Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-04-14
Legionnaires VIII
Cast Off Lethargy

The lethargy in which the Magic
City Post of the American Legion has
lain for the past several months will
be broken was decided at meeting
of the post Tuesday night in the
new club rooms in the Armory.
The post expects henceforth to
take an active part in Legion work
and with their goal, entertainment
for the state convention, are out to
raise funds
About forty Legionnaires were
present at the meeting Tuesday and
an unusual feature was the presence
of some ten of the members of the
Woman's Auxiliary, who will in the
future attend the majority of the
meetings and add an enjoyable fea-
ture to the evenings work by prepar-
ing sandwiches, chocolate and kim
bred dainties to feed the inner man.
The room on the left of the en-
trance to the Armory will in the flu
ture be the club rooms for the Magic
City Post. Julian Willoughby, chair
man of the house committee. has
| charge of the work of fitting up the
room. Some $500 worth of furni-
ture is being purchased, which in
cludes several big arm chairs, a
lounge and a long library table, rugs
pictures, curtains, ETC., will add fin
| ishing touch to the room. As soon as
| a caretaker for the building has been
! provided, the clubrCom will be thrown
open for use of the members at all
times during the day.
| A kitchenette is to be fitted up
| just off the clubroomt where sand
witches and coffee can be obtained at
! a minimum cost.
George Gardiner, who is handling
details of the benefit at the Magic
City Theater Friday, was appointed
chairman of the enter ainment COM
mittee, and with the assistance of
such stalwart entertainers as John
Dale, Isidore Marx and Bob Ma
gee, should be able to show the Lee
giOn something new in the way of
entertaining.
Percy Lindsey, past adjutant of
the post, who is said to have secured
more members than any other five
men in the outfit, was unanimously
selected to be the head Of the mem
bership committee.
D. C. Boyd, Great Southern deco
rator, will have charge of the decor
atoms of the post and under his able
direction Bogalusa will doubtless be
one blaze of color when decorating
time" arrives.
: Mrs. Edythe Lindsey, vice-presi-
dent Of the Woman's Auxiliary to the
! post, started the ball rolling for her
organization when she announced the
ladies expected to give card party
in the Legion clubrooms this month
for the benefit of the convention
fund, and that these card parties
would be regular events from now on
/ if they met with any degree of sue
cess. The ladies are taking hold of
their share of the work with both
! hands.
The membership in the Magic City
Post totals some 125 members, but
! it is believed that under the leader
ship of P. w. Lindsey, whose ability
in securing new members for either
a cavalry troop or an ex-service out
fit is well known, the membership will
increase at least 100 per cent.
All ex-service men in the city or
! parish are eligible for membership in
! the local post and by the payment of
| SO are entered on the rolls for a year,
will receive the American Legion
Weekly, the greatest ex-service mans
magazine in existence, and the Peli-
canaire, the weekly paper of the
louisiana Department, besides being
able to work shoulder to shoulder
with the majority of former service
men of the country in obtaining bene-
ficial legislation for their wounded
comrades.
The Legion is admittedly the great
est ex-service mans organization de-
veloped by the World War and in
years to come will march side bv
side with the G.. A. R., u. c. v. and
Veterans of the Spanish-American
War. The Legion meets the second
Tuesday in every month in the Ar
mory.
Mothers, wives, daughters and sis
ters of ex-service men are eligible to
membership in the Woman's Auxil-
larry, and they, too, are rapidly forg-
ing to the front in national impor-
tance so that with the Daughters of
the American Revolution and Daugh-
tiers Of the Confederacy they win
take their place in the hearts of the
people. The Woman's auxiliary
meets the first Monday in every
month at the Y. w. C. A Delicious
Refreshments are part of every pro-
gram.