The post hut was dedicated on August 26, 1934, in honor of Springdale's first World War I victim, Clarence Edwin Beely. Beely was killed during the Meuse-Argonne battle on October 3, 1918. His body was returned in October 1921 and is buried about a half mile away in Bluff Cemetery.
In 1962 the post's charter was altered to read "The Beely-Johnson Post," honoring the late Elmer Johnson, Jr., a World War II veteran. Johnson died in Brittany, France, September 12, 1944.
An inlaid stone is inscribed with these words -- "Dedicated to those who made the supreme sacrifice in World War."
