Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1910 — SEEK TO SAVE HISTORIC ELM [ARTICLE]

SEEK TO SAVE HISTORIC ELM

Daughters cf Revolution Start Move-: in Interest of Decaying Tree. A movement has been started to pre-! serve the old. “constitutional elm” at Corydon, under whose branches the or-; iginal constitution of Indiana was adopted nearly one hundred years ago. The tree is showing evidence of decay. Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution are back of the movement, and. It is said, steps will be taken at once by Benjamin W. Dou- ' glass, state entomologist, to save the historic tree from dying.