The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-30
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OlAtCCI "oIlu wal SSlcEdlS from
one post of the American Legion in
Tulsa, Okla, have settled upon gov
eminent homestead land in Scott
County, Southern Arkansas. By cold
weather, it is estimated that 100 ex-
service men will have taken claims
on the land.
The territory which will become a
settlement of world wal service men,
the first in America, stretches over
$500 acres, composed of adjoining in
dividual tracts Of 100 acres each. The
men have to live on the land but sew
en- months before it becomes their
property as Arkansas gives residence
credit to soldiers up to two years of
army or navy service.
Part Of the men will spend the win
ter on their land, clearing timber,
building hunting and trapping, for the
tracts abound in deer, fox and lynx.
The sixteen who have already settled
are preparing to establish a central
trading point and town which they will
name "Legionnaire." Four of the
pioneers are married and all have had
farming experience. Homesteading is
now possible in the following other
states: Washington, Michigan, Mon
tana, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming,
Louisiana, Alabama, Colorado, Idaho
and Oregon.
A family which in itself is a thriv-
ing war veterans society has come
to the notice of the American Legion
in independence, Kas. Thirty-three
able bodied men and women call the
Civil War veteran, Mamma C. Bruner,
by the familiar papa" Of the lot,
the father, soldier of the Union in 81,
is p~roudest of his even dozen SON.
who served with the American forces
in the world war. Of the remainder,
20 are girls and one son was too young
to fight. The oldest is AZ.
The Pershing estate in Tangipahoa
Parish, La, owned by heirs of John J.
Pershing, father Of the general of the
armies, has been advertised for sale
for taxes, according to a letter sent
the general by the editor of an Amer
lean Legion magazine published in
Amite, La. The editor posted suffi-
cient funds with the parish sheriff to
prevent the sale and requested General
Pershing to make the estate available
for colonization by his comrades who
are being rehabilitated, after war
wounds, for agricultural pursuits. The
Pershing tract contains 100 acres of
the parish's best land.
The number of civilian employees in
the Panama canal zone has been re-
duced 40 per cent since March A, 1921,
and more than 700 former soldiers will
be forced out of employment. if there
is not a let-up, an appeal from the
canal zone to the American Legion's
representatives in Washington de-
%clares. Two army officers and three
civilians appointed by Secretary of
War Weeks recommended the sweep
ing reductions in personnel.
Milady's fashionable corsage bou-
quet may have started life as a hand
full of ragweed, for disabled soldiers
in Kansas City hospitals are doing a
thriving business in making artificial
and lifelike posies out of ordinary
weds. War Mothers of the city are
teaching the wounded men to color
the weeds with dyes and the American
Legion is helping them to place the
flowers with florists and gift shops.
For the return of a tattered old
army rain-cape, almost worth it's
weight in gold because of sentiment
attached to it, liberal rewards have
been posted by American Legion SER
vice men of Toledo, O. The cape, prop
erty of Rev. H. F. MacLane, chaplain
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