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Show Copy for Thla Deptrtment Supplied by the American Lesion News Service.) ALL KNOW JACK WILLIAMS Adjutant of North Dakota Legion Department De-partment Acquired Popularity While Serving as Newsie. Everybody In North Dakota, and not i few in Iwrdering states know Jack I i Wil Haras, a d 1 u- tant of the American Amer-ican Legion department,' de-partment,' and his resonant voice. Williams acquired both his popularity popular-ity and his voice by crying "Extra, extra, nil about It" on the streets of Fargo, N. D., for six years. While newsie. IS illlams conceived a monopoly on all :he city's evening papers which jrought all the other boys into his era-ploy era-ploy and made monev for him. Later le branched out and worked in a newspaper news-paper press room. He worked up to pressman, a position he was holding nrhen he enlisted In the Third En-fineers En-fineers for the war. Forced to quit school while in the fourth grade, Williams obtained a good ducatlon on the streets and by night Itudy. At twenty-one years old he was president of the Fargo Trades ind Labor assembly, a post he re-ligned re-ligned to enlist. He went into the irmy as a prlvute and tame out with the name rank. He was the first state jdjutant of the American Legion department. de-partment. i ' |