Evening star., 1926-04-25
Veterans of Great War
department District of Columbia
Veterans of Foreign Wars June 6.

| department District of Columbia
Veterans of Foreign Wars June 6.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of Federal
! Post, No. S24. V. F. w, held it's reg
ular monthly meeting April IL, at
1 which time plans were arranged for
| the buddy poppy campaign TO be held
during the last part of May. The
| bridge and 500 party given by the
auxiliary April 16 was we'll attended.
AT the regular meeting of Equality
| Walter Reed Post, No. 284. Veterans
of Foreign Wars, April 10, the post
was presented with small statuary
| entitled, The Cootie Hunt" made by
| George Corbit while a patient at Wal
! ter Reed Hospital. The donor is Miss
| Bertha Frey, to whom the Statuary
| was given by the sculptor in recogni-
| ton of her welfare work carried on
at the hospital. Edward 5. Schmid
| presented the post with glass case
to protect the statuary. This work of
| art will be on exhibition at the next
| meeting of the post, and will be kept
with the intention of placing it in the
| V. f. w. home, which the veterans
state they will soon have in this city.
| Plans are under way to purchase
buddy poppy wreaths, to be placed
! OH the graves vi ali uStedSeu IlleItlbSIS =
of the post in Washington and vicin-
ity Memorial day. and also for V. +.
w markers for the graves in private
cemeteries.
The executive council of National
Capital Post. No. III. Veterans of For
eign Wars. held it's bi-monthly meet
ing Monday evening at 1903 q street,
| with Comdr, A. T.. Pierce presiding.
Reports of committees We're submit
ted, as follows: Recruiting. Will
liam +. Cavanaugh announced
that 10 applications and rein
statements have been received for
the meeting tomorrow evening.
Thomas j. K. Cavanaugh, in charge of
| transportation, reported the program
for the 1925 national encampment was
being perfected, and also suggested
that a party be made up to attend the
Sesquicentennial International Expo
sition at Philadelphia next Summer,
announcing that an invitation was re-
ceived from V. r. w. members of
Philadelphia. George j. Neuner an
| nounced that the executive committee
went on record at it's twenty-siXth an
nual encampment at Tulsa, Okla. by
adopting resolution asking the re-
pealing of the Volstead act. The COM
ed by Representative Thomas J. Blan-
ton asking that commissioners be
| barred from handling pensions given
veterans. Michael Guifree and Ernest
| WickStrand. in charge of entertain
| ment, reported that plans for partici-
| patinG in the annual outing to be
given by the District of Columbia De-
partment, V. F. W., for all patients
| confined in the veteran hospitals, June
| 6, are being arranged.
| The Ladies' Auxiliary. National
| Capital Post, met Tuesday evening at
| Pythian Temple, 1912 Ninth street.
with President Mrs. Margaret Lid
stone presiding. The following were
! initiated Mrs. John j. Allen and Mrs.
| Bertha Jacobsen. Plans were made
| for a social to purchase Auxiliary
| flags, as it is anticipated for the Aux
! iliary to share in the Flag day eXer-
| cises, June IA. to be staged on the
east front of the Capitol steps.
| The relief committee. consisting of
Mrs. Margaret Lidstone. Mrs. Eliza
| beth Jeits, Mrs. Laura Weaver. Mrs.
Gertrude Clark. Mrs. Emo Allen and
Mrs. Catherine Dean, visited at st.
Elizabeth Hospital. distributing Gig.
| aretteS, cakes, candies and fruits to
| the inmates April 1S. President Mar
garet Lidstone attended the V. F. w.
department welfare meeting April is,
! when plans were formed for an out
| ing June to veterans continued in
| hospitals, who will be entertained at