The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-23
Lodge Trustees Decide to Give Uncle
Sam Use Of 81 900 of Their
Money Last
Evening.
SCHOOL BOARD, ALSO
District Invests 5000 in Liberty Pa
per-last Week of Cam
palsn Opens
Well.


given q big boost today by the action
OF two patriotic organizations OF the
city.
at it's meeting held last night, Keo-
Euk Lodge No. 10, l. 0. o. F., through
It's trustees voted to let Uncle Sam
have the use OF 1000 of its money
and the trustees were ordered to in
vest in the Liberty loan paper. This
patriotic act on the part of the lodge
might well be emulated by many Of the
other lodge organizations Of the city.
Keokuk lodge is the first Of the frat
ernal organizations to order bonds as
an org anization.
The independent school district OF
Keokuk through it's directors today
purchased bonds to the amount Of
SIS 900 out of one of this funds. The
school district in June invested the
Kilbourne fund in bonds, and this Is
its second investment in Liberty
loans.
A report on bond sales Yin the coun-
ty up to Friday October 10, showed
that Lee county subscriptions had
totalled 22.4 per cent of the county
quota. and that the lump sum report
ed on these sales OF 800 subscriptions
amounted to $34S,150 The highest
reported totals in the state up to this
date are s25,5S2,630.
Local committees are reminded that
this is the last week, and that tomor.
row is Liberty Day. 1t is expected
that a liberal response will be made
to the final appeals to purchase bonds,
and that those who have been waiting,
will put their money in tomorrow.
Mercantile houses in the city are re-
spending almost to man to the re-
quest for publicity for the bonds In
their letters.
Liberty Fires Tonight.
One of the spectacular features
suggested by the woman's Liberty
loan committee for this weeks cam
paign for the sale Of Liberty bonds
is the suggestion that all over Amer
lea tonight. in every city, village and
at every cross roads bonires be
lighted. They are called Liberty
fires" and symbolic the fact that
America is keeping alight the fV
of liberty. This is the national COM
n,ittee's call for this feature of the
weeks campaign:
.The fires Of ST. John, those bea-
cons of faith which have burned on
the hills Of Europe for twenty cen
turtles, have been trampled to ashes
nv the tread of the armies OF inva-
sion and devastation. For the hrst
time in the history of christianity
the embers from which on st. Johns
eve the peasant women OF the world
took living Goals to their own hearth
stones failed to glow lest they bring
down the shells from the enemy's
aircraft. For men and women over
seas the fires may not be kindled till
the war is done. But the women of
America hold the duty OF blazon1ng
to the world the truth of liberty, OF
keeping alight the fires OF freedom.
That we may not forget that duty
and that we may the better under
stand that the Liberty loan is not
merely good investment but a
sacred obligation Of patriotism and
promise to those who fight for US
and with us in the struggle of right
aoatnst might, we women OF the
TTnited States will set upon the hills
of orr country on the eve OF Liberty
dav beacons which will fame out our
belief IN the righteousness of our
cause: and from the embers we will
take to our homes the Goals of cour-
age and Of determination to make
sacrifice for that liberty which our
land Is keeping alight for the guild
ance OF a darkened world"
AIRS. W. G. McAdoo, chairman OF
the woran's Liberty loan committee,
will light the District Of Columbia
Are one of the thousands Of bonfires
nv which the women Of the United
states will call attention to the clos
ing of the loan on October 27.
The liberty fires, which will be
1iphted near the washington monu-
ment on Tuesday night. will be
started after sticks of historic or
svr,,boIic character from every state
in the nation have been placed upon
the pile.
The first consignment, wood from
the homes Of Andrew Jackson. James
K Polk. and Andrew Johnson, the
three presidents whom Tennessee has
EVEN to the country. has already
been sent to Washington by Mrs.
Cuflford Dudley Of Nashville. men,
her Of the woman's Liberty loan COM
nIttee and state chairman for Ten
nessee. In Tennessee the Liberty
Are which will be lighted near Jack
sons famous old Belle Mead farm,
viii be started by Governor Tom c.
rye In almost every state in the
union the governor of the state Will
speak at the principal liberty fire