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Show WOMAN IS VICE COMMANDER Mrs. Amy Robbins Ware of Minnesota Is First of Sex to Hold Office In State. Mrs. Amy Robbins Ware, Robblns-dale. Robblns-dale. Minn., who served during the World war as a member of the army nursing corps, is the first woman of Minnesota Minne-sota to hold the office of state vice commander of the American Legion. Mrs. Ware star-yed star-yed delegates to the last convention conven-tion of the Legion, Le-gion, at Winona, lilira., by arriving at that city in an airplane. In the convention, Mrs. Ware was nominated for the vice commandership commander-ship by a man Dr. M. E. Withrow of International Falls, Minn. who had served with Mrs. Ware in the Argonne forest. Mrs. Ware Is the third member of her family, in as many generations, to serve as war nurs-5. Her mother and grandmother were volunteer nurses during the Civil wvr. While in France, Mrs. Ware wrote a book of poems, "Echoes of France," which have been widely praised. |