The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-09-21
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Yellow Med1clne is the tenth Min
nesota county which in 1921 has set
aside one day of it's annual fair as
American Legion Day. in honor of
the boys who did their bit in the late
war. Yellow Medicine is doing even
better; it is offering $50 purse to the
Legion post within fifty miles of Can
by which has the largest proportion
of its paid-up membership at the yell
low Medicine County Fair on Legion
Day. Other purses ranging from ten
to fifty dollars will go to the posts
most ably performing competitive
drills, and to the winners of various
Legion athletic contests, including a
Legion baseball game. September 16
is the big day, and posts at Madison,
Dawson, Ivanhoe, Hendricks, Mime
ota, Marshall, Porter, Clarkfeld, Arco,
Boyd, Clarissa, Hanley Falls, Marietta,
Cottonwood and Granite Falls are ex-
pected to compete Posts from any
Minnesota county or the adjoining
| counties of South Dakota are eligible,
provided they are within fifty miles of
Candy, MINI.
While most Minnesota posts are up
to-date, Legionaires Of Osakis post
believe. in being ahead of the times,
and already are planning an Armis-
tice Day demonstration that will
| wake up Douglas County from stem
to stern.'' Warning" tags are mys-
teriously appearing on every automo-
| bile entering Osakis. One reads
| Thirty kilometers to Osakis on Nov
ember 18th" Another announces,
| "Osakis, Big Armistice Day Celebra-
tion-Fire Up The Old Tin Lizzie And
Be There;" and so on. Osakis has one
of the best Legion bands in Minnesota.
Every Osakis Legionaire is booster
for his post and his home town.
| In a recent address, Minnesota S
Legion State Commander, DR.. Arthur
A. Van Dyke, answering the question,
"Who are we?," declared: "The Am
erican Legion is simply your sons and
daughters of the world war organized
to perpetuate in our government that
spirit of unselishness~ which charact-
erized Americas attitude in the great
war. A father might as well fear the
growth Of his son as the growth of the
American Legion. The only ones who
fear the young men and women of the
Legion are those who would like to
injure our country by dividing its 10y
al citizens among themselves by fost-
ering false hate and suspicion. Long
after these people are forgotten, the
American Legion will still be working
| for the honor and in the service of it's
country"
The Worthington Progressive of
| Worthington, Minnesota recently con-
Quoted QUESTIONABLE wherein each
citizen was asked to state the most
| pressing needs of the home town.
The reply which the editor considered
best, contained, among other sugges-
tions, the following: eve should
have clubrooms for our Legion and
National Guard boys An Armory
would supply these needs. The State
of Minnesota will contribute $25, 900,
toward the erection of such build
ing" Many Minnesota towns are
taking advantage of this fact-taking
steps to erect National Guard arm
cries in their communities.
When the commissioners Of st.
Louis County, Minnesota recently I'M
tiated movement to erect $4,000,
memorial in honor of those who serv-
ed their country, Elmer McDevitt, re-
presenting twelve hundred Duluth
Legionaires, informed them that this
is no time to spend thousands of dol
lars, for commemorative monuments
when thousands of service men are
walking the streets, jobless and hum
cry. McDevitt declared that those to
whom the memorial would be dedicat-
ed prefer to wait for it until their less
fortunate comrades have been cared
for. The memorial was to have been
in the nature Of tablets bearing the
names of the service men and women
of ST. Louis County
Here, I'll go your bond, buddy .
said a big policeman to James Ander-
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