FIND OLD SITES.

Workmen making excavations on the site have found abundant evidence that the sites selected are correct. In one place coins of the dates then in circulation were found. Another relic is the famous twin tree, with one part pointing to the south and the other north, the legend being that during the great civil war the branch to the south died, leaving the north branch strong. In later years the branch to the north has also died, but a new branch, springing from the junction of the two trees, has grown in its place. This tree has been cut down and will be cut into small pieces so that many people can have souvenirs of their visit to the scene of Lincoln's early home.

THE SOLDIER BOYS OVER-SEAS WRITE LETTERS TO THEIR
MOTHERS AT HOME.

One million, six hundred thousand letters were written by American soldiers over-seas to their mothers in America in honor of Mothers' Day, May 12, 1918.

ILLINOIS BOYS BELOW DRAFT AGE GIVING SERVICE

TO THE COUNTRY.

Fifteen thousand members of the United States Boys' Working Reserve are working on Illinois farms, in fields and dairies. These lads are below the draft age and are performing a great service in taking the places on the farms of young men who have entered war service.

NUMBER OF CHICAGO MEN OF CLASS ONE IN THE
SELECTIVE SERVICE.

When the last of Class One men of the draft left Chicago on June 2, 1918, that city had given a total of 64,597 men through the eighty-six exemption boards of the city. This of course is exclusive of men who had enlisted before the draft went into effect.

PROFESSOR A. C. MCLAUGHLIN GIVES A COURSE OF
LECTURES IN EUROPE.

Professor A. C. McLaughlin of the University of Chicago is in Europe to deliver a course of lectures on the American situation and the ideals of the American people in relation to the war. Professor McLaughlin accompanied by

Charles Moore of Detroit, treasurer of the American Historical Association, went to Europe at the invitation of the British universities.

ANNUAL CONVOCATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.

University of Chicago observed its annual Convocation. on June 11, 1918, when degrees were conferred on 305 candidates of whom only seventy-one were present, the other candidates for degrees, 234 in number being absent, engaged in war service.

CHICAGO TRIBUNE WAR CORRESPONDENT WOUNDED

NEAR CHATEAU THIERRY.

Floyd Gibbons, special war correspondent of the Chicago Tribune was wounded by machine-gun fire while following the operations of the American troops near Chateau Thierry on Thursday, June 6, 1918. As a result of the wound Mr. Gibbons' left eye was removed. He received also other serious injuries.

WOMEN WAR WORKERS OF ILLINOIS HOLD CONFERence.

Women war workers of the Illinois State Council of Defense held a state conference at the Hotel Morrison, Chicago, June 4-6, 1918. Addresses were made by Samuel Insull, Chairman State Council of Defense, Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen, Chairman, Woman's Committee, State Council of Defense, Miss Jessie I. Spafford, President State Federation of Women's Clubs, and other noted workers.

HON JOSEPH G. CANNON'S EIGHTY-SECOND BIRTHDAY
OBSERVED IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE of
REPRESENTATIVES.

On May 7, 1918, Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois attained the age of eighty-two years. Representative Madden of Illinois called the attention of the House to this anniversary as Mr. Cannon entered the room and the veteran was given a great ovation in which all parties and the galleries joined. Mr. Cannon in acknowledging the greeting said:

"I am not the Methuselah of this body. There is my friend and colleague, General Sherwood (of Ohio) who is nearly a year older than I am.”

Mr. Cannon said that his long service and wide acquaintance had convinced him that patriotism is confined to no

political party. He gave some interesting reminiscences of prominent members of Congress of days gone by. He said:

"The Forty-third Congress was one of great strife, with men of courage, spirit and conviction on both sides of the House, but I have no doubt but that confronted with the conditions of today, Ben Butler and Lamar, Garfield and Randolph and the great party men of that day would have united as we have in defending the honor of the Republic.' CHICAGO Y. M. C. A. CELEBRATES SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS FOUNDING, MAY 6, 1918.

It was also the thirtieth anniversary of the connection with the association of L. Wilbur Messer, general secretary of the association. These anniversaries were observed by a dinner at the Hotel LaSalle. It was announced that the Chicago Y. M. C. A. has 3,000 men in the country's war service. Addresses were made by Gen. Thomas H. Barry, Rev. William A. (Billy) Sunday and Mr. Messer.

Gifts of Books, Letters, Pictures and Manuscripts to the Illinois State Historical Library and Society.

Buffalo Historical Society Publication Number 22. Gift of Buffalo Historical Society, Buffalo, N. Y.

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Co. Year ending Dec. 31, 1917. Gift of C. B. & Q. R. R., Chicago, Ill.

John Crerar Library, Chicago. A history of books, pamphlets and articles on cremation. Gift of John Crerar Library, Chicago, Ill.

