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Show WILL COPY HOTEL-DE-VILLE Reproduction of French Village la Planned at Medicine Park, Near Lawton, Oklahoma. Stored somewhere In the A. E. F. doughboy's mind Is a picture of a French village the church, the hotel-de-vllle, the estamlnet. Very soon It will happen that the ' unsuspecting doughboy, rounding the base of the Wichita mountains in prosy Oklahoma will stumble upon this vision in real life. A faithful reproduction of a French village Is planned at Medicine park, near Lawton, Okla., as a recreation ground for members of the American Legion. Its hotel-de-vllle will have an auditorium seating 1,000, and plans are under way to have Legion posts throughout the state erect their own cottages where members may spend their vacations. Water and electric lights have been donated toward the project by a citizen citi-zen of Lawton, and the native stone, which is abundant at the foot of the mountains, will make the cost of erecting the cottages small. |