Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1919 — DEWEY BIGGS POST ORGANIZED [ARTICLE]

DEWEY BIGGS POST ORGANIZED

Charter for Local Post of American Legton Applied For. A meeting wu held at the court house Friday evening and arrangements made for the organizing of a Post of the American Legion, to be composed of soldiers of the late war. The post is to be known as the Dewey Biggs Post, named after Dewey Biggs of Rensselaer, the firsCMasper county soldier to die in the service. Following are the name of the signers of the petition for a charter: Cope J. Hanley, Emil W. Hanley, Herbert C. Hammond, Howard Clark, Clarence E. Garver, W. I. Spitler, Floyd Meyers, H. E. English, Paul H. Worland, E. M. Laßue, C. E. Johnson, D. D. Dean, Chas. M. Sands, D. J. Babcock, R. D. Wangelin, V. C. Davisson, I. M. Washburn, George H. H. D. Pefley, W. H. Tilton, Lorah P. Hess, Edward L. Watson.