Show AMERICAN iltz LEG OS I 1 I 1 july I 1 has been designated by national commander hanford macnider of the american legion as membership day to carry on the legions comprehensive program for the relief of servicemen service men during the su summer commander macnider has urged a united front and an allin all in elusive membership by midnight of july 1 the legion chief has requested each post shall have increased its membership by at least 25 per cent the absence of the old prevol pre vol stead corkscrew is not noted in frisco jimmie flexner of the american legion of san francisco find one of them when he wanted to open a bottle he took a rifle and at a distance of 1000 feet shot out the cork in one try he now challenges the pacific coast the war de department p a rt m ent has just w written rit former sergeant jesse kanady falls city neb that he owes his bis uncle two dollars the W D alleges that somebody overpaid kanaday 2 on some payday some time in the army in appealing to the american legion for advice the sergeant declares his usual good memory falls fails him as he cannot recall ever having been overpaid while in the army one plank in the platform adopted by the republican state convention of indiana declares that we acknowledge our indebtedness and gratitude to the veterans of all wars and that we favor federal adjusted compensation for world war veterans all nuts are not to be fosle fostered red but in cordei that the pecan nut may continue to be one of texas foremost products the american legion of the state has pledged itself to plant groves of nut trees see that they are properly transplanted and care for them when they are developed despite the fact that new orleans la has been chosen as its 1922 convention city the american legion has received a offer from kansas city mo which would he be host to thel the ex soldiers this year as it was in 1921 the offer followed questions by the new orleans chamber of commerce inquiring of kansas city it if the service mens gathering was a commercial asset ani the united limericks cricks of america A man in the hills of ky Is said by his friends to be ly when he be gets in a feud if he be has a large breud of sons who can shoot and are ply there was a young fellow in fla whose heart became dorried and ta no use to beseech the at the beech for she treated him horrid and ha fifteen ex soldiers have formed a post of the american legion ex exactly acely on a spot in harpoot asia minor elinor they say where adam and eve first kept house the unit is called the garden of eden post american legionnaires in in turkey now number when stilwell stilwell akl okla a was struck by a black smallpox epidemic a guard of american legion men kept the town quarantined by guarding all roads and railroads day and night for three weeks the first building built by uncle sam at fort wrangell alaska when that country was first occupied by the united states in 1867 has been remodelled remodeller remodel led and presented to the alaska american legion as a clubhouse |