The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-08-09
tributary to this highway.
A Welcome for All

tributary to this highway.
A Welcome for All
The welcome which Faribault ex-
tends is not confined to official con-
vention delegates. Everybody is urged
to attend. All Legion members and
their families and all others are cor
daily invited to come and enjoy the
fun and entertainment which goes
with Legion gathering. "There will
be something doing for ALL" declares
the Faribault Entertainment Com
mittee, which promises "ten dollars
worth of free entertainment for every
visitor i" One thousand dollars worth
of classy convention badges have
been ordered. Each delegate, alter.
nate and guest will receive this
bronze pendant as a souvenir of the
1923 Gopher Legion gathering.
Sunday Aug IL, 1928
Sunday afternoon Aug. IL will be
devoted to registration and housing OF
delegates. The Department Execu-
tive Committee and State Americans
Committee will each hold a meeting
on this date, starting at 900 P. M.
Monday Aug. 13, 1928
Registration and housing will be
continued on Monday Aug. Is, on
which date the convention commit
tees, including rules, credentials, re-
solutions, Americanism, finance, leg
islation, constitution, post activities,
next meeting place, sick and disabled
and San Francisco convention ar
rangements will be appointd, greet
ings will be received from other pa
triotic organizations, and reports will
be made to the convention by the
department officers and chairmen of
the department standing committees,
the Minnesota Legion Publishing Cor
poration, and the Mimi. Legion Me-
mortal Association at Rochester.
Tuesday Aug. ID, 1923
On Tuesday Aug. IA addresses will
be made by Mrs. Myrtle Goetz, Min
nesota Legion Auxiliary President, by
William Knoll, Legion National Liai-
son Officer for Minnesota, and by C..
D. Hibbard, U. S. Veterans Bur-
eau Director for Minnesota. Reports
of the various convention committees
will be presented as they are complet-
ed.
After the noon recess the conven-
ton will reopen with the annual meet
ing of the Minnesota Legion Memoir
ial Hospital Association which will
adopt bylaws and elect six trustees.
The addresses of National Command
er Alvin Owsley and Judge Kenesaw
Mountain Lands will follow. Theo-
dore Roosevelt, Asst. Secy. U. S.
Navy will greet his legion comrades.
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county under the direction of Gerhard
Bundle Fourth District Commander,
will exemplify the Legion Ritual by
conducting a post meeting and insal-
lation of officers. A Hennepin coun-
ty degree team led by Walter Quist,
Fifth District Commander, will init
ate a class of candidates into the
American Legion. When reports have
been received from convention COM
mittees, the session will adjourn for
the evening program.
Tuesday the Big Parade
At 500 P. M. Tuesday Aug. IA
nearly a thousand marching delega-
tons led by half hundred musical
organizations and followed by pic
turesque floats will march past the
reviewing stand on which will sit
National Commander Owsley, Judge
Lands and Theodore Roosevelt. De-
partment Commander Barron, Mayo
Leach of Minneapolis, Mayor Nelson
of St. Paul, Mayor Empie of Virgin
ia, Mayor Quinn of Faribault and
other Legion mayors attending the
convention will also witness the pa
rade. 1t. Gov. Collins, Department
Commander Harrison of the G. A. R.,
Department Commander Otto Raths
of the United Spanish War Veterans
and other patriotic leaders will be on
the stand. The winning Legion Band
and the best Legion Drum Corps will
each be presented with silver loving
cup.
Wednesday Aug. Is, 1923
national committeeman, delegates to
the San Francisco National Conven-
ton, and one new member of the de-
partment executive committe from
each congressional district, will take
place on the forenoon of Wednesday
Aug. Is, at which time all outstand-
ing convention reports and unfinished
business will be concluded. The fin
al act of the convention is that of
the outgoing department commender
Gerald V. Barron of Cloquet, who
will take from his breast the emblem
Of leadership and place it in the coat
lapel of the new commander. Each
past department commander receives
badge denoting that honor-but the
badge of the department commander
passes on down the line from leade,
to leader.
| The afternoon Of Aug. Is will be