The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-09-30
AMERICAN LEGION NEWS

eminent homestead land in Scott
County, Southern Arkansas. ny cold
weather, it is estimated that 100
ex-service men will have taken claims
on the land. The territory which
will become settlement of world
war service men, the first in Ameri-
ca, stretches over $500 acres, com
posed of adjoining individual tracts
of / so acres each. The men have to
live on the land but seven months
before it becoms their property as
Arkansas gives residence credit to
soldiers up to two years of army or
navy service.
Part of the men will spend the win
ter on their land, clearing timber,
building, hunting and trapping, for
the tracts abound in deer, fox and
lynx. The sixteen who have already
settled are preparing to establish a
central trading point and town which
they will name "Legionnaire." Four
of the pioneers are married and all
have had farming experience. Home
stealing is now possible in the fol-
lowing other states: Washington,
Michigan, Montana, Arizona, New
Mexico, Wyoming, Louisiana, Alaba-
ma, Colorado, Idaho and Oregon.
$50
A family which in itself is a thriv-
ing war veterans society has come
to the notice of the American Legion
i'm independence, Kas. Thirty three
able-bodied men and women call the
Civil War veteran, Mamma c. Bruner,
by the familiar papa" OF the lot,
the father, soldier of the Union in
81, is proudest of his even dozen
sons who served overseas with the
American forces in the world war. OF
the remainder, 30 are girls and one
son was too young to fight. Tie old
est is AZ.
The Pershing estate in Tangipahoa
Parish, La, owned jointly b. heirs
of John ]. Pershing, father of the
general of the armies, has been adj
vertised for sale for taxes, according
to a letter sent the general by the
editor of an American Legion maya
zine published in Amite, La. The
editor posted sufficient funds with
the parish sheriff to prevent the sale
and requested General Pershing to
make the estate available for coloni-
cation by his comrades who are being
after war wounds, for
agricultural pursuits. The Pershing
tract contains 100 acres of the par
ish's best land.
The number of civilian employees in
the Panama canal zone has been re-
duced 40 per cent since March 4,
1921, and more than 700 former
soldiers will be forced out of employ
ment if there is not a let-up, an ap- |
peal from the canal zone to the Am
erican Legion's representatives in
Washington declares. Two army Of |
ficers and three civilians appointed |
by Secretary of War Weeks recon- |
mended the sweeping reductions in
personnel.
Milady's fashionable corsage bou-
quet may have started life as hand !
full of ragweed, for disabled soldiers
in Kansas City hospitals are doing a |
thriving business in making artificial |
and lifelike posies out of ordinary |
weeds. War Mothers of the city are |
teaching wounded men to color the |
weeds with dyes and the American
Legion is helping them place the
flowers with florists and gift shops. |
For the return of a tattered old |
army rain-cape, almost worth its |
weight in gold because of sentiment
to it, liberal rewards have
been posted by American egion SER
vice men of Toledo, o. The cape, |
of Rev. H. F. MacLane,
chaplain of an infantry regiment in
France was used by him to cover the
faces of dead soldiers lying in the
Flanders mud and rain while their
graves were being dug. 1t had been
.orn in many encounters with barbed
wire while the chaplain followed his
roops, but an discriminating thief
stole it from the minister's automo-
bile.
The body of the unknown Ameri-
IAN soldier to be brought home from
France by General Pershing probably
will be selected from the Argonne
at ROMANCE, where most of
he unidentified dead were inferred
ollowing the fighting in the forest
angles, according to information to
he American Legion shortly before