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 name of Mount Rainier to Mount Tacoma. This ruling was made public in the report of November 13, 1924.

The name Rainier, the report declares, is of world acceptance and to change it would be unreasonable. Evidences pro and con are specifically and carefully stated and this formal decision has again been given.

A bill introduced by Senator Dill, changing the name to Mount Tacoma, was passed by the senate at the last session of congress. It is now pending before the house public lands committee, which refused to hold hearings at the last session until a report had been received from the National Geographic Board.

The "Family Association of Mark and Susan Sawyer," pioneers of 1847, first organized about a year ago, held its second meeting on August 24th at the home of Mrs. Eva Sawyer Smith, a short distance west of Wheatland, with sixty descendants present, besides a number of intimate friends and neighbors of the family. After a sumptuous dinner in a grove near by, a business meeting was held and the officers chosen at the preliminary meeting were re-elected as follows: Ray L. Antrim, president; Nora Breidwell, vice-president; Ella M. Hendrick, secretary-treasurer. Then the entire company repaired to the site previously selected upon which has been placed a good sized boulder bearing a bronze tablet inscribed as follows: "In Memory of Mark and Susan Sawyer, Oregon Pioneers of 1847." This was located on the public highway running west from Wheatland at the half section line dividing the donation land claim of Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer. The company was then called to order, "America" was sung, prayer offered by the Rev. Mr.Blodgett, and the tablet was unveiled by Versa and Vestra Antrim, twin daughters of Hugh Antrim, and great-great-grandchildren of the pioneers to whom the tablet was thus dedicated. An appropriate reading by Miss Marian Hendrick was then given, followed with reminiscences by