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Show if DANIEL WEBSTER IS HONORED ON HIS NATALDAY Tree on Which He Hung Scythe When a Boy Goes to Hall of Fame WAHHINOTOX, Jan. 22. In cele-bration cele-bration of the birthday anniversary of I in lei Webster the tree on which he. as a youth, hung; hia scythe upon deciding de-ciding to go to Dartmouth college, has been given place In the hall of fame for tree a with a history. The nomination nomina-tion of the tree wag made by Krank N Hancock of Kranklin, N. H., which, then known aa Salisbury, was the birthplace) of Webster on January II, 17S2. Mr. Hancock hag II red near the tree for alxty years. Th path from tha tree led .Webster to congress and to the office of the secretary of state. Webster never re;1chd the presidency, but ha twice refused the nomination for vice president, presi-dent, and In both cases tha head of jft the ticket on which he would have r hen elected died In office. 71 WSkOAK. Another nomination of a tree for thn hall f fame announced by the Ameriian rorcsiy association is tne Woelcy oak. on the inland of tit. Hi-nvn, Hi-nvn, off the coast of deorgia. This tre was nominated by James R. J. of New York City, editor of the Christian Chris-tian Advocate, John Medley ,and his brother Chnr.es Arrived in America on Kebruary a, 1726. Charles Wenley served as secretary to Ciovernor 0le-th'Tpa 0le-th'Tpa and went to the Island to help lay out the town of Ktederica. As thre whs no meeting place, both John an, I Churlea Wesley preached their first sermons on this continent beneath the Wesley oak, which is still standing. stand-ing. A great-grandson of lr. 8omuel Johnson, the first presrueni, in 3754, of Khir's college, nuw Columbia university, univer-sity, in New York City, once owned ih land between Stratford and flridgeport. Conn., on which stands an oak nominated for a place in the hull of fame hy M Iss Helen Harrison of Hound lironk, N. J. According to ex- ptrts. this tre is 600 years old.- ANOTHER PLACED. ne huntlred and fifteen years sgo tlif- Lewi und ClHrko exirediti:in cum perl lien ah tli the Council oak, at Hioux City, la., and held eouncil with thn indutnH. Tbia bur onk Is nomt-nated nomt-nated lt-r i pl.c in the hull of fame for trees by Mrs. Susie Uruwn of Marion, Ma-rion, la.. whoKe U.it;i seni to the Americnn forestry aasociation shows th.. tre w-.ia liO years old when Iewis anl Clarke pitched camp beneath its shidc. Soil from every suite In the T'nion n from each of the allied countries hH been placed about the roots of a maple tree planted by the 1 tough (era of tni American Revolution at .Arka-delphia. .Arka-delphia. Ark., as a memorial to the men who anawered their country'" call In thn world war. The tre is nomt-l nomt-l nated for a place in the hall of fame V by Mrs. Thomas Kloun. historian of Aas th Arkadflphia chapter of the D. A. It. N'ominations for places In the hall of fame for ts'e Hre made to the American Knrastry assm-iation, accompanied ac-companied with photographs and hl- toricai Hwtia. Mnri thw) 3flft ireca were filed with I he association up to the close of 1020. - |