The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-04-18
Entire District Goes Over the Top by
so Per Cent More Than Quota
Minot Will be Nearly Double.

The Third Liberty Loan drive which
began in this district at 9 o'clock Mon
day morning, has been such bowling
success and it was so we'll organized
that the total amount allotted for the
district was practically raised the
first day.
M. r. Porter, chairman for the
northwestern district, comprising the
five counties of Ward, McHenry, Rem
vile, Divide and Burke, states today
that the district whose allotment was
$4,000 has to date been over SUBJ
scribed fully so per cent. Mr.. Porter
said that figures were not available
at this time.
"The idea was to get the larger
number of subscribers in this drive
rather than the volume" Mr.. Porter
said. eve had practically raised the
volume the first day, but we kept on
to interest Individual purchasers. The
drive has gone away beyond our fond
est expectations"
The city of Minot went over the top
in great shape. Chairman Robert
Graham for the city and his commit
teemen had the affair so well organ
lied that the city was pretty well
covered the first day, The committee
men experienced but little difficulty.
The Independent has received report
of but a few instances where anyone
refused to buy bonds, and in nearly
all of these instances, good excuses
were offered. One man refused to
buy because he stated that he had re-
ligious scruples against helping with
the war and that if the Germans Wis
tied his home and if he even saw them
attacking his wife with a bayonet, he
would not raise his hand in her de-
Tense, because he thot it would be the
will of the Almighty.
At the present time, $191;6OO worth
of bonds have been disposed OF IN
Minot, not counting the $4,000 worth
of bonds which have been subscribed
to by employees of the Great North
ern residing in, this ! Ms ooe city, M'not 5
quota was but $14O,OOO.
Ward county's quota was S2o0'Ooo
but this amount has already been
greatly oversubscribed. Reports
from the townships keep coming IN
but are little slow in some instances
on account of the rain and the muddy
condition of the roads.
Chairman R. f. Barron for the
county is much pleased with the work
from each township.
Walter r. Bond has received re-
ports from his district north OF Mlnot
and H. J. Halvorson, who has charge
of the district south of Minot, has al
so received glowing reports. :,
The first day Foxholm went doqole
her allotment Burlington and Des
! Laos also doubled. Surrey did the
same trick. A report for $3.50 was
received from the western half OF
Willis township this afternoon. Burt
township came in with $4450. Dan
w. King, chairman, assisted by ). Il
! Christensen, brot in $3.50 from Torn
ing township and wants to thank tn the
forming folks for responding SO I'D
Burlington and vicinity subscrib-
ed $4,000, or about $4,000 more thar
the allotment. One of the memDers
of the committee remarked: "lf we
have a crop we'll raise the quota fo1
the next loan regardless of the am
cunt" ~
In Minot, there were several SUP
scriptions for $1,000 worth OF BONDS
two for $4,000; one for 81 1000, one tor
$4,000 and the largest for $7,OOO.