Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1902 — A Tree and Bird Annual. [ARTICLE]

A Tree and Bird Annual.

Frank Jones, state superintendent of schools, has just issued an arbor and bird day annual, prepared by W. H. Freeman, secretary of the state forestry board, for the use of the publio schools in the preparation of exercises on Oct. 24, whioh has been designated by the governor as Arbor Day. The annual contains pictures of many native trees and school houses with fine shade trees in the yards, as woll as school houses that have no trees near. The annual describes some of the good, native shade trees, and; tells the story of some of the historic trees, among them the constitutional elm at Corydon, Ind.