The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-21
The Masses Of Her Citizenship Follow the Lead
&c Her Merchants and Manufacturers and
Subscribe Literally to Red Cross.
WOMEN ENTER THE CAMPAIGN NEXT
Mass Meeting Tonight with oratory Music and War Movies
Ends Another Day Of Splendid Success in the Raising
Of Money for the American Soldier Boys Going
into the Trenches.
The total at 2 o'clock this
,fternoan was S22.921.

Inc LOtdl db n " VAoSh vAAAo
afternoon was 500, 921.
The clerks at Red Cross headquar-
tiers are SO busy today receiving sub
scriptions that they have not time to
make totals in the middle of the aft
ernoon in any detail.
In other columns of this page are
statistics that show how well Keokuk
Is rising to the occasion.
The objective is now $4,000 from
Keolsl,k and southern Lee county, and
4 seems plain that over $4,000 will
he subscribed, especially as the
country precincts and towns are yet
to be heard from.
The cards filed today from store,
office and factory employees are from
one dollar to twenty-five dollars each.
One young professional man whose
hard work this week has been invalu-
able TO the campaign, subscribed in adj
dition the $50 Liberty bond he bought
ten days ago out Of his savings. Lib
erty bonds are taken as cash at par.
The only country places reporting
! we're Argyle and .Vincennes, and
these simply sent in some small sub
scriptions made first in their cam
paigns. The well-to-do farmers ex-
pected to give from 500 down to S25
but have not yet had their names sent
In to headquarters.
Campaign Is Now Well Under Way.
The employees Of the Offices, the
stores and the factories of Keokuk
we're asked to do their bit for the Red
Cross war fund today-and they re-
sponded quite as generously as their
employers although the figures are not
so large in themselves. but quite as
large in proportion and in some cases
larger in all equity.
Tonight is the big mass meeting at
the Grand theatre with motion pic
lures actually made in the war zone in
Europe, fine address by Edward w.
McManus, who has been stirring up
the countryside with his earnest elo-
quence, and good music by Kindig's
band The receipts from the dime ad-
mission fee all go to the Red Cross
fund.
Tomorrow. the ends left loose in
the whirlwind campaign will be picked
up, people seen who were out of town,
In all classes, subscriptions received
at Red Cross headquarters, Eighth and
Main streets, and at any store or bank
in town.
Monday is Woman's day. Nearly a
hundred women will canvass the resi-
dence districts for Red Cross subscrip-
lions. They will literally visit every
nome in keokuk in a thorough cam
palgn under Mrs w. N. Sage, chair
man Of the woman's auxiliary of the
Keokuk chapter of the Red Cross.
More Of Them and as Generous.
Inc artillery which has been boom
ing In large figures, the first Of the
week, in the Red Cross war fund cam
palgn in keokuk, became barage
nre today extending its curtain of in
lluence to every machine in every fac.
Tory, to every counter of every store
and every desk in every office.
Inc proprietors having been award
"a the little Red Cross Of honor for
lsntlng their part of this war in which
america is engaged with finance, to-
uay the employees were badged with
me same red cross of equal honor for
uolng their proportionate share for
their country.
chairman J. Albert Kiedaisch "a now
N command, and he at once made his
leadquarters in the saddle, like Sheri.
aan, except that this twentieth century
ssdaie is upholstered and it's pommel
4 wooden wheel on top Of slanting
steel post. :
"A Constant Stream Of Money.
ne covered the town pretty thor.
SSagniy, made speeches and personal
neart to heart talks, guided his assist
aus got subscriptions where they
sould and memberships where moth
,as more could be afforded. Beginning
,ss. evening a constant stream OF sub
c1.aiptlon cards FLOWED into the Red
T NJ, Headquarters in the Keokuk
s nvc.ric offices. and Auditor J. Fl. Bis.
ss and his clerks were kept busy
y Sln The many figures they had to
iaA, The amounts were not so
, but the number of items was
.auch larger, and the total was quite
~ generous as the large figures filed
:. y lne captains of industry and mer-
ohdndlsing Of Keokuk