The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-20
People Rise to the Occasion of Raising Money
for the Soldiers Fighting for Us and De-
mocracy in the Trenches of France
and Belgium.
FEW SLACKERS ARE FOUND IN kEOkUk
Five Thousand Keouk People Called to the Colors Tomor
row and Expected to Respond Readily in the Biggest
Campaign Ever Waged in the Country for
Philanthropy and Native Land

S1,oOo-WiIiiam Logan; S. F. Baker
& Company; keIIoss-5iree Company;
is. HamIl Company; MISSISSIPPI
River Power Company; lrwin-Phtl-
lips Company; Huiskamp Brothers
Company; total, $1,000.
S75o-Buck- Reiner Company; Total
$3.50.
5oo-keokuk National Bank; State
4 Central Savings Bank; A. E. John
stone; Blom-coIIier Company; Nc
FarIand Paper Company: c. D.
streeter; keokuk EIec.5n-Metals
Company; A. Weber Company; keo-
kuk Savings Bank; Hubinser Bros.
Company; Total, $1,000.
S4oo-iowa State ms 'rance Com
pany: River Smelling and Refining
Company; Total, $500.
$2Oo-Mrs. Emma G. Summers;
Mrs. David J. Ayres; Total, $500.
S1oo-Bode-Larson Shoe Company;
c. w. Kellogg, N. T. Wilcox; q. Z.
Weisenberger; kohImyer g. Talbot;
\ cameron, Joyce & Company; keo-
kuk Quarry and Construction Com
pany: Independent Lumber Com
pany: keokuk Canning Company;
Keokuk Electric Company; F. w.
swan Lumber Company; keokuk
Lumber Company; r. w. Davis; Win
Ger Brothers; 3. P. Taber; B. c.
Taber: Sullivan G. Auwerda; M.
Younker Company; Montgomery
Meias; William Andrus; Hollings-
worth g. Blood; Schouten's Bakery;
Security State Bank; J. 3. We'll;
Total, s2,4oo.
total at noon, $22,2e2.
The above comprises only a part
of the subscriptions to the Red
4 cross war fund which are between
800 and $1,000 in amount. There
are others to come in eacn OF the
above paragraphs.
The multitude of subscriptions. OF
course, are below $500, and these
total large sum. The exact hgures
at the time of going to press are not
obtainable, especially as sollciting Is
still going on and indeed IS only
fairly begun. All that has oeen
done TO date is to canvass the busl-
ness district, and even that mas nv
been entirely completed.
yI1h;1a the allotment to Keokuk
,,,,s only $4,000, nearly every city
IN America is oversubscribing, ana
Kaoknx,s contributions ought to go TO
cog nOo before the end of the cam
paign. at. ao+e
4; IN command of the forces mere,
md he has not yet begun to soilcll
the masses of Keokuk citizenship
General Response is Gratifying.
"Giye to the limit
Glow can you refusef
slogans like these from the posters
mt out by Joseph L.. Brady, chall-
man of that department, were aoo,lt
ed by most Keokuk people seen oy
fine corps of solicitors yesterday ait
ernoon and TO-DAY. , ,,,,o
s,bscribed dimes where they ought
10 subscribe dollars, but the mass Oh
KeolS,k citizenship rose to realiZa-
lion Of the cost of caring for the
sick and wounded soldiers to be sent
coon to fight in the trenches Whlie
the rest of us stay at home.
The very large subscriptions from
the wealthiest men nearteneu tne
solicitors in the very beginning Oh
The canvass. BY the system OF tax
mo prescriptions from corporations
md firms certain individuals, heavy
stockholders in several corporations,
are a considerable part of severa!
large subscriptions, the Individual
total of such a man mounting high.
AS the Public Views it.
F.specially gratifying to the manas
ers of the campaign are the subscrip
tions of one of more hundred dollars
from persons and firms who give
enough to make a real Impression or
their bank balance.
There are a number OF these al
ready seen who gave the solicitors 6
cordial reception and a ready sub
scription in three figures. They are
marked men. as patriots and friends
of the wounded soldier, and they viii
be surprised how their standlng II
Keokuk Is elevated by what they die
without any thought of selfish bene
fit
Those who lived in the dozen year
after the civil war remember how {
mans attitude and work during tina
five wears of conflict stuck to hin
for the rest of his life, be it good Oh
bad. They did not have the wore
Stacker then, but the idea was there
and it stuck for many years after tina
war. Doubtless, in five or ten year!
from now the people will be talkins
in the same way for or against the
men who rose to the occasion in thi:
present war, or who lodged theil
part in it by neither fighting no.
furnishing money for it. But mos
are giving more than they can wei
spare.
Many Posters and Placards Appear
The town bloomed out in posters
and placards yesterday afternoon, thu