FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES

HAGERSTOWN’S LEADING FRATERNITY

HAGERSTOWN AERIE NO. 694

AERIE HOME:

49 SOUTH POTOMAC STREET

HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND

PAY YOUR DUES TO

SECRETARY

JOHN R. KERR

HAGERSTOWN, MD., R.D.5

August 6, 1939

Mr. Hermann Baum,

Hagerstown, Md.

Dear Sir and Brother:

We wish to express our confidence in you as a member of Aerie 694, Fraternal Order of Eagles, and as a fellow American.

We are sure that you have furthered at all times the patriotic, the humanitarian and the fraternal teachings of our order and that you have tried steadfastly to make your home and your business house the abiding place of thoughts and acts that are wholesome and righteous.

We are sure you have given and will continue to give our country the devoted loyalty of a patriot.

You have always been alive with the spirit of liberty, a stalwart of truth, the possessor of a keen sense of justice and a firm believer of equality.

Thusly we express our confidence in you as a member of our fraternity and as a citizen of our great Democracy, the United States of America.

Fraternally yours,

John R. Kerr

John R. Kerr

Secretary Aerie 694

Fraternal Order of Eagles