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Show Carrying On With the I American Legion Government controlled Institutions are schooling 90,000 former service men and are directed by the veterans' bureau. "Legion Park," named after the local post In Bucyrus, O., contains a tree in memory of the unknown dead In tha war. Abraham Krotoehlnsky, the "Lost Battalion" messenger who was cited for his deed, has gone to Palestine to accept an offered farm. A building worth $25,000 and a pledge for $10,000 for its reDovatlon have been given Lee C. Prentice post of the American Legion by tbe people of Fairmont, Minn, Twenty-four lodgers were rescued from die burning Y. M. C. A. at Somer-ville. Somer-ville. Mass,, by the American Legion, which clothed and lodged them In the post's club. Tlie success of the Oentralla (HI.) post of the American Legion last summer In giving outdoor dances has led to a series of indoor dances . for the winter. The series is sponsored by the post. A year elapsed after George Reld, Montevideo, Minn., was discharged before his friends discovered that he had the D. S C. Reld, an artilleryman artillery-man of the Rainbow division, continued con-tinued to fire his piece after being wounded and routed the Germans. |