Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-08
PERSONAL PLEDGES
AGGREGATE $34 ,O50
FIRST DAYS WORK.


The results of the first day of the
big county drive for the Liberty Bond
shows 149 subscribers with pledges of
$34,050 This does not include the
subscriptions made by the local banks
Of 10 per cent of their surplus and cap
ital amounting to $4,000. The total
for the initial days work by the army
Of solicitors is $19t,050.
3i6s,450 ACTUALLY BOUGHT.
The amount of Liberty Bonds actu-
ally subscribed for and reported by
the banks for the first days drive, in
cluding their own subscriptions, Is
3169,45O. This leaves $21,6 900 Of the
pledges that have not yet been pre-
scented at the banks. The committee
is working fast and will probably be
far ahead OF the banks in the amount
reported from day to day aas the
JlssdEEg are taken on the drive and the
person making the pledge has his own
time to appear at the bank and pay for
the bond subscribed.
WANT LIST OF ALL BONDS.
The committee desires all individu-
ais and firms that have subscribed be-
bore the canvass was started to report
the amount Of their subscriptions and
number of subscribers to the head
quarters in order to have 1t included
with the total amount of the Liberty
Bonds disposed Of in Wap9llo county.
T are number of the large cor
pof, MS and individuals as well, who
have 'eady subscribed or who have
plans handling the bonds distrib-
uted among their employees. The COM
mittee desires that all of the Liberty
Bonds subscribed in the county be list
ed In the campaign being waged by the
Commercial club.
The workers are as zealously seek
ing subscribers today as they were
yesterday ard the pledges they receive
are being turned into the headquar-
ters at the Commercial club where
Chairman r. w. Simmons and Secre.
tary NJ L. Toulme are receiving them
and making a record of each name and
amount.
REPORTS MADE DAILY.
The banks are giving the names and
the aggregate amounts for each day
to the executive committee and they
likewise send in list of bona fide sub
scribers daily to the federal reserve
bank at Chicago.
The lists to be published daily are
the pledges and the actual subscrib.
ers. This is done TO avoid duplication
Those who pledge themselves to take
a bond sign blank pledge supplied by
the army of solicitors. The actual sub
scribers' names and the amount they
purchase Of the bonds are turned in by
the banks.
GET RESULTS QUICK.
Workers about the city yesterday
net with ready response. One group
OF retailers composed of R. Z. Stevens,
Charles Hagberg. Charles Redman and
Abe Barmash, got subscriptions to the
amount of 81 500 in one hour on Main
street.
TYPOS SUBSCRIBE.
Marsden G. Scott. president of the
International Typographical union. has
written the Ottumwa local No 73 an
nouncing that the union will subscribe
for $4,000 worth of the Liberty
Bonds. The local union has not taken
the project up but will do so at the
next meeting. The letters of President
Scott to the locals instructs them to
notify the international office if they
nave SuUSSIiOcu III OluSi W HdNc luclF
subscriptions included in the official
organ of the union.
CALL TRAVELLING MEN.
A special meeting Of all travelling
men, living In Ottumwa or having
their headquarters here. will take
place at 1880 p. m. Saturday in the
Commercial club to take up the Liber
" Bond proposition now being push
ed in this county.
Chairman F. W. Simmons of the Lii |
berty Bond committee has called this
and each of the 400 men who
travel out of Ottumwa is urgently re-
Yuested to attend.
Plans will be outlined and discuss
ed for active cooperation on the part
OF the travellers TO put Wapello coun-
~ on the first line of eficieny on
Liberty Bonds.