Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-12
FIRST INTEREST
ON LIBERTY BOND
To Be Paid Saturday, Dec. l5--Six
Months fnded
SUM OF s65O,OOO DUE IN STATE
No Date Yet Fixed For Bringing Out
Third Issue Of Liberty

4 erty Loan bonds TO the number OF
over 100000, scattered through all
/ parts of Maryland, will receive in
/ terest next Saturday, December 18th,
| on their bonds. On that day the
United States Government will pay. in
Maryland, sum of about $3.50, 900. be-
/ ing interest due on first Liberty bonds
for the six months ending December
18th Nearly $1,000 of these bond
buyers are residents of Baltimore
City, the remainder being residents
of the counties. All that is necessary
for those who have paid in full for
their bonds and have them in their
possession, is to present the coupon
! due on December 18th at any bank or
postoffice and ii will be cashed for the
full amount stamped on the coupon.
BY coupon is meant one of the slips
attached to the bonds; simply clip
this from the bond, being certain that
the one clipped in due December 18th
Coupons on bonds bought on the par
tial payment plan will be cashed by
banks in whose keeping the bonds are
and the amount credited to the ac-
count of the owner Many stores will
accept the coupons as cash and are
offering special Liberty Loan coupon
sales. The committee hears that
many persons intend to re-invest the
interest they will receive from the
bonds in war savings through the pur-
chase of Thrift Stamps
The coupons on the $50 three and a
half per cent bonds call for S71s
cents; on the 500 bonds, the coupons
call for $1.75, and so on, as the de-
nomination of the bond increases.
The Publicity Committee, Liberty
Loan Committee for Maryland, has
been deluged with inquiries from pur-
chasers of the SO per cent first Lib
erty Loan who wish to exchange their
bonds for the conversion per cent
bonds, relative to the date of delivery
of the conversion bonds. With a
view to obtain definite information, the
committee sent a telegram to George
]. Seay, governor of the Federal Re
serve Bank. 5th District, which in
cludes Baltimore and Maryland, and
received the following reply: I'M
possible for us to tell when the Treas
ury Department will or can supply
bonds. Our records have been pre-
pared since November 18th"
AS the committee pointed out in
previous bulletins, the delay is due
to physical reasons; the facilities of
both the Government Printing Office
and private printers being inadequate
to turn out the millions of certificates
as fast as would be liked. The delay
in the delivery of the bonds is re-
GREETED and purchasers are urged not
to become impatient.
Baltimore and Maryland made q
wonderful record in the number of
subscribers to the second Liberty
Loan. One out of every six persons in
Baltimore, and one out of every
eleven in the counties have bought
one or more bonds. The great sue
cess which marked the sale of bonds
in this State was due, in large meas
ure, to the campaign of education and
through organization which brought
home to the people their duty to stand
by their country in its crisis.
No date has been fixed as yet for
bringing out the third issue of Lib
erty Loan bonds, but there is reason
to believe that the offering will be an
nounced early in the new year. This
issue should appeal to patriotic Amer
leans, whether native born or natural
lied, even more strongly than did
those that preceded it, because Amer
lean soldiers are now in the trenches
facing the enemy and the proceeds of
the bonds, like the proceeds of the
two first issues, will be used to keep
them in foodstuffs, clothes. arms and
ammunitions