The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-05-06
! DORCHESTER GOES over
THE TOP BY so PER CENT
subscriptions Reported Up to And In
Guiding Saturday Will Probably
Total Half a Million Dollars.

! While the official report made to
! Liberty Loan headquarters in Balti-
! more shows that this county has re-
/ ceived subscriptions amounting to
! about 1892, 700, the actual amount
| of such subscriptions will, it is be-
! lieved, run up to at least 100000,
! thus putting the county fifty per
| cent above its quota of $3.50, 900.
And this achievement was accom-
plished, too, without one of the eight
banks in the county subscribing for
a single dollars worth of the bonds.
When the Third Liberty Loan was
first announced there were many
persons who thought that some diff
ficulty might be experienced in rails
ing the county's quota, and when the
figures were gone over and it was
found that Dorchester was expected
to raise more money than any coun-
ty on the Eastern Shore, it's quota of
1856, 900 being $117,100 more than
that of Wicomico; $50,S00 more than
Caroline; $35, 1000 more than Talbot :,
$25,600 more than Cecil; $101,600s
more than Kent; $4,000 more than
Somerset, and S69,700 more than
Worcester, some persons deemed it.
utterly impossible of fulfillment.
However, the county chairman,
George w. Woolford, Esq, set to
work to organize every district of
the county, and each district was
apportioned according to its asses
sable basis, the assessments being:
Fork, $23,197; East New Market
$4,000; Vienna, 1000; Taylor'si
Island, $S,255; Lakes, $1,000; Hoop
er's Island, $6,604; Cambridge
$130.000; Neck, 13,2OS; Church
Creek, $12,446; Straits, $6,SS3;
Drawbridge, $6,096; Williamsburg,
1,903; Bucktown, $12,S27; Link
wood, $12,954; Hurlock, $36,332;
Madison, 5000; Salem, $10,541,
and Elliott, $1,451.
Chairmen were appointed for each
district and every chairman was re-
quested to name a corps of assistants
and get organized for work as soon
as possible. The responses were,
very prompt; in less than a week
from the opening date of the loan,
Vienna had more than secured it's
quota, subscriptions for $4,000 be-
ing received by Thursday night of
the opening week. Other districts
followed along rapidly, and by the.
time of the Big State Meeting at the
Opera House in Cambridge, the
county's quota was more than three.
fourths subscribed.
The speakers at that meeting,
those from Baltimore and elsewhere.
in the State, wondered why the peo-
pie did not respond more literally,
but to those who were identified with
the work of the campaign the reason.
was very plain; the people of Dor
chester county did not need outsid-.
ers to come here to awaken them to
their duty, they had already done.
their work, the county's quota was.
then practically all subscribed.
The most wonderful thing about.
the campaign, too, was the fact that
the loan was subscribed -sin small
amounts; the largest subscription
was $40, 1000, and there were only
two or three of these; there were
very few $4,000 subscriptions, only
two or three, but the bulk of the
bonds were sold in $50 and 500
amounts. AT this time it is impossi-
BILE to ascertain how many individu-
al subscribers there were, but it is
safe to say that the number runs
well into the thousands. Another
thing which was pleasing to the pub
lie was the fact that not a dollar was
subscribed by any of the banks of
the county. 1t was the hope of the
committee to raise the quota and
over without asking the banks to
subscribe, the reason being that it
was felt that during the next few
months the banks can render better
service by having their funds on
hand to take care of the credit re-
quirements of the many large busi-
ness interests of the county.
At the meeting yesterday, Mr..
Woolford announced that there
would be a great jollification meeting
at the Opera House Sunday, May
18th, for the purpose of celebrating
the successful completion of the