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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry251919amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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MEMORIAL TREES PLANTED FOR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS 917 out to the camp. The City Federation of Women's Clubs is back of this movement. There has been introduced into the legislature of South Carolina a bill providing for a park of not less than fifty acres at Columbia, the State Capital, set with appropriate trees and with a me- morial hall in the center. At Metuchen, New Jersey, the board of education planted a Douglas spruce in the school grounds to keep green the memory of that town's sons who served. Mrs. William T. Igleheart reports from Evansville, Indiana, that they are jilanning to make the tree plant- ing day there "a victory occasion." And in Collamer, Indiana, the ivliolc town helped in mony. Everyone—young and old, after the tree had been set in place, took one of the spades and deposited some dirt around the roots. The spades which were borne by a Boy Scout and a Camp Fire girl were decorated with small American flags. The first part of the services were held in the village school. There a report was made on each individual soldier from Collamer, as to the time he entered the service, his duties, location at that time and anything he might have said about the service and his home while away. This recital was made by some member of his family, father or mother, brother or sister, or by a friend. There was also a short dedicatory address by
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THE MEMORIAL TREE PLANTING AT COLLAMER The town of Collamer, Indiana, with 200 inhabitants planting a tree in honor of its eighteen sons who served in the war. Recital of the service of each man was made by some relative or friend. A Boy Scout and a Camp Fire Girl each had a spade with which each person present threw some dirt around the roots. The man inside the fence (side view) is A. R. Fleck, County Superintendent of Schools; the man next to the Boy Scout is Rev. Cyrus Fleck and woman at extreme left in front of the woman with baby in arms is Mrs. Oca Jellison, Principal of the school. the planting of memorial trees. If the service had been held in a great cathedral or if there had been 100,000 people present, it could not have been more impressive and more patriotic in character than when the two hun- dred inhabitants of Collamer, Indiana, gathered to do honor to the eighteen sons of that town who were serving in the great war. The tree planting, reported by M. L. Galbreath to American Forestry, was in many ways unique and of permanent record. Collamer is in the home county of Vice-President Marshall. Every person present took an active part in the cere- A. R. Fleck, county superintendent, explanatory remarks by Mrs. Oca Jellison, principal of the school whose hus- band was then in action in France, and prayer by Rev. Cyrus Fleck. Then the audience marched outside and formed a hollow square around the fence inside of which the tree had been placed and as each one passed inside he or she took one of the spades and placed a spadeful of dirt around the tree. Prayer and the singing of America closed the exercises. Through memorial trees growing in their honor America's worthy sons will live again through the vears to come.

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