Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09

100000 GAINED
FOR ORLIBERTYLOA
Gill Committee Asks 100000
subscriptions TO Make
Quota
.,rA TO HELP PERSHING
those Not on Firing Line Must
Do More Than Raise
Flags
!, IA TO HELP PERSHING
,,.rRry LOAN CAMPAIGN

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was the outstandin gfeature Of
...,.rsnt made this afternoon by the Phil
s',.n,s Liberty Loan committee following
'0 hour conference at los South Fourth
street ...,.,o
.,,o,r,ent Of the Philadelphia Reserve
- Alstdict cannot be reached unless the
..nasIen receives big push during the
.,rg week, was the general feeling Of
ne committeeman
aors hundred and fifty thousand sub
..r,n,Ions." said a. f. Turner, will turn
-, tide and place Philadelphia in first place
.uors the cities of America No man,
.h.,ber he has $50 or $4,000 900, must
.,uds himself with the thought that it is
=, necessary for him to get behind this
campaign.
before Phladelphia's allotment is COM
,,.,sd millions and millions of dollars must
!. noured into the banks and trust compa-
,,.s for Liberty Bonds. Responsibility for
,hs success of the campaign does not rest
Nth the committee. 1t rests entirely with
N, people 1t is their war and they must
sn,ncs II. Resolutions denouncing the
V.,s,r or demonstrations at flag raisings
,u not buy supplies for General Pershing
and his army Money will, That explains
n. Liberty Loan Do your bit today and
sbscrIbe. And then get your neighbor to
Ubscribe
s HELP PERSHING
Remember that you are not on the firing
lima with General Pershing. You are not
.ubiected TO the bombs and poison gas
.,Iong the western front At home you are
snared from these frightful tools of war
Hep Pershing to put an end to them by
buying a Liberty Bond The campaign
,,sts upon you. Have you done your part?'
Subscriptions from all sources totaled
more than $2,000,000 today which was
encouraging i'm view of the fact that it is
saturday and scores of banks failed to
report.
day one for 100000, came from the
County National Bank. Clearfield. The
Northern iron Company announced through
lis president w. f. Pilling, that its sub.
scrptons to date totalled S150,O0O and EN-
ployes Of the Edward c., Budd Manufacture
Ing Company reported subscriptions total
ling $4,000.
Today's subscriptions swell the grand
TOTAL 10 flO lOtsUUUsOUO anu ltdNe DdldHCt
Of s113OO0,O00 to be subscribed during the
next five days.
Warden McKenty, of the Eastern Peni.
teatiary, reported that the Honor anc
\ Friendship Club. which has a membership
Of more than 1000 convicts, has subscribed
for $3.50, and that individual subscription:
among the prisoners totals more than $1,000
When the Girard Trust Company opened
this morning an aged woman with a market
basket on her arm was waiting at the doors
Inside the bank she extracted about $500 il
gold coins and announced that she wanted
Liberty Bonds for her grandchildren.
BOND BUSINESS RUSHING
The Liberty Bond business started will
rush today" according to Miss Gertrud,
Leonard, in charge of the Retail Merchants
Association headquarters, go Chestnu
street.
In the first two hours" said Miss Leon
ard subscriptions totaled $4,000, whicl
swells the grand total raised through thi
organization to $1,59O.95O. More than two
thirds of the associations affiliated with tn
organization are yet to be heard from"
The biggest subscription received by Mis-
Leonard was one of $4,000 from S. r
Blocksom, 6074 North Broad street. on
OF $4,000 was received from william Wal
lace, Thirty-second and Thompson streets
Joseph A. Quinn. As North Sixth street
eupsCIlDed Tor SlUU ana Salu, MY Onl,
regret rs that can't take bigger amount
Max Pincus, 3432 Market street, sub
scribed for $4,000 and informed tn
etganizaton that he had instructed all o
his salesmen to talk Liberty Loan to thei
customers.
this morning at H. B. Smith Company
Seventeenth and Arch street. Frank
Hbbs announced that subscriptions in thi
club amounted to $4,000.
There has been a lively demand on tn
part OF women for small bonds, accordin
Returns reported today by banks an
trust companies throughout the Philadelphi
district are: