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Show BOLLES AS MESS SERGEANT National Adjutant Proves Cleverness in Roasting Corn and Potatoes In Mud Coating. There's plenty of work concerned .vith the job of being the national ad-lutant ad-lutant of the American Legion, but still. Lemuel Bolles of Seattle, Wash., .vho recently was reappointed to the Dflice, finds time now- and then in which to get away from the duties of his position. At a picnic of the national na-tional headquarters staff outside of Indianapolis a while ago, Mr. Bolles ! played the part of a mess svrgeant to perfection, evolving a new way of cooking corn and potatoes that Drought praise from all. His system consisted of coating the corn and 'spuds" with mud and then burying them in the embers of a fire until they svere done to a turn. Here he is seen j preparing the picnic meal with the i assistance of Miss Pearl Burtnett. Mr. Bolles, who was one of the original delegates to the Paris caucus of tlie American Legion, served as a lieutenant colonel on the general staff of tlie first army corps from May, l'JIS, to March, 1919. Before the war he had served in all grades up to and including that of captain In the infantry in-fantry of the Washington N'ational Guard. He was assistant adjutant general of the state of Washington in 1910-1917. When the Washington National Na-tional Guard was mobilized Mr. Bolles joined the forty-first division at Camp Greene, N. C, and went overseas with that outfit. On his return to the United States he assisted in the organization ot the a tN S ?K XHS ' I Lemuel Bolles. Miss Pearl Burtnett. American Legion in preparation for ;he Minneapolis convention and was ater appointed national adjutant by i'ast Commander Franklin Li'OIier. |