss) Magnolia 

 Woodward. 



Illinois. — During the year the number of new members almost doubled the 

 number of delinquent members, and their dues paid exceeded delinquent dues 

 by considerably more than five times. Last December, Roy M. Langdon, a 

 director of the Society and Secretary of the Maywood Bird Club, was elected 

 secretary-treasurer, succeeding Mrs. Bertha Traer Pattee who had served the 

 Society as secretary most faithfully and effectively for five years. It was her 

 hope, as it was the hope of her fellow-directors, that it would soon be possible 

 for Mr. Langdon to devote all his time to Audubon work. Orpheus M. Schantz 

 and Jesse L. Smith succeeded themselves as president and vice-president 

 respectively. 



The state legislature being in session, the Society made the winter (19 18- 

 1919) issue of its magazine, The Audubon Bulletin, a conservation number, de- 

 voting it almost entirely to propaganda in behalf of wild life and kindred sub- 



