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General Federation of Women s Clubs PRESIDENT MRS. PERCY V. PENNYBACKER. 2606 WHITIS AVENUE. AUSTIN. TEXAS. CONSERVATION
DEPARTMENT MRS. EMMONS CROCKER CHAIRMAN. 40 mechanic street, fitch bu rg. Massachusetts MISS MYRA L. DOCK. VICE-CHAIRMAN,
fayetteville. Pennsylvania FORESTRY COMMITTEE MRS. LOVELL WHITE, chairman 2245 Sacramento st., San Francisco. California
BIRD COMMITTEE MRS. MAY RILEY SMITH, Chairman. 241 west 74th, street, new York City MRS. A. L. CHRISTIE Board member. 21S
South Washington Street, Butte, Montana WATERWAY COMMITTEE MRS. LYOIA ADAMS-WILLIAMS. Chairman, Forest service, Washington,
d. c. LINCOLN WAY TREE COMMITTEE MRS. E. E. KENDALL, chairman. 6731 Euclid avenue. Chicago, Illinois Conservation Department,
G. F. ,W. C. Chicago, June 4, 1914. Mr. John Muir, Dear Sir: The honor of your presence is requested at a Lincoln
Way Tree Dinner, to be given in the Pine Tree Room, Stratford Hotel, Chicago, Conservation Day, June 16th, 1914, at 5 P. M.
Mrs. Philip N. Moore, Past President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, will be Toast Mistress. Mrs. W. L. Christie,
Board Member, and Mrs. Harriet Bishop Wauters, Managing Editor of the Gen. Fed. Magazine, will respond to toasts,. Mr. A.
R. Partington, Vice-President of the Lincoln Highway illegible , will rear and to the toast, The Lincoln Highway . Mr. Wilhelm
Miller, Head of the Land Garden section of the Dent, of Horticulture, University of Illinois, will give a thirty minute illustrated
talk on The Planting Plan of the Lincoln Highway , with special reference to the planting of the Main Road from Lincoln's
old home in Springfield to the Lincoln Way.-Mrs. William M. Wauters, Chairman of New Jersey Federation Conservation Dept.,
will give an original poem, entitled,. The Laurel Crowned Lincoln Way . If it is impossible for you to attend this dinner,
we should appreciate a message from you to be read at the dinner. Very respectfully yours Chairman, Lincoln Way Tree Com.,
Conservation Dept., G. F. W. C. 6731 Euclid Avenue, Chicago , Illinois. Years ago you sent me a beautiful book Our National
Parks which I have treasured ever since. I have visited Yosemite, Glacier, YellowStone since and now we aim to illegible not
only the illegible way but the main Roads leading to your - our national