Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-21
Carrying On With the
American Legion

There is a Polish post among the
posts of various nationalities Of the
American Legion. Argonne is Its name
and 1t 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 a post In Alta Vista, Kan.
Agents " the Chicago American Ls-
gion post which has undertaken the
reconstruction Of Mesnil-en-Arronaise,
Picardy. have gotten the project under
way.
Harold Wells, Petersburg, Va, blind
ed In the WEI. was loaned $1,000 by the
American Legion post there. He es,
tablisned a tobacco shop and has paid
back the debt.
This country is well rid OF Grover
G. Bergdoll, Stacker. according to ar
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 90 American
Legionnaires of Nashville.
Employees OF the elevated railways
VI Chicago have formed q post OF the
American Legion and have dedicated q
bronze plate to the memory OF eight
IL men killed In the war.
-Four leading concert companies ara
to appear In Christopher, Ill.,, this win.
ter because OF the American Legion
post there. which has succeeded In in
augurating a lyceum course.
The stare OF Michigan has bought
the community house at Camp Custer,
improved the place and turned It over
10 the American Legion posts to be
used as a 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 so,. p, did 1t.
An American flag has been given the
Hellenic post, Minnei polls, OF the
American Legion, by the Greek citizens
there. The post is composed Of Gre
clan born veterans Of the A. II, II,
Five hundred ex-service nssn acted
as ''supers' In the filming of a motion
picture at Mamaroneck, N. X. They
were sent to enact a battle" by a New
York American Legion employment bus
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 q build
Ing to care for dectftute veterans on
their discharge from hospitals.
Unemployed service men Of Mime.
apolis have been organized by the
American Legion posts there and are
campaigning the city, selling hand
bags, automobile booster plates and
similar articles bearing Legion sane.
ton.
Jerked from his foor-bed by a rush
of so proffered positions, a Kansas City
former soldier has been able to sup
port himself, his wife and I've chill.
dreD. He had registered the previous
day at the American Legion employ.
ment Office.
Oscar Il. Carlstrom, Aledo, IT,, new
commander of the United Spanish War
Veterans, was one of the committee OF
fifty A. II. #. men which started the
American Legion In Paris In 1918. He
Is an adopted member OF the G. A. r.
Illinois.
Feeling against Grover G. Bergdoh,
was so high at the Missouri
convention Of the American Le-
gion that when 1t was announced that
a motion was to be read about him 1t
was passed by popular reclamation be-
fore ever reading 1t.
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