Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-05-31
Judging From Enthusiasm
Shown at Banquet and
Mass Meeting, >Stutsman
County's Share Of Liberty
Loan Bond Will Be Over
Subscribed.

0OOO~1 AO~0s
Former Governor Hanna struck
the keynote of the big patriotic
mass meeting held at Company H
Armory Friday night when he told
of the man who said, Don't think
that you have died for your country
because you have bought Liberty
Loan bond" All of the speakers de-
clared that instead of being a sacri-
fee to assist the government by pur-
chasing these bonds it was great
opportunity, the greatest opportunity
of showing ones love for his coun-
try that any one had had since the
Civil war.
Representatives of every town in
Stutsman County were present at
both the banquet and the mass meet
ing and those who will take up the
matter of the sale of bonds in the
various parts of the county held a
conference with the city committee
at the close of the meeting. Instead
of raising 100000 in the county as
was first planned several of the COM
mittee expressed the belief that the
county would subscribe at least
$4,000.
Banquet Well Attended.
The banquet given in honor of
Former Governor Hanna by the Ia
dies of the Methodist church in the
church parlors at s o'clock. was very
well over a. hundred and
fifty Of the representative business
men of the city and county being
present. The talks by A. b. Default,
Mr.. Hanna and Judge Knauf were
enthusiastically received and by a
standing vote every man present
pledged himself to do all in his power
to stand firmly back Of the govern
ment in the present struggle and to
do his best to distribute the Liberty
bonds to every part of the county.
A. B. Default in introducing Mr..
Hanna, said that it was very graft
flying to him and to the committee
of men who had planned the ban
quet and mass meeting to see SO
many present, especially those
from other towns of the county. He
said that he did not expect that any
great revelations would be made by
the speakers of the evening but
that everyone would realize more
clearly after the meeting just what
his duty in the present crisis was
and would be determined to do that
duty faithfully.
Former Governor Hanna said that
the other meetings In the state had
been very encouraging, that he had
travelled from Grand Forks to Minot
and all thru the. southwestern part
of the state. but that the Jamestown
meeting was the largest and most
representative that he had yet at
tended. The committee went into
the southwestern part of the state to
present the matter of the Liberty
Loan with fear and trembling. as
many people of that part of the state
are Of German descent but that they
had come back very optimistic.
When the bonds were placed on
the market Secretary McAdoo wired
the banks that he wished to have the
bonds go, not to the banks, but to
the people and that he would expect
the banks to see that they were scat
tered out all over the country. The
Ninth Federal Reserve District, OF
which Mr.. Hanna is one of the mem
hers of the board Of directors, takes
In both Dakotas, Montana, Mime
sofa and part of the states OF Wis
consin and Michigan. AS soon as
the word was received from Mr.. NC
Adoo, the chairmen of the various
counties in the state held meeting
in Fargo and altho many OF the men
we're German born or of German de-
scent not one of them refused to
take up the work of securing the
subscriptions to the bonds.
In speaking of the part played by
those OF German descent Mr.. Hanna
declared that the largest single SUD
scription which he had received Was
from German who sent $l4,VOv:
The words OF the German as he paid
the a, money will never be forgotten by
Mr. Hanna, for he said. by golly, It
8 The speaker explained the two
classes Of bonds being issued, the
type and the coupon
bonds. The coupon bonds are made
ont payable to the bearer and have
tia Interest coupons attached SO that
the holder can simply cut the cou-' |
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