Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1909 — URGES PLANTING OF TREES [ARTICLE]

URGES PLANTING OF TREES

Governor Willson of Kentucky Issues Proclamation to Children. Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 26.—Unique among proclamations is one Issued by Governor Augustus E. Willson to the children of Kentucky to commemorate Arbor day, Friday, April 2. He dwells at length upon the deforestation idea and pleads with the youngsters to follow the advice of Sir Walter Scott and “stick in a tree here and there; it will be growing when ,you are sleeping.”