Beaver County News | 1921-07-20 | Page 3 | Transfers Pays to Legion

TRANSFERS PAY TO LEGION Permanently Disabled Yank, Propped Up In Bed, Signs Over Bonus Check to Post. A striking example of the gratitude of the nation's disabled veterans for f u. . '' & those who have aided them in their hours of s u ff e r I n g has come to the attention at-tention of Lee C. Prentice post of the American Legion Le-gion in Fair-mount, Fair-mount, Minn. Cletus Lappln, a young soldier severely wounded on the battlefields i ff I- r a n c e and now in hospital, rated totally and permanently per-manently disabled, received a check In payni'Tit for tiie slate bonus while taking treatment In a sanitarium nt FalnnMint. A-e-ing to be proppe-l up in bed, Lapl'in Indorsed the slip, good for several sev-eral htti.dred d"Jlars, to the Prentice post '.f ti e Legion. "Wlum I needed le !;,," :-:dd the boy who had given the bst of his I'fe to ids country, "the Lo. j gi'.n boys stood by me. Now I'm going go-ing to do lev little bit to hejp them get those elnbrooms they are after."