Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-01-05
Carrying On With the
American Legion


and It Is located at Toledo. o.
Motion pictures are shown three
nights a week at the American Legion
theater, which has just been estab-
llshcd by a post in Alta Vista, Kan.
Agents of the Chicago American Le-
gion post which has undertaken the
reconstruction of Observation-Disclosures,
Picardy, have gotten the project under
way.
Harold Wells, Petersburg, Va. blind
ed in the war, was loaned $1,000 by the
American Legion post there. He es-
tabllshed tobacco shop and has paid
back the debt.
This country Is we'll rid Of Grover
@. Bersdoll, Stacker. according to an
Illinois American Legion post, which
recommends that the War department
drop the case.
The few remaining Confederate vet
erans 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
81" 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 In in
augurating lyceum course.
The state Of Michigan has bought
the community house at Camp Custer,
improved the place and turned 1t over
to the American Legion posts to BIZ
used as hospital for veterans.
While Cincinnati was discussing tbe
need Of cleaning the William Henry
Harrison statue there, the Bentley
American Legion post, armed with
brushes, buckets and soap, did 1t.
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 motion,
picture at Mamaroneck, N. Y. ThS
were sent to enact battle" by 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-
Structlon fOremen.
Work has been supplied every appli-
cant ut the Wichita (Kan.) American
Legion post employment agency, &C.
cordlng to the Department Of Labor
Seven states have been surveyed and
that city heads the list.
BY means Of entertainments given
by the school children Of Minnesota,
the American Legion Auxiliary Of that
state will be enabled to erect 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.
tTon.
Jerked from his flOOr-bed by rush
OF so proffered positions, Kansas Cify
former soldier has been able to sup
port himself, his wife and five chill
dren. He had registered rhe previous
day at the American Legion employ
rnent office.
Oscar f. CarlstrOm, Aledo, ILL.,. new
commander of the United Spanish War
Veterans. was one Of the committee OF
fifty A. f. +. meE which started the
American Legion In Paris In 1919. he
IL au adopted member of the q. A. K.
of Illinois.
Feeling against Grover c. Bergdoll,
Stacker. was so high at the. Missouri
state convention of the American lie.
gion that when 1t was announced that
a motion was to be read about him II
was passed by popular reclamation be-
fore even reading l..
Adjusted compensation will not be
sGuandered by former service men