The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-06-23


the Department Of North Dakota
ers in the Mandan Roundup.
The program for the Legion Con-
vention has been completed. Sessions
will open at 10000 a. m. Monday,
June 30 in the Palace Theatre, Man
dan, with the call to order by State
Commander +. b. Streeter Of Linton,
and invocation by Dept. Chaplain
VIM. upshaw of Jamestown. DR.. A.
o. Henderson, Mayor of Mandan,
will welcome the Legionaires, and
James Morris of Darlington will re-
spond. Appointment of committees.
reports of department officers, and
the address of the National Com
mander j. X. Quinn of San Francis
co will be the balance of the morn
ing's business. Commander Quinn
is expected to take chiefly on ma
tional Legislative activities of the
American Legion.
40 and Meeting
The state convention of the state
La Societie 40 HOmmes ct ChevauX
will open in the afternoon with X.
B. Murphy of Nora Springs, Ia,
National Chef de Chemin de Fer, in
attendance. At 3 o'clock National
Commander Quinn will deliver Il
public address fromt the balcony
of the Lewis & Clark Hotel. The
balance of the day and evening will
be given over to shows, pavement
and Heart River pavilion dances,
banquet of the 40 and 8, and par
ade by that organization.
Tuesday, July 1, committee re-
ports and unfinished business of the
state Legion will be the order, fol-
lowed by addresses by Mrs. Evelyn
Nickerson, Mandan, state president
of the Legion Auxiliary, and Geo.
Hatbold, general chairman of the
recent San Francisco National Le-
gion Convention. Mr.. Hatfield will
outline the workings of the Califor-
MIA Disabled Veterans aid law. w.
T. Knoll, Laision representative of
the Legion Tenth District will also
give an address.
Following luScheon for the Le-
gion delegates at noon at the Elks
Hall Gov. r. A. Nestos will address
the convention, followed by Robt. j.
Murphy National Chef de Care, and
c. d. Hibbard, Minneapolis, manager
of the Tenth District U. S. Veterans
Bureau. Reports of committees, an
auto ride, movies, and big sport
card at the prize ring arena of the
Missouri Slope Fair grounds in the
evening are listed. Billy Ehmke of
st. Paul, and Russie Leroy of
Fargo are to be matched against two
leading middle and light weights re-
spectively by Jack Hurley of Fargo.
Wednesday, July 2, the program
calls for the completion of bust
ness of the convention, election of
officers and delegates to the Ma
tional Convention and selection of
next meeting. Adjournment will be
taken early and all Legonaires will
form in a parade which will precede
the unwilling of bronze equestrian |
statue Of Theo. Roosevelt, presented |
to Mandan by DR.. Henry Waldo Coe
of Portland, Oregon. Representa-
tives of the Roosevelt family will be
in attendance. Chef Robt. J. Muir
ply of the 40 and 8 will pnveil the
bronze.
Dedicate Monuments
day, July will be featured |
in the morning by the dedication of
two large native rock monuments
placed at either end of the Liberty
Memorial bridge over the Missouri
River by the American War Moth
ers of N. d. Second days elimina-
ton contests in the rodeo will fea
ture the afternoon while on July 4
the presentation of Pres. Coolidge's
message to the N. d. Indian service
men will take place as the opening
Roundup number, preceding the
final competition for wild west
purses Due to the intense rivalry
existing between South Dakota and
North Dakota cowboys, the Pick of
he riders from either state will be
chosen on the first two days to COM
pete with, third group of Montan-
ans and national known rodeo stars
On July Fourth Final.
Legion officers have received let
.ers from Department Commander
Roe of the Minnesota Legion, and
,ther officers of that state, advis-
ng that they will be in Mandan for \
he weeks events.