Chicago Woodlawn Bank Notes. May-June, 1918. Lincoln number. Gift of Mr. Theodore Jessup, 6044 Kenwood Ave., Chicago.

LaGuerre Et Les Americains. Discourse De M. Medill McCormick. (Two
copies.) Gift of Hon. John G. Oglesby, Springfield.
Dixon, Will H. Homespun Rhymes. Golden Wreaths of Rhyme.
Span of Life. Gift of the author, Mr. Will H. Dixon, 911 Karpen Bldg.,
Chicago.

The

Filson Club, Louisville, Ky. Martin, Asa Earl. The Anti-Slavery Movement in Kentucky Prior to 1850. Louisville, Ky. Filson Club, 1918. 165 pp. (Filson Club publication, No. 29.) Gift of the Filson Club. Genealogy. Beeler Biography and Genealogy. By Milo Custer. Gift Milo Custer, 202 W. Elm St., Bloomington, Ill.

Illinois State Fish Commissioner's Report, 1900-2. Gift of W. Peters, 3504 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, Ill.

Illinois State Horticulture Society. Vol. 51. Transactions for 1917. Gift of the Society.

Illinois State. The Story of Illinois, by John F. Voigt. Address delivered
at the fourth annual meeting, Local Bar Association, Third District.
Illinois State Teachers' Institute. Catalog Illinois State Teachers' Institute,
1869. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Sandham, Wyoming, Ill.
Kansas State. Sixteenth Biennial Report, Secretary of State of Kansas.
1907-1908. Gift of W. Peters, 3504 West Chicago Ave., Chicago, Ill.
Letters. J. C. Power to Col. Williams. Nov. 28, 1883. Aug. 5, 1884. J. C.
Power, Custodian Lincoln's Monument, to Col. John Williams, Major
Stuart and Mr. Conkling. Gift of George Williams, Springfield, Ill.
Lincoln. Abraham. Ganiere Bust of Lincoln. Gift of George E. Ganiere,
sculptor, Chicago.

Masque. The Masque of the Titans of Freedom. George Washington, Abra-
ham Lincoln. By William Chauncey Langdon. Gift of William Chauncey
Langdon, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.
Masque. The Student's Dream. A school masque. By Clara Inglis Stalker.
Gift of Frederick Bruegger, Chicago, Ill.

Mississippi State. Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society Centenary. Vol. II. Gift of the Society.

Mississippi State. Mississippi Official and Statistical Register. Centenary Volume, 1917. Gift Mississippi Historical Society, Jackson, Miss.

Missouri. The Missouri Priest of One Hundred Years Ago. Gift of Rev.
John Rothensteiner, St. Louis, Mo.

Music. Illinois. Our Illinois. Song by Annie C. W. Burton. Gift of Mrs.
Charles W. Burton, Edwardsville, Ill.
Newspaper. Evening Chronicle, 1916. Harrisburg, Ill. Gift of Jacob W.
Myers, Harrisburg, Ill.

North Carolina. Republic of Cuba vs. State of North Carolina. Proceed-
ings in suit for recovery on certain fraudulent bonds. Gift of James
S. Manning, Attorney General of North Carolina, Raleigh, N. C.
Philadelphia, Pa. Who's Who in Philadelphia. Gift of the compiler,
Charles Fred White, Springfield, Ill.

May, 1918.

Gift of

Prohibition. The Anti-Prohibition Manual, 1918. Gift of National Associa-
tion Distillers Wholesale Dealers, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Pythias. Knights of Pythias. Quarterly Review.
Hon. John J. Brown, Vandalia, Ill.
Pythian Lodge Directory, 1918. Gift of Hon. John J. Brown, Vandalia, Ill.
Sons of the American Revolution. Michigan Society Year Book, 1917-1918.
Gift of Raymond E. Van Syckle, Ford Bldg., Detroit, Mich.
Springfield, Ill. The Ridgely National Bank of Springfield, 1835-1918. Gift
of Mr. George Pasfield.

Studebaker Corporation. Story of the Studebaker Corporation. By Albert
Russel Erskine. Gift of the author.

Virginia State Library. Fourteenth Annual Report of the Virginia State Library, 1916-1917. Gift of the Library.

Woman's Relief Corps. Thirty-fifth Dept. Convention, Peoria, 1918. Gift of Mrs. Helen L. Middlekauff, Springfield.

Woman's Relief Corps. Journal of the Thirty-fifth National Convention of the Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the RePost National President, Minneapolis, Minn.

Wyoming, Ill. Year Book, 1917-18, Tuesday Club. Gift of Mrs. W. R. public. 1917. Washington, D. C., 1917. Gift of Miss Ida K. Martin, Sandham, Wyoming, Ill.