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Show OKLAHOMA LEGION MEN BUSY One Post Builds City Park; Another Buys Church Building for Its Home. The Kltnprensmith post. No. 12G, of Biistow, Okla., with the aid of clti- f ' zons, built and dedicated a city park, according to William Courtney, Court-ney, post adjutant. adju-tant. The park was named for the post. It is one of the best in the state, the pavilion alone costing iJdO.OUO. The roads cost $5,000 and u lake A. J. Fogaly. covers live acres. Not to be outdone in the reports ol Legion posts with outstanding records, rec-ords, the Weart Gray post, No. 110, ol Drumright, Okla., bought a chUrcli building and will convert It Into a post home, according to V. P. Schick rn in, adjutant. The building was paid for out of American Legion funds col lected through post activities. Th post has sent several standard maga zincs to the Soldiers' Tubercular sanl tarium at Sulphur. A. J. Fogaly, commander of thi Drumright post, recently gave the following fol-lowing report cf the jxjst's activities: "Our post was organized In 101!) and was named for cue of the most ropular young men thai we had In this city, and who lest his life overseas. over-seas. We had rough plowing for a couple of years because we bad do terminetl that we would not accept any charity from our business mi'ii. and that any sum of money we raised would have to be through the effort of the membership only. We held some home tali-nt plays nnd pave dances and various entertainments during the last three years, anil not until yyi'2. were we able to save enough whereby we could purchase u lioinp. During the last year we bad carnivals, home-tab-nt plays, baseball base-ball team (Legion I'HSchnll league, originated by our post, composed of six teams); e also had the I'.atie IluMi-Loh Metisel game, ami some boxing, box-ing, together wltii some dancing. "An amendment to our by-laws erv.ving a building eomtnit'oe uas en aeied it 11 I tiie following named as the committee: Milton Speiglo, J. O. KM er end C. W. Saunders. "This ron.mlttee l:nii:e-!i:ite!y began negotiating for a site for the building ai.'l :uvhasel a place 1' by M'l. al that time the members of the I'hrls-tian I'hrls-tian church desired another be-ntion and placed a propose j. in before our ( "iiiiiiiltri" u hereby we roubl d I the church our property and tase their lots and budding on in even trade plan. This ghes us .'.." by 1JO feel with the building and nil other Improvement thereon, nnd with the cost of about ne will own one of the tlneM club rooms In this part of the Mate. We have our building pah) for and nboiit J7o. In the ban!;. We bnve received no donations. I'vorv penny was raised oy the help of the member-hip of Weart Cray pot. .'o lid, who are the most rnthusiastlr and peppe'-y bunch of ex service men vnti run llud nnyvv here." |