Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-10-28
Carrying On With the
American Legion

A downtown rest room for the con.
Venience Of farmers wives In the city
Tor supplies and for city wives on
shopping tours has been opened in
Drunright, Okla, by the Women's
Auxiliary OF the American Legion most
there.
Because they considered the post a
community asset and worthy of rec
ogniion, citizens of the town of Waits.
burg WASH recently purchased a no.
tel building and presented it to Sam.
uel w. Southland post of the American
Legion for use as clubhouse
when heavy rains washed out the
road to the village cemetery, the
American Legion post of Natchez.
Wash, called upon its farmer mem.
oers. Each man brought team of
horses, gave two days work and
new road was constructed.
Advocating a playground for the
kiddies Of the community members the
Saylessville Rhode Island) post of the
American Legion brought the matter
to completion by leveling the ground
and putting the equipment in place
with saving of several hundred dol
! lars to the city.
The athletic tastes of the young
war veterans of Oklahoma were ey!-
denced recently when the state de-
partment asked each post of the
American Legion what games they
wanted at state athletic meet.
Horseshoe pitching contests led the
list, with tennis and golf poor seconds.
EX-service patients in hospitals of
! Oregon have been extended free men,
bership in the American Legion of the
state, the posts waving post dues and
the department paying state and ma.
tional fees that the disabled may re-
ceive copies Of the official magazine
and the benefits Of membership.
John Broadhead Wallace, son of the
secretary of agriculture, and Miss
Margaret Powell, Cedar Rapids, Ia
recently married, have been receiving
! the official congratulations Of ArgOnne
post the American Legion, Des
Mones, of which Mr. Wallace is a
vice commander
|
BY besting a walking record which
had been undisturbed for years
George n Brown, Endcott, n. Y, won
"A wager of 500 which he divided
| equally between two American Legion
posts of his vicinity. Mr.. Brown holds
the worlds championship pedestrian
| record.
Chimes installed in every city and
! town of America, to play THE Star
! Spangled Banner each evening, would
| be a most fitting memorial to the war
! dead, according to a resolution intro
! duced into the recent convention Of
the American Legion of North Car
DINA, seeking support of the state
| in the project.
After having achieved distinction
in Pittsburg, Pa, by being the first
sailor married in an American Legion
post, 2. c. Rose was stranded in AL
| bany, n. Y, In the middle of his honey
moon because he couldn't collect his
bonus money. Members of the AL
bany Legion helped him to complete
the wedding trip.
! Insurance against rain, high winds
and liability to spectators, is being
I sought by the Kansas City Flying
| club in preparation for the annual
| convention of the American Legion
there this fall. Applications for the
freak" policies have been made TO
American companies and to Lloyds
| of London.
An American Legion emblem.
wrought in exquisite crochet In mem
DRY of the dead and wounded soldiers
| of the World war, which won first
DflZe Ill u ndllOIlul hiillAAhB NoihSS'
for Mrs. Velma S. Cole, Binghamton
n. Y, has been presented 10 her locai
post of the Legion. Mrs. Cole is al
| invalid.
Holding that sense of shame would
work where entreaties failed, the
American Legion post of Ziliah,
Wash, recently took photographs OF
every dirty and unsightly back yard
in the city. These photos were dis
played in several stores of the city
main streets, and within a week, ev'
cry back yard had been cleaned to
perfection.
Transferred from San Francisco to
st Paul, Private Charles Gilbert, u.
S. Marines, gained permission to hike
TO his new station. He completed the
record match recently, after having
been lost in the desert country OF
Battle Mountain, New, and without