Show BOLLES RESIGNS AS NATIONAL ADJUTANT lemuel bolles perhaps won more closely associated soc with the american last legion for r a greater length of time than any et R lid 4 arnld other world I 1 war veteran aiters be has resigned his bla do iti a act national ad adjutant i anant kaaa a 13 bollen oil was adal a delegate to il tile part conference at which the actual work or of organization was waa completed H he had bad a part 1 in drafting tit the national if TAO conat altti of the organization and ad was w am A danied and a member lumber of the executive an of ve committee when a permanent organize ron hon I 1 formed at aliat F prank milk 11 tin D offer a aal national commander lf in 1019 1919 named bolles bollea to the position 0 of national adjutant dju tant which he be has aims ance held by appointment from every suc leading to commander in in older he we waa bo horn 1 in all minneapolis polls mile in 1885 just when the pla pioneers reave won were resting beating after opening up tile west hl him grandfather built the first grist exist mill over ever erected in that state A AB a youth he tended furnaces furn acea cow comes rod and bar horata during daring his boyhood and ad by the these a 11 earnings educated himself at 1 mcallaster McAll lster or academy 1 in st paul 1 in spare times he assisted in opening up north northern m pacific land senate grants for fee act at tl ement as am a member of 1 olda and appeals print ing ng and sun aun eying an party arty 1 in th alie a west em dakotas dakota by the time he we was fifteen he wis was riding along the buffalo divide divid in 1 the ald grande d river couitt country ry hit into the the D dakota int bud bad lord lands before long he accompanied a carload of 0 western waste ponies to bauma wash and chow choie that be mauo aa his him be home ne III we waa in the banking fruit gro grow UI in g law and soldiering helium business all 11 of which meant diligent study tor for the young man a hard hardy offshoot of the plon plea eera cere of the early nineteenth cen can to tury As aa a climax to the legal phase of id ilia life he bee became an assistant 1 la the office of the adjust adjutant t general in ho Us the abate far of W Washl binum neton who where he Z dacre me le lemuel balbian boll delved great inspiration to for military life in 1917 when america entered the world war bolles wom waa assistant adjutant general in ID that tate late holding the rank aulk of major majo r H be we waa named tit as assistant quarter toaster r with the party forty birst division sall and was tent sent to france where he WAS wil assigned to headquarters drat army amy corpa corp a i assistant general in charge of supply transportation and evar evacuation nation for the whole corps he held bd the rink rank of lieutenant colonel and ad w wd served d through the champagne the mom marne the AlEne Alria Mame Mance T toul mil led and me meuse e ar gonne drives far merito meritorious riou berr ices he received the rank of 0 chevalier of the legion if housew from francs france still holding a commission to in the organized reser reserve he li IN a lieutenant colonel commanding the three hundred and thirty fourth infantry ns try of the th 4 eighty fourth fourtly division H hta legi legion A service vice haa bee been long and ad A useful ful ha be was w effren gj a month leare am of blame absence on OB hla his return to the united states state in order to arrange arrarte for far the a first brat 1 annual I convention of tit the area amer lean ican legion which was waa held at minne spells apolis in 1919 yellowing following this con vart bartlem lem he be acceded to the post of nap AN 11 1 1 adjutant which 1111 be has baa held P perhaps arh mile no o one person in lelon 0 ci nice circles he hai a wider acquaintance n t me mr r bearbe nos bettem bolles biles mall mail reached d 1000 0 0 letten a day his duties have taken him lure into every section of tile country and he has bos made mint countless less friends in his him breezy wholesome way we mr bolles Is rea resigning reassigning to accept a position with a firm of new hew york pub rate ushers in speaking of the resignation wa so tion a I 1 commander john R quinn who had bad m appointed mr me bolles as nation al adjutant following the san frace else on convention tion said old the resignation of lemuel bolles I 1 Is loss to 0 the area american ri lean legion his PI place re W will 11 not hot wally be filled if it were possible far me to letain his tv 11 ices 1 I would do so I 1 could seek no better battle support an ae national commander tit than to cou continue his N services am for the organization it would be manifestly unfair how however r I 1 to attempt to pes per damn baade him I 1 to A e remain m there them comes come A time in every ry man s life ill when that art man must us give consideration to his ito own awn walter I 1 feel that the work mr BOB belleb A has cone for far the I 1 ebion the sacrifices rilles he has made for the legion h have m li largely effel prevented preen pre anted ted the ad alliance ance ment of his awn no career he goes from this I 1 organizer organization OR with hundreds of tile thousands camm of friends his him unremitting realff re alft 9 toll tell for the intia U him bis zeal in varry carrying big out at t the adminis alt of the organization his lab labor to in building up the organization all 81 these theme things thing have become invaluable I 1 na cm wish him no greater success a than that which he has al always alm m ano p died his efforts as an nati national I 1 bounta adjutant n t 9 the legion |