The Wrangell sentinel., 1922-01-12
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 Despite the long trip, the Massa- chusetts department Of the American Legion will send two large bands to the annual convention of the service organization at Kansas City. this fall.
 4 downtown rest room for the con yenience of farmers wives in the city for supplies and for city wives on shopping tours has been opened in Drumright, Okla, by the Women's Auxiliary of the American Legion post there.
 Because they considered the post community asset and worthy of rec ognition. citizens of the town of Waits burg. Wash. recently purchased ho- tel building and presented II 10 Sam uel W. Southard 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 bers. 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 SayIessville (Rhode Island) post of the American Legion brought the matter to completion by leyeling the ground and putting the equipment in place with a saving of several hundred dol lars to the city.
 The athletic tastes of the young WAT veterans of Oklahoma were evi- 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 mem- bership in the American Legion of the state, the posts waving post dues and the department paying state and na' tional fees, that the disabled may re- ceiye 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, la., recently married, have been receiving the official congratulations of Argonne post, the American Legion, Des Moines, of which Mir. Wallace is a vice commander.
 By besting walking record which had been undisturbed for years, George N. Brown, Endicott, N. T., won wager of s1OO whi9l--he divided equally between two American Legion posts Of his vicinity MT. Brown holds the worlds championship pedestrian record.
 Chimes installed in every city and town of America, to play The Star Spangied Banner" each evening. would be most fitting memorial 10 the war dead, according to a resolution intro duced into the recent convention of the American Legion of North Car olina. 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, r. c. Rose was stranded in Al bany. N. T., 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 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 Lloyd's of London.
 An American Legion emblem. wrought in exquisite crochet in mem ory of the dead and wounded soldiers of the World war, which won first prize in national knitting contest for Mrs. Veima 5. Cole, BinghamtoD. N. Y.. has been presented to her local post of the Legion. Mrs. Cole is al invalid.
 Holding that sense of shame would work where entreaties failed, the American Legion post of Zillah, 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's main streets, and within a week, ev- cry back yard had been cleaned to perfection.