Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-15
MORE THAN FIRST ALLOTMENT
FINALLY TAkEN-OUTSlOE
OVERRuNS.
ALBION GREEN MOUNTAIN
MORE THAN DOUBLE
Farmers Respond to Committees Al.
most to a man-$43,00O Raised in
One Day-Many Could Not Be Seen
Women Are Lcyal-soy Scouts and
Factory Employees Join Honor Roll.

Marshall county has come to the de-
ton of S670,450 in war bonds which is
in excess of its allotment of $659,000
on the $50 per capita basis and Mar
shall county could have taken sS30,000
on the SO per capita basis had that
stake been set at the beginning for the
fifteen committees which canvassed in
the country around Marshalltown yes
terday reported that almost every
farmer called upon had reported with
a subscription. The banking communi-
ties outside of Marsha ltOwn exceeded
their allotments with a total of $685.
800 when S205,600 had been allotted.
Green Mountain, Albion and Laurel al
the windup nearly doubled on their al
lotments. Dunbar Gilman, Haverhill,
Rhodes and State Center We're the only
communities that failed TO meet their
allotments but the margin was so small
in each that the total easily passed the
allotment for communities outside of
Marshalltown.
Banks Underwrite. Full Amount.
LII -hdISudilltwH TIE UdlihS nav
guaranteed to subscribe for the full
allotment if the citizens committee
would canvass the territory. Arrange
menIs were made to go. into the coun-
try Monday when rains made the roads
;mpa ssable and left only one day for
the work Yesterday fifteen cCNmit-
tees brought IN $4,000 IN subscriptions
one committee reporting that every
man seen had subscribed for some
thing. Two other committees reported
that every man but one called upon
had subscribed Many could not be
seen and they will De solicited by the
banks as nearly half OF the $4,000 al
lotted 10 the Marshalltown community
remains in the banks OF this city today
unsold
City Becoming Aroused.
Citizens Of the town are becoming
around. All day yesterday and even
today individuals have been coming to
the banks with their subscriptions.
EMPLOYEES in the foundry, factory and
offices of the Lennox Furnace Com
pany started a subscription paper
among their own number yesterday
which resulted in total subscriptions
for s4,050. Sixteen wage workers IN
the Times Republican made up among
themselves subscriptions for $3.50 worth
of liberty bonds and the Boy Scouts
stirred up total subscriptions Of $4,000.
One lad, son Of the Times-Repuolican
editor. landed thirteen subscriptions
single handed, amounting to sl,1aO,
while his father and two other full
grown men worked all day in an auto
mobile for S2,7Oo from eight subscr1b-
ers.
Italian Loyal.
Down in the rough country along the
river north Of Quarry lives an Amer
lean patriot born In Italy, who Is en-
titled to carry the American nag IN any
patriotic procession. He took JAW
worth Of bonds altho he would have 10
borrow the money at the bank where
he had credit and then he volunteered
70 help solicit among his neighbors.
The committees gasolene ran out near
his place and Phillip Cozzi poured nVe
gallons into the car refusing TO take
any money because it was all to be
used to push the liberty loan
Women Are tho Patriots.
The women are back of the govern
men- as was evidenced to at least Two
committees One committee had failed
TO induce the man Of the house to SUD
scribe and they were about to leave
cragrined at their failure when the
wife, who had evidently been listening
in the other room, quietly joined the
visitors and with hardly word IN
some mysterious and quiet way
,..oad @be sit,,affon into a subScrlp-
ton for $1,000 signed by the man VINO
had refused a few minutes before.
At another place the man OF the
house proposed to his wife that ne
would subscribe whatever amount she
would and she concluded that she
wo,,ld take $1,000. This was evidently