Evening star., 1925-05-03
Veterans of Great War

Moniay evening at Odd Fellows Hall
Members present &ere: Senior Vice
liam +. Cavanaugh, Quartermaster
Gunner Statsberg, Past Comdr.
Joseph B. Gardella, Past Department
Comdr. Gevrge ]. Neuner: Ernest
Wickstrarn. Department poppy chair
man, ana II. A. Cotter. Repre-
sentatives of the ladies' auxiliary. Ma
tional Capital Post were President
Mrs. Margaret Lidstone, Mrs. Ger
trude Clark Miss Claudus Barrack,
Mrs. Mae Cotter and Mrs. Katherine
Barrack, latter two members in
charge of poppy campaign.
Plans for organizing teams and as
signments to concessiones were TAX
en- up. Gunner Statsberg, In charge
of the post poppy campaign, present
ed letters received from officials of
Metropolitan Police Department, Dis
trict of Columbia Fire Department..
Washington Railway Electric and
Capital Traction Companies sanction
ing the privilege of their employees
again wearing of the buddy poppy, as
has been the occasion on past years.
The campaign Is to be launched May
Is and teams were assigned to various
concessions and Government depart
ments.
The Commissioners of the District
Of Columbia will issue a proclamation
urging the public to cooperate in the
V. f. w. buddy poppy movements.
Ernest Wickstrand. chairman enter
tainment, announced that dates have
been signed up for outings to Mar
shall Hall and Chesapeake Beach, for
June and August, and that details of
the plans will be submitted to the post
at Its meeting May 10.
Top Notch Tent, Military Order of
the Cootie. the playground" unit of
the Veterans Of Foreign Wars, will
hold it's annual fun feast at Keith's
Theater next Tuesday evening. In
addition to the regular vaudeville bill
the Top Notch Tent degree team will
be seen in action in its distinctive
cootie uniforms, under the personal
direction Of Val n. Brandon, grand
seam squirrel. It Is being arranged to
initiate several cootie candidates on
the stage during intermission. Tickets
for this big theater party may be OBJ
tained from any member Of Top Notch
Tent or from the Quartermaster Of any
local Veterans of Foreign Wars post.
The bowling team of Top Notch
Tent will play match game with the
War Department team tomorrow eve
ming at the Arcade.
The District Of Columbia Depart
ment and several OF the local Veterans
OF Foreign Wars units have delegated
Top Notch Tent to make arrange
ments for transportation. including
entertainment, for the trip to Tulsa.
Okla, during the last week in August,
to attend the grand scratch" Of the
Military Order Of the Cootte, also the
annual national Veterans Of Foreign
Wars encampment. The Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad route has been Sc
lected. 1t Is expected the New Jersey.
Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia
delegations will make the trip with
the District Of Columbia delegation
over the same route.
During the District Of Columbia en-
campment, which will be held the
middle Of June, the second night has
been assigned to Top Notch Tent as
cootie night and a big ceremonial ses-
sion will be staged. The District OF
Columbia Department excursion will
be given to Chesapeake Beach early In
June.
At the next meeting Of the Vincent
B. Costello Post, No. Is, the American
Legion, it's candidate will be selected
for department commander OF the
American Legion. julius I. Peyser
will speak on legion activities.
During the past week the Ladies
Auxiliary Of Kenneth H. Nash Post
No. 8, met at the home OF Mrs. John
O. Johnson and began making the
thousand large peoples, which are to
be placed on graves Of veterans May
80. The next meeting OF the auxiliary
will be held at the Service club. 2ls
Third street northwest, wednesday
Plans will be made whereby the auxil-
tarv can better aid the post in its vel
fare and hospital work. Ma" VII
son has been making her regular
weekly visits to the various hospitals
while Mrs. Frank Huntington has
taken over the responsibility for car
ing for the sick in the post and aux
Hilary.
The next meeting of George Wash
ington Post, No. l, will be held Tues
day at the clubhouse, 1929 / street
northwest Post Commander Wal
lace Streater will preside. A mum :
her of important matters will be
acted on.
Announcement is made that the
George Baldwin Mccoy Unit of the
American Women's Legion, named in
honor of the first posthumous mem
Der of George Washington Post, Will
undertake for another year the main
tenance of the room furnished In the
clubhouse for ex-service men. The
room Is endowed and named after
this gallant officer, who paid the su-
preme sacrifice in the World War
Lieut.. Mccoy was a son of Justice
and Mrs Walter I. Mccoy. The unit
has extended an invitation for the
wives, mothers, daughters and sisters
of members of the post to join this
unit, which has established record
| for service rendered the disabled men
in the various hospitals in the Ma
| tional Capital.
The post sent a floral wreath
which was placed on the grave al
Arlington Cemetery of Mrs. Ruby
Eldridge Shaw, wife of Capt. Charles
Owen Shaw, a member of the post
whose death occurred last Monday
! Mrs. Shaw was an active worker ir
| the interest of not only the post but
| of ex-Service men in general, and de-
voted much of her time to the boys
| at Mount Alto Hospital, where hel
death proved a shock to the disabled
men in that institution. Past Com
mander Howard S. Fisk and Vice
| Commander Henry w. LongfelloH
q; ;attended the funeral services las
Wednesday afternoon. the former
acting as one of the pallbearers. Mrs
| Shaw was a member of the George
Baldwin Mccoy Unit of the Ameri.
| can Women'S Legion, members o,
which were present at the funeral
services.
Stewart Walcott Post, American
Legion, met in the board room of the
District Building Tuesday evening
Floyd W. Woolley described the details
of the endowment fund drive. He alst
announced that a completed plat o
the Congressional Cemetery was ready
| for use. All graves will be decorated
! by the most assisted by its auxiliar,