The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-10-24
Emphatic Leadership of the
Seventh District in Liberty
Loan Sale is Made Abso-
lutte by Last Reports.
RACINE COMEDIES HONOR
Declares That the Belle City is Proud
to BE Second to Kenosha--Final
Report Made Today Shows
Total Of S3,454,1o0 Sold.

Kenosha's final report on the sale
of the Fourth Liberty Loan was made
to the officials of the Seventh Reserve
District by Chairman Charles G. Brown
today and the final figures for the sale
in Kenosha county were $3,454, 10000.
The figures place Kenosha county far
in the lead Of all counties in Wiscon-
sin and Kenosha will be entitled to
all sorts of honor flags and other things
offered as premiums for the over sub
scription Of the loan. These will in
clude a priced honor flag which will
be hung in the city hall or in the pub
lie library or at the court house. Ke-
name painted on one of the big tanks
used by the United States Army over
il France and the Hun will get q
chance to know that Kenosha was one
of the places which backed the demand
for unconditional Surrender to the
limit. Further than this Kenosha will
be entitled to one Of those captured
German guns which have been sent to
this country and it is expected that
sometime in the near future the gun
will come along from Washington and
be set up as a souvenir of victory in
Market Square or Lake Shore Park.
The victory Of Kenosha is most en-
phatic and her sister cities through
out the state are giving her full credit
for what she has done. Most interest
ing is the tribute paid to Kenosha from
Racine. The Racine Journal News in
commenting on the close Of the bond
campaign has this to say:
Racine gracefully yields the honor
position in the Fourth Liberty Bond
sale among the As counties in the
Seventh Federal Reserve district to
Kenosha county, and joins with it in
Qualification of the great results at
tanned by the workers in that coun-
ty Racine county does not, how
ever, yield to any other county in the
state and stands firmly in second po-
sition. With Kenosha county it stands
firm and adds to the creditable show
ing made in the loan drive by the
residents Of the extreme southeastern
part of the Badger state. Like Ken
osha county, it went over the top
magnifcently and wishes to receive
full credit for its accomplishment.
Racine county residents have been
misrepresented in the report sent
out from Milwaukee to the effect that
il is in the "slackern column, or was
az late as Saturday night, following
the close of the campaign. They re-
sent such an insinuation and are 60
ing to sec that Racine county is
placed before the other people of the
state in the correct light.
Racine county never was "slack-
en- county. Like Kenosha county, it
has been head and shoulders above
other counties in the state in every
tbing-in the number of boys sent to
the front, in the creation of a county
war activities frad and IN the sale of
the different issues of Liberty bonds.
To be listed as thirty-third in the list
of As counties In the Seventh Federal
Reserve district, when it should be
next to the leader, rankles in the
crops of the workers, who know what
Racine county has accomplished. It
is not in thiry-third place, but in
second place, with percentage Of
LIS, at this writing, and which in all
likelihood viii go better than that
when the complete reports are in.
Milwaukee papers this morning
gave Racine county no credit at all,
and it did not even appear in the
counties which had gone over the top.
In list issued by the loan officials
after the close of the campaign on
Sunday and circulated about the state.
it is made to appear that Racine has
only subscribed for $3,000000 in
bonds, while its quota was 1901 900.
Its percentage is given as 1929.
Those figures viii not cover the sale
of bonds made in he city alone, to
say nothing of what was accom-
plished in the county. Racine pur-
chased more than 100000 worth
of the bonds alone"