The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-19
STATE TOTAL IN.
Y" WORK DRIVE.
NEARS $125,OOO;.
CLOSES TONIGHT.
Cleanup Work to Continue
Until All Ground Is
Covered
FARGO'S SHOWING
FEATURE OF DAY
City is $2,173.7O Over Its
$ Quota, With More
IS, To Come

With S107,5OO reported for the
state. and S1O,17s7O for Fargo, North
.Dakota's drive for sl25,OOO for army
y. N. Z. A. war work Will officially
be brought 10 q close today.
Tonight Will not mark the end Of
the ertOrts. however, for Instructions
have been issued to ali district, coun-
~ and local chairmen to keep their
workers at it until every person has
been given q chance 10 subscribe,
even II il takes a week longer.
Confident that the state viii easily
hit SIZ5sOUU, the state war Work COM
mtttee mas urged that the total be
raised to $l5O.UOO. or more that North
dakota may do Its part in the move
to boost the national total from 500
100000 to $5O,0O0,UOU. thus deterring
the necessity OF second campaign
until next october or November.
k'argo's showing in oversubscrib-
ing its quota Of $4,000 by $2,l7S.7O to
noon today, with every indication
that the oversubscriptIOn would reach
$4,000 by night, was the outstanding
feature Of tOday's reports.
Incomplete reports from the thir-
teen state districts today show $lU,-
600 for the Grand Forks district,
sl0s72S for the Devils Lake district,
$4,000 for the Fargo district, So,Z23
for the Lisbon district, $lS,y0O for
the jamestown district, $l7,3lO for
the Bismarck district, $4,000 for the
LangdOn district, $1,2l5 for the
CROSBY district, $4,000 for the Rugby
district, $500 for the Dickinson ais
trict, $500 for the Willtston district,
$4,000 for the Mandan district, and
$4,000 for the New England district.
EAFfanVa -. h.
districts have not yet reported.
The Minot and Ward county drive
Is on in full force today, with pros
poets for $4,000. according to word to
headquarters this morning. Several
Ward county districts organized, and
put on their drives Saturday, and
raised their respective quotas before |
night.
Buxton Doubles Its Quota.
Buxton, Trail county, closed it's
drive at midnight Saturday night, |
and just doubled its quota. The Bux- |
ton Patriotic committee, which had |
the drive in charge, dissatisfied with |
the canvass, which materially beat |
the quota, held a fair, and sold |
chickens, turkeys. potatoes, pigs and |
farm products, which were donated /
by the farmers, and cakes, preserves
and fancy work donated by the wo-
men.
Everything sold for a good price,
and when there was nothing more to
sell, someone handed the auctioneer
q common English sparrow, which
sold for $3.50 when put on the block.
The sparrow was given its free
dom after a card bearing the in
scription War is hell for a tight
wad" was tied to it's neck.
d. Fargo's Showing PIeases.
Fargo's showing with $10,173.70 to
noon today is a source of gratifica-
ton, not only to j. p. Hardy, Fargo
director. but to the state
The money comes from 1913 per-
sons and contributions average
s9.4s.
Reports this morning were 1853
for $1,45l.25. as fol-
lows:
No. 1. w. H. Barnett, S1O1.5O.
No. 3, VIII Magill $54.25.
No. 1, F. v. Hutchinson. $50.
No. S. r. ]. Cone, SO.
( No. S, F. H. CLANCY, 1910.
No. 8. L. L. Twichell. $149.
No. 8, w. L. Stockwell, $3.50.
No. 10, q. r. Froling, $2s.25.
No. IL, A. G. Divet, $25.
No. ~, J. w. Sutherland, 81.
No Is. NJ. N. Hatcher, $40.
No il, A. H. Leimbacher, $16425.
r No. 1917, Smith Stimmel, $3.50.
No. IS, J. Leo Cline, $40.
No. 20, c. p. Nugent, SIS.
No. 81, Matt Camitsch, $505,
No. %, A. M. Cornwall, 81.
Reports to Saturday night were
los subscriptions for Ss,722.45.
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