The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-10-28
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
VALLEY POST NO. Al at Chamber
of Commerce Rooms, Glasgow, first
| Wednesday each month.

VALLEY POST NO. Al at Chamber
of Commerce Rooms, Glasgow, first
Wednesday each month.
A band of $500 pieces, the largest
of its kind ever assembled in the Unit
ed States, will play at the national
convention of the American Legion
in Kansas City, October 81, November
1 and 2. A contest of the 100 Legion
bands and drum corps will be held to
determine the three best musical or
CARNATIONS. The combined bands will
play under the direction Of the leader
of the band winning first prize.
Terribly burned in a gasoline ex-
p~losion, Louis Turner, world war vet
eran of Bloomington, ILL.,, was not ex-
pected to recover In a hospital at
Davenport, Ia, however, the skin OF
two American Legion comrades was
grated to his body and he is now
out of danger. The two men did not
know Turner except that he was "a
buddy, out of luck"
Cooperation of every member Of the
American Legion in preventing abuse
of the reduced railroad fare privilege
extended Legion men and their fam
lilies to the organizations national con-
~vention at Kansas City October 81,
November / and 2, is asked in a bulle-
tin distributed by national headquart-
ers at Indianapolis. 1t is feared that
the low rate tickets will fall into the
hands of persons not entitled to their
use.
The two half backs on the Univer-
sity of Iowa football team r both
%ex-service men and fathers, according
to the American Legion of the state.
Donald McRae, Council Bluffs, n of
the varsity backs, has a son three and
a half years old and Glen Devine, Des
Moines, has a son seven months old.
Donald McRae, the father, is a son
of Mrs. Donald McRae, president of
the Women's Auxiliary of the Legion
Of Iowa, and a candidate for national
head of the organization.
Veterans of the world war are given
preference for postmasterships in an
executive order given the Civil Service
Commission by President Harding. Five
points will be added to the examina-
ton rating of every prospective post
master in government service during
war. Age limitations may be waived
in such cases and the period of war
service reckoned as a part of the re-
quired length of business experience.
A Congressional investigation of
Fox Hills, l.. l. hospital and the man
agement of that institution is demand
ed by the American Legion and it's
Women Auxiliary of New York. The
Legion charges that sick and wounded
men are lodged in a fire-trap and that
false reports have been sent by the
hospital authorities to Washington in
connection with the patients applica-
ton for government compensation.
Celebrated war slogans will decor
ate the boxes of the distinguished Wis
itors at the American Legion national
convention in Kansas City October 81.
"They shall not pass will be placarded
in front of Marshal Foch's box while
"Heaven, hell or Hoboken by Christ
mas" has been approved for the tag
for General Pershing's. Quotations
for Admiral Beatty, Baron Jacques
and General Diaz are being %resurrect-
ed by a convention committee.
Aroused by threats of violent death
against prominent members Of the
American Legion in Iowa, federal au-
thorities are conducting an investiga-
ton. John B. Wallace, son Of the Sec
rotary of Agriculture, was informed
by a note that he would "come across
with 5000 or be blown to hell" He
didn't and wasn't. Harry H. Polk,
Des Moines, received a similar note
threatening to blow up his apart
ments and him, too, because he "led
the boys to death on the battlefield
of France"
When General Pershing visits Kan
sas City this month to attend the con-
v~ention of the American Legion he
will be received by members of his
post of the Legion of Lincoln, Neb.
The general, as Lieut.. P%ershing, was
military instructor at the university
of Nebraska on his first assignment
from West Point, 20 years ago.