Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-16
10000 LEGION
MEMBERS IN MAINE

Saturday that the organization hs-s
a membership Of approximately lo,-
coo. and this membership was Sc
cured without any publicity or other
kind of q campaign. Col. Greenia"
thought that the Maine branch was
! as active an organization OF its KIND
as there is in the country.
! An informal meeting of the Legion
/ will be held in the hall Of the House
: of Representatives at the state
/ House. next Tuesday afternoon. be-
ginning at $50 O'Clock 10 discuss war
! risk insurance. allotments, French
/ certificates TO relatives of deceased
soldiers ard the distribution thereof
general organization program and
matters affecting the Legion.
Plans for ORIGINATING the State
Legion 10 obtain most effectively the
benefits OF the War Risk Act will be
! discussed.
| An explanation and study Of the
| War Risk Bureaus Manual Of Pro-
cedure" will also be introduced as
we'll as methods of presenting claims
to government bureaus al Washing
ton through state war risk officers
on behalf OF x-sevrice men. how TO
obtain allotments and allowances.
with an explanation OF who may be
beneficiaries how 70 obtain COM
penSation and disqualification. who
are entitled TO them. laws ard rules
governing and means Of clearing up
all cases in the state, war risk and
socern-nont insurance-what each is.
WHO may Obtain each. who may be
beneaciaries, how TO maintain. re-
irstate and convert, and general
discussion.
! Announcement Wi. ne made Of the
offer of an achievement fac by the
bureau of War Risk Insurance to
the post making the highest showing
in the Reinstatement Of insurance.
! A general discussion OF War Risk
Insurance will then be held after
which there will be talks by a Pub
/ lie Health Service officer. a Eoca-
tional Board officer and a Red Cross
officer.
Next Tuesday evening will be de-
voted 10 mass meeting Of ex-ser-
vice men and women and workers
in welfare agencies. Address will be
made by Col. Albert Greenlaw. on
The Legion in State Citizenship" by
q representative Of the Bureau of
War Risk Insurance on The Gov
eminent Meets Its Constituency" and
by a practical business man Of the
community on What the State Ex-
poets of Legion Men"
The present officers of the Maine
Branch Of the American Legion are
as follows: State commander. Albert
!Greenlaw. Passport: vice comma nd :
CT, George D. Mclean, Portland (:
state adjutant. James L. Boyle. Au-
gustafh state finance officer. Walter
II. Butler, Rockland; state historian
DAME! s. Dexter, Lewiston: state
.chaplain, John H. Yates. Water
vile: state master-at arms, John c.
Towne, Waterrn.e.
There are now 81 posts of the
American Legion in Maine as fol-
lows: Winslow- Holbrook Post No. /.
Rockland; James Fitzgerald Post
No. ?. Augusta; Sherman Brothers
Post No. 5. Calais; Gardiner Post No
4. Gardiner; George y. Bouraue Post
No. ). Waterville; Hallowell Post No
6. Halowell; Harold c. Robinson
Post No. :. Princeton: Narragua gus
Post No. S. Cherryfeld: Machias
Valley Post No. g, Machias: George
Bunten Post No. 10. Livermore
Falls; Fred W. Mitchell Post No. II.
Passport: James ". Williams Post
No. II. Bangor; John Feeney Pos;
No. IS. Millinocket: George o. Grow
er Post No. Il. Fairfield: Henry E.
Pratt. Jr.. Post No. IS. Caribou: ST.
mon Peters Post No. &c. Skowhegan.
Harold T. Andrews Post No Il,
Portland; Woodstock. Cassie Coombs
Post No. IS. Ninalhaven: Thomas W
Cole Post No. 70, Sanford: George
IT. Files Post No. %. Brunswick:
Roland Smith Post No. II. Bath
T. Wren Post No. IS. Woodland
Napoleon Ouelette Post No. %. Rum
ford; George Edwin Kirk Post No.
%. Bar Harbor; Philip Tighe Post
No. rs. Biddeford: Walter Lovely
Post No. %. Fort Fairfield: Thad
deus Roderick Post No. IS. Farm
ington: Arthur Y. Chadbourne Post
No. 90. Dover: Arey- Heal Post No,
80. Camden; Alden VI. Gayton Pos,
No. 80. Pittsfeld: North Haven Post
No. 80. North Haven: Marshall Kin
ney Post No. 81, St. George: Stewart
2. Morrill, Post No. IS. South Port
land; Charles E. Sherman Post No.
&c. Boothbay Harbor: William Bra
zier Post No. 81, Thomaston: Sulli-
van NOVEL; Post No. IS. South Ber-
wick; Cardiff Post No. SO. Madison
Winthrop Post No. 20. Winthrop;
Joseph P. Chaison Post No. Al. Milo:
Richard r. Wells Post, No. -. New
castle and Damariscotta; Frank q.
] HaZeltine Post No. IS. Belfast: J. f.
Simmons Post No. a. Rockport:
Rex L. Mckinney Post No. As, Dan
forth; William Shaw Post No. IS,
Harrington: Chester L. Briggs Post
No. ~. Houlton; Washburn Post No.
IS, Washburn: Lewis c. Farroll
Post No. ~. Van Buren,: Benjamin
Perry Post No. so. Unity: Harry G.
Decker Post No. 81. Oakland: Frank
D. Holden Post No. 50. Oakheld: Ed
ward ]. Poulliott Post No. So. Dex-
ter: Bradford Sortwell- Wright Post
No. 81. Wiscasset; Edward White
Post No. 81. Old Orchard: John q.
Long Post No. IS. Buckfield: Coobs-
cock Post No. 50. Pembroke: Cliff
ford Smith Post No. IS. Gorham:
Donald Norton Post No. 81. King
field: Stephen W. Manchester Post