Show HOW LEGION MEN GET LAND LAID applicants for homestead entries should first make personal penona in lon of district in response to many malty inquiries from er service nien men in tile tho middle west regarding governa government ent lind grants irvin L I 1 Ven trite secretary of argonne post of tle the american legion tit in dea de moines la ia hns hits made on investigation of tile the situation persons desiring to make honti homestead estead entries said mr ir Fe jurite tAi A alist fully themselves all to character and quality ot of lands they desire to enter tand nd should in no caso case apply to enter until they have examined each legal subdivision for which they wake make aD application salts sails factory information concerning the lands may be obtained from a personal visit to to the 1110 district in alch one wishes to take out inn land kadi appl leant Is required to swear flint tie lie I 1 h ell K with the tha character of tho the loud land described la ill III his application and tile only way that tha t he mn can assure himself that prior pi lor settlers have no claim Is to make a personal inspect ion of IS pame an ali ex service man la Is required to residence es idelle e on tile the lanil land involved after ills his entry Is allowed uta un ess an all extension of time ia Is granted on recount account of climatic rea reasons or fili ullar excuses credit la Is for sen service ice lit in the army navy or marines providing the ling lias had eighteen months of service sen ice II if such buell Is the ease anse ue uc applicant Is required to live on tile ho land only seven months it ho ie obtains so much credit for military service that there Is ro re Itil red only one years residence lie must prove only such amount ot of as will mil prove his good fillah as ai i j chlima nt if his credit for service requires more than one years residence lie anit to the extent of one six of the lie area of the lie land be bc with etli tile alie second year Regil hegard rd less of credit for service all applicants prove that thore there Is a n habitable house bouse on the land there rii ere Is only onu one portion of the country whet where e land tuny be obtained without the lie requirement of a liquie stend stead at sentinel abig ail or acres open for which no home hoille stend Is required require but which totes tales ofle payment ent of seventy fire are do doelling collais illing for three hundred and nil twenty vont neres and nn an expenditure o of one dollar yer vr acre for improvement tills Is arid wild which lil cli way be used asod for cotton raising it if irrigated when it sells for front froin two to throe three hundred dollars an vere it ii Is estimated flint the lie cost of irrigation on three hundred and twenty Is about acres ot of land anro op open n including every state west of the mississippi river except iowa and T texas e ans the first thing to to do la Is to decide on oil the lie state then tt get T t the lie location of the land offices in III that state all blank forms of and other pers may be obtained A for the dl 11 erict office in which tile the and ills boking inking out a hoine homestead stend Is not a speculative proposition if tile applicant con can alnoid to establish himself for the period required under the homestead laws taking advantage or of the credit allowed liliu hills for service lu in the world war lie will be wel repaid after a few years |