The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-12-22
Carrying On With the
American Legion

Il American Legion
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An army kitchen and 1000 cots have
been placed in former barracks at
Ice men.
A 5 per cent discount on all pur-
chases has been accorded members Of
the American Legion by the, majority
of merchants In Arcadia, Fla.
There is a Polish post among the
posts Of various nationalities of the
American Legion. Argonne is it's name
and it is located at Toledo, o.
Motion pictures are shown three
nights week at the American Legion
theater, which has just been estab-
lished by a post In Alta Vista, Kan.
Agents of the Chicago American LIE
giOn post which has undertaken the
reconstruction of Observation-Disclosures,
Picardy, have gotten the project under
sway.
Harold Wells, Petersburg, Va, blind
ed in the war, was loaned 81 900 by the
American Legion post there. He es-
tablished a tobacco shop and has paid
back the debt.
This country is well rid of Grover
=. BergdOll,- Stacker, according TO an
Illinois American Legion post, which
recommends that the War department
drop the case.
The few remaining Confederate vet
Grams Of Tennessee were able to attend
the annual meeting of their association
because of the efforts Of 20 American
Legionnaires Of Nashville.
Employees Of the elevated railways
of Chicago have formed post Of the
American Legion and have dedicated
| bronze plate to the memory Of eight
IL" men killed In the war.
Four leading concert companies are
| to appear in Christopher, ILL.,, this win
| ter because Of the American Legion
post there, which has succeeded I'm Ia
augurating lyceum course.
The state Of Michigan has bought
the community house at Camp Custer,
improved the place and turned it over
to the American Legion posts to be
used as hospital for veterans.
While Cincinnati was discussing the
need Of cleaning the William Henry
Harrison statue there, the Bentley
American Legion post, armed with
brushes, buckets and soap, did it.
An American flag has been given the
Hellenic post, Minneapolis, Of the
American Legion, by the Greek citizens
| there. The post Is composed Of Gre
clan born veterans of the A. e. F.
Five hundred ex-service men acted
as "supers'' in the filming of a motion
picture at Mamaroneck, N. Y. They
were sent to enact battle" by a New
York American Legion employment bu-
reau.
| Twelve overseas veterans refused to
face death again in fumigating immi-
grant ships. The American Legion
employment bureau in New York had
received the call from the immigration
| officers.
Due to the propaganda of the Amer
lean Legion in Birmingham, Ala, the
hundreds Of former service men have
been placed in positions ranging be-
tween that Of short order cooks to con-
struction foremeR.
Work has been supplied every appli-
cant at the Wichita (Kan.) American
Legion post employment agency, &C.
cording to the Department Of Labor.
Seven states have been surveyed and
that city heads the list.
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! By means of entertainments given
by the school children Of Minnesota,
the American Legion Auxiliary Of that
state will be enabled to erect a build
ing to care for destitute veterans on
their discharge from hospitals.
Unemployed service men Of Mime
apolis have been organized by the
American Legion posts there and are
campaigning the city, selling hand
bags, automobile booster plates and
similar articles bearing Legion sane
ton.
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