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The amount of money provided in the
different
states for additional compensation to
World War
veterans varies from $2,500,000 in
Rhode Island to
$45,000,000 in New York.
TABLET FOR CAMPUS MARTIUS
The Ohio Daughters of the American
Revolution
will have placed upon the old Campus
Martius house
at Marietta a tablet marking this as an
important his-
toric point in our state. It will be
unveiled Wednes-
day, September 28, 1921. Dr. Edwin Earl
Sparks of
State College, Pennsylvania, will make
the formal his-
toric address on this occasion. The State Chairman
of Historic Spots, Mrs. Eugene G.
Kennedy of Day-
ton, Ohio, on behalf of the Daughters
of the American
Revolution, will present this tablet
which will be ac-
cepted by Governor James E. Campbell,
President of
the Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Society.
The Legislature at its regular session
in 1917
passed an act providing for the
purchase of the Campus
Martius property and appropriated for
that purpose
$16,000. Since that time no money has been provided
for the repair and maintenance of this
property. From
a sum of money given by Miss Minerva T.
Nye for
this purpose, arrangements have
recently been made
for the erection of a retaining wall
for the Campus
Martius lot of ground and it is hoped
that this much
needed improvement will soon be
completed.
The Campus Martius site is a most
important one.
Here the Ordinance of 1787 went
formally into effect
July 15, 1788, with the inauguration of
Arthur St.
Clair, the first governor of the
Northwest Territory.
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The citizens of Bucyrus will observe
the centennial
of the founding of their city on
October 4, 1921. An
interesting program has already been
arranged, begin-
ning with a union meeting of all the
churches of
Bucyrus on October 3rd and extending
over the two
days following. In a later issue of the QUARTERLY
we hope to give an account of these
centennial exer-
cises.
The date of the annual meeting of the
Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society
has been tenta-
tively fixed for October 12, 1921.
Formal notices will
be sent to the members of the Society
in due time an-
nouncing definitely the date and the
program of exer-
cises.