News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-02-01
Carrying On With the
American Legion


of merchants in Arcadia, Fla.
There is Polish post among the
posts of various nationalites of the
American Legion Argonne is its name
and it is located at Toledo, o.
Motion pictures are shown three
nights a week at the American Legion
theater, which has just been estab-
lished by post in Alta Vista, Kan.
Agents of the Chicago American Le-
gion post which has undertaken the
reconstruction of Observation-Disclosures
Picardy, have gotten the project under
way.
Harold Wells, Petersburg, Va, blind
ed in the war, was loaned $1,000 by the
American Legion post there. He es-
tablished a tobacco shop and has paid
back the debt
This country is well rid of Grover
G. Bergdoll, Stacker, according to an
Illinois American Legion post, which
recommends that the War department
drop the case.
The few remaining Confederate vet
Grams of Tennessee were able to attend
the annual meeting Of their association
because of the efforts of 20 American
Legionnaires of Nashville.
Employees of the elevated railways
of Chicago have formed post of the
American Legion and have dedicated
bronze plate to the memory of eight
81" men killed in the war.
Four leading concert companies are
to appear in Christopher ILL.,, this win
ter because of the American Legion
post there, which has succeeded in in
augurating lyceum course.
The state Of Michigan has bought
the community house at Camp Custer,
improved the place and turned it over
to the American Legion posts to be
used as hospital for veterans.
While Cincinnati was discussing the
need of cleaning the William Henry
Harrison statue there, the Bentley
American Legion post, armed with
brushes buckets and soap, did it.
An American flag has been given the
Hellenic post, Minneapolis, Of the
American Legion, by the Greek citizens
there. The post is composed of Gre
clan born veterans Of the A. e. f.
Five hundred ex-service men acted |
as "supers" in the filming of a motion |
picture at Mamaroneck, n. Y. They |
were sent to enact battle" by New |
York American Legion employment bu- |
reau.
Twelve overseas veterans refused to |
face death again in fumigating immi-
grant ships. The American Legion
employment bureau in New York had
received the call from the immigration
officers.
Due to the propaganda of the Amer
lean Legion in Birmingham, Ala, the
hundreds of former service men have
been placed in positions ranging be-
tween that of short order cooks to con-
struction fOremen.
Work has been supplied every appli.
cant at the Wichita (Kan.) American
Legion post employment agency, &C.
cording to the Department of Labor.
Seven states have been surveyed and
that city heads the list.
BY means of entertainments given
by the school children of Minnesota,
the American Legion Auxiliary of that
state will be enabled to erect build
ing to care for destitute veterans on
their discharge from hospitals.
Unemployed service men of Mime
apolis have been organized by the
American Legion posts there and are
the city, selling hand
bags, automobile booster plates and
similar articles bearing Legion sane
ion.
Jerked from his fioor-bed by a rush
If so proffered positions, Kansas City
former soldier has been able to sup
bort himself, his wife and five chill
lren. He had registered the previous
lay at the American Legion employ
nent Office.
Oscar Z. Carlstrom, Aledo, H., new
of the United Spanish War
was one Of the committee of
fifty A. E. f. men which started the
American Legion in Paris in 1919. He
s an adopted member of the G. A. r.
4 Illinois.