Fifty years of the Spirit Lake Beacon, in the Spirit Lake Beacon, October 28, 1920.

Floyd County history, in the Charles City Intelligencer, October

28, 1920.

Fiftieth anniversary of the Storm Lake Pilot, in the Storm Lake Tribune, October 30, 1920.

The old boats, by Fred A. Bill, in the Burlington Saturday Evening Post, October 30, and December 4 and 18, 1920.

What does "Iowa" mean?, in the Sioux City Journal, November 1, 1920, and the Mason City Gazette, November 24, 1920.

Passing of the Coliseum at Burlington, in the Burlington HawkEye, November 2, 1920.

Sketch of the life of James M. Pierce, in the Council Bluffs Nonpareil, November 3, 1920.

Sketch of the life of Mrs. Cynthia Walton, in the Bloomfield Democrat and Republican, November 4, 1920.

Fiftieth anniversary of the Merchants National Bank, in the Burlington Saturday Evening Post, November 6, 1920.

Sketch of the career of W. J. Butler, in the Iowa City Press, November 8, 1920.

Old courthouse at Rochester, Cedar County, in the Knoxville Express, November 10, 1920, the Garner Democrat, and the Sac City Sun, November 11, 1920.

An Iowa blizzard in early days, in the Spirit Lake Beacon, November 11, 1920.

Sketch of the life of George W. Fitch, in the West Union Union, November 11, 1920, and the Oelwein Iowan, November 12, 1920.

Buffalo bones in marsh at Fertile, in the Dubuque TelegraphHerald, November 13, 1920.

Constitutional conventions in Iowa, in the Centerville Iowegian,

November 23, 1920, the Greenfield Free Press, November 25,

1920, the Mt. Vernon Record, December 8, 1920, and the Knoxville Express, December 8, 1920.

Thanksgiving day in Iowa, in the Atlantic News, November 24, 1920, the Ottumwa Courier, November 25, 1920, and the Boone News, November 27, 1920.

Brief sketch of Ackworth Institute, by Jeptha W. Morgan, in the Indianola Advance-Tribune, November 25, 1920.

Sketch of the life of Thomas Hedge, in the Burlington Hawk-Eye and the Keokuk Gate City, November 30, 1920, and the Emmetsburg Reporter, December 2, 1920.

Sketch of the life of Eber Palmer, in the Spirit Lake Beacon, December 2, 1920.

Francis Scott Key in Iowa, by C. L. Lucas, in the Madrid News, December 2, 1920.

Anniversary of first Masonic lodge in Iowa, at Burlington, in the Iowa City Press, December 8, 1920.

Early history of Jackson County, by T. E. Blanchard, in the Sabula Gazette, December 9, 16, 23, and 30, 1920.

Some famous trees in Iowa, in the Marathon Republic, December 9, 1920.

Sketch of the lives of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Clemons, in the Storm Lake Tribune, December 10, 1920.

Sketch of the life of M. H. McCarthy, in the Dubuque Journal, December 12, 1920.

Early days in Logan, in the Logan Observer, December 16, 1920. Meetings at Brittain's Grove, in the Knoxville Express, December 22, 1920.

Some Warren County history, in the Indianola Record, December 22, 1920.

A daughter of Betsy Ross at Fort Madison, in the Marshalltown Times-Republican, December 23, 1920.

Early day blizzard tales, in the Sac City Sun, December 23, 1920.

Indian view of Custer defeat, in the Davenport Times, December 24, 1920.

The old log cabins, in the Des Moines Register, December 26, 1920. Memorial to Judge O. P. Shiras, in the Dubuque Journal, December 26, 1920.

Sketch of the life of Asa L. Plummer, in the Des Moines Register, December 26, 1920, and the Des Moines Plain Talk, December 30, 1920.

Mastodon tusk found in Iowa, in the Des Moines Register, December 27, 1920.

Iowa seventy-four years old, in the Des Moines Tribune, December 27, 1920.

Pilgrims of Iowa, in the Shenandoah Post, December 27, 1920.

Historical sketch of Iowa, in the Iowa City Press-Citizen, December 29, 1920.

Constitutional conventions in Iowa, in the Ottumwa Courier, December 30, 1920.

Origin of the name "Iowa", in the Keokuk Gate City, December 31, 1920.

Early days in Page County, in the Shenandoah World, December 31, 1920.

VOL. XIX-10

HISTORICAL SOCIETIES

PUBLICATIONS

The Journal of Governor John Sevier, edited by John H. De Witt, is concluded in the April, 1920, number of the Tennessee Historical Magazine.

The Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio for July-September, 1920, contains a second installment of Selections from the Gano Papers, relating to early militia organization in Ohio.

Ewing Young and His Estate: A Chapter in the Economic and Community Development of Oregon, by F. G. Young, fills The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society for September, 1920. Young was the leader of the first community enterprise in Oregon.

Students of western American history will be interested in the Log of the Columbia, 1790–1792, which is printed in volume fiftythree of the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

The Minnesota History Bulletin for August, 1920, contains Frederick J. Turner's address on Middle Western Pioneer Democracy delivered at the dedication of the Minnesota Historical Society building on May 11, 1918. An account of the dedication exercises is included in this number.

A fifth installment of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, by A. K. Christian, and a continuation of the Minutes of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin, 1828-1832, edited by Eugene C. Barker, are two of the papers in The Southwestern Historical Quarterly for October, 1920.

A biographical sketch of Jedediah Peck, known as the father of the public school system in New York, by Sherman Williams, and an article on Rochester and the Shoe Industry, by Edgar P. Reed, are two of the contributions to The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association for October, 1920.

Abraham Lincoln in Pittsburgh and the Birth of the Republican Party, by Charles W. Dahlinger, is the chief contribution to the Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine for October, 1920. There is also a short account of The Old Indian Burying Ground, by Stephen Quinon, reprinted from The Pittsburgh Times.

Christopher Harrison, by Martha Tucker Morris, The Savage Allies of The Northwest, by Elmore Barce, and a continuation of The Temperance Movement In Indiana, by Charles E. Canup, are the three articles which appear in the Indiana Magazine of History for June, 1920. The entire September issue is taken up by a monograph on The Progressive Party in Indiana, written by Carl Painter.

The First Militia Companies in Eastern Washington Territory, by William S. Lewis, An Old Quaker Magazine, by Charles W. Smith, Bibliography of the Anthropology of Puget Sound Indians, by J. D. Leechman, a continuation of the Origin of Washington Geographic Names, by Edmond S. Meany, and another installment of The Nisqually Journal, edited by Victor J. Farrar, are articles and papers in The Washington Historical Quarterly for October, 1920.

Protestantism in Illinois Before 1835, by Harry Thomas Stock, is one of the articles found in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society for April, 1919. Even at this early period these pioneer preachers were outspoken opponents of slavery and the liquor traffic. Other articles in this number are: Early History of Paxton, Illinois, by Oren B. Taft; History of the Poll Tax in Illinois, by M. K. McKay; and Who Were the Mound Builders?, by John G. Keplinger.

The American Historical Review, 1895-1920, by J. Franklin Jameson, a second installment of New Light on the Origins of the World War, by Sidney B. Fay, and The American War Government, 1917-1918, by Frederic L. Paxson, are three of the contributions to the October, 1920, number of The American Historical Review.

The issue of The Georgia Historical Quarterly for June-Septem