Show american legion renewing membership in memory of the great meuse argon battle which occurred twelve years ego the local post of 0 I 1 the he american legion Is now engaged en in nother another battle in this thi s hi instance stance the commanders of the opposing legions egions are not army officers but are civilian legionnaire the battle lines line ara are r the reds beds and the blues J V thompson Is the commander ot of the blues and henry coffman Is the e commander of the reds each of these commanding officers ceis has fifteen lieutenants and the battle Is on for the renewal of all our old members and the souring of every eligible ex service man in this vicinity as a member of the flank E peterson post no 14 tho the time has now ai rived arrived as in the case ol of Q 0 A R when it if a discharged soldier wa was conot not afflicted with the legion the quest question 1 n I 1 is s asked why all of the present membership Is re enrolling and new members are coming in freely it Is no longer necessary to use high pressure salesmanship to convince the men of the benefits derived of 0 affiliating with their other buddies the local post held their regular bimonthly meeting at the elks club thursday october ath at this meeting which Is the first one in which the new commander harry ryan byan presided many matters of routine business was transacted A committee was received irom from the auxiliary in which many subjects of mutual importance were discussed the committee announced that the auxiliary I 1 was giving a dance at the I 1 0 0 F hall tor for the purpose of raising funds to participate in the armistice day observance to which it was planned to invite all ex service men they asked all the legionnaire as well as the general public to support them by attending the dance and enjoying a pleasant evening the new post commander harry ryan made the following appointment of committees to carry on the activities of the post for the co contention mention year of 1931 as follows executive committee T E clements thomas F kearns and william nell membership committee orson blazzard af M C oconnor john L gibson J V thompson and joe cottis audit and legal wm win nell victor peterson and ana L F P anderson finance fraser buck H fred emit egan and J B Pe dezeley Pez elcy zeley service W J wailer walker gilbert kimball and B R A wheeler visiting harry clarry coffman edward edmonds and percy S aubrey americanism T E clements 11 V alstone T E dark clark and D A smith athletics J C conlon AT C oconnor F ar decker and A C messner publicity thomas F kearns J C conlon frank stone A J gibbons and james cunningham amusements clyde paul ernest lange hugh steel willard bir bar cumshaw russell kidder hadder thomas morris george cunningham and al cierri man building committee james bingham T E clements and R A wheeler W J B |