Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-15
coUNTY's WAR FOOD QUOTA OF
$3.50 BOOSTED By BOYS TO
TOTAL OF 5000.
DISTRICTS SHARE OF
$500 TWICE SUBSCRIBED
Boys Of City High School Subscribe
$1,54o More Than Apportionment For
the Entire County-Boys Of Other
Counties Do Even Better, Some
Schools Subscribing 100 Per Cent.

Satisfying as is the progress of the
Y. M. C. A. army fund campaign, 1t has
been outdistanced by the campaign
among high school boys Of this and SIX
nearby counties Of the district to raise
money for food packets for Allied
prisoners In German camps. With an
apportionment Of $500 for the dig
trict, boys of the high schools have
already subscribed $3.50 more than
100 per cent reconsideration, and the
work is not yet finished. Boys Sec
rotary E. E. Micklewright personally
has been conducting the campaign.
Iowa Falls, Ackley and Alden high
schools are to be visited Friday by MT.
Mickelwright, and this will mark the
close of the campaign. 1t is expected
that the total will be increased to about
$4,000 for which the district will get
credit against it's maximum apportion-
ment for the army fund campaign.
City High School Leads.
How successful this campaign has
been may be judged by the early re-
suits reported turnout the state. OF six
Of them were Webster City, Conrad,
Sheffield, Grundy Center, and Hamp-
ton, all in the twlfth district, Of which
Mr. Mickewright has charge.
In this county a total Of $1,000 was
subscribed by high school boys, and
the boys Of the city high school Wed
nesday subscribed $3.50 Of that
amount.
The figures give some idea Of the
almost unanimous way in which this
campaign to give 81 a month for ten
months to buy food packets has been
received.
Some High Records.
One hundred fifty -four boys in the
high school, out of 223 in grades above
the eighth signed subscription blanks
following the talk explaining the
movement. The record for other schools
of the county is Albion, 26 boys; Gil
man, %: Melbourne, 10; Ferguson, g:
LeGrand, 21; vancleve, 8; State Center,
SO, making a total Of 306 who have en-
listed in the movement.
Records in other counties Of the dis
trict are:
Franklin, 10 boys, s1,1oo: South
Hardin county. not including towns to
be visited Friday, As boys, $3.50;
Grundy county, IS boys, $3.50: Butler
county, 1870 boys. 1900: Wright county,
SO boys, $3.50; Hamilton county, Web
ster City, 100 boys, $1,000.
Percentages Are High.
AS compared with the total number
the number enlisting in the campaign
and subscribing was very high indeed
in some schools. At Hampton eighty
one boys out Of ninety in the high
school subscribed and at Sheffield,
sixteen out Of twenty-five gave. Other
schools in the county added thirteen
more.
The Eldora high school ranks 100
per cent perfect. Every boy Of the
forty-six subscribed.
Grundy Center high school boys did
nearly as well. Out Of forty-f five. there
were forty-four who subscribed, and
the Conrad school ranked 100 per cent
perfect with twenty-one subscriptions
from twenty-one boys enrolled In
school.
At Allison, seventeen boys out of
twenty-one gave and at Greene twenty
three out Of twenty-seven. At Clarks-
vile, twenty-six out of thirty gave and
boys In other high schools Of the