Connecticut western news., 1921-03-31


 World War;" will be placed before l Postmaster General Will Hays by the American Legion, according to Lemuel Boiles, National Adjutant of that organization. The Legion | charges that provisions of the act
 giving war veterans preference in civil service examinations have been l l ignored. The committee, which will | take the matter up with MT. Hays, | l will be headed by Theodore Roose- velt,, Assistant Secretary of the | Navy.
 To further better understanding
 between Canadian and American
 veterans, representatives of the
 American Legion posts at Oswego and Watertown, N. Y, have been in- vited to attend the annual banquet and celebration of St. Julian's Day, which will be held at Kingston, Ontario April 22 and 23 under the
 auspices of the Army and Navy Veterans in Canada. St. Julian's
 Day will mark the anniversary of
 the first poison gas attack, which
 the Germans made or the Canadians
 near Ypres. The Legion's action acterized by the Canadian society ' as splendid stand in defense of ] our common liberties" Full indorsement of the American Legion has been voted by the Gen. tral Labor Union of Willma~, Minn. ! The resolution, which ayers that the aims of the Legion and Organized Labor are identical, refers specifi- | cally to the Arthur F. Hanscom post of Willmar.
 The post of the American Legion | at Bristol, on the Virginia-Tennessee | line, has completed plans to operate | an American Legion Bathing Beach" during the coming summer. The beach will be free to Ill children and to disabled ex-service men. A bungalow will be built to house the guests.
 Visitors to Gotham from the ranks of the American Legion are invited , to have their mail addressed in care of s. Rankin Drew Post, 101 West Forty-Second Street, New York City.
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 The Georgia Department of the American Legion has just completed a combined membership and service drive that netted about 1000 new members and 2,000 successfully concluded cases of claims of veter- ; ans. The drive took two months. . Representatives of the Legion, Blu :, reau of War Risk Insurance, Public Health Service and Federal Board ! for Vocational Education visited every county in the state and inter |, viewed men who had claims for com . pensation, education or hospitaliZa- :; tion. Former service men who were = not members of the Legion benefited / equally with Legionnaires. {
 Contributions of more than $5,O0O ' received for a proposed memorial to , veterans in Twin Falls County, Idaho, were turned over to the local :, post of the American Legion when it was deemed inadvisable to carry on the plan.
 A call for all members of the F American Legion to contribute ten c cents to the Memorial Day fund for 0 the decoration of American graves v overseas was sent out in bulletin e from Legion National Headquarters. e
 At a Court of Probate held at Sharon, within and for the district tl of Sharon on the 24th day of March 1921. I
 Present Willard Baker, Judge. e
 Estate of Henrietta' M. Schwab, v late of the City, County and State of New York, deceased, leaving estate = in said Probate District of Sharon.
 The executor having applied for an order authorizing him to sell cer- tain real estate belonging to said lt estate, viz; the undivided one fourth O in that certain farm of land t in said town of Sharon consisting of h two parcels withs the buildings there S on standing, known as "Osio Farm, u and generally bounded as follows; q by the highway leading to .