Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-10
Total Since Yesterday Subscribed
is S20s geo. or S37S,150
to Date
WOMEN DO EXCELLENT WORK
In Resident Canvass They Report
Sale OF $4,000 in Liberty
Bonds.

Campa. En here 10 - S,40V-
Several large subscriptions were
reported by the teams, but the chleI
feature Of the days campaign was
that the majority Of the bonds were
takn by individual subscribers
MANY of the larger subscriptions
will not be reported until later ID
the week. 60
A cheer greeted Mrs. c. H. Cas-
letters announcement that the "o-
mon who are Canvassing the resi-
DENTAL section of the city, had SZ4,-
400 ro. report as the days sales. OF
tr{s amount SI6.150 was secured IN
4ha h0use-to-house canvass, So, '3o
from the booths which the women
have established in the banks and
denartment stores, and $4,000 from
q Martial canvass of the employs OF
fhe ROYAL NeighboTs Of America
The factory committee reported
S12 500 which was secured from
+hs enDlOves of four Rock Island
nIanrs. Siboney Bay camp turned
in s.. $50. and the corporation COM
,uf+-aa headed by c. A Hallgreh'
-aro--a5 so 600 The banks sub
scribed 500. $50 during the day, eX-
elusive Of the bonds which they SOU
over their counters.
High school Does Well.
A J. Burton, reporting for the
high school committee, salu LndI
4be students had sold bonds TO the
EXTENT Of $3.50, $500 Of which was
secured by the pupils from the car
penters' union, local No loo
]. Iindstrom, chairman OF the
Rock Island campaign committee
introduced H. H. CleaveIand, rep.
resenring the national council OF
defense. and ne spoke to the WORK
ars. relatives 10 the action that
should be taken against those
naoDle OF Rock Island who refuse
to purchase Liberty bonds, because
q their dislOyalty TO the United
States government he SAID mat
the people OF this country can De
divided into three distinct classes,
the first class is composed OF 4VU
per cent, JTue-blue Americans; the
second, the so-calIed Americans,
who won't do all they can do to aid
the government, but will do only
enough to get by with their pre-
tense Of loyalty, being the ones who
buy $50 bonds when they are well
able 10 buy $500 bonds; and the
third class, being those who eXpress
disloyaI sentiments. These people
are TO be reported to the national
council Of defense and proper &C
ton will be taken TO dispose Of their
cases. All solicitors are urged to
make specific reports as to- the
character OF exact words Of the dis
loyal statements and they VIII be
filed on yellow cards.
Mr.. Lindstrom made an appeal to
the workers to be sure TO make a
report at the MONDAY meeting to-
morrow, as there are a number Of
teams that have failed 10 turn in
any report so far. The campaign
here will be conducted vigorously
the remainder of the week, and it is
hoped that Rock Islands full quota
viii be secured by then.
Women Canvass.
Under direction of Mrs. c. H.
Castetter. $50 women are canvass
ing the residence section Of the city
In q very thorough manner. In ad-
dition, there is a team Of two in
each Of the banks of the city. Those
who are enlisted in this work are
as follows:
Executive committee-Mrs c. H
Castetter, chairman; Mrs. J. H
Hauberg, Mrs. J. T. Murphy, Mrs
George Perrin. Mrs. R. J. Rote, Mrs
L Y Swanson, Mrs. c. L ThOmp-
sou, Mrs T. o. Van Calder. Mrs
Allan WeIch.
Committee woman's fraternal or
ganizatiods-Mrs. Alba G. Hill,
chairman; Mrs. E. r, Godfrey, Mrs
Alice Gilliland, Mrs. NJ. Z. Lucas
Committee in charge Of booths
Mrs J. r. Tuckis, Mrs. A. D.
Huesing, Mrs. Elmore Stafford.
Booths have been established at
the Rock Island Savings bank. the
State bank, the Central Trust and
Savings bank, the Peoples National
bank, Young & McCombs, L. S. Nc
Cabe &, Co. and NJ &, K, and assis =
ing the chajrmen in this work are
the following:
Mesdames Harry P. Simmons, Al
bert Huesing. Jr., Carl Bernhard,
w. NJ. Walker, Lewis Stafford. Ber-
geson, Arthur Salzmann, Jacob
Ramser, Oscar OhIweiIer. W ].
Sweeney, Arthur Huesing. Wen
burg and Hagedorn; and the Misses
Charlotte Smith, Cora Gaetjer. Kate
Larhn, Helen Krell, Bessie Nc
Entry, Florence McCombs. Mary
Robertson, Blanche CAVITY, Phoebe
Hurst, Mable Bruner, Catherine
Donaldson.
Ladies assisting in the third Lib
erty loan campaign this week in
clude the following:
Nesdames Fred Strate. Charles
Brady, E. Bakersfield, Mrs. Carl
Kraft. Frank Mixter, w. H. Jordan.
Fred Young, c. F. Foste-,
IL c. Stahl, Harry WEIGH,
w. A. Darling. John Liedtke. Ben
Stewart, r. c. Clark, A. D. Hanna.
Harry McCaskrin, Kimmel, J w,
Casio, c. Z. McCollister, W. Grif-
fiths. J. L. Vernon. c. F. Harris, f.
o. Vale, Paul Preston. George Da-
Wis, Grace Freeman, c. Z. Sharpe.
Martin Teahan, George Kuhn. s. J.
Woodin, G. II. Schwenker, p. H
Eklund, John X Scott, c. +. Tams,
7 Ben Mitchem, J. p. BladeI, E. l..
/ Cameron, II. Z. Roe. E. J. Wood.
w. ~ Phillips, Robert McConocbie,
Il George F. Gall, Charles VoIk. q
W. Bender, Ralph Haversticl1. Ed
ward Kyell, W Griffin. G. W
Quackenbush, J. J. Ray, c. W
Thatcher, e. n. Isaacson. Franl