The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-06

evening. October 8, to complete their
district organization. The details OF
the meeting will be published in next
weeks issue of the Union.
T.,
r.
The veterans bureau cleanup squad
will meet in St. Cloud on Friday and
Saturday to take care of the service
men from this section of the state
who have made application for COM
pensation, disqualification, or voca-
tional training.
The members of the legion should be
looking up new members for the en-
rollment at the first of the year. We
want 100 per cent membership.
A family which in itself is thriv-
ing war veterans society resides In
Independence, Kan, thirty-three able
bodied men and women call the civil
war veteran, Name C. Bruner, by the
familiar "papa." Of the lot, the faith
err, soldier of 81, is proudest of his
even dozen sons who served overseas
with the American forces in the world
war. Of the remainder, 20 are girls
and one son was too young to fight.
The oldest is AZ.
The school board at Nashwauk is
arranging to turn over the old village
school building to the local legionaires
for use as meeting place, club rooms,
and legion auxiliary doings. The plan
contemplates the furnishing of care
taker by the township board and heat
and light by the village council. The
schools contains fine auditorium,
which will be just the thing for home
talent plays, dances and other amuse-
ments.
National headquarters of the legion
has honored Minnesota legionaires by
choosing State Commander Arthur A.
VanDyke to act as chairman of a le
gion delegation consisting of the state
commanders of the departments of
Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Mime.
sofa, to attend the national convention
of great war veterans of Canada at
Port Arthur, Ontario, which meets on
October II. William T. Mollison Of
Faribault is the legionaire who will
represent the Minnesota department. at
Washington, D. Co., when the body Of
Americas unknown soldier is laid to
rest in Arlington cemetery on Armis-
,tice day.
Legionaires at Delano- and Herman
report that they have adopted the Min
neapolis plan Of honoring their hero
dead. At Delano five trees were
planted in honor of the boys who did
not come back, while at Herman three
trees have been planted in their men,
cry. Other Minnesota legion posts
are planning to carry out this beauti-
full plan, of remembering those who
made the supreme sacrifice.
One of the most important actions
of the 1920 Minnesota legislature from
the American legion point of view was
the law which authorized each Minne-
sofa county. board to furnish $25 to
each legion post to help deffay Me-
mortal day expenses. In an effort
to learn how this law was observed,
Minnesota legion headquarters asked
it's posts whether or not their
requests for the fund were grant
ed. OF the replies so far re-
ceived the posts at Saltwater, Wa
basha, Cambridge, Albany, Buffalo,
Jordan, Lake City, Raymond, Wells,
Emmons and Herman say their county
boards furnished the money, while
posts at Holt, Staples, Eagle Bend
and the Giantvalley post of Minneap-
oils declare that their requests were
denied. The $25 was to be paid to
each legion post by it's county board
on the request Of the post officers.
One by one they are coming back
not to the blare of martial music, not
to the cheers of those they love. When
the guns roared and death faced them
they did not finch. They went for.
ward and fell upon the field of battle
One hundred bodies came back last
week. Among them were the bodies OF
Isaac James, Gotlieb Wcstphal, Ru,
dolph Klusendorf, Stephen Guest, Jas
w. Adams, Erdroy Peterson, Melvin
E. Hearl, and Wendell and Leo Lor.
entz, after whom the legion posts al
Ironton, Robbinsdale, Welcome, Strath.
coma, Jordan, Waubun, Ashby, Moor.
head and Mankato were named.
Here is some plain talk from the
editorial columns of the St. James
Plaindealer: *'The socialists say the
American legion is militaristic clique
and warn the nation of its Prussiar
tendencies. This is awful! The le
gion boys-some four million Of them
effectively blocked the socialist pro.