The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-11-17
STATELY ELMS
HONOR HEROES
Patriotic Ceremonies Mark
the Planting of Mem
Orial Trees.
TEARS FALL FREELY
Gold Star Mothers Plant Trees
and Mayor Speaks of Service
of Men Who Died.

Kenosha people gathered at the new
park at the north end Of Lake avenue
and had part in the ceremonies attend
ing the planting of half dozen trees
which are to be living memorials to
the soldier dead. The trees were a
part of the nearly hundred American
elms given. by Mrs. George A. Yule to
the relatives of the boys who died in
the war; saat
While the ceremonial at the park
was impromptu, very large company
Of patriotic Kenoshans gathered to
have part in it and they braved the
snowstorm to pay just little further
tribute to the boys who fought the
good fight and made the supreme sscri-
fce on the battlefelds.
Plant Row of Elms.
A row of beautiful elms was planted
along the east side of Lake avenue at
the park and sometime in the future
each tree will bear bronze tablet,
telling something of the heroic death
Of the man for whom it was planted.
The occasion called to the park many
Of the officials Of the city, many prom
inent henderson the American Legion
an little company Of the Gold Star
Mothers of Kenosha. All took deep
interest in the ceremony.
Members of the ,American Legion set
the trees and the earth was placed
about them by the mothers of boys
who had fallen in the struggle over
seas. The main ceremony of the at
IL - xD1a ~
the tree which is to be a memorial to
Lieutenant George B. Sutherland, one
of the first of the Kenosha men to
volunteer for service with the army.
Lieut.. Sutherland fell fighting in the
Argonne. He was caught by bursting
shell and torn TO pieces and he now
sleeps in the son of France, hallowed
by the blood Of heroes.
Mayor Speaks Feelingly.
Mayor John G. Joachim was the prin-
cipal speaker at the pretty ceremonial
He spoke of the loyalty and devotion
OF the men who had gone to war, of
the glorious part they were to have
in the history Of the world, and of the
pride which the city which they called
their home felt in the honor it was
paying to them? He spoke feelingly
of his friendships with some of the
boys who fell and declared that 1t
would be the privilege of the city to
carefully nurture the trees planted in
honor of these boys who fell.
There was hymn sung after which
the tree was planted by Mrs. j. W..
Webb, Mrs, Mary Ball, Mrs. Fred Bull
and Mrs Ida Lyon, all mothers of boys
who died fighting under the flag. Mrs.
Harry Skinkle, sister Of the late
Lieutenant Sutherland, also aided in
the work of planting the memorial
trees.
Trees TO Have Every Care.
These trees are to have every care
of the park board and it is expected
that later on in the month other trees
presented by Mrs. Yule to the relatives
Of the men who fell in war will be
added to the line along Lake avenue.
1t is expected that years from now
this row Of elms will prove a patriotic
shrine for the people of Kenosha and
special ceremonies will be held there
annually to, recall the heroism of the
men who made the supreme sacrifice.
,< Plant Trees at State Line.
Armistice Day was celebrated at the
Illinois Wisconsin state line yesterday
afternoon by the planting of four elm
trees and by speeches by Capt. Wurtz-
baugh, eemmandant of Great Lakes
Naval Training Station; Charles S.
Deneen, ex-governor of Illinois; Judge
Fairchild of Milwaukee,; w. H. Glen
dinen, mayor of Zion City; and George
Shurtleff. Of Peoria, Kiwanis governor
Of Illinois.
Two Of the elm trees were planted
on the Wisconsin side and two on the
i Illinois side. Two large ~boulders, one
on the Illinois side and the other on
the Wisconsin side, were placed near
the trees and these boulders bear an
inscription informing passersby that
the trees were dedicated to the dead
who gave their lives in the great war"
A novel part of the ceremony yesterday
was the use of trowel which was used
by Mrs. Warren G. Harding, wife of
the president, when she planted the
peace elm at Washington, April 3oth.
Brave Cold and Snow.
A bitter cold north wind with snow
fiurries made the memorial service any
thing but pleasant to the comfort of
the three hundred persons assembled,
but it was good test of their patriot
ism and as more than one speaker
stated, it gave just faint idea of the
extreme hardships and privatfons that
our soldiers had to endure at the
front. The sacrifice to come out and
face the bitter north wind was small
in comparison to the sacrifice of the
lives that had given birth to the ma
tion-wide memorial tributes to the
World War heroes,
Daniel S. Wentworth, father of the
roadside tree planting idea and chair
man of the Kiwanis committee, was
deserving of the credit for the idea to
combine Wisconsin with Illinois in the
tree planting on the state line.g Music
was furnished by Overseer Voliva's
Zion band of fifty, pieces.