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Monroe's first American Legion Post #60 Golden Harvest Festival took place in 1919. Wood Field is where where Noble and Hollywood are today.

The town of Conway will hold its parade on Sunday, July 4, at 1:30 p.m. American Legion Posts 46 and 95 will participate in the parade. Due to the Main Street road construction project along Route 16 in Conway Village, the parade will follow a new route this year. The parade is scheduled to go from Hillside Avenue down Washington Street to the four-way traffic lights, then turn east to the Irving Gas Station and head north on Route 16 to the northern entrance of Conway Marketplace. Conway Village Fire Chief Steven Solomon said that he didn’t think Main Street would be “tenable”...

May 17, 1921 The local post of the American Legion has received from the arsenal at Rock Island, Illinois, 10 .30 caliber regulation rifles for use in post ceremonial work. The rifles are to be kept in charge of Sgt. George Plett, who commands the firing squads in Legion ceremonies. The body of Sgt. Arthur Paulson has been shipped from France and the body of Daniel Tunney has been on the way home for several days. The Legion Post will have charge of both of these funerals. There will be a meeting of the Ray E. Bostick Post next Monday evening to make further plans for the observance of Memori...

Editor's note: This story has been changed to list the correct time for volunteers to gather to place flags on Friday. Every year, around 4,000 new flags are placed next to the grave markers of area veterans at Lafayette Memorial Park on Route 40 in Brier Hill before Memorial Day. American Legion Posts 940, 838 and 275 are looking for volunteers to help replace last year’s flags with bright new flags on Friday. Scott Campbell of Hiller, volunteer and commander of the honor guard, said they are looking for as many as possible to help when they will start the work at 6 p.m.

Almost all of them small. every one of them in the open. just like our campaign. we were able to campaign the way american democracy is supposed to be. it's supposed to be for you, not just on tv, but in your town halls, at legion posts, in small auditoriums, on your streets, at your door. and side by side with us at each step of the way were the men and women of organized labor.