CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - AMERICAN LEGION POST ORGANIZED AT WYNOT ==================================================================== NEGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the NEGenWeb Archives by Carol Tramp Permission granted by: Rob Dump, Editor, Cedar County News ====================================================================== WYNOT TRIBUNE, JAN. 31, 1952 AMERICAN LEGION POST ORGANIZED AT WYNOT ON WEDNESDAY Wynot - About 30 veterans met in the Wynot school Wednesday, January 23, for the purpose of organizing an American Legion Post in Wynot. This idea was adopted and the post has been named the Stanley Anderson Post. Temporary officers were chosen as follows: post commander, Ted Bonertz; B.M. Fredrickson, vice commander; Joe Wieseler, adjutant; James Wilserson, finance officer; Louis Hans, Sergeant at arms; Norbert Wuebben, chaplain. An intensive membership drive is planned for the near future and it is hoped that as many members as possible can be gotten from this community. The name selected for the post honors Stanley Anderson, the first Cedar County boy to fall in action in the first world war. He died on the battle fields of France, July 15, 1918. He was in the machine gun section of his company. Stanley Anderson left this community with the second Cedar County quota in September 1917 and was sent to Camp Funston where he went into training with an infantry regiment, later being transferred to a machine gun company. He was a member of the first Home Guard unit organized in Nebraska.