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Show TO PRESERVE HISTORIC PEN That Used by Secretary of State Hughes on Important Occasion in Care of D. A. R. The flagstaff penholder used by Secretary Sec-retary of States Hughes in signing the treaties agreed upon by the delegates at the recent conference on the limitation lim-itation of armament, in Washington will be preserved to posterity in the custody of the Daughters of the American Amer-ican Revolution, probably in Memorial Continental hull, where the treaties were signed. The penholder is made of native woods from 2S states and territories, and is decorated with miniature flags of 28 nations, including the nine represented rep-resented at the conference and several of the allied powers In the World war. The woods were collected and fashioned fash-ioned into a penholder about 14 inches long by David Fairbanks of Chicago. Two small pieces of wood used In its manufacture are of special historic his-toric interest. The section of eotton-i'ood eotton-i'ood from Michigan was taken from a tree standing on the ground where the old Indian chief, Pontine, fought Ills last battle with the British in 1763, and the piece of red cedar from South Carolina came from a tree planted by the statesman John C. Calhoun. |