The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-06-03

ing such action. Post officials state
that when Carpenter visited Demp'
sey's camp at Atlnatic City, the LIE
gion members accorded him an en-
thusiastic reception. The endorsement
of Dempsey, they aver, came from an
other veterans organization in thai
city.
With all the ceremony accorded a
chieftain of bygone days, Albert
Grass, q years old, last chief of the
Dakota Sioux Indians, who was killed
fighting in France, was buried al
Mandan, N. D. Mingled with the In.
dian rites and religious ceremonies
were the services of the American Le-
gion, whose members conducted a mil
itary funeral for their comrade. The
Legionnaires buried the chieftain in
Holy Hill, a spot sacred to the In
dams, where the last great sun dance
of the Sioux was held.
Two yards of white paper, bearing
1875 signatures, came to national head
quarters of the American Legion from
women of Port Allegheny, Pa, re-
questing that they be granted a unit
of the Legion's Women's Auxiliary.
"And there are coming" was the
cheerful postscript.
Most of the American aces of the
World War will be seer in action dur
ing the annual convention of the Am
erican Legion in Kansas City. Air
planes will be sent by the Army and
by numerous builders of aircraft and
a flying circus" will be held under
the auspices of the Flying Club of
Kansas City. Among the aces expect
ed to participate are Eddie Ricken-
hacker, "Dare Devil" Murphy, Eddie
Stinson and Major R. w. Schroeder,
who holds the worlds altitude record.
Under the auspices of the American
Legion, Cheyenne and Arapaho In
dams in kingfisher County, Oklaho-
ma, held an "All American Day" cele-
bration. Three beeves were killed
for the occasion, and led by their
chief, Fighting Bull, the original
Americans celebrated the revival in
dances.
Every ex-service man in Toluca, ILL.,,
was the beneficiary of a service CAM
paign staged by John Rolinski post of
the American Legion in which 1900
claims were adjusted. Every veteran
of the World War in Toluce is included
in the posts membersip which totals
220 in a community of $500. The
Legion's effort was praised by the
local union of the United Mines Works
of America in a resolution stating
that "this union Fundamentally and
highly endorses the local post of the
American Legion and the principles
for which it stands"
The third annual state convention
of the Montana department of the
American Legion will be held in
Lewistown, June q and %.
George Gee, a Chinese, who was a
cook in the Seventh Cavalry at the
time of the Custer Massacre, was bur-
led recently by a post of the Ameri-
can Legion at Sitka, Alaska. When
Custer went to his death on the Lit
tie Big Horn, the Chinese cook was
detailed to remain with the regiments
baggage and thus escaped death at the
hands of the Sioux.
Twenty-Five wounded veterans TAX
ing training under the Federal Board
for Vocational Education at Memphis,
Tenn, joined a local post of the Amer
lean Legion in a body.
Every Minnesota American Legion
post is entitled to obtain S25 from its
county board to defray expenses OF
Memorial Day decoration of graves
by the provisions of a law passed by
the last Legislature.