New Britain herald., 1929-10-25

tion of real merit resulted. Our very sincere thanks are due to Miss Lillian Josephson, Mrs. Emory Cor bin, Miss Ethel Fredricks on, August l. Klein, Thure Johnson, Walter talk, Harry Bonncy as well as to our own star George Hallin, and to all the other young ladies and young the Cousins and the Aunts and the Sailors. The prime movers for the Legion were Howard Timbrell, Otto Miller, Charles Stanley, Sturman Dy- | son, Harry Ginsberg, Russell Schail- CT Willard Andrews and Frank Du- gan. We cannot recall the days of Plnafore without a feeling of grati- tude to Mrs. Ruth Lindsay.
 The Tenth anniversary of the Legion and of our post was made a gala occasion. The Legion was born on March 15, 1919 and our Pest in May or June 1919. w. w. T. SQuires was general chairman Of the occasion. In celebration of the event a banquet was provided at the Burritt hotel. We were fortun- ate on that occasion to have our first commander, Dr. Stockwell as toastmaster, and to have as guests our state commander. Paige Seaton and past state commander, Ken meth Cramer. Arrangements for the banquet were under the direction of Arthur Petts. In addition a Tenth Anniversary Celebration was held at the Elks hall. This occasion was unique in that every past command CT of our post was present, some coming long distarcos for the event. We must thank Ed. Ogren for the success of this party. The Ten Year book will be a lasting monument to our first ten years. The history writ ten by W. W. T. Squires will be q valuable work of reference and q most important archive of the Post.
 On Sunday, February 3, we had the pleasure of meeting and enter talning our national commander. Paul McNutt. We also had the pleasure of listening to him at the meeting Of the Everyman's Bible Class.
 Throughout the winter season the Iddy-Glover Luncheon club met regularly. Roger Whitman was the president of the club.
 Factory nights were again feature of our regular meetings, and for some of them our meeting hall proved too small and We again i'm posed on the generosity of our next dcor ncighbor, the Elks club.
 Our Drum and Bugle corps has been the center Of much social ac- tivity and has turned the Legion Home into a twenty-four hour a day proposition. Their brilliant uni ferns and snappy playing produced a proud buIfch of followers at the state convention in Hartford and at the various parades held in our own city.
 Finances
 Our efforts to raise the necessary money to carry on the affairs of the post have not been crowned with the success we hoped, but the re- CclptS from membership dues aug mentcd by the proceeds from the Review, the production of pinaforc and our Ten Year book have per- WIttod us to carry on and to end the year with a very small deficit for the period. We arc now engage,i III the conduct of the Home Pro- gross exposition and hope that the financial results will relieve the new administration of financial worry and permit it to concentrate on the social, civic, and welfare problems.
 In financing our welfare projects "" have been assisted by the excel lent sale of poppics, surpassing any recent year and amounting to some $1900.
 The requirement Of the boys camp have been met by the Finance Committee of the camp and they can face the new season with a small balance.