Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1919 — LOCAL LEGION IS ORGANIZED [ARTICLE]

LOCAL LEGION IS ORGANIZED

OFFICERS ELECTED AT MEETING HELD THURSDAY EVENING. A meeting of the Dewey Biggs Post No. 29, the local post of the American- Legion, was held in the west Court room Thursday night and the following were elected officers of the local post; these offices are to be held until the first annual meeting of the post, “which will be held May 1, 1920. President, George H. Healey. Vwe-president, I. M. Washbum. Secretary, Cope J. Hanlqy. Treasurer, M. D. Gwin. War risk insurance officer, Cecil E. Johnson. Representative for (iistrietcommittee, C. Arthur Tuteur. Executive committee, Floyd Meyers, chairman; Nelson Shafer, Don Beam. The local post has a nucleus of forty members with which to build up the organization. A membership campaign is soon to be launched and it is the desire of the present members that every ex-service man in the county become a member.— The American Legion has four thousand posts in the United States, being represented with a total membership of over three hundred and fifty thousand. Over one-half of the counties in Indiana are represented and applications for posts have been re nearly every county in the state. Every honorably discharged soldier, sailor, or marine who served in the recent war is eligible to membership in this organization. ~ft”i»_a purely non-po-litical organization and the slogan “Policies, not Politics,” has been adopted. , ~ The legion, in its recent St. Louis caucus, adopted very commendable resolutions and committees were appointed to investigate other matters of nation-wide interest which are to report at the first national convention, which is to be held in Minneapolis in November.