Sketch of the life of H. F. Andrews, in the Exira Journal, May 22, 1919. Iowa troops in the Civil War, in the Sigourney News, May 22, 1919. Selection of the site of Clinton, in the Clinton Herald, May 23, 1919. Sketch of the life of P. M. Musser, in the Muscatine Journal, May 23, 1919. Death of Allen Sharp recalls Spirit Lake Massacre, in the Cherokee Times, May 27, 1919, the Estherville Republican, and the Winterset News, May 28, 1919, the Bloomfield Republican, the Des Moines Plain Talk, the Toledo Democrat, the Garner Democrat, the Decorah Republican, the Humboldt Independent, the Allison Tribune, and the Montezuma Palladium, May 29, 1919, the Adair News, May 30, 1919, and the Corning Free Press, May 31, 1919. A Civil War mother's poem, in the Boone News-Republican, May 29, 1919. Civil War survivors at Dows, in the Dows Advocate, May 29, 1919. Sketch of the life of John R. Sage, in the Des Moines Register and the Des Moines Plain Talk, May 29, 1919, and the Cedar Rapids Republican, May 30, 1919. John Brown at Tabor, in the Coin Gazette, May 30, 1919. May 30, 1919. The cyclone of 1896, in the Bondurant Journal, May 30, 1919. Mrs. Kirkwood, the widow of Iowa's Civil War Governor, in the Iowa's sacrifices in three wars, in the Clinton Herald, May 31, 1919, the Dubuque Herald, June 1, 1919, the Muscatine Journal, the Webster City Journal, and the Burlington Gazette, June 2, 1919. Three Civil War flags, in the Des Moines Capital, June 1, 1919. The old Bryant school of Des Moines, in the Des Moines Capital, June 1, 1919. What the Yanks contributed to the victory, by Harry C. Evans, in the Des Moines Capital, June 1, 1919. Across the plains, by W. G. Davis, in the Centerville Iowegian, June 3, 1919 and following. An old time stage driver at Corning, in the Corning Union-Republican, June 4, 1919. Sketch of the life of David Brant, in the Iowa City Press, June 4, 1919. Some Iowa Civil War history, by H. B. Morgan, in the Colfax Tribune, June 5, 1919. Two pioneer school documents, by C. L. Lucas, in the Madrid News, June 5, 1919. A story of pioneer days, by John Dunn, in the Tama Herald, June 5, 1919. A Civil War hero-L. L. Cadwell, in the Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 5, 1919. Following the flag with the 88th, in the Des Moines Register, June 8, 1919. Joseph North, pioneer of Burlington, in the Burlington Hawk-Eye, June 8, 1919. A brief history of the Burlington Hawk-Eye, in the Burlington Hawk-Eye, June 8, 1919. The Third Iowa in battle, by Winfred E. Robb, in the Des Moines Capital, June 8, 15, and 22, 1919. Some Boone County history, by C. L. Lucas, in the Boone News Republican, June 10 and 12, 1919. The first settler of Linn County, by Mary Durham, in the Cedar Rapids Republican, June 11 and 15, 1919. Historical sketch of Golden Prairie church, by Mrs. Frank L. Clark, in the Manchester Democrat, June 11, 1919. The Oskaloosa Woman's Club, in the Oskaloosa Times, June 13, 1919. Eighty years of the Burlington Hawk-Eye, in the Sioux City Jour nal, June 13, 1919, and the Des Moines Tribune, June 14, 1919. Sketch of the life of Mrs. Adeline F. Saylor, in the Des Moines Capital, and the Des Moines Register, June 14, 1919. Collection of guns at Afton, in the Des Moines Capital, June 15, 1919. Veterans of the Mexican War, in the Des Moines Register, June 15, 1919. John Stalnaker a teacher for forty-six years, in the Des Moines Register, June 15, 1919. S. L. Coxa friend of the Indians, in the Des Moines Register, June 15, 1919. Sketch of the life of J. H. Bolton, in the Sioux City Tribune, June 18, 1919. Early reminiscences, by C. L. Lucas, in the Madrid News, June 19, 1919. The First National Bank of Guthrie Center, by Jno. W. Foster, in the Guthrie Center Times, June 19, 1919. Sketch of the life of J. A. Le Claire, in the Davenport Democrat, June 22, 1919. Fred Christianer- oldest Odd Fellow, in the Des Moines Tribune, June 25, 1919. The Hawk-Eye an octogenarian newspaper, in the Mt. Ayr