People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — DONE FOR PATRIOTISM. [ARTICLE]

DONE FOR PATRIOTISM.

Important Objects Attained by the Sous of the American Ko volution. Washington, May 1. The Sons of the American Revolution, whose annual congress is being held in this city, have accomplished already some important objects and have other patriotic schemes on foot They have secured from congress the collecting and indexing of the records of the American revolution; established the annual celebration ,of June 14 as flag day, and promoted the construction of the great battle monument at Bennington and the statue of Stark in New Hampshire. They are building a battle monument in Baltimore; have preserved as a permanent historical monument the headquarters of “Brother Jonathan” at Lebanon, Conn., and have marked the graves of soldiers of the revolution in Massachusetts with bronze tablets. They have saved the old colonial hall in New York from destruction and held more than 100 public celebrations of a patriotic character.