Coalville Times | 1903-04-24 | Page 4 | Monument for Sterling Morton

Monument for Sterling Morton. A memorial tablet In on exhibition tn two ro.uiia of the Nchruuka Htute lllnliiil.nl noclety nt Lincoln which It to be placed upon one of the hlK redwood red-wood troen In a park at Kunta ('rut, t'al.. lu I miy ol Hie lale J. Hterllnn Morton, former nccreiaiy of nKiicul Hire. This tablet l ah. lit tuo tecl fiuare and In enst with It w 11Hcrlptl1.ua Hiamlim In hold relief, so that they may he rend at a coiililerabl.. dln-tauco dln-tauco (111 the upper In'l liaiiil enrner are the wnnH "I'l.tcl Innlm" iiiiiIiiimiii Hie upper rlttht band corner Hie wordu "Plant trecn." H -low these wor.ln la a ileilun coiniMised of fmir oak leaven and an acorn on a nlnule twin, beneath whlih Ik set for Ihe nliiiilll. unco of thn tablet, an inllowa: "In memory of J. Sierllin Morton i.f Nehrnnka. father ol Arhcr day; born April 72, tx:t2, died April -'7. Inn?, liy order of Nebraska Ne-braska S!nlt lllmorlral noclety."