RecordNews, June 25, 1919. Sketch of the lives of Mr. and Mrs. William Fuller, in the Monticello Express, June 25, 1919. An early Iowa farm boy, in the Leon Reporter, June 26, 1919. Early history of Des Moines, in the Des Moines Capital, June 29, 1919. Romance of early Keokuk, by E. M. Ingersoll, in the Keokuk GateCity, June 30, 1919. HISTORICAL SOCIETIES PUBLICATIONS The Biennial Report of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library for the years 1916-1918 has recently been published. The three articles which appear in The Catholic Historical Review for April are: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in the Spanish Colonies, by Edwin A. Ryan; Father Escobar's Relation of the Oñate Expedition to California, by Herbert Eugene Bolton; and Bishop McQuade of Rochester, by Frederick J. Zwierlein. Under the title of Miscellanies the Wyoming Historical Society · has published a collection of letters and papers relating to Wyoming history, among which are Some of the Early Newspapers of Wyoming, by W. E. Chaplin, and The Texas Trail, by John B. Kendrick. The annual report of the Chicago Historical Society for 1918 has recently been published. The Prussian Peasantry before 1807, by Guy S. Ford, The Southern Frontier in Queen Anne's War, by Verner W. Crane, Diverging Tendencies in New York Democracy in the Period of the Locofocos, by William Trimble, and The Education of Henry Adams, by Carl Becker, are the chief articles which appear in the April number of The American Historical Review. Types of Early New England Gravestones, by George L. Miner, is one of the papers which appear in the Rhode Island Historical Society Collections for April. The April number of the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute contains a paper by Sidney Perley on Beverly in 1700; Robert S. Rantoul writes of Three Hundred Years of Beverly; and there is a further installment of Some Account of Steam Navigation in New England, by Francis B. C. Bradlee. Among the contributions in the Michigan History Magazine for April the following may be noted: Legislation by Governor and Judges, by William L. Jenks; The Central Michigan Normal School at Mt. Pleasant, by Claude S. Larzelere; and two papers on America and the Great War, by Edwin J. Draper and Dorotha McBride. Two of the articles published in the Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine for April are: The Frontier Policy of Pennsylvania, by George Arthur Cribbs, and Early Developments of Transportation on the Monongahela River, by W. Espy Albig. The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine for October, 1918, contains a further installment of the Order Book of John Faucheraud Grimké. A third installment of The Military Hut-Camp of the War of the Revolution on the Dyckman Farm, by Reginald Pelham Bolton, is published in The New-York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin for April. Among the original documents printed in this number is a petition for a league of nations presented to Congress in 1845. Famous Steamboats on Western and Southern Waters, by Ella H. Ellwanger, is one of the papers contributed to the May number of The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society. The State Historical Society of Wisconsin has issued the Proceedings of the Society at Its Sixty-sixth Annual Meeting as a separate pamphlet. The April number of The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography contains further installments of the Roll of Honor, the Minutes of the Council and General Court-1622-1629, and the Preston Papers. A Report on the Public Archives, by Theodore C. Blegen, has been issued by The State Historical Society of Wisconsin as Bulletin of Information, number ninety-four. The succeeding number is a Checklist of Wisconsin Public Documents Issued During 1918. Columbus, Ga., and General Henry L. Benning, by Henry R. Goetchius, and The Capture of the U. S. Steamer "Water Witch" |