The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1921-06-02
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Minnesota Legionaries and Auxi-
liary members will rally to Mime
apolis June 18th to st. Cloud, June
18th; to st. Paul, June 18th; and to
Duluth June 14th, to do honor to
their national commander, F. w.
Galbraith, who comes to the North
Star State to get acquainted with
Legionaries and Auxiliary members
of the Minnesota Department, OF
which he is quite proud. Incidently,
he will be one of the principal speak
ers at the ceremony in connection
with the dedication of the Victory
Memorial Drive in Minneapolis June
18th.
In addition to the scores of individ-
ual Legion baseball teams in Mime
sofa, more than half a dozen Legion
baseball leagues of eight or more
have sprung up, such as the Four
Star Legion Baseball League OF
Southern Minnesota, and the Central
Minnesota Legion Baseball League.
AS a rule, the Legion posts which
have basketball teams in the winter
are the posts which are most active
in summer athletics also.
An album of snapshots of local
Legionaries with a short war history
of each, will form part of the library
which the New Prague Legion post
is establishing in it's recently acqulf-
ed and cozy clubrooms. New Prague
Legionaries are live wires.
Here's how the ten Minnesota con-
gressional districts are forging ahead
in carrying out the slogan, "No
bachelor posts in Minnesota In the
second, fifth and seventh districts,
sixty percent of the Legion posts
have established Auxiliary units. In
the first, fourth and eighth districts
fifty per cent of the Legion posts
have the backing of Legion auxiliar-
les; and in the third, sixth, nlneth
and tenth districts the percentage OF
auxiliary units to Legion posts Is
thirty per cent. Almost half OF the
Legion posts in the state now have
auxiliary units, and about four new
units per week are being formed.
Minnesota still leads every other
Legion department in the United
States in this respect.
At the entrance to the little ceme-
terry at Morris, Minnesota stands
large white cross erected by local
dictionaries in honor of all the bud
dies who are buried overseas. On
Memorial Day, Morris citizens piled
wreaths of flowers around this sim
pie cross in momory of the boys who
event west" over there, never to re-
turn.
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To have been one Of a little band
of 5000 Americans who stormed up
dead Mans Hill" and returned alive
from that hell of fire, and then to
lose his life when his auto crashed
into the Northern Pacific flyer, was
the fate of Austin MCGOWAN, Le-
gionaire of Brainerd, Minnesota.
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Because, as member of the 15lst
F. A., Rainbow Division, while laying
down barrage on the enemy, ne was
shot through the arm but continued
firing his gun until the enemy was
routed, George Reid, Montevideo
Legionaire, was decorated with the
Croix de Guerre and the Distinguish
ed Service Cross. But it was year
from the time he joined the Monte
video post before his Legion comrades
learned of his heroism.
In Waseca Minnesota the Women's
Relief Corps purchased an American
flag and an American Legion post
banner for the local Legion post.
Similar instances of friendly CO.
operation between the young and the
old veteran organizations is reported
from other parts of Minnesota. The
Legion is taking an honored place by
the side of it's elders.
GET BEHIND A LEGION BUT
TON" was the slogan of Winona
Minnesota Legionaires in their re-
cent three-day membership drive.
Before the close of the first day of
the drive, one hundred exservice
buddies had thrown their lot with the
Winona Legionaires. A big time is
being planned for the Legion State