Ohio History Journal




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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: