The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-04-18

III france during the war four years
age had just caused him to lose &c
teeth, according to report made by
the American Legion. The police
man recovered from a long illness
after the teeth had been removed.
Smarting red eyes among Brook
Ign, N. Y, school children caused sew
eral shop owners to be hailed into
court. 1t was found that merchants
were selling a wartime device for
purifying water consumed by soldiers
as toy bombs" which threw off poi
son fumes upon exploding.
A community playground will be
erected by the American Legion at
Nashville, Tenn, the ex-soldiers
bearing the expense of apparatus and
upkeep.
So confident are the ex-service
men of Emporia, Kan, that the adj
justed compensation measure will be
passed by the senate that the Amer
lean Legion members ofthat place
have pledged $4,000 of the expected
money to be used as the nucleus of
fund to erect suitable community
club house.
In Korea, where Fords cost $1,012,
former members of the A. e. F. have
banded themselves together under
the leadership of M. L. Swineheart,
treasurer of the Southern Presbyter-
ian mission of the Hermit Kingdom,
and formed a post of the American
Legion. About a dozen ex-fighters,
most of them missionaries, make up
the post membership.
Former navy radio operators and
members of the army signal corps
have organized under the auspices of
the American Legion in Nebraska
and are broadcasting market reports,
weather forecasts and weekly must
cal concerts to the rapidly growing
legion of wireless telephone users.
The aid of Mayor Curley, of Boston,
Mass, other city officials, the Amer
can Legion and the American con-
sui at Sidney, N. s., was required
before Yank ex-service man who
was stranded" with his family in
Nova Scotia, could be brought back
o his Boston home. The legion paid
he bills the man had incurred and
he officials unwound the necessary
ed tape.
The superstition that all army top
'ergeants are hard boiled" took
wing when an investigator unearthed
me ex-top kick in Chicago who is
pending his time trying to locate
obs for ex-service men as his part |
# the American Legion's campaign
o find work for world war veterans.
When two desperate criminals
,roke Jail at Springfield, Tenn, and
ook refuge In the woods, the chief
# police called on the American Lee
ZION after his own force had failed
n it's effort to capture his former
quests. The ex-service men formed
battle line and the two fugitives
we're landed back in the calaboose.
Judge Harry s .Keldan, of Detroit,
itch, opening his court for business,
ound that the entire judy panel had
'een snapped up by other jurists.
lis Honor asked the American Lee
ion TO further the cause Of justice
With a result that new set Of ten
all jobless ex-service men,
vas impaneled.
"A thorough canvass Oh the eA-Sei-
ice men of Stuttgart, Ark, failed TO
ring TO light single unemployed
eteran. The unemployment commit
ee of the American Legion was
ormed to function so 1t dug up two
obs for men already employed which
gere better than the ones they had.
Hanging IN the room which Mar
hal Foch, of France, has reserved
a his home for the thousands of
resents he received while touring
he United tates Sunder the auspices
I the American Legion are the keys
D eleven OF Americas largest cities.
n the gifts which America bestowed
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