The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-08-14
AMERICAN LEGION

AMERICAN LEGION
Having finished the work incident
to staging its department convention
The American Legion of Minnesota
has turned it's eyes on the national
session to be held next month in ST.
Paul. Judge Royal A. Stone, chair
man of the general convention com.
mittee, has been at work for months,
with the assistance of his staff OF
committee chairmen and members, in
preparation for the big meeting but
Legionaires throughout the state, up
to this time have taken little part in
the preliminary plans.
Now everybody is being asked to
assist in making the St. Pal conven-
ton the greatest ever. A state COM
mittee has been appointed, consisting
of J.. M. Henry, Winona, Chairman
L. j. Whalen, Albert Lea; AL Kir-
cher, Mankato; Einar Hammer, Fari.
bault; Paul Coates, st. Paul; Levi
Hall, Minneapolis; S. L. Simonet.
Little Falls; E. M. Pike, Ortonville
John Nolan, Gilbert; C. B. Cornell,
Detroit; A. S. Mabusth, Cokato. This
group is in charge of greetings to be
extended to every delegation ar
irving in the state for the conven-
ton.
All tourist camps will be posted
with information as to how the con-
vention city may be reached; civic
and commerce bureaus will be asked
to aid in disseminating information
all special trains, of which every
state will have one or more, will be
met by welcoming delegations, every
road and railroad depot will bear
signs of welcome "To Minnesota
Land of Sunshine and Ten Thousand
Lakes Home of The Gopher Gang"
and "open house" will be kept by all
posts located on or near the state
borders to greet the visitors and
speed them on their way.
In a talk at the state convention
Justice Royal A. Stone outlined
some of the entertainment features
to be staged in St. Paul during the
week of Sept. 15-19-the conven.
ton dates. There will be pavement
dances, receptions at the State Cap.
itol, military maneuvers, band con.
certs, music by countless drum and
bugle corps, exhibits from the various
states, a Minneapolis day when the
Mill City will be host to the conven-
ton visitors and will arrange for a
day of entertainment-etc. Every
issue of The American Legion Week
ly which is read by more than a mil
lion members the world over, con-
tains feature articles and news items
concerning the beauty and hospitality
and advantages, not only of st. Paul
but of Minnesota. And every week
the name and fame of The North Star
State and the Gateway to the Great
Northwest is spread to every corner
Of the country through the Legion
National News Service. So that, not
only. the 100000 who visit US in
September will hear of our state, but
many other thousands will read about
it and because of this publicity, will
sometime visit us.
H.
Ten thousand beautiful lakes amid
the rolling countryside of Minnesota
await the visitors to the annual con-
vention of the American Legion
at st. Paul the third week of Sept.
Lakes, rivers, hills, forests and fer
tile valleys, combine to make of the
estate Of Ten Thousand Lakes" a
vacation paradise, said to be among
the most splendid and most inviting
in the country.
This playground lies within easy
reach of the convention crowds. Right
in the very heart of St. Paul are
Lakes Como and Phalen, the latter
with great bathing beaches, fine
boating and good fishing. Across
the Mississippi in Minneapolis are
four lakes, Harriet, Nokomis, Cal
houn and Lake of the Isles.
At the edge of St. Paul is White
Bear Lake, great summer resort
beautiful with the vacation homes of
the city's wealthy. Lake Minnetonka
lies at the edge of Minneapolis.
At these lakes one finds all the
sports which give special charm to
the life Of the great out-of-doors
Fishing, canoeing, bathing, motor
boating, shooting, motoring-every
form of summer recrea-
ton awaits the Legion throngs.
Through scenery similar to that
along the Hudson one drives over
Highwty Numbere Three, a splendid
graveled route, from the Iowa line
through the Mississippi Valley and
over its high wooded bluffs to st.
Paul. Along the Minnesota River,
which joins the Mississippi at st.
Paul from the southwest, lie the same
prosperous farms, oak forests and
lovely rolling countryside as one
finds in the Mississippi Valley south
Of the convention city.
In the center of the state, not far
from st. Paul, is the Mile Laos
region with its thousand lakes. Seven
gigantic Fairgrounds await the Lee
yionaries who have time to linger-
0ttertail county and the lake district
If West Central Minnesota, the rug
red country where the Mississippi
Uses, the shores of Lake Superior,
he river valleys, national forests and
tate parks.
Every sort of accommodation for the |
is oHordod Tboro IS coy,oa