The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-06-25
LIBERTY LOAN 50 PER
CENT OVERSUBSCRIBED

100000 Persons Purchased Bonds
Total Subscriptions SIS, o35, 226,850
SO per Cent in Sums Varying
From $50 to $1S,00O-H0w Sub
scriptions Will be Pared Down to
1900, 100000.
Washington Dispatch, June %.
Liberty loan subscriptions totalled
So .O35 ,226,85O an transcription
of nearly 81 per cent.
The final tabulation was officially
announced tonight, showing that
more than 100000 persons bought
bonds. Ninety-nine per cent Of SUBJ
scriptions, or those of 100000 per-
sons, were for sums varying from
$50 to $4,000 while twenty-one sub
scribers applied for allotments Of $5,-
100000 each or more.
The New York Federal Reserve
district led the list with subscriptions
totalling $1,186, 1885, 400, or more than
three times the amount subscribed in
the next district, Chicago, 1885,,
! $50. The other districts sent sub
scriptions as follows:
| Boston $332,447, 900; Cleveland
/ $286,148, 700; Philadelphia 1922, 3O9,-
$50; San Francisco SITS, 623 900; Rich
mond sos, 1877, 100; Kansas City $751;
t 758, $3.50; ST. Louis S86,134, ZOO; Min
neapolis $70,255, 800; Atlanta $780,,
! 878,55O and Dallas $48,948,35O.
! These subscriptions include those
sent direct to the Treasury and ap-
proved among the various reserve dis
tricts.
| Allotments will be made, Secretary
McAdoo announced, as follows:
con subscriptions up to and in
Guiding $4,000, full amount. These
subscriptions totalled 1926, 684,850.
"More than $4,000 up to and in
GLIDING 100000, sixty per cent of
( the amount subscribed, but not less
j than $4,000 in any instance. These
subscriptions totalled $500, 103, $3.50; al
! lotments to subscri bers in this will
aggregate $336,061 $50.
"More than 100000 up to and in
Guiding $250,000, forty-five per cent
, of the amount subscribed, but not
Subscriptions in this group totalled
: 1920, 800 and allotments will ag-
!, gregate ss99 ,2O5 900.
"More than S25O,OOO up to and in,
GLIDING $2,OO0,OOO, thirty per cent but
not less than S112,5OO in any instance
The total of subscriptions in this
group was S6O1 ,514,9O0; allotments
y will aggregate $184,381 300.
"More than S2,00O,000 up to ano
.. including S6O00,OO0 each, twenty.
= five per cent but not less than $500,
, 600 in any one instance. Subscrip
= tions in this group totalled $234,544,
300; allotments will total S58,661,
! $50. -.
"More than $6,OO0,0OO up to ant
including s10,000.00O each, twenty
one per cent. Subscriptions in this
a group totalled SAC, 674,150; allotment!
7 will aggregate S9,801, 900.
:, 1.-TWO Subscriptions of 25,000,00(
o each were received. The allotment'
!, to these subscribers will at thu
. value of $5,O55,O0 each. One sub
: scriber to $25, 25O, OOO-the largest
: will be given 2O.17 per cent or S.,
O93 $50. -
i 1.-THE pairing down process thu
will apply chiefly to the large sub
y scriber. In cases where larger sub
Z scriptions have been reported to tn
! Federal Reserve banks as consisting
n of a number of small subscriptions
provision has been made for allot
a ment in accordance with the severa
' amounts of the smaller subscriptions
4 Zone Of the chief purposes Of thu
: campaign was to distribute the Lib
! erty bonds widely throughout tn
q country and place them as far as pos
sible in the hands of the pepole. Thi!
: was important because the strength
r Of government policies, rests @upol
e the support of the people. The .lafg'
e number of subscribers, especially TIN
r Large number of small subscribers, i
most gratifying and indicates tina
e the interest of the people was arous
d ed as never before in an issue O.
q bonds.
The widespread distribution of tn
t bonds and the great amount of tn
e over subscriptions constitute an elo
quent and conclusive reply to the en-
$ emies of the country who claime'
l. that the heart of American was no
q in the war;"