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On October 23. the newlv ehartered post named its first permanent officers with the late C.A. Graf of Winters as first vice commander under Commander Chalmers. L.E. Johnston and Turing Fiske of Esparto were second and third vice commanders. Apperson was adjutant. Mixon historian and Rov Clover of WoodlandA Wthe sergeant at arms.Total membership for the first year of the post's existence was reported as 376. two-thirds of the present membership of slightly more than 300.★ ★ ★Tn November. 1020. Yolo post starteda campaign to raise $13,000 for a hall. On August 2, the hoard of supervisors, acting under a recently enacted law, opened the wav for the World War I veteransft'to acquire property to he dedicated forall time to the use of those who worethe uniform of their country.WRv formal action, the countv leased the old armorv hall for five vears at a vearlvV ~ • %/ %/rental of $1,300 and a cash payment of $2,800.And Homer’s hook concludes that “by this action, Yolo county probably was the first in the state to provide a home forits veterans.”★ ★ ★
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Woodland Daily Democrat
Woodland, California, US
Mon, Apr 14, 1969
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