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Show GIVES ACRE TO KANSAS POST President Elgin Chapter, Red Cross, Makes Valuabte Donation in Heart of Oil Fields. An acre of ground at Elgin, Kan., donated by Mrs. Margaret Gunn, pres-'dent pres-'dent of the Elgin chapter of the American Red Cross, to the Luther S. Hankinson post of the Legion, may prove an unusual asset and make the post the most independent, financially, financial-ly, of any in the Legion. The land is in the heart of the Kansas oil fields. Wells have shot up all around it, and by finking a shaft near the clubhouse it iiay be that the lucky Legionnaires will find themselves in possession of , something mighty similar to a gold mine. The post Is the first one In Kansas to actually finance, build and equip Its own clubhouse. It has only 1S3 Bilillllttu- MRS. MARGARET GUNN. members, but State Adjutant Frank E. Samuel corroborates its claim for a place on the RoH of Honor, Class A, since its members have enrolled all but two ex-service persons in the en-flre en-flre community. The clubhouse was built "barracks fashion," at a cost of only $3,000, and contains a kitchen, dining room, billiard, bil-liard, reading and writing room, a gymnasium and a dance hall. The post has a thriving unit of the women's auxiliary, many of the members mem-bers of which donned the garb of Campfire girls and participated in the recent Decoration day ceremonies of die community. |