Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-10-26
County Canvass For Liber.
ty Loan Totals 1916, 400:
1,216 Persons Buy; Rail
roads Turn In 274 Names
For $2O,45O.
CITY AND COUNTRY
GET BIG RESULTS
$50 in the county.


The city raised $4,000.
.o1 ne n, rural districts netsed
Nearly as many pledges were r.
ported yesterday az were .ec,,r.L (,
In the entire first Liberty Ioan
campaign in the city. Yesterdav,.
drive included COS subscriber.
ne first loan drive hsd SIS
pIedgers.
The pledges thus far received
total 1924 for the twelve days,
drive in the city.
The railroad COMMITTEES tmrr.d
" 2I4 names yesterday and S2D..
100 and for the entire drive IA.
supplied 644 subscribers and s4o-
Four more 5000 sub,cnnt;o.,.
have been added to the t,ventw.
three already obtained. r1aLi.c
t"enty-seven In all. Two ct these
made the second pledge for 5000
bonds.
A Subscription for $4,000 from
the Ottumwa Railway and Ioht
Go. was received yesterday.
ottumwa and Wapello county vent
oqeE ne top strong YESTERDAY III Sffs
drive for Liberty Bonds and the xoal
or $20O.000 for the day was exceeded
by $3.50. The total now falls short Of
The million dollar mark by So, 500 and
as some OF the rural precincts were
not heard from this morning owing to
he mmitteemen being at work on
he drive for bonds today, the million
figure is believed by the executive
committee to- have been passed In the
county.
The city and rural committees
worked nip and tuck during the day
Ind at its close were separated in
otals by s19,65o.
The difference shown in the results
If the various chairmen is not an indi-
:ation Of the work these committees
ire doing. The character of the dis
net must be considered, for some of
he committees have territories that
will produce more and
arger subscriptions than others where
ever people reside.
GOOD RESULTS IN COUNTRY.
Country meetings were held last
light at Union chapel. where Senator
Nhitmore. G. s. Harper and Chairman
!. F. Spry spoke and more than $1,000
vas raised. At Miller chapel good
Meeting was held and nearly $1,000
aised J. ]. Smith, Harry Evans and
). G. Merrill spoke. At Zion church
;. D. Evans, w. w. Epps and Frank
sharp spoke.
The following persons have sub
cribed for $4,000 bonds, making the
otal twenty-seven when only twenty
i've were expected:
Miss Margaret Mahon, w, r. Daum.
T. l.. Wilson and ]. H. Morreu: The
after two have taken their second
at this figure.
RESULTS IN CITY.
The results Of the various city com
nittees is shown in the following Ia
lie:
No. &c. w. Whitmore. chair
man, $4,000.
No. 20. D. Tisdale. chairman,
$12,500.
No. 3--M. C. Gilmore, chairnua.
s29.650.
No. &C. L. Graham. chairman,
$4,000.
No. 5--v. L. Wilson, chc;rsnan.
$40. 300.
No. &C. L. Garner. chaizmsn.
$57,SO0.
No. HI. Il pcliori. chairman.
ss,35O.
No. 81. X. Dysart. chairman.
$1,000.
No. Cd A. Emery, chairman.
s5,250.
No. 10-Charles Hallberg. chair.
man, $4,000.
No. LIP. C. Ferguson, chair.
man. s13,s0o.
No. 12.13-T. f. Gibhors and
W. II. Mynard, chai;man, $2.e50
No. 14-C. E. Mcdaniel. chair.
man. s21.S50.
No. l5-W. T. Hall, chairman.
s29,55O.
No. IL Women's committee.
Mrs. J. G. Hutchison, chairman.
s2l.3oo.
No. 1s-J.sP. Cummings, chair
man, s4s.S50.
No. 19-J. H. Morrell. chairman.
si23.35O
No. 20--D. R. Waterman. chair
man. s7.10o.
Miscellaneous-$45 500.
RURAL DISTRICTS.
The standing of the committees in
,e rural districts Sevep pf which bava