The Breeze - September 26, 1935

DR. E. L. HUGGINS NOW HEADS THE AM. LEGION

At an unusually well-attended meeting of DeFuniak Post No. 61, of the American Legion, held on Friday night [September 21, 1935] at the [Edward Loylers] Beatty garage, Dr. [Evans Lewis] Huggins was chosen commander for the coming year. J. H. Francis was named as adjutant; [Paul McDonald] Work, service officer; C. E. Swank, first vice-commander; [Joseph Cornelius] Yaun, second vice-commander; P. J. Woodall, chaplain; [Stealie Monroe] Preacher, historian; T. D. Bailey, Americanism officer; [John Waverly] Wadsworth, athletic officer, and Oscar Beardsley, sergeant-at-arms.

Plans were discussed, and will soon be put in motion for the regular Armistice Day celebration, held, as usual, this year, as one of the big features of the Walton county fair.

Post 61 was the first West Florida unit of the Legion to hold an Armistice Day celebration, and the affair goes over in a big way every year.