Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-04-01

son county. N. T., in 1882. He was
graduated from Union college in 1854,
and the following year settled in Me-
braska. first at Bellevue, and later
at Nebraska City. where he founded
and edited the Nebraska City News.
the first newspaper to be established
in that state.
MI. Morton was elected to the Ter
ritorial legislature in 1856 and in
1858 was appointed secretary Of the
territory by President James Buch-
anan. Upon the resignation of Gov
ernor w. A. Richardson, a few
months later, he became acting gov
ernor and local representative of the
administration in the bitter struggles
in the territory. In 1898 he entered
the cabinet of PRESIDENT Grover
Cleveland as secretary of agriculture.
remaining in office until 1897. Presi-
dent Mckinley, in 1901, appointed Mr..
Morton one Of the commissioners for
the Louisiana Purchase exposition.
Tree Planters State. =
Following the lead of Sterling Nor
ton. as long ago as 1895, the Nebras-
ka legislature proclaimed that Ne
braska shall h~enceforth be known as
The Tree Planters State for 70O,-
600 acres had been planted. Follow
ing tho lead Of Nebraska, Tennessee
and Kansas recognized Arbor Day in
Then t1Rre was a lapse until
1889 when Ohio and North Dakota
decided to have tree planting days.
InsIDhios the celebration was dur
ling TIE sessions of the convention in
Cincinnati which resulted in the
forming of what is no the American
Forestry association. Warren Hig-
ley, Of the Ohio Forestry commission,
suggested to John B. Peaslee, the
superintendent Of schools that the
school children have a part in the
celebration. This resulted in a parade
of 10000 school children through the
streets to Eden Park where trees
were planted in honor of famous men.
The following year at st. Paul, b. G.
Northrup of Connecticut, introduced a
resolution calling on every state to
set aside a tree planting day. In
1887 Ontario set the first Friday in
May for tree planting. In 1896 Spain
adopted the idea Inc Hawaii took it
up in 1905. In Jamaica they plant
trees( on Queen Victoria's birthday.
Tree planting has swept the coun-
try as hundreds of reports register
Seattle Highway one thousand Ameri-
can elms have been, dedicated to
Washington's World War soldier dead
with impressive ceremony at a coun-
try school house fronting on tho
road a short distance from Seattle.
The elms four years old and from
eight to twelve feet in height, plant
ed blythe Seattle Garden club at in
tervals Of 80 feet on both sides of the
highway, extend for eight miles from
the city's southern limits. The Penn
sylvania State college is arranging to
plant in trees a giant letter "S'' on
the shoulder Of Nittany mountain
which will be observable from the
campus.
Memorial tree planting has taken
on many phases as for instance in
Pasadena, Cal, which calls her mem
orial trees her Hall of Fame. In
Pasadena memorial trees. have been
planted for some of California's great
students OF, nature. At. Charlotte,
Mich, an unused piece Of land was
turned into a memorial park. A
great boulder in the center holds the
names Of the county, dead. Around
that boulder is q circle OF trees fol
those men. From this was worked
out the plans for the memorial park
planting. Planting Of a r when q
child is born is a custom that is being
adopted by many.