Clinton, N.C., Oct. 29—Through the untiring efforts of Capt. Fitzhugh Whitfield, service officer of the American Legion, Dock Strickland and Aaron Strickland, brothers, and World war veterans of Newton Grove, N.C., have gained admission to the National Military Home, Dayton, Ohio. These men have been in needy circumstances and bad health for some time. The American Legion of Clinton, through the office of its service officer, has handled more than 800 cases of some nature and kind for veterans of the World War, and these two, so far as the Legion can learn, are the first to be sent to military home for care and treatment. A great number of claims for disability have been handled and all of the applications for adjusted compensation, with the exception of a very few, have been made out by the help and assistance of the American Legion.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Oct. 31, 1925
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