meeting on Constitution Day. The October meeting was on "Roosevelt Day." An address was made by Dr. Henry Waldo Coe, who had given to the city of Portland an imposing bronze statue, representing Col. Theodore Roosevelt as a "Rough Rider." Our Chapter was appointed custodian of the statue, that honor having been conferred by the donor. November 8, 1923, was set aside as "Regents' Day." A number of Regents from our own and other States were our guests. Our State Regent, Miss Anne M. Lang, gave a fine address on the "Mayflower Compact." At our December meeting there was a Christmas tree and a party for our Children of the American Revolution Society. The Chapter also took charge of one floor of the hospital for disabled soldiers, decorating it with holly and greens. There was a beautifully trimmed tree and we also presented a gift to each soldier. The splendid letter received by the Chapter, showed the appreciation of "Our Boys" for the pleasure given them.

Among the pleasant social affairs was the luncheon given at the home of our Regent, Mrs. W. W. McCredie. Lincoln Day was remembered with a program.

The Chapter gave to the Sulgrave Institute in England; to the Harding Memorial; to the Caroline Scott Harrison Memorial; to the Berry School and to an Americanization school in Springfield, Ohio.

By no means the least of our social affairs was the Colonial Tea given on Washington's Birthday. One could forget easily that it was 1924, and think that it was many, many years ago from the lovely costumes of "Ye Olden Days."

Peoria Chapter (Peoria, Ill.) was organized in 1896, with a membership of 14. Miss Caroline Rice was the first Regent. We now have a membership of 250, and our goal for this year is 300. We have had fifteen Regents in the history of our Chapter, three of these serving four years each-Mrs. Louise D. Elder, Mrs. George T. Page and Mrs. H. Eugene Chubbuck. Mrs. Page and Mrs. Chubbuck have also been State Regents and in May, 1924, were elected Honorary Regents of the Peoria Chapter.

In July a benefit garden party was given which netted $150. This will be used in Patriotic Education work at the Neighborhood House, a home for settlement work, where two students will be employed to teach domestic science and social economics to boys and girls.

This year our Flag Committee had printed The Flag Code, as recommended by the Flag Conference and the 33rd Continental Congress, with other information in regard to the Flag. Over 4,000 of these circulars were distributed before July 4. Our Chapter has placed markers on graves of nine Revolutionary soldiers in Peoria and adjoining counties. One marker was unveiled on September 3, 1924.

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On Defense Day the Chapter was represented in the patriotic parade by a passenger float, decorated with the Society's colors and insignia. In the car were seated with the Regent, Mrs. William C. White, Mrs. William S. Mulford, Mrs. Charles A. Brobst, Mrs. E. H. Bradley, and Miss Elizabeth Cornelison, dressed in Colonial costume.

This is the third year that the Peoria Journal has donated a column in their Sunday edition for the use of our Publicity Chairman, who has furnished interesting material relative to National, State and local activities of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

The financial obligations as authorized by our National Society have always been met 100 per cent.

Our Zeally Moss Chapter, C. A. R., named in honor of a Revolutionary ancestor, of one of Peoria's benefactors, is beginning this year with lively interest. There are fifteen members, with five names in Washington.

Our Board Meeting is attended by the officers and Chairmen of the various committees. These meetings are held once a month at the home of the Regent. Here committee reports are made, and plans and problems are discussed. An informal buffet luncheon is served at the end of the session. In this way the time at the regular Chapter meeting can be given entirely to the program of the afternoon.

The members of the Chapter anticipate a most happy and flourishing year, as our Regent, Mrs. Mark D. Batchelder, is an efficient and enthusiastic leader.

(MRS. WILLIAM W.) KATE T. BROWN, Vice-Regent.

Lieutenant Byrd Chapter (Decatur, Ohio) was organized in January, 1915, with twelve members. Today, with twenty members, we are engaged in all forms of patriotic work.

In our beautiful little park in Decatur, where we have a monument in memory of the soldiers of the Civil War, we have unveiled a tablet in memory of the soldiers of the World War from Byrd Township. This park is historical. When Brown and Adams Counties were one, the ground was surveyed and laid out for a court house, but the county seat was moved elsewhere and the ground was unused. Of late years our citizens have transformed it into a park. On June 23, 1923, the Chapter held a most interesting program there, when the tablet, placed in a rough granite boulder, was unveiled by little Gene Pittenger and Frank Pickerill Davis, both of whom had the names of relatives on the tablet. Preceding the program a picnic luncheon was served.

