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VISITORS HEREFOR BANQUETIN VETS HONORAuxiliary Joins Post in Anniversary CelebrationMANY STRUGGLESIn Progress to Place That Post Now Holds_National officers of the* Veterans of Foreign Wars lmve citmo from dls~| lant points to honor Urn local Frederick Fuhnunn I’oet, 23, on thin, the occasion of the twenty-II ft It atiuivor-Bary of the founding of tho post.The anniversary In to he formally1 celebrated tonight with a banquet In Liehtenthaeier’s Auditorium, 61 it Cumberland street, at which more than seven hundred are to be present.Joining with the Fuhrman Post,In the celebration, is the .Richard; Bechtel auxiliary, affiliated with the! post, and one of the largest uuxll- j faries In V. I1'. W. circles. Mrs. John j Aulenbach Is president of tho. auxiliary; Mrs. Harry Tucker, senior i vice-fprealdetit, and Mrs. Wallace Hicks, Junior vice-president. Tho executive committee is comprised of Mrs. Ruth O'Donnell, Mrs, Florence j Mount* land Mra. Maude Dong. iThe Frederick Fu hr in an Post,; which has made great strides in j progress during the twenty-five years 1“ of Its existence, boasts of a member- j ^ ship exceeding tho five hundred,a mark. Ite auxiliary is also steadily if, being enlarged.Looking back upon the years, the post members recall that It was not i P without struggles and the putting!1 forth of mighty effort*, that the)1 organization has come Into its own. t It was perseverance and the aplon-j0 did co-operation of all mem hero as 1 v brothers, that was the big factor in ^ the maintaining of this large organ- * Izatlon.It is now only two years since they have had their home, tho handsome ’ structure at 718 Chestnut street, i ’ clear of debt. Through the co-opera-i * tion of everyone concerned this waB‘r made possible. It took a period of 1 six years to clear this debt,'during1 which the post and auxiliary worked | earnestly toward their goal.On their twenty-third birthday the feature of their celebration was the ‘ i burning of the $2(1,000 mortgage oui. i their home. It was the happy cul-i J mina'tion of six years of work and}*worry In tho establishment of a pu*lji
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Lebanon Daily News and the Lebanon Daily Times
Lebanon, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Oct 28, 1931
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