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Society Publications
LITTLE LOGAN ELMS
Sometime early in the current year it
was suggested
that possibly under the spreading
branches of the Logan
Elm might be found some seedling baby
Logan Elms
that with proper care would grow up
through the years
into sturdy trees like the parent. The
little park sur-
rounding the Elm is mown every year and
the young
seedlings fall before the scythe. Upon
investigation,
however, a number of stubs were found
with good live
roots. On April 21, several of these
were raised by Mr.
Frank Tallmadge and the writer and
placed in prepared
positions by Miss Margaret E. Ritchie,
who christened
them "Logan Elms of the New
Generation." They
were planted in a row by the fence at
the north side of
the Park, where they will be safe from
the keen edge
of the caretaker's scythe. They have
put out leaves and
apparently every one of them will grow.
NEW LAWS OF INTEREST TO THE SOCIETY
On a previous page of this issue of the
QUARTERLY
will be found a statement in regard to
the appropriation
of $15,000 for real estate and other
improvements at
old Fort St. Clair, in Preble County,
Ohio. Other acts
of interest to the Society were passed
at the recent ses-
sion of the Legislature as follows:
A bill introduced by Honorable Joseph
H. Ebright
of Tuscarawas County appropriates
$10,000 for "the
purpose of acquiring and preserving the
site of the vil-
lage of Schoenbrun situated in Goshen
Township, Tus-
carawas County, Ohio." In this
village was built 150
years ago, by the Moravian
Missionaries, the first school
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house and the first church established
in the Ohio Coun-
try. When this property is improved it
is to be trans-
ferred to the custody of the Ohio State
Archaeological
and Historical Society.
A bill introduced by Honorable Thomas
L. Calvert
of Clark County appropriates $10,000
for "the purpose
of aiding in paying the cost of
constructing a monument
to General George Rogers Clark and to
commemorate
the battle of Piqua and birthplace of
Tecumseh." This
monument is to be erected by the Clark
County Histor-
ical Society and on its completion to
pass into possession
of the state and custody of the Ohio
State Archaeological
and Historical Society.
A bill introduced by Honorable Harvey
D. Cope,
authorizing the transfer, by county
commissioners, of
newspaper files to the custody of the
Ohio State Archae-
ological and Historical Society is now
a law. It pro-
vides that after bound newspaper files
are kept for ten
years the county commissioners may transfer
them to
the Society. It is believed that in
time many counties
will take advantage of this act and
that the library of
the Society will through the agency of
this law make
substantial additions to its newspaper
files.
WORLD WAR PAPERS
PRESENTED BY SERGEANT NEIL K. REESE
The Society is under especial
obligations to Sergeant
Neil K. Reese of the United States
Army, who has for-
warded valuable World War documents to
our library.
In his letter dated Coblenz, Germany,
February 15,
1923, he says in part: