SONNECK, OSCAR G. T. The Star Spangled Banner. (Washington, Government, 1914. Pp. 115. Pl. 25.) WASHINGTON STATE GRANGE. Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Annual Session, 1914. (Olympia, The Society, 1914. Pp. 196.) WASHINGTON STATE FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS. Eighteenth Annual Report, 1914-15. (Hoquiam, The Society, 1914. Pp. 135.) WISCONSIN STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Proceedings, 1913. (Madison. The Society, 1914. Pp. 238.) NEWS DEPARTMENT Lewis County Organized On September 26 the executive committee of the Veterans and Pioneers' Association of Lewis County met in the Chehalis Citizens' Club rooms, Chehalis, and perfected their organization by adopting the constitution and by-laws and by electing the following officers: President, William West, affectionately known as the "Father of Chehalis"; Vice President, I. W. Schultz of Toledo; Secretary and Treasurer, Peter Sommersett of Chehalis; Chaplain, J. R. Buxton of Centralia. The objects of the association are set forth in the constitution as the compilation of historical data of the early days of Lewis County, the preservation of historical relics, the marking of historical places in the county and to further the social relationship among old timers. One by one each county of the State is forming such organizations. Death of Curator Gilstrap On August 2, William Henry Gilstrap died at his home in Tacoma. He was Curator of the Ferry Museum and Secretary of the Washington State Historical Society. He was sixty-five years old at the time of his death. In his younger days he had gained considerable fame in his chosen profession of portrait painting. Later he used his talent in the field of landscape architecture. In later years, however, he was wholly devoted to history. With unusual industry he sought to have the early records preserved and also to have historic sites appropriately marked. He was a quiet Christian gentleman held in high esteem by those with whom he worked. In Honor of Professor Turner While Professor Frederick Jackson Turner of Harvard was in the Northwest he was the recipient of many courtesies and honors. One of these took the form of a dinner at the New Washington Hotel, Seattle, on the evening of July 8. The hosts were Professors Richardson and Meany of the University of Washington. Some of the guests had been students of Professor Turner at the University of Wisconsin, while all were, of course, interested in history. Those present were Frederick Jackson Turner, Samuel Hill, General Hazard Stevens, Scott C. Bone, General H. M. Chittenden, Mayor H. C. Gill, Winfield R. Smith, Victor J. Farrar, Edward McMahon, George W. Soliday, J. N. Bowman, Ralph H. Lutz, Charles W. Smith, Oliver H. Richardson and Edmond S. Meany. The after-dinner talking took the form of suggestions and plans for improving the work of historical research in the Pacific Northwest. Good Trails as Well as Roads