The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-07-29
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
VALLEY POST NO. Al at Chamber
of Commerce Rooms, Glasgow, first
Wednesday each month.

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
VALLEY POST NO. Al at Chamber
of Commerce Rooms, Glasgow, first
Wednesday each month.
John G. Emery, national commander
of the American Legion, will head the
party of $50 members of the American
Legion who sail August Sd. for France.
where they will tour the former war
zone as guests of the French govern
ment. Mr.. Emery's decision to ioin
the Legion pilgrimage to France is
the result OF urgent requests from the
French government and Legion Of
ficials.
The former national commanders
Franklin D'Olier, of Philadelphia, and
Henry D. Lindsey, of Dallas, Texas,
will be in the party, which is to be
composed of Legionaires from every
state in the Union. John Sproul, son
of the governor, will be the Pennsyl-
vania party. The new A. f. F.", as
the delegation has been called, will
sail on the Mail Liner George Wash
ington. An American Legion emblem
will fly from the mast of the former
presidential ship when shesaiosluot
presidential ship when she sails out
of port at New York. There will be
an informal farewell at the docks.
A special programme of entertain
ment for the passengers on board will
be arranged by the Legion committee.
When they land at LeHavfe they will
become guests of the French govern
ment and from then on they will re-
live their A. E. F. days, but without
the former hardships.
the national convention of the Ameri-
can Legion at Kansas City this fall
will be Stubby, hero of Seichprey, who
recently was awarded a gold medal for
bravery and faithfulness. The decor
alton was presented by General Perish
ing. Stubby has been especially in
vited to attend the convention as a
guest of honor. He is a Boston bull
TERROR, wounded in st. Mihiel drive.
A national census to determine how
many veterans of the world war are
Shriners has been started by Ararat
Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Kan
sas City. The purpose of completing
the census is to make it possible for
the Kansas City Shriners to send
special invitations to the veterans to
attend the annual national convention
of the American Legion to be held at
Kansas City October 31st. and Novem-
Der LIST. and I'd. The visiting Shrin-
ers will be guests of Ararat Temple
during the convention and will be en-
tertained in the homes of Kansas City
Shriners.
An exhaustive exposition of alleged
pro-German activities of the Los An
geles Examiner, New York American
and other Hearst publications during
the war, presented by the Pasadena,
Cal, post of the American Legion,
resulted in the post placing a ban on
the Examiner.
At a recent conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, South, Sergt.
Alvin York, who is credited with hav-
ing captured a larger number of Ger
mans than any individual in the Amer
lean army, said that prohibition laws
should be repealed if it is found that
they cannot be properly enforced.
When the American Legion accepted
the invitation of the French govern
ment to send a party of former service
men to France for a tour of the old
war zone, John ]. Wicker Jr., of Rich
mond, Va, a member of the Legion's
national executive committee, was Sc
lected to manage the pilgrimage.
Wicker has conducted tours to Europe,
Palestine, Egypt and the Orient. He
was in Rome with a party of tourists
when the world war started. Later
he went to France in the United States
aviation service. He is a lawyer.
Michael Nolan, the newly-discovered
mental wizard, who made a perfect
score of 212 in thirteen minutes in
the army alpha test, is a charter
member of the Rainier Noble post of
the American Legion at Seattle, Wash.
Nolan is 43 years old, a lumberjack
and former sailor. He was shell
shocked in France and is 10Y a stu
dent of the Federal Board of Vocation
al Training at the University of Wash
ington. He recently passed perfectly,
in one minutes and ten seconds. an
information test of sixty questions.
One of the questions asked the def
milton of the following words: Agera-
tum, architrave, chamfer, cleistogam-
Gus elohim, gambit, guimpe, intaglio,
metacarpal, mitosis, NADIA, pomology,
rocco and simony.
Posts of the American Legion and
the Great War Veterans of Canada
have been asked to help find Capt. H.
Hudson. formerly of Edmonton, AL
berta, heir to the million dollar estate
of his father who died recently in
Michigan.
Management of the $4,000 ANA
teur Athletic Club building at Bend
Oregon, has been turned over to the
local post of the American Legion.
The Bureau of War Risk Insurance
announces that Congress by Joint Res,
~olution public Resolution No. GA
which was signed by the President or
March 3, 1921, has declared the wal
terminated for purposes of War Risk
Insurance. as of March 3, 1921. There
fore. all War Time or Term Insurance
must be converted during the five year
period from March 3, 1921 to March
3, 1926 inclusive, as Term Insurance
cannot be continued after the eXpira-
ton of this period.