Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-24

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Troop 20 of the Boy Scouts has come tor-
ward as a formidable competitor for the
Presidents banner offered to the Scout OBJ
tanning the largest total of subscriptions 10
the Liberty Loan. Young Turner mas 10 MS
credit the handsome total of S66,9OO TO da'e'
$50 600 of which was secured In one SUD-
scription from John c, Martin business
manager of the Public Ledger Company
The Continental Equitable Title ana
Trust Company today increased its sub
ncription by S252 900, making it's total up
70 this time S5O2.O00
The subcommittee of the WOman's Lib
erty Loan Committee, headed by MrS d. r
schanberg, has turned in subscriptions up
10 date amounting to S35O,OOO. The women
are working in teams in obtaining suhScrip-
tions, some of the more prominent workers
being Mrs Ellis Gimbel. Mrs. Samuel ID.
Lit. Mrs. Milton. Herold, Mrs. Lewis Wolf
Mrs Harry Lowenburg, Mrs. Joseph was
serman and Mrs. David Kirschbaum. MRS.
Joseph ~ Snellenburg is director OF TINS
committee.
The University of Pennsylvania Liberty
Loan campaign to date resulted In subscrp-
tions Of $4,000 from faculty and students.
The Curtin School in Mount Airy has sub
scribed to date $50, 400, exceeding its quota
by $1,000 The Kuglers Restaurant Com
pany has subscribed $4,000, and the en-
poyes of that company have bought BONDS
to an additional $4,000.
The inmates of the Pennsylvania Work
ing House for the Blind. at Thirty-second
street and lancaster avenue have SUB
scribed $4,000 for bonds, while the Phladel-
pha Swimming Club has turned in total
Of $500. The Mount Airy Building ana
Loan Association has subscribed $4,000
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Hope Presbyterian Church, at Thirty-third
and Wharton streets, and president of the
Thirty-siXth Ward Improvement Assocla-
tiOn, has not only turned in subscriptions
from every member of his family and his
two servants. but has induced the assocla-
tion of which he is the head to invest us
funds In Liberty Bonds.
Among other sub Criptions received Today
were 100000 from the General Asphalt
Company subscribed through it's banks in
Philadelphia $50 900 from the Public Led
ger Company and $4,000 from the workers
OF H. o. Wilbur & Sons, manufacturers.
Through a twenty-minute delay, of an
Overbrook train this morning, $4,000 was
subscribed to the Liberty Loan.
Liberty Day was celebrated by the Rotary
Club at their luncheon today at the Hotel
Adelphia. The speakers. Ellis Ames Bal
ard, Charles Biddle and Frank MulhOlland
spoke on patriotic subjects 1t was an
NDuhNSu lldl lHe ozO members Hdu COHlIlD-
uted $4,000 to the Second Liberty Loan.
A $4,000, 600 PURCHASE
L !, du Pont de Nemours & Co, of Will
hlngton, Del. announced an additional sub
Scripton of s45,OOO,OO to the second Liberty
Loan, making the explosives nanufact''r' 20"
eompany's total subscription a round
soo.OOO'OOO, the biggest individual c.. 49,
Suuon In the country The subscription
boosted yesterdays total I'm the Third (Phil-
fgfr lot n
OF more than the days allotment
Not content with the soliciting of nearly
100000 worth Of Liberty Bonds from their
parents and friends in conjunction with
other students at the Central High School,
twenty-five boys in the classical section of
lhe 1919 class dug down into their own
pockets today and with their spending
money purchased $50 bond.
Iheir object was purely one of patriotism
ana followed talk by Prof. Arthur w.
howes, who teaches the boys Latin and
Sreek The inspiration has been taken up
py other classes, and movements are now
their lead
:, The boys felt that they wanted to dc
.neir Bit" Professor Howes said today
addition to giving something to the
ssehool In appreciation of what II has done
.or them. They could not give the bond
uhe Board of Education, so they gave
~ 10 the Associated Alumni OF the schoo
memorial of the class. The Alumni
association is fostering, athletics, aud In
nus way the money Will be returned tc
Tie school,"
herman H. Stein was chairman of thG
s9nimittee appointed by the class that en-
s.'neered the enterprise, The idea mas beer
+sNen up by the presidents OF several oi
le other sections and Il Is expected tina
@tse sections viii also purchase bonds.
4,t4 Gypsle O'5rien, 3 British subject
ne Cheating Cbeaters company now