The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-10-07

by special train need send check to
department adjutant for reserva-
tions in advance. The Minnesota
Official Legion Band will travel
with the official delegation on the
special.
A year ago, Legionaires of the
Giantvalley Legion Post, Mime
apolis, helped the boys of the COM
munity to form Troop No. 60,
Boys Scouts of America, and since
then have helped them to be good
Americans. September 23d the
post gave a birthday party" for
It's troop, at which the boys gave
demonstrations of their expert
knowledge, including an exhibition
of handicraft work. So impressed
was Minnesota Legion Commander
Van Dyke that he declared he
would appeal to all Minnesota
Legion posts to adopt boy scout
troops and help finance and train
them. Nothing which Legion
aires can do is of more value to
the country, said Commander Van
Dyke.
Biwabik Legionaires recently APP
pointed post clubroom committee.
! So energetically did the committee
work that it soon had clubrooms.
Then it appealed to citizens for
equipment and soon had enough
chairs, tables, a stove, a desk and
even a pool table and piano were
| installed to make the members coy
| for the winter. A second commit
| Tee which was help the women or
ganize an auxiliary unit, quickly
,eported that this had been accom-
| olished Another committee has
olans for dances, plays and other
winter entertainment ''up its sleeve
| and promises to make things merry
| Biwabik during the winter sea-
son.
The school board at Nashwauk is
arranging to turn over the old vii
age school building to local Legion
aires for use as meeting place,
clubrooms, and Legion Auxiliary
oings. The plan contemplates the
furnishing of a caretaker by the
township board and heat and light
| by the village council The school
contains a fine auditorium which
will be just the thing for home tai
ent plays, dances and other enter
| tainments.
National Headquarters of the
Legion has honored Minnesota Leg
| ;onaires by choosing State Com
mander Arthur A. Van Dyke to act
as Chairman of Legion National
| delegation consisting of the state
commanders of the departments of
Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Min
nesota, to attend the national con-
vention of the Great War Veterans
of Canada at Port Arthur, Ontario,
which meets October 18th. Will
lam T. Mollison of Fairbault is the
Legionaire who will represent Min
nesota Department at Washington,
| d. c. when the body of America s
| Unknown Soldier is laid to rest in
Arlington Cemetery on Armistice
Day:
| One of the most important ac-
tons of the 1920 Minnesota Legis-
lature from the american Legion
point of view was the law which
authorized each Minnesota County
Board to furnish $25. to each
Legion post to help defray Mem
orial Day expenses. In an effort to
learn how this law was observed
Minnesota Legion Headquarters has
asked its posts whether or not their
requests for this fund were grant,
ed. Of the replies so far received
the posts at Saltwater, Wabasha
Cambridge, Albany, Buffalo, Jor-
dan, Lake City, Raymond, Wells
Emmons, Herman, say their county
boards furnished the money, while
posts at Holt, Staples, Eagle Bend
and the Giant Valley Post of Mime
apolis declared that their requests
were denied. The $25. was to be
paid to each Legion post by its
county board on the request of the
post officers
In telling of the funeral of Wen
dell and Leo Lorentz, only sons of
Mrs. Frank Lorentz of Mankato,
in whose honor Mankato Legion
aires provided a military funeral,
DR.. Helen Hughes Hielscher says
1T was heart gripping to stand
by the wide grave where these two
soldier brothers were laid side by
side, as their mother so often laid
them in their little bed at night.
She was standing there now, but
instead of her softly crooned lul-
laby it was the sharp crack of the
rifles that rang out, for now it was
men and soldiers that were being
laid to rest. May the lesson pof
patriotism which they wrote in
their blood never fade from the
hearts of the nation for whose
honor they died..
Daily, in the hundreds of Ameri-