The diamond drill., 1917-10-27
p|koM COUNTY WILL ABSORB MORE
BONDS THAN FIRST EXPECTED
CRYSTAL FALLS ORGANIZED
Women and Men Canvassed Gem
munity For Sale Of the Bonds
and Met Fine Response

'ARtiN"
!. The total OF the sales have not been
gathered In 80 as TO learn If the total
OF s2sl.oo0 allotted to this county
has been reached. but from reports of
the wonderful work done on the Iron
River end and the unexpected showing
here IL Is quite certain that over 5000,
900 worth OF bonds have been taken
in the county.
The people OF Iron River We're es-
pecially alive in their efforts, and last
week report was current that over
$4,000 worth had been sold about
tho village OF Iron River. Chas. +.
Lawrence OF the Verona Mining Co
informed a reporter for The Diamond
Drill early In the week that II looked
at that time as II his company woull
take $4,000 worth.
Organized On Tuesday.
The FIRST attempt to complete an or
ganization was made on Tuesday
, evening when Co. Commissioner Ma
son. who had been charged with the
work OF organizing on this side Of
the county, called meeting in the
city hall a large number attended
and II was decided to appoint COM
mittees to do the canyassing and also
TO arrange for talks.
The committees appointed were
First ward, J. S. Jacka, Tom Penglase,
August Piecta Second ward, John
Mason, Knud Nelson. Third ward, NJ
b. McGee. Prof. Hill Township, Thos
Conlin. r. p. Ring and Otto Brown
Mastodon. M. E, Richards. w. j. Per
| kins and DR.. Up. Edwards. Amasa,
Capt. Charles Hughes, Chris Rowe
and William Burge, The committees
got to work at once and good results
followed.
Supt w. j. Richards bad organized
the several mines OF the Corrigan-
Mckinney Co. and reported that about
$4,000 were subscribed for At the
Dunn. an equal amount ct the Tobin.
$4,000 At the odeers and $4,000 at the
Great Western.
Al the Carpenter mine Irvan Rims
and Capt. Greer acting az a local com
mittee had speeches made 10 the men
IN the dry and in the underground
eating room on Thursday by Thomas
conlin and again In the evening the
night shift was addressed by Hon NJ
IA. Moriarty.
The Hollister Mining CO.. subscrib-
ed for $4,000 worth OF bonds over the
amount subscribed by It's employees.
In addition shtWompany informed the
men that they would buy outright all
the honds subscribed for and the
men could pay for them BY having the
monthly payments deducted from
their pay al tlc Office and if any OF
them wished to quit the employ o.
] the company their money would be
lefunded them and the company
would keep the bonds
Women Worked Faithfully.
Mrs. Thomas Conlin was appointel
10 organize the women Of the com
munity and several meetings were
held at which solicitors were appoint
ed and the city and township appoS-
toned out to different ones.
The results secured by the women
exceeded all expectation and II II
thought that fully $4,000 worth OF
bonds Will be placed through their
effort
q. A list OF the workers with the re-
,nlts OF their canvass will be pub
6psed next week
Speeches nj the Movies. Z
The work Of explaining to the
movlng picture audiences the advan-
taee OF the bonds was assigned TO Jas
y. corcoran and he faithfully perform
ed his duty IN that line by talking =;
the Gem and the Uno on Wednesday
and Thursday evenings.
The bonds were subscribed Cor
through the Iron County and the Al
Ma National banks on this side OF the
, /nnty and through the several banks
ht Iron River and stamhaugh on tbs
Iron River side