The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-07-28
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Fifty members more than last
year" is the word from Eveietn
Legionaires, who say they are not
only getting new members but, pet,
ter still. are earning the good VIII
of their home town and are work
ing hard to start the erection OF
home of their own. The best
Fourth of July celebration ever
held in Eveleth, a big statewide
Legion track meet to be staged
next Labor Day, Sept. 4th, sue
cessful membership campaign, are
a few of the achieements the
Eveleth boys can point to-
The SSth or Cloverleaf Division
which will hold its Reunion at Fort
Smelling, Sept. 1-3, has often been
called "Minnesota's Own. The
Cloverleaf boys will be housed and
fed by Uncle Sam at the Fort, no
charge for beds and barracks,
nominal charge for eats. On Sept.
I'd, Saturday, at the Minnesota
State Fair, the Division will parade
lust before the auto races, led by
Major General VIM. Weigel, and
the Champion Legion Band OF
America from the David Visited
Post, Duluth Following the parade
the division will view the auto
races from the grand stand, return
ing for a Saturday night program
at Fort Smelling. On Sunday, Fort
Smelling and the Cloverleaf Boys
will be hosts to the governors OF
the states surrounding Minnesota
from which the SSth boys were
drawn. The day will be crowded
with events, the whole Northwest
being invited to visit the Fort and
watch the Field Day events, to
which the Fort Smelling garrison
will contribute, followed by an
address of General Sir Julian Byng
of Flanders fame, now Governor
General of Canada. The whole Re-
union program is so well laid out
that, aside from renewing old &C
ouaintances there won't be dull
moment in the visit of the veter-
ans, more than five thousand of
whom are expected to arrive from
Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois,
North and South Dakota and Min
nesota. Reduced railroad rates will
be available to the Reunion.
George Ashlers of Tyler, Mime
sofa Legion post has the reputa-
ton of hardest egg in the outfit.
He has to be, because he is SER
geant-at-arms. His official and SOL
emn duties are to open and shut
the windows at post meetings,
maintain order, keep flies off bald
heads, take the temperature Of the
adjutant when he appears over
worked, spear snipes or the bucks
who forget their own, keep the
younger members from becoming
too noisy, assist the assembly in
making foolish remarks, and make
himself useful in the performance
of other important duties. George
is married and boasts two Legion
Auxiliary members in the family
When there is anything doing, you
can count on George to help put II
across.
During the convention of tn
Disabled American Veterans at Sar
Francisco the Minnesota Hospita
project received the unanimous en-
dorsement of that body and many
disabled men who had partaken OF
the services offered told in glowing
terms of the Legion's endeavors.
sit is true that the Government
should provide, and it does, to 6
certain extent, says Claude Harris
National Service Officer of the LIE
gion, "but there are tens of thous
ands of disabled veterans-thous
ands whose disability is the direct
result of their duty to country
other thousands who have gone
down in the peace-time fight fol
the community, the state, and the
nation, who are not and never viii
be rehabilitated and restored to
health through Government chan,
nels. There are on an average
one thousand cases each week be-
ing brought to the attention of the
Veterans Bureau through National
Headquarters, but they represent
only a portion of those in quest of,
and needing aid. Many cases are
difficult to trace to military service
but these men need attention and
at present the Minnesota Memorial
Hospital Plan and others like it
offer to the problem"
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A weekly Legion newspaper OF
eight pages designed to circulate to
every member of the Gopher Lee
gion Gang in Minnesota will be one
Of the things the coming annual
state convention of Legionaires in
Virginia August 21-24th will de-
eide. A subcommittee of the state
executive committee is compiling
facts and figures as to costs, adver-
Using possibilities, etc, for the in
formation of the convention dele
gates.
Alvin Owsley of Texas, Legion
National Americanism Director, re-
puted greatest Legion orator in
America" will be guest of the
Gophers at Virginia during the Le-
gion State Convention August 81
oath. So will Hartford MacNider,
Legion National Commander, who,
by the way, was initiated into the
mysteries of the $40 and 8" when
he made a trip to Virginia a year
ago along with a gang of Hawkeyes
from Des Moines, Iowa, for the
sole purpose of joining ia Societe
Des Forty Hommes ct Eight Chew
aux, Iowa having no branch or
voiture of the society at that time.