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officers will be elected. A vaudeville
program and refreshments will follow
the meeting.
Regardless of the coming holidays
the department entertainment COM
mittee, under the direction OF Abe
Grudd, is completing arrangements Tor
the two big functions of the v. F. w
calendar for January. the joint installa-
ton and dance of the Midwinter de-
partment smoker.
The colors of each post and auxiliary
will decorate the main auditorium OF
the PAiglon on the occasion OF the In
stalling of the newly elected officers OF
every post and auxiliary in the District.
by Department Commander Frank
Lockhead and his staff, on the night OF
January g. This ceremony will be fol-
lowed by an evening of dancing. The
smoker will again be one of those peppy
affairs for which the v. F. w. has be-
come famous throughout the land of
veterandom. Members of the V. F. w.,
Departments of Maryland, Virginia,
West Virginia and Pennsylvania, will
be honored guests of the District vets
at this big get-together.
The posts have responded generously
to the appeal of Commander-in- Chief
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children at the National Home Of the
v. F, W. at Eaton Rapids, Mich.
While in Washington recently Mrs.
Bessie Hankins Of Revere, Mass, ma
tional president of the ladies auxiliaries
of the v. F. W., who made the declara-
ton that the auxiliaries will present
the National Home with a hospital
building by the end of this year and
she hoped that the posts would see
to it that the home got a school
building.
The recruiting drive being conducted
in this department is showing material
growth in the ranks of every post.
Since the drive began, November /, the
six units of this department have waged
merry battle for eligibles and the re-
suit is that the fight for the grand
prize, donated by the department, will
be contested right down to the closing
day of January 81. According to the
figures of Chief of staff F.. r. Hoise,
who is in charge of the drive. Equality
Walter Reed Post is slightly in the lead
in the number of new members corralled
while National Capital Post Is leading
in attendance at meetings.
With a uniform selected and orders
to proceed with the formation of o musi-
cal unit, the drum corps committee of
Front Line Post are completing plans
for " F. w. Drum and Bugle Corps.
Realizing the need of recruiting musi-
clans from the other posts, the COM
mittee is drafting a letter to be for
warded to all post commanders asking
that all buglers and drummers in their
respective posts be requested to affiliate
with the Front Line Drum Corps.
Beginning with the first meeting of the
new year, Front Line Post will hold
its sessions in the clubrooms of the
Army, Navy and Marine Club, 18th and
L sts. The degree team of the post will
also begin to function at that time.
The relief committee of National
Capital Post was presented with check
for 500 for its Christmas work at the
last meeting of the post. The post also
voted $40 to the toy fund for the Ma
tional Home.
ment Commander Capt. Frank Lock-
wednesday evening at the Circle Club.
Election OF officers was the main busi-
ness of the evening. The entertainment
committee OF Columbia Post presented
a show at the Naval Hospital Thursday
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entertainment committee. This post
has forwarded check for $50 to the
treasurer OF the v. F. W. National Home
and one for $25 to the relief commit
tee of the D. G. department.
All post commanders are requested
to have all delegates on hand for the
constitutional encampment of the Z. @
department, to be held in the board
room of the District Building the night
OF January s.
Post adjutants are to see that all
changes of addresses and all additions
on the rosters of their respective posts
are Immediately forwarded to the de-
partment ad1utant, William /. Jenkins.
1901 Lawrence street northeast.
Front Line Post, No. l40l, will here
after meet in the Soldiers, Sailors and
Marines Club, Eleventh and L streets
on the second and fourth Wednesdays
of each month.
Front Line Auxiliary will meet at the
same place the same evenings and
after the business meetings of the two
organizations, a social gathering will
follow each meeting
The post is receiving applications
from prospective members of the
v. r. w. Drum and Bugle Corps Mem
perS OF other posts are invited to Join
PROVIDED they do not already belong
70 otner active drum and bugle units
that would turn out at the same time
as the new v. F. w. organization.
Applications for membership in the
new Drum and Bugle Corps should be
forwarded to Front Line Post. Y. 2. w
Room 303, SOB Fourteenth street.
National Capital Post Ladies' Auxil-
iary, Veterans of Foreign Wars. will
play host to members of the post
Thursday evening at Pythian Temple
with a Christmas party. All members
OF the auxiliary, as well as post mem
bers are invited.
President Mrs. Laura Weaver and
her official staff of officers will be as
sisted by the newly elected officers
president, Mrs. Rose McAlear, vice
president, Mrs. Bessie Quinlan; Junior
vice president, Miss Ethel Weaver:
treasurer, Mrs. Florence MuSchlitz:
chaplain, Mrs. Lola Clever. Appointed
officers to be announced later.
The following committees in charge
of hospital activities will submit their
reports: Mrs. Margaret LidSton, general
chairwoman-Committee for st. Eliza
beth's, Chairwoman Miss Ethel Weaver;
Mrs. Laura Weaver, Mrs. Elizabeth
Jeitts, Mrs. Rose McAlear, Mrs. T. Ma
rono, Mrs. Mary Grant, Mrs. Lola
Clever, Mrs. Mary Joyce, Mrs. Mary
HollinsWorth, Mrs Ena Allen, Mrs.
Helen Davis, Mrs. Juliana Poore and
Mrs. r. Thoma. Mount Alto Hospital
Mrs. Catherine Barracks, chairwoman
Miss Bernice Barracks. Mrs. Florence
Muschlitz, Mrs. Nettie Wolf, Mrs. Lon
cia Hoffman, Mrs. Gertrude Clark and
Mrs. Mable Pierce. Walter Reed Hos
pital-Miss Cora Roy, chairwoman;
Mrs. Mae Cotter, Miss Margaret Keefe
and Miss Paula Jacobson. Naval Hos
pital-Mrs. Bessie Quinlan, chairwom-
an; Past Deputy Mrs. Margaret Jacob
son, Mrs. Maud Cooper. Mrs. Rebecca
Allen and Mrs. Elsie Miller.
Plans for a tentative program for the
year 1929 are being considered, and
Mrs. Rose McAlear, newly elected
president, will call a meeting of her
staff and mast officers after the hOli-