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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1921
Page
8
The Fort Morgan Colorado American Legion post gifts President Warren G. Harding a golf set and bag selected by Chick Byrns. Miss Pauline Trumbo delivered the items to the White House during a nationwide tour.
James Flanagan, eighty four, famed Civil War veteran and last surviving scout of General Custer’s Seventh Cavalry, was buried by the American Legion in Mandan North Dakota. The funeral featured a color guard of Grand Army veterans and World War II era servicemen, with many curators and veterans paying tribute. Flanagan, born in Greenfield Ohio, served in the 13th Ohio Cavalry during the Civil War and later joined the Seventh Cavalry at Fort Lincoln.
Miss Helen Hunt Carey, a former signal corps girl, was voted the most popular girl in Chicago at the Legionnaire club show. Carey gathered 48 54 votes, about 8000 more than the runner up, a movie actress. Upon return from France after 14 months with the AHF she was elected commander of Sig-Yeo post of the American Legion.
Entering the military service second lieutenant Robert O Barton of Virginia, educated at Shenandoah Valley Academy and the University of Virginia with B S and LL B degrees, practiced law 1914 to 1916, then served on the Mexican border as a second lieutenant in the Second Virginia Infantry. He attended Fort Myer officers camp, became a captain, led 818th field artillery at Champaigne Lee until May 1918, then went to France and fought in the Mindeal?Meuse offensives, promoted to major.
Clyde H. Doolittle, a 26 year old American, studied law and attended the First Officers Training Camp. He served in the 42nd Division, fought in six major offensives, and was wounded during the Champagne Defensive. After re-entering college he was elected to the legislature while away from home, and became a tireless American Legion advocate.
Centered on hostility to the American Legion, Mulberry post in Kansas won first prize in a local contest. During the Kansas coal strikes Legion officers clarified the group’s stance on labor disputes. Ninety percent of the Mulberry post’s sixty six members are union labor users, many from the United Mine Workers of America, with diverse occupations including merchants farmers clerks doctors and teachers.
A plan to plant a tree along the Lincoln and Dixie highways for every World War I soldier, sailor, and marine gains support from the American Legion and Gold Star Mothers. Markers would name veterans with no rank, while the fallen would have a separate inscription. President Harding supports it and the forestry bureau pledges aid.
In Washington on July 14 Senator Smoot said indefinite deferral of interest on the 10 trillion dollar Allied debt to the United States is not improbable. He noted a tentative understanding may exist with foreign debtors, while Borah cited a London Times report of such an agreement and stressed no formal pact has been reached. Smoot warned a rush to collect debts could spark a financial blowback against the American economy and export markets.
Chicago July 12 Excessively warm weather lowers meat costs says Institute of American Meat Packers forequarters of beef now sell wholesale for 6 to 3 cents a pound in some cases. Forequarters demand limited while hindquarters with loins remain preferred causing losses for wholesalers unable to move forequarter cuts.
A Warsaw dispatch reports an assassination attempt on Polish President Pilsudski and a plot to overthrow the government. Police have detained several suspects after a man reportedly forced into the president's room and fired multiple shots. Authorities maintain strict secrecy about the affair.
Willam Howard Taft was sworn in as chief justice of the United States in Washington in a simple ceremony at the Attorney General's office. Justice Hoelling performed the elevation in the absence of the Supreme Court justices. Present were Taft's brother Henry W. Taft of New York and John T. Adams, chairman of the Republican National committee.
News bits report a fire that destroyed the Bradford Catholic church deemed among the finest in central Illinois. The item notes other international and domestic events including Myron T. Herrick’s arrival in France as ambassador, a German destroyer sinking near Virginia Capes, aviation accidents, and various political and economic developments worldwide.
Phoebe J Fairgrave, 18, of St Paul, dropped 15 200 feet from a Curtiss field plane near New Brighton, claiming a new women's world parachute drop record. The 20 minute ascent-to-descent flight was witnessed by Paul Oldsborough of the Aero club and pilot W C Omille, with Fairgrave reporting the stunt as terrible and not to be repeated.
A South Side resident who once rode the Colorado ranges used a western style tether plan to corral three big cats in his yard. After initial failure, he tied a string to a cat hind leg and secured the other end to a stake, yielding daily exercise around the tether.
A compact collage recalls old Milledgeville meetings with Robert Toombs during wildcat banking days as an old farmer pleads for more money. It notes dental advice and a quip about pulling teeth restoring sanity while hinting at historic crimes and maritime wrecks.
A ten year old named Lawrence markets a sharp joke about General Pershing after failing to move a stubborn hen. The article recalls his wit, then reports three African American men quarrelling with a judge, where sentences rise from three to six months for abusiveness and a final remark ends with a racially charged line.
Dr. E A Bates of Corneil University campaigns in Indiana to promote Iroquois founded education for a broader League of Nations concept. He asserts the Six Nations created the first league of nations through their organized powerful tribes.
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