The exercises were opened by a bugle call and a song. The prayer was by Dr. Ketchum, district superintendent of the Methodist church. Then followed the presentation to the citizens, in honor of the World War soldiers, by Mrs. Mary Agnes S. Gardner, our Organizing Regent and ex-Regent, through whose efforts this occasion was made possible. Mr. J. R. Wil

liams accepted the tablet in behalf of the community, and Mr. H. C. Pittenger responded in behalf of the soldiers. A beautiful and solemn memorial to the three boys who made the supreme sacrifice was then given, led by Mrs. Hughes, and a prayer was offered by the Rev. T. M. Patterson, of Ripley. Our State Regent, Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart, was with us, and she gave an interesting talk. Major F. X. Frebis gave an address in praise of the heroic men who gave their lives for their country, and he also spoke of the great work done by our National Society. The program closed with the Salute to the Flag, followed by taps. Besides Mrs. Hobart, we had with us Mrs. Claude Thompson, the State Secretary, and members of Ripley, Taliaferro, and Sycamore Chapters.

We are interested in preserving the first church built in our township and the neglected cemetery around it. We expect soon to erect another tablet to mark the farm of the late Dr. Greenleaf Norton, noted in Civil War times. LOUELLA P. PITTENGER,

Regent.

THE Birds of Piney Branch-From their Friends, Elsie and Jules Jusserand."

Many years hence, when the name of a distinguished gentleman of France is but a memory here, the thoughtfulness and human kindness which made him loved by the people of a great nation will live inscribed in the enduring stone of a monument erected "To the Birds of Piney Branch."

During those dark days of 1914-18, when the German army was at the threshold of Paris, when the cables hummed with the tidings of some new thrust at the heart of France, the French Ambassador to the United States and Mme. Jusserand sought respite from the turmoil and nerve-wracking atmosphere of a war embassy in Washington, D. C. They made it a custom to ride out to Piney Branch Valley, there to walk among the trees to take comfort from the solemn stillness of nature, to hear the cheerful, hopeful melodies of the birds.

The world must have seemed dark and dreary to Jules Jusserand on some of those days. They must have made his heart bleed. as the heart of many a loyal Frenchman bled. And it was the nature of the man to seek comfort from God's creatures whose little throats seemed fair to burst from the very joy of living when the rest of the world was steeped

in sorrow.

So while he goes back to a France that is sunny again, he does not forget the "Birds of Piney Branch." A bird bath, constructed of stone from France and set in the park surrounding the John Dixon Home on upper Fourteenth street, has been ordered by the former Ambassador. M. Cret, a French architect of Lyons, France, and Philadelphia, has been engaged to do the work.

There will be one simple inscription: "To the Birds of Piney Branch-From their Friends Elise and Jules Jusserand."-The Washington Star.

Samuel Donelson to Mary Smith, June 20, 1796.

Ichabod Osborn to Sarah Graham, June 28, 1796.

Allison Edney to Polly Durham, Oct. 26, 1791.

Henry Starrs to Elizabeth Chisom, March 12, 1796.

Henry Woodard to Mary Wilson, Feb. 13, 17956.

John Mitchell to Sarah Watts, Feb. 3, 1796.

Adam B. Hudson to Prissie Thomas, Oct. 11, 1797.

John Patterson to Eleanor Wilson, Dec. 27, 1797.

William Hogatt to Mary Bell, May 26, 1798.

James Dupree to Nancy Nichols, Dec. 12, 1798.

John Walker to Hepsee Hudson, Nov. 20, 1798.

Pitt Woodard to Elizabeth Smith, Nov. 16, 1795.

Moses McAfee to Sarah Chamberlin, Nov. 23, 1798.

Joseph Malugent to Polly Mitchell, Nov. 28, 1798.

John Gambull to Sarah Kimbro,

Nov. 1, 1798.

John Davis to Mary B. Gleaves, Aug. 4, 1798.

Richard Gatlin to Susanna Gatlin, Apr. 12, 1798.

Aqualla Jones to Lettie Cooke, Apr. 16, 1798.

Francis Armstrong to Elizabeth Jones, July 9, 1798.

John McKinney, Jr., to Elizabeth Buchannan, Oct. 29, 1798.

James Higdon to Sallie Thomas, July 9, 1798.

Richard Harriss to Clary Elliott, July 7, 1798.

William Fowler to Debora Liles, Oct. 1798.

Thomas Harmon to Elizabeth White, Apr. 29, 1798.

John Garner to Margaret Carothers, Dec. 30, 1798.

John Crawford to Margaret Buchannan, Aug. 6, 1798.

Robert Brown to James Robertson, Dec. 24, 1798.