The exact page text, read by your browser's voice.
THE REGISTER'S OWN STATE · 1933–2026
The American Legion's register state for this ground is four lines at two addresses, and they are printed here exactly as the register prints them, unmerged, as this build's rule for register conflicts requires. At 302 Legion St: "American Legion Post 0189 Oriville Easterday," classified Post or Organization of War Veterans, exemption ruled March 1946, filings in the $100,000-and-over asset band, $500,000-and-over income band, $100,000-and-over revenue band; and "American Legion Auxiliary Orville Easter Day Unit 189," ruled June 2013, all bands at zero. At 302 Lakeside Dr: "American Legion," ruled March 1946 — the same ruling month as the post's own line — filings in the $50,000-and-over asset band, $500,000-and-over income band, $100,000-and-over revenue band; and "American Legion Auxiliary," ruled January 1933, filings in the $1,000-and-over and $5,000-and-over bands. The register thus carries the post twice and its auxiliary twice, under two numberings of what may be one address — the town's directory record gives the post's hall at "302 Legion Drive" (the South Bend Tribune's election live-blog of May 5, 2026, naming the polling place as "American Legion Post #189, 302 Legion Drive, Walkerton"), which matches neither register spelling exactly. The three forms — Legion St, Legion Drive, Lakeside Dr — are printed as they stand, with the post's own records and the county parcel record as the settlers; this section does not choose among them. The post's name as the register gives it, "Oriville Easterday," stands beside the auxiliary line's "Orville Easter Day" in the same register, the spellings printed as found.
What the register state settles, under the conventions, is narrower and still worth printing: a Legion post numbered 189 has held federal exemption at a Walkerton seat under a March 1946 ruling — the postwar charter season, the same ruling month as the sibling town's post to the east — and its auxiliary's exemption reaches back to a January 1933 ruling, the Depression-era auxiliary organization that preceded the post's own surviving line. The post's documented present stands at the strengths the other records give it: active in 2026 with named officers (the wars leg), co-sponsor of the town's Fourth of July and host of its America250 celebration (the fairs section above, from the Legion's own national magazine), its Sons of the American Legion Squadron 189 taking first place in the Norm Hubler Memorial Community Service awards at the 62nd Detachment Convention in Indianapolis on July 11, 2026, as the SAL's own record prints it, and a district meeting of its department seated at the post on September 20, 2025, in the department's 2025–26 schedule. The register and the directory agree on the fact of the post; only its street's name and number differ, and the difference is carried, not closed.
Principal sources: IRS exempt-organizations register, "Walkerton, IN" (the four Legion lines; read November 11, 2026); South Bend Tribune, election live-blog, May 5, 2026 ("302 Legion Drive"); The American Legion (legion.org), June 2026; Sons of the American Legion, Detachment of Indiana convention record (July 11, 2026); Indiana Legion district meeting schedule, 2025–26.