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Show WAS 62 WHEN HE ENLISTED Former Train Dispatcher Did Good Service for Uncle Sam An Enthusiastic En-thusiastic Legion Man. Sixty-two years young he was, II. E. Lamb, Worthlngton, Minn., told the recruiting officers ..m-,.. during the war So they enlisted t , him and sent him ! to a chilly berth ? in faraway Si & J berla. He weath ered nine months . "j of It to make It a J good' bargain. pl Mr. Lamb was "V jhfa, iiviug a life of re f f&p tlrement on o .J 'Vlft' ' farm near Worth- j A L , ington when America emeied ti.e war. He had been a train dispatcher and he thought his services would be vain-able. vain-able. The army 'thought -so, too, and enlisted him. It was iu the-nature of a celebration of bis sixty-second hirih-day. hirih-day. Iteturnlng from service, Mr. Lamb Interested himself In the activities of his younger comrades. He has never missed a state or national convention of tlie American Legion, and witli his wife, who is a member of the Women's Wom-en's Auxiliary, be drove 'JU0 miles to attend the last one at Winona, Minn. There tlie Legion gathering made him a vice commander of the state department. de-partment. Now 1 j Is planning to drive all the way to the national convention conven-tion at Kansas City this fall. |