Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-01
MERCHANTS
4! ND STAMP CAMPAIGN
Subscriptions Yesterday Swamp
Workers, and Reports Arc
49, ...,. UntabuIatcd.
J MEMBERSHIP NOW 500
Many Persons Buy $1,000 Worth Of
ssertiffcates -,Midgcts Entertain
3Crowds on Streets and Stimulate
SA1eS Mt Various Booths.

in Richmonds war saw
taEsi stamp campaign sursed into head
+ Quarters so rapidly yesterday that ii
4 was impossible to tabulatc actual fig
urSsTon the results. although it is be-
eliayedfthat the goal OF s25c 600 fixed
I fers.Merchants' Day as yesterday was
9gsIEnated, was reached.
ssComplete reports on the subscriptions
frStns the merchants are not expected
6kforc early next week. There was
some. misunderstandin among the
mSfGhants who were under the inn
pression that they would be solicited
4 forS their subscriptions. Telephone
Salls coming into headquarters late
Yesterday. afternoon indicated that
hStmerchan,s were anxious to
subscribe. but had not been called
,Tardotheir Subscriptions TO headauar
beNeptered through tho various booths.
MANY $1,000 SUBSCRIPTIONS
REPORTED YESTERDAY
Figures compiled yesterday showed
ard Dollar club" while reports still
Outstanding will bring the membership
abppHe4s 500. 1t is the aim Of the or
4 SSniSation ITO enroll at least 1000 per-
4 sons In. the club before the campaign
Sf6SeS at the end OF next week. 1t
MsSs pointed out by workers yesterday
$tesRichmond Is to attain it's quota in
s the drive, and efforts arc being made
5 toNRrouso and stimulate further in
t6f&SGS not only among those who can
= ssfbScf16c, to the limit, but among the
0 safsller purchasers.
SSwohien'S committee, yesterday request
81 ed..that all subscriptions be turned into
s heRdquafters on saturday by women
9sSs5S nhsse snbTerlptens INCLUDE
< H&Sestthat these be tabulatcu so that
thestotal pledged can be added to the
eoniinittee a better Conception OF the
resnlts .of tho drive to date. All chair
men are urged to acccdc to this re-
I quest as the committee is greatly han
dtsanpfd by the lack of the desired
Information.
i 5IHTarSsavings stamp workers will be
Il acsiwc throughout the entire State be-
4 a1fnins.ne1t Tuesday when they will
circulate about the various voting
places, state Director McAdams viii
iiitfse Composed Of Eugene r. Jones'
! ns$iS-appointed executive secretary:
James G. Martin, Virginia agent OF the
American Book Company, publicity di-
reetorS@Attorncy Jesse G. Duke, l.. Roy
dudley, Jr., assistant manager OF the
Smithdeal Business College; Il. *. Nc
Laury, Of the Mutual Benefit Life In
surance Company, and Frank T. Cruinp,
manufacturers agent.
MIDGET TRIO PERFORMS
IN BEHALF OF CAMPAIGN
MANY interesting events were staged
asa, purt Of the campaign yesterday
tile principal entertainment being pro-
NtLtu by the Royal LilliputiaNs, under
tnel direction of Manager !. ). Rose
My drought the troupe. Of midgets
hSi.r ola Rocky Mount. y. G. The act
Is SEQ. .,used OF PAM, a Japanese. thir-
i tY-s,S. years old. and ,hirty-six inches
talls Colonel Small, twcntyseven years
NSlophone player, and Miss Tiny. ciGh.
teen years old, and forty-SN inches
taIgs performances in behalf OF the
intpalgn were given by the vaude-
Williams at various downtown points and
scores OF stamp sales resulted.
Tho biggest event OF the week will
W the ,concer, 10 be held at the lief.
AFFAIR will be in charge OF Norman
johnson and William T, pabney. Tn,
celebrated Jazz band from the avia
music. 4 special musical program viii
besriurnisned by an orchestra u,ndci
tho leadership OF Claude Elan. Mar
Gus kellerman will lead in singing
beraof classic selections. A well-knowr
soprano. whose name is kept sccrct
ioy the time. Will surprise those pres
ttsls Church quartet will be on hand I,
assist in the enlertainment OF the
aE.selub enrolled at, headauarters yes yes
terday. and exclusive OF those whose
subscriptions were entered at the
booths, are as follows:
ChaiSes ). Billups DR.. George Gay
AVN NJ Smith, l. W. Carneal Ralph
P.Seale. II. IL Noltc. L. V. Leighton
~ Fs.. ponna H. E. s,rudT Il Alfred
2 Henry Harwood. Mrs. Mary II. Rosen
field, Fred Guggenheimcr. Mrs. Bertha
Binswanger. ]. Fl. Fill. Thomas B. Nc.
Richardson. Stanhope Boiling. Robert
9. Bayiiss. James j. Hickey, S. Galeski
Maurice Straus and Leon Baer
sF1rps memb ers enrolled were: Schaat
REpsu Southern Stove Works Buchanan
Spring,sCo., Richardson's Drug Store
Richmond Dairy Co. Bloomberg Michae
Furniture Co, Sabine Collins Corp.
Smith Courtney Co. and Life Insurance
Company Of Virginia.