Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-08
Liberty Bond
Drive Notes

The largest purchase of Liberty bonds
by IA commercial company in Omaha was
that OF the Ford Motor Car COM
pany which took s1S5,OOO worth c. L.
Gould manager of the Omaha branch,
received telegram from F.. l., Klingen-
smith, vice president and treasurer of the
Ford company authorizing him to sign up
with the Omaha committee for this amount
Of Fourth Liberty loan bonds. 1.-THE cash
will be In the bank to pay for them on
or before October a." says the telegram.
Two larger subscriptions than this were
reported In Omaha but both from insur-
ance companies, the Bankers Reserve
Life and the Woodmen Of the World.
Today will be railroad day IN the
building of the tower. A parade will
start at Union Pacific headquarters, pro-
coed east on Dodge street to Tenth south
TO Farnam where Burlington and other
railroad people will fall in and proceed
thence west TO the court house square for
the ceremonies and building up Of the
tower structure.
On Wednesday the tower will be in
charge Of the Omaha retailers. who will
have a parade and ceremonies.
Thursday there will be no parade but
Floyd Gibbons. the war correspondent
will make an address at the tower proceed
ing the building for that day.
Union Pacific subscriptions to the fourth
Liberty loan, up to Sunday night aggre-
gated sl,491,1O0.
With the Burlington, while the Fourth
Liberty loan drive was not really inaugu-
cd 10 las
Saturday night, 50,107 of the officials and
employees had taken s2.493,O50 of the
bonds. or this sum, the men and women
Of the Omaha division had subscribed for
s24615O, giving them fourth place in the
% divisions of the system.
Up to Saturday night the Omaha divi-
sion Of the Burlington was $4,000 ahead
of the total subscription on the third loan.
One Of the largest subscribers to the
fourth loan was H. c. Moore, company
agent at Memphis, Neb., town of 1862
population in Saunders county. Saturday.
Mr.. Moore visited the Omaha headquar-
tiers and while there wrote check for
$4,000, saying theat he felt that he could
help win the war by loaning to Uncle
Sam that amount of money.
Mrs. George L. Brandeis, captain of
Fairacres, reported 100 per cent for her
district, every woman having bought
bonds. Up to noon she had sold $1,000
worth Of bonds. $500 Of this was taken
by the ]. /. Brandeis Co. $1,000 from Mr..
and Mrs. Edward NJ. Martin and the rest
in smaller amounts.
Mrs. W. J. Hynes turned over to her block
lieutenant, Mrs. Lawrence Brnker. a sub
scription of $4,000 from w. j. Hynes,
president of the Hynes elevator COM
pany.
Edward Updike gave his personal sub
scription of $4,000 to the Woman's COM
mittee, Mrs Charles Rosewatsr. major of
the Ninth ward.
T. G. Byrne, state chairman. bought the
first bond from the womans committee,
personally calling at headquarters with
his check for $1,000. This goes to the
credit of Mrs. James Paxton.
c.. z. Yost, president Of the Nebraska
Telephone company, and grandfather of
1t. Jarvis Offutt. who was recently killed
in France, also honored the woman's
headquarters with personal call and left
his subscription for 10000 worth of
bonds.
Theatrical talent which is temporar-
lily idle in Omaha due to the FLU" order,
made good use of spare time IN big meet
ings last night at and 1880 o'clock on
several downtown corners where entertain
ments were given and several thousand
dollars worth Of subscriptions signed up.
A camouflaged cannon at the Brandeis
storeS Sixteenth and Douglas streets, shoots
out Buy a Bond messages.
At Fifteenth and Farnam streets an
outpost is built in imitation Of a dug
out
Polk and Hayes counties, Nebraska, are
reported to be the first counties in the
state to go over the top in this drive.
Traffic officers on the downtown corners
ere equipped with Buy a Bond signs
with which to regulate the flow of traf-
fic.