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MEETING OF AMERICAN LE- elIGION EAST WEDNESDAYsiA call meeting of the Allen Broth-\M ers Post No. 148. of the - American !yi Legion, of Texn^s was held in the dis-jgi trict court room of the court house klt;last Wednesday evening. A good-h'isftled crowd wai = it* ?eluding a number of members from.wSlaton. Among other important‘ei ran tiers and questions taken up fttvv this meeting was. that of the reading-tj and adoption of the constitution ar.d/tl by-laws of this Post as drafted by . ?]committee . appointed at the .meeting; tl previous to this one. ; ' : ;;I«• . « ^* j iHaving been advised by State ? Headquarters of the Legion that the tl application of this Post for Charter tlt; had been approved And forwarded to a National Headquarters, and author- ;o ized.by the State Adjutant to go in-A to permanent organization at thi3r. meeting, the next matter to come be—; fore this meeting was that of cle4 tion of permanent officers. It wa voted to elect all temporary officers.^, as permanent ones, with the addition of Rev. W. A. Bowen as Post Chap- \ lain. • .• . ■ ;sFollowing this the members of the-1 Executive Committee were elected. ;s The Post by-laws provide that this \c committee shall be composed of sev-ji cn members and the officers of the|j Poet who arc cx-officio members of!lt; the Committee. In accordance with'!\ this provision the following members!* were elected on this committed: |1 Henry C. McGee, Slaton; C, M. Mul- Ji lican, Lubbock; W. L Kuykendall,;! Slaton; H. C. Jones, Slaton; C. B.:l Lokcy, Lubbock; Emmett B. Porter,5’ Lubbock; W. M. Slagle, Lubbock. |sTwenty-five new members, -twen-U ty-four of whom were from . Slaton, were received /ito the Post at this meeting. .This Post has received a special compliment fro mthe State Adjutant of the Legion on its charter membership of 112 members, stating that this is the largest charter membership that has been submitted to date.At the above meeting it was agreed to conduct a publicity: campaign to acquaint our people with the nature and object of the Legion, and in this connection it was decided to. also send a printed copy of the Constitution and by-laws of this Post to each memberl This will be done at the earliest practicable date.A meeting of the Executive Coin-: mittee will bo held in the court house Thursday evening, February 5. at 7 p. ra., for the purpose of taking up matters of importance in connection with the development of this Post and its work. •
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Avalanche
Lubbock, Texas, US
Thu, Feb 05, 1920
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