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the post. who has been ill In the hos
pital for the past year, was present
and at the request of Comdr. Murphy
addressed the meeting.
At the last meeting of Robley d.
Evans Post, No. 4, it was decided to
move the headquarters of the post to
| the Woodmen of the World Hall.
Grant place between Ninth and Tenth
streets. Future regular meetings will
be held at this hall on the second and
fourth Tuesday evenings of each
month, beginning with the meeting of
+ October II.
Wayne Simpson and Harold o. Har-
tell are making preparations for the
post costume ball at the Raleigh
Hotel on the evening of. October 80,
next. The following committee. part
ly from the post and partly from the
membership of the and 40, were an
nounced: Wayne Simpson, chairman:
Madison L. Hill. E. " Mcintosh, Emily
Carey. John w. Shutz. Mary E..
Kohlos, Harold o. Hartell, Edna Nc
Intosh, Mrs. Kenneth McRae. Carl G..
Hooks and s. P. Shumate. The COM
mittee Is at work and it Is anticipated
that they will bring about an affair
to be proud of. The 8 and 40 came to
the assistance of the post in the alb
sence of the official sanction of the
auxiliary.
Interest was displayed by the post
at the last meeting over the PROPOSE
ton of uniting forces with the Nc
0roarty.O'Connell,B Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing and Lafayette posts.
Past Comdr. Madison l.. Hill made a
visit to the meeting of the McGroarty-
O'Connell Post and the matter re-
ceived support. A committee was ap-
pointed from this post to confer with
the committees from the other posts
and arrange the terms for the con-
solidation and bring them back to the
post for ratification and adoption.
Several new members were initiated
at the last meeting OF the post. in.
Guiding J. F. Ahern and James R.
Hooper, and a large class of candi-
ing Of the post in the new headquar-
ters.
A welcome to Legionnaires who win
attend the eighth annual convention
of the American Legion in Phtla-
deIphia October Ills is conveyed in
a proclamation issued by Gov. Gil.
ford Pinchot of Pennsylvania.
1t reads as follows:
ITO the Members Of the American
Legion:
ION behalf Of the people and the
State Of Pennsylvania / am delighted
to send the heartiest welcome l know
how to convey to the members of the
American Legion coming to the con-
vention in Philadelphia In October.
n vryr,lrN In. h4 -6 yj Of
American liberty. you fighters who
labored so hard and sacrificed so I'M
stinting1y to preserve it. The doors
of Independence Hall are ever open
to you, who, by valiant service and
sheer fighting grit, have won the
right to enter them first.
Most Of all we are glad to- have
you when Philadelphia. through the
Sesquicentennial Exposition. is cele.
brating the birth Of liberty in our
and. Our forefathers won it, you
preserved it, and I earnestly hope
that all who possibly can will come
to join hands in spirit with those
comrades in arms of an earlier day,
and TO- tell the world that the liberty
they Won at so costly a. sacrifice will
still he maintained at any price-that
the cock on which our republic was
founded is as solid as ever and as
enduring as the eternal hills. + wish
| could take each one of you by the
hand and tell YOU how glad we are
to have you. Pennsylvania bids you
welcome"
Mayor W. F'.eeland Kendrick has
proclaimed October 1915 as Amer
lean Legion week." and has called
upon the people Of Philadelphia. to
extend their usual warm greeting to
the veterans of the World War.
The 8 Chapeaux ct 40 Danes met
for their first annual departmental
convention at the home of Mrs. Ed
ward d. Wood last Wednesday night.
Delegates elected to the national con-
vention. meeting in Philadelphia Oc-
tober IA, were LIE chapeau. Mrs. Mary
+. Kolhos: le surientendante, Mrs.
Lois B. McRae, and Mrs. Dorothy B.
Harper. Alternates elected were Mrs
Leon Arnold. Miss Emily Carey and
Mrs. Mary E. killeen. The salon
unanimously Endorsed Mrs. Mary e.
Kolhos as q candidate for the office
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