The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-05-13
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It's a nip and tuck race between the
Duluth Legion post and st. Paul Post
No. for the honor of having the larg-
est Legion post in Minnesota Bolh
have passed the 1000-mempershIp mark
and each keeps shooting in new mem
berships so fast that they pass and re-
pass each other every week. Only paid
up memberships for 1921 are counted.
Up to May LIST Legionaires of Mime
sofa had contributed $3.50 to the fund
to be used by the Legion in France TO
place flowers on the graves OF every
dead buddy buried overseas, on Memori-
| al Day. Indications are that Minnesota
will over subscribe its quota OF S2,3OO.
The National Soldiers Home Milwau-
kee, Wisconsin is one of ten similar
homes into which honorably discharged
service men from regular volunteer or
other forces of Uncle Sam will be ad-
mitted if they are unable to earn hV-
ing. Their sickness or disability need
not have been incurred in service.
Disabled ex-service men who want
vocational training must not, delay in
applying for it. Those who have been
offered training must accept or reject IL
within twelve months from date OF mott
fication.
Scores of letters asking how to form
Legion auxiliary units are pouring into
Legion Auxiliary State Headquarters at
Mankato. More than 400 units have
been formed in the nation. Minnesota
still leads.
Civil service examinations for posi-
tions as mail clerks carriers messen-
gers, etc., will be held in st. Paul and
Minneapolis May Fl and Is. Ask
postmaster of either city for blanks and
particulars.
American Legion. baseball teams are
sofa. The teams at Little Falls. Luverne,
Deer Creek. Hastings Long Prairie.
GAINESVILLE. Verndale. Eagle Bend, Wa
dena,, Bertha. Staples. Hutchinson. or or
preparing to lick all corners. All they
ask is an opportunity.
The last session of the Minnesota
Legislature instructed the State War
Records Commission to compile Min
nesota History of the Spanish American
war Ten thousand dollars per year was
been made on Minnesota in The Great
War"
Still another Legionaire has been ap-
pointed to a high administrative posi-
ton under President Harding. Rupert
Work of Pueblo. Colorado has been
named assistant postmaster general.
In the persons of Adam Brewer, aged
seventy-six, and Joe Mason, aged
eghty;six, kimball Minnesota nnti" III heg gIS
est Lesionaires in Minnesota; This
skaters the claim of Redwood Falls
post, to which DIR. Gibson, seventy-two
years old. belongs.
To honor the memory of their buddy,
Matt Smuk of Ely. Minnesota, Charley
Basset Fred O'Reily and Walter Schaef-
three mn ta r MADE t@ he TRIP
funeral-a distance Of about $50 miles.
Comrade Smuk enlisted from Marble,
Minnesota.
Not to be outdone by men folks,
Legion Auxiliary members i'm the sew
enth Minnesota District will hold dis
trict convention July fourth and fifth at
Willmar, at which time and place seventh
District Legionaires will also hold their
convention. ...
! If bill to be introduced by Congress
man Royal Johnson of South Dakota
star to the mother of every boy who lost
his life in the great war. The beautiful
sentiment underlying this tribute, has
the Endorsement of the American Legion.
"Stand back of your Legion post and
help your men to be the greatest poSsi-
Bile service to the community. Encour-
age them to appear in uniform on ma
to the coming generation what the blue
of the G. A. r. means to u.s." reads a
bulletin mailed. to Auxiliary units by
DIR. Helen Hielscher, state president.
"when you visit New Prague, make
yourself at home in our new clubhouse"
| is the message to all Legionaires. from
local Ins S Citizen. donated S' room and the
Legion Auxiliary furnished it and in
sailed easy chair and fine library.
you'll go a long way to. find a more
= active orga niZ ton than the T ARiOn In