The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1921-10-27
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Scores of Minnesota Legion posts
are reporting plans for making Ar
mistice Day, 1921, day of unusual
rejoicing. In some cases one or more
posts will combine their celebrations.
For instance, in Benton County, the
posts at Rice, Foley and Sank Rapids
are to hold one joint county ARMS
tice Day celebration, and members of
the w. R. C. will help them make it a
success.
Legionaires of Glendale Minnesota
cannot say enough good things about
the village council, which has given
them the use of the village hall for
post clubrooms. They are busy fur.
nishing their new home, and each
member will have a key. They cele-.
brated the opening of their new club
rooms by putting on chicken supper
after the regular business session.
Mayors and police chiefs are no
more privileged than private citizens
when it comes to gaining membership
in the Legion's playground 'The For
ty and Eight" Not long ago, Mime
apolis was minus a mayor for cou-
pie of days while $40 and Ser
George Leach was recuperating from
the effects Of riding the goat. Mayor
Essling of Eyeleth, Quinn of Fari-
bault, Maertz of New Prague and
Empie of Virginia, as we'll as the
Minneapolis and Duluth police chiefs
are among the Minnesota Legionaires
recently initiated. Nothing like it
buddy! Experience is the only teach
err. Do you belong?
When the new pavement between
Twin Cities and St. Cloud is opened
early in November, Legionaires of
Sank Centre and St. Cloud, in uni
form, accompanied by a Boy Scout
Troop, will march over the route as
guards to a long line of prairie
schooners, IMPLYING the manner in
which travel across Minnesota was &C.
complished in pioneer days. To make
the celebration more realistic, bat
tie between Legionaires and real In
dams from Mile Laos lake, will be
staged. Governor Preus, 1t. Govern
or Collins, Mayor Leach Of Minnea-
polls, and Mayor Hodgson of ST..
Paul. are among the distinguished Of
ficials who will witness the demons
tration.
Throughout Minnesota, many COM
munities have left in their midst only
one survivor of the civil war cam
paigns. And one by one these sole
representatives of the Grand Army of
the Republic are passing to their eter-
nal reward. Last week, at Sank Cen
ire, Minnesota, Legonaires of Robert
Swift Post tenderly laid to rest the
remains of Clark Case, charter men,
Der of Palmer Post of the G. A. r.
and Stearns county resident since
civil war days. Every member of the
Palmer Post has now passed to the
great beyond. Not single represen-
tative of the Sank Centre G. A. r,
post remains.
Mrs. Sandy Hamilton, State Presi-
dent of the Minnesota Legion Auxili-
airy, and DIR. Helen Hughes Hielscher,
Legion Auxiliary National Represen-
tative from Minnesota, have been
busy filing speaking engagements
throughout the tsate, in which they
have emphasized the need of more
Legion Auxiliary units and more
members, in order to carry. on the
work of properly ministering to the
needs of the disabled, many of whom
feel that they have been forgotten by
those whom they risked their lives
and health to defend. Every COM
munity where there is a Legion post
is urged to establish an auxiliary unit.
In the Minnesota counties of
Brown, Traverse, Anoka, Watonwan,
Bigstone, Kanebic, Cook, Waseca,
Lake, Meeker and Red Lake Falls,
every American Legion post has or
ganized Legion Auxiliary unit. In
the counties of Lincoln, Pipestone,
Scott, Rock, Swift, Stevens. Pope,
Jackson, Cottonwood, Douglas, Ohm
stead, Nicollet and Sherburne, all but
one Legion post in each. county has
formed a Legion Auxiliary Unit.
Hennepin County, with 10 Auxiliary
units, leads the state in total units